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How the Century Plant Was Named.
About two cenTuries ago a Russian
nobleman travelling in Mexico saw
and admired the mlaguey plant, which
is a native of Mexico.
The plant was so much admired by
the Russian for its beauty and utility
that he was eager to have growing
specimens in his own country. So,
when leaving Mexico he procured
some roots to take home to the czar
as a present. '
On his first visit to court after he
reached the capital City. he told of the
wonderful plant and asked permission
of the czar to present to him the spec-
imens which he had. The czar gra-
ciously granted his request and gave
the roots to the court gardener, who
promised to give the plants his best
attention, but unfortunately before he
could plant them properly, as he in-
tended, he was taken suddenly ill and
died without having accomplished any-
thing. "
Another gardener was appointed. In
the meantime the roots lay in the sack
in which they were first placed. The
new gardener not knowing their value
threw the sack away, and it lay un-
heeded in a corner of the garden day
after day. Some time afterward his
little daughter picked up one of the
roots, and, in a playful mood, planted
it, but paid it no further attention.
The czar had forgotten all about it.
In course of time the ruler died and
also the second gardener.
The plant in after years put out a,
few spikes for leaves. but did not
thrive in the cold air of Russia. It
grew very slowly and its origin was
not known to any one except the wife
of the former gardener and the child
that planted it.
Years passed and still the strange
plant, With its thick, long, straight
leaves, new nearly six feet tall, did
not bloom, but as it grew taller it at-
tracted notice, and the new czar some-
times looked at it and wondered if it
would ever bloom.
In time he, too, died, and still the
maguey bloomed not.
But just after the coronation of an-
other czar a stalk shot up from the
root of the plant and rapidly grew to
the height of twenty feet. Soon many
clusters of small buds appeared, which
slowly unfolded and became white
blossoms. The wonderful plant had
bloomed at last!
The gardener said it was 100 years
old, and had blossomed in honor of
the new czar. Word was sent to him
and he and his whole'court visited and
admired the flowers and the plant.
The poor exile from the sunny skies
of Mexico has ea1 ned its reward and
a new name, for ever since that day
it has been known as the “century
plant.”—Godey’ s Magazine.
Language of Flags.
To “strike the flag” is to lower the
national colors in token of submis«
sion. Flags are used as the symbol
of rank and command, the oflicers
using them being called flag oflicers.
Such flags are square, to distinguish
them from other banners
A “flag of truce” is a white flag dis-
played to an enemy to indicate a de—
sire for a parley or consultation.
The white flag is the sign of peace.
After a battle parties from both sides
often go out to the field to rescue the
wounded or bury the dead, under the
protection of a white flag.
The red flag is a sign of defiance,
and is often used by revolutionists, In
our service it is a mark of danger,
and shows a vessel to be receiving or
discharging her powder.
The black flag is the sign of piracy.
The yellow flag shows a vessel to be
at quarantine, and is the sign of con-
tagious diseases. A flag at half-mast
means mourning. Fishing anu other
vessels return with a flag at half-
mast'to announce the loss or death of
some of the men. Dipping a flag is
lowering it slightly and then hoist-
ing it again, to salute a vessel or
fort.
If the President of the United States
goes afloat the American flag is car-
ried in the bows of his barge or hoist-
ed at the main of the vessel on board
of which he is.——School Journal
The Lucky Poodle.
Probably no dog has ever rendered
such signal military service or been
so honorably recognized as the cele-
brated poodle Moustache, who shared
the victorious fortunes of the French
army through most of the wars of the
Consulate and of the French empire.
He won special honors at Marengo,
and was decorated on the battlefield
of Austerli-tz by Marshal Lanncs as
a reward forh'aving rescued his regi-
mental standard from an Austrian sol-
dier'when in the act of snatching it
from the grasp of the standard bearerl
as he fell, mortally wounded. The
plucky poodle drove off the assailant;
and then, seizing the tattered colors‘
in his teeth, drag ged them triumphant-
ly till he reached his own company.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
Good Temper for aBeautlful Face.
According to the Pittsburg Dispatch
bad temper is beauty’s greatest foe
It curdles the blood and brings wrink-
les, and a bad complexion is the re-
sult. The following advice is given tc
women who wish to preserve theix
good looks or to improve their bad
ones:
“Take a wholesome delight in physi
cal exeicises and outdoor sports. The
pale. delicate girl is no longer ‘inter-
esting.’
