EROM A WOMANB VIEWPOINT Thin Dresses Made Warm. The adoption this season of the cha mois sacque to go under the evening Wrap will make It possible to wear tulle", chiffon and organdie dresses In the depth of winter. The loose-fitting leather garment keeps out wind and cold to an amazing extent. Its weight Is not great. Advice to Girls. When a girl talks to a man on the street, and he leans up against a wall while he talks, that is the kind of a man to shake, and shake promptly. If a man hasn't the energy to stand up without a wall to lean asalnst, he hasn't enough energy to make him worthy of any girl's chase. Atchiscn Globe. Lace Gloves Queen's Fad. Real lace gloves, which will cost from 60 cents to $1 a pair are neces- sary to the society woman s wararoue this season. Queen Alexandra of England is responsible for the fnshion. She tired of the trouble in taking off the long kid glove, and disliked to peel it off at the wrist, tucking the hand portion under the upper part of the glove. The lace glove is taken oft easily. Mrs. Bryan. Mrs. W. J. Bryan can swim a mile. Bhe Is a splendid walker. She rides a bicycle with case. She can drive mettlesome horses and bake, cock and sew. She knows how to keep house, and all her home expenses are record ed, so that she knows from day to day and week to week, how matters stand. She Is well read, not only In current literature, but In the good things of the past. The Argonaut. Death for a Kiss. The rules and regulations which en viron unmarried, girls in France are exceptionally Btrict when compared with those of England or America. On the other hand, compared with the social lows of Spain, I think those Of France are favorable to the Jeune fllle. I have personal knowledge of a case In which a young Spanish girl shot herself because she had been kissed by a young man and because In consequence of this small Indiscre tion her life had been made unbear able by her relatives. Paris corre spondence the Madame. Women and Work. For the year euJing June 30, 1905, 801,585 women, nearly one-half of the number of men, came to this country. The great majority of these came here for work. Nineteen out of every one hundred native American women are engaged in gainful occupations, but thirty-two out of every one hundred foreign-born women are so engaged, and the percentage Is increasing. In an lnvestibation of several thousand unmarried Immigrant women and mar ried Immigrant women without chil dren who had arrived within three years, fully 90 percent were found at work or looking for work. Truth About Economy In Dress. There is something anterior to the cutting and making of dresses at home (an accepted, but not always a successful, form of economy) ; a some thing anterior to the remodeling of last year's gowns, and to the study of the care of clothing, Important though all these may be. It has to do with the practical understanding of econ omy itself. It Is a matter of the head rather than of the hand. In Its relation to dress economy Isn't skimp ing on material ; It Isn't maiking this or that old thing do; nor is Jt living in bargain-bought shoddies or misfits and made-over things, and so being more or less apologetic for one's ap pearance and Inwardly saddened over It, even while bending in a spirit of resignation under the weight of work which certain economical sewing methods often involve. Economy In dressing, primarily, is prudence. It is alert, prudent buying and careful planning, both of which presuppose an acquaintance with cur rent dress forms and current prices of dress materials. This acquaintance Is an essential to economical dressing, whether the economy to be practised Is one of calicoes or of silk. It Is nec essary that the woman who must be wnnnmlcal Inform herself as to what Is to be had, how It is to be used after she has purchased It. and even how a given garment Is to be put on once It becomes hers. From the Special Fashion Number of Harper's Bazar. The 8pinster of Literature. Apropos of "The Neurotic Spinster of Literature," Anne O'Hagan, who has been entertaining the readers of Hnrner's Bazar recently by soma de lightfully humorous and remarkably tane talks about spinsters, in the last number of the Bazar rigorously de fends her sisters from the Imagination of some story writers. She says: "Malda. who has In her own family. eonatantlv ready for the purposes of investigation, a spinster who works some six or eight hours a day at a calling which demands a measure of aanitv: a solnster who eats her three meals a day with excellent appetite and frequently supplements them by a fourth; a spinster who (devoutly thunklo Heaven for the great gift) rejoices in the crowds on the streets, the trees In the woods, the stretches of the shore, In men and women. In