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WOMAN’S
WORLD.
•'Every young girl,” said the man of
the -world, flicking the ashes from his
cigarette, and addressing, says Dorothy
X)lx In the New Orleans Picayune, the
two little debutantes, "every girl de
sires to shine In society and to be ad
mired by men. Oh, don’t trouble to
deny It. You are hujnan, therefore
to be praised; you are woman, there
fore to be pleased. Besides, It is the
career for which nature Intended you
just as much a3 It Intended the rose
to add to the beauty and fragrance
of the world. If you did not care for
the adimration of your fellow-rreatureß
you would not be a very dear debu
tante. You would be a Frankenstein
that we should all flee from in hor
ror .
"Now, just what It takes to make
a girl a howling social success Is one
of the Dundreary things that no fel
low has yet found out. I have seen
a girl to whom fate has dealt none
of the trump cards of wit, or beauty,
or wealth, yet who was besieged with
admirers on every hand. I have seen
another girl, with every trump in the
deck in her hands, who yet failed to
win out.
My own observation is that the
whole secret lies in the possession of
the right sort of mother. One girl had
a mother who knew her business. The
other had a mother who was a fatal
handicap, and if I were to try to give
a girl a recipe for popularity and so
cial success I should begin, like the
old-fashioned cookery books, with:
‘First, select your mother with great
care,’ and If she did, there would be
no use for any further advice. The
mother would do the rest.
"With the solitary exception of the
mother-in-law, no other individual has
come in for so much derision and
abuse as what is called the ‘managing
mother.’ She has been caricatured and
lampooned and slandered throughout
the length and breadth of the world,
but so far from being a figure of fun,
she Is a heroine standing nobly at the
post of duty. Her daughter is her
own to protect, to manage for, to place
as advantageously as she can In life,
and she does right to watch like a
dragon over her. We should think bad
ly enough for a father who let his son
bankrupt himself by Investing his all
in some wildcat speculation, while a
good investment stood waiting at his
elbow; but if a mother tries to keep
her daughter from wrecking her life
by marrying some no-account fellow
with whom the girl Imagines herself
in love, we hold her up in scorn as a
‘managing mamma.’
“Every one who knows the world,
knows that there are hordes of men
who are the butterflies of society, and
who have no inclination whatever of
afflicting themselves with a wife and
turning into a family grub. They flit
from flower to flower in the ballroom,
monopolizing the prettiest, the most at
tractive of each season’s debutantes,
and driving eligible men away. The
young girl is naturally flattered at
having won the admiration of one so
worldly wise and such a connoisseur of
beauty, and she allows the man to fill
up her dance card, and camp on her
parlor chairs, and to take possesion of
her In a way that is none the less real
because it is intangible. People begin
to speculate about the engagement, but
there are never any announcement
cards. The man has merely been amus
ing himself, and in a season or two he
will drop her, as he has dropped oth
ers, for some newer and fresher face,
absolutely and cold-bloodedly indiffer
ent to the fact that he has stood in the
way of the girl making a good match
and settling herself for life.
"Every now and then you hear some
one wondering why such and such a
handsome and attractive girl has never
married. Nine times out of ten the an
swer is right here —that she had a
mother who was such an idiot she
didn’t know how to protect her daugh
ter against the social deadbeats of so
ciety.
“Another thing that foxy mamma—
If you have picked her out with the
proper care—will see to it that you are
prepared for the part you are to play.
She will recognize the fact that while
life Is hard tack, It is also omelette
soufle, and that a girl's education
should consist of frivols as well as sub
stantial. If a girl can’t learn but one
thing, it is more important to. know
how to comb her hair pompadour than
it is to know the multiplication table
and it will carry her farther in the
world; but, thank heaven, there is no
reason why she shouldn’t adorn the in
side of her head as well as the outside.
"But mothers need to get up-to-date
In their training. This is an age of
vaudeville, when we want to be
amused, and not instructed. Nobody
will listen while Miss Minerva Byrn
Maw Vassar discources on protoplasms,
or Aspasia Paderewski renders a Wag
ner opus, but we are all daft about lit
tle Kitty Jones, who can play the ban
jo, or sing rag-time, or do any other
kind of clever stunt. I didn't make the
world, my children. I am merely giv
ing you a few tips on it. and I trust
u hint to the wise is sufficient.
