age bi ‘spirit t of it ongre- 1. 8 a r stage the as- mean 1at we nposed narked in this 7 study yses of ot pos- that is r great lent. to 3 ambi- mount actress ittance lod pe- end in t most equent travel, th and riously years, writing them. pted to o have unce a he pub- a good * to at- ay we s made entury, dealing perfect ». stars® stimate by the r avail- nce be- At dis- through conclu- all the ere not that all be any hey are > hen the atter of stich a such a cter—is personal ay char- pl. | live the are suc- e to the Diritual, rd; and thatiene he fight- 5 by and to keep ST. resist at inherit- thinking Keep on sw York jmpDY S BveNI@tiEULATION {" On summer ey enings on the lawn § It’s always lots of ‘ we sit and talk of many things And vate watch the setting sun. But tvhen 1 want to listen ‘Fo everything that’s said, . "Some one is sure. to say to me, “Come, dears oF s time for 8, Nicholas, FOUR" WAYS OF SPINNING EGGS. Did you #ver Spin an egg? It is al most as good fun as spinning a top. The ecg miust be hard boiled, as a Taw 7 AN A EI i SPINNING THE EGG: WITH. STRINGY or:soft egg. vill aot. spin well, because the. liquid ‘contents avill not follow, [the motion of the shell exactly. : Now there, is something queer in the way. an egg spins. It is easy enough ‘to make it spin on either tiie] "small or ‘the large end Dy stahding®it oi ‘that €nd on a plafe and tyirling it: with your fingers, bes if Jos 3 to fe it ¥Becatise fhey do net raise popcorn in England. Dn’ t you think it would be a good" plan’ for us to. have a pop- corn party for her this very night.” The children agreed and Carl built a splendid fire in the fireplace after supper. By the time they were ready for Edna's party there was a big bed of glowing coals to rake out ‘on the hearth. A “Quick! the people must come to ‘the party right off.” called Carl; “the coals are just right.” First came Sue bringing ‘a’ box full of corn already shelled. “This is the corn that was put in the ground,” she chanted,- “only you know it isn’t,” she added. “This is what we are going to Pop. ” “This is the stalk that grew from the corn that was put in the ground,” sang Uncle Frank. actually bringing in a corn stalk and standing it in a Corner of the room. “And these ave the =ars that grew on the stalk that grew from the corn that was put in the ground,” chanted Aunt Mary bringing a bunch of ears. “And here is'the popper to pop the corn that grew on the stalk that grew from’ the corn that was put in the ground,” said Sue who had dodged out and returned with the long-han- ‘dled wire Dox. : Jdna laughed and clapped her hands with delight: Carl lifted the “cover, poured in a4 handful of the corn, ant when the coals were drawn forward ca the big bri¢k hearth, began to shake ‘the popper gently over them. "Aunt Mary brought in a ten- quart ‘milk-pah and the salt and buttdr. MI wonder what the pas for” “thought PICTURE PUZZLE: = ROMEO ak JULIET. FIND Wo OF ROMEO'S IRIEN pS. . Sram Th —Mirror and Fariger. spin on the Side it refuses to do so, but stands.up and.spins on the large end. It is not quite so "easy, :though mot wery difficult, to make an egg spin without twirling ‘it or even touching it with your fingers. Simply lay it on a plate which projects a Tittle over the edge of the ‘table so that you can lift the plate without tipping it. Take it up and move: your hand rapidly in a small horizontal circle as if you \*-re trying to make a lot of ‘“naughts” with a pencil. The egg will begin to spin on its side, but will soon be spinning on its large end. : Or you can keep it spinning in this way even if you have to start it.with your fingers. It is possible, also, to spin an egg with a string, though, of course, you must not throw it on the floor. Wind the string around the middle of the egg, stand it on one end and steady it by touching the other end lightly with one finger. Then pull.the string carefully. Finally, you can spin an egg with a whip, like a whip top, if you do not whip it too hard and take care not to hit it with the stick, but a glass “nest egg” or a wooden darning egg is better than a real for this purpose. Some eggs spin better than others. The best spinners are eggs that are THE EGG SPINNING ITSELF. quite regular in shape and have been boiled in an upright position so that the air bubble is exactly at the end, not a little to one side, as it often is.