In Houth Africa tbero is great de
mand for donkeys, as they arc proof
against climate, plague and flies.
It appears tbnt (let-many in not the
wily bote nolr of industrial (treat
Britain, though it is doubtless tlie
chief. The "iiiado In Germany" rry
is now supplemented by nnother
"made in the Utiitn.t Htntes." In
other words, American mnnufnetnrprs
are invading KngliHh home and coloti
ial market!).
Home time sinee an Englishman in
Ceylon announced hi con version to
MohammeduniHin and immediately
claimed the privilege of polygamy,
taking nnto him a second wife in the
person of an English girl of excellent
family, who nlao anmmuoed her con
version. The first wife sued for a
divorce. The man protested that as a
Moslem he hod a right to two or even
four wives. The matter has come up
in the courts, and it ha lieen decided
that his status in Ceylon is that of an
Knglishmnu upon whom the obliga
tion of monogamy is binding whatever
his religious belief, whether he be
Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Mormon or
Mohammedan.
Hays the Han Francisco Argonaut:
'The daily papers are uot content
with plastering pictures over their
pages, most of which are superfluous
and all of w hieh are bad. They have
now devised all sorts of typographic
freaks with which to disfigure the
pages already defaced by poor pictures.
It has become a matter of extreme
difficulty to pursue the windings of
an article in and out of the pictures
and over to the inner pages, where its
ramifications generally tor mi unto.
For, according to the new 'journal
ism, ' it is necessary to begin all the
news features on the first page with
a whoop and a howl, allowing thorn to
trickle out like stale treaclo on the in
side pages, lint this desire to get
everything 'featured' on tho first page
has brought about the condition which
makes the daily papers look like pic
ture puzzles. As if to add to the con
fusion, some inspired editorial ediot
lias now devised a plan of inclosing in
borders all sorts of stories, scraps of
interviews, sayings of individuals
more or less obscure and the flotsam
and jetsam generally of the news of
the clay. There is thus made up a
sort of journalistic remnant-counter or
newspaper ragbag, which is surround
ed with variegated black borders of
varying degrees of hideousncss, and
around which must coil and curl and
convolute the genuine news of the
day. The hapless purchaser of a news
paper is now forced to pick out the
news, not only from amid the pictures
which deface the pages of the dailies,
but from these typographical moo-
stroBities as well."
During her first term in the White
House, relates W. E. Curtis, iu the
Chicago Record, Mrs. Cleveland was
always accessible to newspaper cor
respondents and was the source of a
great deal of valuable information
concerning oflfloial and social affairs.
The women correspondents were very
fond of her and appreciated her sym
pathy and assistance, but during the
second term, after the children came.
she became more secluded; she seldom
saw any of her old friends of the news
paper profession, except on the oc
casion of official functions, aud eveu
' then she usually referred them to tho
president's private secretary or to
Colonel Wilson, the master of cere
monies at the White Honse. It is
said that this change in her disposi
tion was caused by a little incident
that was resented by the president
and herself as an unwarranted intru
sion into their private affairs, and
caused them to take measures to pro
tact their household against any fur
ther attacks of that kind. At the same
time the article they complained of
was not only an interesting but
truthful account of an event which
occurs daily in every well-regulated
household that is made happy by
children. A newspaper correspondent
of some fame happened to call just as
Buth who was then a baby,
waa having her morning bath,
The operation was being observed
with great pleasure by the president,
who invited his friend to join him,
The latter of course was immensely
interested in studying the demeanor
of the president of the United States,
and particularly man of Mr. Cleve
land's oharacter and disposition in the
midjt of such pretty domestio soene,
nd afterward took the liberty to write
description of the affair for his
paper. The publio was greatly amused,
bat the president and Mrs. Cleveland
were indignant. That particular cor
respondent was never received at the
White House again, and be effectually
destroyed their confidence in his pro-
fttsic.
A SONG OF
Them's a song of a bird la a blossoming
trpo.