“Great also will be the reward of
the mother who has sense enough to
run up the ‘no gift’ sign on her banner,
and determination enough to live up 1o
it. Girls don't know it, but they cut
themselves out of half of the pleasures
they might have by making the price
of their society so expensive it is pro
hibitory. We go on the silly theory
that we all know is false, that every
body who goes out in society is a mil
lionaire, to w hom the price of Ameri
can Beauty roses, and chocolate
creams, and a supper after the play, Is
a mere bagatelle not worth consider
ing- The truth of the matter is that
■while a young man could often afford
the theater tickets, he can't scare up
enough for the feed after the play, or
the flowers to precede it, and so the
girl stays at home.
“Worst still, the girls cut themselves
but of good husbands, for the men who
ie worth marrying, the industrious,
hardworking fellows who are saving up
little to go in business for themselves,
and who are going to be the merchant
prince of 10-inorrow, are kept out of
•ociety by Its extravagant demands. I
bhc# knew a woman who, not even at
Ghrlstmas or on their birthdays, would
Pei mit her daughters to receive the
simplest gift. ‘I do not think it dell
bate for girls to receive presents from
"ny one but their family/ she an
nounced astutely. Neither were they
• v r allowed to go to a restaurant af
t'-r ths play with a man, but always,
'cben they returned home, a delicious
"<Ue tete-a-tete supper was waiting in
the library. ’Bay, the Brniths are all
right/ was the universal comment of
the horde of men that swarmed about
the commonplace Bmllh girls. They
no hi hold you up/ and In a burst of
* r *titude for the unususl experience,
every one of the girls was married off
in tier first season.
In s New Yoik letter to the Ulm-tn
"an Enquirer, • ’lira Belle soys: "They
n*n s new baby In a household lu the
"“rough of the Bruns last week, The
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person thus complimented. In this
instance the baby was a girl, and the
fond parents debated at considerable
length the matter of the name. If it
had been a boy there would have been
no debate, for they had already de
cided the name, and a certain wealthy
man would have been duly notified.
What to do now was quite a question,
and they were harassed about it until
the brilliant idea came to them of nam
ing the child after the richest woman
in America. And it was so. With due
formality of christening, the young
lady was distinguished as "Harriet
Green .” Then a letter was writ
ten and sent to Hetty Green apprising
her of what had been done. The rich
est woman in America was prompt and
business-like in making her acknowl
edgments. Almost the next mail
brought a parcel from her addressed
to the little one. When the hopeful
parents opened it they found that it
was a penny bank, the sort of thing
the children save their coppers in, you
know. Could anything have been bet
ter, or more appropriate?
Chicago women have anew solution
for the servant problem. It is such a
radical and “Impossible’’ one as Brid
get herself in the wildest soarings of
her imagination never dreamed of.
The society leaders of the Western
city, says the Philadelphia North
American, have done it. of their own
volition. They have made a flying leap
over the barriers of caste prejudice
that they and their ancestors have
reared for generations past. They are
actually treating their servants as
equals, dining with them and receiving
them at their own tables. The becap
ped parlor maid sits side by side with
the mistress of the mansion, and eats
the same dainty viands off the same
rare and costly china. The cook may
sit opposite the guest of the day and
the daughtetj of the household dines
cheek and Jowl with the nursemaid or
the upstairs %irl.
Of course not all of Chicago’s fash
ionable ncrtth side is up to this sort of
thing. But two of her wealthiest, most
prominent women leaders have started
It. They are Mrs. Henry Demorest
Lloyd, daughter of the late William
Bross, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois,
and Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley-Ward.
Both women are noted for their exclu
siveness and are moulders of thought
and fashion along the Lake Shore
drive.
Mrs. Lloyd got her idea in the first
place from her husband. He has said,
and believes it, that all honest men and
women stand on a plane of actual
equality. HisiWife came to share that
view and jtt.once determined to put it
in practice In her palatial residence.
She extended the hospitality of her
table to her servants.
Society was aghast at the deed when
it heard, of course. It was horrified
when accepting Mrs. Lloyd’s invita
tions, it came and saw' that it was
true.
But Mrs. Lloyd's invitations are in
vitations of the sort, you know, that
people can’t afford to refuse. So peo
ple got over the shock and came again
and by this time they have accepted
the innovation in Mrs. Lloyd's house
hold, though they haven’t yet adopted
It in their own.
Mrs. Coonley-Ward followed directly
after Mrs. Lloyd with an innovation
which goes not quite the same length,
but is nevertheless decidedly new. She
doesn’t have her servants dine with
her guests, but she does have them
dine with herself.
Twice a week, when there is no com
pany present, they come to her table,
and the repast is followed by a must
cale in her elegant drawing room, with
its famous and magnificent organ.
Twice a week also she dines with her
servants at their table and as their
guest.
Mrs. Coonley-Ward is a former pres
ident of the Chicago Woman’s Club.
