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■m §t ■ r -W-J . ^.: ... -' % .V A . Straw Lace. There is a new guipure lace which, when laid over white, resembles noth ing so much as straw lace, both in color and in texture. It is exceeding ly effective as a ttimming over mous seline de soie, because that delicate tissue may be pulled in places through its wide meshes, thus adding novelty to smartness. CHARCOAL * M Mast Keep Her Name. A woman notary public in Denver, Col., was married recently,and the ques tion arose as to what name she should Mign in her official capacity. The* mat ter was referred to the attorney gen eral of the state, and he has furnished an opinion that there is no authority of law for women iu Colorado to drop their maiden names in the event of marriage. &he must, therefore, sign all documents as before marriage, be cause there is no authority for a change of name at marriage or any other time. ‘ Patriotic Sofa Pillows. The most popular sofa pillows just now are those that bear upon them some trace of the Stars and Stripes. Large hammock and piazza pillows are made of actual dags, and less ag gressive ones have "white stars on a bine ground, the reverse side of the cushion being of red and white stripes. Sometimes a pair of tiny dags are crossed and embroidered in one corner. It is a trial to aesthetic tastes that the colors of onr dag are so pronounced, bnt the artistic faculty gives way to patriotic sentiment, and the American dag is emphatically the decorative vogue of the moment. A Woman Baker. There is a woman now in New York who has had most serions misfortunes, and yet has shown rare perseverance and energy at the critical moment. Only a short time ago she and her husband lived in a comfortable home in a western city. They owned the property and had been moderately well-to-do. But the husband died very suddenly. Then the insurance oa the house gave ont, and soon the widow found it necessary to dispose of the property. Pending the negotiations the house burned to the ground, and although the widow escaped, every thing in her possession had been con sumed. She had to borrow clothes be fore leaving for New York, where she had friends. She resolved not to allow her grief to have a serious effect upon her, but to find some immediate source of sup port, and took the first opportunity that offered. She had made a specially wholesome graham bread for a friend here who was suffering with indiges tion, and his appreciation of it at once suggested a means of support—she would bake and sell bread. Calling at neighboring residences and board ing houses, she at once took orders for all she could bake, delivered the bread the same day, and secured regular customers. With the pro ceeds of successive sales she took iu a large supply of materials, and is steadily increasing the profits. She declares that with her ambition she will not regain poor long, and will soon make a big success of her under taking.—New York Sun. ie Return aft he Shirt Waist. waists of plain, solid color are varied with bands of embroidered in sertion or, heavy bands of lace, run ning up or down or crosswise, as the figure may demand, and many of them have bias bands, cuffs and collar of plaided or striped material. Others of plain, solid colored material have cuffs, collar and front box plait of pol ka-spot material, in which case a plain white tie finishes short at the neck, and a belt of white is worn. Cotton cheviot, pique in all colors, duck and fine gingham are the popular wash materials for general wear. Stripes are very’modish in shirtwaists this year, and most of them rnn around instead of up and down. Bias plaids are also much nsed,andare very smart looking, but mast always be worn with skirts of plain,solid color. Tucks are used in every conceivable way on shii-t waists of all materials and are applied up and down, across, zig-zag, slanting, in clusters or regulation spaces, as fancy or figure dictates. Sleeves are smaller than they were last year, and the cuffs in many cases •re attached. Even where the fronts cannot be called a real blouse they pouch a little, and the gathers extend almost the entire length of the shoul- der instead of being all directly in the front. The black satin shirt waist, though worn much during the winter, is ir- Av .:.