“Have freedom and comfort in dress
at all times.
“Decide upon a definite aim in life,
and choose one that is worthy of an' .
immortal soul.
“Be superior to envy, jealousy and
uncharitableness.
“Control your temper for the sake,
of your good looks, as well as fer your
health. It is not enough, either, mere-
1
1y to keep from giving anger its out- 1
‘ward expression. A smouldering fire
is far more dangerous to health than ‘
that which comes to the surface and
is quickly extinuished. A disposition
which continually ‘boils’ within often
finds physical expression in boils and
ulcers. Wrath has a natural tendency
to curdie the blood, and the continued
curdled condition is bound to show it-
self on the surface sooner or later. It
is an old story that anger interferes
with the digestion, a fact which is
nevertheless frequently' disregarded,
as more than one irascible dyspeptic
can testify.
“Live above worry, care, fear, and
all other corroding and inharmonious
thought.
“Finally, cultivate a sweetly serene
frame of mind under all circum-
stances. Do not allow yourself to be
a creature of moods, in depths of
gloom and depression one day and on
the heights of hilarity and mirth the
next.”
On a Way to Save Nerve Force.
In preparing for an engagement the
first duty of seamanship ’is to clear
the decks for action, and every indi-
vidual in daily conflict with work and
worry may wisely follow the example.
A large part of the nervous strain to
which the present generation confesses
itself suoject is probably produced by
the constant friction "With intrusive
bric-a-brac. Fringed and floating
draperies beset doors and hallways,
glass: and pottery crowd tables and
shelves, we hardly thread a devious
way through our own homesteads
amid a multitude of fragile trifles that
require a skill rival-ling that of the
trained egg dancer. At the writing
desk the thoughts that should freely
flow to the point of the pen are dis-
tracted by an observance due to . a
host of obstacles, styled appointments,
which were better described as clutter.
The busy girl who, rising‘heroically
to the occasion, swept her dressing
case free of encumbrances and de-
cided to be henceforth plain—Clean,
burst at one blow the bonds that had
shackled her body and mind and shat-
tered her temper.
Our daily lives should be surround-
ed by grace and beauty, but common
sense is needed in the discrimination
of What constitutes this desirable
loveliness. Harmony of color and of
design abide perennime in simplicity,
but often escape from that aggre-
gation of trifles which, although petty
in themselves, form an assemblage as
dreary as the shelf of‘a museum. The
world is crying for rest, and each in-
dividual might begin to fight for its
attainment in private life .by decimat-
ing that army of trifles that has been
allowed to gather in battle array
against our peace—New Century Jour-
nai.
The Two Tone Wax Seal.
The two tone seal in wax on an en-
velope made :to match the two tone
monogram on the paper is a mystery
to any one not in the secret. For in-
stance, a silver monogram and raised
onramentation on a blue background
is easily duplicated in the seal. The
background is of wax to match the
background of the monogram.
When ready to seal the envelope dip
the seal in the oil, and wipe it quite
dry, except the engraving. where the
oil-remains. Then dip the oily seal
into the silver powder, and brush
across the seal, leaving no silver ex-
cept in those same indentations of the
engraved monogram. Melt the wax
and drop it on to the proper place, and
seal as usual. The oil will have taken
up the silver powder into the mono
gram, and the warm wax taken it
out of the monogram, so that all the
raised ornamentation is coated over
with the silver powder.-——New York
Herald. »
An Experience Worth Trying.
London women have discovered a
very agreeable way of ridding their
houses, of flies and mosquitoes. They
burn sandal wood in the house. This
is a oriental idea. In London it is pos-
sible to get the wood prepared for
this purpose, but here it is not so easy.
as American women have not yet tak-
en to the practice. Sandal wood can
be bought at almost any Turkish or
Japanese importing house. It is pre-
pared for burning by being first cut
into small pieces half an inch in
thickness and three inches in length.
Then it is baked or dried out in a
slow oven for twenty'four hours. A
piece of the wood is put into a metal
urn, liglhted and allowed to burn until
‘ well aflame. when the flame is extin-
guished and the red hot ember left to.
'smoulder until the wood is consumed
and nothing is left but a heap of fine
gray ashes. During the smouldering
process the-wood sends out a sweet
and aromatic - smoke.——Philadelphia
‘ Ledger.
strong food until it begins to change
-would as soon think of raising/cattle
Feeding Pigs in Summer.
