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excited itndl ICHti" e ftinuuspbore`, for
arcarlncsqs Ct the flccenbj)or day
side, when she dicovered that .Bob'
mani hal I)Ccfl asked to linger, too.
it altered the mntter.
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fneeeristrily s1,iit "'il; .llr Nor
whun hie ruOj l her 'lyo the car
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3par
IC 2orI1, it Wsid.-- ._weil, it would1 have
J~ca iCeI ' pleasnijt. '.t'here hatd been
1L tu:nc! ii h]1 ] suIch! a-ttetio2ntO from him
hbad} li!cd! h1r With other feelings.
Ti:aL w'is in her fir:t. Foeaso "out,"
:I h;L wh'jE 1 wF:s n neiit°I1 all), a; 1) O'Jpl
sai1, Co p'rctty, ar.d ho wu 1L prormis
iug COIic;c III!], ithl a 'elii littully in.
(("I arid high jidoul and a
I C. IcLL i'al p ot thc wialz F'tej a
ensem1be wlijj h iruii thenf consijl.
orc i batktt i ,3tn. Tiw l ut dan"eld a
ooli td ! to r that tiiaim, but
S'Iil(m, nati1 tl.a l1'ic.gent ftal, hadl soon
ii I of each other. r'ur tho loss of
hler rliotipr had (1iiriEd her retirement
Irora ! Ic:,ity.ncat year, aidl after that
XEf tnC Orash of her father's illSi
ne-i 1and1(1 his (ilotih, which left his h
d Ci.t,!rs with no rcs~)urc;i;lut their
iwa * X i e; andl CGertrudle had
iro)ipc:nl ot of the gay, delightful
lolt sihe iihad :czrccly learncd to
:ulio, and had been for five years only 1
stru uglin", patient. flcivn11a ,t+I , C
munic-;e-ccher, mreekly thankful now
att twenty-six, that ,ýhe could canr
Cnough for two, and keep Kitty hi
school until the child was sulcicientlJ
le:rnucd to impsrt the mysteries oi
grantxrar ail g;ogrraphv to younfei
tfcets. oet 'toranu, meanutimre,
had fiishred college, and ~lpent two
years abroad, and had lately come
home, eager and confident, to fulfill
his duties as a prospcrous citizen. It
wa3 only through Mrs. Vierling's
planning that he and Gertrude had
met again. Their d'ays of meeting
were over now, Gertrude thought,
'tifling another kigh1. Her brief play
time-and she. permitttd herself to
sigh at this--was over too. The wed
ding was a thing of the past; she had
nac her little hour of hnappiess; he
had looked so young and pretty in her
bridesmaid's dress, that Bob Norman
might almost have been glad to come
anfl talk to her even if Mrs. Vierliug
hadn't managed it-but henceforth sho
runst think of her pupils and of her
practicing and of showing a cheerful
face to I;itty, who was nodding ogerlv
from the window of their flat as the
carriage drew up at the door. Ger
trude hurried upstairs rind Kitty
helped her off with her things in the
modest parlor, where the fading fur.
uiture formed a ganring contrast to the
igressively new wall papor. O(er
r uýº. eproacne herself for noticino
Ithis ismsal fact; it would never do to
let y guess her state of mind.
Therefore, she shook herself mentally
and plunged into a lively account of
the morning's festivities. Kitty list
ened, revolving about her sister, and
deriving much amusement from an
account of Leila's chaimns. Gertrude
put the lucky sixpence into a safe
corner of her tsha:bby little purse, and
set aboau getting sopper-for the
afternoon had flown. She and Kitty
Lald wedding cake for de-sort, and she
assente:.d to Kitty's suggestion that
they should sleep with some under
their pillows. It was unreasonable of
Gartie, after tempting fate in that '
manner, to be vexed at dreaming of
the weodling and of ^iobert Normian's
faee, so downcast as he said goodbye. 1
;he threw away her cake next morn
ng, resolved to have no more of that
nonseone. The episode was indeed
finished, but she was not as glad us
he might have been, to remember,
hat after the distant way she had
)artcd from him, there was no danper
otf :r. Norman's venturitg to seek
her company thereafter. Unfortun.
tely, though she didn't see him,
there were circumstiness which kept
the thought of him before her; for
he hbd gained promiuence in certain
attmnts at imprroving the city politics,
anod a 1speeclh of his at a reform club
bauquet w'as being vi;:'orously discussed
in the newspapeirs. It was, perhaps,
not so mueh a si'u tha:t the speech was
good1, as that tlin:s-from thoe jour
!nll:,tic point of view--were dull, but
(ertrade did not realize that fact and
essurel her. l ~,lf that few men were so
clover.
