PEARL EMBROIDERED CRAVATS. Cravats with lace incrusted ends work- ed with seed-pear] embroidery, and bor- dered with seed-pearl fringe, are dainty novelties, and offer suggestions how to utilize those old seed-pearl necklaces which used’ to be stitched on to black velvet bands in arabesques and flower devices, such as most people have put away somewhere, Among the English women of rank who take personal interest in their gar- dens is the Duchess of Somerset. She has a delightful old world garden, com bining her bleeding favorites violets, | i | ties have been achieved, such as the im- prisoning of angora hair between two to be at a shgin distance a sort of mot tled felt, Truss of angora are also laid between a layer of felt and net: in both cases the presence of the net is hardly to be detecied save by the touch, Mil liners’ orders include a fair amount ostrich, They are taking tips as well as Amazons, the latter being rather more curled than those provided for the gala days of June. Colored ostrich to match velvets used to cover hats and felts are in some demand; still the order books show a large proportion of black black hats are most often trimmed with ostrich, Wings promise to figure nu mently among the decorations and early winter, and also birds. A new of ‘fastening wings against the with the of Since 3st prom- for fall tashion bergamot. » 4 . $ 1s TF to be found the herbs used in healing NEW OCCUPATION FOR WOMEN Young men young women are every branch of business, with perfect equanimity, no ds their fair monopoly of : just been developed in London. that of a breaker,” and, s known, to © women. “breaker,” for a pair of new four days, as them to a condition ce customer's feet. The “breaker” suggests that ft 1s sometimes crowded no a more restricted ! if the vicarious mal wearer can sharp edge, as it were, may be pardoned. It is not likely that voung men will establish a similar “oc cupation’” for ti f their suffer- brothers, 1 - 1 tit How COMpetitors an ‘occup “ sto? Is Ct may be NEeCessary u ymfortable need of feminine very the space hi nat the <1 ng sinart gathering fabric gowns look deep lace or corselet piece, fu i the back, the carselet piece threaded with hemisette to corselets thin material nen being black thbon velvet, these ndeed I ground, are AY Now as a woman, with twe little girls to supply SHIMmer amuse- ents, pleasure 3 ividly before but yesterday, with ou and with in wi children grounds Fhe t growing, i fren ny the chile for them alway a little time n it. long, is painted represent st ) green, Any suitably Hey and ioned box an Cras ver the ~ertrude Okie man's Home Companion THE STYLE OF I'he hair is now worn | nthe Whether this the new c« the style comes to us direct from Paris ts hard to determine, but that the style of wearing the hair on the top of the head is fast disappearing and the low head-dress is taking its place I'he pompadour but with a slight change in outline. In- stead of combining low over the fore head the hair i head; there 1s a little trick in the hair for a pompadour which makes it soft and full without requiring a cush ion, and it is accomplished by combing ICCK cottfure 1s due 11. 1 5 larless bodice or whether Frise 4 : Tuc It Is thus making a soft, full mass over the outside of the pompadour. At if the hair is carefully brushed and will not cause an extra hair to fall To dress the hair, part it from ear to ear across the crown of the head, and after the pompadour is arranged, coil the ends into a small knot and pin them to the crown. Divide the remaining por- tion of the hair into two parts and twist cach part into the figure eight. 3 padeur knot at the crown of the heads are uted to give an extra touch to the coiffure. The<e rosettes are very small, are made of very narrow black velvet ribbon, and two are usually worn, one at the top of the pompadour a little toward one side and the other coquettishly ar- ranged behind the left ear. American Queen, A MILLINERY FORECAST. Felt will be much used for the smart- est kinds of hats; nevertheless velvet. covered hats take the lead, and some- thing also will be done with fancy ma- terials, says the Millinery Trade Review, referring to the coming winter models, In this line some rather curious novel. becoming and is particularly well to { [ arranged During ti a great demand , but suited the new low at wliday WERTIng hair the back ' we | for their cream, black, Couteaux c« | they request, and rie if Varieiy oil however trimming toque S plate powder t 3 i ; 3 Lha- tarch stains reach 1 .. 