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always in demand with the coming of
the warm season, and this year they
are being made in very pretty and at
tractive forms. This one is absolute-
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taffeta and with soutache braid, but
there are so many bandings and
trimmings offered this season that the
possibilities of finish are almost in
numerable. Applique would be hand
some, soutache banding is being much
used and the plain silk is always sim
ple and effective.
The cape can be made in either one
or two pieces, that is to say, either
with or without a seam at the centre
back. .
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is one and three
fourth yards twenty-one or twenty
seven, seven-eighth yard forty-four
inches wide, with four and one-half
yards of banding, nine yards of sou
tache,
Cloth to Trim Tulle.
There is an evolution to chronicle
of the prevalent mode of last year
for edging the skirt with taffetas or
satin, It is cloth that has usurped
the privilege, and cut in arabesques
with a finish of soutache and a fur
ther ornamentation of filo-floss em
broidery it is found on the most fra
gile of net frocks destined to grace
the afteinoon affair of ceremony.
A White Season,
This is a white season. Lovely
coats and skirts, suits of white linen,
Diane and serge are the vogue.
Sleeveless Jacket.
The sleeveless jacket is introduced
into many a smart costume, tasselled
with chenille and jet, and the hand
kerchief vest also appears, made of
black satin caught together beneath
a big jet buckle. !
As to Length of SKkirts.
Skirts are longer. For all but the
typical walking suits they are long
and sweeping, while the street suits
have taken on another inch and just
escape the ground. This rule will
apply to the wash materials, and
wash materials are going to prevail
to an extent not known for many sea
sons,
Blouse With Chemisette,
The pretty and attractive blouse
that closes at the front is always
a youthful and satisfactory one, and
this model is exceptionally charming,
being made with a chemisette that
gives a dainty touch. As illustrated
it is made of a pretty ring dotted
batiste with trimming of a simple
banding, while the chemisette is lace
insertion sewed together. But this
blouse can be utilized both for the
separate one and for the gown, and
consequently becomes adapted to al
most every seasonable material of the
simpler sort.
The blouse is made with the fronts,
back and centre front. It is tucked
on becoming lines and the closing is
made invisibly beneath the left edge
of the centre front. The chemisette
is separate and arranged under it and
closes at the back, while the prettily
shaped collar finishes the neck of the
blouse.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four and three
eighth yards twenty-one or twenty
four, three and one-eighth yvards thir
ty-two, or two yards forty-four inches
wide, with three-fourth yvard eighteen
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BARBER SHOP BIRD SHOW,
Bird That Sings on Its Back and Ans
other That Gives Warning of Cats.
If the nature faker would find new
material he has only to go over to
a barber shop in Clark street, Brook-
Iyn, and there he will learn some
thing more wonderful than that a
wolf can bite a stag to the heart,
The proprietor and sole artist of that
barber shop has a fancy for birds
from South America. The birds are
from two German naturalists, friends
of the barber, who are collecting in
the Amazon country. There are about
fitteen birds there now. i
Take Major, for instance. He is
a little bird, white and black with
a red head and neck, whose cage
hangs in the window where it is
sunny. Major likes to play kitten.
All that the barber has to do to make
Major happy is to open the cage door
and put his finger inside. Major
will hop off his perch and make for
that finger with bill and claws.
Major's way is like the Kkitten’s.
He will turn on his back and claw
at the finger gleefully, then when his
feathers are tickled up under his
threat Major does the most surpris
ing thing of all. He carols as ke
never carols at any other time.
Of course it is no trick to see a
bird sing on his feet. But, heed this
all nature fakers, Major sings at his
best lying on his back, and he will
continue to sing just as long as the
barber’s finger is rufiling the feathers
on his breast. Then when the play is
over Major will remain mute for the
most part the rest of the day.
Over in the other window is a big
orange and black bird who knows
but one friend, but who knows that
friend under any circumstances. This
friend is an eiderly man who ccmes
to the parber shop every morning
with a piece of corn bread for the
Brazilian singer.
