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WOMAN’S WORLD. A Paris letter tn the New York Ban deals with the curvelesa women a* fol lows: In America one Isn't likely to find the trading article of a great dally paper de v. red to the latest fashion In coj-sets. In Paris that very thing has lust happened. There Is a lot of talk about the emanci pated condition of American women. As a matter of fact, the Importance of an American woman In the laxly politic of her country Isn't to bn compared with th importance of French women tn France. They take women much more seriously over here. They have given her a really superb role to ploy and they concern themselves mightily about her maimer of playing It. Women have a tremendous deal of power and men seem jealously anxloua that the power should stay In the woman's hands. The latest fashion In corsets may aeem a far cry from thla serious business, but from the Frenchman's point of view. It Isn't. The woman's power Is largely hers because of her charm har grace, her femininity. M Paul Adama. one of the leading journalists of Paris, finds that these qualities ara threatened by the new fashion, ard therefore he speak# tip promptly In three columns . beginning with corsets and ending with anarchy. He handles the corset subject without gloves —much as he says the lady's maids have to handle the corsets. ■'Without the eld of a robust nmld and remarkable bleeps," he says, " no woman can hope to attain thla platitude.” Platitude In this ease la to be tsken literally. It means flatness; flatness phy sical. without the curves which have hitherto been regarded as the proud pos session of woman. Alt theee curves, ac cording to M. Adam, are forbidden by the r,ew fashion, aided and abetted by the brawny lady's maids. "She laces, ehe pulls, she buckles, she ties" ho laments. “And the most attrac tive Venus finds herself transformed Into Ganymede She Is like a lead soldier In a six-' ent box " M Adam declares that, the fashionable young woman of the day Is like u boy parading In girl's clothes and that one looks Instinctively to are If a downy mus tache Is not to he discerned on her upper Up He also carefully mukes the inevita ble thrust at England. There Is more ground for tt In this eea* than there gen erally la Th# average English woman remehow seems as tf she had been cut cut by an amateur and one whose ma terial was In awkward shape to begin with. "Because they haveei't them In Eng land." cries M Adam, referring to these curves, "must we go without them, too*" This ead possibility of a curveless future for French women naturally nuba the matter take on more and more Import ance. "Ana thl< beautiful ardor of patriotism which animate* th* *ocl*ty of law cities, win It not > Iraat serve to make us ch*r sh the beauty of our racer 1 demands the distracted Journalist, alarmed for the future of humanity He appeals In fren aied language to the French women of bycone days, who charmed not always wisely, but very. very well, to do some- Ihlns to loosen the hold of the new cor sets on their desrendanta "Behold how these descendants abominably renounce the charms which have captivated our writers. Our wives, our daughters, our el 'era efface themselves In the English fashion In aplt* of all our dlatrlbea against cosmopolitanism and the foreign er Can II be that In our country the cult of th* boy la replacing that of the dryad of beautiful form? "The woman who Imitates a man In ap ! earance sins against beauty. It Is an aes ti*tlc crime. The excellence of every crea ture consists In peroevrrln* In Its own be ing and In accomplishing the most com plete expression of its own qualities Tha w. man who Imitates a man In appearance produces a hybrid and the result scarcely Justifies the tortures It necessitate* Let these women, therefore, give us back the beauty of our Celtic and Latin races. The moat Ingetdous part of Mr. Adam's argument Is still to come. In fart, what has already bean given la scarcely argu ment It Is lamentation and entreaty. H* now goes on to show how this deplorable state of affairs has come about. "Fashions do not depend entirely on ca prine. They express olao the unconscious tendency of the epoch Ideas which ar i(Seated during several months finish by Influencing lha whole manner of life. Here for years people have been calling the nation to energy, preaching to It with comparisons In favor of Kncland. ap plauding the woman's movement tn Amer ica. In France. In Russia: calling upon wives to cultivate loyalty. Intelligence, science and Independence, to take part In politic* They are more or lets persuaded by all these exhortations. If the coquette resists them she must be reasoned with, and to reason about these Idea* Is to adopt them tn part. "At the time when people were talk ing about decadent literature the shops were full of materials of pule shades, fur niture of fragile construction. Watery green, faded blue, washed-out red were the colors for gowns, set off by Byxan tme passementerie. Pre-Raphaelltlsm crossed the English Channel. In every salon was a strange flower standing. sol itary, In a small rose vase on Ihe table. "To-day the air Is filled with w.irllKe tumuM. The cannon roars In Africa and In Asia. Diplomatic problems arise. Strikes follow strikes. Sovereigns re ceive the direct attacks of the anarchist es'.