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SUMMER GOWNS.
Black For Children and Colors For Their
v Elders.
1 Many of the "wash gowns for suni
.mer are of light weight linen in pale
solid colors. The trimmings are laces
put on in transparencies and helped
out with tiny tuckings. The simple
blouse bodice may fasten either at the
front or back, but the preferred sleeve
is always elbow length. The trim
mings of many skirts still suggest the
graduated flounce, and some waists
show belts of lace, ribbon or embroid
ery. The black "paper-chip" hat is warm
ly recommended for heads that find
most millinery too heavy. Its sole
trimmings are a bias of black velvet
S under the brim, and a soft fall of white
J ostrich feathers at the right side.
A pleasing simplicity has crept into
the modes for children. There are still
fussy costumes for small girls of all
ages, but preferred styles are taut and
trim, leaning rather to fine needle
work than elaborate- effects. Ia the
way of combination black is a fre
quent note, and girls from six up will
be permitted to wear all black frocks!
India pongee and taffeta will be the
most stylish textures for these, -white
gamps and cape collars in delicately
tinted mull3 relieving their sombre
ness. : . .
The school clothes the children's out
fitters are showing Include sailor suits
for both boys and girls. Contrasting
sailor collars and nautical-looking ties
begay these, and all the shields of the
little suits sport nautical emblems, in
blue and red. For the boys' suits white
and blue duck and brown linen are fa
vorite materials, the little trousers
ending just below the knee,
i Fretty sailor dresses for little girls
are in blue and white seersucker. The
collar is of white linen strapped with
a bias of solid blue. New York Sun.
Girdle and Tuck Comb.
One of the latest and most charming
frivolities of fashion has to .do with
belts, for whether of leather, ribbon,
t satin or elastic silk, they are all stud
ded or treated with Imitation jewels.
It is perfectly impossible to say just
now whether wide or narrow girdles
are most in vogue, for womankind
lias generously decided to patronize all
widths, and alongside the careful
creature who wears a finger wide
strap of gilded snake skin, piped along
both edges with white kid and fasten
ed in front with a small filagree gold
catch, can be seen, an equally fash
ionable fieure whose slim middle is
spanned by a Swiss belt. Perhaps the
latter Is a very, tiny bit more modish
than the first mentioned because it is
the more ; showy 'of the two. Its three
satfn straps studded with mixed jet
steel nail heads, are held by two truly
gorgeous buckles worked in mingled
' steel and. jet and matrix opals. 4
Cut' 'coral nail heads, each one sur
rounded, by a thread of the minutest
steel beads, and applied to a Swiss belt
of white silk fastened with steel and
' coral ornaments, is a belt highly es
teemed by the well dressed, while the
woman whose waist measure is large,
whose waist line is short and yet
whose determination to follow the
fashions is fixed, wears, instead of a
Swiss girdle,- a belt of elastic black
satin cut in one piece. This Is wide in
the rear, tapering to a point in front
and treated with 'two 'handsome
buckles r and two equally nice slides,
'all set with gems. The wily stout
woman usually orders gun metal buck
les for her elastic belt and the gun
metal is either frosted with diamonds
or. studded with the semi-precious pink
opals,-aquamarines, etc.
"The ultra elegant long belt clasp Is
now . done in enamels or is an oval
slice of fine French porcelain on which
Jn proper decorative surroundings a
woman's face shows and with real or
inock jewels her throat, head and ears
are decked with sparkling colored
stones sunk into the porcelain or
enamel. Washington Star.
( i Incrustations of Lace.
' Incrustations of lace are gaining la
favor rather than losing their prestige,
j. and very ethereal effects are produced
I' by . applying lace on to chiffon, which
Is placed over satin; and they also
Jookx exceedingly well on. foulards, es
pecially white foulards, with fine Irish
point of rather a deep tone, outlined
iwlth black bebe ribbon. The material
Is always cut away from beneath the
lace, which gives It a light effect.
. White-foulard with black Chantilly
(incrustations is a good combination.
T It is less expensive thanthe very rich
embroideries, and In many ways is
very desirable.
Pendants Again,
Black silk 6ruatnents with pendants
may be used with fine effect on the
silk and handsome cloth tailor mades
upon which the rich black crochet but
tons are in order. They match thestj
beautifully. From three to five dang
ling lozenge-shaped ornaments hang
from the main rosette-like ornament.
White Chiffon Boas.
Some chiffon bows of white are or
namented with roses of chiffon In col
ors, pink or yellow, but they are not
attractive. They have a made-up look
which is not good. ,
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THINGS
'TO WEAR
A pretty hat all of white is dotted
generously with tiny pearls.
