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UV JULES THKICOW.
The "easy to make" waists retain
t':eir popularity and with dainty ac
oi:soriea can be made quite dressy
) appearance. The accompanying
tskrtrh shows how a pretty effect was
joined by the use of lace motlfa and
Mack velvet ribbon. The waltrt It
self was made c: ecra voile and worn
with a skirt the same shade striped
with black. The upper half of the col
lar and lower half of the cuffs are
covered with dull old rose silk. Over
the edges of the silk on the collar
and cuffs are appllqued lace motifs
and narrow black velvet ribbon. A
wider velvet is used for the tie and
the ends are finished with gilt tas
sels. The ribbon ties are very popular
and almost any small ornaments are
appropriate to use at the ends.
A crushed girdle of black satin
made over a canvas foundation and
finished with a rose rosette completes
very charming frock. A similar ef
ct on an evening waist with a round
square low neck would be very
-Jtty. For such t, waist the material
3'uld be plain white net cut with a
tmd Dutch neck edged with light
'.'.ue silk, and the motifs and narrow
velvet appllqued all around the edge.
The wider velvet then could be sewed
below the trimming and tied In a bow
in front or slightly at the side. A
light blue sash would be pretty with
this.
One of the most graceful and con
venient garments to wear with a fluffy
dress is the oval cape. Some are
fastened together at the sides and the
loop thus formed is faced back with
embroidery to simulate a wide sleeve
and cuff. Others are left to fall in
graceful folds like the one In the il
lustration. In both kinds the cape It
self is a long oval slashed lengthwise
to the center where the neck is cut
out. One side laps over the other a
little and buttons diagonally in front
The long, black silk Bcarf around the
outside of the collar 1b finished with
silk tassels and Is held at the top
by the turned back points of the col
lar and fancy buttons. The collar It
self Is like the cape and is lined with
white silk and edged with an inch
wide black ribbon. Most of these
capes are made of the closely woven
cloth that does not ravel. The edrces
are left as cut with an ornamental
Btitching a few Inches from the edge
as the only finish. "
The slender effects so desirable at
the present time have caused an in
crease In the number and popularity
of the undergarments that are with
out unnecessary seams and fullne b
nt the waist. The chemise Is less
intlky around the waist and hips than
the corset cover anu skirt as separate
garments.
The much ruffled effects are slight
.y in disfavor ana the plnlner hand
wrought scallops and eyelets are
HOW
used. A pretty and entirely new de
sign ii Illustrated here. The edges
are scalloped and buttonhole stiched
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and eyelets for the ribbons are work
ed in the front and on the shoulders
are Binall ribbon ties. The back and
front are laced together over the
shoulders and longer ribbons are
laced through the eyelets below and
tied loosely around the arms.
TIX WKDDIN'O AXXIVKKSAKY.
Sonic Helpful Suggestion in Ilcgiird
to its Observance.
The tenth anniversary is the tin
T.-edding. a receptir .: is the celebra
tion usually chosen. The Invitations
may be written on smoothly
bound with tinfoil. The decorations
for the occasion shoull be tinware
and pink flowers. The dates of the
wedding and anniversary may be
of large tin lottery, or c-t out of
Mrdboard cov -ed i. tinfoil, and
piaced conspicuously i:i .ne room
where guests are received. On the
table in the dining-room there may
be, as a centerpiece, a tin pnil filled
with flowers und tiel around with
broad pink bbc- Tin candlesticks
with pink candles and shades, little
tin dishes containing . in . bonbons
ana canes witn pink icing are on
the table. Tin plates, platters,
spc.ns, forks and eun snoulJ be
used. The guests help themselves
and each other, as at any standlug
up collation. Bouillon, dainty sand
wiches of cream chee? and ehoprei
nuts, chicken salad, ices and coffee
are plenty to serve, and 1'jss would
do. Souvenirs may be little fluted
cake-tins filled with wedding cka
in tinfoil and tied up with rink rib
bons. Gifts for a tin wedding may
be flowers In tin dippers; ferns or
growing plants In palls or 'leap
breadpani.. a bouquet in a tin fun
nel; two or three long-stemmed
roses In an apple-corer, or tied to
half a dozen ti:- spoons; a book en
closed In a wire broiler through
which ribons are : .terlaced; wire
baskets lined with silk and filled
with bonbons. Inllmnta and prac
tical friends sometimes seud canned
fruits, the tins concealed In pink
crepe paper; a very near relative
may send a tin savinss-bank, well
filled with savings.
New Women iu Turkey.
Is the new woman about to cap
ture Turkey? During the recent
political agitation the unheard of
spectacle was to be seen at Salon lc
of a woman of rank, the wife of a
young Turk, parading unvei'r.J
through the streets with a banner,
to the delicht of her husband's parti
sans. At Monastir many wo.en,
bent on political errands, traveled
about alone.