-wtloneer. Social disorder rumbles o war does between opposing clvillaa tlons. Struggles are Imminent. And our women themselves again try to look like the Amasons. though they no longer have to draw a bow. Still they want to ap pear masculine and marital, not weighted down by a single superfluous ounce of flesh. They don't dream that by making themselves less attractive to a young hero they diminish the motives for his brav ery. If the Latin lights for less beauty, he will light leas fiercely.'’ By which Ingenious reasoning M Adam hops# to down the new corset nhd restore feminine curves lo feminine favor. It all sounds very fine, but there arc more weak points In 11. Adam's armor than he would have us believe there are In the present—according lo him—Amaxonlan stays. If war and rumors of war make women dress themselves down to fighting trim, a sort of elenred-for-acllon appear ance, why were the women of 1*93 flip flopping around In Immensely full gowns, set off by hoops, while they wore the most demurely sentimentsi bonnets with ribbons tied tinder their chins? M. Adam Is wrong there and he's wrong In one or two other spots. Perhaps Frenchmen— or at least some Frenchmen—like the bal loon style of figure. Certslnlv. for the sake of the multitudes of middle-aged French women whose curves ere of that variety. M Is to be hoped they do. But the nw corset has worked wonders for the cr.nlflcatton of people who prefer lines s 'itch ere really lines and not ebullitions >'or the last year the French women have om the meist ravishing gowns, which h.ve set off—thanks to the new corset er.il to the husky lady's maid of M A im's Imagination, for she Is only a Action—the most charming figure* which the French women have had for year*. The Palais du Coatume Is on* of the at traction* at the exposition. It 1 sort of Eden Muses, giving group* represent ing women’s costumes from a period when Mother Eve's simplicity of raiment had been only slightly modified. The most pleasing thing about this exhibit Is that •he wedsrn & eases are not aspeclaUr beautiful examples of gowne. One can see prettier ones almost any day where tho Paris world of fashion congregates, which isn’t tn Paris Just u present, but even the ones that are shown, and on wax figures at that, are altogether more at tractive than those of any bygona day. Honor then where honor Is due. And this, M Adam.to the conerary notwithstanding. Is largely In the direction of tha new cor set. The honeymoon, says the Chicago Inter- Ocean. had not ster'ed well. They enter ed tho hotel at Indianapolis with a aelf oonactous air that made all sitting In the lobby look up and smile She waited n the foot of the statra while he walked up o tho remoter end wrote "Edward E Toph. Hatesvtlle, lml " He looked at the signature for a moment and then seised a pen as the clerk started to turn the book and hastily and nervously wrote "uml Its '• Mr and Mrs. Toph were assigned to room 235. About 5 o'clock the same afternoon a bellboy passing down the hall heatd some one sobnlng He listened for s moment, -atialled himself he was not nuataken. and then rushed down to the clerk Tha clerk went up the elevator with vlalone of a suicide flitting through his mind's eye. and he quickly located the sounds as coming from 235, the Tophs' room. He listened closely, but no sound of a man's voice was heard, and the clerk thought of alt the storlee he had ever read or heard of deserted and heartbroken wo rn, n He knocked gently on the door, waited a moment, and then knocked a Title harder. The sobbing ceased and the clerk heard someone eitr In the room He felt greatly relieved and then unlock ed the door. A woman's voice eald. plaintively, "Oh, Edward!" The clerk stepped hack. "I beg your pardon." he began, "but I heard you sobbing and l thought per haiw you were |n distress." "It*—lt'e that Is." Mrs. Toph replied, plainly embarrassed. "If# nothing realty nothing. I am greatly obliged to you for coming to my assistance, even though I don't need anything.” The clerk returned to the office, hung up the pass key, and tried to faihotn the mystery. While he was thinking of 11. Mr. Toph rushed into the hotel, did not siop for the elevator, but went up the stairs three steps at a lime and dlsap peored Into the room. Lamt evening he came down not walked to the deek. great ly embarrassed. "I am sorry." he said, "that we put you to any trouble or alarmed you, but the fact ts It whs all my fault. Thla after noon Mrs Toph lay down to rest We were married only yesterday, and you know 1 nm a nervous and forgetful sort of fellow. While she slept I forget all about her, took my hat. left the room, locked the door behind me. and took a north-hound car. I didn't think about my wife until 1 got clear out to Broad Hippie. 