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Latest Craze in Millinery
Pearls are the latest craze in mil
finely. Whole bunches of them in the
form of grapes or cherries ornament
the smartest lints, accompanied by
leaves, of course. A feature of the
newest leaves is their natural verdan¬
cy. To he truly fashionable foliage up¬
on hats must be of a fresh green in¬
stead of tlie blanched effect so popular
all winter. Fancy foliage is, however,
seen, consisting of narrow gold and
silver tissue arranged in narrow gar¬
lands mixed with fruit or berries in
pearl. Layers of ner out in leaf-shape
and sewn with gilt silvered or pearl
spangles are likewise in vogue.
The Seal'll ling Shoe.
The spangling and heading which
lias characterized everything from net
frocks to hosiery of late has reached
the tongues of slippers, not being con¬
tented with the toes alone. Tlie tongue
of the low shoe aud of the dainty low
slipper is now cut very broad, spread¬
ing out almost iu fan-shape over the
instep. It is sewn thickly with beads
or spangles. The effect is quite daz¬
zling. but if it is to be seen the fashion
of short-skirted ball dresses will have
to be introduced. An odd ornamen¬
tation for a black low shoe, with a
golden heel, is a row of small gold
buckles down the front from the instep
almost to the tee.
Horseshoe Nail Kings.
Finger rings made of horseshoe nails!
They are certainly not pretty or grace¬
ful. but they are said to bring good
luck to the wearer on certain condi¬
tions.
To be a genuine charm the ring must
he made from a nail taken from a
horseshoe found by the owner herself
and nobody else. This is taken to a
jeweler, who bends it to fit her little
finger and cuts off the superfluous
length.
The ring is not welded together, and
the head of the nail stands for the set¬
ting. There’s no way of proving it,
but those who have adopted these or¬
naments say that they bring just as
much luck as a horseshoe itself hung
over the door with the ends up.
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Bloomered Itainy Daisies.
A new style in rainy-day costumes
was exhibited in Philadelphia by two
women, evidently strangers in the city.
From the waists up the suits were
not unusual in appearance, but under
the long coats bloomers were visible.
The latter were made very full indeed,
and extended to the ankles, where they
met with mannish shoes. Tlie women
were most ladylike in appearance, and
the striking suits had undoubtedly been
developed by first class tailors. The
couple were evidently mother and
daughter. The older woman’s suit was
a dark gray, while the younger one’s
garments were of blue broadcloth.—
Philadelphia Press.
Green and Gold Leather Goods.
Vivid green is to be the spring tint
for purses and fans, gewgaws anil par¬
asols, as weil as for hat trimmings and
frocks and ribbons. One of the leather
and silver shops displays a whole win¬
dowful of novelties, and nearly every¬
one in bright green, Dull-surfaced
leather, rather smooth compared to
the bumpy horny skins so much used
of late, and mounted in very yellow
gold, with possibly a jewel or two—
a rough pearl, a bit of jade or a ea
•bochon emerald or topaz—this consti¬
tutes the general air of the new card
case or pocketbook, which is fiat, of
medium size and neither very narrow
nor very broad, as hitherto. The co¬
quettish little handbags, to hold mirror,
vinaigrette, purse and powder puff,
when of bright green leather, with con¬
tents mounted in yellow gold, are ex¬
tremely smart.
A pretty version of the wearisome
beaded steel bag is a tiny purse beaded
in many colors in a design reminiscent
of the canvas work we toiled over as
children. On a ground of white beads
are worked a bouquet of pale blue for¬
get-me-nots, a red rose with green
leaves, or some equally naive design,
whicli seems delightfully pretty now
by reason of its novelty. This pretty
purs c * measures three by two and one
half inches, is lined gayly with moire,
and has a chain of silver or gold.—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Fitful Fashion of Earring 1 *.
Earrings, with an outbreak cf which
we are threatened, have been a fitful
fashion. A hundred years ago they
were general. That was a time when
ti lady thought more of jewels than
cars. Ears, pure and simple, were not
looked at. They were hidden under
bonnet strings and under bauds of hair,
and were of no account except to
hang jewels in. These jewels were
pgadant^. very long, very heavy. ”ery
handsome. They were to he admiral
for themselves, and not ns ornaments
to set ofr' the pretty little ears from
Those, wore In the
we all
looked to "regular features" lor lion my.
««d did no. consider ears features a.
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realize that they possessed some ot
tlu> Pi’t'ttiest ears in .he world. Once
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They were helped by a change of fash¬
which abolished bonnet strings and
reduced what used to be called pleats.
Tq abandon earrings altogether was
too revolutionary, .and besides, there
were their mothers’ beautiful jewels,
which it would be a sin to throw away.
