J THE
IAIR
VOLUMINOUS SKIRTS.
As the season advances the skirts
"Of milndy become fuller and fuller.
This the great creators of feminine
fashions across the water have deter
mined upon, and on this side the gowns
of the fashionables already show the
result of their decision.
The voluminous innovation Is partic
ularly noticeable in the evening gowns.
Chiffons and mousseline de sole were
never successful while scantiness was
the vogue, and in soft fabrics the ful
ness is and ever was pretty. To the
slight figure the fall skirt is always be
coming, and even in street costumes
the finest and most supple cloth is
gathered and pleated across the hips.
LEAVES IN THE nAIR.
It Is eminently correct to wear leaves
in one's hair, and apparently many
women are forsaking their tiaras and
crowns for simple green leaves. At
the debutante dances of December
these small cliaplets were extremely
popular, and Mrs. John Jacob Astor
has been seen with her brown hair
clasped by white leaves, tipped with
brilliants. The Jewelers who follow
closoly the approval of the fnshionnble
women are manufacturing silver and
enameled Iqaves, but the simpler silk
bits of trimming are In better taste.
Flowers are not worn in the halt- this
winter, although the holiday season
brought forth the use of holly, and,
with some women, sprigs of mistletoe.
Begonlans are enjoying popularity this
year and some headdresses are made
gay with these waxy flowers. Pink,
however, is not used this year and be
gonial suffer in consequence.—New
York Presi.
THE MAKING OF WOMAN.
Tv. ashtri, the god Vulcan of the Hin
doo mythology, created the world. But
on Ills commencing to make woman
he discovered that witli man he had
exhausted all his creative materials,
and that not one solid element had
been left. This, of course, greatly per
plexed Twashtrl, and caused him to
fall in a profound meditation. When
he arose from it he proceeded as fol
lows:
He took
The roundness of the moon.
The undulating curves of the serpent,
The graceful twist of the creeping
plant,
The light shivering of the grass
A! blade and the slenderness of the wfi-
Hlow,
The velvety softness of the flowers.
The lightness of the feather,
The gentle gaze of the doe.
The frollcsomeness of the dancing
Sunbeam,
The tears of the cloud,
The inconstancy of the wind,
Tho tlmldness of the hare,
The vanity of the peacotk,
The hardness of the diamond,
The sweetness of honey,
The cruelty of the tiger.
The boldness of the lion.
The glance of the sun.
The beat of the fire,
The chill of the snow,
The cackling of the parrot,
The cooing of the turtle dove.
All these he mixed together and
formed woman.
Then he presented her to the man.
+ THE GIRL WHO IS LOVED.
A woman cannot be said to be truly
attractive or popular unless she is
loved and admired by the members
of her own sex, as well as the opposite.
She must be welcomed by all, old and
young, male and female, or she enn
not be called nn attractive woman
without reservation.
She must bo herself, her best self, at
all times and with all people; she must
think and act for herself and express
her own opinions, rather than try to
copy some person she may admire or
who Is admired by the lords of crea
tion. Individuality, when combined
with polite manner and tact, is always
attractive. A woman's happy, infec
tious laugh Is better than medicine or
advice, and her cheery presence is as
welcome as the sunshine.
A girl to be truly popular never says
mean things about other girls thinking
that the men will like her better, and
she doesn't try to monopolize the at
tentions of all the men at once, but Is
willing to let other girls have their
share of admiration and attention
along with her. She doesn't mope and
retreat within herself if there are no
men about to admire her, but she
cheerfully sets about making the best
of matters without them and making
such companions as she has happier
and brighter for her presence.
If she hSs a grievance she keeps It
to herself, for a woman with a griev
ance is very soor voted a bore. The
weeping, fainting, sad-eyed young
woman is very much out of stylo now
adays, not only In novels, but in real
life, and the healthy, happy, independ
ent, cheerful and sunny girl has to
tally* eclipsed her in popularity.—
Alherlcan Queen.
