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ffne gtorm and night is on the waste,
.Wild through the wind the herdsman
calls,
I&s fast on willing nag I hasto
Home to my own four walls.
Black, tossing clouds, with scarce a glimmer,
< Envelop earth like sevenfold palls;
Cut wifekiu watches, coffee-pot doth( simmer,
J Home in my own four walla,
!A. home and wife I too have got,
A hearth to blaze whate'er befalls;
{What needs a man that I have 'not
Within my own four walls?
King George has palaces of pride,
And armed grooms must ward thocs
halls;
(With one stout bolt I safe abide
U itQin my own ioui wans.
Not all his men may sever this;
It yields to friends, not monarch's calls;
iMy whins tone house my castle is,
I have my own four walls.
iWhen fools or knaves do make a rout
With gigmen, dinners, balls, cabals.
I turn my back and shut them out?
These are my own four walls.
The moorland house, though rude it be,
Mav stand the brunt when prouder falls;
Twill screen my wife, my books and me,
All in my own four walls.
?Thomas Carlyle.
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, ' i ofmuggsy!
I So if: happened tbat Muggsy and
Mary Ann, the waitress, became engaged.
Muggsy was to borrow some
money from a friend, and get a job,
and be married.
Now, it is hard for a burglarious
loafer to get a job. It is harder still
en * him fr, hnrmw mrkripv I3ut after
five days of tramping the streets and
visiting mills and factories and striking
old friends intermittently for pecuniary
aid, he obtained the promise
of work in a foundry, to begin the
following Monday, and a former "pal"
lent him $10 to begin housekeeping
with. So he was to be married on
Sunday.
It wa3 Saturday night, and Mary
Ann's fiance was strolling through
the streets, restless and happy. To)
morrow he would be married. It
seemed impossible, and yet there
could be no doubt of it.
Muggsy found himself staring vacantly
into a shop window. The shop
was closed, for it was late, and lights
in the window were dim. There were
three gilded balls over the door.
Then Muggsy's gaze fell upon a
tray of rings in the window, and he
started. The awful truth flashed upon
himr When people get married they
.use weddings rings! And he had forgotten
the ring.
He took only one ring; once he
would have taken the whole tray. He
.was triumphant, but he was in danger.
He ran quickly down the street
to a passageway he knew of leading
or> oiiotr nnrl thoTipo tn annthfir
' street, where he would be safe.
But suddenly a blue uniform
loomed up, and an excited voice ordered
the fugitive to stop. A pistol
shot added force to the command.
Muggsy was frightened. He darted
into the passageway, the patrolman
after him in full chase. A fence had
x been built there since last he came
that way, and he was cornered.
Muggsy was a man of peace. The
game was up, and he surrendered.
iWhen the turnkey searched him at
the police station he still had the
ring. It went into an envelope
marked "Exhibit A."
There was a big docket-In police
court on Monday morning. An endless
line of "drunks" shuffled out of
the reeking "bull pen" and stood,
nervously expectant, before the
bench, where the magnaimous Judge
O'Rourke dispensed fines and imprisonment
for the protection of society.
"Well, well!" ejaculated His
Honor, with a broad grin. "Not very
cneerxui mis muiuiug, iuusgsj'. >vuai.
Is it now, Mooney?"
"Burglary and larceny, Your Honor
?at 'is old tricks?smashed a jewelry
window an' copped a ring?a
.weddin' ring, too." The court officer
smiled indulgently, and the prosecuting
attorney inspected the ring, while
the clerk read the affidavit and the
spectators craned forward with interest?for
the prisoner had many
acquaintances present.
The proof was too easy. The prosecutor
yawned, and held up the ring
for the inspection of the court.
"Why didn't you take the rest?"
he asked. "This ain't worth much,
and there was a whole trayful."
"I didn't need any more," muttered
Muggsy.
"Didn't need any more?" repeated
the prosecutor, while the court attaches
and police reporters showed
signs of interest. "Then you confess
to the theft?" he shrewdly
added.
"Naw, I don't confess not'in'."
