Irish lace still holds a prominent | place in the blouse department. It! is used for both loose and close-fitting boleros, in bands arranged in various | ways, and for collars and deep cuffs, | In pure white it is one of the prettiest | laces there is, for any purpose where heavy lace is desired. PUFFS AND INSERTIONS. Puffing, although dating back to the | time of our grandmothers, is in evi- | dence this season as a whim of fashion. is particularly desirable in chiffon, gilk mull or other sheer, soft ma- | terials for yokes and waist decora- | tions. Lending itself readily to the | shaping of curves, says the Delineator, this effect is also adaptable for the fashionable hip-yoke. In wash ma- terials, such as plain and figured | lawns, dimities, batiste, dotted Swiss es or nainsooks, puffing accommodates itself particularly well, as it appears most dainty after being properly laundered. COUNTESS TOLSTOL The Countess Tolstol, in her way, is almost as wonderful as her famous husband. Her individuality and her theories are as marked and distinct as are his. Nor does she always agree with him in his views. In fact, she most strenuously opposed his tirade | against the copyright system. Neither is she a blind admirer of the | Count’s style and stories, but often freely and somewhat warmly attacks both. the result being a rather heated argument. The Countess is a woman of broad training and ripe education. Strong in her character and great in her ability, she is the type of woman who would best a man of her husband's and who would be able to further the best in his and both their -Cincinnati Enquirer. understand Kind, iva iives.- UP-TO-DATE TRUNKS Many of the trunks nowadays cross between a chi robe. There are draw and boxes and compartme rious and and hangers and forms er care of best peed not be folded in two-thirds of the ereases will ruin do they even have and crushed down by and below. They may racks exactly as one would away at home Men's be similarly hung hers these up-to-date trunks. This of the thousand inducements to courage staying at home.—New York Preas, are § vera and s ers Ana S shapes one’s t hi where the them forever, nor in above hung in put them trousers may in one dis- \ v to be laid fiat wolohts VeLgaLsS on stret IRISH LACE Now that Irish lace is pre-eminently fashionable it interest.n that Queen Victoria days was instructed in the erick lacemaking, to the of the Irish worker who For this lace a is used. Irish lace was always a fav orite dress trimming the late queen. Lacemaking has been in many cases a favorite royal handiwork Queen Elizabeth, during her stormy youth gave some of her weary hours to “ye weaving of lacea” and Marie Stuart, one of the most deft of em. broldresses, solaced her imprisoned hours, we are told, with “pearling, pearling being the Scotch name for a fine edging lace. Catherine of Bra ganza, Charles Il.'s neglected queen, introduced mpanish lace in.> England, and William's Mary encouraged Flem- {sh lacemakers to settle in taal coun- try. is in A in roche | 1a an CTOChE n iif nl of ye iG SUMMER HATS. Many lace hats with oniy trimmings of flowers are seen. One good point | for herself a hat out of last year's ma terials. For instance, she can take the chiffon hat pf last summer, which {s somewhat the worse for wear, and | if the shape is possible, or may be twisted into one of this season's shapes, she may cover it with a grace of roses make a very smartlooking hat. As always, the so-called “tailored” even though the large majority of mil liners scorn them, and binations of tulle, chiffon and blos- goms with which their windows and ghow-cases are filled Almost any able hat on these elaborate lines, and with some slight skill a stylish effect is produced. But alas for the tallored hat which has not the touch of really clever and skilled fingers! In its very simplicity is its danger, for it must be perfect. No touch of “fussiness” Is possible, or the smart effect is lost forever.—Harper’'s Bazar. COMFORT IN LINGERIE. Corset covers that form a straight line around the top under the arms, are held up by ribbons tied in a bow on the shoulder, are very dainty and pretty for wear with thin summer gowns. They are convenient with low. necked gowns, too, as the ribbons can v6 untied and allowed to hang and so will not interfered with the contour of the bodice neck. Summer negligees of thin lawn are trimmed with wide bands of German Valenciennes lace. The neck is cut square, and the stole-like pleces pass over the shoulder, each side finishing in a point half way down, both back and front. New sets of French lingerie, of six pieces, are made of one design of trimming and are largely trimmed with fine lace and hand embraldery. Full-front corset covers that can be stiffly starched are