THE OLD HOME. An o.'d la nr. an old date, nn old home bv a tree. A wild wood, a wild brook thrv will not let me be; In boyhood 1 know them, antl till they call to me. IViwn deep in my heart' core I heat them, and mjr eves Thrmiith teur mists lu-lmld Ihcm beneath the o'.ii time kie, 'Mid bee-boom und rine-bluum and orchard lands arise. 1 hear them, and hcmmi-k with lotions in my oul To walk there, to drenm there, beneath the sky's blue bowl; Around me. within me, the weary world made whole. To talk with the wild brook of all the Ion ago: To whisper the wood wind nt thing we lined to know When we v.ero old companion, betore lay heart knew wo?. To walk wilh the morning and watch its rose utifoiJ: l'o iltsivs? with the noontide, lulled on its heart ot Kold; Jo lie with the night-time and dream the dreams ot old. Tn tell to the old tree and to each listening leaf 'the longing, the yearning, a in my boyhood brief, lne out hope, the old love, would ease my heart of grief. 'Hie old lane, the old gate, the old house bv the tree, '""" wjl wood, the wiM brook thev will not let me be; In boyhood 1 kuetr them and still they call to me. Madison Cawetn. TWO AOTHSRS. By Winifred Kirkland. JtOM, OV certainly linve the most il -sr-r- K curious friends. Agatha O y O Day:" "Do you Include your- -"0'r self. Kate?" "Yes. miss. Another lump. If you'll be so good, but don't disturb the lemon; It's just right. Yon muke the most agreeable tea In col lege, by the way. To resume, you have curious friends, for Instance, there was that gaunt grad from tbe Middle West, with tbe sunken cheeks, the voice of a nor-enster, and frizzes. Now who would suppose that a person like yourself who shows generations of culture In the very lift of your eyelid and slope of your shoulder would have taken up with that came grad?" "She was a girl who had never Had o good time." "She had a sleepless eye," meditated Kate. ''She promised me to go to bed at 10 every night. She's doing it, too. She .wrote me so." "And that wild little f lorida fresh man, with the picture hat and hysterics In chapel." "It was only that onoe, Kate, and Ruby doesn't have them now at nil." "But of all your varied cabinet, Dutchy was the most extraordinary." "Nobody but you ever calls her Dutchy now, Kate." "I see her still ns she was that first flay of lectures, four years ago, so big big us to pompadour, side-combs, bands, feet, belt-buckle, redolent with perfume as any modest violet, and wearing a pink satin waist, gold chain und earrings! Do you remember bow she said 'already' three times the first day she was called upon to recite? Yet Dutchy had good eyes even In those Says. I grant you great, black, burning thiugs, that took in everything. Hun ger nd thirst after knowledge Dutch? has ulways had that. Think .what sue has grown to be In four years! The mos; regal young person In college, the president of the Stu dents' Association, the buyer of rare books and Hoibein prints, and tlnaily. one whe never forgets to say bean and ware under all circumstances."' "College has done everything fur Lei!" cried Agatha, glowing. "Agatha Day has done everything for her," answered Kate. "I should think It would frighten you, Dutchy's devotion. Doesn't it ever?" "No, of course not. I never thought of It that way." "And yet," said Kate, slowly, "and yet Dutchy doesn't in the least appre ciate either you or college." "Helen Shelihamiuet doesn't appre ciate college!" Agatha's amazement was profound. "Kate, how strangely you do talk! Ilel .'ij worships college! I never knew any girl who loved It so, She say3 it lias meant everything to her: that she loves every slick und stone of the place; that she would give anything to have the chance of serving tbe college In any way. She can hardly speak of commencement and leaving." "Nevertheless. Dutchy does not ap preciate either you or college. She is taken with the show of things the 6how of culture, the show of scholar ship, the show of servi'-e. even. She thinks that learning und stvdy and beautiful buildings and Greek casts and the Students' Association, too, are college, nnd they're not. She thinks that your bonks ami your pictures and your dresses and your music and your travel are you. win teas what you real ly are is" hero Kate, with one of her sudden flashes of great tenderness, stooped to the little figure seated by lior knee, and drew her close "what yon really are Is the sweetest, sweetest girl I ever knew." A moment's silence In the twilight, nnd then Agatha, troubled, for Kate was so horribly prone to be right, nsked: "Do you really ihink Helen has missed missed what I most wanted bet to get?" Kate, the truthful, answered, "I should not trust her to choose In any crisis the thing that you