oe —— A
Demortaic Wada
oi Bellefonte, Pa., November 25, 1910.
FEATHERS OF SNOW.
Old Mother Goose is now shaking her feath-
ers—
She's nurse to the fairies who dwell in the
skies!
On her it depends when the nicest of weath-
ers
Comes down to delight all the little folks’
eyes.
She turns from their cradles each wee sleepy
fairy
So snugly tucked under their covers of blue,
Then throws off each counterpane lacy and
airy,
Just as we've watched often our own moth-
ers do!
1 wish from my heart that she were not so
lazy,
But shook out each mattress of dainty white
cloud
Every day so the breezes, all sparkling and
maizy,
Would clothe all the earth in a mantle so | This
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There was only one taint of disloyalty
about Billy Houck—he kept his money in
Sarvis Point Bank.
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dow himself, and settled the accounts as
deliberately as possible without obvious
delay, hoping desperately that something
few more of our farmers will just take { would habpen to check run.
all their money over to Sarvis Point, it In the first hour two thousand dollars
won't be any Time antl we have water. went out over fe Soimear, Zag son fhe
ectric lights and street-cars—at | e came. In passi rom the
TS Sectric ly Es at a Li ofa 0, from the
“Funny, isn't it,” he continued, bitterly, | often 8 fave a quick, nervous glance out of
for he had a little stock in the home the side window.
bank, “how the very fellow you would | The cashier, following the glance, saw
expect to stand by a home institution is that the banker's Jung wife was almost
the first one alwa | constantly on the front porch of the new
“Billy,” asked . etimes she seemed to be
tor, as the farmer looked at a plow in sweeping, again dusting a rug; but with
Newton's hardware store, “how's the | One excuse or another, she was nearly
Rock of Gibraltar over at the Point these | Slwdvs there, her face turned toward the
days?”
Billy squinted his eye at the plow and | The money went faster the next hour.
did not reply. | At eleven o'clock only four thousand dol-
“It is all right to buy things when you lars remained. When that went the
can get them handy,” remarked Graham doors must close. Only four thousand
to a bystander, “but when it comes to | dollars between Henry Simmons and
depositing your money, you can’t expect | bankruptcy, and it was trickling from
a fellow to have any confidence in a little | under his fingers like sand in an hour-
old town like this—no, siree! Got to take glass. Another hour at most and his
it to the railroad, where the bank is as capital, his four years’ work, and the
strong as Gibraltar.” "house, would go. ~
Many others gibes and criticisms, both His face Stew a little grayer, the lines
direct and oblique, were flung at Billy. deepened, but his teeth shut tightly and
Some of them were good-natured, some | his hand and eye were steady as he
caustic, but he merely squinted his left A counted out coin and currency to fright-
eye inscrutably and went his way with- ened depositors.
out a word. Twenty minutes past eleven, and only
The fact was, Billy had had trouble two thousand dollars left. The sum
with Henry Simmons, the banker—or as would not last until noon. A line had
nearly trouble as he ever had. He formed now, reaching from the paying-
thought the banker had wronged him in | window through the door and down the
a business transaction. Billy stated the ' steps outside.
case briefly, but Simmons insisted the Billy Houck came to the door, walking
bank was right. Billy withdrew his funds leisurely, a large old leather valise in his
and transferred them to Sarvis Point. hand. ‘They let him pass, for they knew
The banker offered the public no infor- he had no money here to draw out, and
mation concerning the difficulty, and of they craned their necks along the line to
course Billy offered none, for he lived up | see what he was going to do.
to the advice which he had often gave | ,
“Windy” Jim Davis: “If you are e nearest the window, "won't you let me
with a fellow, quit instead of blowing | have a turn for a few minutes sol can
about it; if you aren't, shut up and go get rid of this money? I'm sort of tired
on.” | carrying it round, and it’s nearly dinner-
One evening in the autumn two years time.
later Mrs. Houck remarked at supper: «They gave way, and Billy set the valise
“I reckon it's a_good thing you took on the ledge, and began to lay out stacks
your money out of that bank; they say | of bills.
it's about to break.” ' “I want to make a deposit.”