1 rushed hack, of course, on the flrat iwr. but tn the meantime she had await* nod and did the only thing a wo man can do—sat down and cried Th.it la what was troubling her when you went to my room. You see, she did not know why I locked her in or where 1 had gone." The upper nrm of the perfectly formed woman, says Woman's Life, should end al the waist line, no that she can rest her elbow on a table while standing erect, and her forearm should extend to a polM permitting the lingers to mark a point Just below the middle of the thigh. Her neck should be of the same circumfer ence. A plumb line dropped from a point marked by the tip of her nose will fill at a point one Inc* In front of her a rent toe. Her ahouldcrs and her hips will make a straight line drawn up and down. Her waist will taper gradually to twenty six Inches, her hips, will measure from six to ten tnchee more than this, and her waist will call for a belt from twenty two to twenty-eight inches. Bhe should measures from her waist to her feet about a foot more than from the wulst to the crown of her head, and her ehoes should show a number half lhat of her glove. A “No. i hand." for instance, should be accompanied by a No. S alto*. Her weight for the heights given should be from 125 to I*> pounds. “One. Two. Three."— It was an old. old. old. old lady. And a boy lhat was half past three. And the way that they played together Was beautiful 10 see. v She couldn't go running and Jumping, And the boy. no more could he; For he was a thin little fellow. With a thin little twilled knee. They sat tn th# yellow sunlight. Out under th# maple tree; And the game thut they played. I'll tell you. Just as It was told to me. It was Hlde-and-Go-Seek thsy were playln. Though you'd never had known It to be— With an old. old, old. dd lady And a boy with a twisted knee. The hoy would bend his face down On his one lltlle sound right knee. And he'd guess where she was hiding In guesses One. Two. Three. "Your are in the china closet I He would cry and laugh with glee— It wasn't the china closet. But he still had Two and Three. "You are up In papa's big bedroom. In the chest with the queer old key," And she said: "You are warm end warmer, Bui you're not quite right, said she. “It can't be the little cupboard Where mamma's things used to be— -80 It must he the clothes-press, grsn-ma, And he found her with his Three. Then she covered her face with her fln nrn, They wore wrinkled and white and wee. And she guessed where the boy was hid in k. _ With a One and **Two and a Thrt*. And never had stirred from their place*. Right under the maple tree— This old. old, old. old lady . And the boy with the lame llnle knee— This dear. dear, dear old lady And the boy who wa* half pa*t three. H. C. Brunner. —From on Exchange. We are accustomed lo think only of Chinamen as servants, because It Is al most unknown for a Chinese woman to go out to service In this country. This la not the c.ise. however. In Japan, some of the mo?I efficient servant* of that eoun irv being Iron* China A merchant from this country who had been doing business In Tokio for several year*, returned homo recently bringing with him two Chinese women a* nurse* lo his younger children, tic save It 1* customary In Japan lo place the very voung children In charge of Chi nese nurses, and when they are older to employ Japanese women The reason flv eo is because the Chinese women are SO faithful in the care of babies. A Chlneao .mow will hong her head with shame If Z baby cries h* think. If Is all bar ruli She hovers over her charge with anxious cere and make. a great fua. If ears that any one Is going to be have Imprudently wl'h the child. The stalwartlat her of the babies referred to uwd to eo Into the nursery and toes the ttle one. high U> the elr But the nurse L ‘ r failed 10 remonstrate nervously n .y *-!ll kin them In ttieir Insider." she ..td The Chines* nuree expects to take '.’■re charge of * child, preparing every- HII. tt eats and washes It. clothe. The * who name to this country with the an babies brought pebbles all the from Japan, with which she cleaned "V infant's bottle. Chines* servants are rded til Japan as much more reliable tbanJ*P snM * Nsrh/ •" of nmt in J***" ■" ** Chinamen. The merchant referred to aaya that when THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1900. BH THOMSON’S “Glove-Fitting” Corset aro comfortable the first time you put them on They ere solen- ObF Ufleally correct, end are abeolutely different from ell others, a* - you will see If you - Turn tb*m over *nd gee how they’re made -fwrwfic Ml run the body. S|?®||||l '•ill l‘ijj pmjtr Our Ventilating Corset, BT*lit ~”isnr •/ (Trade-Mark Registered), made of Im —SSEjttlT* I ported netting, stripped with couttl, and fcrPvfJTTrS^lT/ trimmed with lac# and baby ribbon 31 00 jMjjAAmnl][ InMi hTwlfySuffl/.