When she confided to the members that
she was going to follow Mrs. Lloyd’s
plan there was consternation in the
ranks. They said she couldn’t “uplift”
her servants that way. But Mrs.
Coonley-Ward didn’t care for any
body’s objections. Like Mrs. Lloyd she
occupies a position where she doesn’t
have to care. So she shrugged her
shoulders in an indifferent way and
went ahead.
This step is the most radical that has
been taken in Chicago domestic circles
since Mrs. Emmons Blaine stirred
things up by inaugurating her eight
hour day. She divided her servants in
to two shifts, each of which worked
eight hours in the twenty-four. But
Mrs. Emmons Blaine had fourteen ser
vants in her mansion and could do
this. The result, however, was a wail
of woe from the women who could not.
The trouble was that Mrs. Blaine’s
idea sprung into immense vogue with
all the servants on the North Side.
They all wanted an eight-hour work
day, regardless of their employers’
financial status. Of course they
couldn’t get it, but what they did de
mand, and what they succeeded in
forcing, was a raise in wages. One
dollar a week for every cook and at
least 50 cents a week for every house
maid was the increase which had to be
granted.
Genuine Connecticut pumpkin pies,
such as no old-time Connecticut
Thanksgiving was complete without,
says the New York Evening Post, are
made after a very generous formula.
Cut the pumpkin into small slices and
stew it over a. moderate fire with Just
enough water>4o keep it from, burning.
When stewed'-soft, turn off the little
water there may be left, and let the
A Wife Says:
u We have lour children. With the first
three I suffered almost unbearable pains from
12 to 14 hours, and had to be placed under
the influence of chloroform. I used three
bottles of Mother’s Friend before our last
child came, which aggsg.
Is a strong, fat and
healthy boy, doing #•* 9 &
my housework up \w
to within two hours
of birth, and suf- sj\ jlsmJwp ’ v ,
fered but a few hard XKJ vk'JfSr 'j
pains. This lini- / / wWT j *
mentis the grand-/ // A. f/J
est remedy ever jjf
Mother’s T ]Jj
Friend ' %
will do for every woman what It did for the
Minnesota mother who writes the above let
ter. Not to use ft during pregnancy is a
mistake to be paid for In pain and suffering.
Mother's Friend equips the patient withs
strong body and dear intellect, which in
turn are imparted to the child. It relaxes
Use muscles and allow* them to expand. It
relieves morning iichneis and nervousness
|| puts aft the organs concerned in perfect
fit—ft‘l~~ tor the final hour, so the! the actual
labor is short and practical puniest, Dam I
ger of rtssng or hard brunt i§ altogether
avoided, and int ovary is merely a metier and
a few 4e>.
lit ijjtste sW MTSer'r *’*’— A
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1001.
MUNYQN’S
RHEUMATISM
CURE
When Prof. Munyon uyi his Rheumatism
Care will cure rheumatism there isn't any (uess
wrk about it—there ien't sny false statement about
it. It cures witheur leaving sny ill effects. It is a
splendid stomach and nerve tonic, at well as a posi
tive cure for rheumatism.
All the Munyon remedies are just as reliable, aye
•I*l. The Guide to Health is frte. Munyoa, Nets
York and Philadelphia.
MCXYOX’s IXH turn CUBES CATABKH.
pumpkin stand over a slow fire or
drawn back on the stove for fifteen or
twenty minutes, taking great care that
it does not scorch. Remove from the
fire and when cool strain through a
colander. To a quart of the strained
pumpkin put one quart of milk, one of
cream, eight eggs, one teaspoonful of
salt and sugar, and spice to taste. If
preferred, two quarts of rich milk and
*ten eggs may be used.
It is a clergyman’s story, says the
New York Times, and he was one of
the chief actors in what he considered
at the time a small tragedy, but which
proved eventually to be "one on him.”.
He tells the story himself and vouches
for it, so while it is one of the most
remarkable cat stories on record, it
must be believed. The family cat, af
ter the manner of her kind, had given
birth to a large family of kittens, all
but one of which her owners, after the
fashion of their kind, were about to de
stroy. It devolved on the clergyman,
who was not there under orders, to
perform the unpleasant deed. The kit
tens were to be drowned, and the task
had to be performed quickly, for there
was a tender-hearted littlle sister in
the family who was only to know that
the kittens had disappeared. Taking
a pail, the young man filled it with wa
ter. put the kittens into it. left them
there until they were motionless, and
then hurriedly, because the little sister
was searching for them, dug a hole in
the ground and put the little bodies out
of sight. It was all quickly over, and
much relieved at having an unpleasant
duty well done, the young man went
off. That was In the morning. When
he returned in the afternoon what was
his surprise to see on the piazza of the
house Mother Pussie and every mem
ber of her family, the children enjoying
their regular afternoon tea as happily
as If they had not been through an un
usual and unpleasant experience In the
morning. There was only one expla
nation. The attempted drowning had
been so quickly done that the kittens
were merely rendered unconscious, the
mother cat with her wonderful in
stincts had traced them to the spot
where they were buried, only a little
under ground, and resuscitated them.
