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CLOAK MODEL STEPS INTO VENUS' SHOES, BODICE, ETC, AND FINDS A PERFECT FIT. Leveling Uur Fopuiauon By Carlyle Ellis 9 N EW lines of transportation are being established direct from i i7 ,.oiifvirisr somewhat. European to Guir ports, mus aua, ' Z" nrpcthn and promising greater relief in the future to the consest on of our principal Atlantic ports of entry. The German popu lation in Texas is already great, though now the immigrant seeks the new country overland, whereas in the neat future the immigrant entries at New York may be expected to be reduced and those of Galveston and New Orleans in- ceased even more greatly tnan oi wio. With regard to the distribution of newly arrived immigrants, the figures of the Burean of Immigration show that of the 1.200,000 immigrants who passed through Ellis Island in 1906, about thirty percent were destined tor New York state, and most of these for the metropolitan district, twenty p cent for Pennsylvania, seven percent each for Illinois and Massachusetts, ana five and one-half percent for New Jersey and Ohio. This would seem to indicate a considerable congestion. But it must be taken into consme a tion that the immigration statistics do not take into account the great num r who stay in New York only long enough to discover where they may go, oi to earn enough for their passage to agricultural districts. New orw Js l" clearing house, and already there are large movements at work to diaw ir It the newly-arrived labor so badly needed in the mills of the Soutn, on ine railroads of the Southwest, in the wheat fields of the great Pja,nw?e.1it,1, there is capital and undeveloped resources. From "Leveling Our Population, in National Magazine. D i Dishonesty a Fine jg? Art j? ty John Wesley Hill. ISHONESTY is not the coarse and vulgar thing it used to be, but it has become a sort of fine art. The arrests which have occurred during the last week cf bank wreckers in New York city, and arrects which should yet be made of criminals in high places, testify to the prevalence and power of this spirit in our midst, a snirit which seeks to acquire wealth at any price, and which exalts money above manhood. Dishonesty is not the coarse and vulgar thing it used to be. it nas utwuit A sort of fine art. Mien are called"smart" whom our fathers would have branded with infamy. Glowing descriptions are given of transactions that are con sciencelesstransactions which in their coarser aspects are held up to execration, but when arrayed in gorgeous plumage and domiciled in stately, mansions and credentialized by high counding titles and perpetrated by Md glove gentlemen escape public condemnation and are not infrequently greeted with euology and applause! Moneymaking is legitimate. Poverty is not piety. The accumulation ot wealth is a divine command. The theory that it is necessary to be im pecunious in order to be sanctified is a fanatical absurdity, but the purpose to be rich at any price is the policy of perdition. $ Country Must tLXter 1 i ruinate The Great Injustices That &3 Permit Swollen Fortunes. Miss Kathorine M. Eergsr, tho Cloak Model, Who Has Been Declared to Be a Perfect Specimen of Physical Womanhood. Skirt Guard. One of the nuisances in connec tion v.ith propelling a baby carriage or go-cart, as every mother knows, Is the impossibility of preventing the skirts coming in contact with the dirty wheels; consequently, in time ruining it. How easily thi3 can be By The Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden. T is idle to hide from ourselves the fact that we are facing a f social crisis. A social order which makes possible the ns- t of a Harriman or a Rockefeller cannot long endure. . The swollen fortunes over which many are gloating are t symptoms of disease. They are not the reward of social service, but are the fruit of plunder, a society wmuu it erates such conditions cannot live. It is because we have some dim conception of this truth that we are moving toward the correction by law of v.'a r.iir.t rvtprrr.'nnfp them. And the Christian church, while the powers of plunder have been heap ing up their spoils, for the most part has been twiacimg uer wu"". wondering whether she had any call to interfere. Indeed, slie has gathered into her communion many of the most conspic uous of the parpetrators of the injustices they are nearly all church mem bersand has. made herself a pensioner upon their bounty. The church's consequent enfeeblement is due to her failure to grapple with the task assigned her. Let her address herself to that with faith and courage, and she wHl soon find her resources returning. t ! :-:- .;. these injustices. o SI The Servant Problem Solved Cy Edward Carpenter, Thinker and Sociologist. N the whole, and for habitual use," he says, "I do not know what can be pleasanter or more nourishing than the cer eals, milk, eggs, cheese, bread, butter, vegetables, and fruits of all kinds, and they seem to me to stand by one for hard work and endurance better than flesh. Excellent