J The Pearl uud Its Microbe. Women who are fortunate enough to possess pearls wear tliem constantly. In so doing it is said that they pre vent their being injured by a microbe which attacks them when they are laid away. This little parasite eats through the outer coating of the pearl, destroying its beautiful sheen and leaving only the dull substance un derneath. Glrln Take Naturally to Carpentry. A course of lectures on education was inaugurated the other day in Asso ciation hall by the committee on do mestic economy in the Woman's Edu cation association. Dr. John Dewey, professor of pedagogy in Chicago uni versity, was the speaker. In the course of his address he said: "The introduction of domestic econ omy in the schools is largely along the line of future service for girls, and is a wise innovation. In my experience boys are no more proficient in carpen try work than girls, and the same may be said of cooking in the elementary grades, for it is a child's nature to speculate on what's coming next, and cooking and carpentry offer good sub jects in that direction."—Boston Her ald. Chinese Sowing Women. In nearly all of the principal cities of China native sewing women are to be seen seated on low stools or per haps on the sidewalk, mending articles of masculine wearing apparel. The ac complishments of these street seam stresses are somewhat limited. Their efforts with the needle being confined as a rule to "running." Other branches of needlework are practically un known to them. As a consequence their efforts are better appreciated by natives than liy American or English travelers. They are never short of patrons among the Chinese tradesmen for these have come to the city to en gage in business and have no one to mend a rent for them, their wives being left at home, and they are glad to employ street needle women. For this class of customers the skill of these sewing women answers every purpose. Gulf Glovoh. Golf gloves are hard to find—that is just what one would wish. The heavy kid, with the holes in the back and in the palm to give ventilation, protect the hands very satisfactorily, as do also the gloves of wash leather. But there are some gloves made for golf or for driving that are made of a silk mesh, looking like the crochet or net ted work 011 the purses. These have kid palms, with hole 3 for ventilation. They are cool, wash well, and the kid on the palms protects the hands very satisfactorily. They are expensive and hard to find, but are exceedingly smaint for any one who wishes to carry out her fancy of wearing all white. Nothing looks better, for with a pique skirt the ordinary white kid glove of either glace or seude seems out of place, whereas these gloves look what they were designed to 100k —useful, and made for a certain purpose. The plain white chamois or wash leather serve the purpose when these special golf gloves are not to bo found. — Harper's Bazar.' A Housemaid's Club. The maid servants of Monette, Mo., known as the "Housemaids' Club" for the protection of their own interests. Whenever a member loses her place she brings the matter up before the club, stating her grievances. A vote is taken. If she is sustained the whole club set themselves to work to find her a new position. But the vote must he unanimous. If there Is any oppo sition she leaves the place at her own risk. The girls take pride in keeping up a good standard of work, but the following rules show how fully they look after their own interests: "1. No restriction Is to he placed up on t{ie number of callers that a girl is allowed to entertain. She must be per mitted to regulate her visiting list as the mistress regulates hers. "2. Every evening out, at the maid's pleasure, after 7.30. "3. No answering of the bell on wash days where there is only one ser vant in the house. "4. Every Sunday afternoon out. "Wages—Not less than $3.20 a week, with board and room. Smntitor Shirt waist*. The raglan shirtwaist is the newest with its sleeve carried up into the col lar. The latest sleeve is the easy-fit ting bishop with a straight, narrow, cuff lapped over in a point. A stylish and practical material is the striped Scotch madras in its new colorings, which show a great diver sity of choice. Other tailor fabrics are heavy white duck, or butcher's lin en. Among the preferred goods, ex cellent for washable waists