Mi JOX. HE groaning and croaking Sf If Italian vehicle struggled O I O upon Its upward course, X X nnil those who sat within TlMf swayed, and Jerked, nnd Jolted as the almost springless win-els bumped upon the uneven roadway. Now nnd iiiiair. a particularly deep rut gave tin carriage such n shake that the passengers all swung forward toward one another, as though the con versation had heroine of such a char acter that it must bo whispered with their cheeks almost touching. And then the recoil Hung tiietn back, and some groaned, while others, who were younger, laughed. The day was stifling, and the sky as bine as steel, with a blazing heat that seemed to have become soldid In Its Intensity, and could bo almost grasped nnd poured through the hand like burn ing, blistering sand. Away In the dis tance stretched the marvelous pano rama of the Uny of Naples, and ahead there rose the swelling Mldos of Ve suvius, over which hung in the sultry nir nn almost motionless plume of smoke. The road lay nil uplilil. and the driver puffed nt his foul-smelling cigar and called upon his patron saint to help him nnd his beasts as they struggled onward with the heavy, lumbering car nage behind them. The .-un flung Its scorching rays upon the du. road, and Hie road flung theui bach The carriage jolted nnd Jarred onwai ever upward. The beg pars whined at.'l quarreled. The trav elers laughed or grumbled, accordiiu to their flge, sex and tendencies toward lumbago, nnd tiie driver, still invoking the aid of his saint, thought of what he would charge for such a Journey, bas ing his argument on the theory that only foreigners or fools would go sight seeing in such weather. Vet the occupants of the carriage were not all fools. They consisted of five travelers, whom chance and cir cumstance had thrown together In the pleasant but distinctly tiresome occu pation of giobc-trotting. The most distinctive member of the party was a good-tempered American, who had kept them all comparatively cheerful with his quain: comments upon Continental customs as compared with the States. He wos a tall, well-built man, a shade under forty, with clear-cut, sensitive features, a full mustache, nnd eyes in which there was always a world of kindliness, and often a twinkle of sar castic amusement as he talked of the follies of life. There were four other travelers two Englishmen, of whom little need be said, except that they represented the. antipodes of manhood, nnd two girls, who, being pretty and in the flush of youth, shone vividly by contrast with the exotic beauties of Italy. Colonel Ii.-inhury commenced talking, and when he talked the other two men were generally silent Lawrence Bar ton. the. American, listened because It amused him to listen, nnd Edward Denby because it was too much trouble to contradict anybody. The latter In dividual counted himself fortuuate In being brother to the two lady members of the party, and willingly left all plans nnd arrangements to them, ad mired them as pretty girls, nnd allowed them to spoil tiini to their hearts' con tent. Colonel Hanbury was talking, and. ns befitted a colonel of a select militia corps, a self -Made man. and a man who had been so busy making money that he had forgotten to look anywhere around the world except in his own, till he was, to use the apt expression, "laying down the law." "Don't talk to me. sir," he exclaimed, In a stentorian voice. "It's utter rub bish! It's simply a Yankee yarn!" " 'TIs true, I assure you," the Amer ican answered, with a good-tempered laugh. "Our train was held up, a dozen men boarded It. und in ten min utes they had cleaned every valuable out of the lot of us. The Job cost me $5001 ought to remember it." "What n country:" the colonel shout ed. "What a country! And you call America civilized, I suppose, Mr. Bar ton ?" "Fairly civilized, colonel. Of course, we're younger than England, so we can't expect to be so far advanced." "Got you there, colon: 1," Kdward Denby murmered, softly. "What do you mean, sir?" Colonel llanbury bawled, fixing the Indolent young man with a glare In his eye. "How has he got me? Where has he got me?" "Something about holding up trains In America, wasn't it?" "Holding up fiddlesticks! The next thing we shall hear will be the robbing of the Brighton Tollman!" Colonel Hanbury evidently expected a further retort, but the young man shook bis head slowly, and then Just as slowly nodded It, and by the satisfied look upon the colonefs face, lie evi dently counted that criticism was dis armed. "I'd like to see a man rob me!" the colonel exelali led, fiercely. "Well, you've got awfully odd tastes," Edward softly