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THE LOWER VIEW POINT.
I would not have trus'eui the bee with a
Nor sting. the wit” for
gnat hidden a taste brake meat; ling
I would not have tn and
The adder that haunts my tee:;
I would not Live r.-led the hedge with
thorns.
Nor poisoned t;.e berries red;
I would not have fashioned the baBook‘1
horns.
Nor riddled the night wits dread.
I would not hare burdened the sun with
Nor spots. the
I uld put out snails moon so the quickly,
Nor w not set the weeds :n taiekly; garden plots.
scatter so
B.:t knowing the world is God’s, not mine.
I fancy the gr^at and trie bee.
The adder, the bush, and the horrid kine
Mist wonder why God made me.
— London Daily Chronicle.
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“Say, I got a chanct to git some
easy money,” said Jakie Appel 1.
The seven Appell brothers
seated in the office of Caesar, the fight
promoter. He was the eldest of all
the fighting Appells, while Jakie was
the youngest.
“I’m going on the stage,” Jakie
added, pompously.
“Aw, gwan, youse talk like a fish!”
shouted Abie, the crack feather¬
weight. “They ain’t none of us but
me kin be on the stage, see? When I
beat young Bob Fitzsommons I'll be
havin’ a million offers, ’cause cham
peens gits ’em. But you ain’t no
champeen.”
“He’s foolish,” said Miah, con¬
temptuously. “They been kiddin’
him.”
Jakie took on an offended air. He
scowled at his larger relatives, who
eyed him scornfully.
“Let him tell what it is he’s tryin’
to do,” suggested Caesar, with tol¬
erance.
*T s pose nobody but youse guys
knows nothin’?” bitterly demanded
Jakie. “I got a regular job at Shin¬
er’s Bowery Theatre, beginnin’ Mon¬
day mat’nee, an’ meetin’ all comers.”
“He’s lose his nut complete,” de¬
clared Morris, the middleweight.
The other Appells gazed at Jakie
increulously.
“Are you tryin’ to kid us?” Monte
Appell inquired, “ ’cause your stuff
wouldn't get a laugh iu forty years.
It's punk. Where'd'you get that at,
anyway?”
Jakie sullenly observed the sneer
Ing faces of his relatives. He had not
removed his hat and overcoat ii pon
entering the office, therefore hasty
departure was easy. lie got up.
“All the know-it-all Appells kin go
chase ’emselves fur all o’ me!” he ex¬
claimed. “Good night! ”
The door noisily closed after him.
“That kid’s sick, I’m afraid,” said
Miah anxiously. “You don’t ’spose,
now, that readin’ about lunatics and
that has got him bug? ’Cause that
talk he was shootin’ ain’t good sense.”
' The family, after earnest discus¬
sion of Jakie, decided that, angered
at not having his name in the fight
columns like his more famed broth¬
ers, Jakie had merely endeavored to
impress them with his own im¬
portance. They separated, those indi¬
viduals who lived by physical combat
going to their training quarters, while
Caesar went off to sign a couple of
men for a preliminary at his next
fistic entertainment.
It was on the next Monday night
that Maw Appell asked Paw Appell
where Jakie had gone. With sons so
plenteous paw l.ad not missed Jakie.
“Where, indeed, is it he has gone?”
said he. “I do not see the boy again
yet. ”
*'He blows out wit' some guy wear
in* a big hunk of ice this afternoon."
Monte, who was not in active train¬
ing at the time, furnished this news.
Paw Appell remarked that if the
man wore diamonds it was all right.
“But no lead ones, you bet," said
the proud parent.
Jakie Appell, gloom in his young
.
Iieart, was in an unventilated dress¬
ing room at Shiner’s Bowery Theatre,
attended by a smashed nose, little
eyed youth named Micked McGoogle.
Messrs. Appell and McGoogle were
slightly nervous, but they did not con¬
fess it. Outside the theatre two red
lettered signs announced that Jakie
Appell, “champion featherweight” (of
what locality was prudently omitted),
was meeting all comers twice daily
for three rounds.