And sonits In wind-trebles above i
But tho song Uint Is ever the sweetest to
inn
Is a denr HtUn snug nt hnr love I
Mko fairy Imlls rlnidmr
Whoro ruses nrn snrlnirimr.
Is the King of her love that my glad henrt Is
liming l
0. tlm lilnl In tlie blossoms with melody
And tho winds sing the bins fields above)
But of rosy-red lips and two little white
The ltev. Wetherby Hmilcs w as rec
tor of HI. .fames' and occupied a rose
embowered cottage not far from the
church. The cottage, with its atten
dant gnnlen, was a dainty, pretty
spot, which looked as though a
woman's hand had -ilaniieil and cared
for it, lint no woman had anything
to do with the rectory. The Hev.
Mr. Hmiles only servant was a nod-
dpring old man; the rector prepared
his own meals, except when lie was
invited to tea by some old lady who
pitied his lonely, indigestion-breeding
existence.
Not that the Itev. Mr. Hmilcs was a
woman hator, but Mr. Hmiles was
very high church indeed. Unfortu
nately, Ht. James' and the parish and
the poople were .very poor. The good
poople liked the Ilev. Mr. Smiles and
tried to follow his suggestions upon
high chnrch nsages. Jlut there are
people, yon know, whom you couldn't
make high church with a jackscrew.
The communicants of Ht. James' were
mostly farmers and small tradesmen.
The rector felt that the clergy.to lie
able to give thoir whole time and
thought to their work, should live
lives of celibacy. He had felt at times
a strong drawing toward some ecclesi
astical order in which such vows would
be necessary. Then he would wear
some outward sign of his vows, aud
the young women of bis pnrish would
not fall iu love with uiiu. lue rector
was young and good lookiug; ho bad
been in his present pastorate six
mouths, and he had already had an
experience.
The young rector lived with Ins
books, occasionally taking a littlo rec
reation in the garden. The rosos dis
appeared, the leaves fell and left the
clinging vines baro.nnd the snow cov
ered the prim little beds in tho rectory
garden. Thus a year of his pastorate
closed, and the spring drew near.
The ltev. A otborby Hmilos, from
his study window, could look across
his garden plot and see the brown
earth warming in the spring sunshine
and the trees and bushes slowly burst
ing into leaf. Nature is always most
attractive in the spring, and nature in
a thousand ways, with bud aud leaf
and warming earth and white-necked
sky and sweet air, wooed him from
bis books.
He looked across his garden, I say.
And across the garden, beyond the
low hedge, was another garden, which
in summer was full of color. He bad
noticed the brilliant-hued beds the
year before, but now the only bit of
color was a pale-blue morning robe
that flitted about the inolosnre.
To tell the truth, the rector bad
seldom noticed that morning gown or
the little woman inside it before. But
it pleased his fancy now to look across
the hedge and watch his neighbor.
He recalled that bis old major-domo
bad told bim the oottage next the par
sonage was occupied by a widowed
lady a lonely creature who had taken
np her abode there but shortly before
the Ilev. Mr. Smiles was settled over
Ht. James'. He remembered the little
figure in black in one of the side pews.
pointed out to him by the clork as
"Mrs. Boorritch, and probably had
not given her a thought or a glance
afterward.
However, be saw so much of the
pale-blue gown that first warm week
iu spring that he looked for the littlo
widow in her pew the next Habbath.
She had laid aside her weeds aud was
dressed in some soft, clinging, fnwn-
oolored material that made her look
like a very demure little moth. And
she had the sweetest face in the world
as least, the sweetest face in the
Rev. Wetherby Hmiles' world.
On Monday morning the clerical
black appeared in the rectory garden
almost as soon as the pretty morning
robe appeared over the hedge. The
demure little face dimpled and smiled
under its garden hat at the rector's
approach, and the widow nodded
brightly.
"l'ou are early at your gardening
this spring, Mrs. Hoori-itcu, he said.
"Yes; but it is so warm," she re
plied, iu do fons o. ."Iain expecting
my crocusen to appear any day now."
