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'''Why do so many women have melancholia?" reix'au'd the debtor, who has a large practii-e among the "depressed" and "nervous" -feminin population. -Because they don't take care to avoid it. I".e;iu;vi they absolutely disregard the nil"? of mental and physical well being?. Uoeause tliey would rather eat what they like and suffer indiKestion, and the Mues afterward th.in to eat what i.s frcod for them, but doesn't tickle their palate!. Because they'd rather sit around on down cushions than take a tramp six miles thmupb. the open atr. Because they read too much sentimental stuff. Hecause they haven't enough to occupy their minds and their hands." Then the doctor paused to take breath and began again somewhat ksa aggressively: "It Is never th women who have rause to feel blue," he said, "who Indulge in blues. Tbje women who havi? shiftless husbands, hard-hearted landlords, sick babies and all the usual accompaniments of poverty never grow so depressed that they have to be treated for i:. They are too busy. It's the woman with an adoring family, social position and a comfortable income who doesn't find life worth living. It Isn't the servant Kirl who gets up at 6 to kindle the fire and who slaves all day who indulges in melancholia, but the daughter of the family who arises at 8. dawdles over her breakfast, reads a little, practices a. little. shops a little, craves excitement with all her heart and Is melancholy beca-tse she doesn't have It. "There Is no habit which grows upon one so rapidly." went on the doctor. "It ' becomes a disease In a very short time. My own plan, whenever I feel an attack coming on. Is to put on my walkingboots and tramp vigorrusly as far as I can. It is simply impossible to exercise and feel blue at the same time. Of course a general car? of the health is necessary, and work is the chief factor in effecting a cure. Every woman who has a tendency to melancholia should have an occupation which. If it doesn't entirely absorb her, will at least keep her busy. And she should give her mind trp to practical rather than theoretical affairs. She should study how to put an extra shelf in a closet r how to make an overshoe that won't come off at the heel, rather than the teichlnsrs of theosophical school ur the philosophy of Herbert Spenvr. Ordinarily good health, plenty of exercise, plenty of work and an interest in the affairs of this world rather than the next are the great preventives and cures of melancholia." Cheap Bujlnjt. That is the way with a woman. She will go without rubbers and economize on flannels, fr-'he will save on her down town luncheons and walk holes in her shoes rather tban waste money on her fares. She will launder her handkerchiefs in her own room, rinsing them in her wash basin and pasting them on the mirror to dry. Th-y will be soapy and smelly and horrid, but she will use them heroically, borne up by the knowledge that she has saved half a dollar out of the weekly laundry bill. She will deny herself the pleasure of having that dress which she really needs, though she has the cloth all ready and waiting, simply because the dressmaker charges so niu-h. She will rentunce correspondence because stationery and stamps, you know, really run away with a good deal of money. She will make a martyr of herself, and talk about it an! glory in it until every young man who knows her (and who isn't old enough to understand) will think what a heroic little thing she is to battle with the odds of poverty. And then, brave and demure In her threadbare cloth gown, she happens across a bargain counter and mortgages her salary for a month buying impossible gauzes; things that won't wash nor wear nor keep one warm; things that must be made over stiff and crinklirg silk and trimmed with velvet or ribbons or lace, and then are only lit for a festal garb. And the young woman knows that she cannot afford either the "trimmings" or the "making," and she really does not know what she would do with the frocks If She could afford them. So she lays the fragile, useless, shining gauzes away in the orris powder at the bottom of a trunk and talks some more alout her poverty. And her conscience doesn't trouble her at all. Why? Oh. because the things that she bought were cheap! Chicago Post. A Flornl Qnilt. I cut blue denim into forty-two hexagon pieces five inches long on each side. These were all hemmed neatly at one time on the sewing machine and put In a drawer. Afterward each one was worked and laid away until all were ready for seeing together. Flower catalogues were bought, figures selected for each patch and basted on. A bunch of carnation pink was traced with rather coarse thread and outlined as flower, leaf and stem. I took off the p;rpcr and enfbmldered the design with lir?n flofs. the pattern in its d'-lk-ate trary and As t;is'f or time permitted, I carried out shading. When all was done, there were no two patches alike. There were pansies, eweet