nnd I count ns best. But perhaps I am wrong, so don't worry. You do too much worry ing over the good-for-nothing, anyway. Why Is It, Agatha, that you've been so busy mothering people ever since you tame luto college ancient gruds, fresh men in arms, Duichy, not to mention that tiulien nnd cynical -Kate Pratt Hlgglus why have you mothered us nil?" Agatha whispered, "It was mother, Kate." Thoy were both quiet again, think ing of Ibo dead mother of whom Agutbu never spoke, whose picture never appeared anywhere In her room. After a while Kate said, "Your mother would be glad about you, Agnthu;" nnd then, because she felt that she had started memories that made Agathn wish to be atone, she preyed a light kis. on the brown curls, snrt went nut. To the chair that Kate had left, the chair on which Aentlia had bowed her bead, there came a gracious presence. Jt$ in the day thr year before, Agatha tut by her mother' knee iu the twilight fire-glow. She felt a hand upon her hair, she looked up Into eyes shining with love. Not a thought had Agatha had lu all those five years which she had not spoken Into the car of that shadow mother. "She knows, she knows, she knows!" said Agatha to herself. Now Agatha spoke low; "Mother, Is It true what Kate says? 'In any crisis Helen would not choose right?' Be cause. If that is true, then I have failed, and you told me to take care of Helen you told me to take care of bet four year ago. I've only two weeks left to be with her; but you'll help me, won't you? You've helped all the time. It ought to do some good, somehow, all my wanting you." Agatha pressed her tense bands over her eves and buried her head deener In the chah- cushions, but there were no tears; there never had been any tears in Agatha's loneliness. The gongs clanged out C o'clock, and Agatha rose and lighted the gas, and began dressing for dinner. Half an hour later a dainty little person in n white muslin of Parisian make, a little person whose eyes and cheeks glowed brightly, and who hummed n bit of a Brittany sailor song, passed out of Agatha's door, and went tripping down the hall. Other girls, rustling out for other doors at the dinner summons, called Agatha to wait for them, and linked arms nbout ODe another's waists, so that they were six abreast by the time they reached tbe diuing room. But there in the doorway another girl "ns waiting for Agatha, and for this girl Agatha slipped awny from her other friends. Helen had stood there waiting for fully five minutes, not unconscious, for nil that dead-earnest face of hers, of the admiring glances of certain freshmen, and the more familiar, but nlso more flattering glances of her classmates. She heard the words of one of these last, knowing that it was more than half-meant that she should hear them: "What a stunning creature the Shell is, to be sure!" Little did the freshman drenm that any one had ever dared to call the glorious Miss Shellhammer "Dutchy." Kate had been right when she called bet a most regal young person. Big ish" was. most certainly, but graceful nnd stately. Beneath her dark hair her black eyes burned eagerly. As little Agatha slipped a hand Into hers, Helen's face brightened, and the two walked together down the hall, ami seated themselves side by side. It was a beautiful diuing room, with its dark, carved wainscoting, Its great fireplaces, its old English windows, its candle-lit tables. Never before she came to college bad Helen Shellham mer seen any of these things. Helen was eager with her news. "What do you think, Agatha? l'rexy sent me a summons to-day, and told ice that Miss Ainsley is considering giving up the secretaryship. In order to live abroad with her invalid brother. It isn't settled yet. Miss Ainsley Is takiug two weeks to decide; but if she does decide to go. I'rexy wants me to take the position! () Agatha, think of being able to stay hero iu college! I can hardly stand the waiting." "It would be beautiful, Helen." an swered Agatha. "But." she tidded. "but how will your family feel about having you stay on here'.'" "They're expecting me to be at home," answered Helen, a dark shad ow coming over her glowing face. ' "Have you written them about It?" "No." "But you will?" "Why?" "Because " But Helen Interrupted in a low, eaget tone: "I couldn't give up the chance if it comes. I can't! Y'ou don't know what It means you who've had nil this, and much more, all your life! Why, Agatha," and the red In Helen's cheeks deepened, "at home they, my family, talk Pennsylvania Dutch!" Agatha's hand stole into Helen's ns she whispered: "But In your heart you know they want you, Helen. You will write and ask them, anyway?" But Ueleu said nothing. She turned, nfter a moment, nnd began talking to the girl