“It s finding it," said the burlesque
show’s manager enthusiastically.
“Stand these dubs off twice a day.
We’ll put a hurdle up for any guy
who looks tough game."
“And I get a hundert bucks an’
fifty per cent, of everything after
$2000 business is did on the week.”
“My boy,” said the manager, “I see
they can’t trim you. Exactly. Our
contract says if you’re knocked out,
only $25 altogether, But we don’t
let you get knocked out. So you're
safe.”
Mr. McGoogle, aged seventeen, and
Jakie. who was then sixteen, consid¬
ered it an excellent financial deal. In
pink trunks, an American flag belt
and fighting shoes, Jakie bowed to
his second audience at 9.45 p. m.
The champion of the Bronx Brick¬
layers’ Union was his opponent.
“Why, he ain't no feather—he's a
welter,” protested Kid McGoogle.
“Are you runnin’ my stage or am I,
young fellar?" coldly asked the
ager.
Mr. McGoogle quieted. The
laying person obviously was
aware that in most sets of articles the
La Blanche swing is barred. He used
it effectively in or e first round.
ta second, well £ onged and fanned
fay Mr. McGoogle. Jakie chased
amateur around the ring, punctuating
the trip with frequent wallops.
“Aw, mix it up! He's stollin',’
howled the gallery. “Make 'em fight!
Go git him, kid! ”
They clinched
“Can't hold'n' hit," t.rgued a voice.
“Put your head on his chin, Jakie!
Lock hold—that's the boy! Good
kid!”
The bricklayer cravenlv quit. It
was Jakie’s fight.
Fifty dollars was offered to “the
man who stays three rounds.” It
will be seen that Jakie had taken on
a large contract. At each show the
contestants grew huskier in size.
I'Al McGoogle labored over his charge
and Jakie panted out after the enemy
each time, putting them out one by
one. Protest was vain. The man¬
ager said that if no light men came
then Jakie must meet what material
was at hand.
“Or no pay,” he finished.
“What size they’ll be by Sattidav,”
moaned McGoogle tearfully.
Jakie sighed. He had not been
home since Monday, therefore he
lacked the sage advice of his six
shrewd brothers.
1 Saturday matinee a tall, thick box¬
er appeared. He was a bouncer in
a concert hall on the Bow’ery.
“Gimme a ladder so’s I kin reach
up to his map,” cried Jakie angrily.
“Well, if you lay down that let’s
us out,” announced the manager
coolly.
The big man couldn't find Jakie,
who ran between his long legs, skil¬
fully harrying him, under Kid Mc
Google’s coaching. Jakie introduced
a Graceo-Roman hold, which caused
the other to bend down to see what
he was doing, whereat Jakie hooked
him with a hard jab to the stomach.
The roars from the admiring audi¬
ence would have prevented the man¬
agement from giving a decision to the
big man in any case, but as evil living
had induced indigestion in the boun¬
cer, the body blow settled him.
One show remained and Jakie could
only wait and pray. It was clear that
the treacherous manager was provid¬
ing these enormous men in an effort
to save paying the industrious Jakie.
That night a hefty two hundred
pounder climbed on the stage, to
emerge from the wings in red tights
five minutes later.
“Mike O’Brien! I *t yelled the stage
manager.
“O'Brien had a large hook nose.
Kid McGoogle, seeing him, stared in
wonder. It was Caesar Appell, who
would do anything for money. The
offer outside had tempted him.
Caesar’s surprise equaled Jakie’s,
but he made no sign. At the first
clinch Jakie agitatedly whispered his
story. “Knock me out in the next,”
said Caesar; “don’t worry.”
With a vicious right swing to the
jaw Jakie sent “Mike O'Brlen” to the
canvas. Unwilling and slow as the
referee’s count- was, he did not rise,
for Caesar would have stayed there
all night. Wild bellows applauded
Jakie, the marvelous young tiger.