ft ýr s three wceks, after tbe wed
Ildiun , ad Gertrude yeas hurrying
'aross I' he ceentre of the city on the
way home from her lIst losson. Snow
le ( ;:(s aldli g (tut melting na it fell, and
I the exertion of carryjunl two bic rolls
ot Iuul 'Llhl of' bold ti ?:I her skirts
froj crcru c:.nct with the Muddy ;nae.
e :zleuts had [WI ,,e.4d to the latigues
' engen.icrctl by the musical vagarijs of
71 1 ttzIt alily stupid puipil. She Wns
e(-tapeý'rutecl at herself for stolping at
:Ifld l)U'dI'C e :he caulght a
C' I liuup ' eOf .L11i) Normian's n Me on a
front eoluan i imadiijuc, but she hadn't
;trngth of mindi eu'u:;l.i just then to
resist tie imouiilSe, iHer weakueiswas
SpLiuisl iej for ia site tried to lnd a
Vet stry, chr l''hi flbitA thg
a jiriht billowing
a rit ofzt a i (iNr to escape and
ro il cCo 3 tut) I C U':11enllt. Gc tru(ie
i ~ r, ,l it, a uat a little cry of
StircP, vbat Jd1lX.ne eke started too,
end ua aseoo( )l :'1: iNot;ina came 1
i )rwt : hli andi holdin ga;
holdng L vil :+';it 1:1 his Gtiir_'r hand..
' 0l a1Slii 3IJ S o munh,"~Sll C-t
j tinge brauuiii , trying to arrango $
ihcr burdces. ''ltd m' iy sLtcky six
pencel.( I ctJulc t(lzt have lost it for i
lly thing..
e; uns face bemingm
"I've just gotten through my les
sons," said Gertrude-very primly,
because she felt certain he knew why
she'd bought that paper. She shcoio
hands because he so plainly expected
it, but when he essayed to talk a little
further, and would have commnceu d
by asking news of the bride, her em
barrassment increased with the
thought of that wedding day, and ishe
abruptly cut him short, recnarking
I coldly that shoemust hurry, and, hav
SJng bowed stiffly, hastcnned on, straight
tlirounh a mud-puddle which comr
tplete& the ruin of her poor little
shoes. She had not gone half a block
before she asked herself why sihe had
(lone it; he was talking to her then of
his own accord and she need not have
been so disagreeable. Well, all was
certainly over now. IIe would never
e try to speak to her again, and she was
very tired, and her feet were wet, and
it wa: absurd to preteud to herself
that this was snow melting on her eye
lashes.
"'Miss Wilbur ! Miss Cferlrudc!"
sc;:dece suddenlyv bchinm her andl she
turned, winink;ir away the snow ilakes,
to behol;l Mr. Noriran, ihushwed from
fast walking, holding out that hltikv
si: pence in a well-grloved hand. 'I
forgot to give you this after all; it's
very stupid in nme," ho b.bean, rather
fortuall-, and then, as she tried to
(shift her munsic roll:., he took theta
gently from her.
"Let m e.Iry theum for YOU1--i'm
going this way," he said in quite an
other tone; for he hadi seen those tell
tale lashes and it occurred-to him that I
she had been abrupt only because she I F
was troubled or tired.
to tie tool; possession of her news
lpaper, too, in the most matter-of
/o course w)ay in the world, and pro
c, ceded to ask her questions about the
n coin he held. And Gertie, in thovlgor
.n of her penitence, expilained in the
y I friendliest manner, ndl they laughcd
I together over tho sup rstition. And
.r then they talked and lnughed about
-other thins. He reminded her of
a' the first dance they had had and she
e let him persuade her to remember it,
Iu and they walked away pJast the placeo
t where she should have taken the car
, before either of them noticed.
H lie even dared, after a bit, to touch
on Leila's prenuptial festivities, and
to hint that he elt grateful to Mrs.