on her other side, Ilei Hps were set in a sullen way that Agatha knew well. There was no use saying nny more thut evening, or, as Agatha discovered, saying anything more In the days that followed, for Helen steadily avoided further confidences, and Agatha could only wait. Those last two weeks are the busiest, the most bewildering In nil the four years. It Is just as well, perhaps, that one Is too hurried to realize how much It hurts to go away. Then toward the end tbe relatives be gin to arrive, welcomed so Joyously by those to whom they belong, and re garded with such frank curiosity by those to whom thry do not belong. There ran an awed whisper through college, "Have you seen tbe Shell's mother 7" There were rumors not Ill- natured, merely startled and wonder lng of n bonnet of Imposing plumnff, of a gown of most curious manufac ture, of a coiffure belonging to the fashion of faded family daguerrotypes, of a heavy, vncant face, of the English language spoken In a way never before heard In those high halls of learning. This was Helen Shelllin miner's mother! "Kate." said Agatha, one afternoon, "why do you suppose Helen doesn't In troduce me to her mother?" "I suppose because she's ashamed of her. I told you that Helen doesn't appreciate either yon or college." There were many thoughts In Agatha's bead those last days, but one thought never left her, nnd that was of Helen. Still no opportunity to speak to her, to find out, to know not until the very morning of commencement. fifteen minutes before the time when the class must assemble for ths entering march Agatha knocked at Helen's door, and found her standing before the bureau, Just putting on the black gown and bachelor's boot' Agatha wasted no preliminaries. "Tell me. Helen." she said. "Miss Ainsley Is going." "And you, Helen?" "Oh. I don't know! Mother Is here, you know, nnd I can't tell her. She thinks I'm going home now to live. But. Agatha, I can't give up college! I love It so!" Agatha spoke with n strange stern ness: "If you loved It more you could give It up." , Helen turned upon her. "Would you give It up to go home, to my home you, Agatha?" Agatha raised wide eyes to Helen's face, and in them there was for the first time to Helen's view a great weariness. "Do you ask me," whispered Agatha, "If I would give up college for the sake of my mother?" Just then came a tapping at the door, and some one entered who stnrted back shyly on seeing a stranger. The bird. In her bonnet was purple and orange. The hnir was drawn from the temples In little braids looped over her ears, from which dangled Jet earrings. Her dress was made with n basque. The black mitts showed the hands of the farm wife who works along with her maids. She spoke witli a drawl, nnd with a softening of g's and an inter change of w's n;:d v's. Agatha held out both her hands. 'I am so glad to meet Helen's mother!" she said. '"I'm Agatha." "Oh, I have heard my Nellie speak ot you!" cried the mother. "You ore the one she loves the best of them all. Shq Is a good girl, my Nellie and smart?" Call that face dull or vacant, all alight with love as It was! "Now she comes home nt last to her papa and nie. Papa says, when he put me on the cars, 'At last she comes home to stay!' Tapa be couldn't come, and Nellie thought maybe I'd get tired, but I guess mammas don't get tired. And now we go home together! It is quiet in the house without Nellie, and four years is long at home alone. The others are all gone away. Nellie Is our baby." She turned from Agathn to gaze proudly at her tall daughter. Helen was quiet, looking Into the mysterious dark eyes that met hers in the mirror. The two weeks' battle was nt Its crisis; it was to be fought through now. The mother spoke again to Agatha: "Sometimes I worry. I do not say it to papa, but sometimes I think Nellie will not like to stay at home. It is not like her school. Perhaps she will not like to stay with papa nnd me." The wisttnlncss of her words made them a question, which Agntha answered: "Oh, yes, I know Helen will be happy nt home with you." They were speaking to each other, but they both looked at Helen. "So?" asked the mother, but of Helen, not of Agatha, seeming almost to guess the conflict. Then, when Helen gave her no reassuring word, she turned to Agatha with forced po liteness. "Your mamma, Is she here?" The words were like a stab, under which Agatha grew white. "I have no one here," she said. "My mother is dead." What was there in that still voice that made the mother nnd daughter turn so quickly to each other? A veil fell from Helen's eyes. The battle was won forever. Helen folded her mothei close In her nrms; she kissed her. "Mother," said Helen, nnd her voice was solemn with love, "I would