Dainty Embroidery
DAINTY bit of embroidery to pick
up at odd momenta 1b a little
white apron for sewing, chafing
A
•dish, or afternoon tea wear. These are
toot meant for real utility, these wisps
iof lace and muslin —they are merely
delightfully feminine little creations
fwhlch women like to don, especially
•when they stir things up with a spoon
Jn the popular chafing dish. Then, too,
ithey do protect the gown a little, espe
cially a light summery one.
The apron must above all else be
the last word In fineness and exquis
ite daintiness —even though very
simple the materials must be fine.
Hand embroidered aprons are the
prettiest models In the whole apron
family, and any girl or woman who
knows how to embroider should lose
no time in adding one of these at
tractive trifles to her summer outfit,
or make one or two for the coming
winter.
The apron sketched Is a becoming
shape, and easily made. The three
panels are Joined by strips of lace and
edged with a frill of Valenciennes,
rrhe belt Is of fine lace beading'
through which a blue or pink satin
ribbon is run, which forms the strings
to tie the apron.
DAINTY IDEA IN LINGERIE
Combination Garment of Corset Cover
and Drawers Both Useful and
Practical.
Among the bargains in lingerie to
be found in the shops Just now is a
combination garment of corset cover
and drawers that is both dainty and
practical. The material Is a soft nain
sook. sheer but firm, neatly fashioned,
with neck and sleeves edged with seal-
Joped embroidery and the drawers
finished with a ruffle of scalloped em
broidery.
A pretty waist of dressy description,
though by no means elaborate, is of
cable net. black, made over a founda
tion of Japanese silk. Tucks of the
net alternating with bands of black
silk trim the waist lengthwise.
Tucks, headed by the silk bands,
run around the arms and the long,
close-fitting cuffs are trimmed pret
tily with the cllk.
An accordion pleated ruffle (gradu
ated) finishes the front.
This Is an especially good model
for an elderly woman, and one that
krill be serviceable for many occa
sions.
Fancies of
Fashion.
Scrim la a favorite for Bummer cur
tains.
The black satin coat of all lengths
Is favored.
About nine out of ten handsome
gowns are collarlesH.
Hlack frills are In demand for black
gowns or waists.
Among the new velllngH are those
»llh crepellke borders.
' Dyed linen laces ore high style for
linen and cotton dresses.
Sometimes tho Dutch neck Is out
lined with tiny rosebuds of chiffon.
Foulards are much worn as shirt
waists, matching In color the cloth
suit.
Eyelet embroidery !b a favorite In
the handsomest lingerie gowns this
season.
Chilton, voiles, marquisettes and
silk crepes are having a wonderful
rage.
Tiny little roostor heads are used
ts trimming tor small girls' everyday
bats.
The yoke and collar matching the
color of tbe material are not often
seen now.
There Is a much more noticeable bag
at the waistline of tbe gowns this
summer.
The material may be fine handker
chief linen, muslin or batiste, as one
fancies. To transfer the design lay
the paper on a board or table with
the design side up, place the fabric
over It. and pin firmly in each corner.
The design will show through the
material; with a sharp lead pencil
trace over every line, which will
leave a neat, clear tracing of the de
sign on the fabric.
Embroider In French embroidery for
the dots and flowers and a wee Ken
sington outline stitch for the bow
knot. The thread should be the finest
mercerized cotton.
THE ALWAYS USEFUL SERGE
Here Is Model for Dress That Will
Maks Up Admirably in That
Material.
A serge dress, as well as being
smart and wearing well. Is always use
ful. The princess part of our model is
taken to just pass the hips, where the
plaited skirt is joined to It under a
hem. Straps with pointed ends are
taken across the shoulder nnd brought
through openings which are cut each
sldo front and buttonholed or bound.
Tbe material over-sleeves are quite
plain; the under-sleeves and yoke are
of lace.
Hat with velvet brim, edged with
atruw; It has a chiffon crown and Is
trimmed with roses and un aigrette.
Materials required: Six yards Bergs
18 Inches wide, IK yards lace.
Upon all handsome or dressy gowns,
sash, girdle, belt or bow effects of rib
bon appear.
HUNOR A DOG HERO
Marines Erect Headstone at a.
Setter’s Grave.
Came to Kittery Navy Yard a Friend
less Waif—Became a Life
Saver and Left Many
Mourners.
