r WHAT THE GLASS SAYS. The average woman has a looking fclass- attached to her dressing-table, and from that glass it is that she gets a general idea of her appearance. Now ten chances to one the glass is in a bad light, and in consequence the woman who is looking in it sees her self as a beautiful creature to whom improvements are unnecessary. In nine cases out of ten she does not even trouble to take a side' or back ' view of her head, but imagines that the Whole of her person is looking as smart and well-set as her looking-glass told i her she wns. f A long mirror and a hand-glass ought ' to be a necessity of every well-dressed woman, and it should invariably be placed in the strongest possible light. This may make her wince as the years go by, but it will tend to make her careful, and more apt to keep from other people what the glass tells her. Every woman has one side of her face less pleasing than the other—as a rule it is the right side—and a woman should make it her business to devote time and trouble in coaxing and con tinual care, in order to make it as at tractive as possible. MODISII LINGERIE. The sheer daintiness of the lingerie Is one of the salient features of the toilet of the modern woman. The new est offerings for spring show unusual ./taste and beauty in their designs, car ried out in the sheerest stuffs, adorned with hand embroidery, lace, needle work or beading run with wash ribbon, they are the embodiment of attrac tiveness. ... In night robes the Empire slgipe is a great favorite, and is developed in India linon, longcloth, cambric, nain sook, maznlen or wash silk, elaborated With Swiss embroidery tucks, Valen ciennes or Mechlin lace. For petticoats several styles are pop ular—silk, sateen, moreen, and, of course, the wash skirt of white. One pretty silk underskirt was created from lavender taffeta; adorned with point de Paris cambric with Hamburg edging it makes a serviceable skirt, but, while more durable, it is less .dainty than the India linon ones, with sheer Swiss embroidery. ■The majority of the most desirable mo reen skirts now have an extra over ruffle of black taffeta that may be but- Itoned on at pleasure. * * * The cut and bang of the new draw ers are unusually good. Fitting per fectly around the liips, tlioy hang just like a short skirt at the bottom. They lire fashioned from the same soft stuffs used In making other lingerie, and are (quite as variedly and attractively Itrlmmed with lace and ribbons. Ex ceedingly dainty ones are made of mninsook,, and Meclilin insertion and edging. Torchon lace is very pretty, Itoo, or frills of the nainsook, edged iwith narrow Valenciennes, is used. The disposition this season seems to be to trim corset covers all over. Not only the neck and arroholes, as former ly, but the entire front and back are a !? mass of lace or sheer Swiss embroid ery latticings, ribbon-run beading, etc. ... Sleeveless nightgowns in chemise style, that may lie slipped on over the bead, are novelties for very warm weather, but are not apt to he general ly popular. * • • Sleeves on lingerie are full or elbow length, bishop style, with narrow bands or flowing sleeves, with the lower edge in fancy outline and fin ished with lace frills.—Philadelphia Record. OLD MAIDS WHO MARRIED. Long ago the silly odium that at tached to old mnidshlp disappeared, but even iii the days when popular potion made a spinster of forty a hope less old maid, records show that there (was no ago limit to matrimonial hopes. For Instance, so long ago as 1774 , Miss Jane Hodgson, of Stepney, Eng land, wns wedded to Henry Ilulton, of the same place. An account of the Bffnlr continues: "The bride, who had once been noted for her beauty, and had, so it is said, Refused lovers by the score, had reach led her ninety-second summer, nnd the ibridegroom, who had vainly offered fier bis band nnd heart seventy years earlier, was two years older." More remarkable was the wedding f John Jackson and Annie Bates on (March 22, 1790, the 101 st birthday of (the bridegroom, who was three years plder than the bride. It was bis fourth marriage within two years, nnd 10,000 persons escorted the couple to the icburch. A youth of nineteen, n son of Mr. IGravcs, of Bnlcock-on-llerts, married "Mistress Lake, spinster, aged seven ty," April 20, 1731, nnd in August of (the same year, at Bath, Captain Ham ilton, aged thirty, married Miss Man son, a blushing bride of rank, fortune and eighty-five years. More tuan half a century ago a York. Shire belle who had so many suitors she could not choose among them, told ono of