History does not relate the after carrer
of the kittens.
All-white weddings have perhaps
been the leading fad so far this sea
son, but varied objections to this fan
cy have come to the front recently.
One of them is that the bride is not
so distinctive a figure with the brides
maids all In white as she would be
otherwise.
Someone color, says the New York
Sun. is preferred by many on that ac
count. A difference without much of
a contrast is made by using ecru mous
seline de soie for the bridesmaids’
gowns and trimming them elaborately
with lace.
Pink cloth picture hats trimmed with
pink feathers, or plumes, crown this
sort of gown very effectively. Beige
colored spotted net over cream silk is
another pretty fancy.
Tuck the skirts from the waist down
to meet three accordeon plaited frills.
The bodice, also tucked, has a square
lace yoke and a lace frill on the elbow
sleeves. Black gloves and a large black
hat with black feathers emphasize the
contrast.-
Turquoise blue crepe de chine elabo
rately tucked, finished at the neck with
cream lace, and worn with putty-col
ored hats trimmed with blue makes a
very striking picture when there are
six bridesmaids. A pretty bodice mod
el for crepe de chine in either blue or
pink shows a wide draped Empire belt
of the material filling in the space be
low a short Zouave jacket of lace.
Pastel blue mousseline de soie gowns
made over blue silk, trimmed with lace
and worn with large black hats faced
with blue velvet, are charming.
Ivory white Japanese silk made over
a color is one idea for a bridesmaid’s
gown, while still another rather unusu
al Ie the gown of cream white corduroy
trimmed with silk bands, and worn
with large black picture hats.
"Where is your friend, Mary?” asked
a well known statesman to his daugh
ter at the breakfast table.
“Oh. she is still in bed,” laughed the
young hostess ;’’she never gets up be
fore 9 or 10.”
"Then,” said the old-fashioned man,
severely ,"I consider that she is not
a proper companion for you.” And
during the remainder of her visit the
fair delinquent, who was pretty and
had many excellent qualities never
succeeded in regaining his good opin
ion.
While it is rather a sweeping asser
tion, says the New York Tribune, to
say that people who’lie abed In the
morning are good for nothing, it is.
nevertheless, noticeable that capable
men and women generally get up early.
Take, for instance, the girl who after
a dance sleeps until noon, and the
one who seeks recuperation by an early
morning walk, and afterward pursues
her usual avocations. Which of these
two would make the best wife, the best
mother, the most useful and desirable
member of society? The answer is
obvious. “But young people require
sleep," says mamma, who is inclined
to be indulgent in this respect. So they
do. but not more than a certain amount
—eight hours is an all sufficient dally
allowance for any grown person, and,
although after special occasions nine
hours might be allowed, a longer time
is injurious to the health as well as to
the character.
There is a great difference in so
ciety girls In this respect. Some young
women In the season pass their morn
ings In bed as a matter of course.
Nothing is required of them in the fam
ily. They rise In time to dress for
some fashionable function in the way
of a luncheon, spend the afternoon in
the performance of what they are
pleased to call their social duties, and
their evenings are devoted to dinners
and dances. There are others, the
minority unfortunately, but It must be
acknowledged the most attractive ones,
make a point of freshening up their
roses by a morning ranter in the park
or a brisk walk of several miles up
the avenue.
Kmart women are better In this re
spect than their lees fashionable sis
ters. for to do aa much aa Is mortally
poMlble lu the twenty-four houre eeeme j
to be one of the shlhboleihe of the !
"One Hundred end Fifty." With them
tfca morning hours are too previous to
bo utterly wasted Bo that In this re
aped, at least, they set an example '
which others would do well to foi I
The entire Indulgence lor linen**. I* I
might also be • alledi that le granted |
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as a debutante's prerogrative that she
should have all the gayety that Is pos
sible, and that nothing should be re
quired of her that would in any way
Interfere with her pleasure. Mothers
exact this, and fathers submit, and no
one seems to consider it strange that
for several years, at least, some so
ciety girls should lead utterly aimless,
selfish lives in the midst of a family
of workers.