— New York: Evening Mail. WHY THE POP-CORN POPS. “Here’s a little girl who has never seen an ear of pop-corn in her life,” said Aunt Mary, “and she has nevet seen even a single kernel pop!” “Why not?’ asked Carl and Sue, looking pityingly at the little English cousin who vas spending the autumn on the big Maine farm which was their home. 3 wah Edna, “and. the salt and butter! Per- haps I can eat two orstheee of. those lit- tle bard kernels:if they are salted, but- think of eating a panful!”’ . Then, .as she. looked .at the. popper, pop! a little kernel flew to the cover: apd fell back again a beautiful Snow- white puft-ball. an i Pop! pop! pop! pop! pobpity pop! went the kernels—the sound growing softer as the popper filled and the new- ly-popped corn fell back" on a soft white bed. : Carl drew the corn away. om the coals, and, lifting the cover, poured the flufty-looking Kernels 18to the big pan, and Aunt Mary dropped on the melted butter and sprinkled; the hot corn with salt. 4 “Eat, do eat!” urged - Sue. needed no second invitation. ; “Wish I could eat the smell, too,” she said as she munched her first mouthful. Carl kept on popping the corn until there were two panfuls. What a feast they all had! £3 “Uncle Frank,” said Edna, in a coax- ing voice, when the corn was nearly gone, ‘“‘what makes the pop-corn pop?’ “The heat,” answered her uncle, his eyes twinkling. “Y-e-s, but it doesn’t make eveéry- thing pop,” answered Edna. “When peas are very-hot they just hop.” “The real reason is this,” said Uncle Frank. “There is an oil all through the in- side of the kernel that is changed into a gas when the corn is heated. You know what a gas is—don’'t you?” Edna nodded. “Well, the gas wants a lot more room than the oil, and pop! it explodes and bursts the tough outer skin with force enough to turn the whole kernel inside out.”—Adapted from the Sunday School Times. Edna - THE . CUNNING OF ANTS. A naturalist feund black ants were devouring the skins of some bird speci- mens on a table, so he made tar circles on four pieces of paper and put one un- der each leg of the table. Ants will not cross tar. Pretty soon he found the ants busily at work again and, looking at the tar circles, found each one was bridged by bits of sand which the cleve er ants had brought in from the sueet, -have a Sad who w il mot break down and A SERMON FOR SUNDAY | x ® AAS rT BeE MAD id A ‘STRONG’ ISCOURSE" NITED: “THE, KNOWLEDGE OF Gop.” Eos The Rev. Lidsion XL. Tay] lor Tells Why Religion is an Affair of the Soul and God=— Sectarian, Dogmatic Insistence is Perilous. BROOKLYN, NY Sunday eveni ng, in the Puritan Congregational Church, the astor; the Revs Livingston 1: Tayler, yu or the subject of bis ‘sermon, Knowledge of sod.” The .text.«was a Psalm Ixxxiv:2 “My heatt and my flesh crieth éut for he living’ God. » Mr’ Tay- lor said: I come beck to his pelpit in’ no améer- tainty of mind with reference to what. my message sheuld be." tnow, at any rate, where it must begin.’ Unless - thristake the terms of my commission, unless I mis-. take the nature of the means placed at my disposal, which are the Bible and - the church, unless T mistake the example of my Master, it is my business to*help fien, so far as in me lies, to find God. There is no mistaking my own mind, nor what the summer has done to confirm it in this conviction. To me, as to many of you, the glory of the Lord has been re- vealed anew in earth and sky and sea. To me, as to many of you, has come the op- portunity to read and to think and to en- ter‘into the thoughts of other persons. We have gone out of doors. with our religion. We have, taken our ideas of God and life os ny from home with us. We have trav- ‘far afield ivith them in the books 5 Then we have read. How have they fared? For myseif I did not by any means get rid of Jeremiah’s words - by preaching on them last Sunday ‘morning. They stay by me, as they began to stay by me in the early summer; “Thé gods that have pot made the heavens and: the ¢ rth, these shall perish from the earth and from un- der the heavens Heaven and earth bear testimony against ‘every inadequate idea of God. We must have a God whom nothing in heaven ora earth.can: dethrone. We must have a God our faith in whom need not be shaken by anything ave’ may learn about nature, ar “about the Bible, or about the life off rach and’ nations. We must Feri our souls:in thexhour of trial. Ve must have #God who shall be God’ to us, pur God, even Li we: can only ery with Job, “Oh, that fIL: knew where T might find Him!”