OUT IN THE FIELDS. Tne little eares tlist fretted me, I lout them yesterday Among the tielilii above the sea, Among the wind at play; Among the lowing of the hcnU, The nutlinK of the trees, 'Among the singing of the birds, numming of the been. THE HOLD-UP AT THE 5QUTH STATION. Br : i. T.ll.l.tlt. JtOK E made gas fit the south J aaaaaa V Ktntion. Our whole li K 0 A O city was supplied by two J( v $ plants, the Kouth nnd west "MCW stations, our at the south being the larger, nnd employing a force of oo men. I had much to learn when I entered the employment of the gas company ns bookkeeper, nnd I enjoyed my discov eries Immensely, among them the fact that water-pas was not made from water; that the hup' round gas holders that were placed In the various city wards were not meters, neither were they tilled to the windows and doors with a great bulk of loose, floating pas which might rush out nt any moment; that a pas plant must have engiucers. d:-if istnen, surveyors, masons nnd builders, besides the host of stokers, boiler tenders, pumpers and yardmen, find that tar and ammonia and coke, as by-products, were turned out from the huge plant, ns well as Its legitimate product of coal and water-gas that kept our city warm nnd bripht of win ter nights. The consulting nnd contracting enei ticer for the whole company was also local superintendent nt these works, nnd n man so enthusiastic. In his pro fession It has never since been my for tune to meet. He had a huge technical library of some Whmi volumes every thing that bore even remotely on pas making and pamphlets nnd magazines from all over the civilized world. His only holidays were trips to attend con ferences of gas men, and his social di versions were occasional evenings epnnt with his confreres. For all this be was the most genial and the most Versatile man I ever knew. Kate I.Ioyd and I hnd very good times nt the south station. Kate was a later comer than I. She came in with Mr. Storer's need for n private secre tary, when his mass of correspondence grow go bulky. If I had been ns ambitious nnd enter prising before Kate's coming as I grew afterward she would never have come, for when Mr. Storer one day remarked that he wished I knew shorthand, I only replied with gmnlne regret that 1 was very sorry I did not. And ns It was five months between that remark nnd the stenographer's coming, I might have given my employer nn ogreeablp surprise by making myself more valuable to him In the meantime. However, that never ent-red my head In those days. "He lit for more than the thing you are doing," I had not then made my motto. Kate I.Ioyd was a new sort of girl to me. She was not willing to be Idle two minutes. When she was not catalog ing hooks or writing her letters or translating French documents she wns practicing touch typewriting, or getting tne to dictate to her In our leisure, for Mr. Storer was often nway for days at a time, and we both had time on our bands. There was no escaping the contagion cf Kate's energy. It seems to have put nomthing Into me permanently that never was th -re before or perhaps it only awoke something that had been asleep. We worked steadfastly and did our work the best we knew how, and then we did other things. Kate told me what I had already discovered, that I was a l.ttle dunce not to learn short hand, nnd she proceeded to tench mo with energy and despatch. Then while I practiced she wanted to know if there was not anything I could teach her, but I could not think of a thing except Instrumental music, and we felt that we really must draw the Hue at a piano at t. e south station. One day Mr. Storer brought the car penters up stairs and set them at some mysterious labor on the roof. We pressed at a flagstaff and n tower and a cupola, but Mr. Storer laughed and Would not tell. lint linally, when the workmen had gone, leaving n rope which passed Into our ottlce through a hole In the ceiling, be bade me pull It. As I obeyed the flith k of a slnn whistle answered. I let go with a fainter echo of my own. "Which was you?" laughed Mr. Sto rer. "It works all right, tlo.'sn't It? Now we won't have to fall hack on the peaking tube, and get Michael to trav el nil over the works, hunting in a hurry for a man he can't find. Miss Kenton, you think up a dozen of the' men we snd for oftenest nnd write them down, nnd we'll see If we can't pet some sounds that they can each answer to. Yes, and we must have a fiier.il cnl! to the oiliee for pay night." And here It was that I really had a bright Idea trys'lf quite worthy of Kate. "O Mr. Storer," I said, eagerly, "let me call t!:e:u by