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 «<luty forbade her to marry him,
and she told him so. She was deaf to
hiz pleadings, and he went away, ask.
ing only that he might give her some
gift in token of his unalterable affec-
tion, She would accept nothing but a
trifte—a book--she said: and a book he
gave her. It was the most magni.
cent edition to be had, and on the back
was emblazoned the title, “Paradise
A Literary
f1ieost story
ial
chapter in the of
adorable little
Last
But later he added to his library
| their library, in fact—“Paradise Re.
| gained,”- ~~ Washington Post,
A Subtle Rxplanation.
“And is this the first time you have
| experienced the sensations of love?"
she asked.
{elt is” he replied,
i “Am I the first girl you ever told
you loved?" she persisted.
| 3le hesitated. What reports might
not have come to her ears,
“You must remember,” he sald at
last, “how oasy it is for the ignoramt
ond uninitiated to accept a base indita.
tion for the real thing™ Chicago Post.