*7 Eight aa a feather, yet s'rong as the 2n j] Pi SlKi^Y' I strongest. Handsome Illustrated cata- Ur Geo C. Bale heller AC0.,345 Broedagy.N.Y. For sale by all leading dry goods stores. a Chinese dealer brings a quantity of silk to hla warehouse, saying that there are a certain number of yards It is nut neces sary to measure the goods, for the Chi nese are honest In their dealings The Japanese, on the other hand, are tricky and sly If goods rise after the sale has been effected the dealer will haaten and make another sale of ihe same goods, and say to the first purchaser that when he looked In his storehouse he found that there were no more- goods on hand of that description. The Japanese trader, accord ing to the narrator, hoe very little jtenae of business honor. In a case before a Parla court. In which a popular actress has had to appear as a Witness, says the Kansas City Globe, the Judge seems to have shown considerable dtflklenve übout asking the lady, ae he wae In duty bound to do. what whs her age. Evidently he considered that such a question, put to such a witness, would be e direct incitement of perjury. The way In which he got out of the difficulty was Ingenious, although decid edly Irregular He askid her her age be fore she hatl been sworn. "Ho* old are you. madam?” he said. >fler a Ititlc hesitation the lady owned to bring twenty-nine year# of age. "Anil now that you have told the Court your age.” continued the gallant Judge, "you swejr to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing hut the truth.” A waiter on one of the Fall River hnata tho other morning, soy* the New York Times, received one of the most original Up* on record. It was not ar easily pock etable Up and he did not lake It Imme diately. Whether he did ultimately and whether he appreciated It none of Ihe passengers remained In the dining room long enough to know It was the toaxt and-lea woman who gave the tip She ir2%>v ""T-jv." 11 v> 1 1 r— {. r •• Ira* ~ ..... ——• of A. ■ • . -i An Autumn Reception (town. Is a woman who is not much In evidence tn three .lays of outdoor exercise and good appetites, but this must surely have been •n "old" woman. Bhe was not old as to year*, but she was one of the women who ilk# good tea. and like It made properly. When she came to tho dining room ehe brought her hand satchel with her and gave her order to the waiter, a pot of boiling water and loaat. Bhe mode the tea In her leacup. and after this frugal repast—*h may have been subject to seasickness—she was about to leave Ihe table when It apparently occurred lo her lhat she should remember the a-alter. Bhe eat down again, drew an empty tumbler to her, opened her bag and took out her package of tea, poured a good "drawing" into It. and handed It to him. "if you like good lea, there Is some for you. ehe said. There I* nothing to which a color ed waiter is not equal. This one wa* a dignified, middle-aged man. and he re ceded lb* -• without a smile and set It back on Ihe table molt to the proverbial steamboat dining room castor. He may have taken It later, or It may have gone to flavor th* water for the Long Island Sound fishes. Scientists say that as good c ,n be made with oold water a* with |t If H W allowed to stand long enough. The wedding ol King Alexander of Her via with Frau Drug. M.schtn cl-; bratcd with tt minute observance of all those traditional ceremonies and customs exacted by the Orthodox Church on such occasions * KvenU. the way In wh.cn ttie bride was conducted Into the brtde groowl*** bouse, *•> the London Tele xraph no detail of n<-lent Hervksn cua- w*romtt J A. the Queen descend ed from the carriage at the main en trance a piece of white linen, woven in the country, was spread upon tue ground This was rolled up after the bride had crossed It. In order that no other foot might tr~d upon It. A. the entrance her aunt presented a sieve of wheat-corn, of which ,h * < J u ~ n ,ook three hendfulls. threw the corn over her hed. and then emptied the sieve upon the •oil'll,* threshold the bride wan pre .cnte.l with a P**- ot bonbon* one of which she placed between her lips, the other hslf of which wes bitten off by the King Th* bridegroom then took Into til* arm* a newooro boy, kissed him, and uta him In the arena of lha Queen, who, after kissing him three times ami rail ing him high above her head, restored him to hla mother with a present of a new shirt. This child is called Nakon yeee. “the most essential." the symboli cal act signifying ihot. for a newly-mar ried pair, the most necessary thing 10 have In the house Is a child For Ihls special ceremony the minister, I-azar Pop ovtes. lent hi* new-born son. The scattered corn denote* that tha brtd brings Joy and prosperity into her nea* home, and the divided bonbon that no bitterness shall divide them After all these ceremonies the Queen still stood outside, nor could she enter the konak until ehe bad placed two loaves of bread beneath her arms ami taken a bottle of wine Into her hands With these emblems ahe crossed, at length, the threshold of her future home. At the ft ret meal of the newl.v-marrted pair bread and wine must be taken by both to denote that then.