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NEW RAILROAD RULES
Made by Commission are Now
in Effect.
TIME FOR CHECKING BAGGAGE
Twenty Four Hour* Must be Allowed-
No Loaded Shotgun* to be Car
ried on Train*.
Atlanta, Ga.—The railroads in
Georgia must allow twenty-four hours
for checking baggage. This ruling ot
Hie railroad commission went into ef
fect December 3rd. Heretofore bag
gage left for more than twelve hours
lias been subject to a demurrage
charge of 26 cents a day. The rail-
loud commission took up this matter
several weeks ago, and its investiga
tions led to an amendment to passen
ger rnle number 6 relating to the
checking and handling of baggage.
The public must, therefore, be given
twenty-four hours before demurrage
charges cai} be assessed.
A now rule has been adopted by
the railroad commission which re
quire* all railroad companies to stop
their passenger trains at stations with
» view to easy egress and ingress for
passengers. In most instunces trains
are stopped In a way to expedite the
handling of baggage. The commis-
sion has decided that the comfort of
passengers must be the first consider
ation.
No passenger will in future be al
lowed to carry a loaded shotgun into
n railway coach. Any pornon entering
a coach with u gun, must breech it
within view of tho conductor and show
LASf TRIP OF INSPECTION.
The Pure Food Law Now in Effect for
Fifteen Months.
Atlanta, Ga.—-Georgia's pure food
and pure drug inspectors are out on
their final tour of the state for the
year which comes to a closo on De
cember 31. They are endeavoring, if
possible, to have tho new year begin
with only pure foods and feeds!uffs
and pure drugs on sale in Georgia.
The pure food law has been in effect
now fifteen months and lias accom
plished wonderful results. The pure
drug law has been In effect only since
summer of this year, but during that
time much good has boon accom
plished.
Pure Food Inspector P. A. Methvin
is devoting his time now to the in- j
spection of western feedstuffs, which;
arc being shipped into this state. Un-i
der a report of the state chemist re
cently issued, it shows that a major
ity of those feedstuffs do not measure
up to tho standaids required by tho
Georgia law and as fast as found they
are seized and shipped out of the
state.
Moro and more the Georgia mer
chants and planters are coming to re
alize that the southern product, cotton
seed meal, when mixed with cotton
seed hulls, is not only cheaper but a
better cattle feed than anything ship
ped from the west. This is proven
by statistics gathered by tho agricul
tural department in Atlanta, which
chows a tremendous increase in tho
use of this feed in Georgia, especially
since tho pure food law went into ef
fect.
SEEK TO EXTEND NOTES.
Plans Advanced tc Aid the Holding of
Cotton,
Statesboro, Ga.—That the Bulloch
county branch of the Farmers’ Union
Is making a determined effort to as
sist tho farmers of this county cannot
be disputed. Through a committee of
tho branch a meeting has been called
for December 12 at the court house,
which, if the object of the meeting is
carried, will mean much to the farm
ers of this county.
The object of the meoting is to con
sider the question of extending tho ma
turity of all notes and other obliga
tions, and every man who lias given a
note or is now holding one, is request
ed to be at the meeting. Tho commit
tee thinks that -by later maturity cot
ton will be kept from being forced
upon the market too early, and thus
unduly depressing the price.
$15,000,000 MORTGAGE DEED.
Will Take Douglas Officials a Week
to Transcribe.
Douglasvilie, Ga. — A *15.000,000
mortgage deed is enough to create at
tention in largo money centers, but
nuch a deed was filed in Douglas coun
ty superior court here last week.
The deed was made in favor of the
Central Trust Company of New York
% the Virginia Carolina Chemical
Company for the purpose of refunding
Its outstanding indebtedness. A copy
of the mortgage is filed in every coun
ty where there is a branch of the Vir-
gitiia-Carollna Chemical Company.
FOREST FIRES IN FLOYD.
Many Acres of Timber Have Been
Destroyed.
Rome, Ga.—Forest fires in several
districts of Floyd county have wrought
great damage and destroyed thousands
of dollars’ worth of property in the
Past few days. Acres of timber were
consumed by the fires on Horseleg
Mountain and the fires have not yet
been subdued. Miles of fence have
been destroyed toy the fires, and the
loss will fall heavily on the farmers.
