A WORLD OF
A little frill of laughter, a chord la nature's
ongi
A little A-rA of rlchteonsness to stand
SKnln.t the wrong,
A little duty hrmled: little honor wont
A little hill surmounted, and a little kind
ness donei
A little Inbor dully; a little prayer and
pralsei
A little act of kindness to gladden weary
days,
And so the whole oreatlon to Its eessolesa
Hi-even swing,
For little man Is living In world ot little
things,
A tittle hope to cheer ns, although It wait
eth still)
A little Are for comfort when Winter nights
are chilli
A little dream, Ood-glven, to bless as OB
the way i
A little welcome waiting ns at ending of
the dayi
A little purpose shining through every deed
we
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i X5he Economical Pirate, i
A By CHARLES OLEio. 1
Uncle Jonah was the only sailor in
our family, and that was one too many.
Undeterred by his Christian name, he
ran away from home In boyhood and
began his notorious marine career as
stowaway in an Australian clipper.
I can understand that the family Ufa
must have jarred upon htm, for my
grandfather was A Methodist preacher
of the narrowest type, and Uncle
Jonah's boyhood was soured by a sur
feit of chapel going and long family
prayers.
For 20 years or so Undo Jonah held
no communication with his bereaved
family, who alluded to him as "a lost
vessel," and regarded his probable do
cease with 'equanimity. Then be re
appeared, with rings in his ears and a
a roll of banknotes in his pocket, and
his early follies were condoned. Un
like most sailors, Uncle Jonah had de
veloped thrifty habits. For the first
week or two bis reputation aa a man
of substance enabled him to "sponge"
opon the frequenters ot ue village Inn;
but after that people began to resent
his stinginess, and the hospitable
stream of free drinks ceased to flow;
thereupon Uncle Jonah went no more
to the Ooat and Compasses, and began
to tire of pastoral life. Soon he went
afloat again, securing the command of
a tramp steamer bound for the Oold
coast with a cargo of square gin and
condemned rifles.
I bade him farewell in the South
ampton docks one bleak evening In
February. His parting words aston
ished me.
"James, my lad," he said boastful
ly, "I'm going to make my fortune this
voyage, and If I ever come back I'll
make a gentleman of you."
The doubtful prospect of becoming
a gentleman without Individual exer
tion did not lure me into idle habits.
There was the chance, too, that Uncle
Jonah might be drowned. I pursued
my vocation (as we pressmen phrase
It) until I rose to the position of re
porter on the Dally Scum,
i Years passed, but no tidings of Un
cle Jonah ever reached mo, until one
day. In the ordinary course of busi
ness, I was sent to Bow street police
court to write up a case ot piracy on
the high seas that promised to afford
good copy. The Intelligent reader will
cave guessed that the accused person
proved to be my Uncle Jonah; but I
need hardly say that I was wholly un
prepared to find a relative In the dock.
My professional zeal enabled me to
stifle any emotion that might have in
terfered with the business in hand.
It a man possesses the true Journalistic
Instinct he is capable ot writing a de
scriptive article on the vivisection of
his own father, and will take pride In
the task.
I recognized Uncle Jonah directly
be stepped Into the dock. He had aged
little, for his black beard was
streaked with gray and his keen, fer
rety face had grown haggard; but he
did not appear to be greatly cast down
by bis misfortunes. To say that he
bore himself with dignity (I took the
liberty of saying this in my report)
would be inaccurate. Uncle Jonah
never bad any dignity, being one of
those familiar, vulgar persons In
whose company even the dignity of
others withers like a leaf in autumn.
His shitty eyes explored the dingy
court and rested for a moment on the
reporters' table. He recognized me and
finked.
The evidence taken that morning
was purely formal, and, pending the
attendance ot some Important wit
nesses, the prisoner was remanded in
custody. I foresaw that the coming
trial would be made to excite excep
tional Interest, cases of piracy bolng
comparatively rare. I was eager to
secure the first "Interview" with Un
cle Jonah, and to this end I played the
useful caul ot our relationship for all
It was worth. The Inspector of 'po
lice, after pocketing a sovereign, con
fessed himself unwilling to 'resist the
appeals ef ,tho prisoner's beloved
nephew. I was permitted to spend half
an hour In the cell, on condition that
I made no professional use of the In
terview. The exigencies ot Journal
ism obliged me to pledge 'my word
to the Inspector, though I foresaw the
Impossibility of keeping my promise.
