LITTLE THINCS
JIow often In our busy life
We spesk a bitter word;
We curt not who the listener are.,
We caro not where 'tis heard.
We do not know within our hcr
To what it may amount,
And truly, it la only one
Of little things that count.
We often wound the trusting heart
liy being insinrere.
We do not think that whirh we do
May cause, a lonely tear.
We give it but a pacing thought,
And bother not snout
Tha little thins, thnt rise and cause
The trusting heart to doubt.
We often wrong within oursclf
The ones who love u true.
Because they tell us of a fault ;
We're nil impatient, too.
And do not down the angry wordj
That to our lips may mount,
Hut watch nnd wait: 'tis only one
Of little things that count.
Kathryn C.
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Everybody 'round Tlmly set up n
laugh when Peter Jothson and Ills
wife moved over on old nisui Grant's
west eighty and set up for farming.
Peter was always regarded as some
thing of a Joke In Hoke (.'omit, ami
tho fuel that ho had married Sophie
Grant, the prettiest girl lor miles
around, illdu't nave him. lie was a
sort of aecund cousin to the old man's
first wife, aad, of course, when he
came to Kansas his klusuiau took him
In.
The objections to him were good
natured but numerous. He was al
ways dressed tip, he had no more
knowledge of horses, cattle and pigs
thau a Kansas City dude, and for the
lirst year of his life lu Hoke County
he didn't do anything but court
Sophie. Old Grant never would have
agreed to It If he didn't know that his
son-ln-latv-elect "had money,'' for tlio
youth was quite worthless from a
bucolic point of view, nml after sis
months trying to Interest him lu funn
ies the old man gave in wilh:
"Well, ye kin have her, I'ete, but
Boll daru ye. how you ail sola' to
make out?"
Peter grinned quietly, saying,
"Guess we won't starve," nnd went
away to tell Sophie. Thej were mar
ried at Christmas, spent a week In
Kuusas City nnd thou came home to
settle down. Everybody thought
they'd open a store In Pimly, but they
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i yrbu
DOWN INTO THE TIMBER, WHERE HE COUNTED TIIE WAIA'l'T
TUBES.
didn't. Pete loused the west eighty
from his father-iu-law nnd built a cot
tage, declaring (but he meant to make
his fortune right there. He started1
by bringing from his old home lu tluf
East all his books, fishing tuekle, guns
and other Impractical effects. When
the Kansas winter vanished before a
matchless spring he began to roam
over "our farm."
"What you going to do iirst, Pete?"
Sophie would ask.
"Just look around for a while. So
phie," he would nay, ami march off
whistling toward the creek or down
Into the timber, win-re he counted the
walnut trees ami shot un occasional
squirrel. Theu he rlgg.nl up a shop
near the barn and bought a lot of
second luaid gas pipe. Iron rods and
queer Implements thut had nothing to
do with farming.
"What ye goin' to do naow. Pete?"
the old in.tU r.sked, eyeing hliu with
unexpressed wonder.
"I'm going to muke a well," guhf
Pete, smiling like n willful child.
"Well? You duu't need uo well;
you gt one nu' a cistern. There's
the pond nnd the creek, an' It's good
nu' rulny In Hoke. Well, fiddle! Ain't
you goiu' to put In no crap:"
"Later maybe. I'll get around to
that later." And Pelo would saunter
away whistling, while Sophie In the
kitchen' smiled confidently and her
father grumbled In his whiskers.
It wus like thut all summer und fall.
Pete didn't do anything lu the way of
work except what he did secretly lu
hit shop or on his well. The Neigh
bors would stop at Ii!a road gate some
times and shout lit lilui: "Hey, Mis
ter Jethtoa, struck waiter ylt?"
Whereat he would smile gently, shake
his head and answer, "Not yet."
Sometimes, jr they huppened to usk
hliu, "How ye geltlu' along?" he'd
crack Ids little Joke by answering,
"Get tin long well, thank vou." ud
THAT COUNT.
ijfow often from our very heart
We let our anger rie,
And never mind the pleading look
That come from souhul eyes;
We crush, we bruise, in passion's hour.
And scorn the falling tear;
1. it tie things, oh. little thin?,
What sorrow wruugiit you here!