It Is not known how the fires have
ben started, but it is thought by many
that the woods were set on fire pur
posely, or by persons out hunting care
lessly dropping matches In the dry
maves. The city has been filled with
smoke from the fires during the
mornings recently.
ROAD MAT ENTER COLUMBUS.
Rumored That G-, F. & A. May Build
Extension to Richland.
Columbus, Ga.—It is rumored here,
although unconfirmed, that the Geor
gia, Florida and Alabama Railway
Company is to build an extension from
C-\htoert, Ga., to Rich'and, Ga., and
'bat its trains will enter Columbus
over the tracks of the eSaboard Air
Cine Railway.
J. P. Williams of Savannah is pres-
identp and J. O. Hatch of that city
ls y lce president of the road
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
Qufe a flurry of excitement was cre
ator in Dalton when a plow which was
being used in the excavation work on
the proposed government building bit
into soft dirt and unearthed several ,
bones, supposed to be those of a hu
man being. The dirt was quickly clear-
od away and a United Stales army
belt buckle was found surrounded by
a large pile of other bones. This
seemed proof conclusive that the
bones were those of a union soldier
killed during the civil war and buried
here. The grave was fully five feet
below the surface, and quantities of
lime surrounded the bones. Several
doctors were attracted to the scene
and, on examining the bones, com
pletely wrecked the various theories
formed by the onlookers, for they
gave out the Information that the
bones were those of a cow.
Governor Smith has offered a re
ward of $200 for the apprehension and
conviction of any of tho persons who
recently wrote threatening letters to
members of the Mormon congregation
at Montreal, in DeKalb county, rfter
dynamiting the church at that place.
1 he reward was offered a3 the result
of a call upon tho governor from
Fielding Payton, Melvin Payton and
Jim Bankston, who told of receiving
numerous threatening letters.
Governor Smith has sent to the
prison commission correspondence
bearing upon the misconduct of Su
perintendent A. B. Coombs, of tho
state prison farm at Mllledgeville. j
The latter was arrested and convict
ed for being drunk and disorderly on
October 31 at the Macon fair grounds.
The correspondence submitted con
sists of a letter from Governor
Smith to Mayor A. L. Miller of Macon I
asking about the reported incident;
the reply of Mayor Miller and a state
ment of the facts in the case from G.
S. Westcott, chief of police of Macon, ■
to which Is attached a copy of tho po
lice record. Chief Westbrook states
that Superintendent Coombs pleaded
guilty, stating that he had drank near
beer and some whiskey, and his con
dition was due to this fact. He was
fined $15. The only member of the
prison commission In Atlanta Is Gen
eral Clement A. Evans. When the
commission meets the matter will be !
brought to Its attention by the govern
or and will be investigated.
In regard to recent discussions in
various papers nnent the state's finan
cial condition, present and prospec
tive, a statement was given out at tho
office of Cnptain R. E. Park, state
tcrasurer, in which he says: "For
nine years he has been watching caro-
fully the income and the outgo of the
treasury in Georgia, and at this tlmo
there Is only $G6,216.34, $50,000.00 of
which is borrowed money, leaving
really in the treasury, os the result
of taxes and other sources of income,
only *10,210.34, with several warrants
due before the close of the month. Ho
says that in December tho largest
part of the income of the state should
come into tho treasury, and that he
can readily meet the $232,000.00 due
to the pensioners on fourth quarter
before the holidays, that ho has paid
only thirty-five per cent due to tn«
teachoM of the state for their year's
hard work, and that they will bo duo
from the incoming taxes 65 per cent,
or $1,330,000.DU, and tho pensioners
will bo due in round numbers, in ono
payment, instead of in four payments,
as in last year, about $900,000.00.
Inman & Company of Augusta, cot
ton factors, were awarded in Musco-
geo superior court at Columbus a ver
dict in the sum of $64,568.71 against
tho Central of Georgia railway, on a
suit for alleged damages to cotton
burned In tho Columbus yards of tho
defendant company. Suit was brought
for $160,000. The case continued for
a week and a brilliant array of coun
sel put a hard legal battle. It was al
leged in the complaint that the cot
ton was destroyed while in the hands
of the carrier.
