Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1901 — Page 16

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, HAUCH 31, 1S01.

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WHÄT WOMEN CAN DO

JT11EY MUST WATCH FOR CONDITIONS AND LEARN AT FIRST HAND.

in Ctrlcs and Politic They Can Ktert Only Moral Influence, lint Other Field Arc Not o Limited.

Moat readers can so back forty years to the time when th line of work for women included houvhoM .--orvice, home nursing and neighborly nur.-ln? from houe to house, swinc: and comparatively minor lines of to.ichinpr. Following down a. few decades, t.etw.en live and fix hundred wajr -oarnlr occupations are found open to women, and the problem becomes not bo much "What womtn can do," as "How shall women choose that work which they are best fitted to perform'" This choice must depend, necessarily, upon such factors as her decree of wealth, of education, lier social position, her health, her breadth of mind, her practical knowledge and her eense of moral responsibility. Therefore, it Is idle to ask what can women do. because the answer must necessarily apply to only a very small class of women. There v.111 be us much variety In the possibilities a3 in capabilities. I can only outline someof the possibilities, and leave the question of her capability to be settled by the woman bersclf. Starting at the very highest power In a woman's nature her moral Influence In her Vwn home. In the church and in society thu faintest hint will suffice. Women know already that they cannot. In public affairs, accomplish great reforms or develop great schemes except as they are able to intiuenco those who have the rights of citizenship and tho control of wealth. Happily, the mind of Intelligent and truly noble manhood, that cares for general welfare, is always open to the views and Influence of truly noble, and intelligent womanhood. rWhat women can do in this line, therefore, is to put herself in touch with civic and philanthropic and educational need?. She fcnnnot clean the streets, nor can she vote that the street-cleaning shall bo In the hands of the right man; but sho can understand all those things that pertain to street anltatlon and house sanitation. Twothirds of the women of the world battle with dirt with their hands upon a broom handle. The knowledge of what ought to he done, which every Intelligent woman can acquire, can be wielded much more ffectlvely than can tho broomstick. Thero are abundant instances in different cities of women's stirring such currents of public opinion as might be called "raising the R ind." Raising the wind mean3 raising the ust, and when the discomfort of the dirt nd filth are fairly in the air men will "hurry up the scavenger and work for Its removal. For women, therefore, the one word Is, keep your eyes open for actual conditions, study, work, learn, find out v for yourselves. Then talk It or write it to the men who are too busy to find out otherwise. PHILANTHROPIC WORK. And the same suggestion that applies to tanltary and civic conditions applies also to philanthropic work. If women know what actually goes on in hospitals and infirmaries, in institutions for the aged, for the paupers, for the little children and even for the criminals they have the basis of a genuine work. In civic or political things they can only Influenco morally. In philanthropic things they will be allowed sometimes a share in the management of institutions, always a share in the raising of tho money therefor and occasionally a voice in saying how that money can be wisely expended. If her heart is really set on the betterment of human conditions and her head Is not so obstinate that she believes that the sinners can be converted by the scolding of the saints, and she unites her womanly discrimination to her genuine desire to have things made the best possible for a weak and wretched World her field of Influence along all the philanthropic lines is very broad. It would take a book to write what she might do In these directions. Like Zenobia, her kingdom here Is "as broad as the genius that can devise or the power that can win," but, like Zenobia, her kingdom must be based, not upon her power, but her love. Especially in the whole region of work for childhood is this true. She can find out What sick children, poor children, suffering children need. She can to a very great extent control the supply because men's hearts will be with her from the outset In Work for the little ones. A STRIKING EXAMPLE. Take, for example, one work just beginning to make its way in the city of New York and soon to spread, it is hoped, to other cities. I refer to the care of crippled children, beginning with one woman, whose heart went out in sympathy to these littls unfortunates, arousing the interest of a lew men, until a little home by the seaside "reived a few of them in the summer. It has now developed as readers can ascertain for themselves if they will go to the Fchool for Crippled Children, 421 West Fifty-seventh street into a system that should ultimately include an auxiliary in every part of the city. The very sort of investigation that is recommended showed that Greater New York alone has about crippled children. Manhattan about 3.0" the great majority of these living in tenement houses with insufficient nu-dlcal care. To send the wagonette and gather up proup of these children, to take uicm to the ychofll where the kindergarten and the manual training and the. comfortable lunche 'H in the middle of the day aro supplied, find the heart life and brain life of the child are developed, to put them in charge of nurses, to give them proper medical care, to become a renovating and regenerating influer.ee in the homes of theso chilcirrn this is only one of the little things t' Im; c'.tme In tho great city of Xr- York. 2 mention it because n many other ways finiilir needs may be studied, plans deviled for the amelioration of conditions, and direct an appeal to thie who can control It lor th ue of wealth and to the proper civic authorities to aid In beneficent work. In this way women can help. And, also, In th- question of amusements, playgrounds, provision for country outings, for nature studies and a thousand ways that th limits of this space do not permit even the faintest outline. It is not a question of what can women e. There are a hundred things waiting at htr hand, and each woman must herself d-ei-k what under her own circumstances it. 1 conditions she can do. That the obligation l.s upon her to do whatever she can, that the best epitaph she can ever have is, !: 'M whit sho could," needs no craFOR HERSELF. Leaving the moral and philanthropic and e'ucation; de, and turning for a moment to tho question of what woman can do tor ethers trough what t-he can do for herself, there la the great line of industries by ,moh good can be done to others through hfr securing support for herself. I can s.iy rot hing of the noblest profession of ailthat of wifehood and motherhood, Hntjuciti'nlngly, women can do most and hot In this line. Next, the teaching of vhtflh'i.jd, iiral 1 may add to that me use of the pea la literary and Journalistic fields, and

