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WOMEN; THEIR FADS,
O^‘7 ; W heir raSHl ® s wO
WL™ their work .
THEIR ’ART
MANIA FOR EMBROIDERY. |
“The modern French woman is pos-1
jessed of .1 mania for sewing, knitting i
and embroidery, - ’ says an observer.
“Are we waiting for breakfast? Mmt*.
ia Marquise will produce a lace and
satin bag and out of it a strip of
primitive looking embroidery, at which
she works until the bell rings. After
luncheon the bag reappears, and I am
not sure that it does not come out in
the closed motor car. This fury for
industry lias seized all classes cf the
French people. At an afternoon con
cert at Trouvllle one day I counted a
dozen women around me whose hands'
-were busy during the most thrilling ef
forts of the orchestra. ’
UNPOPULAR GIRLS.
The egotistical girl, who never finds ■
any conversation interesting unless it
be of herself, and who is never shown
anything without telling you that she
has something similar, only ever so
much nicer and more costly.
The girl who has no kindly feeling
or sympathy, and looks down on all
who are less fortunate in any way than
herself.
The girl who is always trying to |
make mischief between friends and I
lovers, and pulling her own acquaint-1
ances to pieces behind their backs, says ,
Woman's Life.
She who, having traveled a good deal ;
and seen a lot of world, can do |
nothing but depreciate her own coun- •
try and people.
CREPE-AND-MEDALLIONS GOWN. .
If you are the possessor of a worn i
out Irish lace curtain, you have the
material for a summer gown. A girl
in Brooklyn seized a curtain that her
mother was about to give to the cook.
After giving the lace a bath in hot
soapsuds and drying it, she cut out
the medallions and placed them upon
a pale blue crepe gown. She arranged
the figures haphazard. The smaller
medallions were used on the waist, and
even the frazzled edges were sewed
on so skillfully that their former state
was not apparent. “Crepe and lace
medallions” sounds too extremely ex
pensive, and her friends are saying she
h-certainly does spend a lot on her
fcgglrT*”-' she hears that, she
—tin. ? sleeve.—New York
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WHAT TO TEACH YOUR SON.
Teach him to be true to his word and
work.
To respect religion for its own sake.
To face all difficulties with courage
and cheerfulness.
To form no friendships that can
bring him into degrading associations.
To respect other people’s convictions.
To reverence womanhood.
To live a clean life in thought and
word as well as in deed.
Teach him that true manliness al
ways commands success.
That to command he must first learn
to obey.
That there can be no compromise be
tween honesty and dishonesty.
That the virtues of punctuality and
politeness are excellent things to cul
tivate.
That a gentleman is just what the
word implies—a man who is gentle in
his dealings with the opinions, feelings
and weaknesses of other people.—The
Mother's Magazine.
PARIS COIFFURES.
It can't be truthfully said that hats
are improving any in grace, and it
must be confessed that a large num
ber are decidedly outre and even un
couth-well calculated to make a wom
an look her worst instead of her best,
as a truly good hat should, says a
writer in the New York Herald. As a
rule, American women are too care
less in the coiffing of their hair to look
well under most of the Parisian con
fections. Tag ends and ruffled locks
■do not go well with the tilted hat that
rises with appalling abruptness from
the coiffure to tower far above it, leav
ing the base exposed in the most un
compromising fashion, this base com
prising almost the entire head of the
hapless wearer. The habit of marcel
twaving the hair is not only bad for the
hair itself as to growth and strength,
but it inevitably breaks off the hair,
causing more and more tag ends. In
Taris they use liquid preparations for
(keeping the hair smooth, and also the
large meshed nets made of natural
jhair, these so carefully a. - anged that
they confine all the stray ends and yet
themselves ar? not visible under cas
ual inspection. Without these ad
juncts or a net veil the lofty, tilted hats
should be wholly abjured, for there is
neither comfort nor style in them un
less properly worn and with the prop.:
accompaniments.
WOMEN’S APPETITES.
“Women eat too much,” said la
manager of one of the smartest hotel
in the city. “It’s no wonder to me ths!
women are ill half the time. It’s r.<'
due to overeating, in my estimation.
You know I see so much of it here
that I sometimes wonder how they
have any digestions at all. One wom
an, for instance, who entertains elab
orately, dropped in to see my wife only j
yesterday after arranging for a large
dinner party on Thursday night.
