NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. FEMININE TOPICS. kerchief Drapery Corner on Ostrich Plumes Unusual Walking Shoes. It is doubtless very wise and sensible ~ i to wear broad-toed, wide-soled boots, but fashion now that ghe shall only wear them at such times, For ordinary wear the rapidly disappearing. and the medium toe. known as the “opera,” has taken its place. Heels are perceptibly higher than last : cise dictates square toe Is year. An Expensive Fad. A well-known leader of fashion making a quaint little collection of tiny dressed dolls that are medels of the frocks wears herself. When the dressmaker sends home a new garment, tiny model on! be perfect, and diamond 1 A is she she duplicates it by a a doll, Everything even down the real sliver or gold buttons buckles. The dolls glass in their room, with Jue underaeath, must lace and ranged It to solid are dressing awner's f their Of CAse date creation Handkerchief Drapery. How many waists one sees made up with what handkerchief drappery, most becoming to wit) i known as is or - The drapery and abont the r ill-developed chest, comes from the shoulder the whence i§ Che chest exactly armhole like a on fue spreads something bolero. fullness Is draped in the middle, and apparently tied there with a neat bow knot. This as the drape: the end. | the middle of bow firmly place where the hooks and eves meet “The amount of fullness in handkerchief « not the case, however ie « stitched at in pleats 3 3 is tx fare . 14 doth Look foget . 1 ends waist, and the neat is made separately and stitched on afterward 10 wmeeal 1 s i guiated to mage sel 1 ae drapery ig carefully re the best effect A have profuse drapery al meagre outline of Bet development will require less fulness Alas the wit She is not allowed by her dressmaker to wear the pretty “handkerchief drap ery.” This is used in wash mater als as well a= in woolen or silk good. thin woman sh to conceal her breast, for sister h embonpoint Corner on Ostrich Plumes, Women with their hearts sel oD trich-feather boas and hats trimmed with the plumage of the awkward Afri can bird will grieve learn that at the very time when the Boer British war has shut off the African supply plumes an American Ar zona has contrived to effect corner” on the ostrich-feather product the United States, “The mean old thing’ has bought up all the purchasable triches in the United as to of # resident of a of as States and made Contracts OW Dners birds” ery product at stated intervals. There have been four profitable ostrich farms in this country, and the Arizona specu lator has bought all their birds, and when he calls the roll on his ranch near Phoenix for the spring picking there will be S00 “feather factories” present. Hitherto imporiation of ostrich plumes from South Africa has amounted to f350.000 annually. The war brought the available supply down ninety per cent. and the wary Amer ican saw his chance for becoming a sure enough ostrich-plume octopus, What he will do to the prices remains to be seen, but it is expected thai the picture bat and the diaphanous boa chiefly constructed of the curled and dyed plumes of the big bird will be 3 ' ¢ with the 0X show s0 that he is to get their feath the or ermine. Chicago Record, Unusual Occupations for Women. cupations for women. One is a penter, the other a boss painter, car | : i er Is It a flat lining, for bon are superimposed one upon the other, the ends pulled ont softly and stretehed to hide the straw brim, as well as to overlap the under loop, just as a rose petal rests on petal, yet more opened In a freshly-opening flower, Two shades of a color or two colors are combined often a “hou four pale in the same bow, quet” Very of tints is used, or together. The tender, and opalescent hues are used as under combined fully. Another advantage of using «ey eral in this mits the hat to with tolleties of different hues, if the ing were of a single color, espe ally if thiz be a “pronounced” same hat match, colors bow Is that it per be worn whereas, the color, then cotnmits to The stretehed-out under-brim you a bow is decoration, those of former seasons, Taffeta rib- for these more modish than now. Philadelphia best medinm bows, being satin ribbon just Record, A Story of the Stage. An interesting story of the just life developed in the of sister, in lost heard opportunity of from twenty-eight years, The famous engagement in incident ocourred. de Years meeting a whom she had not an when that her mother, Mme, Nevada hind ving which glliing