NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NU- MEROUS FEMININE TOPICS. Woman Bicycle Cleaner—Some Dain. ty Effects~Chamois Gloves Worn One Woman's Pin Money, ete, Woman Dicyele Cleaner, woman the credit is new line of remu This is neither cleaning of bi “has her houses and for To an English due for starting a nerative more nor less than the cycles, It is told that regular customers, to she goes for her work at stated intervals, This what amounts ahout a visit, and her welcome, ral servants, not belong to fact, to any of the household as business, she whose regular she does to twelve services seem to be who keep sev- duty now, even by those does in employes of for this new mse maid, other the li the yet” Effects, effects are nodiste in finishing the sum the shoul plain, (towns or Some Dainty Very dev dainty aud ised by pr tty the sleeves of for the thi without tops of mer der FOWnNns Season, below being, trim and exceedingly net lace, 1 alternating tucks, they are sh SIEM exception, close, chiffon, ete, have narrow inser and mmed with bands of irred round spirally, or tri oddly placed oe In every « tion, or round t w.th in ls ever in effect, women are ee applique. ase, the sleeve is a small one and one with which most now Chamois Gloves Are Worn, nd yellow for wade kid. seams be evening Chamois gloy n white a are offered with shirt the same cut They clasp turned in and are trim. but washed skilfully. About were | ot much which is said they faint So mudd summer use wis are n gloves of fine have must loves ti new to In white, are vellow, “that final tion in {est dress.” One Woman's Pin Money o Cervennes, ied the orous restored her to the CX ercige soon most and wh hier the secret of her robust health, on “Spades and potatoes” Calve's chil also of her attent her chiet “Ts Come for 1. but the len is Evening some 1% 4 Ost, Sommer Wraps. The smart sire not always warm addition of some #0 designed that very fs though they were conts or outside wraps, when in reality they are ply the waists of the gowns; and it is for the sake of health, to light wrap or something to put around the neck to make them warm enough. The wraps are just as fascinating as the opera cloaks of the winter, and very nearly as expensive, for, as a rule, they are made of expensive ma- terials, and the fashion is so new as to make it impossible to have it copled by any but skilled work people, There is a dainty, old-fashioned and pictur. esque look about the wraps that makes them essentinlly different from any- thing worn for some time, and both the young girls and older women wear them, quite irrespective of age. One thing that must be sald against them, suminer gowns this year without wrap. They are often they look enough t wie sim necessn ry Carry ou KOMme the figure—in fact, hide all graceful tines. There is one style, for Instance, made with a hood that enlarges the should be, and is extremely seant be. most wonderfully formed figure. Har- per's Bazar, ssa ¥ Mother Goose Dresses, Mother Goose dresses for children are the invention, If the term may be allowed, of a clever New York woman, If you don't want Mother Goose you and employ them in the same way. To make a Mother Goose gown, take a piece of wash preferably white, and lay it nursery goods, out flat Take an large sheet of carbon or, better still, transfer paper, which is heavier—and lay this over the part of the you wish to trace over, and begin, The goods must already be cut out for sewing, or, at least, with a straight for the purpose of cutting the goods edge You can easily purchase at any of and with full-page are cheap destroyed for dies in large type illustrations. These and can very well your purpose, Lay the page you want over the transfer paper at the proper angle, taking care to lay it smoothly and so that it will come out right, then lightly outline the edges with the sharp ponit of a pencil. Be sure that it does not cut through, but only indicates the out- line you wish to preserve, When the iifted it to have the general Suppose, stance, that books be will be impression of for in- it is Mother Hubbard and her dog, the main outline can be re produced, leaving the rest the lmn- agination., The smaller details illy not needed, The Mistress Mary and Little host page is left the story. to ire Roene, Boy Bo Peep hor Blue and a of ferred to a row of rhymes that of your sheep, others « be trans. the an nud there is im ft SOW, BOONES for work. of washes » rest red floss, Then with a Mother Goose a very interest. hild's summer bunch eit e outline Obtain a turkey and be sun stout needl the and little ROeNes, you have Car, The White Whitington, Jack Red Riding Hood make