1 # I, and it is i 14 They should ppg t ima Some way kent from an REPL from any tion pearls Oontract., wie sds $411 or fir set INES wn jet when brook sired with jeweller's made at heme. and ve a little made 1 t Y h 11 pressed tly together and left fo twenty-four | ornament i ued quite <afely be w'e J 4 mans Life “ fie can then Ho A white rose with black tea. the figures on the open white dial in light pink, light green or other tims. and millinery trimming during the win ter. row, put on in lattice work effects some instances, and all more or less One of the half length black velvet jackets which button up close in the back is fmished from neck to waist with a riffle of black silk set in at the side with good effect, There is an effort afoot now to es- a pronounced pereference for the jacket with coat tails. [It is rather like Dame Fashion to fly from abbre- viated boleros to pronounced coat tails, and it sounds quite plausible, Lace is seen to much better advantage when lined with chiffon. One layer of chiffon is practically invisible under lace. It does not show at all except by giving an indefinable transparency and light ness and throwing up the pattern of the lace, NORTHERN FISHERMEN SEE THE PHANTOM BEFORE EACH GALE, Gulls Fly Through Sail Another Spectral Vessel is Like Captain Kidd's Pirate Brig, Whose Crew Search For Long. Buried Treasure. the firmly Down along the shores of Chaleur the people believe ghosts, spectres and ships as did their Acadian 200 years ago, and just now they are much excited over spirit ship comes driving on stormy might with going hike ra for destruction on writes the Bangor, Me the Philadelpinia Kee I'he French fishermen of the Mag | dalen Islands and of of and when fay as in phantom ANCESLOrs a that from sea everything set and horse, headed straight in a * the rocky coast, Corre spondent of { ord Miquelon have seen deep, so they IL appears or port 4 great hip a great gale ship of ra ther Wie ard and she found | people believe it a 8 34 * Pp that w the Auda mn making and getting away from Dead Man's When the story of the phantom brig was told at St. Pierre people sf 11 ) crambisd the crew ceux, and hittle time they lost | cuit Love. who had never seen any phantoms asked “Well, and why did you fishermen not i go on shere and see what the strangers had buried there, where they were dig gmng-—perhaps il placed i there, Pirates always have a great deal | of gold you To thi: the men of the sponded with shudders: “How easy to that! | safe at home! The devil | sure, and the devil sell | igh price.” wis geld they know." Andacienx re You was in it, he s Ins gold at a ask hisre, Height ani Weieht of En~lishman Statistics have recently been collected of the hight of 10000 Enghsh boys and nen. At the age of seventeen these averaged five fect eight inches: at the age of twenty-two five feet nine inches, At seventen they weighed ten stone thirteen pounds, at twenty-two ten stone thirteen pounds, No nation i« increasing in hight and weight so rapidly as the British. In fifty years the average has gone up for the whole nation from five feet seven amd a ball inches to five feet eight and a half inclies. The average height of the British upper classes at thirty years of age is five feet cight and a half inches; of the farm laborer five feet seven and three-fifths inches. The eriminal class brings down the average, as their height id but five feet five and four-fifths inches ~The London Family Doctor DON'T CULTIY THE WEEDS Hundreds of farmers purchase fertili ATE zers every year in order to provide plant food for weed made in England, by growing land for forty veut better tl 3 LiL In experiments heets on the same Crop much wd at the end the fortieth 1} received barn manure due the fact given the all mci cultivation destroyed field wil! gen than i Hizer applied, ! “ i tlie to beets weeds It Woo iy ee] ie fre supplied bs i thie y | herefor farmer thorough 1s i culture, will save opropriated appropriaiy simme ire dried : 41 aq xvi paad sRzed eT hould sown broadcast, drilling them in, uged a fine forage i though: some recominend other drill tube. Usually a a half of seed SOW Cattle or sheep may when the peas have reaciied ing stage. he land on this crep of cowpea: « or twice late in August ember and sown to rye ta cross the disk the « rye is intended for ‘hould be less halt bushels of seed It should be kept clo it will not joist, for power {uo produce mu pasture 1s destroyed. firm, vsing bushel (0 50 acre Le turned on ih fie GIO son Hay grown noe w hie! % i" he ga or ear! it comd tine fall nacre, (han two and «own to the acre. dy grazsd. so that when there FEIT one 1 1otte He Kural orld. GEESE, When the young geese are hatched do not give them feed or water for the first thirty. 