"I'm afraid we shall see some frost
yet, Mrs. Hcorritch," said the rector,
"Now, don't talk that way, I beg!'
cried the little woman, clasping her
hands, inclosed in long-wristed aud
particularly well-fitting gauntlets.
"Just suppose my .crocuses should
come np aud ba frost-bitten 1 Ob, the
thought ia too awful."
"I sincerely hope you will not be
disappointed, but this climate is un
certain."
'After that the young rector often
fouud it quite necessary for his
health to work in his garden while the
blue gown (flitting like a buttorlly from
rose tree to vine and from vine to
hedgerow) was iu evidence iu the
neighboring yard. F.eally, after por
ing over musty theological tomes all
winter a man must get some freshness
in bis soul and now blood in his
heart.
The gardening went on apace.and the
treacherous warm weather contiuned.
Many were the conferences held aoroys
tue liedge regarding the proper prun
ing of rose trees, the planting of hardy
P Creed and Crocuses. J
HER LOVE.
Is the dear Utile song of my love.
Of red llns Hint kiss ma
And tenderly bless me,
Anil arms like a noeklnoe Hint clasp and (ta
res me.
King ever, ye birds, to the blossoming tree
And. winds, ilin your mimic above i
Her brown on lis are brighter than blossoms
to me.
And I'm sliiRlnit a sons; of her love
I.Ike fulry bells ringing
Where roses nrn scringing.
Is the song of her love Unit my glnd hesrt Is
sinning I
F. I,. Htnnton, In Atlnntn Constitution.
sends and tlie preparation of the beds
of earth. The rector bad never sus
pected there was so much detail to the
business -of gardening.
One morning, just nfter a warm
night raiu, the ilev. Mr. Hmiles was
called to tlie hedge by a litttle cry
from his neighbor.
"They are coining!" she cried, in
delight. "Heel here is the dearest
little blade, of green pushing up
through the mold ond there is another
and another! Just look at tbmn!"
The rector found it necessary to
leap the hedge (he had been some
thing of an athlete at the university,
and eortuinly this spring weather was
sending the blood coursing through
his veins quite like old times) and look
at the crocus bed near to.
"They are such lovely ones," she
raid, earnestly. "I don't believe you
noticed them nt all last spring" (he
pronounced maledictions upon him
self for having been so bliud an to
miss so much beauty the previous sea
son), "but they will be even better
this year if we don't hnve that horrid
frost you have been prophesying."
Hhe looked at him roguishly, and it
suddenly crossed the young rector's
mind Hint several yollowiNh-greeu
points of crocus blade, breaking the
damp soil, made a far prettier picture
than the linest rose bush in full bloom
which he hnd ever seen. It was a
strange fact and one he had never dis
covered before.
Hut when ho bad returned to bis
own lonely domain and entered his
study, he stopped mid thought seri
ously for n minute. Then he enst his
flut-crowncd tniiiiHterml hat upon the
floor with gi-put emplinsis and ex
claimed:
"It's my creed, I tell you, that a
man in orders should not marry."
Now, there was no ono visible to
nrgno the question, and yet there
sonined to be argument in his own
mind, for the Hev. Wetherby Hmiles
smote his palm with his clenched fist
angrily and kicked the flut-crowned
hut to the other end of the room.
For two days tho rector of Ht. James'
rigidly stilled bis interest in crocuses;
his interest in creeds, however, was
not entirely satisfying. On Hunday,
after vespers, ho overtook on his way
home a littlo figure in a fawn-colored
gown.
"lou must see mv crocuses, Mr.
Hmiles," she said. "The buds will be
open before Hunday."
Ilie rector glanced gloomily at the
darkening sky and thought that prob
ably there would be a frost that night.
Hut he could not long think of front
and other unpleasant possibilities
under the skillful manipulation of bis
charming little neighbor. He hesi
tated at her gate, and again crocuses
triumphed over creed. The crocuses
were flourishing finely; tho creous
took a back seat indeed, a very un
obtrusive seat in the rector's mem
ory.
