ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS FEM. | NINE TOPICS. Te — { Military Scarfpins--Women and the Am- | bulance Ship--General Lee's Parents | Linen Crash Gown--Etc,, Etc. MILITARY SCARF PINS, All the girls who own sword pins and daggers can bring them out from their | hiding places. They've come back into style. This time they are used ex-| elusively as scarf pins. “But many of them are too big,” you exclaim. No so | at all. The bigger the better, Nothing looks more stunning in an Ascot tie than a beautiful jewelled dagger or sword pin with its sheath It gives a feminine touch to the erstwhile mascu- line scarf, and it is the proper thing to wear.— New York Sun. WOMEN AND THE AMBULANCE SHIP, The ambulance ship Solace has been bountifully the women of the United States with many comforts that, as a rule, are lacking at sea, This ship has been fitted out in such a com- plete manner that she a modern hospital. Around white sides runs a dark stripe, and her Red Cross flag marks her to friend and foe as being on a mission of peacs supplied by resembles } - uel FEM ELECTRICIANS, The of Miss Glascock, th young and attractive daughter cf A. KR, Glascock, of Mayville, Ky., in practical electrical work is exciting the admira tion and wonder of the fraternity. Miss completed a plant at ININE success the Glasscock has Morganfield, Ky., and the construction of one at Nicholasville in the State. The Grass State is justly proud of this talented daughter. There is no reason why the fair sex should not take up electrical work in all its phases as an ment, enthusiasm persisteney | are especially indicated in especial- ly fastinating industry will superintend same Blue employ- and as this PARENTS. moth a daught and Miss Anna Ma John Mason known in her Nannie Mason.” Lieut. Sydney made ti Presid: 0 ner to was Rebecca at the \ erful an in front witl tipped over is smart yi0¢ & ack velvet velvet with right in woma old or yo least one hat to be chin with broad st must shouid ve Be n, the o long of are confi horn and twisted for the most part.though they are also used on smaller hats of colored straw. The average girl looks pretty enough under one of these big floweriaden hats with- out strings, but with strings carelesaly knotted to the left side, over her heart, she is bewitching. Aa hat with strings invariably gives an undefinable look of demure coquettishness to a youth- ful face and makes the wrinkles in an older face less noticeable.—New York Sun. and th k velvet rib Thess fined chiefly to big white flats up at back a sort of poke shape blac bon. string Log frirnod urnea the into SILK VISITES, The very newest fad of the seawn Is the revival of an old fashion-—the silk visite which our grandmothers wore. It consists of a little coat made | of taffeta, which can be worn with any! #kirt—not only of silk, but of other material as well. The prettiest mods] | fs made with the back in a basque shape: the fronts loose, but with long tabs; the sleeves very small, with a cap over the top, and a high turned- back collar faced with seme bright color. The ilk i838 covered with! tiny cording or shirring put on in as fantastic a pattern as | ean be devised. It is not supposed to be lined, and is to be worn either over a thin shirt-waist or with a falee | front. It is held in place by a narrow | belt which goes under the front! pieces. It has not as yet appeared, | excepting at the private dressmakers’, | but is already becoming a craze. For! women who cannot wear shirt-walsts | there is nothing smarter or cooler, Of | tourse it is not a very sasy model to make at home, but {t is a possible one, and a very good one. Harper's Bazar, AN ENGLISH COOKING SCHOOL. Clever American women might profit shall, a handsome young English wo.a- an, with her frying-pan. Years since she Jald by opening a modest but very practical school of cooking. under Mrs. Marshall's personal yet so ably did she teach them that her fame spread abroad, and women wish- ing regular employment as cooks went to her for instructions. The develop- ment of her calling gave her the idea of opening an establishment where detail of the kitchen could be scientific consideration. The establish- ment is still called “Marshall's School but any woman who Is enough to visit it realizes at this plucky women has done some- h more than carry on a school The department of instruction is main- tained as vigorously as ever, but the business has a dozen equally valuable branches, one of the important being the intelligence office, where the trained and When a wom 1ates from the cooking school There amerg 8p . trained fortunate th thing most all vouched for by the firm. an grad she is given a diploma. office cooks registered are i HH are al- | Ways the inl df for and invalils’ prepare shes who Thi from Cooks are needs, re well a is as bure; all and bu Marshall of Wu which customers are ¢ varieties of dainties, canned ttled prepared by i goods sigshes it and A specialty is improvements The firm pul series receipt books an attrac- tive monthly magazine also made of the latest in kit In the spring aad autumn the graduating classes are ex. 1 SLi8 hen uten show in an and exhibition hall amined their prowess and pat fo taste new dishes vent in ion. WOMEN