massssBsssBssLmsmmmLASkim K&Sti8'S!?? HHHHHMKMMHHMHHKwaawlKlHHi "?S5WJsr 4 -.THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH," SUNDAY, - MARCH 6.- 189a 13 HER RIGHT TO WOO. Even if Marie Kevins Blaino Did liope Young Jimmie in She Did Nothing That Was Wrong. PUT THE CASE THE OTHER WAT ir the Boy Had Been Twenty-One and the Girl Only Seventeen Kot a Word onld Have Been Said. TCOMLW SEED XOT TVAIT XOWADATS. ItfirSIodEraSptere Indndes a Sat In the llitrlma. Jual Will Street rwiirrTE-r ror. rui. mrATUt.l The story of Marie Blaine, as told by her famous father-iii-law, is old very old as old, indeed, as that ot the Garden of Eden. The woman did it, of course. The woman was at the bottom of it as usual. The man was a poor victim of a woman's wiles and smiles. The tale, as told, shows how much smarter was the girl than the boyj It re veals how much more brains the wife had than the husband. Italsp thovrs that when a woman v ills in dead earnest, she usually makes her point .whether fathers and moth ers, are willing or not It Mas what the world agrees upon as a mad marriage a cave of "marry in haste and repent at lei sure," a ca-e of calf love on both sides, which nearly always ends up in disaster. Parents knowing that marriage is a serious matter and that it should not be entered upon without careful consideration, are naturally opposed to either son or daughter assuming its responsibilities at an early age, and in a clandestine manner particularly. 1'ather Elaine's Mdo of It, The straight story told by Mr. Blaine as to the marriage of his son leaves it plainly to be inferred that "Jinimie" was "roped in," as. they say out "West, by a girl who was anxious to marry into a distinguished family. She was young, pretty and am bitious. A brilliant marriage is held to be the highest success a girl can reach in society. In this case an alliance was in iew with wealth, high position and a great name. "With the bliss of love's young dream thrown in, it is not to be wondered at that a fashionable girl, with all the teachings of totiety in mind, a ailed herself of the op portunity to marry even a poor young man like "Jimmie." Kur-km sets down Dcsdemona as among the perfect woman as lonely and faultless, and as belonging to the highest and most heroic type of women. Yet she held by most of the critics to be so noble, pure, and perfect at dead of night clandestinely left her father's house to fall into the embraces of a "blaekamooi." She brought shame upon her noble house, and broke her father's heart. Yet this is the periect woman, the highest type of lirtue held up for modern i omen. She bamboozled Othello. She "gac him a world of sighs." She told him if he had a friend that loved her to teach him how to tell his story and that wonld woo her. This was a broad hint and it emboldened Othello to take her to his "sooty bosom" and finally they eloped and were married. Slarle a Good as Desdemdna. If this is the way that perfect women and highest types act, why are not the nine teenth century heroines who run off with tiie penniless coachmen for pure love, or those who elope with silly liomeos when they are far gone, and suffering much ex tremity for lote as was "Jimmie" equally as highlv esteemed. According to the testimony of the great poets and men of the world whom ltuskin backs up, the women who are to be the models tor the girls of to-daj are the Dcsdemona!., the JJosa !?, the Jvltcts; but if they are, why should the heroine ot the late famous failure in marriage be so strongly condemned'.' A lo cr' eyes w ill gaze an casle blind. That -he w blind seems plainly pro ed. Matchmakers are held in reproach, but matchmakinc is a business constantly pur-t-ucd olteutimes by those ho most zealously condemn it. In secret they feel entirely iustilied in bringing friends together and in enraging in a constiiracv for making them. hanpv 0 helping to secure advantageous ' marriages. Kow if a girl chooses to select the man she wants to marry, where is the great lault or wrong in her endeavoring to secure what she thinks will make her happy. All strategy, they say, is fair in loe and war. The Othir Side of the Fence. Men of all ages, even up to the eighties, are seen attempting to marry wives in their teens and twenties, but they are not re proached with duplicity and hypocrisy, and taking a mean advantage of np'oor, innocent cirl If "Jimmie" had been almost 21 as lie claimed to be, and "Marie" had been 17, it is hardlv likely that he would have been held up to scorn as haying se cured his bride unfairly and under false pretenses. Why, then, should the woman be condemned for endeavoring to obtain the man of her choice, when she deemed it w ould be for her benefit, and that such mar riage by the unwritten laws of society would be considered a brilliant success? A woman who is ambitious is as careful to consider the-stepping stones to place and pouer as a man. By tact and smartness, she 1 as likely to gam her point as he, but the fact is that when she succeeds it is set doun to artifice and deceit, while in him it is handsomely called capacity lor success. Etcry man is struggling lor renown, or wealth, or power, or influ ence of some sort. He aims to stand high anion: his fellows, and cut some sort of a fijure in the world. In Eociety the same desire, faculty, ambition is manifested by managing, mothers and ambitious