FOOLISH
. I saw a sweet young mother with
Her first-born nt her bieat;
'Ami what's thn Imliy's natuuV" I asked
Of her no richly blessed.
Bha looked nt me with pity, ft
HhB prnmllv pnlpl her (mail:
'We call bliti Dewey, sir, of ootirso,"
Id tender tone sh until.
1 met n iliilntT llttln girl
Who loci n kitten by n string. ,
Ami as I stroked her heail, I asked:
"Wbnt ilo you cull thn prettv thltiB?"
Blie looked nt m with whin blue oyus,
And n he went hr wny,
"1 call my kitten Dewey. lr,"
1 benrd bar sweetly ny.
THE RED BOOK.
T tMiM JARtimr.
'WWWV V WW WW vw
"Poor dear maul" ejaculated Mrs.
Moneypenny, laying down the news
paper and looking at her small grand
daughter, "I must put him into the
Red Book." And she gave a gentle
sigh as she spoke, for the names in
the Red Book were- already numerous.
"What has he done, granny?"
Doreen (folding dropped the much
bated sampler she wn working nnd
pushed back thn golden curls that
wonld fall into her eyes, "Has he
killed somebody, or drunk poison, or"
her blue eyes growing large with
sudden interest "has be been ship
wrecked, and was he starving.and did
he eat np all the other peoples iu the
bont one by one?"
"Doreen," said Mrs. Moneypeuuy,
severely, "you nre nn extremely
naughty little girl. If you were older
I should almost think Mint you hnd
been reading my newspapers. Con
tinue your work at once."
"I hnvon't rend any old newspa
pers," answered Doreen iu an injured
tone of voice; "you told me yourself,
grnnnv."
"I told youl" The old lady held
up her bands iu horror nt the very
idea.
"Yes, yon did, granny," persisted
Doreen, standing up, a defiant little
figure; "when you read anything in
the pnper that makes you feel sorry
you say 'Poor man!' or 'Poor woman!'
nnd then you go on reading and begin
thinking out loud, ami you say,
'Fancy killing bis poor little girl!
Dear, dear I Just a tit of temper; or
tarring, dying of thirst; dear me! I
might have done it myself; one never
know!' You tell me a bit about
everything, and I make believe the
rest. When I can't make it all out I
ask Sophie. Sophie always tells ine
just what I want to know."
"Doreen! You are a very naughty
little girl indeed!" gasped the old
lady, clutching hold of her newspaper
with both hands. "Sophie is a very
good girl she never rends the news
papers." "Yes, she does, granny," assorted
Doreen, gathering up a colony of dolls
from the hearthrug as she spoke, "she
loves it as much as you do, I always
tell her when you've read anything
specially dreadful, and sho says 'Law,
Miss Doreen I I'll be sure to read it
this very night.' What has the man
done, granny?"
"Nothing that is at all proper to
tell little girls or servants," answered
Mrs. Moneypenny, stiffly. "Y'ou are
a very strange child, not at all like
what your dear mother used to be.
Go nwny aud play in the garden,
Doreen."
Doreen hesitated and then obeyed,
determined to find out what the man
in the newspaper had doue for Sophie
as soon as possible,
Mrs. Moneypenny lived toward the
close of the nineteenth century, but she
belonged in spirit to the eighteenth.
She wore long silk mittens, a puce
colored silk dress that fell around her
in voluminous folds and a cap with
lace lappets that rested lightly upou
her gray, corkscrew curls. She
washed the china herself after break
fast aud ten. She owned a stillrooin
and rejoiced in its mysteries. Her hall
and sitting room were .scented with
potpourri and her linen press with
lavender. Her bed was warmed every
night with a waruiiug pan, aud when
she bad a cold she sat with her fe t
in hot mustard and water nnd drank
treacle-posset. Also, she wore go
loshes whenever it was wet and d d
an immense amount of worsted needle
work. Her grandchild was the off
spring of the nineteenth century; so
was Sophie, the maid of all work. Oc
casionally the two oenturies disagreed
aud met in combat, bnt, owing per
haps to a certain stateliuess in its
representative, the eighteenth century
more often than not drove the nine
teenth off the field.