of the two pay there 5m no lack of opportunity In these line?, provided the woman has the necessary power and will take the necessary trouble to prove her right to something higher than a mediocre rlce. In handicrafts innumerable the s:im3 rule holds true. The women who can do any one thing well enough so that other people are willing to pay to have it done can ordinarily find that something to do. Some indoor and sedentary oceupitlorid are becoming overcrowded, but, while that is true, a new line of outdoor business Is pressing itself upon the attention of women. Every day is brought to our notice the experience of women who are successful cultivators of the soil. Small trultgrowing in fully twenty States ot the Union Is prosecuted by women. There are Instances of women who have supported their families by the raising of bec.. If rightly developed there are fortunes in poultry. There are women doirs a prosperous business on sheep farms. Intensive agriculture that takes a very small number of acres and cultivates it scientifically, until every Inch Is made to yield its proper product. Is getting tne attention of experimenters. More than that, schools are being established of vhich the one at Rriarcliff, N. Y., is a foremost and notable example where young people may be trained in the practicah prosecution of all such outdoor farm work. I recommend unhesitatingly to women who have failed to secure proper indoor work for their own support, that they turn their attention to what can be done with a little patch of land. I am not unmindful of the question that naturally arises as to where shall we get the land and how shall we live until we have succeeded in getting results therefrom. That is another problem which cannot be included in the limits of this paper. MARY LOWE DICKINSON. New York City.

FOR FEMININE READERS

A QUESTION OF JATi:HAUY CANT.

