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THE MACON TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 190«
tmm words to htr. The young lady
stepped back, lifted her foot and gave
th<- masher a kick under the chin that
s«*nt him rolling on the floor. Then
i she shipped his face several times.
The masher had waked up an athletic
I girl. He slltnk away.
| Pallor and flabbiness among poor
| children are caused by Wok of animat
1 protelda. Meat being high, vegetable
| protelda are apt to be substituted.
Miss Long, daughter of ex-Secretary
I •t IkC Do U * Jjdi£»l»i
t almost any case ographkaL ta railed "A Story of the
Red Cross.” It describes among other
ics a double chin matters Miss Barton's relief work In
r treatment. Mas- Armenia. Russia and Cuba. Clara Bar-
i and removes su- ton founded th. Red Cross In America.
,se It equalises the After washing the hair let It hang
down the back for a few hours at least.
Is not the thought It la a bad plan to wash U at night, as
but the thought sleeping packs the hair together tightly
st aa the charm of too soon after the shampoo,
he tone, but In the * Lately a -masher” smiled at a young
lady on a Philadelphia ferryboat^ then
avitstk* ho- audgsfl ht( «.*&*» 4*4 vv^u
One or two clever
known to draw and |
hand. The ability to
ly with either hand l
I more general with t
Secret of Ancient
Dyes Rediscovered by
Charlotte Pendleton
M EN with their machinery
have taken away from wo
man the employment she
herself .originated—that of
t’taking and dyeing cloth. Even so re-
«cntly ns In the pioneer days of our
own land women sill} had the spinning
and weaving In their own hands.
Dyeing was an exquisite art among
the pioneer women. Like tbs orientals,
ancient and modern, our great-grand-
mothers used vegetable dyes, and these
never faded. Indigo colored everlast
ing blue, peach tree leaves made won
derful yellows and greens, walnut hulls
a clear, bright brown. The choicest
treasures of American women descend
ed from our "old families” are the rugs.
MRS. CHARLES MERCER HALL.
NOTES FROM THE FEMININE WORLD.
coverlets and scraps of flannel gar
ments their woman ancestors spun,
dyed and wove. These are as bright
and firm In color almost aa ths day
they were made.
Aniline colors were discovered a gen
eration ago, exquisite as rainbow tints,
but us evanescent too. Man perceived
here a cheap way of coloring textile
fabrics, so clapped the aniline dye
stuffs upon his machine made cloth-
From that day to this fast colors have
departed from woven goods. One of
the chief reasons why Persian and oth
er orlentul rugs and hangings uro val
ued above all others Is that they do
not fade, but wear out with colors un-
dlmmed. it Is because they are made
from vegetable dyes, the secret of
whose preparation Is known only to the
eastern makers and sacredly kept by
them.
Hume knowledge of oriental dyea was
probably brought to Europe when tap
estry weaving woa begun In the twelfth
century. The middle of the fifteenth
century the Oohelln brothers became
famous for their wonderful dyes. They
hud an establishment In Purls and
there turned nut aurh marvelous fust
colors for textile fubrlcs that they
*rew wealthy und were ennobled. Ear
ly In the aeventeenth century the site
of their dyeing shop was turned Into a
royal tapestry factory. The secret of
the marvelous dyes seems to huve been
I.:• tided down to those who originally
ii .aged In tapestry making, but was
lost after several generations, nnd It Is
said that now no mortal can reproduce
the lest Gobelin dyes, unless. Indeed,
this has been done by Miss Charlotte
Pendleton of Philadelphia.
Miss Pendleton Is n lady of means,
tall and dignified, with dark, keen look
ing eyes and a will and Intellect full of
jiower. Being the Intellectual woman
she la, her mind could not help going
jut beyond mere petty, fashionable
dressing and amusements. Like all
true women of bruins, she felt an in
terest In Industrial employments for
her own sex. Women of brain breadth
cannot help such a feeling. Miss Pen
•lleton was also artinttc. Pondering
long on the,woman question, ahe won
dered whether there could not In some
way be even In our time a remunera
tive return to the feminine occupations
of a century ugo In this country.