At ten-thirty Jakie and Mr. Mc¬
Google, keeping close to Caesar’s
large bulk, heard the latter demand
his little brother's money. It was
given and the percentage also, for
Caesar would not be denied, Then
he took the exhausted juvenile away.
“Next time never hold, out to the
family,” he gently rebuked, “ ’cause
them's your best friends.”—New
York Telegraph.
“OBLITERATIVE COLOR.”
The Part It Plays in Animal Life and
Defense.
Whales, lions, wolves, deer, hares,
mice; partridges, quails, sandpipers,
larks, sparrows; frogs, snakes, fishes,
lizards, crabs; grasshoppers, slugs,
caterpillars—all these animals, and
many thousand more crawl and
crouch and swim about their business,
hunting and eluding, under cover of
this strange obliterative mask, the
smooth and perfect balance between
shades of color and degrees of illum¬
ination.
Nature, having thus visually un
substantialized the bodies of animals,
so that if seen at all they look flat and
ghostly, does not stop there, From
solid, shaded bodies they have been
converted, as it were, into flat cards
or canvases, and. to complete the illu¬
sion of obliteration, pictures of the
background—veritable pictures of the
more or less distant landscape—have
been painted on thesecauvases. Such,
iu effect, are the elaborate markings
of new and fores, birds. This ,s the
consummation of obliterative colora
,lo„: obliterative shading con
junction with a true picturing of such
scenes, nearer or farther, as would
appear straight beyond the animal
were it transparent, o r as would ap
pear if there were n o creature there
at all. The animal has vanished and i
in his aw ace stands a picture of the 1
with its numberless details!
The term ’ “obliterative coloration”
truly fits the case, since these animals
prove to be colored to disappear from
view and not, as has hitherto been j
supposed, to look lifeless solid ob
jects. Some writers, indeed, have
mentioned the fact that animals biend
into the varied ground behind them,
but all have failed to see that this
phenomenon the could not exist without !
addition aid of to some the profound general resemblance principle in j I .
of color and pattern.-From Gerald
H. Tnayer s Ihe Concealing Colora
tion of Animals,” in the Century.
Several million dollars' worth of
machinery larg modern su gar¬
mills has t den purchased in
■ Formosa.
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The ngth of life of m
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Americans to Do Justice
to the Memory of the
Author of “The Bovea”
Ktkough Admittedly the Nation’s Creates
Writer, Either In Prose cr Poefry, He is Con¬
ceded to Have Exerted a Greater influence an
Foreign Literature Than An; Other of Our
Writers to This Day—Jt is OnJy on the Hun¬
dredth Anniversary of His Birth in Boston,
January Froperiy 19, That Edgar Allan Poe is to Be
Honored by His Countrymen-Exer
cises Are Now Being Planned In Boston, Phila¬
delphia, Baltimore and New York, Four Cities
in Which He Old Most of His Writing—The
I’nivfrslty ot Virginia, That Had the Glory of
Graduating the Author of “The Haven,” Will
Also Fittingly Observe the Natal Day of the
Poet Who Lsd the Saddest Life of Any of the
Many Pitiful Cases Where Misery Has Been
Wedded lo Genius.
On the occasion of Ills centenary,
January 19 of next year, Americans
will do tardy justice to the memory of
the loftiest and most poetical genius
the new- world has yet produced—
Edgar Allan Poe.
Misunderstood during all his un¬
happy life, slandered after his death
by a jealous contemporary, the
matchless poet, author of “The
Raven,’’ is to be treated one hundred
years after his birth to spontaneous
honor at the hands of the countrymen
w-hose letters he glorified.
The celebration of the hundredth
anniversary of Poe’s birth has been a
favorite project of the literary for
several years. It was not without re¬
search that the actual date was de¬
termined. Poe’s own statements,
which in matters of this kind were
prone to be inexact, are responsible
for the confusion. When he entered
West Point he gave his birth inac¬
curately so as to come under the age
limit. But the researches of Profes¬
sor Woodberry have shown to a cer¬
tainty that the date is January 19,
1908, a paragraph in a Boston paper
of one month later proving it beyond
a question.
