0 |3® JAU® T j^ The M&irtwaiHt* for Summer. Already the coolest of shirtwaists are in the windows of tho large shops and give evidence that the coming summer will be a carnival of gauzy exquisiteness. Guimpes of white or gandy, with colored batiste or lawn, delicate embroideries in artistic de signs, tucks and insertions, bolero ef fects and simple shirtwaists are shown in a variety of color and fashion that is positively bewildering. For whole gowns there are the daintiest mulls , and silk mousselines, as well as fine wash fabrics almost as sheer and deli cate. Tiling. Women .should Know. Fortunately she can be just as dain ty, pretty and altogether feminine •*" while knowing the principles of design ing, building, plumbing, ventilating, heating, lighting and protecting from dampness the home, the making of fires, the disposing of garbage, disin fecting of rooms, and general hygienic I and sanitary requirements, as she could be were her whole mission in life to look pretty. That a few wideawake, practical women have taken a stand against dark houses is evidenced by the better provisions for good lighting that may be noted in a large number of the newly built city houses and flats. When sucn protests become far reaching enough to make the renting of dark houses difficult, then they will disappear completely and forever.— Ella Morris Kretschmar, in the Wom an's Home Companion. f A Cure for Tired Nerves. A lady's fingers are much cleverer than the hired man's to prick out deli cate seedlings, to bud roses or graft trees, and skilful to practise all the delicate arts of propagating plants. It is surprisingly easy to raise a large stock of perennials and shrubs, to pro duce rose bushes, to multiply anything of which the smallest scrap or seed can be procured. Work of this kind has a specially soothing charm for tired nerves and equals the most per fect rest cure. It will not injure the finest lady to prepare potting compost, to hoo or rake among her plants, to spread among them the beneficial mulch by which the hired man would probably kill many of them when roughly shovelling it against the stems. Only a lady knows how to tend . the young rose shoots and exter minate the marauding grub or green * fly. Some very great ladies in Eng land will not trust a gardener among their flowers or even to train fruit trees or nail up climbing roses.—Anna Lea Merritt, in "New" Lippincott. I.iiying flat lier*. Laying gathers is a time honored operation as irritating and nerve-wear ing as it is necessary. Since learning to accomplish the same result in a far easier way, the present writer has taught the knack to several friends and all, without exception, are enthu siastic. Use a long, strong needle; that is, a coarser one than you would ordinarily use for the work in hand. Gather the needle full, keeping the thimble finger at the eye of the needle, so that no stitches escape onto the thread. When you can force on no more cloth, still holding the thimble in place, with the thumb and first finger hold the gathers firmly onto tho needle at the point end. With the left thumb and first and second fingers, pull the ' gathers, two or three at a time, straight down from the needle with a swinging motion, sliding the fingers under the material and pulling down with the thumb, beginning at the left and work ing toward the right. When the work is slipped onto the thread, it will be as flat as if each gather had been pain fully "scratched" into place. The two processes are practically accomplished in one, and after a few trials and with a little patience, you will never go back to the "good old way."—-Good Housekeeping. New Pelt, for Spring. The new leather belts are almost universally of round form, and make no concession to the advocates of the "dip" front. Tne prettiest have rows of stitching that cause the outer sur face of the belt to be slightly corru gated. Leather and velvet are also L ~ combined, the latter laid in a single band in the fientre of the wider leather belt, and stitched on both edges. Two * or three rows of narrow velvet are banded in similar manner on belts that *. measure one and a half inches wide. * Frequently the ends of the velvet rib bon are continued to varying lengths beyond the end of the belt, and are tipped with long gilt "spikes." The most novel of such belts are finished with a gilt drop or spike. Whether few or many of these strands are shown, their length is from 15 to 20 inches. The same idea of drop trimming, but carried out in ribbon, is also applied to stock collars, that are finished with full rosettes, and from five to seven pendent strands. [These pretty ornaments are known as L'Aiglon, and though a prominent feat ure of the shops for a month or more, their possibilities are still being devel oped with a view to combining the ro settes or pompons with the light wool spring gowns.—Harper's Bazar. 'i Correct Poatnre Plecp. 