“ ‘Where do you think I’ve been?’
she demanded the first thing. Os
course no one guessed. ‘To the doctor's
to have my stomach washed out. Oh,
yes, I know what you will say—too
many late suppers, lobster a la New
burg and devilled crabs; but what
would I do if I didn’t eat? Out of
town guests expect, to do nothing else
when they come to New York, and it’s
the most acceptable way to repay one’s
indebtedness, so unless you go into a
sanitarium you must keep up with the
procession.’
“I happen to know,” went on the
man, “that this woman spends money
galore on Turkish baths, massage, not
to mention doctor's prescriptions, to
keep herself in good health, when all
she needs is to stop eating. The re
sults would be better in every way
and immeasurably cheaper.” New
York Sun.
ENA'S WEDDING ROBE.
Princess Ena of Battenberg will
have a gown for her marriage with
King Alfonso of Spain which will be
symbolic not only of her adopted coun
try but of the religion she has em
l braced. The gorgeous fabric of the
embroidered brocade is now being
} woven in Spain. After the ceremony
which changes the English Princess
into a Queen the wedding garment,
according to the usage of the Spanish
court, will be dedicated to the Blessed
Virgin. This rite is one of peculiar
beauty and significance.
For the rest Princess Ena’s trous
seau will be of English manufacture.
Among ;cem will be many morning
and afternoon gowrik of the sheerest
muslin to meet the heat of the South
ern summer. These will be elaborately
tucked, with insertions of lace, some
of which are heirlooms in the posses
sion of Princess Henry A s Battenberg,
who received them from her mother,
Queen Victoria.
There is in addition a most valuable
I collection of rare laca for the relgnoirs
and petticoats of the royal bride. Sev
eral so-called Ascot toilets for the trous
seau are a mass of fine lace and the
filmiest of gauze. A number of cloth
and cashmere gowns are included in
the number.
The lingerie is of cobweb fineness
and is all handwork, the stitches be
ing so small as to be barely percep
tible even with a magnifying glass. The
most expert needlewomen have been
employed upon it. —Philadelphia Rec
ord.
| A NOTABLE WOMAN OF GOTHAM.
It is worth noting that Stuyvesant
Fish, to whom hundreds of thousands
of holders of life insurance policies are
turning as unto a new Moses who shall
lead them into a land of promise where
the deferred dividend does not flour
ish like a green bay tree, has caught
the eye of the feminine contingent.
Among the Four Hundred feeling runs
high over the Fish-Harriman contro
versy; and the women side numerously
with Mr. Fish. This is owing in so
small measure to the popularity of his
wife.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has for years
represented' the utilitarian side of New
York aristocratic life. She has writ
ten books, like Mrs. Clarence Mackay,
but she has consistently protested
against the frivolousness of the danc
ing faction, whose pride has been hu
miliated recently by the discovery that
a noted cotillon leader had been col
lecting backstairs gossip and vending it
at the expense of those who had ac
cepted his leadership.
Without taking a prudish view of the
obligations of society, spelled with a
capital S, Mrs. Fish has emphasized
the desirability of mare practicalness
in the evolutions of the Four Hun
dred; and her home has been a rally
ing place for women of the same
views. Mr. Fish has encouraged her
propaganda.
Some enemies she has made by her
mordant wit. She has a sharp tongue
and uses it mercilessly like a flail up
on the weaknesses of her sisters; and
some of these volatile dames have,
from time to time, conspired against
her peace of mind. To the precious
crew who v»ere behind the “Fads and
Fancies” enormity, she was an object
of special interest; but she could af
ford to ignore them.
She has initiated a lively campaign
’ in behalf of her husband’s interests,
and the support she is securing for
him is not an inconsiderable factor,
i Her close personal friendship with
! Lady Northcliffe has not been without
its effect, inasmuch as L ji‘d North
. cliffe’s intervention in the matter of
: the Mutual Life may possibly be traced
1 to a clever New York woman with a
'ons arm.—New York Mail-
JAPANESE PRODUCERS OF HAND MADE PAPER.
Vanished Product Used in More Expensive Class of
Books in “Edition de Luxe.”
NATURE FIRST PAPER MAKER.
Clothes Mace and Worn—Waterproofing For Baskets
Almost as Good as Cloth.
MONG the old arts of Ja
-4 Ase pan not the least interest
tv q ing is the making of paper
by hand. The beautiful
finished product is fami
liar now to the people of the Western
world, where it is used in the making
of the more expensive class of books, in
“editions de luxe.” But although our
ancestors spun their own linen, with
us paper was never a household art,
as it was in Nippon and is to-day, in
spite of the spread of the factory sys
tem in that country.