daughters in the matter of marriage. Kank, title, monej, high position that will open up to them the honors and pleasures of life are as eagerlj looked out for and as ardently pur sued. The Fault or the Teachln;. People affect to despise mercenary mar riages. They are shocked at the idea"of the sacred coutrtt being anything but a "love affair." But as long as modern girls of fashionable life are educated with the idea that marriage is to be their end and aim, tne are sumcientiy instructed to endeavor to hx their affections upon eligible men. By That is meant men with sufficient fortunes to lne in good stTle, and with the capacity for getting on in the world. faoniebud says that the average of fools is cry well kept up, but it is likely that if the facts could be ascertained men are more given to making failures in marriaee than women. They are more captivated by men. prettiness, wcakmindedness or-frivoli-ty. Then when the dream of bliss is broken and they find themselves joined to a vapid, silly, empt j -beaded soul ignorant and ex acting to whom they must sit opposite three times a day, they become thoroughly miserable and realize what bitterness it is to draw a blank in the great lottery. Tal mage savs somewhere that if a man selects a v ife without consulting the Lord about it, . there are t-'3 chances to 1 that be will select the wrong rib, but as women can give their whole time and thought to it they-are not so likely to make such glaring mistakes. M omen "Waltins For Wooers. The tendency of the age, says an English writer, is to right one of the wrongs of modern chilization by changing the old idea of sitting idly at home waiting for wooers, by making it fashiouable lor women to improve the shining hour by doing the wooing themselves, instead ot sitting in moated granges waiting for the coming man, they can just modestly and charmingly take the" lead themselves. He maintains that marriage is an indispensable institution. It is alike the. mission of both men and women to marry, but whereas women are honorably anxious to fulfill this mission, vet men are more disposed to shirk if, and according to the long held notions to his chief con trol is its furtherance entrusted. In short, he plainly makes "out that "husband hunting,"' however outrageously im modest it may be considered, is the right explanation of how marriage is to.be carried on. He "nuts together, as he says, the th,rce facts of nineteenth century civili zation, viz: Men are becoming averse, to marriage; it gives no object in life but mar riage to women, and yet the fashion con demns the latter to remain, in the back ground and wait until some heaven-appointed man comes along and proposes. ".Husband-hunting" and '.'match-making" have been held under condemnation by all of the drawing room dowagers and porch chair cats and sewing society gossips, but they are quite common, notwithstanding, under the rose. The British matron has hitherto been considered the greatest "adept in the business, but American fashionable mothers and daughters could now give tnem pointers in these arts. . The Old Ideal for a 'Wire. The old-time ideal w.ife is certainly going out of style. In the days of the grand mothers she was pictured in most men s minds as a little tender ignorant mortal who would cling to him as the ivv to the oak, and worship him as a sort of a god, whose words were her laws. She was to be patient under every provoi-atiou, sacrifice her every wish to his, and look up to him as her mas ter. She was not to hanker after book learning.norread thenewpaprs. Herpleas urs was to be found in cooking and darning and drudging. To come up to the standard of a good wife she was to be willing to be her husband's door mat, to exist in bondage, and to lhe under a burden of domestic care. Even in those early days of bigotry and narrowness and superstition when blue laws were in fuller force than now good old grandmotbers'had to work on Sunday and on holidays, and the girfs were not al lowed to go to school. But with the advan.ee of civilization men ha e changed as well -as women. The men of to-day, in the main, do not set up as des pots in the family. They do- not demand cringing obedience from their wives. They would not get it if they did. "Whether.it is called evolution or revolution women aTe everywhere demanding lair play in the world, and are everywhere upsetting old ideas and knocking out the old ideals. They hae do desire to "usurp man's place, but they want to hold their own.. Signs of Good Times to Come. It is a cheerful sign that women are dis contented with the old ways, and reaching out for knowledge, culture and training for something better. It is a rich promise of good days to come when men are growing alh e to the meanness ot nnjust laws as re tards women and children. As a writer happily puts it: One of the Dest results of the work now being done everywhere hy women Is thnt it has cieated :i new sentiment of chivalry for the new womanhood. The old cmvairy was inspired by their helplessness, ignorance, quite as much as innocence, timidity and lrail physique. Now, within memory1 al most of the youngest, women have tauglit men to honor them not only ior their purity but ior their philanthropy, their high ambitions for their woik in rescuing the lallen, m tending the sicfc, in succoring the poor. The flippant woman is out of