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declaration.
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. ,v. n:l he better 1 by birds
" ,'!Io I by hu<L in sprite?
• v :| 1 f might trust the night.ingala
' ‘ ‘ a vie lit- so n tale
if \[ to thee I bring!
~ • (he rose r’oi< r ight be
. v wsador from mto thee.
‘ , ; n , --enpevs above;
r • [ n ,t the oigM : r~nle in turn.
v n-lth eViuence of June,
, voice to thee my love.
y, •. s still, n onc.
■A my heart, the whole Jay long,
1 \*tnve, AV'th thee anear,
, r . ’ itself a silver tongue,
, ■ jis golden secret sung.
1 then. oh. love, shalt hear,
. Hope Kinney, in The Century.
ft TiL PART OF THE STORY
j ,:.;s fins an Idea—The Thing ir,
he tv Is He ta Cel It on Paper ?
all very well having an idea for
a S : iiy. but it’s a very different mat
ter writing it. Three difficult parts
of wri ing a story are the beginning
of ir th? going on with it. and the
finish: r of it; and even when these
facts ve been accomplished to the
satisfaction of the writer he still has
an arduous task to perform, which
is to .soil it. There have been cases
on r, mrd in which the last feat has
never b.-en accomplished at all.
To the young writer, like Jones,
for instance, the beginning of his
story appears the most painful,
jon has his idea, his story skele
ton, dancing in his brain, but he can’t
get a bolt on any of its limbs and
lav it flat. It eludes him and laughs
him to scorn as he tries to put pa
per and ink flesh on its bones.
Jones thinks of the various open
ings of stories lie has read. The ro
mantic style, as adopted by Scott,
Dumas and G. P. R. James, comes to
his mind.
Two solitary horsemen were trav
ersing a lonely wood at the end of a
hot July day. The steeds picked
their way carefully as they passed
ever the underbrush, and for an hour
or two the animals’ footfalls were
the only sounds heard. At length
(yes of course) the elder horseman
was the first to break the silence.
(The elder horseman always is the.
first to break the silence.)
But there aren’t any horsemen in
Jones’ story, and it’s a matter of in
difference to him who breaks the si
lence first.
The New England style next oc
curs to him;
“Louisa,” called a hard, sharp
voice from the rear kitchen, “you
come right in this minnit! Louisa!
Loo-ee-zer! Drat that gal, where is
Gallivantin’ araound them
Hicks’ medders, I reckon. Fer the
lan’s sake, here she is naow!”
Jones realizes that this kind of
opening attracts attention from the
start and gives promise of interest
ing domestic trouble for Louisa. The
spelling of “minnit,” though unnec
essary, has a strong local color, and
if Jones has a young girl and a
cross stepmother in Concord, N. H.,
lor his principal characters he will
do well to ponder this opening. But
he hasn’t.
He thinks and think?. Ah, here
is the society novel style:
Helen Van Mustard came down
the steps of Mrs. Gallashin’s house
in the Seventies, near the park, with
compressed lips but cloudy eyes.
Heme, Julius,” she said, as she
tepped into her limousine, and as
well appointed machine flew
.‘dong the avenue, barely’ w r ithin the
of the law, she wondered
unilly how she was going to right
.sell with her recent hostess.
Helen felt convinced that the Count
s Szlgzkzowski had cheated, but
how to prove it?
s '°, that won’t do. There are no
over-moneyed people in Jones’ work,
spending twice as much as they've
got.
Hnce upon a time there was—-
Ridiculous. It sounds too much
1 a lairy story. Going to the oth
ei exl|, eme suddenly, Jones conceives
this start: *
/he thousands and thousands of
'Occidents which occur in the daily
lv, *s of the present century toiler
“ ! My lead to the conclusion that
v, ‘ we term accident or chance is
really only—.
■ ang it* That leads nowhere. By
ime Jones has almost forgot
tn what his story is about.
