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. LADY ABERDEEN AN LL.D.
Lady Aberdeen, wife of the former
Governor General of Canada, made
morself much beloved during her resi
dence thers., In acKnowledgment of
her sgervices Queen’s University at
Kingston conferred on her the honor
ary degree of LL.D. She is the new
president of the International Council
f Women,
SHAWLS. .
The shawl, as it is worn to-day, is
an affair that sets perfectly about the
neck and shoulders by means of a
parrow embroidercd neck emplace
ment. Or it may be folded at the back
of the shoulders into a great loop
that sugzests a hood, its point tas
selled a broad band of embroidery or
gulpure outlifing the front, the neck
and this hook-like loop, as well as the
bottom edge.—Vogue.
A MILLINER’'S ADVICE.
A milliner’s advice to her patrons is
to observe the effect of a hat sitting
as well as standing. Sometimes a
hat is too large for a seated figure
while it does very well while thte
wearer i 3 standing. No one wants to
lose in effeet by a change of posture,
any more than she wants to wear a
‘hat that is becoming in froant and
hideous in the back.
A NEW FAD.
A recent fad is the collecting of
purses. To gratify this fad one must
have a purse from all over the world.
There is a quaint purze of all gold
threads from Central America. Then
there is the Indian bead purse. There
are handsome leather purses, with a
jewel set in the froat, and there are
the leather purses of Japan, all bright
colored and exquisitely carved, \yifhm
c¢hain a‘tached, with a jewe) wdich is
garriea M e aana:
. EMBROCIDERED LINEN.
80 much embroidery is done on
finen, both for table use and for per
sonal wear in collars, euffs and shirt
waist fronts, that it becomes a nececs
sity for many women to know how to
launder it well.
In the first place, never rub soap
on embroidery. Prepare a suds of
some good white soap and lukewarm
water, adding a tablespoonful of tur
pentine to every quart of water. This
prevents the colors from fading.
Squeeze the linen gently in the hands
without rubbing, thea rinse in clexn
water, and prepare a last water with a
little bluing in it and a teaspoonful of
borax to a quart of water. The borax
renders the linen beautifully white
and stiffens it a trite. Do not wring,
but press out the water, and lay them
on a clean clothyrell up tightly and
let remain half an hour. Smooth cut
carefully on a thick blanket covered
by a white cloth laying the pieces
wrong side uppermost, pulling out the
scallops carefully. Press with modsr
ately warm iron until perfectly d:y.
A hot iron will not only seratch the
l‘nen. but fade the colors likewise.
Inus laundered the linens will reguin
their pristine freshness,” In the case
of a blouse the balance of the waist
would need to be dried and ironeé in
the ordinary rmeanner.
THE CHILD'S MOUTH.
" Until the child is of sufficient ags to
use a tooth-brush, the mouth shounld
be carefully washed with a little ab
sorbent cotton, wrapped around the
little finger or around a smooth stick.
Care should be taken that the cotton
only touches the mouth. This should
be moistened in boiled luke-warm
water and used gently, and repeated
three or four times a day, especially
after feeding, a fresh piece of cotton
being used on each occasion. Wash
ing the mouth should be continued un
til the earliest teeth are cut; then
the teeth can be thoroughly rubbed
with a moistened cloth morning and
evening. Later a small tooth-brush
with soft bristles of badger hair, or of
especially softened pig bristles, is to
be preferred. . Tartar upon the teeth
is usually the cauze of inflammation
and receding of the gums. Only con
stant watching will prevent it. A
small stick, such as a match stick,
sharpened at a chiszl point and then
moistened and dipped in finely-pow
dered pumice stone, should be rubbed
upon the spots-until they are removed.
Great care, however, must be taken
to avoid injuring the gums with the
stick.
When the child is older it should
be taught to use the tooth-brush =ad
powder twice daily, and each pight
draw wax floss beiween the tecth.—
American Queen. : :
TO WASH SILK RIBBONS.
Bilk ribbons may be washed in suds
made of lukewarm water aid 8&cod
goap, but they must not be wrußg, OF
they will be badly creased. Wash 1D
a second pot of suds and rinse in clear
cold water, Then lay on .a table of
board and with rather a stiff nail
brush brush sideways till all the
creases are removed. A marble man
telpiece is an excellent drying place
for ribbons.
THE ADMIRED WIFE.