S " HER UNIQUE SCHEME.
An enterprising young woman, who
had had one year's study in Paris and
most earnestly desired another, hit
upon a unique scheme to secure the
wherewithal for It. She rented a room
In one of the great office buildings
whose tenants at noontime are counted
by the huudreds. She paid $25 month-
ly for this room—one of the top floor
offices, having a large window. She
bought half a dozen little, round, un
varnished tables with painted legs and
covered the tops with the soft, bend
able matting that comes round tea
chests and any large dealer is glad to
give away. With excelsior and denim
and two long wooden shoe boxes,
which cost at a shoe store twenty-flve
cents each, and some gilt-headed tacks,
she made two divan-like affairs whose
excelsior-stuffed lids could be raised
to store innumerable things out of
sight. Then with fans, at one and
three cents npiece, and crepe paper
and tea chest matting she covered the
walls; the curtains were of Japanese
paper, and little penny paper umbrel
las wero stuck here and there about
the room. Japanese paper napkins,
plates and cups and saucers and a
three-burner gas stove l>olilnd a screen
completed the outfit. Then the enter
prising young woman announced that
she and, her "tea room" were ready for
business. She served tea, coffee and
cocoa "and all sorts of cold sandwiches.
Soon she had to double and triple the
number of her tables and her dishes,
and almost every man and woman in
the building was her customer. Be
sides the rent, her initial outlay was
only sl2, and before the first month
was over she had covered all the ex
penses for that four weeks and laid by
the rent for the second. She modelled
the "tea room" on one she had seen
while a student in Paris, and after a
busy winter here she had made enough
to go back to that city for her coveted
second year of study.—New York Tri
bune.
WOMEN OF GENIUS.
The history of learned ladles, with
that of their works, is a subject which
awaits the historian. There have been
learned ladies in many ages; one would
like to compare their learning with
that of the scholars, their contempor
aries.
Here arc a few—are their names
familiar, and how many of our renders
would pass an examination In their
works—Hrotsvllha, the tentli century
Terence; Teresa of Spain, Anne Maria
Schurmaun, Antoinette Bourignon of
Flanders, La Mere .Tennnue, Junna
Inez de la Cruz—what about all these
Illustrious dames?
Antoinette Bourignon indited twenty
volumes with her own fair Angers;
Anne Maria Schurmann wrote a philo
sophical treatise proving that the fe
male mind Is as capable of learning
anil of science as that of the other
sex. In these days who would tnke
the trouble either to write or to read
such a treatise? She fell into mystic
ism in her old age and had a strange
passion for eating spiders, but every
thing must be permitted to genius.
Then there was Junna Inez de la
Cruz. She interests one strangely,
because she was a Mexican, and one
lias never before or since heard of any
genius or learning coming from the
quarter between California and Texas
and the Tcrre del Fuego; it is a good,
large tract of country, with a good
many people, among whom there seems
to be neither learning, nor science,
nor art, nor genius. However, Junna
showed the way. While still quite
young she disputed with the scholars
of Mexico on equal terms. She wrote
poems in several quarto volumes. The
critics seem agreed that the lady's
verses are conspicuous for elegance,
but are deficient in energy.
As for La Mere Jeanne, she was a
Venetian and not a poet, but the au
thor of a new system, which she her
self—no one knew the fact so well
as herself—declared to be Inspired. In
tills system she assigned the dominion
of the world to woman iustend of man.
—New York News.
(56X$?Talks About
Wm^nankina^
Women workers are Invading every
lino of employment. The census of
1000 makes returns for 303 separate
occupations, and in only eight of these
do women workers fail to appear.
No one will be surprised that there
ore no women among the soldiers, sail
ors and marines of the United States
Government, yet there are 153 women
employed as "boatmen" and sailors.
