Boston Shocked at Countess.
A very charming, pretty young
woman, who registered at the Hotel
Lenox, Boston, Mass., as the Countess
de Swirzsky, St. Petersburg, created
a sensation in the cafe of that ex-
clusive house when, after dining, she
coolly lighted a cigarette and puffed
away with evident pleasure and un-
. concern. Lorgnettes were leveled in
her direction and a murmur ran over
the room which attracted the atten-
tion of the manager. He requested
the countess to throw away her smoke
and for his pains received a rapid
fire of Russian invectives. The
countess then addressed the diners
in general with mingled English and
Russian.
Fire Heroines at Phones.
‘When fire destroyed the big Ohio
building, at Gary, Ind., involving a
loss of $50,000, two telephone opera-
tors, Harriet Stevens and Charlotte
Chesnes, became heroines, by staying
. at their posts near by until they were
driven away by suffocation and heat.
The two girls were alone in the
building and their presence was nec-
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jacket, which in New York is called
a “tuxedo,” from the village of that
name. “Buckskin,” which in Eng-
lish has a very limited currency,
seems extremely popular in what
some one has called ‘‘the gross gar-
gles of Prussia and Holland,” which
use it indiscriminately for any
breeches material or for the garment
itself.—Notes and Queries.
Pompadour silk makes & charming
tea gown.
Russian blouse coats increase in
popularity. ;
| Pleating is seen in mray of the
new skirts.
The pin-striped serges arc particu-
larly smart.
Handbags of black velvet are won-
derfully smart.
Jewelry is now made especially for
daylight wear.
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Welsh Rarebit.—While this is a favorite preparation for
the chafing dish, it can be prepared just as well in an ordi-
nary saucepan or a double boiler. Melt one tablespoonful of
~ Stir into it a teaspoonful of cornstarch, and when
they are thoroughly blended stir in slowly one-half of a cup-
ful of thin cream. Cook two minutes after the cream is all
in; then add half a pound of mild cheese, which has been
cut in small pieces. Season with salt, paprika and mustard.
Serve as soon as the cheese is melted, on rounds of toasted
bread, or crisp small crackers—Emilie Fox.
essary to summon help, and during
the hours of fire-fighting they stayed,
until at last relieved by Manager L.
H. Myers, who assisted them to fresh
air and took their places himself, al-
though the smoke was so dense he
could not see the plug lights in his |
switchboard. The young women suf-
fered seriously from the fumes.
Happy Homes.
Homes would be happier
“IF
Married people were as agreeable as
in the days of their courting.
IF
Each tried to be a real support and
comfort to the other. a
IF
Household expenses were under and
not over the sum given for them.
IF
Married people remembered they
were married for worse as well as
better. :
IF
People were as polite to each other
in private as they are in public; and
IF
Husbands and wives did not make the
fatal mistake of drifting into hum-
“drum machines.—Home Notes.
Clothing Terms.
The English word “frock,” denot-
ing a kind of coat for men, was bor-
rowed from us by the Germans in the
form of ‘frack,” and afterward be-
came French “frac.” But whereas
in English it means a frock coat, on
the continent it means a dress coat,
which is quite another thing. In the
“N. E. D.,” where quotations are
given for all senses, there is no trace
of its meaning a dress coat in Eng-
lish. This application of the term
must therefore have been ‘‘made in
Germany,” whence it penetrated to
all the continental languages, includ-
ing Lithuanian ‘‘frakas” and Finnish
“prakki,” the Finns having no “f.”
The term is well known in the Sla-
vonic dialects, always in the sense
“dress coat,” and the Russians have
even coined the admirable word
“¢ratchnik’” to describe an habitual
wearer of evening dress—a ‘‘toff,” in
fact. ~
While they use ‘frac’ for a dress
coat, the French designate a frock
coat by another English loan word,
“redingote,” which was originally
“riding coat.” In Spanish “frac” is
dress coat, and frock coat is “‘leviata,”
i. e., levitical coat. The Young Turks
greatly affect the frock, and I have
heard it called by them “stambolina,”
i. e., Constantinopolitan ceat. :
“Frock’ is not the only clothing
term misused by foreigners. ‘‘Smo-
king” (i. e., smoking jacket) is used
in French, German, Russian and
other tongues to signify a dinner
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Plain princess dresses in velvet are
very popular.
Many of the new leghorns are faced
in black velvet.
Great knots of black or white lace
trim large hats.
Wide leather belts will be worn
with linen dresses.
Some deep cuffs on handsome
waists have been seen.
The kid and suede gloves show a
wide variety in colors.
Everything that is offered in Irish
lace is now popular.
Linen serges and linen diagonals
will be worn this season.
Linens for the coming season are
soft, heavy and pliable.
Ribbons in silver and gold, also
in copper, are at hand.
Heavy Russian lace of linen is to
be much used for trimming.
Scarfs are as popular as ever, and
their kinds are numberless.
Chiffon is used most lavishly for
afternoon and evening blouses.
Sleeves with puffs at the elbow,
below the elbow, and others with no
puffs at all, will be used.
Ruffles down the left side of other-
wise tailored blouses—a dainty and
feminine touch—are seen.
Hatpins with gigantic jeweled
heads and advertised as the ‘latest
idea from Paris,” are all the rage.