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You count, oh yea, you little things,
You count, but not for gnin;
You count to sadden trusting hearts,
You count for naught but pain.
You count as clou'ls in some one's sky,
You darken some one's day;
() cruel little deeds and words
Wo can't undo, unsay!
Then ever speak the kind'- word
Instead of one of pride;
'Twill banish sorrow from a soul,
And anger turn aside.
'Che loving word and deed and glance.
In borne on angel wing.
Ami angel voices echo true:
Ite kind in littt things!
Murray, in the HnrtforJ Daily Courant,
then he'il laugh like a pleased boy.
And so It came aliont that the folks
at Pimly and rnuuduhmit In Hoke
County came to tall: about Peter Tfoth
son as 'Toor Pete," the women pitying
Sophie and the men pitying old mnn
Grant, who had given his pretty
daughter to a "half-wit."
It was along In the spring when
everybody found out thnt Peter had
taken a ten-yenr lease on the P.rowu
snu ilaee udjoluing his own unfilled
acres. Mayor Jenkins of Pimly voiced
the public sentiment about this trans
action when ha said:
"Brownson has just took advantage
o' pore Vote. Them hundred an' sixty
ueres o' hls'n nln't wuth two dollars
a year. Won't raise nut bin' an' y It,
come f think. .they can't raise no less'n
Pete's eighty."
Whereupon everybody laughed and
repeated Mayor Jenkins's joke. Then
the wags out Grant's way began to
"put up jobs" on Jettison. They
would stop by and nsU casually If lie
wanted to lease any more laud, nnd
when they realized that he was dead
lu earnest about getting more acres,
that he wasn't particular about the
quality of the laud, so long as It was
near Pimly, and could bo leased for
ten years or longer, they began to
get a vague Idea that "mebbe I'ete
was up to suthln'." Then for a while
old man Grant was waylaid on the
coiners in Piinly und ct Intervals
along the road, by farmers who want
ed to know what I'ete was to do with
his leased lands. When (J runt said
he didn't know, they either disbe
lieved him or pitied the necessity of
veiling bis son-in-law's mental frailty
and went their ways. But the old
fellow was now bent on knowing. He
refused to accept the theory that Pete
was "daffy," preferring to estimate
his eccentricities us "pure ornery lazi
ness." At last he got the young man
Into u corner of the sitting-room, when
Sophie was away, nnd quizzed him re
lentlessly. "Now 1 kin keep a secret. Pete," ho
concluded; "folks Is beglnnln' to think
yore daffy nnd It's agoln" to hurt Sofe
an' the ba'by when that comes. Jest
own up, what Is your Idea o' making
lenses when you ain't so much us
litrmiu' truck?"
"Gas, dad," said Peter, quietly.
"Just keep lr as secret us you cuu, but
there's gus uuder every foot of this
ground."
It wns not a very satisfactory ex
planation to Grunt. He didn't seu
what particular good gas might do,
anil the next time he saw Dr. .lewett
lu Pimly he let slip the secret about
Peter's idea. From the doctor's of'
lice the story spread, reaching ears
that were not Indifferent to the story
of a possible gas belt under lloko
County. Struugers who had snick
ered at Jetlnou began to cross-qties
tlou hlin, but he put them asldo with
a childish smile and a harmless joke,
"How you goin' to git the gus?" they
asked hlin.
"Dig for it," he would say, luughlng.
"An' If you git it, whut then?"
"Then it' up to you," grinned Jeth'
son, as he walked away.
Some of them did dig, or ruther bore
Into their farms. Ashamed of thulr
enterprises, they kept them secret
from each other, bu: vihvii they had
vaiuly gone down 200. 300 and COO feet
through rock and clay nnd water, rng
against the Intioceut Peter took hold
of tktm, and they watched for a
rhanct to get cveu. George Hough
set tin- pace by actually leasing the
"gas privilege" of his farm to Jetti
son for ninety-nine years for the cash
nun of $100. which wns paid tho mo
ment the deed wns signed. After thnt
there was a rush to "do business" with
Peter. The malcontents who had spent
work nnd money sinking for gas
wanted revenge, but they were nfrald
to give the victim "long terms," for
fear when his mental condition whs
discovered his engagements would be
come valueless, so they did business
with him ou a cash basis until his
money was gone and he had "the gas
privilege' ou every farm and free
holding near Pimly.
