H FOR WOMAN'S BENEFIT.;: A New Safety Pocket. Apropos of jewel cases, new safety pockets for jewels and valuables are sold for the woman who has no faith in safe deposit vaults. The pocket is made of suede, is five inches broad and ton inches long, and has a strong band at the top by which it is fastened to the waist. It is so ingeniously con structed that only a very bulky object could cause it to bulge out beneath the gown, audit closes with a metal lock, like a reticule. Season's Dress Goods in Black. Black dress goods suitable for any and all occasions are whipcord, serge, Eudora, or a grauite-like weave; none of these are recommended for cool ness, as the coolest black gown for best wear, outside of semi-transparent goods, is foulard. Where oue dress has to answer for mauv occasions, black is the best choice, and a silk warp fabric will present the more dressy appearance if made with a white yoke covered with cream colored gui pure.—-Ladies' Home Journal. Mannerisms of Fashion. I wonder if you've ever noticed how every passing fashion brings with it its own set of mannerisms. Of course you can't remember when hoops were in vogue aud you never saw a woman in crinoline gather her voluminous draperies about her in order to seat herself without tilting her petticoat hem skyward. But you remember, 10 years or so back, when reeds aud wires and other devices made skirts more than bouffant in the back. Women then had a way of settling their skirts that would be strange to us today. Four years ago or thereabouts Mile. Up-to-Date gave her huge sleeves a fluff now and then. Last summer she held her head haughtily back, because her hat was tilted over her eyes. This fall she droops hor head meekly for ward, to balance the toque on the back of her head, and the mannerism the fashions has given her is an odd little way of pulling the front of her bodice out now and theu, so that it may de scribe as ample a curve from collar to belt as possible. Next year she may smooth down her skirt or rumple hor sleeves, but just now the front of her corsage engages her bauds and her attention.—Washington Post. Inklings of London Faftliion. In London, everywhere aud on all •sides, there is a great deal to delight and please both sight and fancy. There are notable changes in skirts. Tney aro prepared under various guises at the shops, almost ready to put on, with but very little intervention on the part of the dressmaker. Braided and trimmed skirts, sold with mate rials for bodices,in boxes, are at hand for those who need them, whether made iu cloth, rep or some thinner fabrics. Singularly pretty are gauze skirts, needing only onejoiu and ready shaped as they issue from the manu facturer. They are shimmering fab rics which seem to have imprisoned rays of sunlight, with here and there at regular intervals medallions of lace inserted, these united by light sprays of embroidery. Russian uet in white and black has been utilized, too, made up with one or two rather full flonucings and satin ribbons of the half inch width black on bliick and whito on white run oil. A. girl with a small allowance may reckon herself fortunate possessed of such a dress, and it is to bo strongly recommended to the notice of the many who have by them a half worn out black silk or satin skirt, well cut, "bien entendu." Whito mousseline <le soie lias been mounted also in the prevailing fashion, namely, skin tight about the hips, the problem of the moment being whether now and then these thinner fabrics will not yield to the undue strain upon tlieni, and the added flounces below cut on the round but not gathered, though the method of cutting renders it very full. The junction is hidden by trimmings, which take the form of light embroid ery intermixed with a renaissance lace composed of braid and a variety of etitches. The Queen. A Jacket for tlie Yonnij fJirl. Jackets for young school girls this winter are most of them built on the lines of a box coat, with a few modifi cations. They are a trifle longer than last year's jackets. One that was very jaunty was made of dark red cloth. It had a straight front and a plain back, with the under arm seams curved a trifle. The front fastened to the left side in double breasted fashion and was ornamented with two large crystal buttous. Dark blue moire faced the roundiug lapels and collar. The sleeves wore close fitting and loug, with a spring at the hand that showed the moire facing. The edges of the jackot were finished with a double row of dark blue stitching. A pretty little model for a slender girl was made with short rouud basques, that relieve very much the "straight up and down" look of a 400 slender figure. Olive green cam el's hair was the material chosen. The skirt was quite full around the bottom aud was trimmed with three rows of narrow dark green soutache, caught up into rounded scallops and attached with olive buttons. The corsage wns a blouso opening overa narrow dark fjreen velvet vest that wns gathered. It had short round basques, cut away •t the front and trimmed at the top with three rows of the soutache. Six rows of the braid, laid in bunches of tkree, began at the under E'm seams and slanted up to the edges of tho vest, where they were held with the vlive buttons. Three rows of the braid trimmed a pointed strap of tL« cloth that hooked across the lowec edge ol the vest. The sleeves were close fitting and were mounted by square epaulets of cloth trimmed with the soutache. The high,straight, collar was of green velvet.