NOTES OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS FEMININE TOPICS, Oldest Woman's College in England Two Coiftures and Neckwenrr, “Novelties in neckwear,” has a very fascinating sound, and certainly noth ing Is of more Importance Tonic -Do Business Women Best Wives? Ete, Etc. Oldest Woman's College in England. different arrangement of trim ming on the walst and a new style of | turned out does not look well if the col not fit. The great trouble with some of the poorer dressmakers does in England. It was started in 1869 by Cambridge University At Girton the girls have two each. The fee for the college year, in- cluding tuition, board and ren* Is about a hundred guineas, roons Two New Brooches. Two kinds of worn by the smart set, XV. basket filled with basket executed in finest of zold cord work. and the mass ng of flowers done in various colored jewels, AS a corsage ornament among laces it is a bewiteh The price is £75. The other the has a brooches are being One is a Louls flowers, the ing thing. goes by pin. It five short each spike pearl headed. 1 formn the with a centre stone of yellow tom of the “HAroness name with rosaceae form, gold spikes acros the top, ive Stones rosacene I'vo emeralds, 7 lie gold A hese there directly under the half crown ol an spikes, while below two dis smal A blue sapphire but centre Delow, s of the finest cut steed, the centr pendant diamond in medium in Cood Hair Tonic. apoear to Sunshine a Wowen that their and that if t no amount of toilets wil mal Runt appearance and carels ssly that it is indeed, style of must be sometimes fluffy 1 OR faces, careless effect aud well requir e an hairdres brought that the she wa should fortnight, dow till dry the to do, but ii hair. Poston Journal Do Business Women Make ~ ile business woman is | mnings at earth are | business woman the world, sibilities of band, errands Knows neither during that cessity apt tention of when he is ab She does not reading the stock ing paper, trained mental household of the latter fact, detail in a shorter t.me quired by the inexperienced wife, who, previous to her had po more problems engagements to engross her mind. The members of the opposition prone to declare that the woman whe has earned her careless in tife spending of that earned by her husband. This the the bus ness woman deny; they and sae faculties on problems, In consequence she is able to master than is re young mariage, has serious than are own money Is more friends of claim tion to the collar make it too large, remedy over, A perfectly, and front, the s.des just meeting. They are apt to and then attempt to should fit at the back or may be, with the When it laps over On all of the well-made collar hook as CHE of money, and is better able to admin ister It than the woman who has pre viously had it doled out to her In small sums or had her bills paid for her.~Philadelphia North American. Prcfessiona! Women of Europe, So tar as government regulations can go, Germany bas opened the learn ed profesions to women. For some time they have not technically Yarred from the rightof being doctors, dentists, ete, but the chances of train Ing were so Hmited that only very few women could avail themselves of the prigileges thus offered. The establish ment of “gymnasia’” for girls In many of the larger German notably Merlin, Leipsic. Hanover, Konigsherg, Stuttgart and others have given togirls heen cities, order to enter upon the training which Is needed for any learned profession. The uni versities admit women, if not as full students, at least to the lectures, The position of dentist requires two years’ univers ty training only as against five years for medicine, which easily explaii s the preponderance qualifed dentists over doctors. to qualify of whom practice In Berlin, one Munich. In Great Britain they tind work for G6lady doctors, and even Ire- land exceeds Germany by two. In Russia there are over 700 female phy- sicians in practice. Dentistry claims in Germany some 40 fully qualified practitioners with scientific university training, buf there are many more practitioners who have served thelr articles andattended a local college for dentistry. In Holland, Belgium and Denmark many women are engaged as apothecaries, : : | ] i collar is seen, behind the the front and it is which Is collar, not 3 3 the neex, made with points curved down at When enrs, or up at