Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 138, Hammond, Lake County, 27 November 1907 — Page 3

Wendcsdav, Nov. 27, 1907.

m HE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

Sj ELEAJVO'R GATES. Author of "The Biotfnphy of a Prairie Girl.

(Continued.) On rne storekeeper's departure the Eback became a scene of action. Lancaster Rave over walking the floor and collected bedding for a journey. Marylyn wf.s called in to prepaid a box of food for her father potatoes from the coals of the fireplace, cured pig meat from the souse barrel, bread and n jug of coffee while Dallas caught the mules, gave them some grain and a rubbing down with straw wisps and greased the wagon wheels. All being made ready, the section boss took leave cf Ids da tighters, urging them to keep within the next day when the surveyors came up and to deny his going. Then with Ben and Betty at a smart trot he set off for Bismarck and the land office. When lie was gone the squat shark on the bend became vigilant. Ceaselessly its eyes covered the stretch of Toad lwtween. ferry landing and coulee ceaselessly, though Dallas alone kept watch for wayfarers. Nut until night fell and the cloud masked moon disappeared behind the western bluffs were small blankets pinned into place across the windows and the peering 6hock head made sightless. But even with the house darkened, the early supper eaten and Maryiyn asleep in her bed before the hearth the elder girl still kept on the alert. A nervousness born of loneliness had taken possession of her. If the door latch rattled, she raised herself, listening. If Simon rubbed himself against the warm outer stones of the lireplace, Bhe sprang up, a startled sentinel, with wide eyes and clinched hands. But an hour passed. The wind lulled. Simon lay down. She fell to thinking of the storekeeper. She felt surer than ever now that he did not covet the bend. Setting aside the fact that he had brought them good news, she was glad he had come. It gave them a neighbor. And, yes, she forgave htm the smile that had provoked her resentment. After all, the name Dallas did sound Texas. With morning and the rising of the Bun she was up and doing the few chores about lean-to and shack. But when the surveyors arrived, making short vVork of their last few miles, she and f rylyn shut themselves in and j "esoapfY 'being seen. The engineers' gone taiVard Clark's, Dallas again took up her watch. Twice before night she was rewarded. The mail sergeant passed, bringing a batch of letters to a grateful post, and late In the afternoon an Indian runner came into sight from up the Missouri. Scorning to use the ferry, he dropped into the river where the coulee emptied and swam across. The arrival of the scout Dallas associated instinctively with the expected return of the troopers and felt a relief that she would not have cared to confess to her father. The unusual bustle that marked the next three days at Brannon seemed to justify her belief. Below the barracks on the level bottom land men were busy erecting a strange structure. Tall cotton woods were hauled from the river and set on end in the sandy ground. As time passed these came to form a tight, circular pen. The night of the third day there was activity on the other bank of the Missouri. Unknown to shack and fort, the squalid line of shanty saloons that stretched itself like a waiting serpent along a high bench opposite the new stockade sprang into sudden life. Two wagons tilled with men and barrels crossed the bend and emptied themselves into the dilapidated buildings. And far into the early hours laud laughter, the click of chips and the clink of glasses disturbed the quiet of the night. At dawn an officer standing, field glass in hand, on the gallery at headquarters saw two wagons drawn up in front of Shanty Town and called down a curse upon the heads of the sleeping revelers. "Just see there'.- he exclaimed. "Some vermin got wind of the paymaster's coming and are here to fleece the men." A lieutenant sauntered up. putting out his hand for the glasses. "There wasn't a soul in those huts yesterday," he said. "No, of course not," sputtered the other. "The devils stayed at Clark's till the punchers got back from Kanfas City. Now they're on hand to k'W our guardhouse and hospital fu;i ; B gad, if I commanded here I'd have i the whole street fired:" "We'd." s.dd the lieutenant, "the men . have a way of disciplining that kind ; themselves. Some day when a favorite is cut !n a brawl or cheated at cards they'll shoot up the place. If there's ajything left it '11 move on." "It won't do any harm to keep an j eye on Shanty Town, all the same." i declared his companion fiercely. 'Tie- ' member the man that ran it last year? ! Slick, by gad! Why, the paymaster ! mljht just as well have stopped owr there he and his ilk got every con:: , lie wasn't a 'bad' man. mind you j not brave entuh for that but keen nosed as a moose, cotlceited as a a In- ! dian" ' "What was his name?" "Oh. Dick or Tic Sometking-or-other. I don't know what lie's a bragging renegade, anyway."