Passenger trains In this state must
be brought to a stop as near as pos
sible to waiting rooms or stations ns
will be most convenient for passen
gers, according to a ruling of the rail
road commission. The commission’3
order follows: "All passenger trains
operated in this state shall, at all sta
tions where such trains stop, either
upon flag or regular schedule, bo
brought to a standstill with such re
lation to the waiting room of the sta
tion building, or other passenger fa
cilities at said station, ns will render
egress from and ingress to said trains
most practicable and convenient for
the pusseiigers, without reference to
the convenient handling of baggago
or other freight.’’
The Georgia Fruit exchange, an or
ganization of the peach growers of
Georgia, which is now being perfect
ed, has secured pledges covering two
thousand five hundred cars, or approx-
imaately half of the entire state’s
yield of peaches, which will be shipp
ed through the exchange on the co
operative plan. Subscriptions to stock
in the exchange now exceeds thirty
tnousand dollars. Tho plan of the ex
change, as outlined in its charter, is
to prevent glutting the markets,
which resulted last season in poor
prices for the growers. The exchange
proposes to act as tho growers'
agent, and to have such general su
pervision of shipments ns to direct
them to the best advantage. The ex
change will not be run for financial
profit, but will be a co-operative or
ganization, solely for the benefit of
the growers.
Beer containing as much as 4 per
cent of alcohol, is intoxicating, under
the meaning of the state prohibition
law, says the state court of appeals
In a decision handed down at Atlanta,
in the case of Cornelius O’Connell, ap
pealed from Macon.
There It* ft probability that the con
federate veterans of Georgia may
not get their fourth quarterly pen
sions in time for Christmas. The law
provides that they shall be paid be- |
tween October 1 and December 10, but
the indications are that the state will
not have the monoy to meet thi3 pay
ment and at the same time give tho
teachers’ money due them since last
March on account of salary. Hereto
fore the veterans have been receiv- '
ing their annual pension payments j
In a lump suit in advance of January
THE ANXIOUS FARMER.
It was awful long ags
That 1 put those seeds around;
And I guess I ought »o know
, \\ lien I stuck 'em In the ground.
Cause I noted down the day
In a little diary book,—
It’s gotten losted soniewheres, and
I don't know where to look.
But I'm certain anyhow,
They've been planted 'most a week;
And It must lie time by now
For their little sprouts to peek,
rhey've been watered c\cry day
With a very speshul care.
And once or twice I’ve dug ’em up, to
See If they wns there.
I fixed the dirt In humps,
Just the way they said I should;
And I crumbled all the lumps
Just as llnely as I could.
And I found a nangle-wonn
A-poklng up Ills head,—
He maybe feeds on seeds and such,
And so 1 sgushed him dead.
A seed's so very small;
And dirt all looks the same;—
How can they know at all
The way they ought to aim?
And so I’m waiting 'round
In case of any need;
A farmer ought to do Ills best for
Kvery single seed!
—Burges Johnson In Harper's Magazine.
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Grandpa Bruno's
Story.
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It was In Beartown that old Grand
pa Bruno lived. He was the eldest
bear in the village and the most re
spected. Also he was the most pitied,
for he had but three feet, one of the
front paws being gone. This, as you
may know, made poor old Grandpapa
Bruno a cripple, and he always walked
with a decided limp.
But as the accident which made
Grandpapa Bruno a cripple had hap
pened a very long time ago there were
very many young Bears who had nev
er heard about it. And among these
young llcnis were several who were
inclined to be disobedient and to go
off on long and perilous adventures,
roaming the woods and the mountains,
where danger lurked. In vain did their
parents—those of cooler heads and wis
er minds—remonstrate with them;
they would persist in running Into all
eorts-of danger.
One evening as half a dozen of the
Bear youth of Beartown were out for
a lark they chanced to pass by the
house of Grandpapa Bruno. They stop
ped to inquire about the venerable old
bear’s health and to say a few pleas-
anit things to him, for though they
were a mischievous and venturesome
lot of fellows they were good at heart
and held the aged Bruno in reverence.