- Mrs. Moneypenny was old-fashioned
enough to believe in prayer.' She be
lieved in its efficacy so firuity that her
household believed in it also, which is
saying a good deal. She was as method
ical over her religious duties as she
. was in worldly matters. She prayed
whenever ahe saw a sad sight,heard a
aad story or read of sin, sorrow or
death. Then, if she considered the
case important, she entered it into a
certain red-covered book and spent
the greater part of every Sunday af
ternoon in goiug through its contents,
mentioning each item in turn aud
praying about each with all the fervor
of her warm old heart Age is some
times crabbed and uulovely. Prayer
kept tbeeurrentof Mrs. Moneypenny'
life fresh and aweet, and who can tell
how far-reaching may have been the
ioflnenoe of that book? Several pages
t the end were left blank so that
Mrs. Moneypeuuy could record when
ever her prayers brought forth visible
fruit. When anoli items could be hon
estly entered aha was a proud old
lady indeed.
Soma weeks previously the loss of
a small ciiiua lien caused jura. Money-
ynny great perturbation,
. It was a favorite plaything- of tier
f-:i!':-;lit9r's uJ lived generally
QUESTIONS.
I met a ctirly-hnaiteil hoy
Who hftd n brlndle pup,
"And wlint' yoiirdoRKv nnmo?" I asked,
A. I held the creature lip.
lie gnr.pii at me In wonder, and
He prondlv corked hi lipndi
"I call him Dewey, lr, of course,"
He pityingly mid.
1 stopped beside a rustle ftlln,
A ml heard a nillknmld slim a snr.gi
"And whnt'your bossy's nainn?" 1 asked
The lassie a she came aloiiir.
Blie looked nt me In mild urrise,
And ii she strode awny,
"Why, Dewey I her name, of course,"
1 lienrd thti maiden say.
1
a
in Doreen'a pocket with a string nr
tarhed to its neck. When its small
owner went for n walk tho chinn lien
went out ns well nud wns bumped
nlonu every bit of grass thnt could be
found; also, to give it n fondness for
water, it was dipped iu and out of
every pond nnd puddle and wns, in
fact, such a companion thnt when one
day the string was found to have lost
its appendage in the course of a long
walk, Doreen was heart-broken nud
agitated her old graudmother consid
erably. "Y'ou really might put my own dear
Hnowfluke into your lied. Book,
grnnny," she hnd sobbed. "You prny
for nasty old bad men and women, and
my china hen never did anything but
get lost. Y'ou are n menu old granny,
and I won't love you any more."
As it seemed wcll-tiigh sacrilege to
Mrs. Moneypenny to even think of
tillering prayers for tho recovery of a
child's toy slio tried her best to ex
plain the same to Doreen, who re
fused to listen, refused to stop crying
ami gave her view of the case as fol
lows: "You said, grnnny you snid I wns
to tell (lod 'bout everything and nsk
Him for everything I think I think
you are very unkind not to tell Him a
little girl hns lost her dear chiun hen.
Y'ou can prny much better than I can,
cos you are so old. v liv can t vou
do what you told mo to do, granny?"
I lie tears nud the logic won the
day. With nn unspoken prayer that
she might be forgiven, Mrs. Money
penny wrote down iu her book: "My
granddaughter, Doreen, has lost a toy
and frets over the loss. Mem
To pray thnt it may be found and re
stored to her keeping." i
nince then nothing more ha I been
seen or beard of the china ben. Every
Sunday Doreen reminded Mrs. Money
penny that it had not come back, till
the simple-hearted old ladv grew anx
ious lest the child's faith should suf
fer aud prayed as earnestly for the
restoration of the toy as she did for
the human woes that tilled her book.
She need not have been nnxioits, how
ever, for Doreen was a trusting little
soul. Hhe was quite content now that
Hnowfluke was being prayed about
properly and nmused herself by imag
ining what sort of adventures the
china hen was enjoying.
When dismissed from her grand
mother's sitting room Doreen run off
to a shady corner of the garden over
looking the main road. Tho main
road was neither very broad nor very
important, for it niorely led from the
village of Hurst to tho village of
Finch, Mrs, Moneypenny' cottage
standing iu rather an isolated position
between the two. Doreen's favorite
seut was on the top of tho low wall
t Ii ut bounded the gulden, and on the
afternoon in question, after scrambling
aloft, she deposited hor disreputable
array of dolls amidst the ivy w ith va
rious slaps aud bumps.
Unconscious thnt a tramp wns
watching from the other sido of the
road, Doreen played with her dolls
for several minutes, until a harsh
voice close to her said abruptly,
"You've got a big fam'ly up there, lit
tle missy."
