NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX]
NOTES OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS
FEMININE TOPICS.
Lightness of New Hats Jeweled Purses
Khaki Fabrics -Women Should Have
More Sleep Care of Face and Hands
The Benefits of Colf.
Lightness ot New Hats.
One point in favor of the new sum
mer hats their lightness, Tulle in |
a new variety which is very durable, |
chiffon and lace straw are the leading
materials, the most exquisite colored |
ribbons, flowers and fruits imaginable,
Grapes and cherries are the favorite
fruits. and as for lowers there Is every
kind and color. Black silk flowers on
colored tulle hatg are extremely stylish
Then there made entirely
of colored leavs, with a bunch of roses
at one side
is
Are Lojues
Jeweled Purses.
The oblong square purses wnich open
with an ordinary clasp are more popu
lar now than the
purses
envelope-shaped
which have jeweled buttons,
These purses are studded with jewels
the
of the
rs dotting the whole of the
in gold ring settings, in
outlining 1
and in othe
fide. One, for
side
sone JEW.
els he purses
instance, has the entire
coversd with amethysts cut dia
mond recular intervals
The
1
for collar buttons or to close the Neck
shape, set al
purses removed and used
bands of bl
Khaki Fabrics,
ash
Khaki w fabrics are among the
new, offerings of the season, and the
khak! shirt waist is to be commended
on account of its simplicity and adap
tability to rougl age, such as it
[st
receive at seashore and mountain
the of the
at Lands
man who likes roug
waist i
SOris
hing it
HOEK iL.
made without tucks
ohtle
slightly
is or Of
ing. is bloused in the front,
down which
bordered
ing. At
pockets,
as well
belt give of
A
otherwise
runs a& heavy khaki band
double
are
ith rows of stitch
pach side
w
small stitched
Epaulets adorn the shoulders
cuffs
her finishing touches to the
brill
somber gar
as the stitched and the
blouse.
the
scarlet tie gives
ney
fo rather
ment,
Women Should Have More Sleep.
It is a well-known fact among phy-
sicians, nurses, and those generally in
heath,
among
terested in the restoration of
that the percentage
the middle and upper classes who re
tire early is
many women so
wear and of
to a great extent
can only be restored by means of per
fect repose
Especially are long, unbroken hours
of rest necessary for wives and moth
all ~iving their
strength unreservedly and getting little
physically in return, save that which is
derived from sleep. ‘Those who earn
estly desire to use the most effective
means for the preservation of health
and beauty should not fail to keep early
hours,
f
of women
very small. There
constituted
daily life
their vitality,
are
that the
tear consumes
which
ars, of whom are
Caras of Face and Manas.
This is the weather when one’s face
and hands need a whole more at
tention than they usually get. Hot
winds and sheets of dust are the try
ing things But we'd feel these blast.
ing forces much less if we'd meet them
properly.
The face washed at
twice a day, and particularly at night,
that the skin may “breathe” during the
clean and silent hours. In the
water is hard, or the pores of the skin
are in particular need of cleansing bi-
carbonate of soda should be used, in
the proportion of a heaping teaspoon
ful to a quart of warm water,
will be found healing. cooling and
cleansing. When the sKin much
clogged it may be used for a week, It |
is well in cases of excessive perspira
tion, too. and also where is n
heat eruption
The outdoor sports are hard on the |
hands, as next to nobody manages to |
wear the different sorts of gloves they
buy. A very simple aud eflicacious
remedy is the lemon. Unlike most
bleaches it softens the skin. Undi- |
luted it does wonders round the nails, |
while slightly diluted it will do won- |
ders for the hand.
ord,
fot
wuxt be jeu st
Cage
This
is
there
The Benefits of Coll.