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Unaware or a reconnoiter, the occupants of the line of shanties slumbered serenely on, and not until noon did high plumes of smoke, straight as the Cag pole on the parade ground, announce to the secretly delighted troopers at Brannon their tardy rising. Dallas, too, saw the busy chimneys, but while watching them intently from an open window, her attention was attracted all at once in the opposite direction. She heard coming out of the coulee a chorus of shrill talking, like the pow-wow of a flock of prairie chickens. Then a horse snorted and there was a low rumble of wheels. Thinking that it was her father, she leaned into sight. As she did so a team came scrambling over the scarlet brink, dragging a wagonf ul of men and women. As the horses gained the level prairie their driver laid aside a huge blacksnake whip with which he had been soundly whacking them and looked about. The next moment Dallas saw him rein in his team and spring to his feet. He was looking toward the shack, and he raised his whip hand menacingly. "Look at that! Look at that!" he cried wildly, his voice carrying through the clear air. All looked where he pointed, and some one in the back of the wagon cursed. "What d' you call that for luck?" yelled the man, shaking his mittened fist. "If Nick knew that!" Dallas could not hear the mingled answers of his companion. -Well, I call it d d" A woman reached up and pulled him into his seat There was another shrill chorus, the man whacked the horses till they reared, and fj-v-wagon went rumbling on. v Dallas watched It until it disappeared into the cut at the landing. Then she sank upon a bench. For a long time she sat, dumb and immovable, her eyes on the floor. When finally she got up she felt about her, as if overcome by blindness. Marylyn had not seen or heard the threatening wagon driver. Seated comfortably on the robe by the fire, ' she strung beads and hummed contentedly. Dallas started toward her, stopped, then moved slowly back to the window, where she took up her watch. I.ate that night she sprang from fitful, troubled sleep to hear Simon lowing and moving about restlessly. A few moments afterward there came a mule's long bray from below the shack, followed by the voice of the section boss urging on the team. She found her long cloak and hastened out. She could not wait for the wagon to stop before calling anxiously to her father. "Did you file?" she asked, walking beside Betty. Lancaster did not answer, but scolded feebly, as if worn with his long trip. "W'y d y' fret a man 'fore he c'n git down an' into th' house?" he demanded. "Ah'ni plumb fruz t' death an' hungry." She helped him over the wheel and through the door. Then she went back and In feverish haste stabled the mules. On estering the shack, now dimly lighted by a fire, she did not need to repeat her question. She read the answer In her father's face. "No use," Lancaster told her, raising wet, tired eyes to hers. "Th' claim was gone 'fore ever we got here filed on las' July." He lay down, muttering in a delirium of grief and physical weariness. The fire, made only of dry grass, began to die, the room to darken. Dallas' face shadowed with it. She was thinking of the level quarter that was to have blossomed under her eager hands, that was to have brought comfort to Marylyn and her crippled father. And now the land was gone from them, had never been theirs. They were only squatters. Any hour a nameless man perhaps he who had gne by that day might descend upon them and The ball of a bubb'lng pot slipped down the bar that heid it, and the vessel clattered upon the hearth. She started as if a gun had exploded at her elbow. CHAPTER III. i-A-A-AS." drawled Lancaster reflectively, gnawing the while at a fresh slab of tobacco, "we jes' nat'a'.ly mavericked this claim." A fortnight had passed since his return from the land otaee. In that time his fear had slowly vanished, his cont. deuce returned, and he had begun to show streaks of the bravado that in his stronger days made him an efficient section boss. Rosy dreams even beset his brain dreams upon which Marylyn. despising her father's meaner structures, and kept in ignorance of what might at any moment raze them, piled many a rainbow palace. Fo- to the young girl certain calico covered books on the mantel had invested the events of the fortnight just gone with delightful tinge of romance. Dallas, however, took a sensible view of their situation. She pointed out that the man who had made an entry for the land would in all probability return anthat If he did not five years at least w "pass before the railroad reached th i. Meanwhile the quar-