date. So is the woman whose charity begins and cuds at home. Few men there are now who are worth talking about, who will deny that women as doctors in the women's insane depart ments ot hospitals are as much in proper place as in the "domestic swim." Fewinen will question the propriety of matrons in prisons where women are confined. Few men w ill now say that women as teachers, as doctors, as nurses, as preachers, as open ins colleges for girls, as establishing homes for the poor, are out of their sphere, or will deny that they are doing work as noble, us heroic, as productive of good to the world as they could do in a kitchen. Bessie Bramble. COLD CEEAM AND WHITE HAHDS. What Shirley,, Dare Has to Fay to Inquisi tive Readers of The Dispatch. Among the questions sent to Shirley Pare by readers of The Dispatch she has se lected the following 'or consideration: Maybelle Does cold cream make the complexion soft and smooth like a child's? Does it make hair grow on the face? 'Answer It certainly softens the skin,un less the complexion tends to coarse pores or pimples, in which case different appli cations are demanded. Jf I am to credit repeated complaints from women who write to me, cold cream, clear 'vaseline, glycerine lanolinc tend to a furry skin when used as the daily cosmetic. All creams made up of oils and fatty matter nourish down on the face. But there is great difference with susceptibility of skins to this nourishment. "The mohstaches and downy skins of South American women are said to be largely owing to the constant use of cocoa butter to soften the skin. Cold cream is intended for chapped hands, Hds and nostrils, burns or scratches. It is an exquisite dressing, but not suited, to most faces as an all-over cosmetic.- It must be fresh, kept cool and closed, or it irritates instead of soothing the skin. M. B. Do vou know anything that will make my hands white? I am at home doing the housework and wear gloves of crash while at the roughest work, and put vase line on them at night But when I play the piano or play games, mv hands are like beets. Ibavenow quit playing, for I was ashamed of them. Answer This will never do. Our Ameri can gentlewomen who liave the ability and independence to do their own work, as most of the proudest mothers of the republic did in the beginninsr, should never have to blush for any defect like red hands. A woman who is "easily queen" in all arts of housewifery must remember that hands are not made for washboards, orbutterpaddlers, cake beaters, dish mops or potato brushes. They are not to be sodden in water, hot or cold, three parts" of the time, or any time avoidable. Especially are they to be kept out of scalding suds, in triflinc matters like washing cup-towels or handkerchiefs, which a woman hurries through, tempering her skin to parboiling water rather than to stop to cool it. Constant scalding hands in suds of harsh caustic soap ruins their color, and it must be impressed on woman's mind that neither glycerine nor vaseline, while they soften the skin, have any bleaching effect on it. "When feet are habitually cold from im perfect health, cold floors, or insufficient protection, the hands are almost always red or blue. Floors in houses heated by stoves are usually cold,and a housekeeper should wear warm stockingsand flannel or fur-lined slippers or house boots. A favorite domes fic cosmetic is fine oatmeal, cooked into a paste with water and while hot, mixed with a spoonful of lemon juice and as much vase line, fresh butter, mutton suet or salad oil to make the paste less adhesive. The hands are spread with the paste the last thing at night and enveloped in cotton flannel mit tens tied around the waist Homely as it is, oatmeal is as whitening to the "hands as almond paste, and is the basis of recipes which have a continent and court reputa tion. - , KILLI0HAIEE8SES OF CHICAGO. The Curtains for Their Windows Ce Up a Good Dekl of Their Cash. Boston Herald. ' The limit in extravagant window curtains has been reached by the money-steeped dames of Chicago, who'are using point lace flounces for that praiseworthy object. A 'Boston woman who was sojourning in the "World's Fair city 'recently, says its lace decked windows remind her of those wed ding gown models to be Eeen in Worth's and Felix's ateliers over in Paris. Each Chicago millionaress has hung a banner of wealth, as it were, at her front windows, aud the effect on ordinary mortals' who pass by is overpowering, for 'nothing could be more suggestive of interior sump tuosity than these lace decorations." But don't let us begrudge Chicago a new way of spending its surplus cash. Getting up a big lair ia such hard work. ' ' THE TABLE, THE GOWNS THAT WILL WASH. The Cotton Goods of These Day Have Fast Colors Pretty Designs for Malting Them , Up Points on Trimmings Suggestions for the Comlnt Season. ' rWKITTESyOB THEDISf-ATCItl One satisfaction nowadays in making up cotton frocks is the almost absolute cer tainty that the colors will not fade if "rea sonable care is taken in the washing. Fast colors are now as much a standard feature with manufacturers as artistio designs and fine textures. "Wash nice'eottons in moderately warm water made into a lather with a mild, pure soap, rinse' quickly in water of the same temperature, and dry in a shady spot. Ke member, thatstarched clothes are no longer considered refined. Iron invariably on the wrong side, with a very warm iron, but not heated sufficiently to leave the hint of a browning.