"What air you goln' t' do naow?"
groaned Tnpa Grant when I'ete admit
ted that he'd lllte to borrow a hundred
dollars.
"I'm going' to give Tlmly a fire
works exhibition," he answered naive
ly. "I'm going to town now to put a
card In the Banner announcing a show
over at my place."
And he did. The erratic announce
inout drew every man, woman and
child for miles around. Tho "lire
works" was all gas, It Is (rue, but
from a hundred jets along the drive,
around the lawn, In the house and out
side, it llared In clear white glory.
Peter showed them his lathe nnd hi?
pumps all run by burning gas. The
men who had ridiculed hi aside, ad
mitted that they had dug for gas too.
"just on his say so," but that "they
want no gas within live huudred feet,
an'. Pete, ef ye want to stan' from
under that lease, why nil right."
15tit Peter didn't wnut to "stand
from under."
"Digging for gas, boys," said Peter,
radiantly, "is like sizing up your fel
low men. It's no use unless you go
deep, say a thousand feet or so."
And they smiled with hlin. but they
didn't mean It. John II. Kaftory, lu
the Chicago Itecord-Herald.
First Stop In Vlllase Improvement.
T'lrst In order In activities of this
kind come cleanliness. Clean streets
nnd public places, clean private prem
ises with these secured, the first, great
transformation In the community takes
place. When nuisance-breeding rub
bish honps nre cleared awny, and va
cant lots covered with all sorts of lit
ter nre cleaned up, everybody notes
the Improvement and Is Interested in
seeing It maintained. Orderliness, of
course, goes hand In hand with clean
liness. The latter cannot be secured
with gooi order. And with good
ord,-r tbere is nn aspect of neatness
that commands popular respect. It
pleases the public eye. Nearly every
body wilt desist from throwing rubbish
In u wrll kept place, and from scatter
ing torn up paper, or other litter in a
clean street. Public seutiment Is easily
cultivated In favor of public clennll
uess and order. A notable Instance
of Ijs growth !s to be found lu the
agitation against spitting In public
places, since It was determined that
the practice was n danger to public
health. The posting of notices with
regulations against It. nnd the fre
quent discussion of the subject In tho
press, have made n strong Impression
upon public sentiment, and In conse
quence the offense Is not practiced to
anything like the same extent lu com
munities where there has been such
agitation. Sylvester Baxter, In the Century.
Drill of the Chinese.
The aptitude shown by Chinese sol
diers for drill und maneuvers lu close
rank is said to be remarkable. The
drill Is modeled on German methods;
the gun Is curried over the left shoul
der, the parade step Is tha base of nil
the marches in close rank, but the
Chinese still keep to their large red
standards; there Is one for about ev
ery ten men. The only oilier Euro
pean method employed is th. "tiger
drill," n curious fencing movement
with the bayonet accompanied by
fierce heuvings nnd savage thrusts at
the throat by the whole battalion.
The native character of the Chinese
soldier Is admirably stilted to the main
tenance of perfect discipline and a
faultless executlou of parade drill.
Commanded well he will, perhaps,
equal the' Japanese soldiers who are
already equal to European troops, but
the Chinese oilicers Ignore the art of
war und even do nut command their
troops during drill. While the mili
tary mandarins sip cups of tea seated
in comfortable urmchtiirs in a corner
of the drill camp, quite Inferior otUeers
give the directions nud exercise the
real command.
British Navy Rrttsr Than Krer.
"I huve knowu the luner workings
of the navy lutlmutely for ten years
now, und I unhesitatingly atlii-m that
the mediocre men of to-day are better
tltuu the best uteu of teu years ugo.
Iu energy, thought, zeal, brain power,
resource. Individuality, lu nil these and
kindred things the navy Is ou u de
cided up-grade, and the personnel of
the navy of the past Is simply not to
be compared with the navy of to-day.
"In all tho rot around us, the British
Navy is the one thing heulthy yet.
The whole ulm nnd object of modern
naval warfare is to muke the enemy
lose Ids head. The officers nnd men
of the British Nuvy will keep their
heads longer than any thnt is the ob
ject of all their tniinlug. lu the nuvy,
If a man has distinguished himself,
he Is ashamed of it ruther thau other
wise, lie feels no pride In It, und keeps
quiet for fear of having the sneering
eplphet, 'ero' applied to him. To 'do
his job' is the beginning and cud of
things with him." Fred T. Jane, lu
Fortnightly Itevlew.
