-1 as slim as possible a the hips and
£- {a8 far down as the knees, where your
inl} skirt may begin to flare.
dress clusters of pl
} are tucked in behind)
Tn APbrotriatels. called
ang Bot Jufeequendly
ily leaf. as It Is also termed, Is too
Attractive to be overlooked and it in|
1 extremely smart in combination with
panion.
New Tints of the Moment. :
windows, ‘But comparatively
cepted to some extent for evening
EOWDSR.
A delicate tint of lettnes green of
{a bright dahlia or parma violet tint
| Both the pink 80d the red coral tomes |
are fashionable, and a very greeaish |
3 | turquoise Is employed ss a relief col
The Are of Retiring.
A graceful exit from a drawing
ces- | Toom has Always been an art. Theres |
e118 8 good oid rule In letter writing
about saying what yon have to say |
5- | and stopping when it is done, yet there
8 | are people who always Jeave the Im.
portant part of a mote for the post
It is sald that women are |
| worse than men in this respect, says
1 Woman's Life.
When the call " at An end, one who
ort s not from long habit secustomed fo
formal visiting should keep in sing
jthe point of Jeaving, and when sie
| bas said the last fhing she wishes to
| say, rise quickly snd easily and shake |
| bands with her hostess, makiog sone |
id pleasant remarks as she does so, and
+ go dizeetly out. an
Cars of the Complexion.
New ideas as to tha care of the
| hands and the care of the completion
will always find some persons walting |
| to receive them. Those who try every.
se | thing from milk baths sn are now ad-
d | vocating parsley water as a complex:
«| lon tmprover,
In the morn
fng the face is well robbed with a dry
Al cioth and the parsley water is ther
sk- | applied with a sponge, no farther pro
jress of drying taking place.
To give
3d | the parsley water a real trisl it must
| be thus applied three times dally. To
+} the dainty woman, there Is something |
the | still left to be desired on the point of |
3 jSlesiiaess Wn 41) Sh.
Bracelets In Fashion,
Bracelets have come in fashion
t again, as the result of the elbow
pins | length sleeve, and many are studded
le with beautiful Jewels,
some of the latest novelties are white
18 | velvet leaves Shading to black at he
fups
The Eo nse of tiny buttons
re | for ornament. as well as service, Las
t | termed by some persons a “freak.”
is made of leather tinted to resemble
0 | led designers to finish many fancy sel
t- | lars with rows of diminative bait
| io silk or metal,
A new effect in bat crowns has been
It
marble, and fastened to the straw
briny by a colored ribbon.
Lace collars and caffe, which give a
_ preity finish to apy waist, now come
‘lin seta, consisting vsuslly of a high
ft neck collar, a sallor or roand shaped
{ collar and wide cuffs to match
Among the newest effects in em:
. | broideries are those obtained Ly silk
‘on sheer materials.
the washable variety, and adapted for |
jaressy gowns, separmie skirts or
These are sll of
i separated as much se possible, and
i pray thoroughly with formaldehyde. |
1f the binding is very delicate and like.
formaldehyde. Stand the book apright
{as described and close the box, leaving
Siirta must |
x xeoptions to a
1 brn business and outing skirts, which
ex, must be short all around. and the elab
i orate frock, which may be
3 longer In the hack. Shoulders rust
r| be broad and drooping. The shoulder. |
r | seams are cut Jong, and collarefies and
{ other bodice garniture droop far over |
the slesves Woman's Home Com-
{ OTR
‘meh
Bots A lower vase of the satis style
as the taller. with the rama Sowers
Red tonex are conspirpous In the | must be alike
few |
smart women affect this color. and it
is more generally worn by young girls |
t{ and children. Every effort ix made to
revive green as a fashionabie color,
| but very Htile will be worn In c¢loth |
| and woolen fabrics, although it is ac
{God Housekeeping.
fon,
Bone of the smartest
oriog to violet and mulberry hows |
: Washington Star,
tive, has transformed it, to its great
{ improvement, by Jetting in a mirrer |
is opposite the parior door. and the
Ball to its much better lighting, while
the apparent size of the fitile Have is
{ greatly increased.