And this is the story of baffled pira
cy as told by my Uncle Jonah. I re
late it as nearly as possible. in his
own words, omitting his lurid mari
time expllcatlves:
"In these days of keen competition."
said Uncle Jonah, "It's u'o sort of good,
my lad, trying to run a pirate craft on
old fashioned lines. A hundred years
ago, or maybe, fifty, one could afford
to ship a strong crew and. give the men
fair percentage of the profits; but
nowadays there's the stokers and en
gineers to settle with, the coal bill's
omethlnf awful, and you must employ
LITTLE THINQ3.
A little bunch of roses to overspread the
ruei
A little peace snrparsing to which the
spirit clings,
For little man Is living In a world of Uttla
things.
A little hope, a little love, a little toll and
rest,
A little glimpse bevond the veil, a little
problem guessed,
A little faith, a little doubt, a little blinded
truti
A little halting Journey, and a little of Its
dust;
A little knowledge merely of little ways we
wend j
A little dream of Heaven awaiting at the
end
A little struggling upward, although oa
brokon wings.
For little man Is living In a world of Uttla
things,
Alfred J, Waterhonse.
a few trained gunners besides. Steam's
played Old Harry with piracy, and
sp'lled the slave trade. To start with,
there's the cost ot the plant. Eighty
years ago they could build a wooden
line of battle ship for 100,000 quid; now
you can't buy a 400-ton steam yacht at
the figure. Well, I needn't go Into de
tails, and there isn't time, but even a
land lubber can see that only million
aires can run a pirate on their own."
"Then how did you get the money to
fit out your ship?" I asked.
Uncle Jonah winked and spat skil
fully into the corner of the cell. "The
Falcon was run by a syndicate of Ger
mans," he said, "and my Instructions
was to attack nothln' but British ships.
If I knew the names of the sharehold
ers I'd give 'em to you, but they al
ways paid my salary through an
agent"
"What did you earn, Uncle?" 1
asked.
"Two hundred quid a moni- and 5
percent commission," he replied. "The
first mate was to gat a hundred," he
added, "and the seamen and stokers
six quid a week."
"Then the wagca bill must have been
very heavy," I suggested.
"That's where you're wrong, James,"
said my uncle. "In the old fashioned
way of business the Falcon would have
wanted a crew of about CO hands, and
the company wouldn't have paid 10
percent unless we'd captured a mall
steamer or two every month. As I
said J net now, a modern pirate's got
to be run on economical lines, so the
stingy directors only allowed me a doz
en hands. Including the cook, who was
under contract to fight as well as
stew."
"A dozen hands!" I echoed, Incredu
lously. "The rest was dummies," growled
Uncle Jonah, "mechanical dummies,
my boy, made in Germany," he added,
cynically, "like the war office field
guns."
"I can't see bow you can construct
a fighting dummy," I objected, "else
our war office would have adopted the
patent."
"These didn't fight," said Uncle Jo
nah. "They was only meant to frigh
ten the passengers of the mails we
stopped. Ever seen the innards ot a
Waterbury watch?"
I nodded.
"Well, these dummies were worked
on much the same lines. Their in
nards was chock-a-block with long
steel springs, James, and the wigs
and beards mado 'cm look as fierce as
It they was fed on raw beef. Some ot
'em could do the cutlass exercise, oth
ers used to walk up and down the deck
on rails, and one used to lean over the
fo'c'sle rail and spit, as natural as life.
The works was fitted to go for two
hours; after that you had to wind 'em
up afresh.
"We had 30 of them German dum
mies," continued Uncle Jonah, "and If
you'd seen 'em halt a cable away you'd
have taken your davy they was aa
'uman as any other pirates. I believed
in the beggars myself, James; that's
where I made my bloomln' error."
I wrung his hand in silent sympathy
and resumed my notes.
"In bad weather," continued Uncle
Jonah, "we had to keep tarpaulin cov
ers over 'em, unless we . sighted a
prize; and when we got Into the trop
ics some ot the faces, which was made
of compo., began to melt"
"That was awkward," I continued.