are the figured cheviots, or those of plain col ors with contrasting borders, fancy pique or corded linen. Lovely dainty waists are created from the Inexhaustible variety of fine cotton textiles, exquisite in their dec oration of lace stripes and figures, em broidery, hemstltchings and shlrrings. Among the new imported summer cotton goods are silk-finished French chambrays, flowered and embroidered India mulls and faintly tinted niouj seline brtlliante. The season's shirtwaists are gener ally mat*? without yokes in order to preset :e fashion's, long lines from shoulder to belt. The fronts, finished with the usual box-plait, are laid in small tucks or plaits in the shoulder 3eam. Several varieties of sailor blouse have appeared with the regulation deep collar and shield. One form of collar is developed into revers in front, with the usual sailor-back. A modification of the Russian blouse is another fashionable model, the over lapping side bordered with Russian embroidery as well as the stock and cuffs.—American Queen. How l-'tisliions Are Created. "How are new fashions created?" is a question that must certainly sug gest itself now and then to women. Those unacquainted with Paris chiffon and its mysteries probably suppose that the fashion artist spends much time in studying the harmoni ous contours of his favorite model, with her elegant figure, reposeful air and graceful attitudes, which lend themselves to the varied manifesta tions of his genius. They picture her patiently submitting to the enervating manipulations of the essayeuse, who tries, measures, selects and discards according to the capricious combina tions of a chief who changes his mind with a suddenness born of genius in search of the ideal. Finally, they fondly imagine, ho arrests the essay euse's movements with a nervous, im perious gesture. He has found his ideal. The new fashion is evolved. Alas, this romantic conception i 3 seldom realized. A fashion does not, as a rule, emerge—complete, unique, perfect—from the brain of one sartor ial genius, however eminent. More of ten it results from the collation of iso lated ideas, which, floating in the am bient air, are studied, analyzed and materialized. But after what efforts, failures and modifications! Fashions frequently originate in the fertile brains of Montmartre artists, hundreds of whom are constantly de signing, inventing and copying. They derive inspiration from pictures of the dogaressas of the fifteenth century, the marquises of the seventeenth century and the elegantes of the empire. These painted beauties furnish their modern sisters with many a lesson in coquetry and adornment. Methods differ in various houses, of course, but as a rule any sketch, idea, design or suggestion is immediately on receipt submitted to the chief. He forms his opinion. Then, discreetly, he consults two or three of his principal collabora tors in whose judgment he has perfect confidence. Expert in the art of se lection, endowed with an artistic in tuition fortified by the ripest com mercial and social experience, they are qualified to decide. Should the idea be adopted, the house imparts life and grace to the conception, adapting the picturesque sketch of the artist to its practical purpose—the beautlflca tion of a modern belle rich enough to pay for genius applied to la mode.— Washington Star. Satin foulard is one of the smartest of spring fabrics. Polka dote and hemstitching are prominent features of the latest neck wear. Mercerized linens are the top-notch of the mode for the coming shirt waist. Gold effects, finished with gold ferret buttons, are salient features of the newest waist girdles. Blue and black lisle stockings for spring, with throe embroidered clocks, come for wear with tan Oxfords. All bishop sleeves for shirtwaist* have narrow bandlike cuffs, so the link cuff buttons may be laid away. Chiffon, net and point d'esprit fichus are to be moro worn this summer than last, but sailor collars and revers will be quite passe. Lace has only a secondary place as a trimming this season,' even the sheerest of materials being ornament ed with embroidery instead. Three shaped flounces, one over lapping the other about two inches, and covering a spaco of 18 Inches from the hem up, make a very pretty skirt trimming. Embroidered mulls and batistes in white come in a variety of dainty