lo^MterestTtq¥qmenj
New York City.—Elaboration ap
pears to be the one all pressing de
mand for the season and almost ev
ything except the tailored suit *of
; severest, most useful sort is braid
l nmed. Here is a most charming
little Eton that gives all the dressy
effect demanded by fashion, while in
reality it is absolutely simple in con
struction and can very easily be
made. Braid of varying widths is
combined with velvet to give a really
handsome and altogether elaborate
effect, but the foundation Is just the
plain little Eton shown in the small
view. In this instance the material
Is hunter's green broadcloth and the
collar and the wider bands are made
of velvet, the collar being overlaid
with lace whild the trimming con
sists of flat braid in two widths and
of soutache braid applied over a
stamped design. All suitings are ap
propriate, however, and the model
Will be found especially well adapted
to velvet and velveteen as well as to
broadcloth, while it can be made far
simpler by being trimmed on differ
ent lineß. For example, if the hori
zontal strappings were omitted alto
gether the garment would still be an
attractive one or the narrow braids
in fronts and back could be dispensed
with, still leaving a dressy garment.
The Eton is made with the back,
the side-backs, fronts and side-fronts.
Both the side-fronts and side-backs
are cut to form extensions at the low
er edges and these extensions are
lapped over onto the fronts and
backs, so providing a foundation for
the braiding, which gives the effect
of a band. The back is slightly long
er than the side-backs and is attached
to the belt, over which it blouses.
The flat collar finishes the neck and
the closing is made with buttons and
Footwear For All Occasions.
As every one knows the dressing
of the foot and leg is an all Important
part of any child’s costume.
Tan and black are the standard
colors in stockings as in shoes, but
where economy is not closely con
sidered there are many variations
from these standards.
Stockings that match the frock and
shoes that harmonize are the desir
able thing from a fashion standpoint.
Low shoes and slippers in ooze
t: —if - 1 |
loops of braid. The sleeves are ia
the fashionable three-quarter length
with bands at the lower edges.
The quantity of material required ,
for the medium size is three and one- !
quarter yards twenty-seven, one and ;
three-quarter yards forty-four or one I
and one-half yards fifty-two inches I
wide with five-eighth yard of velvet
for the collar and wide bands, six
yards of medium width, ten yards of
narrow braid with soutache, accord
ing to design used, with one yard of
lace.
Feather Breast For Turbans.
The soft feather breasts so much
used for natty turbans are beautiful
ly matched in wings.
Fancy Pleated Skirt.
There seems literally to be no lim
it to the possibilities of the pleated
skirt. It is constantly appearing in
some new guise or other and is seem- I
ingly always most atractive in the
latest. This one is perfectly smooth
over the hips, giving something of a
yoke effect at the same time that the
lines are long, graceful and becom
ing. In the illustration it is made
of nut brown broadcloth trimmed
with bias bands of velvet and is
stitched with belding silk, but trim
ming can be braid or anything that
may be liked or the skirt can be fin
ished with a stitched hem only. Again
it gives a choice of round or walking
length, so that it becomes adapted
both to the street and to indoor wear
while it is suitable for the thinner
materials, such as silk and veiling
w ;
quite as well as cloth and other suit- |
ings.
The skirt is made in nine gores ;
that are cut with extensions below i
the plain yoke portion, which pro- I
vides fulness and flare, while at the !
back are the inverted pleats that are |
so universally becoming.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is eleven and
one-half yards twenty-seven, six and |
one-quarter yards forty-four or fifty- j
two inches wide, with two yards of
bias velvet to trim as Illustrated. |
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leather with embroidered motifs, as
well as shoes of kidskin and satin in
self colorings, are worn for dancing
classes and similar juvenile festivi
ties.
Bodice of Ruffles.
The bodice composed entirely of
narrow ruffles of lace, laid one above
the other on a well-fitted lining, is a
charmingly fluffy evening waist. ,
Wide bands of Cluny pass from shoul
ders to waist, crossing at the bust.
‘The Girl Graduate
and the Home
By James Monroe Taylor, President of
Vassar College.
deal is said of the attitude of the girl graduate toward the
A home. It is time that something was said of the attitude of the
home toward the girl graduate. Too frequently the parental
! mb view of education is that it is completed when the diploma is in
1 wgjgllflßi hand, and that now having enjoyed every advantage that a col
j wSmSEEm# lege can give, the girl should return to her home to make her
self -solely a part of its social life, and to disseminate the light
which she has been so long gaining.
The rights of young womanhood for larger development, which are real
! ly at the base of the willingness of every parent to sacrifice for the education
lof the child, do not cease at graduation. It is a very poor investment that
the parent makes if every opportunity for this development is cut off the mo
ment the student turns her back upon the college. These four years bave
awakened new energies of mind and soul which must have satisfaction, and
opened new vistas of truth and of activity which must not be closed because
of the pressure of professional or domestic or social life. Just here the re
sponsibility of the home for the education of the girl must continue. It
must be remembered that the girl has passed from a very large and most
generous life into what is, uot in importance, but in relationships, compara
tively narrow. All the fulness of the life of youth is gathered about her
| through four years, with that lack of responsibility .of anything beyond 'which
can not easily continue outside of school and college life. The home should
recognize this and should be patient in waiting for the adjustment which is
ofte 1 necessary, and which will always come if the parent is wise, and if the
i girl ha; the attitude of the average student.