"No, we carried a few spare faces
and shifted the old 'uns. There's many
a human man'd be glad to 'ave his
face shifted the same, and wlmmln,
too, for the matter of that. I knew a
gal once In Liverpool, whose face
Well, never mind about that," he broke
off; "wlmmln ain't likely to trouble
about me any more in this world. Take
my advice, James, and steer clear of
females. They coBt a man a lot more
than they're worth, and if one could
only make a female, dummy to cook
and sew on buttons "
But my uncle's view on women were
not original.
Gently, but firmly I resisted his di
gression, for our time was short and
facts meant money.
"The burst-up came about In this
way," Uncle Jonah resumed. "We'd
taken one good prize in the Atlantic,
and sent all bands comfortably to tho
bottom, when the agent sent a code
message saying as how the Cape mall,
with dl'monds and gold aboard, would
be oft Madeira on a certain date be
mentioned. I managed to fill up with
coal from an old bark, which gave us
the devil's own trouble to sink after
we'd done with her, and then steamed
south In good time to look after the
Rhodes Castle, fihe was timed to
leave Madeira in the forenoon, and I
wanted to overhaul her in daylight so
as to let the crew and passengers take
stock of our dummifw. These malls
carry a lot of people, you know, and
one had to put 'em In a bine funk,
else they'd have shown fight
"Site was well up to time, and we
sighted her about six belli (S p. m.)
in the afternoon watch, coming along
at IS knots through a sea as smooth
as a duck pond. As luck would have
It, there wasn't to much as a sailing
ship within 20 miles, and I made sure
of them dl'monds and tho gold.
"Between you and me, James, I
meant to retire from business If we
pulled It off, and I shouldn't have been
over particular about settling up with
the syndicate."
This confession ot dishonesty pained
roe, but I let it pasc. To reprove a
pirate for swindling his employers
seemed, on the whole, inconsistent.
"We slowed down," continued Uncle
Jonah, Impressively, "wound up all the
dummies, and stood by to give her a
couple of rounds from our 4.7 gun. The
chap who bossed that gun had been a
navy man, and he could hit a funnel at
1000 yards four times out of six. He
got 10 quid a week from the syndicate
and he said It was a nice little addi
tion to his service pension of 18 pence
a day.
"When the Rhodes Castle closed
within about five cables I gave the
word and ran up the black flag. The
navy man let rip, and the foremost
funnel went over like a candle In a
hot room. The second shot carried
away the chart house and part of the
bridge, and then the captain stopped
engines.
"Now, you must bear in mind that
we only had 12 hands besides the Ger
man dummies, and the mall boat car
ried a big crew without reckoning the
passengers. We could have sunk her
in half an hour, but It was no good
doing that till I'd got the stuff out of
her.
"My plan was this: I left the mate
and the navy man In charge of the
Falcon, and took the other none along
with me In the boat to overhaul the
mall. We was armed, ot course, but I
trusted more to the lurid dummies
than our revolvers, and I told the mate
not to close nearer to the mail than
S00 yards. At that distance our dum
mies looked light enough, but they
seemed a bit stiff in the Joints at close
quarters. Perhaps I was a bit flur
ried. Anyway, I didn't notice any
thing wrong with the mate when I
give him the orders. When we got
alongside the mail I hailed the captain
and told him to send all hands for
ward except himself and the mates.
Then we boarded the ship, and I had
a few words with the captain. , I told
him we'd come for the gold and the
dl'monds and the loose cash and the
wimmln'B Jewelry, and If they gave any
trouble I should sink the ship with all
hands. I meant to sink her anyway,
but there wouldn't have been any
sense In making them desperate. My
instructions from the agent was to
sink every prize we took and spare
no lives. It sounds a bit harsh,
James, but a pirate can't afford to
be tender hearted nowadays, or he'd
have a dozen warships after him in
side a month. When we captured the
Oceanlca (she was supposed to havo
struck an iceberg, you'll remember)
the navy man and that fat headed mate
of mine wanted to take their pick of
the wlmmln; but that was clean
against the contract, and I wouldn't
allow it
"The skipper cheered up considera
ble when I told him we hoped to get
"through the Job without cutting a
throat, and he handed over the keys of
the safe like a lamb. Those two shots
from the 4.7 bad done our business,
and to look at the Falcon you'd never
have doubted she carried a strong crew
of out and out murderers. 'See here,
captain,' says I, pointing to my ves
sel, 'you might manage to hobble me
and my search party; but if we don't
get safe back to the Falcon in half an
hour, my mate has orders to blow this
hooker out of the water.'