Portland, Me. —Beneath a headstone
In the naval cemetery at the Kittery
navy yard sleeps a faithful little sol
dier, who, when he died in April, 1909,
left a long train of mourners—and he
was only a dog.
When Percy died, If the American
flag on the tall staff surmounting the
administration building was not half
masted it was through no fault of the
noncommissioned men about the yard.
Their devotion to Percy Is shown by
the following inscription on his grave
stone: “Percy, the marines’ dog. Died
April 7, 1909. Erected in his memory
by his companions, the marines, whom
he loved.”
Percy was a full-blooded Irish set
ter. He came to the yard 14 years ago,
a starved waif, in whom the marines
at the barracks had much ado to keep
the spark of life alight. Thenceforth
Ms life was one long exhibition of
dumb animal gratitude and he best
showed it by saving three human lives,
but unceasingly, too, in many lesser
ways.
No Alpine St. Bernard trained from
birth to life-saving ever did a nobler
duty than Percy in the case of Private
Cleveland. Percy habitually cheered
the sentries on the loneliest beats about
the reservation, whether the time were
noon or midnight. Cleveland one cold,
snowy night, had post No. 6, nearly a
mile out on the bleak, undeveloped
The Dog’s Monument.
southeastern part of the Island. He was
subject to fits and at this Inopportune
time had one.
He fell Insensible In the snow and
Percy, devotedly by his side, tried with
all his little might to drag his heavy
body to shelter. Falling to move the
log-like form, he snatched the sentry’s
cap In his teeth and flew through the
storm for the distant barracks.
The sleepers there were roused and
a rescue party reached the prostrate
marine In time to save his life.
On one more occasion Percy per
formed an almost similar service for
another marine who succumbed to the
rigors of a wintry night, and who, but
for the faithful ranine messenger,
would now be under the sod which
covers Percy.
Percy pitched Into two thugs who
one night attacked a marine on tbe
bridge leading from Klttery to the navy
yard, and the ferocity of his onslaught
not only made the yeggmen glad
enough to escape, but brought the
guard from the main gate. The victim
was badly used up and but for Percy's
assistance would have fared worse.
Percy always considered Intoxicated
marines his especial wards, and the
poor fellows wbo sought In this way to
relieve the monotony of navy yard
routine never had a stancher cham
pion. Woe to the meddler who sought
amusement at the helpless tippler's ex
pense.
Though detachments of marines
were continually coming and going,
Percy never lacked for friends, for to
see him was to love him. He bad the
run of the entire yard, and places for
bidden to all dogdom opened their bars
to Percy. Even that holy of holies, the
navy yard ferry to Portsmouth, was a
favorite stamping ground of his.
It was this freedom from all re
straint which finally proved the good
old dog's undoing. One day he wus
roaming about the corridors of the big
unllnlshed naval prison on the south
ern end of the Island, when he got hla
tall caught In an elevator.
The hurt, at first apparently trivial,
became serious, and the best veter
inary surgeon obtainable tried for a
month to relieve tho faithful animal's
sufferings. The warm-hearted marines
nearly bankrupted themselves In the
effort to restore him to health, but his
ago was agalnßt recovery and he wus
at Inst mercifully dispatched.
Other mnscots hnvo since partially
eugaged the of the marine
guard, but Percy's death left a void
never to be filled.
First Train Ride at Age of 83.
Johnstown, Pa.—Mrs. Elizabeth
Shaffer, eighty-three years old, came
to this city recently from her home at
Stoystowu, Somerset county, and for
the first time In her life saw and rode
on a railway and bad her Orst view of
a trolley car.
NOVEL MEMORIAL TO KING EDWARD PLANNED
London. —The East India association Is planning a magnificent memorial to King Edward—nothing less
than an India museum, in which may be gathered geological, mineral and vegetable products and antiquities of
that great land. A site already has been acquired on the Surrey bank of the Thames close to the London
County Council hall. The building will be of typical Indian architecture. 370 feet long, 210 feet wide and 130
feet high. The cost, exclusive of the site, is estimated at about $3,500,000.
NOTED LONDON HALL
Where English Journalists Enter
tained Roosevelt.
Important In Former Days When All
British Publications Had to be
Entered for Copyright
Purposes.
London.—Stationers’ hall, where Mr.
Roosevelt was the guest of the Insti
tute of Jouranllsm on his recent visit
to London, was erected In 1671, and In
the hall Itself are hung the shields on
which are painted the arms of the
members of the court of assistants.