Ohio Sens singer was len eland, it of the ever since the pth twenty-eight AKO has been keeping a diamond from Ler mother on oer th older sister, she received deathbed, w the © hat it be equest | given her i. Mme, Nevada's now Laura leks, of West Brookfield, I'he clerk tl hotel whe Nevada Ly three wornen, who asked Ne was The explained that of Mme to her The singe i Luo to Ura. Ars hilo, Mme veated Mme finally sisted = of Of i $i. re i rs st ng Ww niers if wis ay nx aida n woman number Mrs, one taser Was Nevada's sister leks yent infers rooins (Oo wir ip ise nn Ne her ibaa ind awersnl the greeted aller without $ wlan an Free ihe! of idea the relationship existing ween them Exp anations made. and Doth sisters were mnch af fected of Fight years before the death thet n Michigan, M leks left Mme, Nevada with when died was hey her address mother 5 Lae mae Was The known, mother she f the older sister fot but pevertheless not Mrs. gave aie Was Wisom. the mother, died, FEmma the diamond ring which was received by Mrs Before she to icks, Soon Nevada musical Known had after her mother’s death Mme went abroad to continue her studies. She lost the last ad of her beard years, It Mme. Nevada eke, her a sister and all since Mrs. an Years dress of fifteen nothing her in these was Years n Cleveland lias for rer sis ter, been living farm near there many Several days that 0 8 con ale read Nevada ago Mme cert, and she forthwith call on her and effect her came two « in announcement would appear determined t With Atlan ih i reunion sf her neighbors ta (Ga) Constitution About the Figure. A woman who desires to make the very most of herself should study her figure Rhe find out good points, its better points, its bad I own should points and its very bad points. She should then take it fn hand and by means of exercise, diet, gymnastics, a good tailor and a maker, set herself up to t sible advantage. A woman can really with her figure than she can with her face, If inclined to be too stout she should from that encourages embonpoint, such as late hours, overindulgeace at table and leading in general a lazy, indolent ex- first-class corset. he Dest pos do more these sacrifices she must say good-by to beauty of form. She will then join the overflowing ranks of wo. lives, The father of the girls is a carpenter and conceived the idea of bringing his daughters up as though they boys, giving them men's trades. sides building bousex, hammering and | : of 30 make no further pretension to beauty of figure, If on the contrary, her trouble be an unsightly leanness of body and limb, which makes it impossible for her ever gown or smart tallor frock, she should, Elizabeth Slocum plans every detail of architecture, | sinm, set about developing her form to the utmost. It is ber duty to cover with built into the wall. ers and closets on the other side are hidden in lke manner, and It 1s a sime ple matter to draw back the curtains and transform the place into a com- fortable bedroom. hss On the Under Brim. * A new method of facing the brim of a dress hat, to be worn at a lawn or garden party. is to do away with the usual underbrim facing which was once conventionally supplied in yelvet, silk or lace. This new facing does not go all the way around the brim, but manages to frame the face in a manner even more becoming than the old style fiat facing. It Is nothing more nor less than a ribbon bow, voluminous as to loops, and stretched out sideways so as to face the front and side of the hat, always lntervening between the head and the straw brim and crown, Neith. not my nature Lo be fat” “They appear never to have learned that it is of the vory nature of a human belong to pos- sess a healthy, well-developed body. When they lack this gift of nature, their birthright, there is something wrong somewhere, They should find out what it Is and remedy it Bits of Femininity, Coatees of white tucked taffeta are a late luxury in carriage wraps, Gold ribbon belts are In revival and look very smart on pretty figures, Yokes on skirts, or the simulated yoke, 1s a fashion increasing in popu. larity. White crepe de chine over a colored silk foundation 8 a uew effect in a stock, Pale blue Is bound to be the color of | the ye cloth to gauze, White corded wash silk with ont lining are taking of the pigue stock, made place ties the Fine beads, sewn on at regular inter vals all silk waists, of the Parisian fancies, over are one flowers are very artistic, A and of serim, Inte fetching regular frock OTM, summer curtain tussian lace, | is | trimmed with { Flchus, berthas, boleros and chem- igettes of duchesse lace, are again be ing pushed to the fore of fashion. Long coats of black net, lined with | white chiffon, among {tions which the new wraps suggest, are the fascina Nhirring for skirt is steadily and It is especially. in evidence in the new thin gowns, A particularly smart short waist Is linen, trimmed bands of he same, black or advancing { both bodice ornamentation, | of jt white stitching, “orn with coversd with either Machine stitching has lost none of its | popularity, and as a means of decora | tion will be more generally employed ! | than ever before. The daintiest of silk | made up for summer wear are of peao the waists de sole. with hand-embroidered gar | lands or trailing vines in natural col | ors, The use of velvet ribbon as a form of decoration continues to grow, and now dea has also tty eff ect that the embroidery pet vaded them, some pre % are thus obtained LOST $10,000 BY SNEEZING Detective ia a Closet Couldn't Keep It Back snd the Robbers Fled. While th : eo detective were sitting on “ “ arvumd we office wa for the ithng geant to issge assignments amd make detail men, an old sleuth, whose hair has grown white with sha dowing eriminals, suddenly gave a lond sneeze that made the incandescent Hight “tireal vibrate star.” exclaimed one of the younger bromsd, “you are the most vo 1 ever heard” tell ciferous “Yeu: boys" Slee rer let replied the something, “That me Blois me you old deteetive, | speeze of mine once cost The expressions of incredulity apon the faces of his hearers caused the old detective to tell the story of the costly SNe me, “Mavhe sald, “about the notified back 'n heading robbes! a bank in the East, going and divide the spoils, of vou remember he pn Atlanta being the SOx of two bank this way. They had and the re t Atlanin 15 having some police robbers port was they were 16 eel to avoid work the detailed wasn't after i and separa ted robbery wns io on § suspicion. he case, it davs mans fore 1 had spotted a suspicions strang or stopping at a beanding-house in the iy. a close watch on | and x fe I Kept iim, another and 1 knew aml that to secur w days later suspicions character turis«l up went to the house to board, the men “ame were only suspected ¢ i nen evidence upon which to conviet (hem i : {wonld have to see them together divided money, discuss their plans when they thought they the or hear them | themselves unnoticed, “Re 1 arranged with the landlady of | the boarding house,” continued the old detective, lock me in the opening into the room which my birds {occupied, 1 was afrakl not to have the closet locked, because the fellows might pried “10 closet have around and opens the to be sure they alone, | | was to stay in the locked closet antil | the men held their meting, and as soon i ax they left the landlady was to harry into the room and release me. The rest | would have been plain sailing. “Well, the fellows met, and [ was in | the closet all right. | heard them talk | and discuss the division of the money. | Then at a most (tical moment 1 felt that 1 was going to speeze. 1 did every: thing in my power to keep the sneene | down, but the dust in the closet had got | in its work. and I gave one of my reg- | ulation sneezes, greatly Intensified be- cause 1 had attempted to suppress it, The jig was up. I heard two men flee. ing down the steps, I knocked on the door and the landlady let me ont after what 1 thought was an interminable wait. The men escaped from the city, and so far as 1 Know were never caught. There was a reward of $10,000 for them.” Atlanta Constitution. closet were The “ Dresser” and ~ Barker.” Newsboys and the unoccupied ur chins of the street ply a profitabie trade by calling carriage numbers for tips after evening performances at the Metropolitan Opera House. All men in conventional evening dress, or “dress. ore.’ as the carriage-calling cult terms them, are open to attack, “Here you go, mister,” said a youth- ful “barker” to a “dresser” on a re cont evening. “lemme call your car riage. Gimme your number, and I'll have your cabby here in two minutes, Aw, g'wan. Lemme do it." he plead wl, “i have no carriage,” answered ihe “dresser.” The barker was disgusted. “Lost me good wind on you, sure” he sald. “Why don’t you wear jump- ers, or how is a feller goin’ to tell who's good and who ain't?’ New York Commercial Advertiser, A monthly German periodical is now issued in Japan. NOTES AND COMMENTS. A cussed dis ques in Brookiyn meeting the demoralizing. church society at a recent “Which 12 more fashion or tobacco?’ tion, The total number of men available for military duty in the United States, but unorganized, is 10,845,150, and the strength 1045, aggregate organized is Sui, Russia. It 1s sald, will fall to Dieces of her erities seem to teach her feat, inclined, however, the lesson of a great ue he State Superintendent of Schools lowa says that the lowa teachers are paid lower salaries than in any other of the States of the Middle in school West, excepting lio, The farmers of India are to adopt new An English plow firm heavy ideas, sent seni all but did not succeed in selling a single implement, i" over recently CX pense the country. ad Ai though two Americans who held such There is no demand for foreign visers to the Korean government posit on have recently led, their places have been filled and there is no further demand for assistance of that Kind, utilized Bilbao to 1 for the generation of 2.800 horse power near Spain, are "oe g a rallway wiles long, te ld built Zamarragsa to be employed in operatin thirty-seven wr the Yumsgn wr tween towns of and Old pain is and real The higher classes of machinery v4 | { tools xed n Russ are from Britain and the nite 3 HON ROTTS ie jie] oevele factories ' $ SHOT, iC A lent livine in fay or ing Vermont girl New girls Yi ity Dy how teach ether make bread if the girls taught will only con to make bread after ter matrons 1 thes come tie it} have been mutual It newspaper correspondents have either is said in London that twenty.one died by disease or been killed in South Africa since the war bgan, and that as many more are disabled ax the result of wounds or sickness. News {rom the firing Hoe costs life as well asx money. American coin does not circulate in Silver dollars sell by weight as bulk silver, and gold dollars are bought hy jewelers at the metal value. Banks pay less owing to risk in shipping the Americas Pri at to less China to Greenbacks bring a the than cost coin higher banks gold owing { of transportation » L iver one faizaran, the puilding this Ihe waterfalls of the West $ ite Virginia of most wu ne States in railroad here twenty ier ng fear are non wine and the mileage under to SHH railroads roads build constroct miles About 22M of ion amounts # miles of h X55 have are in operation Ww hie wenn add el in the last nine years It was observed at the first perform ance of Boase’s band in the American that audience of section the Paris Exposition the enthusiasm of the great of Americans that gathered to hear it did not Lreak all until the “take Walk” and other rag-time pieces were played. Then the American col ony became delirious whooped and demanded encores unad the band was exhausted, The French men present couldn't understand it bounds Glasgow, Scotland, bas erected =a a cost of SK5.000, for the accommoda tion of motherless families or for small labor and must leave their dependent offspring at home, It i= not an orphan sense of the word, since the working receive in a recent article in the New York Herald Dr. James J, Walsh of the city, makes the assertion that the wide. spread use of automobiles as substi ure to the general health of the city. Much contagion is spread, he says, by the blowing about of «dry manure, which in its moist state is used by all sorts of insects as a receptacle for their eggs. The bacilli of tetanus is often carried to cities in bay, which is te basis of all equine food. Numerous other disease bringing microbes wer traced by the worthy doctor directly to the erstwhile “best friend of man.” ———-—— Tae Juvenile Court of Chicago, dur ing its nine months of operation, has considered the cases of 1.285 delin- quent children, 765 of whom have been paroled and placed In charge of proba tion officers. To give a boy another chance in hix own home, to help him begin again a normal boy's life is the work of a probation officer. To this end the officer seeks to establish cor dial relations with the parents of the paroled boy, to slip into the position of a family friend, to check the recur rence of lawlessness on the part of the boy with as littie exercise as possible of the authority which the court con- ters. * preme Court the Queen's museum io Honolulu, founded by the late Queen Emma, loses practically all its endow. ment, turned on the mean ing of Queen Emma's father, Englishman, her a large for. | tune, with condition that if she {died tae estate should revert to his nephew in England, Em- ma bad a son, but the child died years the