Doreen looked down into the road,
studied the man's villainous face and
tattered clothes a minute iu silence.
Then, with a friendliuess born from
the security of her position above
him, she answered: "Yes, beggar
man, I have a very large family, and
every one of my children is desperate
wicked."
"Wicked, be they?" and the tramp
showed nil his toothless gums in a
griu. "I've a little gal nt 'ome w bat
has a fam'ly same as you, missy; bnt
her fuin'ly's powerful good, she alius
tells me."
"Oh," remarked Doreen; then, anx
ious to) be polite, she added, "P'raps
your little girl likes good childrens, I
don't. I like them to be wicked; then
I cau punish them. They're all being
punished now," waviug her baud tow
ard the forlorn group in front of her.
"They've all got their legs where
there's most tickly things, earwigs and
spiders and snails and beetles, and
they are being tickled frightfully
they are screamiug like I scream when
grauny combs. my hair. It's dread
ful anxious work having children to
bring up properly."
"Seems aa if I've got somethin' 'ere
as yer might like to play with, missy,"
aaid the tramp after a momeut's pause,
fumbling in a dilapidated pocket. "It
is a pnrty little thing wot I picks up
in a ditch this morning," and he stood
close to the wall . and held something
up to Doreen, who took hold of it
rather gingerly.
The next moment she cried: "Why,
it's my Hnowfluke! My own denr lit
tle white hen that ran away from me
years and years agol Did God tell
you to bring it back to me.beggarman?
I love yon just enormously," and Do
reen beamed down ou the tramp, cud
dling her restored treasure close,, to
bar clean white dress, regardless th'at
Hnowfluke was up longer white, but
black, and had lost a wing during her
wandering-. ' ' , , ..- .
The tramp scowled. "One good trim
Verve another, missy. AV'liat time
do you and the servant girl go a-walkin'
ou Sundays?"
"We go nfter ilinner when it 1 fine,
fin soon a Sophie lm washed Tip,"
nnswered l)iireeti, still gazing in nit
miration nt the china linn. When she
looked down into the road again th(
tramp hud disappeared, and the reetot
of Finch was turning in nt the garden
gate.
The next afternoon nhont 8 o'clock
this same tramp stood listening out
side n half-opened door in the hall at
Holly Lodge, and ns he listened the
expression on hisface changed strange
ly. Fear wa transformed into won
der, wonder Into into incredulity, in
credulity into belief, belief into some
emotion impossible to classify. With
a hilcli up of his tatters, ns if to make
sure that they still clung together, he
suddenly pushed open the door, en
tered the sitting room, set his arms
akimbo, scowled nt the old Indy who
gazed up nt him in wonder from het
knees and snid harnhly: "What's that
yer been n-snying 'bunt Ham Blake?
Hurry np, missus "
It wns not n dignified position, per
haps, in which to be caught by a bur
glitr,but Mrs. Moneypenny maintained
her self-poxsession, rose from her
knees and faced the intruder boldly,
still holding the red book,
"How dure yon enter my bouse In
this manner?" demnuded the old lady
after n slight pause, while she inves
tigated him through her spectacles.
"Vor mny .thank yer stars, missus,
ns yer ain't n deader already," said the
mini, roughly, coming close to her;
"but when a clinp hears his own name
nnd fact 'bout his own life.he'd maybe
like to know- what it means afore he
sets to work."
"Mo yon nro Ham Make?" nn
swered Airs. Moneypenny, under
stnuiliug as people do sometimes in
sudden emergencies "You nro the
Sum Jlluke thut nearly killed hia wife,
tlint stnvved his children and broke
into a jeweler's shop 15 years ago. I
know you very well, Sam Bluke, for 1
have prayed for you nnd your miser
able family every Hundiiy afternoon
for 15 yeurs. I am very glad yon
heni d me, Hum lllnke. Now wliat do
you want?"
"Wot yer done it for?" asked Ham
Make, still scjwliug.
"Because you were wicked enough
to require a good many prayers, and,
my friend," Mrs. Moneypeuuy smiled
a qtuiint, shrewd smile, "unless you
nre going to murder me, which Would
be but n simple mutter, an you see I
am old nnd nloile in the house, 1
slinll continue Jo pray for you."
"You're a guhie 'nn, you are!"
growled Ham Uluke, half-approvlngly.