Not Trne Hint Ileal Cenius In Hampered ly the You us Person New York Tribune. Matildo Serao, the Italian novelist. Is the subject of an essay b Mr. Henry James in a recent number of the North American Review. Her qualities, though not of a sort to command general acceptance in this country, are interesting to the student o? contemporary fiction. Mr. James makes the most of them, but it is neither with his praise nor with his blame that we arc now concerned. Rather by his incidental remarks on his author's freedom from ths conventions which he thinks control American and English novelists does' he Invite an inquiry as to whether those conventions are really as potent as he thinks they are. Is it true that they have "blighted our fiction" by excluding this or that subject from the range of the novelist? Is it true that, largely out of consideration for the innocence of the "young person," we have entered into a "conspiracy of silence" about matters which to the rest of the world seem the very thin??;? most desirablo for treatment In fiction? Mr. James is of the opinion that this is a act, and ho is sorry for us. It pains him to realize that "our eccentricity," as he calls it, "is, elsewhere than amons ourselves, pretty well held to havo put us out of court." At tho risk of appearing shamelessly disrespectful of continental opinion we must add that if such is the case, why, so much the worse for the wiseacres "elsewhere than among ourselves." Mr. James 13 obviously sincere, yet he is really echoing the cant of certain uninatructed "lit'rary circles." There is no such thing as a "conspiracy of silence" in this business. Politely but firmly we must assure Mr. James that ve are not arguing, we are telling him. We regret to find him repeating this venerable chestnut, the common excuse offered by little men for their failure in the attempt to pull themselves up by their bootstraps to the level of their betters. A novelist of this stamp takes up an unsavory theme and treats It not only crudely, but with vulgarity; he dwells with fatuous sapience on its basest externals, never linking it by so much as a thought to the serious Issues of human life, never appealing by a single word to mature men and women. Such readers, uninfluenced by solicitude for tho "young person," but simply out of contempt for what is conceited, shallow and trashy, remove the offending book at the end of the tongs. Promptly the outraged dabbler in danserous waters raises a great hubbub about the inalienable rights of "art;" he bewails the preposterous domination of the young reader who smells of bread and butter; and, with a pious air of martyrdom, he explains that if she could only be suppressed he would soon show mankind what a truly sublime genius he is, and what colossal Inspiration is shown by his consummate elucidation of the poetry and passion in a dunghill. N On which the merels' intelligent reader, with a tasto for sanitation, remarks "Fudge!" Mr. James himself would, of course, disdain such acts, but unconsciously he gives them countenance by his specious plea for what it Is fashionable to call liberality. No English or American writer worth his salt was ever yet kept from unburdening his soul of any perilous stuff it may have contained. Such a man has no more to fear from "conventions," or a "conspiracy of silence," or the "young person" than he has to fear from the sumptuary legislation of the Akhoond of Swat. He finds a publisher for his book without the smallest difficulty, and the Anglo-Saxon race unhesitatingly reads him. profiting by the experience. He writes, as a matter of course, like a gentleman. If in his portrait of a man he has warts, physical and spiritual, to deal with, he paints them freely, but not as though his hero's life began and ended with disease. If he is irresistibly drawn to show tho tragedy of vice and crime he Interests us in it on high grounds; he does not waste his time in such analysis of things criminal and vicious as is properly left to the scientists, nor does he tell his tale with the snigger of the smart decadent retailing nasty anecdotes to a crony over a glass ot absinthe. In short, this cant about "freedom" and "art" in literature Is detestable, and in season and out of season it ought to be shown up for the cheap and flabby thing that it is. When the right man arises he docs rot stop to envy the untramnleled freedom of Flaubert or Zola, of Tolstoi or Maupassant, of D'Annunzio or Matllde Serao, of any other continental author, good or bad. He is unconscious of anything enviable. He utters his truths regardless of what mankind may think, and mankind is never the worse for what he says.

Smart Illrd. Philadelphia Record. There is a starling1 at the Zoological Gnrr'ens which whistles like a nan. It is always seen about the superintendent's office, and among the habitues of the Zoo it has a wide circle of friends, who relato marvelous stories of its intelligence. One day recently, thvy say. the starling, seeing a watering can In which there were a few inches of water, tried to Ket a drink. Ueing unable to reach the water, it picked tip stones and pebbles and dropped them into tho can in order to raise the level of the water. Just as it wa? succeeding a pirdener came alone; and tilted the can so that the bird mlsht relieve its thirst. Thi starling is about the size of a partridge, with a longer body and loner, curved beak, and tho clear music It makes is very distinctive.