Aa Underground Health Resort.
In a recent uddresa on ventilation,
to a lack of which he attributed most
human Ills. Dr. A, Wynter Blyth, an
F.ugllsh physician, after discussing the
excellent meteorluglcul conditions
which obtain In the new Loudon "un
derground," aald: "One could imagine
a Jules Verno cavernous city, where
the sky was the ever-white chaugeless
chulk, where uo rain fell, where no
frost penetrated, where the light never
fulled, and where dry, wurm, filtered
plue-ozoulzed air bathed the lungs
ttuil fanned the cheeks of its denizens
in tho constant wjilte glare of a never
dying summer day." . .
FARM AHD GARDEN."
Objection to Potted Plants.
Tire principal objection to potted
plants Is the higher price of the plnnts
nud the additional charge for express
nge, but there Is a lurgpr loss from
layer plants, which balances the dif
ferent In cost. i ,
Moss In Lavni,
Moss lu lawns Is a nuisance. One
of the methods of crn-llcntlng it. Is to
scratch the snrfnev of the ground
with a sliarp steel-tooth rake and
loosen the soil. Sow lawn grass seed
md cover It to the depth of one-fourth
of an Inch with dlrr, using a small
quantity of mixed fertilizer on the
dirt. Moss Is more thrifty In shady
lawns than whvre the grouud Is bare
5f trees and shrubbery.
Quantity of Hetl to nn Aere.
Wheat, 1 lo 2 bushels; rye, IK, to 2
bushels; onts, 3 bushels: barley, i
bushels; buckwheat, bushel: corn,
broadcast, 4 bushels: corn, In drills,
2 to 3 bushels; corn In hills, 4 to 8
quarts; broomcorn, Vi bushel; potatoes,
10 to 15 bushels; rutabagas, Hi pounds;
nillet, Y bushel; clover, white, 4
jttarts; clover, red, 8 quarts; timothy.
1 quarts; orchard grass, 2 quarts; red
:op, I to 2 pecks; blue grass, 2 bushels;
mixed lawu grass, ,j bushel; tobacco,
2 ounces. This Is a very useful table
?or farmers to maintain for future ref
erence, and should be pasted in n
crap-book or other handy place, Tho
Epltomist.
Feeding tlm Soil.
A soil can be termed fertile only
(vhen It contains nil the materials re
quisite for the nutrition of plants lu
:he required quantity and In the
proper form. With every crop a part
it these Ingredients is removed, nnd
t remains for nature nud man to make
good this loss. Practical experience
nns "proved that nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash are the substances
.uost needed to be applied to soils to
atake or keep them fertile. No crop
ran be grown on nuy one of these
Menieuts if the other two are lacking.
Crops differ as to their Individual
leeds, but all nre absolutely necessary
for full development.
(iraftlns; Seedling Cherries.
I have had considerable experience
jrafting and budding seedling cherries
with various varieties. Grafts placed
Ml seedling heart cherries make a per
fect union and a beautiful tree. About
:he time the buds begin to swell Is the
uost favorable time to do the graft
ing. The grafts should be cut the same
Jay nud put In without delay. I have
secured the best results where I have
ased stock from one to two Inches in
Jinmeter. I propagate mostly by bud
3lng. I select seedlings from one to
iwo Inches In diameter, and cut them
'.nick in the spring about six feet from
'.he ground. The young shoots grow
jut quickly, nnd lu these I place two or
Ihree buds about the first week In
July. If these do not take I bud ngain
the same season. If the seedling Is
not In a desirable location. It should be
removed nnd planted In the fall or ear
ly spring to the place where it Is
wanted, budding or grafting It later.
Fred Miller, iu New England Home
stead. Don't Use a 1'oor Ilrnoiler,
We" raise poultry for fauey pur
poses, also broilers for market. We
false from 1800 to 2000 chicks eneh
year, nud use the three makes of
Incubators. I muke all the outdoor
brooders that we use. Here Is where
most breeder make a mistake. They
will pay S35 for nu Incubutor and then
buy a $5 brooder. If anything, they
need a better brooder than an incu
butor, for the secret in ruislug poultry
is In raising the young chicks.