Women have not Invaded the ranks
of the city fire department, still not
less than 870 women are returned in
the same general class of "watchmen,
policemen and detectives."
Women have not taken up the em
ployment of telegraph and telephone
"linemen," yet 22,556 of them are op
erators for these companies.
There are no women apprentices and
helpers among the roofers and slaters,
yet two women are returned as en
gaged in these employments.
There are 126 women plumbers, 45
plasterers, 167 bricklayers and stone
masons, 241 paper li ngers, 1750 paint
ers and glaziers and 545 women car
penters and joiners.
No women are returned as helpers
to steam boilermakors, but eight
women work at this industry as full
mechanics. There are 103 women
blacksmiths, 571 machinists, 3370
women workers in iron and steel, 800
in brass and 1T75 women workers in
tin.
Among unusual employments for
women are 100 workers as "lumbermen
and raftsmen," 113 woodchoppers, 373
sawmill employes, 004 "draymen" and
teamsters, 232 undertakers, 143 stone
cutters, 63 "quarrymen," 05 white
washers, 11 well borers and 177 sta
tionary engineers and firemen.
Women are largely employed in the
fish-curing business at Great Y'armoutli
and a great proportion of them come
from Scotland. It has been computed
that of 00,000 Scots who are engaged
in the fishing industry, about a quarter
are women who spend some part of
their time In the curing of fish.
FISH CAKES.
"Wash a small piece of salt codfish,
pick It under water, until there Is half
a cupful, peel and cut In Inch pieces
one cupful of potatoes; put these In a
stow pan and cook until potatoes are
tender, then pour off the water and
mash thoroughly, ndd pepper and salt
to season, beat well with a fork, add
one teaspoon of butter and when
cooled n little add one egg beaten until
light; fry In smoking hot deep fat or
form into cakes and fry In the frying
pan.
PEACn TAPIOCA.
Soak n third of a cupful of tapioca
over night In a cupful of water. In
the morning drain It and cook It In a
quart of water, until it is clear. Then
take It from the fire and season It with
lemon Juice, sugar and salt to taste.
Have ready nine or ten peaches that
have boen stewed until they are ten
der. Plnce tliem In the bottom of a
baking dish and mix the Juice that
comes from tbem with the tapioca.
Turn the tapiocn over the peaches;
plnce in a moderate oven and bake
ten minutes.
SOUFFLE POTATOES.
Peel the potntoes; cut the sides
square, and trim off the corners, so as
to give all oval shape. With one even
cut slice thein one-eighth of an Inch
thick the length of the potato; they
must be all the same shape and size.
Soak them In cold water for half an
hour; dry them on a unpkln, and fry
them In fat which is only moderately
hot until they are soft, but not colored.
Remove and place them on a sieve to
drain nnd cool. Then Immerse them
in hot fat, when they will puff into
balls. Toss the basket nnd remove
any that do not puff. Sprinkle with
salt, and serve them on a napkin or
ns a garnish. . Holland potatoes best
suit this purpose; It Is Impossible to
get the same result with most of the
other varieties.
TEA ROLLS.
One quart of warm milk, one heaping
tablespoonful of lard, salt, one table
spoonful of sugar; have the milk warm
enough to melt the lard, then let It
get lukewarm, and add three-quarters
of a cake of compressed yeast, dis
solved In a little water; stir In flour
enough to mnKo a stiff dough, as for
bread. Let It raise until light, cut it
down nnd ndd two eggs, one-half cup
of butter, one tablespoonful of sugar
and one-quarter tenspoonful of snlcrn
tus; work all Into the dough thoroughly
with tho hands, add flour enough to
nmko a smooth dough; let it raise until
light, and roll out to one-linlf Inch
thickness, cut out with a biscuit cutter
and butter one-half, lap over and put
Into tins; let them raise until light, and
bake in a quick oven.
Mii|l]OUSE^
HOLD
gP IIINTS
Blnelt calico will look like new if
rinsed in very strong bluing water.