—Philadel phia Times. A Device for the Handkerchief. It has long been a question with women and a matter of anxiety, just what to do with their pocket handker chiefs nowadays. Even the new wom an must have a handkerchief, but a new woman's gown is fashioned with but little regard for the safe keeping of this very necessary article of ap parel. The tight fitting skirt permits of no old time bulging and handy pockets. Such an introduction into the sheath like fit of tho fashionable skirt would be something entirely unheard of and unallowable, and yet so far no one seams to have contrived a substitute for the necessary square of linen which must be carried by rich and poor alike. Some maidens contracted tho habit of tucking the dainty, flimsy, lnce trifle up the sleeve. Then it became the fad to tuck it into tlie purse, but this, too, was soon abandoned, as it proved ruinous to any handsome pock etbook. There is never a want but there is found a supply for it, and so in the case of the handkerchief holder. The di9iculty has been met and con quered, apparently, and tho new belt comes forth with a new clasp attach ment. It is made of oxidized or fili gree silver, and is worn on tho right side, directly under the arm. The favorite handkerchief is made of the thinnest, sheerest material pos sible, and is finished with a narrow hem. One corner is embroidered with a large and heavy monogram, the larger the better. It is to be woru fastened directly in the centre of the the belt clasp and tucked iu so that the corner containing the monogram shows plainly. For the patriotic girl there are handkerchiefs embroidered with a regimental decoration or the stars and stripes, while for the girls with beaux to their strings private signals of yachts or olubs are in evi dence. —New York Herald. ISermucla's Only Woman's Club. One of the most interesting and dis tinctive of clubs is the Nineteenth Century club of Bermuda. The club is distinctive because it is the only woman's club on that inland, and is specially interesting as an evidence of the conquering spirit of club life iu a most conservative community. It was the outgrowth of a bit of club leaven spread duriug a visit to Ber muda, made two 01 three years ago, by Miss Julia A. Kempshall of Brook lyn. Miss Kempshall is a well-known club woman, with a genius for found ing clubs that is as marked as it is in voluntary on her part. She was the chief inspiration and first president of the flourishing Cambridge club of Brooklyn, and is repeating that ex perience in the Prospect club of the the same city. Her natural reference to club life in America while at Ber muda aroused the interest of the ladies the e. From a little inform al talk, intend ed more to describe the club life of America than to make it an inspira tion to do likewise in Bermuda, the Nineteenth Century club came into existence. Its constitution and gen eral scheme aie modele 1 after the Cambridge club of Brooklyn. Mrs. Ingham, its first president, is an American by birth and education, whose long residence in Bermuda, however, gives hor a peculiar fitness for her office. Imbued with the spirit of progress, as we translate it here in America, Mrs. Ingham yet understands the conservatism of English women, which likes to make haste slowly. The club, entering now upon its third year, may be said to be firmly estab lished. It has proved its desirability and its members would give it up with reluctance. Its membership consists of 29.—Harper's Bazar. F» ft hi on'• Fancy. taffeta gowns trimmed with bottle green velvet are new this sea son. One rich variety of velvet is seeded with small, heavy satin dots, set mount 1 little blossoms of heavy satin. The lac* called applique de Brabant is intended to be use.l for flowers in stead of the real lace, of which it is the closest imitation. Black aud white satin stocks are made up with short, narrow ends crossed in front like a striug tie minus the tie and fastened with a tiny scarf pin. Parisians like the use of fancy wool fabrics in combination with plain silk goods. This is a style which gives an excellent opportunity for remodelling old dresses. Tailor costumes are growing se veiely plain,[which is a comfort to tha large contingent of women who hav«i never been able to reconcile them selves to fussiness iu cloth costumes. A new material for fancy braid is a wood fibre ribbon, intertwined with chenille cord. Theribbou is crimped, which furnishes a lustrous effect and gives the name of "satin straw"to the material. A pretty hat with a stiff round crown, covered smoothly with a plain fawu colored velvet, showing a group of tucks, is trimmed with charming effect with red and purple asters iu crowded clusters. The use of velvet for wraps and dresses will be unprecedented. The new qualities are thick, durable, soft and pliable without the weight whick has heretofore been objectionable. Costumers pronounce the new volvets perfect oostume fabrics. | HEW YORK FASHIONS. 