GOSSIP FOR THE FAIR SEX |
FTEMS OF INTEREST ON NUMEROU. |
FEMININE TOPICS.
One Woman's Livinge-A Sisterhood of |
Yogis---Women's Colleges in England.
four-Leafed Clover Fad---Etc,, Etc.
ONE WOMAN'S LIVING
There
galls hers packer
My means of this she
six vears supported and educated three
children and laid up a nice little
fa the ba: fe, ©
day
who
ana
in Chicago a woman
elf a Hi
is
lentific
science’ ha n
sum
rainy
A SISTERHOOD OF YOGIS
A young English woman, a graduate
of Cambridge biish a
epmvent in
yogi, or H
Other English
hood promised,
arder
regeneration ol
perhaps, a Ia
zealous
yogis are
is about to estabi
having
X become &
picutia
indoo nun, as a prelimina
additions to the si
are the object of the
being avowed as the spiritual
Hindoolsm, which
contract than the
joreign-vorn
enthusiastic
e of
and
awal
WOMEN'S
of the
the wom
SO pume!
are filled
entered
the
that
eoliegrs
Live
offi
the
ul
ard
the “gol
is desires
For that n
side th
wom
xxin
elo ve »
Ate wea
walen « har
dant to
chatelaine
thermore
of thei:
ion
wearing
they hav
the ornament
ME Or
rales
fashion
The lean
are th
at salin
Qr ery
id ot
dug is n
and energet
are being
postal
ion
the gre
Raq
erument
pink
tainly
yarns
man witl
which he car
god the other
ty. which 1}
be saun
weft ha
somes
minded]
are he is
his hat!
your Carl
Plateros St
and
=ay in Spanish. City
to the Boston Herald
fr
tos
reet
“throwing them
CLEVER SIAMESE GIRLS
The dancing girls
markable for their agility and grace in
their movements The cup dance is
the prettiest and most poetic of all, A
row of young girls, with a tier of cuns
on their heads,
the middle of the
of Joyous music
this simultaneously
tary precision, kneel
ands and bow their heads
foreheads touch the polished
marble floor, keeping the cups steadily
on their heads by some marvelous jerk
af the neck. Then suddenly springing
to their feet they deseribe a auccession
of rapid and intricate circles
time" to the music with
kend and fest Next the music
sweels into rapturous tumult The
damcer: raise their delicate feet, curve
their arms and fingers in aimost im-
possible flexures, away , and fro like
withes of willow, agitate all the mus
cles of the body like the flutter of
axves in the oft evening breeze, hut
#till keep the cups on their heads,
The dancing girls of Bangkok are al-
#3ys exercising in the royal gymnasi.
wm. Thelr sges vary from five to
twenty years. The curious and snbtle
feat of picking up a bit of straw with
the evelids can be learned only by the
youngest of them, who are made to |
practice it in order to render them |
Sexible in every part of the body. |
There are two long rows of benches, |
of Siam
are fe
take their places
hall A
On
in
great burat
follows hearing
they with
fold
inti!
mili
heir
their
down
almost
keeping
their arma,
te lower is a row of little girls and
yn the upper bench are laid the polisgh-
d bits of straw At the sound of the
rum the little girls altogether ben
back the head and neck until they
touch the bits af straw, which, with
wonderful dexterity, they secure be
the of their evelids
tween corners
BOATWOMEN
China have no
to women's rights
POSEes The boatwoman
she be a single woman
the
If
sband takes the
place of deck hand or
the makes
passengers, colle
supplies, and in gen
lords it verything A writ
the Watchman rip
the Hongkong
proves
CHINESE
The boatwomen of
need agitate for
them
a wife,
house
she is mar
useful Hut
Dow
the head of
the
a widow, is
say. of
the hu
ibordinate
is to boat
ried,
arsman. She does steering
gargains
the money
eral,
with the
buys
aver e
er in give a des
boatwomen of
they
inferior
of
that are not only
emancipated from positions
but also enjoy the privilege of
siderable {reedom Jn attire
alone,
pinched feet
tetting nature
f
Of
They believe in
know
waists
and nothing and
hata &
go barefoot
he hard
them in
bitually
ind t
keeps
Their muscles
hey
ried
and
skirt
might have been in those old days
one almost fancied that a wids
with hoops to hold it, should peep from
underneath
Fur
most confined to collarettes
rolling fu:
Caps
be al
often they
collar
are a
thirty
some
capes are so short as to
consist of a on a
short velvet
long fur
inches
There fow
capes made, quite
for and of the
iong
to ilie ground,
the
driving,
collarettes have ends reaching
nearly
alone
but as a garment
adjunct
rather
effort
bove, to make a new style
or tied down in the baci
MABEIL BOYD in Washington Star
without of a coa
the fur cape he
notwithstanding
seems to passe,
the
ed to a
cape fitted
FASHION NOTES
The popularity for taffeta silk iz un
In plain colors and black it
igs the decided favorite Maid taffetas
are used to a certain extent, but the
changeable are in especial de
mand
Jalouse ig the name of a fashionable
shade of yellow, that is also called
abated
colors
There is scarcely a half-shade's differ.
