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Woman's The New $ ' , Ribbons run through beading at the base of the yokes are familiar enough trimmings on nightdresses, but this oblique adornment on the robe de nuit Illustrated is decidedly interesting. , The ribbon beading slopes upward at the front and back and meets Just In front of the left arm. . ' THE WINTER HAT PROBLEM. Medium Sized Headpiece Advisable Choice- Good Combinations. In order that the woman endeavor ing to make up her mind what kind of a hat she will get for late fall and early winter may have less to worry about it is a safe piece of advice that she will make no mistake by choosing a medium chapeau, and that applies to its size as well as to what it looks like. It should not be too plain nor should the style be too pronounced; in fact, the woman who avoids extremes in styles is always on the safer side. Xo mistake can be made in color and material combinations. Silk and felt, silk and velvet and silk and plush are artistic combinations. More women are wearing the tam-o'-shanter, and it will be quite popular the coming winter. The round sailor, with rolling brim, a smaller sailor with two of the skeleton quills running round the crown and turning over the brim'ut the left are much worn, while the wing has come in once more. The popular creation of this variety has two wings united by a baud of breast plumage to niat-h. which form a com plete trimming. The three or four cornered hat is usually bosoming for general wear. An attractive looking model in black velvet is trimmed with a flat tailor bow of white corded silk. In case the wearer desires height the shape can be trimmed with a feather fancy, white or colored. Ancie-t Hair Combs Worn Again. The pius ami combs of tortoise shell of which grandmother was so proud are being worn in milady's hair these days. If a search among your heir looms will dislose these ornaments and they are large, carved or inlaid, get them out and wear them. As a simple coiffure is proper there is am ple room for ornaments. A Persistent i I... IV' Will v. i ..... l-; . v a Section of Lingerie "I"!1 -I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-r-I-I-I-I"!-!-! I-I-I- 4- RECIPES WHEN BAKING. -1 ! I M I- :;..;,,;:, mil Cheese Wafers. One-half cupful of butter, one cupful grated cheese, one-half -vupful of milk, one teaspoouful of baking powder, a little salt and flour to thicken. Roll very thin, cut out aud bake in a mod-, erate oven. Corn Wafers. Two eggs, two tablespoonfuU of but ter, two tublespoonfuls of sugar, two cups of sour milk, one teaspoouful of saleratus, a little wheat flour and corn meal to make a rather thin batter. Now spread a very thin layer, very evenly, on a long flat baking pan, bake in a quick oven and cut In squares. Beaten Biscuit. Sift one Uiblespoonful of salt with one quart of flour. Add one table spoonful of lard. Use equal quantities of milk and ice water to make a stiff i dough. Ie:it and work until it is of a j velvety smoothness and beginning to i blister, at least a half hour. Roll to I one-half inch thickness. Cut with i small cutter. Hake iu moderately j quick oven. ! Mountain Muffins. I These require a quarter of a large Icupful of butter, three-quarters c-up-! ful of milk, one-quarter cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of flour, oue egg r.ud three teaspoonsfuls of baking pow der. V Cream butter, add sugar and egg weil beaten, sift baling owder with Hour and add to first mixture alter nately with milk. Bake in buttered gem pans twenty-live minutes. The Baking Pan. ! If you have trouble with cakes fall ! ins after they are put in the Oven, try ! givin the pan a few knocks before it is put in. This causes the air bubbles 1 to come to the surface and break. Nuisance ' III- St. Paul Pioneer Press. - i'A' -Y 1 .t if. -"'liirB. ... ! Mir,, P'l 1 1 ll l l m I in the Paper HOW ENERGY IS WASTED. Household Duties Should Be Performed .Without Nervous Strain. A woman should make it a rule never to stand at any task that she can do just as well sitting. For instance, -why stand up when you peel potatoes. Why stand when you "do" your hair? You are simply using up strength that should be saved for more important matters. Again you may waste strength by taking unnecessary steps. This is pe culiarly likely to be the case when you have to go up and down stairs a great deal.. A little thought 'and care will save you a good many toilsome climbs. In going upstairs most people bend from the waist, thus cramping up their chests until they cannot get a free breath. Then they laboriously haul themselves up by clinging to he banis ter, dragging their feet uselessly after them and putting the whole strain of the climb on their backs. In preparing to go upstairs stand per fectly erect, throwing out the chest. Keep away from the banister. Lift the feet, bending the knees freely. In addition to wasting energy about