rather go home to live with you nnd father than anything else In nil the world." Tbe mother did not speak. The tears were running down her cheeks, but her face was beautiful with the beauty of a mother who has missed her child, nnd whose longing is sat isfied. It was not Helen, but her mother, who first remembered Agatha. She put nslde Helen's clinging hands, and turned to the other girl. She stretched out her arms to her. "Deary!"' she said. Agntha put her arms round her neck nnd bowed her bend on her shoulder. "Kiss me," she whispered. "Kiss me, because my mother isn't here." Youth's Compnnion. King Cilwaril Playing; Croquet. The King has taken up croquet again and His Majesty played on three af ternoons during his stay at Goodwood, on the ground Iu the private garden behind the bouse. The royal croquet ground on one of the lawns near Bal moral Castle is to be put into thorough, order during the next month. At one time the ground was played over near ly every day when Queen Victoria wus residing at Balmoral, but croquet grad ually went out of fashion at court and elsewhere. However, there bns been a general nnd successful revlvnl of the gume of late years. London Truth. Army Clltcers Moat Swim. A writer to the London Times urges the War Office to Insist that all com missioned men In the army and nuvy be required to pass an examination in swimming. Itecrults for the ranks should be instructed iu this art, be thinks, as regularly as the drill regula tion. "Iq soldiering," be sayt. "whether in peace or war, there ore countless oeca clons when the absence cf this power may Involve the sacrifice of valuable lives." To swim with the Angers closed to gether prevent a crsuip. CATCHING "PILES' - - j !- 1 Hunters Board Up the Reptiles' Caves-Then Dig 'Em Out, jrX3rn!OW the native crocodile Sf l i "VP 1 '' native home, H or the method employed of capturing him. is little thought of nnd less known by the thousands upon thousands of winter visitor who see these immense saurians basking In the sun or lazily lounging upon the edges of the "slides" In the pens at Palm Beach or Miami, where they are kept In captivity for exhibition purposes. Neither In captivity do they appear to be the quick, alert nnd rapld-movlug creatures thnt they really are. As is well known, there Is only one region of the United States where these animals nre found in a native state, nnd that is nlong the lower coast of f lorida, a very few being found along Blscaync Bay, but in lurge numbers down among the numerous small isl ands or keys further south nnd in the vicinity of Flamingo nnd Cape Sable. They Inhabit the mangrove marshes nnd swamps, nnd are bard to get at by any one, even n native Florida Cracker or Seminole Indian. They can. of course, be shot, especially by fire light, but ns the (lend "dlle" is only worth so much as bis skin will bring In the market, his value when dead is not near so great as If captured alive, nnd very few are ever killed by the native hunters. There arc numbers however, who hunt him to capture him alive, and the methods adopted for bis enpture nre securely guarded by the successful hunter. It is said thnt only two or three, at most, know of these methods, and it was only by chance that the writer obtained the iuforma tion that is here given. A crocodile in his native haunts is not only so quick nt hearing, seeing. smelling, and it would seem nt feel lng, that the ordinary layman may have little hope of ever securing a good spec imeu alive unless by the merest of ac cidents. They are swift to dive, run or swim, sink In the mud and lay so still thnt no ripple of wnter will betray their presence, whilt they will smell a "tenderfoot" nt such (l distance that nil he will see upon his arrival is a streak of muddy wnter, showing thnt ills "dileshlp" was there, but nt present is chuckling to himself nt the bottom of some deep marine enve, where he Is going to stny until nil intrunders nre gone, nnd ns he only has to eat two or throe times n year, and can get on well nnd stay fat on less, hunger is not like ly to drive him forth. He is different from his first cousin, the nlligator, who Is dull, lazy, hungry always nnd gen erally fearless nnd full of curiosity to see what all strangers look like, nnd comes up to see, thus falling nn easy prey to the rifles of his enemies. To successfully enpture the crocodile a good roomy bont is secured that, is very shallow of draught, so as to en able it to enslly float among the num erous creeks and shallows into which it is destined to go. This bont is load ed with n good stock of camping uten sils, food and wnter (there is no drink ing or fresh water to be found among the lower Florida keys), and a good supply of ropes, planks, axes and