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^>"ED FROM TflT PL/ 10 SYNOPSJS. /ackson Jones, nicknamed "Broadway" oecause of his continual glorification of New York's great thoroughfare, Is anx ious to get away from his home town of Jonesville. Abner Jones, his uncle, Is very angry because Broadway refuses to settle down and take a place In the gum factory in which he succeeded to his Infpri^st. Judee SDQtswood In forms Broadway that $250,000 left him by his father Is at his disposal. Broadway makes record time In heading for his favorite street In New York. With his New York friend, Robert Wallace, Broad way creates a sensation by his extrava gance on the White Way. Four years pass and Broadway suddenly discovers that he is not only broke, but heavily In debt. He applies to his uncle for a loan , and receives a package of chewing gum with the advice to chew it and forget his troubles. He quietly seeks work without success. Broadway gives what Is in tended to be a farewell supper to his New York friends, and before it is over be comes engaged to Mrs. Gerard, and an cient widow, wealthy and very giddy. Wallace expostulates with the aged flirt and her youthful flence, but fails to bet ter the situation. He learns that Broad way is broke and offers him a position with his father's advertising firm, but It is declined. Wallace takes charge of Broadway's affairs. Broadway receives a telegram announcing the death of his Uncle Abner in Europe. Broadway Is his sole heir. Peter Pembroke of the Con solidated Chewing Gum company offers Broadway (1,200.000 for his gum plant and Broadway agrees to sell. Wallace takes the affair in hand and Insists that Broad way hold off for a bigger price and rushes him tc Jonesvllle to consult Judge Spots wood. who was Uncle Abner's attorney. > . CHAPTER VMI^-Contlnued. "I've explained to Mr. Jones, Josie," ?aid the Judge, "that the affairs of the ? * x ^on/?o Voil plant are euureij m juui uu.,uu. -? can give him a pretty good Idea of how things stand without the books and figures in front of you, can't you?" To Broadway's grief he sat down com fortably." "Well, hardly, Judge," said Josie, smiling at bim In a way which pained Broadway, for it seemed certain to cement the jurist's firm intention of re maining with them for the balance of the evening.- It teemed to him that this was inconsiderate. " "The old gentleman told me," the Judge explained, "that the works showed a profit of about forty thou sand dollars last year. Is that right?" "Oh, it was more than that." This distracted Jackson Jones' atten tion even from the color of her eyes. More than forty thousand dollars! "It was!" he said, with an elongating * gesture of the neck and a Bide bead I twist which were habitual with him In moments of delighted surprise. He drew his chair a little nearer .even than it had been. EJyes were til right enough; but, after all, forty thou sand dollars! And possibly the e?es thrown in! Had he* been lucky tc? es cape the bonds of wedlock with the ancient widow? Verily ho had! "It was nearer fifty, if I remember rightly," stid the pretty busines* wom an. "Well, that wasn't so bad, nr?w, was It?" exclaimed Broadway. "Why, no," his fair informant grant ed, "considering that we've b en fight ing the trust all the time. I think it was perfectly remarkablA"* "Do you?" inquired BroadVay, with the eyes of faith, as if he were quite willing to accept her judfpent upon all thines. "Why, yes; dont you*** Her fore head had a pretty, earnest pucker that almost unmanned him. "Sure, I think it is," he made haste to agree. "What do you think about it, judge?" The judge must be brought into the talk, of course, as long as he was there. The judge settled back into his chair and looked complacent. "I always said it was t)ke best cltewing gum in tha world." "We are talking about profits, not about the gum," said Brqadway, and Josie burst into a rippling laugh which , he felt sure was of the sort which tinkles among angels when something makes them fcappy on the golden streets. There was that In this speech which penetrated to the depths of the judi cial system; it served as light to show the judge what might be going oti. Although >?e had comfortably set tled for a long hour's chat about a sub ject which Intensely Interested him, he rose abruptly and stood looking down at them. "Well!" said he, and laughed. "Tou talk It over, now, with Josie. I'm?I guess I am a poor hand where figures are concerned." He moved slowly toward the door, and smiled at every step. "I want to ask mom about some thing, anyway." Jackson Jones was really embar rassed for a moment when he found himself alone with this old friend of his youth, this simple little country girl. But he knew it wouldn't do; he watt certain that It was absurd. To kill time he referred back to what the judge had said about the gum. "Can you beat that?" he Inquired. BEATEN AT HIS OWN GAME Bushman's Clever Strategy Saved Him From Becoming a Meal for Prowl ing Lion. The little Bushman of South Africa is not only small