% “ie must have a God to,whom we may sdy; “Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit” in the very hour in which we. may haye cried “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Such is the. God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Sucheis the God from whom nothing in the heights or in the depths, nothing in the_past, “the Protent or ‘the ‘future “could détach the faith of Paul. Such is the God. our need of whom.may be. revealed ta.us.at any mor ment by thé lightning flash of some great calamity: Such is the God our meed of whom will ‘belr ‘down impon ‘our ‘minds more ‘and moze. heayily as-we. face more and more frankly the facts of life., f ere is"h man who has been Sm onetl by a midnight message to the bedsidé of his child.: As he goes from ferry to ferry to ascertain .by what route he can reach her most quickly, every man he addresses reads his secret and shows him kindness. Connections are close. Over every signal light that delays him the engineer sees a night lamp in a sick room that tells him every second lost must be“made up. The- conductor nervo sly hurries passengers off and on the train at every “stop. - The race is won. The father stands Taide his child. There are, the doctors. There are the nurses. There ‘are friends. Everything that human love and sympathy and skill can suggest is being done. Where is thy God? 1 say, father, where is thy God? Nature says to him, ¢ ‘I have contrived a little sack in your child’s body. I have filled it with. poison. 2AVien twenty-four hours I propose to. real If I break it your child will die. If You are willing to take other chances det the surgeons re- move it. Then I will do the best I: ‘ean for you.” Some men tell me that their God is ns ture. Does your God thus speak His w hole mind?" Why, that room where a fathef is making up: his mind. what answér to: give | to mature’s ultimatum is flooded with Due love. Everybody cares. ‘Are you ready fo = “Breryhody' dares but God?” There 1 1s sicky child there to hel fAccounted fof. peg is a harshsultimatumasof nature to | be acepunted for. ty there are loving | hearts’ in that room. to ‘be accounted, for, | also. And there’is a universal capacity for sympathy: and? helpful vaction to be ‘de- gounted: for. » Ltrds a scene which fairly | represents the. tragedy, of the, world prq- ‘cess. In whic aspects ‘of it. do you dis- cerni the’working of thé higher law—in the merciless: progress’ af “tile diseade: ot in what ‘is heing :done tg save; to <healy to comfort? If there.js any. PULDOSE, OF ,LVEN . any tendency, to he discovered in such a scene, is it ‘the triumph of pdin and the; perfecting offi¢meelty. that«is being pro- | nated], ors oie it the perfecting. af faith and | OE iad Shbuld Frew’ “herd” Po Took | for Godin ‘suth’&cenes; ‘They will” find | ‘Him in precisely, the. place in which they would. look for, Jesus Christ. . Sométimes we wonder hy. so many miracles of heal-' ing’ Aré recorded in the gospels. May it not be because God wants ‘us to Know ahere to. place Him: when we are:confront- ed by, the elemental questions-which sick- | ness’ and pain and death ‘are certain to raise in our minds? “It'4s “the higher law | which should evér speakto us of God. It is with life and healing, with love and care, that we are taught to associate the thought of God. In the midst of life’s con- fusions we know fin’ part. When that which is perfect is come it will prove to! be—love. We can even think of ourselves, when it'is all over, looking back and say- ing: “With mercy and with judgment My web of time He wove, And aye the dews of sorrow Were lustered with His love; I'll bless the hand that guided, I'll bless the heart that planned. When throned where glory dwelleth, In Emmanuel’s land.” I like to think of the. positive aspéets of the First Comxmandment: “Thou shalt have no other God before Me. hat means, stated positively: Thou shalt have a’ God, and thou shalt have *Me for thy God. Thou shalt have a God. It.is:the first law of the soul’s own life. Thou shalt have a God whom nothidg can ever make it un- reasonable for you to trust. Tt is the soul's law of self preservation. Hew do. we know when we are going to .be in eriti- cal need of faith like Paul’s—of faith like | that of our dying Lord? Every man who suffers needs it. Every man who thinks needs it. I say that every man svho thinks needs God. We are thinking here to-night. We ‘have ‘been thinking some of the very thoughts which have stolen away the faith of many a man and many a woman. We have been facing facts which throw the mind into