The appearance of this gentleman
in the shop or on the street in front
is always heralded by 'a sharp, ring
ing note from the bird, entireiy dif
ferent from any other note he utters.
The bird rufiles his feathers at the
throat, hops about on his perch in a
nervous fashion and calls repeatedly
with that single penetrating treble
as long as his friend is in sight.
No matter what hour of the day
it is, as long as there is any light
in the sky this man cannot pass the
window of the barber shop either on
foot or in a conveyance without being
spotted by the bird, who heralds his
passing with every sign of joy. The
man has tried passing the shop with
his coat collar muffling his face, but
the same cry of welcome came from
the bird watcher at the window. lln
the evening when the lights in the
barber shop are lighted and one with
in_capnot well distinguish the faces
of passersby this yellow and black
Brazilian citizen never fails to spot
his friend when he:passes.
This same bird has a cat warning
call which it has taught the barber’s
dog to understand. In summer when
the window before the bird’s cage
is open and a prowling cat on the
sidewalk outside, nearly fiush with
the window of the sunken shop,
might take a chance jump at the
cage this bird is on the alert. When
ever a cat comes in sight he lets out
a peculiar string of sharp staccato
notes and a terrier which has learned
the signal, makes a dash for the door,
Affidavits to the truth of this fact
can be found at any time at the desk
of the St. George.
Until very recently the barber had
a ver: rare bird in his collection. It
was the anvil bird, which eame from
the far interior Amazon region. Its
call gave it the name. When the
bird really got into action the sound
was identical with that of a hammer
on steel. The bird would start with
a few short raps in quick succession
and then end its call with deep, full
throated booms that seemed to be
the ringing of a wagon tire struck
with a sledge. Unfortunately Brook-
Iyn climate did not agree with the
anvil bird and he died.
Aside from these freaks of the bird
family there are many other little
strangers from the far South who
keep up a constant cooing and warb
ling that makes conversation on the
part of the barber not only unneces
sary but a positive desecration.—
New York Sun,
An Exploded Myth,
The following question and answer
are from the New York Sun:
““Where A subscribes to a periodi
cal for a yvear and pays for one year
and after the expiration of the year
the periodical continues to be re
ceived and A does not communicate
with the publishers with reference
to the continued receipt of the peri
odical, which has not been ordered, is
A compelled to pay for the deliveries
subsequent to the year originally paid
for?—Samuel Hopkingon.”
Such a statement was very fre
quently printed among the business
announcements of many periodicals
some years ago, and in default of any
law establishing such a prescription
it was commonly credited to some
nostal regulation. Eventually the
postal authorities denied the respon
sibility and the claim was left with
out a leg to stand on. A person who
subscribes and pays for one yvear of
any publication is no more charge
able with any issues of the next year
than he would be required to pay for
a thirteenth egg simply because he
had bought a dozen. ?
An Unfortunate Accident,
A smart man put arsenic in 2 bottla
of wine, hoping that a burglar would
drink it, and his wife placed it among
a hundred other bottles. The smart
man is now wondering which is the
bottle and is prepared to sell hig
stock of wine cheap.
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Asbestos sheets arebeing instituted
under the mattresses of sleeping cars
on some of the railways of the United
States to shut out the heat from the
radiators underneath.
What is said to be the largest pro
jectile ever manufactured was made
at the Krupp works for the Czar's
Government. It weighed 2600
pounds. It was made for a gun which
is placed in the fortifications at
Kronstadt. ¢
Holland has set engineers to work
to pump the water out of the famous
Zuyder Zee and turn it into dry land.
When this work is accomplished
there will rise where 4000 fishermen
now sink their nets farms and homes
for 50,000 Dutchmen.
Vigorous efforts to preserve the
more remarkable animals of Africa
continue. At a recent meeting of the
National Preservation Society at Cape
Town, the Chief Justice, while urg
ing the need of stronger measures to
preserve the rare flora and fauna of
that country from extinction, asserted
that the gnu, the gemsbok, the moun
tain zebra, the eland and the giraffe
are now nearly all extinct.