1 |1 Late T'nts For the Wardrobes of Those Who l| ||| Like to Be Correctly Gowned. fl; NEW YORK CITY (Special).—The cloth gowns show every week some new feature, so that it seems to be necessary to have three or four in one LAriES 1 CUTAWAY COAT. wardrobe in order to be correctly gowned, states Harper's Bazar. The Rkirts of all the gowns are made long, and as close-fitting as possible over the hips, and many of them have jackets or long cutaway coats. There is no doubt that the long coats and cloaks are much the fashion this year, and are SKIRT AND WAIST FOR A YOUNG LADY. being imported all the lime. A smart walking gown is made with a velvet Bkirt, and over this is worn a long redingote of beige cloth that entirely covers the skirt. In front there is a flounce, of the same material as the redingote, that starts at the waist in a narrow width, and it gradually broad ens out until it reaches part way up the coat. The upper part of the coat is finished with a deep collar that forms a wavy cape, and there is a high stock-collar and vest of velvet, and in side the stock-collar is a high flaring collar also of the velvet. On the front of this coat are large fancy buttons. The sleeves are small, but have a little fulness at the top. They are very long, and are finished arouud the wrist with a ruffled oiff. To wear with this coat is a hat of felt, some thing in a sailor shape, trimmed with rosettes of velvet and stiff wings. The same gown in two shades of green is effective also. A Popular Modo, The model shown in the large en graving is desirable for either silk or woolen fabrics, charming combinations being effected by making flounce and broad collar of contrasting material. This is also a good design for remod elling, as the waist can be lengthened over a new lining, the collar of new material giving a stylish finish. A flounce to match collar will five added length as well as style to the skirt, and the decoration may be as simple or as elaborate as desired. To make this waist for a miss of fourteen years will require two yards of material forty-four ifiches wide. To make the skirt will require three and one-half yards of material forty four inches wide. Muff* to Match the Hat. Fancy muffs of velvet to match the hat are displayed very temptingly among the extravagant novelties. They are flat in effect and made with a double ruffle at each end, but large in size. A stylish sable muff in a simi lar style has a wide circular frill at each end, is lined with white satin, and is finished on the edges with tiny short tails set on two or three inches apart all around. The ltoy'g Snlt. The small hoy of fashion is arrayed | in blouse and knickerbockers for or , dinary wear. The trousers are slight j ly full and loose, depending a little ! from the band which is worn above I the knee. Boys like this style much i better than the fitted knee breeches i heretofore worn. I Worn on tlie Hat*. 1 novel and beautiful fibre which < _ led extensively on hats shows a e, lace-like mesh of heavy silk . id, woven with chenille cord. A ition of this is of coarse-meshed , interwoven with double zephyr .JP" Ribbon Frills For the Gown. The liking for narrow ribbon frills and ruches increases—if that is pos sible. Three, four and even five rib bons of assorted colors are lrequently combined to complete thetiimming of a gown. The Faaliionable Jewelry. Neck chains, lockets and crosses are fashionable. The slender gold chains strung with jeweis are of course pre ferred. The most ultra chain ties about the throat and pear shape pearls finish the ends. Out-of-l>oor Toilet For a Tot. A stylish out-of-door toilet for a tiny miss is here represented in rich red serge coating, trimmed with Per- sian lamb fur and tiny frills of black satin ribbou. Flare bonnet of red velvet, with red taffeta bows and tie strings, black soft quills and border of Persian lamb. The Empire style needs no introduction. It is graceful and becoming to little folks, the cape collar with its circular ripple ruffle being also a revival of a former style and at this time a very popular fea ture. The deep box-pleated skirt portions of the coat are joined at the top to front aud back short body portions, CHILD'S COAT. which meet in shoulder and under arm seams. The cape collar is included in the sekm with the turn-over collar. The Cold-Weatlier Cape. Capes for cold-weather wear ar. either in shawlpoint or seamless cir cular shape, aud nearly every model is of three-quarter length. |FOR FARM AND GARDEN). Keeping Onion, in tlie Winter. My plan of keeping onions through the winter ia this: Be sure that they are perfectly dry when cribbing them, as that is one of the main points to be considered. If they are to be disposed of before cold weather comes they can be kept in any dry place where they have plenty of air, the best place being » crib built in the same way as a corn ;jrib, so the air can circulate freely through them. Onions to be preserved thtough the winter should be kept at a low temperature, say about thirty two degrees. There is no danger of the temperature being too low; just so they are kept from freezing and are kept dry. I keep mine in a cold stor age built especially for onions on the shelf plan, each shelf or bin holding about fifty bushels. The shelves are built with slats so the air can circulate freely among the onions. I have kept them when the temperature was below zero without their being frozen. Should they become frozen by chance they should not be handled, but kept in the dark. It is not the frost that does the harm, but moving them when frozen. Above all things moisture and heating in bulk should be guarded against for winter storing. They should not be over two feet deep; bet ter less, if too warm they grow and rot.