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s Literary filetvs and Criticism 0. Henry and the Popular Short Story. WHIBUGIGS. By O. Henry. ■■a, pp. vi, 214 Uoublcday. I'apc A. Co. nvwry now and then some portentous oracle holds an inquest as th« short story. «nd with pitiless finality sepa rates the sheep from the goats. V.> all know there auitsere exarchwra. with their neat alluxioi s to Poo. Maupassant and Henry Am •<■?. their owlish reflections on the esoteric pis:"!* ■'')•• of "the French rwrfe.7 fin I ih«-ir luminous explanations of th<- "art" to tie followed In I):- treat liT-ni «if this literary form. I-* May the it-on rejiniution rnvyjod if one is to plunge inn the F"Vmnities ■icinK t« an ex amination of This art, W« refrain from -u«h deaH-.igs with «>.. high erected ■ «or>ic. T*t ihf present volume lures us into a (*r* observations on at least on» kind of short story, tbe popular nd as •■<^iaie<l with hr. name of O. Henry. Th^ l»te Sidney Porter made that pen nsmr ,f hi« MM*va throughout Ike coun try. IT:p -r\xr\'- wan tremendous. It la interestinrr to yer.k the cause. This iy>e:Tiumotis volume, of his is ••• ,-»-i»*riti- rasresantatHr? Gtatas through •.1 vith r^c'il'^r . we have rf-<"otntrr^ ih» different, motives previously used by h»m In s«rn- 'jpht or nine boo Vs. There Is fh»> urban motive and there is the exotic, th- vivid Impression <. life at our doors and the more richly colored j>lrtur* of Knmo episode in another lati tude than that of Nrtv York. We meet kara *r.Tin the trick of surprise, the rtnry meant to befool the reader until. mii -with a snap of a whip. th« author lets him know what he -was driving at all alone. There !p the same Ingenuity in the extraction of romajice from unprom i^inis material. There i? the Fame strain of rather pathetic sentiment and there Is the same etaccato humor. "Whirli rUc*.*' "then, -will afford us all the docu ments requisite to an analysis of O. Hrnry's craft. At the risk of trenching upon the preserves of those oracles to whom m have referred, we are con strained to note that it was not so much the craft of I writer of short stories. In even the most conventional understanding of that phrase, as it was the flair of the teller of anecdotes. O. Henry buttonholes you. co to say, with The latest thing ha baa beard. Then Is something human about it and he holds you briefly. You pass on with ■ fiensalion as of having swallowed a well made cocktail. Who breaks £ butterfly upon a atari? ••Whirligige" is not a liook la take with immeasurable se\riov.'rie<s. and to char acterize it as a Kneaf of magazine or newspaper pick-me-ups is to srive it fairly sufilcient comment. At the same time one has the curiosity to li>ok into the mode of its concoction. It is a rather simple mode. Take, for example, the first Ftory in the book. "The "World and the Door." It has to do nlth a man who shoots another in a drunken brawl and fli^s under the impression that he has committed murder. In the jilace of his exile he meets a woman ■who is in hiding for nn exactly similar nason, sh- ha vine Bought to revenge licrsclf upon a brutal husband by put linp poison in his punch. CM oasnse. the fitittvos fall in love. and. equally of rourse. neither hap really ooaunttxeal a jrurder — ft p<<ir:t ■at arises, from the start, the reader has l.ad no illusions whatever. The Knap of the whip comes in iin unexpected termination of the love affair, "nut this is the only savor of «iriginaJity communicated to the Isle. Giving, then, particular attention to til" question of O. Henry's originality, ■»-•-• niwli i It it docs no; consist altogether i*i the oovlsirMs of a t« >-««•. piquant and r»ot. on the whole, very impressive de nouement. At the end of "The Theory and the Hound" a. sheriff identifies a criminal by kicking the latter's «los. ex piainin?; th«» -wife murderer's impulsive, betrayal of himself by payinß that he "'never yet paw a man that v.-as over fond of horses and docs but what was cru«J to women." T\"hen a woman and two men entangle a lawyer in *"Thf» Hypotheses of Failure" the troubles that c"«?v*>2cs> in obviously dv« to a confu rk»3 of Identities. The mechanical nat vr*> of th*» plot stares one in the, fa ••-. AnQ co en throughout th" long list. Thene stories ork like those brief fdsnas "which from time to time turn up or. th* Gtage and ar«* described as "act tnsr th«nKcrrcs.