an agony. We have been dealing with conditions which faith has to reckon with. I have talked with men, the tumult of whose minds made me think of the north toast waves, as Robert Louis Ste- venson describes them, in all the terror of them, in all the power of them to wreck the frail barks in which men voyage. There may be minds incapable of tumu It. There may be people who cannot understand how any question relating to religion can so stir the mind. A young man w ho thinks and who knows how to think said to me not long ago: “I am swimming for my life.” And he reproached Christian mi if who will take the other side. ministers for their aparent failure to ize that there are multitudes like himself, who are wrestling with the great underly- ‘ing [Questions of Gad qr no God, soul or no soul, immortality * of anmihilatfon, liberty- .or necessity. Such han: woote-a. little while ago to the editor of a well-known periodical. Prayer, the Bible, Christ, miracles, these were ‘the subjects in thinkia about on he hall become bewildered? le calls Joud ly fog help. It would be easy. to say. Fhat he had simply gét himself inté “a sate of and that ‘it would do no good to reason with him. “But what would be easy is ng always:Bure fo be’what’ would be fair @hd righfe Faith has sometinies had too great a fondness for “Easy \Mefhod With Doulters.” is man says’. ost of tHe relikfods GisBmsiom, that Tider or read? Soon fo me to ‘deal with mere side is- suesgwhye g meh don’t, attend chairch —h« “ehireach “thé ahasses— while I.want to heax s « wever. do hear)—akeut the fundamental, elementary principles of re- ligion. Is man immortal? and if s0, why does He leave us in doubt? What ‘isthe Christian religion reduced to its simplest expression?’ I'am sick of plati= tudes, evasions and glittering generalities. L want .to be. treated with sincerity. ; want to hear' the simple truth, not “as to a, little child,” but as to a grown man, who mist reason as well as feel, a man who has sinned and -suffered and: now fain would- find a safe anchorage for his soul in this séa of doubt and trouble.” editorial article written in answer to this communication breathes jhe spirit of ‘Him Who went to His. disciples in the storm with. which they were battling on Galiled. It says. very little about the troublesome questions thé man has raised. Ttitakes God and the soul for granted. dt reduces religion to ifs simplest terms and lets it go at that for the present: Whether it has accomplished anything for the storm-tossed correspondent I do not Roni But I d6 know- some whom it has hel and others whom it is likely to help. of whose spiritual vicissitudes I have some ¥ have spoken of it with grati- tude The agrawer 3 method of sectarian. dog- Date infistence is perilous. The existence of a depomination may depend upon the observance of the sev enth day of-the week as the Sabbath. But it is a ruinous thing for a young person to get the idea that the existence of God is wrapped up in that dogma and that he might as well abandon the religious life altogether as to let that dogma. go. It ‘has been an element. of de- nominational strength to have certdin fixed ideas ‘with reference to the proper mode and subjects of baptism. But itis a spirit- ual misfortune if a young Baptist. has not a pastohr, wise enough to tell him, if he lets go this, doctrine, that religious life is quite Possible svithout it. It is possible to cher- ish and tp insist on views of the Bible, the modification of which seems to some, when they find it necessary, to threaten the very foundations of their faith in God. Religion is an affair of the soul and Gods The Bi e, the church, the creeds, .the sac- raméntiare designed to serve the soul and God in “this high ‘and holy relationship? God has a.life in the souls of men which these means are meant fo promote and never to hinder. They do not come be- tween the soul and God. Some sweet. old ny stic has said: “The. eye by which I see tod is the same eye by Ww hic h He sees me.” And; we. may say, also: he longing with which ave long for God is the longing with Which He longs for us. The love with which we love Him is from the fountain of His love for us.” In a relationship which is the sharing; the identity of fife, ‘what room is theré for intermediary»means.and ministeries?: We have precious documents, precious doctrines, precious sacraments and ut it is not they that give ordinan ! | life to tHB soul. They do’ minister richly to that “fife, but it is, as it