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Progietslr* Japanese Girls. 9
The young women of Japan are eager
to be new along with the rest of their
lp progressive country. They nre anx
ious to study not only medicine but
civil engineering, and the Government
Is going to erect a university for them.
tartr Dudley M n Designer.
The Countess of Dudley has made a
successful essay in the art of Jewelry
designing, and has recently brought
out a medallion in gold, mounted to
wear as a pendant, commemorative of
the restoration of peace. As Chair
woman of the Central Bureau Cor the
Employment of Women, Lady Dudley
takes great interest in its progress, and
the medallion is now being sold for its
benefit.—London Telegraph.
French Praise For American Women,
Mine. Rejane rejoices that the woman
of to-day dare# be independent in
dress, that more than ever before she
A-* can dress as her individual taste dic
tates, fashion's decrees being only sec
ondary. This happy state of affairs
eke attributes largely to the Influence
of American women. French women,
she says, are cramped by prejudice aud
made hypocritical thereby. The Amer
ican woman dares to assert herself.
A Little Vlrot.
The youngest milliner in the world Is
Hazel Fowser, a petita San Francis
tan, six years of age. Her artistic
treations are tile wonder of the West
ern city. With the basis of a rougli
brown straw, the little artist is said
to fashion bonnets which are the
Jespair of older competitors. Her Ideas
are all the product of the little mil
liner's own brain, for she has never
had the opportunity to observe the
k handiwork of her rivals.
* Prescott** Harvest Queen.
Miss Mary Swanger, aged twenty,
weight 180 pounds, has Just demon
strated that she Is the queen of the
harvest field In Eastern Pennsylvania.
She is dark haired, straight and well
built, square shouldered and with mus
cles of iron. She resides in the family
of Samuel Phillips, Who conducts a
large stock farm near Prescott. As he
was short of help at harvesting Miss
Swanger volunteered her services.
Going to the barn she took charge of
the unloading of the big wagons of
wheat sheaves. Alone and unaided
she unloaded the wagons, one every
twenty minutes for five consecutive
hours, fifteen wagon loads in aIL
Next day she worked at the corn
Blieller and shoveled in 1500 bushels of
corn on the cob In about six hours of
I steady work. She did not do this as a
9 special task for a record, but worked
steadily as an everyday affair. Miss
Swanger says exercise is the great
thing that Atnericnn women need. She
Is fearless of horses and can master
any animal she has ever tried to drive.
From Flour fiackß.
A Western woman told lately the
rather pathetic story of her earlier in
genuity when shopping exoursions
were not in her range. "I never had
any pretty underclothing, so I just
revel iu it now," said she. "I come to
New York to buy dreams of things—
and they are dreams, I assure you, or
were, to me, in thoso days. I lived In
a tiny town away beyond the railroad
and never could get away to buy cloth
or muslin. The bringing In of such
luxuries would have financially
wrecked my parents then. We kept a
small hotel which was much patron
's Ized by hungry lumbermen, wlio paid
I liberally. But their money would not
• buy me pretty things. In the hotel
business we bought great quantities of
white Hour, of course, and my clothes
were made of the sacks!" Her listener
gnsped—visions of "Somebody's Finest"
and "Snow Flakes" done In blue let
ters racing across her mind. "Yes,"
she continued, "I had all sorts of fine
things out of them, and every sheet
and pillow case wc owned was the di
rect result of tile übiquitous flour sack
of blessed memory." Think of that,
oh, you grumblers at "no conveniences"
and "seams" that run away.
A Groat American Woman.
It is telling no secret to announce
that Miss Clara Barton is now seventy
two years old; that her hair is gray
and that her brow is wrinkled. With
all her age, with all tin- hardships and
, the times of trial through which she
• lias passed, she is still young In spirit,
4f~ still vigorous in mind, still active and
r ready to respond to any call that may
be made upon her in the name of suf
fering humanity. When, twenty years
ago, she orgnnlzed the American Red
Cross Society, she little dreamed of the
work she would be called upon to do.
She it was who in 1884 led the relief
expedition to the sufferers from the
overflow of the Ohio and Mississippi;
she distributed the funds to sufferers
from the South Atlantic cyclone of
18U8; did the same thing ut Galveston
a couple of years ago, and it was
owing to her efforts and her good man
agement that relief was given to the
suffering thousands In Cuba when the
war with Spain wag over.
Few know of the noble service she
rendered In tin? Franco-German War.