** At bottom O. llcnr>' saM far more of m atav«> to contention than h* ever dreamed of. being. "V\*hcn th« million s.ire' 3 Bon fights v-itii a ragamuffin in "Eoclolosy In Serjre and Straw** you Is *t«ntly know that the child of luxury is r»>^nr to win When the kidnappers in 'Thi* Random of Red <"hl«?r i sr«j hu miliated by the small imp they hold you vmaagaixm that influence attributed with rcomful "walls to th* "popular mapa tr.T)ft <>4itor~ by th* 1 "artist" in short li<* tw»n. When the murderer in "A Chsp orraJ Christmas <»ift** j»ets out to shoot *»f*B rncre Innocent citizen M is natural tha.t he ehould don the parb of Santa Claos arl give hi*= enemy** life to th«~ letter's "wif* What else could happen in th* w^crld -* rin^nsatacrspsJe ■rasas der^rttd in thl« volume? But the ad mirers of O. Henry, ■■*• their name Is lefrton. are. forever telling us that what sasrks has works far the long years to ccme is their humanity. We take leave to doubt it. If there is humanity in these stories it Is t .•• humanity of the moving picture show, nominally flowing from the broad stream of lif«\ but. as a mutter <i fact, incurably shallow and factitious. I-ike the tr»lPs and pictures, ii penny jiluln and tupjK-n<v« <-<jlortJ. i:t tie o!d-fashio:i«'<l Ltollday annualw, they bave jihvay.«i their Benllatental. tiathetlc <.! bumorott* ■.!-.»■■ tlit-y alwa; s drlv'e \>itli oncrrisK :ii'!i Bt th« great h«-r.rt wf Lh< j»io|.l«*. I?ui o««* read th«-y ann for- :j as coiapJtteJjr ■a line 1j:-i casual iv« iii«-sit i«-!:. t»-d around the C!iru*tiziaut [a •■: int.. ■I.i ■ POOKS AND PUBLICATIONS. The Boy Aviators Series. By Cxpt. \% Hhur l.i>w|«n. lUqitrttcd — Price .~4li. per volume pecfpaid HIIRST ft CO.. .?*5 Broadway, New York. \ I causes the scales to fall from a possible '. lover's eyes. Wo arc aware of nothing 'In the story cave the authors u?ual j trick of startling- ihr reader: and. by the , way. it would have to be » very naive reader who confessed to a. surprise. i There is not a figure in the boa* whose ; behavior r-iffgests the individuality con . ferred upon even a minor typo by a ! r,-*lry creative imagination. A* for th. : ! things that occur In "Whirligig." P lctu " I j riswmn and amusing as they sometimes i , are. they are so far from smacking of i i actual life that by the time we have i i turned tho last page we feel as though . , v. .• had been sojourning among the P*# ■ MMSJM. emotions, properties and P»»U . I -a lions of « thousand evwli wbcb for - I niu'.fis. These formulas would ni>f ' v ' > ! lasted so kMS if there had not been h j certain virtue in then). It is the virtu" i of l»ecuilenient~-ihe. game virtue which accounts for Ill <- passing voeue of sju*a titirs of modern stories, lone *md t-h«rt. i No v could grudge O. Henry Mi !«uc i cess, for he lave Innocent pleasure to j thousand*. Bui i' is at least worth I while clearly to understand the true J character of hi? a ark. ; MISCELLANY. Another Wography of Napoleon's son. who bare the titles of King of Rook and Duke of Relohstadt. but whose short We • was 3 pitiful mockery of V.if nominally 1 high estate, figures in the list of tin John Lane Company. The author, Mr. : Kdward We theimer. is said to have dis covered n<»w material. Profe.xsor Arthur Frothingham ha? finished the third volume of the ''History of Architecture," published by the Baker I Taylor Company, and it will soon be j issued. This work, carried through the Ural and second volumes by the late ! Russell Sturfris, is admirable in plan and ■ written in a style commending it to the I general reader as well as to the special ' student. Th. illustrations, largely i>ho togTavures and halftones mm photo j graphs, form an especially valuable feat ure. \ In the old town of Pare heater, the i Custerbridge of the Wesaex novels, a I dramatic society baa already presented 1 versions of "Far From the Madding Crowd" and "The Trumpet Major." With ! the permission of Mr. Hardy the sam) body Of amateurs la soon to present at the same place a dramatization of ; j "Under tile Greenwood Tree." Mr. Walter Camp is editing a new series .i: books on American sport for ,- the Century Company, and has written : the first volume, which is announced for immediate publication. This is called ' "The Walter Camp Book of Football,™ ' elfid it embodies an exhaustive history of the subject, freely varied