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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



March 



Dated all tne liiore. ifiere Is really but 

 one city wherein theatrical attractions pay 

 — that is Havana. It takes as long to get 

 400 njiles into the interior of the island 

 sometimes as it does to go from here to 

 Cuba. It is a great country in its way." 

 — Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. 



KIPLING'S KIND ACT. 



Table Mats. 



Here is a set of three tea table mats. The 

 materials required are a quarter of a yard 

 of linen lawn, some honiton lace braid 

 and a few skeins of honiton lace t-ilk. 

 The quarter of a yard of linen will make 

 three mats, each 9 inches square. 



First overcast each piece of linen neatly 

 all around the edge and baste upon this 

 edge a row of the lobed braid, which, hav- 

 ing scalloped edges, will make a pretty 

 finish for the mats. Buttonhole this braid 

 to the linen on the upper edge. Next baste 

 a piece representing a spray of flowers up- 

 on each corner, and with the honiton lace 

 Bilk buttonhole it upon the linen. In 

 similar manner make a center design if 

 you desire one, though this seems super- 

 fluous, as it never shows when the mat is 

 in use. When the stitching is done, turn 

 the mat, and with a pair of sharp em- 

 broidery scissors cut away the linen cov- 

 ered by the lace, being careful not to cut 

 any of the lace stitches. When all are 

 done, place the mats under a piece of 

 muslin wrung out of borax water and 

 iron until the muslin is dry. — Woman- 

 kind. 



Journalistic Intelligence. 



Miss Gladys Simple is not a bad looking 

 girl, but intellectually she is subject to a 

 slight discount. At a social gathering she 

 was introduced to a distinguished jour- 

 nalist. 



"Allow me to introduce you to Mr. 

 Scoop, one of the celebrated newspaper 

 writers of the day," said her friend. 



"I didn't know they wrote newspapers. 

 All the newspapers I've seen were print- 

 ed. " — London Tit- Bits. 



This Is a Purely American Belief. 



Teacher — Tommy, what does the book 

 mean by 'drinking water?" 



Tommy (\.-ho lias lived all his life at 

 hotels) — A large piece of ice partly melted 

 tnd placed in a pitcher. — Chica go Record. 



Wit Comes With the Dessert. 



The greatest opportunities for serving; 

 an eflfective dinner are in the dessert. Be 

 sides it is over the ices and between tht 

 cracking of nuts and the nibbling of rai 

 sins that the wittiest things are said, 

 phauncey Depew says it is not until the 

 ices are served that people at dinner reallj 

 begin to have a genial feeling toward tlieir 

 neighbors. 



A Story About the Famous Author That 

 Is Not Unpleasant. 



It has become the fashion of literary 

 paragraphers to print whatever stories 

 of a disagreeble nature couceruiug Rud- 

 yard Kipling they can hear or find. In- 

 cidents showing the other side of the 

 man — the true side, in fact — are rare, 

 but that this wonderful author is not 

 quite the literary barbarian which he is 

 so generally made out to be finds but 

 stronger evidence in a little story which 

 I heard quite recently. 



Not long ago an ambitious young 

 writer composed his first story. He was 

 rather skeptical of its merit, and being 

 a great reader and admirer of Kipling's 

 ■work determined to send his literary 

 firstborn to Kipling for criticism. His 

 friends tried to dissuade him from the 

 idea, telling him that he would never 

 see his story again. But his faith in his 

 favorite author was strong, and the 

 story went to Kipling. A week passed 

 by, and finally nearly a month had 

 elapsed. The young writer suffered keen- 

 ly from the ridicule of his friends in the 

 meantime, and, truth to tell, his faith 

 began to waver. During the fifth week, 

 however, a letter came postmarked 

 "Brattleboro, Vt. ," and the young 

 writer opened it with feverish haste. 



There was his manuscript, true 

 enough, but scarcely could he recognize 

 it. Kipling had evidently put days of 

 work upon it, making corrections, sug- 

 gestions and interlineations until the 

 story contained more of Kipling than of 

 its original author. With the manu- 

 script came a letter, iu which Kipling 

 said that he was not "in the habit of 

 doing this sort of thing, because it took 

 so much time. " But in this case he saw 

 a good chance to make $5 for a particu- 

 lar fresh air fund in which he was in- 

 terested, and if Mr. thought the 



work he had put on this manuscript was 

 worth that sum ho would be glad to re- 

 ceive it for his fund and would send a 

 receipted bill! 



The $5 was sent. — Philadelphia 

 Times. 



AiJ banns' day, JSfov. 1, is said to 

 have been begun by Pope Boniface IV 

 about 607 and was established by Greg- 

 ory IV about 830. 