‘‘One of the Interesting novelties of
the social life of the new century is
the occasional appearance of our Mon
golian neighbors in society,” said a
matron, to the New York Tribune. "It
goes to show how small the world real
ly is and how intimate the nations are
becoming. As yet. these visiting no
blemen from the Orient are few and
far between, but they will undoubted
ly soon be as familiar a sight in our
drawing rooms as are the titled Hin
doos in England. Although he often
speaks English remarkably well, a Cht
nnman has no idea of what convention
ally ought or ought not to be said, and
his artless frankness in this respect
is most amusing. He also asks ques
tions with a direct simplicity that is
sometimes embarrassing.
"A Chinese nobleman who was pre
sented to a young woman at an even
ing function not long ago began the
conversation after the manner of his
nation by propounding a series of ques
tion. At first the answers were easy.
'Do you live in New York?’ ‘Have you
both parents living?’ ‘Have you
brothers and sisters?' ’How old are
you?’
"These being answered to his satis
faction, he became more particular in
his inquiries.
" ‘Why are you not married?’
" ’Perhaps the right person has not
asked me,’ answered the young woman,
laughing.
"Have you any objection to matri
mony?' asked the Chinaman, gravely.
“ ’Not in the least/ she replied, im
mensely amused by his persistence.
"For the time being he seemed sat
isfied. but later in the evening he came
up to her with a young Amerl-an who
evidently had no idea of what was in
(store for him. ‘This is Mr. Robinson,’
began the old man; 'he is a graduate
of Harvard; he, too, is unmarried, and
also has no objection to matrimony.
Why do you not marry him?’
"And the odd part of it all was that
he actually made the match, for the
pair, who until then were not ac
quainted, were engaged not long after
ward. ’
My experience in this country, says
Sarah Grand, in an interview in Suc
cess, has not yet been sufficiently ex
tensive to warrant my basing any
judgment upon Americans at home;
but, in England and on the continent,
I have seen much of Americans, and
have been specially drawn to a close
observation of American girls,—your
types of young womanhood. They
have been an ever-fascinating study to
me, and I must say, frankly, that, in
comparison with English and French
girls, they must be given the palm for
superiority.
This is not the mere idle compli
ment of a stranger in your land; it is
the truth, as I have observed it. The
American girl has, as a rule, a more
marked and interesting Individuality,
more force of character, more mental
Independence and alertness, more vi
vacity and conversational ability than
has her English cousin.
The chief reason for the superiority
of American girls lies, I think, in the
American system of education. They
have space, freedom, and liberty for in
tellectual expansion and the develop
ment of character, while our English
girls, from the time they cease to be
infants until they are married, are sub
jected to a system of suppression It
is not surprising that the average Eng
lish girl Is a nonentity who, when she
marries, is treated by her husband as
an inferior.
Some American mothers, I am told,
are educating their daughters on the
English plan. They are making a
grave mistake. A woman has her own
individual life to lead. Not on the
character of her husband, if she has
one, but on her own, will she stand
or fall, and be equal or unequal to her
many opportunities to wield an influ
ence for good, and to the grave respon
sibilities of womanhood. Therefore,
her development must not be cramped
and hindered by the foolish conventions
of a less enlightened age, as In Eng
land, but must be given plenty of room
and encouragement, as in the United
States. A woman is more womanly
and charming for being broadly edu
cated and led out of the mists of ig
norance. which are never a protection,
but always a menace.
I am happy to say that, while the
old-fashioned, conventional ideas in
regard to young women and their edu
cation are dying hard in England,
newer and more progressive ideas are
gaining wider consideration. While
we are far behind the United States
in women’s colleges, we have two in
stitutions which are devoted to the
highest education of women; and our
high schools, the plan of which we
borrowed from you, I think, are im
parting the fundamental principles of
good education to thousands of young
women.
At last Is America teaching fashion
to France —carrying coals to Newcastle
though that might seem to be. New
York has given to Paris the short
skirt!
It was at the Paris Exposition that
the thing happened. The women from
this country went there wearing the
ankle-length skirt, which has been
adopted almost as a national costume,
for traveling and public places at least.
And It was beautifully made, "man
tailored." as it has come to be, with
ail of the care that is bestowed on the
most expensive gown of milady's ward
robe.
Englishwomen, says the Philadelphia
North American, were there, too, In
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short skirts, but it wasn't theirs that
got copied, for an Englishwoman, with
her big feet, looks a perfect fright in
a short skirt, compared with the
American woman of trim and dainty
figure.
