CORSAGE FLOWERS. Fashionables Select a Special Favorite and Always Wear It. The fashion of wearing natural flow ers In the daytime Is making Its way rapidly, and the custom Is spreading from the larger to the smaller cities through towns, villages and hamlets, tn America, however, few women would venture to appear with such enormous bunches of posies as does the Duchess of Marlborough, who is not Infrequently seen with from fifteen to twenty gardenias arranged on her bod- Ice. Mrs. Rupert Beckett, of London, Itlso conspicuous In the Mariborough house set, thinks nothing of wearing four large arum lilies In a cluster. Lady Downsliire confines herself to Jb sardenias while in season, and Lady ™ Algernon Gordon-Lennox is content with nothing else than a very good ized bunch of lllies-of-the-vallcy. These usually she wears tucked In her waist belt. One hardly ever sees the Duchess of Portland without five jr six, sometimes seven or eight, of the beautiful Malmnison carnations, which are her favorite and especial Bower. Mrs. Astor still retains her attach ment for the violet which bears her name. It is large, of a pinky-lavender color, and lias the faintest possible scent. Mrs. Plerpont Morgan wears, whenever she dons any flower, the gualnt. pretty rose named in her honor. Happily, it is especially adapted for use on a bodice; the stem being heavy snd unlikely to break, and the bloonl rather small aud compact. Its color- I . Ing also is exquisite, a deep brilliant ' ■ pink blending to a creamy white. It is not for all to boast the proud distinction of having flowers named in their honor, but the majority of women have individual taste enough to prefer some one blossom to another. Now is the opportunity to let this choice be known, for more individual ity is given to the custom of wearing flowers when one does not constantly change from one gay bloomer to an other. In making such a choice the scent of the flower should come under consider ation. Many women would turn giddy with inhaling the odor of gardenias, iilles-of-the-valley or others redolent of such heavy perfumes. Even the scent of violets cannot be endured by some women. Perhaps for this reason we so frequently see on bodices, bunches of the lovely but scentless white fre- Asia.—Washington Star. Plateaux Much Favored. To be included among the very latest oovelties is a large plateau hat, mount ed on a circular trimmed bandeau fit ting onto the top of the head. A model of this sort consists of a plateau of rice straw, the upper side of which is white and the under side slightly glace with pale blue. A circular piece of cream guipure covers the centre of the platenu. On tho bandeau is a folded scarf of very soft pule blue satin, ar ranged behind in a butterfly bow with fringed ends. Above this, in the under side of the brim, is a drapery of blue tulle, the ends of which are fastened beneath two pairs of blue wings, also sewn flat on the brim, so that they are face downward. The same arrange ment is also carried out in black rice, butter-colored guipure and a maize scarf, and yellow roses in the place of lb wings. Owing to their somewhat ex nggerated size these hats are not like ly to be so generally favored as a smaller size hat called the Louis XVI. plateau. This is composed of a plateau not more than ten inches In diameter, mounted on a wire and net shape, with a flat brim of the same size. The trim ming properly so-called fills in the space between the two brims, but the plateau Itself may consist of trimming laid flat upon It. A hat of this sort has L the plateau entirely sewn over in a spi ral with quillings of white hair net; between the two brims is a row of glo bular pink roses set in among spruys of green moss. Another consists of a plateau of white rice and puffed ro settes of soft pink satin ribbon and rosebuds between the brims. In come cases the plateau Is covered with mosses or leaves; in the latter case fresh young ivy leaves and small ten- I der green rose leaves have the prefer t JL ence, and the space between the two ™ brims Is filled In with small flowers, Hlles-of-the-valley, forget-me-nots,rose buds, jasmin, bindweed, daisies and the like.—Millinery Trade Review. Something About Fane. The Chinese attribute the first use of the fan to the beautiful Kansi, the daughter of a mandarin. Feeling very hot one day she took off the mask which she wore over her face and fanned herself with It. From Ovid we know that fans were used in Rome and were called "little leaves." It was in Venice, however, that la dles began to make a general use of fans. These fans w.ere made of lace and gold, and were shaped like little A flags, with a stick studded with pre y clous stones. Titian paints one of these in bis "Donna." Marie Antoinette had the greatest collection of funs known in her day, and the greatest artists of the period thought It an honor to paint them. Balzac tells of a fan which the city of Dieppe gave to Marie Antoinette, and which is said to have been the most beautiful fan ever known to the historian of beautiful fans. Charlotte Cortlay had a fan In one hand when she killed Marat. It was during first empire that fans became small and were made to Imitate ancient models by painting them with little figures. The custom of writing on fans comes from Japan, where fans are used as notebooks. Sanslindes. The charming fancy Dame Fashion has taken this spring to introduce flow ers into everything that she