NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. Srn— ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS FEMI NINE TOPICS, —— Woman “Codfisher”+=Tip.tilted Hats--Use For a Half.worn Skirt-~Trials of as Empress-~Bic., Etc. WOMAN “CODFISHER." Mrs. William Champlin of Montauk, fias just made for herself a record as a “codfisher.” Her husband, who is en- gaged in the codfish business off Mon- tauk, has usually been accompanied on his trips by another bayman, week he was taken sick, and Mrs. Champlin volunteered to fill his place as “second man” in the boat, Her hus- be daunted. She donned the attire of a fisherman eouple had caught together a total of 1750 fish.—New York Times, TIP-TILTED HAT, be in style every woman must at least one hat which tip-tilts her nose. When becoming, this of wearing the hat is very be- poming: but when unbecoming it horrid. No woman with a turned-up nose should wear a hat turned down to meet it, for then brim and nose look exactly as if they were trying to get at each other and couldn't quite make it. On the other hand, a conspicuous straw hat loaded down with velled flowers, feathers, and so on, should not be set over a large drooping nose, for then the brim looks very much as if j£ were running the said nose a good race. To the average nose the tip-tilted hat is becoming, and that is well, for everybody is wearing jt. Nothing is more fascinating than to pair of dark eyes from underneath one New York To have over style is down gee a pretty or blue peering out of these flower-laden brims, Sun. VORN SKIRT. possessing a USE FOR HALF- A half-worn skirt to look fresh it as a foundation prominent now have it made and voke, whicl piece C flounce to the join- striped or dotted 1 in a ix should be« silk. Apply the tog ing Jlack and white silk can manner, with the blouses are also freshened Any ode odie black still looks skirts, Flufly in demand. One of lavender mousseli de soi gathered headings between. to en ne puffs with into full ; T tripie hey are arranged the corsage. From the top a scarf of circle of each gr taffeta arranged shoulder, sleeve comes laven- in loops over the They are also draped across the corsage and are in a a orm a C&S middle of the bod The close fitting sleeves of the taffet are veiled with the mousseline Bole, i front of ti tia » i : Ont Of thes Kn cade at the ice de TRIALS OF AN The German Emprs EMPRESS #8 has been obli ed to protect against too gpen demon- strations from her been bouquet 8 Women who have throwing her she drove by have uncomfortable wounds, the wires about the flowers scratching her face. There were things to be done— either the enthusiasm of the women must be suppressed or their skill in throwing flowers might have been es- tablished. There are schools for almost everything else we do, from dancing speaking, breathing to thinking: from making proper approaches and saluta- tions A ¢hild is even taught how to kiss pron- erly, to bump against face or to be awkward or uncomfortab- ly ardent in its demonstration. But an accurate and sure aim, so that dan- gerous results might avoided and proper enthusiasm expressed, was rec- ognized, no doubt, as Iying beyond the poesibilities of the woman with missiles of good will in her hands. At any rate, it was thought better to supprese rather than to cultivate hes, which, all things considered, well. sometimes inflicted only two to beating proper retreats 80 as not the be average Seems WORK OF A TRAVELING WOMAN. Mrs. Jane Macdonald, who is sent South and East by the Chamber of Commerce and “Half Million” Club of San Francisco to boom her State and attract immigrants there, She first went to California when twelve years old. On the way she rode horseback with her father, who was captain of a wagon train, from Council Bluffs to Carson City. They started on April 1st, and arrived in Carson City on September 15th. Mrs. Macdonaid tells how, when left a widow with ghildren to support, she started a mil- Ninery shop; failing in that she began to canvass books. In this she succeed- od until facilities for travel decreased her receipts. services, Mrs. Macdonald will accept no place at smaller wages than men da- eheapen woman's work. —New York Tribune. THE BABY'S OUTFIT. Three or four flannel shawls, about thirty inches square and bound with ribbon, will be found very useful while the baby is young They are easy to wrap around the baby after a bath and ready for a nap. Little sacks also needed, and can be knited in with pink and blue borders, or be made cn a short yoke, or can hang straight from the neck, and be trimmed with a broad cotlar, and tied with a ribbon in front, Two or three wrap- pers can be simply made, perfectly of Scotch flannel, either on a yoke or with a cluster of tucks across the front, Three or four knitted blankets are necessary, and can be made of light pink, blue or white, White, as a rule, washes best. The long coat can be made of silk, cashmere, or any soft white goods. It should be lined with easily, and if =a winter lined throughout with lamb’s wool. It can be trimmed with a wide collar or a round shoulder cape The baby's basket #2 a delightful in a variety of ways, The long, If it is to be trimmed at home tack cotton batting on to the