Wo muke a brooder with uu auto
matic regulator. All the brooders
have double walls with a dead air
space of one Inch between them, so
with seventy-five or one huudred
thicks In them they don't require so
much heat to keep the proper temper
ature. My Idea is Independent brood
ers. Theu if you should get some
illsease in one of your broods, you will
not run the risk of losing the entire
flock. There cun be fifteen brooders
put ou one acre and each brood kept
separate. Bert Curry, lu New Eng
land Homestead.
Laying a Foundation.
To build fouudatlou walls, dig n
trench to the frost Hue. Fill with
loose stouts. Now set up a plunk on
each side and hold them in place by
stakes as shown In the cut. Fill lu
now to the top of the flunks with
loose stones and soft mortar soft
enough to till all the spaces between
the stones. Allow the planks to re
main until the mortar has set, .then
move along and build on uuother sec
tion. When the wull is bard lay it
little soft mortar along the top anil
Imbed the sill In It. The -wall will
then be air-tight. Farm Journal.
Train the Coll j Love.
Tha first and most Important lesson
for a colt to leurn is thut there is no
cause to fear its muster. The pro
cess of breuklng should be simply n
teaching of tho cult to do thlugs thut
It has not done before. How readily
a given colt will learn these lessons
will depend very lurgely upon how
thoroughly that fnit lessou has been
impressed upon It, Complete confl-
deuce in tho friendship and protection
of tho master not only takes away
the terrorn of the new things and the
now experiences Curing the process of
education, but It will continue to be
shown in tha willingness and etfl
clcncy of service. This Id especially
true in times of r.y happenings that
tend to frighten the horso. it Is not
SOLID FOUNDATION WALL,
uncommon for people to be killed by
accidents due solely to the fact that
the horse lacked confidence in the
friendship of his master.
During this process of education
there should be no haste. The in
struction should be given by a man
who possesses a sufficient degree of
patience to allow the colt ample time
to understand what Is wanted of him,
Instead of trying to force him nloDg
through each now performance a
mnn who will not expect the colt to
know ns much as nn old horse or to
have more sense than himself. J. J.
Edgerton. la Twentieth Ceutury
Farmer.
Gate That Cannot Hag.
A subscrllMT sends to the New York
Tribune Farmer n description of a gate
which he constructed several years
ago on a farm where he then lived.
Its great merit Is that it never sags.
pi's-?," t-y-.'',-
THIS OATB CANNOT SAG,
For gate-posts he used 8x8 timber, set
fully twelve feet apart. With the
Idea of letting a load of hay through
the cap piece ought to be fully twelve
feet above the ground, and mny be
advantageously cut out by 0x8 stuff.
The posts should be set in stone or
cement, so ns to be proof against the
action of the frost. A sill or threshold
Is also provided. This should measure
(1x8 or 8x8. and consist of oak or
chestnut. Tho better the timber for
the rest of this frame the longer it will
last.
The full length upright of each gate
Is made from 4x4 hnrdwood scantling.
The upper ends nre rounded, nnd in
serted iu holes bored iu the lower side
of (but not entirely through) the cap
piece. The plus of the lower ends
should be of metal. Pieces of saw
mill plate. In which holes have been
punched, should be fastened to the sill
for these pins to play lu. ThTis the
pins will be kept from wearing the
wood. A similar plate should bo
placed where the gates meet, to ac
commodate the vertical bolt on one of
them. The other gate should have a
latch.
The slates and braces may be mndo
from stuff one nud one-fourth inches
thick and four inches wide. They are
attached to each other and to the up
rights with bolts. The short braces
are on the opposite side of the slats
from the long ones, so that the snino
bolt may go through both where they
overlap. When finished, the frame
nud gates should be well painted.
It will be seen thnt these gates can
be used singly or together, and tbnt
they swing lu either direction. It Is
always a convenience to have n gate
swing away from you, no matter from
which side you approach.
Potato Culture.
Anything under three hundred bush
els of potatoes to un acre should lia
uu unsatisfactory crop where good, in
tensive cultural methods nre practiced,
and this may be surpassed by fifty to
seventy-five bushels In good seasons.
