For the Woman Wlto Fewi. The deft-fingered woman who evolves smart creations in her own sewing room should make a note of the fact that a big bow or chou of silk or gauze to fasten the bolero in the centre of the front is the smart est caprice of the moment. Even the little corsage coats sent out with .the tailor frocks are finished in this way. She might also make a memo, of the fact that the skirt and bolero effects that are so attractive in cloth and spotted silk are made in one piece. Swathed corselets are also arranged upon a foundation, which in some cases also serves to keep the little vest and collar in place. Spinster Murks. Every one has had difficulty at one time or another in distinguishing married from single women. In Eu ropean capitals hereafter a distinc tion is to be made, to the end that embarrassing mistakes mi be avoided. Hitherto the only distin guishing mark between the married and the unmarried woman has been the wedding ring, of no particular consequence at evening functions, where, with the exception of dinners, a woman's hands are never uncov ered. Now all is changed. Coiffeurs in sist that .nadam must wear her aigrette on the right side of her head, mademoiselle on the left. If ma demoiselle desires to enhance her beauty by a flower instead of an aigrette, let her have it by all means, tucked in with seeming artless grace, but let her make sure i< is the left side of her profile she studies while arranging the effect, lest later on she be accused of endeavoring to seem that which she is not. —Philadelphia Press. Oratory for Women. The establishment at the Syracuse university of an additional prize for excellence in oratory, in the contests for which women alone shall be elig ible, is a departure, and, it seems t us, a wise one. Critics of our mcJ era methods of education for women are pointing out that so long as the lives of women must be different from the lives of men, it seems plaus ible that their training for life should permit differences; and if this is true increased opportunities in coeduca tional colleges for development of the two classes of students in the j lines most suitable to each are to be j welcomed. The women's oratorical prize, the first institution of the sort at the uni versity, is a step in this direction, and it is a particularly significant step, because in oratory, above all other forms of competition outside of atheltics, the talent of a man and the talent of a woman are difficult of comparison. Perhaps this may be lead to fur ther variations of the sort. To some laymen interested in pedagogical matters it appears that the law of evo lution points distinctly in that direc tion. —Syracuse (N. Y.) Standard. Tips for Girls. Never allow men to hear you ma lign your own sex. They never trust a woman who does it; they suspect her of envy and of bearing false wit ness. Be a bit blind when "not seeing" will save some one humiliation. Don't affect cynicism. Woman is the daughter of Smiles not of Sneers. Be a joy maker —in a quiet way. Don't be afraid to show apprecia tion of what your male relations do for you. Remember men are natural beauty worshipers. Be careful to look as well as possible, and above all be neat. Cultivate housewifely talents. They are not spectacular, but. they make man's life worth livng, and he knows it. Get rid of your mannerisms. Some women "sniffle," some giggle, others interrupt, and a vast number nag. The last habit as a home-wrecker is supreme. Whatever else you lack, you need a well trained voice. Loud-speaking, loud-laughing women are repulsive to all sorts and conditions of men. Cul tivate low tones.—Philadelphia Rec ord. Two Winter Frocks. Sharp contrasts are to be seen in the fashionable shops these days. The airiest of frocks are exhibited for midwinter wear, too, and the fur riest, cosiest of wraps and suits are shown in the sacn i rooms. As for the furs —they wer; never more lux urious, and let us hope will never be more expensive than they are this year. Two frocks shown in a Fifth av enue shop are typical of the season's extremes in fabrics and fashions. The first was an airy affair of mauve taffetas; the skirt was tight fitting over the hips and fell in a double flounce. It was trimmed with several rows of very narrow Irish lace inserting. The bodice had a deep ceinture of black velvet brought through a fantastically chiselled gold buckle. There wa3 a bolero arrange ment of Irish guipure over mauve gauze, and a waistcoat of antique cream silk fastened with big gold buttons. The near neighbor of this dainty creation was a gown of gray frieze (and the costumer called it "frize," as the Irish do). The short coat was heavily braided, military style, and had a dark gray velvet collar. The skirt opened at the side over an un derskirt of gray velvet. The original feature of this gown was the enam elled buttons, squares, reproducing the kings, queens and knaves of play ing cards. The price of these but tons alone would buy a fairly good dress from a fairly good dressmaker. —New York Commercial Advertiser. Art* and Crnfta for Country Women. The women of the historic town of Degrfleld, Mass., have been busily at work several years, in their spare time, learning the secrets