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to amilax orasjraragus in draping
rooms or to parsley or lettuce lesqes on
the table. •
To keep moths from ru,s or carpets
sprinkle well with salt, then wipe with
a cloth dampened With warm water
having spirits of turpentime added in
the proportion of a spoonful to every
quart of water.
A small aquarium, with fish, rock
work and green sea weeds makes one of
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1 Folks to Share Their Joys Unselfishly, but
the Wise Husband or Wife Will Be Equally
together of various laces to form one
attractive whole.
This crossover style of bodice appears
on many of the handsomest gowns.
The material is, of course, always of
the thinnest texture, and the" fullness
is closely gatherod at the shoulder
seams and then folded over the breast.
To a slender woman this style is very
becoming, and the veilings which are
now so popular lend themselves per-
fectly to.such an arrangement. Now
that bridge is the rage of Paris the
most wonderful little coatees are being
created in w hi li fol l une | may be won
or lost. Home of these in hand painted
gauss inset with fine lace are things
of great beauty—for instance, one com-
posed of silver gauze mounted on ac-
cordion plaited white chiffon. Branches
of mimosa are exquisitely painted on
the loose fronts and short, wide sleeves,
and there is a deep cape of chiffon covr
erod with narrow frills of valencinnes.
The coatee is set in box plaits at the
back and through these plaits a sash of
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To clean all sorts of brass ornament!
wash them over with strong ammonia,
using a brush to scrub the embossed
and otherwise wrought parts. Rinse in
clear water, wipe dry and polish with a
leather.
Lnbels on Jars.
The label on a glass jar will keep
clean and in place longer if pasted an
the inside. Of course this only applies
where dry materials are used, such as
rice, tapioca, etc. I
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Many of these sun kissed heads have
beep crowned at the theater lately
with hats made of Irlande after. the
manner of the celebrated peaddresz
presenjed to Miss Alice Roosevelt 0>
the occasion of her marriage. Several
of these hats were mounted on silvel
wire frames and in pne pretty instanct
the beret crown yas composed entirely
of yellow roses,. th lace brim being
very wide and, turned up sharply at
the back. Under the upturned brim,
resting on the hafr, there was a flat
bow of black satin ribbon, the ends
fringed with silver. These transparent
potur.hats will be in great favor as
the season advances, and already I have
seen them in the exclusive ateliers in
tinted laces of delicate hue.
CATHERINE TALBOT.
the meet interesting and decorative or-
naments that can be put in a summer
cottage, and they are easily cared for
and so inexpensive that the average
housewife wi find them a delight to
Mrs. Settz has.paid the mortgage : of the plantgrow in her home.
and has some money in the bank be- it is an easier matter than most Wo-
l men realize to become a thorough go-
the waist line in front. It is a pic-
turesque garment, and the blouse un-
derneath Ih of palest lemon yellow,
softly folded in front and opening very
modestly over a guimpe of silvei i
it seems rather absurd to talk of
fashions in complexion and hair, but
to look natural is not always the same
thing as to act natural. To bo quite
up to date one must have sun kissed
hair: a creamy, golden'complexion; no
touch of pink on the checks, but a
healthy glow all over the face. I have
heard, but cannot vouch for the truth
of it, that a constant use of olive oil
gives the skjn a golden tint. Without
doubt olive oil, especially when mixed
with cognac, is a good tonic for most
skins. but beyond this I cannot speak
with authority.
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things, ahd charming little morning
suits are of these shades? A particu-
larly stunning little suit of string linen
is made with a two piece circular skirt
lald in three box plkits dow n the 11
width. Above the deephem is a wide
band of heavy string colored lace. This
lace trims the short pony jacket and
appears on the sleeves, not only at the
elbow, but is inset halfway up the
sleeve length.
Very smart is a gray linen, and, by
the way, this once despised somber
gray linen is one of Dame Fashion’s
favorites this summer and is being
made up in alb nuances of this color.
But to return to the gray linen gown
in question, a simple frock is built on
princess lines with plaits defining the
waist. The short jacket has a waist-
coat and semicufs of gray linen em-
broidered in dull Persian colors.
The elaborate lingerie gown is going
to create lots of envy, hatred, and all
uncharitbleness among the fair sex
this' season. The possession of one of
these frocks heavily inset with laces
and elegantly embroidered is as much
prized in the summer wardrobe as a
string-, of perfectly matched pearls.