with anec dote and reminiscence. I G. W. Jacobs ■ Co.. of Philadelphia, ! print in this", country one of the most ■ diverting of recent books of travel, i Toshio .Markings "A Japanese Artist in j j London." Part of the charm of this book f is due to the fact that the author's Eng- < i Hah has not been corrected. Both in hi? j ; ideas and in his diction he has a note j • of his own. [ A promising book in the current list of the F. A. Stokes Company Is Mr. 11. B. TTaslrhjh'a -Munich," an illustrated study of the history, monuments and art of the Bavarian capital. It* was time for pome one to make a book on one of the friendliest and swat interesting of Euro pean cities. "Who has not been happy in Munich? It is ■ place by itself, stimu lating to the mind in many ways and with an atmosphere that makes for con tent. The Houghton Miffiin Company will [publish next Saturday a new novel by ' Mr. Meredith Nicholson. It has a pretty {title, -Th* Siege of the Seven Suitors." ]For this book an artist In black and I white who long as<> demonstrated his amiaJHlliiraß Mr. Reginald Birch, has made twenty illustrations. Mr. H. Noel Williams Is lucky among those writers who of late years have produced w many memoirs of royal and other court figures in European history. ! The first editions " his book arc gen erally luxurious affairs. But he has still further good fortune— which he owes to th- clever. readable character of his writings -inasmuch as sooner or later a biography by him passes into h popular edition. The Bcilbnera hay« thus re printed Ins "Madame *> Mohtespan and L,ouis XIV." a capital narrative, full of anecdote and color and very creditable ■■ m piece of painstaking characterisa tion. A portrait of Mine, d< Montespan serves aa frontispiece to the bandy, veil printed octavo. If l>r. Walter Bteevea <">•>?- not drag Shakespeare into Me work he ought easily to find a public for his forthcom ing book on Francis Par on. This gives a Sketch of Ike philosopher's life, works and literary friends, ' ■ hi^tly front a bibliographical point of view." From that point of view the subject is sus ceptible of edifying treatment. In these days of the suffragettes It id perhaps natural that, th* presses should give forth booh after book on the history |of the sec The latest announced is a. ! volume by Mr. William Booltinc on I "Woman in Italy." He traverses the subject "from the introduction of the i service of chivalrous love to the appear ance at the professional actress." Somewhere in the acid there ia pub lished ■ quarterly called "Orpheus," a magazine de?e r ir>«-<3 as the organ of the "art movement <-: the TbeoaophicaJ So ciety.*! We have never heard of that movement tuui we .ai •• saver seen "Orpheus/* but w« Kiwpect that both must be full r.f Interesting matter. At jail events, we read in the London j ".Morning ivm" that "Orpheus" h;ts jj.iii.t»a ii rt-iuurliiiLi*- aitl«.»i' «iii a, t- I "U «.«<•; «!«.• of Dante «Jul<rit-l RusisetU." ! Tlii comntyntator rcporta as followii: i "7'li«- itrm iin-i iviUch on«- *«1..5«-rv«-t»," tmyu ■< »ijjh« v.-." -i.s that 'i i.:n. Ui« «iiu t.r in" ; twins, roue on '■••• horizon at the i rrionMol c.r KutwetU'a birth.'.! Mr. W. M ; iivtxtii must ii:.v«- .-i.|,|iji»-.i partlotuars, or ;in 1 1-4-4 tii<« retfuli •.J . ..!■ UlMtini back j «i:r<i.' *"l'ii»* «iiM.i.j« iihium- of tl.. artist's j;'l>i!it.> i>, »: t -i.. imm*Hiiat«-ly f«»r« nd<(w«l : The risiiis ol jtiK r!ch •..'.-< id. two , f<>io ..!'i»:-i whicli ii<- makes 11. each art , Thus, id Hrftry !i»- inij.r«-s.-»'H the <•>■<• as I ii:LKh ;. - in. «:, r , :.rjil in painting tli«- ln rtrary rttment it- altrara of « ■■ lal lin|K>i - ; !*• u«. *■ v.itli ;li«; •!' toiial. " Tin tun It will , ».«■ 01..-' rv. 'i. },!«. .. |itU« Old 1.. ■! |OI1« (I ! No account i? taken Of tliHt awkward i*t :ki- |n wliieli im> .-.rtirr betrnys that !'.«• l.ax j not m»«l« ui# his mind Hbout tbe Title of ; iu<i f.-l-.f^t of »(,#> picture aftertrara ; .ito-n .-s "I<ady l.llitii. ■ Then "Monna I n<»»" *tfl oitiri? S iv<- i!i» stms «««y to : .■s'.m" ■■ • tbnush we Ramioi lv shaken | v...mi Oetnlni. No on*> ' .mi i, a* rrxti M, 1 ll^ll 'Hin* 1 • f;«-. oil" ti»n«!' c.1l! h- rv.t ■ |tris«d j«i hear tii d i "Aqunrlua occupjfw] th« t«n(h .-.ti».. nidi ii, r» planet Irinns t'i|a,. Of lll** on tl"- r.i-p." fj. |Jr«nU!l M ■ graceful fi*dfci>t|4n of »ji. Tiif.ifjorr- \\»»ttf. j Outitoa? '« »i-H>' !