llr.'lr Initials In tlu Morse r.lphaiiet' The unifier mason, Mr. An.old, I'll call A. and then the chief chemist jou ore always wanting, tie ta.i tell Lis own 1 from A. May I how yout" "Co ahead." e ssentd Mr. Htorr, and I laid my hand to the rope and blew: " , dasii-dot-dash, dot dot," twice. It worked beau tifully. "He needn't know the alphabet, of course," I said. In explanation of my Idea, "hut at the same time he ran tell V from A. Ho on wltb all the rest. Shall I make a list, nnd then Kate can typewrite It and bang It here, and I Will put the telegraph letters opposite, o any one of ui can pull the right one by referring to It." ' Mr. Storer thought the Idea excellent, nd approved my list when It was com pleted, merely adding to It: "Six dots AU hand double quick to Engineer's office." , How useful our new whistle proved! The works were huge and shadowy and full of nooks and corners, and a earth for man was sometime a jnattw of hours, but when the whistle The foolish fears of what may happen I cast thrm all away Among the clover-scented grass, Among the new-mown hay: Among the husking of the corn Where drowsy puppies no.l. Where ill thoughts die and good are horn, Out in the fields with God. E. II. Browning. spoke lis voice echoed fur nnd wide across the salt river, on the shore of which, desolate and alone, stood the long, smoke grimed buildings of the south station. Kate was delighted at my telegraphic lore, nnd wished to l arn it nt once. "You told me you didn't know any thing to teach me." she said. "You might have been teaching me the Morse alphabet. Io It now." "Why, what good will it do yon, child? I learned telegraphy nine years ngo, and then took up bookkeeping, nnd never put it to one cent's worth of practical use till this very day." "And isn't that quite enough?" re joined Kate. "I should be glad If I could do as much with anything I had learned. Why, you could call every single man In the works with n two letter combination, couldn't you?" "I suppose so," I said, absently. "See here, Kate, I believe I could tench you telegraphy down here, after all. I have n little Instrument nt home, nnd Mr. Hale could tlx us up a battery If Mr. Storer Is willing. He has every thing iu the laboratory. We'll usk him." Mr. Storer. on application, proved perfectly willing. He knew almost everything himself, it seemed to me, nnd he appreciated the desire of other people to learn tilings. He superin tended the construction of the battery with the liveliest Interest, and then as tonished me beyond measure by sitting down to the keyboard when it got Into running order and clicking off uonchul nnly on the sounder. "Well, how Is It? All right?" And to our ejaculations he said, with a twinkle In his eyes ns he hurried off to some construction work. "I wns stranded down In Mexico once, nnd had to work my way home. I tried tele graphing." "Kid you eve: see such n cosmopo lite?" nsked Kat. as he hurried nway. "Austria, Russia, China. California nnd now Mexico! The other day. In that consultation, you know, the New York man said. 'Where did you get that Idea of the roof nrh? That seeras an ex cellent thing.' 'Oh, that's a little point I got in Hungary.' said Mr. Storer, In nn every-day voice, nnd went on talk ing. Shall I know half us much when I'm his age?" "You will if your present thirst for knowledge holds good," I laughed. "Well, now, pet your chair, nnd I'll teach you the alphabet by sound. Oh, what fun this Is!" We certainly did have good times nt the south station. One winter evening it wns pay night, nnd Mr. Storer had gone up town with the pay roll we sat nt work, Kate In the outer office, which was separated by n wrought Iron lat ticework from the inner one, where I was busy straightening out the books for the last month. The cheml.sU were In the works, pet ting bottlefuls of nauseating gas stuffs for analysis; the draftsmen and assist ant engineers had strayed afar, bound on various errands. We had the up per floor quite to ourselves. It was n cohl night and growing dnrk. Iown below, at the olllce en trance, I could see. even through the dark, the white linen cuffs nnd hoods that gleamed against the sombre at tire of two Catholic sisters. It was their custom to nppenr promptly nt the works on pay nights, nnd to stand mod estly and silently, with downcast eyes, nt the pates, to receive offerings from the workmen ns they passed out in line, opening their yellow pay envel opes. It was cold nnd growing colder, but the sisters stood there patient, motion less. The paymaster wos late, I thought, as I looked at the clock.' Slid denly I became