their work, many women fritter away nervous force when they are supposed to be resting. For instance, there is the woman who rocks violently to and fro in her favorite focker. Even such an apparently unimportant habit as swinging the foot or tapping it restless ly upon the floor or allowing the fingers to play with articles near them is so much drain on the nervous system. Keep still! Relax even in your work. "Woman's World. I' M I I-I-I-I-I- ! ! ! I-I-I' I' M- t IN THE KITCHEN. f l"t"I-I"l"I-M-M"Z 'M-I-I-M' I I I I I1 l-I-I-I- When filling preserve Jars it is a good plan to keep off drafts by closing doors and windows that are opposite one another. In avoiding drafts when filling hot jars many breakages are also avoided. Fish may be scaled more quickly If dipped In boiling water for a moment. Thin cream may be made thick enough to wtdp byjlrst adding the un beaten white of an egg before begin ning to whip it. A moistened newspaper resting on drier layers makes a good dust dump for either the contents of a carpet sweeper or a dustpan. Dust and scur rying lint do not escape when. a stray draft strikes it. Take an old knife and scrape from the gas range oven any rust that may have accumulated. Then give the oven a good coat of aluminium bronze. Let this dry and give the oven a sec ond coat of the same. - Faucets are easily brightened by- rub bing them with a little lemon peel. To clean zinc dip a piece of flannel in ! paraffin and rub the zinc thoroughly with it. then wash with hot soapsuds aud polish with a dry soft cloth. Trie Children's Department PLAYING "MY LADY'S MAID." A Game In Which Agility and Quick Wit Are Required. The players are all seated except one. for whom no chair must be provided. Each player takes the name of some article of a lady's toilet her necklace, her chain, her gloves, her bracelets, her rings, her comb, etc. The one standing acts as lady's maid and says. "My lady is going out andj wants her chain." The chain must instantly jump up and spin around. If she forgets to do so she pays a forfeit. Each article must spiu round when wanted. Occasionally the player in the center says, "My lady wants her toilet changed," when all the jewels, etc.. must rise and change seats. In thexscufHe for them the center player tries to get a seat. The one who Is left chairless when the others are all seated pays a forfeit and becomes lady's maid In her turn. THE DANCING PEA. With Assistance of a Pipe You Can Do This Trick. Take a piece of a tobacco pipe about three inches in length, one end of which at least is broken off even, aud with a . knife or file make the hole somewhat larger, so as to form a little hollow cup. Next get a very round pea, put it in the hdllijw at the eud of the pipe, place . the other end of the latter In your , mouth, hold it. there in quite a jerperticulnr position by inclining your head back and then blow through it very softly. ., The pea will he. lifted from its cup and rise and fill 1 according to the de gree of force with which ,the lH-eath is sent through the pipe. Little Things. When God makes a lovely thin?. The fairest and completest. He makes it little, don't you know. For little things are sweetest. Little birds and little flowers. Little diamonds, little pearl?. But the dearest things on earth Are the little boys and girls. Exchange. A Numerical Puzzle. What can we add to nine so as to j make it six? Just add "a" and yon have It. Nine is "1X" and if yoti add to this it makes it "six." doesn't It? EUROPE'S WOMEN COLONELS. There Are About Fifty, Most of Whom Are of Royal Blood. There are now about fifty women colonels In Europe. Most of them are of royal birth. First on the list are Grand Duchess Olga, eldest daughter of the tzar, and her sister. Grand Duchess Tatiana. The latter, although only fifteen years old, is colonel of a regiment of lancers. ' The first woman to receive this mili tary honor was Princess Charlotte. of Prussia, who married Czar Nicholas I. and who, on becoming a widow, asked her brother, then king of Prussia, to transfer to her the colonelcy of the Sixth regiment of Prussian curias siers. He did so, and thus was the fashion started. The late Queen Victoria was colonel of the First regiment of Prussian dragoons of the guard, but jjever saw them or donned their uniform. Wom en colonels are most numerous in Ger many. "The kaiser creates them in batches every time he has nothing else to do." His daughter. Princess Vic toria Luise, is second head of the fa mous "Death's Head" lancers. The German crown princess is colo nel in the Second SUesian dragoons and takes her position seriously. She never misses an opportunity of lead ing her men. Her mother, the Grand Duchess of Slecklenburg-Schwerln. is colonel of the Second Mecklenburg dragoons.' Princess Eltel Freidrich. wife of the kaiser's favorite son. Is colonel of the Twelfth dragoons. Prin cess Adolf of Scbaumburg-Lippe com mands the