Summer is the time to make pork
Making itpin winter requires too much
food to keep up the animal heat. ll
hogs have plenty of grass in summel
and about half the corn they Will eat
they will fatten rapidly and my beliel
is that three pounds can be made or .
less grain than one pound in cold
weather with a hog in a close pen.
The grass is cooling and loosening and
counteracts the feverish properties Of
the corn. Hogs will never melt in
summer, however fat, if they can have
access to water and mud to lie, in.
Mud is very bad for hogs in cool
weather. It absorbes too much ani
mal heat. Milk is cooling as a; drink
and almost indispensable in raising
pigs.
But very little corn and no corn
meal should be fed to young pigs be-
fore they are four months old. Food
has to be fermented before it will di-
gest, and if fed to young pigs before
it is fermented it will overtask their
stomach and spoil them. Lettuce is
good for young pigs. ‘
The middlings should be put with
milk at night after feeding has been.
done, and allowed to remain in the
milk until morning. Never allow the
swill tub to get quite empty. Always
leave a little at the bottom to act as
yeast. The swill should never be
allowed to get stale. Slop feed should
be given often and never more at a
time than will be eaten up. Slops
will make larger hogs than dry- feed.
After the hogs get to be three or four
months old, their food can be made
stronger, but a pig will not hear much
from a pig to'a hog. Many of our
farmers .do not know the value of
rass as a feed for hogs. At least one
would not think so, when their hogs of
all ages may be seen during the whole
summer in small yards or at best on
yeryscanty pasture. Farmers who
know the real value of such‘feed
and making milk and butter by feed-
ing their stock grain alone during the
whole summer as to raise hogs and
make the business profitable without
a good supply of grass. Some men
make pork with little or no grass, but
it costs more and the hogs are not so
healthy—American Agriculturlst.
Save All the Bones.
The bones of fish and fowls and the
large and shall pieces of bones which
are bought with beefsteak and.mut-
ton constitute the very best food for
fruit trees and grapevines if the frag-
ments are only placed where the roots
can lay hold of them. Instead of be-
ing cast into the backyard as food
'for stray dogs and cats, care should
be taken to deposit everything of the]
sort in a small tub with a cover. As
soon as a few pounds have accumu- ’
lated, take the tub to some grape vine ;
or fruit tree, dig a hole three of more 1
feet long, a foot or two deep. dump in ,
the.bones and fill in the soil. The.
more fragments that can be spread
around the better, but they should be!
buried so deep that a plow or spade
will not reach them. The roots of
growing vines or fruit trees will soon.
find this mine of fertility, and will!
promote the growth of healthy wood
and the development of fair and slus-
cious fruit. Many floriculturists and
farmers buy bone dust costing not'less
than $26 per ton, simply to enrich the
soil around and beneath their vines
and trees. Fragments of bones are
just as valuable as ground bone, al-
though their elements will not be as
available in so short a time as if the
large pieces were reduced to atoms.
Nevertheless, if large bones are buried
three or four feet from a grapevine,
the countless numbers ,of mouths at
the ends of roots will soon dissolve,
take up and appropriate every parti-
cle. When cast out of the kitchen
door bones are a nuisance, but if prop-
erly used they become a source of val-
uable fertility.
Howto Have Cauliflower in Winter.
When sowing cauliflower for a sum- ,
mer of autumn crop, do not overlook'
the fact that it is far more valuable
as a winter than as a summer vege-l
table, and as a rule. in many sections
of the country a more certain one/As
a summer crop, away from the sea-
coast. cauliflower is a very doubtful
one, which is due to the fact that it
will not thrive in 1a hot, dry atmos-
phere. But sow the seeds in June and
transplant them when the seeds are
of suitable size, and with favorable
. conditions-of growth fine heads will be
formed and ready for the table by the
last of October, and as the plants
rarely all :head at the same time, the
season will last until the plants are
ruined by excessive cold.
When the season is nearly over,
there will always be found many
plants that just begin to form heads.
If these are lifted and put in a cool
cellar and the roots covered with
earth the heads will develop nearly as
rapidly as in the ‘field and frequently
get to be from four to five inches in
diameter ”and they are far more deli-l
cate than when grown in the field or '
garden—C. L. Allen, in Agriculturist.