peas, geraniums. roes, daffodils, tulips, coreopsis, chrf-anthemums, a large bunch of clover and holly leave and berries. As forty-two is a goodly number, many designs were needed. Each design with leaves, stems and tendrils extended to th patch. Wall paper often has pretty designs. I sewed the hemmed edges together In an overstitch on the right side, and at each comer where they connected, worked a large daisy. The effect was very pretty. As one lady said, it reminded her of snowflakes magnified. I crocheted fringe of white and blue cotton yarn, mixed, in a pretty design. For the fringe, put in each stitch a chain of thirty studies of double cotton. It was lined with unbleached muslin. As the designs cam from the different floral catalogues, I think the floral quilt is a good name for it. In one corner Is worked the year and this verse: bream what you wilt, P.eneath this quilt. Way blessings tili be yours. Housekeeper. lied room Wall. The tendency of the time is to separate the bedroom from the rest of the house; to give it ligitrr colors; to allow within it full scope for individual fancy; to hang it with lace and delicate stuffs; to exclude all seriousness and gloom; to make of it a nest, a place of rest, where pleasant dreams flourish and tender colors hold sway; to hang within it no pictures of worth; to dlfplay there n ankles of virtu, but to make of it a spot vweet, attractive. Inviting as a whole. And no Its walls are hung with greater license, than those of more formal rooms. They are made attractive and lovely in themselves. The dado Is alfTether banished; the friere is brought well down upon the wall; conventionalized flowers are allowed to trail about; graceful designs are sought. No attempt at subduing the walls Into a mere background is road, and only the dainty furniture stand gainst them and claims their support. The picture as a whole Is made sweet and Inviting. And if some few critics carp and cry out that it is wrong, let them fcuild urj rooms that are better uiud

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to their needs and that offer more tempting repose. For while it is beyond dispute that flowered papers do not make perfect backgrounds, they do make parts of an attractive whole. Other?, less well fuited to such rooms, can be found to serve where sleeping and sitting' rooms are comblnecl and where Picturts will be hung or the walls otherwise decorated. Hut for the room that induces sleep, that lulls the senses to rest, that Is designed for a bedroom, and bedroom only, the dainty yet tender tone are good despite the apparent paradox, and despite the law that pronounces walls a background only, which in all other rooms should be obeyed. Harper's Bazar. A rtntl Plnce for AVomen. The reader can scarcely conceive of greater hardships in life than the people who inhabit the Artie coast of Alaska endure. Life is to them a serious struggle. Their faces tell it. Women twenty years of age show that they have borne exposure and hardships which have already made them prematurely old. The farther south of the Artie circle they live the less they have to endure, as the struggle to maintain existence is less of a strain and effort, and the cold la not so deadly in its work. All the drudgery in life is done by the women, and the growing girls get their share assigned to them quite early enough. Not infrequently by the time a girl Is eixteen years old she is a mother. Scarcely one child out of five survives and grows up, and it is not uncommon in winter for both child and mother to be frozen to death. In hunting expeditions the women carry the burdens and do the other hard work: In whaling they cut up the blubber, drag it to the settlement with the aid of the dogs and stow it down in caches, and in the daily routine of life the hard work is practically all theirs. They are devoted to their children, in fact to all chilQren. never scolding or punishing them, and if a woman sees a child in trouble she will go at once to its relief. Children who do live are carefully reared and devotedly cared for. In case of a shortage of food supply of the settlement the women are the first to be turned out to die. and they accept their lot without complaint. willingly leaving to their husbands and children whatever chances of living there may be in the small allowance of food at hand. N. Y. Journal. Woman mill I'ovf rlr. It is hard to the woman of small means and luxurious tastes to keep within her income and abreast with the times, but a little sound sense in the way of rinding out short cuts to economy will work wonders. The woman who has learned to make a good appearance upon next to nothing becomes an objtct of envy to her less fortunate sisters. It is largely a question of investigation, of making $1 buy 51 worth of goods. And only that severe teacher experience will teach all this. A woman can be dignified even if she Is poor, nor should she feci that because poverty has Hung its somber cloak about her she should draw its folds still closer and hide herself from the pure