REST FOR WOMEN,
The rest hour is quite as necessary to
women in summer as in winter, There
are very few people who are not better
for going away by themselves, if only
fifteen minutes or half an hour, during
the day. Lie the bed or
lounge, allow the muscles to relax, and
try to banish all perplexing thoughts.
Make certain that you will never be in-
down on
terrupted or subject to call during these
habit of sleep
of cven ten
interruption
3
and the
you. A
few
will come to
minutes, free from :
more toward soothin ee nery
four r
spent lying down with noisy children
near, or thoughtle discussing
the last fashion. The important matter
is to secure I worker .ab-
solute peace at the rest hour. Even wit
out sleep it is better than a rest hour
amid noisy surroundis
is almost certain to be a
moments,
rest
the sam
times
for
in sleep whicl
troubled
on, because
be
more makes up
rl Work ac-
insistetd
it
it
should be
done after
better that
the time taken from work,
complished witl 1¢ nerves exhausted
amounts to as work done
when the energies are fresh,
1s certain to 80
much
never as much
mg, and
tints
brilliant
ored toilets
-~ a
Chicago
TO HAVE
CHAIR
The Federation f
men's Clul
Madison,
which
toOKING COLLEGE
meeting
importanc
is certainly
who take on
such matters
woman h
of a chair
those
portar
3
the
Lie
partment
woman's
further
given
freel Howed until “domestic science,’
a
Wie Ss i
art of housekeeping
%
De r
institution for
will in every
the higher educa
Lag
tion of
1 OF women
in
country —Milwaukee Sentinel.
LIGHT COLORS.
Few women understand fully the
beautifying effect of light color near the |
face. Only the most perfect blonde |
complexion can stand a dead black frock
and the average woman, be she ever so
still more lovely by
delicate colors. This is one reason why |
most women look in evening |
dress than in their ordinary high neck |
gowns. The expanse of delicately tint- |
ed shoulder puts the face at its best. |
For this reason all festival frocks and |
house gowns should have light yokes or |
vests, and where this is not possible a |
collar with long ends or a bow in front!
will partly supply the deficiency. If only |
one gown can be afforded for outdoor |
wear, including theatres and concerts, |
then a light colored waist
provided to wear with it.
lovely, is rendered
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EXPENSIVE CORSETS
The French lead the world as makers |
of the finest corsets, and it is from!
France that all the high priced corsets |
come. The difference between the fifty
cent corset and that costing $20 or more
is primarily one of shape.
corset, with outer covering of Dresden |
at its best, may cost from $25 to $40.
By the addition of solid gold hooks for
skirt supports, gold fastenings studded
with jewels and fine hand embroidery
on the covering, the cost may run up
to several hundred dollars, The French
woman, more than any other, recog-
nized the importance of a fine corset.
She will economize on the price of her
gown rather than wear a cheap corset.
This matter of fitting the individual
figure is as essential in corsets as in
the coat of the sterner sex, Experts
in the art of corset making and fitting
are employed in the workrooms to fit,
suggest alterations and changes that
will suit the garment to the particular
figure it is intended for. Just as the
tailor cuts and fits the coat to the pe-
culiarities of the customer, these cor-
settiers adapt the corsets. The wise
woman knows that, be her gown what
it may, if worn over a badly shaped
corset its style is seriously impaired.
i —— .
SHE KN_.WS ALL ..BOUT BOOKS
Among the singular means employed
by women for earning a livelihood that
of Mrs. Elizabeth Shuey Southward, of
Minneapolis, Minn, is perhaps the odd-
est. She is what may be called an or-
ganizer of libraries. When a new li-
brary is to be started in a town or col-
lege the superintendent sends for her
and says:
“We have so many thousand books
here in a topsy-turvy state. We want
them indexed, arranged on shelves, and
the whole library put into shipshape.
What will you take to do the work?”
Mrs. Southward names a round sum,
and usually her terms are accepted.
Mrs. Southward got her training in a
library school at Armour Institute, Chi-
cago. After that she held the position
of head cataloguer at the John Crerar
Libray, Chicago. She had mapped out
a career for herself when st
changed her mi
She settled down to
1
wddenly she
got married.
when gor a
estate
Daven-
f a val-
for a lot
proper nape.
ok the job. Since
she has worked at itinerant cata
in a
in a
charge np sum
i sometimes spends
i book col-
man-
librarians in
Rung and earns more pin money
week than the average woman gets
year. She always
for her
ie
:
r+ she
go
Chicag
SHAI
Where is the
like to have pretty
1
Par
manicur
are inexpen
f the hands,
hands first
bowl
selvage en-
This gives
them a raw, sore look and increases the
tendency of the flesh to grow up around
nails
unless little
Ihe selvage should never be
ragged appear.
with ge stick
if File
remove any little rough
have been left by the
Touch with rosaline dust,
powder and the buffer
Remember that a very highly
not considered good
yieces
- +} aile
Clean the nails
lip them necessary.
clipping.
with nail
lightly.
polished
use
nail 1s
A large diamond brooch has large
rubies set here and there in it.