de signs for blouse waists which require no trimming or tucking beyond a little edge for the finish of the collar and cuV.. It is prophesied that straps will be the favored shirtwaist garniture of the season, and next the perfectly plain design will be the vogue. Ex cept for the very diaphanous fancy ones, tucks, it is said, are to be rele gated to second place. The different shades of red are all fashionable this spring, and some of the smartest gowns that as yet have been exhibited are of this vivid color ing, toned down sometimes by elabo rate trimmings of ecru or guipure lace, again left open with no relief. A novelty is a waistcoat of yellow lace. It is made with a very long pointed front, builded over chameleon velvet or satin, the color of the lace. It is buttoned with handsome metal buttons, and the top edge is finished with a binding of gold braid or Per sian embroidery or velvet Rufiles will be used in abundance on the skirts of gowns this summer. The newest ruffled gowns have the ruffles quite untrimmed, but they are applied to the skirt in rows far enough apart to show very distinctly the pretty lace insertion tatt serves as a heading to c. ;h fiounca. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRr. In 1889 the production of aluminum In the United States was about 22 tons and In other countries 71 tons, while in 1900 the United States pro duced about 4000 tons and other countries about 7500. Copper tele graph and telephone wires must be twice as heavy as aluminum in order to do the same work, and 0000 tons of aluminum used for sheathing or roofs will replace 20,000 tons of copper. A successful experiment in the use of single lines for simultaneous tele graphing and telephoning is reported from Berlin. The system is employed by the fire brigade of that city. Each fire-cart is provided with a portable telephone apparatus which can be at tached to the alarm pillars in various parts of the city, and operaed with the same wires employed for tele graphing. Experience has shown that the switching in of the telephone in no way influences the telegraph ser vice. During simultaneous telegraph ing and telephoning a slight knocking is perceptible in the telephone, but the noise is not sufficient to destroy the audibility of the messages. In the island of Cyprus is a basin cut off from the sea, although sunk slightly below sea-level, which con tains a salt lake from which a con siderable harvest of salt is annually obtained in August, when the fierce summer heat dries up the water. C. V. Bellamy, who recently visited the lake called Darnarca. thinks sea-water percolates through the rocks into the basin, thus supplying the salt. A single heavy rain in midsummer has sometimes sufficed to ruin the salt crop, and the Cyprians, in order to protect the valuable lake as much as possible, have constructed channels to carry off the flood water of rains from the slopes of the basin into the sea. A. new machine has been devised that will utilize in fabrics the flax waste that has been formerly sold for the manufacture of paper. Henry W. Wing is the inventor, and he has taken the device to Bradford. Eng land, where most of the flax is spun. Since the installation of the machine at Bradford it has bc-en discovered that the appliance was equally useful in spinning asbestos and peat moss, or in fact, any other substance that has sufficient staple to hold in the form of a textile. The work of the machine is so carefully and excellently done that it is almost impossible to tell what the original material was that has been spun into the fabric. Just what commercial name will be given to the spun flax waste or what it will be used for has not been de termined, but doubtless it will be found available for many purposes that require a coarse, hard fabric. A very peculiar bridge is being con structed over the Mary river, at Mary borough, Queensland, in that it is be ing designed so that its surface will be submerged several times during the year at the seasons of high floods. The idea In building the bridge in this way is to save the material that would be required to build it sufficient ly high to escape submersion at high water. The country on the banks of the Mary river lies so low that the ap proaches would have to be extraordi narily long to be entirely out of the water during floods, and