The Old factor's I)inmlMnI. "We need a yours nun to ftlr the reorle. And le;id thm to the f-U." Th vestry said: "We ask your resignation because you're greying old." The pastor bowed them out in silence. And tenderly the plorm Of twilight hid him and his titter anguish Within his lotely room. Abve thr violet hills tho sunlight's glory Hunc like a crown of pnlJ, An l from the grat churchjpire the bell's gwwt anthem A-down the stillness rolled. , AfwmMfd wer the pvcp-le for their worship; Hut in his 5tu'y-chilr The raster fat ur.tv-eded. while the POUth wind Caressed his snow-white hair. A smile lay cn hi lips. Ills wis the secret Of sorrow's lad surceas. L'pon his forehead thone the benediction Of everlistlr.K peace. "The ways of Providence are most mysterious," The people grave ly tai l. As wondorinc-eyd. and si-ared, they crowded About their pastor ck ad. "We loved him." wrote the people on the cclln. In words "of !h'.nir gold; And "bove the broken heart they set a statue Of marble, white and coll.

a an cii-xnftLncTED mt.wcii of I'C.M IM A K KI) LCATIOX.

Xew York Women Are Talking: of a Clnlihouso Requirement of the Housekeeping Art -ew Hut.

Night schools with a broad curriculum, classes and lectures on all sidts and on all conceivable topics, meet the wants of many, says a writer in Collier's "Weekly, speaking of women who must work for a living. But financial obstacles may arise. In order to pursue the courses of reading: ordinarily prescribed, money must be forthcoming for books, unless a good public library be at hand. There is a course of reading, however, which may bo pursued for an amount so trifling that any one desirious of undertaking it may obtain the necessary funds at a small self-sacrillco. Now that I have broached the subject, I am almost afraid to discuss It because It will seem eo commonplace and disappointing. But the plunge must be taken. The course of reading referred to is the dictionary and the grammar book. It is a lamentable fact that many thousands of men and women are entirely ignorant of the use, abuse and meaning: of hundreds of our everyday words. To the business man this Is a most annoying: defect In an employe. It is also a fact that a young girl will aspire to be a stenographer, and typewriter when she cannot spell correctly six consecutive words, and when she uses "I seen" and "I done" in her daily conversation. (If she desires to be specially elegant, she says, "I have saw.") As to the difference between the value of a colon and that of a semicolon. It is Greek to her. Sho also has a hazy idea as to definitions, and will put into her letters any word that seems to strike her ear. A stenographer, to be of real value, should know instinctively which is the only possible word for the occasion, no mutter what "it sounded like." But "extant" will be made "extent," or "preclude" be turned into "conclude" or "exclude!" Should the dictator say "inscription." It is quite likely to become "subscription" or "conscription" or "description," whichever the person taking the dictation happens to have "thought you said." Suppose, however, a young girl has no desire to be a stenographer. Well, then, even as a plain clerk she is far more valuable for having a wide knowledge of the uses and delinitions of English words. More than one clerk has been termed "stupid" when she was merely ignorant of the delinitions of FJnglish words. "Diagonally" conveys no Impression to her, for she has always said "criss-cross" or "bias." Not only to the stenographer and clerk Is this knowledge of English words valuable. The nurso or companion to an Invalid, for Instance, finds it among her duties to read aloud. What torture for the nervous or the sick to listen when the reader is so ignorant of the force and meaning of the printed words that they might as well be in a foreign tongue! By all means let our girls acquire advanced education. Let them learn French, Greek, higher mathematics tackle all the "ologies," the arts and the sciences at the same time, but not until they have a wellgrounded knowledge of the spelling, definitions and grammar of their mother tongue. A certain young society woman was the despair of her French instructor. He was puzzled at what seemed extraordinary stupidity on her part. "But, madame," he remonstrated, "that Is the verb, not the noun, and must be spelled so." "But, professor," replied the student, opening wide, innocent eyes on him. "what is a verb? I do not know the difference between the two!" What hope would there have been for this woman, sweet, charming, lovable, entertaining as she was, had she been thrown on her own resources!

Notice lo Contractor nml Builders. Yellow Fine timbers and joist always in tock at Indiana Timber and Lumber Company. Ofiice and yards East Awenty-scc-ond etreet and Monon railroad.