"I've a mind to lot yer oft' this time,
blowed if I ain't. Look a-here, mis
hub, if I don't knock yer over the
bend ns I had a mind, nor take that
diamond ring o' your'u in charge for
yer, yer muat hand over what money
yer has in the 'onse nnd give us a feed
afore yer little 'nn conies back. Look
spry, old 'nn, and maybe us won't
quarrel after -all."
Mrs. Moneypenny measured the
man with her eyes, recognized his
strength and her weakness, realised
there was nothing to do under the
circitiiiHtiiuceH but obey, unlocked
her disputch box and buuded its con
tents to Ham iluke,who wuh pleasant
ly surprised, the nearness of rent day
not having entered into his calculu
tioiis.nud treated her unwelcome guesl
to as good a meul in the kitchen at
the larder could provide.
"Let's have n look nt that book of
your'u," suid Hum Blake, ns he made
Mrs. Moneypeuuy fill up his glass
again with beer.
He studied the neat entries in si
lence and then bauged his fist down
on the table with snch force that Mrs,
Moneypenny started. "Of nil the mm
'mis you're about tha rummest!" he
exclaimed. "There, shake hands,
missus you needn't be nfeured fa
your diamond, though it's a mighty
tine 'tin, as word was passed dow n to
me, sure enough. I guess that yer
book 'ull be full afore you goes under,
eli, missus?"
"I nm afrnid it will, Ham Blake?"
begun Mrs. Moneypenny, racking her
bruiu for a suitable word in season,
but just at that moment a child's
merry laugh sounded iu the distance.
Ham Uluke shoved half a loaf into his
pocket and made a bolt out of the
kitchen, the door slammed, and Mrs,
Moneypenny was left alone to tidy
her disordered kituheu with hands
that suddenly trembled as she realized
for the Ht st time that the Bed Book
had saved her life, if not her money.
A llrave Revolutionary Woman,
Elizabeth Zane is one of the gentle
women who played a part in one of the
savage fights of 1777. A battle was
in progress at Limestone, Ky., under
the walls of Fort Henry, a large In
dian force being couoeutrated ou tha
Sandusky river banks under the lead
ership of the notorious white renegade
aud Tory, Simeon Girty.
The soldiers in the garrison lacked
powder to carry on the tight and could
spare no man to get it from the pow
der house. Then it was that Eliza
beth Zane, a slight, sleuder girl, boldly
voluuteered to bring them powder,
although it was almost certain death
to attempt it.
She carried it in a tableoloth tied
about her waist and hau made two or
three journeys when her, object was
realized by the Indians, who seut a
hail of eliot about her. The girl
never faltered and passed into the fort
uninjured. Hhe had saved the day
for the soldiers. Collier's Weekly,
' A NurnrUe,
"Young Mr. Dubster says that he
is wedded to his art." '
"Indeed I" replied Miss Cayenne,
"I shouldn't have judged by hia pic
tures that ha was even engaged to it"
Washington Star. .
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS
Xnetnlee nt the Army Worm.
A uuniler of birds feast upon the
army worm when it is destructive.
Among, them are swallows, fly catch
ers, crows, blackbirds, robins, cat
birds, thrushes, larks, bluebirds,
sandpipers, screech owls nnd sparrow
hawks.
Meat For K Knter.
To help the hens forget the egg-eat
ing bnbit, place the nest boxes just
high enough so the fowls cannot look
into them, fixing partitions between,
aud cover with n slanting board so
they cannot walk along on top and
look in, leaving only room enough for
a hen to fly up aud walk into each
est.
Composition of Sunflowers.
The composition of sunflower bend
is ns follows: Water, eighty-six per
cent.; protein, two; fat, one and a
half; starch, sugars, etc., live end a
half;, fiber, three and a half; ash, one.
In the whole plant there is a smaller
amount of protein and fai and more
starches, sugars, etc., fiber and ash.
The sunflower is not very desirable
stock food in localities where Indian
corn can be grown for this purpose. Tho
yield is moderate, amounting to two
and it half tons per ncre.
Leaving Manure In Heap.
The only advantage we could see
from the practice of dumping manure
in heaps was the ease with which it
could be done and the wagon unloaded
for nnother load. The mnnnre thus
dumped is never so evenly spread ns
it enn be from the wagon. To unload
quickly always have two men on the
load, spreading from each end of the
wngon. Then thero will be no heaps
to lie on the ground, perhaps for
weeks, giving tho fields a "patchy"
nppcurance in the larger growth of
straw where the manure heaps have
lain. Often this extra large growth
rusts and yields less grain than where
tho slrnw was smaller. American
Cultivator.