Commemorative Exercises Planned.
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and New York,“the four cities in
which Poe did most of liis literary
work, will all see commomorative ex¬
ercises held, and in the University of
Virginia, whose most famed student
Poe is, noted giants -of literature w'ill
sound the praises of the greatest
American
In all the injustice done to men of
genius the case of Poe is perhaps
without a parallel. His gifts were
undoubtedly his curse, for he never
realized anything from them but woe.
The frightful imagination that en¬
abled him to write stories of horror
that have never been equaled w r as
trouble enough for any one m,an, but
ordinarily they wo aid have brought
consolation in the admiration of his
fellowmen, and financial rewards that
would have enabled the writer and
lii3 wife to live in comfort.
“Passing Rich” on $10 Per.
When at the very summit of his
glory, as editor of the leading Amer¬
ican magazine, his salary was only
$10 a week, a stipend at which many
a stenographer would to-day scorn¬
fully turn up the nose, “The Raven,”
one of the most celebrated of all
poems, brought only $10 to the au
thor, yet to-day the original manu
script is valued at $10,000.
For a quarter of a century after the
death of this master worker in letters
the enemies of Poe had the ear of the
world. The poet was scarcely cold
in his grave before R. W. Griswold
had published his slanderous biogra¬
phy, which reeked in every line with
the hatred the biographer bore the
critic who had so ruthlessly exposed
the literary weakness of “His Poets
and Poetry of America.”
Poe and Griswold were friends, but
the poet, as one of the most noted
critics . . in the world,
could not stifle
his sense of honesty in commenting
on his (Griswold’s) work, He told
what he thought about it.
Griswold had his revenge richly
after ^ _ the death of the author of “The
Raven,” for the close relations of the
two men, having been known to the
world, led all to believe that what
Griswold said of Poe must of neces¬
sity be correct.
Great Injustice Done Him
'
it was not ofTho^e , . 8 ^
Poe in life, manv who h ° knew
'
his true life in many of the places
mentioned hv debauS “e/aTThe?
WcredibW ° 8 thelr
camuaien SeTX to rw ptsWimv^tb‘M m
sa. greatest^ he 1!
had done the traS ° f A “ erican
literary geniuses tha^LVJurvl?' .
Enemies said and
beat his wife in order to hasten her
death so that material''f w c t„j • g ^
he scriptiS! might get I,a “, gS
Yet her 'a th^ ^
Clemm. who lived with 5 ^ i dUI "
ing their marked pol Uf °
how deeply the loved her bore
Indignant .. „ ^ Sl ? nder > of
these stories and re rebnuff , slTo^
hundred otlmrs in *
the man’s affection how’J*! the s T had 8
for his wife of UlnesI ^ her
meals in her A >averty
had brought them n>ar actuaI , starva
tion ’
Mrs. Clemm '
showed th tw V « 1 was * hfr .
death of his wife that P *
° S ’ S
reason and became <iUec
of th“ fits of dr ' cause
.. v ™ 688 that 8nalIy
resulted in his deal
Women who knew him spoke of
the peculiarly chivalric
which he treated manner in
his th e gentler sex, and
man f-tends told of his reserve
and modi isty and the ‘■tre
mflity u n ea hu -1
as His own sserts as a !
i
liv and died a mystery to
B •-■lf, to his friends a ad ta the
,
world. His life was a romance, hi*
death a tragedy and his fame inirnot
tal. Never before has so much gen
ius been allied to such misery. The
most interesting and picturesque Ag¬
ura in American literature, his
strange and romanlic life possessing
an incredible fascination for those
who have sought to follow it from the
time the poet began his wanderings
as a writer, it is no wonder that the
approaching centenary has been the
occasion for reviving a renewed life
for the Poe cult.
