Tatches In Fashion. Patches are said to be coming back 'into fashion. Their precursor are the veils with one little mouche only, which the wise woman makes to settle on the side of her cheek, and In Paris they are selling the mouches ready to put on with names borrowed from the long ago when they were the mode. A Now Sklu Beaatlfler. The girls of the South are claiming the credit of introducing a new skin beautifier—strawberry juice. They add tt to their face creams or use it in a natural state to give color to the L cheeks. They use the fresh fruit in f* season and the preserved berries, in which no sugar was used, when the fresh crop fails. The acid of the berry bleaches the skin and refines It as well. The lack of pin money has driven many an ingenious woman to find sub stitutes for the toilet articles they could not afford, and in this case the makeshift expedient has proved better than the best product of the chemist's art. Her Market Diagram. "I always thought that the funny stories one reads about Mrs. Younglius* band and her housekeeping and mar keting troubles were all nonsense," said a young married woman recently, "until I tried it for myself. I don't know, of course, whether New York is a particularly hard place for the L housekeeper or not, but my own expe -2 cience would seem to teadh me that it is. \ "Now, for instance, I thought I knew a good deal about meat, and so I've done my own marketing for some time. And, if you'll believe me, we've had the worst meat I ever ate in my life. Whj', Mac said the other night if we < ver had such chops for dinner again that he would cat down town at the club. "Well, that settled it. I swallowed my pride and wrote home to mother. And what do you think the dear thing did? She sent me a little diagram of a cow with the parts that were good for roasts and all the other things nicely marked, so that the butchers can't de ceive me any more. "So, now when I go marketing I take my little diagram along and order from that. And I look so wise that they don't dare to give me a shoulder when ask for a rib. But I don't know what j In the world I should do without it." Little Hair Noreltles. And this is what the French sny will be worn this winter. The shoulder curl. The high round pompadour. Corkscrew curls upon the temples. A very low knot In the back of the ■neck, set in curls. Or a very high colffuro threatening to come foi-Ward Into the pompadour. Qrnamcnts of all kinds, from dla dertis to waxen fruit. Ribbons in knots and windmills and flowers. Autumn leaves arranged to make wreaths. Golden rod in little sprays. Thoy also say that the feathery algret will be seen and the ornament that combines jewels and fluff In one of those strange creations that top the \ffoiffure of the women who attend court I balls. ' The three feather coiffure is one that (s worn only for a special occasion, as It is too distinctively a court headdress to he worn generally. Then, besides these styles, which are the conventional ones, there are numer ous coiffures that are worn at the head dress dinners, and when it comes to these fancy runs riot and there are as many different designs as there are heads to wenr them. For the head dross dinner there Is only one rule, namely, that the style selected be ad hered to and that the headdress be what is known as "faithful." The Eliznbcthnn roll would not do at all with tlie modernized Victorian bang nor would ihe parted hair of the Pris cllla days be in accord with the Janice Meredith curl. One must he consistent throughout, or the headdress will not a success from the historical point of view. Th Kmprn.H Iowacor of China. The hand shaking of the Empress was not a perfunctory function, for she shook Ihe hand of each person and looked keenly into her eyes, and dis tinctly separated her from her kind. She has that rare possession of so much charm in woman, a soft, caressing voice, supplemented by an engaging smile, an eager, observing alertness of expression and a noticeably gentle touch. This formality over, she left the throne and all its formal greatness, and came down among the children of men with a true housewifely interest in the comfort and pleasure of her guests. Of course chief favors were - shown the wives of the Ministers as JI the first ranking ladles present, but she \lid not forget those of lesser fame, and was particularly attentive to children. Her first duty was to see that we were served tea In a little drawing room leading off from the throne room. She was attended by about twenty-five princesses, and, from the Empress Dowager down, it was a beautiful pic ture of Oriental splendor and beauty. The Empress Dowager was dressed in the national costume, consisting of a long, loose, sack-like garment