His interest in tho crocus continued
that evening to so lute an hour that
his old servitor really thought he waa
not coming to supper aud cleared away
the repast.
"Nevermind," said the rector.kind
ly, "I am not hungry, "and when the
old mau had doddered off to bed he
sat down before the open window of
his chamber aud stared out into the
still night.
Ho sat there for an hour. A light
burned behind the curtain of one of
his neighbor's windows. That waa
her light he knew. Finally it dis
appeared, but he sat on, bis arms
folded upon the sill, hia eyes glaring
fixedly into the darkness. Creed was
making a strong fight for life.
It grew rapidly colder, and suddenly
the Itev, ' Wetherby Hmiles awoke to
the discomforts of the outer man. He
shivered and drew away from the win
dow. There was no breeze and no
clouds, but an increasing chill made
him close the easement.
Then be slipped on a smoking jacket
mid went to the door. There was a
light hazo upon the river and a shim
mer of frost iu the air.
"A bad night for the farmers and
fruit grower," he thought. Then
his mind reverted to those crocuses.
"They will be black by morning," be
said. "Too bad! and tho little woman
thinks so much of them."
He hesitated a moment aud then
went in again, reappearing shortly
with an old mackintosh. '
"Just the thing to spread over the
bed to defend them from the frost,"
he muttered and with long strides
crossed the rectory garden and leaped
tho hedge.
Feeling a good deal like a night
prowler who' had no business in the
place, lie crept through his little neigh
bor's garden and approached tho cro
cus bed near the porch. He started
at the slightest sound aud gluuoad
about fearfully. Suppose anybody
should see him one of his pu-itihiou-era
even his inaior-domol Ho forgot
the night was dark; it seemed to his
excited imagination that anybody pass
ing along the road could see him
the rector of Ht, James' prowling
about boneath a lady's window!
Huddoul; -. juBt as be spread the cov
ering oe us bed and waa
turning hastily to flee, be heard
sound on the porch. He started, and
bis eyeO became fixed upon the vision
before bim, A figure, all in white,
and motionless, stood upon the lower
step.
The Key, Wetherby Hmiles waa
startled, but he was not superstitious,
For some seconds, however, be stared
at the apparition before he recognized
it. Then ho stepped ql tVkly forward
and began to make excuses in a low
voice.
"Mrs. Hcorritch Lydia I beg
your pardon, but I thought "
He. got no further in his faltering
remarks. With a shuddering little
cry the figure tottered and would have
fallen to the ground had be not sprung
forward and caught her in. bis arms.
"(tood gracious! 'muttered the ltev.
Mr, Hmiles, the perspiration starting
on hia lirrfw. "What a situation.
Huppose anybody should see me now.
lo think of me a clergyman in a
woman's garden at night, holding that
woman in my arms!"
He was tempted to lay her down
upon the porch and run. Jlut be
looked down into the little white face,
revealed by the faint starlight. The
pale lids were drawn over the great
eyes, which be thought so glorious.
The pouting lips had not entirely lost
their rodness, but the cheeks were
without color.
He looked upon her, and then did
not lay her down and flee. Instead
he stooped lower andlifted ber more
closely against bis breast and carried
bis burden into the honse. There
was a couch in the reception room. He
laid her down and lighted the gas. Hhe
opened her eyes languidly and saw
him.
"I have frightened you, Lvdia," be
said, stooping above her. "Iteally, I
bad no intention, you know. I only
remembered the crocuses "
"I I thought you worn a burglar,"
she admitted. "And when I heard
your voieo "
"Didn t yon recognize it? ' he
asked.
"l'ou you had never spoken to me
in just that way before, aud "
He bent lower and took her hand.
"I was only thinking of the crocuses.
Lydia," be said, which was very true.
lie had quite forgotton the "creed.
Chicngo Itecord.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
, In Iudin the natives, when a bicycle
comes along, full down and mention
the nauio of the Deity.