The Sampler Cult. Now York Evening Post. The crazo for samplers has assumed almost as rabid aspects as the fever of blue china or spindle-legged tables. The sampler Is truly a cultivated taste. The great world that likes pretty things cannot appreciate the decidedly subtle beauties of the sampler for that matter It does not care for the Dayeux tapestry, although it won't admit it but the collectors would die for a rare specimen of this curious fancy work, and books have been brought out at great pains and cost for no other purpose than to praise and talk about and otherwise publicly acknowledge the sampler as a work of art. For example, a luxurious edition of one such book is bound in a gray linen cover, adorned with examples of crossstitch and other stitcherles which occur in the samplers that it describes. It is illustrated with color prints. The frontispiece depicts a tapestry embroidery, belonging to the corporation of Maidstone, showing Henry VIII seated, one foot on the downtrodden Pope, the other on his crown. His queen holds the open Bible, which also appears in the hand of Edward VI, while Queen Mary is seen with her rosary. On the title page Is a colored facsimile of a sampler, date 1761. Prefacing the first chapter is the print of the charming picture by Morland In the Wallace collection, in which a young girl Is being greeted by her mother, who, coming to see her at school, is shown a sampler widen the child has worked. In the spring of 1000 the Fine Arts Society cf London attracted public attention to these samplers by an exhibition which furnished examples of every kind worked during the last 2T0 years, and this volume is an outcome of that exhibition, which brought a store of "hidden treasures" to light, accompanied by a good deal of Interesting information. The show was not confined to samplers; it extended to pictures in imitation of tapestry and to books, dresses, coats, waistcoats, gloves, shoes, casket

cases, purses, etc., worked by those who learnt their art from the samplers. The sampler worker was often of an astonishingly tender age. Indeed, one of the finest examples shown at the Fine Art exhibition was the goldfinch sampler, worked by Anna Maria Wiggins, aged sevtn years. The sampler collectors plaintively bewail the fact that no samplers older than 2Ö0 years can be found. They think that the older ones were possibly destroyed, like so many other things, during the commonwealth. The samplers were greatly valued In the sixteenth century, as Id proved by being Included in the wills. The sampler book has famous samplers reproduced in colors. One of these, dated 1019. is in drawn work, covered with strips of lace-like patterns, the upper panel remarkable as representing Sarah. Abraham and tho Ansel. One dated le.SS is a representative link between the embroidery picture and the sampler, and at the base of It is a lady seated holding a squirrel. A sampler worked by Elizabeth Baker illustrates a curious range, of which many are now in existence, with the tables of the Commandments In the center, the border of foliage and flowers. Another Interesting specimen, dated 17T3. was worked by Buskin's grandmother, Catherine Tweedall. In the center are some appropriate lines, which urged the necessity of running the race before the prize was won. A heart-shaped sampler, worked by Mary Ives. I'M, la signalized by flying cupids and the lines: Be unto me kind and trua As I am unto you. Only one Is shown in which bead work occurs, and this appertains to the nineteenth century. The Bronte family are represented by three. Charlotte and Emily Jar.e worked theirs in 1S39 and Anne Bronte hers in 1S30. They boast of little ornamentation, and are confined to sacred verses and quotations. Why They Wnnt a Clubhouse. New York Evening Sun. The views cf the different clubwomen as to why they want a clubhouse arc eloquent testimony as to why such a house does not already exist. A more varied collection of views upon any subject has rarely been presented. It's a regular harlequin set. Each clubwoman wants the house for a different reason; each organization has Its own architectural ax to grind, and each reason, as each ax, conflicts with every ether. "We want a beautiful little writing room; wa want art treasures; we want a Dlace stocked with the treasures of litcra-