Those who go back to investigate
find that, after leaving Boston, Poe
was adopted by Mr. John Allan, of
Richmond, Va., which accounts for
the fact that, though a Northerner
born, he always had such close un¬
derstanding of the South and sym¬
pathy for it.
How He Left West Point.
In 1829, when he was twenty, is
found his name for the first time on
the flyleaf of a volume of poems, “A1
Aaraaf,” “Tamerlane,” etc. The Uni¬
versity of Virginia had been his alma
mater; then he went to West Point,
but the move was a mistake, and
after spending a few months there
he asked his guardian to permit him
to resign. The later peremptorily re¬
fusing, Poe took his own means of
ending a regime that had become
painful to him, and by neglecting all
his studies finally got himself into
such disgrace that he was cashiered.
Thrown on his own resources, he
took up literature as a means of live¬
lihood, and wrote in rapid succession
his wonderful stories of mystery, of
which “Marie Roget,” the “Murders
of the Rue Morgue,” “The Gold Bug,”
"Black Cat,” “Pit and the Pendulum,”
especially astonished the world. In
New York he contributed to the New
York Quarterly Review a series of
searching criticisms, then he went to
Philadelphia to aSsume charge of the
Gentleman's Magazine.
His romance with Sarah Helen
Whitman is one of the most famed
chapters of his life, He worshiped
this brilliant woman, and her loyalty
to him is proved by the vigor with
which, after his death, she hastened
to reply to every one of the slanders
directed against his memory. Almost
alone for a long time she bore the
burden of battle against the detrac¬
tors of Poe, and her work is no-/
bearing fruit in the changed attitude
of the public mind to him.
Baltimore, in whose streets Poe
was found insensible in October,
1849, was first to publicly honor his
memory, and a statue erected there
in 1875 was the first memorial to his
memory.
Other honors are certain to be the
outgrowth of the centenary, for the
United States, having finally f^jind
its gre at poet, will now' proceeu to
make t
atonement.—Washington Star.
STRUCTURE OF THE DRAIN.
Enormous Number of Cells and Fi¬
bres Connecting Them.
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According to Dr. Edward A. Ayres
(in Harper's Monthly) the human
brain is composed of microscopic di¬
mensions. Each has a diameter of
from 1-1400 to 1-3000 of an inch.
Their number is variously estimated
at from 612,000,000 to 9,200,000
000 ! Even 1,000,000 is a quantity
almost beyond comprehension, Con
necting with many of the cells are
delicate fibres which extend to other
cells. Besides, there are telegraph
wires, the nerves, which run down to
or come from other parts of the body.
One set of nerves: proceeds from
the skin. These are so close together
that there is no point on the surface
of the body which can be touched
with the finest needle without send¬
ing a report to headquarters, To
every square foot of skin there are
about 10,000 of these “tactile”nerves,
and it is estimated that the body has
sixteen square feet of surface. There
are nerves also from the special sense
organs — the eyes, nose and ears.
These convey their messages much
more quickly than do the nerves of
the skin. Still a third set of nerves
extends to the tips of the various
muscles and conveys the orders need¬
ed for the various voluntary move
ments. These are called the motor
nerves. Many of the duties per¬
formed by such organs as the heart
and stomach are regulated by other
nerve centres than the brain, The
subordinate centres, called ganglia,
work independently of the brain. Or¬
dinarily a person is unconscious of
their operations and he cannot con
trol them by his will.
In the lowermost and back part of
the skull is the cerebullum or small
brain. Among its duties is making
other parts of the body co-operate
for given purpose, like keeping one's
balance. Something also has been
learned about the localities In the
larger and upper brain in which dif¬
ferent classes of work are performed.