"Needed a wedding ring, did j-ou,
Muggsy?" queried His Honor, with a
smile that lit up the courtroom.
"Me? Naw."
"That reminds me." remarked
Lieutenant O'Hara. "We found a
marriage license in his clothes?Exhibit
B over there. It's got iis name
on, too, only he says it's for a cousin
as has the same name as he has, an'
. was to be married yesterday. I wonder?"
and while he was wondering,
a light suffused his massive face.
"No such weddin' in the sassiety
colyums," volunteered Mooney. "Why,
what you blushin' about, Muggsy?"
"You go to the devil," growled
Muggsy, who, now the centre of all
eyes, was really blushing for probably
the first time in his life.
Meanwhile a reporter was inspecting
the marriage license. He was a
tall, lean scribe, with a lazy, faraway
look, and wore an eternal stogie
1Q ills mourn, xie isaueu uvsi ll? lug
judge.
The judge handed the license to
the court officer.
"Is Mary Ann Evans here present?"
roared Mooney.
Muggsy jerked himself erect, his
square jaw set, his eyes flashing and
his fists clenched.
"Stop that, Mr. Officer!" he cried.
"I don't want that there name mentioned
in this p'lice court!" the
prisoner gasped.
_ The judge's bland sinhe had con
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gealed. The reporter critically pofsed
his stogie and emitted a low, thoughtful
whistle.
1 Then the spell was broken by a
commotion beyond the railing among
: the spectators, and a little figura
'vith carroty hair and freckled face
almost hidden beneath a faded shawl
darted past the officer at the gate and
stepped to the judge's bench. A
young lad about to follow her was
denied admittance.
Muggsy was abashed. His figure
slumped back to its normal posture,
and again he gazed at the floor.
"P-please, sir, I'm here," faltered
the figure under the shawl, while a
pair of greenish-yellow eyes roved
back and forth between judge and
prisoner.
"Are you Mary Ann Evans?" asked
His Honor.
"Y-yes. sir. And I came here this
mornin' because Jimmy?that's my
brother ? seen in the paper that
Muggsy was arrested, an' he said
they'd try him this mornin'. An' I
thought mebbe I could?do sumpin'
?fer 'im." Further elucidation was
interrupted by the necessity for stopping
a flow of tears with one corner
of her shawl.
"Is it this man, or his cousin, that
you were going to marry?" asked the
judge.
Mary Ann checked an impulse to
answer, and looked to the prisoner"
for guidance. Muggsy's eyes slowly
rose from -the floor, met hers, and
read their honest appeal. That look
shamed the duplicity out of him. He
stepped nearer the judge, while the
little group narrowed around the
affianced pair, and he addressed the
judge in a voice firm, but low, so that
the curiosity-mongers beyond the railing
could not hear:
"I'll tell ye the truth, yer Honor,"
he said, "an* it'll be the first time I
ever told it to ye. I lied w'en I said
the license was fer me cousin, an' I
lied about breakin' the windy by accident.
This little girl had promised
to marry me, yer Honor, an' the
weddin' was to 'a' been yesterday.
An' w'en I happened to think how I
didn't have no ring, an'*how I needed
one, and didn't have no money to
buy one, nor not'in', w'y I don't know
how it was, yer Honor, but I just
couldn't help fergittin' I'd reformed.
an." gittin' a ring tne oest way i
could. An' now* I s'pose I got to go
to the works again, an' I don't care
much, fer I don't spose Mary Ann'll
have anything to do with me now?
fer she's a decent, respectable girl,
yer Honor, an' not like me. Only I
don't know what she'll do, on account
of bein' out of a job, an' nobody
to take care of her. But it's all
up now, an' you might as well give
me the sentence right away, yer
Honor, fer there can't be no weddin',
an' my job's lost, an' it's no use,
I guess, tryin' to be decent."
"Well, in view of the circumstances,
I won't make it so long as I
otherwise would," began the judge,
as he resumed his judicial air. "It
will be "
But the reportorial face had suddenly
approached His Honor's ear,
and there was a quiet little conference,
in which the prosecutor presently
joined.
