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fIKIN NOVELTIES. HE GENUINE UMBRELLA SKIRT FOR THE PROMENADE. ft ih tf Come from P. is, but OurDresnumakerl si Are Adopting :t Rapidly--Rumes and Flouees. Will prevail on Spring Gowns, and They Are Graceful Too. The most striking midwinter novelty tl Sshirts to be worn on the promenade is a egenuine umbrella skirt, the New York p er from Paris, has from six to nine p ted gores of even size. This makes t~ i skirt that is quite full at the bottom, G Lbs hips smoothly with no apparent full aes, the gathers necessary to fit the p, hirt gracefully at the back being care v -ully concealed. A modification of this p drt is being quite generally adopted b3 ; best dressmakers for walking gowns. a t~o tof six gores and is a little n fuller at the back than is the Parisian r shirt. ei Every seam in the umnbr'lla skirt i d pred on both edges; therefore it is nec a M-ary to introduce a piping cord or sour tl a TIf UMBRYLLLA SKIRT. c sther trilfaing at the gores to prevent the inevitable sagging at the seams that must otherwise occur. All skirts are cut with as pronounced a flare at the bottom t, as it is possible to give them. They art v trimmed up considerably higher tha. t they were at the beginning of the season the trimming reaching to the knees of i above. As many as seven rows of fur. separated by spaces, are seen on some o' the new skirts. Bands of fancy galloon, ribbons and e folds of black satin will be ued in rows la the same way as fur on spring gowns. mall bows are dotted on at intervals sometimes. Where the material per mits, ruffles of the dress goods may be used. A new ruffle which reaches to thl bases, like the old fashioned Spanish ounmce, is cut in a circular fashion. what after the manner of a bell This ruffe is quite full around bottom and scant at the top. giving fashionable flare of the season. It is y put on with a heading of two or three narrow ruffles standing upright. or with a band of fur. A group of from three to five narrow rales overlapping each other is also used on the bottom of light goods, such as the black or cream gauze with ga) satin stripes. Let it be acknowledged here that these full skirts are lovely. They are becoming and graceful to the , sLuL wem - t .cowmv. g a~te, na without crinci will or 4tl that womea of artistit Tess hmwl~de ti ow capa la e whim for theowm rsdos Lsthe purposeof puoscting the porlirshd They are made of chamoiswith Tbn adr oalesn To make ens galls. of eqgnog iks - u te q uplate the whites and te p r careully. oBeat esar becomes -s Ight practisaMn r po e d pm sue white - iethe ylks ad mix thormgoy. W n aM en quint of cogacn brandy salr t alt lt of Jamaica rua, pouring Soa maul tema while stiuulng aguey. Add half a gallon of ri6 talk. Thmn add mat lass than three m- at dt blk of the wites and Iuate thoroughly. The remainder -tbwhites should be put upon the gretas an ornament Alarg dth5 wite of the esu l M light and wholsmom a~ o, Pam -..-. - ifT h omit ber hi M.anaghdam PERPETUAL YOLUTH. 4 Wow Women Can Retain Their uouthful It Beauty by Care. A woman who at forty is always taken for twenty-eight tells the New York buu if how she preserved her youthfulness at since she was eighteen. She says: at I have never eaten a sweetmeat, tasted Ia a drop of wine or let ice water pass my lips. Linen sheets, candies and hot tr baths I avoid like the pestilence. I eat st the simplest food, exercise enormously and have discovered the preservative tI properties of grease. Like all things h. really worth having, one pays a heavy fa price to hold youth beyond the allotted w ti . If you think my red lips, high tt coor and smooth skin are easily come hi by, you are mistaken. at My breakfast, always eaten in bed, at consists of weak tea, a soft egg and thin, tl very dry toast. At luncheon I take he plenty of cold meat, a fresh salad, one or two vcgetablces and some simple pud- Hl ding. Consequently my digestion is to never out of t,rder, my complexion is un- fr varyingly clear and rosy, and I sleep Ic eight hours out of the twenty-four in ft dreamkss re ose. 1 fore retiring at b night I plunn my feet and legs up to st the knees in cull water to draw the ti w!ood fromn my head and keep the ex- it tremities warm. Then I am thoroughly ai '..wiad-'d from heal to foot in massage a l. shion. The greasing lrcess follows, d fr I use pounds and ltinxds of lubricat- I g oin:.: at in the course o,f a year. Thie :, ahsolutlrv safe u~guent is e' '1 f.