Grandpapa Bruno was sitting in the
front of his house, smoking his pipe,
when the youths approached him.
“Good evening’, grandpapa,” they said,
all bowing and smiling cordiully and
reRpectfully. “How do you find your
self this fine evening? The moon is at
its full and can be seen through the
pines if you'll just take a dozen steps
to your right.”
“Ah. good even’n, to you, young
friends,” replied Grandpapa Bruno.
“I’m as well as one of my years and
possessing but three feet can possibly
be. As for taking the dozen steps
to see the moon—well, I’ll wait till she
comes over my head and looks down
upon me. It's a task for a lame man to
walk—even a dozen steps, you know.
But where are you youngsters off to
this night? It’s pretty late for youths
to be abroad—especially if they are of
a mischievous turn of mind.”
“Well, grandpapa, it’s this way,” ex
plained one of the youths, a bright-
faced fellow, and leader of the band.
"We’re anxious to see something of
the world outside our own mountain
woods. We're off to hunt for adven
tures on yonder great mountain—the
one to the south.”
“Ah, yes, I’ve been there—once,”
said Grandpapa Brduno, “and I had a
most wonderful adventure, too. If you
would like to hear about it I'll tell
you now. The evening is fine and you
can sit on the ground about me. My
pipe is dons for tonight and I’m in a
story-telling mood. But remember this:
Every word I tell you tonight is as
true as truth. And I bad exactly the
experiences I’m going to tell you
about.”
“Ah, that'll be interesting,” declared
the half dozen youngsters in a breath.
“And we’ll sit very quietly here on the
ground, grandpapa, and listen to every
word you speak. Wo’ve always known
you were an exceptional bear in your
youth, and we feel flattered that you
will take us into your confidence. It
proves to us that you are not so strait
laced and particular about young fel
lows going on adventurous trips as are
so many of our older bears. And now
we’re all seated and you may begin.”
“Well, my young friends, I was very
much of the same turn as yourselves
when I was your age,’’ began Grand
papa Bruno, putting his pipe and to
bacco pouch on a convenient stump.
"Ah, we knew it,” cried two of the
young hears.
“Yes, I was forever hunting 1 adven
ture,” admitted Grandpapa Bruno.
“And I found it over on yon great
mountain toward the south—tfce one
you have planned to visit tills night.
Well, it happened in this way, my find
ing the adventure of which I shall tell
you; I had been curious to see the
world outside my own domain, and I
went off against my father’s and moth
er’s wishes. I had a beautiful young
wife and two cubs, and they west with
me. My young wife was opposed to
our going, but seeing that I was de
termined, she was too faithful to allow
me to go alone. So with our two lit
tle cubs, we set out one fine morning
Just as the sun was coming into sight.
All day long we traveled, only stopping
now and then to eat the honey from
thB wild bees’ hives, or to quench our
thirst at some brook. And I remem
ber we did pause long enough to allow
our little ones to take a nap. Thau,
on and on we went, ever toward that
great mountain which seems to hold
surh temptation for venturesome
youth.
"Well, toward evening we reached
the very heart of that mountain, and
on the way we passed several paths
not made by bears or other four-footed
creatures. There were strange looking
footprints, and I felt sure we were to
meet with something exciting and
novel. But nothing happened just
then. And as the cubs were tired out,
and their mother a bit weary, we de
cided to lay us down to rest and sleep.
I fell Into a deep slumber almost im
mediately, and so did the cubs. But my
wife said she felt so thirsty that she
would go down the mountain side and
drink from a spring we had passed on
our way up.
"But hardly had she left me when I
heard a noise more suddea a n d sharp
than thunder, and saw u flash like
lightning. Than I heard my dear
wife’s shriek aud groan. i> ran with
all possible speed to her, and there I
saw her lying weltering in her own
blood. I ran to her, hut as I wns
about to lick a great ugly wound I dis
covered in her side, nnd thus stop the
bleeding', another of those terrlfflc re
ports sounded in my ears, and I heard
something go whiz past, my head. I
ran into a thicket nearby, for I knew
that whatever the cause of ray dear
Mrs. Bruno's wound, it was also aimed
at me, nnd I was my duly to my cubs,
and to their wounded mother, to save
myself If possible. So, behind the clus
ter of liushes I hid, and saw several
tall, two-fooled creatures come to the
spot where my poor wife wus dying. I
could tell from the gronns which es
caped her and tho look in her eyes that
she would soon pass out of her agony.