spades. Thus equipped you arrive at toe grounds and estnblish your camp in what looks to be a good locality from the signs, both old and fresh. These nnimals are not migratory, nnd unless from good caust rarely ever leave the locality' in which they were hatched, although they may have a range of four or five miles in senrch ot food. The party now separates in small boats and begins the seorch for caves up and down nlong the muddy banks of deep, muddy, Ill-defined creeks and inland lakes, nnd having found a cave, they next ascertain If it Is in use, and if so is the "diie" large enough to cap ture, and if he is, nnd the hunters are professionals, his doom is sealed, for, although the crocodile may be off on n Junketing expedition in search of food or on n visit to bis relatives, the hunter is not in the least discouraged, for a patient and secret wntch is set nnd when he is seen in the vicinity he is easily frightened and runs to his cave. This cave is n hole nbout two feet in circumference ou the banks of the creek or lake, and may extend back sixty or seventy-five feet under the ground into the woods, but is always near the earth's surface, and in this retreat his "dileshlp" feels secure. However, his enemies first go to the mouth of his cave, nnd secretly fasten It up with boards and planks brought along for that purpose. Next the un derbrush Is partially cleared away nnd soundings are made to ascertain and locate the cave. Then blocks nnd tackle nre brought nnd set up, fastened secure ly to an adjneent tree, nnd then all be ing in readiness, a bole about ten Inches square Jsdugdown so as to strike the cave and through this hole is in serted the rope with a slip noose at tbe end of it, which noose so hangs that when the crocodile passes along bis nve it will catch bin) around the neck, A sharp stick Is then shoved down, and the animal, receiving tbe prod, runs along the cave and right into the trap set for him. Immediately . the man hauls away on his blocks and tackle and his head, secured in the noose, is hauled up in the bole, which Is not large enough to permit bis body to pass through; the end of his nose is pulled through, however, In spite of tho ter rific struggles of the saurian, and se curely tied with ropes. Then the bole is enlarged and his head, neck and forefeet are pulled through and securely fastened and two stout scantlings are now drawn along each side of him, and to theBe be is se curely tied or wrapped by numerous turns of the stout rope, great care be ing taken to hold him down in tbe hole until all that Is outside is securely fas tened. Now he is drawn out slowly and slowly wrapped to bis scantlings, until at last tbe dreadful tail is secure, ly lashed to two stout scantlings and Ms dileshlp is a helpless prisoner. If be could but get bis tali loose for two minutes, though, thiugs would be dif ferent, for at a single blow he cau kill a man, and be knows bow to use it with a speed and skill that bring fear ful results, and on this account bis captors take no chances. He is now o holpless captive and laid away in the bottom of the boat ready to be trans ported to bis future home In some mu seum, where be is looked and wondered nt by thousands, and where, by being so closely confined nnd overfed, be comes to n certain extent, lazy, stupid nnd fnt. He Is not, however, near so stupid ns be looks, nnd should be tnke a notion can show you some wonderful nntlcs In the way of Jumping, diving and swimming. Winter visitors nre often Invited to go out nnd see n crocodile captured, but they certainly should know thnt nil due preperntlons had previously been made, and the crocodile duly anchored at the place, where he wns to be cap tured before the hunt started, Also thnt the 'dlle," after being so nncbored, wns prepared in such n wny thnt be could In no mnnnet escape, nnd thnt the usual gyrations carried on by the valiant huuters were only nntlcs "cut up" Just to please nnd excite the enthu. slnsm of the sightseeing tourist. Jack sonville (Fin.) Times-Union. CAUGHT BY A WORD. Otil and New World Methoris of Detect ing Ohm' Fnruiiee. , Senator Stone has been telling a story and It bns been taken up by the newspapers and given wide circula tion. According to Senator Stone the Inhabitants f Missouri, In the early days of the nnti-sluvery ngltntlon, met every prospective settler at the Missis sippi lllvernnd pointing to a cow asked tho newcomer what it was. If the stranger said "cow." be was allowed to enter the State. If he said "keow," he was spotted as nn abolitionist nnd turned back. On the other hand, the Kansans, who were largely free sollers, had a bear at the State line. If the newcomers called It "bear," they were welcomed to the territory. If