In size, but to the 'Europeon he appears feeble In mind. Yet there is the storv of an encounter between a Bushman and a lion which, v according to a correspondent of Har per's Weekly, shows a man cool in danger and fertile in resource. The Bushman, who was a long way from home, met a lion. The animal, sure that he had his victim complete ly in his power, began to sport with him with a feline playfulness that the Wttle Bushman failed to appreciate. The lion would appear at a point in the road, and leap back again into the jungle, to reappear a little farther on. The Bushman did not lose his pres ence of mind, and presently hit upon a way to outwit his foe. Aware that the beast was ahead of him, the Bush man dodged into the jungle to the right, 'and quietly awaited the next move. When the lion discovered that WARDmRS VY OT GEORGE "The best chewing gum in the world!" She looked at him with the serious light of real reproof in her incompar able eyes. "I don't think there's any doubt about it, Mr. Jones. The trust people realize it. If they don't, they j certainly wouldn't be willing to pay a million dollars for it." "They're willing to pay more than that for it," he told her, feeling for the first time a real interest in the J conversation. Before that he had been absorbed only by the conversationalist. "Twelve hundred thousand tneyve 01 fered." She was not pleased. "I didn't think you knew that," she confessed. "They made that offer to your uncle several months ago." "But what I'v? got to find out Is this: Am I In a position to nold out I against the trust for a bigger price? | You see, a friend of mine advises me to hold out. Is business good, right J now ?" "Why, yes. We did over a hundred and twenty thousand dollars last month." This was exciting news, and it ex cited him. "A hundred and twenty thousand dollars' worth of business last month! Can I go down to the bank and get that money now?" She laughed at his commercial igno rance. "Why, certainly not!" For an instant his heart sank as he contemplated saying what he felt that he must say, sank doubly deep be cause he felt that the confession he must make might possibly disturb the good opinion of him which he hoped he had renewed in her peculiarly lucid mind. But there was something In her eyes that gave him confidence. And tdoo nAtKIno* fn* if Hnt rnnfpo IUCX-V "OO UWIU4U5 slon. "You don't understand," be ventured stumbllngly. "This is?er?between us. The fact 1b?I'm broke! I am In debt! I must get some quick money? and I want to know how much you have in bank, right now." "Our cash balance?" "Yes." She thought deeply for a moment Then she looked up with a smile of triumph. "Over eighteen thousand dollars, I should say." He was dismayed. "Only eighteen thousand dollars! And you did a business of a hundred and twenty thousand dollars last month!". His manner worried her. "I hope you're not thinking seriously of going over." "Going over where T* 'To the trust" "Why? Don't you think the prioe they offer is big enough?" "It isn't a question of price, Mr. Jones," Bhe said, with flashing eyes, "it's the principle of the thing." "You'll have to explain that to me." "Why, think of what you're selling!" she exclaimed. 'It is the thing your grandfather worked for and handed down to your father; the thing that he worked for and handed down to you; the thing that you should work for and hand down to your children, then to their children, and so on and on. Why, think of what you're sell ing!" He was a little dazed, but still, he .surely needed money. "I don't see where there's any sentiment connect ed with the thing." "You don't!" She gazed at him, as tonished, and rose and stood beside the table, looking down at him. "Would you ruin the town in which you were born? Why, your grand father was the founder of this town, Mr. Jones! Would you see seven hun dred men and boys turned out of their employment? Would you see the very bread and butter taken from the mouths of families?" He felt he must defend himself, ex plain himself. "Well, that's not my fault. I'm awfully sorry, but I can't help it I don't see how I can help It." Her voice was deep and sorrowful, reproachful, warning, pleading, stir ring. "I'd give it very serious thought if I were you, Mr. Jones." Then the timbre of enthusiasm crept into her tones ana surrea mm aeepiy. "ua, it would be perfectly great of you to stand by and protect the people of this little town! You've a chance to do something very, very big?a really wonderful thing! I hope you'll do it." He shook his head, but not emphat ically. "And I believe you will," she added, and then her smile returned. "I must run along, now. You'd bet ter come to the office tomorrow, as early as possible. There's a great deal to be done and so many things to be explained. I'll expect you at ten in the morning, shall I?" "Can I make it a quarter past?" "Very well." She turned away, but. the man had suddenly disappeared from tne path, he was perplexed. He roared. Then he espied the Bushman peering at him over the grass The