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Good Taste and Cleverness.
This is especially true if the
Kroman herself has that most useful
gift bestowed by the birth fairies,
good taste. More often than not the
woman who needs to study economy
is the one who is most richly en
dowed with this faculty, and It Is
apt to be combined with clever, prac
tical ability to either do the neces
sary work of making up home gowns,
or to direct the home dressmaker
In her labors, so that the finished
frock has an air of style that makes
It "go" in many more places than
tor simple home use.
Measurements.
A perfectly formed woman will
stand at the height of from five feet
three to five feet seven inches. She
will weigh from 125 to 140 pounds.
A plumb line dropped from a point
marked by the tip of her nose will
fall at a point one inch in front of
" her great toe. Her shoulders and
hips will strike a strlght line drawn
up and down.
Her bust should measure from
twenty-eight to thlrty-slx inches; her
hips from six to ten inches more than
this, and her waist should be from
twenty-two to twenty-eight Inches In
circumference.
Worries.
If you fall to see beauty and good
ness in life look in your own heart
for the cause. We invite all that
comes to us.
Put the small worries where they
belong, at the foot of the list, wys
the Woman's Maerazlne. Do not nl-
low the cook and the milkman to be
J the bell masters of your soul with
1 power to make your days unpleas
ant.
If you find that you are getting
panicky over a condition or an in
dividual or a bit of gossip or a dis
appointment of any sort, why run
away from it if need be, but main
tain a serene view ot life and see
things as they really are.
if Vanishing of Costly Favors.
"Women who spend many thou
sands of dollars on a cotillon are
happily few," says a cynic; "else
the sanltoriums, which already are
crowded, would have to reconstruct
their walls of rubber in order to hold
the patients. But several shining
lights of the plutocracy manage to
reach that goal of the 'spender.'
At a recent cotillon the favors were
costly that many young women
le moved to tears when, at home-
g time, they couldn't find the
s. Yes, many of the trophies had
been carried away most mysteriously.
The young men, especially, "lost"
many of their choicest favors, but
of course they took that bad luck
good-naturedly. New York Press.
Chemical Blushes.
A dermatologist has solved the
iystery of converting a faded so
ciety woman into a study in pink
anVl white. The beauty doctor has
already made several successful ex
periments with his fountain of youth.
He Y'raply tattoes a blush on the
cheeVs without injury to the flesh
or s.jn. He declares the process
does 'not cause pain not even a
wince because the needle only
enters the skin one-sixteenth of an
inch. He uses vegetable coloring to
produce the schoolgirl blush. This
is Injected under the skin. The fluid
is said to be quite harmless. Two
sittings are necessary for a complete
operation, and the effect for a few
days is not pretty. The completion
changes from pink to red, and finally
to a delicate pink. Pittsburg Dis
patch. Dntcli Girls Lucky,
In Holland girls have exactly the
same privileges as boys when it
comes to a question of higher educa
tion. There are no special courses,
universities or preparatory school for
girls in the land where Queen Wil
helmina rules.
All institutions for higher educa
tion are open to men and women
equally, and on the same terms; stu
dents of either sex are treated in the
same way and have to pass the same
examinations.
After having left the primary
school girls and boyB who wish to
enter the university go to a public
grammar school, into which they are
admitted at the age of twelve cr
fourteen, on passing an entrance ex
amination. Kipling a Feminist.
A French writer who 1b a great ad
mirer of Rudyard Kipling, has dis
covered with surprise and some ap
parent Joy that Kipling is a feminist.
Kipling, who mocked his own sex
with caustic pen, he finds bestowing
on woman the admiration he is un
able to feel for men. The discovery
was made at a dinner, where Killing
said the women govern Africa, and
there would not have been a war if
they had not said to the men: "You
go and fight the English or you will
have to settle with us." The men
did not want war but they did not
dare to stay at home. The women
in Africa govern all, not as in Eu
rope, where the pretty ones swayed
too world, but by sheer maternal
force. A fat, hon?e!y mother of many
In South Africa knew how to make
herself, obayed U not how to please.
1
A
Women to the Front in Science.