were, from without ‘that they minister. If the soul ever rea ly knows God at all, it knows Him as, it knows itself, fhe soul is sure of .it- self. By thé same sort of certitude it is sure of God: Don’t gef the idea that you ean prove the existence of God: Some day you may fall in with.a man Who i is ‘a better reasoner Then, if vou really think: vou. believe in God because you can prove hat He exists, you may find vour faith badly shaken. “Every one that loveth is begatten of God and knoweth God. He that Toveth not, Enoweth not God; for God is love.” We know God with that immediate kind of knowledge "with yifch, we know the feelings of our own 1earts. possible for us to know, God and £0 know that We know Him. And John tells us | that the nroof there is a God and to ‘be knownsaiid that we-kiow Hin), is the same kind: of- preof; ‘the very same proof, thag we must give, if ave say that. we love. Luke tells us how . esus sent’ out seventy of His discinles to do-in all the towns of Galilee as:they Jiad seen, Hims.ds. They healed the sick. They preached the gospel Bf the kin dom. Men and devils gave heed to t hey returned to Him. with great “Joy: to dell Him all. As Heisteped to they de, looked into theig elf He rejoice ad andersiagd Him. It was ti he tha ergaid: “I thank hee, O Father 8 i of Heaven and Earth, that Thou +hide these things "from the wise Sa nt and didst reveal them unto babes,” He has succeeded, lain men, eiénty of them, had come. ik now God thigh Him. u it a; ‘every: minister of Hig, 15 ¢ lo ref, Jestls i is shying: “infer tito nk u- preme doy of thy Lord. This: is the jo: & you to seek; this is the Sods for which vou ‘should work and: pray; that through vou men may ‘come to know God.” It was for this very thing that He gave thanks the night before He died. To some He knew He had given eternal life. ‘And what could ‘He say in His thanksgiving that would:be more pleasing to His Father than Ww Tint He did say? “And this is life eter- nal, that they might know Thee, the only true God. Land Jesus Christ, W hom Thou hast sent.’ As we Foie our work, the Swords of the beautif “old Prayer ring in my ears: “0 God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels’ and ali just works do proceed—.” We want our fellowship in service to be 1 prompted and accompanied by holy desires, guided by good counsels and abounding in st Pleal - 'h les I God just works. e desire to know God is the holiest of all desires, the deepest foun- tain of good One], the most effective in- spiration of just works. May it, be the honest and the constant desire of our hearts! Knew How. Adl-was quiet in the invalid’s room, un- til a step was heard coming up the stairs. Then a faint voice called: “Alfred, js it you?” “Neo,” answered another member of the family, - looking in and then approaching the bed. “But what is it you are want- ing? Cannot I do it? only wanted to be lifted and turned a little” Was the reply. ‘I: think I'll wait a few mi ytes. for Alfred to come. He knows | just how. Alfred. was only a boy, a merry, heilthy voung fellow of eighteen or twenty, full of his studies and out-door pursuits, wanted on the ‘cricket field and in all parties of voung friends, but he was no stranger in that. sick room. He had thought it worth while to learn “just how” to minister to the sufferer, and his strong, young arms were the chosen ones to litt the grand- mother’s wasted, pain-racked form many times daily. Was not that tender little service the very crown of manliness? It was Bayard Taylor w ho wrote: bravest are the tenderest. ple’s Paper. “The '—Young Peo- - ST Our Weakness, God never makes us sensible of our weakness, except to give usof His strength. We must be disturbed by what is involun- tary. The great point is, never to act in ition to the inward light, and to be ¢ to go as {ar 2s Cod vu2ld ba ’F enelon, Jf it is possible for us to love it is ! VALUE OF TASTE. The woman who has to be satisfied with one new suit in a season wisely chooses a material and style which so Is there a God; harmonize - and adapt themselves to her figure and complexion that the ob- server will note the general effect of harmony and be attracted to it rather than by one item of the whole. A wo- man is well dressed when she brings about such a result.