- Any trimming of Irish point lace or embroidery should be ironed on the wrong side, over a "thick pad- to bring out the pattern. Buy euough goods for extra sleeves. Cut a round waist amply long, as it tucks under the skirt belt. Allow a deep hem; for cot ton will shrink, no matter what the mer chant or manufacturer maj- tell you. ' Elaborate Gowns of Cotton. -'Cottons are now so beautiful that they may be made into elaborate gowns, if you like, with a trimming of embroidery or point lace and ribbon. Velvet is often ap- i plied to cotton dresses. French modistes prpmise.to .use black piece moire for cuffs, revers, vests and girdles. But, I-cannot appreciate cotton and silk dress goods thus "cheek by jowl." "White cotton passemen terie or fancy braid is a suitable trimming upon frocks for ladies and girls, and washes well. , The goods now shown include white and black embroidered flounciugs, nainsook, plain and figured, India linen, lawns, dim ity, foreign and domestic ginghams, cam bric, crepon, Bedford cording, Chambery, organdy, mousselaine de Inde and batistes, not forgetting satinet having China silk de signs of natural-looking flowers over light and black grounds. The Bedford cordincs are in single and clustered ribs, and will be made in tailor style, wjth a "bell" skirt, or one having the sides lapped over a V-shaped front and held there by pearl buttons; athe "habit" basque will have a coat-tail back, pointed front, ' high collar, medium full-topped sleeves, revers, if desired, and pearl buttons for the dress front and for fastening the sleeves at the wrists. This material will also be used for small boys in place of pique kilt suits. How to Make Up Satine. Satines are fashioned like the China silk gowns, with a "bell" skirt and rnffle on the edee, pointed or round bodies, high sleeves, a ribbon belt, or girdle of heavy Irish point lace. Yokes, V's, round jacket pieces, and deep corselets are also of this lace, and the fashionable touch of richness is added by velvet ribbon bretelles and knots. "When intended for the street, satine is quite plainly trimmed with velvet accessories or those of moire. It is hoped that the fashion of trimming satine with black French lace, that appeared last summer, will never rise again. The crinkly crepons 'and lovely floral patterned cambrics will anpear in a modi fied "bell" skiit, which allows a trifle of fullness in front, caused by a few gathers, and a ruffle, unless bordered goods are se lected. The waist is a Kussian Dlouse, with out lining, having only, underarm and shoulder seams, the front lapped to the left, embroidery edging the garment, which is confined by a belt, of insertion or ribbon. The blouse is really a deep sacque and has full-topped sleeves, or those ending in a bracelet cuff of insertion, More.ejaborate gowns of this kind will be of orgftndie,with a jabot of. Valenciennes lace and ribbon down the opening, and a flounce of lace around the skirt, festooned with ribbon and bows. The Bit Styles In Ginghams. The wonderful popular ginghams in stripes, lace aud cord effects should be fash ionable with a slightly gathered or "bell" skirt trimmed with -a ruffle of the goods, or one of embroidery, or else a row of insertion let in as a border. The jacket or round waist will pre ail, and high-topped sleeves, or the ever-comfortable shirt-sleeve. The new jacket waist has one "or three-piece sacque back, a belt across the back only, and loose embroidered jacket-fronts over a yoke and girdle of embroidery which match the turned-over cuffs and rolling collar. The familiar round waist is at present cut without side forms, and sufficiently long to ' 'jacket is unlined, have bag seams; when lined the same fabric or lawn. 'The round waist has embroidery for a V, yoke.xound jacket pieces, and corselet or ; girdle; many of the trimming, features of .woolen gowns are thus used oh,cotton by means of em broidery, or the heavy wh'iteor ecrujrish point. ' Dainty ribbon accessories appear in IT nkw 0 the way of belts, bretelles and shoulder bows. - ' A vest 'or V of tnckea white lawn is al ways effective and can be made removeable, so as to be easily lau'ndried. Surplice waist, full from the shoulders and lapped at the waist line,"is always in vogue, as is sailor waist with large collar. Deep,' close cuffs are stylish: 'also turn over shirt-quffs, and bracelet cuffs or bands of insertion. Lace always looks well as 'a falling ruffle. Small delicate designs of embroidery are the most fashionable. Black moire ribbon will be considered very stylish or gowns having the fashionable black hairline or cord amid bright colors. Kobe dress patterns have wide embroidery-for the skirt, with narrow pieces for collar and cuffs, chambery appear-, ing the oftener in this style. The Linen Lawn Dresses. All cotton gowns are not supposed to see the washtub, but these, we have described "mav be fearlessly washed, when freed from their ribbons and velvets, as 'may the white dresses spoken of ftirther'on; the styles of the organdies and mousselaines of course indicate that any washingof thein isa farce. Alinen lawn "wears "forever and a day," yet it is not in favor with Madame Fashion. Still there are many conservative women who dearly love these