- :.(.1 mutton suet, retned and T "ightl i :,an-d. This should he ap ;.!ied i. ' in i; ek to heels with the hand, d ,'ul g--,tly rubLed in so as not to stick l1 ,,r shin-. I it leave a soft, sa;inyv sur "rco. I,".,?t r the knees and arms an ex- c :ra quan;ity is required; also on the ,Mints, such as elbows and ankles, to pre- p , ti:lce'ast stiffn:,;sand ke p lthx ,,,.ly ,apple. I always sleepbetween blanknts St ,hat aslorb every particle of moisture it the body throws out, and next morning, ii after a tepid bath, when meal in place of it soap is used, and bri-k rub down with a crp.sh towel pay skin is as pink and V white as an mnfat's. There is nolting more, I think, ex ,-opt to insist upon horseback'riding, at t least a Z-mile walk every day, dancing whenever you can get it, and not less f than two hours spent in the open air. a Sleep in a cold room with ample cover- b ing. No Pinching Shoes. New shoes can be worn with as much ease as old ones if they are stuffed to the shape of the foot with cloth or paper and then patiently sponged with hot water. Or if they pinch in some particular spot a cloth wet with hot water and laid across the place will cause immediate and lasting relief. Prune Pudding. Soak one pound of prunes over night. In the morning remove the stones, put the prunes in a porcelain lined kettle with sufficient water to prevent burning. cover the kettle and cook slowly on the back part of the stove until the prunes are perfectly tender; this will take about an hour; then add a cup of sugar and stand aside to cool; when cold press through a colander, or if you have a - keystone" beater a few revolutions will reduce them to a smooth pulp. Beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth; add them to the prunes. Have a quarter of a box of gelatin soaked for half an hour in half a cup of cold water: stand this over the fire until the gelatin is dissolved; stir into the prunes with the whites of the eggs; turn into a mold and stand away to harden. When ready to serve turn it onto a pretty dish and pear around it a castrd made mbee a pint of milk, two tablespoont ls et sugar sad the yolks of three eggs. This cus tard may be very delicately favored with bitter almond, but be cmrefl to add only a few drop or you will destroy the favor of the prnmes. The enrmous sleaves of saded velvet ae ikd in cloth or stff gowns and and to give an sir of elaboratle to what my he rally a very simple as A Tabaeeleth Aetegauah. In Vilsa the latest form of th aut Sgraph crase mrequires the guests at dim - n towritetheir nm in pencil upon the tablecloth. This is more populr a the autograph cshion a we have it heme in Ameur&c T1e ariginal writing is worked ever in colesed silk ad a per meant trophy is soraed. Twao Fancy Saeehee. S IFollowing are illustrations of omne of the differenta stitches which every woman should .mm.sest ad, ad, each oe is impertent i its own field, should be Spatioced until it can be worked with id pe t accuracy. Many ladies imagine Sthatitisiampoibletolear from illm lesss; .to same it may be more tinto others, but to mome is it *. lupossbhe. Looking at the llrathraons o a stitc ic"sno tging to mastrlit. O m t am es's slf wvI msiIn as ad a pice of atclth, and br *i3 ~Mg n em's ernW the se - up y it a .