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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 ' > * 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. 7 yi I ■ v 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- » « tor from South Carolina for two J ♦ terms, in a letter from Washington, J ♦ D. C., write- to the Peruna Medicine . ♦ Co., as follows: J « “1 can recommend Peruna /or $ ♦ dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I ♦ J have been using your medicine « ♦ for a short period and 1 feel very ♦ ♦ much relieved, it is indeed a « J wonderful medicine, besides a J « good tonic. ’> ♦ 1.... 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 fied to announce to the friends of 1 eruna that 1 have incorporated such a quality in the medicine which, in my opinion, can only enhance its well-known beneficial character. S. 13. Habtman, Al. D. quality. , < , nr ■ “You —.....- WtflO, 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. H Mozley’s 1 || Lemon Elixir. I Mg THE BEST H FAMILY MEDICINE gM For Constipation, Biliousness, In- H digestion, Sour Stomach, Colic, Dizziness, Headache and anything gS caused by a disordered l,iver. Removes Mg "That Drowsy Feeling” | « Kg by putting your digestive organs td KI to‘work, increasing your appetite, HM KMB and, in fact, makes you feel like a BE Kra SOc. and SI.OO par Bottle HH at all Drug Stor«i. Ono Dose Convinces, I® -Wo ■ Only $14.00 For this Oak Mantel, French Plate Mirror, Tile Hearth and Facirg, 20-lnch Grate; no Summer Front. Send 2&e. for catalogue show ing 100 designs from $lO to SIOO. J. E. Hunnicutt & Co., ATLANTA, GA.