" 'Very well,' says ho; 'I'm helpless,
and you're free to gut my ship. Since
you mean to avoid bloodshed, I'll give
you every facility.'
" 'Right,' rays I, 'this Is a m ter of
business, and the sooner we get through
with It the better. Tell the crew and
passengers to fork out every sixpence
they've got on them, and the wlmmln
to dub up their Jewelry. Let your
mate go round with a bread bag and
make tho collection. He's got rather
the cut of a church warden.'
" Tou might do without the Jewelry,"
said the cap'n.
" 'Well, the married wlmmln may
keep their weddln' rings,' says I. 'It's
quite irregular, but I'm a widower my
self.' "With that I followed the captain
down to the strong room, taking four
hands with me to carry up the gold.
My idea was to hang on to
the dl'monds myself 4111 I
could get 'em under lock
and key in my own cabin. So you see,
James, I couldn't avoid going below
to the strong room, and if that lurid
ass of a mate had obeyed orders I
might have been in South America by
now, living like a lord mayor."
At this point In bis narrative my
Uncle Jonah fell into a gloomy reverie
from which I had to rousn him before
be resumed it.
"There was 100,000 quids' worth of
gold in that strong room, or I'm a
liar," he continued, "and enough dl'
monds to have half filled a bread bag.
It took us some time to get the gold
on deck and lower it into the boat,
but I never tackled any Job that seemed
to tire mo so little. When I got on
deck the third time I saw in a shake
that something was wrong. The crew
and passengers of the mall was all
craning their nocks over the side and
taring at the Falcon.
"I took a peep at her myself, and
blamed If the mats hadn't dosed tn
that near that you could havs heaved
a biscuit aboard her. Tho fool must
have been drunk, I suppose, or he'd
have had the sense to know that he
was risking all our hecks and his own,
too. The Falcon was so near us I
could eisily see myself that the pirates
on deck were dummies. They' were
working well enough to take in a
stranger, but some of the passengers
were looking through tholr binoculars,
and that fairly turned me faint with
funk.
"We might have pulled through after
all, but Just as I was shouting to the
mate to get further ot the spitting
dummy got out of gear. As I told you
Just now, the Innards of the dummies
was full of-long steel springs, and
they had to be oiled twice a week.
Oiled they were, too, so It was no fault
of mine that about three fathoms of
spring came Jerking out of the spit
ting dummy's ugly mug. In full sight
of everybody. Now, it stands to rea
son no human man can spit up 20
feet of steel springs, and the people
on the mall knew that as we 1 as I
did. The loose end of the spring
mhlpped round the neck of the next
dummy, and the bloomln' Image kept
on workln' as if it rather liked that
sort of a collar. The passongers be
gan to laugh, then the crew laughed;
and, when they'd done laughing, they
Just tumbled aft tn a heap and made
prisoners of us before we could shoot
a cozen of them. That's wuat comes
of trusting your life to goods made in
Germany," concluded Uncle Jonan. "If
you w.nt to do me a kindness, James,
find out who made that spitting dum
my, and drop him down a sewer."
e e e
My Interview with Uncle Jonah,
which duly appeared In the Dally Scum
next day, procured me a very accepta
ble position on the paper. A few weeks
later I had the privilege of witnessing
and reporting the execution.
Poor Uncle Jonah! His savings went
to the crown, but he really , was of
some service to me. The King.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Of the 41.000,000 people In England
more than half of them live oh an In
come of less than $12 a week, and the
earnings ot 7,000,000 ot this number
do not exceed $6 a week for the fam
ily. The Italian government has Just
erected a fortress on tho great Chan
erton summit, oppcnlte Briancon, for
the defence of tho Slmplon tunnel.
This fort Is 10,600 feet high, and Is
believed to be the most elevated forti
fied point in the world,.
Tho astronomer has heat-measuring
devices that can detect Infinitesimal
variations of temperature, and Indi
cate the heat of stars distant millions
cf miles from our earth, and chemi
cal compounds sensitive to light that
our eyes never can see.