sunshine of the world or the kindly friendship of her friends. Too many women are inclined, when poor, to withdraw into a shell, sn-iil fashion. and become crabbed and poverty Fpoiled. Poverty is not the greatest of crimes, as many suppose. There are lots of things worse than that, and wealth is not the alpha and omega of happiness. The woman of fine nature will accept this fact gracefully, and by her x- ; ample help many a disheartened woman j to look on the bright side of life, to look j her finances sqarely in the face and i avoid laying out her money in unnecessary expenditure. P.y a bit of fore- , thought a small sum of money can work wonders, as the active, fine natural woman who has learned it all well knows. Cincinnati Knquirer. l.epnl Injustice Women. A young man and wife start out together in a small investment, depending for profit on the joint lalxT of one behind the counter or both, as business may require, the wife being the domestic manager. Nine times in ten, under my observation, the wife works the harder. She works in the kitchen; she works in the store. She does not indulge in luxuries. If after ten years of common toil, including the bleesed relief of motherhood and its joyful added cares, he, under our lax divorce laws, should brutally cast her off on one of the many pretexts found now sufficient, the equity of that wife and mother in the property of which she fully halved the making is not recognized except by caprice of courts or license of flexible statutes. I must say that the disposition of the judiciary has been almost invariably on the side of equity, but common law and statutory bars still operate hardly upon the wife and mother. The mother, however abject her poverty, wants the child or the children, and will work herself to the tone to maintain and educate them Under the laws that lie on the books of most of our states she cannot get her moiety of the material goods to which she Is In conscience entitled except after expense and delay. If she succeeds even then. Sherarely succeeds. Margaret F. Sullivan in Donahue's Magazine. A Woman' Compliment. "Absolutely the most satisfactory compliment that ever drifted my way," naid a woman. "I received the other day. "I was hurrying through one of the blocks between Fifth and Sixth-aves.. Just below Twcnty-third-st., when I saw approaching me a woman whom I thought I knew. I took her to be an out of town friend, and my pleasure to meet her was the greater from its rarity. I hurried forward, not waiting to fairly reach her before lK-ginning my delighted greeting. The words froze on my lips, however, as we actually mt, for I saw that though the likeness was extraordinary, even at dos? quarters, she was not the irson for whom I had taken her. " 'Oh!' I said, with a smile of apology, 'I beg your pardon. I thought you were a friend of mine.' She smiled, too, and then after a second of survey and hesitation which subtly pointed the remark, said, with a graceful bow and a charming air of breeding, I wish I were, madam," and parsed on. "The whole thing took a breath to do, though it has taken several to tell, and she was almost out of hearing before I could rally and call 'Thank you' after her. I sh.ill never see her again of course, but I shall alway3 remember her quick tact and delightful courtesy." Her Toint in N. Y. Tini-s. Ilenntr In Deep Iireathing. Indolence is the mother of ugliness. Nineteen out of twenty people are too 1-izy to breathe properly. The rarity of beauty Is not to be wondered at considering the absolute necessity to health of abundant fresh air. Habitual deep breathlftg produces health and beauty not only by exercising the muscles of the chest, but by throwing back the head and compiling the whole body to assume a straight and majestic, attitude. Health Hints. Children' Kara. Do you ever notice children's ears when you are on the street cars? If you do, you will be as surprised as I was to And how many project from the head In an absurd and ugly manner. This can be remedied aud should be, for

a good phaped ear, lying close to th head, is a mark of exceeding beauty. An observing person has invented "ear cap." These are bands of covered wire, : fitting close to the head and carefully made, so that even a sensitive child feels no discomfort from wearing them. They are made to be worn at night, though under an ordinary street cap I they are unnoticeable. Children can al