dishes can be compounded of these materials, though prob ably the less of cooking there is the better. I am convinced there is a most abominable and Idiotic waste of time in con nection with this subject in all our well-to-do establish ments. Fancy a small household of five or six persons requiring a cook, i. e., a person engaged all day in preparing food for them. It is out of all reason. The crihodox dinner, reduced even to its lowest terms, involves, say, meat, two vegetables, and a pudding four dishes, all requiring cooking. The labor this irprcsents per annum, and just for one meal a day, is something fearful. And it i3 not a comfoi table meal; let alone the disagreeable smells Involved in its preparation smells which necessitate sitting rooms being a long way from kitchens and houses altogether more extensive and cumbrous than they jieed be it is a meal having no centre of gravity; you cannot for the life of you toil the proper proportion these dishes bear to each other. Would it not be better to have just one dish (like the family bowl seen in Highland cabins and elsewhere), one dish combining in itself all needful qualities cf nutrition and tastiness, with perhaps a few satellite platters around for any adjuncts or cif-els that might seem appropriate? This cen tral dish ftho cn!y one requiring immediate cookery), say some golden-orbed substantial cir.et cr vast vegetable pie, or savory a.nd nutritious soup, or solid expanse of macaroni and cheese, or steaming mountain of rice surround ed by steKed fruit, or even plain bowl of fermenty, would represent the sun ct cent; a! f.re cf our system, while round it in planetary order would circle such otiici- viaals as would give the housewife a minimum of troubie to pro vide chunks of tread and cheese, tigs, raisins, oatmeal cakes, fresh fruit or what not. Hero would no second relay of plates be necessary, and victuals which could net face each other on the tablo would not be forced into spiteful con flict within the man. Even the knife and fork would almost disappear, wash ing up would tccome an affair of a few minutes, and the housewife's work Lefoie ami after dinner be reduced to a trifie compared with what it is now. For it mu&t Lo remembered that with this whole matter hangs the question of woman's work. Woman is a slave, and must remain so as long as ever our present domestic system is maintained. I &ay that our average mode of life, as conceived uuder tho bourgeois ideal of society, cannot be kept up without perpetratinT the slavery of woman. It is quite probable tbat In the mass sho will resist the change, but it may have to come nevertheless. Russian Parallel to the Druce Case. The Graud Duke Nicholas Mikhall ovitch has lately issued In St. Peters burg a little work entitled "The Legend of Alexander I. in Siberia." One find3 in it curious parallels to the sensational mystery which Mr. Plow den is endeavoring to unravel. Thus, like the fifth Duke of Portland, the Czar Alexander I. 'is alleged to have led a double life and also to have arranged a bogus funeral of himself. The story has long been firmly cred ited by the middle and lower classes in Russia, and it has even received a measure of countenance from the best of Alexander's biographers, Gen eral Schilders. Of this legend the Grand Duke has made a careful study, with the result that he shows conclusively by documentary and other evidence that it is a legend and nothing more. Daily Graphic. avoided is shown by a Michigan man who has invented a skirt guard for the purpose. The guard is very simplj in construction, consisting of a pair of wheel fenders in the form of a quarter-circle. These fenders are supported on brackets which ex tend from the body of the baby car riage and from the axle. They are positioned just back of the rear wheels. Instead of the skirt brush ing against the wheel, it strikes tho fender or guard, being thus protected from the dirt which naturally ad heres to the tires of the wheel, Washington Star. Adjustable Handle. Woodworkers will be interested in' a folding drawing knife recently in vented by two Ohio men. The draw ing knife, as shown in the illustra- ! tion, has folding bandies, capable of adjustment to a number of different positions. The knife cai be folded inwardly to a position entirely out of the "way, directly over the cutting edge of the knife blade, so that the knife can be handled in perfect safetj when not in use. It occupies but little space when placed in a tool chest and there is no danger of injuring the cutting edge. The constructior Still Master of His Fate. When Learoyd, in the natural ups and downs of a literary career, went into a cheap very cheap New York restaurant for dinner, and found Da vol in a waiter's apron, ho was auiazeu uavo:, me cleverest ieaow Ail iuc; tiaoo "You don't mean," stammered Lea royd, "that you have come down to this?" "Come down?" repeated Davol. "I don't dine here, Learoyd. I merely wait." Youth's Companion. CLOSED. 