back. there is a small yoke, with the showing any seam around possible made in one plece This gives rather a long line to the throat and Is attractive and, as a rule, becoming. —Harper's Bazar, Chocse After Thinking. fan trouble the with there would surely be is i to eye | §4 look in more ones took the mirror a critical fewer unbecow 1 The Winter Top Coats yi * ¥ still ot In the novel rest Waae worn and models ghsorb lined to and many one is In rience the advance fancy models as ; novel wollen and « ry often, still to Keep thoroughly n the latest fashion world the novelties, whether popular favor.tes or This fancy models impor ted by one of our most exclusive shops in the lengths, viz.: Short, three-quarter and long. Undoubtedly the litle jacket with front, triple shoulder euect and high collar of fur is smart and French for the wo man of fashion, but will soon vogue and is not a suitable garment for all oe ter. The three-quarter design the raglan sleeve introduced last sea son for men. As it is rather trying to the figure it will scarcely have a wide The long rounds off in front at the bottom, distinguishing it from those of last vear that stretehed straight down, The revers are the proper shape requ red by fashion this year and finish a velvet collar. There : convenient pocket let in either side under the broad stitched band. fase - favor ho can have several coats hange up one must a latest proven not. th reves [848 trio shows several pleated lose its asions for her less wealthy sis shows vogue coat 8 A New Watch Chain Charms The new wateh chain eitarms are of a "zo" character more in Keeping with the of an hunter than of a dainty malden, A rabbit with a dia costume ionable girl's wateh chain; or she may be superstitious and wear a shapeless bit of gold nugget with her month gem Inset, for luck. Bits of Femininity, Plaids In all materials will be very much used, Foulard silk gowns will be worn all winter in the house, Velvet capes are displayed in Paris and are pretty enough to win popular~ ity. The fad of the hour «in the way of headgear is the tri-cornered hat, which turns straight up in front. The most pronounced inoovation In skirts Is the front panel, which Is more and more in evidence, The bishop sleeve has made its way Velvet [8 assuming more and more prominence in the modes and lithe velvet coats of all sorts are being made by the score, The Russian blouse Is once more In evidence, much more Russian and much more chic than its namesake of earlier seasons, It is whispered that old fashions In bracelets are to be revived, especially that showing a medallion or cameo set in 0 wide gold band. Huge artificial flowers wonderfully tinted, are among the new millinery noveltes, and in many cases have jeweled centres, Panne velvetin all over Moorish and Persian designs is being much used for blouses, but the yet are In cloth, heavily embroidered, An is the pendant, not, of course, ear pen dants of worn around the neck or on the breast, supported by a fine gold chain almost ny of chiffon, blouses silk handsomest 8000 white satin, or ornnment very much in fashion antique memory, but pendants isible. CLOTHESPIN FACTS Cuts Up Inte Clothespins Worth $100. Log Costing $2 ag a philo you lf.” Limi ddy, oudt! colnmon “How tou + asked of “Four os “Four cen Aplece! if he ir he with four of these uring to find out * On KO. If ose pins has ig the man wasnt Now, if that w ith a clothes as al he i a man w i factory better off than if But those gantiet of a they would be a blamed sight Hn he owned a coal mine got to run good deal of machinery full-fledged clothes saw separates the logs into logs have before are pins A lengths of sixteen inches, another saws these blocks into boards threequarters of an inch thick, a third saw reduces the boards to strips three-quarters of an Inch square. These little strips are pushed into a big wheel, which hurries them to a gang of other saws, where they are chopped into clothespin lengths quicker than a sausage ma- chine can chop up a pound of meat. These lengths are carisd by a swift belt to a machine that grabs them and sets them In a lathe,” The lathe gives them their in the twinkling of an eye and throws them to the man who feeds them to still moving shaw an forward as if it snake, This that the washerwoman is down over the clothes on the line one of these days, and the ready, all except kiln drying and pol ishing. Kiln drying knocks the sap out of the wood and the polishing is done by letting the clothespins rub against themselves in a revolving iron oviin der, “All these processes cost money, and when the manufacturer comes to put up his goods for sale he finds that his profit on the 45,000 ping, or a day's hard work, is only about $193. 