"It will be?ahem!"?resumed
His Honor, when the heads separated
?"three months and costs." He
paused, impressively. "And, in view
of certain extenuating circumstances
fha confar)ncx ic QiianonH.
ed during good behavior, and the fine
to be paid at the convenience of the
prisoner."
Muggsy stared stupidly.
"Go on!" said Mooney, nudging
him good naturedly. "No, not that
way," as the prisoner started back
toward the "bull pen." "Out here,
with your girl. You're free, as long
as you behave yourself. See?"?
New Orleans Picayune.
Unique Town.
A Philadelphia business man, during
the fine weather a few weeks ago,
decided to make a horseback tour of
Maryland. After being out for a
few days he was struck with the
number of towns in that State which
had claim to historic interest. The
principal brag of the various villages
through which he passed was that
Washington at one time or another
had been a guest of the leading citizen,
or that the first President had
spent the night at the local tavern.
The claims of the Marylanders be
came so monotonous to the Philadelphian
that when one evening, after
a long day's ride, he was about to
dismount from.his weary horse, he
noticed opposite the hotel that he
had picked out an ornate bronze tablet
with the name "President Washington,"
in big, raised letters on it,
he was moved to ridicule. Turning
to the proprietor, who was standing
near the curbstone, he said: "You
Maryland people make me tired with
your everlasting claim to have been
visited by Washington. Why, every
town I have been in lately was once
his home." With a quiet smile, the
hotel man told his prospective patron
to read the inscription on the tablet,
'which, much to the visitor's astonio^monl
"TUie fVi a nnltr fnn'n
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in Maryland that President Washington
never visited."?Philadelphia
Record.
Etiquette in London Clnbland.
In some of our ultra exclusive
clubs it is a serious breach of etiquette
for one member to speak to i
another without obtaining a cere- :
monious introduction beforehand. 1
A painful case has just occurred
in a certain old-established and ex-,
tremely respectable Pall Mall caravanserie.
It appears that a newly
joined member, in callous defiance,
of custom, ventured the other after-;
noon to make a remark about the:
weather to a gentleman with whom'
he was not personally acquainted.
The recipient of this outrage glared
stonilv at its nernetrator.
"Did you presume to address me,
sir?" he demanded, with an awful1
frown. 5
"Yes, I did," was the defiant reply.
"I said it was a fine day." The
other digested tha observation ,
thoughtfully. i
Then, after an impressive pause, J
he turned to its bold exponent^
"Well, pray don't let it occur again,1 (
he remarked, as he buried himsell
once more in his paper. ?London
Chronicle.
HEAD OF THE S
CHIEF JUSTICE MELVII
Ship With a Hundred Paddles.
An entirely new idea in the propelling
mechanism of vessels has been
patented by a Massachusetts man. A
glance at the illustration will suffice
to show the theory of his invention.
Many sucn scnemes iook gooa on
paper, but a practical demonstration
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Is always necessary to prove their
worth. This mechanism is located
amidships in a vessel and below tiie
keel, and consists of numerous paddles
working in sprocket wheels.
These paddles do not extend at each
lide of the vessel, but are located
ithin the interior in pairs. To se
ure the greatest efficiency of propul- I
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First Precarious Person (to Sec o
I'll 'it yer wiv me "ammer."?Sketch.
Famous Centenarian.
Manuel Garcia, who died recently
at the age of one hundred and one
j'ears, was famous not only as a
teacher of singing, but as an acci
lental contributor to the profession ]
)f medicine. In order to study the J
. ocal cords as the instrument upon
vhich he taught his pupils to play, he
nvented the laryngoscope. This in- i
itrument in improved form Js in the i
'ifinrts of every throat specialist.
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sion, the paddles are set at an angle
with the bottom of the boat, so that
when they are doing service in the
orator their gnhmpropil nnrHnnB will
incline toward the bow of the vessel.