Two ot the most famous scientific
bodieB in the world the Royal So
ciety of London and the University
of Paris have Just, by a striking co
incidence, bestowed remarkable hon
ors upon two women for original and
unaided discoveries in science. One
ot these women, to whom an audience
of grave and learned professors as
sembled within the walls ot the re
nowned Sorbonne, in Paris, has been
listening, with the attention and hu
mility of pupils in the presence of a
recognized master, is Madame Curie,
who is usually spoken of as the co
discoverer ot radium. The fact Is,
however, that, while Madame Curie
labored together with her late hus
band in unfolding the surprising
properties of that substance whose
strange behavior has required a re
laying of the bases ot physical sci
ence, she herself was the sole original
discoverer. It Is in consequence of
this fact that the Academy of Sciences
has given her a professor's chair,
and that now she is a lecturer at the
Sorbonne an accepted authority at
the fountain head of French science.
The English woman who has just
won a recognition, not less signifi
cant, in the scientific world, is Mrs.
W. E. Ayrton, to whom the Royal
Society has awarded a much-coveted
medal for her original researches on
the electric arc; and also for her
studies ot "sand riffles," a subject
that probably appeils very little to
the Imagination of the average
reader; but then . science has Its
arcana, wherein everything is very
clear to the elect, and this is ot them.
Everybody, however, appreciates what
it must mean, in these days, to throw
new light upon the problems ot elec
tricity, and this Mrs. Ayrton haB done
so successfully that British men ot
science bow to her words, and contest
that she has clearly distanced them.
It is true that Mrs. Ayrton, like
Madame Curie, has worked side by
side with her husband, and there may
he some obstinate upholders of thq
old doctrine of the supremacy ot tha
masculine brain who will be ungener
ous enough to put stress upon that
fact, as if it were of particular im
portance. But they will fail to make
their point, tor the testimony Is over'
whelming that, in both cases, thes
women were absolutely original in
their work and needed no helping
hand.
Two swallows do not make a sumi
nier, ot course and it is not to be
expected that woman will suddenly
tuke her stand beside man in the
forefront of scientific advance. No
body would wish that she should.
Man is quite content that she shall
remain behind, amid more agreeable
and pleasing surroundings, where she
can enjoy the fruits ot his discoveries.
He has always been willing to work
for her, and he is willing still. He
is also quite ready to take any credit
that may come from his work. But,
as the action of the representative
scientific bodies ot France and Eng
land has just demonstrated, the man
ot science, at least knows when he is
beaten by his sisters, find is not
averse to sitting at their feet when he
is sure that they have something to
teach him. New York American.
Huge flowers ot 'silk and velvet
are used on he hats.
Wide bai .a of braid are used on
both Jacket and skirt.
All pleated skirts are stitched
down to below the hips.
The principal millinery trimmings
seen are wings and feathers.
For everything except storm coats
and strictly tailored waists, sleeves
are three-quarter length or shorter.
An oddity of some evening gowns
is that the short puff sleeves are of
different fabric from the rest of the
gown.
Brooches r.nd br.cklea of carved
coral are quite the thing, and young
girls especially find them very at
tractive. The brownish gray of moleskin Is
a leading tone among dress fabrics,
both in sheer stuff3 and heavier
cloths.
The fashion in sleeves leaves little
to be desired, for they are generally
of medium size, and either trimmed
lavishly or, made quite plain, accord
ing to the garment tbey complete. .
The velvet hem on filmy gowns is
one of the reigning fancies and an
exceedingly pretty one. The slight
dragging of the heavy hem adds to
the slender appearance so desirable.
The bolero makes its appearance
in the realm of lingerie in the night
gown yoke of allover embroidery,
bolero-shaped edges with ribbon-run
beading and finished with a soft ro
sette in front.
The chief point of difference in
style between gowns of cloth or vel
vet and those of diaphanous material
is in the skirts which are often quite
plain In the former, but both skirl
and bodice of sheer gowns are most
elaborately trimmed.
There are 73,000 Baptists in Massachusetts.
DECLINE OF HYSTERICS.
EVEN THE PEARL-LIKE TEAR IS
OUT OF FASHION.
Cables no 'Longer Squall Moderns
Resort to Strong Language Rather
Than Exhibit Emotion As for
Swooning, She Doesn't Know How.
