, Hmcwr null Thut I'nriHlnu Women Am Wearing. Pari3 women of fashion are order ing for summer wear hats that are Amazon in shape, aDd worn low over the' forehead. They have a hunch of feathers or (lowers in front, sticking up straight; and .hey come down over the "chignon" in the. back. Often a there are little streamers or lace ends in the back. —Ladies' Home Journal. I'aAlilotm for Girls. Point lace, which Is especially nsso • ciated with bridal occasions, is the fa vorite trimming for tho wedding gown, but ail varieties of lace are fashiona ble. Some of the finer deep nets with lace border are used for flounced skirts. With these tho waist usually Is trimmed with a bolero of the fig ured lace and a front of the plain net The long points of the jacket hang clown over the skirt, but at the back the waist is all in one piece. A Cluny lace gown just completed is made with the body of the gown of loulsine, and a wide flounce of the Cluny. The waist is of the lace, made with a square yoke effect. —Harper's Bazar. now Kilo Wlieeler Wilcox r.ooka. The first thing a stranger notices about Ella Wheeler Wilcox is her eyes. They have the coloring of a yellow brown topaz, and the tone is repeated again In her hair. She has a very expressive face and expressive hands. While you watch her talk it impresses you that If she had not be come a successful poet she might have been an equally successful actress. She has a melodious voice, and a youthful, graceful figure. The gowns she wears are of a dif ferent style from anything you find in a fashion magazine. Ten years ago she adopted certain styles which were becoming and comfortable, and ever since her gowns have been something like an idealized Empire dress.—Good Housekeeping. Farm 1.1 r<- for Women. It has been said that young farm ers would not be so anxious to come to the city if it were not for the exces sive distaste of vouug women in the country to settle down to the drudgery of woman's work on the farm. Ef forts are being made in several states to counteract this objection by mak ing farm life more agreeable. Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, precep tress of the school of agriculture of t Minnesota university, herself a prac tical woman farmer, says: "The farm home is the Ideal home, and the thought of our school is -al ways to educate the girl for the life she will have to live. We give our girls special work adapted to women in the home. Butter making is not drudgery to the girl who understands the why of It, and sewing Is rapidly ceasing to be a lost art now that the girls see that patterns are comprehen sible things and not Chinese puzzles." —New York Tribune. Strangn Cnreer* for Women. Women broad winners have chosen strange careers for themselves in va rious parts of the earth. Their exam ple may inspire others, if not to adopt like professions, to act upon the prin ciple which guided them to choose the one thing they could do that was near at hand. For example, In Geor gia a woman not only personally de livers mail over a 40-mile route, riding ■ over the scantily settled region of Montgomery county thrice weekly during the year, hut manages a large farm as well, doing much of tho man ual labor, such as plowing, harrowing, sowing and harvesting, and supporting by her energy and courage a family of four. Not 20 miles from Savannah there resides a widow, who has for the last 10 years made more than a com fortable income as a government con tractor, bidding for tho removal of wrecks, anchoring of buoys, building of jetties, and dredging. Few people riding over tho New London Northern railway are aware that the company employs the only woman train dis patcher in the world. Her responsibil ity is great, her hours from 7 in tho morning to 9 in the evening', her du ties a continual nervous ar.d mental strain. Quito recently the directors of the road complimented her upon her efficient service, and it Is a pleasure J to add she receives the same compen • ™ satlon paid the men occupying similar positions. A Virginia girl has made a widespread reputation as well as a good hank account, as a trainer of sad dle horses. Parasol. for Iho Summer. Parasols for the summer of 1901 are to a degree attractive. Some exqui sitely dainty examples are chiffon In serted with Idee and frilled with tucked ruiTles, which are again edged with narrow lace. Black and white effects in parasols are tho vogue, and they are inserted with black velvet and panne appliques, which are edged with tiny gold or silver cord. The most alluring novelty of the -eason is a parasol of thin cloth of gold built over a whito silk foundation. It Is Incrusted with velvet designs. There Is a tendency to keep the edges of par asols plain, although of course in tie more elaborate examples lace is used, ir. fact, parasol covers with real Ir re W- are deemed the most elegant of the season. Both the medium size and the small old fashioned carriage parasol U in vogue, and women of fashion ar® searching in their treasure boxes for the dainty little sun Ehades that were a part of every woman's dress 25 