Oh THCHRGES ISORIY SEAT
Subject: “The Cradle of Jesus’ —Lessons
Drawn From the Miraculous Escape
of the Infant Christ From the Perils
That Encompassed Him,
Text: ‘Herod will seek the young child
to destroy Him.” —Matthew ii.. 13.
The cradle of the infant Jesus had no
rockers, for it was not to be soothed by os-
cillating motion, as are the cradles of other
princes. It had noembroidered pillow, for
1he young head was not to have such lux-
urious comfort: Though a meteor, ordin-
arily the most erratic and seemingly un-
governable of all skyey appearances, had
been sent to designate the place where
that cradle stood, and a choir had been
sent from the heavenly temple to serenade
its illustrious occupant with an epie, yet
the cradle was the target for all earthly
and diabolical hostilities. Indeed, I give
you us my opinion that it was the narrow-
est and most wonderful escape of the ages
that the child was not slain before He
had taken His first step or spoken His first
word. Herod could not afford to have
Him born. The Casars could not afford to
have Him born. The gigantic oppressions
and abominations of the world could not
afford to have Him born. Was there ever
planned a more systematized or appalling
bombardment in all the world than the
bombardment of that cradle?
The Herod whnoledthe attack was ‘reach-
ery, vengeance and sensuality imper-
sonated. As a sort of pastime he slew Hyr-
canus, the grandfather of his wife. Then
he slew JMariamme, his wife, Then he
butchered her two sons, Alexander and
Aristobulus. Then he slew Antipater, his
oldest son. Then he ordered burned alive
forty people who had pulled down the eagle
of his authority. He ordered the nobles
who had attended upon his dying bed to be
slain, so that there might be universal
mourning after his disease. From that
same deathbed he ordered the slaughter of
all the children in Bethelem under two
years of age, feeling sure that if he mas-
sacred the entire infantile population that
would include the destruction of the child
whose birthplace astronomy had pointed
out with its finger of light. What were
the slaughtered babes to him, and as many
frenzied and bereft mothers? If he had
been well enough to leave his bed, he would
have enjoyed seeing the mothers willly
struggling to keep their babes and holding
them, so tightly that they could notibe
separated until the sword took both lives
at one stroke, and others, mother and
child, buried from roofs of houses
the street, until that village of horse-
shoe. shape on the hillside became one
great butcher shop. To have such a man,
with associates just as cruel and an army
at his command, attempting the life of the
infant Jesus, does there seem any chance
for His escape? Then that flight soutaward
for so many miles, across deserts and amid
bandits and wild beasts (my friend, the
late missionary and scientist Dr. Lansing,
who took the came journey, said it was
enough to kill both the Madonna and the
Child), and poor residence in Cairo. You
know how difficult it is to take an ordinary
child successfully through the disorders
that are sure to assail it even in comfort-
able homes and with all delicate ministries,
and then think of the exposure of that
famous babe in villages and lands where
all sanitary laws were put at defiance, His
first hours on earth spent in a room with-
out any doors, and ofttimes swept by
chilled night winds, then afterward riding
many days under hot tropical sun, and
part of many nights lest the avenger over-
take the fugitive before He could be hidden
in another-land.
The sanhedrin also were affronted at the
report of this mysterious arrival of a child
that might upset all conventionalities and
threaten the throne of the nation. ‘Shut
the door and bolt it and double bar it
against Him!” cried all political and eccle-
siastical power. Christ on a retreat when
only a few days of age, with all the priva-
tions and hardships and sufferings of re-
treat! When the glad news came that Herod
was dead and the Madonna was packing up
and taking her Child home, bad news also
came that Archelaus, the son, had taken
the throne—anothercrowned infamy. What
chance for the babe’s life? Will not some
short grave hold the wondrous infant?
“Put Him to death!” was the order all up
and down Palestine and all up and down
the desert between Bethlehem and Cairo.
The cry was: ‘‘Here comes an iconoclast of
all established order! Here comes an us-
pirant for the crown of Augustus! If found
on the streets of Bethlemem, dash Him to
death on the pavement! If found on a hill,
hurl Him down the rocks! Away with
Him!” But the babe got home in safety and
passed up from infancy to youth, and from
youth to manhood, and from carpenter shop
to Messiahship, and from Messiahship to
enthronment, until the mightiest name on
earth is Jesus, and there is no mightier
name in heaven.