• At the very outbreak of that great
struggle she assisted the Grand Duch
ess of Baden In the organization of
military hospitals; in 1871 she had
charge of the allotment of work to the
poor at Strasbourg, and in 1872 charge
of the distribution of supplies to the
destitute of Paris. It is no wonder
that such r\ woman is held In highest
honor abroad as well as at home, and
that the sovereigns of Europe, lraow
ing of her work, treat her with thi
most distinguished consideration.
That was a graceful compliment paid
this American woman by the ruler ol
all the Russlas when he refused to al
low her to kiss his hand—as is the cus
torn of the Muscovite court—but gavi
her % hearty handshake, thus placinj
her on an equality with him, reeogniz
Ing her as a true sovereign, a queer
nmong women. Miss Barton lias conn
home with new decorations, new royal
honors, but little does she care foi
them, except as proof thnt foreign po
tentntes recognize the value of th<
work her society has done and is every
ready to do. —Baltimore American.
IPirTOovdoiV
Chat
The crown of beauty at the corona'
tion rested upon the American woman
Seven women have lost their lives
through Alpine accidents in the years
1891 to 1909.
Princess Alice of Albany will prob
ably be betrothed to the German
Crown Prince.
Mrs. John Golden, of Jeffersonvllle,
Ind., has been granted a license to pilot
steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers.
Miss Grace E. Berry, of Worcester,
has been elected dean of the women's
division of Colby College in place of
Miss Grace B. Mathews, who retired
at the close of the last college year.
Queen Elizabeth, Virgin Queen
though she called herself, was wedded
to the kingdom with a ring, which she
always wore. The flesh grew over It
and it had to be filed off shortly before
her death.
Marlboro (Mass.) people think that
there is a young woman In that city
who can throw a baseball farther than
any of her sex who has ever mode the
attempt. Miss Sarah V. Martin has
thrown a ball 201 feet eleven and a
half Inches.
King Edward VII. Is to establish a
new order, it is said, which will confer
honor on distinguished women. Since
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts received
her title no woman lias been elevated
to the peerage because of her philan
thropic benefactions.
One of the latest fancies of the Eng
lish womnn collector Is to obtain a
number of tiny birds, beasts and fishes,
cut out of precious stones, such as tur
quoises, Jade or chrysolite. The best
collection is owned by the Queen, who
is said to have set the fashion.
A woman In New York is an expert
at painting pictures of the Inside of
the eye. She examines It with the oph
thalmoscope and then paints a picture
of what she sees. Her sketches are
being used for the colored plates to Il
lustrate a costly work upon the human
eye, which Is to be the first published
In the United States.
Mrs. Esther McNeil, of Fredonia, N.
Y„ recently celebrated her ninetieth
birthday. The local Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, of which Mrs.
McNeil has been president for twen
ty-three years—a longer term of serv
ice than any other local president
made It a red letter day. Mrs. McNeil
was one of the original "crusaders."
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who is living
a quiet and happy domestic life at
Princeton, has added to her health and
beauty In recent years by much walk
ing. She takes a long constitutional
every morning, and in the cool of the
evening her tall graceful form is seen
in the quiet streets of the historic
town, moving at an even, swinging
gait This regular exercise has kept a
youthful color in Mrs. Cleveland's
cheeks and her weight has been re
duced.
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Canvas, mohair and etamlues are the
leading materials used in the white
coats.
The buclfles of belts are of rhine
stone, gold, sliver and Jet. They are
used to fasten ribbons, silk aud leather
belts.
Some coats are lined with paune-
Iluisked chine silk patterned with a
blurred floral design, and large polka
dots apparently of a satin.
Irish crochet collars are seen at some
of the most excluslveshops; they are a
practical purchase, for they wear well
and are never out of fashion.
The touch of green in men's neck
wear is becoming more pronounced -as
the season advances. Shades of bronze
iind hunters' green are the most desir
able.
A dainty ruffle is made of ivory point
d'esprit with three frills of the not
studded with black chenille spots and
edged with u rucking of spotted black
and white mousseline de sole.
Quite the prettiest things in tile way
of stockings are those of silk so tine
that they can be drawn through a lin
ger ring with ease, single initials in
large scroll writing are embroidered on
the ankle.
The fitted coat for fall will be on the
plan of the mnn's frock coat. The
fronts will be faced with white moire
and edged with black and white braid.
Tile skirt will Just clear tile ground,
and It will be finished in the back with
box pleats.
One of the latest of bat Importations
Is in bright red. It Is rough red straw
trimmed across the crown with poppy
buds, while at the left side is a large
mass of blossoms clustered so cloßely
together that their centres do not show.
They have the effect of a big rosette.
. HOUSEHOLD
isirKw AFFA |R S
In Making Chocolate.