•.:-■ msintaina «h?t •'ttiis IM»ner of d^sim would imv* t/-»u fiuiy w^rrurrd wrlthoirt any rrinfnr^^meni "fre»Ti l Oemfiil.* The Sun. yUj<-n :<n«3 Mercury nn r rr« NEW-YORK DAILY llt I lit ~ ".-. «*:I>M*I>AV. (KTIUIKH ■"■ >'■""■ In rams, the symbol of the Bull, and In the twelfth bouee" on l . IK / , momentous occasion. Art critics, and. Indeed. artists, will never suspect how important that is. "Orpheus" say*: "We. do not think that any Taurian artist would work Impres rionisttcally." The nooioKism of astrolOKers is proverbial. A native would not care for blurred outlines. Impressionism Is prob ably Indicated when the moon Is in a «a t.-rv sis?Ji. So H may be regarded as fort unate that Aquarius was occupying him self With the tenth house instead of the moon. "The occupation of Taurus by th. two luminaries" is not an allusion to any literary friends, but to the aforesaid sun and moon, and indicate* "the full-throated resonance of Ms srork-. The Nesle Publishing Company, of Washington, is bringing out a new edi tion, in ten volumes, of "The Collected Work.- of Ambrose Bieree." The first volume has foal appeared— ■« handsome piece of bootanakma;. ewbractnaj a num 1». r /of Imaginative compositions and fragments of autobiography. A por trait of the author serves aa frontis piece. BOOKS OF THE WEEK. POLITICS. ORATIONS. 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Sana belnjr rf^arded as especially danxerouB — for Instance, tiir>R.» at Merries lio«<> ana Valley Stream, where a Dumber of perttoiui have Iteen killed. The resolu tion* >..' : Blade l<ron<l enough io cover the complete «-liiiiiiiation of t -»- gi la crons- InKS If ti... FiiouM irj-,/j»-Hr to »'* desirable! HUSBAND FOR HER SON. i ... ii. . Ouy (ranted yesterday »i writ <>f habeas corpus on ilia application <>r Ura. >.i;t Smith, directing hei i.usi.ainl. [Carry ;-iniil». velio [a employed In the Street cif-nninti Department in Tiie Bronx, to pro duce in court Ibelr five-year-old eon, Dewcy Smitlii wliotn tli<- father iiji-- kept from i !.'■ mother. Mrs. Smith u;ii»l she left lier hiisbandl becauße of his 111-treatment of h«r ;ii-i that While walking with her two children ona >'.< Smith seized the boy and tolU I" 1 ' that v -' ■*' vnnii.i never see him uc:«in. Stil»H<?'|uently when the made ..< ir.and on tier husband that lie tell her the vJirrahout!* of h< : child he refused to ''" .... an.i •••■'• Meaylted her, nourishing. a revolver sad threatening to kill lier Ifil:«;M:T!H rH.M.V.S \V.V, M\r. prtKVAII* |ii S f^»J f ih» irf.-»,ii tiivni'iit |n Purlx. W» \-»\- I'i't I'r'hr., Mir n«t><;.i Mn ,j )„<,*( ,-; running t .#. !•<,•. iho" >""' ti»\» j>ru\»-i |]i«. yr* > J>l»»i f»»nrit<^j. with fomlonahli Ft»nch romm Tour !r»i •■ -'i.xi i»- >"(•* tfiili ,■ boi(.m»,i Sf<f- fli» n** ri'-oi.i *Mi***- a: v .IAMUKK Removed t* 128 STU »\'E-. betiwrn **.|, in<l ;; t {,. h ,, ARMY ID KW NOTES Medical Corps Accumulating Re serve Stock of Supplies. [From The Tribun- Bureau.! AVaKhlngton. October 1?. INCREASE HOSPITAL SUITLIKS v Th army medical officers have niK,le mbatMi tiul proijreea toward the accumulation of a reserve stock of hospital sspsUes. which will be available in time 0? emergency- There has b«-en «t. Interference with the plan to -mo extent by the destruction by fire, which occurred laßt K«hruary. of the boildinsa whirl, contain^ the medical 'up ply fjppot in New V'.rk Ctty. At thai tims the Btoek tin band was practically all de stroyofi, and (he loss ""tailed was nearly KOO,O(K>. The authorities have never be*« Bblo to ascertain what caused the ire, but the new ,>,„-,: now '" Greenwich rtreet. » York City, Is ■• fireproof building, and ii la hoped to escape similar embarrassment hereafter. The. field supplies which are j.»inK accumulated are kept Bt New York and St. Louis, and it If" not round necessary to nxtend the facilities, «•= It Is required that theFe, supplies shall be »<»;•; °" hand in anticipation of th» demand for them. it has been demonetrated tna< it I? prac tically Impossible to obtain *hi«; mat-rial in the short time available for it* purchase ■rbon w«r occurs. Th" authorities have under eoiipldenitlort a plan to < i «»iibli?h a storehouse n^ar VVashington. With th" dep<itif located Hi th*s wo M will be pos- Bible to ship material to any point nheroi it maj b" needed. a part of this r«*P*r\-«» stock