Pigmies are now found only In the
interior of Africa. A German anthro
pologist shows that they once lived in
Switzerland and Alsace and in Silesia
down to the tenth century, and that
some ct the Alsace race were less
than four feet In height
Few people realize that tbey are,
eating an English knight when they
saw their way Into a sirloin steak. A
fine loin of beef was once set before
King Charles I., and as he was a bit
hungry, he said that tho meat was
good enough to be knighted, and gave
it the title of Sir Loin.
The earliest extant manuscript of
the Hebrew Old Testament is a copy
of the Pentateuch, now in the British
museum, and assigned to the ninth
century, and tho earliest manuscript
hearing a precise date is a copy ot
the prophets, at St. Petersburg, dated
A. D. 916, while the majority ot the
manuscripts belong to much later pe
riods. Dr. F. A. Barton, president of ths
Aeronautical Institute ot England, an
nounces tnat he Is building an airship,
which will be fitted with 150-horse-powcr
motors. If this is successful
he will build one which will carry mo
tors of 500 or 600 horse-power, and
will be able to fly from 60 to 80 miles
an hour. He has devised a system, he
says, whereby the size ot the support
ing balloon decreases as the size of
the aeroplanes Increase, and he thinks
he has solved the proDlem of the com
mercial airship.
She Could Read Writing. -An
Insurance agent with an office
downtown, who, like other business
men, dictates his correspondence to a
stenographer and sends out his letters
typewritten, wos waited on the other
day by one of bis customers, an elder
ly woman from a New Jersey .town.
She was angry all the way through
and at first the agent could not under
stand what about. He was polite, but
she would not be appeased. Finally
out It came.
"You needn't send me any more
printed letters," sold she. "I con read
wrltin'." New York Sun.
The English Language.
Bo far from there being any real
danger ot the defilement of the lan
guage by the profusion of Briticisms
of Americanisms, of Canadlanisms
and Australlanlsms, of New Zealand
isms If such exist, aa no doubt they
do English Is really the most fortu
nate of all modern touguej In that It
has so many sources of refreshment,
so varied, nu remote from each ether.
Brander Matthews in Harper's Mag
azine. More than half the external b'i!ne"
of Costa Rica Is with the l'a.'tc
States.
Iht TORY Of DICK
A Ssagull Who Kept Tryst for Twenty,
four Consecutive Years.
Out In tho ocean, about four miles
oft the shore of Rhodo Island and Just
south of Narragausctt bay, is an
chored Krenton's Reef lightship. Some
82 years ago the lonely watchers on
tho ship had their attention attracted
by a seagull that so far put aslJe his
wild nature as to swim close to the
vessel In search of food. The friend
llneis and trustfulness of the bird im
mediately wen tho hearts of the keep
ers, and soon he was supplied with
all the food he wanted. Not only this,
but every day, without a break, the
bird, which by this time the men haJ
named "Dick," came back, and Just
ay regularly was he supplied. This
rcon grew Into a habit; and the prep
aration of Dick's allowance become
one of the cook's fixed duties.
There would have been nothing
very remarkable In a wild sea fowl
following an Instinct that led It to re
peat a search for food so regularly
and so bountifully successful, were It
not for Its later history. Ono day
nar tho first April follow
ing Dick's appearance at the llghtuhlp
ho was missed, and was not seen again
until about the 1st of the next October
when the same program of dally feed
ing was resumed and kept up as dur
ing tho previous year. Then, as the
1st of April drew near, Dick would
again take himself oft to his summer
home, wherever that mlpht be, only
faithfully to return with lite following
October.
This repeated going and coming,
with the constant round of dally feed
ing, was kept up for 24 consecutive
years; and Cnpt. Edward Fogarty, in
charge .of the lightship, writes to us
that the last seen of the old fellow
was In April, 1805, when, according
to his custom, he left for his summer
vacation, but, for the first time in
24 years, failed to return the next
October.
What became of him no one knows.
His great age may have bo enfeebled
him that he was unequal to the long
flight to and from his unknown sum
mer home. He may have chosen to
stay there, or he may have died of old
age.