'Vierling for the frequent aid she had I
lent his wishes, and having received
this assurance, Gertrude allowed hinm
to start what subjects he pleased. r
They walked on and on, as the fairy
tales say, and feeling quite as the e
fairly tale prince and princess used,
until it was needless to take a car
at all, on discovering which fact n'
they wondered greatly over their it
absence of mind. Soon after,
absorbed in a discussion of mu- .
sic and of Gertrude's pupils, they
strolled some two blocks past her home o'
and retraced their steps in much es
confusion. JMr. Norman could not
possibly accept her invitation to enter, 1i
but he so far forgot good form as to Pl
stay some. time talking on the entrance th
steps. Gertrude should have been
very tired and huncrv hnd cl,, ......
to atlas h said goodbye. Even
d. after that he lingered.
rlly '" have your luck yet," he said,
f oking down with a strange shyne~s
st- at the sixpence i mhis hand, and then,
nd with a sudden desperate plunge:
S '"Gertrude; won't you trust your luck
ie to me for always? Won't you--"
No one has ever learned what else
ad he said, though Kitty tried hard to
--Ie make Gertrude tell.
tv However, another bride wore that
oe sixpenco in her shoe a few months
at later, when i~rs. Vierling insisted on
r giving the quiet wedding breakfast.
). And Gertrude, sad to be recorded,was
it much less magnanimous than Leila
I had been, foi she made quite a favor
S-a mrostreluctantly yielded favor-of
letting Kitty take posse;sion of the
L sixpence when she took off the little
" white slipper. -The Peterson.
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S irshing the Teeth.
The upper teeth should be brushed
downward and the lower teeth upward
from the gums. Do not brush the
teeth crossways, as they are apt to
become loosened and the gmes will
also suffer. The inside of the teeth
should be brushed in the same way.
Tepid water is the best 1'o use, both
for cleaning the teeth and rinsing the
mouth out afterward.
The tooth brush should be small
'and curved, so that the bristles can
get in all the interstices of the teeth.
It should not be too JLard, and, when
a noew tooth brush is purchased it
should be soaked in water for several
hours before using. If the brush is
dried on a towel after being used, and
stood up on end in the air it will last
much longer. Tooth brushes should a
never be kept in a closed receptacle.
Tooth powders should be chosen
with great discretion. For general
use the following will be found a very di
good powder! Mix together half an
ounce of powdered bark, a quarter of
an ounce of myrrh, one dram of
camphor and one ounce of prepared d,
chalk. Anothor simple receipt is as
follows: Adrid two ounces of camphor
ated chalk, two drachms of very fine t
powdered borax, half an ounce of
,owdered orrisroot and half a dractim r
)f powdered myrrh; mix the ingredi- ir
nts thoroughly together and keep tn
1e powder in a stoppered bottle.- tai
ian Francisco Chrounicle. cl
No honors for Self.Mjlurderers
. The German Ministor of War hai
ºf issued a gcueral order to the effect I
, that military honors are no lonzer to
e be rendered at the funerals of officers
whb have committed asnicile, whose
names are likewise henceforth to be
made publio, instead of being kept
3 secret. Emperor William has been led
to take this step by the extraordinary
increase of late in the number of sui.
oides among the officers of thd army.
hen the 'President and his8 wife
drive out the President sits on the
right hand seat and his wife ou the
left.
Dl If therb are others in the carriage,
ed whether ladies or gentlemen, they
mo must sit with their backs to the horses.
When Mrs. Cleveland was first mar.
Sried she tried the experiment of plae.
2 iug her mother opposite the President
to and herself in the Presidential landau,
but the people laughed at it so'in
Smoderately and professed to think Mrs.
It Folsom (as she was then) to be the
-. maid, that it was speedily dropped.
We hen the President's wife drives alone
i she sits in the right-hand corner-the
q place of honor.
The lady of the White House can
not set foot within those splendid
houses in Washington whose flagstaffs
mark the foreign embassy or legation.
She could not go without the.Presi
dent, and as an embassy or legation is
technically a part of the country it
represents, the President could not
go-so that she never sees the inside
of a diplomatic house as long as she a
presides at the erecutive mnasion. I
The P'esident di:nes only at cabiuet 1
houses, and hi.i wife cannot dine any- n
where without him. President Arthur b
dined .witll ju'lges of the Supreme sI
Court "and with Senators-but as he w
had no wife the whole system was very ai
much simplified, ftor him. The L'resi
dlnts wife may, if she choses, go to Tj
hloel1chon where there are no gentle- te
iurc, or to teas, both being regarded h
no s~-ictly informal; but the danger to
of giving ofetn:o by accepting; one in- c
vitation and declining ahother is so a
great that it is seldoma or never risked.
-Illustrated American. ,
' - 0 rranor',;ticlcomue Discoverr.
