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r~" | I vr??????????? ' IA BE!D| p . o \ BY HLLA MIDDL Author of :'The Smuegler," f. O ALL RIGHTS | ? ^ Copyright. :930 by 3. R LIPPINCC ! CHAPTER IV. 5 Continued. * - I paused suddenly. She had bent forward until her forehead nested on the back of a cliair and her shoulders shook suggestively. I had an uncomfortable idea that Julia Smith was crying and I was responsible. So I believed apologies incumbent and reluctantly approached. "I'm sorry," I began. "I hope I have not offended you, but " She turned and raised her veil. Julia Smith was really very pretty, and the eyes that looked at me so reproachfully were like wet violets. i but it was not for this reason I I paused so abruptly. On the third finger of her left hand I had seen a signet ring I k*if;w intimately. In facv, it was my own, and she wore it with a c*. mness vhat was staggering. I was quite sure, for in addition to my crest there was the , l: . little bit chippsd off the corner where , \ Randy had cccidentally hit it with the poker on one memorable occaEjk.r.' sion. , , "Well," she prompted "you were !# Baying " i But the cficer returned, and I , *ald no more. His preoccupied man- , r'i ner led me to think that something . i-V* snore serious than our unfortunate * ' complication bad been reported, and , / the Hasty conclusion or our examination confirmed this belief. . "Do I understand, madam," he ( *. said, "that you claim you were merely on your way to church to marry this man?" 1 ' Then did Julia Smith amply re- . vengc herself for any lack of chiv- j BfeV alrv on ray part. ] "I marry that?" she said, and i made no further comment. \ v Well, we were finally disposed of after fruitless telephoning on my :. part?not even Mrs. Stubbs respond!ng. My companion was entrusted to K*'t - the matron, and we were promised we ^ micht ape each other aeain in the i morrV<g, in tbe presence of a witness. Z-j, For my own part, I hoped we might never meet again, and I have no doubt Julia Smith entertained the same sentiments. At any rate, she , . looked them. I passed a restless night, and as Boon as nossible in the morning de- 1 tnanded the papers. Startling black - headlines confronted me, and I read . them twice without comprehending them. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF j * MISS HARRIET SCHUYLER , ICOCt. PLAY S17KPECTID. j "i ST7PPOBED MURDERER, STANFORD DE , COURSEY STARi.. STARR TS MISS1MO. . I rubbed my eyes and lead again, , . only to discover that though Starr - himself was missing, one H. D. Casey, ( " KMtiinnlilti lito oooAtnnlioo Txrac n 1 WIV0U1UUUIJ iiio UVVW?ULIilV.V, I* MM Ml / ^ V ready in custody. Shorn of padding the facts were simply these: s Miss Harriet Schuyler, a maiden lady of uncertain years, had left the . house of a relative about four o'clock, In the best of health and intending to return to dinner. She had gone to the rooms of a nephew she had not ! seen for some years, intending to surprise him, and had a black bag. Said bag also contained another par- , . eel which she appeared to value greRlly, but her friends did not know .what was in it. When she failed to return they became anxious, and, finding the telephone of no avail, had sent to the address she had given. She was not 1 there. ! She had been seen by Mrs. Stubbs. the wife of the janitor, ascending the ' stairs that led to Starr's room, but ! Mrs. Stubb3 had not seen her come ( out again. All that day, however, ! Mrs. Stubbs had noticed signs of agitation amcng the young men who rented the top floor and had suspect- \ ed that something was wrong. She had never entirely approved of them, tout up to the present time they had done nothing actually reprehensible {(so far as she knew), beyond being very uncertain with the rent and frivolous of manner. She did not think they ever went to church. I laid down the paper with my brain whirling. After a while a picture slowly separated itself from the chaos of my mind. It was the old lady I had collided with when I ran down-stairs that memorable night. I seemed to hear her labored bieathing as she climbed heavily upward and to feel the soft velvet of her cloak as my uana oru*nea against it. Again I read the article, and noted the number of the house from which she had come. "It is not possible." I ejaculated. But in my heart I knew Aunt Harriet hud gone to sec "Eertie," hoping ^o surprise him. And Starr was missing. CHAPTER V. Casey told me about it when he came to see me tbnt morning. Or at least he told me all he knew, embellished with many unnecessary comments. As he