I SWINGING ON THE GATE. I can see a picture pointed, t cm swell the riryint hiy Vhere Ihe bny mower rattle throuyh tin? 'azv summer's day; I rnn see the hungry plowboy wvIiiih through the billowed com, With e.xpocliint cur to windward, Iist'inn to th" dinnct horn; While mioomcimi of necewity. the t'n'me or of fate. I m.ike ivondrou childish journeys n I winit upon the gat. Strance how hack among the rminy recollection of the past Memory will iirope ami wander till it hriinr to ti at last Some poor, foolish, fond remembrance, cMiiinn Imrdh worth the while Yet somehow made wondrous potent, like A tender limine nule, Fleeting, gone, and noon font otten yet remembered by and by With a (welling in the boom and a dimming of the eye. Now my temple. fast are graying and my eye have sober grown With the year of varied haimine and aorrow 1 have known; Still I aometimea heai the echo, when the evening light are low And without my darkened easement gdoatly bree7e eerie blow, Ot the friendly. rusty r it tie of the latrhet a when late In the. hazy, lazy aummertime we wung upon the gate. Lowell otti Keve, m Levis' Weekly. The Captain of Gii I -i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i- By WINIFRED KIRKLAND. JtOK r Is bnt'd to toll why wp 1 i liked the self -government a T O Idea go much ut llrst. I 1 )5 snpsse it was because we MOW thought It was Ksther Hor nock's Idea. And we dis liked Ksther Hot-nock. It is a lift!" liard nfter you have been three year in a school, nntl you nml your "crowd" have liail things pretty nmcli your own way, to have a new girl come la and turn everything topsyturvy. Ksther started a dramatic society and a debuting society nml a literary soci ety the first month. Imagine the work! And also she talked self-government. She bad two sisters In college, nml did not see why boarding-schools should Hot have self-government like colleges. Now self-government Is not any fun, t least, that Is what we thought then. So long as you have a teacher to watch and see that you do not break the rules all you have to do Is Just to see that you do not get caught. But If you are on your honor, then you have to keep every rule nil the time. Now Ksther is attractive and enthu siastic, and she was very popular with all the new girls, and with the faculty, too. And she talked and talked, until at last Mrs. Sinclair herself said we might try self-government, that Is. try It In some particular first. Our crowd did not want It. but Esther's crowd got the majority. All of us old girls were angry enough to find that the school was going to be run by a majority. We did not think it was fair. At the school meeting. When It was all decided, lather's crowd was learning. They had heard that Mrs. Sinclair was going to let us have self-government, nnd the ques tion was, What should be the thing In which we were to make the xepcrlmeu.' first? Should It be promptness at meals, or going to In'd at ten, ot order at opening exercises, or what? Some people said that Esther had a grand, new Idea about this, too. In a racket of clapping, Esther got up to speak. She does speak well. Her eyes get shiny and her checks get red. nnd she certainly can talk. Sometimes you al most forget that it Is Ksther. She said a lot first about what a grand thing self-government is. how much more womanly It Is to watch our selves than to allow ourselves just to be watched. She said that the colleges had shown how well girls could govern themselves, und why could not hoarding-schools follow tlleir example? Of course, she said, we were not to have the entire discipline of the school at first. lint If we showed that we could manage some one department of school government, then we could go and take up others. Pretty soon she came to her proposal as to what this department should be, and what do you think she proposed": A fire-drill, of all nuisances! She said we ought to have a system atic fire-drill. It was dangerous not to have an organized tire-brigade in such a large seh ol. Of course, as this was Esther's Idea, it was cheered by Esther's crowd, made Into n motion, voted on and carried before we had n chance to turn round. Then Esther rose and talked some more, i'here was a good deal of talk in the school, she said, about the diff erent cliques, and bow unfortunate it was that they should pull a; art as they diu. She said that ill hNtory they called cliques parties and f . io'is. and we nil knew bow injurious thce were to good government. It was Just the same with u school. She wished that When it came to school q'.lc-tiolis Ave could put aside our personal opinion, nnd care more for the school than for ourselves. Esther