1 ture." says Urs. llussell Sage. ".We .want

cocktails," says Miss Adele Fielde. "We want largo lecture rooms. In which to entertain poor girls with lectures and concerts," says Mrs. Clarence Burns. "Wo have, first of all. to make the house fashionable," Mrs. St. John Gaffney. "We want a place where members can meet and talk and have afternoon tea at moderate expense," says Mrs. J. Woolsey Shepherd. "The patronage of out-of-town clubwomen must be secured," Mrs. Dimies T. S. Dennlson. "We must have a -recreation and games department," Mrs. Frederick Nathan. "We must have spinster suites," Mrs. Somebody-Else. "We must have men," Mrs. Thls-or-That. "We must exclude men," Mrs. The-tother. And so on indefinitely. If all these needs and desires can be concentrated into one enterprise. It will be a wonder. Surely so many divergent interests were never before gathered under one roof save in the case of an Insane asylum. In this matter of the woman's, clubhouse New York is far behind many another city. Philadelphia's New Century Club has a charming home all of its very own. Indianapolis has its Propylaeum; Chicago its Woman's Temple; London Its Women's Institute. Many of the small cltle3 boast beautiful club homes, the pride of the town, end built solely through the enterprise of women. In one such instance the shares were put at so low a figure that the poorest member of the most democratic organization might invest in at least one share. It was interesting at the opening of thia clubhouse to see some of the stockholders going round picking out their bricks. "I own a brick or two," was the way of expressing that they held but a few shares. The trouble with the New York club women Is that they lack esprit de corps. Organizations, no less than Individuals, are lacking in thi3, and when it comes to such an undertaking as building a clubhouse the lack stands out like writing on the wall. When it's a woman's clubhouse, esprit de corps is even moro needed to hold the tricks together than mortar. The Summer lints. New York Evening Post. Crowding the fancy Milan braids, chips, satin straws, Leghorns, Dunstables, etc., are the most summer-like of lace, net, tulle and chiffon hats, trimmed with large single orchids, poppies, roses and other blossoms, and also with more elaborate montures of flowers that are made to look a bit wilted to complete the deception, and as if just ready to shower down their petals at the first breeze. The choicest of the airy French round hats for full-dress uses are triumphs of artistic grace beyond description. There is also a host of pretty lace straws In black and colors, which furnish endless unique fancies for the milliner gypsies, shepherdess and plaque shapes, draped with tulle and trimmed with choux of the same, and clusters of the daintiest of spring foliage and blossoms. Toques and turbans made of the finest openwork braids are decked with flowers that bloom In every season, and hovering over some of these fragile blooms are emerald beetles, butterflies with wings of transparent gauze, and even bumblebees, with their black and yellow heads ducked in white or pink clover tops. Flies, both little and largo, are now imitated to perfection. The brims of some of the hats are so pliant that they can be bent here and there at will, as found most becoming, or simply turned up flat at one side, faced with dark velvet, then covered with flower sprays and foliage, or draped with chiffon or gauze. A pretty Tyrolean shape has the side of the brim thus turned, and trimmed with a trail of shaded green hops and a bunch of palest green hazel nuts. Intermixed with a drapery of chiffon, the shade of the deepest tint of the hops. Some of the new hats are again absurdly large, with piles of trimming heaped upon both crown and brim. Often it is one enormous bunch of roses and foliage, which looks as if it had been flung at the wearer and fastened where it fell. The tulle draperies which again veil some of the flowers on spring and summer hats look like an afterthought, and are a dainty and becoming addition.

Our Ovcrfnrnlnhetl Homes. Philadelphia Telegraph. "How much trashy ornament we have all around us nowadays," said a clubwoman the other day when discussing the decoration of the home. "Thlng3 that are Inappropriate, materials that are misused, are in bad taste. I know an educated, sensible woman who gave another refined woman a red velvet banjo, with satin trimmings and gold strings. Think of it!

Did you ever hear of anything' so atrocious?

It was good for nothing. You couldn't even

stick pins In it. Yet plenty of things in just as bad taste arc piled high on fancy goods counters and are everywhere at fairs and bazaars, training us really to like the

things we should not like. "Inappropriate, and, therefore, inartistic.

are many of the things on our tables. Coal scuttles for sugar receptacles, owls with punctured heads for salt and pepper are

but two ot tnese monstrosities. Everv

time lVsee one of these birds with its head all picked open, and out of which falls

salt for my eating, it Rives me the horrors.