Human nature being largely made
Bp of motions, It Is interesting to
observe how different' generations
have stood with regard to their de
velopment or suppression. In no iway,
indeed, is the change in woman dur
ing the last fifty years more appar
ent than in this matter. .
In the Early Victorian Era, when
every woman was overwhelmed by
her emotions, it was considered the
correct thing for her to weep and
shriek, to faint and have hysterics
on every possible occasion. We have
only to read the novels ot the per
iod to Bee how tears exuded from the
heroine like water from a sponge
whenever she was touched, how she
Invariably, on the receipt of bad news,
fell into a "death-like swoon," or
sank "lifeless" into somebody's arms
after emitting a series of piercing
shrieks.
To the present generation, which
prides Itself on nothing so much aa
its sense of humor, there is some
thftig eminently ludicrous in the ah
normally developed sensibility ol
these heroines of' fiction; while to an
age in which both sexes limit the ex
pression of their more painful emo
tions to the comprehensive word
"damn," it is absolutely unintelligible
not only why the hysterical Fannys
and Bwooning Amelias were ever tol
erated, tout haw they actually managed
to lose consciousness in the way de
scribed. The modern woman not only never
thinks of fainting when she is thrown
over by an unscrupulous lover, but she
is" physically Incapable ot doing so.
She may faint as the result of a blow
on her nose from a hockey stick, or
be picked up In a swoon from among
the debris of a motor-car; but she
could no more lose consciousness on
receiving a letter than she could get
concussion of the brain on accepting
a proposal.
The difference between her and her
grandmother, far, however, from be
ing one of physical constitution, is in
reality, nothing but a difference in
attitude. Our emotions being based
upon the senses are largely a ques
tlon of habit, and become intensified
or iweakened as we cultivate or sup
press them. The very fact of thes
Early Victorian women never con
trolling theirs, undoubtedly led to
their over-development, Just as the
modem custom of repressing ours is
gradually leading to a general petri
fying of the emotions.
Women are proverbially said to live
fn extremes, and certainly in the mat
ter of emotionalism there would seem
to to a good deal of truth in the re
mark. With the decay of sentimental
ity and the decline ot hysterics we
seem to have embarked on an era ol
feminine importurbiUty. which is al-
Act as Club Secretary- ffigfeL and Furnish Your Home FREE!
HAVE you a Htttle spare time?
If so we want to buy it and will pay
you handsomely with beautiful furniture
for your home, or fine wearing apparel.
We are appointing Local Secretaries for
Walker Clubs in all parts of the country. We
neod a Secretary rint in your locality. Some
wide-awake woman is going to get the appoint
ment why not you?
It is very easy to organize Walker Clubs.
We are dcing an enormous amount of adver
tising and women everywhere have heard about
Walker Clubs and want to join.
It takes only a Very little time and no ex
perience whatever to act -as Club Secretary.
In fact, there is nothing to do but tell your
acquaintances and friends .that you have been
appointed Club Secretary. .- ,
Now tha way we pay our Club Secretaries
is this: '
For every Club they organize we give them
their own celection of furniture, wearing apparel,
etc.
You can organize just as many Walker Clubs
as you want to. There is no limit to the num
ber of useful and beautiful articles that you can
secure by giving your time to this delightful
work. ,Some of our Secretaries have charge of
as many as ten Clubs. Others look after twenty
five or thirty Clubs.
The Club plan is so attractive that it is no
trouble at all for the Secretary to organize a
number of them.
W. & H.WALKER, Club Department 19 c
moatasunnaturaraa tne swoons and
"vapors" of a previous age.
Tears are out of fashion.
No self-respecting child ever sheds
them nowadays, while a squalling
baby is only met with In the lowei
orders. Not to be able to control
one's emotions is to be guilty of the
worst possible "form." The greatei
the shock we sustain the tighter we
shut our Hps, and the more we suf
fer the less we betray It. Here and
there. It is true, you will find traces
of feminine weakness lurking in un
suspected corners, women who can
still "turn on the waterworks." and
know how to sob and how to harrow
the hearts of their husbands and
their lovers, but these women are
rare. The generality, if they ever shed
a tear at all. shed it in secret, and
if they should be found with a sus
picion ot redness in their eyes wll!
hastily attribute it to a cold in tha
head. Philadelphia Record.