Phrenologists have made rather ex
travagant and inaccurate statements
about “bumps,” but, after all th ori
sto'ries ,
!s sonie truth ia the ’later of
thl\ the trath di f5° verie can be «' ,ea ™ed way is in to which
Pa !' 6 the buman corn
braln witb those of
11 a catfisb for instance,
about '
half the brain *s devoted to the
sense of taste. Another method is
aot ! Cing the effects of an injury to
braiu b accident, a
Y and a third em
^ they are experimeDt chloroformed. s on animals while
of If one nart
* be brain is e *Posed and touched
with . delicate
a electric instrument
certain muscle a
will contract. If an¬
other With the is knowledge touched another responds'
thus secured the
surgical profession is sometimes en
abled to perform operations on man
which would otherwise be impossible.
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Marriage Age Increased.
It is generally admitted that the
marriageable age of women has ad¬
vanced considerably of recent years.
Many a bride has long felt girlhood
behind her before she exchanged her
vows at the altar, and there seems
to be few young men nowadays who
care to assume the responsibilities
of married life until they are in the
financial position usually associated
with middle age.—Woman’s Life.
Diplomatic Women.
Almost all the celebrated women
have gained their fame by diplomatic
means. The famous women of Jew¬
ish history were all subtle in their
methods—Rebecca, .Tael and Hero
dias, to name but a few of them.
What born diplomatists, too, were
Catherine of Siena, the great saint,
and Catherine de Medici, the great
sinner! The list of them down the
ages is unending. The royal road
to fame, as well as to peace, would
seem for women to be marked by
the signposts of diplomacy.—Wo¬
man's Life.
Women and Her Paper.
Did you ever notice how a woman
opens a paper? It is as different
from the method of a man as her
skirt is from his trousers.
If she is in her own home, with
plenty of space and sitting in a ca¬
pacious rocking chair, she has room
enough to do it successfully. If she
is anywhere else, she instantly be¬
comes a public nuisance.
A man opens his paper sharply,
keeping the sheets close together,
folds it lengthwise in half, then
doubles it, making it into a flat
pamphlet, and reads iu comfortably.
He doesn’t gouge any one’s eyes out,
or knock off their hats, or tickle
the back of their ears and necks.
But a woman! She opens the
sheets and then spreads out their en¬
tire length in front of her, up in the
air, with both arms extended at full
length to hold the edges. The fact
that she is reading the first column
on the first sheet does not prevent
her from keeping the paper spread
out in this position during the whole
time she is reading.
When she turns another sheet she
takes the whole thing a bit higher
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In the air, makes as much of a breeze
as she can when she is turning it,
and then readjusts it again in this
spread-eagle position.
The fact that she is taking up most
of the space allotted to each person
around her never enters her mind.
—New York Times.
Superior to Their Lords.
The Indian women of Bolivia are
usually superior to their lords in
, actual intelligence; also in age as
a rule.
They earn the larger part of their
mutual “living,” and take the lead
in most things.
As recognized head of the house,
the Bolivian Indian wife is much
more likely to thrash her compara¬
tively timid spouse than he is to ill
use her.
rn the markets, when produce has
to be disposed of, she can drive a far
better bargain than he could; she
can carry as heavy burdens, endure
as much privation and physical toil,
labor, chew as much corn and drink
as much strong drink.
Little or no money passes amongst
the Bolivian Indians, their mediums
of exchange being whatever they may
raise or the .labor of their hands.
They will eat when not hungry, drink
when not thirsty, sleep when not
sleepy, anywhere and any time when
opportunity offers, “against the time
of need,” as they say. The majority
are in a state of semi-intoxication
from babyhood to the grave, alcohol
being used on every pretext, freely
as their means will allow, on occa¬
sions of births, deaths and feast days
the last named being remarkably
frequent.—Boston Globe.
A Matronly Hat.
The Peter Pan hat was not of
Pans, m fact, it still has to make
Its way in the French capital. This
is reversing the regular ordering of
things. The French are bound to
catch the craze in a few weeks, when
an English Peter Pan goes to Paris in
e Barrie fantasy. Meanwhile, we
s iall be cultivating the new fad ot
•
t e Little Riding Hoods, with
pronounced grandmotherly air. Sev
eral of these new hats were on view
in Fifth avenue yesterday, and al
Tht 'n! hSy h ^' e lnvaded Washington.