books and weather, In fine raiment when she can compass It, In bridge and shows and music and friendship, and all the rich, deep, Joyous expert ences of daily life my slstei Malda, who has such a spinster, I say, under closo observation and a score more such under slightly more remote ob servation, will read these maudlin tales of neurasthenic old maids, and will think that she has discovered the true unexpressed attitude of mind of the whole class. "Victims of thwarted Instincts! There are those In all classes; assur pillv nnionir unmarried women. But they exist wherever mature women sit down to brood upon the difference ue tween what they yearn for and what the fates have vouchsafed them. What of the thwarted instincts of a child less wife, of a neglected or abandoned wife? Or even of a successfully mar d woman who happens to have, In addition to her traits as woman, the i-.stinct for artistic creation, for sci entific Investigation, for business but who Is hv circumstances or by some social convention forced to deny these their outlet? If, in real lire, we an went about making tragedies of all our thwarted instincts, this worm wouia soon resemble the stage at tne close nf 'Hamlet. And if in the casual lit erature of amusement we are going to celebrate thwarted instincts, in pitys name do not let us make the busy, re spectable spinster class bear the whole burden of the exposition! Near ly two thousand vears of civilization and convention have really trained her to bear her lot with decorum, ana even with forgetfulness of Its draw backs!" ; The Progress of Woman. "From a Btrlctly economic, non-sen timental standpoint, doing one's own work is the most wasteful possible form next to having man and woman do It separately," writes Charlotte Perkins Gilman In the Woman's Home Companion. "This sounds like nonsense, no doubt, to the consci entious housekeeper, who knows that Bhe cannot afford a servant, much lees an expert. 'But instead of looking at the ques tion from a strictly personal stand point, let her look at It for a moment collectively. Wealth is made by hu man labor applied to materials. The more expert the labor, the more wealth !t produces. The better organ ized and specialized the labor, the more wealth it produces. Society grows In wealth, ense, leisure, power and intelligence, as it develops from self industry to world industry. Very well. In fifty families we have fifty men and fifty women a hundred units of wealth-producing labor. Now sup pose just for a contrast that these fifty women all wo.-k at some trade earning a dollar and a half a day nine dollars a week, and that all the men were only housekeepers to the women cooking, sweeping, washing, caring for the children, for no wages. The family Income would be nine dol lars a week and both parties work ing all the time. We can see at a glance what a loss of wealth Is in volved. "Those men, we cry, would earn more than one dollar and fifty cents a day If they were free to specialize, to develop their various talents, to com bine, organize, serve one another and their families at the same time. Let the men earn the money and the wom en do the housework. "So we usually have the reverse of the picture; the men earning from one dollar and fifty cents to four or live dolars or more a day, a much-increased average income, and improved service the men's service, that is. "Now, these fifty women represent potential wealth as well as the men. While each of them works all day In the house for no wages, sharing the income of her husband, is it not possi ble that Bhe might be working at some special labor she preferred? We continually forget that all women do not like home work nor all kinds of housework equally, and that each fam ily is obliged to put up with inferior service in some particular. "Some women have a special genius for general management; such might manage In the housekeeping business, in this Utopian future we are looking at, and be well paid for it. Some like to cook and can cook well. These could learn the beautiful art to its fullest, and cook for appreciative numbers. Some like to clean, and could learn the laundry business learn It all and provide for each group of patrons beautiful laundry work o' keep the house antiBeptically clean. Some have especial . talent with babies and children, and could undoubtedly develop that talent, to the probable advantage, of our some times mfsnandled Infancy. "By such division eaoh woman, spe cialising, would Improve the quality of her labor and add to Its market value; she would serve more people, serve them better, and-be paid more. "But here we are pulled up short against a blank wall. Habits as old as history are not to be over-ridden in a day. Prejudices far older than his tory cannot