ence between the three, An especially
deep orange is called Klondike, though
no gold was ever ao red. A new me-
A jacket of Alaska sable i= one of the
most stylish and comfortable of gar-
It is almost close-fitting, has
ever, can be drawn in close about the
neck. The inside of the collar and
the lapels are finished in ermine.
Among the new shades are six tones
yf genaarme blue, from the deep, dull
to a pale, pearly gobelin tint.
lovely forget-me-not shades arg
in the pale blues, and three ex
nigite turquoise tints are strongly im
with a tone
old \re
are beautiful
alors
Jom
een
bued clear green Hosa
nk and rose colon geen
¢
theys dozen shades of
wll, p
A
A hand costume is
of
heliotrope
Cross
and
blouse
black
I'be waist has a
front There
suggestion in
is a turn-over collar
wide-pointed
full-length
A high
worn
into
back from a front
falling
shirred
nd ribbon Is
Of
The lapels
the
of crepon collar
crepon a
the color of
velvet
with
the
Som of the cotton materials foi
pring a
avery
nd gun
{Ine
mer gowns are especial
fabric shows a colored
which is
d pattern, the
to be stitched upon the
thrown
threads
une upon
oft zephyr goods
for
fr
A combination of cof
tAncy
{ mploy ed
nished metal threads Orin
early fabri
pring
while not strictly out
by no m mc
eang In a
This makes
the woman
afore “x
Wo
wilo
wl
r)
I
Thomas Atkins
f Tommy Atkins
he British
n Honk
the
offic
and
Ww i VOT
New Zealand
11. had
originally
an
gin, and was
to non-commissioned offi
Dao hard Roe are
contract legal
f Hlustration
Hetion
uetion
in8yy
33
cers, ag John and Rie
nsed in forms and other
papers, for
Sampi«
to show
recruiting
should be
I priva‘«
Kins,
titi name alwavs
purposes ©
blank returns furnished
and
how
were
sergeants corporals anl
officers
made out
Company
genuine ones
Thomas At
was the fic-
Model in-
algo included in
signed Thomas At.
Company B.” or “Thomas
Hence when a
garrison the
and
B
ug ised
dividual reports were
the regula
Kins, private
Atkins, X, hi
recruit arrived
diers u
Atkina
fons
mark
at a
found out his real
name Drunken soldiers reported
themselves Thomas Atkins when
they were taken up. until the publis
took it up, and Tommy Atking became
until they
as
warriors of Her Majesty's land forces,
Chicago Record
Family of Horse Traders.
The Sherlock family are noted
horse traders in Tennessee, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Alabama, They inter-
marry, and one of the family charac-
teristics is the largeness of the men
and the diminutive size of the women,
Whenever a member of the family
dies his body is shipped to Nashville
and placed in a vault. Every year in
the month of May the family meets in
that city, when the dead are removed
from the vault and interred with ap-
propriate services.
INTEREST ON ACRICUL.
TURAL TOPICS
ITEMS OF
Charcoal for Hogs-~Improvement in To-
matoes-«Chickens Neod a Free Range--
Cutting Clover for Fowls--Etc,, Ete.
HOGS
will often ent
That from
the best
CHARCOAL
Hogs
charcoal
FOR
that are fattening
gros dily
probably
Quite
corn on the cob |
as the cob contain
h, which
a very consideral
umount of pota corrects
acidity of the stomach, Corn is a
and hard of dige
the quantities
eat of
and rich grain
any
fattening
{ heavy
tion for animal in
hog
if their
| that corn it 1s
no w tomachs pre cloyed
A
}
ly improve
ven hogs that
some charcoal
utritd the
ion and
too much
eating
| CHICKENS NEED A
Stock chicks
next “el Dresser
or those
On ¢
house
proper
unlimited
the 101
or
ne
3
iC
to get its
have
mixes
Thow
or because
increases mu
is
sand il, and it
doing
imposail
| vent from ome inju
A CLEAN
What a
it must
| good housekeeper nest to have
go into a henhouse every morning and
clean the droppings Why not
build the henhouse in a shape thal you
can have a Detter way. I'll give you a
i plan of one. Build the house 6 by 12
i feet. On the side from which the wind
piace a 2x4 12 feet
3 feet from the ground and 2 feet
the then matched
run from the gill of
the top of the 2x4 a dis-
whole 12 feet and lot the
of the flooring come with-
in 2 inches of the ground. Now, this
ig the dropping board. Place a 2xi
scantling half way from the wall to
the top of the dropping board and ©
inches higher. This will be the roost.
