Women's Kisses. With real friends an affectionate kiss now and then is all very well, but ° why should one’s nice, fresh cheeks be annoyed by the promiscu- ous osculation of a crowd of girls and women? And the worst of it is that they only do it because they think it civil, not because they like it.—The “Throne. When Sirens Bore. Keen sportsmen at a shoot are apt to be not a little impatient of the woman who talks and titters at the wrong moment, wears a red cloak, points her gun at shooters, beaters and birds with careless insouciance, and makes incessant claims on their attention and assistance. She may be a siren at home in a tea gown, but is safe to ba voted a bore.and a duf- fer ‘when she tries her hand at the business of sport.—Ladies’ Field. Well-Kept Clothes. No matter how well made a thing is it soon takes on a shabby look unless it is given the right sort of care. Many a woman who thinks she takes care of her clothes, takes a dress off, flinging the skirt careless- ly over the back of a chair, and leav- ing it there for several hours, per- haps to take on ugly creases. . Perhaps to send your things to a tailor every little while Is too much of a strain financially. Be your own tailor, then, so far as pressing and cleaning and the rest of it goes. To Make College Flags. College flags are quite simple, but require care and much precision in putting the letters or as well as in cutting them. A good plan is to cut your letters from stiff cardboard and trace around them on the felt, afterward cutting with a sharp knife. In mounting tuese on the felt tack- ground paste them on with a very thin coating of photograph paste and couch around all edges with many strands of silk caught down at regu- lar intervals with a single strand of the same color. Try to Look Dainty. Don't fail to look dainty. It is the most expressive word which can be applied to a woman. A woman may be stylish, well dressed, good looking and lots of other things without any consider- able expense, but to live up to the requirements of ‘‘dainty’’ means something more. It means absolute freshness of neckties, gloves, etc.,, and can be ved by the woman or girl of av- ns if she will have a weekly laces, gloves, ete., achie erage mea wash of muszlins, herself. ———— A Dream of Power. “hen eam of women ad- ‘d in thought and trained by ex- perience enough to realize the value of co-operation shall come true, some the - greatest curses of moder shall be swept away, a couniry. will ‘be : happy in session of a prosperous, middle : ifonopoliies, sans trusts, weaters and sweated, sans the unemployed, if not the unem- ‘ And all this revolution be quieily. effected by women intelligently from: their own Woman. the dr Sans Hio yvable, All Wear Coats. odd vears ago men wore in New York City, as in small- American cities. The man’s shawl a while fashionable and fa- Now, according to the New n, even the women have dis- “The sight of a woman shawl nowadays,” said a ‘ity physician (a woman reporter, ‘‘is enough o start, and I take a Keen } in looking for this old hioned garment. There are few es in which I see it. ‘Even in the poorest parts of the city the women have somo sort of a jacket, however old and worn it may be. I suppose the manufacture of tailor made clothes has become so cheap that any- body can afford to buy them as read- ily as a shawl.” for I \ i tuat to Good Old Names. “I was looking over the society col- umn of my newspaper,” said a lady oi the old school to the New York correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, ‘‘and it did my heart good to see how people have returned to the good old habit of giving their girls names that stand for dignity, poetry and the traditions of our race. ‘There was not a Sallie, a Mamie or a Nellie in the list. In one an- nrouncement of a reception given by a mctiner on the coming out of her daughter there was one Dorothy, one Alice and one Eleanor, two Helens, one Augusta, one Elizabeth and, thank heaven for it! one plain, lovely old-fashioned Mary. There was a Lucy, a Jane, an Agnes dnd three or four Ruths. It seemgd to me, al- most, as if I were roster of the respectable days of forty yours. azo.” Gone Back and reading a social Spanish Politeness. It has been said that the French are the most polite people in the world, writes our lady correspondent in San Sebastian, but I do not think any one who really knows them will agree. However, they have some charming little ways, and when they are rude it is because they are, deep down, thoroughly selfish. My per- sonal opinion is that the Spaniard is about the most delightfully polite person one can possibly encounter. If you ask your way in the street, of some ordinary woman, she will al- most certainly go out of her way to accompany you down the street and to carefully put you on the right road. - They are very cheerful and gay, but they are never vulgar—as we understand the word in England. Even the men in the streets who stand and frankly stare at a pretty girl do it in a light hearted, pleasant way which does not give offense. As to the manners of Spanish men be- longing to the best society, they are almost perfect. "Watch a Spaniard of distinction address his mother or-any elderly lady, and you will see a man- ner which is tender and caressing, and at the’same time exquisitely pro- tective.