the most persistent that if he would ask her fifty years later she would marry.him. Ho waited loyally and faithfully for the fiftieth anniver sary and she, too, kept lier word. A celebrated French artist who fell in love in his student days, was told by the maiden that she would never marry so long as hei mother lived. They waited half a century before tliey were united. Only two years ago r. wealthy maiden lady in a Midland county pro | vlded a delightful sensation by rnarry -1 ing the curate of her parish church, j a young man exactly sixty years her i junior. All astonishing feature of this marriage was that as a girl the aged bride bad been engaged to the curate's grandfather, and perhaps it was the memory of tills ancient romance which inspired a sentimental regard for the youthful clerygmau, who under other conditions might have been her own grandson. Not long ago a maiden lady of over seventy created considerable sensation in the West country by marrying her eoaeli man. She promptly dissipated any idea that it might ho a match of sentiment by settling an annuity on her husband on condition that he never came within twenty miles of her house, and by letting it be known that she had only married in order to spite her nephews and nieces with whose conduct she was displeased and who through her marriage would lose the reversion of her estates. — New York World. mm Covdofr Sl§£ Chat There are six women letter-carriers in the United State 3. They are all in the rural delivery service. The Queen of Saxony's hobby is "sweet charity." She has founded nu merous orphanages, sanitariums, schools and homes. The Quest set of pearls in England, besides those of Queen Alexandra, are owned by the Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Consuelo Yanderbilt. Mine. Charcot, the widow of France's greatest physician, is com pelled to rent rooms in her house in order to make both ends meet. The mother of King Alfonso of Spain is an accomplished billiard play er. Previous to her marriage she was champion of the Austrian court. The cleverest artist among royalties is undoubtedly the Czarina. Her power lies in caricature, and she has depicted the Czar and many diplomats in all kinds of humorous situations. A woman's club in Switzerland some time ago introduced the custom in sev eral cities of giving an elegant diploma to servants who have remained in one place a given time. Last year more than 10U0 of these diplomas wero given. | Some up-to-date business women are among the descendants of Charles Dickens. The literary bout appears in one of his granddaughters, but to gain an income until literature be comes remunerative Miss Mary An gela Dickens, for that is her name, manages a shirt waist shop. Miss Ethel Dickens is the proprietor of a typewriting establishment in London, and a third sister is secretary in the London School Board of Health. Miss Minnie Bronson occupies a unique position for a woman. She has just been appointed superintendent of elementary and secondary education for the Louisiana Purchase Exposi tion. This will be the third position of llie kind for her to occupy. She was first assistant in the department of education and social economy at the Paris Exposition. She transferred the exhibit to the Pan-American and had charge of It there, being at the same time assistant superintendent of the department of liberal arts. Before be coming an expert in exposition work Miss Bronson taught mathematics in the high school of St. Paul, ,y^K..Ig4NCIES} • Bonnets for elderly women are very low and broad. The latest new skirt shown Is one eoniposed of three flounces from waist to bottom. Many of the prettiest of the new hats are made of alternating folds of silk and net or silk and chiffon. A vest of embroidery in blues or dull orange linen is exceedingly effective and smart for a bise voile gown. Changeable silk linings are the prop er thing for nearly all gowns, both tailor-made and more dressy gowns. Light gray English friezes or Scotch homespun are the correct style for the Norfolk jacket walking suits at pres ent. Figured nnd shot effects in velveteen are considered much smarter for young girls' coats and skirt costumes than the plain. Little gilt pins that securely clasp the how worn low on the back of the hair in the new low coiffure are among the novelties. The proper angle for the hat aigrette Is lying ou top of the crown from the back toward the front, not standing In military fashion, as formerly. To be dressed in the height of fash ion a woman must have a hat to match eacli gown, an nll-hlaek hat