touches is noticeable in her dealings with the parasol of 1902. Bunches, wreaths and festoons of roses, lilne, wistaria, pop pies and daffodils are all to be seen. The voice of La Mode has decided definitely in favor of chine silk as the leading material for sunshnde covers. The colors are not gorgeous, but infi nitely lovely, soft and harmonious, and if everything connected with our toi let is as artistically perfect as our par asols promise to be we shall have very little reason to rail against the decrees of fashion. Pompadour designs are much in evi dence, mnny of them having the blurred chine pattern, while on others the pattern stands out in clear relief. Lines of satin or broche woven into the silk are also to be seen, and insertlngs of lace are Introduced round the edge with capital effect. The arch of the parasol is more pro nounced this year, while the handles are strictly in accord with the silk, and are chiefly balls of china, crystal or ivory, with a sprinkling of bird's heads in amber and Jade.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Clnb Women Buy a Ilearße. Think of a woman's club buying a hearse with its first official dollars! This is the odd proceeding of the Wom an's Improvement Association at Las Cruces, N. M„ aud as the President, Mrs. D. C. Billings, puts It proudly, "It's the only hearse in the county." The Las Cruces Woman's Improve ment Association has only eleven mem bers. When this ambitious little band organized five years ago it not only purchased a hearse to replace the rude wagon that had previously served at the head of funeral processions, but set about to otherwise improve this small town, made up mostly of unpro gresslve Mexicans and winter tourists. They bought a section of land and pro ceeded to convert it into a park by planting trees and putting up a pavil ion. Afterward they purchased a lot for the purpose of erecting some pros perous day a public library and club house under one roof.—The Pilgrim. Heavy Embroideries. Embroidery to be chic should be rather heavy and in dull shades of wool or silk. In some cases the leaves of the flowers are padded to give them the -necessary raised effect. Some times, also, gold and silver threads are introduced in the pattern to give the embroidery greater weight. The materials thus embroidered are either the dress Itself or canvas of the same color. A Professional Lace Waslier. There died in New York the other day an old woman who made a good living washing valuable laces aud tins linens for the Vanderbllts, Belmonts and other wealthy folk. At the time of her demise she was at work upon a Venetian lace article which cost SOOOO. For years she cleaned these fine ma terials with naphtha and with peculiar washing compounds of her own. Flowers For Hat Trimming. Wistaria in various shades, clus tered with the bright green leaves of the vine, promises to bo one of the populnr flowers for hat trimming dur ing the season. Purple lilacs are also seen In profusion. An Odd Comb. Rather odd and pretty is a small back comb, tho top of which Is in a design of three plumes of tortoise shell and curling realistically in imitation of the natural feathers. Moire ribbons are to be quite the vogue. Big white pearl grapes are nearly the size of plums. The fashion of wearing white seems to grow every day. Bright sapphire is one of the most used blues for young girls. Garlands of tiny flowers figure sin gly or In groups on modish hats. White dotted bluck nets are effective without being very light looking. It's the short back that now prevents a hat from being a sailor, and that only. Inch-wide black satiny bindings are quite the thing on big hats in light colors. Rainy-day underskirts of sateen, mo reen aud Italian cloth are attractively made and faultlessly cut. A guaranteed washable peau de sole is a recent addition to silkdom that has had a very warm welcome. Entire side trimmings in artificial floral effect is noticeable upon many Imported evening gowns. A new sleeve design is tucked to the elbow, where it falls open over a puff ending at the wrist in a band. Large squares of finest embroidered Swiss and nainsook are designed espe cially for converting into shirt waists. Ziz-zag and puff braids are two of the popular trimming Ideas for spring that are very chic aud permit of many manipulations on the material. smwvwwwwwww ■: HOUSEHOLD * * * S £ * * * * MATTERS i i ■.W.V.Y.W.V.WAWWJ THE MODERN HOUSEWIFE. Slie Has Conveniences Unknown in tlie "GooO Old Days." "Now it Is only a trifle," said a pretty housewife, "but I wish to call the at tention of our grandmothers to one or two modern changes from their 'good old days,' of which they so frequently remind us when in the kitchen, and to which we have no desire to return. "In this little paper box is a pound of butter—fresh, pure, sweet-smelling butter, and closely wrapped around the fragrant yellow edible cube is a clean piece of muslin. Note that the ends are neatly and tightly squared and folded the box bearing the name of the dealer, and often the name of the dairy farm from whence the but ter comes. Contrast this Improved, sanitary method of handling butter, which is a highly absorbent com pound, and ought to he always closely wrapped and isolated In the Ice chest, with the old-style way of weighing the butter often on a pair of dirty scales, slapping it In little pieces on a piece of white paper, and then wrapping It in coarse straw paper. "Then, when