Eighty-sixth fusileerST All these German princesses lead their regiments at the annual kaiser parades held in August and November. The kaiser's sisters, the Crown Prin cess Sofia of Greece and Princess Mar garet of Hesse, are zealous in their colonelcies. The kaiser's wife com mands two regiments. She is colo nel of the Eighty-sixth regiment of 1 Prussian fusileers and also of the hus sars of . the guard of Grodno, n Rus sian regiment. Carmen Sylva, the queen of. ltoumania, is colonel of the Second battalion of Roumanian light Infantry. Queen;Mary of England is a colonel of the Fifth Russian lancers. Queen Olga of Greece is "the only pet ticoated admiral in the world." These fifty female colonels command. In the ory, close upon 00,000 of the best troops in Europe. Lady's Realm.. Imparted Valor. A new arrival strolled into the lob by of a popular .Muskogee hotel a few evenings ago and walked rather un steadily to the desk, to register, says the Kansas City Star. Turning to fol low the porter to his room there was a crash and bits of glass and an am ber colored liquid spread along the floor. Before a porter couid be summoned to mop it up a tiny mouse crept-from under the cigar counter and lapped greedily at the liquor. Then mouut- lug the edge of a cuspidor, the mouse exclaimed: "Where is that cat that was looking 1 for me last night?" On an English. Goat Farm Photo by American Press Association. Taking the youngsters out for a FOOD OF POLAR BEAR. -. ( How He Manages to Appease His Hun ger Despite the Ice. All bears throughout the wort37ex cept the polar bear, a rtf -omnivorous, eat ing almost any form of fooO; but the polar bear does not relish anything but fish and seal meat, and if ' He hSs his choice, the seal is preferred at all times. ".' calico if Lliaillie ' IV.iLmt. 1 1 iruiiiun iu tin? water a great deal 'and tiever leaves but a short distance inland on the icy coasts. . O'n land it is. very clumsy aud awk ward, but it shows great agility when iu the water. It can catch its prey with evident ease. - The siecimens kept in captivity in the zoological gardens and parks in the larger'eiUes in this and other countries have to be cared for iu a manner that will protect them from the heat of our latitude, as they are not accus- tomed to such warm temierature. Pits with cool, dark retreats, and ice and cold water must be provided, and as far as possible their natural food The , fV zek's Illustrated Story Axx Unusual Reconciliation By HELEN F' OR a moment Dora searched ; the rack; then she remembered that her Jacket was upstairs. I and she caught up her broth er's golf coat. She could slip cross lots to the woods and be back in no time at all. She must have some ar butus for the supper table. As she was crossing the Benton farm she heard an angry bellow and smiled. Benton's prize bull was in the next lot. He could not bother her. Then, with a rending crash, the maddened animal broke down the flimsy fence and came charging across the lot after the fury inciting red coat Dora in a glance measured her chances and swung up into the single apple tree that stood in the center of the field. Its branches hung low, aud it was no feat for the active girl to swing up and find a crotch well above the reach of those lowering horns. The bull looked about puzzledly for a moment; then he caught sight of the glint, of red in the branches and charged again. His impact shook the tree, but it did not dislodge the girl, for she clung with her arms about the trunk. Being a patient animal, the bull waited, and Dora was so much occu pied with the unpleasantness of the situation that she never noticed the approach of a man in a red golf coat until he was midway acrooss the lot. "Look out," she shrilled; "it's a bull! Run:" The newcomer obeyed both injune 'tions, but the cry had attracted the bull's attention, and the animal was fast gaining on his new prey when suddenly the man leaped to one side, and the bull plowed on. By the time it had turned the man was running for the tree and swung himself up just as tne bull reached him. "Narrow squeak that," he chuckled. "Is it you. Dora ?" "I should think you could tell the dif ference between a bull and a cow."' she said severely. "The idea of walk ing right into a field with that coat." "I was all right." was the easy re spousel j"King Champion belongs in the next lot. He must have broken the fence. I was taking a short cut to the links. Glad I left my t-lubs there last' night or I should have lost them. How did you get hereV" I "I was goiug after arbutus," 'she ex plained. "1 was wearing Ted's coat, and that horrid creature broke down the fence to get after it." Amiable animal," commented Fra- j zer. "I'd like to get down and pat j him on the he:;d with an ax." j "We're trespassers. He's on his owner's property," she reminded, I "That's so." he agreed, "but that does I not affect mv desire in the least." i "And Ted had some friends to sup per." she wailed, "and there won't be any arbutus." 