A muddler many people consider in
dispensable to the chocolate pot. If it
is to be used, a pot with a hole in the
cover for the handle is necessary. Jusl
before pouring each cupful, twirl the
paddle a few times to renew the froth
New Sort of Sandwiches.
"In England sandwiches with cara
way seeds sprinkled between the thin
slices of buttered bread are served
with afternoon tea," writes an Amer
ican woman from London. "It is s
troublesome fad, as no caraway seeds
are to he had nearer than Scotland."
Placing the Divan.
A divan should never be set across
the corner of a room, as is occasionally
seen. A divan's place Is against the
wall, which, softened by upright cush
ions, makes tbe back. Neither should
a screen stand irrelevantly, screening
nothing. It should shut off a draught,
an ugly view, or conceal an awkward
doorway.
Restore. Lnitr. to Lacquer
Brass bedsteads and other lacquered
brass furnishings which have lost their
lustre may be restored with a lacquer
made of one-eighth ounce of powdered
gamboge, one ounce of pale shellac,
one-fourth ounce of cape aloes and a
pint of alcohol. Put the ingredients
Into n quart jar, and when they are dis
solved, strain through a thin cloth. Be
fore the varnish is applied the brass
must he perfectly clenn and, if possible,
warm. A soft varnish brush will an
swer for the work. If one does not
want the labor of applying the lacquer,
a furniture man can be hired to do it.
Even in that case there will be a sav
ing of expense in not sending the arti
cles away for treatment.
Ironing the Shirt Wnlst.
When ready to iron tbe shirt waist,
dip quickly into a pail of hot water
then put through the wringer and iroD
at once. Begin with the cuffs, press
ing first on the wrong side and then
finishing on the right, until perfectly
dry. Next iron the collar band and
then the sleeves. The sleeves are the
most diflicult part of the waist to do
well; and a sleeve hoard can be pur
chased for about twenty-five cents,
which is considered by many as a greal
help. These arc commonly used in
hand laundries, and, when used, the
sleeves are ironed last. If the sleeve is
to be ironed without a hoard, press II
flat, ironing both sides. Finish the toy.
by putting a small iron inside of the
sleeve, through the arm's eye, and
smoothing out the gathered top. Many
object to the fold in the sleeve when
ironed fiat, and this can be removed by
rubbing with a damp cheesecloth and
pressing out with a small iron. Before
ironing the front of the waist, stretch
Into shape, having the front pleat very
straight. If there are tucks, smooth
tliem out evenly and iron on tlie right
side until dry. Then Iron the hack and
finish the bottom of the waist If
parts of the waist have become
tumbled after ironing, smooth out
quickly with a hot iron. Fiatfen the
collar band and cuffs with a stud or
pin, and dry thoroughly before folding
Pique waists should be Ironed on tlie
Wrong side excepting the sleeves, nnd
on a well padded ironing table, so that
the cords will stand out welL If the
cuffs he desired very stiff, place them
on a clenn bound, and with the hapd
rnb in a thick cooked starch, until the
linings and the outside of the enffs are
as one piece, then wipe superfluous
starch from both sides of cuffs and
dry. Let stand in the dampened body
of the waist under pressure for ahoul
half an hour before Ironing.
RECIPE
Dressing for Boiled Beets—Three
fourths cup of vinegar, one-fourth cup
of water, one tablespoon each of flout
and butter, salt and pepper; melt the
butter, add the flour, pour over the vin
egar; cook until thickened and poui
over the sliced beets.
Lemon Souffle—Mix yolks of foui
eggs with four tablespoonfuls of sugar
add the juice of one lemon and twe
tablespoonfuls of water; cook and stli
this in tlie double boiler until it thick
ens; beat the whites of the eggs; add
two tablespoonfuls of sugar to them
then add this carefully to the firsl
mixture and serve.
Potato Fritters—To two eupfuls ol
hot rieed potatoes add two tablespoon
fuls of cream, one teaspoon of salt, o
few grains each of nutmeg and cay
enue, two eggs and half a cup of flour
beat the mixture until cold; add Hour,
nnd when well mixed, drop by spoon
fuls in deep fat; fry a delicate brown;
drain on paper; serve hot.
Tomatoes Stuffed With Beef—Fot
four good sized tomatoes allow half n
pound of raw chopped beef; put llie
beef with one tablespoon of halter In
a frying pan, stir over the fire constant
ly for one minute, then add one table
siioon of onion juice, one tablespoon
of chopped parsley, and a pinch of all
spice and mace; scoop out the centre
of the tomato, being careful not to
break through to the bottom; fill tlie
cavity with the meat mixture; place
the tomatoes in a baking pan; put one
tablespoon of butter In the pan, two
hay leaves and four tablespoon fuls ol
water; put in a moderate oven one
hour; serve hot on a hot plntter.