“What?” Billy looked up quickly from | “Simmon’s hand shook slightly as he
his plate. “O pshaw!"” he said. “That's reached for a deposit slip.
all stuff and nonsense. Henry Simmons ~~ At sight of the bills—it was an en-
is good for it.” | couraging-looking pile, looking larger
“I guess it’s so,” persisted Mrs. Houck. ' than it really was, for most of them were
“Leastwise, nearly everybody thinks so, | five-dollar bills—the line wavered and
and nearly all of them were getting their broke up, the men scattered round the
money out when I was over to town this office. hey still held their checks, but
a oon." watched the transaction at the window
Billy finished his supper rather hurried- wonderingly. The word had quickly
ly, took his white slouch-hat from its nail passed out at the door and down the
by the kitchen door and said he was go- street that Billy Houck was making a de-
ing to town for a little while. posit, and the deposit grew with the re-
“Well what did you hear?” asked his port.
wife when he returned an hour later. “Four thousand?” Simmons looked up
“Hear?” He sat down in the hickory from his pad when the last stack of bills
rocker and crossed his legs. “It's what | was counted. For an instant his eyes
you don’t hear that counts.” He sat for looked straight into Billy's, and said
a long time, his eye squinted thoroughly | things that made a lump rise in his throat.
at the fire. “All right.” And there was much more
“Yes, the securities were good—he in Billy's tone than any guessed but Sim-
knew most of the big loans. The deposi- | mons. “Good weather for corn-gathering,
tors would not lose, finally, even if the isn't it?”
bank failed — but the stockholders| “All right, fellows,” said Billy, as
would. It would ruin Henry Simmons. moved away. “Much obliged for the
He owned most of the stock—all he had turn."
was in the bank, so they said. It would | “But not one a the window.
pproached
ruin his reputation, too. “Hello, doc!” said Billy, noticing Gra-
Billy moved uneasily in his chair. | ham, the horse-doctor, who had been in
“I reckon a fellow might really think | line with a check for his balance of six-
he was right when he was wrong.” he- | is
remarked. | yo
Mrs. Houck very rapidly that he isn't it?”
might—too rapidly, if Billy noticed. | “And here's Latimer, too!"
He got up and took from the shelf the ed his left eye at the dentist.
little round-faced alarm-clock. you are getting your m out to build
“What are you going to do?” an electric line—to Sarvis
“Wind it.” He set the hand at three. | Billy lingered a few minutes, eyeing
About Sudnight he got up and looked the crowd one after another Juasically,
at the clock. He went back to bed for not one of whom approached paying-
i to teller. Those nearest the door
Slefp, then gotup began to i drop out. When the hands of
“Billy Houck, what in the world is the reached ten minutes of twelve
matter witb you?” asked his wife. “What men besides Billy remained in
are you going to do?” ! office. One of these approached the win-
“Just over to Sarvis Point,” he | dow. “T reckon I won't need this money,
casually. “I thought I'd get an i after all, Mr. Simmons.” he rede-
early start. You go to sleep; I'll get my | posited five hundred. The other man put
breakfast over there.” ‘ back his two hundred.
When Henry Simmons came down to i i
the bank the next morning, the cashier threw up the sash, and as he put his
saw he had spent a sleepless night. The | handkerchief to his face, i
cashier had not slept much himself. | little flutter.
Simmons was president Gf the bank, its | Billy Houck, who was passing down
chief , and transacted most of | the front steps, glanced up the street in
its business in time to see a little woman on the front
He had 1 bank four years
before, and it had prospered far better | exultantly.— Youth's
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porch of the new house wave hand
Companion.
The New Prince of Wales.
Young Prince Edward Albert Christian
George Andrew Patrick David, heir-ap-
June 22nd, and his
old
Prince of Wales
the day, no doubt with all the tradi-
a ring on his
a golden staff in his hand, ac-
Yo
Edward got his sword and golden staff
quickly than his
father. The latter, though Victoria
died January 22nd, 1901, and King Edward
mounted the throne at once, did not be-
come Prince of Wales until November
That was a wait of nine and one-
half months. Young Edward had to wait
but 43 days.
The title of prince of Wales does not
belong to the heir to the throne by right.
