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It appropriately can be made to match the costume or of silk or pongee in contrast therewith.: in the 7 Py Y/ ’,,/// é:{j--/[‘,' . | = Az . *Jx\\;\ ‘ ?\{\“‘:\\‘\:‘%“:\‘i{‘u S 4”"’ L N O\ s o 7 /////// A///(I" 4 e\ @ "/ fi |3} 7 % |l\ //’ \\{!\3 % . s|\ n‘ ' /,,,/ / ,‘ li‘. i /// 1 // | 1 fi‘\ i v /i | 7 I /;’, r// i Il //';é» 1T 1y | 1 //4 e \ TR N iR R /. / ,///) ’// | //// ‘ \ / /////,f ) | ;‘/// I %} « /f///{ g e ¥ E 4 »/*:_—.—_---.,/I’4. / - : v 7 o illustration pongee is trimmed with 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 @GN S \\'/" o N i 7 A=) 4 N N\ & 2 A -\//- o 0 € \ L ; dyh ‘”,1" \'fiéj. . AN\ Yo oST XA X eNt GVN . W\ "“l v"fi Y B oL AA A b // Iy %M W/ 27\ Vk R BN | '&’L&f RN ) 1 / ¥ ‘/@ \ % % N\ Es A\ Vi = S, N\ flA,; fin v //u . ¢ of / ¢ & -9 vfof© u{ @ ) ‘ “ of ; O";, 2 .‘ Al\ /[ i e ‘ | Wi/ i b"i a v oo ot W il R4l 0 oßoe i "‘19\“"'“: o i‘x\' N s inches wide for the chemisette, four iand one-half yards of banding, 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. ST L > PO AN 7/ POPULAR \\ X 7 fi‘y‘g{ "SCIENCE ¢ ) (é 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, B i i 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 —— e 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, R 2 OGS T e @S a 8 " Quaint™ N 5 ( ) { (7770’ / s UriouseSS '? \ 7 } By AN 6 S é‘%’ 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. { 2 _“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. eet e ettt et et et 1 TOLD BY GESTURES. ‘Jé( | 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. o 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 Lo escape. o