so be taufiht at an early age not to lie with the tops of their ears bent over, as Viany children do. N. Y. News. The Japanese Km pre. Some years ago, when the Imperial j ; palace was burned, the unselfish em- i press of Japan, amid all the excitement and discomfort she was called upon to J endure In a hasty flight to a comfortj less old yashikl, thinking first of her I subjects natural concern for her com- ; fort, sat down and wrote them a dainty j little rhyme, which proclaimed as erroneous the report that she had changed ! Vl IT. , - ,n I . t A. l. . . 1 -1 A 1 . . i - ii inj i) axserifu mat ner nome had always been in the hearts of : her people, and that she sincerely hoped that neither by flame nor by cold could ! she be driven from that dear abode. Harper's Bazar. Firm new with Children. So much good advice is proffered to mothers that the coming generation should be a well nigh faultless race. Herbert Spencer write: "Consider well beforehand what you are going to do, weigh all the consequences, think whether your firmness of purpose will be sufficient, and then, if you finally make the law, enforce it uniformly at whatever cost. If the consequences you tell your child will follow certain acts invariably ensue, he will soon come to respect your laws as he does those of nature." Deformed Children. An anxious mother once took a child to a physician to have him pass judgment on a very ugly shaped jaw. The lower one protruded, and they did not set well together. The doctor assured her that that, or most such blemishes, could be treated If the patient were taken young enough. In this case the child has grown to be a pretty woman with as well-formed mouth as anyone could desire. N. Y. Telegram. It nh hero Are Not I'opulnr. Rubbers shoes are not as salable as they were a few years ago. Women are getting sensible. They have double soled boots that are made for the street and worn on the street. Some are calfskin, but all are thick, serviceable and comfortably fitted. Hoots of this sort invariably accompany the cloth dress, felt hat and loose gloves of the woman who understands and illustrates the eternal fitness of things. Oisee More for Woman. At the last public function Carter Harrison ever took part in, and the last public act of his life, it is pleasant to remember that he rang the new liberty bell in honor of ' American Cities' day." Then Mayor Harrison said, "Now, boys, ring It once more for woman." This was Mr. Harrison's last public utterance, and the next time the bell was rung it was in requiem for the murdered mayor. Parent nnd Children. Says an exchange: "A woman should go away occasionally and give her children and their father a chance to get real well acquainted. For some reason a father is always better to his children when they are left alone with him. It is good fr a man to have his children come to him with their troubles, which they seldom do if their mother is at home and in addition gives her a rest." Mr. Morton Mine.. A lady who spends a small fortune on her foot covering is Mrs. Levi P. Morton. She is very particular aln.ut the make and has them altered until they fit without a wrinkle like her dresses. Patent leather, sued' kid of four or five different shades, satin, silk and velvet, with no two pairs alike, either in color or decoration such is a partial description of that lady's footwear. Dollies of I.nee Hark. "Fern doilies" are made of lace baric, a cbaphanous. lace-like material found under the bark of c ertain Jamaica trees. This is bordered with a set pattern cut out of the brown cabbage plant. The doliies are not only unique and beautiful, but also serv- as "promoters" of conversation by leading the talk to foreign lands and quaint fancies. Housework. CHINA Dl'.COIt VI'IONS. A Striking- DeniKn In Yellow and (reen For n Cup nnil Snnrcr. An attractive design is carried out in greens, with pale yellow for the flowers, and the scalloped bonier in duck green, to which a little mixing yellow may be added to make the color warmer. Use the same at the base of the cup and around the center of the saucer. On the broad, curving leaves use moss green, becoming paler at the tips. Line, off the maiHngs on the leaves with duck green. For the dotted work on the cup and saucer use moss green, leaving the white of the china for background. Use moss green for the sums of the flowers and outline with the same color and a little duck green added to deeper it. For the flowers use Jonquil yellow, putting on a pale wash. Line the markings with the outline color used on the stems. Use duck green for the tiord'ir lines and handle of the cup. To secure a deep color put the green on in two washes. Allow the first to thoroughly dry lefore adding the second. Thej directions and design were given recently by the Art Interchange. Tnble Decorations. There is always a cry for fresh tabto decorations. Mr. Whistler has a pretty taste, and sometimes adorns his dinner table in a manner unfurgetable. For Instance: A long white striped tablecloth, table napkins of the finest damusk, stamped in the corner with the famous butterfly. A little a very little blue china, containing single white chrysanthemums. In the middle un Ivory bird cage, and in it some birds hopping from gilded perch to perch. Kverythlng Is served uion dishes of choicest empira silver. The champagne Is always en carafe. Then Mr. Whistler Is very fond of the plates that most pleased the diners of bygone centuries peacocks served with their tails full spread, or a suckln jilg skewered with skewers of silver, and champing a little orange between Its teeth. London, Gentlewomen.

HINTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

HOW AFFECTION ATK FINGERS MAY MAKE CH It ISTMAS GIFTS. ArHelea Kanlly WrouKht n Home hClever Hand Pretty Tlilnjjn for I'fte and Ornament for Itoth Seien A Hint to Those Who nur. (Copyright. 1S93, by American Press Association.) The holidays are again drawing near, and the usual pleasant mystery and apreeable anxiety regarding the contents of the Christmas stockings are beginning to be felt. There is such a variety of Ftocklngs awaiting contributions! Not merrely bought presents, but gifts endeared by the affectionate fingers that have labored over them. These have the value of association, even when they are otherwise worthless, but CHEST PROTECTOR. if they have a use as well as a sentiment so much the better. The articles mentioned below have been selected for description as being easily made at home by clever hands and likely to be welcome to the person who receives them. Silk baby socks are one of the prettiest gifts that can be sent to a family that possesses a baby to wear them. Choose pale blue knitting silk an. I crochet in afghan stitch a strip an inch and a half wide and two Inches long for the top of the foot. Heginning at the corner, crochet plain stitch around both sides and one end of the strip, and then make a chain long enough to go around the ankle, for the beginning of the heel. Join this on where the plain row began, and crochet plain all the way around, widening by double stitches at the two front corners. Do this until thv sock is large enough to cover the foot, and then turn it wrong sido out, and folding it lengthwise crochet together the two edges along the bottom of the sock. Hreak off the silk, and turning the sock right side out crochet around the ankle opening one row, putting tho thread over, and then continue the leg with plain stitch, finishing the top with a row of shells.. Ilun pale blue baby ribbon through the oix-n row around the ankle, tying it in a bow in front, and perfume 'the socks by letting them lie in a sachet until tney are presented. A chest protector to v ar with evening dress is an excellent thing to give a man. It should be rather o-.-er a foot king and ten or eleven inches wide when it is finished. Mako the outside of black satin and line it vith quilted white China silk, with a !; moi "Literlining. The band to go .m u:i.I the collar is of white silk stiffened with cambric and is sewed on the loft side -f the neck. Just inside the free end. which must taper slightly, fasten a bit of corset st?el two inches long that it may pass easily through the bu'klc, or use the piece of steel in an old made0 ( HH1M""" 1 1 p' 'V NEWSPAPER HOLDER. up neck scarf. The white metal buckle is sewed on the inside of the chest protector, close to the right hand corn r, and the recipient's initials are embroidered on the lining. Another present for a man is a pair of striped silk wristlets. Knit them of two shades of knitting silk, with a broad rib. and make them double, 'with tha Joining around the middle of the inside. Select his favorite racing colors, or those of his college or club, and let the stripes be half an Inch wide. Press the wrislets with a warm iron when they are finished. Or make him a newspaper holder, where he may tuck his paper out of the reach of destruction. It wftkjrequire a strip of plush or other strong material a foot wide and a yard long. Embroider initials or a monogram In the middle of one half, put a line of embroidery or a flat band of fancy ribbon along each edge and line It with silk that will harmonize with the color of the outside, but do not use a very light lining, as it will be solle! by the printer's ink. Double the strip together and sew t-mall rings along the Joined ends by which to suspend it to a brass rod with ornamental tips. Hang it up by a chain or a slik cord attached to the ends of the rod. LAVENDER SACHET. Pretty bureau sets for a young lady's room are made of white scrim and consist of a scarf lined with pale blue satteen, two small square mats jid one larger one. The scarf Is Just the size of the top of the bureau nnd has a broad hemstitched border surrounded by wide lace, plain except at the corners. The body of the scarf Is decorated with a scattered flower design embroidered in pale blue wash silk. The mats are similarly ornamented, but require no lining. These scrim sets have one decisive advantage they can be laundered and '.so kept immaculate, which Is the greatest charm of all toilet accewories. . To make a lavender, sachet take two pieces of Ivory celluloid eight Inches

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square. Cut one of thm In four diagonally, and cut the square and the four triangles In scallops around the edg?, making a perforation in each scallop. The square bag containing the lavender flowers must be of lavender colored china silk, the right size to fit just Inside the scallops when it is laid on the square of celluloid. Arrange the triangular Quarters of the cut square over the bag and fasten the whole thing together around the edge and across the face with baby ribbon a shade deeper than the bag. laced in and out of the perforations in the celluloid. Tie the ends of the ribbon in bows and decorate the four triangles with a simple desigm of violets painted in water colors. Beautiful ribbons are being sold at a low price this season, and a ribbon cushion is extremely pretty. If it is to be twenty inches square it will require ten twenty-inch strips of two-inch ribbon, five of one color and five of another gold and olive for example. Stitch them together on the machine In alternate stripes, not in a seam, but by