The girls took a middle course. They
cut off the pendant and used only
the snap or button, which made the
small oar look exquisite. So tin* fash¬
ion remained a long time till ear-pierc¬
ing. like line engraving, seemed almost
a forgotten art. Women with preity
shell-like ears declined to call in the
jeweler, who. in such matters, was
often the surgeon. But the beauty of
English ears is now certainly on the
wane. We may judge of this for our¬
selves. They are larger, looser, coars¬
er. less shell-1 iko, more shapeless. And
now once more the earring question
comes up. Women with pretty ears
won't hear of them; other women will.
Fashion, so far as it goes, is rather
against them. With the Medici col¬
lars in vi ’inter, the chiffon boas in
summer, ears are not seen, and if ears
are not looked at, what is the use,of
earrings'/ All the same, they are com¬
ing ini—London Dally News.
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club in Berlin offers a
prize of $250 for the best “catechism of
the woman question.”
Germany will this year employ many
more women in the Government de¬
partments than before.
;\lrs. Mary Miller, of Greentown,
Ind., has a violin made in Scotland in
1650 by the great-great-grandfather of
her husband.
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs represents something-like
000 women, and its committees cover
educational, athletic, library and m;
clianical art.
Women in Boston are trying to raise
funds for a memorial to Miss Mary
Garland, for many years a kiudergnr
ton teacher in that city, and President
of the Eastern Kindergarten Assoeia
tion.
As an outcome of tlie closing of the
Northwestern University Woman’s
Medical College, the only institution
of its kind in tin* West, prominent
women of Chicago have begun a move¬
ment for the establishment of a high
grade medical school, solely for the in¬
struction of women students.
Miss Kate Shelly was unanimously
elected bill clerk of the Iowa State
Senate when that body convened at
Des Moines. Her election was an
honor conferred on account of her he
roic act on July G, 1SS1, when she
saved a passenger train from destruc
tion in Honey Greek, near Boone, dm*
ing a flood. Miss Shelly is thirty-five
years old and a native of Ireland.
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Advance models of summer linen
Shirt waist suits.
New styles of spring millinery appear
to run to light colors.
Figured liberty satins are to still be
used over summer silk gowns.
Notably severely stitched girdles
mark many of the latest gowns.
Only the suggestion of a long waist
in front is en regie for the spring.
Fluffiness, cliicness and cuteness will
he the watchwords of the summer girl
of ’02.
White Swiss with black polka dots
Is to create many of the most swagger
summer gowns.
For evening wear a four-flounced
skirt of net, lace or mousseline do sole
is a decided novelty.
The extremely broad-shouldered ef¬
fect is still a noticeable style feature
of all the latest garments.
White and linen color are first favor¬
ites for shirt waist suits, then navy
and pale biue are close seconds.
Ballet shirt-like neck ruffs of black
or white are new, but scarcely so soft
or becoming as the ruche shape.
Dress arbiters state most positively
that the mode is slowly but surely
tending toward more voluminous dress
skirts.
Faggoting is an odd new hand
worked embellishment for wash gowns,
giving the effect of a unique linen in¬
sorting,
While pompadour effects are to be
the smartest of the season, they will
be pompadour in color and suggestion
of combination, but scarcely pomp*
dour in absolute outline.
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I.*i;j Kln^i* r 10211 Horsc*>*liot*v.
Heat an old horses], v veil hot, then j
with the pincers and hammer a good 1
lap ring may he easily made as shown
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in the •••r.spration. i he cost is almost
nothing. I have us.nl this kind ever j
since 1 discovered the Idea and tlnd
them very satisfactory. .1. A. Wood,
iu Orange Judd Farmer.
AVfty Butter is Hitter.
There is always more or less com¬
plaint in winter about bitter butter,
and wonder is expressed why it should
be so.
Putter very easily gets "off flavor."
and one principal cause is a want of
proper cleanliness in the stables when
the milk is being drawn.
The rank odors ar.tl tilth of a stable
very easily infect milk with a taint
which remains with it until it comes
to the churn, and then a peculiar taste
is transferred to the butter; no amount'
of rinsing and washing can remove it.
The secret lies in not allowing the
filth to fall into the pail, and in giving
the stables proper ventilation and thor¬
ough daily cleaning.
If a sufficient amount, of good bod
ding is given the cows it will largely
obviate the necessity of cleaning their
udders at each milking in order to pro
vent the tilth-from coming " in contact
with Hie milk
This may seem a small matter, hut
when tlie butter goes to market the ex
act difference between pure and im¬
pure flavors in it will make tlie differ¬
ence in prices that are offered.—The
Dairyman.
StigROKtlons For Musing Wire Fence.