answered, with innocent misunderstanding. "Personally, It's the last thing I should wish for. Swu my cigarette case, Cissy?" "Yes-yon put It lit your right-lmnd pocket, dear." "And your matches are In your vest pocket, Teddy." "Good g'is!" Teddy remarked, ap provingly, ns a dive into each pocket brought out the desired articles. "(Jood girls! I don't know what I should do without you." "I expect you'll Dnd out one of these days," Lawrence Barton exclaimed, with a laugh. "Providence won't give you two sisters to wait on you all your llfe"--and he looked at tho trio with a twinkle in his eye, for, In the week during which they had been thrown to gether, ho had somehow grown at tached to the humorously Indolent brother and bis pretty guardians. "I'd like to see any man rob me!" the colonel viciously repeated, "Jiy dear colonel," Edward answered, puffing contentedly at his cigarette, 'ou'r simply making yourself au ac ELD UP!" BY HUAN MEE. cessory before the fact by Inviting our rascally-looking driver to come down and appropriate one of those tiny, gen teel diamond rings of yours." The colonel's diamonds were of the size classed as decanter stoppers, and Edward's mild satire was greeted with reproving frowns from his sisters. There was silence for a moment, nnd then came a sound like n very energetic man at wor': upon an abnormally dusty ca rpet. "I do wish you'd tell that man to let the horses alone. Teddy," one of the girls exclaimed, with a frown upon her pretty face "It makes me wretched to hear him." "Let the poor beasts lake it quietly!" Teddy cried sharply to the driver, and, receiving only n scowl in answer, he turned from Italian and addressed the occupants of the carriage, and particu larly Ids sisters. In Indolent English. "The worst trait of a woman," he murmured, philosophically, "Is that she has no sense of proportion. She'd use the same switch to punish nn elephant as she'd Just made n puppy howl with, be surprised that the elephant took it as n caress, and think all the time what the blow would have meant upon her own little knuckles." The brow of the bill was reached, the carpet-beating finished In a cres cendo bang, and the horses started forward at n gallop, which flung the occupants of the carriage almost Into one another's arms. "There's the proof of my theory," Teddy continued. "The horses have just realized that our particularly handsome and gentlemanly driver wishes them to accelerate their pace, and Cissy hns been thinking all the time what n similar encouragement to move would have felt like to her, over looking the fact that the skin of a horse and the skin of a human being differ in thickness. A thoughtful Providence, foreseeing that n horse would have to endure a certain amount of energetic encouragement, fitted the beast with a hide to bear It, just In the same manner as Providence has given a thick skin to young politicians and struggling au thors; but a woman cannot see things In the same light. She fancies " A sudden jerking of the carriage dis turbed the serenity of the Juvenile philosopher's thoughts. Another beg gar stood and blocked the way. The driver could have passed him, but be tugged at the reins nnd drew the horses from a gallop to a walk, and them held them stationary as the man stood by the carriage door.' This pleader for alms was different from those whom they had overtaken nnd passed upon tin; load. A picturesque fellow, tall nnd swarthy, handsome as Apollo, with a figure as lithe and active as an athlete, he looked like an opera! ic beggar, whose lags were assumed, whose trade was pretense. I His broad-brimmed sombrero swept the dust as he bowed to the occupants of the carriage. "I'.uon di. signorilas! Iiuon d, sg nori!" There was something irresistible in the happy-go-lucky, jaunty, swaggering demeanor of the man. He was a men dicant who seemed not to beg, but to demand n present for the sake of camaraderie. Even the colonel was won by the Im pudent smile upon the fellow's fuce, nnd he Hung n lire Into the fellow's hat. and two more clinked against it ns the other masculine travelers fol lowed his lead. The man collected the coins nnd dropped them Into his pocket. "A thousand thanks, signori," be cried, "a thousand thanks!" Again his hat swept the dust: again his head, covered with crisp, curling hair, bent In mock humility before them; again his dark eyes Hashed ad miration at the English girls, and again tho hat was held toward the men. "Times are bad." he said, with a laugh, and bis eyes twinkled with mer riment, "crops are poor, visitors are lew. and even such as I, signer!, must live." "You're au Impudent', lazy