A crab with a diamond in his claws
is one of the animals which figure up-
on hat-pins.
The Raglan sleeve, beginning at the
waist and terminating at the collar, is
no longer fashionable.
Persian lamb is made into the
up
Another purse of white leather has a
which peep from the leather showing
no metal setting.
Taffeta neck ruffles of the purest
white shade, very flat and very wide,
are lattized with brown finger-width fur,
and hat mounts to match are sold, just
loosely built ruffles bordered with fur.
For women who like gloves of pro-
nounced colorings there are odd cop-
per-like shades, Egyptian red, vivid pur-
ple, gray green, bronze, laurel, mahog-
any, orange-yellow, iris, blood orange,
and a vivid shade of tan,
A corsage bouquet of geraniums is
large, and in several shades of the
flowers ranging from the salmon pink
in the centre to the deep red on the
outside, with foliage on the outside of
that,
Of taffeta is a simple and stylish stock
in white. The stock proper is stitched,
there is a narrow stitched turn-over at
the top, and long ends of taffeta, also
stitched. These ends tie into a medium
sized bow at the neck, and again at
the bust, into a smaller bow, and from
there fall free.
A pO Bl
1 HFA
*
i
WHEN TO CHANGE MILKERS.
A change of milkers may not as a
rule be desirable; yet a change from
a poor to a good one is always advis-
able. ye p—E—y
THE IMPORTANCE OF CORN,
I have long been of the opinion that
the area devoted to corn in New Jer-
sey would be largely increased with
profit to growers, providing they will
use up-to-date methods all the way
through from the preparation of the
harvesting and marketing latter
The
can be frequently better done
by !
the
at
farm turning crop into
product, and
All
undrained
wd, half and h
yard of a
or eaten better
hunger
blackberrie
mash :
corn and crushed
vegetables, noon ne.
cracked corn Saturday morn-
sheaf warm mash;
Sunday morning vegetables, noon whole
acked
green cut
in
litter:
in wheat, evening
wheat in litter, night whole and cr
corn and wheat in litter,
The sheaf wheat or oats fed in the
morning keep the fowls busy all day,
so that no more feed is required. The
mash of cooked potatoes or
vegetables, cut clover and beef scraps
all mixed in a crumbly mass with some
bran, shorts, thop feed, a little oil mea!
and salt, and sometimes a little powder-
ed charcoal. Clean, fresh water is given
them twice a day and oyster shells and
grit are kept before them at all times
The houses are dry and warm and the
fowls are fed only as much as they will
eat up clean—~New England Home-
stead.
consists
The bull at the head of the dairy
herd should receive a large share of his
food in the shape of roughage, especi
ally grass or hay, and not too much of
concentrated feeds. Of the latter, wheat
bran, shorts, cats and a little oil meal
are to be preferred. Roots are good
as a relish, while corn silage, and very
likely other kinds of silage, should be
fed very sparingly to breeding bulis.
Stimulating, rather than fattening food
is fed, so as to keep the animal in a
vigorous, active condition. Shock corn
with éars in it, or silage from corn
soiled “ears and all,” as well as ear
corn or corn meal, are for this reason
to be fed with care, and the latter feeds
preferably not at all.
Out door life in the pasture or In
wintér time in an open lot protected
from the weather is a great a'lvantage
to the bull, as he needs exercise. Stul
better is providing regular and sufficient
exercise, for example by using him for
light hauling or on a suitable tread-
power, with a governor attached. He
can thus make himself most usefui by
running the separator, a small fead cute
ter, feed mill, etc. In this manner he
will be of great service on the farm, and
will feel better from the moderate ex-
ercise it will give him,
Lack of exercise and high feeding
are common causes of Impotency In
bulls, Many a valuable bull has been
rendered useless for breeding purposes
after a few years’ service when he ought
to be at his best, through a wrong sys-
tem of feeding and management. Aj
old bulls transmit their characteristic
qualities to the offspring with greater
certainty than young animals, a short
period of usefulness in a bull means a
two-fold loss to the farmer. Professor
F. W. Woll, of the Wisconsin Experi-
ment Station.
EGGS FOR WINTER
The subject of making the hens lay
in the fall and when eggs are
high will, 1 suppose, never Le exhaust-
"ow
winter
ed, and although each contribution on
the question adds only a very little ad-
with it. The of all these little
grains of knowledge make up our ex
and
NE
sum
peri prove to us in the
Bile
Ce,
SOY Pe
ager
stepg tones 10 SUCCES we
” ¥ ales he
pains in making the
3 3
rs © § ADsoIutely
} any
quart
and wh
«+ and
ential ste
ply Lice
restless,
get
patience
then
mn aa
a hen feels
r that
surface
spring
grain
better plant feru
than good rye turned under or al-
Every crop
seed
lizer
lowed to decay in the field
of this
the
we can raise and return to
the fertility,
that
soil should
that the young
a new growth
The plowing of the surface in the
spring need not interfere with the roots
of the trees. Indeed, special care should
be taken to avoid any such contingency.