years ago. Thread lace then was the most desir able, and both black and white covers were mounted over white silk. The handles of those dainty articles are of carved ivory, tortoise shell and coral. The popular cover of the medium sized parasol Is Duchess lace. Plain taffeta parasols, which are, in fact, a little less small than the average wom an's umbrella, are the latest fancy of the moment. They have club handles, which are studded with brass or silver nail heads, the same nail head appear ing in the stubby little euds. Again, dog's heads carved from ebony are surmounting the sticks of light sun shades. These parasols are to be found in all of the light shades, pink, lavender, green, blue and yellow, but the white parasol is considered the smartest to wear with the average summer costume, but if madam's purse strings are long enough she will have a parasol to accompany each costume. There are also to be found among the new parasols those of the delicate flowered silks. A white parasol, for example, is besprinkled with hazy lav ender flowers, and it has a handle of carved gold, set with amethyst. In fact, most of the colored parasols have a colored stone In the handle to match the tone of tho silk. Jet spangle appear on many of he lace designs, and silver spangles are employed with embroidery and Insertion. A charm ing example of white silk has a large ostrich plume design In black lace, plume being Illuminated by silver spangles.—Chicago Record-Herald. Dungem of Over-exerclae. The busy woman needs to conserve her nervous force, and to Increase it by every possible means. If her health Is excellent she will be greatly profited by moderate exercise, but she will find It greatly to her advantage to take this at first in small and di vided doses, only increasing the amount after days of moderation and rest. If, on the contrary, her win ter's work leaves her not ill, but ex hausted, tired out, complete rest for one or two weeks, taken out of doors, is frequently the best prescription that can bo given. The amount and duration of this rest cannot be absolutely specified here, as it must depend upon individual needs. In goneral, at least a week of lying around will ho found very profitable, in which short drives may be taken, and a 10-minute easy walk in the cool of tho day. Many will improve best by adding a second week of out door rest to the first, and interspersing tho hours in the hammock with a short ride on a wheel, not exceeding 20 minutes at first, or a couple of holes on the golf course, or some equally temperate method of easy exercise. Whether this second week needs to be one of complete rest or not, must he for each woman a personal question; if she will decide it upon personal grounds—taking her own measure ra tionally, and not that of some athlete or other wholly vigorous person pa her standard, and abide by this, she will gain more actual refreshment and en ergy from her often all-too-short va cation than her former conscientious routine of so many miles a day has ever brought to her. One needs to bo acclimatized, as it were, to a vacation, to change of diet as well as to tho change of air, to the lack of absorbing occupation and the general disturb ance of daily habit, before making pro longed physical exertion. Some of tho signs that exercise is beneficial are an improved appetite and digestion, restful sleep, and a gradually increas ing sense of vigor and well being. The fatigue that lasts over night (ex cept in the case of a new form of ex ercise! is a sign of over exertion.— Harper's Bazar. Hats of point d'esprit are among the pretti-st light hat 3 for children. Dainty little corset covers are of dim ity, with email figures in delicate blue and pink upon them. The buckles on ties are losing their plainness, and instead of the round metal harness buckle, show a cutting in squares, which is a very considera ble improvement. Bands of point d'esprit set into fine muslin gowns make one of the pretti est of trimmings. There i 3 an odge of it usually on the flounce with which the skirt 13 finished. Golf belts are of leather, with leath er buckles and sometimes studded with nails. Ooze leather belts are very stylish and are shaped sorpewhut wider at the back than in front One can use one's belt clasps now for hats if one has a taste that way. These buckles, or rather clasps, arc to be seen on some of the hats in the sailor styles holding the band of ribbon or velvet at the side. The new sweater for golfing is cut low in the neck like the golf vest and is 'apelless. The pattern is a striped one in brilliant red or green and the buttons down the front are of gold, or namented with crossed golf sticks of grOn enamel. There Is 110 end to the variety to be seen in sashes. Thev come in watered silk with painted flowers; in satin with raieed velvet flowers; in white silk with a fancy weave; with no other or nament than tho fringe, with which most of the shashes are finished, and there are colored ribbons in fancy weaves, the material in stripes, soma lengthwise and some across. COLD CHEAPER THAN PAINT. Why Iho