Nature was the first paper maker.
Every one has seen the rice paper
which the Chinese use for making ar
tificial flowers. It is taken direct from
the Fatsia plant, not the rice of com
merce; from its cylinder of pith, which
is dried and unrolled. Then, to say
nothing of papyrus, there is a birch
bark, on which to inscribe the sacred
writings preserved in their lama-series.
The bark of a South American tree fur
nishes the traveler with a thin brown
tissue in which he can roll and smoke
his tobacco. Japan _s well supplied
with a class of trees, the thin bark of
which must have given the natives a
hint that there was a material that
might be made over so as to serve
the uses of the scribe.
There is the Edgeworthia, or three
forks, r. shrub easily identified by the
triple branching of its shoots, and the
“kago,” or paper mulberry, a small
tree that grows, like a willow near
water courses. If you happen to be in
Japan in the early- winter you may see
how the peasants make paper from
their “kago.” They go about it in this
wise:
The grain harvest is over, the gor
geous tints have faded from the ma
ples, the sap has run down from the
trees. The farmer and his boys go to
the dams across the rice fields, cut the
stalks from the kago trees and carry
them home in small bundles.
Then the big bathtub, in which the
family parboil themselves according
to Japanese custom, is brought into
requisition. The kago sticks are boiled
in this caldron till the useless skin
peels off from ‘.he white inner bark.
Meanwhile the carefully saved wood
ashes of the thrifty household are dis
solving in a vat filled with hot water.
The banc is cooked in this lye till all
its gummy impurities are dissolved
out; after having been rendered clean
and soft by that means, it is now- beat
en into a pulp with vcoden mallets.
All hands then turn to and vigorously
knead the pulp into balls called “so
sori.”
THE FINISHED PRODUCT.
A batch of sosori having been pre
pared all is now ready for the last act.
The paper tub proper, an oblong trough
of wood, is dragged from its resting
place, cleaned and filled with water, to
which a little mucilage of mallows is
added. Into this liquid the farmer
crumbles the balls of pulp and stirs the
mixture into a mush. He now- takes
his “form,” a square sieve made of
fine bamboo splinters, and dipping it
into the mess scoops out enough to
cover its surface with a thin film. The
mucilage makes the bark cells cohere
and “set” in parallel lines, so as to
form a moist, sticky sheet—paper in
embryo. The “form” is tilted up. the
water drains away and the film dries
into a sheet of hand-made paper.
In this simple process the long, tough
fibre cells of the bark were first torn
asunder, then reunited. The operator,
as it were, demolished nature’s build
ing without injuring the bricks and
More Railways Needed.
“It is simply a matter of impossibil
ity to get cars enough to take the
freight offered by the shippers of the
Pacific Coast, destined for Eastern
points,” said Mr. D. X. Skinner, ot
Seattle.
“It is not with us a mat' r of rates,
but a question of moi. import
ance—the obtaining of .r.uisportation
facilities. The lumber manufacturers,
despairing of getting their product
handled by the railroads, make earnest
but ineffectual attempts to get ships
that will take it to the Eastern ports
of the United Sates. The ships are as
hard to obtain as railroad cars. This
congestion of freight is an index to
the vast volume of business and the
mighty- development of the Pacific
I Northwest. There are now, counting
I the Canadians, six lines of transeonti
i nental railways, but they are wholly
| inadequate to do the business, and we
| of the Coast hail with delight the con-
I struction of three additional lines. Still,
I it must be remembered that the busi
| ness of the country is increasing at
i ‘such a rate that when the new Gould
; line, the Milwaukee, and the new
Grand Trunk are finished, it is al-
I most a certainty that the manufactur
ers and shippers of California, Oregon,
then used them to build according to
a plan of his own.
The resulting paper is said to be
“more pliable, firmer, more durable
than that made by machine.” It is
porous and readily takes the Indian ink
from the brush which Japanese writ
ers use instead of a pen. It tears easi
ly along the grain, but if torn across
the lines of cohesion a rough, fuzzy
edge is produced.
The Japanese have a hundred uses
for this product of their domestic in
dustry. A square of the absorbent ma
terial serves the “musume” for a hand
kerchief. Glazed and painted with
beautiful designs, the paper is folded
into fans. Impregnated with a drying
oil, it makes a waterproof cover for
traveling baskets that is largely in
demand during the rainy season. It
takes the place of glass in lanters
and in the frames of the “shoji,” those
portable screens with which a Japan
ese room can be so quickly trans
formed into a suite of chambers.