The soil can easily be stirred to a suf
ficient depth to make the seeds grow
without touching the roots. [If these
latter run very close to the surface the
plow or cultivatof should not be run up
near the trees, but as a rule this stir
ring o fthe top soil every year tends to
make the roots of the trees seck a lower
level, and in orchards that have been
cultivated from the beginning little
trouble will be experienced with the
surface roots. Sow from one to two
bushels of rye to the acre, so that the
ground will be covered before winter.
This will help to protect the roots of
the trees from the severe cold, and tve
following spring when turned under the
rye will add rich fertility to the soil
The advantage of a high crop of rye in
the orchard in the fall in those States
where the winter freezing 1s apt to n=
jure fruit trees cannot be overestimated,
The tall rye proves a most effectual
blanket to the tree roots and trunks,
and few trees are injured from freering
when treated in this way. The thick
rye is really warmer and superior to a
covering of snow.
the temptation to cut the rye in the or
chard is great, but do not yield to 18.
No orchard can thrive which is sytem.
atically robbed of its fertility,
Increase
and old trees will m Wkee
An Atchison Girl's Equipment.
It is wonderful how a woman's things
stay on. An Atchison girl wore two
bows of ribbon, three fancy combs, two
flowers, a gold pin and seventeen hair
ping in her hair to a dance and had vl
one on when she returned.—New Y
Mail and Express, ——
A
-
BOME CURIOSITIES OF HABIT,
— a ——
From Mysterious Impulse,
of thirty passers-by had pulled a
traveling salesman looked up at the pro
prietor of the excelsior place, and, catch
ing his eye, they both began to laugh.
“How many does
he asked the
you've been
do sometimes,”
man told
that it
though he had often counted as
of pa
who could not resist the
a pull at the bales
“It is a
the
salesman. a
them,
when
counting
And
him the
same as
the sales
proprietor
vas about the usual average, al-
a% nineteen
out twenty
impu
very funny thir
nalree Bennie i
Naxes peopi (0
young sales:
AW el
¥ €il,
Li
le
I
i
gt 3
neir selt-control
can disturb their serenity.” —Stockholm
Letter to the Chicago Record-Hervald.
Supplivs Saws to Butchers,
Decidedly a modern business is that
of keeping butchers supplied with sharp
I SAWS
i
city.
{his saws file to a man that came
| around, or sent them to some shop in
| the neighborhood, where they filed saws,
| Nowadays he can, if he wishes, spare
himself all bother about his saws, by
| turning the work of attending to them
over to the saw-filing and supply con-
cern.
This concern will supply the butcher
with its own saws or it will take care
{of his saws, just as he may desire. In
‘the first case it delivers to him, in per-
| tect order, whatever number of saws he
{may require; and then, at whatever
“time these saws may need sharpening,
the supply concern delivers a fresh set
‘and takes up the old ones to be refiled
and put in order again. And in like
| manner it takes up butchers’ own saws,
at fixed and regular intervals, returning
them in due time.
This saw-filing and supply concern
les any and all kinds of saws, but the
sitchers. It keeps four wagons running
greater part of its business is with
m this city taking up an delivering
sutchers’ saws~<New York Sun,
fo
A Result of Higher Education,
The higher education of woman
asually sends the household arrange.
nents away down below par~~New
York Press
The more grandmothers a boy has the
nore he is apt to be spoiled.
x
During the past
many ha? been transfor
ricultural into
r-five years Ger-
med from an ag-
4 manuilacturing country,
Lt Hung Chang's funeral arrange:
ments were and Sut
{ his medical attention was the most mod-
he could secure.
oriental
Gating
f ern and o $
ern and practical that
York girl’
IK girls
: Tt i "
and, but the
a“
NCW
mica
if
ill 1
be the first gov
tablished by
»
1e cate Russi
supervision
work
as a rule, the so-
individuals, who so-
help
Pyne
0 0K Las
the work
run by
¥
cielies are
support from the public
So quietly have women crept into in-
l and so gradually have they
positio that people
scarcely realize what a vital part the
feminine clement plays to-day in pro-
olr country’s necessities, It
ns
with debts to meet
takes some kind of work which she
otherwise never would have chosen.
Or, a clever and adventuresome gir?
experiments with ome industrial prob.
lem, along lines hitherto delegated to
men, but congenial to her taste, Aside
from the vocations new to women, but
which have already become so common
as not in excite interest, hundreds of new
and distinctive ones in art, industries
and professions are being adopted with
CONSPpiLUtUS SUCCESS,
Kaiser Wilhelm allows no chance
pass that will serve to make himself
and his family popular with all classes
in Germany. Of course the crown
prince i$ dedicated to the army and
likewise Eitel Fritz. To the navy was
given Adalbert, and now he has given
two other sons, not to the law, nor to
the church nor to medicine, but to ag-
riculture. It has been announced that,
Princes August William and Oscar will
learn, in addition to the many other:
things they are taught, practical agri-i
cultuce. Their father has given them;
a small farm at Pleon, and with a half
dozen of their school-fellows they will
dig and plant in the most scientific man.
ner, selling their products at market:
prices to the Empress. Not only will
they dig and plant and weed, but
will have to milk two cows and look!
a
Ey