of the fam ous and beautiful blue-and-white em broidery, the knack of weaving mar ketable rugs, and of fashioning use ful and dainty baskets from palm leaf. An exhibition of the fruits of their labor is held every year, and a market is found thereby among sum mer visitors and people of the cities for the product. The workers, many of them, natu rally have their eye upon the cash returns—which, by thq way, make a pretty showing. But to the outside observer this is recognized as one of the minor blessings. The woman who loves beautiful things and is in terested in the world's progress, but is kept closely at home by the daily routing finds in this work not merely pin money, but an outlet for her tastes and aspirations. She lives out her larger self, artistically and social ly. How few people in the world, country or city, have their eye trained to beauty and their hand to deftness, as God intended they should be trained. Fortunate indeed is the community which develops the latent skill and taste of its women and girls in useful arts and crafts. There is a town in New York state where Elbert Hubbard, humorist and sage, keeps scores of women and girls busy decorating and binding books and weaving rugs. A young woman in a New Hampshire village is build ing up a lace industry, if we remem ber rightly, which promises to be ex tensive. What can be done in these places can be done in others. On the eco nomic side of the question, let us drop a hint right here —there is a grow ing demand in the cities and large towns for the best hand work in va rious lines, as an escape from the cheapness and the monotonous uni formity of machine-made things. This is true of preserved fruits and vege tables, as well as of fancy work, fur niture, and a score of oth6r things. The time and the ability to supply the demand often belong to the farmer's wife and daughters. But it is the other side of the problem we would emphasize—the immense val ue of such occupation in enabling women to live out their natural selves, and be that part of the world of art and industry which nature in tended them to be, while fulfilling their duties as home-makers. — American Agriculturist. ISeanty of Carriage. Writes Cousin Madge in London Truth: About a month ago some one wrote to Truth over the signature "A Lover of Beauty," drawing attention to the— "Ungainly walk of nearly all those most beautiful and exquisitely-dressed ladies, as fair as can be, who fre quent Hyde Park after church on Sundays. Beautiful as tliey are, it must be confessed that most of them waddle or slouch rather than walk. Few —alas, very few!—have that pos ture or bearing which is essential to gracefulness and far more attractive in woman than the costliest of dresses. The truth I find to be that ; they have never yet learned to walk. Would that they could see their sis ters in Calle, Florida, Buenos Ayres! j Then it would be realized by them that their gait is deformed in com ! parison to that of their Latin sis- I ters." I am afraid there is considerable I truth in this accusation. I have often noticed how very few English j girls can manage to hold their heads jup without looking self-assertive, j keep their shoulders flat without looking stiff, or hold the chest well ! forward. And very, very few have ' a thoroughbred action about the ! knees. It is delightful when one j comes across a girl who sails along ! with absolute grace, holding her shoulders back, her chin up but not out, and her elbows in their natural position; not squared back in the queer fashion of the hour. Look at the fashion plates! There you will see the elbow position that makes every woman look out of drawing. It is not pretty. Is it? The human elbow was never intended to project at the back of the waist in this curi ous way. Almost all the figures in : fashion plates are drawn with the body, from the waist upward, at an | angle of 45 with the line of the low- I er limbs. I fancy that much of the ungrace ful walking is caused by tight lacing and tight boots. A girl wo know, who used to stutter along in No. 4 shoes, was advised by her doctor to walk four hours a day in order to counteract the ill-effects of a sluggish liver. To manage so much pedes trianism she had to wear No. 5 shoes; but if this was a disadvantage it was amply atoned for by the improvement in her walk and carriage. She no longer stutters on her feet, but gets over the ground in splendid style, with "the gait of a goddess," like the heroine of a modern novel. Very I.ittle Spncr. "My parents may come between us," she faltered. "If they do," he exclaimed, hotly, "they must be pretty small." And he pressed her still closer to his manly breast. —Phiadelphia Record. PAPER, WIRE AND GAUZE MASKS- Some Made In Germany—Othor# In th« United State*. Paper masks are made by doubling one sheet of a specially prepared pa per, wetting it and moulding it by hand over a face form; It is then dried by artificial heat and cut off the form. Openings are cut for eyes, nose and mouth, and it is painted and decorated by hand as desired. The paper used by Sonneberg manufac turers is made In Oeslau and Schleu singen, and costs at present about 1.40 marks (33 cents) per 480 sheets. One sheet makes three