cool white and pink. blue, black, tan .and lavender linen lawn gowns, trimmed 'with a ruffle edged with Valenciennes or Torchon lace, having a round waist, frill down' the front $dgc and on the wrists, the costume completed by a belt, of black or colored ribbon with lone ends and loops in-the back,' bretelles and butterfly bows on the shoulders. "White cotton gowns are supposed to be suitable for all ages, hence their continued popularity in'all parts of our country in spite of the favor extended lately to woolen irocts the vear round, tiouns ot embroid ered flouncings are easily made up, as the skirt is a simple gathered one; please make it four yards wide, with most of the fulness massed at the back. As the flouncing comes in lengths of four yards and a luff, there is a half yard remaining, which will answer for a yoke, or V, and perhaps cuffs on the round waist of plain material .match ing the ground of the skirt All sleeves are amply long and generously full. Some Foints About Trimming. "While dimity, lawn, and nainsook frocks are fashioned with round waists, and acces sories of embroidery in thewav of girdles, V shaped plastrons, jacket fronts, yokes, deep corselets, collars and cuffs of em broidery, and a skirt ruffle of edging, or border of insertion. Some very dainty white frocks are trimmed with lace, but even Valenciennes dbes not wash as w ell as em broidery. Point de Genes or Irish Point lqce in thick, openw ork patterns, looks very handsome as a yoke and girdle on an elab orate white drtsi, the laces being such a deep cream as to merit the name of "tinted" lace. The skirts are plain in effect, after the ''bell" fashion; and alwajs look better with a foot ruffle. "White gQwns may be pressed when wrinkled, and kept for quite a time from the laundry, with care, but in the end thev must reach the tub, so remem ber this when "thinking out" the new summer frock. Although of cotton, an organdie -nowadays, as has been said, can hardly be styled a "washable" frock; organdies are made over silk or satin linings, and are most elaborately trimmed with ribbons and lace. The skirt of a pale ecru arganely with pink flowers and green leaves, has a ruffle, of the goods on the "bell" skirt and a lin ing of ecru French satine. The round waist has only side and .shoulder seams and full sleeves. A deep corselet tapering to a point in the back, cuffs and short yoke are of Point de Genes lace, laid over pink satin. At the back where the corselet nooks .over long pink satin ribbon, No. 16, loops and ends, fall over the skirt Emma 51. Hooper. A NEGLECTED VEGETABLE. The Carrot Is the Most Delicate and Useful That Com en to the Cook. Carrots are the misunderstood. Their life in the kitchen isa vegetable tragedy, so to speak! They are the subtle life of soups, yet not one cook in ten knows that they are anything but a make shift, "if you are short of vegetables." They nre a "dainty little vegetable in their prime, but who counts them so? They not only help the looks, but immeasdreably help the flavor "of cer tain salads, yet they get no credit! There are many ways of cooking them and you will make no "mistake trying them.. Carrots boiled and cut into dice or strips are a help to many salads, especially a vege table salad. The qreat attraction of a vege table salad is that it can utilize all left over vegetables, being the most tolerant ot salads. A few peas, a few cold boiled pota toes,' a beet or two, some onion and carrots, with a mavonaise dressing make a dish of delight Beans, string beans or any other kind, are good, but not indispensable. In fact no one vegetable is indispensable, while all are welcome in vegetable salad. That is its great moral lesson. Cabbage, com, arti chokes, celery, lettuce, nasturtiums I can not think of a vegetable that is too humble or too haughty, to associate with any other vegetable in vegetable salad. Turnips go very well, properly prepared, and you can use squash if it have taken care of itself. I did once, although to be frank, I cannot say that I was encouraged repeat the experi ment Octave Tiianet. TEE PEBISHABLX PEAKL. It Becomes the Maiden Best of All, bnt Its Beanty Is Evanescent. Pearls are very perishable. They cannot be considered a first-rate investment like diamonds. After a time they deeay. Some times a fine specimen will lose its luster and beauty within a few months, so that the possessor of such" treasures does well to keep them put away ,in a- sealed, place. They are -very delicately made, consisting of thin films overlaid one; upon. another, with more or less animal matter 'between the layers," and it 'is no wonder that they,' deteriorate. After being buried in, the ground for awhile, they are found worthless. Those whicn are dug out of Indian graves some of them of great size, and doubtless of won derful beauty when"they were new are now utterly,valueless, even were they not "uierced. Nevertheless, there is a Dure and evanescent. beauty "about them which seems, oetter io Drcome inc maig.cn tnxn any oiner avrii ci jcivcl. "tn"i4ArY mM0M M E NEEDLEWORK FOR LENT. Suitable Gifts for Easter Day That Are Both Appropriate and Tasty Direc tions Tor Making Them The Materials to Get and Dow to 'Handle Them: rWMTTEN ron THE WSPATCn.l "With a large number Easter is the greats est feast of the year: the gladdest Homes and music, servjee and' sermon, seem to 