What I want to call your attention to is
your narrow escape and mine and the
world’s narrow escape’ Suppose that
attempt on the young child’s life had been
successfull Suppose that delegation of
wise men, who ‘were to report to Herod
immediately after they discovered the hard
bed in the Bethlehem caravansary, had
obeyed orders and reported! Suppose the
beast carrying the Madonna aud the Child
in the flight had stumbled and flung to
death its riders! Suppose Archelaus had
got his hands on the babe that his father
had failed to find! Suppose that among
the children dashed from the Bethlehem
house tops or Separated by sword of the
enraged constabulary Jesus had perished!
Still further remarking upon the narrow
escape which you and I had and all the
world had in that babe’s escape, let me say
that had that Herodic plot been successful
the one instance of absolutely perfect
character would never have been unfolded.
The world had enjoyed the lives of many
splendid men before Christ came. It bad ad-
mired its Plato among philosophers, its
Mithridates among heroes, its Herodotus
among historians, its Phidias among
sculptors, its Homer among poets, its
Asop among fabulists, its /Eschylus
among dramatists, its Demosthenes among
orators, its Asculapius among physicians,
yet among the contemporaries of those
men there were two opinions, as now
there are two opinions, concerning
every remarkable man. There were plenty
in those days who said of them, ‘He can-
not speak,” or ‘‘He cannot sing,” or ‘‘He
cannot philosophize,” or ‘‘His military
achievement was a mere accident, or “His
chisel, his pen, his medical preseription,
never deserved the applause given.” But
concerning this full grown Christ, whose
life was launched three decades before that
first Christmas, the moans of camels and
the bleat of sheep and the low of cattle
mingled with the babe’s first cry, while
clouds that night were resonant with
music, and star pointing down whispered
to star, “Look, there He is!”
That Christ, after the detectives of Herod
and Pilate and sanhedrin had watched
Him by day and watched Him by, night,
year after year, was reported in-
nocent. It was found out that when
Ho talked to the vagrant woman in the
temple it was to tell her to ‘“go and sin no
more,” and that if He spoke with the peni-
tent thief it was to promise him paradise
within twenty-four hours, and that as He
moved about He dropped ease of pain upon
the invalid’s pillow, or light upon the eye
that lacked optic nerve, or put bread into
the hands of the hungry, or took from the
oriental hearse the dead young man and
vitalized him and said to the widowed
mother, “Here he is, alive and well,” and
sbe cried, ‘“‘My boy, my boy!” and he re-
sponded, ‘Mother, mother!” And the sea,
tossing too roughly some of His friends,
by a word easier than a nurse’s word
to a petulant child He made it
keep still. The very judge who for other
reasons allowed Him to be put to death de-
<lared, “I find no fault in Him.”” Was there
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ever a life so thoroughly ransacked and
hypercriticided that turned out tobe «se
perfect a life? Now, you can imagine what
would have been the calamity to earth and
heaven, what a bereavement to all history,
what swindling not only of the human
race, but ¢f cherubim and seraphim and
archangel, if because of infernal incursion
upon the hed ef that Bethlehem babe this
life of divine and glorious manhood had
never been lived? The Christic parables
would never have been uttered; the ser-
mon on the mount, &ll adrip with bene-
dictions, never preached; the golden rule,
in picture frame of everlasting love, would
never have been hung up for the universe
to g: ze upon and admire.
Can you imagine what a scarification of
the world’s literature would be the re-
moval of all Christ ever did and said? It
would tear down the most important
shelves of yonder Congressional library,
and of the Vaticun library, and of British
museum, and Berlin and Bonn aud Vienna
and Madrid and St. Petersburg libraries,
and St. Paul’s life would have been an im-
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{omic policy which has
| Keene of talking
possibility, and his episties. would never |
have been written, and St. John, from the
basaltic caverns of Patmos, would never
ined crystallization. O wise men of the
east! I am so glad you did not report to
the imperial scoundrel at Jerusalem where
the babe was, for the bounds would
have soon torn to pieces the Lamb, and |
I am so glad that not only did you bring |
the frankincense and the myrrh to the
room in that caravansary, but that you
brought the gold which paid His traveling
expenses and those of Joseph and Mary in
that jong and dangerous flight to Cairo, in
Egypt, and paid their lodging and board
thers and paid their way back again. Well
enough to bring to the barn of the Sayviour’s |
| ing to a condition which could only
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important | =
So now the Lord accepts your |
nativity the flowers. for they aromatized
the dreadfal atmosphere of the stable, but
the zold was just then the most
offering.