One of the prominent women golf
players of the city says that the game
has proved very beneficial in produe
{ng steadiness of nerve among women,
The nature of the game and the eox-
hilarating outdoor atmospheres in
vigorate and stimulate the nerves and
fit women for greater effort and het.
ter self-control,
One of the most exasperating fea:
tures, however, In connection with the
game, from a feminine point of view,
is the injunction of silence. Yet it is
this very point that trains in self-con.
trol, for the player soon learns that
silence is golden when her attention
is engaged with the ball, and that if
she 1s to score well she must think and
act rather than chatter,
The golf school Is probably the best
school in which the boycotting of co
quetry is taught. Furthermore, while
the fever of golf is relentless when it
takes hold of a woman, and under its
fascinating Influence she forgets her
worst domestic tragedies, her best
ns A RI RAN SN SH SAPP APS WS
friends, and has no time for Browning
readings or musicales, the conse-
quences in this direction are offset by
the beneficial effect upon tempera-
ment, for it serves to solidfy her am.
bitlons, straighten her judgment, calm
her impulses and control her temper.
New York World,
The Baby's Clothes.
An Infant's clothes should not be
loose. Moderately
garments are the ideal
which will admit easy
snug-fitting-
ones—those
of movements
time afford a moderate amount of sup
be
The
band for the first two months is sewed,
Pins should not
child will not lie on it The
to fasten it to the diaper and prevent
it working up and lying in wrinkles
about the body. The barrow, or peti
and
should have a
t from slipping down;
will have its petticoat buttoned. Loose
flowing clothes for an infant are
most
uncomfortable, not Iving close enough
and
bend
seam |
the
of
to the
child
wrinkies,
body to give warmth,
is lying in a
and
usually
which crease 2
flesh It is
to keep loose clothes smooth:
work and wind
especially
inexperiend
lelicate almost
will
little
if the mother be young
d in |
they
up about the
and handling Lables,
ght of
tig thing
moment be tolerated,
tight «
rowds
of
auses vomiting in young
ina Wheeler, in
the organs
'
lungs, aiso
anfants
Ba
he work
the
Harper's
Eyesight Affected by Veils.
Among the paticats of the eye doc
tors of New York City the women out-
number the men. Regarding this fact
twelve leading oculists have been con
sulted, and they lay it to the wearing
of veils
Ww
Gus
ido
with
omen who not wear vells are
i sear hl 4
: on hledd defects of the
Ye
than those who always do
yet most women may look forth
the world
njury if
wey
through
only will wear
sort.
they
viells of the right
disapprove of th dotted vel,
while all are in favor of those made of
or chiffon,
kind of veil
even,
the
fering any
from
Most eye spe
filusion
he fast has
regular
may
Worse
peering through
window screen.
vell may,
right sort,
The dotted
terruptions
mentionad
a fine,
which
mesh, through
look without
results than come
the finest wire
The illusion or chiffon
therefore
eye suf
be sald to be the
winil
yells
offers in
the
nowWeyer,
to the sight, distracts
mpels one to focus in different
and differ
ever so slightly, « injurious,
Many a case of astigmatism has been
traced to the baneful effect of the dot
ted veil
CYes, ©
directions, though these
the result
The vell of dots may, there
1 § 4
avoid
fore, be said to be the wrong sort
yon have astigmatism you must
this kind of veil
all,
dotted veil
Above read
are three
never through
There kinds of
dotted veils, those with dots far apart,
with dots together and
with very large dots -bad veils
veils, worst veils, so far as the
The one with the
the least injurious,
becanse the dots can be so placed
on the chin, cheek, forenead and nose
$0 as not to interfere with one's vis
fon. The closely dotted veil bothers
and teases the Vells with the
large dots when not carefully arranged
are apt to offer obstructions to the view
ax large as the pupil of the eye itself,
t howe close
howe
Worse
eyes are concerned
dots far apart is
eyes
the projection of the vision of each
eye In a different direction. Hence this
worsgt kind of veil causes general im
pairment of the eyesight, If the pat.
tern runs no higher up than the chin
or mouth, however, no betler protec.
tive veil can be worn. By protective
syer from dust and dirt, So that, as
really beneficial, It not
street dust from the eyes, but it tem.
pers the wind and softens glaring
than colored veils, because their glare
strains the eyes, Also the closer the
veil is worn to the face the less the
harm to the eyes, It is well, therefore,
that the fashion of a year ago. when
yells were worn puffed far out from
the face. is no longer in vogue, By
the same token, it were better for a
woman not to wear a veil with a large
hat.