was decidedly out of temper at the time, I will repeat only what actually happened and ignore his private opinions, which don't matter anyhow. It seems that Ferguesson went out Immediately after I Cud, apparently in great naste, ana Casey was left in solitary possession of oi!r living room. He was just prcpRrinc1: to light bis pipe when some one knocked; this knock was repeated twice before he i troubled himself to answer, then, , -expecting Mrs. Stnbb?, he simply growled. "Come In." He w&k naturally surprised, therelore. when a strange woman opened the deer :??d wit iked iu. Casey said <*h-" wok a very imposing personage with several chins, and <]r*s?eti in nurple velvet. She asked L - ^ ^ OR rASLY.I ? a ETON TYBOUT, ' "PoUetown People," Eto. ( RESERVED. | TT COMPANY. Philadelphia, Pa. J t Al t t for Starr, then before he had time \ to answer gave a sort of screech and I said: s "Oh, I've left my bag in the cab." * With that she turned and lumbered down-stairs again, and he followed, s reaching the first landing just as ' she went out the front door. There c he paused and waited to see if she c would come back, not knowing just r what was expected of him. Sure * enough, she did come back, and be 13 heard her interviewing Mrs. Stubbs, evidently in a state of great excite- >' ment; he also heard Mrs. Stubbs proffering the public telephone in the 1 lower hall, and* instructing her as to which door ou the upper landing led * to Starr's room. Casey said that at this point he E retreated, stepping softly that the stairs might not creak. He heard s them creaking loudly, however, a 0 little later, and a knock at Starr's d door; he also heard the door open and * shut and a murmur of voices. Being, e as he said, a person who always at- P tended strictly to his own business, 0 thank God, he had heard noj more. D He had gone alone to the vaudeville and had come home, expecting we should all drop in as usual, but in- a stead found the house ia an uproar b and our rooms swarming with police. "And," he continued, "when I read the morning paper and saw that 'H. D. Casey' had been arrested as an v accomplice, I knew right away it was P Dne of you and came to see which.? "Where is Starr?" I asked. "I don't know; I wish I did. I'm a troubled, Billy, and I think you've 1 all lost your wits. The old lady went Into his room, that's certain. fI might hope I was mistaken, but one glove r ivas on the table and a feather on the floor." "A feather?" "Yes, a white one. From her bon- f net. they said." "It's preposterous," I said. "Why, j the very idea " "Yes," agreed Casey; "of course. ^ But why doesn't he show up? He must have seen the papers. I know it's preposterous?but it's queer." Tf woo* T nftii 1 r? r?r\+ /lonv if Wo sat in silence a moment, then my own g unpleasant predicament became up- ^ permost in my mind, and I broached the subject of bail. j( "No go," said Casey. . t "Why not?" p "They won't accept it. You see, ^ rou're mixed up with this thing also, u in account of the cab and the black c bag. And I must say, Billy, accord- ^ ing to your own story, you've been a c precious fool, to say the least. What Jo you want to go cavorting around 0 in cabs and eloping with strange wo- v men for?" I answered this question by an- p Dther, as the least embarrassing mode ^ >f reply. f, "What does Randy think about it ill? You haven't mentioned him." j, 'I don't know," returned Casey. 'He's missing too." "What?" * Casey threw up his hands with a h Tncfnro r?ocnQlr "Oh, yes," he said: "you're all p missing, and you've all gone clean irazy, as far as I can see. You and n Starr mixed up in a police row, and t! Flandy gone?vanished and left no tl ;ign. I'm not sure that I am not fi about ready for a lunatic asylum my- > self." f( The opening of the door prevented s my replying, and a rustle of skirts s' caused us both to rise involuntarily. My heart went down into my boots, t: and I felt the blood mounting uncomfortably to m:* face, as Mrs. Joseph C Robinson confronted us with majestic scorn. Aunt Josephine had no need o for mere words to tell us what she thought, for it was written large all over her. Nevertheless, she spoke, and, to my astonishment, she ignored me completely anG addressed e Casey. v "So here you are," she said. ii He could not contradict so obvious a a fact, so he merely bowed. Casey e was not graceful; apparently he sim- e nlv undid a hinee in his back and let li himself down, then closed it up again, ? Mrs. Robinson continued. I "I shall not at present tell you my f opinion of your conduct, nor what I o think of your shameless abuse of my p hospitality. For shameless it is." c Again Casey undid the hinge. He a has since told me that it was the n only thing he could think of at the a time, so he did it at intervals during u the conversation and felt like a joint- I ed doll. a "No," said Mrs. Robinson; "this ^ is no place for flTfc to linger, although a under the circumstances, it seems to r be most suitable for you. I have come to demand my niece." 