It was noticed by tho ship's keeper
that during his last visit Dick plainly
showed the effects of his Increasing
years, and that he was no longer able
to hold his own with the other gulls
In maintaining his exclusive right to
the bounty thrown out from tho light
ship. The Smithsonian institution knew
the history of Dick's visits and was
desirous of obtaining his remains
when he died, but, while It Is pos
sible that In his later life ho might
have been captured and forced to end
his days on shipboard, there was not
one on board the lightship so false as
to make tho attempt or to permit it
In others.
The report of Dick's arrival and de
parture were faithfully recorded by
the captain In bis ship's records ns
if they were an Important Item of
marine news, and In the neighborhood
of Newport, at least, he was as well
known a character ns any pet elephant
or monkey within tne safe confine
of a zoological garden is to the girls
and boys In tho cities, Dick's cage
and playground was the whole Atlan
tic ocean, it he had wished, but he
was faithful to the friends whom he
had always found faithful to him.
St Nicholas.
No White Race Horses.
"Why Is It that yon never see
white race horse?" aBked a man who
takes much interest In unusual things.
"Did you ever see a pure white raco
horse? I venture the assertion that
you never did In all your experience
in running around over the country.
No doubt you have seen an Iron gray
horse now and then, or a fleabltton
gray, but you have never seen A
white horse among the thoroughbreds
of your time. Mind you, I am not
saying that there is no such thing as
a white race horse. 1 am simply com
menting upon a fact which I have ob
served, a fact which may have been
noticed by others. 1 have seen a gray
horse now and then. A few years
ago I remember to have made a small
bet on a horse, named Boaz, a sort
of flea-bitten gray, owned by a wo
man, who, by the way, was not red
headed. But during my experience
round race tracks, which is not as
broad as the experience of others, the
pure whito horse, or anything ap
proaching It nearer than the gray,
has been conspicuously absent, and I
have often, wondered why. Of course,
there must bo some good, deep-rooted
reason for this extraordinary fact.
Bay horses, sorrel horses and black
horses are common enough at the va
rious race courses of tho country, and
tbey are In all shades, bo far as these
colors are concerned. Occasionally
one may find a horse bordering on
the clay bank In color, horses with
blaze faces, or with white hind or fore
feet, or sometimes having other dis
tinguishing color marks. But where
Is the white horje? He Is uot at the
race track where running races are
on the card, and they are very scarce
on trotting and pacing tracks. I have
never mentioned the curious fact to
men who are experts when It comes
to blooded horses, but I Intend to do
so, and the very first well-posted race
horse man I meet I will ask him why
It is that there are no white race
horses, and the reasons therefor. There
must be some relation between color
and speed." New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Thirty-four bouses in various parts
of Glasgow, Scotland, have In a Blngle
day been closed aa unfit for human
habitation. There were 118 persons
living in them.
I
New York City. Coats made with
stitched straps are much In rogue and
are exceedingly smart. This very at
tractive May Mnnton one Is adapted
BTBAIH'ED COAT.
to suitings of all sorts ns well ns to ma
terials used for geuernl wraps, but Is
shown in tan colored covert cloth
stitched with corttcelll silk.
The coat Is mndo with fronts, back
and under-artu gores and Includes
seams In both fronts and back which
extend to the shoulders. The neck Is
finished with the regulation collar mid
lapels and In each front Is Inserted n
convenient pocket. The sleeves are In
the smart tailor coat shape, but with
novel roll-over cuffs.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size Is two and three-quarter
yards forty-four inches wide, two
and a bait yards fifty-two Inches wide.
Bos Eton With Stole Collnr.
Loose or box Eton Jackets make a
feature of advance styles, and will be
BOX ETON WIT
greatly worn during tho season to couie.
The very pretty one shown lu the large
drawing Is made of black taffeta, with
trimming of applique cloth, held by
fancy stitches, which Is exceedingly
smart, but ctamlne, cloth, pcau de sole
are all appropriate and the design Is
suited nllko to the odd wrap nud the
costume. The trimming might be
heavy lnce of any sort, applique or the
mnterlal brntded. braiding belug one
of the latest whims of fashion.
The Jncket Is made with back nnd
fronts only and Is fitted by means of
shoulder nnd undcr-nrm senms. At the
neck Is a collnr which Is broad nt the
back nnd shoulders, but forms stolo
ends nt tho front The sleeves are In
bell style nnd short enough to allow the
full ones worn benenth to be seen.