After a veil has been worn it should
be shaken thoroughly and hung up and
aired, not tucked away in a burean
drawer. Finally, never borrow a vell,
The eye, the most sensitive part of the
body, is quick to catch the germ of
any disease which may lurk near it.
Many a case of conjunctivitis, the most
contagious of eye diseases, has been
caused by a borrowed veil,
Mayeities Seen in the Shops.
Damascus taborettes richly
with pearl,
Washable foulard sateens in silk de.
signs of all colors,
Natty designs in straw, crash and
cloth headwear for small boys,
inlaid
and linen scarts, table
and centrepieces,
tenaissance
covers, dollies
Many gauze ribbons with satin edges
for embellishing summer gowns,
White and ecru revers of lawn and
lace to be worn with Eton jackets,
slack and colored hemstitched drap
de volle for midsummer costumes,
Many neatly patterned cream and
white wash veils with floral borders,
Mercerized cotton, English squares
in lacquered patterns for men's wear,
Spangled algrettes,
pearl, steel and jet
coiffure,
toge.ner with
ornaments, for the
Children's flats and fancy straw hats
adorned with floral wreaths and ribbon
bows,
White
leather soles for yachting, golf and all
canvas shoes ith rubber or
w
Printed liberty gatins showing polka
vines scrolls, palm leaves and
dots,
Allover taffeta yvokings showing hem.
silk-bralded designs
White lawn dressing sacques having
loose fronts prettily trimmed with lace
woop work embroidery,
All
malines, pompons
§
ROrts ol
ready-made ribbon
and fancy,
braids in milline departments
ry
sailors of
Short-back
braids, trimmed with
pompons or drapings ol
An abundance ‘of
as well as |
allovers yn posed
" F #1 sur 13! * ¢
rows of tucking or piaitin
= i
guimpes, sleeves ind child
Pry Goods Economist
Skunk and Blacksaake Fight
A povel fight was witnessed
men employed £
Standard Oil t
N.Y. the
an
at the pumpin
of the
year OC
it
black
ended in
combatants
Company
shocton, other day
a battle bet
spake and a skunk and it
death of
The attention of the
attracted by
ween SROrinous
both
men
the strange actions
whieh was circl
loud cawing of a crow
ing about a pear Ly.
They
spot in
went to the spot
with
of
blacksnake
within six feet
kept going about
a small
rock were five
of ¢h i?
from a
On th
its ttention
ten feet away.
be size
munks
The
small oak stump and ax the skunk
snake
at ils
snake's tall was coiled about a
$ ili
rounds the
This
feed
CIrCirs
bead repeatedly
continued for a short time, the
made by skunk growing smaller
and smaller. Then, quick as lightning,
the skunk sprang upon the snake and
enemy
the
the snake's neck
In an instant the snake had two colls
aroumd the of the skunk. The
struggle continued for a short time only
boul ¥
The
young skunks were left on the rock as
pone of the party cared to
close range of them
The snake was seven feet long.
cog t
ged
A Remarkable Recovery.
One may have his liver cut
a wall by
weighing half a ton
He walked, with the ald of two men,
crushed against
almost entirely. Upon examination it
was found that his liver had been sev.
to sew the pieces together it was de
put them all together, packing them in
jodoform gauze, of which
Salt water was injected the meanwhile
On the second day after the
for papers with the war news. At the
ead of a week the ganze was removed
patient went to the convalescent home,
after was discharged, look.
strong, with the wound
London Mail,
wOOn
ing fat and
Modeling That Means Money Making.