Sailor hats retain their old-time pop
ularity, and the latest designs are no
ticeable for their simplicity and style.
In fichu shape is a shoulder collar of
white chiffon made with masses of
fine shirrings and edged with short
double-ruffles of the chiffon.
A popular article of jewelry is the
pear shaped pearl, which is worn sus
pended in a short neck chain, and ap
pears in connection with every kind
of gown.
Corsets are more elaborately lace
trimmed than formerly. Corset cov
ers are made almost entirely of the
filmiest lace, with just a little silk or
other material.
Some of the new canvas weaves
which are much favored for summer
gowns are brightened and embellished
by hand-embroidery in artistic designs
executed with colored tapestry wools.
A little girl's pink linen frock has a
turned-down piece of unbleached linen
finishing the neck, cut low to wear
with a guimpe, a plastron front of the
same linen, a belt and the sleeves also
trimmed with the linen.
Black velvet is used with good ef
fect upon many things this year. One
fichu-like collar of cream lace has
black velvet strings in the front, in
side the lace ends, and a big bow of
black velvet at the back.
On black fans silver, gold or black
spangles are used to emphasize the de
signs. A novelty is the violet fan,
which is covered near the top with ar
tificial violets, forming a border.
When the fan Is closed it appears 'to
be surmounted by a bunch, of these
flowers.
TIRING OF FACTORY LIFE.
Girls of the Tenement Eager For Domes
tic Service.
To encourage factory girls to enter
domestic employment a band of young
society women, graduates of an uptown
private school, have furnished a suite
of rooms for model training, and em
ployed an instructor in the art of
housework. The enterprise is the most
recent addition to the work of the
Brearley League Industrial Evening
School, which has been conducted for
several years in the Fogg Memorial
School, of the Children's Aid Society,
No. 552 West Fifty-third street, with
the support of the organization whose
name it bears.
Two rooms, a bed room and dining
room, have been fitted for the purpose,
and. two evenings a week the fifteen
young girls of the domestic training
class, who are from fourteen to sixteen
years of age, make a sortie on the place
with palls and brushes, brooms, dust
pans and cloths, and remove every ves
tige of dirt that has accumulated since
the last lesson. Indeed, scrubbing goes
on with as much zest and vigor as if it
were the semi-annual housecleaning
fray in family apartments. The pretty
white iron bedstead, with its spick and
span counterpane and shams, Is
stripped and aired; the crisp white
muslin curtains are carefully pinned up
safe from the dangers of water and
dust, the rugs are swept until a looker
on trembles for them, and they are at
last rolled up and put away to allow
the floor its share of the cleaning. It
is, indeed, the floor and the paint that
suffer the most, for every girl in the
class loves to scrub, and into that work
puts -all her superabundant energy.
When the windows and mirrors are
cleaned, the last bit of dusting done,
the bed remade in the primmest of
styles and the nickel polished, the table
is set, without a vestige of food, to be
sure, but in a fashion most satisfactory
to those, who arrange it. Then comes
one of the girls as waitress, and all
sorts of points of etiquette suited not
only to the maid but the dinner, are
discussed. By the time the table Is
cleared and the dishe; put away the
hour for closing has come. The girls
of the class are mainly of Irish parent
age, and work in carpet or hammock
factories or flax mills, receiving from
$2 to $2.50 a week. New York Tribune.
She's a Fighter at Eighty-one.
. Mrs. Susan Ann Payne, eighty-one
years old, gave John Iiitehey a severe
drubbing because he irritated her. Mr.
Ritchey is an able-bodied man. Mrs.
Pavne is six feet tall, weighs 190
pounds', and in spite of her advanced
aire is hale aud hearty. She was given
a jail sentence of twelve days. She
made the statement that she could
whip any ten men in Kokomo. Indian
apolis News.
A. hot cloth around the mould will
help jelly or ices to come from it with
out sticking.
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The Lobster and the Crab.
A lobster bold and a dignified crab
Went out for a sail together;
But the wind blew cold, and the waves ran
high, .
And the lobster cried: "Oh, my! Oh, my !
This truly is awful weather J
And away to shore I think I will hie.
For if I get wet, why ! why! why: why!
I'd never get over it, never!"
The Christian Register.
" Sneering Superstition.
There is a quaint old rhyme about
sneezing which runs as follows:
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for dan
ger. Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger.
Sneeze on Wednesday, have a letter.
Sneeze on Thursday, something bet
ter. Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sorrow.
Sneeze on Saturday, see true love to
morrow. A sneeze on Sunday meant a visit
from the parson the next day, and a
good old English housewife set every
thing in order against his coming.
The sneeze has certain unfailing tra
ditions attached to it, especially among
the early English peasants, and, hand
ed down to our day, they have become
superstitions.