A lady iu Hiram, Mo., hns cucum
ber pickles which have been in her
possession for more than forty years.
Whistling is practically unknown
among tho ieelnndors who regard it as
irreligious, aud a violation of the
divine law.
The first forger of a Hank ol
England note was Richard William
Vaughnu, a linen draper of HtntTord,
hanged iu 1758.
Miss Florence Hudson of Baltimore,
Md., has a tooth of solid gold, with a
diamond in the centre of it. The orna
ment cost her over SI 50.
The long tails of the Hhah of Tar
sia's horses are dyed crimson for six
inches at the tips ajoalously guarded
privilege of the ruler and his sons.
If Chinese children do not obey
thoir parents, and the latter whip them
to death, tho law has no punishment
for them, as obedience to parents is
the cardinal virtuo.
W, T. Woodward, the Kentucky
horse breedor, is going about telling
his friends that he has beon cured of
rheumatism by carrying old electric,
light carbons in his pockets.
Among the many devices to assist
the blind one of the best is a type
writer in which the keys have raised
letters and which punctuates the paper
with either letters or the dots con
tained in one of the blind alphabets.
Experiments testing the compara
tive values of salt and fresh water in
street-sprinkling are being made in
Han Francisco. It is said that salt
water does not dry so quickly as fresh,
and that it binds the dirt together, so
that there is less dust.
The people of Hharpsbnrg, Ky., en
gage in diverting contests on Saturday
evenings. Forty men are each sup
plied with a dozen eggs, and range
themselves in two parties, twenty on
each side. They then begin throwing
the eggs at thoir opponents, and at its
close they look like omelets from head
to foot.
The largest lobster that has been
seen in New Haven, Conn., in years
was.on exhibition at tho Tontine hotel.
The big shellfish weighed twenty-eight
pounds, and was very old. It re
posed in a dish on the office counter,
ami was kept cool by pieces of ice.
The lobster was alive, and lazily moved
its great claws.
A Virginian has invented a tree pro
tector which kills insects and worms
which try to crawl up the trunk and
eat the loaves, the new device con
sisting of a pliable receptacle to sur
round the tree and hold the insect
killing liquid, with a felt pad at the
bottom to prevent insects from crawl
ing up between the tree and the pro
tector. Beven Feet of Hair un Mr. Larow'e Chin.
Mr. Legraud Lurow of Lamar, Mo.t
has a beard which perhups is the long
est worn by any mau iu the world.
His beard is seven feet in length, aud
has measured seven aud one-half feet.
Mr. Larow was born in Tompkins
couuty, N. Y., iu 1H5J, and his rela
tives aro noted lor heavy beards, but
not of extraordinary leugth. He is
0 fo.it in height, and weighs 175
pounds. Whim htaiiilin with his
board down it extends two feet upon
t-bo floor. He has not shaved for over
20 yoavs. Ho ears bin beard braided
and wound around bis body, or e;o
wrapped and lodged iuslde hia vi v
tit. J "'"is Globe Democrat.
A Lending Material.
Crepe de chine 111 all the lovely tints
is one of the season's leading materials
for evening and honse dresses. A
pretty costume is in a bright shade of
pomegranate toned down by panels of
black plaited chiflon, two on either
side of the skirt over black, and one
at the left side of the bodice where it
opens, and is fastened with silk cord
and small diamond buttons. Both the
skirt and bodice are accordion-plaited
and the belt and collar band are of
black satin. New York Hun.
Woman rhystclan in I.I Hung Chang.
Miss Hn King Eng, M. P., the only
female native of China who has ever
graduated from an American medical
college, has just received very high
honors in her own country. Follow
ing close upon ber appointment as
sole delegate from China to tha
Women's Medical convention, to be
held in London next June, comes the
announcement that Li Hung Chstig,
China's grand viceroy, has appointed
Iter first physician in his private house
hold. Never before has this high of
fice been given to a woman.