our grandmothers wished a dozen or so of eggs, they were dropped in a paper bag, and often dropped to the sidewalk by the girl before she got home. Now they are placed end-up in a neat little paste board box holding a dozen eggs, each egg in a compartment by itself, separ ated by a pasteboard partition. "And in 'grandmother's day,' or In 'mother's day,' for that matter, recall how they bad to think 'not to forget to leave the milk pail out with the tick ets,' and bow, when tbey did 'forget' to do so, what dreadful consequences resulted when papa found no milk for his breakfast coffee. It's all changed, and our grandmothers would have a hard time of It keeping pace with modern kitchen improvements. The time-honored milk pail has passed in favor of the glass bottle, sealed and reasonably cleun. Even in effete New York the milkman with his ear-pierc ing 'yep,' yellow wagon, four cans of milk and long dipper Is slowly passing In favor of the wagon with its cases of filled bottles which we see on the streets of Washington. "Our beloved maternal ancestors in lace caps would have heart failure were the dear old ladies suddenly called upon to take the place of the housewife of to-day and superintend in the larder. Paper boxes for these pur poses were unknown. Everything eat able went Into bags, and before the ad vent of lings into cornucopias of browq paper rolled over the tradesman's left arm. Now, everything from crackers to eggs, is inclosed in some sort of a receptacle of prepared paper, paste board, tin, glass or wood; the house wife of to-day rejoiceth in conse quence, and our food products are given that additional protection ngaainst decay, dirt, deterioration and germs. "In short, there is a great deal of fic tion nbout 'good old times,' and these simple but highly important features of our everyday life explode one fa ble nbout the 'days when mother made such nice pies.' "—Washington Star. A Sense of Harmony. To insure a sense of harmony in a bedroom drape the windows, cover the couch and cushion the chairs with the same stuff. . . RECIPES . . Potato Soup—Put four potatoes on to boil. When half done drain off the water and cover them with fresh wnter; add one small onion, a stalk of celery, a bunch of sweet herbs and boll until the potatoes are done, lloil a quart of milk. Press the potatoes through a sieve, mix with them a tablespoonful of butter and stir in the boiling milk. Season and serve. Eggs a la Polignnc—Rub individual tirubale molds with butter and sprinkle with minced parsley, chopped very fine. Break an egg in each one, dust with salt and pepper and put a little bit of butter on top. Place the molds in a pan of hot water that will cover them and let them poach in the oven until they are firm enough to turn out on a cutlet dish witli a spoonful of to mato sauce under each. Very dainty. Sassafras .Telly Sassafras Jelly is made of the pith of the large branches of the sassafras tree, gathered in the spring. Pour a pint of boiling water over a dram of sassafras pith and let it gradually thicken into a jelly. Strain it in bowls or earthen molds adding a little sugar if desired It has the pleas ant flavor of sassafras and is recom mended in feverish colds and rheu matic affections A delicious candy is made from syrup flavored with the pith or the bark of the root of sassa fras Tlds candy is also recommended for colds. Spider Cake—Take four cups of sift ed Hour, add one teaspoonful of salt, four level teaspoonfuls of baking pow der, and sift again. Hub into the flour, using spatula or flexible knife, half a cup of butter, add a cup of stewed fruit, or currants, mix well, then mix in enough milk to make a soft dough that will spread but not run in the pan. Heat a teaspoonful of butter in the iron spider (frying pan), put in the cake (the pan must be large enough to make the cake three-quarters of an inch thickt. Set it over a moderate tiro to bake slowly for about twenty min utes, allowing ten minutes for each side. Shake the pan about and turn the cake to prevpnt Its burning. Serve as soon as done. Split open, do not cut, and use plenty of good buttex and maple syrup, SAHARA UNDER THE SEA. Curious Facts That Seem to Point to the Former Submergence of the Desert. M. Chevalier, known for his inter esting botanical explorations In the French Soudan, has communicated to the French Academy of Sciences cer tain curious facts which seem to point to the Immersion of the Sahara in com paratively recent geological times. There have been found in the neigh borhood of Tlmbuctoo, on the southern edge of the desert, the fossil remains of two marine forms of animals which are still living on the coasts of Sene gambia. The presence of the fossil sea-urchin at Zau Snghair, discovered some time ago, is to be associated with these more recent finds of marine forms In the desert. This evidence Is important as a contribution to the much-disputed question as to whether the Snhnran lands were formerly under the waters of the Atlantic. The very strongest of testimony is ac cumulating in favor of the hypothesis of the former submergence of the Sa hara. These facts are among the lat est contributions to our knowledge of the desert, which is quite well known now when we compare with the pres ent accumulation of facts tile meagre information that was accessible only thirty years ago. It will be remembered that about that ! time some Englishmen proposed to dig a canal on the northwest