very becoming un- der a shirt-waist for a too-slender wo- man. Plain, in bias sheer white muslin broidery makes a very pretty everyday dressing sacque. The desire to lessen the number of garments worn and to preserve the smoothness of outline continues the vogue of the combined corset cover to the figure. This is particularly be- coming and popular with stout women. IN THE STREET. The art of bowing gracefully Is one that should be studied carefully by addition A lady's bow short, abrupt a graceful to one's social should be neither nod, nor a salaam, inclination of the a { { i i to make meeating The a sign of recognition a gentleman. gentleman, though, lookout for an when should be acknowledge. and be ready to reply instantly raising his hat (in fact the should be a simultaneous act); must be done with grace and dignity, by bow says Home Notes, It is not necessary for a lady to bow to or make any recognition of a man she has met only at a bali noon tea, other but she may any rate the alert to observe so, and should at bowing. or social she please; man should on if ab Tr do so if he once respond by WASHABLE FOBS latest fad of fashion nade company “tub wash dressea are now called, ing costumes The washable made to match the washable stock The has frocks,” as and out- fob i= and One made end spoon shape canvas has he lawer 4 the ower expandec A r in dicated in red or blac) thie 18 LAals upon of sea green is the edges 1841 around nd of ma It weroed hine stitching ¢ kie of silver, « enamel, A WOM Arm New Mexico, IS O60 NS GOAT al ta A RANCH. County, i of more than which Her Mrs FIR owns Angora is making lumbia P Angora | In 185% she EO irom she a the most $25.000 ascha is year Co America, was | nine and worth $1.500 ft a widow, penni small children support The compas and con their im- legs, anu with pendent on her ranchmen and sion on tributed mediate Then some for miners the destitute a small relief she plud means of took family, sum for about living, cast earning a Kiiy generosity of her friends there drifted into camp with a herd. of 5) Angora goats for sale. Nobody cared to buy them, for in cattle-raising. With genuine intul- Armour looked at their coats, and knew that they would be valuable. But she had no money, and did not want to borrow. So she made a propo flock of the goats, tend them, and care for them, year divide the profits with the own- feet where the Thus above the sea level, She located a claim, built herseil a ranch. and settled down to work. At that she had money enough to buy a flock of her own and start out inde pendently. Since that time each year has add. ed to her prosperity. She now em- ploys twenty goatherds to care for her flocks. The greatest precaution is re- quired to protect the goats from the inroads of the mountain lions or cougars, which are so numerous that the ranchmen have to organizes hunts to get rid of them. Through her industry and presever- ance and pluck, Mrs. Armour has made herself wealthy. She has sent her eldest son to college, where he is now studying law, and her four other children attend school in Kingston.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer, ———————————— A ———— in the Air. Flying machine steering by Hert zian waves was Patrick Alexander's striking proposition at the late Ber. lin scientific ballooning conference, He claims that an unmanned balloon, carrying instruments for registering temperature and moisture at different heights, can be sent fifty miles and steered back to the starting point. PROMOTES BEAUTY IN WOMEN. Bodily Erercise By Blanche Bates. OOOO) i > N the epoch of rigid stays, starchifi>d manners and artificial de- portment in general, it would have been considered what we now \ ® call “bad form.” should a gentlewoman indulge in any physical @OO®®® activity a single beat more violent in movement than the .anguid measure of the minuet, But in this era of common sense, woman, having have a beau.y in itself, and having learned to recognize most potent factor in the preservation of health, has set to work with a will | and has gone in for exercise. So if modern woman is, as many are wont to declare, more fascinating, more brilliant, more beatiful than she of yesterday —the cause ¢. improvement may very well be attributed to her growing fond- ness for athletics, Any amusement in the open air, doors, may readily be entered on the credit side of the health account. Nat- urally one immediately thinks of walking, but few of those who are aware | of the virtues of this everyday form of a« tivity ever reaiize the full benefit to ! be derived from a pedestrian, shopping or calling tour, simply through neglect- ing to take proper advantage of the opportunities, When walking one should never slouch: even strolling is a waste not only of time