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Our Special Correspond
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FROM THE METROPOLIS
What to Wear When Yachting N a
Serious y next Ion to Women c,f
l'unh Inn Simple and Jnunty I'nr
Mid-Season Wear A Flowered
liilk With Kinbroldrrcd Pilot.
11Y Jtl.KS THKKOW.
The striped linens are carrying; all
I ( fore them Just as the striped clot'.;a
did. In fact one cannot get away
from striped effects no matter what
material may be selected for a gown,
for they are the design Ideal for all
smart fabrics.
There are divers ways of employ
ing stripes In self-decorative schemes,
but none more attractive than the
idea exploited In the accompanying
illustration. The skirt and Jacket
are of different design. Broad bla
folds of brown and white linen trim
the skirt, forming a large diamond
in the front. The waist line is ele
vated and the skirt hung from a belt
SIMPLE AND JAUNTY.
plain brown linen trimmed with
tall brass buttons.
The Jacket, too, has the short
v Jatline and is trimmed with tuck-
! bands of plain brown linen stitch-
' f.nder triple rows of linen sou
' '.che braid in the same tone. The
front is vestless, nor has It revers, an
artistic finish being effected by a flat
stitching of fancy braid. The neck
Is collarless and embellished In the
same way. Long, rather loose
Bleeves make the coat serlceable for
late season wear and the hat Is a
smooth brown straw trimmed with
satin and brown wings.
A costume which might be dupli
cated in any of the soft fabrics of the
season is depicted above, and through
originally fashioned of figured Jap
anese silk, silk finished nun's-veiling
or challis would be quite as effective
In addition to the economic advan
tage gained.
The material has a delicate cream
background with a pattern of palo
lavender and pink flowers. The ski it
is guaged around the waistline be
low an elevated girdle of broad flint
A FLOWERED SIK DRESS,
lace embroidered with narrow silk
soutache braid. A band of this same
trimming finishes the bottom, being
stitched over the hem.
. An odd feature of the girdle Is the
way It Is laced at both the right and
the left side, though one side only Is
used in the adjustment, of course.
The dress Is made In one-piece, but
the blouse has a simulated ooenlnu
formed by a box plate In the front
with niching of soft cream Val lac
on either side of the plait.
Broad reven of the soutache era
broldered Diet lace trim the uppe
part of the blouse, suggesting t!i
linen of a sailor collar, while f'
. full sleeves end at the elbows wl
bands of satin ribbon tied In fief
bows. ' , ,
What to wear when yachting lv
become a serious question in t!.
mind of the woman of fashion, f.
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5
the sport has grown so popular dur
nng the past few years that It con
stitutes one of society's principal
pasttltnes In summer. The blouse
shirt and plain skirt of former ytrs
has given way to a dressier costume
which follows the linos prevailing in
street and house gowns. The love
ly white and black suit pictures Is
carried out in two materials the
skirt being of soft French flannel
DRESSY YACHTING COSTUMES,
with a silk finish and the coat of
heavy black taffetas, stitched with
bands of white silk braldel with r-r-row
black silk soutache. T!ie skirt
is very close-fitting, extending above
the waistline and finished at the
top with bands of its own mnterln.l
stitched in girdle effect. A soft
white linen blouse is worn under the
coat, which has a collar of plain
white taffetas.
The second costume In palest bis
cuit color mohair Is trimmed with
sea-green pongee with lare polka
dots of white silk. The skirt has a
narrow tuck about the knees, piped
with green silk, which gives It the
effect of being made in two parta.
The blouse. Joined to it, with a bolt
of the same material. Is laid in small
plaits and cut in one with the sleeves.
A deep turn-over collar Is facud with
green pongee and the sleeves are
ifnlshed with cuffs of the same ma
terial.
Fragments of Useful Information.
Do you know
That you can make a faded di-pRs
perfectly white by washing it in boil-
g water?
That salt dissolved in alcohol will
often remove grease spots from
lothing?
That two potatoes crated in a hnln
of warm water give better results
than soap In washing delicate flannel
ip woolen goods, ribbons, etc?