And upon sight of the strange ani-
raalf, she tried to rise, to show fight,
but fell back—dead.”
Granc'pipa Bruno stopped to wipe
bis eye nnd to steady ills voice, which
had grown unsteady. Then he resumed
his narrative: "And then I crept up
the mountain side to get my cubs and
to hurry homeward. But I was not
to have any such good luck. Thoae
long, two-footed creatures, with while,
small faces, were on my trail, and as
I w s nearing my cubs—who were Btill
asleep—another one of those terrible
sharp, thunder-like explosions sound
ed behind me and I felt a slinging sen
sation in my foot. 1 found also that
I could not run on thut foot as I did
on the other throe, and sidled off into
another deep thicket, hiding myself
from my pursuers. They went past
me up the mountain path and came full
upon my cubs—my darling little ones
who were fast asleep. I guess 1 was
forgotten by those murderers, for they
did not look for me. They took up
my cubs—fighting and growling—the
dear little things—into captivity. And
L have never seen them since.”
Again the old Bear paused in his
story, bending his face in his paws and
weeping silently. The hearts of his
listeners were touched, and the leader
of the band—such a gay light-hearted
Bear—put his paw sympathetically on
the old Bear's knee and said. “Since
it pains you so, good Grandpapa Bruno,
to go over that sad story, please tell
us no more. We do not enjoy what is
pain to you.”
“Ah, my sons," replied Grandpapa
Bruno, “I am suffering the remem
brance of that sad circumstance in the
telling that I may save you the same
sort of experiences. 1 never allow my
self to talk of the sad ending of my
dear Mrs. Bruno and the kidnapping
of my little ones, unless it is to warn
a fellow Bear. And I’m almost done
my story, for what remains amounts
to nothing as compared to the part, al
ready told.”
"All, that’s how you came to lose
your front paw,” said one of the lis
teners in a tender voice.
“Yes. After I saw my little ones
carried off, and also watched the cruel
creatures who had killed my wife take
her poor body and place it on a wood
en thing, which they pulled down the
irkmmtain side, I lay down in the
thicket to die. My physical pain was
as nothing to my mental suffering. I
was directly responsible for my wife’s
death and the carrying off of my cubs,
and I wanted to die. I did not think
I could live unother night.
“But we cannot always die when we
would like to, and when the morning
qame my paw was so swollen and
caused me such intense agony that I
went to the brook down the mountain
side, found a cool, vine-covered spot,
where I might not be seen, and lay
down with my poor paw in the water.
There 1 lay for days, eating and drink
ing nothing. Every little while 1
would draw my paw from the brook
to lick the wound. But when I saw
how swollen and feverish it was a feel
ing of homesickness came over me, and
I crept toward this place—the home
of my happy cubhood. I wanted to die
surrounded by my own kind. And I
also wanted to warn my people about
those dangerous creatures on that
mountain yonder.
“Well, after reaching home—which
took a long time and brought me into
repeated danger—I fell very ill and all
my friends despaired of my life—a life
that held no charm for me any longer.
But weeks passed and my paw rotted
away, leaving but this old stub.” Hero
grandpapa held out the crippled paw
stub. “And I lived and became strong.”
“You have been spared to give warn
ing to others who may be wild ana
venturesome like yourself,” said one
dear old grandmother Bear to me.
“And so It was true. Lifo was
forced upon me for a purpose. But—
it’s getting late and you chaps are off
for the great mountain yonder,” and
Grandpapa Bruno looked about on h's
listeners.
“No, we're off for our own safe beds.”
cried 'the band, And they kept theit
words, too.—Washington Star.
FROM A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT
Taller Than Their Mothers.
It is evidently true that the present
, generation of young women is averng
j ing taller than their mothers and much
taller than their grandmothers. The
young men do not make the same eom-
I parison with their paternal ancestors.
