New York City.—~Gowns cut in prin cess style are exceedingly becoming to many figures and make most tory home gowns. The admirable May dh CN ae -~ » : Lon d 45 PRINCESS GOWN, Manton model shown fits snugly and orate as material and trimming are one or the other. As illustrated it is de- of cashmere in a pretty shade of beige, is simply stitched with i and finished with gold buttons. The gown of fronts, gide backs and under-arm gores. cortice silk backs, The consists EXCEEDINGLY SMAR at the lower portion, fashionable effect. At simple turn-over collar. are in bishop style with str so giving the the neck is a The aight cuffs. the medium size is twelve and a half yards twenty-seven inches wide, ten and three-quarter yards thirty-two tnches wide or seven and a half yards forty-four inches wide, when material has figure or nap; ten yards twenty wiz. seven and three inches wide, geven inches quarter yards thirty-two five and three-quarter yards forty-four fnches wide, when material has neither figure or nap. Woman's Blouse Jacket, Blouse with stole finish among the features of the latest st and are exe cedingly smart both for the entire costume and the separate wrap. The stylish May Manton model shown in the large drawing is auited to both purposes, but, inal, is made of etamine, In soft gray stitched with corticelli silk, and com- bined with stole and belt of Oriental embroidery and makes part of a cos- tume, The blouse consists of fronts, back, and under-arm The back Is plain and without fulness but the fronts blouse slightly over the Dbeit, The capes, which are optional, are at- tached to the stole which Is then ap- plied over the neck and fronts. ‘the basque portions are seamed to the conls fare yles ZOTeSs, ted and the blouse finished with the belt if preferred. The sleeves are the full ones of the season with rollover cuffs, The quantity of material required for the medium size Is two and three. quarter yards forty-four inches wide or two and a half yards fifty-two inches wide, with three-quarter yards eighteen inches wide for stole, Brim Velled as Diadem, A white chip hat has a high coronet- ghaped brim, with the edge cut in deep curves and bent carefully to stand up- right like a diadem. This is veiled with a soft covering of fine batiste heavily embroidered with floral border deep enough 1 nearly he each from the upper edge Below the into well bottom this | batiste is gathered stands out softly The embroidery shape and gar is exe resembles a crown of flowers or land around the face, when it cuted in rose pink, pale blue or mauve A small loop-bow of black velvet rib bon Is set low down om the left side, alinost directly resting on the hair of the wearer. The New Blshop Sleeve, Wien made of batiste, crepe de chine jor any thin silk, the blouse can boast of { the new bishop sleeves adorned with of shirring both and be This sleeve Is cut immensely full. rows above low. and shows triple rows of close shirriug oun the upper arm, inst below the arm size, and agaip at the wrist. Between these points the sleeve is very full but as it is correctly cut, the fulness is not suffered te droop have a full {front shirring extending ac below whi lace. Such a blouse should with a triple row of oss the front just ch is luset with the yoke, The New Hats. Most of the new models in hats show brims (rolled the ered with small \ Ie on edge) completely ¢ nl id 1011 8e 240 chosen Hown green | buds of whatever flower :s heavy full the “water | CON | with a flowers at of flowers lace that fell over the These ! falls” argely supplant the graceful arfs of the last | three sensous DACK ¥ nair. Pink Prettiness, frock. which i of em pink Fancy Waist, tucks and shin ‘ombinations of ing BLOUSE JACKET. i lare notable in many of the latest gowns and are exceedingly effect fashionable materinls | The very smart May Manton waist il | fustrated is shown white de Chine with yoke and trimming of Vene tian lace, but is suited to washable fab rice as well as to silks and wools and to the odd waist as well as the entire gown, | The waist consists of the fitted lining with fronts and back waist proper. The lining is made to form { the yoke and the waist is shirred al the upper edge and tucked above the | belt. It is gathered at the waist line | and is slightly full over the belt. The closing is effected invisibly at the cen tre back. The sleeves shirred at the shoulders, where they form con- tinuous lines with the waist, so giv ing the désired broad effect, and the fullness is gathered to form soft full | puffs at the waist The quantity of material required for | the medium size is five and three-quar. ter yards twenty-one inches wide, four yards twenty-seven inches wide, three and a balf yards thirty-two inches { wide, or two and seven-eighth yards and waists, ive in the soft crepe 3] of the are ! : i i PARCY WAIST. oS To BSAA HUI STAN forty-four inches wide, with seven: eighth yards of allover lace and two and one-eighth yards of applique to make ng instead el. i Being Methodical. By Margaret Stowe. i The Importance of | ETHOD is ‘ and enables a larger amount of work to be got through with satisfaction, It is the great economizer of time A child that is broughi up to be methedical in his studies and his duties will have mors left for his play i ald that method is like » will get in half as much again a who teaches 8 all the morning, has one or two pri EYL keeps up her music, to house to be seen frequently at educations’ C8 packing things in a box; # a bad one, hool ACOR and who Keepin tend: hot yd duties and is lecturs evenings during the weel When asked how she managed to accomplish so much she replied: “Each minute of my day is p and accounted from the minute I open m} wes in the morning until I close them at night and 1ile doing one thing al thoughts except those that bear upon the work on hand are eliminate from my mind’ Iv is this dv story of thy About anneqd for iderat value of time that brings us success. The farmer goes to show how U1 is. the end of the term the farmer called to pay hia rent, and asked the he would sell the d the e con ion of the