Heirlooms in the form of priceless
pieces of lace that by their erstwhile
owners were only brought out to grace
a court function are recklessly squan-
dered on the lingerie afternoon gown.
A lovely dress of this genre is of while
linen incrusted with Valenciennes lace.
The bodice is crossed by a fichu of old
world tints of cashmere taffeta in fad-
ed blues and greens edged with a nar-
row green fringe.
Whole dresses of valenclennes, re-
lieved by rather heavy laces such as
fine Irish cluny and motifs of guipure,
are among the future elegant toilets
promised us. But the present favorite
fancy work erazy patchwork pales into
insignificance before the mosaic piecing
not only clean and dry but slightly
warm so that the parafi will enter
the pores of the wood,
Mme. Fmm Eames gives golden ad+,
vice to gifts who think they have sing-
ing voices. She tells them not to rush
off to Europe till they are dead sure, f
through several years’ training in
America., that they possess voices
which are the "true instrument."
The odor of lemon verbena is delici-
ously spicy, and many wonder why it
by concealment, you simply add to her
unhappiness, or, rather, you cause an
unhappiness she would not have felt at
all. in most cases, had she known the
truth. My boy, let ine give you one
pointer good and strong. Don’t have
any secrets-from your wife. Whatever
your troubles may be don't tell them
to the policeman, but tke them home
with you and unload them on the little
woman there who has a marvelous ca-
pacity for absorbing such things and
giving in exchange a comfort nobody
there is any- Let out yur sorrows,
thing wrong, ho
told me, and he really believed what he
said. Nrs, McIntosh was a society Wo-
sides. Shows what a-mother can do.
to be unloaded at the office, and they
hav to be curried home. If you keek
them' up in your heart they will, of
course, go back with you nqxtday, and,
like all noxious things, Hey grow
faster in darkness. Talk them over
with Anna May, and if they don’t dis-
appear entirely they will shrivel up in
Mohair suits ate most practical for
general wear. Either in checks cr
plain, the material is the most serv-
iceable.
Mrs. Mary Bolts of Mount Gilead. O.f
g widow with three young children,
supporta herself and them by operat-
ing an old grist mill that was all her
husband had to leave her when he dled
tnree years ago. It was mortgaged at
society is so much in love with the J -
perfume that she seldom goes abroad <
without a spray nr two of verbena ant colors among the newest cloths, but
among the violets she wears. She has.
You will feel your chest bulging out
again.
her and don't belittle or make fun of
her. Under the influence of your sym-
pathetic and loving Interest her trou-
bles vanish with Uh* narration, and she
is in a proper mental frame to spend
a happy evening with you nnd lo be-
Kin the next day stronger and braver.
Talk It All Over.
It is the same way with you and
your worries. A man ought to be able
tn drop most of his troubles when he
drops his. work. That is one of the
elements of manhood. But there are
som that are too big or too intimate
sympathy and my help; but, my dear -
boy. I and your mother are no longer
your best friends. There is one who j
is closer now than we, one who is or
should be your other self and from
whom you should have no secrets.
If by keeping your troubles to your-
self you could spare her trouble it
would be all right, although, for rea-
sons which I shall explain later, I do
not think it the best way even then.
But you cannot keep your troubles to
yourself. .. Woman's love has a keen- 1
1 . r perceptton that is suy el human.
She can detect the slightest physical
or mental variation from the normal
in the object of her love. Hhe knows
that you are sick or worried almost be-
fore you realize II yourself. How she
knows it I do not attempt to explain,
but my experience has taught me that
it is useless to try to conceal such
things from your mother. No matter
how free from pain or care I may pre-
tend to be she detects the false? note in-
stantly. and my observation leads me
to believe this faculty is a universal
treasured will sometimes be found lo
have deteriorated in this way. They
loso their glow and in some instances
become almost black. Pearl necklaces
never keep so well as when they are
constantly on the necks of their own-
ers.
"It has been Buggested that personal
influences have something to do with
trio matter, but I think It is more likely
that the effect is due to light and air.