they called It "b'ar." they were turned back, being Missourians and pro-slavery in their sentiments. This Is a good story, but It is like nil other good stories merely a varia tion of a story told amid the Judean hills three thousand or more years ago. The Ephraimites waxed wroth at the Glleadites because they bad not been asked to help in the fight against the Ammonites, and ns a result the Eph raimites nnd the Oileadltes went to war in earnest. The Oileadltes got the best of It, nnd posting men nt the fords of the Jordan, stopped the fleeing Ephrnimlte as they made appearance. Being men of the same race and not wearing distinctive uniforms, it was difficult to tell enemy from friend, so the Glleadites framed up a scheme that gave tho early Missourluns nnd Kan sans their clue. Whenever n rann showed up at the ford he was stopped by the Glleadites pickets and asked, "Art thou nn Ephrnimlte?" Of course the scared fugitive would deny it. Then the pickets would say to him, "Say now 'shibboleth.' " Owing to some peculiarity of their lingual np pnratus the Ephraimites could not sound the aspirate, nnd they would say "s'ibboleth." A moment Inter there would be a dead Ephrnimlte concealed In the bushes. According to biblical lore there were "forty and two thou sand" aspirates dropped at the fords of the Jordan that day. The whole story may be found in the twelfth chapter of Judges, first six verses. The ltasso-Jitpaneie Ledger. The London Times estimates the casualties of the Russo-Japanese war up to July 4 last as follows: Russian killed and wounded, 320,779; Japanese killed and wounded, 10(5,756. It is stated that the above figures for the Russian losses are minima. Such items as these appear in the detailed list: LInoyang, September 4. Japanese loss, 17,013; Russian loss, 25,000. Shnho, September 14, Japanese, 15, 879; Russian, 09,201. Battle of Muk den, Japanese, 52,500; Russian, 152, 500; Port Arthur, .Trpnnese, CO.000; Russian, 20,000. Russian lost seventy-three war ves sels (twelve of which were battleships) with a total tonnage of 340,588. The Japanese lost twelve ships, with a totul displacement of 40,025 tons. Of non-combatant ships Japan cap tured forty-five, with a total displace ment of 107,929 tons. The Russian sunk twenty-six non- combatants, with au average tonnage of less than 234. To accomplish this beneficent work of destruction It has cost each of tho contestants not less than $500,000,000, and, probably, indirectly, twice this amount New Y'ork Globe. Cure for lnaect Pests. When insects, mice or other creat ures infest grain bins, burrow out of sight, or attempt to make their places Bccure against ordlnury methods of attack, the best remedy Is bisulphide of carbon, a very volatile liquid, which becomes rapidly converted into gas, penetrating into every bole, crack or other harboring place. As this gas is heavier than air, It sinks down to the lowest points, hence goes wherever the creatures can go. Poured into a rat bole (about a table- spoonful), and the hole covered with dirt, the rats must come out or perish. To destroy weevil in wheat it may be used with advantage. Being very velatlle, and also highly explosive, no flame or light of any kind must be brought near it, not even a lighted pipe or cigar. It has given excellent satisfaction when used at the roots of trees, after removing the earth for that purpose, in destroying root lice and other depre dators that work near the roots. Philadelphia Record. Has Its Advantage. The relative from the East, who had cotno to visit bis cousin, the Post master at Boom City, was surprised at the smallest of tbe place. "I expected to see a larger town than this," he said. "Surely there can't be much salary attached to a job like yours." , "Why, as to that," said the Post master, "the salary is only $12 a year, but it Is paid with tbe utmost prompt ness, and with, my life and Are In surance agency, law business, car penter shop, agricultural Implement business, drug store, and cigar shop I manage to get along. In addition to that tbe position gives one a sort of er standing in tbe community," Chi cago Tribune. irnei New York City. The possibilities of the shirt waist seem literally without limit. Season by season It Is found In new and attractive styles nnd always Is novel at the snme time that it fills its established place. Here Is one that is among tbe very latest shown and thnt is equally well adapted to silk nnd to wool fabrics nnd to the many cotton and linen wnlstlngs which ninny wom en like for the entire year. It Is tucked on quite Individual lines, the closing being made Invisibly nt the centre, where there Is nn effect obtained of two box pleats, while the back gives the tapering lines that are