prayers, for they are the perfume of heaven,
but He asks also for the gold which will
pay the expense of taking Christ to all
nations. 5
Still further remarking upon the narrow
escape which vou and I and the world had
inthe diversion of the persecutors from the
place of nativity, let me say that had that
Herodie raid upon the swaddling clothes
been successful the world would never have
known the value of a righteous peace.
Much has heen made of the fact that the
world was at peace when Christ came.
Yes. Bat what kind of peace was it? = It
was a peace worse than war. It was the
peace of a‘graveyardt The Roman eagles
had plucked out the world’s eyesight and
plunged their beaks through the heart of
dead nations. It wasa peace spoken of by
a dying Indian chieftain “when a Christian
home missionary said to him, “You have
been a warrior, and Lave been in many
feuds, but you must be at peace with all
your enemies in order to die aright.”” The
dying chieftan replied: “That's easy
enough. Iam at peace with all my ene-
mies, for I have killed all of them.”
That was sthe stylo of pzace on earth
when Christ came, but the spirit of ar-
bitration, which is to garland the tomb
of this century and coronet the brow ol
the coming century, is consequent upon
the midnight anthem above Bethlehem,
two bars to that musie, the first of di-
vine ascription and the second of earth-
ly pacification. “Glory to God and
peace to men.’’ In His manhood Christ
pronounced the same doctrine, ‘‘Biessed
are the merciful.” jefore the Bethle-
hem star flashed its significance, the
theory was: ‘Blessed is wholesale cut-
throatery. Biessed are those who can
kill the most antagonists. Blessed are
those who can most skillfully wield the
battleax. Blessed are those who can
stab the deepest with spear or roll a
chariot wheel over the most wounded
or put his charger’s hoof on the most
dead.” The entirely new theory of our
Christ was blessing for cursing, prayer
for those who despitefully use you,
foundries to turn spears into pruning
hooks, redhot furnaces to melt swords
into molds shaped like plowshares., 1f
gigantic acerbities and worldwide tiger-
isms had, without ary gospel opposi-
tion, gone on until now and been aug-
mented by 1898 years of ferocity, by this
time what would this world have been
turned into? You ueed not remind me of
the awful wars since the opening of the
year one of our Christian era; for if "the
earth has been again and again lacerated
into an Aceldama through improved weap-
onry of death and more rapidity of fire,
Prussian breechloader which in 1866 startled
the nations with unprecedented havoe
eclipsed by contrivances that can sweep |
vaster numbers to death by one volley and |
cause of the fear of disturbing mone-
| tary affairs
most | Ary slan
telegraphy adding to gunnery new facili-
ties for slaughter by instantly ordering
armies to where they can do the
wholesale murder—I say if all this woe has
been wrought, how much worse would it
have been if the Christly revelation had |
not been let down from heaven on flve
and down Christendom for nineteen
turies!
cen-
The Bethlehem manger has given
the most potent suggestion of peace the |
world has ever received. The cavalry
horses cannot eat out of that manger.
Itake another step forward in showing
the narrow escape you and I had and the
world bad in the secretion of Christ’s birth-
place from the Herodic detectives, and the |
clubs with which they vould havs dashed
the babe’s life out, when I say that without
the life that began that night in Bethlehem
the world would have had no illumined | : &5 >
| @pening of Chinese and other Eastern
| markets will furnish new and aimost
unlimited opportunities.
deathbeds. Beforethe time of Christ good
people closed their earthly lives in peace,
while depending upon the Christ to come,
and there were antediluvian saints and
Assyrian saints and Egyptian saints and
Grecian saints and Jerusalem saints long be-
fore the clouds above Bethlehem becamea
baleony filled with the best singers of a
world wherethey all sing,butI cannot read
that there was anything more than a quiet-
ing guess that came to those before Christ
deathbeds. Job said something bordering
on the confident, but it was mixed up with
a story of “skin worms” that would de-
stroy his body.
pared with the ‘after Christ deathbeds it
was like the dim tallow candle of old ve-
side the modern cluster of lights electric.