Bushman at once changed hts position, while the lion stood irreso lute in the path, following with his oi'Q fho mnvln? KIqa^ r^ftn TKn TiHlo V vmv mvt mg moil. 1110 ** I.V1W man rustled the reeds, vanished, and appeared at another point i The great brute was first confused, and then alarmed. It began to dawn on him that he was the hunted party. | The Bushman did not let the lion col lect his startled wits. He began to steal gradually toward the foe, who now, in a complete state of doubt and fear, turned tail, and ran ignominious ly from the field. Travels of Old Church Plate. A remarkable story is told of the adventures of some church plate of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. It belongs to the parish of Savington St Michael, England, but about seventy years ago the parish ioners decided they roust have new piate, and without the knowledge of their rector, Rev. K. A, Cox. dis , . . \ *' v . - V v ' * HALL v*r n.coi\m m. I as she picked up a little shopping bag with which she had been armed when she came in, she evidently was re minded of something, for she began to fumble in it. Presently she found what she was seeking, and produced a small tin box, round and -highly deco rated. She handed it to Broadway, who received it as if it had been some thing of high value. "ThiB is our latest," she explained. "I don't think you've seen them. Jones' Pepsin warers. trooa nigni, air. jouhb. Dazed and with the box held loosely in his hand, he gazed at her retreating back. "Good night ? er ? er ? Miss Richards." After she had gone, while Broadway stood g zing after her, the box of Pepsin ctfers still held loosely in his hand, the judge said cheerfully: "She's a nice girl, isn't she?" 'Is she?" "Well, how did she strike you?" "An awful blow." "An awful blow?" Broadway caught himself. He real ized that such talk would not do. He tried to dodge the inference. "No, no," he protested. "I mean her eyes. Her eyes are awful blue." The Judge smiled satisfiedly. "Ev eryone in this town is just mad about her." "They ought to be," said Jackson. "Have another cigar," the judge sug gested fervently. This brought Broadway to his senses. Those cigars! "No, I thank you. I've got some gum here. But I wouldn't mind having another glasB of lemonade." The judge was pleased. "Why, cer tainly, my boy. I'll go and get it my self." Broadway spoke up hurriedly. "No; don't do that. Ask Mrs. Spotswood to make it for me, won't you?" "Sure," said the genial Judge. "And I'll tell her that you asked me to. It'll tickle her to death." At this point Wallace returned. He went to Broadway with his business air exceedingly in evidence. "Say," he said earnestly, "I've got a real knockout surprise for you, young Josle Richards. fellow! Pembroke was waiting at the office of the hotel. That was his man he sent here. He knew we were leav ing New York before we started. He waB telephoned to from the Grand Cen tral station. That's how skilfully they work In these mad days of frenzied finance. "He didn't wait to take a train?he came by motor. And Just to show you what a smart little fellow you are for wanting to close at their price at noon today, I. who represented my self as Henry Wilson, your secretary, have given them till eleven o'clock to morrow to close the deal at fifteen hundred thousand dollars. "He's burning up every telegraph patched the valuable communion serv ice to London to be melted down. r urLUimu^iy, cue rtwior waiucu ui the affair in time and personally ac quired the articles. Subsequently they passed from his widow into the hands of her nephew, Rev. Henry Burnley, and a short time ago were purchased and presented to the parish by an anonymous donor. They have now been solemnly rededicated in the presence of a large congregation.? From the London Globe. Law Aimed at Injustice. Rank clerks and matrimony have been the subject of legislation by the Australian parliament. The assembly has approved of a new clause in the criminal code bill, by which any per son or corporation, prohibiting, under threat of dismissal, the marrying of any employe over twenty-one years of age, will be liable to a fine of $1,500, or three months' imprisonment. The clause is the outcome of evidence in the arbitration court that th? West ern Australian banks prohibit the mar riage of clerks receiving under $1,000 per annua. m PHOTOGRAPHS 1 SCENES IN THE PL A' VQPrSZ/CHr, /b<J, BY G,W.OJUJ.JMG#AM < and telephone wire between here and Cleveland right now, and, unless I miss my guess, I'm making you richer by several hundred thousand dollars, just proving to you the value of pa tience. Fifteen hundred thousand dol lars! A million and a half!" He had been leaning tensely forward in his chair. Now he cast himself hontn-aril In nn nttitnrlo r?f nntlofloH ease. , "What do you think of that?" he asked. "Bob," said Broadway slowly, "I can't Bell this plant." "You can't!" It was an exclamation of amazement. "You don't know," said Broadway dreamily. "You haven't heard. Now, just think of what I'd be selling. Here's the thing