·stery, h ' ml OLD aTOM SIGNED THE CHECK. It Ne ~V Went to P'rot.est, anid iope aned II.L lu ,ime' a eltt in 1 i 1 it-,1e. -1"1 fill out this check for you. Tonm, if y,,u will wait a moment. It i. signed, an,1 f:ther told me to till it out for the atlounit if lie wa lu't here. Two and a half-is,'t i?:"' Oi(l Tuin took up thle check in his a tretmllin., ingers and hooked at the straight, husinesslike sign:atnre. "'Just to think that his name is good a for thousands of dollars," he muttered n half to himself and half to the bright h faced boy who stood beside the desk I I with his lwn in his hand ready to fill out the check. "And yet when we were b boys together I was as good as he was i any day, and my chances in life were just as good. It's been drink that made all the dieerenice. Well, it's too late to help it now." S"No, it isn't too late, Tom," cried Fnugh Evans earnestly. lie knew the Ssad st ,ry of this mlan's gradual descent frtom an honorablh. respected life to theI level of a cinnuon drunkard, and he I felt an imletutus des re to help him,n t Ioy thlugh lie was. "'I heard father say only today that if you would sign the pledlge he would trust you to keep t it. and he would give you steady work i % and g,.0l pay. Do sign it. Tomn. I have |1 a blank .,' here. It will tmake such a h diff.renc. ntit only to you. linbut to your i " wife and children, if you will." I1 A gleam of hope lighted up the dimn Seyes, hnt it died out in an instant, and t1 i Tont s.hook his head. L "'olll' ,i ither day. Hugh. Soiell otler v day. I nut. t treat my frietnls fr the Sla.t time, and l'il have a little mIoneiy tonight. you see,. wI.en you give tme that cheek. Some day I will, but not now.' e "D:n'( put it off. Tom," pleaded Hugh, - putting tihe pledge before the nian and .ivin;; him t11h t n. "Why. doln't y ,i s see, its as good as a check! Sign it. aidi it nie:nus health, (imfort and a gtil liv Sii;, which you could make well enongh f if you would let drink alone, and r- Sspect frcniii cvery one that krn.s"' you. 1 Why, lmy f.att'r's igatture coull" not meat n ore than that!" O)ld Tom was won by the boy's en t thusiasum. "I'll see what my signature is good for," he cried with sudden resolution. and grasping the pen firmly he wrote his name on the pledge. "There, I've done it, and God helping me I'll keep it," he said solemnly. "Low as I've fallen I never broke smy word vet." e r An hour later he entered his home with the check in one pocket and the pl edge in the other. t The check was a proof to the poor d wife of his intention to keep the pledge. e for she knew it must have been hard work to come home sober with money in his pocket. t Need I tell you that the signature on It the pledge was never dishonored? It le meant a happy home, new hope for the g despairing wife, respect, prosperity and 1e God's blessing. And Hugh! He felt as if he had done at the grandest temperance work of his Id life, though he lived to be a successful Stemperance worker, when he persuaded a old Tom to sign the check.-Sunday School Times. . The Alcohollc Vice in Alaska. A historian of the Mogul dynasty of northern India relates that Mohammed Baber Khan undertook to eradicate the opium habit of his subjects by the total destruction of poppy plants throughout his dominions, in the hope of thus saving at least the rising generation, since he had given up the attempt of reforming confirmed poison eaters. The alcohol vice, too, is apt to perpetuateitself from the smallest remaining germs, and rad Sical measures alone can achieve deliver ance from its evils. Some twenty yeaw ago the American and British govern ments made a simultaneous eort to re strict the liquor traffic among the aborigines of Alaska and the adjoining r territories, but the root of the stimulant d curse was suffered to remain, and i now Sproducing a crop of new sprouts in a Srather unexpected manner. '"Our Indians have begun to make their own beer, or kwass, as they call it," says the Rev. O. B. McKinney, of SUnga, Alaska, in