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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-11-4, Page 8Christmas is Co i A FEW HELPS IN SOLVINO THE SMAU-4 CHRISTMAS GIFT PROBLEM GIFTS FOR WOMEN. Embroidered Belt.—Embroider a strip of cretonne of Persian design with mercerized cotton, to give an oriental. effect, Smelling Salta Bag. --Smelling salts may be made an attractive gift by inelosing in a little linen bag. Make the bottom circular, two inebes in diameter. Shirr on to this strip of linen ten inches long, embroider every two inches with a tiny spray, scalloped at the top, and with eyelets to run ribbon or cord for drawstring, Kerchief Bag.—Take a good sized fancy towel and fold in once in the middle, then sew up the sides with- in a few inches of the top. Take a small hoop and slip over the towel, turning ends back over it. Sew end down close to hoop, which makes a casing and gathers bag. In the cen- ter of towel embroider an initial withcolored floss to match ribbon used to tie bag on either side and hang up by. When soiled rip up and if tired of bag the towel can be used in various ways. Safety Pin Holder ---Two and one- half yards of ribbon, one and one- half or two inches wide, and three rings the sizeof a 25 cent piece. Buttonhole stitch tlieeings. Make a pretty bow of the ribbon, any pea- ty color, leaving three ends hang down to fasten the rings to. Put a chain of safety pins in each ring, of different sizes, This is a pretty gift for a young girl's bedroom, put in a pretty box. Beauty Bag.—Beauty bags are made by cutting ordinary cheese- cloth into strips, two and a half inches wide by five inches long. Fold over and sew up the side. Pill these with oatmeal aucl sew up the top of the bag, and you have one of the most healthful cleansers 'for the skin ever devised. The bags are used as a wash cloth wet in a basin of warm water. A most de- lightful present is a box of the above beauty bags, daintily over- cast or buttonholed with wash silk in delicate colors. Dress Shield Cover.—A gift for dainty people is to cover dress shields with Indian linen. Cut lin- en the size of shields, work mono- gram on them, edge with lace. They are easily taken off when soiled and Dover the plainness of the shield. Hand Embroidered Stockings. — An attractive gift that would be appreciated by sister or friend would be hand embroidered stock- ings. Buy either silk co- silk lisle stockings, whichever you can afford. Rosebuds or forget -me -trots are the make dainty white underwear, suoh as corset covers, petticoats, chemi- ses—or, if she is a sbirtiu, a simple hand embroidered night gown or it pretty dressing sacquo»ar a loung- ing robe, Or, it she keeps house, make cheerful, pretty, things for her home, ab the same time bearing in mind that gifts 'must be simple as well as pretty so that their care will not necessitate a lot of extra work. Then, too, one could give candy and flowers cut or in pots, in fact, there are- innumerable things to give grandmother that will make her feel happy and young again. That's the true Christman spirit for the old—make them feel happy and young again. GIFTS FOR GIRLS. Buffet Set.—I have just finished a buffet set which' has been greatly admired. They were oval in shape. The larger piece was eighteen inches and I used fine sheer white Swiss and drew sprays of wild roses with, leaves over them, worked them in shadow embroidery, in two shades of pink for the roses and two shades of green for the leaves (not dark). The centers were worked on right side in French knots with yellow man is en "emergency bag," emelt appreeiated by a traveler or neom- er, Materials required: Pseco of leather any size you wish to make pins ,i l i r bror- Uag, Tand needles, pare n dory sorissors, dozen collar but- tons, dozen trpuser buttons, dozen toe peoteetors, black, whit0 and brown thread. Au' man is domes- tic enough to use one. ), asily oar - vied and can be made plain or or- namental, as the maker desires, On each pocket could be pietpre of nr- tielo it contains done in burnt work. Shaving Bibs.