II whlre ti Styl p" f , e fK certainl >- the "HI not be
eQ 35 ° id for
o Pan *
° e V bestowed Louth i
on RidineHnU mm 0 ° DSer y ° Ung the Red
’ :
“ d SiV l S 3 Iuatr °nly appear-!
nnce to „ girls in their t eens. For this
reason, of course, the new
not can be these popular l 1001 with wom en £ , * H) ”
’ features
have no say about it. Al ,V.
permitted to do i s to f 0 n„ V '^
in the footprints of Dam eek| l
So the Red Riding e ?‘
Rood 011 '
comes in as the first sign boiI “ et
It Lenten is an spirit, invention in accord* ^
and this i
only kind word that can ,l15
forit. The Red Riding e df° keB
has no more Ho ! b ° flI,et
excuse for j,.
than the short sleeve in
but that it is useless to tarry o "*&* ! mter '
point. Utility nev
women until they undertake to
age their husbands.—New ^
Press. York
More Pretty Girls Than Ever.
“They tell us,” said the middle.
aged man. “that within a generation
or two the women of this
have increased in stature, country
have as well in all as they
the attributes ot
graceful womanhood so that the«
were never so many splendid
to be seen here as now all women
due . to . improved . . this beta?
which conditions of life t
with its comparatively g rea ’t»
opportunity for leisure, ' r
and cultivation, the recreation
sex is first to
respond, . thus , showing in this way
a greater advance in development
than man.
“And they tell us also that this
advance. as might . , i naturally he «■
pected, is more to be noted among
the well-to-do and those comfortably
situated in life; but I should say from
my own observation that it i s l0 w
spreading among all the people as a
race. Living conditions are now far
more favorable for all than they w ete
even a generation ago, and this ai.
vancement and improvement is now
to be noted among the young people,
the children of the present day
everywhere;’ though here also it is
still observable more notably amon?
the girls than the boys.
“If you should chance to meetajy
day in any of the comfortable quar
ters of the town the school children
going home from a public school yon I
could not fail to be struck by the 5
number of graceful, pretty girls j
among them. To be sure, in such a
company children, you could always find pretty j
but I venture to say never i
before so many really pretty girls ai
now. There are plain children here,
too, if any girl can be called plain,
but a notable number of pretty girls,
of girls who would make attractive
pictures, a greater number of suck,
distinctly, than would here have bees
found thirty years ago.”—New York
Sun.
m Hi Ff/iiS
/,
4
One of the neatest waists this se*
son is a dotted Swiss.
“Lion’s mane” is the nain e ff fel
to one of the season’s good brown»'
Linen dresses of white and colors
are shown, white and the natural
flax gray being most prominent.
For house wear there is no pf ei ‘
tier material than white cashmere.il
needs a bit of color to enliven it.
Removable frill jabots for the
front of shirt waists, with cuffs
to match, are the latest dictates o.
fashion.
From present indications it see®
likely that the gored skirt will be
successor to the very much pl ?a
variety.
Folds, pipings and tailor-stitch®
bands of satin, as well as sa:in-c°
ered buttons, are a feature in skin
trimmings. elaborately
Ducks and pique are
wrought in needlew ork and a! '
braiding. Motifs of lace come real'
for inserting, and are convenien
the woman who is handy " ll1
needle.
A fad of the season, recomnm ^
both for its charm and aove ■>,
the use of pink and blue tri“>
on white waists. This touch o
is considered the smartest thing v
high-P rlC ®
sible, and appears on
models, the
No ornamentation around ^
girdle proper which goes ho
waist. There are women , w
soutache *=*.
small Greek key in gov® w,
each edge, and when the w®*
simple and of soft mater ial this
is effective. -IS
For afternoon gowns. ”
is voile, trimmed with tussak woo*
the same color ’ checks. Light-V^j s 0 '
in unobtrusive cloth. gf i
little coatees of plain lingerie
back and revealing a
much befrilled.