1 Tho correct posture for sleep is to 1 lio on tho right side with the limbs stretched out to Ihelr full length, and the arms either straight down by ths body or in any comfortable position, provided they are not raised above the head; the mouth should be closed, and all the muscles of the body should be relaxed. The lungs work with greater delib eration during the hours of sleep, and if the arms are raised above the head at this time and for any period the ac tion of the heart drives the blood away from the arms and sends it to the head, frequently making one very rest less when it does not prevent sleep entirely. As all fpod enters the stomach at the left side, passing out at the right, the necessity for lying on the right side when sleeping is obvious. Again, the heart is on the left side of the body and during sleep it should be as free from pressure as during the waking hours; this is best obtained by reclining on the right side. Do not sleep flat on your back; sleep ing in this posture causes the muscles of the throat to relax and the jaw to drop. In this position one not only snores but also invites the coming of wrinkles, and as the neck shows age quite as soon as the face this posture should be faithfully guarded against.— American Queen. Tile New Flat Collarn. The fashionable French dressmaker is trying to force the flat collar, rea sonably arguing that it is the proper companion of the 18C0 sleeve. An ex tremely ingratiating model of the new est Parisian neck decoration is shown in stitched taffeta over which a flat circlet of ribbon threaded lace is laid. For such a collar a many looped knot of ribbons or a quaint cameo brooch is tho proper finish. Quite the nearest approach to the flat collar we have reached on this side is a graceful rolling lace neck band, which does not rise very high under cars and chin, and is shaped in front in two long points finished with tassels of white silk floss falling from tittle balls of gilt. This and the afore mentioned type of collar are destined to play a prominent part in the com pletion of the foulards and sweet sum mer cloths already making springtime in the show windows. Our American spring and summer and the pretty round throats of our women are persuasive agents in the popularization of the low and easy neck finish. For the present, however, high and ornamental stocks and scarfs have the field to themselves. Only the extremely fashionable women who Haunt their new plumage well in ad vance of every season are swathing their throats in stitched chokers of white satin with wing hacks of a con trasting shade of panne. All the nar row string ties of satin clasping the base of the choker in front display jeweled ferrets on their ends. Such a modish little stock in white, mouse ■rray, gilt and sapphire blue is illus trated in the group along with a pow erful rival in black and peach pink -atin. The black satin top shows a delicate vermieeui pattern of gold thread and the lower tightly drawn pink satin half is drawn about the stock twice, fastened with smart little gilt pins in front, and. after tying in a four-in-hand bow, lets fall two broad ends, fringed and embroidered in gift.—Washington Star. ffoßW©#AMfs(s?r Silk flannel is a pretty material for shirtwaists. Braid will be used on many of the new spring gowns. Corduroy jackets worn with cloth skirts are very stylish, especially tne black or brown corduroy. The new silk gingham waists made with vest, tie and broad sailor collar of a solid color look well and other cot ton materials are made up with vest and revers of white pique. A flat tulle hat in delicate ewu is trimmed in front with a single big pink poppy. A pink tulle has a creamy yellow rose for its sole adornment, and a black one is decorated with an im possible but lovely blue rose. The latest Parisian fancy is a black stock of mousseline de soie, decorated with slanting lines of Roman pearl and fastened at the left side in a fluffy butterfly bow. This is worn with even ing dress, and is regarded as tremen dously chic. Panne cloth is a lovely material for shirtwaists to be worn at this season, it comes in all shades, and has a sheen like that of panne velvet, but with the warmth of flannel. Big gold buttons are generally used on shirtwaists made of panne cloth. Gold tags for finishing neck ribbons or streamers increase in popularity. The spikes are varied in style and many new shapes are shown in flat tags. Some are pointed, others square, and a few nave decorations of colored beads or bits of enamel. Some short petticoats are made with a single front breadth of ordinary width and four narrow gores on either side, each finished with a point at the lower edge. The handkerchief ruffles are to be seen on the long skirts, which are a mass of ruffles upon ruffles. Very pretty is a dark green flannel waist made with a vest of white flan nel finely tucked, and on either side of the vest tne green is cut out in fancy shape and stitched with darli green silk. A very light gray with s white vest made in this same way i. very dainty. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Good morals make the best manners. Deed.; are the only measures of our days. A man must be greater than hia work. It is easy to recover from another man s adversity. Greatness is not in being lifted up but in growing up. You cannot do right unless you are willing to suffer wrong. There is no fertilizer that will make oranges grow on chokeeherry trees. They who live on public opinion will probably die of popular opprobrium. He who is crowned by his conscience cares not if he is condemned by the crowd. It is often impossible to both ap pease the conscience and to please the crowd. The man who places the highest things first will be the first to get the highest place. The spendthrift who is always spending upon himself is as selfi3h and mean as the miser. Every man bears his own burden but not every one has the blessing of bear ing another's.