aware, through the monotonous click of Kate's typewriter, of a sort of repetition In the sound. My ear. trained to the spacings of the telegraph alphabet, spelled out over nnd over the word, "Kllu! Ella!" my own name, I looked out with n smile, about to make some amused comment on Kate's discovery that the typewriter key made nn excellent substitute for the key of n telegraph sounder, tut something strained anil unusual In her look nnd the pallor of her usu ally rosy face deterred me. "Don t speak: the key went on. "Look away'." I did so, much wondering, nnd with my heart beginning to beat unconifort ably fust. "A man has come up stnlrs and crawled Into the laboratory," went on the Improvised key, slowly spplllng out the words. "He thinks I dou't seo Mm." Like a flash the situation dawned upon me. The works stood on the dark, deserted outskirts of the city and the paymaster, who drove down In a little light bhggy, always brought o second man and a revolver with him to guard against highwaymen. The works wero generally well watched within. What ndvers" fate was it that bad emptied the office building to night? What should I dot If there was one man already up stairs, of course there wna another one somewhere perhaps two or three others, I rose, bumming careless song, put ting Into It. I am sure, a most a,rtltlc tremolo without the slightest effort. "I think I'll finish my tubulating on the other machine!" I called out to Kate, and whipped the cover off a long carriage typewriter that stood by me. Inserting for form's sake a long sheet of paper, with trembling Augers I rapped out: "I understand. Can you tell If an other one cornea up?" "Yes; I see the stairway," answered Kate. "No one lo sight, "Is It too dark to see the road bom your window? Could you scream out and warn the men as tliey come down the hill?" "Can't see the hill," answered the chattering typewriter. "Pnn't dare move. Think he has me covered with revolver." In spite of my fright I could but mar vel nt Kate's admirable composure. She sat tapping nwny nt her machine, pausing now and then with a little puz zled frown, with a pretense of deci phering the notes In her book. I thought fast. Could I write a note nnd tosa it down to those two silent sisters below? It was too dark. They would take It for a mere waste scrap of paper, and I dared not call out. "Another man." ticked the machine, monotonously. "He has stopped on the landing In dark corner. Not coming up." "Shall I call from my window?" said the long carriage machine. "No, no." answered the other. "Walt till we hear the wheels, at least." "Don't you move, whatever yon do." I snld. "I'll try to call from the toilet room window. Some one may see me." I rose, and still humming my cure less song, walked across Into the safe liMle Inner room nnd flung the window up. Outside all was silence nnd dark ness. If only n workman would stroll within that Illuminating band of light that the lamp threw! At that moment I heard the light rumble of wheels. A wild Impulse seized me to fly back to the outer olllce, fling up lho window and warn the un suspecting paymaster. Then I caught sight of the whistle rope. In an In stant I sprang to K well out of sight of the crouching Intruders nnd blew for dear life, over nnd over, the six short blasts of the "hurry-up" call. Crisp nnd clear It shrieked. In what Kate used to sneak of afterward as angel tones." "All hands double quick to thn engineer's office!" They poured In from every quarter, heard the crunch of me.ny feet upon the gravel. Never was a more web-nine sound. Snfe now from fear of detec tion, I re-entered the toilet room, closed the door behind me, flung up the window, nnd called out to the won dering crowd below: "Two men are up here with pistols. waiting to waylay the paymaster!" I heard the enlls, the sudden shifting of pressure; I saw the throng pour In below; I knew they would not come up stairs unarmed, nnd I flew back to see what had befallen Kate. Hut too bewildered to connect the alarming shriek of the whistle on the roof with the girl who still sat evoking meaningless words from her faithful mnchlne, two men darted by her and .lumped out of the laboratory windows to the yard below. One fell heuvily nnd wns picked up unconscious. A revolver lay beside him. The other man never wos cap tured, although the hue nnd cry was hot nfter him. It was found that he boarded a car nt the nearest point, nnd after that nil trace was lost. Kate and I were regarded ns gront heroines, nnd Mr. Storer was never tired of joking us on our burglar alarms nnd pretending to poke fun nt us. Hut we