Yet this was re the provisions of Court holds that The case juste, nn laff the without Issue mother garded fulfilling the will, Now the { the testator meant living issue at the Queen Emma's death ai. it | awards the estate 10 the English heir. hefore is {time of The revival in immigration, which is at the rate of one hundred thou a year, Is one of the most strik- of development of the It the fortune of | the I'nited States to be the recipient of | the best manbood of older { tries Iti slways strong and | sturdy man, able to take care of him self. adventurous enough to carve out his own who leaves the old | homestead for new Such a a dollar In his pocket i» a great deal to any community Atlan His brawn, added to the working force, creator wealth, and helps to build up new enter I now i wand the ing signs country. has been the coun 8 the Career, counéries, man withont | worth Lim, thinks the which receives ta Constitution DeCoes a8 of nig industry pew homes and Drises - A shortage In Inmber and consequent pre The higher prices for this season are dicted West shortage is ascribed to the forest fires the drought Ih Northwest by dealers in the mm ber produc it advanced 1m this the we and in the ing section of thse tend values wie of tion © X [re on account that the produ for would overcome a large part of shortage for the Dresent Nees WOE wt lation of t. but of thers i log outpu MAL conditions ¢ . 1 unfavoraiie i resulted an {itional short is age of log presfuction BOW Inmber district with the haul wink, and low water the rivers reventxd the delivery to oh tie tim There is idl @ mds the of reliet th of beer shelled to hood Vers wo liked in this respect. as the season of noods Added fo in are the losses of millions of feet ix pest the shrinkage supply by forest fires, and the loss by the fre in Ottawa. coupled with the fact that baer this there Can no output from the mills burned in that fire weRSOD ities quite a trade has grown up in the sale of little metal disks of the size and weight of nickels and dimes, which are gsed for defraud ing the slot machines. They are sold by the dozen or wore for ten cents, So general has become the fraud in some that are rarely stationed is not enough business to pay expense of an at {he companies have been hit the worst, and are al 8 to do it. Thus far Lave heen no prosecutions, owing difficulty of The sfory recalls a similar trick in a small ago, ont in some Western cities slot machines there the where tendant telephone joss what about there to the detection, Connecticut town a few mill years where a brass was cutting blanks for nickels for the government, the overworked Philadelpoia Barrels of blanks stood 03 in younger tO ease mint, these mill, and the employees helped themselves to hand in around the ful. and for a week revelled stolen g At the end of that time the collector for the slot had a x to dispose of. chocolates, and the like 11 1m machine companies over of ished nickel dis A shatters Lancet mots COminon British doctors, 1t | seems, have been In the habit of pre soribing custard as food for thelr patients in many cases. In doing so they naturally suppose that the in valids were consuming eggs and milk, the London one in tT in complaint faith arv.cle of food, and that over there custard i made Lancet has looked into the matter and reports: “The eastard without eggs Is | usually a powder consisting of little iin one case aniline dre) to give it the color of yelk of egg. [eustand powder is thick starch, whereas a true thick with the albumen of It is troe that it is usually sug i= This sounds unpleas chemical analysis of the mixture and its groesome suggestions as to the ef fect of the substitution In specific dis eases. It would seem, however, that a taste not unduly vitiated should be able to distinguish between the true and false in custard, particularly JA» taste of an invalid. To the Lancet, however, it seems important that there should be legal definition of the mean. ing of custard. —————— SS ST STAD Yi. Americans in the Lead. If there is one lesson which 1 have tearned better than another during my American lecture tour, it is this: The people of this country are growing more intelligent as a whole, keeping step with the great march of material wealth, It is, therefore, necessary for a lecturer to walk up to hix audience, not down to it, as was the rule in form er years, There Is hardly a stupid face to be seen from Maine to California. How 1 wish that I could say the same of Europe! Americans are not all beautiful, but