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nu%. ?T?V ? J. wow xurn. ?a. lit?j uLuiJVi wuia is ono of tho attractive novelties whose simplicity commends It at i glanco and which Is suited to all th< lighter weight materials. This one is made of pale blue louisim sillt, trimmed with a simple banding and Is" worn over a guimpe of Persian ? lawn combined -with ?ace. The materials are exceedingly dainty and charming and the soft silk lends itself to the design of the waist with perfect success. The riodel can, however, be utilized both for the separate waist and for the gown, and will be found charming in every material that is soft enough to drape with success, which meaus very nearly all of the fashionable ones, if we except the suitings designed exclusively for street wear. The guimpe is of the regulation sort with fro ^t and backs, that are faced to form the chemisette of lace, and with full elbow sleeves. The waist is made with front and back, which are laid in tucks at the shoulders and is withput an opening, being drawn over the head and confined at the waist line by means of a tape inserted in the casing or in any way J that may be liked. The sleeves are pretty and oddly shaped and make a singularly good effect over the white ones of the guimne. The quantity of material required for the medium size ii. for the waist two and three-fourth yards twentyone,two and one-fourth yards twentyseven, or one and five-eighth yards forty-four inches wide, with twelve yards of braid; for the guimpe, two yards thirty-six inches wide, with one yard of all-over lace. Keep Prnnps From Slipping. A vexed question among women who fol^w the styles is how to keep pumps from slipping up and down at the heelr. Pumps are pretty and approved o? rasnion, but annoying because ot this tendency. One clever young woman wto had purchased an expensive pair of pumps and didn't like the idea of discarding them had a couple of eyelets made one each ?ide of the pumps just above the toe and laccd across ribbon ties. Of course the appearance of the pump was lost, but in its place was gained a pretty effect of a low tie, besides a degree of comfort worth the style that was lost, T.JMlo i JIUUI i uuiir Smartest of ail are the little topcoats, very short over the hips, a trifle longer in the back and a trifle longer etill in the front. They have double revers, the under one of velvet or silk, short sleeves with three-inch turned-back cuffs r.nd either brass or faioked pearl buttons of quite magnificent size. ST?R?(MNJ House Gown. * The houso gown that la made witt + Via all cr^i 11 v nnmi rmplr nnd #>lhrm sleeves Is the favorite one of faohloi), end Is so ideally comfortably that II appeals to the woman of practical mind as well as to the one who seek:? for novelty and smartness. This one Is eminently slmpl', at the same tlmo that It to absolutely graceful and can be made from a variety of materials. For the cool weather challie, cashmere, rlbatross and soft silks are all appropriate,while for immediate wear muslins can be utilized. In the illustration ring dotted batiste is trimmed with banding of embroidery, but there are as many trimmings as there are materials, so that every opportunity is offered for the exercise of individual preference. The gown is made with the fronts, backs and under-arm gores. Both fronts and backs are gathered, and the backs are pleated to give a Watteau effect, after which they are inined to a narrow yoke. The sleeves are the favorite ones or moderate fulness, gathered into straight bands. When still shorter length is desired the gown can be cut off on indicated lines and any trimming that may be i preferred can be used at the lower edge. The quantity of material required for the medium size is eleven yards twenty-seven, ten and three-eighth yards thirty-six, or seven yards fortyfour inchcs wide, with six and one fourth yards of banding to make as illustrated. Separate Waist Liked. Scarcely anything but members of the linen family, or, at least, wash materials, are being worn for street and morning gowns and the heavy skirt and lingerie 'waist seems to have fallen beneath the hammer of the artist-writer, whose sensitive soul was jarred by its unfitness. In foreign watering places, however, this separate waist is still extremely wellliked, although the skirt with which it is worn usually shows some very strong note of harmony even if Jt is not of its own colo*1. Bows For Short Sleeves. Almost too much of a lingerie effect is given a short-sleeved white lawn dress by tying the sleeves in to the arms with ribbons that are knotted at the back into generous bows. A wider ribbon of the same color is used for the belt, and there is a knot of the same at the throat. A UU/v?