of the com mon masks. The painting of cheap masks costs about 50 pfennigs (12 cents) a gross; the moulding of face costs about 60 pfennigs (14 cents) a gross. Packing is figured at about three per cent., as the masks are rolled in brown paper, the ends being folded into save striug. The ex penses are estimated at about 15 per cent., leaving the net profit 20 to 22 per cent., as the complete article sells at present at about 1.80 marks (42.8 cents) a gross. Wire masks are made by stamping a piece of wire netting about one foot square over a face mould in a large machine, inclosing the rough wire edges in a narrow strip of lead, and painting. The latter is done by hand in oil colors. The prices of these masks have undergone little change during the last year, but an increase of about 20 pfennigs (4.7 cents) a dozen is looked for next season. The present selling price of the cheaper masks, on which my calculations are based, Is two marks (47.6 cents) a dozen. The wire is at this date sell ing for about 35 marks a hundred kilograms ($8.33 for 220 pounds), but this is an extraordinarily low price. Gauze masks are made by mould ing over a clay face form a doubled piece of cheap linen gauze that has previously been soaked in a starchy paste. The sticky linen is made to adhere to the form, and this is set on a stove and dried for about 20 minutes. The linen is then taken off and openings cut for the eyes, mouth and nostrils. It is painted as desired, and makes one of the most practical masks known. The gauze mask is used considerably In the United States, but the larger portion of them are made therein by machines owned by two firms, one In New York and the other in Find lay, Ohio. —Consular report from Coburg, Germany. Friendly Invasion of England. The Invasion of England is accom plished—not the invasion which alarm ists have predicted for November, but the friendly annexation of our annual visitors from America, who are now in possession in a double sense of the very heart of London, it Is remarka ble that so many Americans, not of the wealthier orders, can afford a trip the converse of which would stagger the ordinary English holiday-maker. But, as our representative who has been investigating the invasion points out, the American spends little more on a trip to Europe than he would disburse on a tour in his native country, while the English visitor to America finds his expenses of living vastly increased. The Englishman, therefore, unless he chooses Ireland, which is rapidly in creasing in popularity, makes for the continent. He Is not especially popu lar just now in France, but be will not meet with insult. The reason is cu rious. Not only London but the con tinent is crowded with Americans and the French will not insult an English man for fear he might turn out to be an American. It is a little humiliating that, like one of our kings, we owe our immunity to the presence of other Richmonds in the field.—London Chronicle. Slow, lint Sure. George Rcsoner of Muncie, Ind., re cently received a five-cent check from the treasury department at Washing ton, D. C., in payment of an excess settlement made by him fourteen years ago, when he was postmaster at Wheeling, a small town four miles northwest of this city. At that time Resoner made his usual monthly re port and settlement through the Cin cinnati office. He sent in five cents too much once, but did not know of it until recently, when the check came, ac companied by a letter of explanation. 'iuis was the first time Resoner . ever knew he had given Uncle Sam too much money. He says the govern ment will still be indebted on Its ac counts to the Wheeling postofflce, for he does not intend to cash the check, but will have it framed and hung in his home as a souvenir of Uncle Sam's squareness and honesty.—Cincinnati Enquirer. That Old Dispute. "Well, after all," she said, "you men can't get around one fact when you try to make out that man's woman's intellectual superior. You admit that it was a woman who caused the first man's downfall. Now, if that doesn't show intellectual superiority on the part of the lady, I'd like to know why. If the man had been above her men tally, how could she have accomplished his overthrow? If he was her superior why didn't he " "Pardon me" the man Interrupted, "you haven't started quite far enough back. As in all such cases, there was another fellow around to put her up to it." After which she scorned him and entered into conversation with a boy at the other side of the room.