ter section should be properly filed upon for possession and farmed for a living. Now as she brushed the hearth clean with the wing of a duck she listened quietly to her father's confident boasting. "It's this way, in' gal," he said he compassed a goodly quid and shifted It dexterously into the sagging pocket of a cheek "inside o' six months after a man files he's got t' dig a dugout er put up a shanty. He's got t' do a leetle farm work an' sleep on his claim, When thet six months is up ef he ain't done no buildin' er farmin' th' claim's abandoned, an' th' first man comin' along c'n hev it "In this caseth' gent in question ain't built, dug er farmed. Ef he was f show np an want this quarter he could get it by payin' fer our improvements. Ah reckon we'd hev t' sell an' pull our freight but ef he was t' show up an' not pay like a' honest man, they'd they'd waal, they'd likely be a leetle disagreement." Dallas shook her head. "If he comes before his six months is up and improves, we got to go. That would be the only square thing. Ain't it so?" "Waal waal" stammered Lancaster lamely. "It is," she said. "He filed on the quarter, and we had no right to settle" "We hev settled, an' th' Ian 's goln' t' be worth money," broke in her father. She put up her hand. "We got to go if he comes, but" she rose wearily "if he didn't offer pay for our improvements how could we go or get through the winter or build again next spring? Our money's gone." "Look a-here, Dallas." began her father crossly, "they ain't no use t' worry th' way you do. Winter is clost It ain't likely th' man'll come along this late, an' ef he don' show up pretty soon he ain't got a chanst, 'cause when his six months is gone Ah'll make another trip t' Bismarck, contes' his entry, hev it canceled an' file. Then we's safe." She silenced him, for Marylyn was entering, and quit the shack. Outside, before the warped door, she paused. "He's always so sure of himself, but he can't do anything. And Marylyn oh, I wish there was some one with us now some one that 'd help us if any

thing went wrong." Of a sudden, looking down at her hands, her eyes fell upon the crimson stripes left across her palms by the plow, and, in fancy, a horseman was riding swiftly toward her from the east again, while she leaned on the cross brace and waited. "Twenty miles," she said thoughtfully "twenty miles," and turned the marks under. Sun baked, deep of rut and straight as the flight of a crow lay the road that led northeast from the swift, shoally ford of the Missouri to the cattle camp at Clark's. It began at the rough planking upon wThich the rickety ferryboat, wheezing like some asthmatic monster, discharged Its load of soldiers or citizens and ran up through the deep cut in the steep, caving river bank. From there over the western end of the Lancaster quarter, across the coulee under a hub depth of muddy backwater at the only point where the sumac grown sides sloped graduallyit took its level, unswerving way. Twice only in its course did it touch the ravine curving along near by it once, six miles from the ferry landing, where on the limbs of a cluster of giant cottonwoods that grew in the bottom of the gully, a score of Indian dead were lashed, their tobacco pipes, jerked beef and guns under the blanket wrappings that hid them, and again at Murphy's Throat, four miles farther up, where the coulee narrowed until a man standing In its bed with arms outstretched could place the tips of his fingers against either rocky wall. Beyond the Throat the crack in the plains grew wider and shallower, veered out to the eastward and at last came to an abrupt end in a high meadow below the distant river bluffs. For decades the road had been a buffalo trail, a foot wide and half as deep, that in the dry season guided the herds in single file from the caking meadow to the distant waters of the Missouri. Then the travee poles of Indian tribes gave it the semblance of a wagon track, the center of which was worn bare by the hoofs of laden ponies and the feet of trudging squaws, and finally the lumbering carts of traders, the Studebakers of settlers and those heavier wagons that roll in the rear of marching men made of the track a plain and hardened highway. Down it that morning, approaching to the accompaniment of loud talking, the tramping of horses, the cracking of whips and the jingling of spurs, came a long procession. Yet so absorbed was Dallas in her plowing that not until the head of its column was close upon her and there was barely time to go to the bridles of the frightened mules did she see it A tanned, unkempt officer led the way, with baying foxhounds running about him. On either hand rode his staff and his scouts. Arickaree Indians in patched breeches and dusty blankets. And behind, full bearded, all military look gone from their boots, hats and uniforms, came the cavalry, riding two and two and flying torn and faded guidons. Dallas had no chance to view the front of the command, for the mules claimed all her attention by hauling back on their bits. But now they quieted a little, and she was free to watch the dozen or so musicians who came next mounted, with their brass instruments in hand. She saw that these men were nudging one another and directing at her glances which were bold and arnused. Something of her father's hatred of soldiers stirred her. She grew defiant yet only for a moment The musicians trotted by, and now Indians were