sides, which have been sprinkled with orris powder desired. Rose or light blue silk is a pretty foundation, covered with either a fine dotted musiin or point d'espr't The muslin or lace should on full, but the silk can he plain. A flowered silkolone used in place of these. This should put on full, as it over it A biz or the ton the tray lace. sewed put on can be ¢ of course, be does not have the lace satin at the side on makes a pretty finish In cept the baby's toilet articles, underneath part of the basket clothe The should pin-cushion the assorted sizes of safely-pins. | bag can be bow and tray which are A lit- of on tle cup shaped made covered with basket cloth whatever the sewed rubber material with tray should trimmed wrner of the is and for be in into one ct the which A plece of good soap uff of baby's sponge, small and fine, a little dish, a powder box and a bottle of vaseline, a small box borax, & ter of a pound r THREE POPULAR PERFUMES Was woman's the hree drops on one's handkerchief as long as the handkerchief itself The latest use clothes hooks. of sachets is for acent- The ordinary wire extender for bodice or skirt is padded with cotton batting, thickly sprinkled with sachet powder them drawn a silk muslin bag, shirred full » shank of the extender go that they may a ne- An- ed Over is or around or tied with ribl ons, he easily removed when there is cong y powder, by dressmak ty bags of about in the bodice, is perfumed bought with any scent, and enduring or renewing other method employed in place of the ers. t formerly st sache bosom and the new cott padding. It can be is much more WOMEN AT PECULIAR WORK Chicago has a woman cooper, Her name is Margaret Buggee, and by mak ing barrels she has made a barrel of money. In a few years Mrs. Buggee has cleared $50,000. She not only su- perintends the making of darrels in her shops, which are in a crowded part of the southwestern end of the city, but is practically experienced in this ranch of business, She thinks notk- ing of pointing out to half a hundred able-bodied men their sins of omission or commission in perfecting a big hogs- head, and when they can't seem to grasp what is wrong with their work she picks up the necessary tools and shows them. The following sign is conspicuously posted over the entrance to her cooperage: “This place is for out.” Perhaps that is the keynote to her success, business-—keep —- earns a good living by singing into the reverberating hollow tubes of a phono- i graph. volces which have ever made a success. | ophone. Her voice is powerful and her i enunciation distinct and clear or she could not have remained in the busi- i ness, To sing without an audience iis not very inspiring, but Miss Mann says she knows in reality that the world is her audience, so when she takes her stand before her phonograph [ tort. She i= a daughter of E. H, Mann, | assistant superintendent of the Louis. lville and Nashville Rallroad Companys, and a graduate of the Cincinnati Mu- sleal College. Her songs from her “records” can be heard from twenty to forty feet from any good-sized phonograph. FASHION NOTES, The velour | Moire demand at the stores for moire almost exceeds the supply. renaliszance Is much called for i also, A pretty and fashionable design in table linen is the shamrock. It 1s used on mnapkins and promises to be- come popular, Piquets, marsgellles, lawns and linens | will all be much worn this summer { for morning gowns, us well as at the watering places, Algrettes in the halr soem to be tak- ing the place of algrettes In the bon- net, Birds are also being worn coiffure ornaments, A novel design In wool gloves street wear is a pin check of gray and white, of pink A fashionable | golden brown of and the top as for over which runs a larger check and turquoise, is of insertion summer gown dimity, with white runing up e of the ac brown BAIN d at lower flounce. A hat worn is puff ruffles at an that milliners say will be much f green soft silk, a number of the ite algretle © ide wi a spiral 3 and a large wl vies with blue for prominence Yellow 5, and iy “ 3 . Fy HOWOTE, Veliluow $s How besides ye jLraw are conspicuous all the of burnt orange, ornament for the artifiel 5 ¢ 1" 1 >. with a tuft of colored One damask sh of red sid Ol i tu ase TOs in Fr » poveities ¢ made of in white ing and borde ing hat is with a band of a blac) bon, which fini Three b the trimmit LIne mplete Curious Presents for Sigsbee. command that © I apiain i gald a cle pin- and 4 and fancy towel bags and other gear with which to fix up his cabin He's i loads of that Kind e girls and mate since the day he re Wee i tho of stuff ms of this turned to brought a style land Washi of di ever along he have the rattling up to t arrived here express is house the dozen, d¢ the hs who of a masculine it Captain hundred he'll but slippers that have been brought to ivering pretty specimens ndiwork of American women appreciall man. of a wWenr of want to show their n and level-headed age to the lives to the never be able the him, and he's already got together enough hat bands and beautifully ero- cheted eravats and dainty laundry bags and change purses and equipments like that to start a well stocked fancy goods shack. He's a man of very quiet tastes, and