A Fortune With Siring.
Miss (trace Hartley, a Yassar col
lege girl and member of a prominent
family in Fall Itiver, Mass., has been
bequeathed one of the most nniqne
fortunes on record by her father, l)r.
J. W. Hartley.
The queer conditions of the will are
as follows: First,that she never marry
any one within the degree of kinship
of son, grandson or great grandson of
Cook Borden, late of Fall Itiver, de
ceased. Second, that she shall at no
time give, bestow, present, loan, en
dow or furnish any part of the prin
cipal or income of the estate to, for or
upon, or for the benoflt of any person
within the kinship of wife, son, daugh
ter, grandson, granddaughter, great
grandson or great granddaughter of
said Cook Borden.
Aimrrl for Working Women.
Are you one of that bright fellow
ship -r-the working women? Are you
busy all day in factory, or store, or
office? Are you, in short, one who is
interested in the great problem:
"What the working woman should
wear at work?" If you are, read,
mark, learn and inwardly digest thin
advice.
Miss Orace Dodge, who probably
knows more about the needs of the
working girl than any other woman in
New York, does not believe in any
thing approaching a uniform for
downtown wear. Hhe thinks that
Mollie of Tompkins street hns just an
much right to the daintiness of dress
as Marie of Madison avenue. Still,
Miss Dodge believes iu appropriate
ness and admits that some "pretties"
must be discarded in the interest of
the eternal fitness of things.
For instance, the working woman
will avoid, in her working garb, os
trich feathers, big bats, luce jabots,
silk and chiffon waists, silk dress
skirts, bracelets, rings, earrings,
chains and all sorts of jewelry. Hhe
will forego the pleasure of donning a
feather boa. Hhe will eschew bright
colors, as being both too conspicuous
and too easily soiled for downtown
wear.
For a gown whether she is a factory
girl or a "lady lawyer," she may have
a dark colored serge, cheviot or tweed.
If she belongs to the better paid clans
of workers it may be silk lined aud
have in imposing gilt letters on its
belt the name of a fashionable tailor.
But whatever she is, it must be neatly
hang, trig, trim, and bound and
brnsbed religiously.
If the one dress baa to do ranch
duty, there should bela smooth fit
ting bodice of itself, pei
folk plaita laid, perhapj
jacket opening over a
uiapa with Nor-
with an .Eton
bilk vest, and
two or three flannel shiitwaists. The
ingenious damsel studies shirtwaists
in the tailors' windowfi and models
her own on them sn apped seams,
frilled cuffs and all. Vith two shirt
waists, one regular bodice aad a neatly
made suit, the woiking woman ia
equipped as to frocks. Naw York
Journal. I
Mrs. Fri.lUof Ixuhi.
The wife of the worla famous Arctic
explorer is a great favorite in Nor
wegian society on her own account,
beside being, of coursl, now a kind of
queen as the wife of hVr husband. But
before she was man-iedXshe was much
sought after in Chrisyania, because,
for one thing, she is ode of the finest
musicians in Norway,Jthe possessor of
an extraordinary and ligbly cultivated
voice, and an nnuBual combination
an accomplished pianist s well.
When in England a yeir ago, Mrs.
Nan sen played and sang before Queen
Victoria at indaor, audi the queen
was very gracious in ner expressions
of pleasure in the occasion, and though
ao much could hardly ud said in re
gard to any other art, a compliment
from the queen on things! musical is a
genuine triumph, for she loves music
deeply, aud really kuowa a great deal
about it.
Mrs. Nansen is considered decidedly
Intellectual; her family has been dia
i tintnUhed for generation for the
number of professors It has contributed;
to Norwegian institutions of learning,
particularly to the university at Chris
t innia. Such a family history confer
distinction anywhere, but particularly'
is this so in Norway, where there ia
neither aristocracy nor plutocracy. Bnt
perhaps Mrs. Nansen's good looks and
love of outdoor simrtn are for her bus
band as decided attractions as her
musical or mental gifts. Hhe is lust
the contrast in coloring to him thatf
she should lie dark baired and dark
eyed, and a contrast in size, too, for
she is decidedly a little woman.