-eforth all they hove shall be equally divided between them, and that their mar rbd life (hall be passed In unity and fidelity. If any woman happens to swallow a col lar button, eays Ihe New York ITmcs, she may possess her soul In peace and quiet ness for nny Interior disturbance It will occasion If It due* not make Itself felt ag gressively. Of course. It Is aggravating to lone the button, but one do.lor at least says that ts th* worst trouble that will be likely to result. This great discovery was made by a city girl who was having the usually good times that city girls are supposed to have during the torrid months She Is not a scientific young woman, ami her Investigation* were made Inadver ently. She was dressing one morning, and. to makq sure that when she want ed her collar billion It would he where she could And It. she put tt In her mouth Perhaps that was not Ihe most sensible thing to do. especially ae this collar but ton was one with an adjustable head, and some way, she never knew Just how, be fore she was conscious of 11, that collar button 'head had been swallowed. She would have been angry at toeing It If aw ful thoughts of appendicitis and no one knows what not had not come Into her head If on Innocent grape seed can work harm what might not a dollar button do, and then, as It was mefhl, It might cor rode. and here was a danger of blood poisoning, anal no one known what else. The girl herself did not think of all these possible evils. They and many more were auggeated, one at a time, by the members of the family and friends, as they grad ually assembled, and by the lime they had all given every possible diagnosis of a col lar button head In the Interior of a lively young woman, the young woman herself was In a pretty had way. Th* only thing lo do was to harness the horse and drive post haste up to town for th# doctor. Then, of course, the doctor not foresee ing aerlowe events of this kind, had gone off for a day's pleasure himself and would not ba back until late at night. Thera was nothing to do but to watt, and It was hardly worth while, for when th* doctor came he did not think a surgical opera tion necessary or that there was anything very much out of the way In swallowing collar button* If there were others to be borrowed In the family. "it will not do you a bit of harm, my dear,” he said In a fatherly way, after he had been asked separately regarding each and every on*- of the different things toe members of the family and friends thought might happen to the young wo man. ' The acids of the stomach will dis solve that little bit of metal In no time, and you will never have a particle of trou ble with It " But It was a weak and tired girl who was driven home that night. She was all right th# next morning, however, but now she has dwveloped an abnormal appetite, for reading stories of sword and junk swallowers, for she feels that If aha could suffer as great mental torture as she did from an Innocent little collar button which she-did not even feel when It went down, their torture* must be something worth telling about. When Cleopatra mad# captive th# heart of Ma. k Anthony, tha victor of I’bUippl. she was !t years old At this age women of th* Orient begin to snow signs of a decline of thetr physl.nl charms. The fact (hat the star-eyed Egyptian waa then In the htght of her Itcauiy warrants the ueeerllon that she wisely used whatever cosmetic art was known al that time, to Improve her liereoiial appearance. And even If ehe had not employed the salves, etc., there Is certainly one thing she aould not have fallid so do amt that Is lo darken her eyebrows. All the women of the Orient darken their eyebrows and eyelashes to-day. Just the same ns tlp-y dkl thou-amk- of yearn ago I'raof of this was found In the graves which con tained not exactly eyebrow pencils, but tiny boxes tilled with a black paste and small wooden Implements for applying the same This ivss u*xl list alone by the women, but by the men also Even munlcurlng was known In those ancient days, because * are told by the brer authorities that Parts had most shin ing nails and darkened both his eyelashes and lib brows. It would Iw an rosy matter to ridicule all the various Ingredients of these sulves, but ll would be Injustice to do so, tie cause some of them have been used ever since through all these centuries and have thoroughly proven their efficacy. When at the last I Isy me down to eleep. Amt of Ihe morrow * dawning reckon not. When night no more, no more msy vlrgtt keep. Aral love'* brief noon Is but a dream forgot— Rack to the Past, Its sad and variant ways. Be Thou the warder of my yesterdays. Smtd the paths long lost, or sought too late. Where aaywardnese hath wandered, love been blind. If there be one (hat llrth clear and straight— I'nweeti, perchance forgot—Thou may eat And Even In that perverse, perplexing maze The while thread shining mid my yes terdays. Bo oft hath ktvs'i torch wavered, love's feet failed, Wore