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Carrie Nation Gives Advice on Wooing

117 ASHINüToN The first thing a

i fellow orght tn do when he goes courting is to got a line on his future mother-in law. because she's going to be either his bost friend or his worst enemy." It was Carrie Nation who confidod this bit of philosophy to a reportor. The enforced leisure of the Washington workhouse, where she was boing held pending a hoaring on a chargo of destroying property, had given Mrs. Nation the chance to turn

her attention from hor pet theme, and it was an off day for the demon rum as far as she was concerned. "I am going to devote a large part of my time hereafter to seeing that mothers-in-law get the attention they ought to have from the American people," sho snid. warming to her theme. " Why, a man ought to love his mother-in-law as much as h does his wife, and if he does not it's a sign either that he's soaked all the decency out of him with whisky or burned it out with these fool cigarettes. If a man does not like the mother of the girl he's going with he

better light out and book his spare time somewhore else, because it's r. sure thing that the girl will turn out

to be Just like the old lady

"This law of heredity that I've been T OOF TAPP Pf OAITQ udylng lately is a wonderful thing, j WOE. Wr. LLUAIvO

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It's tho keynote of the whole inatri

monial problem. Now. If a follow be- i gins to think his girl's niothor Is prot- I ty nice dlsposltionod. ho don't need to '

look any farthor than that house for a wife. And after he gets married It's most likely that his mothor-in-law

will be willing to do more for him than his wife will In the way of cooking and economizing and minding his chil

dren."

Mrs. Nation owns to 03 years, but

says she will fight to the death

against the demon rum. She has nowachieved the crowning triumph of her nine years crusade the smashing of

furnishlugs In the big Union station.

Mrs. Nation's defense was that she did not destroy private poverty but a public nuisance. Carrie thinks the country has Improved Tn the last three years. "Taft ain't my stjlo," she admitted, "but he's a whole lot better than Teddy Roosevelt. He's a well-meaning man and he don't drink, and though I may have said at times that he was chasing around the country eating a whole lot more than is good for him. I think he Is better than anything In

the presidential line we've been get ting lately."

ONE OF THE PRETTIEST OF THE SEASON'S FANCIES.

They Come In All the Colors That Are Just Now So Popular Mary Dean's Comment on the Styles.

Among the many protty things displayed in city store windows there are some astoundlngly cheap, and surely the long, loose cape cloaks of unlined cloth may be counted among these In every single oneof the new colors dim green, rich and pale blues.

Put Spies on the Trail of Uncle Sam

THE Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburg, which was recently In hf times of a long strike, is establishing a branch In Washington, not fur the purpose of acquiring new business In that district, but to kep in direct tr ' h wirb governmental affairs. This s following out the policy of

I'resuJ. nt t N. Hofslot. who claims that v!"i n a few years every corporation of any size in the United States will maintain a similar office in the national capital to keep dose watch on what the government is doing and make an annual report to Its head offices wherever they happen to be. The corporations hope through the newspapers to disseminate the action and policies of the Union's executive officers and ofllces. They will maintain their own clerical sleuths. Business is taking tho place of politics in our government." said Mr. Hofstot The govunment of this country is becoming more commercialized evt ry day. The commercial i

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becoming more important than polltics. Commerce and business are the mainstay of the nation, and expect only the right that the government should give greater rights to them. "Politics In the future should take a back seat. This will increase as the years pass. My own view is that every big industrial firm should keep in close touch with the doings of the

government, and particularly with those departments devoted to the commercial and industrial Interests." Mr. Hofstot was asked about politics.

"What I get In politics" he ex- I claimed. "Why, If a man wants to I have his name sullied and his reputa-

uon uraggeu down In this country all he has to do Is to get Into politics; run for office and the rest Is easy." It is anticipated that the other big corporations of America will follow the Idea3 outlined by the head of the Pressed Qtnnl nar. r

There are agencies already In e j VrT ThaT ence representing the two biggest cor- !f , .son,etlmes Derations In the world In Washington . , 33 Th mre e,abknown to-day. the Standard OH Com i T ' Ve" ?0ftki W h "ned ranv and tl. rmt-i cY?L I, I w,th a so"- twll doubles

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the price, though this also sometimes Includes a cord trimming and very fine buttons. Such olonks are for evening use almost entirely, and sensible women somotlmos buy the cboaper ones and line thunt at homo with Han-

nel. which is a very oasy thing to do, as the garments are almost formless. It would be impossible to enumerate the many cloud like tissues used for evening frocks, tho many sorts of beading and the unnumbered speclos of embroidery, for It looks as If every manufacturer or maker has only Indulged In his own fancy, or else as If

the lady who is wearing the prettlness ba been making hor own fashions. Lovely are tho shapes of the draperies these cloudy textiles evolve over plain slips of satin or silk, some of them running to the most foolishly fascinating overskirts. some falling with stately Greek lines, and some again rwnhed only about a fancy