In connection with the Austrian
governmental establishment for the
preparation of wuranium products
there has been built in Joachimsthal,
Bohemia, a laboratory for working
up radio-active substances found in
the tailings and by-products of the
uranium minerals. There will also
be erected a bathing establishment,
Wwhere the radio-active mine water
will be used for healing purposes.
That strange African lake, Lake
Tchad, has been the subject of re
newed attention within the past two
years, and the fact that in a period
of twenty years it alternately in-
Creases and decreases in size and
depth seems to have been well estab
lished. Four or five years after the
beginning of the period the level of
the lake becomes very low, and then
rises again to the former height. In
1906 the lake was very low. Accord
ing to native records it was nearly
dried up hetween 1828 and 13233.
Twenty years later the level of the
water was very high.
" The use of rails sixty feet long for
electric interurban railways .is pro
posed in connection with the con
‘struction of a line of this ciaracter
si tended for very high speeds with
w&v Y cérs. Regular freight traimns
are also to be operated, Thé line
will be forty miles long, and the fast
trains will make the run in fifty-five
minutes, including three intermediate
stops. The purpose of the long rails
is to make a smooth and easy riding
track by eliminating fifty per cent. of
the rail joints as compared with oi
dinary thirty-foot rails. Rails of this
length have been used extensively in
street railway tracks and on the in
terurban lines of the Indiana Union
Traction Company. In the latter
case, however, it is reported that the
resuits were not satisfactory, the cost
of maintenance being unduly high,
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THE JAPANESE WAY,
Rules For a Mass Meeting to Protest
Against Higher Taxes.,
The Japanese governing idea has
sometimes a directness of application
which is only equalled by its sim
plicity. The same spirit which
prompts a Japanese citizen to build
the front door of his house so low
that a possible burglar could not gen
through it with a bundle of plunder
on his back leads the Japanese official
to specify in an emergency just what
shall constitute a erime, so that the
unruly may know when he trans
gresses,
A short time ago a new holiday,
Consgtitution Day, was decreed in Ja
pan, with the idea that the common
people could pad along all together
to some park and hold exercises in
glorification of the event which made
Japan nominally a free government,
But the restless politicians of Tokio,
ever on the alert to stir up trouble,
planned a monster mass meeting in
Hibiya Park to protest against the
alarming increase in taxation, instead
of to give banzais for a consticution,
The police authorities remembered
the three days of street fighting that
followed the announcement of the
Portsmouth peace treaty in the fall
of 1905. On that occasion all the
uproar was started by the barring of
the gates to Hibiva Park by police
order, and within three hours the
house of the Home Minister, across
the street, was burned, and people
were being cut down in the broad
avenue facing the park by the swords
of the mounted gendarmes.
With all these circumstances in
mind the police auihorities posted
the following notice in prominent
places about the city on the day that
the mass meeting was to be held:
No arms shall be carried by those
who attend the meeting.
No kerosene oil or matches shall
be carried.
No eleciric car shall be burnt.
The Diet buildings shall not be
destroyed by five.
No members of the Diet who sup
ported the tax increase bille shall
be agsaulted.
Happily the police prohibitions
specifying what should constitute
something more than 4 nuisance had
their effect. - There was no riot.--
New York Sun,
Doctors Most Dangerous
Carriers of Infection
in Modern Life
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World-wide ' attention hag heen
given an article which appeared in
Lia Revue by Dr. J. Hericourt, accus
ing doctors of being the most dan
gerous carriers of infection in modern
life. The French physician said:
“The medical profession is so loud
in its protestations of zeal in the
war against the spread of disease by
contagion, they have dwelt so on the
necessity of instructing the public
in the theory of germs and the mod
ern system of antiseptic prevention
of infection, that it is curious to ob
serve that the doctors themselves
are the worst offenders in this re
gard, the carelessness ol the average
physician being amazing, except that
we are so accustomed to it. We are
not shocked at the sight of a family
doctor visiting a case of scarlatina,
or even diphtheria, and leaving the
house on his way to oth>r patients,
having taken no precaution except
the very elementary one o’ washing
his hands. Dr. Remlinger has recent
ly observed several cases, especially
eruptive fevers, which could be at
tributed to no other cause than a
visit from the doctor who called to
prescribe for a trifling indisposition
and left behind him the seeds of a
dangerous disease.”