'carry to every heart a message ot life re newed, and abiding beauty, and it is cer tainly well to let our gifts at Eastertide be in accordance. " Ofchurcfily symbols and signs there a goodly number," but in ecclesiastical mat ters, as with other things, - authorities differ, and-it may be well'to- keep to those simple forms and those r simple colors that never occasion dispute. The circle ' which symbolizes eternal life, the decorated cross that tells of con quered pain, the crown with its promise of glory, tne fleur-de-lis 'and the simple tre foil, both, of. which combine the three in one and so bespeak the triune Godhead they are each and all assuredly correct and can offend' the taste of none. ' A Uonbm Box. The Easter lily has a special place; and all combinations of white and gold speak oi rejoicing and ot tne least ot leasts, xne simplest thing that takes the lily form or wears the white and gold colors seems to bear a part in the glory of Easter. As a suggest ion. for a gift to the pastor or tKe church, there is described the work upon the end of. a decorated stole, which will surely.prove a welcome addition to the church's outfit The stole itself is to be made of heavy white silk in which there must be no "touch of cream, for purity is symbolized -by purest; white .alone. The embroidery isnot elaborate, but it lias the merit ot entailing no great strain upon the eves, and when we see ecclesiastic medal lions of needlework that have cost a woman's eyesight, the simplicity of this stole will recommend itself. Tne scallops which edge the cross are to be worked with the best of German gold over a heavy stuffing; the line .within the scallops with pure while silk, which, is also to be stuffed; the circle and trefoils are worked with white.then trimmed with gold. The rays behind the cross call for fine gold For a Blotter. thread; the edge of the cross is cut as the illustration shows. Above the cross the circles are designed for solid gold; the tre foils white, outlined with gold; the fleur de lis for a base of gold, the top of white, with gold trimming in its edge. i The whole design is as simple as simple can be, but it can be trusted to please the most fastidious taste and will offend neither "high" nor "low," "ritualistio" nor "broad, ',' which is a special claim to favor. A gift which is well suited to the day,and which will be welcome on the desk ot any woman friend is the blotter with lily decora tion. It is made in pad form and oblong Design for a Stole. in shape, butin the lily lies its beauty, and in. the' lily lies its special bearing upon Easter day.. The flower is first painted upon a sheet of celluloid, thin cut on all its edges and laid upon the blotter pad. Lastly two holes are punched and rich white ribbon is made to tie the lily to the pad. Thus wi complete a truly significant Easter gift -Bonbons are much in" rogue as Easter, guts and are made tne excuse ot many a costly box.. But the pretty and appropri ate bag s'ueeested below need offend the taste of none. Th lower portion, the box. part', is made of four, pieces of cardboard, 'I six jucaes nign, ana inree incues wiue. Each piece is'cut attbe top,in the fleurde lis, and each isneatly covered, with, pure white silk. Then all are painted in -white and ffoldafterthejnanner indicated, "and then tne edges Tare -f 'the bor-jseetions, DECORATIONS "' N HYGIENE. joined by i the neatest and finest of over handing. A bag of softest silk is fitted to the top, the seams are covered and hid with tree stitching of .fine gold thread, and the bonbon.box is complete; as dainty a messen ger of Easter greeting as the daintiest woman need wish to send. Of handkerchiefs and of handkerchief cases no woman can have too many; and, as the one suggested here has all the beauty of Easter color and all the merit of doing gen uine service as well, it makes a fitting gift lor the season about to come. It is made of fine white linen, and is cut exactly square, a good size being 14 inches each way, or 9U inches when folded and finished. After the square is carefully measured and cut it must be folded to get the line at which the A Handkerchief Case. decoration stops. 'Then on all four corners should be drawn the simple daisy forms as the illustration shows. Each should he em broidered with pure white Turkish floss in solid Kensington stitch; each should be out lined with Turkish gold, and with the same flexible thread. The centers of all must be perfectly darned. Then the edges of the square should be finished with a frill of fin est linen lace, and the whole should be lined with linen, exactly like that which makes the outer part. The square should be folded, and at the central point should be attached a bow of white and gold. The case will be found appropriate in color, ample in space and above" all and be yond all it will launder as perfectly as the bits of fine embroidery it is destined to keep in place. The linen improves under the influence of the tub. The gold and the silk come forth unharmed and only the rib bon now requires to be replaced, in order to get a fresh and unsullied case each time that dust and soil shall do their work. Clare Btoce. THE EXCITED EHPEESS OF FKAHCE. Contrast of the Pair Creators of Years Ago and the Aged Woman of To-Day. Ladles' Home Journal.; "Upon her first visit to .Paris Eugenie's beauty, was ravishing. Shexwas likened to a snowflake on a July day; like the fairy like mist that hangs oyer Niagara; like all that is purest, freshest, loveliest in nature was the impression that she produced upon people. Once at a great ball she was clad entirely in white, of the fleeciest, gauziest, mistiest description, and with a very sim ple parrure of emerald.