is now bcinc shipped to the Philip pines, nbere a war base la shortly to be established near Manila. There will also be an Hceumulatlon of ambulances, one hun dred of which are being hum under con tract in anticipation of four hundred addi tional, at the rate of one hundred h year until five hundred have been obtained. A part of the system includes the aequlPl tion of litter fittings for railway freight cars of a design which lias been adopted by a medical transportation board. It haa been found that a set of fitting-? made In this country will cost $12. It tak^s eight sets to equip an ordinary box car, providing suitable facilities for the trans portation of twenty-four men. By this means the medical department baa obtained a cheap method of converting: ordinary box cars for the safe and comfortable trans portation of sick and wounded. It has been recommended that five hundred sets of these fittings be purchased under contract. Th t;ouble which arose at the beginning of the war with Spain promises to be avoid ed by the new condition, which finds the my medical officers anticipating; the sud den demands likely to be made on that branch in time of war. The estimates to be submitted to Congress at the beginning of the next session will contain items to carry out tills policy in the line which has been adopted. ORDKKS [88UED.— The following orderi have be-ei: issued: Major FREDERICK S. KOI.TZ. !sth Cavalry, to Bock Island. 111., for consultation with pres ident of cavalry equipment board, ana -will then return to proper station. Leave of absence for tan days, to take effect on return to <luty at Hot granted I Captal DOUIB H. HANSON, medical corps. NAVT. Ensijrn If. F. I. DAVIS, d«rtaeh*d the Mont gomery; to William Cramp & .Sons Ship and Knpln* Huildlng company. Philadelphia, In connection with fitting out the Mayrant, and duty on board when pluced in commission. Medical Director H. E. AafßS. detached com mand of naval hoapltal, I'uget Sound: to naval training station, r-an Francisco. Sledlcal Inspector O. TV NORTON, to fie»t sur geon Parlflc fleet, on board th» California. Surgeon P. E. H'CULUOUOH. detached naval training station, San Francisco; to the Geor gia. Aaatetant Surßeon I>. I). STUART, Jr.. to Naval Medical School for instruction. Assistant Biif»eoH 11. F. LAWRENCE, to naval hospital. I.us Animas, Cnl. Passed Assistant Paymaster J. C. HILTON, commlMioned pact assistant paymaster from July 1. Naval Constructor J. H. IATSNAHD (retired), detached Bureau of Construction anil Repair, Navy Department; to home. Chief Carpenter K. W. SMITH, to the Virginia. Chief carpenter H. 1.. DEMAREST (retired), de tached William ("ramp & S<jr.s Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia; to home. Carpenter .1. P. OALALLEE. detached the Vir ginia: to home. Paymaster's Clark T. S. VEITCH. appointed. MOVEMENTS OF warships.— The fol lowing movements of vessels have been re ported to the Navy Department: ARRIVED. Oct. 10— The Hannibal, at San Juan. Oct. 17— The Flusser, at Norfolk; the Glacier, at . an Francisco. PAH-LI >. Oct. lt> The Paducah, from Portsmouth. N. H.. for New Torfc City; the Hannibal, from Culebra for Sn Juan. Oct. 17— The Blrmlnal»an», from Newport for Torkto-an. Vs.: the P^uaaer, from Annapolis for Norfolk; the Arethnsa. from Marcus Hook. Perm., for Hampton Koad.*. The FOX and th«» Davis wew placed In the first reserve at navy yard. Mart- IflanJ. Cal.. O«"to b«*r 17. MISS QUINN ONLY LAUGHS Wont Admit on Stand She Is Over Thirty-four Years Old. Miss Bather Qulrn, who la suing Professor Harry Thurston Perk for $50,000 for ailf-K'-il breach of promise, again confronted the professor's lawyer yesterday to answer cer tain questions as to her f-hara^t^r so as to *>n.ihl^ tne defendant to frame properly his answer to th*" suit. Th<» examination waa hold at the <>fn.-e of Daniel O'Reilly, coun sel for Miss Qulnn. and he was prolific In his objections to ouestiona by C. D. Fran- H.