Turpentine mixed with tho stove
polish gives an added lustre to the
stove.
Try cleaning the smudged face of a
bisque doll with a soft llunnel moist
cued In butter.
If damp tea leaves are scattered on a
carpet and It Is swept tbey will give
It a fresh, clean look.
Clear boiling water will remove tea
stains. Pour the water through the
stain, and thus prevent It spreading
over the fabric.
New tin dishes are apt to give a dis
agreeable taste to everything placed
lu tliera unless water and ammonia
are first boiled In tbem.
The breakage of lamp chimneys by
the wick being trimmed too high may
be avoided by scratching tho base of
the glass with a glazier's diamond.
To avoid unplensaut odors from the
sink keep a gallon of water In which
n pound of copperas has been boiled
on hand and at intervals clean with
this.
To remove the marks made by
matches, the scratches should first be
rubbed with a slice of lemon, and theu
whiting used, and afterwards washed
with soap aud water.
To eleun greasy dishes and pots and
pans n teuspoonful of kerosene should
he placed la a small panful of luke
warm water. The utensils should then
be thoroughly Bcalded.
Pearls must never he allowed to get
damp, or they will rot; always clean
them with a piece of line cambric,
piamonds, however, should he scalded
with hot water aud then thoroughly
dried.
Soups nnd gravies are richer and
better if the meat and vegetables are
put into the saucepan first with a little
butter, and allowed to cook slowly for
nearly half an hour before adding the
water.
Do those who use ammonia on their
plants remember that ammonia is a
stimulant, not a food? While It is
useful to force iflants into bloom and
growth, after the soil Is exhausted, a
fertilizer must be applied or the plant
Villi use up Its own vitality lu bloom.
; CASH IN ADVANCE.
Country Weeklies Are a. Much Entitled
to It us Magazines.
'A eurioua thing that comes very
forcibly to our notice is the fact that
people never question the requirements
of publishers of most magazines or
newspapers that subscriptions must be
paid in advance, while with the local
or country paper the great majority
seldom pay in advance. And yet, the
country or local, paper is far more in
need of the money than are the great
dailies nnd magazines. The latter have
capital back of them, while the country
paper usually has to struggle to get
enough to carry on its business. We
wonder if there are any of our sub
scribers to whom it would make any
particular difference if tlicy paid their
subscription in advance. It would only
be a small amount to each subscriber,
but to the publisher it means the loss
of the use of the total subscriptions of
all subscribers and much time In col
lecting. In the case of the Independ
ent it amounts to many hundred dol
lars. Dear readers, would it not be a
good idea for each of you who are in
the habit of waiting a year or more
before paying for your pnper to put
in practice the golden rule, so often
quoted but seldom practiced, of doing
as you would be done by, nnd send in
your year's subscription? We think,
and the testimony of many is, that we
are furnishing you an excellent paper.
There is no other pountry paper thnt
excels the Independent. Do you not
think you ought to treat us ns well as
you do the publishers of the maga
zines? We are offering you extraordi
nary inducements in our special club
bing rates for you to pay up, but if
you do not want any of the publica
tions wo hope you will kindly consider
the justice of our statement nnd remit
your subscription for one year.—Ham
burg (N. Y.) Independent.
WISE WORDS.
We wish for more in life rather than
more of it.—Jean Ingelow.
He serves his party best who serves
his country best.—Hayes.
Oblivion is the rule and fame the ex
ception of humanity.—Rivarol.
The end of a dissolute life is com
monly a desperate death.—Blon.
There are more men ennobled by
study than by nature.—Cicero.
They that stand high have many
blasts to shake them. —Shakespeare.
Suffering is the surest means of mak
ing us truthful to ourselves.—Sismondi.
He hath a poor spirit who is not
planted above petty wrongs.—Feltham.
I know no method to secure the re
peal of bad or obnoxious laws so ef
fectual as their strict construction.—
Grant.