I know Elijah went up in memorable man-
ner, but it was a terrible way to go—a
whirlwind of fire that must have been
splendid to look at by those who stood on
the banks of the Jordan, but it was a style
of ascent that required more nerve than
you and I ever had, to be a ‘placid oe-
cupant of a chariot drawn by such a
wild team. The triumphant deathbeds,
as far as I know, were the after Christ
deathbads. What a procession ot hosan-
nas have marched through the dying room
of the saints of the last nineteen centuries!
What cavalcade of mounted halleluiahs
has galloped through the dying visions of
the last 2000 years save 100! Peaceful death-
beds in the years B. C.! Triumphant death-
beds, for the most part, reserved for the
years A. D.! Behold the deathbeds of the
Wesleys, of the Doddridges, of the Leigh
Richmonds, of the Edward Paysons; of
Vara, the converted heathen chieftain,
crying in his last moments: ‘“The canoe is
in the sea. The sails are spread. She is
ready for the gale. I have a good Pilot to
guide me. My outside man and my inside
man differ, Let the one rot till the trum-
pet shall sound, but let my soul wing her
way to the throne of Jesus.” Of dying
John Fletcher, who entered his pulpit to
preach, though his doctors forbade him,
and then descended to the communion
table, saying, *‘I am going to throw my-
self under the wings of the cherubim be-
fore the mercy seat,’”” thousands of people
a few days after following him to the
grave, singing:
With heavenly weapons he has fought
The battles of the Lord,
Finished his course and kept the faith
And gained the great reward.
American Money Loaned Abroad.
American money interests are loaning
abroad,
Abraham and Jacob had a |
little light on the. dying pillow, but com- |
| men, we compete with “the
WORK OF PROTECTION.
OUR FOREIGN TRADE. AND ITS VAST
SIGNIFICANCE.
James IR. Keene Points Out the Tremend-
ous Increase of National Wealth Re-
sulting From the Increase of Exports
and the Decrease of Imports.
A notably impressive statement is
that of Mr. James R. Kecne regarding
the present fiscal position of the United
States, chiefly as theresult of an econ-
increased the
use and consumption of our domestic
products while at the same time dimin-
ishing our use of the products of other
countries. Nobody will accuse Mr.
politics when he
this wonderful de-
In-
draws attention to
velopment of national prosperity.
i deed, so far as public expressior
have heard the seven trumpets or seen the | deed, so far as any public expression
heavenly walls with twelve layers ol illum- | ) Bat
| hardly be said to have any polities.
of his on that subject goes he can
Jay Gould once said that while he
| belonged to any or all parties, his only
politics was the Erie road. Mr. Keene's
politics may be said, in the same sense,
to be the stock exchange. Judged by
the authorized interview which he gave
out for publication a few days ago he
{ ought to be a Republican and a pro-
| tectionist, but if he is he has not said
so. In that interview, while testify-
tection, he refrains from the acknowl-
edeement of any obligation to the sys-
tem which detends the great home
market as a means of enabling Ameri-
can producers to successfully reach out
after the world’s markets. But we
should let Mr. Keene tell the story of
protection’s grand achievements in his
own way. He says:
‘“T'o my mind the foreign trade of
the United States is the fundamental
factor in the present situation. Most
people have apparently not yet appre-
ciated its significance. The Govern-
ment figures of foreign trade show:
Excess of exports year ending June
30, 1896, $85,997,983; excess of ex-
ports year ending June 30, 1897, $265,-
621,112; excess of exports year ending
June 30, 1898, $6,615,259,124. Total
for three years, $966,878,219. Ex-
cess exports July 1 to October 30,
1898, {four months, $165,799,884,
making a total of $1,100,000,000.