It was at the American woman that
la belle Parislenne stared with envious
eyes and with the greatest surprise
that any good thing in dress should
have come from anywhere that wasn't
Paris. But looking until she was con
vinced. she saw that the short skirt
was, in the word which only her lan
guage possesses, chic! That was
enough. She must have it for her
own. Straightaway in Paris newspa
pers took up the short skirt question,
and recommended the new garment as
sensible. Now the Paris fashion cor
respondents (Me writing: J There has
been no end of talk here about the
length of the gowns worn in the street,
and much uncertainty as to which
would be adopted; but it is beyond dis
pute that all really smart people wear
their walking gowns well oft the
ground."
M. Uzannl, the well-known critic of
Parisian life, even goes so far as to
declare that before ten years have
elapsed rigidly short skirts will have
become the fashion on all occasions,
while corsets will be long abandoned,
and the custom of wearing veils long
prohibited by the health department.
This critic points out especially the
abuses of the long traveling skirts,
which gather microbes and disease.
Dress reform, in the past left for wo
men, has advanced so slowly, he In
sists, that It is time for the health
boards to take the matter up and make
laws to enforce the changes which wo
men’s pride and love of the aesthetic
have rendered them dilatory In adopt
ing.
It Is the white gown that has been
most in evidence for some months past
and It is variously made of point d’*
esprit, mousseline chiffon, voile crepo
de chine Louislne. silk, satin Oriental
and taffeta silk. Ecru lace Is often used
for trimming, especially on the satin
and silk gowns, and with this trim
ming a gold belt is very effective.
Large black hats are worn with the
white gowns, and another pretty fancy
is a large hat of violet mirror velvet,
with feathers of the same color in a
lighter tint.
Occasionally a bit of color is intro
duced in the white gown in a fichu of
mousseline which may be blue or pink,
and the hat matches this. For an all
white costume the hats are very pret
ty made of cloth trimmed with chif
fon and feathers.
At one autumn wedding large red
hats were worn with gowns of white
point d’esprit. Large white beaver
hats trimmed with flowers are also
pretty and youthful with the white
gown.
For thfe bride, satin, poult de soie
and Satin c*repe de chine are the pop
ular materials. Duchesse satin )s first
favorite, and although many experi
ments with other fabrics have been
worked out to the finish nothing as yet
has ever supplanted the popular satin.
Two pretty wedding gowns are
shown in the illustration, one of white
satin trimmed with tucked and ac
cordeon-plalted chiffon and Garrick
macross lace. The bodice of ohifton
has a lace bolero. The frllllngs are of
chiffon and the court train of satin.
The other gown is crepe de chine
with x train of chiffon and lace.
Simple tulle veils are still In vogue
for the brides who cannot afford any
thing better, but fashionable ele
gance in wedding veils is a fine flow
ered net in a very small pattern, with
a real lace edging. Some of the dotted
nets are used for this purpose, and the
edging must be at least three inches
wide.
Once in a while you meet a hotel
clerk with a soul and a heart. For ex
ample, says ,the New York Press
Charles Jackson Davidson walked up
to the desk at the Pflster on Wednes
day morning and indulged In a heart
to heart talk with the clerks, says the
Milwaukee Sentinel. Mr. Davidson
confided that he wanted a suite of
rooms reserved for himself and wife.
He also admitted that he expected to
be married at high noon.
"And say,” continued the blushing
bridegroom, "I wish you would keep
the number and location of these rooms
a secret, for we have a lot of friends
who may try to play a practical joke
on us.”
The sympathetic clerk told Mr.
Davidson not to worry, and then re
served the bridal suite on the parlor
floor.
Nothing happened after that until
about 9 o’clock in the evening, when
six pretty young women and one sol
emn faced young man entered the re
ception room of the hotel and sent for
the sympathetic clerk. They told him
they were friends of the bride and
bridegroom, and they wanted to treat
the bridal pair to a pleasant surprise
by decorating their suite of rooms.
The clerk was alike affable and dis
creet. He gave the bellboy a bunch of
keys and told him to usher the party
to a fine suite of apartments on the
first floor. The six young women were
promptly escorted to the supposed bri
dal suite. In twenty minutes they re
turned to the reception room, laughing
and chaffing. They told the affable
clerk that the bridal suite had been
appropriately decorated, and thanked
him for his courtesy. Then the yqung
women made their exit.
An hour later by the clock the bride
and bridegroom arrived. The sympa
thetic clerk called Mr. Davidson and
told him that the ajx young women
had adorned the wrong suits of rooms.