This will tend to raisS the how
as the vessel is propelled, the paddles
leaving the water freely and with
less tendency to retard the progress
of the vessel as they leave the water.
The great number of paddles engaging
the water at the same time, the
Inventor claims, will give such constant
and advantageous hold upon
the water that the propelling power
is exerted to the greatest advantage
and attainment of speed.
A Certain Sandwich Man.
At the noon hour a prominent Wall
Street banker was hurrying "out of
his office when he suddenly stopped
upon noticing a man across the
street, and tipped his hat very respectfully.
/ The man was carrying
a sandwich board emblazoning the
merits of a near-by quick-lunch parlor,
and looked altogether seedy. A
friend of the banker, who had observed
the momentary performance,
started to guy him. "Who's your
friend?" he asked. "He is a man I
have considerable respect for," was
the reply. "He was once a prosperous
citizen down here, and worth several
hundred thousand. He lost
everything, and finally had to come
to this.. Even the best of us are liable
to go the same way, you know,
and that is why I am not afraid to
be respectful to a once brilliant
man."?New York Correspondence
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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nd Ditto)?"Le'go me legs, Bill, or
When Garcia's friends celebrated his
hundredth anniversary, art, music
and medicine united to honor him.
John Chinaman.
I have just received the following
quaint story from a reader who is apparently
unperturbed by the recent
earthquake. A lady in San Francisco
engaged a Chinese cook. When the
Celestial came, among other things
she asked him his name.
"My name," said the Chinaman,
smiling, "is Wang Hang Ho."
"Oh, I can't remember all that,"
>aiu uie lauy. i win uuu juu junu.
John smiled all over and asked:
"What your namee?"
"My name is Mrs. Melville Langion."
"Me no memble all that," said
lohn. "Chinaman he no savey Mrs.
Membul London. I call you Tommy."?Tatler.
Nearly 70,000 tons of cork are
needed for the bottled beer and
aoratoH wflfprQ pnncnmpd nnniiflllv in
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Roads and the Automobile.
Bicycles did not a little toward
(creating a general appreciation of
and desire for good roads, and they
would have done more had it not
been for the mysterious blight which
fell upon the popularity of those
very able little machines just when
they seemed about to become an essential
and permanent part of civilized
life. But the task which the
bicycle only began the more efficient
automobile has taken up, and now
it really looks as if a long-standing
disgrace to the country, the condition
of its roads, was soon to receive
serious consideration. Of course, It
needs nothing else to be remedied,
for the question of good roads is one
with only a single side, and when the
arguments are heard actions must be
taken.
It would be a mistake to assume
that the automobilists are more interested
in the improvement ol highways
than other people. The farmers,
for instate, suffer much more,
in pocket at feast, from bad roads
than do the automobilists, but both
the expense and the- personal inconvenience
fall so directly upon the
automobilists that the latter are
moved to "do something," w^ile the
farmer can and does forget how rapidly
bad roads wear out "his horses
and his wagons, and he has not been
taught to number the hauling of big
loads with a small expenditure of
energy among the possibilities o?? his
life.
Even for the automobilist good
roads have some advantages to which
he has paid little cr no attention.
He knows what a difference it makes
to the machine he now has whether
highway grades are easy or steep,
and whether the road surface is
smooth and hard or rough and soft,
hut it has not been noted by many
of the fraternity that it is the lowpower
machine that profits most by
- g09d roads?that is turned by them
from an unsatisfactory vehicle, frequently
stalled and barred from many
routes, into one in many ways as efficient
for practical purposes as the
big cars. And low power means a
comparatively small original investment,
simpler engines, smaller con
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surnpuuu ul iuki, auu <x mamuu uccreaae
in bills for repairs.
Good roads would.therefore enormously
increase the number of people
who could afford to have automobiles?of
people, therefore who
would buy and use them. And it
would be much for the advantage,
even of those to whom the cost of
the best of the present machines is
dot prohibitive, if machines much less
expensive could come into something
like common use. The greater the
number of automobllists the less are
they a "class" to be viewed enviously
and hostilely and the less will they
be bothered by needless and irritating
regulations.?New York Times.