sat down In a perfect storm of cheers, but everybody was nut cheer, ing and clapping, although it sounded like It. 1 saw Natalie ,)cwett getting ready to clap, but 1 frowned at l:er, and she did not dare. So we were in for lire-drills. And Esther herself was hi for chief tire cap tain. I'erlmps yon think yon would have liked it! To be sitting peacefully study ing In study hour, with three "quiz.os" ahead for th next day. and one of Carol Turner's 1 i. in. spread behind you, and then to hear whiz, bang, clang! All the corridor bells hreakiiu loose together! You dropped your books, rushed to your room, clapped down the windows, banged the tran som, snatched up a towel, slammed the yoi and Hew Into the hi. 11. There, every twenty feet, u girl would be standing, repeating like a cuckoo-clock: "Kally on third corridor north!" or "Bully In the dining-room!" or "Kally lu main hall, first floor!" And you must instantly fall Into or derly line, and march to the aforemen tioned destination, wherever It might happen to be, and you must he perfect ly quiet in the line, and obey your cor ridor captain Just as if she Lad been a teacher, or Esther would be after her and after you! And Esther allowed Just one hun dred and twenty-five seconds between tbe first clanging of the corridor bell end the , assembling: of the entire school at the rally, and if you were lute! W did tiot much enjoy being scolded and ordered about by Esther and Esther's corridor captains. Just girls like ourselves! Sometimes tlie drill would cow it the Fire-Brigade. night, perhaps just nfter we were nil In bed. and out we would all have to scramble, nnd rush to the rally, kim onos and towels and hair all flying. As likely as not, this evening parade would end on the tire-wall staircase. There wa one at each end of the build ing, where the wings Join the main cor ridor. The staircase Is a little nam: w. winding affair of iron, and It is shut in by iron walls, and ha sluing doors of sheet Iron on every floor. The lire wall stairs are chilly and narrow there's Just room to go down lu single file. Sometimes, no matter how sleepy and cross we were, Esther would keep us marching up und down those stairs, and actually out-of-doors when we (.ot to tlie bottom, until I reallv believe we could have done It in our sleep. It grew to lie awful tiresome. I be lieve even some of the teachers thought Esther was too energetic, nnd went to Mrs. Sinclair about It; but she would not interfere, nnd she would not let any of tin teachers bo present at a tire-drill. We were to haVe it all our own way. or rather Esther was to have It all her own way. You may Imagine our crowd was not very nice to Esther itt this time. Hut no matter what you did or said to Esther, she never seemed to notice: she was so full of her old notions about self-government und school spirit nnd the tire-brigade that she did not seem to feel anything for herself nt ull. One night n lot of our girls were ,:i my room, nnd we just divided thou and there that we would not put up with it any longer. The next time those old bells rang for fire-drill, we would not go. Who in the world could make us? We did not have long to wait. That very night. Just as I had fallen to sleep, all those bells suddenly went off like mad; Sheer force of habit pulled me out of bed nnd Info my kimono, still too sleepy to know whut I was doing. I was taking tip my towel when I remembered our resolution, nnd sat down on the edge of the bed wide awake and determined not to budge. I found afterward that exactly twenty girls were acting in just the same way, all our third centre corridor, in fact. I could hear the girls scurrying out over our heads. Out in our corridor I could hear the hull guards repenting. "Bally on the third north, tire-wall stairs!" Eire-wall stairs, and it was as cold as Christmas! Pretty soon came n pounding at the doors. Nancy Yoorhees, our corridor captain shouted: "Uirls, girls, wake up! Didn't you hear the bells? Whore are you?" Then the doors began to open. "Oh, you nre awake!" cried Nancy. "Do hurry!" Nobody stirred. Nancy's face looked queer. "What is tlie matter, girls?" We began to come out of our rooms and gathered together. "We uron't coining!" 1 said. Nancy looked nt us, then turned and flow. An instant nfterwurd we saw Esther's red bath-robe come scudding down the corridor toward us. ,She stopped a second because Miss Kdger ton had appeared, and had said In her usual fussy way: "Can 1 In-lp yuu, Esther?"