1 pay the manufacturer one cent a dozen, or about 84 cents a thousand, and, really, I am compelled in these tight times to sell them for 4 cents a dozen, or £3.36 # thousand, which wouldn't be so bad if 1 sold a thousand every hour or so. But, with care, a thousand clothesp ns will stay by me a whole month or two, and I even have had them with me a whole year. Chinese cheap labor is pelting the life out of the clothespin trade, for Ling Sing and Wun Lung don’t use clothespins In thelr laun- driex, and they're washing about all the clothes that are washed, it seems to me, nowadays.” -Chiesgo Tribune, “ i i The place of honor at a Chinese ban- were saw chews out the slot fo shove ciothespin HYPNOTISM BY TELEPHONFP Honolulu Amateur. notice influence ever recorded is report- “1 from Honolulu, where, according to the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, a subject was put to sleep by a hypno- list who was several blocks away, 1. E. Davis plays a typewriter in the fice of the Attorney General at Honolulu, He is an amateur musi clan and a prominent member of the Triangle Club, which Is allied with the Young Men's Christian Associa tion. He is an ardent student of hyp notism, One evening recently a number of persons gathered in the New England jukery to see the experi ment. A youth of twenty-one years who had been operated on by Davis several the while telephone times took eiver in his hand Davis spoke to him an in the Judd Bullding, several blocks distant. the name telephone re from instrument A ecard over the telephone in ory had written the of Fhomas Williams, As seen and heard from the Judd Bullding the following Was called to the known here sto take the “What is the bak- on it the Davis well prod eure ihject--who belng does not want his His name mention. hand the « card in his laine on $ be asked, Then he growl gone” and » hack subleet Wis more Buffalo Chase in Chicago. buffalos hire +» from thelr In Perk Zoo In witly A causing Raven storm re chase f CARO ollowed, the neighborhood An attendant saw the break, but too iate to “Billy,” the leader, afid wix Terror possessed the when the broke forth. An automobile, turning into the park, fright By dint of much shouting accompanied by blows, the runaways started back to their pen Old “Billy” broke through the centre and made one more dash for liberty Keeper MceCurren started In pursuit Ihe old buffalo turned suddenly over the sandy beach and plunged into Lake Michigan, Keeper urged his horse into the waves Billy waded and swam until he was bevond his lepth, when the horse finally succeed ed in turning him toward the Billy and work, In the stop others storm another gave them Were The shore landed inclo lassoed him, after hard To Be Congratulated. A Polish couple came before a jus tice of the peace to be married. Toe authorized him to unite in matrimony Perczynski and lLeoko warda Jeulinseika, “Abem!” he sald. “Zacha-—-h'm--bh'm-ski, do you take and so forth. “Yes, responded the young man, “leo h'm-th-ska, do you take this man to be ¥ and so forth. “Yes, sir” “Then | pronounce you man and wife” #ald the justice, glad to find some thing he could pronounce; “and 1 . wo tng reduced those two names to one. A Fly Baries a lt Spider. manner in which a large but ordinary house fly buried a dead spider,” sald a naturalist to the writer recently. “The fly, bearing the lifeless body of the spider In its feet, flew down on a patch of bare soll and laid Its load down within a few feet of where | was standing, It then went about sighteen inches In another direction from where | stood, and from where it had alighted, and commenced dig ging a hole in the ground. My curl osity was excited and I stopped to watch the insect at work. “Well, after the fly bad the Lole dug apparently took its dimensions, i going back to the hole found it wns not big enough and began digging aguin, earth he once more went to the spider he and agalan took its measurement. did this eight thines and lnrged the hole, fellow to throw the earth clear out he would go on the