heard from many quarters that ho felt very proud of his nsslst- nnts. We still cherish, ench of us, a sheet i of paper covered with typewritten characters that seem destitute of all sense, but wo read between the lines nnd they mean n great deal to us. Youth's Companion. rannda Finos Tne For Ilng-flsh. Instead of offering a bounty for the destruction of dogfish, the Canadian (iovernment has' decided to establish three reduction plants to convert the llsii Into fertilizer nnd glue. They will cost $9000 ench, nnd the Government itself will operate the plants, paying the fishermen a good prize for their fish offal nnd for all tho dogfish they can bring In. It Is claimed that the venture can be made to yield a satisfactory profit. It Is calculated that the price paid for dog fish nnd the desire of the fishermen themselves to get rid of the nuisance will be Incentives enough to them to keep the reduction works suppl'oa with nil the material they require. Kennebec Journal. A Woman's Derision. From Geneva It Is reported thnt a sanguinary duel was fought la the woods nesr Belllnzor.a between a journalist nnd a rich tradesman, both, of whom belong to Venice. Sabres were the wenpons used. Both men were excellent swordsmen and the en counter lasted teu minutes, when the Journalist Inflicted a horrible gash on his adversary's cheek, almost cutting away the lower part of his face. The' quarrel was over a woman, who de clared, nfter It was over, thnt she would have nothing to do with either of them, ns the one wos too disfigured by the wounds and the other was too bloodthirsty. Would Not lie a Mouser. Owing to the enormous Increase la the number of field mice on the estate of the chairman of the local school board nt Negouitz, In Bavaria, that gentleman pave the school children mouse holidays" to enable theu to entch the rodents. Ou the teacher remonstrating, he was told that If he were "a rteernt sort of fellow" he would lrclp the children to trap mice. After waiting somo days he hod t'-io children's parents fined for not sending then to school, with tlie result fiat lie hlnself was promptly dlsmlsseC frcu his post. Loudon World. Joke Wat nn Her. "Do you know yoi.r sermon on cov- etorsncss last Sunday grievously of fended and disgusted Brother 1'neerV" The Itev. K. Mowatt Lalght ly replied: "Aha! I shall have to tell my wife that. It's a good one on ber. She contended all the way home from church that morning that there wasn't a man In the audience who had paid the slightest attention to the ser mon." Chicago Tribune. Aftftanl Diamond Output. Mr. Louis Tas, one of the best known diamond brokers, estimates the output of the De Beers mines annually at $10,000,000, and of other mines at SI, 500,000. Add to this the coat of la bor, the profits of the syndicate, etc., and he thluks that the aunual output f diamoDda U worth about fiVfiWpW. Hog nints. The man who la feeding bogs on fifty and sixty-cent corn Is bidding for red Ink on his side of the ledger. And the man who Is keeping hogs without feeding them tins the red ink already. Enrich the bog pastures. Encourage the clover, rape nnd stock peas. The Male Bird. When selecting male birds with a view to propagating flesh and prolific laying, they should be moderately short-legged, unless the hens are very low In stature, and even then short legs should be preferred for compact ness and growth of flesh, for the cock erels from a sire having long legs are npt to be stilted, nnd they do not put on flesh kindly. The sire should have a broad, full and round breast, broad back, to secure plumpness and com pactness of flesh in the offspring. Keep Tools Clean. In no other way can good, thorough work bo done to quickly nnd easily ns with tools kept In nice working order. And nfter you are through with them, store them away In it dry place. Have a place for every tool nnd put It in Its place. When you lay thein nway coat nil steel pnrts with oil mixed with white lead or lard and kerosene, the latter to prevent the mice nnd rats from eating off the grease. Then In the spring when you draw out the tools you will have no trouble In petting them to do good service. E. L. Morris, lu The Eplto uilst. Onions Versus Striped Beetle. Frequently persons iuquiiv how to raise cucumbers, squashes or melons so as to avoid the raVnges of the striped beetle (diabrotien vlttatat. During the last ten years I have had no trouble with the beetle. Tills is what I have been doing: When I plant cucumbers, which are planted iu hills five or six seeds to the hill, I stick into each hill two or three small onions. The beetles always give