Road to Adirondacks.
A preliminary survey has been
made for macadamized roads, such as
are built by the State, through the
heart of the Adirondacks from Old
Forge to Blue Mountain. The general
plan proposes that the road shall
start from New York City, proceed
thence to Albany, to Utica, Remsen,
Old Forge and Fourth Lake. The ,
road will then follow the northern
phores of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
lakes to Blue Mountain.
The scheme is to return by way of
North Creek to some point on Lake
(Jeorge, and thence to Albany and
New York, the starting point. The
circuit will include all of the Fultonchain
of lakes and nearly all the
Adirondack and other resorts en
f-oute. It 1st said that this improved
highway will be built from the $50,OOOjOOO
fund recently voted by the
(State for highway improvements and
new State roads. There will be comparatively
little to do in the way of
hew road building between Utica and
New York, as much of that distance
jias already been covered by the State,
but the improvement along this
ptretch will be eitensive. The road
from Utica to Old Forge will be lm
proved by widening and macadamizing.
Then through the Adirondack
Mountains, where the course follows
the highway, the road will be improved,
but for the most part the
road will be new.?Utica (N. Y.)
Correspondence of The Automobile.
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Improving Highways.
Massachusetts is maintaining her
very enviable reputation of progressiveness
by adopting a policy of improving
the State highways by means
of shade tree planting. During the
past year, according to a recent report
of the Massachusetts Highway
Commission over 3200 trees were
planted along the various State roads,
the varieties being restricted principally
to Norway, white and sugar
maples and a considerable portion of
the different kinds of native elms.
Vaporizing Iron.
Henri Moissan, the French chemist,
has recently continued his exnorimfints
in the distillation, with
the electric arc, of various metals
and metalloids. He conclndes, as the
result of these researches, that there
exists no known substances which
cannot be distilled in our laboratories.
The ebullition of iron is very
difficult to produce, yet Moissan has
distilled 400 grams of iron in twenty
minutes with an electric current of
1000 amperes at a pressure of 110
volts. In all cases the vapors of the
metals condense in the form of a
crystalline dust, possessing all the
chemical properties of those metals
when reduced to the form of powder.
Moissan's experiments throw light
on the probable temperature of the
sua, where iron and the other chemical
elements exist in the state of
vapor. The maximum temperature
of the electric arc is about 3500 degrees
Centigrade. But, owing to
the greater pressure produced by
gravitation on the sun, it is probable
that the temperature of ebullition of
the elements there is higher than on
the earth.
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Athletics Make Girls Grow.
The head mistress of a girls' school
at Tunbridge Wells. England, has
found it necessary to have the height
of the school desks considerably in- (
creased. She says that owing to the
influence of athletics on the modern
girl desks which were high enough
ten years ago are now much too low.
Anchors For Auto Veils.
Mrs. W. has solved the problem of
keeping her automobile veil' ends
from flying all about her face. She
has them bunched up into little rosettes
and finished with erolf hnlHnn
tassels, which act as anchors and pre- !
vent these flimsy tails from floating
about .her hat like the pennants on a 1
yacht.
There Were No Waifs.
Face to face with the fact that '
there was no one in Grand Rapids to
eat the nice Thanksgiving day dinner
they had provided, the twenty-five
young women who compose Mrs. R. (
S. McCudry's class in the Wealthy
Avenue Baptist Church sat down and ,
cried. -It was not a happy Thanksgiving
for them.
, They had planned to give a dinner ,
to twenty-five or thirty waifs, and ;
Mr. Colegrove, of the Rescue Mission,
had contracted to furnish the waifs.
The dinner was cooked and spread
when he informed them he could find .
no children who were not eating .
Thanksgiving dinners at home or [
were not otherwise already provided !
for.?Detroit Free Press.
Collectors of Fans.
Mrs. L. has a. weakness for fans. .