1 tween cornice and baseboard and Sn.
log that seems a part of the wood:
blank streteh of wall that seems 8
A large bunch of pars |
{ley Is put to soak in ope-Balf pint of
| rainwater over night.
the effect of a hotel corridor or publie |
ball; but Judicionsly used under the |
| and a tablespoonful of anchovy paste:
of the paste over the toast and pour
toast.
powder. Mix with jes water, roll out
te] A mew veiling ta the “scroll effect”
fou a bairline mesh. Between the
1 scrolls there are black dots of sil
or chenille.
Black and white are among the fa ]
+ | vorite trimmings for spring Lats, sod
and #11 with fresh blackberries;
{ white tarnips; put then aver the fire
in two pints of boiling water; add one
are
were boiled: season with sal:
Teen tomatoes and ul
| matoes two quarts of wa
bounds of light brown
of clove, one of allspice, two of pimat
ard, two of cinnamon and ope tables
5 | sponntul cayenne, or, better still, one
. fare tender.
I you have an or
with a forty per cen solution of for.
maldehyde. Stand the books npright
on the end wide open with the leaves
Iy to be injured by the moisture pro
sure a tight tin box large enough fo |
Bold the book aod a sancer 80d with
it for an Bour at feast. It fw eal that |
i one cubic centimetre of formaldebrde |
to three hundred euble centimetres of .
space will thoroughly disinfect any |
book in Bfteen minntes — Ladies Home |
Journal,
Correet Dining Table Decorations.
“A florist told me the other day that
a welbadorned dining table no longer
exhibits a great centrepiece of flow
square, calls for a tall, silm vase with
A few chotew
stemmed flowers ia the centre of the
dally.
Instead, the emiwpidery dolly, 3
‘which 76 be ap to date is Jarge and |
TORAE Or Bote fal |
At each corner of the dolly |
in i. Sometimes the vases are low |
and bold violets or orchids, but they |
This Boriet pradicts |
for spring and early summer table
decoration 4 grest profusion of Hy of |
the valley, which Onecd Alexandra |
Bag cloven aa thy coronation Sewer.
Tdentizad Phitows,
The newest and moat beautiful cust
fon covers are made of gathered obits |
The chiffon is mo drawn as 0
look lke flakes of foam, and very full
gundraple Sovnses are sod at the sige.
To shape a cushion like a heart is to |
invest Jt with 8 new appesrapce
even have
wrenths of tiny roses or forget-me
Bots at the base of the flounces
In the big shops embroidery motifs
are sold, made of lace, at a few ronts
or dollars, acedrding to thelr viine, 8
doren. These appliqued upon clear
muslin make pretty sofa cushions
while ethers. of course, can be gsed |
Tor collars and dainty lingerie, and
look Doth smart and pretty. New
York Comuaereial Advertiser.
To Improve a - Bath Hall.
A womsn who bas loag found the |
sarrow Ball of her Bouse dare and AL.
ficnit to treat in &3F way that made
the entrance to the residence attrac
from floor to ertling on one side. This
Hght from that aperiment falling on |
the mirror. Is reflected hack into the
The mirror is. of
coarse, unframed. and is tied In be
ished ag the sides with a flat mould.
work. The value of this treatment is
Bit realised until it ls tried. Often a
bBopeless shutting in of apace mar of
fer the transforming opportunity.