I lace bodico In a girdle grotesquely j high and oddly conceived. But then j made bodice draperies are sometimes j used to conceal a shortness of tho 'other material; so It Is an HI wind

that does not blow the home-sewer some good. A very odd bodice girdle Is shown In our Illustration, the waist giving tho best of all possible suggestions for

the combining of several materials on

j band, and the head fixings representing very necessary adornments for tho j glri who indulges In much evening j gallivanting. I The waist is of all-over net, with a . tucked jacket effect of silk and a girdle of passementerie bordered with i panne velvet. Any lace or net waist on and In good order would do for th foundation of this garment, with a : tucked Jacket and skirt of voile. In

this case, the girdle would be of plain mescaline as In the rear drawing.

A Novelty In Bodice Girdles, smoke gray, raisin, white and cream

these cloaks are to be seen with vel-

Draped Waist Line. It Is a season of sashes. True hey are attached to tho skirt, instead of being separated from them, but the effect Is the same. The waist line Is draped. It is done In the hlgh-walsted skirt as a means of finishing the sharp edge. It is done with the tunic and also with the separate bodice. One rarely sees the waist line without folds around it. And there

Is always a buckle somewhere with long sash ends that Lang straight, or cross the figure and tie on the opposite side.

poration. Dut as for business office

X&SEZJXXl ' JZtSnJH I USE C0L0RS IN COMBINATION! ADDRESSES ALWAYS AT HAND

public communication with the affair

of the government they do not now-exist.

Attorneys Fight in Washington Court

UNITED STATES District Attorney Daniel W. Baker and Andrew A. Lipscomb, the leading criminal lawyer of Washington, passed the lie and engaged In a rough-and-tumble fight under the eyes of Justice Ashley M. Gould several days ago. Mr. Baker was the prosecutor and Mr Lipscomb the attorney of the defense in the trial of John W. Collier, a policeman, charged with killing his captain on Inauguration day. In the course of the trial Lipscomb Insinuated that the district attorney had attempted to intimidate Rev. Dr. Edward Mott. Collier's pastor, by writing a letter to the bishop of Washington objecting to Dr. Mott appearing as a character witness for Collier. Mr. Baker was on his feet In an instant with an objection, but Lipscomb was not to be headed off.

j "I want to show you that the district j attorney's oulco has attempted to injtimidate this witness!" shouted Lips-

comu. "Mr. Lipscomb knows that ho is not telling tho truth!- shouted the district attorney. "You're a liar!" shouted Mr. Lipscomb. Then the district attornoy made for him. Mr. linker weighs 250 pounds. Ho Is not so agile as In his college days, but he was full of fighL He launched a wallop at Lipscomb, which, had It landed, would have knocked him across the court room. His aim was bad, and the blow landed on the assistant district attorney. Then LIscomb and Baker clinched, and rights and lefts, uppercuts and Jabs stirred up tho court room dust, and likewise the ire of the Judge, who ordered the bailiffs to separate them. Before the court ofllcers could Interfere, the defendant. Collier, Jumped Into the melee and stopped the proceedings. Justice Gould called the fighting attornoya before the bar. gave the district attorney a severe reprimand and fined Lipscomb ?50 for cou-tempt.

I Blue and Lavender Are Perhaps the

Most Popular Among the Foremost Designers. Designers have combined In their de

sire for blue and lavender, used to- ( gether In a gown or a wrap, 'the evening frocks aro usually In these I two colors whenever a woman can

wear them. One fabric la lavender is draped Into another fabric of blue, or two shades of blue and two of lavender are so deftly laid over each other that the efTect Is like a soap bubble. Blue and lavender bugles and beads an used for embroidering lace and net, crepe de chine and liberty silk. A chiffon of one color Is dropped und.. a net of the other color, and tulle, embroidered with the bugles. Is draped over both. The wonderful liberty crepe and slkn which are so fashionable for gowns are used In a confused .aass. eo that It takes the keenest observer to know where one tone ends and another begins.