OF C1 THE women are pret to one roes to th ve the ba: one, Or visits the or dens a frien oard, either coming fr she has the gaudy dres tion and the pretty bination that is irrezistable to the ! holder. The best time to gee the Cuban wom- an is in the evening of a summer day A walk through the home streets at this time will reveal her seated on the cool benches in the little gardens, or! else inside the house, at a window, | chatting with a friend or a relative and watching the passing curious ones. | She is at her best at this time and] piace. The real Cuban girl or woman | is, above all things, a home body. Her | home is her castle in reality and she] is never so much at her ease as when ghe is within its portals. i Tennis and croquet are the chief] amusements of the girl who lives un | the island that 18 to be set free by the! force of arms. Of course, she dances, | and is as much excited at the prospect of the great civic and military balls as is her sister all over the world. She! goes to all that she can get to, and ghe goes home at the same time aa other girls and she chatters all day about the ball and the handsome men and what somebody else wore—in fact, And, above all things, the Cuban wotsan is a patriot. She is true to her island home, to its sons and warriors. She has given her ald and often her life to the cause of freedom. She has shared the privitation, shame, ter- ror and the humiliations that have bes the jot of the courageous insurgends who have been true to tne little flag that is so soon to be enrolled as the banner of a ney nation. She has taken satisfaction of all she is that jewel true, noble, cour woman, -Chicago has proved *o the her admirers that above all price-—a ageous and patriotic Times-Herald, Soft hats will take the place of the for wheel w A black hat covered with two shades of poppies is most appropriate for young girls. The derby ‘Ar, still holds often walking hat and is English in fashion, pro- Among summer hats a chip with white mousseline de sole and sweet peas will be a chic headdress for young women, yellow plumes, white trimming and with lace leghorn duchess slreamers, long with low crowns A fash folded d Sailors will be worn and narrow brims this s« fonable trimming scarf wound around the cr at the left aABONn. will be n yw and tie side, A small bonnet of framework, cover- burnt th of black most ed with oran algrette wing, for elderly women BEE TIOoses, and a white fab ie is a attractive ONE OF THE MYSTERIES OF SLEEP. No Man Knows When the Mom:at conscionsness Comes. A I'emarka sleep which The sl » not too bu een Ways ial and English is Germany every year hundreds who can their and who are thoroughly existent Eng oung senas ¥ % oO > hold own in the board schools Some Englishmen are beginning to think that the strides Germany is mak- ing in trade are mainly due to superior intelligence and better general educa- tion of her people —New York World Way to Kill Mosquitoes. Two ahd one-half hours are required for a mosquito to develop from its first stage, a speck resembling cholera bacteria, to ita active and venomous maturity. The insect in all ita phasc: may be instantly killed uy contact wi 1 minute quantities of permanganate of pottassinm. It is claimed that one part of this substance in 1500 of solution distributed in mosquito render the development of larvae im. its embryo insects, and keep il free from organic matier for thirty days at a cost of twenty-five cents; that with care 8 whole State may be kept free of insect pests at a small coat. An offi. cacious method is to scatter a few crys. tals widely apart. A single pinch of permanganate has killed all the germs in a thousand-gallos tank.—The Pub. lie Health Journal. In Hungary there are thousands of villages and hundreds of small towns without & doctoy within fea silos NOVEL COAST DEFENSE, be Bult, The War Department for more than 8 year past has been quietly workisg on a new method of protecting g®in emplacements that promises to revolu- tionize structural in this branch of the coast system In brief, it is to substitute heavy shield or palisade of railroad iron for a large part of the masonry and concrete that heretofore ha structures, thereby of - fectiveness and decreasing the cost of these works and, incidentally finding a use for the old rails which hitherto have been a drug on the market. The plan with Gen methods defence i into these ing t gone he increa nated it two sald to have orig! Miles, fortification Ago. It was discu nothing definite the past year is who proposed 10 board almost years time, but within iintions the was done until ged at Then cal drafted but | ma made and this sort thumb rule and comparatively ryre ent i n Physical Points of 8 Soldier, i dege " is apt mican weakness of the The vol inteer “fit” in other respects is likely to be amazed at finding him- are ex- cessively flat. yet the requirements are carried to such an extreme as this It sems that a very flat-footed soldier does not make a satisfactory infantry man, he cannot march well because his feet because with those of whites, tions, corn, will count geriously arainst him. Bow-legged and knock-kneed men are aesthetie side. crat, St. Lotis Globe-Demo- Timely Information, : The power of modern guns