Care most be taken not a overdo the
treatment in sueh a WAY #8 to create
care of a good architect the plan is
to be commended. sid Bazar,
Ancliory Tosst-The French mode |
of preparing anchovy toas: Is as fal
lows: Melt an ounce of butter tn a pan
thin it out a litle with hot was ter,
add the juice of a lemon: pour over |
the toast and serve. A better way of
preparing it Is to spread a thin Layer
over it the milk prepared as for nile
Blackberry Tart—-A plain
paste ’
made with butter or cream and a Hirde
baking powder Is much better for frauds |
| ples than the finest puff paste ever!
made. Use one-third enp of butter ts
one and one-quarter cups of fogs and
ane-half level teaspoonful of baking
th Bt a perforated rin pie pls
fe and
build up the edges slightly.
Bake,
sprinkle generously with powdered
sugar and cover with witipped cream.
Turnip Soup—Perl and slice six
slice of onion; cook until
tender; mab them
strainer into the water
the turnips
through a
in which they
MEIER
celery salt: melt two level er go
fals of butter: add twa level rabie
&goonfuls of four: stir this into the
belling water and arir until thickemd:
nt cool Bve mingtes then add one cup-
fol of milk
Bweet Tomato Pickle—One peck of |
X large onions,
sliced. Sprinkle with oce o sptul of |
salt. and let them stand aver night
In the morning drain. Add to the to-
: ter and one
of vinegar. Boll fifteen Bunwtes, then
drain agzin sand throw the vi inegar apd’
water Away. Add te the plokle twa
sugar, twa
guaris of visegar. two tablespnoniole |
green pepper cut into fnch pieces, Boi
fifteen minutes, or unt the tomatoes
Oi pi eM AE
The advertising man may pot le
Superstitions but be believes in signa.
iwith your eyes?
RY Howitt-"%
| Jowutt"1 neat rag said you hal
lost your pocketieocic”~The Rpmrt
CMY A 3 Drv
work.”
be a handicsn
: hen,
wih bored Hel
skne® Iostess "0,
Bondaess, We Lavy Low ellora"~Tite
skin doctor.
ove all tar cuticle from Ler
Cie time of the tragedy, aad
In aD an we sondd ot
Wateliin' ‘em an’ never fret
Think’ there was somethin’ we
% 1 :
Wares 10 12 fe To
Employer “What sn you pling
por tine away for? Clerk "mm nor;
ITs your time —Chicays News.
Ehe always npeiy Ww
Fatih wile w5 gored
Math Pia Cine erase 2. Fim
P meeline, that foe feathers don't maka
a fime bird”
ma bat they do male awfully petty
: | bata "—TIt-Bits
Pangites-"Troe. mam.
She Teacher "Without mastering
| wultipfieation we eanid nH go Any
| forther In arithmety One of he
Poplls—"Gee! Wonldi't thst be a
| clach TM —Pock.
Father-"What is tie vse of oy
. earning mosey, $f yon soend it as fast
an] make £7 Bon-Thars all right,
1 etijoy it just as much as
i you do makiag i PeErelins Life.
father.
Blothe—~~1 shail lave to wear
glasses” Elobbs “Ars you tromblsd
“Blohbe- "Wis
did you think I wae goice wear
thers for ~ malo” PP) iadelphia
"You sre indeed mie tresaure,”
3 X ud to bor. :
flewitt—"T've low rs
Jewett—"Why don’t Fou advertise for
raat Jo you mean?’
of
*1 sunpose your had ts ainly anal
wary at your ont
THoelly. Why,
My Lusioess is to
draw fash Bate Gomes ~Chlcage
Visftor--"Tom have a hesutifol place
bot doesn’t ond lesome very
13 the oouniry
rol Tourn
Bits
Mrs. Nexdere"3y dapciter. yen
| know, Is quite 3 lover of susie” Mrs,
Newsorsh Depprey "You don’t sar?
Then that constant Craniming en the
piano ia yotr house rust astey her
dreadfully *_ Philadelphia Press.