and a most perishable but extremely smart white hat. "Down In front" seems to be the watchword of the neckwear world, as the fronts of the most desirable stocks show longer and more elaborate bishop effects than ever. TO CLEANSE VEILS. Steaming is the best process for cleaning veils. Wind the veil carefully with edegs even around a piece of broom handle, lay across a boiler or saucepan of water and steam for three quarters of an hour. Leave on the broom handle until dry, and all the dirt and dust will be gone, giving a new stiffness. THE GUEST ROOM. In preparing a room for a guest, If only for a few days, do not neglec't to place a variety of books at his disposal. If there is no bookshelf in the room books and magazines should, be placed on a low table near the window. Many a visitor has gone through tortured, sleepless nights in a strange house, | with not a line of reading matter to be I got at. CARE OF LAMI* WICKS. If a lamp wick sticks or will not move up and down easily, draw one or two of the threads from one side. In extinguishing the flame of a lamp never blow straight down upon it, but across it. The wick should first be turned far down. Again, when trim ming the wick, do not cut off the brown tinder, as it helps In relighting. Merely rub a cloth along it to remove any loose bits. TILLOW UNDBRSLIPS. Pillow underslips are sensible addi tions to the bed. When I pass the worn outer slip along in that way I cut off the top and make It tit the pillow close ly, then baste the hem together so that what was the bottom of the outer slip Is the top of the under one. When sheets become thin through the middle I tear out the worn part and seam them up for pillow slips. As our fa vorite "slumber pillows" are soft downy affairs, I have Uyo pairs of ready hemmed slips out of each sheet, besides a strip that may go into the bag of old linen for home use, or to the hospital for compresses.—M. R. D. D., In New England Homestead. LIGHTING OF A CHILD'S ROOM. The lighting of the child's room is a very important matter from a sanitary standpoint and also from one of con venience, writes Gardner C. Teall, in Good Housekeeping. If gas is the illu miuant it should never be left lighted longer than is absolutely necessary. If a night light is required, then a little night lamp should be procured, but even then It is a pity that more moth ers do not train their children to be ac customed to sleeping in a room with out a light. It is so much lJiore healthful. Where lamps are in use we far too often see children squinting be cause the strong lamplight is directly on lino with their faces. Their elders seldom stop to think of this from their superior heights. A light should never be placed so that its rays flare into a child's eyes. I think one of the most prevalent causes for poor eyesight in young children is this very negligence on the part of their elders to provide shaded lights in rooms where children are sitting or playing. py, RECjP"E Feather Cake—Cream one tablespoon of butter; add one cupful of sugar, then one egg well beaten and one and a half cupfuls of flour, alternating with one half cup of milk; beat well and add two and one-half level teaspoonfuls of baking powder; turn into a greased cake pan nnd bake twenty minutes. Delicious Cheese Cake Mix with two cups of cottage cheese four ounces each of fresh butter and sugar, a small nutmeg grated, two stale, grated lady fingers. Stir into this mixture the white of one and the yolks of four eggs, an ounce of almond paste mixed with two teaspoonfuls of rose water and the same of white wine. Then add six ounces of well washed and dried currants. Mix ail well together and pour into patty pans lined with puff paste and bake in a moderate oven un til paste is done about half an hour. Cocoanut Pudding—Soak one quart of stale bread broken In pieces In two quarts of milk one hour; beat three eggs with half a cup of sugar; add two level teaspoonfuls of salt and stir into the bread nnd milk; then add one cup ful of prepared cocoanut and half a cup of finely cut citron; turn into a pudding dish and bake three-quarters of an hour or steam one nnd one-quar ter hours; serve with a sauce made by creaming one-third cup of butter; add two-thirds cup of powdered sugar; when worked together until creamy add one teaspoonful of vanila extract nnd pile on a fancy plate and grate over some nutmeg. Orange Pancakes—Put two cupfuls of sifted flour in a bowl; add one nnd a half 'level teaspoonfuls of baking pow der, half a teaspoonful of salt and two well beaten eggs; beat this mixture for five