-—Ram's Horn. A HUMAN FOREST. How Indian 7rlbe*men Succeed in Ks caping tlie Police. Some of the Indian tribes over which we rule give us a great deal of trouble notably the Mahsuds, though it is pleasing to learn from a recent Bom bay telegram that they are at last be ing brought to something like order, and are paying the fine lately imposed upon tliem, as well as agreeing to cease their ruiils. The Mahsuds, however, are not by any means the worst of the Indian robber tribes, that unenviable distinc tion probably falling to the Bhils, who are the cleverest scoundrels in the world, both in their methods of ac quiring other people's property and in evading pursuit. They are very proud of their skill In pilfering, and openly boast of it. One of them once told a British offi cer that he could steal the" blanket from under him, and was promptly challenged to show his ability. That night, when the officer was fast asleep the Bhil robber cut a hole in his tent, crept noiselessly in and gently tickled the hands and feet of the sleeping man. The officer stirred uneasily arid turned over. In this way the Bhil was able to pull the blanket out a little way. By repeating this performance lie finally succeeded in "coaxing' the blanket completely from under the sleeper. When engaged in his nefarious little games the Bhil wears hardly any cloth ing, and his lithe body is rubbed with oil, to facilitate escape from any would be captors. When hotly pursued by the British troops the robbers make use of a very clever device. They con ceal their scant clothing under their small round shields and scatter them about to resemble stones or boulders. Then picking up a few twigs—if there are any to be had —they assume a'l sorts of grotesque attitudes, their al most fleshlcss limbs silhouetted against the dark night sky closely resembling the charred limbs of a tree. Abso lutely motionless they hold their posi tions till the enemy has passed them. In this way a British subaltern, in charge of a party sent to capture some Bhils, was considerably startled one evening. The pursuit had completely lost sight of the robbers, and finally the party drew rein by a clump of gnarled and bent tree trunks, tired and hot from their hard exertions. Ths officer in charge took off his hat and placed it on the end of a broken limb, when instantly there was a wild scream of laughter and the trees trunks sud denly came to life and vanished in the darkness. —London Express. Cnuglit a Queer Mali. A curious fish,, which is said to be unknown in these waters, was captured by Foreman Henry Wagner at the Co lumbian Iron works. The fish was seen swimming in the dock and its pe culiar motions attracted the attention of the foreman, who lost no time in catching it. The fish is about 12 inches long and of a dark grayish color. The mouth strongly resembles that of a shark and on Its head is a small bump which some of the watermen at the works declare Is the "bump of knowl edge." On either side of the fish are two wings, one large and the other small, which were seen opening and shutting like a fan while the fish was in the water. Below the wings are four legs on either side, resembling those of a crawfish. On the back are large fins, tapering toward the tall. The flsli was immediately placed in a glass jar filled with alcohol, and was attentively ex amined by a number of men at the works, who had followed the water all their lives, but had never seen any thing like it.—Baltimore Sun. Churclien Gone Antrny. All over the kingdom are churches and chapels which have fallen from grace. The church in Hatton Garde?, where Edward Irving began his minis try, has long since been a chemist's warehouse, and tlie little chapel at Nottingham, in which William Carey preached the famous sermon which in augurated modern missions, is also a storehouse. A large Wesleyan chapel in North London is now occupied by a firm if brewers, and the famous Lu ther house in Germany is an inn. St. Giles' cathedral at Glasgow, consecrat ed to the memory of Jenny Gcddes, has ,bccn used at various times as a prison, a postoffice and a business exchange.