H -1, he must concentrate his
Let him think. There's a
ni j :lu an R a woman who marry and
separate immediately afterward.
Now, why? Oh, yes, because
must meet again twenty years
!;i order to threaten ruin to the
f; the hero and heroine, one
mi is the child of. the woman by
/ ' ‘Sequent marriage and the other
_ i!, J of the man by a subsequent
'dgamous marriage. And the
b ‘ is—the point is—well, what is
lh e point?
! / Point might be several things,
“ J°Res hasn't got that far yet.
"ones wants to do is to begin his
but he can’t decide whether
1 Hu with the marriage of the
llts or the lovemaking of the
1 Rers and go backward when
~ s Hi the middle of the narrative.
‘V? lßht start this way:
l u liler pawned and threw’ down
n', i)o °k- The hammock felt uncom-
tu her shoulders and she
j' b lif e held more novelty for
‘‘ Ok for the mediaeval days of
vv hen knights came riding up
| )!l > the East and threw’ dow r n gaunt
lets - Oh for the- • •
Jones Lagan to get nervous him
self now r . One more try: %
“Well, fer a new’ly married couple
them two is the rhost businesslike
parties as ever I seen,” muttered the
secion as he watched the ceremony
from the rear of the church. He
thought of the blushing brides and
the eager bridegrooms who had
Stood lip before the Rev. Amos Dain
ger field during the last fourteen
years of the latter's incumbency of
the—
Suddenly there was a muffled cry
and a dark flash through the air.
Jones had lost his reason and thrown
the bottle of ink at himself.—From
tile New York Sun.
GIIOST ANSWERS ’PHONE.
Queer Shade Delivers Messages After
Church is Locked.
Old St. Paul’s Church, headquar
ters of the Protestant Episcopal City
Mission, has a ghost. It is an eccen
tric shade which whisks up stair
ways and disappears into nothing
ness, but it is also up to date. When
the office force has departed and the
quaint old building on Third street
is secure against intruders with
stout locks and bolts the ghost an
swers the telephone, which conduct
is so utterly foreign to the popular
conception of ghosts’ abilities that it
has dumbfounded Rev. H. Cresson
McHenry and his assistants.
On two occasions the strange vis
itor has answered the ’phone when
the office force was absent and the
building locked. Its answers, al
though briefly made, have indicated
that the ghost is well acquainted with
the movements of the staff. The
shade informed a friend of Mr. Mc-
Henry that he “had just left the mis
sion,” and to Mrs. George Sommer
er, wife of one of Mr. McHenry’s as
sistants, it imparted the information
that her husband “w’ould be home to
supper.” Both persons who con
versed with the unknown occupant
of the mission declare that its voice
was modulated to the softest tones.
Mr. McHenry saw the ghost on July
4th. The office force had a holiday,
but Mr. McHenry visited the church
to open his mail. As he was unlock
ing the iron gates at the entrance to
the churchyard he glanced up at one
of the windows and was astonished to
see what appeared co be a man stand
ing on the stairway inside the build
ing.
The stairway leads from the offices
of the City Mission in the basement
to the church auditorium. As Mr.
McHenry opened the gate- the figure
glided rapidly up the stairway, disap
pearing from view. The minister en
tered the church, locked the door be
hind him to prevent the escape of the
intruder and searched the entire
church from cellar to roof. He failed
to find any trace of the visitor.
Every door and window was locked
securely and the desks untouched.—
Chicago Tribune.
Knew What He Was Doing.
For once tho American had dis
covered something British that was
better than anything that could be
produced “across the pond.” His
discovery was a fine collie dog, and
he at once tried to induce its owner,
an old shepherd, to sell it.
“Wad ye be takin’ him to Amer
ica?” inquired the old Scot.
“Yes, I guess so,” said the Yq.’
“I thought as
shepherd. “I couldna pa^M^ock.”
But while they an
English tourist care^gand to him
the shepherd for much
less than the had offered.