young scamp!" Teddy exclaimed. "I wager you've never dime an honest dav's work in your life." He dropped another coin Into the man's hat, with a reproving' shake of the head. "There you are! Now clear off! Drive on, coachman!" The driver made no attempt to move, nnd the thought came to tho mlndst of all that this man was not a beggar. "Do you want more?" one of the girls exclaimed, and her face grew Just a trifle paler. "I want nothing from yon, signoritu," lie answered, with an Impudent flourish of his hat, "nothing from f on; a glance from your eyes has repaid me for my long sojourn in the heat of the day."' "But from us, I guess, you want aliout all we've got," Lawrence Barton Interjected, reaching toward his hip pocket. "Don't move signore!" the man cried. "Don't move your hand! Your revolv er's no good. Look over my head!" Lawrence Barton Instinctively i aland his eyes above the Italian's head, and his glance fell upon the barrel of a rllle poised upon u rock not tlfty puces from him. "I guess you take th pool," he said, composedly; then ho laughed as though the whole thing were a Joke. "Tliltf Is what we call being "held up,' In the United States, colonel," he cried, with a malicious merriment. "This fiiilllis your desires. You said you'd like to see n man rob you. Heboid the swarthy brigand who is going to do It!" The colonel's face grew redder, and uimost reached purple under tho whip of bis rising indignation. "Does tiie man realize thnt wo are English?" "11 must," Teddy Denby Imperturb ubly answered, "or bo wouldn't have stopped us." "Hut, Heaven bless us, you don't mean to sey you're going to sit hern nnd let this dirty, blnck-gunrdly, evil- looking " He struggled for more epithets, but, ps they came not, content ed himself by shaking his list In the brigand's face, who iignin bowed and swept the dusty road with a graceful flourish of 1)U bat Then be .eplaced It upon his bend and sprang, upon the step of tho car riage. "The pleasantry Is over, signori your purses and jewels! Each of you Is cov prod by n rllle--the road Is lonely, nnd I have no time to waste. As your countrymen put It, 'Your money or your life!'" "Any good making a fight for It, Pnrton?" Teddy Denby nsked. In his accustomed Indolent voice, glancing across at the American. "Not n bit of It, my lad. Throw your watch, and chnln, nnd your gold Into tbe gentleman's hat, and let it go at that." "How about the girls?" "I don't rob woman," the brigand In terjected. "It Is your beautiful " "None of that!" Teddy exclaimed, as he dropped his purse, and his watch and chain Into the mnn's hat. "I've no doubt you're a credit to your profes sion: but don't lay it on too thick." The American's valuables followed those of the Englishman, and the Ital ian carelessly thrust them Into tho pocket of his Jacket. "And you, signore!" he cried, look ing townrd Colonel Hanbury. "You will contribute, for It Is really for you I have waited so long. These trifling gifts nre so small, compared with tho value of your diamonds." "I was afraid those decanter stoppers would be seen," Teddy murmured, softly. "Hasten, signore!" the Italian ex claimed, with a fiercer ring In his voice. "Hasten!" "Not If I " Colonel Hanbury pnused, for there wns something In tho glitter of the man's eye which held him, nnd something only a few pnees from bis bend which stopped bis bom bastic language ns it hud never been stopped before. "Hasten, signore!" "I'll have the police after you for this!" the colonel spluttered, turning one of the largest rings upon bis finger. "Maybe, signore," the man an nounced, with a careless shrug of the shoulders. "We are used to It. We shall be far away before the chase com mence. They will never catch us, whether they pursue us for accepting the gifts you are about to offer or whether it should be beeaure a nervous finger Is pressed too roughly upon tho trigger of a rifle say the rifle looking at your own forehead." The gallant English colonel seemed to shrink nnd become smaller as be glanced out of the corner of bis eyes, and then, with trembling lingers, he drew off his lings and dropped them Into the outstretched hand. , "And your breast pin, signore!" 