1: FOB WOMAN'S BENEFIT, ;j ft 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 ten 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, and it closes with a metal lock, like a reticule. Season's I>resg Good# In Black. Black dress goods suitable for any aud all occasions are whipcord, serge, Eudora, or a granite-like weave; uone of these are recommended for cool ness, as the coolest black gown for best wear, outside of semi-transparent goods, is foulard. Where one dress has to answer for many occasions, black is the best choice, and a silk warp fabric will present the more Jressy appearance if made with a white yoke covered with cream colored gui pure.—Ladies' Homo Journal. MttiinpriHins 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 vogu# and you never saw a woman in crinoline gather her voluminous draperies about her in order to seat iierself without tilting her petticoat hem skyward. But you remember, 10 years or so back, when reeds and 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 yews ag > 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 her head meekly for ward, to balance the toque on the back of bor head, and the mannerism the fashions has given her is an odd little way of pulling the front of her bodice •out now and then, 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 her sleeves, but just now the front of her corsage engages her hands and her .attention.—Washington Post. Inkling* of London Fashion. 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. Ttiey are 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,iu boxes, are at hand for those who need them, whether made in cloth, rep or some thinner fabrics. Singularly pretty are gauze skirts, needing only one join audready 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 net iu white and black has beeif utilized, too, made up with one ■or two rather full flouncings and satin ribbons of the half inch width black •on bhr-k and white on white run on. 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 cn*, "bien eutendu." White mousseline de soie has 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 them, 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 coinj osed of braid nnd a variety of «titclies. The Queen. A Jacket for the Youn? fSirl. 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 frout fastened to the left side in double breasted fashion and was ornamented with two largo crystal buttons. Dark blue moire faced the rouudiug lapels aud collar. The sleeves were close fitting and long, with a spring at the hand that showed the moire facing. The edges of the jacket were finished with a double row of darl; blue stitching. A pretty little model for a slender girl was made with short round basques, that relieve very much the ■"straight up and down" look of a %oo slender figure. Olive green cam el's hair was the material chosen. The skirj was quite full around the bottom •u<" rimmed with three rows of k green soutache, caught ded scallops and attached tons. The corsage was g overa narrow dark t that was gathered, id basques, cut away brimmed at the top the soutache. Six laid iu bunches of i under fin seams the edges of the 'ere held with the Three rows of the braid trimmed a pointed strap of th« cloth that hooked across the lower edge of 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 Hamlkerchlef. 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 si*'* '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 the fashionable skirt would be something entirely unheard of and unallowable, aud yet so far 110 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 the liabit of tucking the dainty, flimsy, lace trifle up the sleeve. Then it became the fad to tuck it into the 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, aud so in the case of the handkerchief holder. The difficulty has been met and con quered, apparently, and the new belt comes forth with a new clasp attach ment. It is made of oxidized or fili gree silver, aud is worn on the right side, directly under the arm. The favorite handkerchief is mads 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 worn fastened directly in the centre of the the belt clasp aud tucked in 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 clubs are in evi dence.—New York Herald. llrrimida'fl 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 island, and is specially interesting as an evidence of the conquering spirit of club life in a most conservative community. It was the outgrowth of a bit of club leaven spread during a visit to Ber muda, made two or 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 lier 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 there. From a little inforn 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 a:e modeled after the Cambridge club of Brooklyn. Mrs. Ingham, its first president, is an American by birth aud education, whose long residence in Bermuda, however, gives her a peculiar fitness for her office. Imbued with the spirit I of progress, as we translate it here in | America, Mrs. Ingham yet understands I 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. Fashion's Fancy. Black tafffta gowns trimmed with bottle green Velvet are new this sea son. One rich variety of velvet is seeded with small, heavy satin dots, set around little blossoms of heavy satin. The called applique de Brabant is intended to be used lor flowers in stead of the real lace, of which it is the closest imitation. Black and white satin stocks are made up with short, narrow ends crossed iu front like a string tie minus the tie and fastened with a tiny scarf pin. Parisians like the use of fancy wool fabrics iu combination with plain silk goods. This is a style which gives an excellent opportunity for remodelling old dresses. Tailor costumes are growing se verely plain,[which is a comfort to tha large contingent of women who havij never been able to reconcile them selves to fussiness in 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 fawn colored velvet, showing a group of tucks, is trimmed with charming effect with red aud purple asters in 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 which has heretofore been objectionable. Costumers pronounce the new velvets perfect Oostume fabrics. 1 HEW YORE FASHIONS. | || Late I' nts For the Wardrobes of Those Who Iff If? Like to Be Correctly Gowned. li New Yobk 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 XiArlEs' CUTAWAY COAT. wardrobe in order to be correctly gowned, states Harper's Bazar. The skirts 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 time. A smart walking gown is made with a velvet skirt, 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, audit 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, nnd are finished around the wrist with a ruffled ojff. To wear with this coat is a hat of felt, some thing in a sailor shape, trimmed with roseltes of velvet and stiff" wings. The same gown in two shades of green is effective also. A Popular Mode. 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 fi v e ad3ed 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 inches 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 iD 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 Hoy'* Unit. The small boy of fashion is arrayed in blouse and knickerbockers for or- I dinarv wear. The trousers are slight i ly full and loose, depending a little I from the band which is worn above i the knee. Boys like this style much ! better than the fitted knee breeches i heretofore worn. Worn on tlie Hats. One novel and beautiful fibre which is used extensively on hats shows a coarse, lace-like mesh of heavy silk thread, woven with chenille cord. A variation of this is of coarse-meshed lace, interwoven with double zephyr wool. ltllihon Frill. 