“You toUowne you wouldn't sell
him.” sardelle Yankee, when the
purchaser had departed.
“Na,” replied the Scot, “I said I
couldna pairt wi’ him. Jock’ll be
back in a day or so, but he couldna
swim the Atlantic.” Detroit b rea
Press.
Itoad? and the R. F. I).
Notice is being sent out from the
Postoffice Department to many rural
communities that unless roads are
repaired and placed in condition for
uninterrupted service during the year
the rural service will be discontinued.
This is work for good roads that will
doubtless have a wide and whole
some effect. The rural mail service
has become so much a part Of the
farmer’s life as to be regarded as a
necessity, and he isn’t likely to let it
lapse for the sake of a little time and
energy needed in road building.—At
chison Globe.
11 is Deep Concern.
The kind old lady noticed a small
lad entering a cobbler’s with a small
package.
“What have you there, sonny?” she
asked kindly.
“Ma’s slipper,” replied the lad;
•you see, there is a tack out of place
in it, and I want to have it fixed be
fore ma notices it.”
“Ah, what a considerate little boy!
I suppose you are afraid the tack
might hurt your mother’s foot?”
“Well, it isn’t exactly that. You
see, the tack is sticking out on the
sole, and this is the slipper ma spanks
me with.” —Chicago News.
Defense of the Top Hat.
Its doom has been pronounced, but
it defends itself. The top hat is not
much more ugly than another hat.
And, above all, it is not uglier than
the rest of our masculine costume.
It has its peculiar qualities; it re
quires to be taken care of. The soft
hat does not exercise our will; it lets
us go, and it is wrong. Honor to the
eight or ten reflections which are the
last safeguard, or very nearly, of in
dividual energy in the civilized states,
—Journal des Debats, Paris.
Fur’s For, Dili Wiist For?
Black Msrlen May Be Skunk
and Also Alaskan Sable
, \ ,lr coat *3 a fur coat. That is
o.k a3 muca as most persons who
n.ei a furriers store know about
1 e history of a piece of fur.” Thus
spake a n experienced fur salesman.
~“ ven the experts do not know every
mg about the origin of the furs.”
His remark was illustrated by an
expert connected with one of the
best known of New York’s retail fur
riers in a conversation with a repre
sentative of the New York Tribune.
‘How old is the animal from which
. ® Persian lamb skin is taken when
it is killed?” he said lie had asked of
another fur expert.
“Oh, two or three years.” replied
the other in the offhand and cocksure
manner of a person who is pleased to
be able to show himself superior in
knowledge.
The expert had been “raised” on a
farm, so he did not accept this state
ment at its face value. All the lambs
that he knew of began to grow wool
as soon as they began to eat grass,
so he was willing to wager that the
lambs whose coats find their way to
the shoulders of many women were
not more than two weeks old when
they gave up their lives at fashion’s
dictation. He determined to find out
the truth about Persian lamb. He
put. the same question to another
dealer. This time he was told that
the lambs were about on 4 year old
when their lives were taken.
An acquaintance was going to Eu
rope to attend the fur sales, and he
asked him to get an authoritative an
swer to his query. In course of time
he received a long letter from Leip
sic, the sum and substance of which
was that the lambs are really lambs,
being invariably less than two weeks
old, and quite frequently only two or
three days old, when they are slaugh
tered.
If this be true, then the article
published within the last year by a
magazine which aims to be exact and
informing, describing in an almost
heartrending way how the ewes are
killed in order that the coats of their
unborn offspring may be used to pro
tect the carefully groomed bodies of
America’s fair sex fro'm the wintry
blast is a. sentimental dream.