«. who represented Professor Peck. One question was ns to Miss Quinn'p «a;e. "NOW," PBi<l the lawyer, "I ha\« asked yon how old you are and you have F«id Jibotjt thirty-four. Now, can't you come closer than that?" No," answered the witness. "As a matter of fart, aren't you between forty and forty-five?" Miss Quinn laughed In answer. But she was not certain about her birthplace except that It *vai in Massa chusetts. Counsel asked Misa Qulnn about one Sain u?l Scott, of Chicago. She said thai she knew him, but O'Reilly would not permit his client to answer questions about his do ings, because, he explained, they had noth ing to do with the object, of the examina tion. "You have, charged her with being disreituiahle." said O'Reilly. "With associating with disreputable men," said Francis. Th-j examination was rioted yeatsrdajr, an«i O'Reilly reserved hia cross f lamination until the IriaL Everything in Silver Never before, not even in tin. city, has (ham MM a moit; attractive display of everything beautiful in Silver am! Cut Glass as is to be seen here. lii C and little things in silver-Knives, Forks, Spoons ,nd Fancy Serving Dishes ; Cuke and Fruit Baskets bread Ira- s Waiters, Nut Bowls, Coffer* Percolators, Toilet KiHiuisites' n,aiiy exclusive novelties- Bridge Prizes, Dinner Souvenirs! and beautiful creations in cut glass, arc- nowhere to be bad in such extensive assortment as at this ntw store The most exacting purchasers will Jind shorpinr here a pleasure, and the unlimited assortment makes selection easy. We invite you to inspect our immense *tocli Make s^tUSL^^" """"* "" •"•"* — The Meriden Company Silversmiths ilnt»rn»tipn«l Sliver Co., ,„,,..*.., 49-51 West Thirty-fourth Street Carriaci Fnuincf, .isth Strcrt Of Interest to tVomen MODES REJUVENATED Fashions Not Altogether New Take on Fresh Charms. Although the present season Is not yet far apaat there may be seen already the waning of some of "the modes thai came in at Its beginning, white other* have un dergone modifications thai have added to their original attractiveness. thereby in- Buring to them a nev.- lease of llfo - If .my woman haa saM la h«r !ii " lto that sho was tired of black and white sh " SMART HATS TOR FALL AND WI.NTKi: I should consent to reconsider the mutter . and suspend judgment until she has seen ( this combination in all the most beautiful winter materials, Some of the new black ; and white hats have a fresh charm even for the me who baa had daily to go up and down the streets of Now York and j sec the Innumerable heads attired in black I satin and white lace that have flaunted ' themselves thereon during the last month j or two. Black velvet used with white fur j or white beaver is responsible for some j of th© most alluring effects. One chic j little white beaver with a brim that rolled j gently upward all around was faced with Mack velvet. This chapcau. an Irish crochet collar and long white glace Kloves | were worn with it simple black velvet frock, making a tout ensemble that was quite enchanting. Another beautiful model was an ermine hat similar in shape to the one Just described, and also faced with I black velvet. Those who dislike the hard edge of the clothe will welcome the many small hats now seen with narrow upturning brims like the one illustrated to-day. These brims are generally graduated in width ami broken at or-,» or both sides. The wide hat illustrated is one of the most graceful of the n-ew model The absence of any visible division between crown and brim and the becoming: undu lations of the latter are its characteristic features. This shape la most often trimmed quite flatly, on« charming way to treat it being to cover it with ostrich bands and to set in these, on each side; a single large flower. WOMEN DEFY BOSS" Mrs. Belmont and Mrs. Catt at Odds Over Agnevv and Saxe. The Woman Suffrage party has reached the parting of the ways. Shall It forsake it* policy of non-partisanship, and declare for th« political candidates who are its friends? Mrs. ''ar>l«> Chapman <'att, the "Big Boss" of the party. says no. .Mrs. 0 11. P. Helmont says yes. Th" two fared each other last night in Mrs. RHmont's office, at Xo. GSJ Fifth avenue, at ■ meetlrfg of the women of the ITtli Assembly District, ond war was In the air. After the routine business of th^ meeting, that of electing delegates to the city con vention, to b* held on October 2S, was tin ished, T>r. Anna Ton Pholly, the chairman, r»Hd letters from Senator <Jeorge Agnew and John (Jodfrey Saxe, Republican and Democratic candidates for th» Senate from the 17th District, and from Assemblyman Dana ami Walter Herrick, his Democratic opponent. In the- 27th Assembly District, answering questions Dr. yon Wholly had put to them us to their position on the suffrage. After listening to the letters the women decided that there Mas no hops to be placed In Senator Agncw, but that iSaxe v.as their friend. "And I aar.