- Esther laughed back at her. "No, Indeed. MSs Edgcrtoii. We nre not used to having you at fire-drills. The poor little ib-ars might think it was a real lire if you came." Then Esther Stood before IIS, her red liaih-rol.o tied in tight about her waist, h-r long braids falling over li-r shoul ders. I shall never forget her face. It was all abiaze with color, and her eye were like steel, nnd her lips hud a reg ular Napoleonic set. At iir.st she was '.olug to make us go! If she had ordered US to go then, I do not know what would have hap pened for we would not have moved. Then her face chang'd. I never saw any face look quite so sweet; It was us if all the self lu It Just went out. "Oirls." she said, "won't you please come? I'm not ordering, I'm Just ask ing. Just as a favor, this once, please." And we went, but we were pretty stiiky. We matched to the third-floor fire wall staircase. The lire-wall doors on the third had been drawn; one of them was b-rt open Just enough Tor tis to squeeze through to the little dark, cold staircase. The door down on the first floor, loading right out-of-doors, was open, ana the wind whistled up. Half the girls were already down and out when we s.urted from the top. Esther wus at the very end, us usual. As we went down, she culled In thut ringing voice of hers: "When you get down, shut the fire wall doors Into the first-floor corridor!" Xhe was ordering tis ugaln! "Let's not!" I suid to the girls behind me, and we did not. Ksther wus still on the third floor. We were all shivering in the night air outside at the bottom, Esther opened tbe window, Just as she was about to start down, and called, "Is everybody down sufe?" "Yes," somebody answered. We could seo Ksther Just as sbe put her hand on the door to squeeze through to the stairway. Then there was a sudden report: and roar, and a great sheet of flume went sucking up the tiro-wull stulrs as if through a great funnel! It was a real dre! It tiud thread from the cellar to the first floor, and there, fanned bj th.: wind from the open door, it had licked Its way through the corridor doors we had left open! And where wns Esther? We looked. We did not make n sound. Only Na talie turned, covered her eyes, nnd laid her bond on tny shoulder. 1 could feel her shiver all over. It seemed as If lit an Instant all the wing was abluze. Then we mw Esther! We saw her running, running. pnt window after window. But flames ran. too, over her snd tinder her. It all depended on whether she could reach the mnln stair, case before they did! The mnln stair case is only of wood. She reached it. She got down. She was not hurt a bit. Only when she saw her, Natalie nnd I both sank down on the ground. I felt as If I was going to faint. Ksther enme right over to us. "Why didn't you shut those doors?" she asked. We did not answer, but Esther knew why. Suddenly her face began to work so quecrly, there in the red light of the fire. "If the lire had come n minute sooner when you were all on the stairs!" she said, and she put out her hands as If she could not see. and were feeling for something. Then Mrs. Sinclair stepped out from somewhere, and put her arms round her. The fire was not so bad as It looked at first, ami the slow old Mayslde Hose Company did arrive, nnd put It out after n while. About thirty of us had to board in the village for the rest of the year, hut now we are all under one roof again. We have self-government this yenr, and Esther is president. The vote for self-government wns unanimous, and so was tlie vote for president. It was the first time nnythlng unanimous ever happened in this sc hool. Youth's Com panion. Introducing tho "Talent." Tlie lecturer who wns to address the ' natives of Cednrby lu their town hall j on the subject of radium stopped for- ward with n preparatory smile at the request of the chairman of the Star I KntortAinmetit Committee. 1 "This Is Professor llrown," said the 1 chairman, with a sldewlse wave of his ! hand, "and he's going to give a talk on rajum. I guess you all know that we ; ran behind with our finances last year, j and we concluded to try a new tack ; this year. Previously we've tried to amuse and entertain you. and we've paid high prices. Tills year we're ! going to try no entertainment, but lee- 1 tu res from cheaper talent, and if that ! don't work nil right the committee will disband. So If Cedarby wants to have j some first-class entertainments next year all you've got to do Is to come to , these lectures and bring your friends, i and make them a financial success. I now present to you once more, Profes sor Brown." I Expensive Practical Jnkea. 