Even the experts do not know how
many neits are obtained in the world,
nor what the value of th° animal
catch is. This is because the Hud
son's Bay Company, v/hich once al
most had a monopoly of the fur busi
ness of North America, now has com
petitors. A number of the fur deal
ers have their representatives in the
centres to which the trappers come
with their furs. Some of these men
plant their trading posts within a
couple of hundred feet of the posts
of the company whose control was
once unquestioned. Asa result large
ouantities of fu~s come to New York,
the centre of the fur trade for the
United States, directly the trap
pers. without the intervention of the
middlemen. The number and value,
therefore, are not recorded in a pub
lic way.
Not only has the Hudson’s Bay
competitors in the wilds of
yßnada, but also in London. Many
Tears ago, when it had undisputed
sway over the fur catch of North
America, it established the custom of
annually selling its stock at auction
in the English capital. About sev
enty-five years ago outsiders estab
lished another market, which was
held at the same time and conducted
in the same manner. The only dif
ference was that those who managed
it did no: own any furs, but sold for
others. At the present day this mar
ket handles two or three times as
many furs as are taken and sold by
the famous old company. It is at
these auction sales that the prices of
furs in the raw state are determined.
The cheaper fursaresold in “strings”
of a hundred. The rare and high
priced ones, of which only a few doz
en may be taken in the course of a
year, are sold by the single skin and
upon inspection.
Manufacturing furs is a very exact
term. With few exceptions, even the
most expensive furs are actually man
ufactured. Making a fur garment is
more of an art .than most persons re
alize. It is not a matter of taking a
few sldns, cutting the legs off and
patching together the large pieces
which once covered the bodj r . The
foreman and designer of a fur manu
factory does notget a salary of S4OOO
or SSOOO a year simply for his knowl
edge of patching together large skins.
It is for his ability in cutting the
skins a quarter of an inch wide and
then putting them together again so
that the skins will be greatly in
creased in length while the shading
of the original skin is preserved. The
skill required may be understood
when it is known that in some cases
it would be cheaper to carve lip a
$lO bill than to cut up incorrectly a
piece of skin of similar area. These
ribbons are all carefully sewn to
gether by machinery.
A few of the furriers save the skins
that represent high values and de
vise articles of wearing apparel in
■which they can be used without cut
ting. Muffs and stoles offer such
uses.
Fine furs rank with cash in the
measures taken for their safety.
Large safes with combination locks
are provided for their care. Not in
frequently the contents of a safe are
equivalent to the contents of a ’vault
in a national bank in a city of 20,000
inhabitants. Furs valued at $60,000
to $70,0 JO are sometimes stored in a
safe six feet high and about three by
four feet in the other dimensions.
The most valuable skin is that of
the black fox. Its range in price Is
from $2750 to S3OOO. The animal
is found in Alaska and Siberia, in the
latitude of the Arctic circle.
The most valuable fur in the man
ufactured state is the black Russian
sable. A single skin would cost from
SSOO to S7OO, according to its qual
ity, and a mantle made of this fur
would be worth 22 0,000. It is not
unusual for a Russian sable coat to
sell for 2SOOO to $15,000. Muffs and
stoles are frequently sold at prices
ranging from S4OOO to S6OOO a set.
The skin of the sea otter, which is
generally used for trimming, is val
ued at SIOOO. A robe of this skin
would cost from S2OOO to S4OOO.
One is inclined to ask cynically,
“What is in a name?” when he learns
definitions of the names bestowed
upon certain skins. For instance, you
can buy black marten in Chicago.
The buyer will discover if he puts
it alongside the Alaskan sable sold
in New York that the two are the
same fur. According to Mr. Mc-
Quinn, of C. C. Shayne & Cos., both
are the skins of the American skunk.
“There is no such animal as the
Hudson Bay sable,” said Mr. Mc-
Quinn to a representative of the New
York Tribune. “It is the American
marten. The dealer buys this fur
under the name of marten, and it is
billed to him under that name. It is
similar to the Russian sable in every
respect, except in the shade and tex
ture of the fur.