*" cried Mrs. Ida Hunted Har per, who s>at In a ■•mall chair beside the largo i.rif in which Mrs, Eelmont was en throned, "thai the thing for us to do Is to work for the men who will work to got our suffrage bill 'out of committee and Into tin; Legislature, and against the men who will not." - -'*:' ' '■ , "Precisely.' saM Mr*. Bsimoat. ' '■*' •" work for John (i. Saxe. That i- not work ing for his party: It Is working for the man Who I* our friond." Mrs Catt. the paleness of her recent ill ness still upon her face, described the or ganization of the Woman's party and »ts ion to a policy of absolute non-partl- Mnffhlp In politic.-. "Ht«t of late." * I.c said, ■i have been terrorized because of the errors we might make. Our women an not educated i" Pol«V?: they * re fftfllly l * <l .-stray ami we af> deluge,! by letters from ',".,(,..;■ aiiißdaiTT always minority ran dldnte*—**Wn« otir help. Minority can didate? are very willing to mm us tin cat* pftWf in the hOPS of pulling th>lr chestnuts out of the fire. The majority candidates don't seek us." J It was finally decided to appoint a com- ] mlttee to settle the details of campaign i work in tlie district. HIGH ART IN COOKERY It Is Not Beyond the Resources of the Home Kitchen. A cook book which tells how to prepare the mysterious delicacies found on hotel ; menu cards is a rare volume for kitchen libraries. Novices in the gentle art of j cooking must, of course, have recipes for bread and stewed prunes, but the am bitions housewife, past mistress of these simpler operations, longs for new worlds ; to conquer. Here Is an advanced course In cookery, called "Louis's Every Woman's Cook Book" (the H. M. Caldwell Company. Boston and New Tat*). It Us how M make tartine de fole gras. salmi of grouse with truffles, paualsttea of smelt?, trout in jel'.y. ravioli Napolltaine. oysters en brochette and many other unpronounce able and tempting viands. There are pages full of recipes for soups, salads, game, entrees and desserts. In spite of the cumbersome title of the book and the forbidding appellations of the dishes, the recipes themselves are clearly worded and easy to follow, so that even an inexperi enced cook would take pleasure in trying them. "Canape CarSme," for instance, tana out to be toa»t — with additions. To make it chop finely one-half a small lobster, two To ba Given by Mr. E. M. Newman Next Sunday Night is TURKEY Under the New Regime WONDERFUL changes have been wrought in Tur key in the last two years. In the place of "'The Sick Man of Europe" we have the "Ycur.g Turk," who is young, full of vigor, progressive and deter mined that the Ottoman Empire shall take its rightful place in the galaxy of nations. Under the new regime the Golden Horn teems with re newed lite and activity, and Allah is praised five times a day for the rew opportunities offered the Tuik. Instead of being re viled and robbed, the foreigner is welcomed, his advice sought and his money desired for the development of this old-new country. The thousands of snariing. hghtma; dogs which were the scavengers of Constantinople have been banished to -»n inland in the Sea of Marmora, only one evidence of the dawn of a new era. Bathed in dazzling sunshine, Constantinople is more beautiful than ever as she sits maj^tically on the summit of her seven hills. Our journey to the Levant deals with the "New Turkey." but in cludes visits to th« famous mosques, mysterious harems, and gives us a glimpse behind the veil. Among the motion pictures in this Travel Talk are: Street scenes in Salonica. Panorama of the Golden Horn. Ihe Bosporus — it* glorious palaces and kiosks. Street scenes in Constanti nople. Interior of Pigeon Mosque. Constantinople Fire Depart ment in action, showing how not to put out a blaze. -\ few remaining dogs of Con stantinople. I lie arrival of the Oriental ' \pres>. At Carnegie HeJl Sunday en ing. Oct. 2 "* Essays must not exceed two hundred words, and njurt^g? mailed not later than Thursday night to the Travel Talk Editor. Mew- York Tribune. I pickles and •■• truS>. Reason with «• | 1 and pepper and mix two tahl»<«poonful« of! ll thick mayonnaise dressing with It. Spread! »;' on round places of toast about two tnchfsUi in diameter, and then put one-hair a *•%. spoonful of caviar In th*» cfntr* of each : canape. i;efer«>nce to th* encyclopedia thought | fully provided in the bads of Oat book t show* the*? not born to familiarity -with I such viands that a canape t<* an ' *app« tlzer." and that caviar Is * "preparation : for th*» tab!