'He'll have supper, anyway," re- 4 r t4 .. v r.:-ie. i-j f T , ramble on a goat farm in England. supplied, or'the creatures of the' frigid north will sicken and die. -" They delight in play, and will ofteu scamper abont and play with A ball or block of wood, throwing it ajid retrieve iug similar to the common kitten. One can hardly imagine a creature as awk ward being able to be so active in the water, lii'.t in the"sea they" are not only quick, but precise in their movements, especially when after their'prey. - . Ladybirds. -. . . While the !ittie:beet.le we. call ft lady bird is passing the winter iiv. sleep it is gathered up by -millions- aud shipped to the fruit farmers, who suSCej? from the green fly. Every one, knows this pretty insect, which is black, or red dish and) spotted with yellow or. blat-k or red. - Ladybirds live upon the green fly. and by turning, them looscupon the fruit farms and melon patches it is found that , when the ladybirds wake up in the spring they, soon clear away the jiest that does so much harm. Whole cargoes of ladybirds have been shipped from America to England just for this purpose. New York Sun. WILLIAMS minded Frazer. "That's more than we are likely to get." "Don't you think the creature will go away?" pleaded Dora. "I'll ask him if you like," he offered, ; "but he doesn't look as though he ever would. Frazer lets him stay out all night. Dissipated sort of creature. King Champion Is." "Do you suppose they would hear if we called?" "We would hurt our voices to no avail. The only thing to do is to wait ' until it gets so dark that he can't see the red. Then maybe he'll forget us. - "Throw him your coat." eorunianded Dora. "Maybe that will satisfy him and he'll go away." Frazer dropped his coat directly In front of King Champion's nose. Di- The Cry Had Attracted the Bull's At' tention. rectly the bull reduced it to ribbons and worked himself up to a fresh fury. "He isn't even happy when he gets it." commented Frazer. "Stubborn sort of brute." His choice of words had been unfor tunate. Dora froze up. . She had for gotten in the excitement that she aud Frazer had solemnly ruptured their friendship because she had refused to give up Benning as her partner in the double match game. He had called her stubborn. She had declared that she always kept her promise, and when he reminded her of an earlier and for gotten promise the adjective had been revived. "I di'n't mean that. Dodo," he pleadedv She held up her head. "Won't you be nice?" he begged. "You can play golf with any one you vant, only don't be angry." "It was not nice to reopen the argu ment when you knew I couldn't escape it," she decreed. "I didn't mean .to," he declared. "I wasn't even thinking of that row." j "You were," she said very positively., "It is useless to deny it either, for I. shall not areue." He made several efforts to convince, her, but to no use, and at last he sank Into a shivering silence. The sun had set. and the air was growing chill. He missed his coat sadly, but Dora did not notice his-plight until his teeth chat tered so'that she heard the sound. "You are cold, and I made you throw down your coat." she cried penitently. "It's all right," he protested. "It's not," she contradicted. "It's all my fault too." "The coat was sacrificed in the In terest of scientific experiment," he de clared. "It shows that a blooded bull can at least count up to two. He's waiting for the other one, and then he probably won't !e satisfied." "You'd be warmei- if you sat next the trunk on this side, away from the wind," she suggested. "1 could keep cfl the cold on the oth;v side." ' "You'd fall off," he objected wist fully, "for, of course, since you hate me, you wouldn't let me bold you on." There was no answer to this, and Frazer deliberately opened his mouth thit the sound of his clicking teeth might be more' plainly heard. Dora stood it for ten minutes, then;. , "Fred." ."AVhat Is It?" he asked. "Please come over," she pleaded. "I don't hate you." ' ' In a minute he was beside' her, hold ing her steady on the limb. The teeth stopped chattering, and Dora nestled close. . . "1 shall not play with Mr. Bennings." she said timidly. S"I would rather play wita yon." -x-- ' ."What reason cau ' y'ott' give him now?" he demanded. : "Perhaps you might think. .of one," she suggested. " ' ..'Wa could tell him that we'.Were ea- , gaged. s . , . iul i l nuuiuu l ue true. ;Y"ou could make it ti"ue," he remind ed. "Will you. Dodo?" . ' ' "' . It. was twenty 'minutes ' afterward that .those two came back to' earth again. Beneath the tree all was quiet. "Wheie's Kin. Champion?" she asked. Frazer glanced down.' "l lo believe he has gone!" he cried. "I supiose he got thirsty. The creek runs throcgh the other field." "I think he's an awfully uice bull." she said irrelevartly as he belpl her down. And Fred agreed with her.