indust ue it farm. surprised owner ’" the pric owner whether “Wiil you buy it?” “Yoz. if we can agree about “That is cxceedingly trange,” ns that, while I could not live upon twice as much land for you i paying me LWoO hundred a vear for your in a few year to buy it.” is plain.” vou my an ask “tell me how I which I paid farm an# the gentleman, © aghzerved are regularly I got up morn ald ‘go’; ros in he 1 ply; “you sat still and enjoyed your es reason was t me the o1 laid in bed minded busip Italian phil pher f who always spoke o \ value iitivation, but duly never fall isbors of gent economis of securing ure and get through it forward wad of but if we have no meth are involved in perpetual hurry, dif It is train months to them all iT wars withot the worker we will driven confusior be fo bu being nities from the beginning ynomical of time A rly enough will cling onsy a r=ll as an imporian to start an children t pa and jt heir lives ix Farming in Semi- Arid Region. Charles Norean +f their re ch if begun ¢ 23 By Harger. a South Dakota farmer, H 1 n a failure tions a vari farmer sufficiently Ww early ar Ordinarily the nphell's the top or i ipiements approaching Even when the t be wr aad ing s1d in weads showing cultivation of fine soil above the no ohied a blanket R greater tude. The fel ng seed-bed and retain to the end of somewhat limited easy. It has gained a Wwiae ples of the farming of the natural rain held th portion than usual of theory low and 1 new West It means will be absorbed readily packing of thes bottom of the { prevented by the stratum of dust above Over the semi-arid where the rainfall is only about twelve In a year tittle or no moistus } antumn Ther it is tha fase thelr strength a bit of soil moist earth wiz simple and the praclice {2 becoming one o CArT the prin when that 5 they will be ere that into ground irrow sil + evaporation reg hes fter the the corn withers, wheat shri trees But it is noticed that If a quanti no matter how dry the summer S80 it was argued that if the bottom o© ing. and the top of the { scattered over be beneath il surface could id by frequent tate of fineness full value of the rainfall muddy that formerly away for the rains have gone into the ground and one that appeals to the farmer with Arid Line” American Monthly be pa ked to retain the apri 1 the harrowing be kept In a sandlike might be utilized. The fi toward the sea after every rain where they fell It iz & nev graat Frem “Pushing Review of Reviews wn Sentimentalism About Nature By Henry Childs Merwin. od of waters rushed COARPS, ¥ condition the in in the force. Back 2 : his essay on Thoreau, James Russell Lowell says: “1 look upon a great deal of the modern gentimentalism about nature as 2 mark of disease. * * * To a man of wholesome constitution the wilderness is well enough for a mood or a vacation, but not fcr a habit of life” An life the wilderness would no auch a life would be anywhere More doubt be depraving, as over it is agreed on all sides, as we have seen, that there is of the wilderneag by something forced and unnatural in the direct observation an idle person. Man was intended to take a part himself in the struggle for existonce——not to be a mere spectator of the struggle. But Mr. Lowell seems go further than this It hurts one's feelings to have him speak zo dis roanectfully of nature—and he a poet, 100] “Well enough for a mood or a va ation { think that a man might account himself fortunate if the “habit of hia life” legitimately brought him into ths wilderness He would learn sincerity and simplicity there “ft is impossible,” Thomas Hardy remarked, for a person living on a heath to be vulgar.” and a heath is but a treeless wilderness. A man, no doubt, can be brutal in the wilderness, as elsewhere sven more so, perhaps it was an acute observation by Coleridge, “When the country does not benefit, it depraves.” But the tendency of life in the wilderness, “other things being equal” is toward refinement and thoughtful ness At the least. it teaches a man to be quiet There is a mystery in the beautiful. inanimate world, which has not yet been solved: men go to it for peace and rest, and return content “A forest is in all mythologies a sacred place,” sald Thoreau lot anybody wander alone upon some mountainside or hilltop and watch the wind blowing through the scanty, unmown grass and it will be strange if the vague consciousness of somes presence other than his own does not insinuate itself in his mind. fle will begin to understand how it was that the ancients peopled every bush and stream with nymphs or deities.—¥rom “Books About Nature,” in Scribner's. »n Financing the Panama Canal By W. T. Stead. YERY remarkable thing {a the fact that nobody has expressed the ong’ concern about the vast sum of money that the United States Government is going to ¢8pend for digging the Panama canal We have entered upon a century of huge enterprises and of un. : precedented resources, Wall Street sets afloat 9 Re oASE whose capitalization is in the hundreds of millions, Vadea'ee) ful, nowadays, as are is nothing in the financial world to compara with the resources and power of the treasury of the United States Government. The $50,000,000 needed at the outset to pay the French and the Colombians will be paid by Uncle Sam out of a warplus cash on hand. The $150,000,000, more or less, that will be needed to finish the canal, provide its terminals, and meet all other charges connected with the enterprise will be provided by the sale of 2 per cent. bonds at par. No other government at ours. ‘Thus, English consols, which are henceforth to draw 2% per cent, having previously been at a higher rate, were aolling, last month, at a little above 90. The actual capital, therefore, for the Panama Canal will be Tur wished by private investors who are satisfied to have Uncle Bam's guarantee of 2' per cent. interest on their money. —From “The Progress of the World,” fn the American Monthly Review of Reviews, idle fo in to ’ rrr But power- advice. woman is Mrs. Pinkham, : that k and dis- not wait. 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