If this is to be the result of a con
stitutional movement, what Is to be
come of the prophet's strict command
against women showing their faces
in public? Gone will be the poet's
dream of the dark-eyed beauties of
CIrcassia leading lives of Indolence
behind tho screens of the "jysterl
ous harem. If tue daughters of the
near east, like tho daughters of Nip
pon, are to adopt Lie fashions ol
Paris, go in for political economy,
suffraglsm, socialism and small fami
lies, like British fashionables, and
start womon's clubs, platform cam
paigns and summer college courses
like their American sisters, a whole
world of tradition and romance will
soon disappear.
Now It N the Soulful Girl.
There are fashions in -lannors as
well as in clothes and those delicate
beings who catch the vibrations of
conduct from the higher ether as
carefully as tue wireless telegrapu
operator reads his message have inti
mated that the era of the vigorous,
rollicking girl has passed. The
telle of this "winter must be a soul
ful, posing girl, who can sit for an
entire evening -vith her hands light
ly clasped in tier lap, and who moves
only her lips in speaking, not using
her eyebrows, shoulders and hands,
feeveral girls are working hard to
acqrflre repose, pnr-osteal ag that
Bounds.' With repose of manner has
come study of how to make the eyes
expressive. A tlrl who has mint.
but not great good looks, and who
oow In New York, brought on
lnfvuctor from London, Just to teach
ner to use her eyes and how to ne
Quire the latest gait, an undulating
New Wedding Fuv
The bride now present the guests
at the bridal table --ith souvenirs la
rae snap of sma.l satin slip-era
lunr mi oj me dozen at small
8CIS80R8 8HARPKNER.
Simple Device Dees the Work With'
out Skilled Leber.
Sharpening a pair of scissors has
always been considered, to properly
belong to an expert. An Indiana In
ventor decided that a device could be
readily mado by which the sharpening
could be readily accomplished by any
one. He, accordingly, designed the
device shown here, by which scissors
Indiana Inventor's Scissors Sharpener.
can be sharpened without entailing
the employment of skilled labor. It
comprises a base, which Is clamped
to a table or other support. On the
base Is a sharpening stone or other
suitable abrasive material, while at
the opposite end Is au upright arm
from which depends a movable clamp.
The scissors are held In correct posi
tion over the stone by means of the
clamp. The latter is then moved back
and forth along the arm, thus moving
the blade of the scissors across the
sharpening stone. Where scissors are
employed to a great extent this simple
means of sharpening the dull blades
should prove both valuable and econo
mical. Sliding Float for Bait-Casting.
Sliding floats for use with a bait
casting rod are not In the tackle
stores, but any angler can make one.
Take two bottle cork3, one and a
quarter inch size; make a hole
through each and slip them on a quill,
using shoemakers' wax hot for ce
ment. Cut quill off even with cork
and push a bead down into small end
of It until the bead is on a level with
outside. Work the cork down to pear
shape, the bead in the small end;
smooth with sandpaper and paint.
Make a figure 8 loop in a cotton string
by forming loop and putting ends
through twice, and slip this loop on
the reel line. Draw it tight enough
to stay in position firmly, but lose
enough to slide on line by pressure ol
the fingers. To rig the tackle, set the
knot on reel line at the depth you
want to fish, slip the float on line
bead end first, then adjust sinker and
leader as usual. When the line li
reeled up for tue cast the float runs
up on the line and stops at the sink
er. When the cast is made the floal
returns to the knot on the line. Use
A Good Sliding Float With Casting Rod.
as much lead as the float will carry.
Have the rod equipped with large,
smooth guides. Charles Carroll, Na
tional Military Home, Ohio.
The Difficulty.
Mrs. Watson, a woman whose pre
tensions to beauty nature flatly re
fused to assist in any way, saw In a
shop-window a bonnet, the sort ol
thing that .a modiste In town calls a
"creation," Just a knotting of velvet,
a fold of lace and pink roses, but a
snare for feminine vanity because It
looked so simple and easy to wear.
She hurried in, examined it closely,
inquired the price, and at last tried
It on. Then, after a few moments
of disappointed staring, she took it off
again.
"I don't think I'll have it, after all,
Miss Demmon," she said. "What do
you suppose Is the matter with the
thing? I'm sure It looked ever so
much prettier in the window."
"But, my dear madam," answered
the milliner, with quick conviction,
"You must remember that you have
your face to contend with now!"
Growth of Beys and Girls.
At five years of age boy are main
ly taller than girls, but -the girls ap
pear to equal them at the seventh
year, and continue thus up to and In
cluding the ninth year, after which the
boys rise again above the girls for
two years. At about twelve years the
girls suddenly become taller than the
boys, continuing until the fifteenth
year, when the boys finally regain
their superiority in stature. After the
age of seventeen there seems to be
very little, if any, increase In the
suture of girls, while boys are still
growing vigorously at eighteen. Boys
have a larger lung capacity than girls
at all ages. The difference Is not so
large from six to thirteen, but sub
sequently the difference between the
exes Increases very Ifipldl,
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SOME OUT OF DAT I THEORIES.