—Chicago Times-Herald. Prussia does not permit cremation, but does not forbid the export of corpses to Bremen, Hamburg, Hessla, or Thuringla, where they sin be burned. You re ' Gambling I It's too risky, this gambling with your cough. You take the chance of its wear ing off. Don't I The first thing you know it will be down deep in your lungs and the game's lost. Take some of Ayer's Cherry Pec toral and stop the gambling and the cough. •'I was given tip to die with quick consumption. Iran down from 138 to 98 pounds. I raised blood, and never expected to get off my bed alive. I then read of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and began its use. I commenced to improve at once. I am now back to my old weight and in the best of health." — CHAS. E. HARTMAN, Gibbstown, N. Y., March 3, 1899. You cm now get Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in a 25 cent size, just right for an ordinary cold. The 50 cent size is bet ter for bronchitis, croup, whoop ing-cough, asthma, and the grip. The dollar size is best to keep on hand, and is most economical (or long-standing cases. Tanteil Like Itself. Lord Wolseley, the retiring Com munder-in-Chief of the British army, does not tell this story, but somehow or other it got abroad and is generally credited as strictly true: On one occasion the famous Field Marshal's zeal for the welfare of his men got the better of bis discretion. Dinner was being served to the sol diers, and orderlies hurried backward and forward with steaming palls of soup. Lord Wolseley stopped one of them. The man was attention in a moment. "Remove the lid." Xo sooner said than done. "Let me taste it." "But, plaze yer " "Let me taste it, I say." And taste It he did. "Disgraceful! Tastes like nothing in the world but dishwater." "Plaze, ycr honor." gasped the man "and so it is."—Chicago Chronicle. The Laugh Cure. New York's Sorosls has decided that laughter is the best remedy for indi gestion. If one of the gentle members shows a dyspeptic temper hereafter It is to be hoped that the other mem bers will remember the club's discov ery and merrily laugh her back to a better humor. But, «ila>:! Sorosis doesn't go deep enough into the sub ject. Let us have some facts and fig. ures for our healthful guidance. I If a titter will digest a herring, how loud a guffaw will it take to make i Welsh rabbit harmless? ( If a Vassar girl's sponge cake can be neutralized by peals of laughter, 1 how strong a caehinnatory infusion will it take to reduce a double helping of midnight lobster to a condition of digestive desuetude?— Cleveland Plaiii Dealer. 1 Cannon Ball Wasting. A year or so ago an old cannon ball was about the most useless object known, tit for nothing but old iron. Xow it has a commercial value. Lasl fall tlie United States Government, which now uses only pointed steel can non balls in its work of benevoient as similation, sold off a lot of round iron cannon balls of various sizes. A smart Yankee discovered thai these balls were useful lu rock quar ries. Xow the workmen simply drop a few small cannon balls into the cleft and "joggle" the partly loosened bio?*i back and forth with iholr crowbars. At every movement the balls drop low er until larger ones can be inserted. By and by the block rolls out, com pletely severed. And then it is rolled away on cannon balls instead of waotl en rollers, the advantage being that they will roll in every direction, while a block on wooden rollers can only straight ahead or back. Tennyson'* Table Slannci-K. Once when Tennyson turned up in Oxford during the long vacation the Mas Muellers asked him to dinner and breakfast. The dinner did not go off well because the tlsh sauce was not to the poet's liking, and the breakfast next morning was a domestic catas trophe for the hostess, who saw him whip off the cover of the hot dish oniy to exclaim, "Mutton chops—the staple dish of every bad Inn in England!" It was to the Professor, too, that Tenny son declared that the only advantage of- the Laureateship was that he gen erally received the liver-wing of chick * er..—London Chronicle. The Panning of the Prairie Dog. Passengers on the "Q" system who have ridden the better part of a day through western Nebraska and east ern Colorado wl!l remember the prairie dog. He is numerous in that section of the country. He lives in villages and the villages are as close together as the villages of certain parts of Europe. But the prairie dog has had his day. The Agricultural Department says he must go. Mr. Wilson has decided that the dogs kill the grass and ruin good grazing land. "Tama Jim" has little of the love of picturesqueness In hit make-up. He Is eminently practical, and his philanthropy is of the type ■which seeks to make two blades of grass grow Instead of one. Therefore he proposes to relegate the prairie dog to the picture books and to the stuffed specimens of the museum along with the buffalo. Mr. Wilson's chemists have discov ered a mixture which will make whole villages fight for the first bite, but which at the last stingetli like a ser pent and biteth like an adder. Under Its influence the hole that knows the prairie dog will know it 110 more for ever. The frisky, nervous, barking little beast will join the Innumerable caravan of prairie dogs who have gone before. There will be more grass when the prairie dog Is gone, and therefore more cattle. There will be less breaking of the legs of the cowboy's ponies, and the rattlesnake will live alone In the hole until the summons comes to him also. As nature abhors a vacuum so does civilization despise a "varmint" —save In the shape of the human form divine. —Des Moinos (Iowa) News. A Cat Weather Prophet. Mr. John J. Segulne, of Rossville, S. 1., has a eat named Susan that is more than a weather vane. Susan is a pro phet. She never fails, when the wind Is about to shift, to inform her master of the fact. Iler method is togo to the side of the store-room corresponding to the direction townrd which the wind is about to veer, rise on her hind feet and scratch the wall, counter, shelf or whatever her fore feet happen to touch. For Instance: The wind was one day blowing violently from the southeast. Mr. Seguine said that It was about to shift to the northwest. He was laughed at "Look at Susan," was his reply. She was scratching away for dear life in the northwest corner of the store-room. The change came.