“Up to the present year,” he con
tinued, “muskrat skins sold for
from eighteen to .twenty-five cents in
the raw state. This year.they bring
from forty to fifty cents. This is be
cause of their demand for manufac
ture into ‘Hudson seal’ and ‘Aleutian
seal.’ They are sent to Europe. There
the long guard hairs are plucked out
and the fur sheared to the depth of
the seal fur. The skins are then
subjected to a dye that will make
them look like real seal. They are
then returned to this country and
manufactured into coats of various
styles. They are on the market ad
vertised under the heads of ‘Hudson
seal’ and ‘Aleutian seal.’
“The catch of Alaskan seals is 12,-
000 to 14,000 a year, but 300,000
skins are sold under that name in the
course of a year. They are all real
sealskins, but not the of the
famous sealsof thePribylov Islands.”
Popular superstition has a part in
the fur business. There is a consid
erable sale of robes and garments
made from the skins of the common
house cat and the rabbit. It is said
that this demand comes from persons
afflicted with rheumatism who be
lieve that these furs when turned in
ward have curative qualities.
Morning in an
Indian Comr.ound
Ey MARY ANA RLE CHAMBER
LAIN.
All over the compound, from ver
andas and “go-downs,” forms are
seen rising from sleep, each one
“wrapping the drapery of his coqch
about him,” with no idea, in doing
so, of conforming to any standards
urged upon the attention of the race
by Mr. Bryant, but for the simpler,
if less poetic, reason that these drap
eries constitute his bedding by night
and his nether garment by day. But
do not make the mistake of thinking
that, because the requirements of
the Hindu’s costume are scanty, his
toilet is. therefore, a perfunctory
matter. Follow him to the well. The
chances are that you will never drink
water again, but you will obtain
knowledge. On the brink of that
great, yawning hole in the ground
known as the compound well, whose
sides are of stone and whose steps
lead you down to the water's edge,
behold the “males” of the compound.
Divested of the draperies already re
ferred to, and in attitudes ranging
all the way from the pose of the
“Disc Thrower” to that of the most
resolute “squatter” upon a Western
claim, they are lined up in a row
from the top of the steps to the bot
tom. In the hand of each is a chatty,
and one and all are engaged in the
offices of the morning bath. And
their tub is the well. brimming
chatties are passed up and the empty
ones down, legs are curried, feet are
scoured, teeth are polished with.char
coal and stick, throats are gargled,
noses trumpeted, and, in short, the
whole man receivesJsuch a washing
and splashing, such a rubbing and
scrubbing, such a molishing and pol
ishing, as leaves nothing to be de
sired, except in connection with the
well. This latter consideration, how
ever, is one that does not disturb the
Hindu, who, priding himself upon
being, externally, the cleanest plat
ter in. the universe, devotes but little
thought to the inside of the dish.
His ablutions and those of his coK
leagues concluded, he fills his chatty
once more from the pure fountain
below, lifts it high in the air, throws
his head back, and with unerring
aim, pours the crystal libation in one
long, steady stream do<vn his open
throat, skillfully poised to receive
and conduct it to his germ-proof in
terior. This done, his draperies are
resumed? and he departs to his work.
Suddenly,, as out of a catapault,
the sun leaps up from behind the
eastern hills, and day is at hand.—■
The Atlantic.
As Vain as a—Pigeon.
The peacock is not singular in his
self-admiration. Pigeons are so no
torious for the same vice that it is, I
am told, illegal to put a looking-glass
in a dove cot, as it would attract and
retain the birds from the neighbor
ing pigeon houses. —George J. Mur
ray, in London Spectator.
The treasures of the Louyre are
now guarded by watchdogs.
Privilege of Voting.
Miss Grace H. Ballantyn®, of Des
Moines, lowa, is being congratulated
by the women of her State on her
success in securing a decision of the
Supreme Court of lowa establishing
the right of women to vote at any
city, town or school election on the
question of issuing bonds for munici
pal or school purposes or borrowing
money or increasing the tax levy.
Cheerful Ignorance.