— St. James's Gazette. POISON IN CLOTHING. Aalllne Dye* Constitute H Serious MenaM to Health. Bright colors are very fashionable now, happily for the spirits of those whose lot it is to inhabit cities as gloomy as London or Manchester are in December, and the smartest tints are those known as fondant or bonbon shades, pretty blues, soft pinks, deli cate purples and military reds. The strides chemistry has achieved during the past few decades make the produc tion of such colors easy and their cost inexpensive, but unfortunately it also makes adulteration easy, too. and the use of poisonous dyes is becoming all too common, says the London Mail. Anilines are very extensively used, and very little harm has been traced to fabrics so colored, while chrome yel lows containing lead, greens contain ing arsenic, and blue containing muri ate of soda, have been proved distinct ly deleterious. Aniline is largely used in coloring wall papers and window curtains with out bad effect, but a curious case has just been made public by the French Academie de Medecin relating to the injurious effects to aniline oil, which is used in yellow brown boot paste. Two children wearing these polished boots were poisoned and the evil was traced to the oil in the paste, which had grad ually soaked through the leather. Unluckily, there is no ready way of discriminating between dyes that are harmful and dyes that are not. Expe rience and consequences alone are a guarantee of their inocuous or baneful influences. Those who do art needle work with silks and colored threads should never bite off the end of their silk, nor suck it in order that it may thread easily through the needle's eye, for to those foolish, though excusable habits, cases of arsenical poisoning have been traced. In cases where there are abrasions or sores of any kind upon the limbs — for example, upon the shins or ankles —dyed hosiery should never be worn unless the broken skin is protected. Scarlet socks, however expensive, should never be worn until they have been thoroughly washed. All the clever chiropodists, after cut ting a corn or treating it with an acid, protect the place by means of a plas ter or lint before the patient puts his socks on again. Clothes, dresses and mantles also often reek with poison. Many people have been seriously ill af ter a fast walk, owing to the dye soak ing through to the armpits or other spots and entering the open pores of the skin. There is an immense amont of trickery accomplishel in the trade where indigo dyed goods are con cerned. Even worsted indigo, sold at 9s. 6d. a yard, has occasionally been found to be something else poisonous, having not a trace of pure indigo in it. The test for the discovery of pure in digo is as follows: Place a piece of cloth half an inch square on a saucer, plate, or in a porcelain basin, and drop two or three drops of strong ultric acid on it. If pure indigo is present, a bright yellow spot with a green rim is quickly developed. Caught at La*t. The mystery of Mooselookmaguntic's big salmon has at last been solved. So says the Lewlston Journal. For several seasons anglers who have wet their lines in Bugle Cove have come back to camp with tackle decidedly out of kilter, and with blood-stirring tales of the monster salmon that "rose" beneath a certain overhanging birch. The salmon took the hook and gave the anglers the battle of their lives— always breaking loose at the finish, however, taking with him everything not tied to the boat. It was always at the same birch where the fish rose, and the tactics he employed of sulk ing with a bulldog tenacity, refusing to be drawn to the surface, were al ways the same. The fame of this remarkable fish spread throughout the lake region, and anglers from the other lakes came down early and often to try their skill against him. They never failed to lo cate the salmon, but they never suc ceeded in landing him. It was esti mated that hundreds of dollars' worth of tackle, time and bait were wasted last summer in Bugle Cove. It is low water now in Mooselookma guntic lake, and the water, although low, is remarkably clear. Recently the landlady of one of the hotels in tho region, with her son, ran their boat on to an unmarked stump in Bugle Cove, directly beneath an overhanging birch. And from that stump they plucked 37 spoon-hooks, spinners and artificial flics! London'* Forblddon Gate*. There are two gates in London which it is an honor equal to the star of an order to be allowed to drive through. One is the gate in the arch of the Horse Guards and the other is that of tho Marble Arch. The Horse Guards' arch is guarded by a stalwart trooper, who stands in the way of any carriage that attempts to go through, and should the occupant not have the right to pass turns it back. The bish- j op of London, it may be remembered. ' was stopped once by a sentry, who did ' net know that his lordship is one of j the privileged persons. When there j is any disputed claim, if the occupant i of the vehicle who wishes to go through the arch has patience enough to wait he can remain until one of the high court officials has given his de cision according to immemorial cus tom. —London Telegraph. Slioro Llitlit*. Lighthouses and lightships dot the coast of Great Britain at the rate of one to every 11 miles. j A -woman is sick—some disease peculiar to her sex is fast developing in her system. She goes to her family physician and tells him a story, but not the whole story. | < She holds back something, loses her head, becomes agi tated, forgets what she wants to say', and finally conceals what she ought to have told, and this completely mystifies the doctor. Is it a wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to cure the disease ? Still we cannot blame the woman, for it is very em barrassing to detail some of the symptoms of her suffering, even to her family physician. This is tho reason why hundreds of thousands of women are now in corre spondence