To accomplish this It Is necessary thnt
constant care and watchfulness
should bo given, nnd It may readily
be supposed that anything short of
the best of everything will fail to
make It. To muke a full crop of po
tatoes there must be preparation and
rotation of crops. In order to counter
act the effects of tho rot, scab and
striped beetles. There Is no better
way to get rid of these diseuses tliaii
to turn the land over to grass und
corn after the second year.
A good crop of clover after the po
tatoes will fertilize the laud and make
It ready for a crop of corn or wheat.
which will come In to keep up the av-
erage profit of the land. The mechani
cal conditions of the soli obtained by
tnis rotation helps greatly towards
making the potato crop n large one.
With rich soil obtained lu this way.
and by good manuring and tine seed,
the beginning Is favorable enough to
wurrnut great expectations; but this
may be partly counteracted by bad
seasons. That is something that we
cannot help, but we can get the crop
in such condition that the iujury will
be somewhat limited. I huve raised
three huudred bushels of potatoes to
an uere wheu others have found their
crop cut down to two hundred nud less
by the weather aud diseases. The
whole dllTerei.ee has been in the start
aud the conditions of the soli nud tho
seed. I am wllllug to puy $5 a pound
for early seed thut I know will guur
antee an Improvement over old sorts,
but price is not nlwuys uu accurate
measure of worth. One must be pret
ty sure Hint he is getting whut he Is
bargaln'ng for before paylug that or
any other price.
When the clover is turned under
with the plow the roots of the clover
will be equivalent to a good dressing
with rich manure. The wheat which
may follow will leave plenty of ferti
lizer iu the soli for the crop of pota
toes, aud the early crop will hardly
require uny further fertilizing. Tho
pulverization of tho soil must be made
thorough, for we ennuot get the bind
into any too good condition for tho po
tatoes. Very often the luck of this
prevents the potatoes from tuklug up
from the soli tho rich food they are
entitled to. Tho perfect cultivation
of the soil early in the season enubles
the luud to wurm up so thnt the seed
cuu be put In early, und early pluuting
Is ulways desirable. The potuto will
grow in a comparatively cold soil, and
a low temperature will not kill it so
quickly as some imuglne. It is cer
tainly worth tho effort to gel an early
crop of potatoes, for tho profits are
almost sure to be lurger than for the
later crop. We cannot add very much
to the general knowledge of potato
culture, but a little experience each
year may help, C. L. Keating, In
American Cultivator.
lb' Y '21 I
.New York Clty.-Eau de Nil satin
foulard Is here tastefully combined
With moussellne de sole of the same
shade, and ecru lnce.
The waist has for Its foundation a
SCBPLICE WAIST AND FIVB-OOKKD SKIRT
glove-fltted feather-boned lining thut
closes lu tho centre front. The bnck Is
plain across the shoulders, and drawn
down close to tho belt, where the ful
ucrs is arranged In tiny pleats.
The fronts close In surplice style,
the right side crossing the leXt. The
lace trimming simulates a snllor collar
and extends to the belt. The waist is
open at the neck, a style which will be
very popular during the season.'
Elbow sleeves have comfortable
gathers on the shoulders, find are ar
ranged on fitted arm bands. These nre
made of lace and the ruffle is of mous
sellne. The upper portion- of the skirt is
shaped with five gores fitted smoothly
around the waist nnd over the hips
without darts. The closing Is mndo in
the centre back under two Inverted
pleats which are flatly pressed.
The sash of bluet panne is spangled
with green. It fastens at the left side
In a bow with short loops and loug
TAILORED BniKT WAIST
ends which reach almost to the hem
of tho flounce.
Charming gowns In this modu may
be mo,do of challie, nuns' veiling, nl
batross, barege and Luusdowne, with
lace, velvet, panne or ribbon ruchlug
for trimming. Some lovely soft rib
bons have cords In the ceutrc on which
the ribbon may bo ruffled, aud. these
are much used for decorating thin
dresses.
To make the waist for a miss of
fourteen years will require one and one
quarter yards of forty -four inch mate
rial. To make the skirt In the medium size
will require four yards of forty-four
inch muterlul.