The posts for wire fence should'he
driven in the spring:;- soon as the frost
is out of the ground. It will make a
better fence* if the win* is not put 0:1
until the ground has become settled
and is solid around the posts, so they
w ifi U ot give when the wire is being
stretched and nailed on. Always set
n 1( .'posts in a straight line. If the di
roevion of the fence must change, even
though bnl slightly, set the posis in a
straight line to a certain place and
there make the change on one post,
1 icing sure io have that post well
braced. If ihe posts are set in a curved
line, or zigzag, the wire will tend to
draw them into a straight lint*, and in
a short time the wire will begin to sag,
and the stability of tin* fence will he
greatly impaired.
All corner or end posts should lx*
well braced, also several other posts
if the fence is any great length in one
direction. The best way to make the
corner posts solid is not by bracing
them with a pole or rail, for in wet
times the post is likely to be raised out
of the ground, hut by letting the top
wire run to the ground and there fast
<>n to ;l bu’ge stone or log in the man¬
ner that linemen anchor telegraph
l )f d<*s. Then if there art* not too many
small posts the fence should remain
fbrough wet or dry seasons - AI
vln Gin ter, in American Agriculturist.
.Judging: J’oiilfrv.
There are those who advocate that
all poultry at exhibitions should in*
judged by comparison, and not by
score cards. We do not favor this idea
at all. We want to see where the
judges think the prize winners are su
perior, and where they pronounce them
to be 'aeking in the points that make
up a gbod bird. If the head, neck, tail,
legs or weight is not what they consid¬
er up to the standard, lei 11 s see what
and where the fault is. We may not.
agree with the judges, hut we shall he
quite as likely to do so as we should
if they merely said that A’s birds were
superior to K’s, and did not tell us
wherein the latter lacked the oharac
teristics that, go to make up tin* per¬
fect bird. We look upon the score card
as a means of educating the poultry
exhibtor or the keeper, or even the vis¬
itor at an exhibition, which comparison
is not. Wo know a man who exhibited
a fine looking Lnngsban, and found
him disqualified for a "wry tail.” He
had never heard the term before, but
he learned what it meant, which he
might not have done if the awards had
been made by comparison only, and be
might not have seen where his bird
was not as good as tin* one liiai took
the first premium. We think he has
taken some premiums since, but has
not shown any wry tail birds since.
Another mail who showed some very
fine chickens at the same show had
them ruled out of ihe competition, or,
as they call i;. “disqualified,” because
they were hatched a little late, and
thus lacked a few ounces of the weight
required by tin* standard. If judged
by comparison only, we might have
thought the first prize ought to
gone to them, though , tuev , were 00 nr.
mature to have been shown and wnh
out the score card we should not have
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The leading hair dressers of I.omlon
are already preparing designs for the
special eoill’nres that will ho needed
for tlie coronation of Kin;; Edward
VII, and his Queen, and not a few
ladles ol’ high rank are devoting much
thought to the same* impo.intn sun
jeet.
The (loMstnilhs and Silversmiths
Company, opining that the peeresses
will wish to carry their core, cta in
their hands, have invented a very sim¬
ple and ingenious device whereby they
may do so, and at the same time lift
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<iioir trains as well. The coronet has
,);ult ' s of *>'>* loosely placed across it
in the cavity where the head goes,
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free for oilier duties. When the King
is crowned the peers put on each 110 -
blcmati upon lbs own head with his
own hands—their coronets. When the
Queen is crowned all the peeresses fol
low suit.
As all women will at once perceive,
flic; chief difficulty the peeresses will
encounter will lie that of placing their
coronets on so that they will remain
steady for the two hours or more dur¬
ing which they must he worn—that is,
until tin* end of tin* service. Also they
will require to fix them becomingly
without the aid ol' a maid and a look
ing glass.
Wherefore M. Lys, of Urgent iff reel,
to whose skill appeal personages of the
most exalted station, also duchesses,
countesses and marchionesses, whose
beauty of coiffure is beyond descrip¬
tion, is at this time bringing all his
art and skill to bear upon the ini
portant topic.
The designs here given have M. Lys’
sanction and arc his own manipula¬
tion. They were sketched in Ids salon.
Tlie full-face one shows the coronet
of a duchess, with i<: ’ ! < n ',.
lea\es ol sihtr gilt abo\e a ml o*
jninAti, and again alto’.c, ils tionn
of crimson velvet, posed stately and
proud, over a le until ally diapctl nnl,
half hiding, half revealing the brow.
The neck is most becomingly garnish 'd
with clusters of littIt* though thick
curls stealing from behind Hit* cars,
above whicli the tress s arc gracefully
aud lightly bunched. The veil appears
from behind, where the coiffure is ever
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so lightly rippled and colled, the last
coil of all resting on the shoulders.
Supposing tlie feathers, as weil
the veil to be ordered, another
shows how they will la*
Again, Hie aimed-;,t effect is an
sence of Hint, top-heaviness
might so easily ensue were not parte
filar pains taken to prevent It.