0 The Interviewed. A stranger approached a little girl who was somewhat accustomed to in terviews with the usual question, "What's your name, little girl?" The little girl, without looking up from her sand pie, replied: "My name is Edith, and I'm four. She's my little sister; her name's Mildred and she's two. I don't want to go with you and be your little girl, and I know you can't steal my little sis ter." Harper's Weekly. also admits of the handles being set at right angles, and at other angles, giving the workman a wide range of adjustment, and making It possible to set the handles in positions best suited for special kinds of work. The means for locking the several ad justments assures rigidity, it being impossible for the handles to slip. Of Boston's new Aldermen one 13 a reporter, ono a banker, one a car penter and another a blacksmith. Machinery That Ran the Clermont. tjj' ( New York City. Such an attrac tive blouse waist as this one is sure to find Its welcome from any normal minded girl, for pretty clothes are as essential to youthful happiness as 13 ml fiWu the sunshine. In this instance plaid taffeta is trimmed with velvet bands and combined with a chemisette of simple all-over lace, but the blouso can be utilized for a great many ma- Fancy Collar, Jabot and Bow, "j All eorts of pretty and dainty nefci; wear is being worn Just now and there is always a demand for fresh' designs. Here U an altogether ajg tractive stock and very charming J$. bot and two bows, any or all of vrHlcji can b utilized both for personal t&eji and for gifts. In the illustration tjh jabot with bow Ismadeof filet net wit$ trimming of Valenciennes lacs wh3 on separate bow is made of lirUy lawn daintily embroidered by band and the other is made of sheer, flLg French cotton lawn with trimmlils: of lace insertion and medallions. Tt)$ etock collar is cut after the new$ style, which is higher at the bacj$ than at the front, and as illustrate is made of tho coarse mesh filet net ovorlaid with soutache in a simpi design and with folds of blue silk d top and bottom. All the pretty trifle3, however, can be varied almost, indefinitely. For the jabot net, fin lawn, chiffon and all-over lace all ar( appropriate while the bows can bg mad 3 of almost any pretty, dalntjf material, and the stock allows ampl opportunity for the exercise of ii$ dividual taste, and ingenuity. Th middle portion could be made of a heavy applique or of embroidered bands of braid or of a dozen othjr It is interesting to contrast thi3 picture of the crude machinery with which Robert Fulton successfully ran the Clermont a hundred years ago with the present-day engines of our transatlantic liners. The picture is from Technical Literature. . UCm I terials and in a number of ways. It Js just as appropriate for the en tire dresses as it Is for the separate waist and it can be made from almost any seasonable material. Crepe de Chine, louisine and taffeta are favor ite silks for the separate blouse, but for entire dresses the plaid taffetas, veilings, cashmeres and light colored broadcloths all are being used, while the model is adapted to each and all. The tucks are arranged after a most becoming manner and the littjo chemisette always gives an air of ex quisite daintiness. It could be of lace, of tucked silk or of lingerie ma terial as liked. Again, the sleeves can be either long or in three-quarter length so that the model seems to fulfill a great many requirements. The collar can be made with the new points back of the ears or straight as may be found more becoming. The blouse is made J with tho smoothly fitted lining and Itself con sists ofsfront and backs. The chemi sette is faced onto the lining and its edge3 are concealed by the shaped trimming band. The long sleeves aro gathered into deep cuffs, the three-quarter ones into bands, Tho quantity of material required for the sixteen year eize Is three and five-eighth yards twenty-one or twenty-four, three j ard3 twenty-seven or one and three-quarter yards forty four inches wide with one-half yard of all-over lace and one-half yard of silk or velvet for the trimming. Gray and Black Cont. The note of harmony between a gray skirt and black coat is struck in the gray braid trimmings of the coat. things that would easily suggest themselves. The jabot consists of just one piece laid in pleats on indicated lines. The bows are made in one piece each "witn little cross over portions and the Etock consists ot the foundatlbover Ill ill which tho net and the silk are arranged on indicated lines. The quantity of material required for the jabot is ene-half yard of ma terial eighteen or twenty-one inches wide with one and five-eighth yards of insertion and two and one-half yards of edging; for either bow one eighth yard eighteen or twenty-one inches wide with three-elghtk yari? of insertion and three-quarter yaru of edging for the square bow; for tfc collar one-eighth yard any width wit', one-half yard of silk for the folds." There are vest3 that end at C waist line, and others above it. (
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