He becomes Duke of Cornwall the mo-
ment his father becomes king, but the
latter is uncer no obligations, save by an-
cient custom, to make him Prince of
Wales. The title dates from the year
1284, when it was conferred upon the
young prince who afterward became Ed
ward II. This Edward was born at Car-
narvon castle, in Wales, and was the sec-
ond son of Edward I. At the.time he
was made ince of the Wash was Jot
expected t he would ever sit upon
throne of England, but later, the death
of his elder brother, Alphonso, made him
king, and so the title became merged in
the crown. Since then it has been the
custom for the reigning monarch to be-
stow it upon his first-born son, though in
several instances kings of England have
ected to do so.
e title carries no domination of rev
enue with it, but its holder has a seat in
the house of lords, and he may occupy
that seat and cast his vote even during
his minority. But this lege also be-
longs to him as Duke of Cornwall, and so
he gains nothing by being made Prince
of Wales. The late King Edward did not
he was 40 years old, and King George, so
far as is recorded, never cast a vote there
at all. The young prince, it is probable,
least 10 years. The fact that no income
accompanies his new dignity need not
worry him, for the revenues of the duchy
of Cornwall are ample for his needs, and
it was but a week or so ago that King
George informed parlament that there
was no necessity for making further pro-
vision for him.
Chances in Australia.
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hoya
take his seat in the house of lords until
will not appear at Westminster for at |
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Farming the Water.
With the increasing acuteness of the
food question and the consequent neces- ;
| sity of developing new sources of food |
supplies the American farmer might
profitably undertake a more careful cul-'
| tivation of the water areas of his prop- |
rding on | erty. If his lands inclose or border on a |
and lake,around or along an unpolluted stream |
| he should make his water iots yield crops as |
i regularly as those he gathers from his’
fields and orchards. It can be done simply |
by pianting fish and looking after them '
! with even less care than he gives to his
| corn and wheat. A 10-acre pond proper-
{ly stocked with black bass and yellow
: perch and carefully attended to ought to |
i yield at least as much revenue every year |
!as a similar area planted in oats and
! corn.
| Many States are encouraging farmers |
i to farm the water by supplying them
i with fish for planting, cither free of
| charge or at a nominal price. Pennsyl- |
| vania appears to lead in this respect, and
{ this State, according to an official re-
| port, has this year produced more young |
‘trout for distribution than have been
i turned out by the great hatcheries con- |
; ducted by the Federal government, the :
i Sumber being estimated at nearly 12,000,
| In addition, the Pennsylvania hatcher- |
lies have produced 223,000,000 pickerel, |
| 426,000,600 yellow perch, 93,000,000 pike
perch and 143,000,000 blue pike, besides |
+ 19,000.000 shad, 39,000,000 lake whitefish
| and 120,000,000 lake herring. Unfortun- |
; ately the out put of black bass is not stat- i
| ed, but it undoubtedly runs into scores of |
millions. The farmer who proposes to |
! farm the water should give first attention l
| to the black bass. The latter is one of i
| the hardiest,cieanest and most wholesome i
| of all fish, and his bravery as a fighter |
invariably lures the paying angler to the |
| waters where his species has its abiding
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Women are to Blame
in a great measure for home unhappi- |
ness. Not always the woman who helps |
make home unhappy, but her mother per- !
| Bape who let her daughter assume the |
| obligations of marriage in ignorance of !
consequences. When a woman is!
j careless of her appearance, too tired to |
| “fix up” for her husband; when she scolds |
| the children and neglects household |
| duties, there is discord and misery to
| come. Why not use Dr. Pierce's Favorite |
| Prescription and be a healthy woman and i
| have a happy home? There's no excuse |
| for the majority of women who are $0 |
| dragged down with sufferiug. “Favorite |
| Prescription” cures ninety-eight per cent, |
{of all “female diseases” even in their |
i worst forms. More than half a million
| ‘nounced in n grizzly voice for
“There is no country in the world that | Women are witnesses to these cures. |
“Excuse me, fellows,” he said to those |
offers greater opportunities for immi- |
grants than Australia,” said J. R. Wain- |
right, of London, in an interview for the
ashington Post. “I know that the
United States is the favorite nation of |
most immigrants from Europe, and de-
servedly so, no doubt, but if the large |
army of poor le in England and other |
countries of Europe would go to Australia |
they would find opportunities there that |
can be found in no other part of the!
world, I believe.
“Not long ago, I had brought to my at- |
tention a letter from a man who went to !
e in 1908. He said that he left |
on on November, 1908, and arrived |
in Queensland early in January, 1909. He |
obtained employment at his trade, that of |
a carpenter, in northern Queensland, and |
when he went to work all he had was $1.