That linen blinds tan be cleaned
by being laid fat and rubbed with
powdered bathbrick?
That piano keys can be cleaned ns
can any old ivory, by being rubbed
1th muslin dipped in alcohol?
That a little thin, cold starch
rubbed over windows and mlrrora
nd then wiped off with a soft cloth
Is an easy way of producing most
shining results?
That a spoonful of mustard In n
gallon of water will kill insects in
the earth? This is gcod for potted
plants? '
That a few drops of essenre of
sassafras will keep flies away?
That cloves or salt sprinkled on a
pantry shelf will rid it of ants?
That you can remove the oJor of
fresh paint from a room by leading
there a pail of water into v. hlch sev
eral onions have been sliced?
Scraps.
Egg Stains To remove egg stains
from Bllver, rub the stained part
briskly with table salt, then wash in
warm soapsuds. '
To whiten clothes, put one tea-
spoonful of borax in the last rinse
water. Powder the borax, so that it
will dissolve easily.
For settling coffee When eSF3
are h)!;h, one rray be econo.-.iW al In
this way: Break an egg In a Jelly
glass, fill It. with granulated 3ugar.
mix, then cover tioaely. Use o'ie
half tensponnful to a pot of coffee.
This keey any length of time.
AiH'l i Jolly When lutkiag apple
Jelly, try putting a drop of oil of
cinnamon l:i It. It. Improves the
flavor.
Cnrncd Tomuto Recipes,
Stock tomato soup. Take any sort
of meat soup and add half a can of
stewed and well-seasoned tomatoes;
strain, and servs wlui croutons.
Tomato toast. Stew down a can
o. tomatoes till thick, with a table
spoonful of chopped onion, a table
spoonful of chopped parBley, salt,
ana pepper; wnen the Juice Is some
what absorbed pour over slices of
buttered toast and serve at once. Do
not strain.
Tomatoes au gratln. Take a cu'i
of tomatoes, add salt and pepper and
a teaspoonful of minced onion; put
them into a deep baklng-dlsh In lay
ers with soft bread crumbs and nut
bits of butter on these; repeat till
me aisn is run, with crumbs on top
and bake till brown.
Promoting Flower Cultur
Flower cultuiQ has reached the
point among the women In the fash
lonable Lenox colony where plan
have been made for a show upon i
Urge aoaU.
HERE IS A THRILLER
I How to Give an Eleotrto Shook While
I ihaklng Hands.
I To receive au eloctrto shock while
i shaking hands Is quite a mrstury to
j your friends. This may be acoom
I pllshed with the aid of a small indue
j tlon coll that can be constructed nt
, home. The core, A, Fig. 1, is con-
ctructed In the usual manner with
small soft Iron wire to make a bun
dle about three-sixteenths of an inch in
diameter and about two luches long.
The coll ends are made from card
board about one Inch in diameter with
three-slxteenths lnch hole In the cen
ter. When cutting the bole, cut it
as shown In Fig. 2, so as to leave four
small pieces that can be bent out,
leaving the projections as shown.
After wrapping throe or four turns of
paper around the bundle of wires the
cardboard ends are put on with the
projections inside, so the colls of
wire, will hold them In place. About
70 turns of No. 24 double-covered mag
net wire is first placed on the core
for the primary and then 1,500 turns
of No. 32 or 34 double-covered wire
is wrapped on top of the primary for
the secondary. Sufficient length of
wire must be lort outslda from each
end of the vibrator directly opposite
tlons. The vibrator, B. Fig. 1, and
the Btipport. C, are made from thin
spring steel about one-eighth Inch
wide, bent as shown and securely fast
ened to the cardboard end of the coil.
The armature is tnnde from a soft
piece of Iron about three-sixteenths-inch
In diameter and threo-slxteenths-inch
thick, which is soldered to the
end of the vibrator directly oposltn j
the end of the core. A small screw j
Is fitted in the end of the support. C, '
for adjustment, which should be tip- j
ped with platinum placed where the :
screw will touch the vibiator, B.
One of the primary vlres is con- j
nected to a flash lamp battery, D.