a good set for frock for a ¢ in Boots, Dick and the Beanstalk, and Blue Beard another Adress done nd the result is not unique and be ih boating. he Puss but les can gixXteen belt, New Ritts Fancy Work, ae designed hite crystal eld ones, ithout heels, v price whic h werp in cently seen £12 ith head. are ingling is a 1S i= and lovely fad w spangled butterflies These butter. on paper, and bolting cloth If they are to be worn on the shoulder of a ball gown they are made quite large seven or eight inches wings, but when designed for the hair are seldom more than two inches across. On the wrong side, they are with a slender wire, which gerves later to bend them into shape. Over this wire, on the right side, are sewn two rows of gold or silver span- gles which overlap each other. The body of the butterfly Is staffed and covered with beads to mateh the span- gles, and the feelers are made of beads of the same color strung on wires that they may be bent into a natural posi tion. They are terminated by three larger beads similar to those that are used for the eves, On a spring or sum mer ball gown these butterflies add an irresistible charm. They are also most effective when made of black spangles and small cut jet beads, In fact, bead. sister in evidence first much flies are are then tre designed insferred to across the at least, quite taken the place tion. A Cruel Sweetheart, Walking along with his sweetheart, | he stopped at the window of a confec. | tioner's shop, and, addressing his lady love, sald: “Now, then, what will you take?” Khe, expecting to be treated to some of the good things, modestly replied: “Oh, anything you like.” “Phen,” be sald, “we'll take a walk” And he marched her past the shop. ISH. Sad Fate of a Foolish Miss Who Cone sulted a Clnirvoyant. “Beware of a blonde trying to plot against now everything Is favorable to schemes.” Imagine your sensible going to a fortune teller! woman; you, and just Polly day! I'll have to live through with all told. The dark lady read my scope,” and according her, planets, I've a great career before me, being, as she said, “on the go’ all the time. She also told me-ah! how far from the truth she was-—-that I didn't “keer” for children. “You ain't got no use for em,” can’t bear ter hev ‘em botherin’ round.” “You are really wonderful!” I mured, Then me na would Insure a speedy promised after a long time that has been to get fore “horo to she observed: * mur she gave charm which marriage, and examining my hands that I'd never have to work. “You'se always got ter be taken keer,” w ain't got faculty ns the pres for I sald she and sion; “you no work." astonished me, harged fifty Ro she did, cents for doling it a0] 5 5 have myself told folk ent and future, generalitic letting my was to come ple cred Powe five tl of the Mariyr Spy's Old Bite distance f stands uy miles around The iginal was at the on tl Wily or if th fork of the roads Chapman's Ferry amd Moodus ing. in the old village dam, In 1770 the old moved a short distance to owned by St. Stephen's Chareh converted into a dwelling Julius Atwood, whose have occupied It until the Owing to its situation directly of the church, the edd It removed, and it has been general ly understood that it would torn down in a short time Mr. Greene, however, bough the building. and it will be dedicated as a permanent Nathan Hale's Memorial, on the anniversary of Hale's tion. It will be turned over to the Daughters of the American Revoln tion, who will care for it and place in by Ju descendants day ir front congregation wish present bes exXeen- possession of the society, Her Theory About Heredity, A little nine-year old girl lay on the lounge in a sunny window swathed in blankets, She was enjoying a from the twinges of vheumatism, and her eyes were towing the figure of her scientific papa, brief floor of the study adjoining. fore the Woman's Club and wus re. hearsing it. He talked and threw out his arms, “Environ ment means much in the scale of ho man happiness,” he was saying, “but heredity is always creeping into | bale the most glorious environment, Heredity" A piping volee stopped him, “Papa,” called the nine-year old; “did your mother have Inflammntory “1 suppose so, dear,” “Id my Grandma “1 shouldn't “Did my ‘1 EUeSK 80," man, and gid her father, (sreen 7” wonder, Grandpas,” snid the came ahsent-minded then to his senses at “Papa, 1 must never get This Is a pretty bad thing, ns well stop here Telegram, married, and as any place.” mny New A Novel It Is certainly a luring ducks within blen Bears describes charming volume of hunting Fur and Feather Tales, and one thar eannot fail to attract the attention of all The durks used