You can wear pearls practically os long
as you like—certainly for ffty yars-
and they would give no indication ol
change, and you might lock pearls up,
and perhaps in twenty years they would
show signs of ‘dying.’ There are, how-
ever, ways of resuscitating pearls, but
the fact that they ‘die’ is quite clear."
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Keep Your Pearls Alive.
"Pearls should be worn frequently te
preserve them," sald an expert. 'Ti
you take n peari necklace and lock It
waved from the top rail for many a
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quite as much penurious economy in
our midst today as there is of the wild
extravagance one hears so much about,
but one is not so interested in the for-
mer, and when, carried to excess the
results, I think, of excessive economy
in the long run are quite as deleterious
as those of "modern extravagance."
In the ateliers there is being fought a
fierce battle of styles, and if the crisis
is not reached soon a peace congress of
couturleres will be in order. The em-
pire, the 1830 period, and the third em-
pire rival each other in ruling fashions.
Paquin is at the head of the empire
renaissance, La Ferriere persistently
pushes the 1830 modes, while Beers is
as persuasive in foisting upon us the
Eugenie styles. I never knew such
fanciful variety as one seek at the mo-
ment here at the capital, but to be
strictly truthful the empire mode leads
all the rest. In other years a fashion
was started at the beginning of a sea-
son and, whether becoming or not, was
adopted. We have changed all that,
and certainly the reform is a good one,
for is there anything more odious to
the artistic eye than the monotonous
uniformity of presenting dozens and
dozens of times the same type, however
pretty it be? The dressmaker who In
one season turned out 165 dresses of
the same model for women, different in
form and beauty, is now, thank the
powers that be, a thing of the past.
The smart woman of the "now" boasts
of having artistic talents. Writing,
painting or music takes up part of her
time. She is no longer a graceful
pretty doll clothed and adorned by her
dressmaker and milliner. She asserts
her rights of having tastes of her own
and ofdressing according to her own
styl6 of beauty,.and she succeeds per-
fectly in achieving her desire.
At Carlier’s, in the Rue de la I’aix,
she is asserting some of her individual
supply one of Not golng to tet
you
their own. Nat- put her on the shelf. ■
urally the im-
aginary trouble is much bigger and
more terrible than the real one. The
visions a. woman can conjure up under
such circumstances are seen by man
only in the throesof a Welsh rabbit
nightmare. So, Instead of protecting her
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and sounds. But the calf both saw
and heard him.' It became excited,
made a desperate effort to dash around
the deacon and, of course, struck him
square in the solar plexus. The dea-
men are bothered to death, though they
rarely confess it. Of course one in
supposed to have a maid; but, whether
one is possessed of this doubtful treas-
ure or not, some one must be at hand
ready and waiting to perorm the
menial service, if it’s only a husband
or stray brother. Speaking from pain-
ful experience, these obliging person-
ages are seldom in the right place at
the psychological moment. It is a very
unfortunate thing that buttons and
hooks up the back are so dificult to
deal with since the human arm was
made like a crabs claw, for, as you all
know, you may catch a crab by the
back—that is, the shell—and the stout-
est and sharpest claws are rendered ab-
solutely impotent. Wouldn't if bo love-
ly if one's elbow' could also bend the
reverse way, to say nothing of one’s
shoulders?. But it is useless to wish
for impossibilities; only I dp wish that
fashion would decree that most of our
blouses and gowns might fasten up the
front. 4
Linen frocks this summer are going
to be qufteasmuch of a sensation aw
they were last year and quite as elab-
orate in their detail. The possibili-
ties of the "tub’’ are only apparent in
the material, for the general makeup
puts them out of the running all to-
gether. Even when these linens are
evolved into coats and coat suits a visit
to the laundress is a precarious trip
unless one has the wisdom to insist
upon a gored skirt and a short bolero
or cape affair. The new linens are, un-
like most of the smart materials, with-
out the least suspicion oft a gloss oy
chiffon finish. In fact, they are dull al-
most to the point of stupidity. White
linen is not reigning, supreme by any
means, and there are any number of
soft, attractive colors to vary the mo-
notony of an all white scheme, string
colored and buff linens are 'the modish
Here's the Appliedtion.