Here is an addition of over $1,100,-
000,000 to the wealth of the country
from surplus products in a little. over
three years. There is a persistent and
importunate demand for our grain,
provisions, cotton and manufactured
products, which insures for the fiscal
year ending June 30 next another
large excess of exports. The total gain
to the country in four years will prob-
ably be in excess of $1,500,000,000.
‘““The trade statement for the three
preceding years is important, showing
the gradual growth of foreign trade:
Year ending June 30, 1893, excess of
| imports, $18,735,728; year ending June
30, 1894, excess of exports, $237,145,
950; year ending June 30, 1895, ex-
cess of exports, $64,076,782. These
net sales of surplus products must be
paid for in some form. Foreign na-
tions did not have $1,100,000,000 gold
to remit, but they sent us some gold
and some securities. To-day they owe
us in various forms large amounts of
money in the shape of liabilities, as,
for example, exchange, the collection
of which has been deferred. The debt,
moreover, will grow instead of de-
creasing. We have not demanded
money due us by foreign nations, be-
in England, Germany,
France and other countries, and be-
cause it pays us to leave it at interest.
“A gratifying feature of our foreign
ranged ladder of musical scale and there | (rade is the growth in exports of manu-
had been no preaching of good will all up |
| nearly trebled.
In eighteen years these have
Last year they were
nearly $300,000,000. There is every
prospect that this growth will con-
facture.
| tinue. We have imported fewer manu-
factured goods because we have learned
how to make our own, and with im-
proved machinery, abundant raw mn:
terial and skilled and well-fed work-
world in
The
manufactures as never before.
“Tt is this enormous debt of foreign
nations to us which has made money
so easy throughout the country, flood-
ed the West with capital, filled West
ern banks to repletion, and broughi
Western men in large numbers to in-
vest in our securities.
“Hardly one man in a thousand in
the United States realizes this change.
The power of $1,500,000,000increased
wealth no one can controvert. The
figures are so stupendous and the logic
is so irresistible that the student
stands aghast. Few have ever seen
these figures grouped in this form,
and even {he financial writers of the
press, clever and able as they are,
have not seemed to grasp their mag-
nitude and the irresistible investment
and speculative momentum they have
unquestionably exercised. It musi
also be remembered that while this
increased wealth is from exports only,
the country itself has grown richer in
even greater proportion. There has
been nothing like this foreign trade
statement in the history of the com-
merce of any country.”
This picture, drawn by the master
hand of one of the world’s leaders in
finance and business, is remarkable
for its truth, its simplicity and its
power. Nothing need be-added to it.
The People Know.
A New York paper says ‘‘it must be
a firm purpose not to dim the luster of
the war heroes that is keeping Mr.
Dingley from pointing out how the
result of the election is a vindication
of the existing tariff law.” Mr. Ding-
ley doesn’t have to ‘‘point out” any
benefits that accrued from the tariff
law. The people know that protection
made prosperity, and Republican pros-
perity made Republican victory cer-
tain. —Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger.
1 EASILY ANSWERED,
How the American Merchant Marine May
Be Upbuilt.
The American Line of steamships,
plying between New York and South-s
ampton, isin existence, but is heavily’
subsidized for carrying the mails.
Our coastwise marine is large, bacause
foreign competition is excluded by
law.
Will the Republican leaders permit
Americans to buy vessels in Europe,
and then nationalize them? If they
will not do that, nor remove the tax
from building materials and the ves:
sels when launched, then how is the
American merchant marine to be up-
built?>— Paris edition New York Her-
ald.
You have already answered the
question, if you were logical enough
to know it. Here is the answer out
of your own mouth;
Our coastwise marine is large, be-
cause foreign competition is excluded
by law. i
There is the whole thing in thirteen
words. Exclude (that is, penalize, by
means of discriminating duties) by
law foreign competition in our foreign
carrying trade, and will not our over-
sea marine be large? Discrimination
has built up Great Britain’s merchant
navy to its present tremendous pro-
portion; discrimination maintains
British marine supremacy to-day. It
will do the same for the United
States. What we want to do is to ex-
clude foreign competition on the sea.
precisely as we do on the land.
Uncle Sam’s Educational Charl.
Its Real Meaning.