The cottonball fringe, sometimes
elaborately knotted, is being much
used as a finish to covers, as well as
to bed spreads and for window
drapery.
Checked opaline taffetas, which re-
flect the colors of a shattered rain-
bow, are liked for afternoon wear,
veiled discreetly with neutral-tinted
mousseline.
A Triumph of Engineering.
One of the greatest triumphs in the
history of engineering is the comple-
tion of the tunnel, or series of tun-
nels, through the Andes, which allows
direct railway travel across South
American.from Buenos Ayres to Val-
paraiso, Hitherto, winter travelers
went by way of the Strait of Magel-
lan, a rough sea voyage. The tunnel
has been in process of construction
for many years, and twice the work
has been abandoned in despair. A
New York syndicate solved the prob-
trains will be running early in the
coming summer, There are three
tunnels, with an aggregate length of
eleven miles. The highest station on
the line is about 10,500 feet above
sea level.” The third of the tunnels
is described as screw shaped, and
drops 2700 feet in a distance of 27,-
000 feet. The total cost of the work
is about $12,000,000.—Youth’s Com.
panion,
lem at last, and it is announced that
In Bengal, wherever wells have
been disinfected with permanganate
of potash excellent results have fol-
lowed, but outside the towns it has
been difficult to carry out this pro-
cedure owing to the prejudices of the
people. In rural areas cholera must
inevitably recur in epidemic form,
until the people understand that im-
pure water is the real source of the
disease.
Aine.
Recently at a meeting of the New
York Academy of Sciences Charles H.
Townsend described his studies. in
the Strait of Magellan. Among other
things, he spoke of the native tribes
inhabiting that region, and expressed
the opinion that those dwelling among
the more westerly channels of the
strait are probably the lowest of ex-
isting primitive races. They go al-
most naked and live mainly on shell-
fish.
: *
To the question, “How old are the
Niagara Falls?” geologists have re-
turned replies varying by tens of
thousands of years. At first it was
estimated that the Niagara River
came into existence through changes
in the level of the land around the
Great Lakes, about 55,000 years ago.
Later this was reduced to only 12,-
000 years. Lyell increased the esti-
mate again to 35,000 years, and still
later other scientists lowered it to
about 9000 years. At one period,
many thousands of years ago, the
height of the falls was 420 feet.—
Harper's Weekly.
A new mounting for metallic fila-
ment in lamps has been devised in
Germany. The mounting provides for
the shrinkage of the filament, which
is not always uniform, and for this
reason each filament is supported at
its lower end on a small spring which
is covered with a paste of finely pow-
dered tungsten so as to prevent it
from being consumed by the heat of
the incandescent filaments.—Scien-
tific American.
The chief purpose of the sound-
proof room at the University of Upsa-
la is the insuring of perfect freedom
from sounds from outside. By build-
ing it on platforms of thick lead and
cement, and by constructing its walls
of many thicknesses of felt, cork, as-
bestos and other bad conductors of
sound vibrations, the principal object
was attained. The room is so quiet
that the beating of one’s heart or the
creaking of one’s muscles is at once
heard on taking up a position within
its closed doors and windows, and the
only defect of it as a laboratory for
acoustic experiments is that ventila-
tion is absent, and no one can remain
in it for more than an hour at a time.
—Scientific American.
BLACKFEET GO TO WORK.
Helping Uncle Sam With One of His
: Reclamation Projects.
Uncle Sam found the Indian such
a good workman in the year 1909
that he has formed an entirely new
opinion of that erstwhile troublesome
person.
Of course there are still many red
men on reservations living off the
bounty of this Government and show-
ing no disposition to get out and earn
a living, but their number is becom-
ing smaller every year.
Last year the Blackfeet tribe put
their shoulders to the wheel and
made the reclamation service’s Black-
feet project in Montana a big success.
Other kinds of labor, says the Van
Norden Magazine, simply could not
be had. So the red man was the sole.
reliance of Director Newell. *¥
As in the case of the Apaches of
Arizona, the Blackfeet proved to be
men of their word. They wanted to
know just how many hours they were
to work and the character of work |
they were to do. Then they went at
it with a will and never did they
shirk or make excuses. ;
Once the time for quitting came,
however, they knocked off with all
the eagerness and promptness of
union men. They displayed remark-
able intelligence and eagerness to
learn. Moreover, they gave evidence
of a desire to take up the ways of the
civilized to live in houses and observe
the laws of health.
An Unsafe Bird.
“How did the new parrot turn
out?”
‘Oh, he's a fine talker, but I'm
afraid I can’t keep him.”
“Why not?”
‘““He used to live in a medical col-
lege and the students taught him a
‘whole lot of professional terms. 1
was so mortifiéd the other night. That
rich Miss Morris was calling on us,
and somebody asked her to sing. You
know what a voice she has. Well,
she sang a long French ballad for us,
and the instant she finished the last
verse that dreadful bird screeched
‘Chlorotorm her!’ ’—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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imes. ;
What & girl likes best, asserts the
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doesn’t.
One true man in a false faith is
better than a score of false men in
any true faith, reckons the Chicago
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one of his customers. 6
It is said by anatomists that people
hear better with their mouths open.
A bottle of milk containing a two
inch minnow was recently delivered
by a Pittsfield (Mass.) milkman to .
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