But something more than patience is called for. If we have spent our
time in training our girls in science, history, philosophy, literature and art,
we assuredly should recognize, since we have been broa-d enough to educate
them at all, the desirability of their continuing that education and the neces
sity therefore of some time for reading and study. Here, perhaps, more than
anywhere else the average home Is at fault —in failing to provide by the ar
rangement of duties, domestic and social, for at least moderate opportunities
of reading. How easy it would be for the home to recognize that an hour or
two in the day should be understood to belong to the girl for her own study.
Parents frequently resent this withdrawing from what is called the family
life, in forgetfulness of the larger good that must come to every member of
the household through the continued advantage of the one. Remember that
the ecliege course has been an investment. Remember that It has opened
the mind of the student to new interests, large and broad, which ought to be
kept and fostered. Remember that this requires opportunities, and that many
a student who finds the demands of the average society irksome would con
tentedly meet all its claims if there could’be even a moderate answer to the
*emar ds of the awakened intellectual life. —Collier’s Weekly.
Swirls.
By-John C. Van Dyke.
S there not a swirl of the universe as well as of the sea and air :
Y And is it, too, not caused primarily by difference in tempera
'll I ture? The extremes of the equator and the poles are sufficient
naJnaiM to set in motion thousands of miles of air and water. But what
is the heat of the equator to the blaze of the sun itself or the
■■Simm cold of the poles compared with the possible absolute zero of
upper space? If the heat of the sun flows out (as we know It
Joes), must not the cold of space flow in? On the tremendous currents thus |
set in motion would the planets of one solar system be any more than tennis
balls floating in the maelstrom?
Ours is but a single circle in space. For millions of years perhaps we
have been eddying slowly in a Sargasso Sea, seeing on the other side of the
pool Jupiter and Saturn and Neptune whirling around the rim. It is but a
little swirl in the universe; but, had we but the eyes to see and the mind to
grasp, we should perhaps find it not different in principle from the grea er
swirl. That vast clustering star belt which -we call the Milky Way heaps up
from our horizon to a glittering ring In the heavens. What It circles no o-ne
knows, but there is little doubt that it is a circle. What power swung that
mighty swirl into motion? Where blazes the luminary that drives those stars
together? Are they themselves the central dynamos of the universe, and are
all the constellations that plunge hither and yon through space driven off upon
great ellipses by their stupendous heat?
There is no answer. The great truths were evidently not meant for us
W. have never been able to understand them. We grope blindly for causes,
dragging to light plausible theories that last a little time and then go their
way, being wholly Insufficient. The long argument of science but proves it*
weakness. If the truth is ever known, there will be no need of demonstra
tion, for everything in human experience wi” ->ediately confirm it. The
Opal Sea.”
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‘The Pan-American Railway
Is 'cor"L ci . a he Monroe Doctrine
By Charles M. Pepper.
is apparent that a railway line or series of lines traversing
bL| ▼ twelve or fifteen countries from the United States to the Argen-
A tine Republic, and sending out lateral branches, only can be
SLm made effective through international co-operation. When each
(teXSah of th , 3 countries interested makes provision for building to its
ggSSsI borders along the north and south route, this means ultimate
througn communication, and as one nation approaches the fron
tier i of a neigh bo- nation that neighbor is given the Incentive for construe
tion within its own limits. All the governments follow the plan which ob
talned in the United States in constructing the transcontinental roads—that i
is, of state aid by means of land grants, bonds, and other forms of subsidies, ,
or outright paymeuts for completed sections. In this way the gradual unin ,
cation of disjointed lines will be obtained. It may be said that in l“ e “Jr i
ginning of 1906 every Central and every South American country has a deti (
nite po'icy of aiding lailway construction as an integral part of the Pan-Amer-
icaa system, and some of them, as in the case of Peru and Bolivia, have en
acted -special legislation. All of them are sympathetic toward an intercon
tinental trunk line because It coincides with their plans for internal develop
ment and external trade. .
For the United Slates the project is the commercial corollary to the Mon
roe doctrine. The moral Influence makes for the increased stability and po- I
litical prozress of the various Latin-American republics and there is the , i
trade benefit of industrial development and enlarged commerce. There is es_ ,
peciallv the reciprocal influence of the Panama Canal. And it may be added ,
that an educational good is derived from the enforced knowledge of geog ,
raphy.—From “The Railways of the Future”—The Pan-American Railway in (
Sc’ibner's. I
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What College Training
Should Do
By T. F*. Lindsay.