The real meaning of the open door
is simply a guarantee of equal oppor-
tunity to trade and under like condi-
tions and it does not exclude tariff for
revenne or protection which may be
thought necessary for the support of
the Government. It simply means
that there shall be no discrimination.
All the questions raised by the anti-
expansionists have been thought of
and taken into account by those who
believe in growth. Assistant Secretary
of State Meiklejohn sees no difficulty
in treating the Philippines as a colony
and legislating especially for them.
It can be depended upon that what-
ever the outcome, existing industries
in the United States will neither be
destroyed nor disturbed. —Utica (N.
Y.) Press.
An Anti-Expansionist View.
If we can sell steel rails to foreign
countries, and locomotives, and har-
vesting machines, and bicycles, and
about everything else we make, there
is no reason why we cannot make
merchant ocean steamers, and run
them, too, as cheaply as anybody does.
And it is high time to take hold of
our merchant marine and do our own
carrying across the ocean. And if
England secures her business by sub-
sidizing her steamship lines, we must
subsidize ours. That's much cheaper
than it is to buy distant islands, and
pay heavy expenses in caring for them.
Lowell (Mass.) Courier.
ad For Spanish Merchants,
Porto Rico continues to
quantities of supplies from Spain.
That is because under existing ar-
rangements the Spaniards are the
most favored mation dealing with
Porto Rico. When the Porto Ridan
tariff is the same as that of the United
States, some of the Spanish merchants
who have been getting wealthy off the
trade with the islands will discover a
sudden and disastrous falling off in
their business. The majority of the
ships delivering goods at Porto Rico
will be sailing under American register
soon after the tariff" is extended to
our new possession.—Baflalo Review.
buy large
Does Not Necessitate Bond Issues.
The fanniest thing that appears in
the Democratic paners these days is
abuse of the Diugley law because it
doesn’t produce revenue enough to
suit them. What the average Demo-
erat wants is a revenue law that will
cause bond issues every two or three
months. The Dingley law may have
imperfections; even Republican laws
have them occasionally. But the fact
remains that no bonds have been is-
sued to pay the running expenses of
the Government outside of war ex-
penses, since it went into effect. —
Lawrence (Kan.) Journal.
They Jump Over It.
Evidently the tariff wall around this
country is not so high that exports
cannot jump over it. The foreign
trade of the United States is now near-
ly $2,000,000,000 a year and the in-
crease in the volume of exports was
$107,000,000 during the past eight
months,—Aberdeen (S. D.) News.
His Only Alternative,
Little Dot was very fond of Bible
stories, and one day after her mother
had read the story of Lot’s wife she
asked: “Mamma, what did Mr. Lot
do when his wife was turned into a
pillar of salt?” “What do you think
he did?’ asked mamma. “Why,” re-
plied the practical little miss. “I s’pose
he wert out ang hurted up a fresh
one.”—Chicago News. -
The Season's Decrees An
TASTIONS.
ent Skirts---Clinging Ef-
fects Popular.
DORIC
NEw York City (Special).—The one
distinguishing characteristic in all the
phases of fashion is the soft, grace-
ful and clinging effect. We might ag
well make the most of this fea.ure
while it lasts, for there is no telling
where the career of the overskirt may
lead us. It is liable to branch out in-
to draperies that will disguise every
pretty line in the figure and accent-
uate every defect; but whatever folly
it may develop later on, it is here now
in 1ts most acceptable form.
There is no getting around the fact
that the eel-like skirt which hugs the
figure so closely to the knees, then
suddenly flares with amazing fulness,
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is the popular skirt of the moment.
There is absolutely no fulness any-
where at the top and one wonders
how it was ever drawn on in its glove-
fitting snugness, and were it not for
the long opening in the back, which
is laced up with cord and two rows of
buttons, or else trimmed with seven
small bows, the donning of this truly
stylish skirt would be an art to be
closely studied. The tall, slender
woman with good figure revels in
this novel skirt, and to accentuate the
severity of its style, wears it in black
satin, made quite long all around the
front andsides, and a demi-train at
+ stitched
new winter sleeves that are as close-
fitting as they can comfortably be
worn. Crescent-shaped puffs of fur
or velvet, vandykes covered with spe-
cial pieces in passementerie, short
Femish caps edged with chenille gal-
loon, stitched straps, Queen Bess
puffs slashed and laced across, ail are
used—and much originality is shown
in the arrangement of various shoul-
der decorations.