my grandfather worked for and handed down to my father; and the thing my father worked for and handed down to me; and it's the thing that I should work for and hand down to my children, and then to theirs, and so on and so on. . Wallace looked at him with incredu lity too great, at first, for words When they finally came they were ex plosive. "Say" he cried. "What the h?l's the matter with you?" CHAPTER IX. On the way to the hotel, after they had left the Judge's house, Broadway tried to tell Bob Wallace what", in deed, was tke matter with him, but could not, for he had not the least idea. "Do you really mean to keep the plant?" asked Wallace skeptically. "Yes, and pass it to my children," said the dazed young gentleman. "You haven't any children, you con founded ass!" "And they'll pass it to their chil dren," said the coming magnate of the chewing-gum trade. "I think you're crazy." "Bob, it's a cinch. But let me tell you." And he tried to, with but slight success. Wallace was a shrewd young man. "Is it your conscience or the girl that has driven you insane?" he asked. "I'm thinking about Jonesville. My grandfather built this town." "Well, he made a blamed bad Job of It. Why didn't he build a /place a man could get a decent drink in while he waa about it?" "And my father kept it going." "Well, he didn't keep it going very fast" , "And now I've got to keep my faith with it. It is a sacred duty. I must not abandon it." "Say," said Wallace, in disgust "Where did you get that stuff? Have you gone out and tried to get a decent drink here? This town ought to be abandoned. It ought to be put out of its misery." "The trust would close the plant and ruin all these people." "You'd think they were first cousins, to hear you talk about them." "Bob," Broadway chided, in a soft and earnest voice, "they are far more than that; far, far more than that They are charges placed by Providence in the care of the Jones family. And, Bob, I'm the last of the Joneses." "Let us hope there'll never be an other like you." "There'll never be one more earnest, you can bet on that, Bob!" They were in a shady stretch of Main street, and, at night, a shady stretch of Main street Jonesville, is about the darkest spot on earth out side of Africa. "Let's stop right here, in the dark, till you get over it," said Wallace. "It's late, but there might be some mad dened, joyous Jonesville roisterer to see if you went into the light." "I meau every word of it There are no .roisterers in Jonesville; they're all honest workingmen, horny-handed gum makers, toilers for the fortunes of my family. That's why I'm protecting them." x lie uviiij* u<uiu ui Burnt! lusauc asylum guard will be upon your shoul der if you don't watch out." "Ha, ha! Ha, ha!" laughed Broad way somewhat cacklingly. "I think you're going to be violent!" said Wallace. "He'll probably need both horny hands. But he'll subdue you! Now, try to give me some co herent notion of what's the matter with you, will you?" "I've awakened to my duty." "Time you did; you've had a nice long nap. What do you see, now you have aroused?" "A pleasant little city, working hap pily at well-paid industry. I'm the pay master. A great nation, wagging tire less jaws. They're chewing the Jones gum. Jones' gum, mind you; not some WHEN POTATOES WERE NEW Ignorance of French Cook Came Very Near Putting Them Out of Com mission as an Edible. In France, arrangements are being made for the celebration of the one hundredth anniverstry of the death of Parmentier, whose name is insepar ably associated with the introduction of potatoes as a popular comestible. Louis XVI. promised to help him to launch them by giving a banquet at which they were to be served as an attractive novelty; but the royal cook unfortunately misunderstood the in structions given to him. Instead of boiling the tubercles, he cooked the leaves as a kind of cabbage. The courtiers, after trying every imagin able sort of condiment with the prepa ration, pronounced the dish detestable, and declared that no persuasion would Induce them ever to taste it again. Inquiry, however, detected the error which had been made, and a second experiment brought the new delicaoy into high favor. Do many remember that Mr. Dahl i gum that the Consolidated puts up against the public as just as good as that my ancestors made famous. I see?" "For heaven's sake, shut up! You'll see snakes if this keeps on. That lem onade that Mrs. Spotswood gave4 you has gone to your empty head." "It was not the lemonade that Mrs. Spotswood gave me, it was the touch ing line of talk that?er?that Josie Richards gave me." He paused while Wallace waited with his jaw loose on its hinges. "Say, Bob, isn't she a queen ?" i "So that's it?' But he made no further protests. He was a level-headed youth, was this young advertising man. He knew as well as anyone that if the trust feared and wished to purchase the JoneB gum it could be but because the trust knew that the Jones gum was a dan gerous competitor. If, managed as It had been, unadvertised, it had been