this would have Involved an immense expense, so that it was decided to disregard the floods, and build the bridge for use during low water, and employ boats during the comparatively short time that the water would cover tho bridge. The bridge will clear by 12 feet and six inches at ordinary high water. The highest flood level is 33 feet, so that, at times the bridge will be submerged more than 20 feet. Our New Const-Defence I'lnnt. The United States will shortly pos sess a plant capable of turning out for coast fortifications, and complete in every detail, the world-famed Grusou turret. Not only is the plant assured, but work has actually commenced on the erection of the necessary build ings, and to such an extent have the plans progressed that the casting of the plates for the initial turret could, if required, be commenced in six months' hence. The raiaon d'etre of the new indus try Is primarily the recommendation of the Endioott hoard of ordnance and fortifications, calling for emplace ments for 22 turrets at coast points of the United States; but In the main the new plant owes its being to the conditions which confronted this conn try on the breaking out of war with Spain in 189 S. and to existing condi tions which make imperative the adoption of a system impregnable to gun attack. The new organization Is called the Gruson Iroil Works, and will carry on the manufacture of all descriptions of chilled iron-work and heavy eastings requiring special strength and resis tance for naval and marine work. The interests associated with the new company include the largest man ufacturers of chilled iron in America, and the works will be equipped with everything requisite for the manufac ture of the largest chilled castings to which the particular plant for fin ishing Gruson turrets can be quick ly added. The site for the new works Is on the banks of the Delaware at the little town of Kddystone, and distant only a few miles from the city of Chester, Penn. This site was select ed largely because of its tide-water facilities, and with special reference to the needs which must arise incident to the shipment cf heavy turret equip ment. —K'arper's Weekly. / Starts the Afe&l \ / if Vow wse a \ Sl^ve^^ 30 FEET OFBOWELS pO®k V (1 t®l 1 Me packed away in your insidcs and must be kept clean, OVA I J3L I%L—Z in order and doing business. It's a long way, with many turns and pitfalls to catch the refuse and d<y the channel if not most carefully When this long canal is blockaded, lock out for trouble—furred tongue, bad breath, belching of gases, yellow spots, pimples and boils, headaches, spitting up of Qfood after eating —an all-around disgusting nuisance. Violent calomel purges or griping salts are dan -11 gerous to use for cleaning out the bowels. IkM,.\Us They force out the obstruction by causing ■ violent spasms of the bowels, but they leave ' n^cs^'nes tfeak and even less able to keep up regular movements than before, and make a 12 larger dose necessary next time. Then vou have the pill habit, which kills more people - /jSthan the morphine and whiskey habits combined. 'The only safe, gentle but certain bowel cleansers are O &Wl3 sweet, fragrant CAS CARET S, because they don't force \Kp out the foecal matter with violence, hut act as a tonic on |/1 the whole 30 feet of bowel wall, strengthen the muscles rn suhwtakt cjSai i i ~j ~i r tore healthy, natural action. Buy and try theml •~ph^u(E~ t -pM)¥iihA ipoffrojnu.TSr,.} (Look out for imitations and substitutes or you can't get SESTt""r?S™Tr !°rmC" 2T I aV'.sS °'T? results. Cascarets are never sold in bulk. Look for the !fr.T^ , K T^lria l i.^r.S.'±^^. a JTS trade-mark, the long-tailed "C" on the box.) You will gyr.y,Vff™l°?ti n ™ tmd that m an entirely natural way your bowels will be b °"" u promptly and permanently Made CLEAN and - ALL NllD c pFLIJ\PFL YTC r n ™saw? E 311 811 ®H • MomMh, Honted boweli. foul | U6WE ji fi bl! ICT 0 I ET * *?M' b* "'• V Villa mouth, henduc-be. tinlluoßtloii, pimple*, IJ VOs kflH * I Lctail# ?T?** if .""i ll b " xt " ** eronblo, taljow complexion .Imllur mrdliln. In the world. Till. Uob.otnto proof of and dlzzlnesa. When your bowela don't movo regu- in-.t moll, and or..