The other primary wire is connected
to a switch, S. which in turn ia con
nected to the other terminal of tha
battery. The switch, S. may be mads
from a thrce-elKhths-lnch cork with
the wires put through about three-sixteenths-inch
apart and allow them
to project about one-half inch. Tha
plate E is cut about ' one-half Inch
square from a piece of copper and la
Tetatlt cf Induction Coil,
fastened to the heel of one shoe and
connected with a wire from the sec
ondary coi. which must be concealed
inside of the trouser leg. Tho other sec
ondary wire is connected through the
coat sleeve to a finger ring, F. The
vibrator screw must be properly ad
Justed. When the vibrator Is not
working the armature should be about
one-sixteenth-inch from the core and
directly opposite.
The coil when complete, says Popu
lar Mecnanics, will be about 2Va
Inches long and one inch In diameter.
The coll can be placed in an old box
that has been used for talcum powder
or shaving stick. The SDace around
the coil in the box can be filled with I
paper, to keop It tight i
The coll and battery are carried in 1
the pockets and the cork button put In !
the outside coat pocket, where It can
u pressed wunoui attracting atten
tlon.
Marriage in 8outhern Nigeria.
Among all tribes in Southern Ni
geria polygamy la the rule, the reason
given by the natives being that It ia
impossible for one woman to do all '
the work of the house, look after the
children, prepare and cook the food,
fetch the dally supply of water (often
an arduous job), cultivate the planta
tion and go to market. And the rea
son is that the African Is an exceed
ingly Hungry person. It is their cus
tom to eat several times a day when
at home, and the men spend most of
their day sitting In the palaver house.
or market plac-3, while the women
bring the food all day long. One wife
could not possibly do this. Besides,
the African lady encourages it, for she
says: "The more wives the less
work." Among the Ahlaras, Onlchas,
Obuwus and the lower class of pagan
tribes In the Interior there Is very
little form of marriage. As soon as
a man has the means he pays the
parents what they want in the shape
of goats, cows, beads, money, and
takes the rlri. There is no ceremony
at all. The more wives he has indi
cates a richer man and jthat he will
be better looked after. If of course
they can manage to seize a woman
from the neighboring tribe while she
Is fetching water or working on her
farm so much the cheaper. With this
method in vogue for centuries no won
der that It is as much as a native's
life is worth to go out of his own vll
la;e and that the country is so back
ward. A Real Snsks Story.
An old ben with a large family of
small chickens was recently given an
empty barrel turned down on Its aids
for a coop on thi writer's premises.
One day recently the hen gave the sig
nal of distress used bv all ii
gars, and the barrel was quickly sur-'
rounded by the fighting members of
the household. j
A large snake was found In the bar.
rel and quickly lynched. Several
bunches were noticed on the reptile's
body, and he was ripped up the baok
with a pair of shears, and seven ohlok
tna were found gasping fr broth.
They UTtd,
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A CHEMICAL FACTORY
The Chemical Products of the Human
Body.
In the presence of the great nerv
ous system physicians are now Ilka
prospuctors In the Kloudlke region. A
faw fine nuggets have already been
collected which prove that they come
from rich velut In the mountains
around, and no one knows how soon
rome voin In them may be struck
which, followed up, will yield much
gold. A specimen of these golden ad
ditions to our knowledge Is the fact
thaL amona; many other things, the
Sympathetic actually makes drugs, or
true medicine, whose presence in tho
blood is essential to life.
One of these Is now sold over tho
counter like any other drug. The ori
gin of It is from a twig of the renal
(kidney) sympathetic plexus becom
ing at a certain early stage of devel
opment rolled on itself like a ball of
twine. In time it breaks off from Its
parent stem, and, being enclosed In a
capsule, adheres to the top of the
kidney as a separate gland called the
adrenal gland. These adrenals add
nn Internal secretion to the blood
whose active principle has been found '
ti bo a definite chemical substance,
only 1-S00 of a grain of which will un
comfortably raise the pressure of a
man's blood In all the arteries of his
body. This adrenalin, as it Is called.
Is a new medicine with many valuable
properties, but It is Itself of such
purely chemical composition that sub
Ftances like It can now be made arti
ficially, like artificial indigo.