/vVt ti?a paa on/ill fvaoItci n K^nf U11UU511 v? c OCC ouvu uuvno ui;uu u the stores, and without gloves, it ia met ess to say they are not strictly intended for shopping wear. i 1HE fPULfPlfr. ^ a cruni adi \j cmmpiav crouriM BV THE REV. DR. F. W. GUNSAULUS. Subject: The Shut Door. New York City.?The Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, D. D.f LL.D., of Chil cago, is filling Dr. Donald Sage j Mackay's pulpit in the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, and Sunday morning, to a very large congregation, he preached on "The Shut Door." His text was Matthew vi:4, "Shut the Door." Dr. Gun6aulus said: I wish I couid by some contrast impossible for me and possible only in the experience of your own hearts emphasize the difference between this command, as it comes to us loaded" { with infinite love, and the commands | that come out of recollections of our | childhood, that might give us some ! idea of the different texture of liSe, the life from which the heart is always moving into the infinite ranges of God's life, into which we are invited day by day. "Shut the Door." I think the instant demand, espe cially upon American life, "with its swollen veins and arteries, its various confusions and starry look and stumbling feet, is to get out of the whirl and hear a voice speaking with deep, i fine authority, saying to us as we go through life, with its cares, duties, amusements and contradictions, "Shut the door." This is the voice of Jesus. He is telling us the secret of prayer, in the closet?secret prayer in which the human soul comes ; alone into the presence of God; prayer in which man finds his true altitude and attitude; prayer in which alone a man is able to look into motives, perceiving the values of life, in which he gains his spiritual heredity and in which he assumes his sonship unto God through God's grace. The one thing that Jesus seems I most intent about, that you and I I should enjoy the privilege of prayer and receive its benefits, is all explained and emphasized in these words, "Shut the door." We are living at a time when prayer is a fact and a force. Tire world of the materialist, has passed: the world of the idealist is here. The scientists of today are telling us, "Let us pray." It is not strange that we should 6egin to realize the unifying and exalted influence of prayer upon man's mental life. What, after all, is there today in life, when life's issues are so profound and even tragic, that will unify all one's powers?the powers i of the mind and of the affections?as I will prayer? When I pray in secret I I am unified as a man. If man is to j be re-made, if he is to be made whole | so that his various parts shall be no longer fragments, each afar from the other, he must be divinely unified. But, my brother, if that is to be your experience, "Let us pray." Here is the Master coming quietly from the fields of Galilee into your heart and mine, urging upon us, as the old, deep harmonies of the religions of all a.ges sweep into His soul, urging us, not only tnat we snouici pray, t>ut pray alone. We see Him at Gethsemane, at the very crisis of His life, leaving Peter and James and John behind, and going alone to pray. I think the most significant announcement with regard to Saul, who was to become Paul, and his experience on the road to Damascus was made unconsciously by the one who said: "Behold, he prayeth." What an entire transformation! What a prophecy of his future! Do you think that Christ is calling you to an easy task when He says: "Shut the door?" Do you even know the pathway back to the old closet of early days? The road is now all. I overgrown. But since that day there have grown up brambles over the pathway. First, of all, we must find this path, if we are to find our manhood and womanhood. Is it not an astounding fact how little secret prayer there has been in our lives? How this passion for publicity has linked itself to our willingness to remain away from the secret place. True, a while ago, when we were in trouble, we found our way back. How sweet it was! But that was not secret prayer, for we did not "Shut tho door." It was prayer with the door wide open, through which we were looking back at the things from which we were trying to escape. You say, "I can get back to that place." Are you quite sure that you can? If so, "shut tho door." How we like to peek out and sec what the majority are thinking ? how our neighbors feel about things. How we want the door just a little way open in order that we may hear the sounds of the claims of good causes, in which we are interested! Surely, there is nothing wrong about that. "Shut the door." Let us take the words of Jesus into our hearts to-day as simdIv as we can and sincerely accent them. ."Shut the door." "Why, surely," you say, "that is something I can do with one hand, while I ; grasp other things with the other hand." No, both hands must be inside. There must be no effort to grasp things without. "Well," you say, "what shall I shut the door against, there are so many things with which I must keep in touch?" I don't know; He says, "Shut the door." "But," you reply, "there is my church, my family, my relatives, my de^r friends." 