—Towels are a bo tlrer for protecting a man's shit• while he shaves, so make hila Oheistrnas present of a couple o shaving bibs, To make one, talc any kind of washable material heavy white goods proferred—cut i two pieces, the . front piece long enough so that if .a 'man sits' whit shaving it will cover his lap th back piece can be shorter. Cut ou • t 0 n 0 e a hole for the neck, large enough for the head to slip through, Out the shoulder seams curved to fit the shoulder and wide enough to amply cover it, Sew together; hem all around; face the neck, and through the facing draw narrow elastic. When slipped over. the head this will fit close to the neck and pre- vent the lather fi•oln running down under the shirt. The bib can be further embellished by. stitching the phrase, "To shield your shirt' while yeti shave," across the 'front. Sleeping Cap. --A sleeping cap or hood is an acceptable gift for a man who likes to sleep with open win- dows in winter or in an "open air" bedroom. It also useful in sleep- ing' car berths. Make the eap of aheavy black silk, which is soft and warm. The cap should be cut and fitted like a girl's hood and fasten- ed with a strap of the goods under and light green. The edge was the chin. using a button or patent scalloped in white silk, and around ` clasp. Use a pattern of a Brownie the scallops Valenciennes lace was hood, but cut off the point and in - gathered in an easy ruffie (not full). sert a straight strip three or 'toter The lining was white china silk, inches wide between the side pieces which brought out the colors, mak- from forehead to nape of neck. En- ing it look like dainty water colors. ish edges and seams with suftbind --M• X. W. ing ribbon. Clothes Coverers.—Every good housekeeper has from one to a doz- en calico bags for covering the "best clothes" that hang in the Mo- set—or at least she ought to have. One of the most appreciated gifts reeeived last year was a set of wooden hangers (bought at the e Ind 10 cent store, probably), each hanger having thrown over it a large square,., of silkoline feather est marriage contract, signed and stitched on the four sides. A large ' sealed before the magistrate at eyelet was worked in the middle Mont Clair, NM Jersey, recently - to slip the square over the hanger, George was the bridegroom's Chris - and on each corner of the square 1 tion name—that of the bride, some - hong a tiny sachet bag of the silko- thing akin to Miss Wideawakc. line. . e What more inexpensive Pensive or Geor� , with the light toflote in 1 s more appreciated gift could you, eyes,ahas signed away his independ- give a busy housekeeper than a set! once and liberty and bound himself of these hangers with the throws a to the following marital rules:— made of silkoline to match the col- "I solemnly promise, before a or of her own room or her guest justice of the peace and the woman room 1 I have asked to be my wife, to give Black Cat Calendar.—Take a ( her mypaySaturday every S clay night ; sheet of watercolor paper ten by to be bonne every night by nine twelve inches and some scraps of o'clock unless my wife is out with black fur or velvet (fur is far more me; never to go to balls or parties effective). A little to the left and without her, and then never to above the center of the sheet of dance with anybody else without prettiest and most simple to work, paper glue an oval piece of the fur her pennies= ; to be kind always One skein of green silk for the , about three by two and one-half tc her mother and her little bre_ and leaves and two skeins of inches. This is for the body of the+thee; never to join any lodge that tl { pink or blue for the flowers is uf_ 1 eat. Add a smaller piece at the top !Prohibits tvornen, and not then un- cient. Work ten flowers on each for the head, attaching two tiny she wishes to join too ; never 1 stocking, four in the center and, triangular pieces for the ears. Then to smoke more than three cigars on t a week -day, and not more than five on a Sunday; never to smoke cig- arettes at all, and never to use profane language; to beat the car- pets every spring without geunih- c IDEAL MARRIAGE CONTRACT'. This husband Signed Away -His IndependPete. 1)'lio says there is got a model man in the world 1 Sceptics and cynics are invited to read the lat- NULL'S TREASURE SHIP ATTEMPTS !CO RAISE TAIL AD- MIRAL l)- klIiu r OE l!