The number of time anyone sneezes
was always noticed, and the meaning
proclaimed with a serious or cheerful
face as the case might be according to
the number of sneezes. Nowadays
even the least superstitious will say
"Bless you," or pat you on the back
three times or four or five times, ac
cording to the number of sneezes.
Sneezing was considered very health
ful, and for this reason, snuff became a
fashion, which grew to be harmful, as
snuff takers found it hard to break
away from the custom. New York
Tribune.
A Hospital Story.
Once there were two little girls. The
mother was down East visiting a sick
relative, probably a sister, may be a
father. The two little girls had been
left. with the dressmaker.
At their home stayed the dressmak
er, and sewed on their buttons and
curled their hair and fed them candy
between meals while their mother was
down East visiting her sick relative.
The candy was only the stick pep
permint kind, with pink stripes that
swerved around it till you were dizzy.
It stayed on a top shelf, which also
made you dizzy.
The little girls climbed upon the step
ladder to get some more from the top
shelf. Dressmakers should keep
candy on the cutting table or sewing
machine.
Something slipped. Maybe it was
the step ladder. It wasn't the candy,
for the little girls had that in their
hands when' they were picked up.
They also had a sprained ankle and a
broken arm. They cried, for the dress
maker and for the mother who was
down East visiting a sick relative.
Then, in spite of the broken arm and
the sprained ankle, while they cried,
"Oh," said the one with the sprained
ankle, "Now, we'll go to the hospital
and be the children that we visit."
"Oh, goody!" cried the one wiih the
broken arm. "W ll be operated."
So, when the dressmaker, hurrying
upstairs, found them, they said with
one accord, "Do, dear dressmaker, take
us around the corner to the hospital."
The poor worried dressmaker
thought of the mother down East vis
iting a sick relative. She thought, too,
of the father on his way to bring her
home. She borrowed a baby carriage,
and two little girls were soon put to
bed in two pretty white cots. The
Children's ward of the hospital held
new patients. Convalescent children
wheeled by in rolling chairs. Some al
most ready for home, walked up to
ask questions.
"Were you both operated?" "Have
you been run over?" "Diu you have a
growth behind your nose as big as a
dollar?" "Nurse says I'm her talking
machine." "Did you bring some new
playthings?" "Let's all play opera
tion." Then the boy with the bandaged foot
pretends to chlorforni with an ato
mizer. As each little cot bound child
pretends to come under its influence, a
transfer picture is pasted on its hand,
and the operation is over.
Two-little girls In a hospital.
' The mother down east visiting a sick
relative.
A sprained ankle and a broken arm
mending fast.
A poor distressed dressmaker calling
each, day at the hospital and finding
two very joyful children.
Hurry home, mother, visiting your
sick relative. Mother shocked that
your two. little daughters are in the
hospital.
Two little girls with a happy exper
ience. Two little girls wheeled home in a
baby carriage. Christian Register.
Jimmy's First Sunday in Church.
Jimmy was three years old. He lived
with his parents in a pretty country
town, and what he desired more than
anything else in the world every time
Sunday morning came around, was to
go to church. He did net know what a
church was, nor why the people went
there, but he wtiJkpered and sometimes
even howled when he saw his papa and
m&jnma so out of the gate on their
way to church, his mamma wearing
her pretty gown and tf&nnet, ar.tl his
papa in his shining black clothes and
his tall hat glistening in tho sun. But
when, he begged to go with them bis
mamma always said: "Jimmy is too
little; when he is bigger and older he
shall go with us every Sunday."
And Jimmy hoped that in a very
short time he would be as big as his
father, then he could go to church and
would no" longer be obliged to stay at
home with Nora. Nora was the girl
who cooked the dinner and who always
said: "Sure ye must have a clane face
be the toim the folks will be comin'
home," and, seizing him by the arm,
she would wash his face, rubbing his
nose uphill and filling his eyes with
soapsuds.
But one Sunday morning something
happened, Nora said she was going to
a picnic and must go before dinner.
Jimmy knew what a picnic was, for he
had attended one, and he wondered if
Nora, too, would play high-spy, and
make herself sick eating cake. Mam
ma said: "Nora you cannot go to the
picnic today; there will be no one to
stay with Jimmy."
"Small difference does that make to
me," replied Nora. "I've promised me
frins, and to the picnic I'll be goin'.
Ye can take Jimmy to church wid ye."
"Oh, no!" said mamma. "He is such
a chatterbox he would be sure to talk.
He could not posibly keep still."
"I want to go! Iwant to go-o-o!"
howled Jimmy.
Finally mamma said: "Very well,
you may go, since there is no other'
way."