are all intelligent looking. ~Max O'Rell iu Success, MR. WU'S INOUISITIVENESS, He Would Run Old Lia Hard Race in Asking Questions. the Chinese minister to this rescmbles LI Huong in for pushing home pointed questions, and this pro elivity was well Hustrated io an amos in after- New Mr. Wu, pountry, closely i Chang his fondness ing little colloquy which occurred his parlor at the 8t, Charles one uoon during Lis in A recent slay Orleans, mun present was incau § tioux enough to remark bad no for 3 pou that ie GY feminine charios, Wu he demanded fustantly ses] upon him How that?” inn biz odd, abrupt fash- on, I yf that LMA peering at the other tae 1 i aver Lop “How “Well, a4 any married?” inter “No, I'm a again?’ gold large Why your excelieney,” ‘§-1 “You minister “Ah no,” his Bpeciacies don’t care?” yon plied the caller, I little xtartied, un not young lounger, and rupted: the widower “Why gemtlemnan i Lip ih {hie Wu's ey 1 hile it wii You marry embarrassed “NO, “1 said he hig forehead, mopping sir have no such intentions.” of a face Was ghost stnile about es, but his wus otherwise inser impossible 10 tell fun or satisfy and what made dis them was upon heels of an answer was no time sb “Not marry aga Viy wii { to e310 ODE § 1n'" he ech \ of “OUT. children sone I suppose then” brow dis Wao you a i hope.” ninister shut Li * for a snd reflect ; jropping bis inquisitor al man pariy. a he said the entire and addressing { ner “In tinue is never all.” While be tleman who had ily retired to the rear and bad nothing dur i idreh ™ married ch s% nina the LA to There home for the gen live Ww any «i i paren abt about a was speaking been catechised Last further (Oo say ng ss ¥ ironcisd Fever. the mst striking event In Probably f 8 he the history of naval architecture substitution of al material hi The the days « WHT, wood Monitor, not only de iron over or Ax 8 for = in if the Civil monstrated the advantages of wood for purposes of war, and revolu » ticnized the methods of naval archited ture ample of bo in ship building have had their birth in fight Monitor and Merr mac it that there Was hot sufficient air in turreted steainer and that the suffocating by but alse furnished 8 marked ex Ww sanitary ideas {he between the was found the Ww, gases generated the explosion of unpowder found their way below and tically impossible for Necessity, 1 herefore. & I ondered i PE i pra men to work $i compelled the introduction of some ap paratus for artificial ventilation. The old methods, in vogue for hundreds of years. had been retained, even under the new conditions, and but for the of direct interfer capacity would nany vears longer. ronclads that a which, be exhibition fighting have remained for 1 It n peculiar developed ing confined to those vessels, Was soon designated ironclad fever. In this af fection the initial symploms were much like those of typhus but in a short time severe occipital pain was followed by complete apbonia, and this by coma and death. The introduction of ventilating appliances caused the disappearance of this singoiar disease, and in time these metal boxes, almost entirely submerged, came to be regard. ed as probably the most salubrious Cassier's Magazine striking ence with was the earls 1 (line. | vessels afloat. Deg Mail Carrier. Out in Kansas, where so many things are different, there is a big St. Bernard | mail carrier. He lives in one of the | little “cross roads” towns, where the | only store, which is also the postoffice, is thirty rods from the railroad track. The train always goes whizzing by at a good rate of speed, whistling as it ap- proaches. Nep hears the whistle and | hurries to the crossing and waits for | {he coming of the mail. The mail clerk kicks the leather bag ont of the ear door and it falls somewhere in the vi clnity of the road. Nep at oboe goes 10 the sack and carefully taking it by the middle, so that neither end will drag | on the ground, walks sedately to the | store, where be deposits his burden in | a safe place. He does this every day, in spite of the weather, and the whole country knows and is proud of the dog mail carrier. Nep is four years old, is two feet sev. sn inches in height and weighs 250 pounds. He has no difficulty in carry. Ing the sack, though the mall is often very heavy, with the weekly papers from the county seat, for his teeth are strong and he has carried over 100 pounds as a test of his strength. 000 annually, and that is one-third o { State, AN AT NS al
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