Clover Boy for Food.
An article of food is now being put .
on the market which is largely used
by those who have tried- it—groundl
clover. Clover hay is ground- as fine“
as meal, the poultrymen add it to the
rations of poultry with beneficial re~ l
suits. It is also cfcellent for young
calves and pigs. The ground clover
is first scalded With boiling Water and 1
thickened with cornmeal or any other 1
ground food that may be preferred.
vigogne,
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every sort of material is suitable for
these useful garments and they may he
made as ornate as desired. The pat-
tern With the poached front is the ihost
fashionable Inst at present, with the
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yoke extending well over the shoulder.
A pretty model of sprigged organdie
has the front tucked from top to bot-
tom. The hand down the center is
bordered on either side with narrow
ruffles of the material. The sleeves are
the regulation shirt waist model, fln—
iSbed at the wrist with :1. turned back
cuff.
Gray 11. Fashionable Color.
_Entire costumes of gray in very
many different tones will be highly
favored all summer, and skirts of gray
mohair, canvas, etamine,
ladies’ cloth, and .repped silk. or wool
will very largely take the place of the
useful and universal black skirt so
flung worn With fancy waists and jack~
ets. Some ofthe smartest toilets worn
at the recent fashionable gatherings
in Paris—on varnishing day, at the
horse show, and the like—were made
of gray in some striking or elegant
combination or wholly of one hand—
some fabric, with white silk or satin.
guimpe, and vest-front trimmed with
gold or silver braid, or again combined
E with mauve, red, or Spanish yello
In evening toilets are some exquisite
gowns in gray crepe do chine, crepon,
nun’s-veiling, silk. or silk gauze. or
mousseline de sole, made up over rose-
colored or brilliant coquelicot red satin
’ or taffeta.
To Clean. Flue Lace.
Before flne laces are immersed in
naptha or benzine or even alcohol, for
this, too, will Clean them, although it
takes longer, they should be basted
with a fine needle and thread on a
piece of very thin muslin or old linen.
Some of the most expert professional
cleaners still use the powdered French
feed on the elements that will greatly l chalk to cleanse these valuable p08-
sessions. The lace is thickly sprinkled
on both sides with the chalk and
spread on a thick sheet of writing-pa-
per, covered with a second sheet and
placed under a heavy press for sever
3.1 days. In most households the un-
abridged dictionary is considered the
requisite weight. When the lace is
taken out, it is l1ghtly shaken to dust
off the powder, and its soil will be
found to have gone with it.
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Dainty Catch-Alla.
A woman packing her trunk for the
summer was noticed tolay in two or
three stifliy starched square linen doil-
les. To an inquiring observer she ex-
plained that these were for catch-ails
when established in her farmhouse
summer rooms. "I told two ends to-
gether, tying them at three places with
ends of narrow ribbon to make a. cor-
nucopia. Sometimes for an especial-
ly elaborate one I work eyelet holes
down one side with pink or blue silk,
and lace my horn into shape with nar-
row ribbon or cord of the. same color.
This largest one I shall hang the day
I arrive at my sum-met quarters on the
piazza, and it will save many a. bit of
paper and embroidery silk otherwise
tossed over the railing on to the
grass.” . ,
Flowers Six Thousand Years Old.
Well preserved flowers discovered at
Dahsourh, in Egypt, ‘in tombs of the
times of the Pharaohs, have just been
placed in the Cairo Museum. The
commonest of these were the white or
blue lotus, the red poppy, the leaves
and flowers of the pomegranate, of the
saffron, and of-Vthe crocus. It seems
that the flowers and plants of to-day
are the same as flourished then, and
that chrysanthemums were known 6,--
Some of these flowers
found in- the tombs,‘when soaked in
water, seemed t9 revive. ‘
French Bathing Suits.
French women are going to take
their dips in the sea this summer in
black satin and black tafleta bathing
dresses. It has been discovered that
these fabrics stand the sea water ex-
cellently. One would wish, however,
to observe the experiment carefully be-
fore deserting the known virtues of
mohair and good quality flannel.
Probably the smallest painting in the
world is that by a Flemish artist on '
the smooth side of a grain of common
white corn, and picturing a mill and a
miller mounting a stair with a lack of
'grai‘n on his back. '
Norwalk Chronicler