the vain reckoning mine ‘twere but to weep: Blind Thou ihe sight hy memory assailed. When at the last I lay me down lo sleep. And through Time's deep and labyrlnth |an way* Crown Thou some moment In my yes terdays! —Harper’s Bazar. “In her early youth Julia Hunt was on exquisite specimen of willful, adventurous. Southern girlhood, and was known far and wide for her daring rempadea on horseback." writes Mrs Thaddeu* Horton, tn the September ladles’ Home Journal. "When quite young she married Copt. Colquitt. I'nllert State* Army, who win soon after killed In the war, leading * Confederate division. The young widow soon after went to Purls It was Just about this time that Napoleon 111 eum moned young Jerome Bonaparte of Bal timore. an officer In the Fulled mates Army, to the French Court, it happened that Capt. Colquitt and Jerome Bona parte, having been clusemar** at Wes'. Point, were warm personal friends, and. naturally, the former'a widow no sooner reached the French capital than she made her presence known to the young Fran co-American SWi* and the young officer became very cordial acquaintances, and through his Inluence she was Introduced at court, and was soon one of the fav orites of the Royal couple. It was at length retorted among the Southern friends of Mrs Colquitt lhat her marriage with Jerome would occur In a few weeks, when she suddenly and unexpectedly re turned to Dlnglewood. her Georgia horn and announced a total change In all ol her plans The two never met again. Her family has her letter# from Jerome and scm from the Emperor Napoleon, but their contents will probably never be known. There are also a diamond tiara and many other precious Jewel* that were given to her by her Roywl frlende." Morocco I* a paradise for the woman hater He who has been ecurvlly served hv the unfair sex. says the Boston Adver tiser. may there And halm for his bruis ed spirit. Either women Is not seen el all. or. If noticed In Ihe public ways, la cursed and ruffed. Her highest ambition I* lo batten on sweet stuff ns n caged bird on rapeeeed. When her youth and beauty leave her. and kohl and henna no longer stave off the ravages of time ami domes ticity, she la thrown on public charity as a private nutaaiqre. TO this Moslem way of thinking, ’the new woman would be as Impossible of acceptance as la the New Testament. During the first few day* In the land, any Englishman feels Ms blood boll at the sight of skinny and uncomplaining old hags keeping pure palnfullly on the hot, sandy highways beside the mule that h*r* I heir husband, son or brother, but time soften* Ihe ahork. and to his first Im pulse of rebellion In favor of an Innova tion of "equality " much abutted In the fair cities of Ihe North, there succeeds a cynical acqulescene In Ihta compentMllng survival of male ascendency and female obsequiousness, this relic of Ihe old order, al the galea of Europe, and not quite al the antipode* of New York. Woman In Morocco he soon perceive* le no more than a domesticated animal; hul then students of social evolution assure ua lhat she was cnce on that footing, pur chased and fed lhat eh# might do the work of the house and hear the race, tn what are now civilised communities. It Is Ihe utter misconception of the romance of marriage that has raise I her to a throne that she often shows herself wholly unable lo grace. They manage there things differently In Moro co. The grave old pasha pay* a good price to her parent* for Fatma. and Faun* hy that same token he keeps within doors, carrying the key to her apartments In his sash, or Intrusting It In a slave an swerable with his head Falma Is pam pered a* long as she la young, and mav even be treated with kindness In middle life. Passing Ihe understanding of man Is Ihe manner In which the average woman dis poses of her handkerchief, or doesn't dis pose of 11. Blnce pockets went out her purse and handkerchief have caused her Intlnlle (rouble. The amount of mental and phyatcal energy that has been wasted on them would have reformed the world FLY TO PIECES. The Filert of Coffee on Highly Or ganised People. ( "I have been a coffea user for year*, and about wo years ago got Into a very serious condition of dyspepsia and Indi gestion. It seemed to me I would fly to pieces. I was so nervous that at the least noise I was distressed, and many times could not straighten myself up because of the puln. "My physician told me I must not est any heavy or strong food and ordered a diet, giving me some medicine. I followed directions carefully, but kept on using coffee and did not get any belter. Uil winter husband, who was away on bus iness. hod Pootum Food Coffee served to him In he family where he boarded. "He liked It so well that when he came tame he brought some with him We began using It and I found It most ex cellent. While 1 drunk It my stomach never botherrd me In the least, ami 1 got over my nervous trouble*. When the Postum was all gone we returned to cof fee Then my stomach began lo hutt me as before and the nervoua