lapping the edges and keeping as close to the margin as possible. Press the ribbon square on the wrong side with a warm iron before sewing it to the other half of the cushion cover, which should be of a solid color. The frill for the edge is made of two long lengths of the ribbon of the two colors stitched together like the other, gathered along the edge of one strip and sewed on the cushion overhand. If there happen to be a number of odd pieces of ribbon of different colors they may be arranged to form a Roman striped square instead of using only two shades. Canva.s suspenders, with a pattern worked in cross stitch, are a revival of old time industry and are a change from the satin ones so long offered on the Christmas counters. Two stripes of canvas, twenty-four inches long and one and one-fourth inches wide, are required. Use the strong, light purple kind, like that sold for worsted work, only made of silk instead of cotton. Work a continuous design In cross stitch along the whole b-ngth. using dull yellow, white, olive and brown silks, and leaving the plain canvas as a background. Press the stripes after they are finished and line them with gold colored satin ribbon one and one-half inches wide, by basting the canvas along the middle of the riKVon. turning the extra eighth of an inch over on the face of the canvas on each edge and stitching it on the machine as close to the selvedge as possible. It is better to have the suspenders mounted at a shop, as it con be done more srongly there than at home, and unless they are strong they are useless. To make a pansy shaving paper case draw lightly on medium heavy water color board the outline of a pansy flower eight inches in diameter, which can be easily enlarged from one of the small

SHAVING PAPER CASE. studies now so common. Indicate the markings carefully and lay on the coloring in bold water c lor washes. If it shows signs of warping, lay cb an blotting paper over the face an! dry it under pressure. Cut two round holes five inches apart in the top of the upper P'-tals. The shaving leaves are of white ti.-sne paper, with corresjKinding perforations. They are attached to the back ' f the pansy by means of a double ribbon drawn through the holes, which also serves to suspend the shaving paper case. It may be added, as a hint to those who wish to buy presents, that n;r; seem to be almost as much pleased with extra ?t of violet, gloves, fine handkerchiefs and silk hosiery as rre their more frivolous sisters. ISAHELLA PROCTOR. VOMi: AND III It lS. Take the Demi One From the lint nnil (I pen the Cage Door. For several years past the newspapers have been waging war against the use of birds far millinery purposes, and the war is a righteous one, although it would W an excellent plan to broaden the scheme of the campaign so that it would include offensive tactics toward the barbarous sport of pigeon shooting, which is quite as cruel and needless a practice as it would be if the skins of the mutilated victims were used for decorative purposes. However, it is not the dead birds that have suffered the most. It is the wild, living songsters that are captured and shut up In close cages to spend the rest of their wretched days In yearning for the liberty that is their birthright. It is not so wonderful that thoughtless children and cruel and Ignorant men and women, who have never learned anything beyond what the daily experiences of a sordid and debasing life cm teach them it Is not so wonderful that they capture, sell and destroy with no reverence for the gentle gnsiel of tenderness and pity toward the harmless creatures whose free and natural life is so beautiful. Hut it is unfortunately true that refined and cultivated women, who would consider themselves insulted by the accusation of cruelty to any living thing, keep as pets robins, thrushes and bluebirds, that drag out in miserable and hopeless captivity the life that was meant to be a blessing to the world at large. The argument that they are unable to take care of themselves cannot be offered as an excuse for keeping these hardy, native birds imprisoned. The canary, whose ancestors have been cage bred for generations, is an artificial production, without strength to fly or skill to supply his own needs. Hut the singing birds of our woods and fields are quite capable of supporting themselves without human assistance. If women would only use their intluence against the practloe of catching and confining wild birds, they might accomplish a great deal. Hut the outlook for such a movement is not encouraging. The writer of this article knows a household composed entirely of women, wealthy, well bred j.nd Well educated one of them has a college training who every spring steal from the numerous nests In the trees and shrubbery of their large garden younrx birds that they attempt to rear by hand. It is necewstry to obtain a fresh supply every year, because the majority of the birds die after a few weeks of prison life. This feminine household Is so tender hearted that it Is rulM by its servants and dog, but nevertheless the annual slaughter of the innocents goes on. Perhaps they succeed in keeping one victim out of a dozen alive to cheer his captors with an occssional heartburst of song when tha bright sunlight and the blue, unattainable sky tell the prisoner what his life was meant to be. How many scores of birds these women have destroyed In the kindest and most lingering way possible It would be hard to compute, and they have their prototypes in every town and vlütge. The advice, "Take the dead bird off your hat." might well have addd to it, "and open the cage door of the living one." KAT13 CHASE.