One of Washington's scienti ie men
founci himself in n assemblagec where
there were P, great many young peo
ple. He endeavored to rise-or, per
haps, to descend--to the0 ccasion as
gracefully as possible. Having been
introduceet to a number of young
women, he triedl to make himself
agreeable by explaining some of the
latest information in ethnology, and he
became so absorbed in his discourse
that he did not notice, until they were
nearly all gone, that a youth with a
nasal voice was winning his audience
away from him witha funny song. He
tried it again with archeology as the
theme. A girl with a banjo wrecked
his ambitions. He thought he was
making some headway by means of his
remarks on paleontology when a man
who took a rabbit out of a silk hat
eternally quenched his pride. i
"My dear," he said to his wife, on i
their way home, "I have been think- e
rig it over, and I find that the even
in,, Z... tvon
r inga has been far from wasted."
"I twas very much afraid that vor
"' would feel diifferently about it."
S "NNo. Ihave made a very important
Ssand interesting discovery. The mer
Siest accidents sometimes lead to the
t most surprising revelations, and to
nighlt I learned something which com
Splely ovcrturns an accepted
Stheory."
"Is it possible?"
"We have been let to believe that
the chief of all forces is the attraction
of gravity."
"Yes."
"Well, I have found out to-night
that there are times when it can't hold
a candle to the attraction of levity."-
W\'shington Star.
I'rmllivhe Mo:ne ~till is Use.
Sone cuno F1ree Stato, Africa,
where "money" of any kind is made a
t medium of exchange, brass rods of
. difCferent lengths are to a great extent
Sused ,is a standard of value. In some
sections, pieces of cotton cloth,
s squares of woven palm fiber and beads
pass for currency. At LeopoldviIle,
r a tmarket is held wice a e weel, where
f 3000 or 4000 natives bring their'pro.
duets to exehaUng for guu powder and
checked cloth, tl e only money in use
being brass rods or "mlitako," which
are cut in length; eight inches long.
At Banana Point the articles used are
red bandana hanlkerchics, cloth, bead
machetes, old silk hats, colored para.
sols, cheap knives, flint-lock muskets,
powder, brass rods, tinware, ram,
matches and cologne. The standard
of value is a piece of cotton goods
eight yards long and one yard wide,
valuedl at fifty cents. When the tiader
buys produce, he gives out cards to
the natives, each of which is good for
one piece of cotton in tra:le at the
stores. The traders make large profits
in exchange. A small egg cup full of
blue glass beads will purchase food
for one man for a week. Coffee and
cotton grow wild, and the natives own
a good many cattle. A cow can be r
bought for a fIint-lock gun valued at a
$2.50 on the coast. Gold and silver c.
are altogether unknowo.--New En.
land Homestead. t(
Rabbits Cause Dipltlther1:,
PRabbits have caused ai epidemic of
diphtheria in tlhc east.rn part of the
county, that has spread to Down»,
Iowa Falls, Jewell Junction and Al.
den. No less than a dozen deaths have
been reported. -For the last five years
diphtheria has broken oat anunally in
the immediate vicinity of Tybitura
Lutheran Church, which is used as a
'school building. A large an'tber of
ra'bbits have been making tf.eir home
in that building for a long time, and
thie physicoans have reached the con
clusion that the little animals have
planted tho gerus of the disease which
spread amnong the children. The
church will be burned.'-- t. Louis IRe
pub!lic.
Ricy~in Tube -Making,
Tboh capabilities of the leadc1n steel
tnie nills in ?ttbs country for bicycle
w'ork are far beyond the coIsrnption I
It is estimated that 2,000,00)0 scot of
steel tube have been nsed this year,
ut there are seven mills, azl one of
them alone can turn out 18,030,000
feet, the corabinel out put of the other t
six laillsa mountiag to 61,000,00)0.
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IINTS ABOUT JEWELS.
Diamonds should be worn by the
brilliant woman, but thed quiet one
should choose pearls. The beauty of
a brunette is enhanced by rubies and
topazes, and of a fair skinned woman
by emeralds,
PAr .I 3-ILLINM S.
In Paris millinery is looked upon as
an art or profession, and amateur mil
liners are looked down upon as woiuld
be an amateur doctor. The working c
milliner is far more apt to be of gentle
birth than the girl in the dressmaking
shop. Millinery is dainty, protected
work that requires an artistic nature tl
and young girls of good family with- t(
out a dot often go into the profession.
The head illliucr in a smart house of. p
ten receivds $;50 amonth, and in large i
houses the working girlsaro looked af
terin their outside life in a kindly but o
not oricious way.