Dome of the U brary Is Covereil with GHt. It is only natural that the stranger in YJashington should comment on the gilded dome of the library of congress, which i 3 one of the three conspicuous landmarks of the city, the Washing ton monument and the dome of the capitol being the other two. Few of those who gaze upon this wonderful creation know that in giving such an attractive finish to this superb build ing the idea of economy was upper most. This gilded dome will stand for years to come as an illustration of the care and thoroughness of the late General Casey of the engineers, under whose supervision the building was constructed. It was at first pro posed to paint the dome, and al though no color was named it was as sumed that it would be cither whito or gray. General Casey decided that gilding would not only oulast any paint, but wouid apparently lighten the top of the immense structure. In pursuance of this idea, he ad vertised for proposals for covering the dome and the pyramidal structure underneath the lantern with gold leaf. The lowest bidder offered to do the work for sl.lO a square foot. It was required that the gold leaf should be 22 carats fine under assay. Discarding the extravagant bids which had been submitted, General Casey purchased the gold, found workmen who knew how to beat it and others to applj it, and succeeded in accomplishing the work in a thoroughly satisfactory manner at a cost of 33 1-3 cents a square foot. The entire cost of gold leafing the dome and its pyramidal base was only $3500. At the time General Casey estimated that gilding would last at least 30 years. Although it was applied more than five years ago. it looks as bright as on the day when the last sheet was put on. The general figured that the cost of paint ing the dome would have equalled in five years the cost of gilding it, so that the gold leaf Is the least ex pensive covering for the dome, and the effect is beautiful In the extreme. —-Baltimore Herald. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Some watch screws are so email their threads are invisible to the naked eye, and it takes 144,000 screws to weigh a pound. A pound of them Is as valauble as six pounds of gold. A sanitary Testament for use in the administration of oaths has been put on the market. It is bound with white celluloid instead of leather, and it can therefore be washed and disinfected from time to time. The largest loaves of bread baked- In the world are those of France and Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy is baked In loaves two or three feet long, while in Franco the loaves are made in the shape of very long rolls, four or five feet in length and in many cases even six feet. One of the most frequent uses to which the telephone is put by French country subscribers is that of an alarm to wake them in the morning. Tiioso who wish to be roused at a given hour have only to advl3o the telephone administration the night he fore of the hour at which they wish to be rung up. The enormous size of the Australa sian colonies is very imperfectly un derstood, even by the colonists them selves. Queensland, which occupies the northeastern portion of Australia, has an area of GG5.497 square miles. It Is larger than any European coun try. with the exception of Russia, and Is half as large again as the whole of Germany, Austria and Hungary unit ed. yet it has a population of less than 500,000, including Polynesian and oth er aliens. In England the law looks upon everyone over the age of seven as a responsible being; and every child be yond that age can he prosecuted as a criminal. The same age is accepted In Russia and Portugal. In Franco and Belgium the age Is eight, in Italy and Spain it is nine; Norway. Greece, Austria, Denmark and Holland decline to prosecute a child under 10; and this is the rule also In some of the Swiss cantons. In Germany tb limit of responsibility is fixed at 12. A German Invention has patented a device to tal;e the place of the warn ing bell which now announces the en trance of a customer into many small shops. It is called "the musical door keeper." As its name implies, it an nounces the coming of a visitor by Bounding a tune as the door Is opened. Another tune is sounded when the door Is closed, so that one can always tell whether It has been .opcthed or shut. One can also teij by the quick or slow succession of the sounds whether the door has been opened or shut rapidly or slowly. In addition, it Is possible to change the device so that fresh tunee may be substituted when desired. Verdi** J'opiilnr Melodic*. The airs and popular melodies of some of Verdi's earlier operas were so easily caught from rehearsal that they were frequently whistled on the street before the opera was produced. To prevent this previoucness, when "Rigoietto" was about to have its first representation, the manuscript of Its most famous tenor air, "La donna e mobile." was kept under lock and key till the morning of the day set for the performance. In hl3 later operas Verdi wrote the last aet3 first In order that they might not prove weaker than the opening portions of the opera. WHEN YOU'RE "IT." When a lady Rather sadly, Or it may be Rather gladly, Tells you that with her you've failed to Make a hit; When she springs the "Don't mind, do yoa?