To Keep Up with 8clence not at All
Easy for the Lay Mind.
To the lay mind It is very discon
certing to see the kaleidoscopic
changes that are contlnunlly taking
plnce in all branches of science. We
have no sooner accepted the nebular
hypothesis as one of tho ultimate
laws of nature than the geologist on
the one hand and the mathematician
f- "ie ntlipr tell us that it will have
to be abandoned.
One generation of naturalists de
limits u by leaching us to believe
tnat every coral Island is built from
the bottom of the ocean by the accu
mulated remains of millions of gen
erations of polyps and the next would
have us believe that tney are merely
the caps of oceanic mountains.
For a century the very foundation
on which chemistry was built was the
doctrine that the mass, the total
amount of things in the universe, was
unchangeable, but now more chemists
doubt It than believe it.
Sixty years ago Adam Smith was
thought to have said all but the last
word on economics, and his principle
of lnlsgex-falre was the holy of holies,
but now laissez-faire has been aban
doned and only a single one of his
laws remains unchallenged.
So it is In all lines, theories of in
heritance, of chemical affinity, of dis
ease, of health, of life, of death all
come and go so rapidly that we can
scarcely keep pace with the procession.
When we look into any specialized
phase of a subject the host of ever
changing theories simply bewilders
n:iy but the extreme specialist
The Interesting part of it is that
thp man of science is the very one
who Is not worried by these shifting
sands. He Is too busy using the vari
ous theories to accomnlish thlnes.
He seems to think no more of discard
inn one theory for another than he
docs of taking up a larger test tube
or beaker or of adjusting his micro
scope to a different power.
Gum-Pickers at Work.
Picking spruce gum and selling it
to chewing gum manufacturers is a
source of income for a great many
men in the Adirondacks and other
northern forests guides and small
farmers while others make it a bus
iness the year through. The gum ap
pears on the tree trunks like drops of
wax. The gatherer, armed with a long
pole, on the end of which is fastened
a can and a sharp chisel, cuts loose
the chunks of gum, which fall into the
can, and are transferred to a basket
or bag. The gatherers In winter will
travel on snow-shoes ten or fifteen
miles through the forest, sleeping at
night In some old hunter's deserted
snacK. There are three kinds of
spruce in the Adirondacks red, black
rnd white. The best gum is gathered
" .rn-ood of the white spruce.
The rarest of the gums is the "blis
ter," which is translucent and turns
biue aiter being chewed. After being
scraped, washed and brightened, It
sells for one dollar and fifty cents a
pound. There is a coarser grade, com
posed of blister scrapings, mixed with
particles of bark. Placed on trays of
cotton cloth In a steam tank, the gum
Is drawn out, and yields the producei
fifty cents a pound, forming the ordi
nary chewing gum of commerce. Some
manufacturers adulterate the gum
with paraffin rosin and chicle. Some
years ago, an old gum-gatherer of
Cranberry Lake lost twenty-three bags
of gum by the splitting of his boat.
was never recovered
Finger-Developing Device.
A recent Invention provides a de
vice which may be applied to the
hauda of a piano player to develop the
muscles of the fingers individually, so
that the fingers may bo able to strike
the notes with a uniform blow. The
device consists of a wrist band which
supports a series of rods, provided at
their opposite ends with pads adapt
ed to rest on the knuckles. Hinged
to each one of these rods is a short
arm connected at its outer end to a
stem projecting from a ring slipped
Finger-Developing Device.
over the finger. A series of weights
in the form of washers are adapted
to be slipped over the stem, thereby
permitting the operator to adjust the
weight on each particular finger. Thus
If one of his fingers Is weaker than
the rest, It is fitted with a heavier
weight, so that in time the muscles
will be developed to such an extent
as to make it as strong as the rest of
the fingers.
Monkey of a Peeress.
'A French 'woman of fashion hap
pening' to see an organ grinder's
monkey begging for money in the
street, took a fancy to it, bought It
and made a pet of it, dressing it in a
gaudy and fashionable costume. One
day she was holding a fashionable re
ceptlon in aid of some charity. In
the course of the proceedings a peer
ess sat down at the piano, and, ac
companying herself,, sung a pretty
Bong. As soon as she had finished
the monkey, which was being made
a great pet by the guests, seized a
hat, and, holding it before each visi
tor, as it was wont to do in its organ
grinding days, took up a collection.
To the amusement of everybody it
completed Its round and collected a
largo sum. Then, the task ended, it
Jumped on the singer's shoulder and,
amid shouts of laughter, deposited the
money in her lap. The charity, there
fore, benefited in an unexpeoted man
ner.
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