BEAL'TIFCli HOl'SE GOWN'S.

These Are Days When the Display Is Most Attritotive. A woman Is never so thoroughly charming as when she Is attired In a beautiful and becoming house gown. Modistes may rave about the beauties of street gowns, etc.. and although many of them are marvels of color and design, an attractive house gown will overshadow them all. Of course few women will admit this. They will pretend to be deeply mortified if a caller chances to find them in such a gown, but nevertheless they are secretly pleased. It is even safe to assume that the pretty neglige was donned for Just such a purpose. The charm of the house dress is of course due to the fact that an air of reserve is attached to it and that it is worn only In the home. If it were to appear in all sorts of public places It would cease to be beautiful. There are house gowns and house gow ns. Some are very beautiful, others extremely ridiculous. A house gown proper is not one of those ugly affairs sometimes designated as a "wrapper," but one pretty enough in which to entertain a small company. Do you want to hear about some house dresses that formed part of the trouseaus of two of last week's brides? One of them was very sweet and womanly. It was made of a light shade of tan henrietta. There was a front of pale green silk and a mass of soft cream lace. There was cue other gown in this bride's cutfit that was not a housj gown, but is worthy of mention. It was also of tan. The skirt was a gored one, plain except for two rows of wide satin ribbon at the foot and which terminated in two bows on the side. The bodice was a round one with buttelles of dull preen silk and some more of the satin ribbon. Oh. yes', that other house gown. Well, it belonged to the other bride. It had an air of greater dignity than the first, being of dark green silk. There was a pinked flounce of heliotrope silk around the bottom and down the front; there was also a row of the flouncing down each side seam. Hut the prettiest one of all was that worn by a beautiful young lady who entertained a Thanksgiving party and which was made of white bengaline and green velvet. The front of the bodice was almost entirely concealed by an arrangement of green chiffon. Pretty green butterfly pins hell the chiffon in place. Do you know what a lovely comblnatlon green and white Is? If you don't you ought to find out by trying it for yourself. There Is nothing prettier for a hou? dress than simple India silk, especially in the lighter shades. Blue makes up beautifully. One seen the other day was of the very lightest shade of blue. It was made up with a profusion of blue satin ribbon and soft cream lace. A more dainty neglige It would be difficult to imagine. Perhaps a greater contrast to the foregoing gown than the Japanese house dresses that are now so popular in the East could not be found. Such a dress is presented in the second illustration. It is not only of Japanese style but also of Japanese material. Birds, flowers and all sorts of cross lines meet in the background in the most delightful affinity. In the medley of modes presented by the fair dames in the great pageant of house gowns by far the prettier are those which glory in yards and yards of ribbon and lace. Therefore in selecting material for such a gown b sure that It will harmonize with lace. A Dainty Kvrnlns CoHTure. Very attractive and piquant Is a French fancy in evening hairdressing. of waved hair with fluffy curls on the forehead and a cluster of Irregular soft rolls FRENCH FANCY IN IIAIRDRESSINO. and drooping curls at the back. This Is encircled with a twist of shot or tinsel ribbon carelessly knotted at the side to form an upright loop In harmony with the one of plaited hair conspicuous In the center. .

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