be blown aside like feath ers. We object to such a change as this. We do not want It We stern ly disapprove of It I honestly be lieve, however, that social progress along this line cannot be permanently stopped. We can hang- back and dig our heels in like a sulky child,' but Mother Nature drags us on relent lessly." An Overworked Elocutionist. Once there was a little boy, whose name wns Hubert Reeve; And every Friday ut'ternoon he had to speak a piece. So many poems thus he learned, that . . soon Le liad a store Of recitations In Ills head, and still kept learning more. And now this Is what happened: He was failed upon, one week, And totally forgot the piece he was about ti speak! His brain he cudgeled. Not a word , re mained within his bend! And so he spoke at random, and this Is whut lie said: "My Beautiful, my Beautiful, who stand -est proudly by. It was the sehooner Hesperus the break ing waves dashed high! Why is the Forum crowded? What means this stir In Koine? Under u spreading chestnut tree there Is no place like home! When Freedom from her mountain height cried, Twinkle, little star Shoot If you must this old gray head, King Henry of Navarre! Roll on, thou deep and dark blue castled crag of Uniehenfels, My mime, is Novval, on the Grampian Hills, ring out, wild bells! If you're waking, call me early, to be or not to be, The curfew must not ring to-night! Oh, woodman, spare that tree! Charge. Chester, charge: On, Stanley, on! And let who will be clever! The boy stood on the burning deck, but I go on forever!" His elocution was superb, his voice and gestures fine; His schoolmates all applauded as he fin ished the last line. "I see It doesn't matter." Robert thought, "what words 1 sav, So long ns I declaim with oratorical dis play!" Carolyn Weils, In St. Nicholas. A Japanese Candy Shop. Shops in Japan are all so tiny nnd look so much alike that it Is difficult to tell at a glance Just what kind of a shop each' one Is. But all Japanese boys and girls know the confectioners' sign the spiked ball and just where to go whenever they wish sweets of any sort. The sign on this picture Is on top of the pole. Underneath It hangs a banner bearing the name of the shopkeeper in Japanese charac ters. Grace S. Zorbough In St. Nich olas. Good Dog. A faithful dog, belonging to Win fred Phillips of Indianapolis, has won the admiration of all who know him throughout his penchant for sitting by the bedside of sick friends. The crea ture Is sixteen years old, and is stone deaf. During the long Illness which resulted In the death of Mr. Phillips' mother, this friendly dog sat, by the hour, at the bedside of the patient and showed his sympathy by occasion ally licking her hand. The friends of this animal call him "Doctor" Sport, on account of his visiting homes In vaded by sickness. Dot's Birthday Cake. Once there was a little glri called Dot. And she was just five years old. And she had a fine birthday cake. It was big and round, and it had five beautiful little pink candles set in pink rosebuds on top. Dot sat at the big table at dinner that day, and by and by they put a a pretty pink paper cap on her head and then brought in the birthday cake. And the little candles were all burn ing bright. And when she saw it she said, "Oh, Oh! how lovely! It is just too pretty to cut!" But her mama Bald, "I will cut It for you, dear." So she cut one piece for Dot, and then she asked Dot, "Will Marie have a piece?" Marie was Dot's big doll. And Dot looked at her and said: "Marie says, 'No, thank you.'" And mamma said, "Will Fuzzy have a piece" Fuzzy Was Dot's Teddy Bear. And Dot looked at him and: 'He says "No, thank, you.' " And mama said, "Will papa have a piece?" And Dot said, "Oh, yes. Won't you, papa?" And papa said, "Yes, please." And Dot said, "Mama, you will. 'You must have a piece of my birthday cake." And mama said, "Yes, thank you." And mama cut the cake and gave Dot a piece and papa a piece and her self a piece. But she left the parts of the cake where the candles were burn ingone, two, three, four, five. And Dot's blr:rday cake lasted, one, two, three, four, five whole days before It was all gone. From the St. Nicholas. A Tumbling Brownie. Here Is an amusement for the chil dren. Little folks, try It. It will require one large marble, not less than one and three-fourths Inches In diameter, one gentleman's celluloid cuff and a few inches of thin felt in two colors. Cut the buttonholes from the cuff, roll it up into a tube Just gether. Cut a circular piece of felt easily through it and sew it firmly to gether. Cut a clhcular piece of felt one-half inch larger than the tube and sew -over the end of the cuff, holding It loosely, so it bags a little. Cut out a vest and coat of contrast ing colors, draw on the upper