She never carries one, but that-is
probably because she thinks a really ]
beautifully specimen should be ;
looked upon as a work of art and not
as a breeze stirrer. She has a col- }
lection of fans in her drawing room ;
on Fifth avenue worthy of a place in (
a museum, for it contains some of the ]
rarest examples of old' French fans ,
of the time of Watteau; point lace 1
fans which hail from England, carved ]
ivory ones from China, sandal wood ,
fans that breathe the spiced air of \
the Orient, fans from every part of
the world and almost every age.
They are kept in glass cabinets, and
6ome are so old, so frail from years,
that they have been mounted in fan
ahaped frames made of drmolu, with 1
glass, back and front, so that their '
beauty may not be hidden.?New '
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Astonishing Morning Costume.
Miss G. is a beauty, with an enor- 1
mous fortune, a devoted family of
brothers and sisters and a host of
friends, but she has one fault, they
all agree, and that is over-dressing.
>j3he came into town from her country
home the other day in a cerise broadcloth
princess frock, embroidered in
self-color and appliqued with a cutout
design of the cloth. Her hat was
of cerise felt,'with a large, curling
plume of a darker shade on one side,
and was draped with one of the new
fashioned black lace veils, the dotted
centre variety, with deep fioweted
border. It was bunched up in the
back oi the neck and held in place
there with a diamond clapp. She
wore a high, gold dog collar, studded
with diamonds, black pumps,
with gilt leather heels, and carried
a gold mesh handbag, incrusted with
brilliants. And all this in the morning.?New
York Tribune.
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Princess of Wales Knits.
Because of her demotion to her children,
the Princess of Wales is called
^n "old fashioned" mother, to distinguish
her from the smart set
mothers who regard their offspring
as a bore.
Whenever it is possible she takes
her youngsters with her. They are
oh the scene at many public functions
where the Princess figures, and,
being uhable to take them to the
pourts at Buckingham Palace, she inyariably
visits their rooms before
starting. j
The Princess has imparted her love
of needlework to her little daughter j
Princess Victoria, who sews and j
knits quite nicely. The Princess of
Wales is hardly ever without a piece
of knitting. It is a joke against her
that she took her knitting with her c
on her honeymoon, and even while
visiting country houses now she knits *
in the drawing room after dinner. *
Women Clerks of Long Service.
In the executive departments in
Washington, where the business of
the Government is carried on, there
is no belief in the Osier theory as
far as the women clerks are concerned.
Several of the mo3t valued
ones working for the Secretary of
State passed three score and ten
long ago. Mrs. Eliza Grldley, mother
of the man who commanded the
Olympia at the battle of Manila, is
almost eighty, yet she holds a most
responsible position in the general
land office, and knows more about
records and land law than any six
clerks in the department.
Miss Mason, who is nearing the
same age, is a pillar of strength to
seekers for information in the library
of war records. She is the
daughter of a former Minister to
France. In the Department of Justice
are women nearing seventy, s
some of them wives and daughters of c
former judges, who work faithfully i
and intelligently, and who are ^
prized more highly than the younger
wom^ii who compose the greater j
working mass in the departments.? l
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American Girls in Paris.
A conspicuous article published
this week on Americans in Paris
gives the impression that there is a (
city full of them scattered on Mont t
Parnasse, about the Place Vendome t
and around the Arc de l'EJtoile. The i
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can women find it to live here. Ho
makes the remarkable statement that
statistics show that in four years 15 2: ^
American heiresses have come here '
bringing $240,000,000.
Paul Bourget, writing to-day in Gil
Bias on American women, says the
French can never understand that
wise innoosace of American girls
which was illustrated in the remark
of\ one of them' to him that the rea- * , '
3on that a certain woman's husband
had gone astray was that his wife X
lid not know how to manage him
and the other woman knew how to be
3eductive.
M. Bourget asked a diplomat to
explain this characteristic of Ameri- can
girls. The diplomat answered > - :
that they have a chaste depravity.1
M. Bourget calls the answer severe.
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York Sun.
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Miss Giulia Morosini's calculation. yjM
of the necessities of a smart,New,
York woman in the matter of dress, "y
which are reproduced here, led to - ?