—London Tribune. Can Women Be Friends? Can women be friends? History and tradition abound in evidences of great and enduring attachments among men. ‘‘The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David’ so firmly that the Hebrew prince did not hesitate to invite the wrath of the great king, his father, and himself forfeit the crown; the Pythagorean Damon was happy. to pledge his very life for the doubtful reappearance of Pythias; even the egoist Montaigne was so much affected by the death of La Boetie that, to escape from his melancholy, he ‘chose a new mis- tress,” and at intervals to the day of his death, in the words of his own journal, ‘““was suddenly seized with such painful thoughts of his friend, and it was long before he came to himself, that it did him much harm.” Subjecting this emotion to analysis, in conformity with his custom, he reached the conclusion that true friendship could exist only between beings wholly independent one of an- other. A father could not hold the relationship toward his son, because of the stronger paternal attitude and the necessary disparity in age prohib- iting equal comprehension of all sub- jects; between brothers, “the compli- cation o.! interests, the division of es- tates, the raising of the one at the undoing of the other, strangely weak- en and slacken the {fraternal tie,” since of necessity pursuing fortune and advancement by the same path they must often jostle and Linder one another; betwixt the sexes love inter- venes, ‘more. active, more eager, more sharp, but withal more precipi- tous, fickle, moving and inconsistent, a fever subject to “intermission,” whereas true friendship is “a general and universal fire,” temperate and equal, constant and steady, easy and smooth, “without poignancy or roughness; .indeed, even among themselves, wonien are pronounced incapable of-maintaining the sacred tie, not being “endured with firmness of mind to endure the constraint of so hard and durable a knot.”’-——Geo. Harvey, in the North American Re- View. SEINEWEST ) FASHIONS. One sees many Norfolk with the morning suits. A graceful girl never than in a well-cut suit. The blouse may be “through and through,” or a used, as on tine bioomers. looks better buttoned “iy? A jumper waist of heavy all-over lace laid upon velvet is worn as usual over the thinnest kind of a blouse. Black broadtail with wide bands of white cloth inakes a particularly stunning coat for a stately woman. bands outlining the short gathered bodice of Empire evening gowns are most resplendent under artificial light. The outer belt may be of elastic belting, braid or silk to match the tie. A stitched band of the also pretty. The tie may go all around under the collar, being tied fresh each time, or it may be cut in half, tied in a sail- or knot and sewed at one side. Alternate ruffles of cloth and crape extend from a point several inches above the knees to the foot of the long sweep on a stylish morning gown. Natty suits of tweed are severely plain, with short square-cut pony coats embellished sparingly with silk braid, just the thing for the tailor: made girl. : To increase the decorative effect of a ruffle for lingerie, with the least amount of labor, embroider wreaths or little sprays at intervals and inset strips of lace telveen, Jeweled material is | By Winifred" Block. AN women be friends? inquires a writer in a popular magazine, y Friends to men, do you mean, Mr. Writer? In that case I answer you “Yes.” Friends to women? In that case I put my deprecatling nana upon my honest and apologetic heart and say to you, positively and didactically, “No, sir; they cannot.” Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but they are tions. A a, women who are real friends to other women. I believe I tould telegraph either of them at any time of the day or night, tell them that I was in trouble and neo®ed help, and if they were alive they would an- swer me and do the best they could to help me. Orne of these women is an old maid, a woman of great intellect and great attainments. She makes her own living, and a mighty fine, independent liv- ing it is. The other of the two women whose friendship I believe I could de- pend on is married, but her children are grown, and though she is a good and dutiful wife, as a matter of principle she doesn’t really care two straws for her husband. What have these facts to do with the case of these women’s real friend- ship? : Everything. 0 It is always the real or the prospective man in the case who interferes In the friendships of women. : There was once a strike among the street car troops were called out to terrify the strikers. friend in uniform. “Sure, Tom,” said the striker, “you wouldn’ t shoot an old pal like me, would ye, if-the worst should come to worst?” The man in uniform shifted his tobacco, narrowed his eyes and looked his old friend straight in the face. “It depends upon the ciptain’s orders,” he said. That's what's the patter with a woman friend. She may may admire you; she may even be devotedly fond of you. Will she stick by you in an emergency? Will she defend your good name, help out your credit, comfort you in sorrow and rejoice with you in success —that depends upcn the captain’s orders—and the captain is Biv the man who is standing somewhere in the background: He may be nobody but a father, or a brother, or a son; he’s apt to be a sweetheart or a husband or sometimes just a man who might be a sweetheart if he had the chance, but'some man he i8, and every time you ask a woman to do anything for another woman she has to think what the man in the back- ground is going to say about it. She may not know she’s thinking about the man, and the man ‘may not have the faintest idea that she is thinking about him either, but she is just the same. That's what gives her such a far away look n her eyes when her woman friend asks her to stick by her fr fendship in some emergency. A woman is just a part ¢f a man’s life. No mattér how muck he loves her, she’s only a part of his existence. A man is the whole earth and firmament to the woman who loves him. She gives up her family, her maiden mame, her place of living, even the kind of things she likes to eat, for him—why should a friend, and merely a friend, expect to be exempt in the general sacrifice? No thank you, Mr. Magazine Writer, no independence on a woman friend for me, she’s too many different kinds of a person. When you ask a weman to go anywhere with you, she, has to think of the baby, and the cook and Johnnie and Johnnie's friends who Were coming to din- ner with him, and her husband and her mother-in-law, and her maiden aunt, and if they are all perfectly willing that she should go—she’ll accept your invitation. When you ask a man to give you the pleasure of his company somewhere, sometime, you're asking just plain nobody but him. He never thinks of the baby or Johnnie, or the mother-in-law, or even the wife. If he wants to go, he goes: if he doesn’t, he says, “No, thank you,” and tells you why. That's why I chcose men for my friends.