8AWING WOOD WITH COMPRESS
ED AIR.
Cutting Cord Wood With a Simple
Pneumatic Engine.
Compressed air has not been so ex
tenslvely applied to the operation ol
railway cars as was once expecte
electricity having proved a more con
venlent, if not a more economical
agent for that purpose. But It is still
generally used for drilling holes in
rock, preparatory to blasting, and foi
riveting -boiler plates and the ma
terial employed In bridge construe
tlon. The pneumatic hammer can be
carried wherever the end of the hose
(for a supply of air) will go, and it
works very much more rapidly than
a hammer manipulated by hand. Still
another class of service to which
compressed air is devoted is sawing
wood. In that class of work it is
only necessary to produce a recipro
eating motion, like that of a piston,
and so the principle of the pneumatic
hammer can hero be turned to ac
poumt. An exceedingly simple en
gine, constructed of brass and steel
tubing, will suffice.
According to "Compressed Air," a
monthly periodical devoted to the in
terests which its name suggests, the
chief feature is a tubular valve, which
will work equally well In whatever
position the machine be placed. The
general appearance of the device is
admirably shown in the accompany
ing illustration. The mechanism com.
prises a frame, resting on the log and
equipped with a hook to grip the
same; a Blender cylinder with an os
cillating piston, and a flexible pipe to
furnish the air. The cylinder (and
consequently the saw) can be shifted
from one side to the other ot th
frame, without freshly sotting th
iatter. The-distance between the tw-
positions regulates the length of th
cut, which is either sixteen or twenty,
six inches. The former would usu
ally toe preferable for stove wood and
the latter for locomotive fuel. The
frame weighs eighty-five pounds and
the engine sixty-five. The saw is an
ordinary Jive-inch or eight-Inch drag
saw.
The capacity of the machine is put
Si.
At five hundred logs In a day of ten
hours, or twenty cords of four-fool
wood in that interval. A pressure ol
seventy-five pounds to the inch is tha
ordinary one employed. Though tha
saw can be driven at the rate of on
hundred and fifty strokes a minuta
sixty-five is the natural speed.
60,000,000 PERSONS AIDED.
Under German Accident, Illness and
Old Age Insurance $1,656,750,000
Has Been Paid.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
late Prince Bismarck's announcement
In the German Reichstag, at Berlin,
that the Emperor was determined that
the State should systematically as
Blst the working people, male or fe
male, by accident, illness and old age
Insurance, was commented on widely
In the German press, which general
ly approved or disapproved the re
sults, according to the political opin
ions of the commentators. The so
cialists, following the policy which
they adopted when the laws were
passed, found fault with the Insur
ance as being Inadequate and not rad
ical enough to really provide for the
"casualties in the industrial warfare
and the disabilities of those worn out
In the service of capital."
But the whole body of liberal and
conservative opinion appeared con
vinced that the laws are beneficial.
During the last twenty yeara $555,750,
000 has been paid out for Illness;
$232,750,000 for accidents and $13,
500,000 for old age. The law also
provides for compulsory contributions
by employers and employes. In cases
of illness two-thirds of the expenses
are paid by the employe and one-third
by the employer.
In accident cases all the expenses
are paid by the employer, and In
cases of old age pensions half the
amount Is paid by the employer and
half by the employe, the government
supplementing eacS pension, with
$12.50 yearly. The sum of $312,500
was expended dally on the combined
Objects, the total of the various funds
Is $375,000,000, the total amount paid
in since the law was passed is $1.
656,750,000 and sixty million person
have profited by this legislation.
The official Imperial Gazette pub
lished a decree on the anniversary of
the message of Emperor William I. on
Btate Insurance, pointing out the great
ideas contained In the message, which
not only had' unrivalled success in
His Majesty's own country but was
spreading beyond the fontiers ot Ger
niand.'and adding:
"Unfortunately the accomplishment
ot its highest aim has been retarted
toy the continuous opposition of those
thinking themselves entitled to repre
sent the interests of the working
classes."