“You'd be surprised,” said the
woman who is supposed to be wise,
“ho?. r many people are perfectly ig
norant of the correct way to write ac
ceptances and regrets when they are
asked to entertainments. It would
pay some enterprising woman to go
around writing them for those who
don’t know how. You’d be ashamed
to see the people who come to me to
ask how it is done or to get me to
write them. And,” she admitted, “if
the truth must be told, I don’t know
so awfully much about it myself.”—
New York Press.
A Russian Beauty Farm.
A wealthy Russian noticed that
many of the recruits in the Russo-
Turkish War were inferior in phy
sique. He accordingly established
wnat really is a beauty farm. He
employs on his estate only the hand
somest and healthiest villagers.
These he encourages to enter upon
matrimony by free grants of land,
payment of all marriage fees and an
annuity of fifty rubles a year for
every child born. Since the institu
tion of this farm forty model mar
riages have taken place and more
than 100 children have been born.—
Woman’s Life.
Not Merely 'Fattening.
A noted skin specialist has declared
that chocolate and potatoes are the
two worst things a woman can eat
who has regard to her complexion.
Of these the former is much the more
injurious.
It used to be that -we shunned these
staples of diet only when we dreaded
too much flesh; then we learned that
the potato was bad for the digestion;
now that our skins suffer as well it
would seem as if their doom were
sealed.
But with the soda water fouhtains
to tempt, and the greatest potato eat
ers in the world, the Irish lassies,
Sand Tarts.—Beat half a pound of butter to a cream
and half a pound of granulated sugar; then add the yolks
of three eggs and the whites of two, beaten together; add a
teaspoonful of vanilla and just a little grated nutmeg.
Mix in sufficient flour to make a dough. Dust your baking
board thickly with granulated sugar. Take out a piece of
dough, roll it into a thin sheet, cut with round cutters, and
bake in a moderate oven until a light brown. Dust the top
of the sheet with sugar instead of flour, to prevent the
roller from sticking. By adding half a pound of cleaned
currants to the above recipe you will have Shrewsbury
currant cakes. —Washington Star.
Oar Cut-out Recipe.
Paste in Your Scrap-Book.
famecTfor their exquisite skins, there
is still a probability that neither
chocolate or the “praty” will be ta
booed immediately. New York
Press.
. . * Mr-y
Young Girl Renounces Sex.
“From woman,” said Miss Mattie
Currie, an attractive young woman,
of Hamlin, W. Va., “I wish to be
known as a man.” Dressed in male
attire she visited a barber shop and
had her golden curls shorn, and in
sisted that the barber go over her face
with a razor.
Miss Currie is a leader of the
younger social set at Hamlin, near
Huntington, and is well known in that
city. She rode into town shortly
before noon astride of a spirited
horse. •
“I intend to open a general store
at Dingess, Mingo County, in a few
days,” she said. “I will go into the
settlement as a man and I wish to
be recognized as such. In the future
I wish to be known as Matthew in
stead of Mattie.”
•
New Jewels.
One of the latest Parisian fancies
in jewels to be taken up by smart
London women is a corsage garniture
of a fishnet drapery set with dia
monds, the whole forming a brilliant
scintillating drapery.
The fisher net is filet work of ex
ceedingly fine gold threads, the
meshes formed of diamonds. The
drapery covers the shoulders and
droops several inches, and is made
entirely by hand.
Mrs. Cavendish-Bentinck, a sister
of Mrs. Ogden Mills, wore this sort of
diamond meshwork on the corsage of
a royal blue robe, and Mrs. Edward
Ward,'a recent bride, wore a similar
net of diamonds over a clinging black
satin. Lady Camden was also seen
in a pink robe having the diamond
meshed net, and in each case two
large diamond tassels and diamond
set cords fastened the jeweled drapery
at the back.
The inverted tiara is another little
fad in jewels. This is a straight band
from -which jeweled joints descend,
disappearing in the coiffure.