Avoid ItalsInK 1'ltlc.
Never in tho history of horse rais
ing wns there a wider difference be
tween plugs and good horses. Farmers
must give as much thought to the se
lection of both dain aud sire as they
do iu tho breeding of cattle and other
live stock. A coach horse that will
bring SftOO is as easily raised ns a plug
that will bring bnt $15. Such a horse
is useful on the farm until the time
when he is ready for the market, and
can be used both to the plow and on
the wagon. In case he lacks the style
or action necessary to bring a fancy
price, he is still a general purpose
horse aud will bring a price that will
be profitable to the raiser. American
Agriculturist.
Wild (inrllt- In Lawn.
Wild garlic or wild onion, the bo
tanical name of which is Allium vine
ale, is one of the most obstinate nnd
injurious weeds in the Eastern Hlntes,
as it is a perennial and its small un
derground bulbs defy most of the
usual methods of eradicating other
weeds. The most effective way of de
stroying this pest is to dig out each
bunch of plauts and bulbs and burn
them, but as it is impossible to dig
out every small bulb, new ones will
start again, nud the process hns to bo
repeated. A few drops of crude car
bolio acid applied to n plant will kill
it in a short time, without injuring the
grass to inuoh extent, but of course
great care has to be exercised in the
handling of so oorrosivo a substance.
Clover for fowl.
Clover is not only more suitable for
summer food for poultry, owing to its
bulky nature, compared with corn, bnt
it is also more nutritious, as it con
tains a greater quantity of the sub
stnnces required for the production of
eggs, . The lime for the shells is pro
duced when in a soluble foira in the
food, as it must pass through all the
stages and processes of digestion, and
the more soluble the mineral elements
the easier and more completely they
serve the purposes of the hens. Clover
hay contains over thirty times more
lime than does corn or wheat, and the
greon clover, though containing more
water, is comparatively as rich in lime
as the hay. .Clover is also a nitrogen
ous food, nnd supplies the elements
necessary for the albumen of the egg.
When the hens have access to clover
they will eat a large quantity during
the day, and if inseots are numerous
their wants will be fully supplied.
Ventilating tha Cow Stable.
The proper ventilation in a cow sta
ble is hard to regulate, yet it is some
thing every dairyman should look
after, for on this haugs one of the
keys to success. It may not be no
ticeable in atfeo'ting the quantity or
quality of the milk, but diseases are
often traoed to impure air arising
from air-tight stables.
Cattle that are being forced to their
full capacity for milk production re
quire a lower temperature than oows
moderately kept. For instance, at the
Michigan Agricultural College there
is a cow that weighs something like
2050 or 2100 pounds that gives (so
says Professor C. D. Smith) 100
pounds of milk eaoh day. This cow
(from the same authority) actually
has to be kept in a cool place, for she
oonsumes so much food that she is
a good-sized furnace within herself,
and would not consume food enough
in a warm room to produce the 100
pounds per day.
This leaves an opening for argu
ment, as it would seem that if a cow
could be made to consume a larger
quantity of food by keeping her in a
cold-storage building, aud at the same
time give larger returns in milk, that
the warm stable wonld be of mo avail,
for the extra milk would or should
pay for the extra feed. Of this each
must form his own opinion, bnt for
one, I will adhere to the warm sta
ble in winter. B. F. Brown, io Agii
ultural Epitouiist.
S THE REALM
flrarefnl Morning down.
Blue and white striped percale made
this pretty and graceful morning gown,
embroidered edging and insertion
decorating the collar and wrists. The
lADIES' MOnJIINO OOWS.
stylish adjustment is made over fitted
lining fronts that reach to the waist
line only. The full-fronts are gathered
nt the neck edges at each side of the
centre-front and arranged over the
lining fronts. The closing is effected
at the centre with buttons and button
holes and the fulness at the waist is
held to position by a girdle of blue
taffeta ribbon that is inserted at the
nnder-arra seams and carried forward
to the centre, finishing with stylish
bow and long ends, Under-arm gores
give to the gown a smooth effect over
the hips, the back being fitted with
curved side and centre-back seams.
