Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1910 — Women’s Interests. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Women’s Interests.

Wosu'l Friendship. .'T- 1 It is a wondrous advantage to a man, in every pursuit of vocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a suitable delicacy of tact and plain soundness of judgment which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she really is your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor and repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing, for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you. At the same tijne her constitutional timidity makes her more cautious than your male friend. She, therefore, seldom counsels you to do an Imprudent thing. A man’s best female friend is a wife of good sense and good heart, whom he loves and who loves him. If he has that he need not seek elsewhere. But supposing the man to be without such a helpmate, female friendship he must still have, or his intellect will be without a garden, and there will be many an unheeded gap in even the strongest fence. Better and safer, ol course, such friendship where disparities of years or circumstanecs put the idea of love out of the question. Middle life has rarely this advantage; youth and old age have. We may nave female friendships with those much older and those much younger than ourselves.** Molier’s old housekeeper was a great help to his genius; and Montaigue’s philosophy takes both a, gentler and loftier character of wisdom from the date in which he finds, in Marie de Gournay, an adopted daughter, “certainly beloved by me,” he says, “with more than paternal love, and involved in my solicitude and retirement as one of the best parts of my being.” Female friendship, is, indeed, to man the bulwark, sweetener and ornament of his existence. To his mental culture it is invaluable; without it, all his knowledge of hooks will never give him a knowledge of the world.—Manford’s Magazine. Dealsn for Portiere. Darning is one of the simplest stitches in emhroidery. and some very pleasing results are obtained when this stitch is used as a background. It is quickly and easily done, especially on crash or burlap or any loosely woven fabric. The Byzantine design given here is to be repeated as a border across the end of a portiere. With a yard-stick or ruler mark off a border six inches wide, and place the design at regular intervals one inch up from the lower border line. Transfer the design on the material by means of carbon paper, or, If dark material Is used, a white stamping outfit. To do the darning, carry the embroidery silk diagonally across the background of the border like running stitch in sewing with a short stitch on the under side and a longer stitch on the right side. The next row of stitches lies parallel with this, with a narrow space between. The beauty of the work lies in the fact that the stitches of one line come

opposite tbe spaces of the preceding line, and this alternation is carried out with each line added until the space is filled. When the lines and stitches are irregularly placed the effect is exceedingly pleasing. The stitches must end exactly upon the outline of the design. The figure is to be outlined after the darning is completed.—Boston Herald. For Soiled Clotkloar. Brush the garments carefully first, and then apply, the liquid with a woolen cloth, going religiously over every spot. This should be done with care, u*lng especial diligence with the soiled spots. After sponging, rinse in ammonia water, and before the garment is thoroughly dried press it between two dark cloths. Soap bark is an effective cleaner of woolen skirts, and men’s clothes, as it is a quick eradicator of grease and dirt. Get 5 cents’ worth of the soap bark, pour .lt over a quart of boiling water, steep lt-.genlly over a Are for two hours, keeping the heat loSVsethat the water will not. boil away. Then strain through a piece of cheesecloth and It Is ready to use. Far tka Taa-Tkla Waaaa. The thin woman with a slender figure should never make a mistake of wearing a tight-fitting princess dress unrelieved by trimming in the front. It makes her look Apt chested and too much like n lath to be admired by any one, however partial.

The same woman appears a totally different creature if she wears a waist made with some fullness In the front. Fluffy white waists are especially becoming to the slender maiden. She is decidedly the type that <!:an stand dressing up. A frock that would make a plump woman look overdressed and fussy will have an entirely different appearance on a thin person.

DARNED WORK DESIGN.