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: : [ —— XX @« NTERE/ Tl % o 1 fi‘ -ro g ¥ 4 , WOMFN "E=s . Nt . 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 } edn AND | s @ 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.