coast ot Africa south of Morocco, to admit ! the waters of the Atlantic into the des i ert. It was argued that a great inland | sea would tints be created in the des- I ert and that vessels from Europe and America might steam through this canal and touch at ports along the rich western Soudan. Of course, the project was based ou the notion that a large part of the Sahara lay below the level of the sea. But we now know that the mean ele vation of the Sahara is far above sea level. It is supposed that the average height of the desert above the surface of the Atlantic is about 1500 feet. No part of the desert is known to lie below sea level, except in certain limited areas along its northern border and near the Nile. The lowest part of the region which it was proposed to sub merge is in the district of El Juf, which Is 500 feet above sea level. No way is known at present of artificially Intro ducing the waters of the Atlantic into the Sahara, except to pump them in. If these facts bad been kuown thirty years ago we should have heard noth ing of the great project so much ex ploited in the newspapers of that day of creating a large inland sea in Sa hara.—New JTork Sun. WORDS OF WISDOM. Principle is a passion for truth and right.—Hazlitt. Every brave man is a man of his word.—Corneille. Bank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.—Ruffini. When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.—M. Henry. All that Is human must retrograde 11 It do not advance.—Gibbon. The larger the Income the harder il Is to live within it.—Whately. Magnificent promises nre always to be suspected.—Theodore Parker. There Is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.—Colton. A proud man never shows bis pride so much as when he is civil.—Grevllle. Prosperity's right hand is industry, and her left hand is frugality.—Zim merman. Method is the very hinge of busi ness, and there is no method without punctuality.—Cecil. One is never more on trial than In the moment of excessive good for tune.—Lew Wallace. Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.—O. W. Holmes. The higher the character or rank, the less the pretense, because there is less to pretend to.—Buiwer. Human nature is so constituted that all see and Judge better In the affairs of other men than in their own.—Ter ence. He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks Hy in bis face.—Franklin. A Parisian Election Manifesto. The following curious election mani festo was Issued the other day in Paris: "Electors and business men! On the eve of the elections the friends of the small dealers cull your attention to the present very grave danger—name ly, the Invasion of the Chamber of Deputies by medical men. Oppose medical candidates; replace them by commercial men. And why? Because the trend of liygienists is to exercise an Insupportable dictation concerning the supplying of food. To Increase their authority these liygienists do not hesitate to exaggerate in an absurd manner the importance of food frauds, and then they pose as saviors of hu man life. Thus sometimes these liy gienists, who are nothing but quacks, accuse purveyors of milk, sometimes wholesale provision dealers or rattier grocers. No branch of food supplying Is free from their accusation of fraud and falsification. Defend yourselves, then, against the calumny. Pood pur veyors of Taris and the provinces! Vote against medical men. Let all parties choose other men to uphold their flag. Let them, for instance, choose food purveyors." The New Man. The diffidence and nervousness Which attend a man iu a new pqsitlon , pass away the moment he discovers that his employer doesn't, know any more than he docs.—New York Press. The '"Barrel House" Scotch Paper Outlines a Unique Building Designed for City of New , York. A party of Scotchmen arrived In New York last week and on their first night In town chartered a cab and told the driver to take them to the barrel bouse. "The what?" asked cabby. "Barrel house, house of the barrel, mon, sure you ken it well." "Nothing but foreigners," said cab by to himself and he drove them to a rathskeller. The Scotchmen were indignant. They rode back to their hotel and com plained to the clerk. The clerk said he had never heard of the barrel house. With a superior air one of the party showed him a recent number of the Weekly Scotsman and remarked that perhaps the barrel house was not com plete yet; but it did surprise him that the clerk should know nothing about It. The clerk read the article in tho Weekly Scotsman which described the barrel house and then marched the party to the bar to have one with him. He isn't sure yet but that some such thing may have been planned for New York, though the fact that his first news of it should come byway of a Scotch weekly paper has cast doubt upon it. The paper published a pleturo of this novel building and the follow ing description of what it terms "New York's Latest Amusement." "A barrel of fun —a real barrel, but made of brick and stone and twelve stories high—is soon to be another of New York's odd attractions. It is to be on Broadway, in the theater region. The steps will be the spout of the faucet. "The entrance leads to an oval hall fifty feet long, which will form tho tube part of this immense faucet. The walls will be decorated to simulate a grotto, made radiant by thousands of colored incandescent lights. Eleven floors and four balconies of this struc ture will be