edge of the cuff, about one and one-half inch es from the top, eyes, nose and mouth of a brownie, such as are found hi any of the papers.. This can be done with a pen and Ink or In oil paints. Now fasten the rest In the back of the neck, pull the vest down in front to cover the seam where the circular piece of felt was sewn on, and arrange the coat, fastening in front with large knots to imitate buttons. , Cut arms and legs of felt Sew the legs to the body under the swallow tailed coat and attach the arms to the top of the coat Cut a circle of felt, snip out a small triangle from one side, sew it up to make a peaked cap and finish with a tassel; drop the marble Into the body, sew on the cap and the brownie Is finished. Take a smooth board ten Inches wide and dsht fect long, elevate one end on a chair, place the brownie on this end and see him go spinning heels over head to the bottom, where he euds with a few comical Jerks and twitches. Ladles' World. Harvest All the Year. The following, from Coleman's Ru ral World, gives a very good Idea of the continuous round of the seasons, how it Is always spring and always summer In some part of the world. There Is no month in the year In which the song of the reaper Is not heard In some land on the globe. In January 13 the wheat harvest of Aus tralia, New Zealand, Chile and the Ar gentine Republic; in February and March, upper Egypt and India; in April, lower Egypt, India, Syria, Cy prus, Persia, Asia Minor, Mexico and Cuba; In May, Texas, Algeria, central Asia, California, Oregon, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Ken tucky, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and south of France; in July, New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, Nebraska, upper Canada, Roumania, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary, south of Russia, Germany Switzerland and south of England; ia August, central and northern Minnesota, the Dakotas, Manitoba, lower Canada, Columbia, Belgium, Netherlands, Great Britain, Denmark, Poland and central Russia; In September and October, Scotland, Sweden, Norway and north of Russia; In November, Peru and South Africa, and In December, Burma and New South Wales. The Bumble Bee. The following bit of natural history written by Col. Isaac W. Brown, the famous "Bird and Bee man," appeared In a recent number of the Bible Rec ord. I have been very much Interested this summer In noting that at all the Chautauqua schools great interest in nature study has been manifest Many lecturers have given the stinged Insects much credit for the work they do In making life better and easier for the human race. The lecturers easily proved that the bumble bee was that friend, but did not have time to speak of the home life of that bee. I write this little story, therefore, with the thought that n;any people beginning to realize that creature's vast Importance In the economy of na ture (the thoughts of God) will desire to have his presence and aid. Many a colony of bumble bees has been burned In Its homes by people who had no Idea they were destroying their friends. There are not one tenth as ninny bumble bees In the ag ricultural districts as there were In my boyhood days. More is the pity, for twenty-five years from now colon ies of bumble bees will be valued at from twenty-five to fifty dollars each In agricultural and horticultural dis tricts, i The female bumble lives from two to five years and has her stinger to protect her in fighting life's battles. The male has no stinger because he has no battles to fight. He Is born In June, lives In luxurious life amongst the flowers until frost time. He Is then married, and always goes from his wedding trip to his grave. His widow goes Into a dormant condition, usually one or two Inches below the family home and so remains until the following spring. The usual number of female bees so hibernating in a home is about ten to seventeen. Her hope Is that she may have sufficient strength in the spring to reach the lit tle cups of stored honey above her head, and feasting thereon for two or three days, go out Into the world and mane n new home for herself and her children to be. The time will come when those homes will be provided during the winter time and placed In proper po sitions for the widow's use. We are now using old felt hats torn Into shreds, and other soft material, for filling bumble bee boxes. We use that kind of material for the reason that the bumble bee first makes but one cell and likes to make that sur rounded by very soft material, so that as she makes the other cells she may easily make room in her nest. The boxes are made eight Inches high and one foot square, out of old well worn lumber. The entrance holes are made one-fourth of an Inch In diam