Elderly people—particularly elderly
women—have an exasperating way of
talking as if housewifely skill were
the one thing above all others which
a man admires in a woman,” said a
woman the other day. “In their
scheme of a happy home it seems (o
be the glorified kitchenmaid who plays
the supreme role, and reinforced by
the German Emperor and his exalta
tion of the cleaning, cooking womaa,
they are fond of tracing marital infeli
city wherever it exists to the lack of
domestic ability on the part of tie
wife. A similar opinior finds 2xpres
sion in the famliar adages to the
effect that i*you want a man to love
war, you pust feed him well; that the
way to a man’s heart lies through his
stomach, ete. :
“But, like many of the things which
pcople go on cheerfully taking for
granted, this appears to be a fallacy.
In other words, ‘’tain’t so. Thous
ands of marriages are happy mar
riages, in which the feminine pariner
is but an indifferent washer and ironer
and no cook. Girls who fhave mnever
done a stroke of housework in their
lives marry with the same celerity as
girls who are born to the broocmhandle
and rolling pin.
“Truth to tell, there are a great
many things more essential to a man’s
happiness than the cooking and clean
ing that go on in his housc-—and he
knows it. Men are not half so mater
ial as women seem to think, and the
majority of them want more than the
best housewife who ever lived to make.
them happy. :
“At bottom most men are hopeless
ly, irretrievably romaatic, and the
consideration that they cannot make"‘
good bread does not carry a feather’s
weight of influence in the adoration‘
which they peur at the feet of their
sweethearts or wives. The fact of the
matter seems to be that what a man
requires of his wife is companionship.
The ready sympathy of a lovable,
charming woman is a thousand times
more to him than a carefully dusted
parlor or a five course dianner.
“Whelesome food, properly coonked
and served punctually, and a clean,
comfortable home are certainly nec
essaries of life, without which a man
cannot keep well or do his work to
advantage, but there is no doubt at
all that the run of men are ignorant
of and indifference to a great many of
the refinements of housekceping which
are placed on their shrine by their
domestic saints of wives. Indeed,
most men care so little for housewife
ly skill that they would far rather sit
down to a plate of cold besf and a cup
of coffee for dinner with a charming,
well dressed woman opposite than to
an unimpeachable three course cinner
in' company with an untidy, tired
woman. :
“And/g grgat many of the domestic
tragedifs where middle aged husbands
neglect their middle aged Wwives for |
silly, pretty, young women are due
entirely to the inability or the unwil
lingnaes of the middle aged Wives to
gee tlis. They caa‘t seem to under- |
gtand how it is, after they bave spent 1
years in darning their fusband’s socks 1
30 beautifully, and giving him his fav
orite dishes to cat, that he prefers the l
socioty of a girl who can’t tell. an egg— ‘
peater from an icepick. Ungrateful
wreteh! |
“But the man is not nec:ssarily un
grateful nor a wrtech. He is simply
expressing in unmistakable terms the
longing of his zoul for something
more than the housewifely virtues
which 'he i 3 supposed to prize above
everything else in a woman.”
R S
. BRIPFASAION g
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@ EFANCY T
. .The Greck key desizn in biaiding or
“embroidery is much favored by French
dressmakers.
Dove gray chiffon made over silver
gauze combines beauty and service in
g frock. .
Nits are not universally worn, but
maiy fashionable women have taken
thery up for wear with elbow sleeves,
giceves frills have lost caste because
of eicessive popularity, and turned-.
back duffs of directoire suggestion are
havinj great vogue as a sleeve finish.
l The bird of paradise waves upon a
majority of the handscmest cirectoire
hats vorn by Parisiennes. It wiil prob
ably b 2 adopted here in the autumn. .
The new coaching parasols-are of
very hexvy silk in pizin color, with ex
ceedingiv long wooden handies match
ing Ahe silk in color and tied with a
big bow of silk like the cover,
The indications are that the new
shades called mulberry wiil be popu
lar colerings in the autumn and that
the warm brownsg and reseda gresns
will renew their last season‘s success.
One of the latest innovaticns im
ombre or shaded effects ig shown in the
shaded sashes, which are of faintest
hue about the waist, bui graduaily
deepen to a dark shade of the same
color at the ends,
“Cretes” are one of the lztest de
velopments of 1830 trimmings. They
are merely narrow scalloped frills of
wilk shirred and set on upside down,
so that they stand up like exagger
ated headings.
The high-crowned hat has unde
niably found pronounced favor in
France, and the fad will™ doubtless
reach us later, although Ameriean
women ‘have not, so far, taken Lindly
to the innovation.
