Giving Up One's Country

bespoke her attention tor a smali Watteau hanging near, which represented a gentleman in a pink doublet and hose and a ruif, leaning agaiast the pedestal of the statue of a nymph in a garden, and playing the guitar to two ladies seated on the grass. "That's u;y ideal of a regular occupation," he said. Miss Stackpole turned to him again, and though her eyes rested upon the picture, he saw that she had not comprehended the subject. She was thinking of something much more 8erious. "l don't see how you can reconcile it to your conscience," she said. " My dearlady, I have no conscienee!" "Well, I advise you to cultívate one. You will need it the next time you go to America." "1 shall probahly never go again." "Are you ashamed to show yourself ?" Ralph meditated, with a gentle smile. "I suppose that, if one has no conscience, one has no shame." " Well, you have got plenty of assurance," Henrietta declared, "Do you consider it rightto give up your country ? " "Ah, one doesn't give up one's country any mroe than one gives up one's grandmother. It's antecedent to choice." "I suppose that means that you would give it up if you could ? What do they think of you over here?" " They delight in me." "Thal's because you truckle to them." ' A.h, set it down a little to my natural charm!" Kalph urged. - Henry James. The principal object in evaporating fruits or vegetables is not only the retention of all the qualities that distinguish one fruit from another in its ripe or mature condition, but to further develop the ripening process as well as to enhance thereby its percentage of fruit sugar. This important result is readily secured by the cúrrente of hot air passing over and around the cut or broken surfaces of cell tissue containing the acid, staren and aroma peculiar to each fruit, converting the former into sugar and sealing the latter against I volatilizaron.