—lra Graber in Agricultural Epit omist. nirtlni; for IIo(f Cholera. The prevalence of cholera during the past few years has brought forth innumerable remedies, most of them found wanting when tried. So des perate have breeders become that they are now working ou the plan of pre venting the disease by a scientific system of care and feeding. It is gratifyiug to know that the hog rais ers have at last come to understand that swine are not naturally filth lov ing animals, nor are they ready and willing to to eat anything and every thing offered them. The only sur prising thiug about the matter is that it has taken so long for breeders to realize this fai>t. It cannot be denied that a mixed ration for swine will do much toward keepiug them in proper condition, nor can it be disputed that the incessant ration of corn weakens the digestive organs and leaves the animal open to attacks of disease. Grass anil grain with roots of some kind are the ideal food. Itoots are the natural food for hogs and the tame artichoke seems to be nearer what the the animal wants in this line than anything else. Due attention to the condition of the quarters in which swine are kept, with a careful regula tion of food, will not only reduce the danger from cholera to a minimum, but greatly add to the value of the carcass both in weight and quality. —• Atlanta Journal. Narrow Crib* for Corn. All the rules for economizing space have to be broken in cribbing damp corn. We can get more room in a square or octagon building with the same area outside than in a long, nar row one. But for drying out corn we c junt tho space next the outside most valuable. The crib must be wider at the top than it is at the bottom, and, besides, its roof onght to project as much as is safe,and have eave troughs conducting all the water that falis on the roof to the side, where it will most likely bo bloXvn awav from the building instead towards it. Of course a corn crib thus put up is ex tremely liable to be blown over unless it is propped well on each side. Where an expensive corn liouso can fce af forded, it is well to make m wide enough so that it will hold t rows of cribs with the sides vertical on the outside, but shelviug wider at the top towards the centre ou each side. We kuow such a cam crib built near 40 years ago, which, except that it has had to be new roofed once or twice, is still in good condition. It was set on posts in the ground, each capped with a projection so as to keep out rats and mice. This part of the scheme proved a failure. Bats or mice bed in this corn crib just as they would if it set on a wall. It would have been better if a wall had been put under it with a five or six-feet deep cellar that could have been used as a pigpen. Probably when the oak posts rot out the corn crib will be raised and such a cellar put under it.—American Cultivator. A CJood Way to Store Celery, Small quantities can best lie taken eare of in a cool cellar with an earthen floor. A couple of feet from the wall place a board and with stakes fix it in ru upright position. Lift the buuehes and leave a little earth on the roots. Place a row against the board and draw some moist soil part of the way up. Set in another row of bunches and treat in like manner. When the bed is three or four feet wide, putin another board, A foot from this last board start another bed, and continue until the entire crop is stored. An important poiut is to keep the roots moist, but the stems aud leaves must be dry. If the soil is dampened when the celery is being putin, no more moisture will probably be nee.?«d, but If rapid drying oat should occur pour in water ut intervals, taking care to keep it from the leaves. Keep tho oellar as cool as possible aud be par ticularly careful about ventilation, j Keep the windows open as late as j possible and bank them up only when ■ there is danger of freezing. Celery can be stored out of doors in | about tlie same maune". Hava the \ boards along tho sidts of the beds several inches higher than the tops of the plants, so that sticks cau be laid across to support covering. During tho fall aud early winter a covering of •traw wall weighted down will be suf .icienX Later soil will have to ba ; added. Or covering can be made of cold frame sash. During the day these can remain open aud at uiglit be covered with mats. Here, as in the cellar, especial care must be taken to give good ventilation. Also the cov ering must be removed after a rain so that the tops may dry off if the ma terial does not turn water. Of course when very cold weather arrives,celery doos not keep as well out of doors as in the cellar, but that to be used iu the fall and early winter is better stored outside.