A Useful Suggestion.
These who have dress waists that
hook on the shoulder and under the
arm, and who have no lady’s maid,
should try sewing a tiny cord along
the fastening line instead of ‘‘eyes.”
By catching the cord down at fre-
quent intervals the hooks will catch
and hold wkeraver they meet the cord,
and the hunt for eyes under constant
danger of dislocating one’s anatomy is
ended forever.
A Pretty Ncarf
A pretty white scarf for the neck is
of the finest and sheerest mull, hem-
across the ends and down
the sides with a narrow hem. .On
each end, for a few inches up, is a
pattern of conventionalized violets,
lightly embroidered, all in white.
Shoes For the Children.
For outdoor wear children should
have thick but not clumsy shoes. If
possible, it is well to have several
pairs at once, and let the child wear
them alternately.
Skirt Suggestions.
Some of the new skirts of cloth are
either vandyked or scalloped at the
lower edge and from beneath comes a
plaiting of silk about three inches
wide, either to maich the color of the
skirt orin a contrasting shade. A cloth
skirt of quite bright green has a plait-
ing of silk in 2 darker shade of the
same tone, while the edges of the van-
dykes are bound with a narrow roll
binding of dark green velvet. For
good wear some of the plaitings are
bound in black velvet to match that on
the vandykes and ’tis rather an ad-
LADIES’ SKIRT WITH FITTED
PEPLUM-—-OUTLINED FOR
SCALLOPED FOOT
TRIMMING.
the back with not an atom eof trim-
ming to relieve its plainness. Che
chiffon-trimmed waist to this skirt
madein quite frou frou effect and makes
a fine foil for the severe effect in
skirt. A Detter effect, however,
brought about by by having a
graded flounce on the skirt trimmed
quite full in many little ruches or |
ruflles. |
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A Skirt With Peplium. |
Mastic colored broadcloth, and rich
golden brown velvet, combined in the |
May Manton style shown in the large
engraving, made one of the smartest
skirts shown this season, the trim-
ming being open passementerie over
creamy satin. i
The skirt is complete without the
peplum, which may be added or not as
preferred.
In place of the velvet at the foot,
shirred ribbun, velvet, passenienterie
or braid, may be applied on the scol- |
loped outline. i
The skirt consists of a narrow front
gore and two circular portions that fit
closely at the top and ripple stylishly
at the sides and back to the foot. Two
short darts are taken in at the waist
line and deep underlying plaits are
formed to meet over the placket, which
is finished at the,top of centre back
seam.
The smooth peplum fits without a:
wrinkle, the short darts being taken up !
separately from the skirt. It meets
closely over the fulness in centre buck
where it is closed with a double row
of crystal buttons held togefller by a
lacer, and it can be made adjustable
and worn ov not at pleasure.
Very handsome combinations may
be developed by the mode in silk,
woolen, velvet or mixed fabrics, the
mode suggesting possibilities for re-
modeling last season’s skirts without a
doubt of success. To make this skirt
in the medium size will require five
yards of forty-four inch material.
Novel Effects For the Sleeves.
Very novel and pretty effects are
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Skirts still continue to very long
all the way around, especially on the
des and in front. and while thisstyle
is trying when one is walking, it is be-
coming, particularly to the stout wom-
an whose dresses are prone to ride up
in front.
Pipinzs of satin, velvet or ribbed
silk are much used on gowns of cloth
and the popular braids are much nar-
rower than those used heretofore. Ap-
plique braidings are much used on
both gowns and wraps and if well ap-
plied are quite as effective as though
the design was done right on the gar-
ment, In combining ruches of the
tiniest baby or lace footing in while
with these motifs, a very effective and
i becoming trimming is made and one
that looks more dressy than the plain
braided designs.
The drop skirt
is obsolete. The
A DESIGN TOR THE LATE WINTER,
skirts are lined with silk in a conven-
tional way. All of the street skirts
are a trifle shorter, but demi-toilets
employed in decorating the tops of!
show a long and graceful sweep.