a letter to a corre n- spondent of the New York Voice, "and Sthough it costs but little, itis neverthe lees a deadly intoxicant. While sober W they are a good, kind people, ready to 8 be taught and ever eager for knowl r edge; but it seems theywill drink al most anything that will stimulate. Only a few days ago news camne to our vil. o lage that a Russian priest gp the bey had kill-l himself drinking bitters. Every Russian holiday is celebrated by the natives aaking an unusually lar Samount of kwass, and as a necessary result getting drunk, aghting and smashing things in general" In other Swords, the liquor traatfc has started t' lames that devour the poor aborigines, and they should not bear the exclusive blame if they should be unable to arrest the progres of the conagration. Eselth of Drikers sad Abstarers. The registrar general of Great Britaia is authority for the statement that the highest rate of mortality among any class of men engaged in any regular branch of industry is found among.pe. sons engaged in the liquor trade. A table containing the comparative death rates of males engaged in 100 occupAn tions in England and Wales giver very convincing arguments. Men engaged as inn or hotel seivants have the highest rate of mortality; clergymen, ministers and priests the lowest. Of persons ea gaged in the retail liquor trade the death rate is four times that of the ck gy between the ages of twenty-fve ad forty. Odd llma SWhisky meve6r mimes are. 3d4er is the devil's keinding wood. silnas pmhibltienita held go ma .--- Sdl has heen awarded e hdiam b a , suit qsmhe tsa less khmheinpurwl i b a sin hug r~shaa-r a. . -OYd TWO USEFUL TOOLS. A I:trrel ."n 1heels and a Device for Rl,,.lin ftence R-ire. In the >.:;-ut. ,,f New York city hun dreds of worikunen go about with imlple nieuts like that shown in the Ir:st cut here reproduced from Rural Nw Yorker, which says: - They brmsh up the dirt with stiff brushes, shovel it into the barrel andi wheel it off to some central point where ' \ l I i A; I.T \IIhEI.BARRIn'. i they meet the ,iump cart. The machine is simply a barrel on wheels, so nicely bIalanced that it will tip eas*ily. The :,l:- in fro:at make a place for ,r,,im. he :til shovl to hang. For many p0Onr.-.. a wheel barrel like this is l. tter for farm work tha;n the -u:l wheelbarrow. ()ic 'an tke a hIa ix r loal with liss wrk on two i \h1l 1l. liun laovel uie to which wt, -aw , no ,!" h'-e whee-,l ,arrels pult wi; ': pl:ati1t p,,11 tatl -. "rTl ba'rrl of seei t,,. v heel.ld the ouh thi !: i, ol flivy. ,,r ::.x ivw were t ir ,lpp.,d aIt loe trip. I 1'.Pig. s-' rt urneyvs to the Iirrel." A 1 ! ip a" l ,.practial dev .e for ritel nd,":,l.nt of ih, lurnal ieuitiloneld, i. w , tl.nl-tio.,ti: "Tw, C h\\ I- ,,f a l1ilt -l 1I --(- RI':L FOR BARBED WIRE. wagon were taken, attached to their axle. Four pieces of board were placed at regular interval:t through the wheel and wired to the felloes. This makes a large reel, which may be rolled along by the side of the fence and which take., *ho \;tre up reatly and rapidly." º Waste of Corn Fodder. It is always in order to call attention to the waste of corn fodder that takes place on so many of our farms every year, either by allowing it to rot in the I fields or making some slight attempt to utilize it by pasturing. The Northwest ern Farmer t hinks this latter method is of questionable benefit, because the 1 stock will do a good deal of damage to the soil if allowed to run upon it when 9 wet, and they get at the best but a small Isprtion of the full value of the fodder. The amount of labor involved in cutting and handling corn fodder has of course been the meaps of deterring many farmers from saving it. But it e will so largely take the place of hay in feeding the farm stock that it will repay t well the cost of harvesting. Within re g cent years farmers have been realizing 6e the value of this fodder more than they g formerly