A DOCTOR ON DOCTORS' BILLS.
Better Pay Needed. But Exorbitant
Charge* Condemned.
The question of fees will probably
never bo settled so far as strict deft
niteness and absolute rules are con
cerned, but there are certain broad
lines of sense and policy that may be
accepted as guiding decision in the ma
jority of cases. Charges, for instance,
by one physician for treating the fam
ily of another, we think impolitic and
unprofessional. If done it certainly
should ho agreed upon in advance.
In a recent ease of a different sort a
physician sent a bill to a rich patient
which, in the subsequent adjustment,
was practically admitted by the physi
cian to be about five times too high.
Tills plan lins been often pursued In the
past by men who should have gone into
ward politics or the "bucket-shop"
business instead of medicine. We
know of a number of instances in
which such traders have charged a
man several thousand dollars for serv
ices, well knowing they will get only
one-fourth or one-tenth of the amount,
and they would be well satisfied if they
got one-twentieth for the same service
generally. Such a method is neither
good business nor good morals.
The charge should be right to begin
with, and no compromise accepted. Be
cause physicians treat so large a pro
portion of the sick without payment,
because so much of their life and en
ergy must be given unrewarded to the
advancement of their science, and be
cause in a final analysis, their services
cannot be rated in money-values, they
should be far better paid than they arc.
But let us not assent to exorbitant
charges, those In which greed is more
than evident, and there .should be no
foolish haggling and reductions and
compromises.—American Medicine.
WISE WORDS.
Enjoying each other's good is heaven
begun.—Lucy C. Smith.
Y'ou will not be loved if you care for
none but yourself.—Spanish proverb.
Hard workers are usually honest; in
dustry lifts them above temptation.—
Bovee.
The earnestness of life is the only
passport to the satisfaction of life.—
Theodore Parker.
Intercessory prayer might be defined
as loving our neighbor on our knees.—
Charles H. Brent.
When a woman has ceased to be
quite the same to us, it matters little
how different she becomes.
The young man who resolves to con
quer his love is only half in earnest,
or lias already conquered it.
Knowledge is a call to notion; an in
sight unto the way of perfection Is a
call to perfection.—J. H. Newman.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite
power supporting you; but If not, you
have infinite power against yon.—
Charles George Gordon.
Moral hygiene leads us, therefore, to
true morality, which Is the science of
sovereign Good. What is this sover
eign Good which yields us both happL
ness and virtue?— Janet and Senilles.
You feel in some families as If you
were living between the glasses of a
microscope. Manner, accent, expres
sion, all that goes to make np your
"personality," njl that you do or leave
undone, is commented upon and found
fault with. —H. Bowman.
Such knowledge have I of the actual
blessedness and wonder of this present
life that I believe there are some good
things here which, if we do not take
them now. In all the ranges of existence
we shall have no opportunity to find
ont again what we have carelessly let
slip.—John White Chadwick.
"Snake Bite" Death*.
A considerable proportion of the
deaths in India annually attributed to
snake bite are probably due to poison
ing of another sort, says Navy and
Army. The explanation is simple and
Interesting. When a man in an out
lying village dies evidently from the
effects of poison it is the duty of the
headsman of the village to take in, if
not the body, at any rate the viscera,
for examination by tbe civil surgeons
of the nearest civil station, which may
be some thirty miles away. To avoid
this tedious journey tbe name of the
deceased Is duly entered on the village
records as having died from snake
bite, and the entire i illage is afterward
ready to swear that ft saw the snake
a karait a yard and a half long—which
did the deed, and which was subse
quently slain by several different peo
ple in several totally different sets ol
circumstances.
Game From the Arctic*.
A company at Tacoma, Wash., Is pre
paring to do an extensive refrigerating
business between the Klondike regions
and the markets of the East, by means
of refrigerated vessels and ears. Tlie
company is taking advantage of a very
peculiar situation. The residents of
the Klondike region last year became
satiated with the great amount of na
five game, and paid fabulous prices foi
beef, mutton and poultry from the
States. This game rejected by the na
tives, such as caribou, moose, ptarmi
gon and Arctic hares, is regarded In
high favor in the United Stales, and
brings high prices here, so tlmt the
storage company above referred to will
reap a big profit In exchanging meal
products of these two widely seuarated
countries.
The Great Nile Dam.