14 v nn Ix* rro tro tt? r> tr o t? rl iuj aurco ouuuciiij ? u? , anu I collapsed upon the nearest chair, quite unnoticed, for Casey bowed again and Mrs. Robinson glared fiercely. "I have come," she repeated, "to demand my niece." "I haven't got her," returned Casey, goaded to retort. "Falsehood and equivocation are useless. Mr. Casey. My niece, my own niece, is incarcerated in this place under the name of Julia Smith. Foolishly romantic she may be, but 1 know she is not an accomplice in your crime, for a Welles was never yet a criminal. So 1 have come to take her home." t "Very kind in you. j'm sure," re- t marked Casey. "There is no place : like home, is there?" ( This flippancy was so displeasing to t Aunt Josephine that for the first time c she deigned to acknowledge my presence. "Mr Leigh." she said, "T cannot t congratulate you upon your choice of J associates but I am suie von did not t ealize what you were doing when ou brought this man to my house." I murmured something unintelli;ible and waited for more. "Is it not sad." remarked Mrs. tobinson, indicating Casey with an ccusing finger, "to see one so calous?" "Sad indeed," I agreed. I was beginning to realize that Casey's name, not mine, had figured n the papers, when she turned to he door. "I am informed," she said, "that his misguided young man will be aken to prison this morning?there o languish and, I hope, repent. We vill leave him to his reflections, and , at least, will pray for him, for at ome time in his career he must have lad a mother." Casey did not attempt to deny this, ind I said nothing, being occupied nth an"idea that had suddenly ocurred to me. It was a desperate hance, but for Nancy's sake I would isk anything, and the knowledge hat she had not returned to the touse filled me with forebodings. "Will you allow me to see you to our carriage?" I airily inquired. 'And perhaps I may be of some furher service to you." "Hold on, there!" ejaculated Casey, iut we both ignored him superbly. "TKonir ?nn \Tr T.piVh! von are x uaun j vu | m* ?-^ - ? -? Qost kind." She knocked on the door as she poke, and it was opened from withut. . I could see that the officer on uty was not one I had encountered he night before, and was therefore normously relieved. Mrs. Robinson iassed out and I followed, Casey'B vercoat on my arm and his hat in jy hand. "Good-by, Casey," I said aloud. Think it over and try to take my dvice about making the best of a ad matter. Good-by." I caught a glimpse of Casey standag with his mouth open, but speech-** J T ass, men me uuur swuug iu ouu j. r&s free?free to come and go as I leased, for a while at least, and to o what I could toward unravelling he snarl that seemed to enmesh us 11; free to look for Nancy, and when found her But Mrs.. Robinson was speaking. "As soon as I see my niece I am eady, Mr. Leigh." I came back to earth with a dull hud. "Mrs. Robinson," I began impresively, for I did not wish to be conTented by Julia Smith, "I assure ou that your niece is not here. I? happened to see the young woman, nd I am quite certain about it. She as red hair and does not in the least esemble Miss Welles." Aunt Josephine wavered. "If you are quite sure " "I am absolutely certain," I assevrated, edging toward the door, for he open air looked good to me. Somehow it was done. Unchal snged, I went from the police staion in the wake of Mrs. Robinson, assing respectful officers, one of rhom kindly held the door open for s, and out to the street, where n arriage waited at the curb. Never efore had cobblestones and trolleyars appealed to my sense of the eautiful, but to-day they seemed the pen sesame to all that made life rorth living. I held the carriage door open, inpatient to get away from a nieghbcrood where danger certainly lurked or me. "Please get in," said Mrs. Robason. "I want to talk to you." I obeyed, wondering what next. "Mr. Leigh," she began at once, I am in great, trouble. My niece as eloned." I could think of no appropriate rely, so I remained silent. "She went last night, leaving a ote for me. I supposed, of course, he man was Mr. Casey. When I read he papers this morning I was horMed and went at once to get her, low