reaching from the neck to within about three inches of the floor, over which is worn a short sleeveless jacket. They were made of blue satin exquisitely embroid ered all over in figures of butterflies, bats, characters in gold denoting long life, and flowers, all In harmonizing colors. Her hair was dressed in the Manchttrian extension fashion, and adorned with dozens of pearls of vary ing sizes, from a penny down to a pin head. Her feet were prettily dressed in the embroidered Manchurian shoes perched on brackets so that she seemed taller than she really was, for she can not be quite live feet tall. None of the ladies had small feet. The younger la dles wore differently colored gowns of the same style as the Empress's, with large clusters of brightly colored flow ers in their hair, and, with only a few exceptions in the case of widows their faces were most artistically painted, a study in pink and white, with a single red spot on the lower lip. The effect of this kaleidoscopic coloring can better lie Imagined than described. Belle Vinnedge Drake, in the Century. ff—fSovdor Chat Queen Alexandra is an expert dress maker. As a girl she was obliged to do much of her own sewing. Women's clubs from Saltillo, Mexico, and Shanghai, China, have applied for membership in the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Sarah Bernhardt is fifty-eight years old and does not sidestep when asked her age. Her chief hope is to live to be a grent-grundmotlier. Dr. Illna Mnstio has been elected pro fessor of anatomy at the University of Milan, the first Italian school to ap point a woman to a professorship. Eight young Chinese women of the highest circles in Klangsu have been sent to Japan for a three-years' educa tion. It is the first known oase of the kind. JHs. Mary L. Morrow, who recently died in Morrlstown, N. J., at the age of ninety, was the last survivor of the fifty flower girls who took part in the reception to General Lafayette at Mor rlstown, in 1825. Mrs. Stanley Spencer, of England, is the first woman to navigate an airship. She sailed one successfully around a London polo ground the other day and was warmly congratulated by Conan Doyle and other famous men who wit nessed the feat. Mrs. lborg, an energetic St. Louis woman, headed a band of ladies re cently In the tnsk of sweeping a certain street there. This they did as a lesson to the Street Commissioners. The lat ter, however, may prefer to regard it merely as a precedent, Bfi)(£LEAN!NGS Clk. -v from TdE.- g^SiSriops Ornate sleeves will be the rule. Skirts are to cling to the knees. All coats and blouses boast basques. Fichu effects continue good for a low neck finish. There seems to be no end to the strapping designs. Wide sleeves are on everything from cloaks to negliges. Turban shapes in many variations figure in the new hats. As usual, fancy colors distinguish the fall and winter corsets. Emerald green and golf green are very fashionable shades. Most Bkirts are finished with from one to three flared flounces. Black roses play an important role in the early autumn millinery When showy effects are desired em broidery is brought into play. So far the new corsets are long cn the hips, to give a slender effect. Black liberty silk roses veiled with tulle make a lovely facing for a hat brim. Flat hip trimmings are continued down to the knees. These usually dip at the from. Series of folds, either double, like a tuck, or with a stitched lower edge, are much liked. Many of the prettiest hats are made of alternating folds of silk and net of silk and chiffon. The vogue of things that crawl is shown by such names as serpent green and the snake curl. Close-fltting one-piece skirts may serve well when the part below the knees Is added in a flare. Most sleeves show some flat trim ming nt the top and the baggy part usually ends above a cuff. White china silk makes a lovely tea gown. In a quality that will wash well it gives splendid service White Irish crochet lace with black velvet baby ribbon and embroidery added is noted on a new dress. HINTS ABOUT HOUSEKEEPING' Home-Ma<le Shoe l'oll.lior. If you have any bits of velveteen, make up into bags about four Inches wide, and seven or eight inches long. Stuff with rags or wadding, and the bags make a splendid polisher for glace kid boots or shoes, etc. How to Keep Ice. To keep ice, put it in a deep dish or jug, cover it with a plate and place the vessel on a pillow stuffed with feathers and cover the top with another pillow, by this means excluding the external air. Feathers are well known bad conductors of heat, and in couse quence the ice Is preserved from melt ing. Ice may be so preserved for six or eight days. The plan Is simple and within the reach of every household. To Remove Stains