Nora remained long enough to dress
Jimmy, though she was in such a hurry
that she not only rubbed his nose the
wrong way and filled his eyes with
suds, but she pulled his curls so hard
in combing his hair that he would have
cried had he not been so happy.
When the church bells all over the
town began to ring Jimmy started out
with his papa and mamma, holding a
hand of each, and stepping high, for
he felt very proud.
"Now, remember, Jimmy," said
mamma, "you must be very quiet; you
must not say one word in the church;
do you hear me?"
"Yes, mamma."
"No one talks in church; it is very
wrong to do so," she added.
"Would a big wolf eat 'em up if they
did?" asked Jimmy, who remembered
the wolf that ate up Red Ridinghood.
Mamma paused to speak to a friend and
did not hear him, but he felt sure her
answer would have been "Yes."
What a lot . of people there were in
the church! He tried to stand up in
the pew and look at them, but mam
ma seized him and sat him down again
a good deal quicker than was at all
pleasant. It was very quiet; Jimmy
wondered what would happen next.
Pretty soon he saw his Aunt Dolly
come in and take a seat across the
aisle. He was very fond of his Aunt
Dolly. She lived out in the country
and she brought Jimmy something
nice every time she came to town.
Sometimes it was a big, shining red
apple, sometimes it was a bag of hick
ory nuts, and only yesterday she had
brought a delightful gingerbread man
with two currants for eyes and a. piece
of cinnamon bark for a cigar. Jimmy
had eaten him all up even to the eyes,
and his cigar, and had wished that the
gingerbread man had a twin brother,
that he might have eaten him also.
Aunt Dolly looked at him and smil
ed and Jimmy smiled back at her.
Then a horrible thought struck him.
Perhaps Aunt Dolly did not know that
it was wrong to talk in church! What
if she should say something to him as
she seemed to want to do? Then the
wolf in the flapping, night cap, as he
had seen it in one of his books at home
would come and eat Aunt Dolly all
up! Jimmy's mind was instantly made
up.
"Aunt Dolly," he called out in his
high shrill voice, "you mustn't talk in
church, or the wolf'll eat you."
A good many people looked around
and smiled. Papa frowned, and mam
ma whispered to Jimmy to be quiet.
A tall man now went up some steps
at the end of the room and people sang.
Then baskets were passed around with
money in them. Papa put in a piece
and Jimmy wanted to take out a bright
new dime, but the basket went past so
rapidly that he did not have a chance
to get it. Pretty soon the tall man be
gan to talk, which was wrong, Jimmy
thought and he called out:
"If you talk like that the wolff'll
get you; he will swallow you all
down!"
Then papa took his little boy in his
arms and carried him out of doors and
back home and Jimmy did not attend
church again for a long time. Chica
go Record-Herald.
The Small Boy's rian.
"Willie," she said, "if you eat any
more of those preserves I'll give you
a whipping."
"You wouldn't whip a sick boy,
would you?" he asked pathetically.
"Of course not."
"Then I'll eat enough to make me
sick." Chicago Post.
A full grown elephant can carry
three tons on its back.
SUFFERED 25 YEARS
With Catarrh of tha Stomach
Pe-ru-na Cured.
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Congressman uotmn, 01 winneia, nan.
In a recent letter to Dr. Ilartman Con
gressman Botkin says:
"My Dear Doctor It gives me pleasure
to certify to the excellent curative quali
ties of your medicines Peruna and Mana
lin. I have been afflicted more of less for
a quarter of a century with catarrh of the
stomach and constipation. A residence in
Washington has increased these troubles.
A few bottles of your medicine have given
me almost complete relief, and I am sure
that a continuation of them will effect a
permanent cure." J. D. Botkin.
'Mr. L. F. Verdery, a prominent real es
tate agent, of Augusta, Ga., writes:
" 1 have been a great sufferer from
catarrhal dyspepsia. I tried many
physicians, visited a good many
springs, but I believe Peruna has
done more or me than all of the
above put together. 1 feel like a new
person." L. F. Verdery,
The most common form of summer ca
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generally known as dyspepsia. Peruna
cures these cases like magic.
If you do not derive prompt and satis
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"It's a shame! exclaimed Meander
ing Mike, as he tossed the piece of
newspaper from him.
"What was you readin about?
asked Plodding Pete.
"Dese donations by Andrew Car
negie. It's a shame to be spendin so
much money for libraries when dey
orter be buyin' cook books fur some o.
dese jails we haye to stop at." Wash-;
lngton Star.
"They asked me to their reception,"
said the girl with the two-story pom-,
padour, "but it wasn't because they
like me. It was because I can sing.,
"Oh, I'm sure you're mistaken,
said the other girl, impulsively?
Chicaso Tribune.
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