�L011Ell C1f, One of DM Ships of the Spanish Al' nrasla Lest In the You' J1S8.. Another search is to be made for the treasure of the famous 'Ins- eam, galleon, Admiral of Florence, which was one of the ships of :the Spanish Arnnada,.a'.ld which, alter fleeing north from the )anglfsh ships, was blown up in Tobernory Bay, in the Isle of Mull. The Duke of Argyll has granted a lease to explore the bed of the bay- for the hull and its contents to Lieutenant-Colonel: Kenneth Mackenzie Foss, Colonel Foss will employ the most modern typo of ore -finding appartns to locate the position of the galloon, which is be- lieved to lie under et least twenty- five feet of sand, When it has been found ho will tlso two sand pumps and two pow- erful pumps with• lifting capacity whieh will strip the hull of its over- lie in three or. four working_ days. It is uncertain what treasure the galleon had on board. Ashley wrote to Wolsingham soon after she sank that she was "ono of the largest in the whole fleet, and com- manded by a grandee of the first rank, and was always served:in silver plate." CARRIED A CROWN. Tradition says that she carried 30,000,000 "pestis of eight" and a crown for the Spanish Pz•ince'a'ho was intended to occupy the tlilone of England. It is believed that, apart from her bullion, there are at least forty large cannon and a ctunetity of cannon balls in the hull. Pieces of the wreck which have been brought to the surface at in- tervals suggest that the keel and the lower timbers of the galleon will be found in a fair state of pre- servation, and Colonel Foss hopes, within a moderate period of time, to raise a sufficient portion of hor t, make it possible to construct model. There are many romantic versi- ons of the history of the Admiral of Florence. One of .the best known is that a couple of nights before the sailing of the Armada, one of the Infantile dreamed that.she was fat- eil to embark in the galleon, and there appeared to her with perfect distinctness the features and. form of a foreign nobleman whom she was to marry when the fleet arriv- ed at its destination: According- ly, against all the remonstrances THIS GOOSE CAN THINK FIV "i itJ$,-0LD BIRD THAT DOES MANY RICE.% On led Clothe4 Off Line 'T'het JIo Might Have Pegs; and Get Rewarded, Mr, A.bdy, who until recently kept e penury Darin at Old Bramp- ton; n0ar Chesterfield, England, has a pct goose,. "Jimmy," which he has educated to a wonderful pitch, Jimmy" isa five-year-old goose, and it is claimed that he has a hit' man brain. J3efore a newspaper representative he performed sever- al astonishing feats. Ab. pack of playing cards was spread before him. :Ten of diamonds, demand- ed his master, and after examin- ing a number of cards "jimmy" picked out the right one in his bill. He repeated this trick over and over again. Then there were. sob before him in a rack . a number of cards ham ing words painted on them. "What is this 1" asked' his master, 100011- ing the interviewer's :watch chain. "Jimmy" walked up and down the rack, looking for. the right word. When they ,came to the card with "watch guard" painted - on it, this he' soleinnly picked out. "What is it made of 1" was the next questiol. "Gold" was ' the word picked out, "Are you surd you're right 1" "Jiminly" at once picked out the card with the word "Xes" Tlten from a row of numbered cards he picked out numbers writ- ten on a blackboard, and from a heap of handkerchiefs he selected the colors asked for. HOW HE STARTED. Mr. Abdy said; "When' 'Timmy' was quite young my sister told me that he 'used to couie into the kit- chen with clothes pegs in his bill, for which she would reward him with pieces of bread. Soon after- wards a mystery was explained. "We had been finding the wash- aing pulled from the clothes -lino, and blamed the son of a neighbor- ing farmer. But one day I saw `jimmy' fly up, hang on to some clothes, and tug at them :till they fell to the ground, bringing the pegs with them, These 'pegs he picked up and brought to the kitchen to exchange for bread. "This cotsrinced me that I had no ordinary bird to deal with, and accordingly I began - to train hint. First he learned to pick out any particular clothes -peg at which T pointed, and within ten months he could select any playing card that I wanted him to take 5)p in his bill. "When I gave 5)p my poultry farm and carne to London, about six months ago, I brought "Jimmy' along, because' he is such a pet with us 011, and such a source of enter- tainment to my friends- He will follow 010 or my son for miles through the,strects, and I am wil- ling to back him to walk to Brigh- ton. In -fact, be does anything but talk, and I'm not sure that he won't learn to do that." 57 -YEAR. -OLD GOOSE. The Duchess of Bedford is a great student of Natural history, and contributes interesting matter to some of the naturalist publications. In one of the current monthlies, dealing with the extreme longevity of certain birds, she relates having purchased 0 