but of a chance for Briefly, let me say that the wom found good health to hearty exercise as a or even a duty which takes one out of an who seizes every | a proper regard to fully inflated lungs, step, find her charms which, muscular rehabilitation. opportunity to walk, and does so with an easy body balance, firm foothold and an elastic enhanced a hundred fold through the acquisition of after all, is the chief adjunct of beauty. back riding seems to be the most pleasurable, | will a graceful carriage, Of all outdoor exercises horse most exhilarating and most beneficial: but this, unfortunately, is a pastime usually beyond the reach of the average «ity girl. Golf, a fascinating sport, | is less expensive, and many a maid and matron owes her bright eves and rosy to the vogue of this old Scotch game. in for fencing and even boxing, but for those who have exercises sufficiently amusing to recom- | cheeks Many neither time women go to engage in {f pleasure alone, let me earnestly advize a daily nor means mend themselves on the score o duration to simple calisthenics, at least a few move | stretching | devotion of ten minutes’ ments which every one knows, in particular that of standing erect, i ing with a sweep to tout h the toes, keeping the legs straight and knees un- | bent. These, together with the swimming motions, make exercise not a simple course of | heighten and ny petty fal fol only the nis which, lowed with daily regularity, will preserve the beauty of woman, but will also chase away ills | with which she is so frequently beset, By Professor R. H. Thurston, Cornell University, *5309% N the than ever - i - - . a not «i nly developed twentieth « the college man is, more the 1 {s the ruler of the ® entury before, o : world Mind leads the world; That into maximum adn “= Saeed < world mind leads the & intelled tual on yd strengthened and given symmetry and vigor, i8 ne with the world While it is largely has been asserted by more » such man, the trae, as seeking to justify his amputated il. that the prizes d by the und ultivated like the fox in intry are now be ing often grasp to the circumstances that tune that they were born | arned an. the fact is mainly due these today are the mislo and before higher edu general and suitable to modern life modified in the direction cf { Mean- Jn another generation this larger proportion and culture recognizes to secure if is man lacking education, learning o lacked wiad if deliberately declining or that he has ¥ tore {ther that he has al education when young, been extremely unfortunate de- e of circumstances is poores » the narrowing ¢ 4 Not a mans of ontent in a life outsic He toward wim but ervies bh t acquaints who possesses the an rrossing pursuits of whi his energies have | and happy lacks precise directed making {table provisons for ofitable The proportion of jeated men taking their places in histcry is already as great as o. the uneducated; the next generation will see prac- evidence of the pro- ater the ranks of the educated, 8 who will may make himself a man of culture The twentieth cen , college man: and the college man who is be remembered as a leader is he } LSes fellows but the 11 will The “self-r ace man” commands honor and compels our admirat.on; 1" : 3 y hy £8 43 A 14 usually a very incomplete piece of work and his Kind eed in competition among more perfect mer in the Only the man who has had a systematic education and training car hope | to successfully compete with the world’s learned and | gtrong as they must and possessing, as they must, algo, quite as much natural power and constitutional vigor as he The twentieth century man, the college-bred man, doing his best will do a better best than can the other man without the now essential knowledge and culture. —Popular Science Monthly. leaders, educated, able, to - English Language By Brander Matthews. Professor of Englisch Literature in Columbia Uni. versity. THE FUTURE . OF THE . « + + Ova lisanO E Americans must awake to a sense of our responsibility as the A: chief of the English speaking people. The tie that binds the 3 3 British crown is strong only because it is loose; and in Aus | Snilwn® tralia and in Canada the conditions of life resemble those of the United States rather thon those of Great Britain The British Isles are the birthplace of our race, but they no longer contain the most important branch of the English speaking peoples. On both sides of the Atlantic, and afar in the Pacific also, and along the shores of the Indian Ocean, are “the subjects of King Shakespeare,” the students of Chaucer and Dryden, the readers of Scott and Thackeray and Hawthorne; but most of t8em, or at least the largest single group, will be in the United States at the end of the twentieth century, as they were at the