Cuban I’renidcnt u Mother’s Doy.
My father died when 1 was a boy.
and I was left entirely to the care aud
training of my 1 lotlier. Every
foil has the highest respt ef and love
for his mother, but I have a
cause for gratitude, ns my mother was
one of the truest and best of women.
What little I am, and what little 1
have done for my country. I owe to
her. 1 was the only child, and
lived for me. She taught me lit; path
of m , fUlu!f , njl(1 m > iov „ for
i(; lm , at])( . (] into h . u f , on , , J( . r
patriotic ‘ , . ., soul.—ThomasLstiana , I’altna,
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Corm’J Lain! <> hi timing:.
Three things should l>e always borne
in mind in laying out and planting a
place. Avoid straight lines, preserve
open lawn 1 t litres and plant in group’,
not singly
■ Irallng Girdled Tree*.
Sometimes rabbits make had work
girdling irocs in young orchards. .Many
trees thus injured can lie saved by
opening a -dx-inch tile length wise, plac¬
ing it around the trunk of the tree. St •
cure it with wire at top and bottom,
anil till it with moist earth. The fol¬
lowing autumn the damaged hark wld
usually bo healed.
AluLo tin* OrrliH.nl Frofliahlc*.
If an orchard is givtii us much care
as grain crops it would prove mere
profitable than g: - aln. There would
ilien bt> fewer complaints of blights
and insect attacks, while the trees
would live longer and produce more
anti better fruit. There are orchards
011 many farms that bear every year,
though neglected, hut the fact that
such orchards do not fail is strong
evidence that tlm proper varieties for
the soil were selected, and that with
cultivation there would be larger
pt’oliiS.
TVhat to Do With Aznirftft.
Azaleas ought to make their annual
growth shortly aficr flowering. As
soon as the bowers fade put the plants
hi a warm, close place and encourage
tti’owth by showering daily. Dive a
' V( al; '«'• tilizer. When growth ceases
remove to a cooler place. Keep up the
shower bath, and he sure that the
roots arc always moist. In tbo spring
put the plants out-of-doors, and leave
them then* until September or October,
always taking care that they do not
get dry at the roots.—Ebon E. Rexford,
In the Ladles’ Home Journal,
lletnccly For n If ml Ittiigiid Dinrai
A fungus disease which attacks the
leaves, leaf stalks, fruit stems and
canes of red currants, and known as
athraenoso, appeared the past season
I,nl ihe Hudson Valley, according to a.
bulletin issued by the Geneva experi¬
ment. station, and it will also attack
black currants anil gooseberries. The
remedy is to spray with Bordeaux mix¬
ture, making tin* first application be¬
fore growth starts, tin* second as the
leaves arc unfolding, And then at in¬
tervals of ten to fourteen days, until
the fruit is two-thirds grown. When¬
ever worms appear, add Baris green
to the mixture.
ITiilt I nleiitU'tl For Storage.
At tin* annual meeting of the Ontario
Fruit Growers’ Association tlie follow
ing points me*re brought otii and appnr
( .miy proven by the experience of the
, Hlli) , u Wlls Maimed that
I f vu q too ripe before being picked couUl
; not be prevented from decay by cold
storage. That with apples in tight, bar¬
j rels ii required nearly a week to reduce
the apples in the centre of the barrel
! to the temperature of the storage room,
and that In that time decay might be¬
gin. Thai for most of fruits excepting
those most perishable, Ihe cold air
blast was sufficient to keep them in
good condition, and thjt for perishable
fruit it was of tlie greatest importance
to pick at. the right stage of ripeness
or before fully ripe, put it in the cool¬
ing room as quickly as possible, and
not to move It. until it was thoroughly
cooled to the very centre of the pack¬
age. Failures Io have fruit come out
of cold storage in good condition have
been a result of a lack of knowledge of
these facts than of a failure to have
the storage temperature right, for the
public storehouses nearly all have a
knowledge of the temperature need for
the many different products they store.
SgtiHring; BtiildiiiKH anti l itHtls.
Tu laying out fields, it is often neces¬
sary to have them square and true.
Fig. 1 shows two posts six feet long,
which arc used to get north and south,
or cast ami west lines. Set stake No.
! i and plumb it; at. 12 o’clock noon drive
slake No. 2 at the end of tin* shadow
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SQUARING METHODS OUTLINED.
cast by the first stake for the north
and south line. To get n line east and
west, the second stake must he set
nt the end of the shadow at 6 o’clock
in the morning or night, about March
or September 20. In squaring build¬
ings make a triangle of cue by fouv
inch boards, as in Fig. 2. One side
should In* six feet and tin other side
eight feet. The other sid * will then be
exactly p-n feet.-rJohn Eekroat, in New
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