“Nea” sald the head of the Srm. | ; : :
In the evening I dropped in upon the
"Miss Addie 8 3 good bookkeeper,
hut abe piakes some queer mistakes ™
“What, for instance” asked the silent
partner,
‘running
expeuses.” ” - Philadelphia
pretty Big BE for the treaipient yoo
Lave given my danghrer”
dificult treaiment”
“Nou ser
explained the
we had ta re
cheeks
and grant 2 new opideruds apon
tg for Ris check-Dook,
which cove of us yan skinned
ost.” Baltimore American,
The Lincoln Nattoral Masses.
The Lincoln Museuis is now dom
eile] In the house io which Abraham
Liacoln died, No. 514 Tonih street
Northwest, between BF and FF streeis,
Shee opposite the belldiag which
Ford's Theatre, where he was
ahr a few mduutes pust 10 on the night
of April HH 1805
ae
cipal thoroughfares of Washington, we
soe on the north side of the high eps
fastened to the fron railing. a sign,
which Informs us that “Abrabiam Lin.
coin died in this bBeuse, twenty-two
micgtes past T a. April 15 180
The house ix a nuslest threestory any
4
Bly
basement brick edifice, and was owned |
and oecupled by Wiliam Peterson at
bin family
then conducted a lodging house here
It was one of his lelgers who opon
hearing the copunotion In the street
#iter the abooting hal ccenrred wad
the assassin bad escaped rushed to
the door and seeing the stricken Pres.
dent being brought soross the street,
directed the carriers to bring bin ut
the Bouse of which 4s was an own
punt Dir. Thomas Calver, io the Wot
an's Hes Companion.
A A
a Man Whe Wanows,
Donglas, the shoe man, whan spends
mere than $100,000 4 year for Dewspaper
advertining, makes tals afirmation:
|“ Xay man who has an article of merit
or any man who has a bhuasis Juss na
good location who will advertise and |
keep vp sdvertisiny is Boond 10 more
than get his mosey lmek and to be
come successiul and wealthy. TH
Seiphis Record.
remarked
fnusre between {lw
“One of them, an olaims serond-
slory man who'd dove Sits in all the
ig mills of the coun’ry. camo pretty |
tear throwing me with & spin lke |
{ that about fourtien years ago
tagged him a couple of times and got}
{lsrough.
made my last anh. You kuow how
that would |
that 3
"Well, she ®itérs our tes}
senger boy's wages under the head of |
tsar minutes
‘Bad a dish of tes and want away with
“This” sald the ford father to the #® teenchy lump la my throat and
dematologieal expert, “seers ta be a
“It was a
“Well,” said the father, reach.
“1 doa't know
Appreaching this
honse from F street, one of the prin.
suspect Lim,
8 brace, and not many of them do if,
but that's not the fanit of the pelle”
an old-time Blesdijvariery
man who teed to he one of the Byrues
afl. “The polio are gisd to we 3
{ crook take um hitch to the right side
and stay so. but they've found out
from long experiences that there are
few of them who muily do that thing. |
“When a man has got hold of bon
dies of easy money a few times, with 2
oot doing a Jek for it, be isn’t much
good any more. The revollection of |
it abways stays with Bim. The cley-
erer they gre the more lable they are
to stay with thelr favorite guide
“Whenever 1 henr of a finlshed and
graduated lag giving it out that v's
{bm for a merry and a litle fiat and |
a trip with the tiunily erery Sunday
morning to the litte church aroand
the corper, I hope W's true. but is
beets trae in es Tew css since Tre
been paddling around with a badge
| stowsl away bedeallh my otter clothes
moa tle Bi inclined > Pabber
that I'm
to sed Hf the Toy n't working up
i his Tittle setfie-down for the purpose
gf siving Mulberry street the cayenne
CFE,
I'd
Mm, and when Be cate back with
hig hatr short the ast tivse Be oked
he up aod banded me ole smnething
ile this:
“10x me to join the whitiew Tm
I'm torough right. Tee
long I's aad me down. 1 just thought
Td come over asd ted] you, asd tell
the Chief, so's you'd Kkoow.