Many of the art studenis who are
specializing in clay modeling pay mach
attention to the commercial end of the
Greek statues aod Renaissance
friezes may be a more inspiring form
of art and necessary for training and
cultivation, but a model of a pair of
andirons or candlesticks, a section of a
mantel or any other bit of house fur.
nishing or finishing that will attract the
attention of a manufacturer is more
profitable from a money viewpoint,
Such models nsually are shown at the
public exhibitions of the art we hools,
and manufacturers on the lookout for
pew and original designs are willing to
pay well for anything that appeals to
their liking and that, in their judgment,
would sell well, Besides the money
that this transaction puts into the pock.
et and bope that it inepires in the stu.
dent, it often leads to more orders and
establishes a connection which is high
ly profitable, If making immediate
money is a necessity at the end of the
course, New York Press.
in pi ism
The modern kid glove goes througn
the hands of 245 workmen before it is
finished, At least 40,000,000 pairs were
manufactured in France last year,
thelr value being $25,000,000,
OUR YOUNG FOLKS,
The Freckle Man,
When 1 was a little boy,
I asked my ma why freckles came
And how they got on me,
She sald, “Of stories I have heard
Now just a single one,
About a little freckle man,
Who lives up in the sun.
“If a little boy Is playing rouad,
And turns to him his face,
He puts sun-photographs on it
In every empty place’
I asked, “But why are they not like
The beauteous golden sun
A dazzling yellow, round and large
A sparkler every one?’
“Humpk™ .saul the big
“kid of his size”
“Yer a coward, that's what you are!
said the gamin, “Ye don't
a kid o yer size!”
Nor did he,
dare 1ouc
Mumbling and thrcaton
schoolmates ringing in hix ears,
The street gamin went on
algo, unconscious, perhaps, of
in his bold defense of
against the strong
a kind of
his w
fhe
the
manifesied
ay
fact
weak
he had
all
world,
heroism
of the
100 rare among
the
A Funny Fish,
“Why, Greenspot,
sald Mrs, Vrog
what's
az her
hole,
“OO mother! I don’t know wi
such a all
(queer fish,
She said, “If they wish
A vellow, not
Why people, w
Would
were as
dark
they
you
brown,
11 looked at
have to blink and frow
those little
I didn't like
Vor
But
all good
tho' |
Tricks of a Friendly Frog.
no Kaon i 3 far 11:
. Lind is nn frog about
v1 a
dere
1
vii a ei
Washing
at
shown
toa
my studio
its afford we much
He is wx
i x fr §
ake ' fiiR irom
gmuasen
f IoIments
will
amd pert ny hand
and slug and
to bold
As
lows
au
cunning was one morning feos
Ing a favorils with i sancer
of whi
wi that %iw
f
a pumber of
bread and milk
The fo
The fox
Is pussy
not eat
soon attracted quite
vant frog noticed this, and
I'he obser
the saucer, he rolled over
coverad
ng
motion
The
a good
began fo circle round
and when
passed within two inches or so of his
and over until. he was fairly
bread and milk, hay
iny
with a batter of
t
done which he perfectly
less and awaited developments
flies
i the
enticed by prospect of
ineal, soon the
scheming batrachian, one
pose his tongue darted out and the dy
disappeared. The plan worked so well
that the frog makes a regular business
1
dinner.”
Boy of His Size.
There is no bettter or troer instinet |
for a boy to stand by in silence and see
a small mate abused by an older one, |
It invariably indicates a cowardly spirit |
on the part of the who always
“picks on” a boy smaller than himself,
never gets or de
serves any sympathy when he comes
to grief through his failure to choose
. of his when he wants to
one
‘one sige”
Ten or twenty school bofs were on
one day recently, when a boy of 16
among them began to tease a little fel |
low of perhaps 12 years, relates J. L
Harbour in Success
Suddenly the annoyed smaller boy
threw an apple core at his formentor,
whereupon the big boy assailed the
little fellow brutally. saying
“I'M let you know that
throw apple cores at me!
that!”