conditions came on again. "That showed me exactly what was the cause of the whole trouble, so *. quit drinking coffea altogether and kept on using Postum Food Coffee. The old • roubles left again and 1 have never had any trouble tinea.” Anna Coen. Ml. Ephraim, O. A BARGAIN IN SILKS. Several thousands yards of Fancy Silks thrown on our Center Table will be sold at Great deductions. You will find tjjcm very attractive at the uniform price of CT cts Zero weather could not have produced a quicker demand than we had for Blankets. Of course the Low Prices did the work, the Quality did the selling. The Blanket Sale Continues. A $4.00 Fine White Wool Blanket at $2.09 A $5.00 Fine White Wool Blanket at $3.49 A $7.00 California Wool Blanket at £4.09 A SB.OO California Wool Blanket at $5.G9 Clean White Blankets tsc and up to $22..50 See the Skirts and Waists. $2.50 Black Walking Skirts now at $1.39 $2.50 Braided Flannel Waists now at $1.50 810.00 High Class Black Skirts now at $5.00 A few White Waists, clean Htock, a Gill, 50c U $1 $1.50 Infants' Fine White Dresses this week $1 S2O Ladies' Suits at $7.88. 75c Dress Goods, new styles and colors, at 40c SI.OO Dress Goods, a handsome variety, at 09c $2.25 Finest Venetians, the latest shades, $1.49 Black Goods, always the best at lowest prices. The SSilk Store of Savannah. “Always complete.*’ A Small “? Big Bargains. 15e Pillow Casing Mr Best Bleach Hheetlng ..Bel Flanellette Outings |oci 15e Children's llo** ....10c Children's H'dkrrrhtefa. Sc lonites' Handkerchiefs.. 3c M< n's Handkerchief*... 3c Children'# Ifndrrbodlee 2f*c ChtUren’s >M Waist#... 15c 75c Infants' Cap* Stic Me Elsie Blocking* 29c 2&c Bilk Ribbons 16c COME TO THE SILK SALE. Prompt and Careful Attention to Mail Orders. All ltargains as Advertised. No Disappointment. GUSTAVE EGKSTEIN & CO. If otherwise concentrated and directed. It Is all on account of these trilling objects that a woman doesn't get off Ihe car the way a man Inalsts she ought 'lt Is for Ihe same reaaen often lhat she lett liar skirls act as a street sweeper. The woman who does not carry her handkerchief In her hand along wllh her purse, papers, a key and various oilier more or lea* essential articles, has ways of bestowing, It. according to her Indi viduality. A certain type of woman al ways put* her* In her bell, hul Iherc are sub-1 ypea even In this classlflcallon, and while one tucks It In neally. with the ends forming an attractive rhou, another sluffn it In a wad. and still another I*l* Ihe ends dangle carelessly. Thrre may be something, however. In the amount of room that exists under the bell to ac count for the way the handkerchief Is In serted Rome girls have a fashion of sticking I heir handkerrhlefs Into Ihe front of their bodice. Others Insert them in Ihslr cuffs These are usually girls who have had a glimpse of army folk and dole on the military. Home women have a pocket on the Inner side of the tipper sleeve Jual large enough lo hold a bit of fine cam bric. Hut if handkerchiefs are lo be larg er this winter, aa the fashion authorities say, this would make an unsightly bulk on the arm The chatelaine pocket helps some women out of Ihe difficulty, hut for one woman who is devoted lo that useful article there are a dosen who abhor It and would rath er have I heir hands Incumbered forever than to free Ih- m by such a device. Now and then, one sees a woman In a car stand up and from the folds In the back of her skirl, triumphantly produce a handkerchief Bhe la of th* class of wo men who believes In having a place for everything. Ihe decree of fashion regard less Bhe doesn't lose her handkerchief, she knows where It Is when she want* It. and It Is out of sight, aa It ought to be, when It Isn't wanted A girl was seen the other day to lift a sailor hat, lake a handkerchief from Ihe lop of her head and afterward to replace It under the hut. Another girl had a fash ion of lurking here Inside her collar, but. after the mercury rose above SO, she found that the cambric seemed 100 near the point of dissolution lo be of much us* and gavo herself up to carrying It by A woman's husband say* that the rea son dressmakers won’t put pocket* In their customer's gown* Is because they are In league with the manufacturer of hand kerchiefs. and that If a statistician would compile the figure* on Ihe number of handkerchief* women lose In a year It would be the biggest computation on re cord. In Oriental countries women are gen erally regarded as the Inferiors of men. yet. according to a Hindoo legend, this Is the proper origin of the sex: Twashtrl, the god Vulcan of the Hindoo mythology, created the world, llul on hi* commenc ing to create woman he discovered that with man he had exhausted all hie crea tive materials, and that not one solid ele ment had been left. This, of course, greatly perplexed Twashtrl. and caused him to fall In * profound meditation. When h# arose from M he proceeded as follows: He took the roundness of the moon, th* undulating curves of the ser pent, the graceful twist of