'A practical Joke." said Barney Old- field, the nutomobllist, "was played on me last season. I had my revenge, though. The practical joke took the form of a telegram. It was a telegram from a friend of mine traveling in Italy. It came 'collect;' It cost me $7 ind when I opened It all I reud wus: " 'I am well.' "To get back on my friend for play ing such an expensive trick on me I went out into the road and found a cobblestone. I wrapped this stone lu excelsior nnd pink paper, sealed It up In a handsome box, and sent It by ex press, 'collect.' to my friend abroad It cost my friend $!. for the box, and on opening It he found, along with tlie stone, n note from me that said: ' 'On roceipt of the news that you were lu good health the nccompunylng load rolled off my heurt.' " New York Tribune. Tlie lterorri nf Kinotlon. We can not always charge It to old age when we find our foreheads tire crossed with a distressing network of tiny lines. It is not always age that makes those disagreeuble rows across our foreheads und around the eyes. there are some grandmothers whose faces have hardly a wrinkle, nnd some granddaughters whose brows nre us seamed as they might be ut sixty. Time is not responsible for these vexing lit- , tie lines, a good many of them may be charged up against worry. If one gets ' in the way of fretting over everything that has gone wrong and everything one thinks likely to go wrong, tho rec ord upon one's face will be a mark ' which is hard to erase, and is Tar uglier than the Hues the huppy years i bring. Philadelphia Inquirer. j A Kntu! Hnnke Knrountei, A fow minutes after killing a large j snake lu the yard of his summer rosl- ' deuce ut Aliquippa, Pu (Jeorg-i Woad, ' a school director In the 'Thirty-lirat , Ward, died very suddenly of a heuior- j rhage, which, it is believed, was j brought on by the excitement. He ! reached Aliquippa shortly before 0 o'clock, and on entering the yard of his j slimmer home was startled to see a I reptile In the path. He killed it and ! continued on his wuy to the house. He i plainly showed hi excitement, nnd suddenly became 111. lie was attacked by hemorrhages and died before a phy. slclan could be summoned. Pittsburg Dispatch. liMngcr In Mirror. The building inspector's oftlee is op- i posed to the mirror-lined elevators of the city, but uo action has been taken ! for the removal of the mirrors, al- ! .though the new code forbids the use of looking glasses In elevutur cage con- ! struction. "They ure usually jilnced at such an angle that a woman stepping up to onu blocks the passageway," suid he. "Of ten she will forget thut a portion of her skirt protrudes beyond the grutlng, and accidents occur In this way. Not only women but men are attracted by mirrors and are inclined to grow for getful of personal safety." Cleveland Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune. A Ort Laok of Lots. There is a plei sant story being told just now of au Ir.sh priest who, taking leave of his congregation, gave bis reu sous for going: "First, you do not love me, for you have contributed nothing to my support; secondly, you do not love each, other, for I have not cele bra ted a marriage (luce I arrived; thirdly, the good God does not love you, for He has not taken me of yoa to Himself I have not had a single funeral. j-London Telegiap', - l-'jLL.JfflOJL Ul 11 V Improving the Corn Crop, The testing of seed corn is very Im portant and no farmer should plant seed of doubtful germinating qunllty. Good seed should give a test of ninety five per cent, or above and show vig orous gernilnntlon. When purchasing seed corn, the farmer should Insist on its being shipped In the ear. It may be difficult to get it from our seedsmen at this time, but they must be educated to the fact that the scoop-shovel method of selecting seed corn is not the method desired by farmers. Prac tically all the seed corn will soon be put on the market In the ear, as the time has arrived when the corn grow ers will Insist on having their seed corn shipped In this way. The greatest Immediate Improvement In the corn crop will probably be brought about by grading up promising varieties already grown within our State. By testing other varieties that seem especially adapted to our soil nnd climate, we may secure some standard varieties that will be of great value to our farmers a few years hence. The greatest advancement In corn growing in other States has been brought about by the Individual farmer planting from year to year the same variety of corn nnd practicing right selection of seed ears. It seems ad visable for the farmer to have a por tion of the corn field for his seed patch. This may lie one of several acres, but must be that portion where extra care has been exercised in the selection of seed. From time to time during the growing period, the farmer should carefully study the