The little fellow shrieked with pain, |
but be conld contend but feebly against
his far larger and stronger assailant,
and none of his schoolmates offered
to go to his relief,
Leaning against a lamppost up the
gireot was a typical street gaming, rag:
ged, nnkempt and far removed from
the tidy, well fed and well dressed |
school boys. A bundle of newspapers |
be had been unable to seil was under
his arm. and he seemed to be looking
about for a customer. Suddenly he
let the unsold papers drop fo the snowy
ground and came running lightly and
swiftly down the street, hix blue eyes
aflame and his grimy fist clenched. The
next instant the big, well dressed as
sailant of the small boy found himself
seized by the collar and jerked vio
tently to the ground by a boy of about
his own size, who said, boldly;
“Pake a kid o° yer sine when ye
want ter fight, ye big coward! Take a
kid o yer sige! Touch that little kia
ag'in, if ye dare!”
The big fellow struggled to his feet
and sald, blusteringly: “Who's going
to keep me from touching him if 1
wine of”
“1 am.” sald the gamin, standing as
erect as a West Point cadet, and, whip
ping off his ragged jacket, he gave his
head a toss and said again:
“I'm goin’ to wee that you don’t touch
Bim agin! If you want to fight, take
& kid o yer sige, 1 tell ye! Try yer
cant
take
you
You
iter.’
“Dear
That's
ex," panted Greenspot
the w
exciain
tel’
rather
(uees
among the pond weeds
un, and it's lying quite
make it out
“I'll come and see’
“she
Was
“So do 1 And 17
4
% GOZFL YOlOes
HAY though
1
her Frog at last “THe sun Ix Qe
now now, and the dew w ii soon
Go on the bank, and begin
ny
un
where the strange
mus?
great
mp about near
i Hes When she sees Youll, you
all water with a
splash.’
The plan suneceeded well
When
all jumped
Balm
sight of her
ato the
jump
little
at
caught
just be
after a gol romp {134
. - 3
frogs into the walel
one, leaned over and
dolil’'s hine dress
low the surface
“Fan, Fao’ and a
terrier came running up, and dragged
the doll out water So Babs
went home quite happy, and the small
are never of telling the
story of how they helped Miss talw
on the day when the funny fish came
Little Folks
she called; fox
of the
tired
Pigeons of Pekin
in St. Nicholas Alfred Sheflickd felis
hi
nese have made pigeon-fiying the de
coving game that it they
like any kind of “playing for keeps”
Even in kite-fiving, they fix little hooks
their kite strings and try to pull
in each others kites, and count it fair
is becanse
to
yards, They will tell you that a Kite
or a strange pigeon that comes 10 your
if given up, takes away
“family luck.” So you must tear the
But when
dandies sauntering
your
von ste the town
watch the noon kite flying, criticising
the flocks and their tactics, and arguing
the fine points of decoying, you guess
that “family luck” has very little to do
To decoy strange pigeon:
keepers must first
pigeons,
train
cteadily in circles without straying far
from the home roof. Pigeons naturaily
fiy together in circles, Even wild pig-
cons wheel about in flocks before strag.
to the fields. Chinese make
cote: and they cure their birds of strag-
gling by pelting them with peblies
when they try to alight anywhere ex
roof facing their wicker house. The
flock must alight here in a bunch, and
immediately walk down (no the caves
This is done to bring any strange
pigeon among them down within sight
of the grain, which is then scattered
on the floor of the wicker house. Pig.