Itunning over hill and dale on Nor
wegian snowshoes is the great winter
sport of Hcandinavia, and Mrs. Nansen
is an expert at skilobning, as they
call it; but once when she was skilob
ning in the mountains with her hus
band she did too much, and became
exhausted; she was wearing a short
dress and a long coat and high boots.
ller husband picked ber np and
sought help. At last be found a
peasant's hut, and from it issued its
owner before he reached the door, pro
testing volubly: "Oh, sir, yon ought
not to bring a little boy like that out
so far. The country here is too rough
for a child to skilobn in."
It is a pet trick of Dr. Nansen to set
her on his ontstretched arm and parade
up aud down the room with ber; but
that really to one that knows him
does not indicate mnch about her
size, for at a banquet given in Chris
tiauia after bis retnrn from Green
land he picked np Captain Luerdorf,
who has since commanded the Frarn,
and, holding bim by the arms high
from the floor, cried: "There la the)
man I place above ns all." Chicago
Itecord.
.
Fnshlnn Notes.
Jaciiieminot velvet hats are lunch
favored by brunette beauties.
Amethysts and emeralds seem to be
favorite stones for gold hatpins.
Very lovely tea gowns are of Roman
striped silk, with lace garniture.
For yokes and skirt borders there
are beautiful lace appliqne insertions.
Three kinds of fur ntilized in one
garment is no unusual sight these
days.
Long black lace scarfs in the style
of days gone by are now used aa
sashes.
The latent French skirt models
grow narrower and closer on the front
aud sides.
Home French honse dresses are
trimmed with two shades of ribbon of
the same color, artistically arranged.
Daggers for the hair are agaiu in
fashion in gold, aluminum, filigree,
silver and amber set with mock jewels
of every color and device.
There seems to be a veritable epi
demic of tiuy waists. The athletio
girl has broad shoulders, but she
doenu't run mnch to waist to indulge
at once in a pun aud an honest state
ment. The fashionable photographer pos
sesses such an assortment of laces,
nock jewels and fancy headwear that
the woman anxious to be posed artis
tically haa a wide range of choice in
the matter of her adornment.
Very many of the new fur boas are
long enough to reach the bottom of
the skirt in front. Home are made en
tirely of Kussian sable, Hudson's bay
or stone marten tails. With these lace
aud jewels are often introduced.
When silks are packed away they
are likely to become yellow nnlena
care is used. To prevent this, break
up a few cakes of white beeswax, fold
them loosely in old handkerchiefs and
place these among the folds of silk.
White gloves atitched with black
are only tie rigneur for day wear when
accompanying a costume in black and
white effects. The more fashionable
shades are doe color, biscnit, mush
room, almond, pale brown and tan.
Fashionable dressmakers, both here
and abroad, are making most liberal
use of beautiful artificial flowers that
look exactly like nature's own to deo
orate evening toilets, and not a few
fichus and bodices are actually smoth
ered with roses.
Fur is a very fashionable trimming,
and ia combined with lace and em
broidery withont any regard for tha
expeuse involved; yet,without this ex
cess of decoration the plainer gowns,
when they have the indescribable touch
which gives them style, are the most
pleasing.
Lace of all kinds is cheaper than
ever, and real lace ia never out of
date. It can be made into almost"
every style of trimming, without be-'
ing cut into bits. Most of the dressy
neck garnitures are finished with
Mechlin, Point de Veuise, or other
rich lacea.
Frills of lace in ivory white or an
tique yellow or frills of chiffon are
much used to line the high storm collars
of fur garments. Sallow eomplexioned
women do not look well in gray furs,
and hence the chinchilla or gray fox
collarette is trimmed with a lace ruff
and knots of ribbon. .Both white ana!
black lace ia used, the black as a re
lief for light furs, tha white as a relief
tor dark furs.