0. poo:* soul! it seems such ordinary talk, does it not, in tho presence of the great, sweet Being, Who is saying, "Shut the door?" 1 must be alone with God; I must feci again my personal relationship to my Father; I must realize again that if there were only one being in t'ne world, and I were that being, while tho moral universe subsisted, still there must be a cross, still a Christ, still :. Gethsemane, still the morning or me ascension, sun the open sepiilcher. The only way to be rid of our enemies is to "shut the door." The real truth is that, ./hen the real crisos of life come, my only enemy is myself. This is the one I need to conquer. Here are passions, prejudices, hates, lusts. Oh, my friend, whatever vour gain or loss, realize this, that never until you shut the door -will you go into tlie presence of God; never until in secret prayer you are alono with your enemies. What can any man do to harm me, unless 1 harm myself? If ever you are tossed about upon seas of darkness, it will be because you neglected ' ? ?- - a? n nf] vniir tU ])Ut MKJ UUtUUl UU UUO.lv* .VWVA juu, ship is at the mercy of the waves. "Shut the door." After all the limitations of life that are serious are the limitations that, come to rs through loved ones. If there is one thins that a man needs, it is in some holy and grand way to be separated from these friends. I know of no other right, gentle and loving way but the way of prayer, and as I shut the door. Inside of that door I will never lose my power of friendship, my soul's friendship is real, lighting her altar fires for her friend, and when the prayer is ever and the door open my friendship will . A / I be tenderer and deeper and I shaU say, "My own, dear friend, I comf back to you with a friendship that is all divine. Thou art my friend. I ' have been inside where the door was shut." i I wonder where this door is to be found. I wonder, sometimes, when I try to have a secret moment in my own life, if there might not have been a second meaning in the word when He said: "I am the door." For surely there is nothing in this uni verse responsive enough; great cough to shut everything else out and to shut the soul in?great enough in tenderness?so that the slightest touch of an infant soul will "shut the door." Here is the authority of Jesus Christ. No one knew the world outside as He knew it; no one knows the world inside as He knows it; no one else will take my thoughts, my feelings, my soul; no one else can shut the world out and the soul in. Here is a man who has been trying to pray and shut the door as Jesus told him to do. It takes more intellect to shut that door than to write Hindustanee or Shakespeare; more character than to marshall an army and lead it to battle. No muscular power will do it; no intellectual refinement or process of philosophical investigation, no wealth. Ah, you will have to leave your wealth outside. "Shut the door." It is only the man in the grandeur'of his solitude, in the presence of God, when he means more to God than ever before, it is only then that finally he gets the door shut? just because Jesus is our entrance. He is the door. I realize, day by day, how finite He is when I touch Him; how infinite He is when He tniipViDO m a tvuvuvu UiV.. How about that past? There It jS. Nothing rankles more than man's past, that will lif: its head up and say: "Ah, here I am. Look at me. I know you. I have heard you pray before. Those hands, I know where they have been. That heart. I know how dark it is." Have you ever tried to shut the door against a past like that? Have you ever known what it is to have the past hiss and sting? Sometimes you think you have the door shut, but oh, how that past, that seemn a giant, fully armed, too big to get into the door, suddenly transforms, flattens itself out, lies like a serpent, and by and by you hear it wiggling at the door, hissing. Oh, I must have a door - accurately fitting, that whether the past slithers like a serpent or comes like a giant, I can shut that door. Oh, how at last the soul takes hold of one thing and severs ail from the past, and that one thing is Jesus Christ. I am interested in men's problems. Do you know anything that is interesting enough in this world to keep the past out, except Jesus Christ? Is there anything that so appeals to your interest that you actually turn your back upon the past and say: "I have a present. Thank God. I have a present. I am looking to Him who says, 'Follow Me.' He has never yet told us we have followed Him too far. Since He says that, and as long as my heart pulses and as long as my will keeps In harmony with Him, I have a future." Your past