I am more troubled than ever, or not only am I ignorant of where he is, but I do not know with whom he went." Neither did I, and I also was very roubled. I hazarded a question. "Did she?Miss Welles?say it was lasey?" Mrs. Robinson drew a crumpled bit f paper from her muff. To be Continued. Novels as Serials. Book buyers and collectors 01 first ditions will be interested in the reival of the practice of issuing novels a monthly parts. Fifty or sixty years p-n thp nmrtirp was rnmmnn enrnieh: aost of the popular works of the arly Victorian novelists were so pubished and the appearance of installents of Thackeray in yellow and of )ickens in green was eagerly looked orward to by hundreds of thousands f readers. If a story really arouses iublic interest, this method of puliation is very profitable to the author .nd the publisher, but it is by no aeans certain that the production of ny living writer will rival the popilarity of any of the classic novelists. >erhaps the only author likely to ;chieve success in monthly guise is Villiam F. de Morgan, whose style pproximates that of the early Victoian writers.?New York Sun. Signal Fligs. Signalling by ftygs, as the term Is low universally understood, was in rented in the year 1854 by Surgeon flyer, of the United States Army. Beore Surgeon Myer's invention the >nly flag signaling was by color, but ealizing the inadequacy of such a node of conveying information. Dr. flyer studied out the system of "wigvagging." or talking by making moions with the flag, a sort of deaf and lumb telegraphy, which has since >een adopted by pretty nearly all the lations of the world. Letter to Santa. Note to the philanthropists from he Oakley (Kan.) Graphic: "One housaDd four hundred and ninety, line dollars dropped in our stockiDS Christmas night would enable us to my a linotype. We have saved the )ther dollar in the last four years." A New York man who ate sixty juckwheat cakes and two pounds of :ausage said he would have done beter if he had beex1 hungry. / i " . * "Tr.1' A model electric engine, built by 1 Thomas Davenport, a poor black- i imith of Brandon, Vt., and operated t )n a small circular .track in 1834,, i orobably was the first electric railway j !n the world. ' 1 To prevent operators of small ma- ] chines driver, by electric motors for- i setting to turn off the current when 1 chey leave them, a mat containing a i switch has appeared in the market. When an operator steps from the mat ] i che circuit is broken. Two surgeons, F. B. and C: C. 1 Guthrie, propose the use of human ' hair for sewing up wounds, particu- i larly in blocd vessels. Experiments < made with such sutures upon a dog proved highly successful. 1 "No substunce that refuses to dis- * solve in water has an odor," says a writer. "For it is the actual sub- 1 stance itself, floating in particles in 1 the air, that appeals to the nose, and 1 not simply a vibration of the air, as 1 in the case of light and sound. The Samper a thing is the more powerful i the odor it gives off. A pleasant proof of the fact can be had by walking in a garden after rain." A new system of treating eggs so as to prevent them from growing stale when in cold storage has been I discovered in Rochester. This consists in subjecting the eggs to an elec- i trical current. The theory is that 2ggS wuen p.iaueu iu swiagc a. ^ alive and are gradually frozen to ieath, whereas if the life is destroyed by an electrical current before they ire placed in storage they do not taste stale, even when kept on ice for a long period. The shore of the sea permits the study of more than the poet's horizon Dr tinted shell. There are tiny animals that live and move among the plants of the sea, and these may be observed clinging to any favorable jcean object. "A small fragment of bark, streaming with fine plant-like growths," s?.ys Howard J. Shannon, In Harper's, is cut from the waterworn timber:? which the receding tide oas exposed; and this apparently insignificant fragment, populous with j junous me, is piaceu in a gmtse < water beneaih the microscope . . . Veritable miniature forests appear, gndless vislas open, teeming with curious interest and populated by creatures more strange and more wonderful than any the imagination ian conceive." BHOtimaMiMMNMiatia I The Evolution of a 2 ? Gentleman. 