GOSSIP FOR THE FAIR SEX Interest on Feminine Topics. Items of A Pretty Faghion--A Course in Millinery. «The Tandem Chill..-A Novelty Cloves, Etc, Ete. A PRETTY FASHION, The of natural the hair is a pretty and rather roman tic style of crnament for young wom " A rich red in the dark wes of a brunette woman is an ex addition to the and a dainty bl wearing flowers in ©n rose tres ceedingly 1 cotffare, attractive 1 even Jionde white ones, may wear soft roses and and look picturesque from the contact A COURSBE IN MILLINERY, ber taken a course 1 large nun of bright wvonng have milhin dressmaking, with a special i with As a 14 done by providing themselves atnty head gear and costnmes work In of fact that learn and al tle very amaten whom owe MERE ‘w88 to 1e they are en siastic to ways on the kout for new ideas, I'HE TANDEM CHILL, [ should think they'd be afraid of tandem chill, a Wash wheel "exclaimed tandem and the 1 a nervous se 18 certain I n a New York paper the Really, it is one of those i: ils her liv Dall wa daugl paint Woman's Press LDown 1n iiterary A very pretty s taffeta i at the bottom around with ar bon, with fan thered one edge lik mg iffeta girdle, ad little full 11 the back with five rt the back abont three in front two and the one inch deep Thi Is Wi blue i three little ruffles on the ho with large scallops. : | <hiffon, accordion plaited and draped with lace drawn the back and pearls, I'hese two ends a blue are gathered into Hn front pointed sh two on with a and green skirt with in edged lace and arrang to form aown outlined ins with point ir i seed DUST COATS, Driving or dust coats have now be. come important accessories of a wom- an's wardrobe, They ate not inex- pensive trifles, and they do not in any way resemble their sisters of long Ago ~the linen duster. In the end, how- ever, they pay for themselves, as they are the means of saving many light frocks. They are light and do not erush the gowns, The smartest costs are built of black taffeta silk and India silk. The necks are finished by a full ruche of lace, and lace is arranged about the shoulders in a bertha-like effect. We are approachiag the season of weddings. At a recent English wedding the bridesmaids wore sheer organdie dresses of white ground sprinkled with different flowers. There were two with heliotrope, two with rosebuds and two with violets, each carrying a bouquet of the flowers printed upon the gown. carried no bouquet, only a sprig of orange blossoms, Thé organdie cos- tumes with the flower decorations are quite new, and they are very effective. A charming girl, one of the early Sep- tember brides, has selected a wedding wn of white organdie built on Vie- lines, | 1 i will i i of the frock old caught where it of orange Herald, \hout the shoulder be mrranged a fine draped like a fichu, front with a Ineo fies 1n pray Chicago Time —— FIRST OF PROFESSIONAL BEAUTIES Profes dneed, ciety about 3 Mrs, Cornwallis West, then a bride She was the daughter of Lady Olivia Fitzpatrick, and ns daintiest, the prettiest, yet withal the wildest, creature who ever bewildered beanties ntro 1 English so ional wero 8} enk, into twenty-five years 80 to nyo Ly is described charm of bright mother small, with li dark, } . Her eves wit, Very som figure, with gleams of deeply my ld fin y they were, cot f beauty tinier that her sily ing to heat brating charming As ever I'he secret of her continued attraction 18 sald to be not only sweetne with in but without able recipe for RISO galely An admin beauty and i the way New York Journal = Olin § nd of my time with Mias I w i 4 4 agement of as recomanended to tl a private ¥ } # y charge { operty, and I have now three different properties under my n in a ter ver, y condition of being } 8 WAS rible state when I took it o and hop nsanitar $ it on th sited $ i i 1 and made fit der, Before, they had than Anima worst of the tenants greatest care of the in examining antecedents new lot, and now we are not only paying off the mort 1 Hagen, but the rental of the property I ; has increased twenty pounds a week New York Commercial Advertiser, THE QUEEN REGENT OF HER SPAIN CHILDREN, ASD The Queen Regent and her children, and particularly the little King, are the clon, as the French say, the chief source of attraction in the the antiquarian American taste, can compare with this royalty, this living kind of bric-a-brae, which sums up in itself all the romance of history and all the romance of the fairy tales! 1 cannot say that my personal relations I saw them often, and to good ad vantage, a reception they gave to the local an- The royal personages sat in chairs hold, in gorgeous regalia. chiefly, or all, elderly and plain. We advanced decorously in single file, There was Queen Regent, an- Hy no floor, third nil i it Princess thou Marin I'hey were but little n Princess Ore tnrins wa and the ive, than fw and childlike, the elder more the voungel arch and The latter ome acquaintance, i him, in a half that It was and half-frank HAVE y, way, a smile showed charming white teeth. the I'he King se he of a little olf wrettiest incident of the re t I 3 emed thoughtfal or tia has eption, ed: 18 esplegle, sometimes the lool They say he like pull the buttons off the coats of i Mag HV ART attendal . SCribner 8 some redit n ed foi More about fini were ned the work OTe patches are needed qualifie i tlie ota The girl is getting and has twenty pounds daring the § are ready well, slowly but gained mth, surely, $ y ART 101 dition to leave the hospital and go to her home ‘before the snow flies,” and the soldier boys will give a serenade, cript, Two