The message concludes with ex
pressing the hope that the Insurance
bills may guarantee the inner peace
of Germany ,and announcing that it
is the Emperor's will that the legisla
tion shall continue until the task of
protecting the poor and weak is ac
complished. New York Herald.
T TALKER
V y already
We have a capital of $5,000,000 in
vested in this business, which has been estab
lished for 69 years. 'We have 15 acres of
factories, and manufacture and import nearly
everything used in the home.
If you take up thi3 work for us, you will be '
astonished to find how easy it i3 to get anytlting
and everything you want furniture for parlor,
dining-room, bed-room, kitchen, laundry wear
ing apparel of all kincb, musical instruments,
rugs, draperies, jewelry, china, cut-glass, etc.,
without paying a single penny for it. You can
furnish your entire home FREE with the articles
you receive for your work as Secretary.
Our Club Secretaries can choose their pres
ents from a list of 1400 articles, which arc illus
trated and fully described in the lare book
which wa will be glad to send you FREE,
postpaid.
There isn't any doubt in the world that you
can do this work, and we want you to write and
tell us that you are ready to begin at once.
This is a big opportunity one that you can
net afford to miss. --w
Don't let anyone in your neighborhood get
in ahead of you. ;
Don't even wait to write a letter, but simply
take a postal card and say on it "Please send
me full particulars of your liberal Secretary Pro
position." We will reply by return mail, giving full
details. Address
The American Cow.
There are nearly 25,000,000 dairy
cows in America, and enough other
cattle to make a total of over 60,000,
000 head, Including bulls, oxen, young
stock and the "flocks and herds which
range the valley free," and all con
demned to slaughter. There are less
than a million thoroughbred cattle in
the country and more than 48,000,000
scrubs. The rest are half or higher
grades. About 20,000,000 calves are
born annually. The average value ot
a cow is $22. - .The average value
a cow is $22. In Rhode Island, a dairy
ing State, the average is $39.
The cows of the United States yield
about 9,000,000,000 gallons of milk a
year (watered and unwatered), the
butter product is nearly 2,000,000,000
pounds (all grades), and the product
of cheese over 300,000,000 pounds. Our
cheese industry is making enormous
Btrldes. In a short time the output
will be 1,000,000,000 pounds. There is
one item, a by-product, -which Is never
alluded to when Mistress Cow or Sia
Cow is considered. Our gold produc
tion is about $31,000,000 a year at
present. That Is a vast sura ot money.
Yet the raklngs of our cow yards
and stalls for the fertilization of crops
are estimated to be worth in cold casl
eight times as much, or $G48,000,000!
Such figures are bewildering. They
stagger humanity. New York Press.
Paper Making Matrrlnln,
New materials from which paper
can be made are continually being
discovered. Recently pine waste hag
been successfully manufactured into
that universal substance without
which so many features of modem
civilization could hardly survive. Fine
paper can be made from corn stalks
and from rice-straw. In addition to
spruce, pine, fir, aspen, birch, sweet
gum, cottonwood, maple, cypress and
willow trees nil contain fibre suitable
for the manufacture of paper. Hemp,
cotton, jute, Iudlau millet,' and other
fibrous plants can also be used for
this purpose, so that there seems to
be no danger of a dearth of paper.
The director of the Breslau Hygienic
Institute has announced the result ot
his mosquito war experiments. The
first object was to destroy egg-bearing
femnles, which were found in large
numbers In Breslau cellars. Fumiga
tion was used, and the number falling
on the papers plnced on the floors often
ran up to over 2000 mosquitoes. For
destroying the larvae in pools of water
fifty grains of "larvlclde" was put into
a cubic metre of water and poured into
the pool. This kills nil the larvae
Titliin half an hour, but does not harm
A-ogs and fish.
Germany's shipments of cement to
this country are dwindling notlcenbly.
This country has cement of its own to
sell nowadays. Last year it shipped
abroad 1.0G7.000 barrels of cement,
valued at $1,484,000. "Up to 1897," re
marks Consul Harris (Mannheim), "the
export trade in Amerlcnn. cement
amounted to practically nothing."
CLUBS ara very popular and
have over a million members.
Rtlshsirg, Pa