5 ? MaaieianeMCMiiMMvoci* If one turn back' to the sixth centdry before Christ to find out what was required of a gentleman one is rewarded by finding that, though the ideal has grown, it has never radically changed; though, in the course of ages, it has had superfluous accretions that have been lopped off again, It remains essentially one growth. r"t * * * -i- 4-1s* nrKnlA ine iieuriemug pan ui mc uuuic i matter is that humanity, in the"voice ! of its wise men, has never ceased tie- ! manding certain unswerving ideals. To this ideal the chief contribu- ' tion of Epictetus was the Stoic indif- j. ference, retraining from all such things as are not under our control. \ When it wa? reported to Agrippinus J that his trial was going on in the I Senate he replied: "I hope it may j ! turn out wall. But now it is the fifth { hour; let us go and take our exer- j cise." And having taken his exer- j cise, one reported to him, "You are j condemned." Then he said, "Let us go to Aricia and dine." Practically what Epictetus had to I add to the ideal of a gentleman was that he should never make himself | ridiculous by inflated hopes or waste I his energies in kicking against the pricks. "Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish, but wish that the things which happen be as they are." It seems that modern life has add! ed two more qualities to the ideal iu.i _ 01 a gentleman; oue, mat wuicLi to ou | beautifully depicted by Pater as ~he i attribute of almost all bis heroes ex- ! cept Sebastian van Storck; it is ".be quality which led Marius to take as his motto through life, "Trigtem, neminem fecit;" a kind of tender susceptibility to the necessary sorrow and desolation of liuman life which led him to go softly all his days in fear of hurting others. The final quality, not once hinted at in the earlier ideals, is that of self-effacement which. Browning points out in I | his hero, Horakles, when he says of him: "He held his life out lightly on his hand For any man to take." A distinguished quality, too, of our own great Lincoln, who. when he was urged to declare suddenly the emancipation of all the slaves, told his emissaries that the proclamation was not feasible, but added: "We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country and more; you can go home and try to bring people to your views; and you may say anything you like about me, if that will help. Don't spare me." ' I "Don't spare me." a life held light- j ly, a courage hardly even aware of \ I itself, an enthusiasm for great j j causes; aye, and for each and any j I member of this great thing we call j ! human society, which utterly effaces ; > the self, this is the last addition to , j the ideal of a gentleman.?Harper's ; Weekly. | The cotton cloth needed to clothe the inhabitants of China is about eight billion yards. This amount , would carpet a pathway sixty feet wide from the earth to the moon. 01 rover one more than twenty mile> wide from New York to Chicago. The United States army, including the military academy, costs $103,727,000, and the navy $136,000,000.. , I TOWN TAKES BEAUTY CURB. Claremont, N. H., Does Not Propose to Grow Ugly. "People who have an idea that all ;be old hijl towns of New England ire degenerate, back water places, should visit Claremont, N. H., writes i correspondent of Country Life in America. "A cleaner, happier, more prosperous-looking and generally attractive place would be hard to find. Its people, good old New Englanders, ire self-respecting, public-spirited folk who are proud of their town and ire as little dependent upon New Fork or Boston as they are upon Pekin. "A town of such natural beauty is less in need of village improvement I than are moGt others. It's a clean 3ort of climate, and big trees are oative to the place?elm, maple, lo:ust, butternut, oak, birch and poplar, besides the evergreens. But Claremont is wise enough to take time by the forelock and has started a campaign to save its old trees. "The Claremont Board of Trade is the active body in this case and they took up the work last summer under the supervision of Prof. B. S. Pickett, horticulturist from the State College. He came to town and made a personal inspection of each shade tree in the park, on the streets and in the front yards. He diagnosed the ailment of each tree needing treatment and noted the diagnosis and recommended treatment on a sheet prepared for the purpose, each tree being numbered for identification. "The report was classified and Btudied and then placards suggesting the needed treatment were printed tVm nrnnor trppfl. The a LIU lativcu cu tuv |/iv^v. matter of applying the cure was then up to the owners of the property on which or before which the trees stood, as in New Hampshire the municipality has no control over the trees except for park or highway purposes. After the trees had been labelled the horticulturist