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 frequently combined to complete thetiimming of a gown. A'h« Fault ion able 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-Door 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 ribbon. 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 aud becoming to little folks, the eape 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 seam with the turn-over collar. Tlie Cold-Weather Cane. Capes for cold-weather wear ar. either in shawlpoint or seamless cir cular shape, aud nearly every modal is of three-quarter length. [FOR FARM AND GARDEN.] Keeping Onion, in the Winter. My plan of keeping onions through the winter iu 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 conies they can be kept in any dry place where they have plenty of air, the best place being a crib built in the same way as a corn •?rib, so the air can circulate freely through them. Onions to be preserved thiough 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 aud 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. —Ira Graber in Agricultural Epit omist. Dieting for Hog Oliolera. 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 on the plan of pre venting the disease by a scientific system of care aud feeding. It is gratifying 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 aud every thing offered them. The only sur prising thing about the matter is that it has taken so long for breeders to realize this fact. It cauuot be denied that :i mixed ration for swine will do much toward keeping them in proper condition, nor eau it be disputed that the incessant ration of corn weakens the digestive organs and leaves the animal open to attacks of disease. Grass aud grain with roots of some kind are the ideal food. Roots are the natural food for hogs and the tame artichoke seems to be nearer what the the animal wants iu this liue than anything else. Due attention to the condition of the quarters iu 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 '.•arenas both in weight and quality.— Atlanta Journal. Narrow Cribs for Cotfn. All the rules for economizing space have to be broken in cribbing damp com. 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 eorn we count tho space next the outside most valuable. The crib must be wider at the toji than it is at the bottom, and, besides, its roof ought to project as much as is safe,and have eave troughs conducting all the water that falls on the roof to the side, where it will most likely be blofrn away from the building instead 4ft 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 au expensive corn house can be af forded, it is weli to make it wide euough so that it will hold two rows of cribs with the sides vertical on the outside, but shelving wider at the top towards the centre on each side. We know such a corn 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 iu 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 b.ed iu 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 live 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 Ciootl Way to Store Celery. Small quantities can best be taken eare of in a cool cellar with au earthen floor. A couple of feet from the wall place a board and with stakes fix it iu an upright position. Lift the bunches and leave a little earth on the roots. Place a row against the board aud draw some moist soil part of the way up. Set in another row of bunches and treat iu like maimer. When the bed is three or lour feet wide, putin auother board. A , r oot from this last board start, auother bed, and continue until the entire crop is stored. An important point is to keep the roots moist, but the steins aud leaves must be dry. If the soil is dampened when tho celery is being putin, 110 more moisture will probably be nee.!*>d, but If rapid drying out should occur pour iu water at intervals, taking care to keep it from the leaves. Keep the cellar as cool as possible and be par ticularly careful about ventilation. Keep the windows open as late as possible and bank them up only when there is danger of freezing. Celery can be stored out of doors in about the same manue". Have the boards along the sides of the bods several inches higher than the tops of the plants, so that sticks can be laid across to support covering. During the fall aud early winter a covering of itraw wall weighted down will be sol- Later soil will have to b« added. Or covering can be made off cold fiame Basb. During the day these can remain open and at night bo covered with mats. Hove, aa 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 top# may dry off if the ma terial does not turn water. Of course when very cold weather arrives, celery does not keep as well out of doors as in the cellar, but that to be used in the fall and early winter is bettee stored outside.—New England Home« stead. Keasonx for liuildlnff a Granary. I bad been using an old-fashioned crib, such as used to be seen on al most every farm. It was on 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 liued it with wire cloth, at consider able cost of time and money, and that did not atail anything. Every year bushels upon bushels of grain were destroyed. I have no doubt whatever that far more corn was wasted by ver min than it would have cost me to put up a good granary. Finally 1 awoke to the sense of the luxury 1 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 on stones, and it is lour 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 lloor 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 biu3 for 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 in the bin, aid putin at threshing time. If any oi the bins should not bo needed, by taking out the boards in front a good place is provided for stor ing bags of bran, 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. I never saw but one monse iu 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 and helped him to catch the mouse. Hiuce then 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. l>airy 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 horso world, are held tip as "exam ples" of what plodding dairymen should strive for. The man who is told to emulate the course of his dairy brother possessing a 700 or 800-pound butter animal, has a herd of cows iu his owu barnyard that will not average probably over 150 pounds of butter each per annum. Here is a wide gap to be bridged, and it cannot be done with the milch aui mals he then possesses, or the rations he is then feeding. Phenomenal cows are practically out of reach of the average dairyman, and to make them 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 even 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 to work toward. Take tor an example the present mixed breed now represented by the cattle in his stable. They probably have the physical makeup to ou an average yield a third or a half again as much milk and 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 first especial attention, aud should never be lost sight of while you are in the dairy business. You know a steam engine can run fast or slow, according to the quantity and quality of fuel being fed into the furnace. In this regard any cow, however poor, is a great deal like a steam en gine, aud 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 cau then easily separate the drones 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, aud breed for or buy better ones. This is the second step toward im proving a poor dairy. As 1 enjoined at the beginning, do not set your goal so far in advance of yuir enpiibilities aud possibilities that you will make a failure iu striving for it. Once on the right track, advance step by step until you have secuied what yon have striveu for, better cows, more milk aud real profits.—George E. Newell in the Cultivator.
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