-; and diamonds glis tening in her blonde hair, looping up her transparent sleeves, and shining on her lovely neck, she was as completely a vision of delight as eye ever rested on. The remainder of the story is known, and her marriage, her reckless extravagance, the war,. her downfall and escape, are tales of history told again and again. She encour aged frivolity and spent money more reck lessly, perhaps, than any other woman ever did. She was conceded to be the best dressed .woman in- the world. Her ward robe cost $1,000,000, and her jewels were of fabulous value. She spent 110,000 a day for household expenses. It was the age of gold. She undoubtedly was the cause of her own downfall, but" she did many kindly deeds. She was one of the first to recognize the merits of Bosa Bonheur, and it was by her wish that the talented artist was deco rated. SUCCESS. The stoutest ship may breast the gale, And still be driven baclr. What though to reach the port she fail, Shall we declare she could not sail Because she had to tack? When storms Delate and plagues impede, When aches and ills betide. Ambition's goal-may not be won -Yet hast thon bravely, nobly done, If thou hast bravely tried. "He nobly doos who nobly dares," When trials sore oppress. Whose perseverance naught can shake, Though failure follows in his wake, His failure is success. The fiercest battles are to fight, . The strongest forts to scale. Sometimes the bravest heroes fall, Sometimes the truest lives of alt Are lived by ones who fail. Myrou Hamford Veos.. COOFIBSTOWlf, Pa. AN OVER-DECORATED ROOM. The Japanese way of decorating homes is best With them a piece of bric-a-brac, a porcelain, or a bit of enamel, is something to be loved and studied for itself first and most, quite apart from any decorative purpose it serves in the apartment And so their treas ures are not set about loosely and in unlimited quantities, bnt locked securely in a cabi net from which a single piece at a time is brought and set carefully out for the family to dehglit in. Perhaps it is a choice jar or a bit of bronze or of cloisonne and it stands in the best light in the room, on its teakwood mounting, and the -family come and look lingeringly and lovingly at.its brilliant color, that seems fairly to pulsate with life, or at its delicate up'-soaring curves. It is net there for display, bnt for delight and for educa tion. Just about the antipodes of this is to be found in the American modern home There is nothing that it is like except a bazar for the sale of all kinds of articles useful and useless, pretty and hideous, oriental, occidental and infernak Take the' parlor for ex ample,there is a carpet on the floor.and rugs on the carpet.ancF three sets of curtains at the window,andin every window a piece of ornamental furniture holding from one to five pieces j-- iir iiiliwisBlssssH GflissssW TB f lIsisssssssssssssssssH IsKidss Ma ''ZissssssssssssssssssssVl H9g iAc(1MpYjI -ssssssssssssssBlsssssssisslisf HtHIIhIIh KtlttirsaiBfl IMiiTitnlIHissssssK!ilH!lBlsfltHB CI lsj3S5SVHE!nsiBSQ'6r'?vSisssssssssssssB IkiKBl ssMbI HHIPfjBHalsssssssssSKsUisj v1 7sHIslM BnH of bric-a-brac. The wall space is covered thick with pictures, little and big, zig-zagged everywhere, as if the main idea had been to see how many could be crowded into the given number of feet There are chairs sown thickly over 'the floor spaces, and stand where there are not chairs, and tall lamps and vases where there are no stands. And over all these there are scarfs and ribbons and throws and banners, and about them are bits of bric-a-brac, good and bad, in keeping and out of keeping, bronzes and plaster and china and glass, and pottery and placqucs and porceliiris and Japanese fans! These last are always the last touch of the infatuation for decoration. Indeed, the infatuation may be characterized as.au intoxication, which has paste J into the delirium tremens stage. There is almost everything in a modern parlor or drawing room except comfort and rest " There is decoration always, and elegance and costliness sometimes, but-seldom, either taste or thai subtle spiritual quality which is to a room what the soul is to the individual the illuminating factor. It is this spiritual presence in a room which makes us so glad to sit ddwnln'some rooms because they soothe and comfort us, and that mates us flee from others because they bewilder and confuse us. And these rooms set this atnm nnwur irom the personality of those, who have made sootmng quantr come troni simplicity and the wearying quality from complexity. That is one reason why bedrooms should hire as little ana simple furnishings as possible. ' AIT OBXEHTAL HEAD-DBZSl Pretty Adaptation That Might Bo Prepared . tor Atlantic City Wear. . ' The capeline, a Bulgarian head-dress, has been adopted by French women, who wear it at the seashore. This, drapery hood is not only pretty and comfortable, hut it per fectly protects the front hair from all damp ness or. action, of the wind. 