—PHiladelphia Eve- ning Bulletin. PAINTED BUTTONS. IIand painted buttons are to be much used in the fall and winter, One charming button is made of white silk, painted with a flower. This makes a handsome decoration for a reception or bridesmaid’s dress, and is a Qutton that can be used upon gowns or even more full dress distinction, such as evening toilet. For evening wear the hand-painted button is set in a little rim of Valenciennes lace gathered around the button. Lace medallions are growing in use. One very pretty arrangement shows a row of circular pieces of lace arranged across a bodice with narrow strips of lace connecting them: Each medallion is centred with a jewel.—Philadelphia Telegraph. SOME FEMININE STATISTICS. ‘A statistician has gone to the trouble all the divorced women, thirty-two per cent. of the widowed and thirty-one per cent. of the single are engaged in gainful pursuits. Only about six per cent. of the married women are sim- larly situated. While the great body of married women are at home attend- ing to the domestic duties Which are naturally set down for them, there is some hope still that the old order of things is not going to be completely overthrown. ~The world will not be without homes. The figures indicate that ninety-four per cent. of the married mén are sup- porting their wives, though the wo- men are, of course, doing their full share in maintaining domestic estab- lishments which are bulwarks of mor- als and good order and which keep the race from dying out.—Chicago Chron- icle. . - a pe “"A MAN'S BEST FRIEND. If a man has a good wife he has the best friend it is possible to have. “A man’s best friend,” says Bulwer Lyt- ton, “is a wife of good sense and good { heart, whom he loves and who oy es him.” In woman there is at once a abit delicacy -of tact and a plain soundness of judgment, which are rarely com- bined to an equal degree in a man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, ‘honor, repute. She will sel- dom counsel you to doa shabby thing, for a woman alwidys desires to be prod of you. At the same time her constitutional timidity makes her more cautious than your male friend. She, therefore, seldom counsels you to do an imprudent feed: . 4 A wife best shows, her friendliness by, clipping off from her husband's moral nature little twigs that are ‘grow- ing in thé “wrong direction. If he says anything silly she will ‘affectionately tell hini so. If he'declates that he. will do :something’ absurd she - will find meany to prevent him .doing so. If Dr. ‘Johnson's wife had ‘lived there would have been, no hoarding up of orange. peel, no tonching 211 the posts in walking along the str eets, no eating and drinking with disgusting voracity. —Philadelphia Bulletin, CHILD LORE. Every child should be taught that thirst quenching does 'not depend so much on the.quantity of fluid that is swallowed as on the length of time during which the fluid is kept in con- tact with the tissues of the mouth and water. A small quantity of water used as. a mouth and throat rinse will re- lieve more than a pint of swallowing hastily. In hot weather, when the skin is secreting profusely, there is'no real demand on the part of the tissues for liquid. A child’s meal hours should be rig- idly fixed and under no circumstances, save illness, ought food to be given at other times. The contrary practice will lead to capricious appetite, now absent, now voracious. During the second year of life there should be five meals each day. Commencing in the morning, the hours may be 7, 10, 1, 4 and 7. Watch baby’s face while he sleeps. If the eyelids are not perfectly closed, suspect weakness. If you see a fur- row passing from either side of the nose round the mouth there is probab- ly something the matter with stomach or intestines. A furrow from either mouth corner, passing outward, may indicate something wrong with the throat or lungs. None of these signs are conclusive, but they are. infinitely valuable in causing a careful parent to investigate the state of the child's health.