Mr. Davidson was alike grateful and
curious. He realized that the joke had
been turned on the Jokera. but he want
ed to see what the decorations were
like Guided by the clerk, he and his
bride found and entered a luxuriously
furnished suite of rooms which had I
been converted Into a fairly accurate
Imitation of X Uhlness rtc* warehouse
’ll would he a good joke If tb*ae j
are really our rooms,” said the bride. |
groom, "but I think, all things un- |
stdeied, my tslfs and I would pre
fer”——
"Don’t worry," Interrupted ths hotel
, I#rk with the heart, "your roosis ars I
nt tf)* ffiG of la* our rigor.
XH* Whit* Ho i** ffl-trjj ttiH'Uffil the
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perb scale, requiring about thirty ser
vants to keep the apartments In proper
order. The lighting of the apartments
is a tax. indeed, and the fires we are
obliged to keep to secure us from daily
agues are another very cheering com
fort. Belis are wholly wanting, and
promises are all you can obtain. Sur
rounded by forests (can you believe
it?) wood is not to be had, because
people cannot be found to cut and cart
it. We cannot get grates made and
set for coal. We have, indeed, come
into anew country. You must keep
all this to yourself, and when asked
how I like it say that I write that the
situation is beautiful, which Is true.
The house Is made habitable, but there
is not a single apartment finished. We
have not the least fence, yard, or other
convenience ■without, and the great
unfinished audience room I made a
drying-room of to hang up the clothes
In.
"The principal stairs are not up, an!
will not be this winter. Six chambers
are made comfortable; two are occu
pied by the President and Mr. Shaw;
two lower rooms, one for a common
parlor and one for a levee room. Up
stairs there is an oval room which Is
designed for the drawing room, and
hab our crimson furniture in It.”
“MR. BROWN.”
A True Htery.
Mr. Brown was not his true, true
name, of course, but It was the one
he gave himself when he was a wee
lad, and it clung to him until he was
quite grown.
Mr. Brown was at this time just
about four years old, and It was his
greatest ambition to be a big. grown
man. When anyone spoke of him as
such his dear little face shone with
delight. When he appeared on the vil
lage street, folks would solemnly say.
“Good morning, Mr. Brown.” Just as
gravely he would return the saluta
tion with a charming smile.
Like all grown men, he had a sweet
heart—she. a lovely young lady of
eighteen summers.
One day, when he was all dressed to
go and take dinner with her, tt began
to rain. Hts face clouded with such
bitter disappointment that hts mother
comforted him with the saying that
perhaps it would clear up presently.
The clouds did part for a little while,
so he kissed his kitty and his mamma,
and trudged off.
He had gone four or five blocks on
hts way when down came the rain,
harded than ever. Our little man
thought and thought very hard. What
should he do—go on and let his lady
love see him all wet and dishevelled —
or go back home, get on dry things,
and give up his pleasure trip?
He did neither. He marched Into a
nearby dry goods store, and called that
he wished to see the owner of that
store. The clerks were inclined to laugh
at the little fellow, but the proprietor
silenced them with a look. Coming
forward with his best bow, said: ‘‘Well,
Mr. Brown, what can I do for you
this morning?"
“Good morning, Mr. Bee. T wish to
buy an umbrella.” he replied, grave
ly.
"Very well, what kind shall I show
you? Here are some nice ones. Will
these suit?”
"No, sir. I want a big one, Just like
my papa’s."
And none other would suit. When he
finally made his selection, he asked
the price, told them to have It charged
to his papa, and, bidding all goodby,
went out into the rain under the large
umbrella. How those clerks did laugh
at the sight of those chubby little legs,
which were all that were visible of
his plump little figure, aa he marched
off, feeling bigger than ever!
He went on without any mishap un
til he reached his destination. And as
every one who had seen him had told
every one else when they went home
to dinner, when he came trudging back
on his homeward way, why It seemed
as if the whole of the village was out
to greet him as he passed.
When his papa heard of it and went
to the store to pay what was due on
the umbrella, the genial Mr. Bee said;
“Sir. there is no bill. I have already
settled with Mr. Brown.”
Mary Betsy Jones.
GAIL. MAMILToT'S
The Way She Kept a I’arty Gaesstng
Unavailing!?.
Gall Hamilton had been In Italy, as
she told me, with the pleasantest party
in the world, seeing everything that
was beautiful, enjoying everything
that was fine, studying old pictures,
rummaging old shops, getting the best
of Rome and Florence and Venice, and
looking at the old world from her own
original point of view—sweetness and
light and laughter following, as always
wherever she went.
They had come slowly north; and
after crossing the channel, a very great
gentleman took the party—the states
man and his delightful wife, the young
girl, the musician and Gail —for a
coaching tour through beautiful Eng
land to his castle in more beautiful
Scotland.