1 Tbe Italian leaned forward and deftly extracted the ostentatious ornament from the mnn's tie; then he jumped down from the step of the carrluge into the dusty road again, and carelessly dropped his bnul Into the pocket of bis cont. For n few seconds he stood gnzlng nt those whom he hod despoiled, a swarthy, Impudent specimen of man hood. Two out of the men In the carrlnge felt just a little elated that their bois terous, overbearing companion had been hoist by his own petard, and In that feeling they, for the moment, for got their own losses. Teddy slowly rubbed his chin nnd mulled, and Law rence Parton, nfter n lialf-glnuce at the frightened faces of the two girls, looked nt the collapsed colonel and chuckled. "And now, Rlgnorl," the polite foot pad exclaimed, "addio!" He drew a gold-mounted cigar case from his pocket and exteuded It townrd them. "You will enjoy a good clgnr as you chut over your adventure. I know these are good. The clgnrs and tho case were given to mo near this very spot." "Well, for cool audacity you take the bun!" Teddy exclaimed. "If you were In England, I'd forgive nil your vil lainy nnd ask you to look me up nt my club" and he helped himself to a cigar. The American followed his example, but the colonel only groaned in anguish ns the same compliment was extended tp hi in. "Till we meet ngaln, signorl!" "May the time be a long way off! Your friendship Is too expensive." "Drive on. Don't turn rouud, siguori don't stop. It is dungerous." The man darted from the roadway nnd disappeared, and, as though tho coachman had been waiting for nn ex pected signal, the horse' bounded for ward at u gallop. "He's light about tlu clears," Teddy remarked, quietly; "this Is a beauty." "Put expensive," Lawrence Barton answered, with i laugh. "H'm! Yes. Twenty-live pounds nnd a presentation watch urd chain." "Teddy, I'm ashamed of yo"!" The sentence came with r. s nip. "Why didn't you do soniet'-i'rgV" "Why didn't you, Cissy?" "It was those horrible guns," she said. Irritably. "I'm always afraid they'll go off." "The fear runs In tho family, my denr," he answered, mildly. "That's precisely the reason why, to use your own expression, I diddn't do some thing." "You're very sensible to have taken It ns you did," Lawrence Barton re marked. "Believe me, Miss Denby, It is so. That man had a veneer of good temper, but he'd have shot the one who resisted. I know the Italian brigand a little, and, as I told the colonel a short while back, I know something ubout being 'held up.' " "And I know something about the law, even if It's only a rascallly Ital ian law!" Colonel Hanbury exclaimed, with a scowl. "I'l have that man hunt ed down and Imprisoned, If I have to get at blm through the English Foreign Ofllce! I'll tench him what It Is to rob nn Englishman! I'll show him that we nre u nation not to be trifled with! I'll have Ii 1 in hunted down If we have to search the whole of Italy, the rascally, thieving villain! I'll lot hlin see " "You ought to have lmd a cigar," Teddy Interrupted. "They're beauties, colonel, and so soothing." "And you've bad your wish gratified, you know," said Lawrence, with some thing approaching a chuckle. "You hnve been 'held up!'" New York Weekly. In some German towns children are allowed to travel free on the local train way cars If tbey art under a cer tain height, which is marked on the doors (it tue vehicle. liaising- Plus. Tig raising Is, no doubt, a very prof itable business where cheap food can be had from city garbage, else so lunnv of the extensive fni-nior. unnr the cities would not persist In swine breeding year nfter year: so well, In fact, does the business pay that the llCnrbV farmers soniptltiifie nrnvnaa wonder Hint more Is not done In the pig raising line on the back farms, wnere ine rood can be raised very ehciltllv ntld the mrlnn nnarurn,! n trtiA part of the time, nnd nil without the annoyance lo netgliDors sometimes caused In thickly settled districts. A good market can be found almost any where for young pigs of common Mock, while pure-breds can be sold at correspondingly better values by those wiio have the knack of working up a trade in such lines. Soil Keeitlng- Kxnerlnientii. Two years' experiments nt the Ore gon Station gives the following re sults: Twenty-live hogs nnd seven teen bend of cnttle have been kept from the middle of May to the middle of August on a very small acreage of ground. Crimson clover was first fed to the herd, then n first crop of alfalfa was used, followed by peas and green Oats. After this a second crop wus fed. and last a third crop. An account of the cost for cutting and feeding has been carefully kept, which has aggregated three cents per cow. Based on present prices the In come from the ditlry products during this period is expected to be $2S4.20. This shows that by soiling any farm er can make tip for the want of pas ture for a long, dry summer period. At the same time he will bo enriching the land, for the nitrogen In the grow ing plants will save him the purchase of the necessary fertilizers, in order to produce Ihc same results. L. A. N iu