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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rome musio is well executed, while
other music is siraulv butchered.