INfl:TORl OF TIIE DIVIDED StIRT.
The advanced wcman who wants to
ride a horso or her bicycle in man
fashion doesn't realize that her divid
ed skirt, about which sihe likes to talk,
is almost as old as the hills.
As far back as 138;, says a writer in
the Chicago Inter-Oeea:, the devau
tierre, which is in reality the divided
skirt, was worn by the women .of the
court of France, to whom the side sad
die, until it was introduced by Cath
erine de Medici, was unknown. Many
ladies did not care to wear trousers,
and so the divided skirt wvs arranged
for them. Several fur trimmed dovan
ticres are found in the wardrobe list of
Isabel of Bavaria, the wife of Charles
VI. I tell you there is absolutely
nothing new.
TIE JUG HA!;DLE FOR THE HAIR. t
Mr. Lientenfeld, of England,' has
invented something which he belivces
is to be a boon to "the eternal fem
imiuc" as he, with Goethe's assistance,
expresses it. He has discovered that i1
woman has had great trouble in t
arranging her hair into the artistic
u form of a jug handle. He has, there
fore, come to her assistance with a
t hollow hair tube, which will enable
- her to make the jug handle a thing of
e beauty (and a joy forever. It is a
t- twist of hair raised above the coil at
-. the back of the head, and the handle
l is a most appropriate name for it.
The head of the wearer looks as if
waiting to be lifted by it. The jug
t handle as a fashion has not yet been
Simported into this country, and it is
unnecessary to describe in detail its
artiftcial support.
THE ONLY WOMAN 1)IV:r,,
Mrs. Frances N. Sorcho, of Balti
pnore, has worked for several years at I
deep sea diving. She is probably the I
only woman in the world who follows I
this perilous calling. Mrs. Sorcho is
the wife of Captain Louis Soreho,a c
veteran' deep sea dliver and ex-Captain
of the United States Life-Saving Sex. t
vice. She had not married long be
fore she determined to assist her hus
Land and share the dangers of his '
occupation, She prepared herself by
taking a year's course of physical
training, and at the end of that time
she had developed. the muscles of an ni
athlete. Then she puton twenty-seven. sl
pound shoes and the rest of a diver's in
armor, weighing about 250 pounds. at
Captain Soreho was engaged in the to
business of collecting rare sea shells fii
and coral for several Northern univer
sities. Mrs. Sorcho's first dive was off pa
the Southern coast of Florida. 'She gr
lid no work that time, but after a few ed
more dives greir accustomed to the gri
sensations, and helped her husband to mi
complete his contract. Since then she ter
has taken part in almost all his under- chi
takings, and has many times done work an(
)n her own account.--New Orleans chi
R.cavune. Inn
yA"T WOMEN WEAR AIDI CAP.RY,
The prettiest things for evening car
a clage wear are for tho head. Thece
are soft little silken hoods, with short
V capes and frills around the face, the
shape being that; which added so much
to the charms ol Little ited Riding
Hood. They are of a pale shade of
sil k-pink, green, blue or sometimes
of white, covered with chiff'o or net,
and with a frill of chiffon or lace
around the face.
A very lovely hood made.for ayoung
lady just coming out of mourning is I
all of white, and( covered with' white a
chiffon. There are three little ruffles t
of chiffon around the face,, tiny I
bunches ol violets nestlng in them at h
intervals, and a larre cluster of the ii
flowers fasten the hood at the neck. I
Another cf these little hoods is of tl
pink, the crown ove'red with black sa
net, through which gold threads run
horizontally, The irill around the in
face is of black lace.
The request for no hats at tho opera cn
has inerealed the demand for pompons
for the hair, and they are made in all bh
shades of feather tips, with .igrettes i
to match, or knots ofribbon or flowers pr
to ma:tch the trimming of the own. an
A pretty r'pompon In iink has a wlittle
standing bar of brillijats eupporing sm
the aigrettes. st
Milliners .apprectito the fat th"
Slarge hats are not worn at the theatre  c
to such an eltent 1a formerly, if all c
tlIatregoera (0do not. There nfever W a3
nvra I uo;
a time when so many little theatre
he bonnets were made, they say. her
noe make them by the score now here
of year ago they would be makring e lr .
ad hats. maing larg®
n The opera bag is a feature ofte
costume this year. It is made b
home or by the modiste who Make,
the gown with which it is to be ao
ried, It is usually of some
'2 flowered brocade, and is lined wtlah". .