About two tablespoonfuls of a bit
ter salt like Epsom salts is dally
manufactured by the liver, and then
can bo extracted from the bile. The
bases of this salt, called taurln, was
fifty-two years ago supposed by the
eminent English chemist, Bence
Jones, to be like a veritable animal
quinine, because he found that the
taurln of the guinea pig gave both all
the different chemical reactions of
quinine and its spectroscopic lines as
well. This substance, therefore, he
regarded as our natural protective
agent against invasions of the blood
by micro-organisms. Since then this
theory has been considerably modi
fed by tho discovery of numerous
other drugs manufactured In the body
which, because they can combine
with acids and form salts, are called
alkaloids, some of them, however, be
ing powerful poisons. It is now, gen
erally agreed among physiological
chemists that we dally manufacture
enough poison in our alllmentary ca
nal to kill us before the day is over
were It not that these poisons are
neutralized by the liver and other or
gans before they can enter the blood
and thus reach the brain and other
vital parts of tho nervous system.
Magic and Poison Rings.
The ring began when man thrust
his finger through a hole in a pretty
shell, aud later learned to make rings
of Jut. The ring Is very magical.
Lord Ruthven, who helped to kill Rlc
cio, gave Queen Mary a rlug which
vaa sovran against poison, and she
generously replied with the present
of her father's wonderful jewelled
dagger, of French work, uo longer In
existence. Whether Ruthven tooled
with this magnificent weapon in the
affair of Rlccio or used a cheaper arti
cle Is uncertain. At all events, Mary
based on the ring that was an antidote
lo poison a charge of sorcery Against
I'.-thven. The Judges of Jeanne d'
Aic regarded with much suspicion her
liulu ring of base metal, a gift from
l.cr parents, Inscribed with the sacred
names Jesus Maria.
U was usual to touch the relics of
saints with lings; Jeanne d'Arc said
that her ring had touched the body of
tit. Catherine, whether she meant of
the actual saint or a relic of the saint,
brought from Sinai to Fierbois. The
ring might contain a relic, or, later, a
miniature. I fear that I do not be
lieve in the virtues or vices of poison
lings. Our ancestors practically knew
uo poison but arsenic, and Carthagin
ian science can scarcely have enabled
Hannibal to poison himself with a
Urug contained under the stone of a
ring.
White Lettuce and Green Cabbage.
"There is a curious difference,"
cays a gentleman of St. Louis who
speiiigV large part of the year In Eng
lund.AQjetween the English and our
selves in the way of growing cabbage
and lettuce for the table. With us the
cabbage is encouraged to form a head,
and when the leaves show a disposi
tion to spread the gardeners some
times tie a string around the clump
to make the leaves grow together. In
Lngland, on the other hand, the ef
forts of the growers are directed to
ward keeping cabbage green, and thejr
pull the leaves apart so as to expose
all portions to the light and give them
u dark, rich color.
"We like our lettuce green, but the
English want theirs headed up and
blanched, so as to have It aa white as
our cabbage, In other words, they sim
ply reverse our practice, and Instead
of white cabbage and green lettuce
they like green cabbage and white
lettuce. Of course It Is only a mat
ter of taste, but still the difference la
rather curious."
How Mary Stuart Looked.
How did that fascinating witch of
all time, Mary Stuart, really look?
Andrew Lang thinks he knows. In
the London Academy he says: "Mary
was a tall, lithe beauty, with a bright
pallor of . complexion, very delicate,
thin arched eyebrows, wide apart, a
lofty brow, bright russet hair, red
hasel eyes, long and narrow, with
heavy white eyelids, a subtle mouth
with delicate curves, a beautiful chin,
sod s ratatr long, atraifht am"
Tho Kind You llavo Always
iu use for over 30 years
and
--t sonal
All Counterfeits Imitations and "Just-as-pood" nro but
Experiments that triflo with and endanger tho health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil Pare
frorlc Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Fcverlshncss. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho
Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy and natural sleep
Tho Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYO
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daughters are couipitnlona as well as
. unu ii-u. nun nil-color in me mother's
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She is ut the middle iije of life when so
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