end of the nineteenth When English becomes the world language, if our speech is ever raised to fill that position of honor and usefulness, it will be the English language as it is spoken by all its branches of the English race, no doubt, but the dominant influence of deciding what the future of that language shall be must come from the United States. The English of the future will be the English that we shall use here in the United States, and it is for us to | hand it down to our children fitted for the service it is to render, i Our Ignorance of Earth, It is beginning to strike the thought. ful thut we know very little of the sopearance of the earth. A mine that descends a quarter of a mile under. ground is, relatively speaking, scarce- ly more than the impression made by a ferrule of a walking stick on a wet road. The great heart of the globe {tself remains untouched and un. known. Is it solid or is it liquid? But more humbling is the reflection that until we learn to fly we shall have no true conception of the pic ture of the earth. Our vision is lateral. We are looking at the earth as though, to see ourselves, we held a mirror with its end against our nose, and looked along it. We think we know how a tree looks, how & moun: tain looks, even how a man looks; but we do not. We only know as much of their appearance as a Hy knows of the picture it crawls upon. To see a picture properly one must stand away from it, and until we get off the earth, either by flying ma. chines or balloons, we shall have no faithful idea of how our planet really jooks. Universal flying would surely breed an entirely new school of art.— London Graphic, Not to the Swift, The man who desires to keep up with the times wants to go slow. Philadelphia Record, A German botanist has ascertain. ed that one use of the movements of leaves on sensitive plants lg to warn off small creeping insests. FARMHAND'S JOB IN PERLL. | TRACTION ENGINES DOING HIS WORK in THE WEST. Farms Getting Bigger Out There and | Machinery Used tc Run Them—The | Work Done Better and Cheaper. Improvement in the Farmer's Lot. type. “Out in the prairie region the ten- dency is all toward big farms. unit cut there has been the quarter section or 160 acres, “Few of the farmers are Wheat and corn have been topping the market at such prices into ralsing them on a good, big scale, And they have the money and the in- invention in. On ordinary farm, two or three with the game number of teams of horses can isn't is where hoy ane “Right here men really neces- ald, but when the farming ¥ i is done on a big scale it pays better » » engine. These are bi the attach but com- with Baso- ordinary clumsy ments to threshing outfits, pactly bulit fellows, line as the motive power “With them there is no need of get. ting at the to fe and makes or s 0 i 1 littie hours in jot Is 11 out UNngoaiy + and water a of minutes’ work fills the nimals the machine ready to your ploughing, harrowing or ¢ pitd f these engines gteep, In 1.006 up, but never ge pretty legs to rul nem than sl horses than the do ten and did the former time. planted and In planting a iar Nes the & are +» ERENCE gine 4 iE hit i feed for the callie Ge CEEATY winter to gra the work of but a mill led to market several {3 it the and start up # to be hau wagons are atiac nm moves off “There is work that not do, and ilar Armes they every average acme of comfort been reached in y and the riding culti- im many weary pot been without OF 5s ar thought Oug the perfection had y plougt vator, which saved h teps, and it has asiderable trouble that he has been duced to take up the traction en ne 6 sul Hundreds of these are now being and every year. company nds an agent out to show the farmer how to run the afl sold Be It doesn't take and the cost of is only a few this, running learn one to “Rixty-cent wheat and fifty-cent corn where corn is an average yield, independent. ly rich. A hundred acres of wheat is an ordinary field, and this alone is enough to net a good income on the investment “A bunch of cattle will pay the ex penses, and his other crops are vel The result has been to run up the price of land. ago bring $40 and $45, and $30 land of and $60. work is not nearly so hard, nor the “This has bad the good effect of making the farmers’ sons more con. tent with life en the farm, and many of them go down to the State agricul. tural schools and take a course in “The rural free mail delivery, with {ts facilities for keeping in touch with the life of the outside world, and the bicycle as a substitute for the car riage are also helping in the work of popularizing agriculture.” EE i —————— Railroad Sign Language. ft is not deaf mutes alone who em- Railroaders have a tongue of this sort that, since railroading began, has been growin until now