In the first year of his residence in Aus- |
tralia he paid all of his living expenses |
and placed in the bank, out of his earn- |
ings, the sum of $400. He said that he |
had lived comfortably and enjoyed all the |
pleasures that a reasonable man could |
ask for. He spoke highly of the climate |
and the character and hospitality of the
le.
“Australia is practically an undeveloped
country. There are hundreds of thous- |
ands of acres of good land to be had for
almost nothing. The settler there does i
not need cash in order to Seguire prop- |
erty. If he has no money, the govern |
ment will loan him enough to purchase |
title toland, and all that is necessary is |
thrift and energy. Some of the wealthiest
| men in Australia went there as poor boys.
I know of a score of men who today are
among the leading citizens that had com- |
paratively nothing when they landed.
“No apprehension is felt among the |
citizens of Australia of a Japanese inva- |
sion. They realize, of course, that the
{5 could make trouble, but there is no |
f that it will come. Australia is de-
termined to keep the country a white |
man’s country, and laws against the land- {
ing of others than white persons are
stringent.” {
Snake Had no Chance.
Two secretary birds, She first of their |
| species ever brought to this country, were
received from Africa at the Bronx Zoo- |
logical Gardens in New York the other,
day, says the Christian Herald. They cost !
$100 each. They are of the hawk family, |
four feet in height, with long legs, slate- |
colored feathers and long quills trud- |
ing from the back of the They |
have the stride of an ostrich, but their |
peculiarity is that they are the deadly |
| deadly moccasin
! snake immediately
| and undertook to
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Look Ahead.
It's only a trifle now, that little touch of
stomach trouble. But look ahead. Every
dangerous disease begins in a trifle, just
as the destructive avalanche begins, per-
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to try your medicine. I had tried all the
home and received but little re-
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stout and hearty. It is due entirely to
your wonderful medicines.”
A physician always in the house; a
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the whole of medical science and exper
ience from the day of Galen down; that
is practically what is offered in Dr.
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser.
This work containing 1008 pages and over
700 illustrations, is sent free, on receipt of
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The Months and the Jewels.
Garnets, January's gems, means “Vic-
and Power;"”
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ebruary, amethysts rule sweet “Affec-
tion's” hour;
March with Jaspers decorates who are
Sold Sangli ere
's ue res reign wi
“Truth” is bravely told;
Chalcedonies
belong to May—their
message "Good Cheer;”
The Emeralds of June declare “Immor-
tal Life is clear;
July claims Diamond's “Purity” —free-
dom spot and stain;
A 's sky-blue Turquoises stand for
Vo To Chrysol
ember’s Chrysolites
"Hp ever Jor the best; ot "st
e Beryis o tober tell of “Happi-
Reo) ing T 2
ovember’s glowing Topazes are types
of "Faithful Friends.”
December's blood-red Rubies sing;
“God's power never ends.”
proclaim:
| until comparatively recent times.
—By Tudor Jenks in Harper's Bazar.
ER ——————
LET IT PASS.
Has it been a weary day?
Let it pass.
Lots of others on the way—
They will pass,
Soon the skies will start to lighten,
All 2round begins to brighten,
And misfortunes cease to frighten—
Let it pass.
Does the world the wrong way rub you?
Let it pass.
Did your best friend seem to saub you?
Let it pass,
Chances are you were mis:aken,
None is ever quite forsaken,
Ail for naught our faith was shaken.
Let it pass.
~Eritish Weekly,
Why One victim Lost Faith In Side
Whiskered Brethren,
“UB-whilst yo’ was gone” said
Brother Smathers, relating the news
to Brother Buckaloo, who had been on
a journey, "a gen'leman ‘peared on de
gceire yub wid de noration dat he was
a clarryvoyant and de seventh son o
suppin—1 dunnabh what—and was
gwine to hold a secession in de lodge
hail and show sigus and wonduhs for
de modest sum o' two bits for folks
and 10 cents for betwixt sized chil-
den; po'tly pussounage, wid a striped
vest and woolly <ide whiskers, and
‘bout the shade, he was, of de opposite
side of a fish.”
“Wisiit I'd a-been dar,” enviously
remarked Brother Buckaloo,
“Wisht yo' Lad, sah, ah-kaze 1 like:
sympathy, “Well-uh, de side whisk.
ered gen'leman took de money at de
do’. and de house was plumb paobd
and den he blowed out de Hghis aul
very
body to set right still, ub-kaze 1 o.
fust spearmint he was uh gwine to
whirl In and separate delr souls fum
deir bodies.”