**- Or the "Be a Sister to you. Then the proper diagnosis Is: "You're IT." When the bunko .Steerer prances Oil with all of Your finances; When the street ear gong rings after You liave lit; When the uuto- Mobile slams you Into hitching posts And jams you— Then the proner diagnosis Is: "Y"ou'rc IT." There will always • Re a witness When you take tlia Rank of It-ness, And the title nearly always Is a fit; But when you're in Grip's hot clutches. And it gives the final touches. Then the proper diagnosis Is: "It's IT." —Grand Rapids Herald. P|TH AND POINT. He—"Welt I'll admit I was wrong." She—"That won't do; you must admit thai I was right"—Tit-Bits. Pa—"What's baby crying for, Dolly?" Dolly—"Just cos' I showed her how to eat her cake."—Tit-Bits. "He certainly is a rather dismal, low-spirited fellow." "Dismal? Why, he'd croak if lie was dying."—Phila delphia Times. "Johstock is very tender hearted. Isn't he?" "Tender hearted? Well, say, that man wouldn't even strike an average."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Of coffee that his mother made He keeps as quiet as a mouse, f To tall: about it he's afraid; She used to keep a boarding house? —Philadelphia Record. Hoajax—"Some people tire pretty swift, but they can't get ahead of time." Tomdix—"Pshaw! Every baud leader in the country heats time."— Chicago News. Patience—"What is good to redneo flesh?" Patrice—"Well, I had a friend who bought a lYeyele, and she told me she fell off n little every day." —Yonkers Statesman. The Oflice Boy—"Mr. Jones-Jenkins lias been in to collect his hill." Mr. Hard-up—"Has he? Bother him! That's getting quite a fad of his— trying to collect hills."—The King. Critic—"You haven't caught Airs. Rawkens du Byrnes's expression at all!" Portrait Painter—"No; but I flatter myself I've caught her notion of her expression."—Detroit Journal. "To decide a bet," said the visitor to the sanctum, "what 13 the biggest ocean race oil record?" "Why," re plied the Snake Editor, "the whale family, I guess."—Philadelphia Press. The earth worm munched the soil with mirth, And us he ate, quoth he: "iv hy does man tuink he owns tlio earth? 'Twas plainly made for me." —Washington Star. "Is it good fishing here?" queried the city angler of a small boy who dozed ou the haul: of the stream." "You bet," said the boy, "I bin flak ing here ail day an' I ain't had t' re buff wunet."—Ohio State Journal. Head of Firm—"l can't have you ar riving so late in the morning, sir. Where do you lire?" Now Clerk—"At Eawnville—close to the city." Heart of Firm—"Um! I see. Well, move farther away, and come ill on an ex press train."—New York Weekly. "Love's young dream," said Mr. Aleddergrass to the young people. "Is so called facetiously, or sarcastically, so to speak, whichever way you look at it, because, when the feller what's doiu' the dreamlu' wakes up, lie often gits mad because it wasn't no dream after all."—Baltimore American. musical Order* For un Ann jr. The Russian General Krinnowskl la a musical amateur, who has discov ered a new way to utilize music in the Russian army. The Russian troops, it is declared, sing on the march, and the worthy general hopes to causa them to be known by the tune that they sing in order that he may tell In what part of the field each regiment is at a given moment. The idea is, of course, capable of expansion. Instead of. as now, order ing the "Twelfth Battalion Loyal West Downshire Regiment" to move to the support of the Fourteenth Bat xry Royal Ilorso Artillery, Lord Kitchener could issue such orders as tell 'Tommy Make Room for Your Un ile" o assist "There's Air," and march *i'hi 'Orse That Missis Dries the j'.otlies On" to cover the retreat of •The Bailiffs Daughter of Islington" ' vitli "Two Lovely Black Eyes." "My ?retty Jane" will remain with the eom nander-in-chief. "The Absent-minded Beggar" can join Lord Mclliucu. Laugh nnd Live Long. There is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsions oc casioned hy hearty laughter. The life principle of the central man is shaken to innermost depths, sending now tides of life and strength to the sur face, thus materially tending to insure good health to the persons who Indulge therein. The bleed moves more rap idly, and conveys a different impres sion to nil the organs of the body, as it visits them on that particular mystic journey when the man is laughing, than it does at other times. For this reason every hearty laugh in which a person indulges tends to lengthen ids life, conveying as it does distinct stim ulus to the vital forces.