While she pondered the woman quos
lion Miss Pendleton was meantime uIm
Intensely Interested in dyes and the
textile Industry. Hhe made many ex
periments with her own hands In col
oring silk snd wool fubrlcs. At length
this work became so absorbing that she
withdrew quietly from the Phlladei
phis social circle In which she was a
prime favorite snd went swsy. Many
old friends asked whither she had flit-
ted. but none could answer.
It woa nearly s year ago that Miss
Pendleton dropped out. As a matter
of fact, ahe went to the aemlrural homo
of her brother near Washington and
there began studying and experiment
Ing. The house was an old stone man
sion. snd one of Its outbuildings was
an unusued hennery, with windows
running across the sides, letting In
enough light for an artist's studio.
There Charlotte Pendleton conveyed
ing utensils, woolen
id papers, and there
rich society woman
id wrought with her
each day. There is
rr or for anybody to
work out a problem. When in Europe
Miss Pendleton had previously visited
and taken notes of vurious famous dye
ing establishments In France. There
she begun to work out her problem In
the former hennefy near Washington.
That la'wl.jre she was. What she
was doing appears In the shape of a
reinarkulde exhibit In the Building of
Varied Industries at the Ht. Louis fuir.
It Is contained In s large glass case
that at once attracts the eye by the
luutroue appearance of the skeins of
colored yam that are Inside of It. The
woolen skeins have such a shine upon
them that puHsersby stop to ask wheth-
they are wool or silk. In that ques
tion lies the heart of one discovery
Miss Pendleton believes she has made
In connection with the dyeing of wool
en goods.
The thing Miss Pendleton sought to
do when she shut hentelf up In her
laboratory outsldq of Washington was
to rediscover the Gobelin dyes, those
unfading colors which make tho old
French tapestries worth their weight
In gold. If not that, then tho experi
menter hoped at least to And the secret
of making other pure dyea, utso unfad
ing. To her unspeakable delight, she
not only achieved what ahe believes to
till death put the seal of apparently
eternal silence upon It. But an Amer
ican woman has broken the seal.
The application of Miss Pendleton's
inventions to wall tapestries will give
nn Impetus to the making of these.
Carpets, rugs, curtains and wall hang
ings will appear as If made of pure silk,
and at the same time the woolen thread
of which they are really made will out
wear any silk. American homes can be
made very beautiful.
Most significant of all. perhaps, in
connection with thin matter Is the fact
that Miss Pondleton's/discoveries have
been made In the true ancient field of
woman's work, that of dyeing nnd
making textile fabrics. Now women
can make art vugs at home of the new
sllkenlxed woolen yarn and cloth which
a woman's wit lias given them.
LILLIAN GRAY.
FROM THEIR EMPLOYMENT
TO FENCING SCHOOL
Parisian shopgirls are studying fenc
ing. A society called L'Oeuvro dc Ml ml
Pinson, after the |>oem In which Alfred
Ue Musset sung the graces of the ou-
rrlers, has undertaken to teuch these
working girls the uhc of the foils. Mil
liners, searnstresf.es. flower makers,
artists In feathers und embroidery con-
they enjoy the lessons very much and
tliut the exercise makes them feel far
fitter than ever they did before, when a
walk home if buses were full was all ths
movement they got after sitting over
their work all day. When the lesson is
finished they doit musks, gloves and
I*ads, unpin skirts, put on their big
hats, made by themselves In tho latest
fashion, und hurry off belter skelter to
the workshop. There fencing Is now
-the foplc of the hour. Girls who know
how to handle tho foils swagger over
CHARLOTTE PENDLETON,
be the rediscovery of the Gobelin dyes,
but made on her owp' account a And
which. If It turns out aa ahe expects,
will revolutionize the art of dyeing
wools. This Is a process applicable to
all colors whereby wool may be made
to look tike silk. This statement re
calls the dictum of the oriental philoso
phers that all matter Is different forms
of one original substance.