forty specker and Ul thepk you'
“Well, there wus something in the
Mort o down way this old lag had
shout bing when he pushed thin one
aver to me that It got me just a lest
Hit xroand the seck, for a fact. | took
His In to the Chief
“Well, you could pever tell what Ow
(hlet though, otis way or the other,
aod when the old-timer passed him
slow killing over here and
1 830.000 aid away In 2 number of
Jem bunks that there wasn't any
{on coming out of the eweat-box, |
Tm
#oing to get a Job in Brooklyn, and
t If you ever hear of me being with
the fash push apnin, neil ne for a
fe wat gag to do To of
i of & lot of people.
mike Life in Order to Pass Bad Chocks og "=
“It's pretyy Band for a log fo take
“Bur, assay be was laying §
checks down
cumulating the coin 45 a
stake
"2%
Xp
281;
£5:
and had the iden of making §
it
train to the old country to
bands on (his side the quiet
“He operated for those two
oh an tars tad Amalie #
manger, putting thets over
i
i
dreds F got
dead o Tights Be Bad an rah
it
nit
“He hadn't Ned a single Bigh ot
or Blowout out of the: tricks fie ME
turned, snl If ever YOU SAW § savage
Th Then he Tateneg Dis Ses up
HE
wax the individual Se
“Nine yours was the bit he got
of bis Hite eada-oew- life stunt,
i
I
when bo got out be bad so moch lew
balr amd perve tha! be went fo
Wind, wheres they soak ‘em had |
swiping a whisk -broom or stepping o
alt
2 eockroacl's foot, and they swung bo
on bin with such force for & 3 may
Hite mntter of 40y ponnd tha
walking the endless roller up to
si
| present moment." —New York Sun.
fruit and voin. The bride's compart. ;
ments are finished in red triamings,
presents ate carried oo red trays the
bavpers borte in the procession sre
origioally crimson, which are bright.
ened by the rosy glow of the Ian
terns. The canopy itself is decorated
according to the wealth and the tute
of the bride's family. A poor WOmED
is carried to ber wedding feast in 8
plain chatr painted red. If the taxlly
has wealth ¢- rank the palsnquin
Yery ornate, decorated with drogon
heads. The Chivare Skil It Working
silk or gold cord is displayed
artistic manner. When the bride
pears she wears & red veld and t
letters fo her ancestors, whose
ng is lovoked are written on
the same Hpple IT bal ho means of SH
knowing whether it had stuck or not.
The ef simply old the 038 lag ©
drop in ouew I « while, ust for so-
tlabdiity’s sake, and the prosiise was |
made, and I dug into the kick and
tnded the vet & Tow louse anes that
i wore iavisy armaad, and wished him
nek,
“A month later, In a pest suit of
black clothes, this old second-story | +
man care ‘round. padd sie back those |
few dollars and invited me to visit!
His lodgings in Brooklyn. He said
that be had a Job ax truckomn for
i big wareheuss company -~which I
ifterwasy found out to De froe-and
Lis niece wis Reeplog house for
Im, a
“The next time I was in Brooklyn
oid lag and you never saw such 8 cute
Hittle dat, nor soch 3 nice. womanly.
like person—his slece, as be intro-
doeced her-presidiug ever It in your
That clinched me, I
when [ saw the Chief and all the
mest of the erowil the plugging I did
“for that old-timer was something big
ger in that line than ve cote Balore
ar since, a
“Well. that'll be about all of the soft
totes up around the E string, with
the mute on. Twa months later a
stool pigeon gave te the whisper that |
there was a pretty -sisinbie jewelry
‘fence’ running over fo Broodlyn In
8 certain district.
“The tip 1 passed on to the Brookiva
efftee without any suspicion of what
was going to bappea. What happened
was iat the Brooklyn offic wade a
swool upon the fore, and the swap
Rigpager thersof wag no lesy a smeoth
sake than the old lag who had been
the occasion of giving we the mel
Sows for thee Srst tine In a good many
years.