is out of doors; your present and your future here, simply because you have "shut the door." I tell you, brethren, the manliest, the grandest, the greatest thing you can do this morning is simply to accept Jesus Christ as the door into the communion. The door moves upon such hinges of love that you need but to say: "I am a sinner: I want to be alone with God," to start it moving?to get in, with the past outside. My friends I will look for them by and by. And my enemies? I want to conquer only one of them. I want to be alone. I will "shut the door." May God's holy Spirit, who is here this morning, quicken every heart. Get back this very day?now, and "shut the door." You need not be afraid that the world will lose anything. You will be a better man when you go out, with a whiter face, cleaner hands, a more loving and a braver '.eart. "Shut the door." Dcper.dence on God. Our heavenly Father keeps us constantly in the condition of uttermost dependence on Him. Were it otherwise with us how wanton would we become. Therefore, He writes the cpntpnr>p ni' rlpath linnn rmrsplvps. ami also upon our choicest temporal mercies?not that He always means to remove them, but to hold them as a special gift from Him; and, despairing of all succor but His own, that we should place our trust not on self, not on valued fellow-creatures, but on God, who can raise up to help us even the very dead (2 Cor. i: 8-10). He is considering our weakness, and our need, and our work; and in perfect wisdom and love has already arranged for the very best. How Christ Will Come. He will so, come in like manner as He has gone". We are not to water down such words as th^se with anything short of a return precisely corresponding, in its method, to the departure which was visible, corporeal, literal, personal, and local; bo, too, will be His return from Heaven to earth. And He will come as He went-, a visible manhood, only thronged, amiusi me ciouus 01 rieaven, wun power and great glory. This is the aim that He sets before Him in His departure; He goes in order that He may come back again.?Rev. Alexander Maclaren. The Only Hindrance. What hinders that you should be a child of God? Is not salvation free? Is no: the invitation to it hung out to you on every page of the New Testament? Is not Christ offered to you in all His offices, and are you not welcome to all His benefits if you want them? Is not the Holy Spirit :::-omi3ed t-> them that ask Him? Nothing can hinder you from being a Christian, but your own worldly, selfish, proud, obstinate, unworthy and self-righteous heart.-*Ichabod Spencer. The riacc oFr the Soul. A little girl who had just returned from church, was asked what the text had been. She replied: "I keep my soul on top." The father did not remember such a text, and inquired where it could be found. Eagerly the child took her Bible and pointed out the well-known passage where the apostle says, "I keep my body under." The child was a born commentator of the right sort. Take CJod With Us. To enjoy God and heaven it does not require that we wait till the last touch of death reveals all things >n the light of eternity. We may take God and heaven along with us every day, and carry their peace and glory into all the dull and prosaic scenes of earth.?Thomas Lathrop. While you have to walk to Heaven a little horse-sense will be a big help on the road. No Real Grievance. "I s'pose you're takln' a vacation?" "Yes,# and I've earned it, by ( George! it's the first time I've had * one for a year. Been working like , a horse for twelve lone months." , "You think that's tou^h, do you, . jnister? You don't know what hard luck is. If you had to hunt jobs, the way I do, you'd changc your tune. I've only had three months' work 'n? ( the last year." ( "Then you've had nii,e months' vacation, you lucky dog. What are you . kicking about?"?Chicago Tribune. , A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Burning Off Pai.nt Makes Insurance Void. It seems that considerable danger to property exists in the practice of burning off old paint before re-painting. The question has long been a subject of debate in the technical journals, and now house-holders and' .the newspapers have begun to discuss ! it. Those of us who, with trembling, ! have watched the painters blow a fiery blast from their lamps against our houses, and have looked sadly at the size of our painting bill because of the time wasted on this preliminary work, are interested in the investigation by the Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette and Courier, which gives considerable space to the reasons for the practice, questions its necessity and suggests ways to prevent the risk I of burning down one's house in order to get the old paint off. it says: "There is a good dual of discussion among house-holders as to^the desirability in painting houses, of burning