By means of Miss Pendleton’s prepa
ration woolen rugs snd carpets may be
‘bade silky In appearance. She has
paid special attention to the dyeing of
rkgs. Thus with the fast colors of the
Gobelin tapestries snd of the orient,
und also the procesaTOr giving to wool
a luster like that of silk, American nig
weaving may surpass that of any other
country.
These two priceless discoveries in
or.e appear to have been made by Char
lotte Pendleton. She understands fully
j the Importance of her two finds and
; guards the secrets of them even as
l Gl.es and Jean Gobelin guarded theirs
THE LUCKY TURQUOISE.
Amulets aro much In favor at the
present moment, and the wearers of
them are by no meant only of the femi
nine community. They are worn in all
manner of quaint designs, and the
venders ore Just now having a busy
time. Each precious stone*Is supposed
to conjnln some property peculiar to It
self. It seems hardly credible that peo
ple of common sense ahould believe In
such things, but true It Is that nmuletr.
ire at present much in vogue, and.
apart from their superstitions, they arc
>n« of the daintiest presents Imagina
ble. The emerald Is credited with a
host of good Influences, the chrysolite is
i cure for Insomnia, the onyx produce::
peaceful existence. But the luckiest
imutet of oil is that containing a tur
quoise. whether by reason of Its "true
idue” color or not It Is hard to say.
There Is an old proverb which states
that "he who presses a turquoise will j
never lack a friend.” Certainly from
time Immemorial the turquoise ha •
never ceased to be regarded os a lucky '
stone.
THE VICTIM OF NERVES.
Eleonora Duse, the famous Italian ac- |
tress, is peculiarly sensitive and highly
strung. When she Is not playing or re
hearsing she spends her time In per
fect rest and lives In almost nunlike se-
I elusion, Hhe has a companion who ar-
| ranges her journeys and engages rooms
for her at hotels. This woman sees
that Duse's apartments are at the back
j of the hotel and. If poaslble. overlook-
I Ing a garden, for she cannot bear street
sounds and sights. The furnishing of
her room Is important. Everything
must be scrupulously clean, severe oiul
quiet, for her highly wrought sensibili
ties cannot tolerate the distraction of
pictures and ornaments.
WEEPING AT A WEDDING.
A Chinese marriage Is a solemn cere
mony—no talk, no levity and much cry
ing. A feast Is spread upon a table, to
which the blushing bride Is led by five
of her friends. They are seated at the
table, but no one eats. Deep silence
prevails. When finally the mother starts
crying the molds follow, and the bride
joins In the chorus. Then all the brides
maids leave the table, and the discon
solate mother takes a seat beside the
chair of state where the bride sits. The
bridegroom now enters with four of his
men friends, who carry the bride round
the room, while the guests throw rice
ovsr ths happy pair.
AN ARTISTIC SEPTEMBER COSTUME
Thi* dr/»* of nlln faced crepe de chine Is trimmed with point de venlte end
fringes and tucked ornament,. The full puff. In the ehuhed open .leave, and
the fitted lace cuff, make a atunnhig finish.
gregate two or three timee a weak In a
hall, where they don maeki, glove, and
hreaet pad, and learn the mysteries of
fencing from a mlstreu. They tuck up
and pin their skirt, to allow freedom of
motion and look very bualnenllke a*
“ — ■ thrust and parry. They aay I ti
those who bars not yat ventured to so
in for the manly par time. Challences
are In the air. there Is ulk of sending
cartel, to the chief when he ha, been
in a specially scoldlns temper and
deadly duel, with tyrannical shop ml,-
*r. darkly hinted at.
Uhls M 044 llaw
I of bay mm will cure almost
’of dandruff.
I Mautiifr will
any other
ui hollow*
boat of l.ook
U con Ulna,
ii *ut;se»i*. ju»l as the
dwell* not in the tone.
rr of 1 echoes of our heart*.