pintail drake as an adult, which she has kept for the last .twenty ,years, while a goose in a family of her acquaintance has lived in their possession for fifty- seven years. of her relations the Infanta is said to have sailed on her. SAW HER FUTURE HUSBAND. D. The galleon fled to Tobermory Bay, and having sent a:hoat ashore to obtain water and provisions, the Spanish commander entered' into friendly relations with the head of the Clan Maclean, who was in,•it- cil to go on board. Immediately he Infanta set eyes oe him she de- clared that this -Was the man she tad seen in her dream, and he was o be her future husband. Inciden- tally, it may be noted that 1888 was a leap -year. Unfortunately, Maclean was al- ready married; but the Infanta would stiffer no interference with what she considered to be the work - rigs of fate, and subsequently an ttempt was made to carry off the chief of the clan and a few' of his ollozwers. Seeing the ship was taking up ler anchor and making sail, Mau - man's wife despatched a number of ter clan to board the galleon and c, procure the release of her hus- band and his followers. One ofthe latter; in revenge for the treachery of the Spaniards, is said to have applied a torch to the powder 'ma- gazine. The ship was stink, and all on board, except a cook, who was blown into the water, are said to have perished. NO KISSING ALLOWED. Law Against It is Rigorously En- forced in liussia, RAFISia is ruled by rigorous laws. The ir•olly, and humor of some of thein conte home to the foreign on- looker while, of course, the Russi- ans feel only the whip liana. The a es t, t victim of anti-kissi.n • in law is a famous and all topub- ic fm - lemons Russian actress, Mlle. Tee. 1011, who actually had the temerity o kiss her mother in a street car, • f)no would have thought even a nagistrate or judge, or whoever ad- druelers eases of lair -breaking of hat kind in Russia, would be melt d by the beautiful picture of the 'tendon of 'a mother and da,iaghter elebratecl by a chaste salute, but lussiens understand no' jokes; the 5)e of ten roubles ($7,04) for a kiss 0 Public conveyances, such as rail- ways at111 Street cars, was rigorous - 1' enforced. .l kiss in the street is penalized o the extent of 181.011 roubles (4,415) 5)d n doelar'atiun al love sent by esteard, if anyliutly is brazen-fao- et,eriouglt to do 811011 a' thing,: is nnished to the extent of five rots. les (SLS.54,) three on ejthe:r side. The embroi- Put two small knobs for the feet dering can easily be done without and a narrow curving strip for the being stamped, but for those not tail. Glue i5) two green beads for so skillful transfer patterns can be the eyes and a scrap of reel cloth purchased for 10 cents. GIFTS FOR GRANDMOTHER Dainty Collar.—A dainty collar of insertion, edged top and bottom with narrow lace and circled by a marrow velvet lavender ribbon, looped into a rosette at time back. Apron. --A. black silk apron either china .or messaline, rounded off at the bottom, and edged with black lace, or left square and hemmed and brier, stitched, and the pocket the -carne; or a lace inserted apron, is pretty; the above would'eertain- ly in.ake any grandma open her eyes on Clu'istmas day. Covers for Dainty Waists. Get co paper for the tongue. Paste your calendar in the lower right Band ling, corner, and in a scroll issuing from "To pack my own laundry each 1 the cat's mouth letter these words: week; never to drink intoxicating a "Some cats there are who sit and liquors or beers except at the be- squall ginning of the annual spring house f And make the long night hideous; cleaning and then only three glass_ But if you'll hang me on your wall er in the presence of my wife; never 1 I'll not be so perfidious." to keep a dog and. never to bring it 1 The same idea can be carried out dog home and say T am to keep it 1 in a match scratcher, just for a little while for a friend t who has gone out of town. I also agree to do half the comforting and caring for the children we may have when they cry at night, and to fix the fire every morning and night in such a way that niy wife will never have to do anything but adjust the dampers," George does not say- anything here about his wearing apparel, but obviously lie is quite willing that his heeler half should wear the "hi felts." GIFTS FOR MEN. Book Covers.