ing pole. Its being higher than the top
of the droppicg board the hens will all
roost on it if not crowded. You can
place two poles for roosts if you care
to. Now make a door the whole length
of henhouse 3 feet high, with hinges on
top. When you wish to clean the drop-
ping board raise the 12-7foot door from
HENHOUSE
bad-smaelling and disgusting
be for a
and
wWonan who is a
to
up
gcantling
| long
wall, take
} 4
ase
house up to
! tance of the
stick: then take a hoe and clean the
drop board. Put a IxHl-foot door in
end of henhouse. Build hen's nesis
underneath drop board. You now have
a clean walkway. You can keep a bar-
rel of staked lime in the corner from
and in nests.
droppingboard and roosts on both sides
of the henhouse. The drop door must
{up among the hens Horace
New York Tribune
THE OF LEAVES
having eerved thel
USE
After
essential
growing period leave mas
red at thi {
for bedding during the
{ior ith nGiiltry ©
D .
parts of the tres
{ed ana fe
New Yi
rh
lage homes
tiful
planted
SOMmielim
OWners
cut wn
them d on weco
they make
{{
ii
that
then
2+ horse that
absorbent
inually urge it u
When
il follow
i and
the attention of
a great
which will be felt by all
community H. Burnett, in Pra
cal Farmer
the people
is done benefit wi
clasees of the
is
Cleanliness and Health
A charge is made against some den
{sts that do not take
make their instruments antiseptic afte
they have drawn or filled a tooth, bu
merely rinse the forceps or other ar
ticle emploved in operation, and
proceed to make Lhe next patient com:
fortabie even neglect
the washing of their hands after
tracting a tooth. If these allegations
are trie we may hope for a sudden and
wide reform. Diseases are more easily
and generally transferred from
person to another by the mucons mem-
brane than in any other way. and the
bacilli of a dozen contagious ills might
be grafted on the previously healthy
subject by the forceps of the dentist
Brooklyn Eagle,
they pains 0
1
'
we
the
Some dentists
o
{ ex
one
Ducal Education.
The Duke of Argyll lately offerod
| himself as a living proof of the advan-
tages of desultory reading. He had
never been to school or college, but he
had always read everything he could
‘lay his hands on. To this he attrib-
{uted his success in public speaking,
| for he “often found he had read what
i others had not.”
The largest lobster that has been
geen in New Haven in years weighed 28
pounds and was very old.
THE JOKERS BUDCET,
TRUE (OURAGE
What courage ill sometimes
men Ww
light
met
CO
hie
eT
a mort
1 8%
newspaper
apyprog riated
she was fires
pened now ‘he asked.
; York has
Pi lieation for one at the Barge
where the immigrants land,” she
explained, “He wanis 8
woman who is thoroughly respectable,
of kindly disposition, fairly good jook-
obedient .
interrupted.
8 New widower
gave he
ing, good to children,
“Hold
“What's that last
“Obedient.”
“He might as well give up.’
on he
TO BE KEPT SECREY
He was a great bore, and was {al}
ing to a crowd about the coming local
election. Said he: “Gibbs is a good
man: he is capable, honest, fearless
and conscientione, He will make the
very kind of representative we need
He once saved my life from drown.
ing.’
“Po you really want to see Gibbs
elected 9 said a solemn faced old
oan.
“1 do. indeed
to see him elected,”
bore
“Then. never let anybody know he
saved your life,” counseled the solemn-
faced man.
I'd give anything
snawered the
A A MR
Banana Culture,
The banana is the most prolific of
ruite. The produce of one acre plant-
ed with bananas will support 25 times
ae many pecple ag the produce of one
acre planted with wheat.
Paper Watch,
A paper watch has been exhibited by
8 Dresden watchmaker. The paper is
prepared in such a manner that the
watch is said to he as serviceable as
those in ordinary use,
in en roy -