HE assumption of the elective system, that a man will choose sub-
Tjects for his college course lhat he likes, and consequently de ]
vote himself to them more earnestly, seems perfectly reasonable,
but where there comes a question of education and training on
the one side and the personal comfort and the A. B. degree on
g£jgg“Sj the other, which course is the eighteen-year-old “man" likely to
t&kg
What is the result? The young man takes the required number of
courses for his degree in elementary subjects only; one year of history, one
year of French, one vear of Spanish, etc., and at the end of his college course
has a “mattering of a dozen or so subjects with no complete knowledge of
any and, worst of all, little mental training. But he has his degree; that is
what he went to college for, and he goes out Into the world as a college man,
an educated man.
If a college education fails to give a man training it fails in its principal
duty. Intellectual culture and refinement are admirable, but training is es
sential. The majority of c*lege graduates in this country go into business
after graduation, where they compete with men who have been in business
while they were in college. The college man can only outstrip these men by
entering the race with a well developed intellect, and his chances of having
such and his chances of winning are but small if he has frittered away his
time in college.
An Englishman living near Lon
don has had his new motor ’boat
named Expedience but the spells it
"Xpdnc."
Mowing the President’s Lawn.
Automobile lawn mower used on White House grounds at Washington.
A Fighting Auto.
Armored trains are no novelty, or
at least they are a new thing of yes
terday, not to-day. But the armored
motor car, just furnished by Bronlrtz
to the Russian War Department, is
still in its early stages. From wheels
to roof this offensive and defensive
monster of the highway is designed
to be invulnerable. The whole car
Is covered with steel thick enough to
resist rifle bullets, and when in action
shutters slide up to close all the open
ings now seen in the picture. The
car carries a large supply of gasolene
and ammunition, giving it a wide
radius of action and a deadly advan
tage over any mob of revolting peas
ants against which it may be sent.
The rapid fire gun, mounted on the
roof, can be turned in any direction.
Rough country, as well as smooth,
can be traversed by this new engine
of death, which is likely to bring ter
ror to many a hapless dweller in
rural Russia in the next few months.
The wheels themselves are protect
ed by thin nickel steel bullet proof
-At V.':
The New Bronirtz War Motor Just
Supplied to the Russian Army.
plating, while the tires have non
puncture proof bands.
The car can seat fire persons com
fortably, and has an average speed
of about thirty miles an hour.
Hitherto the difficulty in the use
of motors on service nas been that
they are liable to get out of order
when worked over rougn ground.
Here,however, they have solved the
difficulty by fixing motor engines to
both the front and back axles, and by
this means the car can more easily
extricate itself by Its own motive
power out of a ditch or any small de
pression.—The Sphere.
Load Freight by Gravity.
The ordinary box freight car does
not appear to be very large from the
outside. A close examination will
show that from the door to either
end is fully twenty feet, which means
that men employed in loading a car
travel quite a distance. The time
thus consumed in loading a box car
is considerable, and to reduce the
time and labor more than half two
Minnesota men have designed the
freight carrier shown here. A glance
at the illustration will convince the
reader that by such a method a great
deal of time and labor could be
saved. This freight carrier Is op
erated by gravity. It is composed of
two parallel rails, the ends of which
are curved to reach the back of the
car. On each track are small wheels,
spaced equal distances apart. In
loading the car the end of the track
on the platform Is raised by supports
above the remainder of the carrier. I
VIEW OF THE FAMOUS CHEESE MARKET AT HOORN, NORTH
HOLLAND, SHOWINQ HOW THE CHEESES ARE PROTECTED
BY WAXED CLOTH FROM DAMAGE BY THE SUN.
It is necessary only to start the bun
• die on its journey, the wheels carry
: j
Car Loaded by Gravity.
ing It to the other end of the track
and Into the car.—Philadelphia
Record.
An Incomplete Prescription.
A prominent Southern physician,
upon reaching his office one morning,
found an old negro who had been a
servant in his family standing in the
waiting room. The old negro, after
mentioning several painful symptoms,
related his usual hard-luck story,
and begged the doctor to prescribe.
The physician filled a small bottla
and said, “Take a teaspoonful of this,
Mose, after each meal, and come back
In a day or two if you do not feel
better.”
“Mars’ John, I can’t take dat
med’eine," answered Mose.
“You will have to take it if you
want to get well.”
“How’m I gwlne take it? Whpjr’m
I gwlne get de meals?”—Woman’s
Home Companion.
Ktealgl- - -~s i ---' iff flju- J
YUAN SHIH KAI.
Viceroy of the Province of Chill, and
now Commander-in-Chlef of
the Chinese Army.
He announces that he will intro
duce constitutional government In
his own province. -
Luxury in Games.
In every way golf has become more
etpensive—subscrlptlons.clubs, balls,
caddies and lunches, especially the
two latter items. One might moral
ize to any extent on the luxury of the
present age, even in games.—London
Mall.
Asphalt Is found in dried-up pe
i troleum beds.