No workman can take any pleasure in making such things, and we should con

sider the worker, too, when giving: our

sanction to tnmgs tnat are made by buy ing them. "The law of beauty In decoration is fit

ness. Nothing compensates for the lack of it. Decoration should never Interfere with use. Our home is an expression of

.our needs ana our own state of cultiva

tion. We see so much of the commonplace around us that if we wish to get away

iiom it we must ao as uoethe advises, read a good poem, see a good picture and hear one piece of good music, at least.

every day. And In addition to this T

would say, If you want to make your home artistic and beautiful, study the best of theiiast..r.Arid to advance as a people, the Aitls'f;;the artisan and the public musL be in accord. They must come to-

geiner.

To lie n Good Housekeeper. Octave Thanet, in Good Housekeeping.

My dear friends, In regard to housekeep

ing, to be a good housekeeper requires a lot of ability; also experience, also knowl

edge, also horse sense. And the most necessary and greatest of these is horse sensel

A good housekeeper needs to have a

working acquaintance with most of the trades, to be a bit of a carpenter and painter and a good bit of a plumber, for

Mcam anu water can ao most amazing and alarming things in the modern house of a Sunday when the plumber is either saving his soul or taking his ease and his pleasure, and in either case cannot be reached by the telephone. She needs to understand the dreadful unsanitary possibilities of tidy kitchens and Immaculate bathrooms. Of course her taste has to be cultivated or she will have to be continually buying new things because her furnishings are "meretricious;" and there Is so much tasto and art knowledge about now that the humblest of us cannot escape. And as much as anything does she need to understand how to rule her household helpers. Moths and Printer's Ink. Woman's Home Companion. Moths do not like printers' ink. and there is no more secure way of disposing of the winter clothing than to pack It away In newspapers. The articles, whether woolen or fur, should be well beaten In the open air, to make sure that no egg Is deposited already, then folded carefully and pasted closely in newspaper, so that there shall be no crack Into which the Jnsiduous little Insect may creep. By packln? carefully in this way you will not need camphor, moth balls, pepper or tobacco or any of the moth preventives so frequently recommended. If there is any trouble when the articles are unpacked In the autumn it will be because the mischief was done before the article was packed. Thl3 is written out of twenty-five years of experience, during which time no garment thus packed has been touched by the moth or the buffalo bug.

Odds nnd Ends. Some of the youthful looking waists hook at the back and have drooping fronts trimmed with very fine insertions of Valenciennes or of embroidered nainsook edged with very narrow ecru lace. When I buy a new clothes lino I boll It for half an hour before putting It up, says a writer In Good Housekeeping. This toughens It, makes it last much longer, and It doe3 not snarl when put up. With the elbow sleeves of the summer will come a revival of the old-fashioned mitts of other days and also the reappearing of delicately wrought bricelets of gold, silver and black enamel with a line of gold at each side and a small gold clasp, In table damasks one of the new features is the round cloth. Until recently Fquare cloths were used, even with round dining tables, but with the Increased vogue of the latter ro:;nd cloths have been evolved to meet the new want. A delicious flavor may be given to coffee by rubbing the lump of sugar which sweetens it over orange or lemon rind. People who like ths gllce of lemon la their tea

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$18.75 Suit, lias the new Eton coat with dip front, tastily trimmed with braid. Others with stitched taffeta, new ilared or flounced skirt, made of homespun or cheviot; colors brown, blue, gray and black. $27.50 Satin Foulard Costume, in tan, blue, red, brown, green or gray, appropriately trimmed In ribbons, etc

$5.00 Silk Waists in all the plain shades of taffeta silk or the new fancy-striped silks; same price for white Pcau de Sole. $5.00 Finest Taffeta Silk Petticoats, extra deep corded flounce, black and every new spring shade. .

$1.00 and up for Wash Waists, both white and colors; some particularly handsome ones in silk madras and embroidered grass linens with sailor collars. $9.50 New Walking Skirts, cut with flare, narrow stitching around bottom, made out of finest grade double-faced material, all colors.