It was customary in bygone times
for the freemen of the company on
state occasions to carry the shields
from t£e hall to Blackfriars, which
Journey was made byway of the
river, and then on embarkation the
shields were hung over the barge’s
side. The freemen were clad In long
gowns of light-blue flannel, with yel
low facings, being the proper livery
color of the company according to its
heraldic bearings.
The Worshipful Company of Station
ers keeps the registers of copyright
works from the date of Its Incorpora
tion In 1557 .until the passing of the
copyright act in 1842 the company pos
sessed an absolute monopoly, as all
printers were obliged to serve an ap
prenticeship to a member of the com
pany, and every publication, from a
Bible to a ballad, was required to
be “entered at Stationers’ hall.”
In their interesting collection Is a
notice of the first translation into
English in 1569 of a “boke lntltutled
Ewclide.” Mention Is also made in
the register for 1588 of Sir Philip Sid
ney’s “Acadia.” written to please his
Bister, the countess of Pembroke.
There Is an entry in 1562 of the follow
ing comprehensive work: “An ab
stracte of the Geneologe and Race of
all tho Kynges of Englonde from the
floude of Noe Unto Brute.”
As a compliment to Mr. Roosevelt
the composing stick used by Benjamin
Franklin when working at a case in
| London and resting upon a pedestal
Athletics for Young Girls
New York City Authorities Officially
Recognize Necessity of Such
Training.
New York. —Athletics for school
girls have been officially recognized
in New York city. Last November,
Miss Elizabeth Burchenal was ap
pointed Inspector of athletics by the
department of education. The girls*
branch of the Public School Athletic
league employs five assistants a for
Miss Burchenal and supports In all
eleven after school classes in folk
dancing and athletics for girls.
The popularity of these classes Is
Indicated by the attendance —1,051
teachers from 246 schools. These
teachers In return for the Instruction
they receive coach the girls' athletic
clubs organized in their own schools.
Intorclaßs athletic competitions are
held, but no Interschool competition Is
countenanced by the girls' branch.
This spring about two hundred athlet
ic meets will be conducted. New
York city has 325,000 school girls, to
whom the girls' branch endeavors to
bring 'wholesome and Joyous recrea
tion.
The girls' branch work has come to
form an Integral part of school life,
making It more real and human. It
welds about the community, the home
nnd the school a solid bond of beauty.
Folk dancing and athletics for girls
have taken a strong grip upon the
consciousness of the community. A
little girl not more than Beven years
of age, In an east side school, took
part In a friendly competition of folk
Proposed /rtdiat.n A7u.se um
draped with the stars and stripes was
placed upon the table immediately in
front of him.
One of the most notable features of
the supper to Mr. Roosevelt at Station
ers' hall was the speech of E. T. Cook,
a prominent London newspaper man.
It was he who retired from the edit
orship of the London Daily News be
cause, in his judgment, the manage
ment sided with the Boers rather than
the rßltish In the late war In South
Africa. The speech was full of humor
and friendliness to America and re
peatedly stirred the audience to
shouts ot laughter and applause.
Mr. Cook was scarcely less happy
and successful at Stationers’ hall than
was Lord Curzon at the Sheldonlan
theater, Oxford. Lord Curzon can be
rigid and frigid In his public appear
ance. Welcoming and eulogizing Mr.
Roosevelt, he was flexible, graceful, ge
nial and delightfully eloquent. He
spoke without notes and handled his
Latin as If he, like the audience and
especially the undergraduates, thor
oughly appreciated the joke.
Dogs Drag Boy Into Canal
Farm Hand Leaps Into Water Just in
Time to Rescue New Jersey
Youngster.
New York. —Small Harry Montague
came precious near being drowned at
Brookdale, N. J., the other day. The
team of dogs he was driving ran away
and carried him and his "dog cart” in
the Morris canal. Jonathan Garra
brant Jumped in and dragged Harry,
senseless, to the bank.