a dangerous competitor to the trust, then it was worth having?emphatical ly worth keeping. And some day Broadway must do something. He could not forever play the idler on the Great White Way, even if his millions were unnumbered. It was no life for an actual man, and Bob was sure that hidden somewhere in his friend were the true elements of worthy manhood. Nothing had oc curred to bring them out, that was alL He thought they might be coming now. Reaching the hotel, they found tjie place in utter darkness. Not a light, even turned down for the night, waa visible at any window; not a sound of life came from th? building save a rhythmic cadence of some sleeper soft ly sawing wood with a dull saw. "The clerk's asleep," said Bob. "How do you know that is the clerk?" asked Broadway, listening crit ically to the snore. "I heard him singing when I first got here, und now I recognize the voice. He held the tune a little bet ter, then, that's all." "Have we got to wake him up?" "Sure! Why, it's after eleven o'clock!" Nothing but the thought of Joale Richards' eyes could have kept Broad way at that instant from casting all his worthy resolutions to the winds, selling to the trust and searching out a Bible upon which to swear that he never again would set foot in Jones ville. But he did remember Josie's eyes, and so began to hammer on the door. After a quarter of an hour of steady hammering, some shouting and a little whistling, he was rewarded by a sleepy and ill-tempered voice from a slowly opened window. "Heavens! Was his window closed! And yet that snore got out to us!" "It sawed its way out," Bob suggest ed. "Well, what ye want?" the angry voice inquired. "Want to get in." "At this time the night?" "Sure. It's always night before we ever want to go to bed." "Well, the Grand hotel, it don't think much of folks that stays out all night long, I'll tell you that!" the clerk ex claimed, as he came down in bright red flannels (and not much of lhat) to let them in. \ "All night long!" "Ain't it a quarter after 'leven?" After telephoning Rankin (much to the clerk's disgust) to hurry to Gon necucui uy cue ur?i tram ya uiuiu ing, with well-packed bajtfa. the two friends crept upstairs, abashed. The clerk scorned such a menial service as attending them, and, in the excitement left from the rebuke he had received, Wallace stumbled into the wrong room. All doors were partly open, for the night was warm, and no one feared the midnight interloper, there In innocent and simple Jones ville. Fortunately the moonlight fell upon the bed, and warned him, otherwise there might have been a scandal in Gum Village, in which case the com plainant (he felt certain from that hur ried glimpse) would have been a sylph of close upon two hundred and fifty pounds. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Criminals Strenuously Dealt With. There is scarcely any crime in New Zealand, largely because they n strenuous effort there to arret*, try, convict, hang and bury a criminjd within two weeks of the commission or nis crime, 11 mia uw muruer, or, u not a hanging offense, to get him n* quickly as possible into a disagree able prison, where he will have tt work hard and fare upon bread unl water.?Exchange f introduced the dalhia into civiiizatioi with the intention of making thi tubers of which it bears so good I crop substitutes for potatoes? Lavender as Tobacco Substitute. Sweet lavender is now on the mar ket and on the side table and the smer of it is clean, sweet and delicious says the London Chronicle "office win dow" man. "But did you ever smokt< it? This business of the tobacco trusl worries the smoker who may have ti; pay more for his pipeful. Then comea the glad news that we are growing to bacco and even cigar coverings?it order to beat Sumatra at her owi p-nmn Anrl also comes a Madrid Dro fessor, inquiring what the ancient Ro mans smoked. Fine pipes have been' dug up in Spain from Rosian settle ments, but they have no trace of to bacco or opium. Yet they are adorned with bas-reliefs picturing the lavendei plant. And in 1276?before tobaccc came to Europe?a Spanish write! said that "whoever smokos lavender feels active, ardent and vigorous.' Bu< why is it that smoking omr crepl into Roman literaturtf Wedding Gowns fi IT IS for the Easier bride to choose whether she will be wedded in a "regulation" gown or allow her fancy to run after the new modes aud de part from accepted customs In her ^doming. V There is something .attractive in the thought of generations of brides clad In regulation trained princess fcowns of white satin, more or less elaborated with lace and embroidery, and more or less modified to resemble the passing fashions. Her gown is correct, above the Influence of every new phase, however beautiful* which fashion presents from year to year.' But no one will deny the bride the privilege of a gown modeled accord ing to the last word In fashions. Two bridal gowns are pictured here which show the regulation gown as devel oped for the present' season, and a gown modeled distinctly