domestic wild-ducks, which, by a long of training, had developed al phenomenal intellig: : method is understood f author's description, “In this bHterly cold Mr. Bears, “which froze feathers ns tied those leg to and di red Duck Decoy, novel range in stories, method for that Ham his sports men, bred COUTTS were most nee best rom water,” on n SO0n as it touched ti unoffending creatures a cord which ran out on ter ared In the thant thi ii LOIS QinCin 191 nw It appx a ‘ru into the nner,” and that it pond four pulley on the " hind Wig anaoci held Or rise Migrations of Insects, da War for His enefit A Champion Rosehnsh, Philadel ramider (Ay cord: “A con remarkable home of Thirts ikill. Last considers] a won numbered day hundreds of people visit Parry's place and ad mire the bush, ite owner dis. great pride. Each cluster in itself, The bush is ten feet in height and spreads over quite an amount of space, Mr. Parry is confident that he has the championship rosebush in this section of the country.” phia Ke crimson rosehush that tains HD blooms 8 th it feature of the gard: Jolin Parry, N 3.5 orth fifth Year der only 6,500 E it Mr street. Fa the but bush was the vers then blooms which Margaret Nason, the Indian, Margaret Nason, a young woman of tribe of Sitting Ball, is not only to attend which she came east ten years ago, but is the only Indian who is a gradu. Adelphia. There she distinguished her self in history and languages, and took a post-graduate course in English, There are 521, 433 miles of telephone wires In the United States. Of this 280,632 are on poles and 234.801 are a di—- Consul Halstead, of Birmingham, re- ports a scarcity of American broom handles in England, In Canada the artillery of the British army is moved on runners instead of wheels In winter. A Snake Story Mold and Vouehed Vor by nn Man from Boston, “When a friend of mine to Boston from a winter eine back in Florida,” “he brought with him one of the big rattlesnakes that are a familiar product of Plorida This one was more than five feet handsome and lively and showing viol ousness and vim ment, Hattles gish and stupid in activity, wns alway hesitate 1o long with every move slug this big pakes are apt to he but fellow alert and uudn’t iis fangs into anything put “One day the along particular rat was not a He red brown whart ats that abound the waterfront 1 mnrge Fe hind lot” of nerve wis put the ! had been been the and none of the The look snake coll fang 1 rattlesnake’s cag many a before nlwn) ordinars i had ever rattior w lis about (1 io his usual s notice oneness to the don’t was a stick I rattler ing ip of the rat or iy friend went gtir the want snake thn New York Bun cane s isenvered was dea The Baby Thi It was a deperate chance The Filipinos were strongly trenched in a position that seemed naturally impregnable. The American force was small, and, owing to the na ture of the ground. it could only be precipitated against one angle of the enemy's works, No wonder the officers hesitated They felt they wonld be sending the galiant fellows into a veritable death trap. : The men themselves were huddled together on the ground behind a slight ridge that affords them temporary protection from the Filipino sharp shooters. They had been conversing in low tones, but the fatigue of “Inspired” Them, officers hesitated in and they were silent Then Private Tom Hooker spoke up. wore clear and distinet. wife.” he said, “and you can bet, boys, I was mighty glad to get It." There cumbent forms as he went on: “We have a little threeyearold daughter, and my wife writes that she is getting just too cute for an¥thing.” The men shifted uncasily, as those who had been lying on their backs rolled over on their faces. “Her mother writes that it's just wonderful how many T he men more firmly “Just the wis wash. funny things she clasped their rifles and up their other day, when her mother she sald ? a wild roar the sod to thelr feet, swept over the ridge, and fell } ip terrific force that they dong” a Hifie drew Kees goldieors strug- nox with such fled without upon the firing volley And the what hs paused this ranks, knew fois amnzed officers never fi iil « [rani of Qf in the RABBITS IN AUSTRALIA of the Esterminnting Some Methods Fmployed in the Vent. Your Nota Sweet Child rosting baat any this is {ounrtahip. giving of I know yvihing about is life romance an woman who is the wife {f an ex-Senator from a State in the Middle West, She was a widow when the Senator first met her, and he a dower. It was the afternoon of life with both of them, but he wooed her with the ardor of a boy and the per sistonce of a man. At one time she had definitely made up her mind that her «