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.