Indiana Tanner. Halt In the Hip Poultry limine. Salt is very cleansing nnd purifying, ns well ns sure death to some forms of insect life, nnd used judiciously In the poultry house It will be found very benelicial. For cleansing houses w here there hns been chicken cholera. It Is one of the best things known. After cleaning out the house, nnd removing perches nnd nests, make n "very strong brine and spray it thoroughly in every part of tiie house. Scrub perches and nest boxes with It. nnd see that every crack and crevice is filled with it. If it can be applied hot it will give still better results. If nil infected birds nre removed from the house before this work is done, there will be no more cases. The same treatment Is a valuable remedy for red mites which are so troublesome to the fowls. After two weeks repeat the treatment, ns by that time nil the orgs of the mites will be hntched. After thnr a light appli cation two or three times during the season will keep them from cnuslng troiible.-M.trian Meade, iu the Massa chusetts Ploughman. Stirring Cooking Foml. Where more or less food for stock Is cooked, some handy way of stirring It ought to bo devised, of course, the old-fashioned ladle, or the great wood en spoon,"!:) always available, but If tho quantity is large, to use these in struments means aching arms ond shoulders. A stirrer which will save much labor is readily made In the fol lowing manner: Make a shaft of n strip of wood two Inches thick nnd long enough so that it will extend three or four Inches above the top of the kettle. At the bottom of this shaft innke paddles by crossing two thin boards two or three Inches wide. Fasten n crnnk to the top of the shnft, nnd to this crank fasten a pole, cr not, ns preferred. Then prepare a strip of board six or eight inches wide, bnro a hole through the middle, through which to pass the shnft, mntch both ends to lit over the handle 0f the kettle nnd nt one end fix a slide and n net screw to hold It In .place. If the cooking of the food for stock Is done nway from tho house, ns it ought to b", one should build n fireplace of bricks and cement In which to set the kettle. Tho illustration shows both the fireplace, or pot, as suggested, and tho plan for making the stirrer, and It will be seen that It Is com paratively easy to nrrnuge the device Ail suggested.- Indianapolis News. : ( In WaterjrlKH. It Is believed that In wntergfnss we have a preservative which will, when used for preserving eggs, give better satisfaction than any other method avnllnbln fjf those who desire to keep eggs for any great length of time. Kgys put down by this method hnve kept for three to nine months, nnd the ej,g hnve some out In better condition than by any other method tested. When strictly fresh eg? only have been put .down, nt the end oj six monihri they have Invariably come out in better shape than the average ninii et eggs supposed to bo fresh. Uso pure water thnt hns been thor oughly boiled and then cooled. To each ten quarts of wnter add one qnnrt or slightly less of wiiterglnss. When the heavy jelly-like solution Is used, three fourths of wiiterglnss will bo ample. The solution tuny be prepared, placed In the Jnt and fresh eggs added from time to time until tho Jar I tilled, but be sure that there are fully two Inches of waterglass solution to cover tho eggs. Keep tho eggs In n cool, .dark pinee, well covered to prevent evap oration. A cool cellar It n good plnco In vhlcli to keep the eggs. If tiie eggs are kipt in too warm a plnco, the sili cate is deposited and the eaijs are jiot properly protecte.'l. Do not wash the C33 before packing, sgg I ft for by SO doing von Inluro their keen lug quality, probably by dissolving the mucilaginous coating on the outsldo of the egg. For packing use only perfect eggs, for stale eggs will not be saved and may prove harmful to the others. All packed eggs contain a little gas, and In boiling such eggs they will crack. This may be prevented by making a pinhole in the blunt end of the eggs. To do this hold the egg in the hand, place the point of a pin against the shell of the egg, and give a quick, sharp blow. Just enough to drive the pin through the shell without Injury io me egg.