Careful observation was made in Her
ald square on last Friday and out of
one hundred couples of young men and
women less than 25 years old 60 of
the women were equal in stature to
the men with whom they walked.—
New York Herald.
One's Hat Has a Temper.
There are hats with tempers, ns ev
ery woman is aware—the hats that
“go on" beautifully one day (especial
ly in the hat shop five minutes before
they are bought) and which In the
next refuse to assume the right pose
and poise for love or money, says a
writer in the Ixmdon Queen.
There are few conditions, sno adds,
more trying than to fall under tho
ban of a hat’s displeasure. The only
tiling to be done is to put it away tor
a week or so and wait till it has re
covered from its temper, like a
naughty child. Ono cannot argue with
a hat, and smacking is not to be rec
ommended.
Educated Through “Clippings.''
In the few minutes daily which is
ail the time I can give to the papers
I manage to keep up wltti the news
pretty well, but there are often long
articles concerning matters of na
tional or International Importance, of
art or literature, at which I can only
glance longingly. So I have fallen in
to the habit of marking such articles
and after all have read the paper one
of the children cuts them out for me.
I often wish I had as many pockets
ns my husband has, but, lacking these,
the clippings go into the pocketbook.
Then, whenever I have a few minutes
to wait, as so often happens in even
the best-planned lives, I take out my
clippings and thoroughly enjoy them.
—Harper's Bazar.
Miss Peck Tops Huascaran.
Miss Annie S. Peck of Providence,
R. I., the mountain climber, succeed
ed, on her second attempt within a
month, to reach the summit of Mount
Huabcaran, Peru. She calculates that
the height of the summit is 26,000 feet.
A Swiss companion of Miss Pecjt had
a foot and both hands frozen, which
caused gangrene to set In, and an In
dian guide was miraculously saved
from death after falling a thousand
feet down a ravine.
This last attempt of Miss Peck to
scale the Huascaran was begun on
Aug. 29. Two weeks previously she
climbed the mountain to a height of
25,000 feet, but was compelled to re-
turli to the lowlands on account of the
illness of one of her guides.
Love a Form of Madness.
Scientists say that love is a form
of madness. Certainly the love mad
ness is about the most harmless form
of dementia. It affords tho alillcted
one an endless amount of rapturous
happiness, and to the world at large
an opportunity to smile with a feel
ing of sympathy or envy behind.
Almost every adult has experi
enced wild transports of sentiment.
They belong mostly to youth. After a
certain age love does not always cre
ate such fury and storm of emotions
as that which sweeps the young, says
Woman’s Life. Age makes folks more
matter of fact, but in the heart of ev
ery woman there lies a little memory
story of her first wild love affair, and
this she delights to dwell upon in idle
dreaming moments.
New Velvet Animals.
Fascinating black and white velvet
animals are quite familiar to all. This
ls particularly true since the plush
Teddy bears leaped into such fren
zied popularity that the little crippled
German woman who originated them
has, in less than a decade, risen from
paperism to the state of a near-mil
lionairess.
Every one tried to copy the famous
bear without violating that patent!
law signified by the sign “geschutz"
in the hand of the animal himself, but
the best they could do was to make
pussy cats, bunnies, and monkeys of
velvet.
They have still further ornamented
their efforts by giving each animal a
square pink satin face, and, if their
beauty is not increased, they, at least,
challenge notice.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Prefer Money to Husbands.
There are 1700 women in Notting
hamshire alone—the last word ap
plies to Nottinghamshire alone—who
would rather have money than hus
bands. The fact does not strike ter
ror to the male English mind when it
is remembered how greatly women
outnumber men in some parts of Eng
land.
"The theory is advanced, nowever,
that eligible husbands are so difficult
to obtain that the proverb about the
bird in the hand has sunk deep into
the mind of the average Nottingham
shire lassie. When Wilkinson Smith,
a rich lace manufacturer, died he left
£250,000 to found pensions to be giv
en to widows and spinsters of tbo
county on condition that the bene
ficiaries undertake a vow of celibacy.
The eligible list was oversubscribed
more than 10 times. Seventy of tho
pensions have been allotted, and tho
trustees will have some difficulty In
disposing of others in view of the
numerous applications.—New York
Herald.