These are but slight advances from
the sheet of paper as it comes from the
tub. But by more elaborate processes
the cunning artificers of Japan con
vert paper into an elastic substance
like leather. For this purpose they
select a stout kind called “senda,”
which is manufactured by mixing the
pulp obtained from different barks.
This is coated with lamp black, oiled,
dyed and finally lacquered. It is from
this “leather,” ornamented with gold
lines and colored patterns, that floor
cloth is made, as wefi as pipe cases
and the little boxes that tourists bring
home.
CLOTHES MADE OF PARER.
Even wearing apparel, in Japan, is
made of paper. By glueing together
sheets of the tougher and more flexible
kinds a clotn is manufactured which,
after being saturated with a special
oil, is made up into waterproof cloaks.
In cost and usefulness these coverings’
rank below the rubber coat, but far
above the primitive “rnino,” or small
portable straw thatch with which the
poor coolie protects his shoulders from
the rain. The old fashioned black,
varnished hat, the “chimney pot” of tiie
Samurai, was made of cemented
sheets of paper, finished off with a
lustrous coating of the beautiful native
lacquer.
Perhaps die most astonishing cf the
Japanese paper productions is a sauce
pan. Nor is it made to be’ looked at
merely; it can be safely used for cook
ing over a charcoal fire. But it seems
a long jump from a thin tissue to a
kitchen utensil, from a substitute for
glass to a substitute for iron.
But is there anything in common, it
may be asked, between this home-made
paper and the wire wove, cream laid
factory product, manufactured here
from lir.en rags?
The common factor is the vegetable
cell. The wall cf this, the unit of
plant life, however it may differ in
shape or size, is chemically identical in
shape or size, is made of cellulose.
This material resists the action of the
dilute . cids and alkalies which are
used to remove the gums anl - sin, all
that the plant has stored in its cells,
but which the manufacturer regards
as impurities. But in making paper
from rags the cells are cut in pieces
and lose their identity, whereas by the
Japanese process they are merely sep
arated and put together again. Hence,
it is said, results the superior tough
ness and durability of the hand-made
paper. ’
and Washington will be just as great
ly pressed for transportation facilities
as they are to-day. We are infinitely in
greater need of more railroads than of
cheaper freight rates.—Washington
Post.
Elect! ic Train Lijjht.
A little combination of dynamo and
steam turbine is now in use by certain
railroads for generating electric cur
rent on the train itself. The generator
is so light and compact that it may
be placed on the locomotive in front
of the cab. It runs noiselessly and
with almost no vibration, thanks to
the turbine motor. The steam is drawn
directly from the boiler and may be ex
hausted into the smoke stick. In some
installations the dynamo and turbine
are placed in the front end of the bag
gage car. where they occr, y a floor
space only five feet six by twenty-two
inches in extent. Headlights are now
frequently lighted by means of these
diminutive generators,
Expect Many Visitors to Alaska.
Consul Ravndal, of Dawson, reports
that 2450 excursionists made the round
trip to Skagway last summer, and
that the steamship managers believe
the excursion business to Alaska the
coming summer will be quite large.
UNITED STATES SENATOR
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
PRAISES PE-RU-NA.
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Ex-Senatar M. C. Sutler.
Dyspepsia is Often Caused by Catarrh
»f the stomach—Peruna Relieves Catarrh
of the Stomach and. is Therefore a Remedy
For Dyspepsia.
J Hon. M. C. Butler, Ex-U. S. Sena- »
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CATARRH of the stomach is the cor
rect name for most cases of dyspepsia.
In order to cure catarrh of the stom
ach the atarrh must be eradicated.
Only an internal catarrh remedy, such
as Peruna, is available.
Peruna exactly meets the indications.
Revised Formula,
“For a number of years requests have
come to me from a multitude of grateful
friends, urging that Peruna be given a
slight laxative quality. I have been ex
perimenting with a laxative addition for
quite a length of time, and how feel grati
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musician.
“Yes,” answered Mr. Cumrox. "It
must be pretty well built or it couldn’t
stand what is done to it.” —Washing-
ton Star.
AFTER THE HONEYMOON.
Young Wise —How do you like my
cooking? Don’t you think I’ve begun
well?”
Husband—Um—yes. . I’ve often
heard that well begun is half done.
—Punch.
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