'Waist of the Tailored Order,
Simple shirt waists, of tho tailored
order, are smarter and better liked for
general morning wear than any other
sort. The attractive May Manton
model, shown in tho large illustration,
Includes several novel features, nnd Is
relieved of other severity without los
ing Its essential characteristics. The
original Is made of reseda greeii henrt
etta cloth, with embroidered dots In
black, nud Is worn, with funcy stock
nnd belt 'of bluck Liberty satin, edged
with white; but French unci Scotch
flannels, plain benrictta, albatross, all
waist cloths, simple silks and washable
materials are appropriate.
The foundation, or lining, Is snugly
fitted und terminates at the waist Hue.
Tho fronts of the waist are tucked, in
groups of three each, which are
stitched to the depth of u geuerous
yoke, then allowed to fall in soft, be
coming folds; but the bucks are tucked
for their entire length, and so rendered
quite smooth and free 'of all gathers.
The sleeves are In regulation style,
with the fashionable narrow cuffs, aud
nt the neck the funcy stock is worn
over the collar band that finishes the
neck.
To cut this waist for a woman of
medium size three and one-half yards
of muterlul twenty-one inches wide,
two aud three-fourth yards twenty
seven inches wide, two and three
louith yards thirty-two Inches wide or
NT
two yards forty-four Inches wide will
be required.
A Flounce on the Skirt.
An effective way to Jolu the flounce
to the skirt Is Illustrated in one of the
mode gowns In Liberty satin. The
pattern Is In a black and white scroll
effect on a cafe au lnlt ground. This
Is prettily emphasized with trim
mings of black velvet ribbon, which
also is Introduced at the head of the
flounce. The ribbon Is In graded
widths, tho widest lowest down, and
there are several rows set on a founda
tion of heavy cream colored net. The
whole is then used as a sort of Insertion
between the skirt and flounce, nnd the
net shows through the ribbon to good
ndvautnge. . ,r
Newest Wlillo Wnlst. " "
Absolutely new nnd striking are the
new and white linen shirt waist pat
terns. These nre of a heavy but not
tight weave, and the embroidery on
them Is called English, but It Is Persian
in color, and cord, silk, twine and
Y thread as to material, not to mention
the little tassels thnt are worked into
,lhe design. This gny embellishment Is
on the front, and nlso figures stilfi
cieully for stock and sleeve adornment.
Shaped Laee Garments.
Most of the new lnce robes nre In
Renaissance, nud some of the hand
somest show bold designs In the shnpe
of Liberty satin applique. These nre
seen in both black nnd cream. Grass
linen or sflk bnrege form splendid flornl
appliques for those In twine color. Irish
crochet robes In white or ecru nre the
top of the vogue, and may lie had with
or without the appliques. Irish crochet
waists may also be had separately.
AttraetJTe Gray Hat.
Very attractive Is a gray bat which
has large gray flowers shaped like
small sunflowers, a couple of them nt
the front, the whole hat back of these
being formed of long slender petals
In black", marked with white.
Woman's Tacked Illnuse.
Tucks In all the profusion possible
make a notable characteristic of tho
season's styles, and bodices that close
AND FIVE-GOUED SKIRT.
at the bnck are given a prominent
place. The very pretty simple May
Manton waist shown combines both
features, and Is admirable for all soft
and pliable fabrics, cotton, wool and
silk.
The original is made of fine white
linen dimity and is uullned, but silks
and wools are more satisfactory where
the foundation is used. With the wulst
ore worn a stock and belt of blue louls
lue silk, the stock finished with nn em
broldered turn-over, and the belt held
by a clasp of turquoise matrix.
The foundation is of fitted lining, ou
which the waist proper is arrauged,
aud which closes with the waist, at the
centre bnck. The front is laid out in
narrow tucks of graduated length, that
turn toward the centre and form a deep
point, but tho backs are tucked iu
groups fur their entire length and are
drawn down snugly at the waist line.
The sleeves nro In bishop style, with
narrow pointed cuffs. KAt the neck Is
a stock collar, with protective edges
that ore joined to tho upper edge.
' To cut this waist for a woman of me
dium size three and three-fourth yards
of material twenty-one Inches wide,
three and one-fourth yards twenty-
TUCKKD BLOUSE.
seven Inches wide, two and three
fourth yards thirty-two Inches wide, oi
two and three-eighth yards forty-four
Inches wide will be required.