—Philadelphia Inquirer. ABOUT FURS. In fur coats for winter wear there are a number of new shapes in bole- ros, and while the blouse coat in fur will be less worn than last season, still style in blouses is also shown. The long skirted Louis XV. and Louis 3 1 XVI. coats in fur have vests of em- t 1 to ascertain that fifty-five per cent. of | | broidered cloth, velvet or a Lenitiaste ing fur, and the new fur, yetth; which can be embroidered, is also used. / Moired caracul and, baby lamb, bee ing short haired, will be much seen in these coats. Pony skin in black wilk be another favorite in long coat furs. Sable paw# dre beifig Worked up inte coats as well as muffs, and while much less expensive than the sable garments, the cost of combining the small pieces into coats renders them anything but cheap. In squirrel skin garments the heads of the animals will be utilized and the matching of the stripes will Tesult in effects quite unlike the furs made of whole skins. The making of those small pieces of fur into garments is done in Ger- many, where manual labor is much cheaper than in this country. Bear, raccoon and fox furs will be much &een in neck stripes, the long nap making them a softening setting for the face. Flat stoles .and pelerines are to be much .worn, and in ‘muffs the flat shape will be the most fashionable, though dealers are trying to get up some new shaped affair for the wear of ex¢lusives. HOW A WOMAN CAN BE POPU. . LAR. “Isn’t it peculiar that véry often the woman who is very popular at a sume mer hotel is unpopular when she re turns to the city,” said the busirvess woman to her companion. “It seems to me that she could be just as popu- lar in the city if she would only imag- ine that it is summer the year round.” “Some women often wonder why, many of their sex are so_popular while others, who may be blessed with beau- ty and gracious manners, do not have the faculty of holding attention,” said the companion. “Can you tell me why, this is*” : “yell, I think that’the success in sos cial life is only attained if the woman will banish all thought- of self,” the business woman continued. ‘Because then they study to please and bring out the very best theré is in each person it*fs théir pleasure to meet. To, be & favorite one must be natural. There is a charm 'in naturaldess, * even if grace and style are, Jgcasionally miss. ing: The summer irl is more or less natural; for she forgets all-her busis ness cares; and that accounts for he popularity, I think.” 3) “1 imag gins the best thing is tie x pr acs ticing of sincerity,” «said the other. “One ought to try and impress this thought ‘upon friends and associates. By being sincere I don’t mean to ims ply that ong, should never joke nor smile; far from it. ~All the world loves a smiling face. Stishine and happily fess win friends 24, | i “Of course; 1 think that is a. pretty ood sentiment, but the woman, who really wishes to be popular ought tol banish self,” the business woman ass gerted. “It is not the easiest thing ini the world=te’ do “this Gniéssione hap- pens to know somethingsef the persons you ate »withs #=Eere ds. where: tact should assert itself, and, if one js clev= er, it will not take Ah to discover the taste of any individual. It may be current topics of the day, books, arty mausie;-or possibly a hobby of some nas ture, and, by the way, it has. been said thatthe: very, worst bore of aH is, the woman yith.a fad., I would suggest that women avoid that. «+ =. - “It is not.given to all women to dis- cover what ‘subject ' will’ #please the man wha takes her out to dinner. She can, him by. dischssing her own affairs or devoting her conversation to her-hob- bies; Many are constantly seeking in various ways. to polish disagreeable spots, the sharp, rough edges. ‘To make intelligent, pleasing conversa- tion, why net study speech? ‘Perhaps it is the fashipn at the present time to cultivate eccentricity, which is gen- erally another name for rudeness. Are there not certain customs with which we are to conform, or rules that we have to follow when out in society? Well, then, if it means popularity, let us do it. Don’t let any woman be a bore. "—New Haven Register’ FASHION HINTS. ? Plaid walking skirts are to be the thing. Three-quarter loose. coats are tinctly: sAvagger. Yellow is the most modish color te dis. put with white. in § A turbansbuilt in peacock tings is. a good fail ‘choice: Ey uf 0 Unhappy - the Woman os doesn’t own a real pearl necklace. . A feature of fall coats is the square blocked shoulder, attained by slight padding. 3 Very inviting.ace the new eiderdown house gowns trimmed with emfbroig- ered ruffles of silk The three-quarter basque, ting, sinuous, and perfectly has come to stay awhile. Sleeves that droop thereby charae- terize themselves at passe, the pres ent tendency being upward. Wonderfully elaborate is a so-called “lace,” consisting of Chinese embroid- ery worked upon cloth of gold. The vogue for leather trimmings extends even to blouses, a little bit appearing in collar, cuffs, or straps. » close-oE curved, however; refrain ff6m boring’ a
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