of heavy caliber is such that every projectile which Goes not hit a thickly mounted part, or strike at a very acute angie, must cause {rightful destruction in the interior of a vessel. But as the heavy armor covers hardly more than a third of all parts visible above water line, it is more likely that an unarmored part is bit than that armor will be struck, One lucky shot can disable a ship, a few lucky shots may decide a baattie, It is this consideration which causes the Germans to be so specially careful in the traloiug of their marine artillery. But it Is not very likely at | the percentage of hits wil increase | future, The increased speed of tl} | vessel prevents that. Bhips armies with the heaviest ordnance can begin to fire at a distance of 6,000 to 7,000 (33% to 44 miles); with guns somewhat lighter caliber, at 6,000 meters. The heavy guns, indeed, much farther; but it would waste of ammunition tz fia than four and a modern ship cannot afford ammunition any coal. With modern for loading, a battle ship could fire a- way its entire stock of ammunition in less than an hour, and who ny that it will be quickly replenished ? th se Ia ie meters of & DOO, Lo carry useless we at a ship more thres or nway ita to waste more than facilities {4 ils can Ancient Porto Rico's Charms, San Juan del Porto Rico, with the ex. ception of San Domingo city in Americ pious by whom was founded called John the Baptist, and to of great Ponce AVing Ying in San Is the n a, he it Port of spain it has Rich Lies Nn A source profit continually for! de leon | the larger 30,000 Inhabitants * Maaning the Yards” 1¢ old ships i. And man were commands always | as the visit tinguished m and cheer ship the i A Daamgerous Diet. A box containing wheat saturated with strychnine waa recently placed in the hands of a scientist for examina- tion because of the curious fact that a number of insects had been found there, all of which were busily engaged in devouring the poisoned grain. So remarkable did this appear that stud- jes have been made of the tastes and poison-resisting qualities of some of these small creatures. It is ascertain- ed that the weevil wil grow and flour. ish on grain mingled with strychnine. This fe destructive to almost all insects it to other food. Samples of the same pols. oned grain were given 10 4 number of varieties of insect pests, and in every instance they died almost immediately. in this same line of research it may be said that almost every poison plant has its parasite, and from it some form of life derives its subsistence.—~New York Ledger. a The number of foreigners !n Japan last year was only 826, Including 8.042 Chinese, 18578 English, 1092 Americans, 498 Germans, 391 French, 1 ! NO SAILOR PRESIDENTS. Bid Farewell to Political Ambitions at the Water's Edge. England has had within the older Blates a "sallor king” recollection of many of our When did the United have a sailor President? When, at any time, was a sailor seri- {ously talked of by the politicians and newspapers for otfice? It's thinking about this discrimination against our laurel- readers. ever that 1 i really wor ed victors whose victories are won on i the water, Our wars have made many Presidents, The nevolution gave the President Washington The War of 1812 gave it » resident Jackson. The Indian wars gave it the first Presi. | dent Harrison, The Mexican campaign t gave It President 17 The Civil { War gave it President Grant Hayes, | Garfield, Benpamin Harrison and ‘Wil- liam McKinley White Every man of them did | country aylor were helped toward the House by their war records. his fighting on sana the republic the contributed sg his- good h withis ite House? to and whe one I, BO Some Odd Sigas of Respect. case, viaced not : tribes $d oh Zire h~ he tip &€ in back to thing when k * ps ran hecombe th professional ombs showed no marked t bought anywhere, lity they possessed a merit which them highly valued by the bar They were go shaped that as hrough the hair it was up in a way that exhibited the irregularity in length. It hos held them valuable. Within the last few Years several of the comb makers have died, and to-day only one is left io carry on the manufacture. As a con- sequence the combs have greatly in- creased in price, and the old man who still supplies them finds his work more profitable than it ever was before. No- body else has learned the secret of making them, and so the art seems likely to die with the man who makes them now.--New York Sun. Swiss Faserals, Swiss funeral customs are most pos culiar. Al the death of a person the family inserts a formal, black-edged announcement in the papers asking for sympathy, and stating that “the mourning urn” will be exhibitsd dur. ing certain hours on a special day. In the front of the house where the person died there is placed a little black table covered with black cloth, on which a black jar stands. Into this friends and acquaintances of the fam- ily drop little, biack-margined visite ing cards—sometimes with a fow words of sympathy on them. The urn i= put on the table on the day of the funeral. Only men ever go to to the churchyard and they gen v follow the hearse on foot. 222 Russians, 127 Portugese, 80 Dutch
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