a sailor who eschews ex- treme Iuxuriousness from choice, is Captain Sigsabee, and he smiled when he said to me the other day, in pointing out the array of pretty things that have been sent to him, ‘They fancy, 1 sup- pose, that I'm some sort of a sea-rang- ing Sardanapalus’ If he fitted up his cabin apartments on the next ship he gots with ail of the dainty obits of finery that have been go graciously #-nt to him. the cabin would make a quear- looking picture of a vari-hued flotsam and jetsam in case a ten-inch shell trom an enemy's gun happened to | puncture it.” The Corinth Ship Canal. The Corinth ship canal, after being lin operation four years, yields a “otal revenue of about $00000; or just enough to mest the working and ad- ministrative expenses, On the debt of $4 284s cx) there |s outstanding about $1,000,000 in unpald interest. The i one party benefited by the undertaking lin a financial way Is the French Gov- | ernment, which annually receives $2. | 000 fn taxes on the shares and bonds ‘or the right of negotiation in France, Of the 95,615 men who perished in THE WONDERFUL. TORRE. INGENIOUS consTavct i Die OF THE WTO: Most Dangerous of Weapoms---Though Once Considered 8 Cowardly Cantrivance, It Has Taken a Fromt Place in the Ar of Naval Warfare. It the ordinary mar in the sire were asked what he considered the most wonderful machine ever invented, he would probably reply that it was either the loom, the steam engine or the printing press. Axxd wvery possibly he would be right, too, if by the word “wonderful” was meant that which had the most far reaching results on mankind. But if he sizmaply bused hig choice on that machine which was the outcome of the highest znechanical in- genuity and perfection of construction, the most correct answer that he could possibly glve would the automobile torpedo, As the physician proving his workings of bone and tiss is finding or eccentricity in he affectionately I'e Pile re continually im- of the inner feet of human 4 orpedo officer new trait “bables’ is knowledge five or six Ww, 80 Lihie far HIWAYS out some ihe steel as them, which i This com- under his 3 Be i the remembered that PArison appears al it 1s bh torpedo has its own ldiosyncracies, w=which have to be care! studied and corrected con- tinually form its Comes ully if it is duty properly to be trusted Lo per ww hen the time €»23 Il8 one and nx and give {ts hip if f } orm ¥ pul ’ tant care and ring itu lite tor the ship an aulomo- surelv as if as is the {ll and steel- in the face ands of gun. rege contained avy torpedoes, yf (1a! + sKLT0L and edo wh of of anita warfare iriouziy enmogh, In spite the enormou to h torpedoes th His occasion, nly the scantiest atten. 3 t 3se ocesn after % ot good many and about the the original idea $s» Was evolved er in the Aus- his side of guccess the close the war. their re markable sat Aa Nn navy - i x To A } consistent na » ¥ nn the care ft con- attention b on of thi vie 4 tropedo, and are the improvements effect than twenty-four differ. exist. Many o gradually the giruction BO many ed thee no less ent patierns now the older being constant newer forms considerable time fact that their of non-corro- 6 patterns a eaten away by the rust or wear and tear, though the are lik longer working parts are five metal, The engines, the whole mechanism, @mre stouter and stronger, The adoption of the “controlling gear” the improved system of loading and ballasting the torpedo whereby its stability is greatly aungzmented, the in- creased working pressure of the air, owing construction, have served 0 render thelg weapon a veritable marvel of mechanical skill, When one consid- ers that it can be fired from the fastest ships and make reliable practice no matter what the bearings or the speed of the enemy, it is easy to understand its claim for absolute sWWPTAMAcy as an engine of navel warfare. The adoption of the torpedo as a mavel weapon has had one especial and Dreneficial effect on the sea service of the present day. It has been the means of supplying the younger officers of the mavy with a fresh outlet of dash maze enterprise. Twenty years ago there wis every prospect that the intro<t action of mast. less ships would turm The life of an ordinary junior officer into the most uneventful and humdrmon of existance It looked as though ““wswalking piteh” and routine drills were to be the sum total of his career In peaoe times The advent of the torpedo =mnd the new classes of vessels which followed in its wake have changed ail that, however, With a flotilla of torpedo boats and a number of ‘catchers or “destroyerd” that are bound to follows, there stand dividual ability, and in war time many ronds to fame and honor. In battle the greatest prizes may fall to the hands of the youngest officers. Can anyone, for Instance, conceive a greater feeling of victory and exuita- tion than that which arise in the heart of an officer who having successfully delivered a torpedo into the gide of the enemy, great ship bowing down before him, shattered and come, the victim of his skill and dar- ing? One minute of a man’s life un- der such circumstances is well worth the other years together. In a word the torpedo has brought into the navy {a fresh zest, a new romance, and possibilities more brilliant than were ever existent before its adoption.