«Mth»rtde« and five ouncta 1 Chile Qattan's bcok,
clan and la devottns her life to
•We poor to New Tork city.
clever artists ha
and paint with
do all thin,
likely u,
the rising
possible for a man and a woman who
are to be married to be both intellec
tual Independently of each other and
yet to b* the dearest of friends? It
Isn't necessary for a woman to be ei
ther & sheep or a doormat or else be
come an argumentative virago. And I
don't *ee the necessity of an unending
feud between man and woman. It Isn’t
necessary for one to yield all the time.
It’s a game of give and take with the
right man and the right woman. Given
bread mindedness and a sense of hu
mor, and even the dread chains of mar
riage become a gay burden equally
borne and laughed over by both parties.
After all. It Is the morbid. Introspec
tive woman that In book* and else
where makes all the trouble.
An Early Autumn Costume.
To make a violent switch from the
subject, which is one of my chief de
lights. I want to tell you that the cof
fee colored gown of flne cloth relieved
with touches of orange is going- to be a
smart reception costume In the autumn.
For street wear, to have made up with
in the next month, you cannot do bet
ter than to choose a material of the
dull new shads of copper red. Have It
Mo aadder than / uhen / got through.
SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES
OF THE AMERICAN
A N American gentleman who Is
l close observer recently made a
trip to Europe—his first one.
He traveled through Great Britain.
France, Belgium and Holland. A few
days after his return he happened to
walk through lower New York city at
the noon luncheon hour, and he said:
"I saw more fine looking und pretty
girls in one hour In New York than I
did In all the cities of Europe while I
was away. You can’t see such a sight
in any European city as this daily
American noon hour beauty show In
our large American towns. Women
don’t go out to business there as they
do here, and if they did they would not
draw attention by their good looks. I
never noticed It before I went to Eu
rope, but I tell you American girls are
the most beautiful In civillauition. Our
working girls are well dressed. I Just
watched those stenographers and clerks
going to their luncheon. They are not
only pretty, but tall and well devel
oped, and they hold their heads and
their cheats up und walk along with a
free stride that shows they teel them
selves to be ’somebody.’ They are In
dependent and self reliant und can take
care of themselves. There Is an Ameri
can girl type sure enough, a finer type
than has been developed elsewhere.
The American girl, besides being hand
somer than her sisters of other nations,
is more intelligent than they and
knows the world better, und this adds
to her attractiveness. Oh. the Amer
ican girl is stunning, no mistake.”
It Is quite true that the American
girl is superior to maidens of other na
tionalities, and all the world acknowl
edges It. She Is more attractive phys
ically than any other. She is also bet
ter educated and has more liberty. She
is brought up to know that she can
protect herself, and she does It.
This undoubted superiority of the
American girl comes wholly from su-
-perlor opportunity. It shows what the
whole female sox will become with lib
erty and education. Women were
scarce In this new land in the begin
ning and wore made much of. Men
could not do enough for them. What
ever u woman wanted she must have.
She wanted an education; colleges were
thrown open to her. There are today
more American women graduates of
colleges than are to be found in all the
other countries put together. Women
wanted to be doctors, lawyers, minis
ters and teachers of Higher branches.
All these they are. Married women
wanted the right to own proi»erty In
their own names. This, too, they have.
Our country has the most abundant
and the best food of any land. Ameri
can women have been generously fml
for generations. The American girl
has the noblest opportunity for educa
tion of any of her sex. She lias been
taught to fix a high value on herself,
to feel there Is no social station she
cannot aspire to. An American lady
recently presented nt the British court
and the recipient of courtesies from the
royal family Itself formerly earned her
own living In the States. No British
lady of noble birth is more pollBhed
and gracious than this American, and
exactly what 1* what bet-
Another American wo-
wife of one of ihb
men In the world, was for
a teacher. The American
easily adaptable and can suit
to any position. She can make
her own social standing. The highest
compliment that can be paid to a lady's
external attractions Is to say she is as
veil dressed as a Frenchwoman and as
handsome as an American, v •
There is so much for this splendid
A merican girl to achieve and to be that
the very vastness of her field Is a temp
tation to fritter herself away on many
things, even oftentftnes on frivolities.