“Mum-mum-muh Lawd, sah! Did he
do it?™
“Not so's yo' could notice it. We
dess sot and sot and walted and walt-
ed, and bimeby a gamblin’ man dat
wasn't skeered begun to snawt, and
den he It a light, and, behold, the puh-
fessah was zone! He'd done separated
us smaht growed folks fum our two
bits apiece und de Innycent child’en
fum deir dimes and was gone fum us.
Dat's all dar was to it. 'ceppin’ it
clinches de sneakin’ s’picion I's had
for, lo. dese many days dat a nigger
wid side whiskers dess natu'ally kain't |
be right."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Names and Messages Used to Be
Scribbled on Playing Cards.
It is somewhat curious that so use
ful an invention as the visiting card
should have been unknown to socieiy
Yet
150 years ago the carte de vieite did
not exist. The belles of the seven.
teenth century used nothing in the
shape of an name ecard, or “ticket.”
as it was afterward called. Invita-
tions to routs and drums as well as
names and addresses were written
across the backs of playing cards,
which in those days were made with
2 white reverse and innocent of the
{intricate pattern familiar to us in
modern times.
Mary Wortley Montagu, a lady of
ton. says the Connoissenr, wonld be
apt to use a red playing card—a queen
of hearts—for ordinary social purposes.
while an amorous bean inscribed his
name and the mest tender of inquiries
on the back of a jack of spades. The
great world of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries was a small
world. It was rigidly exclusive. Liv-
ing in the same quarter of the town.
the quality sent each other scribbled
messages by the hand of a favorite
page. Society, in a word, was in-
formal in the midst of stately forma!li-
tles, and we have no difficulty in believ.
ing the Comtesse de Boigne when she
tells us that in 1800 Lady Harington
used to trot up and down Bond street
picking up guests for a party for the
same night.
Quite Simple.
It is told. no matter on what author.
ity. that a telephone company in Chi
cago has no end of trouble with its
wires. They were continually out of
order. Nobody seemed to know why
An investigation was started.
Most of the subscribers in the ters
tory where the trouble was were
Poles. Hungarians, Russians, ete. An
expert af rrr due consideration of the
matter decided that the wires were
unable to withstand the cnslanghts of
languages like Polish, Hunzarin, Rus
sian, etc.
“Can you suggest a remedy # asked
the officials of the telephone company.
“Certainly.” answered the oxpert.
“Substitute barbed wire.”
The suggestion was followed. There
was no more trouble. — Philadelphia
Ledger.
To Spade It Up or to Plow It?
I am not sure but that the spaded
garden has some advantage over the
plowed one. The soil can be turned up
just where you want it and as yeu
want it by the use of the spade, while
the plow works alike throughout the
garden, though the s.ii may vary in
depth and nature to a considerable ex-
tent. A spaded garden always looks
best at the beginning, and looks count
in gardening as wel! as elsewhere.
But the gardener who has a liking for
neatness will make his garden look
well after a little in spite of all obsta-
cles.—“Home Garden.” by Eben E. Rex-
ford.
Startling Encouragement.
“Was Amelia's father encouraging
when you went to him to ask him for
her hand?"
“Not very. He asked we to put the
proposal in writing, so | couldn't back
out, as all the others did.”
Musical Note.
First Young I'Ling «during the so-
aata—1 just love Brahms, don't you?
Second Young ‘Thing-What are
Brahms ?—Musical Courier.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
| The foundation of every noble character is sin-
cerity.—Anon,
We all remember the wedding march
+ in “Lohengrin”"—how the long file of pages
and maidens carried aloft the ail waxen
tapers as they marched before Elsa de
Brabant and her mysterious defender—
and perhaps it has occured to some of us
that the bridemaid’s boquets seem rather
a frivolous substitution for the big sol-
emn tapers. To such as may have thought
80 it is a pleasure to know that this an-
cient custom of bearing candles before the
bride has been Tetons and that in the
, South particularly the “candle-light wed-
ding” has been chosen by many of this
| year's brides.
At one wedding in Atlanta the bride
candles as her principal decoration.