bank and force It back | his feet, At last when he had the ex cavation large enough for his purpose he went for the spider and brought it to the grave, for such it proved to be, and dragged it the of the hole, After he had the body in he cov ered It with fine earth first and fin ished by placing a tiny plece of cinder When he work he flew away, having completed the burial actly ies watch.” as often en 10 mouth r : on the top had finished toe in ex forte. A forty-five min by my Washington Star, Did Columbus Chew Gum ? A correspondent ence Monthly or lowing interesting proses ile Circumsiand the throw foe owing to the 3 i SUppoRed an incident brings to Journal Providence Married in 8 Year. wpondent says that a a ii A Corre Shanghai, writing a young Chinese been mars the Ron lady there fend to a rid Hower vase, substitute for the mandarin to whom had en gaded. Her flance died just before the contemplated marriage, and wonld wind substituted "or cele These has recently vase being a of a wealthy she Twvena as she vowmd she the flower the br.degroom, and the brated with all due pomp never anotlwer, vase Wis marriage Hin personal marriages are not une mon in China, that the happy pair so united would easily dispense Nin and it is easy to believe with other family jars Loadon Chronicle, Finding Ocean Depths, An Interesting appliance used In laying cables Is the submarine sentry amd sounding machine sirable to keep tae cable at an even depth, especially out of shallow water The “Kite” sounding machine #et at the minimum depth desired and thrown over the stern. When the boat into shallower water than de- it is often de or i= Insult to Injury. [ to the dentist gave my jaw, Nor did resist his drill, But howled with vigor when | saw Uis motto, “Peaca be still” Chicago Times-Herald, A Cinch, “You are mistaken Hfford., 1 tell you his heart nuch in when 1 last alm.” “Indeed! What doing? “Falling in love with a pretty girl Cleveland Plain Dealer, about young wis very saw his work wag he > ow A Misunderstanding. She doesn't Who. Mins feed she doesn’ Tess-~But engaged in stupid! Tess look very Jers VO Jess Hi Determination, fs What Takes oy framing A FPrave ¥ tachelor yon'l over that habit when older” Press you Indianapolis Limited Expression. fittle Nettie mudpuddie and “I wish 1 were “Oh. dear!” aimed who had soiled her a man.” “Why do queried her “Bacause,” exe \ i fallen into a new dress that, dear? sympathetically Nettle, “us wom thoughts like the youn wish mother replied en can't nen SXPress our an Juvenile Emulation. Mamma (bent on conveying a lessor in deportment)-Tommy, did youn ne tice what a Eddie Staplefore made in eating when hie was here yes He fin 8e ws “Kite strikes the bottom. “kite” same time ringing a signal bell on bridge. the Orchestral Sounding Board of Glass, But the principal and most original feature of the new Chickering Hall will be the stage, 190 by 37 feet, with its sounding board of plate glass, which will be backed up by heavy planking and covered with felting. The sound. Ing board will be composed of glass plates, 3 by 4 feet, separated by metal bars. This, by the by, Is the idea of Mrs. William F. Apthorp, wife of the well-known musical critic, and It is understood she has patented her In vention. Boston T wip . When a man’s matrimonial venture turns out badly he cannot say that he never took his wife seriously, coo i Mamma's Boy—-Yex, but be oan” make half as much noise as 1 can. Jus fisten to me eatin’ this mush an’ milk will you?-Chicago Tribune, A Cynic's Comment, “Tove” sang the Sweet Thing, “will find a way.” “Oh, yes" sneered the Ravage Bachelor. “Later, the question of means comes up with appalling flerce ness.” Indianapolis Press, Young Failed to Turn it Down, Tess—-1 never saw any one so slow as Mr. Timras, Joess-He Is slow, on't he? Tess-Awfally,. We were sitting ir the parlor last night, and he saddenly sald: “If you could only sée how much [ love I'm sure you'd let me kiss you." 1 told him “I couldn't see if ir that light,” and he just sat there like Her Musing. “Or course,” sald the young mao who had been singing loud and sheild, “1 am only an amateur In music” “An amateur,” responded Miss Cay- enne, pensively, “is one who an art purely for love of It.” “1 believe so" often unintentionally cruel to those we love." Washington Star. Wi A IR 0
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