the creeping plant, the light shivering of the gross blade and the slenderness of the willow, the velvcey softness of the flowers, the lightness of the feather, the gentle gage of the doe. the frolicaomeness of the danc ing sunbeam, the tears of the cloud, the Inconstancy of the wind, the ttmldness of the hare and h* vanity of th* peacock, the hardness of the diamond, the sweet ness of honey, the cruelty of The tiger, the heat of the Are and the chill of snow, the cackling of the parrot and the coo ing of the *urtledove. All the## he mix ed together and formed woman. Then he presented her to the man. To be locked out of one's own house naturally Irritate# a person quite as much as to ho looked In. but * Philadelphia wo man found he reelf both locked out and locked In one day iaat week h< had re turned rrotn Atlantic City, when- she and her family have been summering, having keen called to town on a matter of bust- 37 50 Taffeta Petticoat* 33 Ml 37.® Taffeta Waists 33 m 310.® T#(T#l* Waists . 35.* 315 ID Esdles' Butts 3514 If. I'M flubber Cloak* S3 33 35 m Marseille* Quilts 33 33, tS.Mi Fine t’mbrellaa.. .32 d>! Ohc Men's Bhlrt* 33e' Hoc Men'* Bhlrt# ....Me 31.® Men's Bhtn* Mel Men's Gloria t'mhrella* Men's Fancy Hosiery ..801 nee*. Aa the day was warm, she con cluded io go lo her elnetl city bom* and lake a real am) bath before returning on Ihe afternoon train Bhe was glancing out of Ihe window when the postman came along, and she called to him to slip th* letter he carried for her under tha front door, which he did Then eh* took her hath and. slipping In a loner robe and a pair of high bgcl-d slippers she ran down lo Ihe vestibule for her letter. In some unexpected way the veetlhule door closed after her and there eh* was. shut nut from her house and by th* nature at her apparel shut off from the etreet. It waa useless to ring Ihe doorbell. ■* the house was vacant. Fortunately, there were narrow (sines of glaa* on each ride of the veetlhule door. so. taking off on* slipper, she broke the glass with the heel and was thus able lo puah bk Ihe ' ftteh of Ihe dradlatrh and gain an entrance, Bhe aaya she could not possibly have felt worse If ehe had committed a burglary than she did at the prospect of having io appear an Ihe street In such unusual attire. In a Bummer Garden— "l love you ao." ihe sunbeam said To the roe# that grew beside him; "I love the touch of your golden head. And th* flower* that grow around you. r "Bo kiss me once," he softly said. "With th* dd love In your pretty eyes. For the day Is past end th* flower* dee*l The flowers that grew around you." —Anna Mclntoah Revlll*. HOT. LEV* I,KWOK EM XIN HKOM.ATR* THE MVBfl, STUHICH, HOWKIA AND KIDVKY*. For biliousness, constipation and ma laria. For Indignation, sick and nervous head ache. For aleepteosnesa. nervousneoa and heart failure. For fever, chills, debility and kidney disease*, lake I,*mon Kilxlr. toadies, for natural and thorough or gan!.l regulation, lake lavnon Elixir. * tor and 11 hollies at druggists. Prepared only by Dr. H. Mosley. At lanta, Oa. A PROMINENT kItfSTKN WRlTtfti After ten years of great suffering from Indigestion, with great nervous prostra tion, biliousness, disordered kidneys and constipation. 1 have been cured by Dr. Moaley’e Lemon Elixir, ami am now a well man. Rev. C. C. Davis. KM M. K Church Boulh. No. B Tattnall street. Atlanta, Oa. A PROMINENT MEMPHIAN WHITESI Dr. H. Motley, Atlanta-Having been a great sufferer for three years from Indi gestion, and been treated by many phy sicians, who failed to give me any relief. Continuing to grow worse, my brother ad vised me to try Dr. Mosley'* Lemoo Elixir, which remedy he had used for sev eral year*.' I commenced Us use, ant) must any that your lemon Elixir Is tha greatest awdtrine on earth. I have never suffered a day since I commenced using Lemon Elixir. R. L Hoooo, Hernando street. Memphis, Tenn. A t AHO. This Is lo certify lhat I used Dr. Mos ley’s I/mon Elixir for neuralgia of tha head and eyes with the most marked ben eflt to my general health. I would gladly have paid |Tu> for Ihe relief It has given me ala coat of two or three dollar*. H A. Beall. Clerk Superior Court Randolph County, Georgia—ad. —American* traveling without passports In Europe Jhls season, and especially tn Germany, have been put to conaidrrahla Inconvenience an a result of recent an archist demonstrations. One of the first questions put to foreigners traveling In Germany Is as to their Identity, end docu mentary evidence on this point I* always regarded as most valuable Thus a man without a passport 1* of necessity under more or less suspicion, so that It Is al ways best for tourists to provide them selves with these documents. 13 Children's i'nraaols 2&o Children's* Crnbrellaa ~7Sa N’h-* Laundry 8ag*.,,,.D0 N'lre Laundry Bags So Nice Btampcd Bearfs....lSo tl.tt> Linen Squares .... too It.tiO Linen fl.-arf* ®o The Victoria Corsets....too The K. A G. fore .as TSo it to PocketbookH at 75.1 Full 81s* Sheets ....Me Hemstitched Bheets ....too