anything that needs to be sald in it can be expressea as perfect. ly as in words. The signals of rail. roaders are made with the hands and arms in the daytime, and with a lant ern in the dark, the lantern signals by the way, being compreasusible at a far greater distance than the daytime one. The latter are made with one arm or with both, at the brakeman a option. To go ahead, to stop and to back are the leading ones. The arms moved horizontally and vertically make the two first signals; the back the last one. The main lantern sig nals are an upanddown, a crosswise and a circular movement. There are, of course, a hundred other minor sig- nals, and these vary slightly in d.ffer- ent parts of the country. But the everywhere among Ameri can rallroaders as the English langu- age itself —Philadeiphia Record. OMEN ARE BUTCHERS. Wives Forced Into Business Pursuits Because of Paraguay War, Of all occupations, that of a butcher one of the least suitable for the fair sex, yet there is at least one by women and “no men need apply.’ That country is Paraguay, where assumed by the sterner sex fall to the lot of the women. The cause of this state of things is the heroic war waged by Paraguay more than thirty vears ago against the overwhelming forces of Brazil, the Ar- gentine Republic and. Uruguay com- bined. This war, which lasted five years, bore many singular points of resemblance to the recent Boer War. it ended in the almost total annihila- tion of the able-bodied male popula- of the country, and the results may be read in the following figures: Population of Paraguay in 1857, 1 439: In 1872 (three termination of the war) it amounted to only 221078, and of these nearly all were women, children and very old men. When the war was over the people had been reduced to the most abject poverty and were on the verge of starvation, driven to such cats, dogs and owing to the population, and all the by males They rebuilt the 3 burned down, them from fields. all 1 the tion Gan Sh years after the bel ng expedients as to eat horses Norse destruction of perfect anarchy formerly performed | on the fair s¢ which the IOUSOR tilled are the of It siso weight, 80 meat is art of pret- 3 wrinkle The women are great bargainers, and keen to pull a new arrival al- y pieces in the hope of securing These women butchers good wages, and many of their own acc fortune ; the larger towns the meat be soid only in where stalls (owned by the municipality) are let at auction to The pu have every security that the meat is fresh, for all that left unsold at night is destroyed by the authorities—a need- ful precaution in a warm climate. The result is that just previous to closing time there is a great reduction in prices, and a crowd of bargain hunters avpears on the scene—economical housewives, keepers of cheap restaun- rants. and the like—for, rather than gee the meat thrown away or de- stroyed, the keepers of the stalls sell the remnants st almost any price.— Tit Bits. = 7 and d. 1d ig 118 custom eam in business on those ac- ount a modest al- public is she Lae market place, the highest bidders. blic is Cecil Rhodes and Lovers. The late Cecil Rhodes is said to | have been a woman hater, a charge which is hardly borne out by one of the current anecdotes about him, says { “Leslie's Weekly.” One day when he | was showing to some visitors the gplendid grounds of Groot Schuur the | party approached a summer bouse | which had been erected early in the last century by one of the Dutch gov- | ernors of the colony “Hush.” sald Mr. Rhodes in a wails per, “hush,” and motioning his com- | panion back he advanced on tiptoe, | listened and then called out: “All right, you can come on. The coast | is clear.” | He explained that he had discover- | od this summer house to be a favorite resort for loving couples, and that he always shrank from disturbing them. “1 like.” he said, “to think that they can escape from the ugly, noisy back streets of Cape Town and find here a fitting spot for the telling of the old old story.” w The “However” Man, “I've been in disagreeable predics- ments in the course of my moderately long life,” said the man who persists in talking “old” and looking young, “but 1 thank my lucky stars I've never been 8 ‘however’ man. What is a however man? He is the individual to whom the chairman of the political meeting; the principal of the school and the clergyman who is conducting the laying of the corner stone refers when the says, ‘It had been my hope to Introduce to you today the Hon. Soand-8e. I regret to state he has been unavoidably detained. We have, however'—and then the second fiddle begins to play.”—New York Sun. Doing Good. Most of the good done in the world Is done by not doing bad.—New York
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