Truly, there is a tide in the affairs
of men, but there Is no gulf stream,
setting forever in one direction.—
Lowell.
If one easily pnrdons and remits of
fenses it shows that his mind is plant
ed above injuries, so that he cannot
be reached.—Bacon.
Man's happiness consists in present
pence, even in the midst of the grentest
trials, and In more than hope 4 of a
glorious future.—Charles G. Gordon.
We ought to do our neighbor all the
good we can. If you do good, good
will be done to you; but if you do evil,
the same will be measured back to you
again.—Pilpay.
We should always have in our heads
one free and open corner, where we
can give place, or lodging, as they pass,
to the ideas of our friends. It really
becomes unbearable to converse with
men whose brains are divided up into
well-filled pigeon-holes whereinto noth
ing can enter from the outside. Let us
have hospitable hearts and minds.—
Joubert.
The Feats of Chicken Fanciers*
The American Standard of Perfec
tion, as drafted and copyrighted by the
American Poultry Association, con
tains the names of 110 varieties of
fowls, 115 of which are due to the de
velopment of man. God made only
one—a'homely, wild thing, which made
its home in the jungle along with the
rest of primeval creation. By intelli
gent breeding fanciers have produced
fowls of all sizes, from the diminutive
bautam to the mammoth brouze tur
key; one a tiny bit of feathered vanity,
weighing only a few ounces, and the
other a bulky fowl weighing from
forty to sixty pounds—as much ns a
half-grown boy. Results equally won
derful have been accomplished in color
effects. There are varieties iu red,
black, brown nnd white, with nearly
all possible combinations, beside buff
aud Andalusian blue. The fanciers
have shown that they can lace, stripe,
spangle or bar the feathers of their
birds iu any way to satisfy their indi
vidual fancy. In fact, about all they
have left undone is to put their iuitials
on the feathers of their birds.—Leslie's
Monthly.
The Badger aa a Fireman.
A badger, which had made its home
among the granite cliffs, dealt wltli the
fire god with sagacity and skill, says
Nature. A friend, while painting a
sea piece discovered a badger's lair,
nnd thought lo play the animal a prac
tical joke. Gathering together a bun
dle of grass nnd weeds he placed it in
side the mouth of the hole, and igniting
it -with a match waited for the igno
minious flight of the astonished house
holder. But Master Badger was a re
sourceful animal, and not disposed to
be made a butt of practical jokers. lie
came up from the depths of his hole
as soon as the penetrating smoke told
him thnt there was a tire on the prem
ises and deliberately scratched on the j
burning grass with his strong claws |
until all danger was past. No human I
being could have grasped the situation I
more quickly, or displayed greater skill j
In dealing with an unfamiliar event. [
CATARRH THIRTY YEARS.
jj ' CONGRESSMAN MEKKIBON OF jj
S .V.VW.V.V.VAV.V.W.W. VA'.VAV.V.W.V.W.V.VAV. 5
Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his own State, but throughout
America. He began his political career by serving four consecutive terms as Mayor
of the town in which he lives, during which time he became widely known as the
founder of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon, Ohio. He was elected to the Fifty
fifth Congress bv a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party
in his section of the State.
Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman.
Catarrh, with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp, was his only unconquered
foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy.
At last Peruna came to the rescue, aud he dictated the following letter to Dr. Hart
man as the result:
■■ "I have used several bottles of Peruna and 1 /eel greatly bene- ■
JJb fltcd thereby /rotn my catarrh of the head. 1 feel encouraged to be- " B
■J lieve that if 1 use it a short time longer Iwill be fully able to crad
*■ icate the disease of thirty years' standing—David Meekison. <
3j Member of (ongress. J
S/AWf.'.VV.W.V.V.VWAV.WAW.V/AW.V.V.V.V.V.VV
riUIE season of catching cold is upon us.