always so becoming. The sleeves follow the fav vorlte trend nnd nre full nt the shoul ders nnd narrower nt the wrists nnd are finished with pointed cuffs thnt give a distinctive air, while the collnr nlso is tucked lu harmony with the waist. The wnlst consists of the fitted foun- A LATS PSSIGH datlon, wulch can e used or omitted as material renders desirable, fronts and back. The lining Is closed nt the centre, while the hems of the waist are lapped beneath the tucks nnd closed Invisibly. Tbe quuntlty of material required for the medium size Is four and seven eighth yards twenty-one. four and one fourth yards twenty-seven or three and one-fourth yards forty-four Inches wide. Modes For Chlldlen. The general mode for children, es pecially for children over ten yours, does not differ materially from thut of grown women. There is considerable latitude nllowed In the matter of col ors, little girls being permitted to weur more bright colors than elders. For example, the brilliant plaids, which are hardly suitable 'or ordluury wear for adults, nre cburmlng for little girls. This season they are very fashionable and numbers of bright red, blue and green tartans are being made up for the first dnys of school. Triminlnga In Parisian Millinery, The choice of trimmings is left al most entirely to the funcy and tasto of the milliner, Ostrljh, birds, wings, cocks feathers, quills, palettes, para dise, goura, aigrette and funclful ar rangements of plumage are all as fash ionable one as another. At the sume time flowers figure rather more prom inently than usual at this season, while there is every reason to suppose that a great deut will be done wlin furs Iuter on.-Mllllnery Trade Review. . Worsteds to He Used. Worsteds lu neat effects will be used fot the constriistlori of the plain tail ored suits for practical purposes. Gray will be a leading color in such fabrics. Then there are the shadow plaids, which have already had a good success among the garment manufac turers who have exploited them. ml f Ipy 1 1 Long Oloves, While white mousiuetnlre gloves reign supreme for smart afternoon wear, or wherever the elbow sleeve mnkes their soft, wrinkly lengths ad visable, there Is a future before the new mouse colored suede. This is a grayish shade of mouse, very pretty nnd soft. Vndressed kid Is preferred to glace for smart occasions. Delicate pastel embroideries nre seen on the bucks and around the fastenings of some very advanced gloves In the soft est white suede or glnce kid. but these gloves, which are known ns Pompa dour, are, of course, not adapted to or dinary occasions. Washington Times. The Plalils Kevlved. In spite of this being a plain -color season, though some of the colors are pretty bright, the revival of plaids Is apparent. A fa.shlon writer who has observed modes In more than one cli mate warns the American woman against plaids, tn England and France they nre both appropriate and attract ive for autumn wear out of doors, but in this country with our mnrvelously clear atmosphere, nnd especially in our city streets, the plaids nre entirely too conspicuous. The Slip Interchangeable, A1 smart gown was Ideal nnd would be sweet carried out In rose colored voile de sole hemmed with rose lace, could well have a separate slip of white glace, which might be utilized for a white broderle anglalse, or a black marqulsate Inserted with Chautilly nnd so on. Contrasts In Jewelry. - I'p-to-date settings are designed to bring out the beauty of the important stones ns much as possible. The con trast between a large colored stone and the diamonds or pearls which surround It Is one means to this end now In much favor. BY MAY ttANTOK. For Erenlng- Wear. For evening wear white and the pas- . tel shudes will be In demand, for af ternoon wear both the pastel and med ium shades, and for practical purposes the darker shudes ot the fashionable colors. Five Clored Tunked Skirt. There Is no skirt better liked and none more graceful than this one. It is absolutely simple, reducing the labor of making to the minimum, while It takes most satisfactory lines and folds; The model is made of royal blue mo hair, stitched with belding silk, but the skirt is one suited to all seasonable materials and will . be a favorite through the entire autumn and winter. The tiny tucks over tho hips give a yoke effect without curtailing apparent height and do away with bulk at that point. The skirt la cut in five gores that are shaped to give generous fulness to the lower edge. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is eight and one-halt yards twenty-one, seven and one-half yards twenty-seven or four and three fourth yards forty-four Inches wld
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