* of tlie roe 0t certain Urge ! ask, preserve by -=ainnc. Th» baas i* I ma<> from the roe ot sterlet, stursreon and j b#lu«a. cSMafJM la the lake* and rivers ef RuMi*. It is a delicacy appr»clat»«l hr • I «rourmet». and may be served on small \ pioce* if toast. ganl«h<xl rvith rhopp»<f Onions nnd finely chopped hard bolted e*s» ' nr»d lemon. It inay-b» bought In cans or |j , %\op% Jars at tlr«r ■ la*.* gro«-»ri»«i or <MI ; cat*KH»r» mores." Guileless h*Mia*wl»«a ! who find th*rnH*lve-» In HaS predicament jof r>avld •.'opperfl^ld'si Dasa wh»r» sh+ ■ bought h»r oysters will heap bl»sslnc» nn I the bWd of I-out.i fr>r this Invaluable all | •* th« innocent buyer. T <• t i' l -?'•■■-; h<w'»« who wantv . ; MaaathJaaJ "extra" for the family •••at ! irfil r-r..; careful directions for t'n/>> pr»M ! ration Of earr* and fowl. "Mousse fit I Virginia ham" may t-*Tr»pf h»r llk^wts*. : TMs I" how It Is pr»p»r?d: '."POljid tO f» P"'P half a p*»'»n'! Of rry,ltml j Virginia ham. fr»e froro jrl.^tl- and fat; ■ add ■■: •> whole "gg' an-i on* s^ll of coll | cream gauce Rul» »h* i^hol* tbroosH «... . sieve, t>l*c in - bowl and a-W tt> It ere -^ ' ! fV-ir ! as mu<*>> ,-M.-|r»-n forcemeat. '■. ! t> »i; r.-.^orh'-'- with a wooden »poon, -wrrU Mnc II IfjowwtT. SSal add half a <*'i;> ?T i thick cream. Flare ---•'• smalt tin irjiuld ' w»ll butt^re.! *R.i f-prlnkled a " ftael" I eswavea r»4 ham. Fill the preparation hits ! th" mould*. «f<?am in a tawsrsi saucepan, | turn our c«ir*f'jtly on a platter and mr ! round with t> d<ml-slac#. flavored wt*h ; Madeira wine." For .;-mi si* - rhe turns to *' ■* ril*» i for sauces. "Prepare » small mirpoix af , Tesetablen. Mavj a few small pieces Of ' veal bones and mushroom «*i»mi. When. t nicely browned ad.l a glass* *-1 sherry an-? . ir of ira&teroe wine- an>i botX it down, to » j glaC*. To en ■di » <\:.*Tt of KspagnoN ' sauce and <lllut»* vrlfh a Quart of brown stock. B"»l slowly for an hour or mw*. , skim*nlns off the crease aaaaaaaaaaaVj . When reduce! sa about half the o»uui< i strain through a. fin* «!«v« and set aaid* | for farther u^r. This ray* Fhould be jusr I tl.fck enough to adhere to the meats. IlU* a glace ." For a dessert t!»e ambitious hoste?» may i try tier luck with "cafe parfait." It sounds simple enough, after all. "Beat -:p one pint of cream, sweeten ir. - j add a little vanilla flavor and nil ft into a~o I dome shaped mould. Put the cover or ani put in salted ice 'or an hour. Take th» - mould out and remove the cover carefully. I The cream is row frozen to the sldea to j the thickness of an inch, the interior bein; ' toft. Scoop out the soft part aaaf mix r with it two taUlespoonful» of siror.jj e% • tract of coffee and a little more powrJerM • sugar. Put it back into the cre»m lined j mould an.i place the cover on agatn. Put I the mould back into the salted ice for an other hour. "When ready to serve d!p th* mould into warm water and turn out ■•>-> : a platter, covered with a folded napkin." - j Opposite each page of these tempting ' i recipes is a, blank page in which the coot" i may enter interesting data of I:*- experi ences with each article. The headings are I "When Served.'* "Guests" and "Remarks." A JUBILATION MEETING. , The Interborough Association of Women | Teachers will hold a special se^ion on ; Friday at 4 o'clock in the Jletropolitan ! Life Building to discuss the report of the t commission on teachers* salaries. 11 ii i understood that the women teachers are ' delighted with the promise cf good time* to come, but that they will not commit themselves by Indorsing the report untfli, the gctaal salary schedules are announc*!. 300 Free Tickets To thi!* TRAVEL TALK To th* Boys and Girls Of New York. TiTRII will prtsent Uvo reserved sassl» each to the 150 boys and girl* sending in the 150 best essays tm "Turkey" to the Travel Talk Editor. New-York Tribune. No. 154 Nassau street. New York r City. Many boys and girls who en , tered this little contest havr joyed the first two lectures and are trying to secure two seats tor the third lecture in the series. Why don't you try?