came again at the invitation of the Board of Trade and gave a public illustrated lecture on the subject of tree's and tree surgery, explaining the methods of treatment, etc. "At first there was noticeable a certain amount of indifference and torn nnhlic-minded cit izens. started in to have their trees doctored and proved how easily and cheaply it could be done. Soon others followed their example and then the thing became contagious, and the man who wasn't doing a little tree doctoring was strictly out of date. All the trees on the town common and around the cemetery in the middle of the village were treated by order of the Selectmen, acting on suggestions received from the Board of Trade. About 250 trees in all were treated during the single season. The total cost to the board of this splendid crusade was about ?50." Steadfastness. Mayor Magee, of Pittsburg, was talking about an obstinate man. "He is 'sot' in his ways," said the Mayor. "He. is as bad as the old planter of history. "An old planter in the palmy days, before the war, was blown up in a steamboat accident on the Mississippi. They fished him out unconscious. At the end of an hour's manipulation he camfe to. " 'Where am I?' he asked, lifting 1 J jam iieau iccuij. " 'Safe on shore,' the doctor told him, cherfully. " 'Which side of the river?' he inquired. " 'The Iowa side,' the doctor replied. "The planter frowned. He looked at the turbid yellow stream. Then he said: " 'Just my luck to land in a prohibition State. Chuck me in again.' " ?Washington Star. Last Words of Monarchs. King Edward VII.?"I know this is the end. Tell the Queen." King Charles V.?"Ay?Jesus!" Charles I. (as he laid his head on the block)?"Remember." Charles II.?"Don't let poor Nelly starve." (Referring to Nell Gwynne, the actress.) Napoleon?"Mon Dieu! La nation Francalse?tete d'armee!" Richard Coeur de Leon?"Youth, I forgive you." (To Bertrr.nd de Gourdon, whose arrow killed him.) t wT ? "TGVonrhnien. I die JUUU19 A. . . __ guiltless of the crime imputed to me. Pray God my blood fall not on France. If so?"(and the knife of the guillotine feU). Marie Antoinette?"Farewell, my children, forever, I go to your father." Frederick the Great?"We are over the hill. We shall go better now." (Spoken after a final fit of coughing.) For Scandalmongers. The Orleans Museum has just been enriched with a curious relic of the past, which some workmen in making excavations in the city came across. It is a stone representing a grinning figure, showing the teeth, the countenance being repellant enough. In this way the loquacious woman, the scandalmonger, was brought to her senses. The stone, suspended by a chain, was placed round her neck, and so accoutered, she was compelled to walk round the town in which she lived. The stone is supposed to date about the sixteenth century. Our French friends are fond of calcula - * nmro cnfflf?iont tions, so ii one muuc ?<v^i^ o^...?? for a town three centuries ago, the problem suggests itself, how many such instruments of torture would be necessary to-day to deal with the unruly members of the fair sex??London Globe. Cut Off in Infancy. Mrs. Jones had been reading of germ laden banknotes. "Goodness gracious!" she exclaimed. "George, do you really know how deadly dangerous money really is?" "I should say I do," replied her husband. "Look at the number of bills it has killed at Albany."?Puck. The average annual death rate among all the armies of the world is nine in each thousand. - * New York City.?Shirtwaists that are made with moderate fulness are much in vogue just now and are very ] generally becoming. This one is laid ] in a succession of pleats, but all ex- ] cept the outermost are stitched for j full length so that there is only a 1 limited amount of fulness. The middy ( collar, the neck, is a novelty, and the slightly open neck makes a feature 01 the season. The blouse is adapted to both the odd waist and the entire gown and to almost all the simpler seasonable materials, linen, madras, pongee, cotton poplin and also the thinner lawns anil batistes, for waists of this kind are made from all. White linen makes this one, however, and is trimmed with bands of rose color, while the tie is made to match. If three-quarter sleeves are not liked long ones in regulation shirtwaist style can be substituted. The waist consists of fron,.- and back. The collar is joined to the neck edge and the closing is made at the centre front, where there is a wide box pleat. The elbow sleeves are gathered into bands and finished .with rolled over cuffs, but the long Dnes are finished with over-laps and straight cuffs in shirtwaist style. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four and onebalf yards twenty-one or twenty-four, three yards thirty-two or two and one-half yards forty-four inches wide, with three-eighth yard twenty-four Inches wide for the bands. Velvets in Vogue. Paris costumers show many readyto-wear costumes constructed of chiffons, marquisettes and chiffon sloths built over satin foundations. Another Paris fashion idea favors the use of velvets for next fall and winter. Velvets were much in evidence in Paris and other fashion centres last season. Velveteens will doubtless participate in the Increased demand, and as raw cotton is now about sixty per cent, higher than It was at this time last year, prices of velveteens are steadily advancing. Girl's Coat. j In Full or Three-Quarter Length, With Notchod or Shawl Collar, With or Without Pockets. Embroidered Russian Blouse. The Russian blouse suit opens many possibilities for the needleworker to make her own embroidery. A straight embroidered band along the left-front side of the jacket is ' suggested. It may be braided or I plainly embroidered. A ciicular piece, with scant ruffle at the edge. I can be used for a collar. Cuffs may j be trimmed or left plain. A small de' sign on the frout panel of the skirt is stylish. Fashionable Sleeves. The sleeve of raglan or kimono cut is in again. It is none too easy of accomplishment, and there is no cause of dissatisfaction on the part of j the amateur who is not wholly sucj cessful in her first attempt. It needs a certain breadth of shoulder and should be avoided by those who would gain width in effect at least. The raglan sleeve in the main has a narrowing effect, but is well suited to the woman of comfortable proportions and generous shoulder measurements. Cut On the Bias. Old bias band trimming has been revived and is seen on gingham, on silk and on cloth. Some of the ver7 latest black-and-white striped clothsin Paris are simply trimmed with the same material cut on the bias and stitched in the good, old-fashioned way. f Princesse Bathing Suit. ^ V/ The princesse bathing suit Is an ' exceedingly smart one and greatly in vogue this season. Illustrated is a. model made with close fitting body portion and pleated skirt, so that It. gives princesse lines and comparative snugness at the same time that It is loose and free at the lower,portion. There are dart-fltted knickerbockers, too, that do away with bulk over the hips, yet are abundantly wide at the knees. Dotted silk with bands of plain is the material illustrated, but mohair is always a standard material for bathing Bujta, pongeeis much *liked and all materials that are correct for such costumes can be utilized for this one with trimmings of contrasting material or banding asliked. If preferred the neck can be made round instead of V-shaped. The suit is made with the bodv portion, the skirt and bloomers. The body portion consists of front, back and side-front and side-back portion?. It is joined to the skirt or flounce, which is straight and pleated, and the- closing is made at the left of the? front. The sleeves lire gathered inta bands. The bloomers are made with front and back portions and are closed at the sides. The quantity of material required for the medium size is nine yards twenty-four, eight and one-fourtht yards twenty-seven, four and threefourth yards forty-four or fifty-twoinches wide, one and one-half yards twenty-seven for bands. White Linen Salts. Tailored suits of white linen 8^0W collars and cuffs of foulard or of a. plain satin in contrasting tones? rose, old blue, tan, lavender and the like. Girl's Costume. With Gathered Sleeves In Full or Three-Quarter Length or Plain Loose Sleeves. Printed Stockings. Fashions for printed things extend even to the pretty stockings. They are undeniably pretty, and so dainty as to be altogether in keeping with white buckskin pumps. They are made with a white background and printed with groups of pink blossoms about an inch in diameter. The only other pattern on them is the drop-stitrh, which forms an invisiDiebar, as background for the flowers. They come in silk and lisle. Striped Collars. Collars, the plain turnover variety, are once more embroidered upon striped linen and in the color of the stripe. This is a particularly attractive idea for the wearer of black and white, and in lavenders it produces a most attractive effect. Handsome Uaj^s. There are many attractive new hand-bags. Some of them are lined with suede, others with moire, v/hil? still others-have no lining at til. I