minutes; add one tablospoonful of powdered sugar and one cupful of milk; butter a frying pan, pour in a lit tle of the mixture and tip the pan so that the batter will spread over the surface; when ready to roll spread over some orange pulp and a little powdered sugar; roil as for jelly dake; lift to a hot platter and pour over a glaze made by boiling together the juice of one orange and one cup of granulated sugar; when it lias boiled one minute pour it over the pancake. B Peruna is recommended by fifty members of I | Congress j by Governors, Consuls, Generals, 1 j Majors, Captains, Admirals, Eminent Physicians, ffj ft Clergymen, many Hospitals and public institu - i j I tions, and thousands upon thousands of those in ij j I the humbler walks of life. B j I I HIIIIQ ] Iron Production. The American Iron and Steel Associ ation has just issued its circular of annual statistics regarding production in the iron trade. It gives tho output of pig iron for 1902 as 17,821,300 gross tons, which agrees substantially with the estimate recently published by the Iron Age, and can sarely be regarded as an accurate figure. As compared with 1901, last year's make of iron in creased 1,942,900 tons,or 12% per cent, while the second half of 1902 showed an increase of 204,200 tons over tho first half. Yet it will bo remembered that owing to the scarcity of fuel oc casioned by the coal strike a largo number of blast furnaces were com pelled to shut down, and that it was not really until July and the succeed ing months that this began to affect the outrun of iron. The conclusion naturally follows that had it not been for certain powerful obstacles—one of which was the strike of the anthracite miners and another the congestion of freight traffic growing out of an insuf ficient equipment on the railroads— the expansion of our iron product, in stead of pursuing a normal rate of growth during the last 12 months, would have been enormous and might have been excessive. As it is now, production not only in pig iron but in all other branches of the iron and steel industry is still held safely within the limits of consumption. Annual Sprat Banquet. The annual sprat banquet was held at Yarmouth, England, recently, when a select company sat down to a meal consisting of a score of courses. The banquet opened with sprats in aspic, and in quick succession came sprat soup, sprats; grilled and deviled, sprats kippered, sprats soused and sprats a la corporation—a clever ar rangement of filleted sole wound round the boy of each little sprat. Another quaint dish was sprats on horseback— the fish being served on tiny mounds of bacon. The more lordly herring had its turn. There were sides of silver herring, smoked herrings, Yarmouth bloaters and kippered herrings. There are now at work In tha rivers of the middle island of New Zealand about 240 dredges, each costing from $25,000 to $70,000, with the object of ex tracting gold from the deposits in the beds of the streams. With the old surety. g St. Jacobs Oil I to cure a Lumbago and Sciatica I There is no auch word as fail. Price, 25c. and 30c. B Novel Test for Office. Persons aspiring to become bailiffs [ at Alnwick, in Northumberland, Eng land, have to go througn a curious and somewhat unpleasant ordeal. Before the election the various candidates ride up In a body to a horse pond, and there, dismounting from their steeds, plunge into tho water and struggle as best they may to the other side. The music of a brass band cheers them during their struggles in the dirty water. This ancient custom dates from the reign of King John, who once paid | a visit to the town in 1210 and found no fitting welcome prepared for him. The blame of this state of unprepared ness was fastened on the luckless bail iffs, who were promptly thrown into the horse pond by royal command. It Is proposed to cut a railroad tun nel through the mountain known as the Faucille, in the Jura Alps, and so shorten the Journey between Paris and Switzerland by two and a half hours. Kissing a woman's lips is considered a great insult in Finland. PROVE DOAN'S FREE HELP. Those who doubt, who think because other Kidney Remedies do them* no Rood, who feel discouraged, they profit most by the Free Trial of Doan's Kidney Pills. The wondrous rejults stamp Doan merit. Aching backs fire cased. Hip, back, and loin pains overcome. Swelling of the limbs and dropsy signs vanish. They correct urine with brick dust sedi ment, high colored, excessive, pain in puss iug, dribbling, frequency, bed wetting. 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