“He had passed up the second-stery
game, all right, hat be had rigged up
his fence with a wide business, and
Chis ‘niece’ was about as emery-papered
a piece of English female eroalidom
as vver had ber hair dipped short or
wore a burlap mcther bhubiird on
prison dress parade,
ihe ald devil Bad stack 1 his
teaister Jub for the perpose of Meep
ng up bis bind, asd he had asked me
to scatter the word around among the
peilce crowd that he was beoemly
and truly on the level I could see
the almost imperceptilile slow grin
‘under the Chiefs mustache when I
all came ong, and tHe things 1 dig
for many a mosh after that in thw
way of toesing pebbles at my fore
i bend conldy’t De ser down in a week,
“Theve was a check kiter in this
town ence-He's been pleking oakim
apd treading the lll In the English
Portland for many a long year gow
who did a reform stant with the
i oeonper on and with such sclenve ft
it took the office (Wo vers even
“When he cane back fram up the
river Be made the poor mouth that he |
wanted to lw lor alone--which wasn't
necessury--amnd got a job In a New
York insurance afice as a clerk. He
Can yellow paper; |
“werd; the noon edition, printed on
The fiovement o diy closing
of pahile bouses in England is ssvam-
ng a businesslike aspect. One of the
chief obtwtacles has Deen the compara
tive indifference of members of the Ans
glivan Church to the reform. This
should pow be greatly modified by
the warm advocacy of misuy of the
leading bishops, as well as of the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
The working classes are erroncoudy :
supposed to be hostile to the move.
ment. About a milion bouseboldets
have already been canvassed, the re
sult showing a majority of sevens &,
ote ip favor of Sunday closing. Even
more striking is the resalt of 8 canvass
of Afty-six workshops containing over
11.000 men, Of these, 10.000 declared
themselves In favor of Sunday closing,
with 1159 aguiost and 534 ventral. A
majority even of publicans have de
lared against the present CUSIGmie
Logdon Chistian,
Oldest Paper in the World,
I Bs generally believed that the
Tims, of London, and the Gazette de
France, of Paris, are the oldest papers
i existence, but this aprears to be 8°
mistake. The bonor belongs to the
Chiness, Who jossess 8 journal started
nearhy 100 years ago. [tx name is the
King Pab. I was founded says o
learned bibllopholist, Wi (Oa yesr MIL
of the Uhristian era.
ia 184 it mderwaont anather trans
formation, and appesred dally. It
costes a half penny amd sues three
editions. The mworsing edition, printed
is devoted to com
wills paper, contains official sos anid
miscellaneous news: while the evening
edition, printed on ed paper, is taken
up with political information and lead.
ng drilcles. It is edited hy six meme
ers of the Academy of Belence, and
the total sale of three editions is 34.
OR) eoples,
The Northern Spur of Mn
“1f England lu 1782 had stood apon
the siotto, "What we have we'll hold’
there would be now no Northwest An
gle. ‘But that is another story” In
these wards Mz. Ctto J. Kilotg, of Ot
tawa. concinded a paper read at the
Dutario Land Surveyors’ cenvention
desilag with the Northwest Angle,
Lake of the Woods, This Is a strip of
territory adincent to the Shoal Like
gold fields, which patarally would be
arg ty Manitoba or Ontario. but =
sealy beiwesn Great Britada and the
United States made It a part of what
WM new Minnesota, although it 8 en
tire'y separated hy water from the
Iatter Stake, Mr Klotz ia an interest
ing manner traced the history of the
dispute, and showed that the awand,
which originally was even less fale
to Canada, and which was afterward
of Dsbinimieriiey was the result of defee
tive maps.~ Toronto {Ont Globe,
Ireland has the highest average
number of children per family, 3.30
while France bas the lowest, 3.08,