1 Anecdotes of the Nation's Lawmaker

DURING the heat of the tariff session Representative Sereno E. Payne of New York, who boasts as large a girth as any member of congress, had occasion to go to the White House with frequency. The amount of news he gave up on these occasions to the newspnper men would have starved a space writer to death in abou two days. In addition, Mr. Payne, who was always polite on such occasions, finally became a little bit gruff, because of the rapid-fire bombardment of questions which wore dally thrown at him. Finally, a reporter on a Washington newspaper, who was about as large around the waist line as Mr. Payne, recorded the call of tho Republican leader at tho White Houso bv savins that Mr. Pavno had. that

day. "waddled" In to see tho president and out again. The next day, when hailed by the same reported for news, Mr. Payne got even by retorting: Tell your paper that its renortor

j waddled after Mr. Payne, who replied j that he had no news."

..v...... uijiiu tuilfU at me White Houso nnd the reporter greeted him with: "Well, Mr. Payne. I 6ee you are still waddling to the While House." "You must go around with a looking-glass In front of you nil the time," came tho reply from Mr. Payne, without the bat of an eye. Senator Julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan, after nn exceedingly busy UGj' In which he called upon the president and several members of tho cabinet, thereby arousing the suspicion of the Michigan newspaper men to a fever heat, was met by one of them, who Inquired: "Senator, have you any news concealed about your perßon to-day?" "Yes," roplled tho senator. "Thoroughly concealed."

A Softening Lotion. A nice lotion for softening water for bathing purposes is formed of eight tablespoonfuls of alcohol, one tablespoonful of ammonia and a dram of lavender. The preparation can bo bottled and used whenever the water seems too hard. Do not get into the habit of using such softeners every time you bathe the face. If the water is hopelessly hard try to use rainwater instead. In cold weather melted snowprovided

It Is not gathered rrom dirty city streets Is an excellent substitute for hard water. Vary the lavender lotion by the use of almond meal, oatmeal or some other softening preparation.

Good Vay in Which Small Notebook Can Be Utilized for Home Directory. It is not a difflcult matter to transform any small nolo-book of a convenient slue Into a book for names nd addresses, by cutting down the edg s of the pages and lettering them In the usual way, so that any name may " be found at once. In our sketch we show a dalntv '

cover for a book of this description, which muat, of course, be made to fit the cover of the book It Is Intended for.

Artabanus Biffle and the Ghost

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For a good many years Artabanus

nifllo, who lives on the Hill road Just

west or Hetzviile, was troubled by tho ghost of his groat-grandfather. Ho

orten told Uncle Ashdod Clutc that ho would not have minded tho old gray ghost so much If It had been an ordi

nary woll-bohaved ghost, but, as he expressed It, the blamed old shade was too nosey for any use. No matter what Artabanus or his wife ßüirted to do, the old smoke-colored shade would float up, with his eyes like an owl, and stand awhile "rubbering" that Is the word Artabanus used and then he would begin telling them how much better he could do whatever they wore doing, when ho wns alive. You can imagine that It made Artabanus mad If, Just as he had squeezed 18 joints of close fitting stove pipe together, and was standing on top of a chair on top of a table, and balancing on one toe, with the stove pipe held nt arm's length above his head, and the left eye full of soot, tho old misty gentleman would float up and begin to say he wished he had that stove pipe to put up. Often, on such occasions, Artabanus would speak crossly to the ghost, and then the 18 Joints of stovepipe would separate and fall on tho floor, and tho ghost I

to tho wash boiler nnd tied the m on nnd started tho fire under it hi swelled and swelled, and at S 30 p m tho bollor exploded with a roar f0r It could not contain tho ghost' any longer. Tho ghost poured out of the boiler for hours, Uko stoam. (Jreat clouds of him pourod out, and when ho was all out ho wns ton times bt? gor than tho house, but although his head and shoulders waved In the upper air, hlB foot were firmly planted In Artabanus lit file's property. And tho first thing the ghost did was to lean down and tell Artabanus and Uncle Ashdod that If ho was going to get rid of a ghost ho wouldn't c0 about it in that way. Then ho snlKgered. That sort of discouraged Artabanus but it set Uncle Ashdod thinking, and he saw ho had gone at the matter la tho wrong way. It Btood to reason that If you could expand a chost v

could nlso contract It, and that If eX.

panuing would not do the Job contracting ought to. So he had' Arm.

banus send to the city for a Trlpler Liquid Air machine. If you freeze ir

sufficiently it will turn Into a lim.M

47 times as cold as Ice. So when the

machlno arrived they set It coine

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Often, on Such Occasions, Artabanus Would Speak Crossly to the Ghost, and Then the Eighteen Joints of Stovepipe Would Separate and Fall on the Floor and the Ghoct of Artabanus's Great-grandfather Would Go Over in the Corner and Snigger.