The Sweetener* of Life.
Life is complex and while we must
admit the value of practical matters
it is hardly wise to allow them to ab
sorb tho major part of one’s Interest.
It Is a matter of record that only tho
occasional woman reads poetry, and
the free art displays in all large
cities are actually unknown to more
than a handful of feminine visitors. In
several instances where free organ
recitnls were offered every afternoon
in the week tho attendance was not
largo enough to warrant the opening
of the church doors.
Poetry, art and music are sweeten
ers of life, capable of offsetting tho
ugliness of hard little duties. They
must be performed, these duties, but
they need not be allowed to absorb
the whole day. A man who does not
profess any liking for religion as of
fered from tho pulpit goes to church
every Sunday just to hoar the music.
He says that it makes him good for
the whole week. I happen to know
a few art lovers who are beautiful
In their home surroundings, nnd a wo
man who has suffered for years with
hip disease finds strength to bear pain
in poetry, of which she is very fond.
Against these is an army of dissatis
fied wemen chained to distasteful
tasks which they do not try to offset.
—Indianapolis News.
Vanity Buttons—Natural Flower Boas.
A very new button being used on
expensive new models of meteor is
large nnd round and its centre is a
tiny mirror rimmed with gold. The
gown on which these buttons were
seen wns not Fer tile Btage, writes tha
Paris correspondent of Dry Goods,
therefore we may possibly see them
on tho clothing of ultra-fashionables
before the season is very far ad
vanced.
Boas of natural roses or orchids or
any other flower of goodly size and
general popularity are now a fnd In
Paris and tills is probably the embryo
of what will later become a full-fledg
ed fashion in artificial flowers, helped
out as a softener by crushed rosettes
or intertwinings of mallnes of shades
matching the blossoms.
Just now, to show tho exclusiveness
of the fad, the clever Parisian now
and then absentmldedly (?) plucks a
few petals from her boa, daintily in
hales their frugrance or crushes them
between her pearly teeth and then, al
so absentmindedly, allows them to flut
ter to tho ground. The mere million
aires who foot the floral bill seem
pleased with this new way of spending
their dollars.
And the non-mllllonaries? Well,
they are ^’concentrating” on the hopf
that some less expensive way of pre
senting their lady loves with flowers
will develop before the leaves begin
to turn. As a fashion the rose- or or
chid boa, however, is exquisite.
The new gloves for evening in tho
high novelty class are of white beau
tifully embroidered in Moral and clas
sic designs in natural and Oriental
colorings in which here and there In
some of the designs metal effects in
tiny spangles or fine shining threads
are introduced.
The glace kid glove is practically
the only one in demand and in good
qualities is really the most economical
though from the consumer’s point of
view, the mocha with its lesser price
is a temptation not easily resisted.
,i . Fashion Notes.
Large, hand-embroidered dots are
often employed as trimming.
There will prooably be more scarfs
of black liberty than cf any other one
material.
The richness cf embroidery in the
new evening gowns goes to the adorn
ment of the corsage.
Ottoman silk with all its beauty of
finish and richness has experienced a
renewal in popularity.
The tulle used for a blouse is not
tho highly-dressed illusion; it is on
the contrary, a fine wash net.
Trains for evening gowns will bo
long and cut into a definite point in
stead of the usual round or square.
Uncut velour is quite new among
the fabrics this season. It is consid
ered very smart as a trimming for
hats.
The absolutely correct face veil is
drawn very close and smooth, cover
ing the entire hat as well as the face
and hair.
Up-to-date women effect fancy hos
iery nowadays only for house and ev
ening wear; for the street plain ho3e
in colors to match the gown is cor
rect.
Instead of the usual plain band
around the neck and down the front
upon your next kimona, shape the
band into revers and continue down
t'ue front in narrowing width.
The dress itself of the modem ele
gante is classic in its simplicity, and
no trouble is spared to make every
fold fall with perfect precision and to
give length of line and slimness.
Those who have short necks have
the wide, full neck ruffs made to order
somewhat narrower in front, thu?
avoiding the choked appearance that
is the result of a toc-high neck piece.