--New York Times. sees the over- Things That Are Difiereat im Mexico. Mexican tallors bring the new clothes of their patrons to thelr offices or homes be fitted, Wear spurs when to Gentlemen two or they it is inches in diameter They are so large that them walk for they dismount, 4 A rig« NeCeRsar to their on LOSE W kind is usually means of wag! of six OvVersaser done oy is they proceed in trains charge of an accompanies them on {f all kinds are by dozen in horstback the month by nrder and the ot steamer containing the trial #1 orn. i Were easily +3 3 have ages could tance of four miles sage Decorating a8 Heroine. The French troops at Tonquin were the soldiers presented arms they wit. an unusual sight, namely, the presentation of the Cross of the Le- gion of Honor to a woman. In the his- tory of the few women who have re- ceived the Crosse of the Legion of Hon- or it would be hard to find a braver | career than that of Marie Therese, the French Sister of Mercy, who has re. ceived the decoration at the hands of the Governor of Tonquin. At the age of 20 years this woman received her { first wound in the trenches of Sebasto- pol. She was again wounded at the battle of Magenta, Later she followed the flag of her country still further and ministered to the sick and dying in | 8yria, China and Mexico. She was |payried away from the battlefield of | Worth wounded and suffering, and be- | fore she had recovered she was again | performing her work of mercy and love. On one occasion a grenade fell into her ambulance; mindful only of the wounded men, she seized it and ran with it for 100 yards or more. She herself was severely injured, but the lives of her soldiers were saved by her heroism. nessed Too Much Staring. Did ever any woman noting an wun. usual amount of staring at her sweet self in the street fail to find by a look in some shop window that her skirt braid or dust rufille was waving in the breese? many opportunities of <isplaying In. THE DUM-DUM BULLET. There is hardly a Parliament in Eu- rope whose members have not question- ed thelr war offices concerning the fa- motte Dum-Dum bullet, the new rifle projectile of the British army. Many alarming stories have been told of its terrors, and Governments have been asked to object to its use by the arms of Great Britain, And the Paris, Ber. lin and Bt Petersburg papers have glven considerable space to describing the bullet, with diagrams showing 1's terrible effects upon the body The other day Deputy Hubert, in the French Chamber gave notice to Mr. Hanotaux that would insist upon raising the of the legality of the om- ployment of the Dum-Dum bullet. Of the question of legality has for Convention of 8t, Petersburg, he powers decided, among other the use of the explosive The Dum- but an ex- and, although nall ia inflicts a wound similar to that y the old t Minnie ball, penetration is as greal O08 bullet. The modern bullet of small calibre and long and men; but member Dum's wound a France question course basis the where t against in their not an buliet thi DES, Armies explosive ve ailonre roduced b ime ils nickel and steel cased force range has a terrific striking can several ranks of in plerce the wound, casily effect Is of steel, and a mmons ‘illiams, for War, made in nt and affect iissues gerious t ils use yn of St. lets had wr one of the at the request of all, the ommeroce, writers, depiorable the ssion that iroused, 1e rule uet 100 pre- lictive onverts gAnguinary ihe same “hristian makes rujes and hi naQivi F oy * A253 tian p ivy and 4% ia The in then w brotherly His Fingts Better Than Eyes in whicl 1 i librarian Gospel tantine all the Ger- the old gen- recent nume- was his as he did a page of manuscript, follows “1 never held it of it be- while 1 t how teresting ans of three or four back to him with short comment, ‘Nineteenth con- paper, my and he took it away in a hurry and did not come again Yes, 1 was pleased. But I have handled several ancient manuscripts in my time, and I know the feel of old paper.” wn words in Spectator deli. that helped f #8 } i WOOK of 3: 3 A 4 i handed it dear sir, furs is Floors for Magazimes. Cement floors In powder magazines are dangerous, because cracks and cavaties may form in them, constitu. ing receptacles for inflammable mal. ter, besides which cement nearly al- ways contains siliclous particles which may cause ignition by shock or merely by rubbing. Such Hoors have becn forbidden in France since 1851 and ia Beizium since 1804, the mine regula. tions requiring that powder magazines be floored with asphalt or planks. A circular from the Belgian minister of indusiry calls the attention of mine in- gpectors to the necessity, when author. izing a powder magazine, of requiring that the regulations be strictly obsery- ed in this respect, and also that timber floors be made of oak planks well joint. a4 perfectly smooth and free from C= eracks. Scientific American, Last year Italy exported 21.000 an« tigue and modern works of art, valued at £120,000. More than half of them went to Germany. : No particular form of religion re ceives official recognition im Tapan.
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