The Review of Reviews, comment
ing on this article and the world
wide discussion of it, says: ‘‘The
statement of conditions applies quite
as accurately to the American ‘gen
eral practitioner' as the European,
and there is the same need here, as
in Europe, to insist on a reform.”
1t is the pari of wisdom to insist
that yvour family doctor disinfect him
self thoroughly before coming to
your house. If he doesn’'t care
about your health, except for the
fees he can get out of you when you
are sick, it is time to gei another
doctot.
: Learning to Swin.
Persistence in undertaking is a
laudable virtue, but it can be a bit
overdone sometimes, as in a case de
scribed by Mr. Y. 1. Molloy in “Our
Autumn Holiday on French Rivers.”
Mr. Molloy and his friend, longing
for a good dive, went to a swimming
school on an island in the Seine. They
donned their rented costumes and
were preparing for the plunge, when
a man with ropes came along and in
sisted on tying them about their
waists. It was according to police
regulations, and although they made
an indignant protest, they were
obliged to submit.
- While we were dressing, says Mr.
Molloy, we asked the iwo swimming
masters for an exira towel ,
-“Pardon,” they replied, *we must
attend to our monsieur.” g
Then we saw that there had come
upon the platform a short and ab
surdly fat man, dressed in bathing
costume, swimming sandals and oiled
cap. !
“Let's sece him go in,” =ald we,
“What a splash he’ll make!”
The swimming masters received the
new arrival at the middle of the plat
form. There he balanced himself on
his stomach on a wooden stump two
feet high, The masters seized him
by his hands and feet, and with slow
and deliberate movements made him
strike out with the action of swim
ming. They kept this up for a quar
ter of an hour, and the perspiration
rolled off him in great drops.
“He'll he awfully hot to go into
the water after that,” said I.
But he did not go into the water.
The swimming lesgon over, be moved
toward the dressing room, saying:
“1 have done better to-day.”
“Ah, yes,” answered one of the
masters. “Your progress is admira
hle.” .
The fat man beamed with com
plaisance, and went into dress.
I called the cwimming masters
aside.
“Docsg ‘our monsieur’ practice often
like that? He must have great per
severance.”
“Perseverance! He hac worked
like this for five years, and he hasy
never been in the water!”
The Strength of Strong Families,
sSundry divorce suits and remar
riage propositions that take up space
in the papers just now illustrate that
it makes less difference how much
mongey a man leaves behind him than
in what hands he leaves it. To leave
abounding means in foolish hands is
failure. To leave wise children in
the world is success, and if they can
he left in a position of fiscal advan
tage, so. much the betier. To found
a good family, or give good human
stock a lift, and put it in a position
of enlarged opportunityand inereased
power, is a work that is legitimately
attractive, But it i 8 the human stuff
that is imporcant, What every coun
try needs is families that will breed
true to high standards and give su
perior individuals to the gervice of
the world, We have such families
that generation after generation iurn
out high-class men and women.
Every progressive country has, and
must have, such familiee, Whether
at a given time they are rich or not
is a matter of secondary importance.
If the humzn material is strong and
good, money in sufficient quantity
will come to it first or last. If the
buman stock is inferior, immoral or
ill trained, money dumped upon it
will merely advertise its inferiority,
~—Harper's Weekly,
On Dreing Too Good.
The man who is too careful avout
liviiig so that future historians may
say nothing ill of him is likely to
keep them from gaying anything con
cerning his achievements,
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The bust of Socrates in the Capito
line Museum at Rome locks like the
late Henry George. :
The farmers of this country buy
annually over $100,000,000 worth of
farm machinery.