plants of this por tion of the Held, remove or detassel the barren stalks, and note the uni formity of stand and chnrncter of the plants In general. At the time the husks begin to turn yellow, If the farmer will occasionally go through his seed patch, and by tying a string around each enr he desires he can select ears of early muturity nnd at the same time study the character of the stalk and mark ears only that grow upon vigorous stalks with medium shanks and having other desirable characteristics. lie may desire to grow a good fodder corn, as well as grain producing corn, hence should pay con siderable attention to the leafiness of tlie plant. Some farmers make n mis take by going Into the. Held and picking the early ears and retaining them for seed. The ear should merely be marked and then left until fully ripened. It can then be distinguished from the other ears by the string pre viously tied to It. By selecting each year from our seed patch one or two hundred ears in tills manner, supplemented by the test for uniformity and high oil and protein content, we will have valuable corn for our seed patch the following yenr. The corn for the general crop should be nlso selected from that portion of the field that has been planted with this carefully selected seed, but we do not need to spend so much time on the se lection of that seed as on that which we desire to plant for our special seed patch. Prof. It. A. Moore, lu Massa chusetts Ploughman. The Hired Man Problem. This question Is becoming n more serious one each year. Many young men are buying laud and making j farms for themselves. In discussing this matter a writer in Wallace's Farmer says: There nre more sides to tlie hired man problem than there should be. In the first place, there are men on both side that nre not satisfied with justice. The hired man should be satisfied to do Just whnt Is right, und his employer should be satisfied if he gets Just ser vice from his man. Then if each can encourage the other to do a little better lu cuses of emergencies both should bo satisfied. But the hired innti who has to spend his time in town until a lute hour for three or four nights In the week nnd hns to have several lost days lu n month will bo In very poor shape to give his employer satisfaction. On tlie other hand, the farmer that wants his man to work from four o'clock lu the morning till eight or nine nt night with only time to eat his three meals per day should not have any help. I wns a hired man 'way back in the Ws. and know whereof I nlllrm. Also I have hired considerable help in the last thirty-five years on the farm. I have nlso had many men under me in the building business lu the last thirty-four years (I urn a me chanic ns well ns n farmeri, and I know there Is n groat difference lu men on both sides. East summer I let my sixteeir-year-old boy work out eight months, and as it wns his first season away from home he probably did about as other young men in his work, but he only had three duys' lost time on one of these days he was sick. He saved ond brought to mo $80 to pay on a smull farm which he will huve clear of debt in four years more, when he Is twenty-one years old, If he does right the next four years. Hired men could save good money If they would. They do not realize whut the smull sum of $."0 per" year will amount to In forty years ut six per cent, com pound interest, keeping the interest and principal working together und adding each year another o(. But It would buy a good farm home of 3 20 acres at $."0 per ucre, stock It with fifteen good cows, two or three good horses and ull necessary farm ma chinery. There are thousands of men who have been throwing away the $50 per year for the Inst forty years thut now would be glad to hnve forty acres and a common team and two or three cows. Time Far reading Msalu An I iiUiuna Farmer reuder writes us, asking when is the best time to feed laying hens warm mash. This ques tion is now being warmly contested by a number of experienced breeders and we believe the majority of thelu prefer feeding the mash at night Per sonally we much prefer feeding mash at night, from the fact thut if fowls are fed a warm mash in the morning they ure likely to become gorged with food curly In the day and then take to the roost, which promptly produces sluggish, lazy, over-fat bens, and lazy hens mean low egg record. Feed liens n grain ration In the morning In litter and the hens nre required to scratch nnd work for their food all dny long, which gives exercise, and sxorclse pro duces health and warmth; health pro duces eggs nnd eggs produce a profit able flock of fowls. Hence I can not see