I recall this incident simply to illus-
trate the point I made in the beginning
that good motives don't always pan
out good results. That calf aimed right
and was doing its level best to go right
There are a lot of people just like my
boytime pet, except that their stra-
bismus is mental and not necessarily
permanent. Now you come to me
with your little troubles, which you
think are big ones, and say you don’t
want your wife to know anything about
them because you don't want her to
have any worries that you can'shield
her from. I am giad to have you bring
me your trouble^, glad to give you my
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wnnn who knew how to burn money ag
rapidly and as thoroughly as anybody I
• ever saw, and she seemed to enjoy it.
Johnny had always kept her supplied
with cash, but she knew no more about
his affairs than a rabbit. He told me
he would rather kill himself than tell
her, but Johnny was no cowyard, and he
faced the music like a little man. What
sending you back to work with a lighter
heart and a stronger right arm. I will
admit that she may not be able to re-
sist the temptation to say, "I told you
so," but that is woman’s prerogative and
doesn't anodynes any less ef-
fective, unless you spoil it all by flying
off the handle like a chump. No mat-
ter how great your sorrows, no matter
how grave your difficulties, she can and
will give you help, and in the helping
she will herself be strengthened. Hhe
doesn’t have to go off by herself and
mope over imaginary ills. Hhe has
something tangible to-evpose, and it
gives her a certain happiness to be
permitted to stand by you even in your
troubes, to feel that she is your trusted
comrade.
It’s Effort Wasted.
It doesn't pay, my boy, to treat a wo-
man of this day and generation as a
child. She knows too much to fill that
role with satisfaction to herself or to
chiffons.
To return to my lament, the con-
scientiously economical woman is to
be pitied. She always thinks it waste-
ful to spend money on mere enjoyment.
% Most of her waking hours are spent.in
i calculating mentally how much it will
' cost to do what she wants to do. how
I much she will save by not doing it, and
| by training herself to dispense with all
; the superfluous trifles that make the
\ lives of most women worth living. She
■ gradually develops. I reckon, an ex-
J . cellent head for arithmetic, but at the
expense of a capaqity for enjoyment.
• I never could see what there was in
rigid economy for people' to go into a
i state of moral delirium tremens over.
| B is an ennobling theory probably, but
1 demoralizing in practice. There is
yellow with just a suspielon of pink
that is found on the inside of the ba-
nana skin that claims most attention.
In a silky cloth it has numbers of de-
lightful shades, any of which can We
chosen for the hat to be worn at the
same time
A cutting oL-paroffn over the nside
of a wooden pall in which butter is
packed will prevent the contents from
absorbing any of the taste of the wood.
To get the best results have the pall
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accompaniment of
feminine, but
much more
keen in the
woman than in
the man.
Worry Made to
Order.
With this per-
ception the ma-
jority of wo-
men unite a
most vivid Im-
agination, arid
therefore when
the cause of
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lars.
Don’t tell your troubles to the policeman,
con came down to earth doubled yp like
a jackknife, and his language when he
recovered Ids breath was not of the
kind we expect to hear in "the happy
land of Canaan." Luckily for Deacon
Norcross, there were no'memnbers of his
congregation within hearing, and
luckily for me there was a high fence
in reach. A section of my trousers
do you suppose that woman did when
he told her? No, she didn't have a fill
she threw her arms around his neck
a I cried, "Oh, Johnny, is that all?"
Hhe had known he was in trouble all
the time, and her secret grief had been
greater than his. The truth wan a re-
lief. and she sailed in and helped him
out of the hole. Ho told me just the
other day that his failure was the
greatest blessing df his life, because II
forced, him to get really acquainted
with Mrs. Mcntosh, and you can bet
your old hat he tells her everything he
knows now. .
Open your mouth, John, open your
mouth, and let out your sorrows. Give
Anna May a. chance ‘to show the gold
that's in her. You needn’t be afraid of
the result. I w-’rant you She'll stand
any test, and as your confidence in
each other grows bo will youf love and
your happiness. Your affectionate dad,
JOHN SNEED.
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else can ever hand,
out to you. She is
a wonderful al-
chemist, this-lttle-
woman. You give
her rusty iron, and
she gives you gold,
twenty-four carat
fine. She has a
way of making
trouble look like
thirty cents and
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out his woes. He didn’t cre so much
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did for the grief ITo5- (Ha/iKg-
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his wife. HeEEg
had been strut- /Adn :hIN
Kling along for 0-"y)4 1}3
months trying "(1/
to weather the L-
current and all “
the time put- pf
ting-up- a amH— -
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wife. "Hhe does I
not even dream —-V,
hove In her horie. .