From Linen. Tar may be removed from linen by rubbing the stain with butter and then washing it out with warm water and turpentine. Paint and varnish come out with turpentine. Ink and almost any stain that will not come out by the methods given may be removed by weak oxalic acid and lemon juice. Dis solve a tablespoonful of oxalic acid and one of lemon juice in a pint of rain water and keep it on baud in a bottle. As soon as the spots are removed, wash out the stain mixture in clear cold water. System In Housework. The good housewife makes plans over night for the work which must be done the following day Probably a considerable share of it falls to a spe cial day in each week, but there will be a number of things to do which are out of the regular routine, and for these she must plan so that she will not have them all crowding upon her at once and cither being neglected because they are so many or taken in hand and carried through at the cost of health and spirits. A desire for economy sometimes will incite a woman to a most foolish ex penditure of energy, which is really a very bad kind of extravagance. For instance, she has been particularly busy all day and is feeling tired, when in comes a neighbor who tells her of the great flannel sale. In a moment she thinks of little Popsy's flannel pet ticoats—the child really must have new ones—and oil she rashes to secure the material and returns, delighted to have got it nt a few pennies under the usual price. As a matter of fact, that flannel was a dear purchase. It was like the proverbial straw which broke the camel's back, for the next day the housewife is either moping about, feel ing incapable of work, or she Is pros trated with a severe headache. Plan ning would save this kind of thing, and prevent the crowding into one day the work of two. In planning and estimating a day's work some allowance should always bo made for interruptions and for the work taking longer than was nntiei patcd. With too many "Irons In the fire" such hindrances as a visitor or having to console a crying child in some little trouble make it difficult to keep that calm, sweet temper-whlch is necessary to the woman who is not merely the mainspring of the machin ery of the household, but its good an gel, who makes it home indeed to all who dwell there.—Washington Star. FGJFR RECIPES : | Rico With Cbeese—Stenm ®r boll one cupful of rice until tender; cover the bottom of a buttered pudding dish with the cooked rice, sprinkle dots of butter over; sprinkle with grated cheese; add a dnsh or two of cayenne pepper; alternate these layers until the rice is used and about one-quarter pound of cheese; pour over one and a half cups of milk and spread over the top buttered bread crumbs; put In a quick oven and bake until crumbs are brown. Spanish Pickles—Slice thinly one peck of tomatoes, also slice four onions; sprinkle one cupful of salt over these alternate layers anil let stand over night; in the morning drain and put in a preserving kettle; add one table spoon of cloves, one ounce of allspice berries, half an ounce of pepper corns, one-half cup of brown mustard seed, one pound of brown sugar, four green peppers finely chopped; and vinegar enough to cover; bring slowly to the boiling point and boil thirty minutes; fill jars. Beef Boll—To two pounds of chopped beef from the top or under round add one teaspoon of salt, a little pepper, one tablespoon of lemon juice, a little lemon rind, one tablespoon of chopped parsley; beat two eggs a little; add them to the meat, shape in a roll ten inches long; lay the meat on a buttered paper; put this in a pan and bake forty five minutes in a moderate oven; baste several times with a little melted but ter and dripping mixed; savory, thyme and onion juice may be used for a change instead of lemon juice and rind. jcieMMS A cotton company of Philadelphia has acquired a tract of land In the Transvaal. It is said that experiments have shown that cotton can be grown much cheaper in South Africa than In this country. A trade paper says, in answer to • correspondent, that the felt cloth of which hats are made is composed chiefly of the hair of rabbits, hares or goats, mixed with wool. These sub stances are thoroughly mixed together, and are then pressed and beaten until they adhere and form a compact, but flexible, material. The trade between Jerusalem and Kerak has greatly increased, and the number of tourists also. So the monks have organized a company, and the first motor-boat is soon to move over the waters of the Dead Sea, which have not been used for transit for centuries. The boat lias the suggestive name of Prodromos, "The Fore runner." An experiment that may result in a permanent lowering of the price of meat is now making