Inquiries of fashionable West End' ' ;
tradesmen for the purposes of comparison.
These show that the most
extravagant English woman in London
spends less than, one-third of 4
Miss Morosini's estimate.
The English woman is content ^$8
with fifty gowns costing $500 apiece.
Instead of 100 costing double that ^
amount. Her lingerie costs just one- ' \ V:?j
fourth of what Miss Morosini's does,
tier furs one-half and her shoes one- - ?-^1
tenth, while her miscellaneous ex- v
penditure is placed '* $15,000, instead
of $45,000i
The rich French woman, it is said, - rarely
spends large sums on clothes,.
Her natural taste and quick eye en- v ' Viable
her to seize the simplest ideas
and evolve a masterpiece therefrom.; '. - "g
[f the fashionable shops on the Rue
3e la Paii in Paris had fr depend on' .
French customers they v?,ould have to
ilose their doors in a mOnth. It is
the Americans, Brazilians, English, ;
Italians, Russians and some Germans '
who keep them going.?London Let- P&M
ter to the Nes York Sun.
Society's Newest Fad.
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blue stocking. London's society,
woman has a fantastic mental palate;] 0r;
she demands change and novelty. As ^
jne leader was overhead to say, "No
Dne plays bridge* now." Of course, ~'v$
everybody, i. e., the grande dame
who can think for herself, must have *
jomething else to fill the hours deroted
to bridge for several years. [Kf
And she has decided to be Intelectual;
Mile. Scialtlel, a talented and ?
rery attractive French woman, haa
)een selected as guide and Victor. x
3ugo as the subject in this Intejlec- :
;ual flight.. The first "causerie" took'
jlace the other-f&ay at Claridge's un- >~i
ler most distinguished patronage, a*
:ountess, vlscoui^eqig^ baroness and
jaronet's lady and* some of the lesser.
ank giving the cachet of their names ''
)f course, the talk was ip French,
md it was rather noticeable that the ?.*&
adies of Mayfair are a little?Ju?t a
ittle?rusty in their French. No
loubt in a few months, when the fad:
lad percolated to the lower strata of
iociety, French will become a really % i'31
second tongue in London.' There is
low a fear that in place of the some;ime3
extremely poor music with1 ' 1
vhich a hostess tortures her guests
:or the .hour after dinner society may?
lave to endure recitations from
3ugo, de Musset and other Gallic1
poets delivered in very insular.'
Trench. But even an intellectual fad + A
s better than everlasting bridge.?Philadelphia
Record. t
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Crochet covered and braid buttons
ire very popular.
There are some combinations of *
jrown and black that are particulary
modish.
A little V of white velvet at the ^
hroat is a becoming touch upon one
)f the dark, iong haired fur coats.
The style of decorating with short
)its of braid or velvet straps terminiting
in fancy buttons permits many.
variations.
The soft draped tam crown of velvet
or jetted lace is in evidence upon
iome of the smart millinery models
>f the season. 1
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Those with whom the poppy design
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s a iavorue win uuu mauj imei/i
ines among the silver gift things of
he season.
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In new skirts there is a decided
ireference for length of line effectid
by pleats, panels, etc., in place of
ound ard round trimmings.
There is no hard and fast rule as v:
o hair dressing now, and consequenty
everybody is at liberty to select
he most becoming fashion.
Fancy buttons made by sewing
fathered lace to cover moulds, and
entered by a jet or steel nail head .jl
>r a colored bead, ornament many
ostumes.
Hats of fur are expensive in themelves,
and though they do not reluire
a great deal of trimming, it
nifst be of a quality to correspond
vith. the fur foundation.
While gray and tan gaiters with ^
>atent leather shoes are not in the
east unusual, white ones are a little
nore so; however, they are very stylsh
and make a stunning finish for a
Iressy black costume.
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Wurtemburg is the fruit centre of Jermany.
The last count showed'
hat it had 8,250,000 apple and pear
rees of tke 78,000,000 in the em-j
>ir?.
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