off the old paint, a practice that has grown very common of late in Greenfield and elsewhere. Insurance men are strongly opposed to this method. It makes void insurance I policies for fires caused in this mani ner. Several houses in Greenfield j have gotten afire as the result of this I method, and in some places houses have burned as a result. "It is undoubtedly true that when a house has been painted over and over again there comes to be an accumulation of paint in bunches. If new paint is put on top of these accumulations it is almost sure to blister. To burn it off is the quickest : and cheapest and perhaps the surest ! method of getting rid of this old paint." The Gazette and Courier quotes I certain old patrons to the effect that | accumulations of paint are unnecesI sary. These old-timers lay the blame j partly on the painter who fails to i brush his paint in well, partly on the ! custom cjf painting in damp weather ; or not allowing sufficient time for | drying between coats, and partly to the use of adulterated paints instead i of old-fashioned linseed oil and pure : white lead. The paper says: "Many of tne oiaer nouse-noiaers I say that if care is taken at all these points, it is absolutely unnecessary to have paint burned off. They ad| yise that people who have houses | painted should buy their own materials, and to have them put on by the i day, so as to be sure to get good lead and oil. Of course the burning off j of paint greatly increases the cost I of the job." The trouble house-holders everyi where have with paint is pretty well summed up by oqr contemporary, and the causes are about the same every; where. By far the most frequent cause Of the necessity for the dangerous practice of burning old paint is the use of poor material. The oil should be pure linseed and the white lead should be real white lead. The j latter is more often tampered with j than the oil. Earthy substances, and ' pulverized rock.and quartz, are fre! quently used as cheapeners, to the / great detriment of the paint. Painters rarely adulterate white lead themselves and they very seldom use ready prepared paints?the most frequent causes of paint trouble. But they do often buy adulterated white lead because the property owner ineletc nn o ln-nr ami the Tiainter has to economize somewhere. The suggestion is therefore a good one that the property owner investigate the subject a little, find out the name ' of some reliable brand of white lead, j and see that the keg is marked with that brand. The linseed oil is more difficult to be sure of, as it is usually sold in bulk when the quantity is small; but reliable makers of linseed oil can be i learned on inquiry and, if your dealer ' is reliable, you will get what you want. Pure white lead and linseed oil are so necessary to good paint that the little trouble necessary to get them well repays the house owner in dol lars and cents saved. Serious Loss of a Matrimonial Broker There is trouble in Honan. A cer| tain gentleman, who besides his orJ dinary profession of storekeeper, is also a marriage Droner, naa mree beautiful young girls intrusted to his care for the purpose of finding them j husbands. The next day it came to ! the ears of some robbers, who j promptly raided the house, and at ; the point of a revolver carried off j the girls. The populace is indignant, j the parents are raving, and the poor | marriage broker is in terror of his life.?Shanghai (China) Times. J Pimples | on the Face > Those annoying and unsightly pimples that mar the beauty of face and complexion will soon disappear with the use of warm water and that wonderful skin beautifier, Glenn's Sulphur Soap Sold by all druggists. Hlll'a Hnlr and Whlaker Dye Black or Brovvn, SOc. PUTNAM Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any 0 dye any garment without rippisf apart. Vrjrlt* lQC S A Use For Silk Hats. A quantity of cast off clothing, says "Answers," which a charitable t society gave out for distribution among the poor of London, included ? several silk hats, which were soli 1 as nosebags for pedlers' donkeys. i The Dog Disappeared. 1 A New South Wales farmer went < out the other day, and tied his small dog to a fence. On his return he found a large carpet snake attached < to the end of the leash and no si?ns ( of the dog. . f Tiied, Nem MaKe Unhappy Homes?1 Both Husband and Ch of Mothers Have Bee Prostration and Made A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysterics, ia unfit to care for children; it ruins a child's disposition and reacts upon herself. The trouble between children and tlieir mothers too often is due to the fact that the mother has some female weakness, and she is entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that governing children involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. 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