did, and now that we are get 1 ting harvesting machines that promise n to lessen the labor, we shall hope soon to see the major portion of this great crop put by for winter feeding. As the case now stands, this waste of corn fod der is undoubtedly the largest single } leak in our whole agricultural system. SBlahIUh a Cempet Hweap. it Market gardeners know the value of W compost heap, but farmers have no: as a much experince in this line as they should have, aocrding to Farm Life. re which mays: "Bycomposting it all stable II and barnyard manure can be put in more available shape and be applied to Sbetter advantage directly to the crop d than it can bein ordinary form. A good Sway to build a cA post heap is to ty a Sfoundation of thick sods, aking the basis of such length and width as see Sdesirable. Put down sods, ay, to a Sdepth of si inches; then cover them L with a layer of manure half a deep ii Continue with alternate layers until th, y pile is five or six feet deep. Then finish * with a basin in the center and porw Y water into this until the entire mass is well soaked. Fermentation will soon take place and asist in the decay of or d ranic matter. After a few wee eant t he pile down from one end with a spade and throw it over, and repeat the opera. ;, tion at least once before using. A bw re monthe will sueflce to give a fine mass of t rich compost. The best time to build a compost heap is of course early in the autumn. 3 Creusaig Toematos. ie Mr. E. S. Carman, editor of The Rural my New Yorker, considers the crossing of sr tomatoes one of the most interesting Spieces of work he has ever been engaged A in. He writes: "I beganby unaing the th Peach tomato as the mother plant three r. years ago. The two trits crossed 3id ao ry mature. They were green and deformed as when frost occurred. I did not suppese at the seed would germinate. On the con ra trary it germinated more freely than .- that of other varieties planted the msme e day, and the planta were marvels of - thrift. Themse plants bore all sorts of id tomatoes, from the Fig, Pear and King Humbert, Trophy. Victor and Conqueror to the shapelier kinds of later years; but there was not a Peach tomato to be fonund amoag them, nor one with the characteristic downy skin of the Peach. SThese croses with the Peach were a crossed, using ponle of the ppl varietiesm of last year, h EasPadmr toM, Ignootm, Long e, et U' Itasf a B of tlhe -uu epsuimum In hermsbytheqlurr urdllin hew ESTABLISHED 1860. HOME LIFE INSURANCE :: COMPANY Of New York. It has $1,. 0i.0 of .1'NETI. to rtry 1 /00.1(.iO( L.I1 IL I/'TI1'S, whi,.th is Lari' "r than ,an,y ot/r (,,,o~ n//. If hits r a:lizeld f/t L, est I, , r, s f ,/ its . ' l , \.., r';.: : ;. 4 w p e ere .. Its dPlii, .s rn iss.,,r,/ t! /,, Sll. T ./I/'I.1 /. ,nº, mst,. LIII ERA/I L TEllIS. T/' onl F, r ;i i,m aIt is .to l,.',/, /l,,' 1,"~ ,,'e I,., i, /, i - iThe 1/1.1kE LIFE Irit.s Sutch (oir,,r;ion. Levy & Battle, * SPECIAL ACENTS. Shreveport, La. THE PARLOR GROCERY. A.' REBSTOCK, -LEA LER IXN Fancy and Family Groceries. Fine Gigars and Teas a Specialty. No. 208 Texas Street, - - - Shreveport, La TELEPHONE NO. 283. COOPER BROS.' Sl.ivery, Sale andl Feed STABLES AND MULE PENS. Shreveport Transfer Co., 700, 702. 701, 706 and 70S Texas St., Cor. onisiansa. Our Facilities are Unsurpassed foreany Business offered ig our Line. We also have a large Lot 'of Horses and Veliicles that we Sell at a Bargain. WHITED & WHELESS:. -Wholesale an4 Retail LUMBER DEALERS, - Make a Specialty of- CASING, BASE, IOILJli " ' Also Cjpressmliag ,si ad Doors. BOTH WHITE PINE AND CYPRESS. · COUNTRY ORBERS SOLICITEE. • SHREVEPORT, La e WM. ENDEFILR. HENRY ENDri WM. ENDERS & SON, Is Wholesale and Retail Deiems in FURNITURE, MATTRESSE L WiRdow Shades, Wall Paper, Etc., SSpecialty of Glazed:Sash, H indow Glass, Docr;, Blinds, And Cypress ShimgIe. Sea Smu e si to ~l by Mail. o.a 103 .ad 110 ,m,,. 8, aam,~ lawz z