Ways of Digging Cold. The Klondike boomers $2,000,000 worth of gold taken out of that boast that has been district within a of years though they admit at the expense of much labor and incredible hardships upon the part of those who secured the Kansas has lifted more than 830,000,000 worth of mortgages the same period and spent many other millions in improvements, and without any universal hardships or extraordinary privations, which that the agricultural area of the Sunflower State is infinitely more productive than the mining regions of the Yukon valley. — Kansas City Star. In the shop of a St. Petersburg watchmaker a human-faced clock is on view-—the only one of its kind. The hands are pivoted on its nose and any messages that may be spoken into ais ears are repeated by phonogrpht through its mouth, , NOTES AND COMMENTS, Jordon, of Stanford Univer that the only way ome 2400 000 of world's fair money distribnted at Chicago » he nines te holder ren AlLong It ha been { up by htigation According to the Indianapolis News work of that pli ¢ the heads to the board of public recently made a proposition Wi gether and build a this fall England's Cinque all high council that put our wooden pavement Vorts, nearly HInY now becon © In for and centuries nnd indicatio enirrent agricultural i great one for the farmers In almost i especially in cotton, rice, the rield promises to be full and the mar every ine corn, wheat, peas and potatoes ket better than for some years, Added to this is the fact that the farmers are less in debt than they have been for a quarter of a century. The proceeds from their orops, therefore, will go into their pockets or to swell their savings bank accounts, and not to satisfy mortgages and liens and open accounts for provisions and supplies, The farmers have been learning and practicing close economy during the | past two or three years, and they find it profitable, Can nothing be done to save the old landmarks of American history? The stately old mansion of the Van Rens- | salaer family in Albany, N. Y., was sold a few days ago in pursuance of | an interlocutory judgment, and will be | torn down to make room for an ice- | house. It is one of the oldest dwel- | ling houses in America, having been built somewhere between 1620 and 1642. It was at the old well in the rear of this maasion that Schackburg wrote the famous old national eong, “Yankee Doodle.” And it was here that General Abercombie and his staff had their headquarters. It was also for some time the residence of Lafay- etto and the scene of those stories of love, romance and war in which the old Van Rensselaer mansion was a eentral figure, inn ex 1e current i“ Its dues are Hegvie #OCIeL ie lar Fur benefits inl 1 "mn il Peal o much large the Furope mn se ployn oles { ATV (t 6 Nnovinent for any cause itrol of the benefits viodable are nl of non-ein the case ent, bene fic Inry, This ex triker. A significant feature the effect nave npon employment agencies to the interest of the ent COMPANIES “0 us rd Judes of 4 it movement is which non-empl mnmsurance to their beneficiaries to get work he societies work in conjunet Nt agencies, the ‘y ' Hisialice 11 WOO. 000 000 bus Lint But thi Europe usually pm rye as she does wheat This KSeR=NY the rye crop cannot exceed R75,000 i ] Of (0 potaloes NATrY seasons, twice as bushel she does of wheat many This year it is estimated that only about 1.850,0 0,000 bushels of pota toes will be harvested. No part of the worid apparently has auy consid. erable surplus of cereals except the United States and Canada The potato crop in these countries be about 25 per cent. less year, and may be still The United States has no potatoes for export. If prices go high enough the United States can spare bushels of wheat, 300, 000,000 bushels of corn, 100,000,000 Aas is last smaller, els of rye. This would be the largest export ever made of American grain It is just about enough to offset Europe's need of wheat and rye. There seems tc be no source for Europe to draw ups for her enormous shortage The uaperial library at Vienna and the emperor's family library have been consolidated, partly to save expense, partly Sor greater convenience of re- search, ‘I'ne w lor most in vogue at the mo- ment is gray. It is decidedly chic when combined with mauves of a pinkish tandency~—primrose and but- teroup yellows or dall reds, THE JOKERS’ ¢ ¢ BUDGE T, labor hard 1 biack to # now nr My head turned bald six months alter marriage TOOK CHARCER “What = man make on ¥ rt young you : “When I first met him ?” “You “Well, he was scorching with his head down, and the he made upon me was a bruise I didn't get over for a week.” impression THE VANISHING POINT. “Suppose,” suggested the teacher, “that you take a piece of beefsteak and ent it into halves, then cut the halves into quarters, the quarters into eighths and the eighths into six. teenths, into what could the sixteenths be ent ?” “Hash,” responded Tommy, whose mother kept a boarding house, And the class in fractions was missed, dis. DISCOTRAGING. “It's jes’ my luck,” said Farmer Ryestalk, gloomily “I'm the wusi guesser a-goin’. The only sure way fur a man to git along is ter make up his mind whut he’s a-gointer do an’ keep doin’ jes’ that.” “Have you had bad Inck ‘“Nothin’ else. Last year I raised wheat when I orter hev tuck in sum- mer boarders. This year I tuck in summer boarders when I orter hev raised wheat.” Glasgow, Leeds and Sheffield have carried on the street-car business to a greater extent than any other cities in Great Britain,
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