Once in Scotland, Gail felt a dream
of her life fulfilled. The romance, the
poetry of Scott, which had been a Joy
of her youth, had become real, and fill
ed all the air. But one day the miets
had thickened Into rain, and the rain
had become a downpour, as If all the
fountaina of the air had been loosed
In ahowera not of dropa, but of tor
rents.
In whal way could the party at the
• aatle paaa the long day before them?
Finally, and after various auggestlona.
it wax agreed that each Individual
should do someone thing to tontrlbute
to the • omnion entertainment. What
the host did .or proposed to do, wheth ,
er the statesman told, for bl* part of 1
the xserrlaes. soma before unknown
and secret pie* e of diplomatic hlatory, j
whal his wife, or the young girl did, ]
what the chatelaine non* of that la I
uny part of the ttory. Hut when Gall 1
0 ht ih# to y# hef j
alt*®# of ih* mat* rr>t*rt*Jam*fi< !
cret. and which you will confesd to
be one of the moat satisfactory thtnjf ß
of its sort which you have seen in yotlr
travels. Provided." she added with a
wicked sparkle—she who feared neith
er king nor kaiser—"you will guess
what It Is."
This to them, fresh from the Vati
can, from the manuscripts and missals
and marvels of bookbinding, tne glo
ries of old bijoueteria and goldsmith’s
work, from ivory carvings and Vene
tian glass, and, in addition, with all
the loveliness in and about this place
before them!
“Must we guess?” asked one. “Well,
then," remembering an old game of
their childhood, ’To what kingdom
does it belong?”
"Perhaps the vegetable, partly,” said
Gall.
"It Is that orchid— ’’
"Nothing of the sort," with great
gayety and good humor.
“But ‘partly!’ Do you mean that U
belongs to more than one kingdom?”
"Yes. I think so.”
"To the mineral?”
"Your mind is running on Jewels
and the high priest's breastplate. Yes."
"Why not the animal kingdom, too?"
asked another with mockery.
"Not amiss. Yes, certainly, the an
imal,”
’’Animal—vegetable—mineral what
In the world can It be? All three king
doms? It wouldn't be surprising If you
added the spiritual.”
"Without any doubt the spiritual!"
said Gall decidedly.
“You are going to tell us a ghost
story in broad daylight,” said one, de
precatingly.
"Is it white?” another asked, etill
humoring her conceit.
"In some degree.” ...
“Is it pink, then?"
"In some degree.
"It Is a chameleon on a chain!**
"PShaw! Very different.”
"Is it large?”
‘‘Not too Targe."
"Is It tall?”
"It reaches just to my heart.”
"I wonder what extravagance you
have been secretly committing! Is it
that little Fra Angelico you longed
for?”
"No. Nor the little Andrea del Sarto
painted on lapis lazuli.”
“I know. It Is that Sevres cup.”
"I may be brazen. But I am not
made of gold!”
“From whom did you say you bought
It, might we ask?”
"I didn’t say I bought It at all. But
I stood In great awe of the people who
put It In my hands.”
"It Is a rosary blessed by the Pope,
of course.”
“It Is a Kelmscott book.”
"It is one of those charming figur
ines.”
“No, no, it is something much more
simple and near home, is it not?”
"A great woman, a great statesman,
a great financier, a great musician—
to say nothing of the rest—and all such
poor guessers! What is becoming of
the American prestige? I won't keep
you in suspense any longer."
Out of sight she hurried, and before
long she descended with a pasteboard
box In her hand, opened it, and took
out—her new Paris bonnet!
"Confess!” she said. “Did you ever
see anything more beautiful. Here, as
I told you, are ail the kingdoms—tfie
silk, the velvet, the plumes, for one;
the lace, the straw, for another: the
pins, the wires, the clasps, for the
other. The spiritual? Well, the frame
of mind 1 shall have when I wear this
bonnnet to church in Hamilton, I hope,
will meet that requirement. And then
you remember the comparison that has
been made between the consciousness
of being well dressed and the consola
tions of religion?”
It was the custom of the house, hav
ing assembled in the drawing room,
to form in procession when dinner
was announced, and to follow the pip
ers blowing their pipes for dear life.
So the pipers, plaided and kilted, blew
out their cheeks and puffed and strut
ted. and swung their shoulders, pic
turesque and fine at the head, and the
others, in due order, followed the wdld
music with various heart stirrings,
down the gallery to the castle dining
hall.
And there they saw, as they entered,
above all the blaze of gold and silver
and crystal above the flowers, the fruit,
the "frolic wine,” perched high atop of
the tall epergne, as if it were some
rare and brilliant blossom, the chief
ornament of the. grand dinner table,
Gail Hamilton’s little Paris bonnet.
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