—New England Home* stead. Keaftontt for Huilriing a Granary. I had been using an old-fashioned crib, such as used to be seen on al most every farm. It.was 011 my place when I bought the farm, and I did not at first realize how much it would cost me to keep it there; but a few years' experience taught me that it was the most expensive way that could possibly be advised for storing corn, although upon posts, I never could keep rats, mice and squirrels out. I lined it with wire cloth, at consider able cost of time and money, and that did not avail anything. Every year bushels upon bushels of grain were destroyed. I have 110 doubt whatever that far more corn was wasted by ver min than it would have cost me to put up a good granary. Finally L awoke to the sense of tlia luxury I was supporting in order to fatten a lot of rats and mice, and one day I laid siege to that corn crib and demolished it utterly. Then I got out timbers Bxß for a good granary. The posts rest ou stones, and it is four feet from the bottoms of the posts to the sills. The plates at one end project two feet, and slats slant back ward for a corn department. The tloor is of matched stuff. The sides are cribbed with hard pine, matched. An alley runs through the building from the door back to the corn-crib. Along the sides are arranged the bins lor oats, buckwheat, shelled corn, etc. These are fitted out with movable boards in front, so that they may be taken out as the grain is lowered iu the bin, aid putin at threshing time. If any 01 the bins should not ba needed, by taking out the boards iu front a good place is provided for stor ing bags of brau, or barrels. My corn-sheller also finds a corner there. The upper parts of the posts, below the sills, are neatly wrapped with tin to keep out mice. An easy pair of steps, which may be raised or lowered, furnish means of access. T never saw but one mouse in this granary since I built it, and this was carried in in a pile of bags. I had no peace until I got the cat aud helped him to catch the mouse. Since tlieu every bag that goes into the granary is carefully examined. Mice may be carried in also in baskets of stuff. This may, and should, be carefully guarded against. Of all the buildings I have put up, and the number is not small, none suits me better than my granary.—E. L. Vincent in The Epit omist. Dairy Improvement. Many dairymen who are making little or no money from their herds get discouraged when you talk about improvement, because the goal to be attained is set so far ahead of them. Phenomenal cows, that are to the dairy like fancy trotting horses to the horse world, are held tip as "exam ples" of what plodding dairymen should strive for. The man who is told to emulate tho course of his dairy brother possessing a 700 or 800-pound butter animal, has a herd of cows in his own barnyard that will not average probably over 150 pounds of butter each per annum. Here is a wide gap to be bridged, aud it cannot be done with the milch ani mals he then possesses, or +he rations he is then feediug. Phenomenal cows are practically out of reach c.* the average dairyman, aud to make tuein they must be bred and fed toward that end for several bovine genera tions. What is more practical and easily attainable is to increase the butter yield of cows from 150 pounds to 300 aud eveu 400 pounds per annum. Set up a goal like this for the discouraged dairyman to aim at, aud he has some thing accessible aud iu plain sLlit to work toward. Take for an example the present mixed breed now represented by the cattle in his stable. They probably have the physical makeup toon an average yield a third or a half agaiu as much milk aud butter as they are now producing. If you believe them to be fairly good cows you should, as a preliminary step toward improve ment, work them to their full capac ities. This means that the feed ques tion should receive your lirst especial attention, and should never be lost sight of while you are in the dairy business. Yon know a steam engino can run fast or slow, according to the quantity aud quality of fuel being fed into the furnace. In this regard any cow, however poor, is a great deal like a steam en gine, and a liberal, well-apportioned diet will cause her to make steam (milk) to her full physical capacity. Having tested your cows in this way you can then easily separate tho droues from the workers, the "goats" from the "sheep." It is a losing pol icy to feed poor milch cows after you have proven that they are poor. Turn them into beef then, and breed for or buy better ones. This is the second step toward im proving a poor dairy. As I enjoined at the beginning, do not set your goal so far in advance of ycur capabilities and possibilities that you will make a failure iu striving for it. Once ou the right track, advance step by step until you have seetued what you have striven for, better cows, more milk and real profits.—George E. Newell, in tho Cultivator.
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