New York City.—~Gowns cut in prin
cess style are exceedingly becoming to
many figures and make most
tory home gowns. The admirable May
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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
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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
!
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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,
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