The extremely high ccrselet, much
like a bodice without slseves or shoul
der straps, has been launched by cer
‘tain Parisian autocrats, and is worn
with a full chemisette and sleeves of
embroidered muslin or batiste.
It will be found a good plan to keep
peas, beans, rice, barley, coffee, and,
in fact, all “dry groceries” in glass
jars. By this means a moment’s
glance will acquaint the housewife i
with the necessity for replenishing her
stores. !
What's in a Name,
On one occasion North Ovington
Messenger, a Washington political
writer, was doing reporterial work |
and was assigned to interview Murat 1
Halstead, somewhat of a political wri- '
ter himself. Mr. Messenger sent his
card up to Mr. Halstead, bearing the ’
words “N. O. Messenger,” and no oth- |
er designation as to his business. The
old newspapsr man sent word for the l
ycung cne to come up. He was met at |
the door of Mr. Halstead’s room with
cordiality. Mr. Halstead had his call
er’s card in his hand.
“Um—er,” he hesitatad, “glad to see
you. Come in—but what is the New
Orleans Messenger? I have never
heard of that paper before.”
FERVOR OF THE MOHAMMEDANS,
American Tourist Cails Attention to
a Railway Gang at Prayer,
I have often remarked the fervor
of the Mohammedans, says Jercme
Hart in the Argonaut. Their strict
attention to their religious rites is
unigue among denominations, so far
as my observation goes, for when the
hour <f prayer comes, whether they
find themselves in public or not, they
go through their devotions. I ad
mire a man who has the courage of
his convictions, religious as well as
political, and the unaffected devction
of the Mohammedans has always im
pressed me.
On the outskirts of Cairo one day
we saw a row of workmen on the
railway lining up just as the muez
zin’s call to prayers rang cut from
an adjacent mcsque.
“Look,” cried I. “There is another
instance of Moslems’ devotion to their
religious rites.” .
“How s 0?” I was asked. ‘“What do
you mean? What are they standing
in 2 row for?” :
“To pray,” I replied, sententiously.
“Deon’t you see they are facing toward
Mecca?”’ .
Now they -a:re all standing in a
row. As I spoke—as if at a given
signal—they all went down.
*uee!” T cried. “They are prostrat
ing themselves. In a moment you will
gee them begin to bow toward the sa
cred city and go through all the elab
orate forms of Mohammedan prayer.
Ah, is it not interesting to see a
group of ordinary workmen interrupt
their toil in the middie of the day
and turn to their religion?”
We were all much impressed. 1 was
particularly so. = ; :
- But-as we gazed on them, with re
‘flex religious interest, the row of men
arcee. With a unanimous -grunt they
rose,. becaring on their shoulders a
long steel beam, which they proceed
ed to walk away with down the rail
way track. :
An awkward silence followed. I im
agined I heard a faint snickering, but
I aifected not to cbserve it. There are
moments when it is just as well not to
be tco obscrving. .
His Trouklssome Title, ;
In a couniry like ours, where a bar
ber may call himself “professor’” and
a chircpodist be referred to as “doc
tor,” the posscession of a university
degree is not an unmixed delight.
There is one Washington author of
more than local celebrity, who re
ceived his degree of docter of letters
—I think that’s what you call it—
frcm one of the large universities a
year ¢r two ago. Earlicr in the sum
mer he went to spend a secason of re
creation and rest up in New York
State. 'The pecple at the clubhouse
wiiere he stayed called him “doctor,”
and the use ¢f hig title Lecame gen
eral. Cne afternoon the son of a pros
percus farmer of the neighborhood
drove up to the clubhous> and asked
for the docter. His mothér, he said,
would be very glad to sce the gantle
man that afternoon. The author was
charmed with tne invitaticn to call.
He csaw an opportunity ¢f studying
farm life from the inside. He made a
note of the fact that farming folk
are unexpectedly hospitable, hired a
‘horse and set out on his visit. He
round his hostess in bed, and before
he could get in a word the lady
launched fcrth into a minute descrip
tion of her ailments.
“I'm awfully sorry” said the author
when she paused for breath, “but I'm
afraid you have s:nt for me under a
misapprehensisn.”
“Ain’t you a doctor?” asked the
lady.
“Yes,” admitt:d he distinguished
gentleman. “I‘m a doctor, but not a
docter of medicine.”
The lady locked at him with pro
found disappointment.
“My land!” she said. #=Well 1
guess we’ll have to pay you for com
ing, but if I'd a-knowed you was a
Christian Se'entist 1 wouldn’t a’ sent
for you.”—., .shington Post.