-orth Dakota Station fiooit Work With Hand Separator. The method of separating cream by hand machines on the farm and collect ing it for the creameries is becoming very popular In some regions and seems likely to supersede the old plan of taking the whole milk to the fac tory. ,.;U. The advantages of the plnn nre very evident. The farmer Is saved the dnlly trip to the creamery, an item 'which represents considerable time, nnd nt certain times of the year great Incon venience. Ho has the fresh sklmmllk to use for calf feeding, free from beinir mixed with other milk, which - may be soured or contaminated with germs of disease, and from neglected or badly kept herds, and the milk Is in the best possible condition for production of veal. By running n route thronch the cream district the collection can all be done by one man, thus providing the farmer n market for his cream at bis own door. These advantages nro so evident that farmers are demand ing the convenience and insisting on being relieved from the need of hitch ing up a team to bnul the milk every day. The defects of tho Dlan nro rucli nn to have prevented the change in some districts. The main trouble is tho Inck of uniformity in the cream. Some farmers with little exnrrlencn with modern dairying or the-use of separa tors full to exercise the care needed in clean milking, a clean not:i for tho separator, cooling the milk and senar. a ting it while it is fresh. The problem of makincr the srstnm a success Is thnt of educating the nrn. dttcers to separate the milk under the nest conditions nnd to have tho cream collected regularly and frequently. Cream collected once or twice a week Is unfit for use. but tho si.ccc3sful routes collect nt least fjur times a week. Some crenmerv mann-ers in. slst that the main trouble Is the failure to keep tho cans clean. Th2S3 man agers give spetinl attention to deliver ing the cans perfectly clean and sweet, having u double sot of cans and leaving them .at each farm all retuly ts cos. Massachusetts Ploughman, SIIuko vs. Grain. The object of this experiment was to determine whether tillage might not bo substituted for a considerable por tion of the grnln usually fed to dairy cows. Two rations were fed carrying practically the same amount of dry matter. In one ration over fifty per cent, of this dry matter wns derived from Mlluge nnd less than eighteen per cent, wns derived from grain. In tho other ration over fifty-seven per cent, of the dry matter was de rived from grain, no sllnge being fed. Ten cows, representing five different breeds, were fed these rntlons from two to four months, five cows taking the test the full four months. The cows fed the silage ration pro duced 00.7 pounds of milk nnd 5.08 pounds of butter fnt per hundred pounds of dry matter. The cows fed the grain rntion pro duced 81.3 pounds of milk nnd 8.9 pounds butter fat per hundred pounds of dry matter. Tho cost of feed per hundred pounds of milk was $0,087 with the silago ration nnd $1,055 with the grain ra tit n. The cost of feed per pound of butter fat was 13.1 cents with the silage ration nnd 22.1 cents with the grain ration. The average net profit per cow per month (over cost or fecdj was ?3.8(H with the silage ration nnd $2,405 with the grain ration. Comparing the average dnllv nrodnet of each cow for tho entire test with her average dally product for the month prevails to the change in ration (or the first mouth of their test in the enso of two cows), the cows fed tho silago ration shrank 2.84 per cent, in milk nnd gained 1.8!) per cent. In butter fat production. The cows fed the grain rntion shrank 9.11 per cent, in milk and 14.18 In butter fe.t produc tion, Upon the conclusion of the experi ment each lot of cows was found to have gained in live weight: The silago fed cows an nvcrago of 47 pounds per head, the gruln fed cows an average of fi7 pounds per head. The facts herein reported seem to Justify the conclusion that silage can be made to take the place of a consid erable portion of the grain ration. It Is believed that by growing more of tho feeds rich In protein clover, al falfa, soy beans, cowpens, field pens, vetches and eusolllng them, or feeding them us hay, It will be possible to fur ther reduce the amount of grain feed. It Is the expectation of the station lo continue the experiment the follow ing winter. Ohio Exp. Stution Bulle tin 155. "The German Lang-liana " . Describing "the American language" In T. P.'s Weekly, a writer points out the real difference between the speech of the educated Amcrlcun and the edu cated Englishman. You may talk for ten minutes to a professor from Har vard without being conscious of strange speech, only the professor's voice is pitched slightly higher than your own. For "the (iermun speaks from his dia phragm, the Englishman from his chest, the American from his throat, and the Freuchmau from his palate." Loudon Chronicle. Seventy-five years ago the first reg ular news boat to Intercept packet ships for foreign Intelligence -wis put In cuuimlskloD la New York. New York City. Draped