The qunntlty of material required for
the medium size is three and three
quarter yards twenty-one inches wide,
two yards forty-four Inchos wide.
irndorsleeve KfTects.
Mnny of tho handsome new dresses
show elaborate undcrsleeve effects. If
well held In these are pleasing. Too
saggy and droopy schemes, however,
look positively untidy, especially for
the street. Old sleeves may be made
thus modish very easily. A handsome
black broadcloth was thus treated.
The sleeve was ripped up tho back
Beam to the elbow. A rullle ot Mack
chiffon was set In, puff fashion. Each
side of It was one of black slllt point
do Venlse lnce. The edges of the cloth
were hidden by an applique ot Oriental
embroidery like that on the cuffs and
at the fronts.
A Wont A lino t Silk.
Though the Continental looms con
tinue to turn out any amount of taffeta
It is said that the coarser weaves will
be the tblug next autumn. Anuures
are looked upon as being ono of ihe
coining favorites. The great demand
for taffeta Is quite as much due to its
desirability for lining ns Its vogue In
garments. All the sheer ctnmlnes arc
over a taffeta foundation, and this
alone sells enough taffeta to make it
appear the silk of silks.
Twine T.sce an Silk Crepe,
A novel puff dress Is of castor slllt
crepe. Tho bolero, which is but deep
si m
puff, droops over a deep draped girdle.
There's n liberal showing of twin)
lace. On the' skirt flat flounces of this
lace alternate with tho bias flounces
of the crepe. There's no finding
color lovelier than this delicate shads
of tan. In reality It Is too light to be
cnlled castor; castor, however, stands
for richness nnd delicacy of color, and
tan Is often an ugly shade.
Jackets Are Short.
In spite of what Is said to the con
trary, short Jackets are lielng made to
order nt the tailors, nnd being pur
chased rendy-inndo by those who ars
fortunate enough to be built In "stock
sizes." Long coats and three-quarter
lengths were alt very well lu cold
weather. But for n run-about cos.
tume the short Jacket Is much liked,
and so, nil but Indispensable.
Heekwear Newness.
A Windsor tie In washable striped
silk Is cool and nent for summer wear.
Blue nnd white, "crnb-red" nnd black,
and red nnd white, nnd n clenr and
brilliant green and white are among
those seen. The crisp bow Is already
tied, nnd as the silk Is rnther wide it
falls out In plump outlines from the re
straining knot
Handsome Matin Girdle.
The back of a black Liberty satin
girdle has four handsome cut steel but
tons are ornaments. On both sides,
but nt a little dlstauce. are three steel
buttons and then two buttons. It
makes a prety finish to the belt and it
fastens with steel clasps.
Green and Gold.
A bracelet that lllustrntes the fad for
green nnd also the Incoming fancy for
n Jour work, consists of green balls al
ternating with roudelles of gold open
work, i
Fringes on Gowns nnd Coats.
Frluges will be considerably used OB
fichus nnd bertbns. The old-fashioned
net top bullion fringes are appearing
on gowns nnd coats.
II STOLE COLLAR.
Woman's Three Place Skirt.
Skirts made with deep graduated
flounces that are arranged In shirring
nt the upper edge are notable among
advance models and will be greatly
worn lu all the thin and pliable, mate
rials which are so fashlonuble, silk,
wool, linen and cotton.
The very graceful May Mnnton model
Illustrated Includes wide tucks at the
lower edge of the flounce nud Is shirred
over heavy cords. The material of
which the original Is made Is voile, In
the lovely shade known as mals or corn
color, and the finish machine stitching
with cortlcelll silk.
The skirt Is mado in three pieces and
Is laid In tucks at the sides and back,
which give A hip yoke effect. The ful
ness at the back Is laid in inverted
pleats and the flounce is seamed to ths
lower edge.
The quantity of mnterlal required for
the medium size is twelve and three
quarter ynrds twenty-one Inches wide.
TARES riECB NKlMf.
ten nnd threo-qunncr yards twenty
seven Inches wide, nine yards thirty
two Inches wide or six and throe-quarter
yards forty -four Inches wldo.