with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. To her they can give every symptom, so that when she is ready to advise them she is in possession of more facts from her correspondence with the patient than the physician oan possibly obtain through a personal interview. Following we publish a letter from a woman showing the result of a correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham. All such letters are considered absolutely confidential by Mrs. Pinkham, and are never published in any way or manner without the consent in writing of the patient; but hundreds of women are so grateful for tho health which Mrs. Pinkham and her medicine have been able to restore to them that they not only consent to publishing their letters, but write asking that this be done in order that other women who suffer may be benefited by their experience. Mrs. Ella Rice, Chelsea, Wis., writes: ! " DEAB MRS. PINKHAM :—For two year* I was troubled with falling and inflammation of the womb. 1 suffered very much with bearing-down pains, headache, backache, and was not able to do anything. Vv hat X endured no one knows but those who have suffered us I did. I could hardly drag myself across the floor. I doctored with the pliybicians of this town for three months and grew worse instead of better. My husband and friends wished me to write to you, but I had no faith in patent medi cines. At last I became so bad that I concluded to ask your advice. I received an answer at once advising me to take your Vegetable Compound, and I did so. Before I had taken two iKittlcs I felt better, and after I had taken live bottles there was no happier woman on earth, for I was well again. 1 know that your Vegetable Compound cured me, and 1 wish and advise every woman who suffers as I did to try Lydis E. Pinkham s \ oge table Compound. Believe me always grateful for tho recovery of my health."—Mus. KLLA RICK, Chulseu, Wis. •KEflfifl REWARD sSiSSEiSS iD 1 E3 *3 3 P y " w we are constantly publishing, wc have J fUI ii II de ß° Bil ed with the National City Rank, oM.ynn, Within the last twenty years freight rates from and to England have decreased from fifty to seventy-live per cent. Drugs havo their uso, but don't store them In your stomach. Beeman's Pepsin Gum aids nature to perform its functions. Switzerland lias 125 schools for girls. Domestic science and gardening are among the branches taught. | Beware of Them f X There are two afflictions which § V perhaps give the most paiu V g and trouble, viz: V Sciatica K and Lumbago x Both disable and cripple, y g but V | St. Jacobs Oil I g is their best cure. g £ g SKH3 000 W WO CHS 0 T0 0 <! WOO 00 DONT GET WET! . THE ORIGINAL CUOTMING Keep You Dsy V _ IN THE. Wettest Weather TAKE NO :ÜBSnnrrEJ. LOOK TOR ABOVE TRADE NARK. CATALOGUES TREE Showing full Line of Garments and Hots A.J.TWE3 CO..&OSTON.MAS3. V'; v Le!Thompson's Eve Water Humor of the Rockies. High up on the Laramie range there is a little station called Sherman—a mere watering place for trains 011 the Union Pacific railway. Near by it is a gigantic pyramid of stone, GO feet high and GO feet square at the base, which was set up by the railway as a monument to Oakes Aimes and Oli ver A hues. In the later eighties there arrived at Sherman a shabby person of melan choly aspect, who put up a "shack" Western for shanty not far from the monument. Ostensibly he was pros pecting, and lie continued to prospect for three years without accomplishing any results, so far as could be observ ed. At the end of that period the man agement of the Union Pacific received from him a communication demanding the immediate removal of the monu ment from iiio premises, which he claimed as his under the homestead law. The matter was regarded in a hu morous light at first, but subsequent proceedings developed the fact that the squatter had what lawyers call a "case." The stranger, it seems, had located ou a section of land which did not belong to the Union Pacific—the same section on which the monument had, by an inadvertence, been placed, lie knew very well what lie was about, and the upshot of the affair was that the railway had to pay .So,ooo for the squatter's tract in order to make its title good.—Saturday Evening Post. From Russia (northern ports) im printed paper is Imported into Great Britain to the annual value of over 70,000 pounds. Wood pulp boards are also received in fairly large quantities from Russia. There is au asparagus farm of 206 acres near Ghnrlestown, s. c. Th€ proprietor is reported to be coining money. The Columbia ice-field in the Cana dian Rocky Mountains covers an area of at least 100 square miles. When taken according to directions the Garfield Headache Powders aro guaranteed to euro quickly oven very severe headaches. It is unusual to find a remedy so effective und harmless. 4 powders, 10c.; 12 for 25c. Most girls who arc engaged wonder why men in real life don't make love as they do in novels. Pfea-llot-Ico-Tfln Cure* Dysprpiia, Constipation and Biliousness. A guaranteed remedy. Made from roots and herbs. By mail, 25c. Neurotico Medicine Co.,HornellßviHo,N.Y. Rome musio is well executed, while other music is siraulv butchered.
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