in northern Florida. The waste lands that extend around the gulf to the Teche country of Louisiana are being utilized for cattle-raising. Summer droughts and winter blizzards make the western country an expensive and often doubt ful field for this Industry. The present high price of meat is in part, to the drought of a year ago, in which whole herds perished. On the Gulf lands there would be no such hazard ous conditions. A schooner has just returned to San Francisco after a six months' voyage to the coast of South America, bring ing news of the discovery of a gold mine that will rival the famous Tread well mine of Alaska. It is on an Island off the coast, but the discoverers will not tell Its exact situation, because they have not yet secured a conces sion to work It. The ore in the mine, of which the schooner brought nearly a ton In specimens. Is of fair grade, and It is snid that there Is nu immense quantity of It. The mine is so easily reached from the const that it will bo simply a proposition of quarrying it out. The appearance of a new star In the constellation Perseus, and its rapid ex pansion into a nebula, which has been going on for some time past, have revived among astronomers the theory that some nebulae may be formed by explosion. About 1870, Professor Blckerton', of Canterbury College, New Zealand, showed thnt, if two stars should graze one another, the abraded parts, If relatively small, would liavo so high a temperature thnt they would at once become nebulous, and that the nebula so formed would, under certalu conditions, continue to expand until dissipated In space. The present ex panding nebula has been growing at the extraordinary rate of several thou sand miles a second, and is in many ways, one of the greatest celestial wonders of the time. The only place In the world where that form of carhon known as the black diamond, or bort, is found in innrketablo quantities is in Bahia, in South America. The substance is used for points for stone drills and saws, nnd Is powdered and used to polish diamonds and other precious stones. There Is a wide and growing demand for It. The black dinmond Is found with the ordinary diamonds in the Bahia fields, nnd brings about ten dollars a carat. The largest carbon ever found weighed 3150; it was bought from the miner for ¥10,000; wns afterwards purchased for $23,000; and was sent to Paris, where It was broken up and sold to the trade. The average size is about six carats. The annual output Is decreasing as the de mand grows lnrger, and the price Is mounting. It is probably only a ques tion of time when a black diamond combination will be formed to work the small area with modern machinery. The present methods are very primi tive. The Abbey'. Funeral Roll. Some notable names have been added to the roll call of the Abbey under Dean Bradley. Charles Darwin, Arch bishop French—himself once Dean of Westminster—ltoberi Browning, Alfred Tennyson nnd William Ewart Glad stone are among the names that have been added to the burial roll of tho Ab bey under Dean Bradley's supervision, and nobody will quarrel with them. It will surprise many people, perhaps, to know that oidy ten persons have been burled in the Abbey in the last twenty years, and that only two of these were women—Lady Louisa Per cy and Mrs. Gladstone. Those, with two poets, two architects, an arch bishop, a scientist, a queen's printer and a statesman, complete the roll of the great dead who have been buried in Westminster Abbey since Dr. Brad ley became Dean.—SL James' Gazette. Som# Good Advice. The country editor should not fail to realize the influence he may exer cise in the shaping of public affairs, says the Spirit Lake (Iowa) Beacon. He should counsel wisely, read care fully, thin-k deliberately and express himself in no haphazard fashion. The editor of a country paper who delivers half-baked opinions and slashes around simply to attract attention, Is account able for a serious waste, of oppor tunity. j||v *~-TTiiT-i-n 1 —vw .-."re ■. ■ yrcs • -.ft; - . ,---i New York City.