- ' mii repressible, and is continually de veloping some new feature. For traveling, this waist is decidedly the most stylish and durable, shedding the dnst and cinders. While many of the waists have de tachable collars and cuffs to match, the white linen ones will be as much worn as ever. Belts there are in all varieties; solid gold belts studded with precious and semi-precious stones; metal "belts fairly blazing with imita tion gems; velvet, satin, silk and leather belts, with gorgeous metal and jeweled buckles, and enameled ones designed in openwronght patterns. With the wash shirt waist, however, quite the prettiest is the leather belt, which fastens with plain harness bnckles. —Woman’s Home Companion. Fashion Notes. Covert cloth, poplins and Bedford cords are shown in great variety for the indispensable tailor made sait. Piquets, marseilles,lawns and linens will be much worn this summer for morning gowns, as well as at the watering places. A very pretty and fashionable de sign in table linen is the shamrock. It is used on napkins, and promises to become popular. Persian mauve, pale almond or tan color are effectively combined on new Paris evening gowns and tailor cos tumes for special wear. Satin royal and very elegant qual ities of pean de soie are handsomely made up together in imported wedding toilets for spring and early summer. A fashionable summer gown is of golden brown dimity with insertion of brown and white running up each seam and at- the top of the lower fionnee. A swell Ascot tie designed exclu sively for women is on the market. It is made of bias striped satin, in colors so gay that they pat the most modish hosiery to shame. The braided black straw plateau bent into turban shape, high at odq side and the brim finished with large jet catashuns, is another of the pretty designs in walking hats. All the buttons are on the jeweled order, with the exception of those in jet and gold, and these have the ef fect of onyx and are not like what are generally known as jet buttons. This season the wood colors and grays are the principal colors, and the wood colors are smarter than the grays, for the last named were worn all last summer, it will be remem bered. A pretty morning hat is a black sailor of rough straw with a band of burnt orange satin ribbon, which fin ishes in a spiral of the, same. Three black spangled qaills complete the trimming. A hat that milliners say will be much worn is of green soft silk, a number of pnff ruffles forming the crown and brim, and trimmed at the side with a spiral puff and a large white aigrette. There is a great variety in hats, the new Alpine being among the ones that have been favorably received already. It is gray, with wide ribbon and band, finished in the left side with a bunch of long cock feathers. Buckles and fancy buttons are among the new things on gowns. The hackles may not buckle and the but tons may not be used to fasten the waist, but they must needs be worn in order to give the proper smart finish to any gown. Soft light tints will be very greatly favored for evening wear, despite the fact that the most intense and striking colors, such as deep orange, geranium and poppy red, grass green and im perial purple are so much used by Parisian ateliers. Yellow lace for trimming white fabrics will be much in favor, but there is a great variety in the shades chosen. Faille and light tones pre vail over the yellows with the dash of pink which was so popular a few sea sons ago. The combination of white and straw colored lace is used not only for gowns, but also for blouse bodices. In negligee gowns, loose robes fall ing from the shoulders and neck in Oriental fashion seem to have the preference. Ribbons sewn into the side seams are frequently knotted across the fronf. An innovation in sleeves is noticeable in some of tho most handsome silk gowns. The sleeves either hang in a long point from the bend of the arm or else are cut to the elbow only and finished with ruffles of lace. BURNING. Methods Employed ber Those Encaged j in the Work in Englaad. - The methods employed by tbe char coal burners of England seem primitive tn this day, bnt the results obtained are •atisfactory. First, the young trees are eut down and stripped of their branch es and laid in heapa to he carted away, the burners reserving only oak between two and three inches thick, which Is eut Into two-foot lengths and the hark peeled off. The bark la tied in bundles and carted off and the short sticks are laid regularly side by aide in a circular heap sixteen feet in diameter and six feet high. This heap Is covered with rushes and earth, a small hole being left in the center. Through thla the fire la Introduced and eats Its way downward. A little air Is let In from the bottom and the fire Is kept burning slowly and steadily. A pit takes two days to burn through. Strong winds are a great enemy to successful com bustion and great screens of gorse are usually made. In burning, the wood loses 40 per cent, in bulk and 80 iu weight Rent free, Klondike Map From Gold Commission’s official survey. Ad dress Gardner & Co., Colorado Springs, Colu. Greater New York has 1.100 churches within Its limits and over 130,000 dwelling houses. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarats, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and kee] " ’ :ly bilious complexion by taking Cascareta,—beauty for ten cents. All drug- gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. Shoes made of porpoise leather are abso lutely impervious to water. ST. VITUS' DANCE, sPASMS and all ner vous diseases permanently cured by the use of Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $1.00 trial bottle and treatise to Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 881 Arch Street, Phila., Pa. There are 250 glaciers In the Alps said to be over five miles in length. Mrs. Wlntlow’s Soothing Syrup forchlldren tfathlng, kofteas d»a*uma-redneinar infiams- ticn,allays pain.cures wind colic, tSo. a bottle. Whlta horses are said to be more delicate than black or brown ones. Ko-To-Boe for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 60c, gL All druggist* ■ Prussian blue paint is made from the ashes ill of! of the burnt hoofs of hones. A Postal Cariosity. A letter that has been traveling for more than 50 years is till on its jour ney. The class which graduated at Yale In 1844 started such a letter tmong themselves. The letter has gone the rounds of the year, relating to each member of the circle the doings of his comrades. Few are still left alive, bnt dearer than any other arrival by post is the traveling letter, that still stirs the hearts of the surviv ors with Us memorials of the living and the dead of the class of 1844. Which Did Be Mean? “We have plenty of churches," said the alderman during an Interview. “What we want is more public halls." The compositor, however, set It up "public hauls,” and the proofreader, who bad once posed as a politician, let Jt so at that Unde Sam Says This Is America’s Greatest Medicine, it will Sharpen Your Appetite, Purify and Vitalize Your Blood. Ov< Tired Feeling. Get a Hood's Sarsaparilla take it TODAY, and good U Is sure to do you. Hood’s Sa Is America’s Greatest m L \\ : * £ 4^ $ No amount of argument can convince the Experienced,' honest grocer that any other soap will give his customers such general satisfaction as Ivory Soap. He knows that they prefer Ivory Soap to new kinds, of unknown quality. Ivory Soap will sell because the people want it, the other soaps may look like Ivory, but his customers want the real thing—they may buy a new soap once to try it, but they come back again and again for Ivory Soap, and they insist on having it. ^ 1W. M1*. rww, I OmiM. c. ££ Tho Trup nud the Imitation. Dora aooU-d at the play Weeps to sec the hero perish— Hero of a Dresden day. Fit for china uymphs to cherish; O that Dora's heart would be Half so soft uud warm for met When the flaring lights are out His heroic deeds are over, Gone his splendid stmt and shout. Gone his raptures of a lover, While my humdrum heart you'd find -True, though out of sight and mind. —Athenaeum. Peaches Once Poison. Tho pcs'-h was originally a poison- almond. Its finlty parts were used to poison arrows, and for that purpose were Introduced into Persia. Trans plantation and cultivation have not only removed Us poisonous qualities, but tamed It into tbe delicious fruit we now enjoy. ( “Did yon ever go into a dark room, where you couldn’t see any one, and yet something seemed to tell you there waa some one there?" asked the spiritu alistic medium. “Oh, yes!” replied the man; *1 used to have that experience often, in nay courting days.”—Yonkers Statesman. The Cooking of Game:Birds. Most game birds and animals, b» cause of a life of ceaseless activity, de not take on fat, and such should he larded, or cooked with slices of bacon or salt pork placed on them. Do not serve birds with heads on and ub* drawn, as is quite generally practiced— the latter point being a relic of sari ngery, the former an offense to senal* tlve nerves. It Is pleasanter to enjoy a bit of choice flesh without being so forcibly reminded that we are eatln® jdead bird?. This is not the only in* stance where realism is Inartlstlc.-J Woman's Home Companion. Maglstrate-You were drunk, ot course, when the hold-up men went through you? Battered-up prisouer-l was, your honor. Magistrate—They got everything you had, I suppose? Bnttor- ed-up prUoncr—ft very tiling,', yvui’ or, except a two-dollar bill I had in my watch pocket. Magistrate—Tho Quo will be two dollars. Call the next caael -Chicago Tribune. 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