- 1.0.t tr.ttoioninl. W. have fKI. and lurly youi are getting Bleb. Couatlpatlon killa more will .rll ( ASI Altin n nbaolutrlr guaranteed to enr, or people than all other disease* together. It Is a mney rnfuuded. Go bny today, two rtOe bosw, elto them a •tarter lor the -thronle. ailments and lone yoarn of lionest trial. to pcrstuipin directions, ond if yon nr auObring that urn, afterward*. No matter what ?,°t r° n ' <-ft taltlug UASCABKTS to-day, lor yon whom Sit yoar will noyer get well and bo well all tbo lime until 1...... Take our udelre— no matter what u!l y.ro .tart to you put your bowela right. Tube our advice; trt dor. Ileoltli will qolrkly follow on.l yon wlllbleu the day with CASCARETS Co-day, under uu aboolule guar- flrt started the u.e orCA NCA 111 I'A liMik free by malt antee to uure or money refunded. ldiircui bTSULEIQ REBKPY CO., NEVT YORE or ClllCAuO. SIXTY DOLLARS Wortli of staple foods free to one intnll brent man or woumn in every county of the L 8. Write qui.*, kew Jersey Mty. Co. (Incorp.), Jersey City, N J. CHEWING GUM FREE A I'! IK,I of No. 1 Chswlntr (lii.o FIIKK. Writo for lmrlirninrs n,l nxmplo. NhIIUOTIO MEDICAL COMPANY, Hororilsvitle, N Y. Dr. Bull's * ■ ■ " troubles. Peoplepraiss Cough Syrup Refuse substitutes. Get Lr. Bull's Syruo. —A Missouri man at Nevada drinks a sood, bij? amount of whisky, but only consumes the pure moonshine quality, which he has shipped in from the mountains of East Tennessee. All goods aro alike to PUTNAM FAUEr.Kss DYES, as they color all fibers at ono boiling. Sold by all druggists. Only one colored soldier wears the Vic toria cross—Lance-Sergeant Gordon, of the West Indian regiment. France changed its Constitution four times during Queen Victoria's reign. Auk Yonr I>oler for Allen's Foot-Fuse, A powder to shake into your shoes ; rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and In growing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoos easy. At all druggists find shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted. He Roy, N. Y. On some of the Japanese railways terra cotta sleepers are used. They are far more durable than those of wood. If You llave Hysp'i>iia Send no money, but writo Dr. Shoop, Racine Wis., Box 148, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop'a Restorative: express paid. If eurcd, pay $5.50; If not, it is free. Austria and Mexico have resumed in tercourse for the first time since the execu tion of Emperor Maximilian. •rr^W.L.DOUGLAS IwfSjgv S3, & $3.50 SHOES SKK. L r ~ 1 Yj'. ui gi | IJ; of the foot, and the construction of the shoe. It \l'imM^u'h'al' 'X knowledge that have made W. 1.. nonplus shoes the l. st in the world tor men. /Iv l uUc no MiiiMtituto. Insist on having W. L. Ootmlns shoes with name JSVL " Jißfak. and price stamped on bottom. Vonr dealer should keep them, if he does not. /all/ JthSk scud for catalog giving full instructions how to order by mail. : %V. L. DOL't!! LAS, IK rock ton, Muse. The German city of Cassel will cele brate the thousandth anniversary of its foundation in 11)13. Unrliclil Heartache Powders ! A good, common-sense remedy for the cure of headaches ; ono powder cures. Try them —vour euro will well repay you. Four bushels of potatoes contain the same amount of nourishment as a bushel of wheat. Ilsxaip'a Croup Cure Will check a cold in ono hour, and enree Croup in a few minutes. 50 cent.*. Spain's kingdom of Asturias boasts of twenty-eight centenarians in a population of 600,000. Irey's Vermifuge Saves the lives of children. 25e. Druggists and country stores, or by mail. E. AB. Fuky, BALTIMOIIE, MD. Some men spend the last half of their lives discovering the mistakes they made in the first half. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Klino's Great Nerve Restorer. ifr : 2 trial bottle and treatise i'reo Dr. 11. 11. KLINE, Ltd., 031 Arch St.. Thila., I'a. : About fifteen of the capitals of the States in Mexico have an altitude of 5000 lcet or more. I IN WET WEATHER A WISE MAN WEARS $3 'vj OILED WATERPROOF CLOTHING WILL KEEP YOO DST NGTHm6°ELSf WLL 345£.!? 0 ,,?. U83T, 7 UTEi 'CATALOGUES FRK SHOWING FULL LINE OPSAKMSNTS AND MATS AcJ.TOWTR CO., BOSTON, MAS 3.46 AGENTS Broltsrd Sash Loch and Brohsrd Doer Heifer Active workers everywhere can earn big raonm always n steady de**~*nd for our goods. Sample sash lock, with prices, ternc., etc., free for ?c stamp for postage. Til K ll II till A It l> CO., iiepartracnt 12, I'Uiladelphiu, !'*
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