any question ns to tlie proper time to feed warm mashes to laying hens. Beyond a reasonable doubt evening Is the proper time to feed the mush; but some object to feeding ninsh nt night because It becomes quickly digested and the birds hnve not sufficient food to Inst during the long winter night. But this trouble can be quickly over come by feeding corn or other grains In tlie feeding hopper promptly nfter the ninsh meal has been served, which only enables the fowls to get n limited amount before nightfall, assuming that no trouble will arise from over-feeding grain, but promptly puts the fowl lu constant exercise, which gives most satisfactory results. There Is no ques tion In my mind, however, but that If layers are fed mash nt night and grain lu litter In morning there would be but little doubt but tlie average farmer would receive a reasonable number of eggs and especially liver trouble and other troubles arising from over-gorging fowls with soft fattening foods. .1. C. C'llpp, in Indhtnn Farmer, ftmAll I'en For flog. Mere is a plan of u pig pen of suit able size to accommodate two brood sows and the fattening litters from these. The pen Is to be built of stone and to stand east nnd west. In the net onipanylng plan there Is provision for a partition in the brood sow pens for the little pigs to go in to feed: the partition Is one foot from the floor bo' that the pigs can go under to be fed separate from the sow. The trough should not be over four inches high for tlie little pigs: the other troughs should be six inches high. Tlu windows In all the pens can be placed above the doors that Is, the tipper part a window, nnd the lower IL.lHJIe"'J A 9,xlOM' , 9"x 10" 6- ir x it't A, brood now pens; B, pens for litters lo feed in:,C, pens for tuttening lions; 1), water barrel; E, feed box; ', feud alley; (j. troughs. part a door. It is u good plan to hung the donrs on hinges at top, so they can swing? either In or out, so thut the doors will iilwnys remain closed nnd pigs can go in or out at any time. If the doors are required to be kept open ull the time they can be hung up by n wire to the joist. By having a windlass above the feed alley It can be used for a slaughter room, and when not used ns such It may be closed by having trap doors above. The Culture of Aiurns't1 There Is uo reason why any one hav ing suitable land for gardening should not grow his own asparagus. If "sets" nre not procurable, he may easily raise it from the seed. Being a slow plant to come up, he will do well to mix them with radish sied and sow In drills. He can then tell where to cul tivate und thus prevent weeds from i getting the start of young asparagus plants. In other words, the radishes will do double duty, by first serving as a guide and afterwards making good table vegetables. When one year idd, the asparagus plants may bo transplanted to the permanent bed. This should be done by plowing out Irenchi'K eight Inches deep nnd about three feet apart. Having sprinkled in the bottom of them from one to two Inches of well rotted multure, cover with about one Inch of soil, on which set the plants eighteen Inches apart, with their roots well spread out In nil din ctlons, and cover them with line soil until tlie crowns nre nt least two Inches under the surface. Culti vate and hoe frequently, nnd ns the plants grow, fill in around them until the trenches nre even with the surface of the garden. In the full all the top growth wants to be cut nnd bunted, nnd the bed then covered with a heavy coating of fine, well-rotted manure, to be carefully forked Into the ground early the next spring. The second sea son clean cultivation should be given, and the top dressing of miiuure repent ed again in the full, The third spring some of tho crop may be cut for use, provided it is painstakingly done and not continued too late lu the season. Cutting off all growth and top dress ing with manure should, of course, take pluce again late In autumn. And ns a spring top dressing fur the bed, potash suits are excellent both as a fertilizer and having tbe ability to assist In hold ing moisture, including the extermina tion of a large number of weeds, while ,'oing uo harm to the asparagus. Salt nione will do likewise, except thut it furnishes no fertility. A light soil, well enriched, is preferable on which to make the bed, hut If a heavy soli is thoroughly under-drained and deeply plowed, It will answer Just as well and, Indeed, may continue to produce a crop longer than the one on a light soil. Fred O. Sibley, in The Epitouilst. a ri'iojil WaMotl Tfew fork City. The loose coat has certain ndvnnttfges over every other sort and Is greatly