cons are fod only after flying. for une
joss hungry they are lany amd unman-
ageable. Their food i« millet, sorghum
wood, or corn, which their keepers use
to get as much work from them as
possible. When there Is much fiylog
and calling down to do, they are usual
ly fed with millet, which is so small
that it keeps them eating a long while
without filling them. At other times
their food is sorghum seed. Corn Is
1
“re
very good for pigeons, but they
fond of it that pigeon-keepery
usually have it on hand to call them
#o
Chinese talk of three regions of pig
the housetops: the
where the
at daybreak;
gion,” In
strong-winged birds
the eagle region
crow re
gion,” Crows DRss over the
and the “eagle re
flock are seversl
that will rise to
These are the “high
which are usually sent ap first,
carrying challenge to
When
helght,
“low fliers”
A few
stay-at-home birds are kept back to call
do by
and clapping thelr
whistles
“ey ery
fliers.”
whistles, as a
flocks to join them
mounted
they
to some the
birds, or
are sent up to meet them
the others down, which
fiying round the
wings
they
roof
Pigeon were in early
times put on he birds to scare
away
Nowadays the hawks do not
are
hawks,
t ail, still
ou 'y
useful for attracting stray pigeons, for
signaling, and for guiding the younger
nigeagns when flocks become mixed.
: ~
i
un Peking, flocks are sent up at sun
fon » sundown
join, and
draw
A FORTUITOLS ACCIDENT.
Mssierious Dispensation of Providence That
it Occurred When It Did.
compla
off track
was the way
the
she usually « thin A hasty exam
ye flange
8 of the
broken off. They sent
truck, jacked
it in place of
nation hat half of ti
1
on one { the forward wheels
k had
haste Tor
pony tri
it hye »
post
up the engine i put
the rain Was soon
again. Then they started
the place where the flange
The road runs across
north the rail
road shops, and {rom the shops to the
station it is a perfectly straight track
it { that the break had oc
curred somewhere on that straight line,
as it seemed impossible for the engine
the track on a curve with only
wheel It
wasn't and a #&ys
tematic search up the line was ordered,
and something like thirty miles away,
was finally discover
Up and down
the injured one,
on 18 Way
to find out
had dropped off
the Kennebec of
11st
just
Was suppose
to bold
flange on it front
there,
half =a
however,
near Newport, it
od
wtoen
by a track walker
grades, round sharp curves and
had that engine
and finally, after pass
ACTORK a river run in
condition
through rail work to make a sound
had hopped a
straight track hardly
han moving and when the only
that
ng
engine shodder it
piece of when
more {
thing destroyed or damaged wax ime
The SAdent that might well
have happened has always seemed
have heen averted by what
fearful a
fo Me, must
il
the law wonld term an act f God.” —
New York
Military Rifles of the Powers
No pational rifles are exactly
alike. First, as to weight, they vary
from eight pound three ounces {0 nine
pounds (welve ounces, The lightest in
carried by the Ttalians, and the heav-
jest hy the Austraips, while the Brit.
ish Lee Metford weighs nine pounds
In calibre the Roumanian
and Italian rifles are the smallest, and
the Portuguese is the largest The
sngiish is a gnedium bore, smaller than
Tribune
iwo
larger than the Russian, Spanish and
The heaviest bullet is thrown by the
Portuguese and Austrian rifles, and the
Here, again, Eogland has chosen the
middle way, having a bullet larger than
the Swiss, [tallans and Roumanians,
trians, Germans and French, With re
gard to speed, the Italian bullet travels
the quickest of all, but the Roumanian
ball rune it pretty close, The slowest
pullet is the Portuguese, and the Avs.
trian is also very slow.
Here are a fow of the muzzle veloc.
ities per second: Portuguese, 1672
feet: Austrian, 1,700 feet: British, 2.000
feet: German and Russian, 2004 feet;
French, 2,073 feet; Roumanian, 2,206
foot: Italian, 2,207 feet. The Mauser
rifle is used by Germany, Belgium,
Spain and Turkey, and it carries five
cartridges in the magazine,
The Tee-metford and the French Lee
bel rifles carry ten cartridges, i
that they may not be stolen. :