To purify the camps, Robespierre
proposed to the commitiee of public
safety that the armies of the republic
be followed by droves of hogs. This
suggestion gave birth to the popular
saying: ‘“He will be a general if
Robespierre’'s little pigs do not eat
him en route.™
Louisville recently increased the
water rates to an amount that will
add $140,000 to the receipts. The *
department was running behind.
A farmer near Boone, lowa, was
terribly poisoned by the saliva from
a horse, which came in contact with
a slight scratch on the man's fore
head.
The thousands of sand hill nests of
the magnetic ant of northern Austra
lia, lately inspected by the governor
general, measure two or three by ten
to fifteen feet. They form a ‘‘na
ture’s compass,” the long axis point
ing always north and south.
It is estimated that 150,000,000
tons of coal are used annually by the
railways of the United States, out of
which but 7,500,000 tons are used in
drawing the trains, while 142.500,-
000 tons go up the smokestacks.
Copenhagen’s zoological gardens
have recently acquired two expensive
apes, and to keep them in good spirits
a small boy, whose sole duty is to
play with them and keep them
amused, has been placed in the cage.
A bridge recently built for the
Cape to Cairo Railway over the Ka
fue River is the longest in Africa.
It measures 1400 feet. §
New York City's police dogs are
being trained according to the usual
police methods. They are taught to
follow and hold men who are dressed
to give the appearance of poverty.
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_“On Continental railways and &he
Rhine steamers there is no miscellan
eous scrambling for meals, Instead
a steward goes through the train or
boat and lists the people who want to
eat. HKach gets a number, and this
insures a seat without crowding or
delay. It is an idea that might be
adopted on this side of the sea.
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Bilent Testimony of a Deaf Mute in a
French Muyder Trial,
A murder ftrial at Bordeaux,
France, in which an innkeeper, his
wife and two accomplices were
charged with killing a customer, was
the occasion of a dramatic scene when
one of the witnesses took tht stand.
This witness, named lLacampagne,
was a deaf mute ignorant of the or
dinary finger language.
His brother-in-law and two of his
friends appeared to translate his ges
tures into words, but their services
Wwere really unnecessary, so clearly,
did he express himself by that in
stinctive mimicry which is sometimes
the accompaniment of speech but
here became its substitute.
During his evidence the deaf mute,
who had been the handy man of the
inn, always designated the vietim by
sucking “in his cheeks against his
teeth, the landlord by shaking his
fist—his employer's usual method of
speaking to him-—the landlord’s wife
by pulting his hands to his hair, one
accomplice by curling his mustache,
and the other by striking an imag
inary match on his trousers, as this
prisoner was a smuggler of matches.
Then with short, abrupt gestures,
as clear as they were rapid, he to'sl
his story, how the landlady sent him
away on an errand, how he returned
to find the door locked, how he en
tered by the cellar door, saw the
corpse, saw one murderer washing a
blood stained hammer, another ¢lean
ing his face and hands, and the land
lady embracing her hushand as if to
thank him for what he had done.
The landlord caught sight of him and
dealt him a violent blow, then, chang
ing his mind, made signs to him to
belp get rid of the body.
At this point the landlord, who
clearly followed the deaf mute's
story, broke in with, “That's a lie!
That's a lle!”
Lacampagne turned, looked in the
landlord’s face, then stamping with
his foot he raised his hand and stood
in the same golemn attitude in which
he had taken the oath.
This evidence and a confession by
the mustache wearing prisoner were
enough to convict the accused. The
iandlord and the match smuggler
were sentenced to death, the others
to imprisonment for fifteen years.——
New YAk Sun.
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Pavisinns’ New Auio Law.
Pavis has added to its automobile
regulations a law requiring automo
biles to stop after causing an acci
dent and imposing both imprisonment
and fine as the penalty of an attempt
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