Pink whadinga in millinery err ax:
qutaite. Soritehow » peculiar blehrnioss
or color le kot this year In plume ot
wing or straw, which hat" seemed
lacking before. And pink promless W
be popular in dress this summer,
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VARIS, April 21. — There are
1.o> many dismal things in life, but
I don’t think there is anything
more woefully dismal than
having to bo thoroughly economical,
especially at this season of the year,
when the Paris shops would make a
stoic envious of their wares. But was
there ever a feminine stoic or philoso-
pher? The unpleasantness of thrift
came home to. me wch more than usual
force after a visit yesterday to the Con-
court Hippique, which is being held at
the Palais des Champs Elysees. The
costumes worn at this contest for the
Prix Intrnationaux were dreams of
chicness culled from all the best fash-
ion eras in artorial history, and so
frightfully .extravagant were these cov-
eted "creations" that even a mild con-
jecture of the "demnition total" made
one dizzy. At Longchamps and Au-
teull the variable weather has prevent-
ed so far much of a display, of spring
finery,i but-at the Indoors Equine ex-
hibition the weather man could do his
worst without damaging results to
OF INTEREST TO DOMESTIC, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY WOMEN. ! Arewonve an a monusthouda
your mind’s eye, you will feel your
chest bulging ot again, your curving
backbone will stralghten out nnd you
can go back to your office the next
morning as fit as a prize fighter when
the bell rings. What matters trpublew
with the woman of your love by your
side? They are but the handicaps
which give zest to the contest.
When Johnny McIntosh went to the
wall in ‘93 he came lo mo and poured
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action, and a mannish woman or a
sissy are equally unnatural and ab-
horrent. The equality I mean is the
equality of social and domestic posi-
tion, the equality of authority, the
equality of Interest and the equality of
consideration. The granting of such
equality makes a finer woman and a
better and happier wife, ad that is
the only kind of equality 90 per cent
of her sex desires.
It is in the swapping of trouble that
equality of interest shows its greatest
value. There was never a man or never
a woman who didn't have troubles of
some sort, big or little, mostl? little,
and there was never a man or never a
woman who didn't gebrrel laved by let-
ting them out, provided he had some-
body to talk to in whose confidence and
sympathy he could rely: There is re-
lief in the mere telling, and so, when
you come home in the evening, tired
and probably cross, don’t get out of
patience with Anna May if she gives
you an itemized statement of the an-
noyances of the day. Most of her
troubles may seem trivial to you, and,
singly, most of them are, no doubt, but
a wgman’s troubles stack up almighty
big hi the totals; and they are more
wearing <>n the mind and nerves than
the sorrows that stun by their weight.
Let her rattle along as the spirit moves
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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN, SUNDAY, MAt 6, 1908. • ' ■ L LL-‛_—.
S'een by Catherine Taibo
VKYASHING THE HAIR.— Too
%/k i much washing la apt to make
• " 1 the hair harsh and dry. At
bedtime the hair should be unfastened
and thoroughly brushed, and then
plaited loosely. Hair that is regularly
brushed night and morning will keep
clean and glossy and require less fre-
quent washing.
A Face Tonic.—A benzolnated face
tonic is a delightful addition to. the
bathroom. H is quite easy to make.
Take a big bowl of warm water and
put twelve drops of benzoin in it. If
your face is rough add a pinch of borax
and bathe the face daily in it. .
Shoe Treatment —When you come in
with your shoes damp or wet don’t put
them away and let them dry before first
providing against their getting stiff. If
they have been very wet rub vuseline
or oil over them and put them where
there is little—very little—heat. Then,
as the shoes dry, this oil sinks in and
keeps the leather soft. Before you put
them away -wipe-every bit of the oll
off that has not been absorbed. Ik
sure, too, that they are perfectly drj
before you put them away.
To Remove Fruit Htalns. — Frull
stains may be easily removed from the
hands with a brimstone match. Damp-
en the stain, then hold near the fumes
of u freshly lighted brimstone mateh--
one of the old fashioned kind that will
burn anywhere. Be careful not to hold
your hand near the flame when ths
wood begins to burn or you will raise
a blister instead of removing the stain. .