eter, large enough for the bees, but too small for other animals. The box es are just put carelessly along the fences of clover fields and orchards. ',' Puzzle for Children. A man has two hobbles. On one he spends $22,000 annually and the other costs him $600 each year. One is air cooled and the other Is iaturally cool. He takes one out nights and the other goes out alone. One has but one sparker and the other has several. He cranks one and the other Is self cranky. Both are Inconsistent and exceedingly unreliable. Which of the two hobbles Is the man's wife and which Is his automobile Puck. Germany produces more honey than any other European country, furnish ing 20,000 tons annually. New York Cltv. The nirunle nlain hlrt waist has its own acknowledged place, and Is never to be superseded, no matter how many fancy ones we may possess. This one Is admirably Well suited to washable materials, to silk and to flannel and can be made with the full length or the three quarter sleeves. In the illustration white madras is the material shown, bnt pongee is well liked and among washable materials Is to be found a generous variety. Madras alone is offered In a great many lovely de signs, and linens are both desirable to wear and so durable that they are to be commended from the economi cal point of view as well as that of fashion. The waist Is made with fronts and back. The fronts are simply pleated at the neck edge and are finished with the regulation box pleat. The long sleeves are In shirt waist style, finished with straight cuffs that are buttoned over Into place, but the el bow sleeves are finished with wide bands. A neck band finishes the neck and any collar preferred can be worn over It The quantity of material required for the medium size Is four yards twenty-one, three and one-half yards twenty-seven or two yards forty-four Inches wide. Butterflies in Hats. Real butterftes dead, of course as hat decorations are the latest nov elty Introduced by a well known Lon don Arm. The large "electric blue" butterflies from South America, cost ing seven shillings sixpence each, look charming In a hat of blue flowers or plumes, and meadow brown butter files, which are practically valueless, look very pretty in a hat of brown straw. These butterflies retain their color for years, and If properly treated will not decay. Skirts Mast Cling. Skirts will be clinging, that Is to say, the skirts worn for visiting, re ceptions and other ceremonies, not the walking skirt, which continues to be full round the hem. Velvets For Visiting. - Fancy velvets will evidently be much to the fore for nandsome visit ing gowns. Some of the velvets pro duce a watered effect, others are faintly striped. Sleeves and Gown Differ. What may be, with skilful treat ment, a pretty fashion that of mak ing the sleeves of an evening gown different in color and fabric from the rest of the dress has been revived. In the case of a recently made even ing toilet, black gauze sleeves were allied to a white gown, with an out line of black upon the decolletage to connect the sleeves, as It were. Blouse With Bretelles. No prettier variation of the ever useful blouse has yet appeared than this one. It gives the broad shoulder effect, it is so constructed as to con ceal the armhole seams, and is alto gether graceful and attractive, while It Is adapted to a whole host of ma terials. In the illustration plaid taf feta is trimmed with frills of ribbon, but the walsting flannels are very beautiful this season, and suit the model admirably well, while It Is also adapted to madras and linen. It can be made with or without the frills and with pretty three-quarter sleeves or those that extend to the wrists, as may be liked, so that it provides a generous variety. The waist Is made with fronts and back and with the bretelles that are tttached beneath theoutermost tucks. There Is a regulation box pleat at the front and the neck can be finished with a band and worn with a separ ate collar or with a stock as liked. The sleeves are moderately full and can be either gathered Into bands for the three-quarter length or Into deep cuffs for the full length. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is four and seven eighth yards twenty-one, four and one-quarter yards twenty-seven or two and one-quarter yards forty-four inches wide, with ten yards of ribbon for the frills to trim as illustrated. Colors In Rough Materials. The rough materials show mixtures : of brown with black and green, and . frequently a thread of purple. Interlaced Letters. Interlaced letters for marking a bride's belongings are more desirable than monograms. Elastic Belt Novelty. - The elastic belt. Imitating pompa dour ribbon, la a novelty.
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