—A pretty. and dur- able one may bo made of Prussian. crash in the natural color; cub to hold the average book, allowing three inches at each end to fold A remnant of figured sills, make a' back. Buttonhole edge in long and square (the length you will have short stitch with -brown mercerized to decide for yourself), cut a circle cotton or heavy sills; outline an. Y in the center large enough to fit simple conventional design or work the collar of the waist, put a fin- monogram on cover ; fold :ends back, -� Miring touch q5) all edges, of nan 1 tack at top and bottom, and your row lace.. Rosettes of baby ribbon gift is ready, on the corners will add to this Coat Cover: --Talcs a wire hanger dainty little gift, which will save and pad with cotton on both sides, many a delicate waist, with a little favorite sachet shrink - Lace headdress,—A. dainty little led on it. Then whip together two, lace head dress, white, with laven-pieces of white satin 5'ibbon about der ribbon trimming, a fancy box three inches wide and cover the for her dresser, a Christmas letter' padded hanger, then wrap the hem - tied with holly ribbon, will bright- dle with ribbon and tie a large bow. en her lonely "day of memories.' Also take two lengths of about one A framed picture of children play- and one-half yards of white linen. ing or some beloved animal pet will Shape opening so it can be slipped delight the little sick child; a live over the banger. Trier stitch the kitten or puppy always proves a seams and in the left hand career pleasure ; a blooming plant, for the embroider a monogram, This is to "tlettin," he slipped over the garment an the Select, Presents with Care. --- "Den't give old people presents that savor too mite]! of old age," This is a warning that has to be sounded every Christmas to -these who are under the impression that because grandmother is old she has no ileum of. tbo;beautifttl, but do - coat hangar to keep out dust and avoid creasing, This makes a peel- .and +:hitt heir creature comforts c ty gift, FOB DESTITUTE DLIKIIS. 'Bishop Auckland Gtimelines Ad- vised to Build lnlirmary. At a recent meeting of the Bishop 1 Auckland guardians in London, 1 Ermined, the following resolution r was submitted ; 1 "That a new wing be added to't the infirmary for the especial ac- commodation of ]hikes; that it be a M. an ornate and castellated type n orf architecture, and built of Inas- t lr1c, i .o remind thein of the marble e Valla in which they formerly dwelt, r be ftosied by the engagement of n. Shirt Case;—.Case made of brown French cook; that Lord London- fi linen to fold like an envelope and decry be respectfully asked to stip- i cross Bitot the initial•'en the lap= ply them :with grouse, 10 return for makes a pretty gift, It takes one the many so-called educational he- 1 nefds twit they have provided Inc yard of linen, a sponge case' (or lights in black sateen aprons, feltpocket)id brown linen and lined slippers, and the like. You can't with rubber cloth and the initial l:lease grandmother more''.than by'cross siltehed on the lap, bled it t'ea I - With linen presenting her seise things sugges 1 nan tapr, or wash ribbon, tive of youth, yet practical enough . Ii,lnergencv .fags -A. practical in- to be of use to hor;. jo0oe instance, the children of the ]loth working t Hien ; arid, as WO aro reepensible a for the soul as well as for the body; i, that a learned chaplain he norpoint- c ed to look after theirmoral, relig- 11 kr expensive easily made gii; 18.1 a 'sus and spit';tt;al welfare," SONE SPORTING EVENTS T , _Is . A. IAIIS� �1• I J A JS 0l< S f,11SA:. TILE' ATHLETES. Novel Tests of Endurance for 'WIrloh Our Grandfathers Were Pond. A match which took place at Prince's a few weeks Ago between A. R, Hamilton and °apt. it K. Pried was no mean test of skill arid endurance, The conditions were that Ft set of tennis, it game of racquets and a game ',i squash racquets. should be played conseon- ti'vely, going tenni one court to the other,. Capt. Price, who 'gave his opponent points, just winning by threepoints, says London Tit -Bits, This, however, is but one of many :curious sporting contests which lurve taken plane of late years. Two i'eers ago a London athlete start inr from just •above Hammersmith Bridge rode a• mile, then swam a mile, and landing at. Putney ran a mile en the promenade, Following this he did a mile 'walk and con- cluded with a mile cycle ride—toll Within an hour. This feat reminds one of that ac- complished by another London. ath- lete a few years ago. While stay- ing at Hampton Wick, near King- ston on Thames, he walked a quar- ter of a mile, •rode