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will appreciate a slice of lime instead, which will give a dellciously piquant flavor. In length the skirts seem to have lost nothing, and are quite as long as ever for house wear and for all dressy occasions. In colors all the fawn shades are popular, and so are the dark and the rather faded light blues and the pink reds or red pinks, whichever you choose to call them. There are three distinct features of fashion which have prevailed for some time now, and as yet there is no prospect of any decrease in their popularity. These are the e.lese-rltting skirt, the blouse bodice and the tciero, which prove again that fashion can be loyal to the best of her productions. A feature of skirts shown among the new models Is the inch-wide tucks directly at the hem. There may be as many as eight or nine, and they are made very effective by piping the edges with silk of a bright contrasting color. For example, on a navy blue nuns' veiling the piping is of finely striped silk of several colors, cut bias. Milliners clean soiled wings that accumulate in their stock by shaking them gently in a box of white corn meal, brushing all the meal Out carefully with a fine brush. White aigrettes are cleaned by washing them gently in warm soapsuds made from good soap, rinsing In cold water, and shaking them dry over a fire. There Is simply no limit to the variety of pretty and picturesque dress sleeves for the two seasons before us. There are also many plain coat styles which extend into graceful little cuffs that flare over the hand, but which are given variety on gowns of summer fabric by numberless dainty finishings at the wrist and by vertical lines of tucking, Insertion, scalloped edges up the outside of the arm, with a narrow puffing of contrasting fabric showing between from shoulder to elbow or to the wrist on longer sleeves; and this very satisfactory variety admits of making up in a becoming fashion for every arm, which Is more than can be said of styles of other years. A JiKW CLASS OF XUItSGS.

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They Supplement the Work of the Professional !urse. Leslie's Weekly. A comparatively new occupation for young women has been opened recently under the name of convalescent nursing. The idea Is not to enter into competition or rivalry with the professional nurses, socalled, but rather to supplement the work of the professional class, or fill a place which they do not or cannot well fill. The trained nurse has come to be a regular and recognized feature in the hospital service and wherever else sick and suffering humanity is to be found, and her calling ranks almost as high now In the public regard as the medical profession itself. In all critical cases the services of a trained nurse are considered absolutely indispensable. But nurses of this order are required to go through a course of special training In schools and hospitals lasting through a period of three or four years and involving a great deal of expense. Their rates, therefore, are necessarily high, so much so as to be qute prohibitive to the majority of people and within the reach of many others for only a. brief period of time. Professional nurses are often retained only through the. critical stages of a disease or a surgical case, although good nursing of a kind la very much needed all through the subsequent convalescent stajre, which may extend over weeks or months. It is not a high degree of technical skill which is required during this period bo much as a general knowledge of the art of nursing and the little attentions and caretaklng which every convalescent needs to insure the speediest return to full health. It Is just here that the usefulness and availability of the convalescent nurse, the new class, comes in. The required training for. this service extends over only eight weeks, the expense for preparation Is correspondingly small, and the rates correspondingly low, being only about one-third that charged by the professionals. Mnrch. I bring the gold-dust to the sallow And cresses to the runnels shallow; Gold klr.rcups to the marshy hollows And swallows. My slfrn's the Itam with golden fleece; I break the earth's cold wintry peace With shining share; I pierce the clods With lily-rods. I break the earth with thinlnff share, I brlns: the gold-dust to the sallow, I wht?per to the wayside mallow What rrid of rurple she shall wear When June is in the earth and air; I bring gold kingcups to the hollow, I heal the brown earth's birthing-pain, I bring the swallow-worts again. And swallows. Philadelphia Press.

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Woman's Tailor and Dressmaker Has added a departmeut in Millinery, in charge of Madame Emma Jessup, who will be prepared to receive orders on and after March 18. A full line of imported pattern hats and bonnets will be shown from March 25. Mr. Meier returns from the East the 18th, and will exhibit a full line of materials suitable for tailor, reception, party, dinner and summer gowns at the residence,

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