And in deference to the old impressive
; custom she selected six young gir rang-
| in age from 10 to 15 years, to bear tall ca-
thedral candles before the wedding par-
| ty. Following these came the bridesmaids,
| carrying shower boquets of maiden-hair
ferns, tied with white silver gauze ribbon.
| Rows of tapers were placed all over the
house—on the mantle—and the result was
an effect which everyone declared to be
more charming than anything they had
ever seen,
Too many Clothes.—It is a mistake to
buy too many clothes for fall and winter
wear. Better have a few nice ones and
keep them well pressed and cleaned than
to have too many. The fashions change
quickly and this year's styles cannot
made over to advantage. A good tailor-
ed suit with several shirtwaists will be
sufficient for many a woman who goes
but a little. Or if she prefers the one-
piece dress, then a long coat of color, cut
and material suitable, both for street and
evening wear is an excellent purchase,
This, of course, refers to the woman, who
buys as few clothes as she can possibly
get along with, and that is much wiser
than buying too many. The girl who
makes up what she terms “stacks” of un-
derwear will find it would have been bet-
ter to make a smaller number of gar-
ments, for the dainty lingerie becomes
yellow when laid away.
Individual Towel.—It is coming more
and more into general use.
It is a pleasant and dainty custom.
It costs no more in the longrun, requir-
ing but a little extra care in sorting the
laundry and arranging the towels in the
proper places for eachmember of the fam-
ily.
These towels vary in size from 16 by 27
inches to 18 by 30 inches.
They may be simply marked with the
initials of the owner, or they may be
| elaborately embroidered, as they are when
offered as a gift.
| This individual towel also solves the
| problem: “What shall we give the men
| for Christmas?”
| Almost every man travels some time
| during the year, and nothing is more con-
| venient than a few of the small, easily
{ packed individual towels for the traveling
2.
i
When the
fashions changed so quickly
| this autumn, from plaited skirts to
| straight ones, from long coats to short
{ ones, from gathered sleeves to tight ones,
i a woman looked at her last year’s coat
! suit in dismay.
| She thought it hopeless to try to alterit,
| and she wondered where she was going
| to get the money to buy a new one, when
| there were curtains needed in the parlor,
| a carpet in the living room, and new china
! for the table.
; And there is no woman so entirely care-
| less of the fazhions that she doesn’t wish
| to look as though she knew what they
| were even if she has to follow them afar.
| She wants her clothes cut by the right
| lines, which is far more important than to
{ have them made of expensive stuff.
The American woman of every class is
intesely ambitious about her clothes and
her house, and she wants to have a little
of the best in each.
When she found that her last winter's
suit was all wrong in October—as it wag—
she had a right to feel hopeless. She ma
have put a deal of money into it
with the full expectation that it would
last two seasons. She waited awhile to
hear that the fashions would revert to
what had been, but as this rumor didn’t
start, she made up her mind to see what
i could be done in the way of alterations.
Hereis what can be done: If the skirt
is plaited all around, with the material cut
away, so that it cannot be made over, she
wants to add a band of the same
fabric, or one that harmonizes around the
knees. The width of this is determined
by the figure.
If it is possible to take any fulness out
of the back in order to give it a flat line
from waist to hem, it should be done: at
any rate the plaits should be stitched
down to the foundation, to the lower edge
of the applied band. It is assumed that
the skirt is short, so that it will not have
to be altered.
- It wants to be cut off about three inch-
es from the floor.
The coat should be cut off to a becoming
| line below the hips. About three inchesis
good measurement, but this is not al-
ways becoming to every kind of figure. If
there happens to be any flare in the back,
or at the side seams, the fulness should
be smoothed into the seams and taken
up.
The long shawl collar should be re-
moved, and a short one put in its place.
The wide sailor is in first fashion, and
smartens up an old coat in a remarkable
way. oS double-)rgusted i
i. but thi il
gle-breasted fastening
|
gra
Sf ilk; butter fast fis ofan
7 i an hour, stirring to
ing. Pour in buttered pans
{ and when cool cut in squares.
| Glazed Sweet Potataes.—Pare half a
| dozen sweet potatoes cook in boiling
water 10 minutes. Cut in halves lchith-
baking
| wise and lay in a buttered
Cook one-half cup of sugar and three
tablespoons of water together three min-
utes, add a rolling teaspoon of butter and
pour over the potatoes.
once or twice while baking in a
hot oven.