'More im portant " still, ' it, shields the throat, neck and ears from draughts, and there fore is particularly desirable for piazza :77fnp The Capeline in Use. and hammock. Made of black cashmere, it is very comfortable and convenient to wear when traveling, either on shipboard-or by railway, and its value will appear in the sleeping car. For evenine wear t is appropriately made in black, or 'Indian silk, albatross cloth or any crepe'de chine, soft light fine material. The hood is most simple of mak ing, consists of two pieces; the front or coronet, and the cape. Two yards ot mate rial are required, but if the goods is 40 inches wide, two yards will make two capelines. Both pieces are cut lengthwise of the cloth; line the coronet with French canvas. Baste the goods upon the canvas and Ardoror.e-Pieee. ' B.- CcTotxc. -trniMTe4 2 C- Ckfc-Oia-arkm-1 D-- Ckptlir.t;Comfleted then braid upon it some pretty pattern, preferably an arabesque, in yellow silk braid an eighth of an inch in width, or less. Slightly gather four inches at the top of the cape, the sloping edges having 'been finished with a narrow hem, and the oppo site selvage being left as it is; then sew these gathers to the upper edge of the cor onet, fine the front neatly with a piece of the braid around the lower edge of the cor onet, just under; and fasten to it eight or nine small brass sequins; an elastic tape, to Sass under the back hair and so keep the ead dress in place, is then sewed up the two ends of the coronet; the sloping sides of tpe cape are brought over noon the coronet and fastened there, as is most becoming to the wearer. In wearine the drapery it is brought and carelessly knotted at the throat With the white veil attached just be neath the eyes to the coronet you have a Turkish vashmak. them. More than anything else does the HEAT FROH ONE LAMP, If Properlj Applied, Will Do All the Cooking for a Family. EDWARD ATKINSOK'SCONTEITANCB Tle.TVasteofFnells Jfowhere So Beetles as in the Kitchen. COOKING 'BOX OP THE K0RWEGIAK3 t .WRITTEN- FOE TUE DISrATCB.J 'So far asJI know I am the only person to whom it has occurred that heat may ba boxed dp and converted into work in a case or oven, and be maintained by a continuous 'supply from the combustion of a very small amount of fueL The closest approach to this method of applying heat is to be iound in the Norwegian cooking box. This is a wooden box made with thick w ills, lined thickly with felt The food, wuich is to be subjected to continuous heat at a low degree, is put into a thin metal vessel with boilin" water and that vessel is immediately placed in the box; as the heat cannotescape rapidly A tftmp rlCl.ltdqrc it. r converted into work and in a certain nt iiber of hours cooks the food. My own process consists in taking'that part of the heat which is thrown off from the chimney of a kerosene oil lamp, or from the chimney of a gas-burner-and conducting it through a hole into a box whose walls are made of non-heat conducting material, of sufficient thickness to retain it, this heat is subject, of course, to continuous renewal so long as the lamp or gas-burner is kept lighted. In this outer oven, or non-heat conduct ing case, the inner oven is, placed; this is made of sheet metak If is substantially tight, but not absolutely. In this inner metallic oven, the food is set in proper re ceptacles, porcelain or earthenware being preferred to metal pant. It seems as if science" hadibeen applied to the economical conversion of heat into work at every point except in the domestic kitchen. "When generated by combustion and applied under the boiler-of a modern marine steam engine the heat locked up in a cube of coal so small that it will r through a ring the size of a quarter of a ,. J lar, suffices to drive a ton ot food -and its portion of the steamship two miles on its way. Compare this economy of fuel with the' waste of the "stove. "We burn a pound of coal to every pound of food.cooked upon the iron stove or range. In this new oven a pound of liquid fuel in the form of kerosene oil suffices to cook 25 to 30 pounds of bread, meat and vegetables, and I expect to improve upon that as time goes on. At first place could hardly convince myself that the things could be done whioh were done every day in my household; neither could I, nor my cook, who happened to be a very intelligent woman, quite ready, to adopt improvements, at first comprehend' ' all that could be done; nor did we find out for many months that we could adapt the apparatus to nearly everything that re quired qnick cooking, as well as to tho slower methods.'' Edwakd Atkinson. Largest in the World. In the department of flavor) ing extracts, the Price E!a yoring Extract Co. ha3 the largest and most completely equipped laboratory in the world. Thousands of 'pounds of the true Mexican Vanilla Beans are consumed every year in Dr. Price's Flavoring Extract of Vanilla.! This im mense business is accounted for by the purity and excel lence of their production, the tesult of effort a deterw mined effort to make, articles" as perfect as can besmade-X free from hurtful materials, of the highest strength attaint able, and at a price within the reach of all. With push honest success, is achieved and held. FINE WALL . PAPERS. FEWe&Co's, 541 WOOD STREET i 541 BANC Of COMMERCE BOTLDINO . Telephone 1331, t -fe2M:-sn, ! M i
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