a horse for a quarter of a mile, swam a quarter of a mile, ran a, quarter of a mile, rode a .bicyele for a quarter of a anile and finished up by rowing a boat for a quarter of a mi]e—alt in the space of 18 MINUTES 33 2-5 SECONDS. Our grandfathers' were rather fond .of indulging in these never tests of endurance, and when many years ago a man nan n mile, walk- ed a mile, wheeled a barrow; trund- led a hoop, and hopped en one leg, all the same distance, in two min- utes under the hour an epidemic of curious athletic feats sprang up among therm, in. the same way that we have been bitten lately with the craze for Marathon and London to Brighton walks. Perhaps one of the most amazing containing wreaths and flowers. feats ,was that of a famone 'pedes- In the same summer Swanscombe, trian of the '40's named Cootes, in Kent, was terrified by a freak oho backed himself to leap a• hun- of lightning. All of a sudden "a cared hurdles in a aix mile ra-cc great mass of blue fire" swept against a jockey on a hunter. The along the street and next moment ]terse was beaten and (Jootes it was seen that the fine old parish jumped his• hundredth hurdle in the church built nearly 700 years ago forty-second minute, the time lim- had been :struck, it being set at. fifty. 'Che building with all its, fine old Mention of the Brighton walk carvedoak wa.s soon FREAKS OF LIGHTNING 'J'111JtI111,1G F'OitC11 01" A I.rLASI. 0 1)Ll C'C;'J UCIT1,'. Curious Fade About Storms -es Sources of Torres' Arid. Great Damage, I0 iL mere al wa.y wenndorstancf the theory of thunderatorma, At a matter of fact there is no piles nommen of nature, not excepting even earthquakes, of 15'hich wo know so little, says Pearson'4 Weekly, Man made,lightning—that ie, electricity of the highest power which we can artificially produce— will act according to .certain known laws, It will, for instaneo, travel along or g a conductor of metal,. But a flash of lightning will free quently leap from a well define meta path h and n i a h .tel.. P lu s� 0 through the air or some ndjaeent object which is an infinitely poorer conductor, This may be dues to the almost inconceivable force of a flash of lightning.. It is estimated that a flash of lightning a rude long repre- sents a pressure cif discharge equsal to 3,000,000,000 vo1•ts, . As suoh a flash lasts only about the thousandth part of a second the energy dissipated by the discharge is 0525)01 to 300,000 HORSE -POWER. Put it in other words, if we could find some means of saving and us- ing lightning we should be the richer by £200 for every flash. Lightning is, as we know, usu- ally accompanied by a peal of than der, which is louder the nearer the hearer is to the point of the disc charge ; but this is not an invari- able rale. There are cases on re- cord of most destruetive lightning Bathes which were unaoeompa:niee by sound. Such a phenomenon occurred at Bradford some years ago. What is described as 'a silent thunder- bolt" fell in a grave -yard, destroy- ing one monument and smashing to atoms nearly seventy glass cases recalls an extraordinary pedestrian A ROARING FURNACE, and only ,rt part of the elrancel wan saved distance of twenty-nine mules, at Scientists are still hopelessly at midnight in evening dress and sea as to the cause of that peen- �'caurt slippers after: a day eif heavy liar phenomenon known as globe driving rain. Various "modest lightning. At Coventry some years • fivers were laid that they .would ago during va, violent thunderstorm not do the journey with'in eight it passed along a street like a soap hours. But the undergraduates bubble Inuit of blue fire and drift - won, with ed into a shed, where it exploded, TWENTY MINUTES TO SPARE blowing the, roof off the place. At Reims, in France, a similes fireball came into a cobbler's shop ti the open window. The so litary occupant of the place sat performance, perfcrtly still, paralyzed 111th ter i b ror, while his fearful visitant Lord Kennedy, 181,0 year's ago Dred for several seconds overhead, walked on foot from Inverness to Then 11 moved toward the fireplace Black Hall, in Kincardineshire, and presently passed up the chime and by striking• .straight across the ney. Grampians arrived four ]roars be- Next moment there was an ex - fore Sir Andrew Leith Hay, who plosion like a shall bursting and tool: the coach road and who had the upper part of the chimney came laid a wager of ;e2,500 that• ne ci•,ashing down. wonid he first. The journey x0051 Not long