Montague, eight years, of Little
Falls road. Upper Montclair, took out
driving Willie Slater, six years. They
started after cherries at a house on
Passaic avenue. Brookdale. The sun
was hot and soon Harry’s dogs, Nip
and Tuck, w'ere panting; their tongues
lolled out, thirstily. As they neared
the canal, they sniffed the water and
dashed for 1L
dancing and athletics between her
class and others of the school. She
was the smallest tot of them all, and
clad In her plaid skirt—the plaid of
her Highland clan—she danced the
"Highland Schottlsche" with an aban
don and enthusiasm that could not be
equaled. Her whole family came to
see her and to exult In the part that
she had In the competition. The High
land girl and the Highland dance won
the day. The little one and her mates
of the triumphant class each bore
home as trophies small copies of the
Winged Victory, which have been pro
vided through the generosity of Mrs.
Henry Siegel.
Two days afterward this little girl
was seen on the street In company
with her three-year-old sister, teach
ing the little one the steps of her na
tional dance.
Little Iron In Spinach.
Berlin. —There Is a notion among
physicians as well as laymen that
spinach Is the vegetable which Is rich
est In Iron. This Idea Is erroneous,
suys Prof. Haensel, a German scien
tist, who has completed n series of
experiments showing that It Is cab
bnge lettuce which contains the great
est amount of Iron, while spinach
comes lowest In the list. Professor
Haensel maintains that potatoes are
more ferruginous than spinach. Food
specialists say the human body re
quires dally a quantity of Iron, esti
mated at three-quarters of a milli
gram.
AUTHOR ON TOMATO RATIONS
Barry Pain, Noted English Humorist*
Underwent Poverty Period
After Success.
London.—Barry Pain, whose new
“Eliza” stories are to be published
shortly, is undoubtedly one of the
most popular of liviqg humorists. Aft
er leaving Cambridge university, Mr.
Pain became a classical tutor at a
“crammers;” while there he sent an
article to the Cornhill called "The
Hundred Oates.” It was accepted
promptly by James Payn, then editor
of that periodical, who, furthermore,
sent the young author a very kind let
ter. The cleverness of this article at
tracted the attention of Sir Francis
Burnand and Wemyss Reid, editors of
Punch. Mr. Pain’s subsequent contri
butions to Punch and The Speaker
were so successful that he resolved
to come to London.
Then came “a period of romantio
poverty,” a period in which he lived
on bread and tomatoes and In a la
borers dwelling. It was during this
time that Mr. Pain received a visit
at the laborer’s dwelling from the
pompous butler of his editor with an
invitation to dinner.
Harry yanked on the reins but could
not stop them. The little wagon hit a
stone and Willie Slater, who was on
the back seat, took a further back seat
on the road.
Splash!—lnto the canal went wag
on, Harry, Nip and Tuck. Harry felk
out of the wagon, but plucklly held
on to the reins. The dogs, lapping th*
water and greatly enjoying their bath,
swam up the canal, towing Harry, his
head under most of the time.
Garra brant. In a field near by. heard
Willie Slater’s yells, and went to the
rescue. As Garrabrant plunged In
Harry dropped the reins and sank, but
Garrabrant grabbed him; he soon re
vived.
Having satisfied their thirst Nip and
Tuck climbed out of the canal. Willie
Slater took a stick to heat them.
“Let ’em alone, Willie," said Harry.
"It was all my fault; I ought to have
watered my horses."
GERMANS CUT YANKEE GRAIN
Russia Will Furnish Bulk of Product
This Year—High Prices Are
Not Felt.
Berlin.—A great reduction In the
importation of American grain Into
Germany Is predicted by members of
the Berlin grain exchange, who de
clare that this year the German con
sumer Is practically Independent of
the United States as a source of sup
ply. i
Noting the. fact that the recent
sharp advances In the American mar
ket failed to produce any material ef
fect on the Berlin exchange, the
bourse expert of the Tugeblatt says
that the reason may be found In the
exceptional conditions which enable
Germany to rely almost entirely upon
other countries. While American
wheat has gone up In consequence of
the general rise In all commodities,
the Russian crops are expected to be
large enough to cover the entire Ger
man demand at lower prices. Hence,
adds the writer, the Berlin exchanges
are responding more readily to price
conditions In Russia than to the fluc
tuations In the American markets.
Scared Monkey In Balloon.
Pottsvllle. Pa.—George and Alex
ander Storboreskl or Mlnersvtlls were
arrested the other day for cruelty to
animals. They put a small monkey la
a basket and sent It up In a balloon.
The balloon, after going a mile, waa
barely able to carry the monkey, chat
tering over the housetops of a mining
village, where It descended. The
monkey had escaped front a circus.