The. great Nib? dam at Assouan,
which was begun four years ago. is
Hearing completion. The reservoir
formed by the dam will cost
000, but it will greatly increase the
agricultural prosperity of Egypt by
bringing waste districts under cultiva
tion and enabling fnrmers to make two
crops a year on wide tracts of land.
PyswS
OTilfte I
New York City.—Black and white is
the favorite combination for separate
blouses, many of the season's most
,
LADIIEB' FANCY WAIST.
beautiful creations being developed in
these fashionable colors.
The waist illustrated is made of
ivory silk crepe embroidered in large
black polka dots. It Is mounted on a
glove-fitted featherbone lining that
LADIES' DRESSING SACQUE.
closes In tlie centre front. The buck Is
plain across the shoulders and drawn
down close to the belt, where the ful
ness is arranged in tiny pleats.
The full vest is included in the right
shoulder seam, and permanently at
tached to the lining. It fastens Invis
ibly on the left side. The vest is made
of plain white crepe trimmed with
alternate bands of ecru lace and black
velvet ribbon. Similar trimming is
applied in the back to simulate a
round yoke.
The full fronts are arranged in three
backward-turning tucks which are
Stitched down for some distance and
provide becoming fulness at the bust
The waist blouses stylishly over a
black velvet girdle.
A high collar, decorated with ecru
lace medallions, completes the neck.
The elbow sloevcs are shaped with
inside seams only and tucked to lit
the upper arm closely. Pnffs, formed
by the fulness below the point where
the stitching ceases, are gathered and
arranged on narrow lace elbow bands.
(Tnoful DreHftlng Sacqne.
To make the waist in the medium
size will require one and one-quarter
yards of forty-four-lncli material, with
three-quarters of a yard of contrasting
material for trimming.
Albatross is a material much used
for dressing sacques this season, and it
is a little more satisfactory than flan
nel, as it is not quite so heavy. The
fabric is shown in the large illustration
in a delicate shade of violet, trimmed
with two widths of black velvet rib
bon.
The garment is shaped with shoulder
and underarm seams only, and has a
plain square yoke, back and front. The
full backs are gathered at the upper
edge and applied to the yoke. At the
belt tile gathers are arranged on n
band, and the garment drawn into the
figure. A smooth adjustment is main
tained under* the arm.
The full fronts are applied to the
lower edge of the front yoke and fall
In long, loose folds over the bust. A
comfortable rolling collar completes
the neck. It is edged with a narrow
pleating of albatross. The neck is
fastened with black velvet ribbons tied
in a bow with long ends.
The sleeve is shaped with inside
seams only, fits the upper arm closely
and flares in a graceful bell at the
wrist. Half way between the elbow
and lower edge the fulness is gathered
and fastened beneath a bow, over
which the sleeve droops prettily.
Bands of lace beading run through
with naiTow velvet ribbon finish the
collar, yoke and sleeves.
To make the dressing sacque in the
medium size will require three and
three-quarter yards of twenty-seven
inch material.
Two Shades of Blue Used.
Two shndes of blue in a gown, one
blending perfectly Into th other, are
frequently seen nowadays, nnd this
does not apply only to blue, but also
to other colors, and if properly blended
the effect Is beautiful.
Yellow Coining Into Favor.
Various shades of yellow are coming
into favor. They appear in laces and
embroideries, also in gowns. Delicate
tinted champagne color is the favorite
of these shades.
Dainty White Frock.
The frock shown here is developed In
white silk with tucked mousseline nnd
point de Venise lace for trimming. The
waist is made over a fitted body lin
ing that closes in the back, and is cut
slightly low at the neck.
The full fronts and backs are gath
ered and arranged over the lining. The
underarm seams are joined separately
nuil tlie silk forms n stylish blouse
over the sash that ties lu a bow at the
left side. A collar of inserted tucking
completes the neck. It Is of unique
shaping, unci gives a broad effect to the
shoulders.
Tlie sleeves are short, full puffs that
are arranged on narrow arm bands
from which depend frills of silk.
The skirt is gathered at the upper
edge nml applied to the body portion,
closing at the back. It Is trimmed with
a gathered flounce that gives a smart
flare to the skirt.
Bands of lace are applied on the
sleeves and at the top of the flounce.
The dress is simple and stylish. It
may be made of lawn, dimity, Swiss,
or any fine wash fabric, and is also ap
propriate for cashmere, albatross, veil
ing or challte. If the collar Is made of
the same material, it may be trimmed
11 ItIUSS FOB A Gilt 1,.
with rows of French knots or featlier
stltehlng.
To make the dress for a girl of eight
years will require three and one-quar
ter yards of twenty-seven-inch mate
rial.