Mrs. Waldorf Astor wore one of
these inverted diadems the same
evening that the diamond studded
corsage draperies were seen.
The Duchess of Rutland also wore
anew pattern in diadems; in this
instance it was a pointed crown of
wheat ears meeting in the front, and
Queen Alexandra -wore a similar coif*
furs ornament, but instead of wheat
ears a diamond thistle rose from the
centre. —New' York Times.
The Cleveland Romance Holds.
The romance of President Cleve
land’s marriage was one of the most
interesting in our Presidential his
tory, relates the Kansas City Times.
It was the first marriage of a Presi
dent of the United States while in
office. Mrs. Cleveland’s father had
been a law partner of the President,
and when he died his daughter, then
a young girt, became Mr. Cleveland’s
w r ard. At the time of the marriage
the President was forty-nine and his
bride only twenty-two. Such a dis
parity in years is ordinarily frowned
upon, but the circumstances of this
match were extraordinary.
Mrs. Cleveland became one of the
most charming mistresses the White
House has ever had. She bore her
self with great dignity, reserve and
distinction, yet was quite as demo
cratic as her station would justify
her in being. Her attitude toward
her husband was at all times wholly
exemplary. She exalted him, but
without ostentation and without in
the least belittling herself. In pri
vate life she maintained the reserve,
even the seclusion, that her distin
guished husband sought. Through
out Mr. Cleveland’s illness, in their
common joys and sorrows, in her hus
band’s long period of suffering, and
now in her own bereavement, she has
set an admirable example of wifely
devotion, patience knd dignity.
The Queen’s Own Fashions.
Queen Alexandra does not follow
the fashion either of long silhouettted
figure or of wide and high crowned
headgear. There is a style of dress
in England which the Queen has
made her own, which the Princess of
Wales follows closely and which is in
favor with every member of the royal
family.
This has gradually become dis
tinctively their own. “I want a roj'k.l
toque” is a request understood
any milliner, as is a “Queen’s sleevqf A
or a “Queen’s hv; a, dressmakeiy
On the opening i-jIJ
Queen wore a dress of delicate orcnT
mauve marquisette, lace inserted a v *
embroidered, and a toque made of
tulle and flowers the same shade.
The Princess of Wales was gowned
in soft rose pink chiffon, lavishly em-
broidered in the same shade, and
wore a cream colored toque with os
trich feathers.
Another day, according to the
Ladies’ Pictorial, the Queen wore a
lovely dress of French gray silk voile,
a mass of very beautiful embroidery
in the same color. The Queen’s toque
was of crinoline straw and tulle of the
same delicate shade, and was trimmed
-with an aigrette of heliotrope and
crimson damask roses.
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A novelty on hats is white mar
abou.
The shades of red are so dyed as
to be softening and seductive.
Flowers and foliage of colored ba
tiste trim hats of pure white straw.
The hat is not huge, but just big
enough to be a pretty frame for the
face.
Hats are made of tulle and lace
and trimmed with black velvet and
rases.
A sash accompanies many tailor
gowns, either inside or outside the
coat.
The very dressy robes for afternoon
or evening wear are now composed of
marquisette.
Shoulders are made exceedingly
narrow, and there is no curve in at
the back of the waist.
Belt, tie and shoes match in color
where colored shoes are worn with
a white or neutral tone gowu.
Soutache is about the only garni
ture put upon these cotton frocks,
which are, of course, tailor made.
Big buttons of passementerie fin
ished with silken cords are used, un
less one selects white or black pearl.
Drapers declared that goods were
to have more* body a year or two ago,
but heavy goods have not yet made an
appearance.
An engagement ring brought from
Europe by the wearer is of the finest
platinum set with tiny diamonds, and
inside there is a space for name, date,
and even a motto.
Plain taffetas make up into practi
cal and pretty skirt and coat suits,
while, if one can wear the bordered
goods, there is nothing smarter for
?J[ternoon frocks.