—New York American, men in a certain city. ‘r'ne ne of the strikers met a like you; she Battleship Models. By the English Admiralty’s orders perfect models are made in paraffin wax of every new battleship before it is laid down, and these models are tested in a tank, being 400 feet long and 20 feet wide. They are made of wax because it is a material which does not absorb water or change its weight, so that alterations can be easily made and the material can be melted up and used again. Better Pay for Soldiers. General Funston makes an earnest plea for the increase of the pay of the officers and privates of the regu- lar army. He declares that the offi- cers of lowest rank receive less pay than many laborers, and even less than some hod carriers, and that this should not be the case. He asserts also that if the pay of the privates were increased it would be easier to get and retain recruits for the army. Horseflesh is growing in favor in Belgium. It seils for about half the price of beef or mutton, which are seldom handied by the butchers who sell horse meat. Intoxication while on duty is a mis- demeanor for a railroad employe in California, and if death results a fel- Issues, Not Men. By Stuyvesant Fish, Late President of the Illinois Central. ) HAT there has been maladministration, not td say stealing, many of our great corporations is a matter of common notoriety, in some cases of positive proof. . District-Attorney Jerome has the credit of coining the® phrase ‘the criminal rich.’ Would he have come nearer the fact if he had said, ‘The anarchistic rich? For, strange as it may seem, some men, forgetting that corporate property is so pecus liarly in need of the protection of the law, have gone great lengths In absolv- ing themselves and those who move with them in the higher circles of finance from the restraints of the law, of equity, of ethics and even of common de- cency. The decision in the Nerthern Securities case, however, shows that apprehension as to what corporate aggression may involve in the future is a thing cognizable by our Supreme Court, and therefore by the people. The contest is no longer between those who have and those who have not, but between those on the one hand who have moderately, sufficiently and even abundantly, and on the other those who, through the use of trust funds and the power incident thereto, seek by questionable practises to have exces- sively. This is the issue which is daily Brought into every home in America, Like taxation without representation; it involves moral and ethical questions, and also strikes at the pocket book, which has been called the sure road to the Anglo-Saxon’s heart. It will not down. Great and repeated efforts. have been made to quiet and hush the clamor which is rising on this subject. Such efforts may succeed for a time, but not in the end. It is not for me to say, in the words of Patrick Henry, ‘Gentle- men may ory peace, peace, but there is no peace.’ Nor yet, ‘Shall we lie supinely on our backs until the enemy shall have bound us hand and foot?” No, a thousand times no! 1 cannot and will not stir your minds up to a sense of wrong. Such is not my purpose, nor is this the forum for an appeal against unjust wealth. You and I have toc large a stake in. it to risk adding to the danger into which it has bcen brought by the malfeasance of some of our agents. What I do want is to bring to your attention the fact that no apparently effective thing has been done to right the wrongs which are known to exist, and that it rests with us, the great middle class, to meet this issue as our fathers met those which confronted them, soberly, advisedly and in fear of God. Let us do and say nothing rash, but, relying on past experiences, move forward as people who know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. President Roosevelt seems to adhere to the idea that there are good trusts and bad trusts, good corporations and bad corporations. He seems to ‘make a classification, based on size, objecting to the very large ones and favoring the comparatively small ones. It strikes some, however, that the difference between a bad corporation and a good one, whether we call it a trust or not, lies wholly in the methods pursued by the managers of the cor- poration in regard alike to the public, to their employes and their stock- holders; and, judging from past experiences, it is chiefly in bad faith toward the stockholders and dishonesty in dealing with the public that most managers of corporations have erred. This is the supreme issue which in various forms is agitating the minds of the masses of our fellow countrymen. I hope, and we all hope, that in this hour of moral trial the Nation may again find in its Chief Magistrate the man destined to control this issue, within the law and by the law, Up to Nature. “Thanks,” said the tragedian; “many thanks for your good opinion. I always study from nature, sir. In my acting you see reflected nature herself.” “Try this cigar,” said an admirer of nature reverently. “Now, where did you study that expression of in- tense surprise that you assume in Ihe second act?” “From nature, sir, from nature. To secure that expression I asked an intimate friend to lend me £5. He refused. This caused me no surprise. I tried several more. Finally I asked one who was willing to oblige me, and as he handed me the note I stud- ied in a glass the expression of my own face. I saw there surprise, but it was not what I wanted. It was alloyed with suspicion that the note might be a Lad one. I was in des- pair.” “Well?” ly. 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