devoted to the customs, pleasures and characteristics of differ ent nations. "One of the most novel features of this pleasure palace will be the eleva tors in the shape of immense wine bot tles, with a capacity for carrying fifty or sixty people at a trip. Each floor will have a separate elevator. "Stationed at tho entrance of each on the ground floor will be a guard in the attire of the country to which his elevator will carry you. This guard will speak English and the language of the country he represents. "Each elevator will bear a largo transparent label, on which will appear in electric lights the name of the wine for which the country is noted. On the elevator for the German village will appear the label 'Rhine Wine;' on the one for France, .'Bordeaux,' for Hungary 'Tokay.' "On the ground floor will bo cigar, candy, florist and drug apartments, an information agency, telephone booths, a telegraph and cable office, and a njwspaper agency. The center of tho (loor will be occupied by one of tho largest fountains in the world. Water fall effects, including a miniature Ni agara Falls, will afford interest and pleasure. "The German village will bo on the second floor. 'Die Wacht am Rhein' and other popular airs of the Father land will be played by little German bands and by orchestras In different parts of the village. Here will be German peasants and peasant girls— some singing, some dancing, some tell ing fortunes, all dressed in the na tional costume. "Tiny kitchens, beer houses, Inns will be prominent everywhere. A min iature Rhine will be a feature of the village. Along the banks will appear miniature castles, some in ruins. A part of the village will bo devoted to an open-air concert garden. "The stairways will bo novel. There will be two flights to the top, each ;pen to every floor. The stairs at tho left will be the moving stairway. This stairway will rise through a tunnel or cave the walls and celling of which will be a panorama. "From the ground floor to the floor of the German village the pictures will depict German life and scenes. The scenes of each country will appear on tho canvas as one is gradually carried to it. The stairway at the right of the building will be spiral and will lead through a grotto. "The third floor will be the French village. A feature here will be a 'Mou lin Rouge.' Wine gardens will be found everywhere. Stools end chairs will be in the Ehape of champagne glasses upside down. "A noted feature will be the Boule vard des Italiens, a balcony circling the building. Customs of French life will be seen on this boulevard, and tiny trinkets familiar to the Frenchmen will be disposed of as souvenirs. "The fourth floor will be the Chinese village. In a Chinese harbor will be seen miniature junks, sampans and other types of Chinese craft. A minia ture reproduction of tho great wall of China will bo a feature. "There will be mandarin bands, and Chinese restaurants, where chop-suey and other Chinese dishes will be found. In the Japanese village will be found tea fields, Geisha girls, tea shops and a Japanese theater. "In the Scottish village one may hear the bagpipe, feast his eyes upon miniature hills, lakes and castles for which Scotland is noted. "Tho top of the building will be an Immense roof garden, with a hoop shaped balcony circling it. This bal cony will be a bicycle path, so ar ranged as to give opportunity for rac ing at night. Another feature will be an enormous searchlight. "There will be a dancing pavilion and a continuous performance. An im- menso captive balloon. In which trips can bo taken to a height of 100 feet about the roof garden, will be another feature. "Eight months will be required to complete this enormous hanel. Ground will be broken for the undertaking shortly." Tho Lust Resort. He visited a noted specialist, and, after waiting an hour, had an oppor tunity to pay a fee and narrate his per sonal misery of insomnia. The medi cal man listened and suggested one remedy after another, with each and every one of which the visitor said lie had unsuccessfully experimented. Finally the specialist wrote a pre scription and handed it to his pa tient. "What is it?" inquired the latter. "Oh, a bromide." snicLthe doctor; "il will benefit you." * "Rats!" said the other, degenerating Into slang; "tried 'em all; they ain't no good," further receding into bad grammar. The doctor, evidently annoyed, bowed, and handing tho man back his fee, destroyed the prescription ami said: "There's only one thing left— you had better try sleeping cars." Light. Discolors Gems. The discoloration of precious stones when they have been exposed to the air for a long time is well known. Emer alds, rubies and sapphires are less sus ceptible to atmospheric influence, but even they, says the Tatler, are not ex empt from change. If two rubies of the same size and shade are kept for, say, two years, one in a showcase and the other in absolute darkness, an ex amination of the stones at the end of that time will invariably show that the showcase ruby has become distinctly lighter In color. The most sensitive of all stones to variations in light Is the opal. This stone draws its mar velous rainbow reflections from nu merous little clefts, which allow the light to pass and reflect It in different directions. Often tho opal stands tho manipulation of cutting and polishing} well, and all of a sudden It splits.
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