—Ne.v Yu.k Weekly. ] Still An Unknown Land. Largo areas of the South American 1 continent have never yet been trodden I by the foot of civilized nlhn. It will surprise many to learn that there-are j larger tracts unexplored in that region j than in Darkest Africa, yet such is the \ fact. A large majority of the cities along the coasts of South America, known to every pupil in the public school, were settled in the Columbian era. Civilization is in fact much old er there than in North America. Yet for nearly 300 years there lias been not much organized attempt to explore the interior. The first expedition sent out by a South American government was in 1875. Many of these countries are without es-act maps of their own territory. Most of the maps in use have been made by explorers from Europe or the United States. The greater part ot the immense tract of land in the middle of the con- j tincnt from Venezuela to Chile lias not yet reached the roughest pioneer! stale of civilization. A considerable j part of Colombia is still wholly un known. The several Atlnnttc states, oven as far north as Uruguay, have many blank sections on their maps, j The Gulanas, except for a strip along the coast, are practically unknown, The condition of affairs in Brazil Is scarcely better. The Brazilian gov ernment has no department corres ponding to our geographical or coast and geodetic surveys. The only ex ploring done lias been carried on by the states. There are large tracts in the northern part of Brazil which have never been crossed, as far as is known, by any white man. The original autograph AIS. nnd cor rected proof sheets of Tliomns Moore's "Lalla Rookh" sold in London recent ly for £330. Twenty-five per cent, of the shares in American railways are said to be owned in Great Britain. Complete External and SET^'' Consisting of CUTICURA SOAP to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales, and soften the thick ened cuticle, CUTICURA OINTMENT to instantly allay itching, irritation, and infiaomation, and soothe and heal, and CUTICURA RESOLVENT to cool and cleanse the Mood, and expel humour germs. A SINGLE SET is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring skin, scalp, and blood humours, rashes, itcMngs,and irritations, with loss of hair, when the best physicians, and all other remedies falL i MILLIONS USE GUTICURA SOAP Assisted by CuncußA OrxroiEXT, for preserving, purify ing, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, aud dandruff, arul the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing "red, rough, and sore liand3, for baby rashoft, itchings, and cbafings, end for all the purpose of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Millions of Women use CtmcuEA SOAP in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and excori ations, for tow free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerativo weaknesses, and for many sana tive, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, and mothers. No amount of persuasion can induce thoso who have once used these great skin purifiers and beautifiers to use any others. CUTICUEA SOAP com bines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICUEA, the great skin cure, with th® purest of cleansing ingre dients and the most refreshing of flower odours. No other medicated soap is to bo compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, lxtvever expen sive, is to he compared with it for ell the purposes of tha toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in Oss SOAP at ONE Pines, the best skin and complexion soap, and the BEST toilet and baby soap in th© world. Complete and IntornoJ Treatment for Evory Humour, , , Consisting of Cnnr.lt .'ivtv, '..j cl-nnso tho skin of nil .t- r.-ii bIS w >l/ClDtT*and soften Un UiVcbco.-w', cuticle; (JL"TICCKA Olwr.MF.tcr. to CP WKV >" •* M fillar IfcXtn-, in Una-marl on, and imitation, nix! s-x.tho SLA— una heal; ana Ccm IT PA UWOLVINT, to COO! hint Honnao tho blood, A hiKGt.f. .*rcv uofN-w cuffVient to cur the mor-t t>rt*ir- TM£ GET l n Jf. Itfhlma. tmrntflv. arxl tculr akin, BCJiln, mx! blood bunionr*. rashcß, Itahtxrs *'♦<! 1 rotations, vitH* !>•*> of hair, vrhctl TTT EFCW fntla. Sold throxfclv.uirho world. rtrti.t.* -* . F'. NKWUF.nr A SONS, 27 ( hnrtcp. fcoune Sq., Lenc.wi, E. C. I'OTTEH Vk.ce ANl> (JVUSJA. Cora*., Solo Piopa., Boston, U. 8. A. PRPV® **• Wll -. Kr-. R ■ vJ Frey'ii i the bwt If worm <lwKruj*e*. 1 bnve over furmd. * lertaa fi" r*ieK>in> awn?. iT? 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All [lf your druggist cannot supply you, ccad'us ono dollar nnd wo will express you a bottle. l!o sure and uivo tbo namo of your nearest ctcprosfl oflTcc. Address, J. C. AYEK CO., Lowell, MftßS. Tim title of "Defender of the Faith" Is still so much prized that the British florin of 1849 had to he recoined be cause the letters F. D. were omitted from the legends. Fa til 111., in his bull of excommunication, canceled Henry Vll.'s title of "Defender of the Faith," which, however, was couflrmed to the king by an act of parliament. L/os Angeles lias 13 parks, big and little, the average park area being 3,740 acres. Of the 1,500 convicts in Tennessee 29 claim to be college graduates. , "Tlie * re tl'nt ity*Ar Wwi Pohil rtttiinn*.* f'tcILHEKNY'S TAiJASCO. JwL iP by itriicKlKt.i. Wf D^CPSY;:!^^^ Ki-mo. OT."k. k. 0 "ri'liY s'u'.U „" Eye Water
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