waists cut to form points at the front nre among the lntest and most satisfactory de signs offered. This one Is especially graceful and can be made with the pos tillion back, as Illustrated, or with a point as runy be liked. The model Is shown of nut brown voile, with the trimming of chiffon velvet, chemisette nd deep cuffs of chiffon-covered tnfTeta with ecru lace insertion npplfed to form diamonds, and is exceedingly handsome, but all materials that nre soft enough to drape well nre, appro priate and the chamlsette nnd cuffs enn be of nny contrasting material. The lines of tho front nre exceptionally de sirable, and the little shaped collar finishes the neck most satisfactorily, while the sleeves are full at the shnul- A LATE DESIGN ders, giving the broau line, yet nre of moderate size. ' The waist Is made with the fitted lining, which closes nt centre front, and Itself consists of fronts, backs, slde-bncks and under-ann gores, -the backs being laid over onto the side backs. The chemisette is arranged over tho lining and closes Invisibly, and tiie waist Is closed at tbe left of the front. When liked the sleeves can be cut off nt "elbow length, as shown in the small view, ' The quantity of material required for the medium Blze Is four yards twenty one, three nnd one-half yards twenty seven, or one and seven-eighth yards forty-four Inches wide, with one and one-fourth yards of silk for chemisette nnd cuffs nnd nine yards of lace Inser tion and one-bnlf ynrd of bins velvet to rlm fis illustrated. With a Touch of Green. rale blue bull gowns are. always greut favorJtes with the debutante, nnd they vary the perpetual white In which the buds are convention ally uppolnted to iiinko their first bow to society. The pule blue somo tlmes shows relief In a touch of moss green velvet, a very "Freuchy" combi nation w hen , the right materials and right shades of color are coniblned. A debutante's dancing gown Is of pule blue iholre chiffon, made of a light blue taffeta foundation. Tho skirt Is shirred over heavy gores In eight breadths. An Insertion of duehesse lace encircles the skirt, und It Is bor dered above and below by u single row of very nurrow moss green velvet, piped on. The bodice has shirring on cords around the neck, where It Is cut way to show a narrow under-blouse PBAPED BASQUE WAIST, j of lace. Straps of moss green velvft are set on the shirred over bodice, each one finished with a tiny pale blue spangle nt each end. The gown has short sleeves, deeply puffed with cord ed shirring In bands, from shoulder down, and the pulling springs out be tween shirring. A bond of lace Is the lower finish. It is strapped with moss green velvet nnd finished with a blue spangle to match the bodice. Linen Hulls. Heavy handsome linen suits are to be hnd both plain nnd ornate. The former needs no description. One f the lntter sort, nn effective creation for real occasions of au outdoor nnture. Is trimmed with a quantity of heaviest applique. Embroidery, deftly Intro duced, also enriches the scheme. A Vol. yoke Is In the blouse, which shows a graduated box pleat nt both back and front. Hat Are Plslner. One sees nt a giance thnt the gen eral plan of the hats Is not so much picturesque ns dashing and smart Wings nnd quills nppenr prominently among the trimmings. A great many aigrettes are seen. An Evening Gown. The prettiest evening gowns seen recently were of chiffon, which comes in all-over designs, or else with a plain surface and a deep flowered border. These gowns are much affected by young girls and debutantes. Gathered Shirt Walsla. Shirt waists made full at the shoul ders are among the latest novelties shown nnd are peculiarly well adupted to the many light weight nnd Boft cot ton materials, although they are attrac tive In silk nnd In wool. This one al lows a choice of yoke or no yoke, and Includes sleeves of the very latest cut that are full at both shoulders and BY MAY MANTON, wrists. In tut. rase of tbe model the material Is white Persian lawn, the collar and cuffs being of linen, but tho model Is adapted to all walstlngs that can be made full with good effect. The wnlst consists of the fitted lining, which can be used or omitted as ma terial renders desirable, frouts, backs and yoke, the yoke also being optional. The sleeves are In shirt waist style, with wide cuff's, and there Is a turn over collar at the neck.that Is attached to the neckband by means' of button holes and studs. Tho quantity of material required foi the medium size Is four yards twenty one or twenty-suien inches wide, or two yards forty-four iuches wul.
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