my cucumber or melon patch a wide berth. There is no loss; the cucumbers grow just ns well ns if the onions were not there nnd when the cucumbers are done bearing I pet several messes of pood onions. J. W. F. Copenhenver, In The Epltomist. To Do I Id lp l'oultry. A correspondent writes that he has enough feed to carry 200 or more hens through the winter, some good houses to care for them In, nnd wants to go into the poultry business. Natur ally he does not wish Jo buy high In price thoroughbreds nor to wait sev eral months to raise chickens from eggs. I'nder the conditions mimed the best thing would be to go into the open poultry market and buy hens thnt are offered for sale alive; if one -Is a fair judge of poultry and will look around carefully he will be able to pick up a number of year-old hens, mainly of tho heavier breeds, that nre of pretty good stock and he can buy them tit n price which will be made pood iu the eggs they will lay under proper care nnd rations. In the spring quite a number of these bens will want to sit, nnd then eggs of thoroughbreds may be bought or an Incubator used nnd a fine flock of high-grade birds obtained for the sec ond winter, the old hens furnishing the egg supply for the summer nnd many of them will lay Into the winter. When they stop th-jy can bo fattened nnd prepared for the holiday market. We do not know of any better or quicker way to get n start In the poul try business than this, provided always that one has some experience lu the work. Indianapolis News. nivlillns ft Slalt. In some bnrns the stalls are suffi ciently wide so that they may be di vided when occasion requires if some temporary division can be easily made, put In place nnd removed when desired. A plan for doing this Is shown lu the Illustration. A gate Is made of proper material reaching from tlte mnnger to the end of stall. The post of this gate as the end Is made about n foot longer thnn the lower rail and a hole Is mude In the floor through which this post is slipped when put In position and thus DIVISION FOB A STALIm I mes the gate or fence firm. At the manger end tho gate Is fastened by a pair of gnto hinges. Two stiff sticks are fastened to the joist nbove with a bolt, one over the manger end and one over the other end. In the lower end of each of these sticks a notch Is cut which comes over a staple and holds It, the fence, firm. When the fence Is not In use it may be lifted from the hinges and put away and the sticks folded up against the joists. The Illustration shows , the points mentioned clearly. The cost of such a contrivance will be small and It will he found exceedingly useful. . flora Talk. The owner should study each horse and know his retirements. There is no excuse for a horse being lu poor condition. . ... . . The first cause Is always neglect or abuse. It is money out of pocket to let a horse run down. A little coddling over small details will make all the difference between a heartbroken nag and on that you will be proud to show in any company, The other day I was In the stable of a man who evidently works on the plan that once a week Is often enough to clean out the horse stable. The horses themselves looked as If they felt abused in ho worst way. I believe it does take the pride out of borta to be neglected that waj. Do i IK not do it! Clean the horses nnd their stables every day, If you have to sit up at nights to do It. The surest 'way to raise colts that will match, Is to breed to the same thoroughbred sire year after year. I heard a man get a good scolding from bis blacksmith the other day, because he did not soak a horse's feet that were tender. The blacksmith de clared that the horse's feet would pain him far less If be were permitted to stand In a tub of water every day for a while. Something In that, too. Drive a nail lu ench side of the stall, high enough up to be out of the horse's reach, and bang the lantern on this when cleaning him off In the morning before daylight. Always hang the lan tern up; never set It dowu on the floor. Have n mnne comb on your curry comb, and use It Tim, lu the Farm Journal. Home-Marie Water Fountain, While any plan that will furnish fresh water for the poultry nt nil times Is to be commended, the trouble Is thnt most plnns require the expenditure of more time than most men are willing to give the work. A few home-made fountains like thnt Illustrated will snve time nnd give the fowls the wnter they want. Take one or more tight kegs, according to the number of fowls to be supplied, and In the side of each near the bottom bore a bole, Into which set a common wooden