—New York World. A new diamond field has been found forty-two miles from Griquatown Jn Cape Colony. In India a spoon Is always used for eating curry, a fashion only lately un derstood here. WOES OF WORKERS. The American man or woman is industrious. Our leisure class Is small, our working world very large. Many of our leading citizens of great wealth ore hard workers. Our laboring classes are found in herds and hordes in the fc^m "hivesof industry." What is all this work j for? In most cases it is for daily Uread, j ( wjm in many for maintenance of others. Great Wjjj] j «f 112 1 mftfl numbers also work to acquire wealth. if Some for great commercial prominence. ¥ ijspHill ySIB Some to preserve intact a splendid inheri- j I HW tance. Necessity, generosity and ambition A, |fiW are the inspiration of all classes of indus- rat try, and the object of every one falls to the EH^awS ground when ill-health attacks him. ' JRW6MB|BB Maintaining health is the most vital thing in the world for workers of every |M3g3|gfilragra class, and the usefulness of Dr. Oreene's i' Rir Nervura blood and nerve remedy, as a BBHflgyJlti.iis ■ strengthener of the constitutional and 1 ▼ital powers, is beyond all question. This MTJRM J r great remedy enters Into partnership \ with Nature and helps human beings do Hv i .mi HI their work without giving up to prema- M JCT ' IK ture decay. The strain of work is on the /*"~ / ' 1 '^\w minds of some, on the bodies of others, « but the nourishing of either, or both, is 1 In the nerves and blood. Nervura acts / __] // ]) l___VNg directly on the fountains of health and | for the Blood and Nerves. ™ kllß w What does the worker do when some chronic fIT trouble manifests itself ? Qe takes some stimulant or ■MK y JH something which is designed for temporary effect, and simply weakens his already overworked system. How JyM mljF different from this is the work of Nervura! How PJKCT beautiful its support to the natural powers! With out shock of any kind its purely vegetable elements seek out the weak spots and build them up. Imme- ~*- l— " _ diately the circulation of the blood improves and the sluggish elements are expelled. The nerves are quieted, the quality of the blood is enriched and*the new and strengthening tide communicates itself to every muscle of the body. Mr. JOHN D. SMITH, Electrician for the Thomson-Houston Electric Co., of Lynn, Mass., says: " When a man has been sick and is cured, it is his duty to tell others about it, that they, too, may get well. Three years ago I had been working almost night and day, could no* eat regularly, and got only a few hours' sleep at night. No man can stand that long, and I aoon began to be prostrated. I could not sleep when I tried, and my food would not stay on my stomach. 1 was in a terrible condition, and was muoh alarmed. " I went to doctors, but they did me no good. Learning of the wonderful good done by Sr. Oreene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, I determined to try it It cured me com* pletely of all my complaints. I eat heartily aud sleep well, thanks to this splendid medicine, X believe it to be the best remedy in existence." Dr. Greens, Narvnra'i discoverer, will give all health seekers Us counsel free of charge. His ofllee is at 85 West 14th Street, New Tork City, and Us advice my be seeured by personal call or by letter I through the mail; no charge is made in either ease. The worn-out la I body, mind, or sesual powers will get prompt help from Dr. Greeae. His adviqs is absolutely confidential aad if fir** to ali. Sweat and fruit soldi* will not discolor Roods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS Ufta. Hold by nil druggists. The nearest approach of a r.omet t« the earth observed was In 177 C, when one approached to v;ithin 1,- 400,000 miles of our planet. To Car* ft Cold In Om D»y, TKKA I,AXATIVB BROUO QDINIMB TABLITI. 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Piso's Cure cannot b-? too highly spilten of as a cough cure.— J. W. O'BIUE--, 3:M Third Ave., N., Minneapolis,Minn., .lan. (J.IBOO. The hour of adversity seems to contain more than sixty minutes. H, K. GREEN'S HONS, of Atlanta. Ga., are the onlv successful Dropsy Hpe ial sts in the world. Hue' their liberal offer lu advertisement lu an other column ol this paper. Why They Were There. "I am here, gentlemen," explained the pickpocket to his fellow prisoners, "as a result of a moment of abstrac tion." "And I," said the incendiary, "be cause of an unfortunate habft of mak ing light of things." "And I," chimed in the forger, "on account of a simple desire to make a name for myself." "And I," added the burglar, "through nothing but taking advantage of ail opening which was offered In a large mercantile establishment in town."— Tit-Bits.