Scolors which match or blend withth
of thego u. n -Ncw York Times.
t The woman who has succutlbed, f
C the newest Parisian sleeve will do well
to wonder if her arm "harmonizesi,
--that is to say, if the upper and lower
parts are Droportionatcly developed.
SIf she finds that they sre not she will be
wise in introducing a wrinkle or pff
or flounce of some sort without delay.
She should realize that a full, round
upper arm joined to a flat sleeve Wi
... .. . uu iorearm in all its hide.
ousness. And she should also know
1 that there is one defect worse. than
th!s, which is a graceful forearm cdm.
bined with a thiu, scrawny upper arm.:
No sartorial device will be out ofplace
which will obscure such an anomaly
as this. ' It is true that the contem.
plation of. her own arm may add '
goodly number of brand new worri, 1
and regrets to the fashionable woman's
mental experience, but this will bed
but an added proof' that the road toy
perfection ,of form and dress is one of
no little perplexity and much padd'in
There are some old-fashioned peopleoi
who are, however, credited'with ex.
cellent taste, who 'claim that the clan.
sical ideal is quite as good a type as '
any that prevails nowadays, and that ?
the arms of the Venus do Medici, foi
instance, ought to satisfy the most am.
bitious woman of to-day. here ar0 -
her measurements: Length fron .
shoulder to finger-tips, 28 7-20 inehe;
length from shoulder to elbow, 12 3.5
inches; length from elbow to finger
tips, 15 inches; around upper arm'
Ili inches; around elbow, 10a incheg:'
--.. .sup U uuW, Ulw Inches*'
around forearm, 9 inches; aroun "
wrist, 5 7-1G inches. Athletic women
mayprefer to follow the model of Dian,
who in one.statue has arms molded on
the following proportion: Lengt 
from shoulder to finger-tips, 29 7-.
inches; from shoulder to elbow, 13 1.5'
inches; from elbow to finger-tips, 16}
inches; around upper arm, 1G1 inches;
around forearm, 9 15-16 inches;
around wrist,5 5-16 inchos.--San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
FASHIOI - NOTES.
Dahlias and gardenias are the favor.
ite flowers for Winter hats.
One of the handsomes and most
t becoming of colors for brunettes is the
full, rich cyclamen, approaching the
pink geraniu.
Yellow and plume are beautifully
combined this year by fashionable
milliners, particularly in forming
toques and evening bonnets,
Dainty figured satin ribbon in black,'
white, lavender, pink, blue and all the
light eolorp, at six cents a yard, will
fill many fancy work wants.
Evening gowns with square-cUt
necks are much worn this season. The
square neck is more becoming to slop
ing shoulders than the round neck,`
and laceo and chiffon rafules can be used
to give the edges a soft and dainty
finiEh.
A pretty evening waist of chiffon in
pale blue, rose, lemon, lilac or Nile
green, has the neck cut square and
edged with fur. It seems an incon- a
gruous combination - the dainty,
mistlikc material trimmed with win
ter's richest fur--but the effect is very
charming. Chinchilla, sable, ermine
and seal are the best furs for trimming
chiffon, being the softest and richest
looking.
It is a singular fact that in almost
all coantries the upers tition about
peacoclk plumes is the Skve. It is
universliy concied to be tho cauSn
of illluck, and though the shading
and coloring of the feathers .are un
usually brillut and beautif ul any
woman with a love for prosperity and
happiness will invariably avoid deco;
rating any of her apartments or pos
sessions with the ill-omened, plumes';
The well-dressed, careful ýwomazn'
never has a gaping packet t nmar the
efect of her costume. If your,
placket opens at the sides have hook•
and eyes on. the inner edge, and see
that they are always securely fastened.
If the placket is at the back do not
have your pocket put anywhere near;
it. Let the waistband of the skirt'
lap far over, if the placket opens ati
the back, and even then, you need
safety hook and notn
Odd bits of ribbon may be utilized
in the making of little button bags
bags for embroidery silk, and spoo -
es Embroider on each bag, i.
outline stitch, what *epecial k]ind of
button reposes within it, and finish
off the ends of the draw-striae with
pretty little tasg els, made of 'tao odit
and ends of silk thread or fl o.:.- O
course, the draw string should b©i'
small silk cord; it is boter Iad
stronger than baby rbbon. oiti of"
cardboard, accurately cat and neatly
covered with ribbon or a scrap of silk'
can be made into pretty and uesful'
noedle nud pin holders. ' . ..