—Monte Carlo coats are in the height of style and are emi nently comfortable as well as smnrt. This excellent model is adapted to taf- MONTE CARLO COAT. feta, pongee, etamine, linen and all the season's fabrics, but as shown is of black taffeta with a collar of heavy twine colored lace over one of silk and a finish of straps stitched with corti celli silk. The coat is semi-fitted and includes shoulder, nnder-arm and centre back seams that give a curve which is ex ceedingly becoming. The sleeves are in bell shape and are opened at the back for a few inches from the edge. The neck is finished with a narrow shaped collar that crosses at the centre front and to which are attached the double flat cape collars that flare apart G KOBE. at the centre hack. Over the seams and edges are applied straps of the material and the coat is closed by means of buttons and loops, but the straps can be omitted and the edges simply stitched and the closing can be made invisibly by means of a fiy if preferred. To cut this coat in the medium size six and three-quarter yards of material twenty-one inches wide, six and a quarter yards twenty-seven inches wide, two nnd three-quarter yards for ty-four inches wide or two and five eighth yards fifty inches wide will be required. Womun'fl Lounging Hob*. Pretty and attractive negligees bo long in every woman's wardrobe and are economical as well as useful and comfortable, inasmuch as nothing is more extravagant than lounging in a gown designed for other uses. The stylish model shown in the large draw ing is admirable iu many ways and Is suited to a variety of materials, lawn dimity and tho like, challie, albatross veiling and similar light weight wools; but as shown is of pale blue lawn with trimming of white embroidery and blue louisiue ribbons. The robe is simply made with a smooth fitting yoke, that can he cut high or square neck, to which tho full front and the Watteau-like back are attached. The back is gathered and hangs loose and tho under-arm gores curve gracefully to the figure. The front is gathered to the yoke and closes invisibly at the left side. The elbow sleeves are gathered at the lower edges nnd are finished with graduated frills, but the long sleeves are In bishop style witli straight narrow cuffs. To out this robe in the medium size ten nnd a half yards of material twenty-seven inches wide, ten yards thirty-two inches wide or five and a half yards forty-four 'vohes wide will be required, with foui and a half yards of embroidery and one nnd a half yards of insertion and two and a half yards of narrow edging to trim as il lustrated; or half yard of tucking, two and a half yards of embroidery nnd three and a quarter yards of insertion when large high neek aud long sleeves are clesircd. Autumn Hate. The most fashionable liatterß ar# showing the latest shapes of felt hats, all trimmed with rich, heavy Roman sill; scarfs, wide, and in Persian tints as well as Roman stripes in many tints. These are wound around the erown and caught into a large, artistic rosette near the front, a little to one side or the other, through which Is thrust an ornamental quill. These lints are in white and all the mode tints, and are extremely smart. Pliable Corsets; All the materials used in corset mat ing are of the softest, most supple character, those hard, highly dressed coutils being things of the far past. A very popular fancy is a pin line colored stripe on a white ground, or black on a white ground is accounted essentially smart. Summer Clothes In Winter. The fashion of wearing thin summer clothes in the house iu midwinter that came in last year will still obtain, so that many elaborately beautiful uew effects in embroidered and appliqued muslins and batistes are now being offered for autumn use. Seen on Waists. Pin tucks are seen on many waist# and some of them are entirely tucked, oven the collar and cuffs.' Veil of Distinction. In these days of fancy bordered veil# there are none that have quite the distinction of the chiffon veil with the simple hemstitched border. Woman's lSox Pleated Slilrt. Box pleats appear to gain in fa voir week by week and are seen in the latest and best designs. This stylish waist shows them to advantage and is suited to all waisting materials, cotton, linen, silk and wool, but as illustrated is of white butcher's linen and is worn with a tie and belt of black Liberty satin. The original is unlined, but the fitted foundation is an improvement ta wools and silks. The lining is smoothly fitted by means of single darts, shoulder, under arm and centre back seams, and ex tends to the waist line only. The waist proper consists of fronts and back and is fitted by means of shoulder and un der-nrm seams. The back is plain and is drawn down in gathers at the waist line: but the fronts are laid in box pleats, that are stitched flat to yoke depth, and can he gathered at the waist line or left free to be adjusted to the figure as preferred* The sleeves are in regulation style with straight square cuffs and at the neck is a stock collar. The closing is effected by means of but tons and buttonholes worked in the centre box pleat. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and three quarter yards twenty-one inches wide, „UX I UKATJZD SKIRT WAIST. three and five-eighth yards twenty seven inches wide, three yards thirty two 'inches wide or two yards forty* four inches wide.
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