If she only lives up to her opportunity
she will present to mankind a new and
nobler type of womanhood than has
er been known; thence will come the
molding of a newjind finer race.
KATHERINE BLADE&
A SMART MOTORING COAT.
An English tailor has Just sent over
this smart motoring coat. It is carried
out in the plaids John Bull affects for
bis own swugger suits. It fits the fig
ure snugly In the back and hangs In
stole effect In front. A belt of the same
finishes the coat at the waist. The
sleeves are kimono shuped at the hand.
The hat Is u revised motor edition of
the always popular yachting cap.
THE BRIDAL VEIL.
The orientals cluim that the bridal
veil Is a survival of the eastern canopy
held over the pair on their way to
church. This practice still survives In
oriental countries. The veil typifies ex
clusive possession by one man.
In the days of the primitive Britons
the bride wore no veil, but her abun
dant locks fell about her shoulder*.
Even us late us the reign of Henry VIII.
brides wore their hulr in this simple
fashion. The silken locks of Anne
Boleyn floated about her on the day of
her 111 starred nuptials with the king of
many wives. *»
I CAN’T help having a few cynical
Ideas on the subject of summer
vacations. Most of us don’t know
when .wo are having a vacation
and when we are working. There Is a
stereotyped good old fashioned Idea
that to have a vacation one must leave
one’s cosy quarters In town, with elec
tric bell*, bathtub, etc., and emigrate
to one small room In a hotel or board
ing house where there Is no closet and
perhaps next to no window. For this
•Cant accommodation the happy "vaca
tioner" 1ms the
| privilege of pay
ing about a dol
lar tl»o square
Inch, and that's
about ah the
privilege she has.
For the wom
an of moderate
means the av
erage seashore
resort, from an
economical
viewpoint. Is
H merely u snare
‘ and a delusion.
Everything
costs, even the
sew. Hhe has to
dress u great
deal more than
she does a thorn*,
and tho white things pit* up a simply
awful laundry bill. In addition, the laun-
dresses are very bad and ruin enough
clot he* to make an expensive matter
of U. If she wishes to go sailing she
ban to pay right royally, and If she
wants to go fishing she must not for-
e<-t the cost. A horse and carriage,
when procurable, cost even more than
In tho city, and she usually cornea to
the conclusion that New York la a
cheaper place than ths resort.
The happy •'tarotlouer.'
An Original Outing.
My Idea of a vacation Is a peculiar
one, I dure sty. It demands a place
where one can nave money for the fall
wardrobe and have good food and n
reasonably good time. 1 may hero add
that I have never yet found It.
If 1 were a man 1 would engage pas-
•age on one of the numerous fishing
craft or freight carrying boats In the
harbor, cruise around and have a dirty,
healthy time or It. There la something
very attractive In those queer shuped
schooners, with their time worn sails
und their weather beaten crews. Oh, 1
know ths food would lie bail and the
quarters cramped, but think of the
blessed freedom from the convention
ality of "sosslety" and the summer ho
tel plaxsa! Think of the freedom of
lying out like a lizard on the upper
deck In the sun, wearing the same old
clothes day after day snd never having
one’s vision interrupted by the unsym
pathetic cackle of womankind!
X know a very rich young man who
did this once. Instead of going Qft on
a friend’s yacht with a lot of conven
tional men and women, not to apeuk of
matchmaking mammas, he actually en
gaged passage as a common sailor on a
fishing schooner, and, being a fine, ath
letic. college youth with a taste for ad
venture, he hud the time of his life.