Washable Skirts. Underskirts of silk, unless they may be ot the softest liberty satin or of chiffon taffeta, an absolutely tabooed. The fastidious woman profers to wear underclothes that can be put In the tub frequently, especially since the automobile has added Its share of oil to the accumulation of dust In the streets, both of which have so distressing an effect on skirts and petticoats.

Gold Dollar Satin. The tone of yellow that Is attracting much attention to Itself Is the gold dollar shade. It Is the bright, rich yellow of currency. It comes In satin, tn gauzes, and In chiffon cloths. It Is rather suporb In velvet, especially when the gown Is embroidered with rold lace and white tulle.

It should be made In silk and lined

with soft silk, and can be cut out in one piece and folded over and sewn together at the edges so that it forms two kinds of pockets on cither side, into which the binding of the notebook may be slipped. A glance at tho lower sketch, in which the book 13 shown open, will explain this. In the two pockets thus formed, visiting cards or pieces of paper with addresses upon thorn may find a place, until a convenient time may occur for them to be entered into the book Itself. Across tho front of the cover the word "Addresses" Is worked In colored silks and the remaining space Is filled up with a simple floral design that may be oasily embroidered from our sketch.

Crystal Bugles. Evidently tho crystal bugle, with Its half sister the gold bugle, is to supply most of the trimming this season. It Is from a quarter to a half-Inch long, and Is pendent from tulle, net and chiffon cloth.

of Artabanus grandfather would go over in the corner and snigger. Probably there was never such a disagreeable old ghost In this county, and when Artabanus made up his mind to sell the place and move Into town he saw he would have to get rid

; of great-grandfather, and do It quick. Nobody would buy the house with tho old codger ghosting around, from cellar to attic, and Mrs. Blfile said she would not move at all If sho had to take the old skeesicks with her. So Artabanus was puzzled. You can't put a chargo of giant powder under a ghost and blow it up. for a ghost

won t stay In one place long enough. It will fioat gracefully off elsewhere, and If It did happen to sit down on the powder just as it went off, tho ghost would consider that merely a mild form of exercise. Artabanus though It over for about a week and could not seo head nor tall to the difficulty, and then he consulted Uncle Ashdod Clute and Uncle Ashdod sat down on the horseblock In front of Aunt Rhlnorlura Uetz' house and thought deeply for three days, and then said ho had the answer. He said the thing to do was to boll the ghost of Great-grandfather Illflle. Ho explained that the reason the ghost could float around through

mo air was Decause tne ghost wns just a little less dense than tho air, and that It resembled staam In that. So If the ghost was boiled well It would expand and become less dense, and when tho lid was taken ofT the bollor, greatgrandfather would float up Into the upper atmosphere and strike a cross-current of air. Undo Ashdod said he did not know what would become of him then. Mnybe he would blow around for ages, nnd mnybe he would strike a cold current nnd condense, and fall In the form of hnil or snow. Anyway Artabanus Blfllo would be rid of him. So they tried It. Groat-grandfather Blfile expanded ell enojigh. When they got him In

ducing a temperature of about 1,000 degrees below zero, Great grandfather Bifile camo nosing around to see what was up, and they suddenly pushed him Into the machine. In nn instant ho was liquid ghost. Ho condensed Into a dull gray liquid of about tho consistency of castor oil about half a teaspoonful. Artabanus Immediately ran and got an empty whisky bottle and poured Great-grandfather Blfile Into It, nnd corked him up, and labeled It "Poison. Groat-grandfather Blfile." Tho next week ho moved Into town, and for two years tho bottle sat on a shelf of Artabanus' medicine closet as calm and cool ns a cu

cumber, nnd all was well.i But last Wednesday, at about four In tho morning, Artabanus awoko with a severe colic, and he made a dash for the medicine closet to tsko a swig of whisky, and In the dark ho gbt a hold of tho bottle of Groatgrandfather Blfile, and pulled out the cork and swallowed the contents before ho knew his mistake. Artabanus Immediately fell on tho floor, yelling with pain. As soon as tho liquid ghost went ddwn It began to expand, and by tho time Mrs. Blfile reached her husband ho was so full of expanded great-grandfather that ho looked more like a balloon than a human being. Mrs. Blfllo ran screaming for n doctor, nnd that was what

saved her life, for Just ns she reached tho corner Artnbnnus exploded and blew the wholo front of the houso out After hunting for three days, not enough of him has been found to decide whether ho Is dead or not, but tho general opinion is that ho Is ns dead ns a doornail. The odd thing Is that the ghost of Great-grandfather Blfllo also disappeared. Tho supposition Is that aftor being in such a cold state for so long tho old rascal is at length willing to go to that hot place where he belongs, to warm up a little. (Copyrlcht. 1903. by W. a Chapman)