The wattean is closely gathered at the
neck and below this point, fulls in
graceful fulness to the lower edge of
the skirt, all seams being sprung be
low the waist to give the required ful
ness. A neat rolling collar completes
the neck.
The one-seamed sleeves are but
moderately fnll and are gathered at
the top and again at the wrists where
they are confined by a band of inser
tion finished with a frill of embroidery.
The mode is adapted to cotton or
wash fabrics or to soft woolen, flannel,
ehallies, etc.
To make this gown for' a lady in the
medium size will require nine yards of
forty-iour-inch material.
An Attractive Shirt TVaJst.
Roman striped foulard makes the at
tractive May Manton shirt waist shown
in the large engraving, the fronts of
whioh are cut bias and arranged so as
to meet in V shape nnder the straight,
narrow box plait in the center. The
yoke presented the ever-popnlar
double points in back, reaching fur
ther forward on the shoulders, a fea
ture that marks the '98 styles. The
fronts are gathered at the top onto
the straight yoke edges, tha gathers
at the waist being arranged to give a
modified poueb effeot. The under or
lining portion of the yoke is cut with
a straight back edge, onto which the
gathers are arranged, the pointed
yoke being then laid over and stitched
firmly down on its edges, thus hold
ing the gathers in position and giving
neat and firm finish. Over the
standing linen oolla? is worn a bias
stock of material, narrow string tie
finishing the neck. The use of this
stock is optioual as the linen collar
may be worn alone, but the pattern
provides for both. The up-to-date
shirt sleeves that differ ' materially
from those of a season ago are lhaped
by inside seams and gathered slight
ly at upper and lower edges. The
usual slashes at tha back are finished
by sudor and ovtur laps that are closed
1ADIE8' BIIirtT WAIST WITn REMOVABLE COIXAH AND STOCK BAND.
OF FASHION i
S'
Just above the cuffs with single but
ton and buttonhole, turn np link
cuffs completing the natty shirt
sleeves. Shirt waists in this style can
be made of silk, wool, linen or cotton
fabrics, the infinite variety now shown
making a selection of material a com
paratively easy matter.
To cut this waist for a lady of med
ium size three and one-quarter' yards
of material thirty-sis inches wide will
be required.
Flint Women's Clan In Pari.
Paris will have its first women's
club. Modelled in some respeots along
the same lines as the London Club, it
will have unique features of its own
as well. Not only will the proposed
charges make membership in this club
an expensive Inxnry, but the member
ship itself will be limited by other
methods. It is reported that apply
ing candidates are to be subjected to
tests which only the most aristocratic
women in Franoewill be able to stand.
Trimming For Plane Gown.
White pique gowns are braided with
black, trimmed with bands of dark
blue, or they may have three bias folds
of the material for trimming around
the skirt, to bean inch or an inch and
n half wide with as much or more spnee
between.
The Latest In Hatpin.
Hatpins headed with pretty enam
elled llowers and leaves, insects of
various kinds, and tiny birds with
outspread wings add to the vnriety iu
this useful lit t lo necessity of dress.
Irregular pearls ct around with dia
monds are also very fashionable.
The "llRhtly lllonsed VValnt fopnlar. -
In spite of all prediction the slightly
bloused waist continues to hold it's)
place and is chio in tho extreme.
The model given is singularly well
adapted both to silk and light weight
wools, bnt as shown is in the popular
black and white, the foundation ma
terial being chocked taffeta, the trim
ming black velvet ribbon combined
with white satin. With it is worn a
sailor bat with a scarf of Liberty silk
and quills.
The foundation for the waist is a
fitted lining which includes the usual
pieces nod seams and closes at the
centre front. But the blouse is fit
ted by shoulder and under-arm seams
only, the closing being invisible be
neath the frills which edge the fronts
below the revers. Above the closing
each front is extended to form a big
pointed rever which is faced with
satin and banded with ribbon, a frill
of the ribbon finishing the edge. Aa
illustrated the slight opening is con
cealed by the big chiffon scarf, but a
full plastron of white Liberty is ar
ranged upon the lining to the neces
sary depth. At the neck' is a high
flaring collar of the white banded with
black. The sleeves are snug fitting
LADIBS' BXOU8B WAIST.
finished with puffs at the shoulders
and frills that full over the hands. .
To cut this waist for a lady of me
dium size three aud one-half yard of
material twenty-two inches wide will
be. reauirsd,