faucet. Set the keg up off the ground high enough to get a tin basin under It (one of the low In price ngnte basins would be bet ter, for it will not rust), using a basin holding two quarts of water. Adjust the fnucet so that the water will drop slowly Into the basin. The overflow will not be sufficient to make the ground muddy about the keg, for the fowls will keep the water pretty well consumed. When placing the basin the first duy fill it about half full before adjusting the faucet for drop ping. It these kegs are placed out of doors locate them where they will be in the shade most of the day, place a board over the top, and on thnt a lot of grass to assist In keeping the water in the keg cool. This same appliance will work well during the winter. Ia- dlunapolis News. The Labor on the Farm It matters not whether the farmer buys his labot or performs it himself, it must be paid for. He will not con sider himself satisfied unless he Is re munerated for every hour's time be devotes to the working of a crop, or on any special plot of ground. But, ns a rule, fanners are prone to give more work on some locations than Is neces sary under curtain conditions. It la a waste of time and labor to cultivate two acres If a larger crop can be se cured, proportionately, on one. One acre may not support a farmer, but the rule is applicable to larger areas. lie should not cultivate fifty ncres If be can secure better results from twenty five. It will pay him to realize seventy-five bushels of corn, or twenty-five bushels of wheat perncre, from twenty five acres, while he may" lose money If be secures fifty bushels of corn or twenty bushels of wheat per acre, from fifty acres. It Is not the gross amount of produce be receives that pays, but the net. It requires more time to spread a given amount of manure upon two acres than upon one, and, so far os cultivation is concerned, the cost 18 double. Now, all this extra work may be thrown away If the farmer can, by lessening the urea, devote more time nnd attention to a smaller space. There will be less hurry, more thorough culti vation, greater facility in harvesting, fewer laborers and better condition of the working stock. It Is In the correct application of labor that the profits nre derived. It may be wasted or mis applied, and thus cause bankruptcy iusteud of prosperity. Lara Llltar. There Is a wide difference in the bauk account of the breeder whose, sows bring and raise him ten or twelve pigs at a litter and the one whose sows only average four or five pigs at a litter. Hence it is materially to the interest of the pig raiser to discard all sows thnt do not bring a good sized litter and raise them. It Is true thnt this Is not such an Important consid eration with the professional breeder who rnlses pigs to sell at fancy prices to others; because if his sow only brings four or five pigs they should be very fine at weaning time and possibly one or two of the Utter command an extra fancy price as a show pig or herd header, but for the average breeder who looks to the pork barrel, the rock upon which the bog business Is founded, for bis dividends, then the amount of pigs raised Is a very im portant item to him. If the brood sow be well fed while suckling, a litter of ten should at weaning time ba just ai large framed as a Utter of five, though the smaller litter may average more flesh. . Figuring on ten at a Utter and two litters a year and the pigs at slaugh tering time to be worth say f 10 each, then there would be a difference of $100 in favor of the litter of ten over the litter of fire. And on a herd of live aows $500. True, It takes more to rear and fat ten the larger litter, but not twice aa much, while the gross value is double. Tho Druid says: "In truth, an aged boar should be burled with all the honors and turn, like 'Imperial Caesar to clay and not to bacon.". Wages for common laborers In Ira land are almost double what they were twelve years ago. ' New York Clty.