ago, Count G. Hamilton Pled thirty-three hours: made a record of a similar freak of No one is more fond of novel electricity. He was sitting at din - sporting matches than the London ner at a house on Lake Wener in eostermonger. florne.yoars ago one Sweden, when just after a vivid hacked himself to walk from tovent stash of lightning Garden to Hampstead Heath stn performance of some Oxford under- graduates four years age who walked from Oxford to Reading,, a although they were thoroughly done up and terribly. footsore when they reached Reading, This however, is by no means so remarkable as that of Olen and hock ou stilts, against an A BRILLIANT WHITE BALL i11. ,LINERS. ee toes. 11nd lie won. ltangiug poised there fur .some °sec- ,. v Somo-time before this a. Chelsea ands wentoff'with a loud bang. :l5) 1nut51nn Lentpetition at iha fish -hawker carrying half a hen- Fortunately it did no harm to Olympia. thedweight of fish on his head ran 0413' enc, although it 18155 quite close ]1lurh merriment was caused at seven mites along the Brentford to ,several people, Those who saw the Olympia in London the other road from Hyde Park Corner rn it suggested rt was lake a hall of night by a eadieie tion fu whioli fortyhre minutes, ancf an olanga Cgld hglltnrng. hell 111nrmod ladies' hats olid ladies porter. won iI bet of ten guineas by lin November, 1.95(2, Sydney, Au- e,stenad collars and ties on to mala o rrying a hundrecclwoigltt of wetralia, was visited by a terrific vietInis, a gcs twenty limos between Bo- dust -storm, in the midst of 'which T'he results of this rnan millinery tolpli lane and Spitalfrekl' Market 'is perfect rain of electric fireballs were startling and outrageous. Not in one hour and tw'entyflve minutes begatr to fall.' Those set fire to Paquin 00e Worth nor any milliner less than the ten hours specified 5)r a number of houses and a meet tip- in the west end of London has ever the wager. palling pante sot in. A cry was conceived more daring, mora, ori se raised that the end of the s'o'ld ginr.(.I, or more arresting creations was at hand and people rushed out than the V 1J IIopponent Carrying •a sacic of pots- appeared over the table and after r . t g ria ul s of their, houses luta the ihk bleak, se, produced with the five WISDOM JOTS. minutes' time limit. Feathers and �1'e aro all sorry for the man who dust deep streets, I The must a.mezln,g and terrifying displays of the power of lightning are seen on mountaintops, 15) 1 a party were on the top of a moun- tain in the Caucasus when a huge r'ialet ball, sureett1ded by vivid rays, struck a rock near by -and exploding like a bomb burst it to atoms. One of the party was badly hurt, a` flowers wove fastened in the most unexpected places, and ribbons dangled wantonly, while the hats t themselves were twisted and turnccl into an infinite variety of. shapes more wonderful then thane to be seen on the lawns of Ascot or a Renelagh. The tic and collar competition gave the mon folk in the itaodience their revenge. But, the heroic gen- tlemen who submitted thomselvea t•.1 the ]adios' hands had a rough time, Two or three were neeriy strangled anti rescued on the point of death. For the difficult<' of fix - Mg a tic around e stiff fold -over collar '10 one of 'those mysteries of the toilet of 'which only men .have filo seerct, There isn't much satisfaction in figuring out why the other' chap beat you,. lever feels sorry. Tt takes 'a lot of piety to -tared re against prosperity, Flattery may shield many errors, bill it won't crane insults. No day is long euouglr to waste 5)y of it in nursing enmity.. There's a lot of difference be - wren a tongue of fire anti a fiery: nngee No .man is as good as he might be who docs not try to be' better than he is. No man needs our pity more than ho who is indifferent to the sorrows of others, '2111 average woman changes her mind, and the average man does not mind the ehangos. The clouds which have a silver lining arc elle firet to molt in gold- en vapor at the sun's kiss. ee Your 'tt` may be good, but 1'ou ere t g , your mo5103' is better, - 1f success doesn't torn the aver- age man's head it's because he has. e, stiff noels. And perhaps more , young limn would propose if they ,were not afraid of being accepted, ''Rio's' ycn1," e,slied rho judge of a recently convicted man, "anything to offer;. the Court before sentz'neo `s iassetlt" "No e•.t'' hmor," i r 1 r; i'my ' 1 t..er replied the pri uu0. , , ty at y i tusk my Best cent."