on tnis sea son's modes. The bride with the veil wears a long-trained princess gown of white satin. It is made of satin, lace, and chiffon. As a concession to the fash ion of today, the skirt part Is slight ly draped, falling in irregular folds over the hips and caught up In the front in a series of plaits near the waist line. It conforms, however, rather faithfully to the normal lines of the figure. The bodice of chiffon over satin is cut with a round neck. The neck opening is outlined with pearl beads and small pendant pearl ornaments. There Is a very high-necked guimpe of fine lace. The sleeves are full at the top, but fitted below the elbow, where they are slightly wrinkled, like a long wristed glove. They are very long, and a frill of lace like that in the yoke falls over the hand almost to the knuckles. The train is long and square. Such a gown requires a heavy satin to pro duce the right effect. The tulle veil forms the crown of a cap, which 1b edged with a frill of very handsome old lace. The cap is made over a 'circle of wire which holds it in place. There are full clus ters of orange blossoms at each side, and the veil falls to the e<tee of the train, as it should. This bride carried a bridal bou quet of white roses and lilies of the valley and wore a short strand of small pearls about her neck at the base of the high collar. There is no gain NEARLY every ribbon novelty in neckwear, lingerie ribbons, corsage decorations and other things, is frank ly patterned after some flower, or made to suggest flowers. Could any thing be more appropriate for an Easter gift than these fadeless and changeless flower forms? Tc make them more attractive they are all scented with delicate and lasting odors. A few of the new offerings are pic fnrwl hprA They are shown in the fine shops and department stores. The roses are marvels of faithful copies of the real blossom, and are rich and ex quisite and made In any color or num ber of color-tones desired. Satin ribbon Is used for them (and for open roses millinery centers), with foliage and sometimes buds. The foli age Is of the Wghest grade, ofvsa Jta / ~ < wmmmm wmmmm saying the beauty and effectiveness of this costume. It is the apex of style and cannot go out of fashion. The bridal dresa shown on the stand ing figure Is distinctly In the mode, with little thought to what has gone before. It is a very gorgeous and somewhat oriental-looking costume of embroidered crepe de chine ahd lace. The skirt is arranged In draped folds at each side, with an oversklrt In the "minaret' style made of lace. There Is a low undferbodlce of net and a very wide crushed girdle of the crepe de chine. Over all is a small lace coat with kimono sleeves and opening at the bust line. There is a ) Hint of a Meaici conar at ine dock. The handsome bride wears long gloves and Instead of a bouqiiet car ries a chiffon and ribbon muff. There Is not a single concession, to the regu lation wedding gown except In the train and the color. This is an Ivory. Instead of a cream white. Neither bride wears Jewelry, ex- < cept for strands of pearls. The train on the crepe de chine gown Is covered with, really wonderful and beautiful embroidery. It 1s for the bride-to-be to consider wherewltliall she shall be clothed, and how. Now that draperies are In vague, those handsome old embroi dered shawls with long fringes, which some families possess, may be effec tively used l%the construction of the wedding gown. Old lace finds many places where It is of use, and it la a dellehtful thing to see these treas urea used by the brides of a fam ily in succeeding generations. One can make no mistake in using them, and if a doubt exists in the mind as to the lines on which the wedding gown should be cut, one is absolutely safe in sticking to the princess model with high neck of lace or not, and long sleeves. Other styles may cease to look beautiful to us, but this one never , will. ? ' Many a pretty Easter bride will make no pretensions to a regulation wedding gown. She will attire herself in some tasteful white gown, to be used afterward, and indulge herself in a veil of tulle or lace or go to the altar unveiled. Other gowns than those of heavy satin or supple crepe are an- ' ticlng, and far more practical for brides of moderate means. Of these velvet, the stems are "as natural as life," of a rubber fiber. The roses are rather difficult to make and command a good price in the shops, ranging from a dollar to about three and a half each. Very small ribbon buds may be had much cheaper. There are many ribbon neck orna ments; two of the prcttiwt and least expensive, as well as me easiest to make, are shown here. They are loops and ends of narrow velvet rib bon with tiny roses, or other flower forms, fastened on the ends. They come in all colors and range In price from 25 to 75 cents each. They are easy to make, and a bolt of ribbon ten yards in length will make two or three of them. The satin flowers are made of scraps of ribbon or silk foldaa and sewed into sh*pe. JULIA BOTTOM LEY. |