-Tncked coats worn with belts that confine them at the back and sides are exceedingly be coming to young girls and are among misses' tucked coat. the latest and most attractive models Shown. This very excellent example Is adapted both to the costume and to the genera) wrnp and to the mnny materials of the season, but is shown In a mixed brown velvet edged with tancy braid. The long Hues of the front, provided by the tucks which pass over the belt, add grootly to the style and mnke a specially noteworthy feature. The sleeves nre the new ones thnt are full nt the shoulders and are finished with roll-over cuffs. The coat is mnde with fronts, bnck and under-nrm gores, and is finished at the neck with a simple roll-over collar. The sleeves nre full and nre pleated Into bands that are concealed by the cuffs. The belt Is ndjusted over the back and fronts to the centre tucks, where It pnsses through open- A Late Design lngs left for the purpose und Is closed invisibly. The quantity of material required for the medium size is five yards twenty seven Inches wide, two and three fourth yards forty -four Inches wide, or two aud one-eighth yards fifty-two inches wide, with one-half yards of velvet and one and three-fourth yards of braid to trim as Illustrated. Doulilo-Qullltid Crown Baud. The crown bunds on huts Intended to be worn on cool mornings lu the mountains are quite different than any thing seen before. To begin with, they resemble a cart ridge bult more than anything else, and have a double tier of quilling of ribbons u round the crowu. The lower quilling is of light-colored rib bon, the upper one a very durk shade of the -same color pr of bluck If white be used for the lower tier. The ribbon used U of a heavy, handsome quullty. . The quilling Is stiff enough to stuud up like a stockade around the crown. r The light-colored tier comes up outside or the, lower edge of the durk quilling, and is also broad enough to He out Oat for a little on the brim of the felt bat. Cream-colored felt bats are band, some thus trimmed wltb two shades of brown ribbon or wltb cream and deep leaf brown. A swirling plume of white cock's feathers, poised slightly to the left of the front, falls down over the broad belt of double .quillings.,' - w , . - ? " 4 h ' la Hrovs Baavar. " , A lovely' brown beuver turban la val uable In two ways, besides Its beauty. It shows that Paris has decided to divorce brown aud orange, and Intro duces us to a new trlcorue! I This cbiruilrie; trlcorue turban Is doubly three cornered. The crowu lu , the flrgt plpe , ,.,,. rorllprcd th. beaver skirt being most deftly manlp ulated. The brim Is likewise shaped, pointing well nt the front. Folds of brown tulle cover the h-indenu and the edge of the brim If decked with two tiny brown taffeta plea tings with three rows of mat beads between them. The two outpr rows of beads are brown, tn centre one being, no. not nrangp. but 8 delicate apple green. At the left front on the under side ( r the brim, Is a brown bird, or rather, the fore pnrt of a bird. From tills bird sweeps a splen did paradise plume which shades from soft brown to delicate apple green. It Is n chef d' oenvre. "Knlrkrn" For School 3lrls. For school girls plain serge and Scotch plnlds will be the favorite ma terials. Up to fourteen years the choice of mnke is between the sailor suit nnd the Russlau-blonse frock. Girls from eight to four:"ti years wear knickerbockers for school and play time instead of petl 'coats under their dress skirts now; the practical side of (his fashion has recommended it to most mothers who hove the comfort of their children at heart. 'These knick erbockers are made to match the dress In winter of serge. In summer of ging ham or linen. Fashion Number of Harper's Bazar. For Brkrtiit, A pretty matinee set seen recently had the Jacket made in bolero shape. This, like the skirt, was trimmed with quantities of fluffy luce. Kilted Skirt With Hound Yoke. Skirts that are pleated below a smooth fitting yoke ore among the smartest of nil smart things for the coming senson and will be worn for all street costumes. This one Is pe culiarly chic and attractive and is so arranged as to give n plain effect at the front, which Is always desirable. As Illustrated. It is made of cheviot In mixed shndes of brown and tan, trimmed with handsome brown braid, by May Manton. but Is suited to all seasonable mate rials. As a matter of course the trim ming can be varied to suit Individual taste, but the little straps coming from beneath each pleat are eminently styl ish and attractive. The skirt is put In seven gores and la laid lu backward turning pleats which meet at the centre buck, where the closing is mude. The yoke is circular and Is stitched to the skirt with cor tleelll silk, the trimming straps con ceallns the seam at sides mid hnck. J As illustrated, It is made lu instep length, which Is the prevailing oue for the Incoming season, but cau be mude still shorter whenever desired. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is eight and one-half V tlLTSD SKIRT W1TU BOUVD TOEH. yards twenty-seven indies wiJo, fir and one-fourth yards forty-four inches) wide, or flvo yard flfty-two tncbaa wkl .....
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