Another thing while I am on the va
cation subject. Why ahould pure air
be rated so high above other things—
peace of mind, good food and comfort,
of body, for instance? Now that the
"vacation” season la almost over I
can’t help feeling that I would havo
had a more restful time of It had I
defied popular opinion and atayed In
town. I would have had my own good
home cooking. I might have worn my
old clothes in comfort, and I certainly
would have hud no worry because of
preparations and packing. I think next
year 1 shall try the vacation that means
peace of mind for a change.
The Introspective Woman.
Woman has been called too Intro
spective. nnd one Is certainly Inclined
to believe that It la true In view of the
flood of morbid
literature with
which we are
being deluged by
female authors.
"The Confes
sions of a Wife"
was the pioneer
a season or so
ago. and since
then every wo
man with a mis
■Ion or a griev
ance has rushed
Into print. We
read how wo
man feels In
all conceivable
emotions, nnd,
heaven knows.
Uo$ to dr$M» a great deal. -he ** c *P«ble of
any number of
them. Every woman who Is not having
things exactly her own way or whose
huabund does not give her ae much nl-
townneo money aa She thlnka ahe onght
to have writes a tale of the misunder
stood, nnd I sometimes feel cynically
Inclined to believe that many cases of
throbbing end awakened soul uro Just
made warm enough so It can be used
without wraps during September and
October and with the addition of a fur
piece In November. With this you
want a "cute" hat of furry felt In two
tones of the same red. In its dark
tones especially, this color is simply
chic In the extreme.
1 am writing this letter from Sea
Gate, properly the reclaimed end of
Coney Inland. It is absolutely shut oft
from the rest of the world in Its exclu
siveness. The population consists of
the tenants of a hundred cottages and
the following of the Atlantic Yacht
club. It Is guarded on the land side by
"the Gute," a sort of porter’s lodge, and
on the ocean side one must approach
by means of a private boat, for which
no tickets can be. purchased. One must
use the name of the resident of the Is
land to whom he Is about to pay a visit,
or else he will not be allowed to laud at
all.
Ho much for a unique spot.
KATE CLYDE
Sea Gate, New York Harbor.
PATRIOTIC JAP WOMEN.
No nation has better right to be
proud of what Its women have done In
wartime than Japan. It Is a matter of
record that some 10.000 Japanese wo
men volunteered to go to the front as
nurses In the field hospitals at the out
break of the Chinese war. and advices
from Japan state that the, number of
women volunteering to go t6 the front
as nurses today Is greater than In 1895.
And the women who stay nt home are
not lacking In patriotic devotion.
purs and simple dyspepsia. The latest
woman’s book (1 will refrain from
mentioning the author, but you ull
know her because of the prefucc the
president wrote for her other book) is,
us the boys suy, "the limit." I rend It
on the sunds by the sad sen waves, and
they were no sadder than I when I got
through. The object seems to he to
prove that the old fashioned woman Is
dying .out ft’m heartily glad of that),
but the prosent type of woman, accord
ing to the authoress, la about the most
unnatural and hopeless specimen Im
aginable (throughout the whole hook,
too), and I don’t like that unconscious
feeling—man and woman are made
antagonists, friendly perhaps, but an
tagonists for all that. You are taught
that there are only two extreme's, "Suf
fer not a woman to teach nor to usurp
authority over the man, hut to be In
silence,” according to the Biblical quo
tation heading of one of the chapters,
or else an unsexed. argumentative, rud
derless and derelict specimen of hu
manity.
"Give and Take."
Well, either I am an exception, as are
some friends of mine also, or else wo
are all freaks. Why on earth Is It not
EARLY AUTUMN COAT OF WHITE CLOTH.
This smart early autumn coat of satin faced white cloth Is gathered to a
yoke of lace outlined with shirred hands headed by silk tiimmed with appliques
and cabochons. The Itallnn filet lace Is bordered with shirred bands and lace
edges. The large, full sleeves have wide cuffs and lace flounces.
KATE
CLYDE
Discourses Sagely
Concerning the
Vanities of Seat-
side Resorts and
the Feminine
Novel—Also Tells
of an OrigineJ
Reception Gown