5.x hours, or i water, only a few drops from the finger tips. Their first feed should be bread crumbs, moisten ed with boiled sweet milk, and mashed wp fie with a hard boiled egg that for the first week feed boiled oar meal and bran moistened with milk, or | scalded meal and shorts. Then add cracked corn and w eat, When three days old feed all the green food that they will eat, young sprouting rye, cle: Onion of walter {or 11, but f Cannot gel fit plenty Kitge purpose; Near hey {14 which f ver, purslane, i i i | hould | is dry possi | lies { INOTY I he y (3 greedily that pings or them. 11 thre should than they As will dey +1 % . anyihing, ang need care for should be kept clean they ith 1s ey 3 weeks, after whi out for themselves lool A good pen in during this time y feed corners mg, nailed togel the can be moved about from place ' s place over patches of yOUng rye or der gras OO ten s, for a. few young goslings will green ye Noused a! ' x ' ¢ eal a place very clean of hould always hade accessible during intense heat or dampnes rque jue S151 Sout i and deals nocence the fr wl 1340 manufacture is ws 1; i he method of anda way, th good | been : opportune fo before down and otawoes, | has and is vield of fre 0 come the gardene patch. These potatoes are dug and bur- ied in heaps in the open field and left until spring opens and the new Season ArTIVES, potatoes the sts i winter upon rs At the proper time the heaps are opened and the potatoes sort. ed according to sizes. In the meantime a large kettle or vat is set { ing solution, are rigged so that the dipping can be ing no matter how old, inte this boiling ye solution, 10 crack and curl «kin, and at the same time it hardens ot is 50 near that it would be hard to pick out the impostor, from appearance alone, from a basket of the genuine article After dipping, the potatics are rinsed in another vat and spread out to dry in the sen and cure into perfect new pot- toes and the work 1s complete. i “The only way that vou can tell the | fraudulent new potato is to cut one oper cand notice its appearance carefully from For a short {distance in from the skin of the made ipotato you will, if you'look closely, see La yellowish white line of semi-cooked Land watery appearance. I this test ie foot cenolusive, put one or (wo into some {cold water and let them come to a boil, {and yon will notice a faint lye color, and | circumference to centre, [the water that covers them will have a slippery, alkaline feel that any housew! Leannot mistake.” With a population of only 210000 Manitoba equals in size the whole i j Great Britain and [reland. 1 Hired a nod. * st y did you become a doctor? lettere ad oot 7m lanes : cep tl oa and {Oke Stale . Jack, don’t worry; {iret h Dos foothall tian nine, and the betver than tha 8 State Journal, iC. he works=d frame REI] there dollar ad an elaborate a ry. 1 doubt not?” suserved Yes my really first ‘reat financial victory.” repived the man f affairs. “It is the first dollar 1 ever iscaped from a summer hots! with!” When asked if he had had reestrse rope ladder, be merely laughed, ienying nothing Detroit Free Press, the trophy of Oo a LITERATURE The author had written himself down literature >” protested sir!” replied the “Bat is this he other, “1 do not know, author, respectfully. “1 have reason to suspect that it is not. For mot only tre many publishers anxious to publish it. but 1 have been offered vast sums for the stage rights as well!” Tennessee Pearls. The great Tiffany is authority for the statement that the finest pink pearls in the world come from the mountain streams in Tennessee, and it is interest. ing to observe how rapidly fashion is appropriating the finest of these gems for her awn insistent needs. Only those of perfert spherical form and brilliant luster were accepted, and the prices were correspondingly high. Mary reaily beau. tiful pearls that were not round nor pear-shaped were actually flung into the water again because of their odd shapes, that rendered them valueless.— North. ville News,
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