in vogue at the moment, both for -the separate wrap ond for the costume. This one Is de signed for young girls and Is adapted to all the fashionable suitings, Sicilian, silk, veiling and linen, but ns Illus trated !s made of dark blue mohnir, with the collnr of silk, and Is simply stitched with cortlcelli silk, the skirt being made to match. The flat collar makes a most satisfactory finish for the neck nnd the double breasted clos ing allows of using the handsome but tons, which are so much In vogue nnd which always add to the effect, while the pockets made with flaps are among the smartest of all smart things. The back can be either plain or seamed at 71 Ln E.DEJIQH tho centre ns best suits tho Individual figure. The coat Is made v 1th fronts and back and Includes the regulation loeves that nre full nt the shoulders nnd which ure stitched to simulate tuffs. Tho quantity of material required for the medium size Is three and seven tlghth yards twenty-seven, two and jne-elghth yurds forty-tour or one and three-fourth, yurds fifty-two Inches wide. lints of the Heaon. Straw leads tho way, und there will be much chip as the season proceeds. The fashionable straw Is hard nnd somewhat rough, made up In broad pleats, and the shapes In these do not yield to the head. Trleornes and those with the sides quite distinct, one turn ing up, the other not, nre features, snys the London gueen. Itoses nnd violets blend well together. It Is fascinating, entirely composed of flowers. Tho huts thut Murle Antoinette Is represented us wearing at the Trianon have been re vived, encircled with roses, and these ure often lurge, some nfter the- turn down mushroom order, some flowing outwurd at the side. Some of tho turned-iip brim of toques are covered with close-set roses, the leaves ofjhe flowers employed for the crown, and muny are lifted from the head by a double row of roses at the buck. W have roses of every hue, possible and Impossible the milliner Is no botanist Th Halt Craw, No accessory of dress is made more of lately than the belt The craze for ribbons is partially responsible, but every variety of linen bolt and girdle Is also being shown. A new idea is to have a matching stock and belt in two colors of linen. Blue 'and white la the prettiest combination, but all col or are to be bad. V.; I iArm fCinbrolrinrcd Waists, Women who are skilled in embroid ery nre employing their talent for the decoration of shirt waists and tussore silk Is a most effective medium. One such waist recently embroidered by a clever artist is a pale blue green In tone nnd sen weed Is the decorative motif, being carried out In shades of sen green and pule pinkish brown. The waist buttons In the back and the front, cuffs and collar are embroidered lu the sea weed design. Novelty In Linen. A novelty In linen Is the three-quarter coats of all-over broderle anglnisc. One of these seen recently was belted nt the waist Hue and was fastened with large black velvet buttons. There was n touch of black velvet ribbon on the front of the blouse, and the gaunt let cuffs were edged with velvet. Tulle lint. Very dashing are the black anfl col ored tulle lints on braid foundation. The shapes approximate to the sninll, short-bnek sailor, and the tulle Is put on In huge ruches nnd rosettes. Fancy Blouae WUt. The wnlst that has a chemisette ef fect makes one of the smartest and best liked of the season, nnd renders possible many attractive combinations. This one Is adapted to almost all sea sonable materials and would be equally effective In soft silk nnd soft wool, with the chemisette either of lace or of embroidered muslin, but, In the Illus tration, shows pale grn messaline satin combined with ecru lace over chiffon only, and trimmed with bands of taffeta. The long lines given by the box pleats at the front mean a slender effect to the figure, while the shlrringa BY MAY' ridNTQN. nt the shoulders provide fnshlonnble folds. The sleeves ure utnoiig the very latest and ure so shirred as to avoid excessive breadth of figure. Tho waist Is made over a smoothly fitted foundation, which can be cut away beneath the chemisette and cuffs when a transparent effect Is desired. Tho closing Is made Invisibly nt the left of the front, and there Is a softly dm pod belt which also is dosed at the left side. The quantity of material required for the medium sl.e Is four nnd one-fourth yards twenty-one, three nnd one-halt yards twenty-seven or two nnd one- eighth yards forty-four Inches wide, with three-eighth yard of silk for belt, one yard of all-over lace and two and one-half yards of lace for frills. ill
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