Looking After tho Handa.—It takes .
less than a minute to put on an old pair
of gloves when one has a dirty piece of
work, such as dusting or making a
fire to do. But what a saving it is to
the hands! Housewives who make a
point of thus protecting their skin
never have unsightly ingrained blacks
on ‛thoir hands nor those distressing
cracka that get Kg dreadfully chapped
and painful.
The deacon's language was not of the
kind we expect to hear.
hie eyes fixed on the blue sky while he
sang "I Am Bound For the Happy
Land of Canann" in a-volce that made
the leaves curl. He didn't see the calf.
Hq was oblivious to all earthly signs
(Copyright, 1905, by C. R. Yost.]
a gy Y DEAR JOHN—I think
V ZB you are making a grave
I wZ B mistake. I have been in
— w the same boat and under-
stand your motives. They are laud-
able and right as motives—but they go
wrong in action; they don't accom-
plish what you expect of them. Did
you ever see a cross eyed calf? I
never naw but one, and I was the proud
possessor of that one whenI was a
kid. Thal calf never did learn to get
a proper focus on things (it joined the
beef trust before it was a yearling),
a’nd its fool antics used to make me
laugh 14l I got the stomach ache. I
remember once upon a time. Lightning,
as I used lo call it, becuse you never
could tell where it was going to
strike, got out of the pasture, and I waB
lent to drive it home. Returning, I had
o pass through a lane, and the calf
vould butt into the fence about every
bird panel. No matter how hard I
.ried I couldn’t keep it headed straight.
It so happened that old Deacon Nor-
cross, was coming down the lane at the
wame time. He had his head up and
sartorial rights by trying on, from a
personal viewpoint, the new cabriolet
hat that last Sunday At the races had
such a trimph. Every woman wants
to know how it suits her, and nine out
of ten are delighted with a glimpse of
their pretty faces peeping out from the
modern coal scuttle shape. One lovely
mondaine recalled a miniature of her
great-grandmother In a black tulle,
cabriolet trimmed with feathers and
blue satin ribbon. Carlier has also re-
vived the marquis sunshade, covered
with black chantilly, to accompany this
particular style of hat.
As to gowns, every woman who is
not wearing an empire is attired en
princesse or, in the modern corruption
of this mode, a princess corselet dress.
There is no doubt that th® corselet
skirt, though probably holding its own
through the summer, has seen its best
days. The exquisitely made princess
gown, somewhat on the pinafore order,
even now in exclusive houses has taken
the place of the corselet affair. Some
of the corselet gowns, to bo sure, are
tovely, bUT we are seeing them in the
cheap shops , with machine braided
boleros, and It is obvious that for well
’dressed women they are impossible.
The overpopularity of the corseletskirt
is to be regretted. It is easy to make,
and when once well made think of
one’s beautiful oblivion to all worry of
belts, sashes and bands of all sorts'
Have you ever noticed how restful
are some clothes—how easy to wear
when on, so easy to slip out of? And,
on the contrary, how often does one
look twice'at some article of attire,
realizing that to don it will mean a
struggle of ten minutes or more!
The woman without a maid tthese
days suffers severely at the hand of la
mode. If the blouse fashionable is or-
dained to fasten up the back, up the
back it fastens, and thousands of wo-
mentally about as high as the betrou-
sered half of creation, and she doesn’t
want to be ranked with the bric-a-bra
on the parlor mantel. Hhe is just as
useful as she is ornamental, and she’s
not going to let you or any other man
put her on the shelf, and, by ginger,
she’s right. It s a mighty good thing,
too, for you and me and the rent of us
fellows that she is beginning to assert
her equality. even If some of her px
do run over the line. You know I never
took much stock in the so called ad-
vanced woman who clamors for the
"rights" and prix lieges of men, not be-
.cause I don't think she is entitled
to nearly all she demands, but be-
cause I think it will be a sorry day for
her if she gets them, I belleve in
equality all right, but the two sexes
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THE SMART CABRIOLET HAT APRICOT PANAMA WITH INSET WHITE
AND MARQUISE SUNSHADE. BANDS OF PERSIAN TRIMMING.
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