_L The cough and the sneeze and the
naeal twang-are to be heard on every
hand. The origin of chronic catarrh, the
most common and dreadful of diseases, is a
cold.
This is the way the chronic catarrh gen
erally begins. A person catches cold,
which hangs on longer than usual. The
cold generally starts in the head and
throat. Then follows sensitiveness of the
air passages which incline one to catch
cold very easily. At last the person has a
cold all the while seemingly, more or less
discharge from the nose, hawking, spitting,
freqnent clearing of the throat, nostrils
up, full feeling in tlie head, and
sore, inflamed throat.
The best time to treat catarrh is at
the very beginning. A bottle of Peruna,
properly used, never fails to cure a com-
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Oldest Type of Living Animals.
The tuatara, the curious lizard of
New Zealand Islands, is supposed to
represent the oldest living type of ani
mals in the world, and is of further in
terest as being the first vertebrate in
which was discovered a survival of an
eye of invertebrate kind in addition to
the ordinary seeing organs. The third
eye has more recently been found by
its original discoverer, Dr. Dendy, in
another New Zealand creature. This
is the Now Zealand lamprey, a favorite
food of the Maoris, and the third eye,
covered with thin skin and probably
of no present use for seeing, is exactly
on top of the head. Dr. Dendy be
lieves that far hack in tho earth's his
tory this eye was one of a pair of use
ful ones, both the lamprey and the
tuatara having then two eyes on the
back of tho head. In the tuatara it
Is the left eye that still remains, but
In the lamprey it Is the right one.
mon cold, thus preventing chronic catarrh.
While many people have been cured of
chronic catarrh by a single bottle of Pe
ru na, yet, us a rule, when the catarrh
becomes thoroughly fixed more than one
bottle is necessary to complete a cure.
Peruna has cured cases innumerable of
catarrh of twenty years' standing. It is
the best, if not the only internal remedy
for chronic catarrh in existence.
Put prevention is far better than cure.
Every person subject to catching cold
should take Peruna at once at the slightest
symptom of cold or sore throat at this
season of the year and thus prevent what
is almost certain to end in chronic ca
tarrh.
Send for free book on catarrh, entitled
"Winter Catarrh," by Dr. Ilartman.
"Health and lleauty" sent free to women
only.
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H W ™UNION MADE
t " IV. L. Doufjfns makes and sof'3
mora mcn'o Goodyczr Wait (Hand-
Scwatl Procosr.) shoes Shan any other
manufacturer In tho world.
$25,000 EEWAED
will be paid to anyono who e :: .~
can disprove tills statement.
Because W. L. Douglas Nv*
isthelargestmanufacturer
he can buy cheaper and "/
produce his shoes nt a /</<
lower cost than other eon- , r
corns, which enables him
to sell shoos for $3.50 and t
way to sold clsZ /
and $3 shoos are wo in by thousands of men who
have been paying $4 and £s,not believing they
could got a first-class slvoo for £3.50 or $3.00.
110 has convinced them that the stylo, fit,
and wear of his $3.60 and $3.00 shoos is just
as good. Givo them atrial and save money.
.Notice Increase I'ISOO itales:
lu IliMltie.i: \|fo2S:ilf*: *.7,0*J4.:40,00
A gatnors,fltjo. iro.7n in Four Years.
W. L. DOUGLAS 54.00 CILT EDGE LINE,
Worth SS.OO Compared with Other Makes.
ror!,-:! tin I Ameriri m leathers, Hcul'a
Patent Calf. Enamel, Box Calf, Calf. Vlcl Kid. Corona
Colt, and National Kanrjaroo. Fast Color Eyelets.
Pailfinn • The ° nu J ne . have W. L. DOUOLAB
UdUlldll • name and price ntnmped on bottom.
.-Shoes l>v mod. V..C. extra. Wat. Cat a 100 free.
W. 1.. DOK.I.AS, IIIKOUKTON, AIASS.