passing men, women and children, whose stolid faces disclosed no hint of grief or hatred for their captivity. Tha braves, twenty ia number, formed the head of the band and kept no order of march as they spurred forward their ragged, footsore ponies. Their Springfield rifles, knives and tomahawks had been taken from them, but they still carried their once gay lances and shields of buffalo hide covered with rude pictures of the chase and battle. But, though on other occasions these would have betokened the free warrior, they now only emphasized by contrast the blankets that trailed ingloriously from their wearers' shoulders to the ground and the drooping feathers of the conquered chiefs. A war priest, whose string of bears' claws, triple feathers, charms and bag plainly betokened the medicine man. headed the tribe. lie was seated upon a gaudily decorated saddle. The nose band, front and cheek pieces of his horse's bridle were thickly studded with brass nails. Bright pompoms of colored wool swung from the curb and the throatlatch, and the nag's tail wa stiffly braided with strips of woolen, scarlet and yellow and blue. Close beside him rode two stately braves of high rank, their mounts as richly caparisoned, their buckskin shirts gorgeous with bead and porcupine quill embroidery, otter skin headdresses upon their hair. Like their leader, the dusky faces of the two Indians and of those forming the rest of the party were hideously painted, showing that all had but recently been upon the warpath. The other half of the redskin company was more squalid. A score of spotted, sway backed ponies crept along, bearing and at the same time dragging heavy loads. Each saddle held a squaw and one or more small children, the squaw with a cocoon-like papoose strapped to her back, and at

the tall of each horse, surrounded by limping Indian dogs, came a travee laden with a wounded or aged Indian or heaped with cooking utensils, blankets and buffalo skins. One woman of all the squaws rode a pony that had not a double burden. Bhe was dressed in buckskin and bright calico and sat upon a blanket that almost covered her horse. Her hair was braided neatly; her dark cheeks were daubed with carmine. She kept a rigid seat as she passed Dallas, and her black eyes answered the other's kindly look with one full of sullen pride. Beside her hobbled an a&3d hag across whose wrinkled mouth and chin was a deep and livid scar. When the Indians were past more troopers followed. After them trundled a half dozen light fieldpieces, the wagon train and ambulances filled with sick or wounded soldiers, all under the conduct of a rear guard. Soon the entire cavalcade was gone and had halted on the river bank to wait the ferry. Diillas was alone again, listening to the faint strains of the band, which from the cut was gallantly announcing the return from the long campaign. At the door of the shack Lancaster and his younger daughter were watching the portage piecemeal of the troops. But Dallas, starting the team again, saw father and sister suddenly turn from the landing to look and point toward the coulee. Glancing that way, too, she saw the object of their interest. Over the brink into sight was toiling a strange figure bent and almost hidden under an unwieldy load. She moved aside in some trepidation to await the creature's advance. Upon its back as it tottered along was a score of pots and pans tied together and topped by a sack of buffalo chips that at each step rolled first to one hand and then to the other. Yet with all the difficulty of balancing the fuel sack and preventing its falling to the ground the straggler did not fail to keep ia place a drab face covering. The mules stood perfectly quiet until the figure was near; then they became uneasy for the second time and shied back upon the plow, tangling their harness. The effect of this was startling. The sack of chips came tumbling off the pots and pans, spilling upon the roadway. The tin things followed, with a crash, and, with a grunt, the bent figure retreated a few steps and uncovered its face. In very amazement Dallas let go the mules. The creature facing her was young and pitifully thin. About a face dripping with perspiration fell a mop of tangled hair. Under a tattered mourning blanket a bulging calico waist disclosed, through many rents, a lean and bony chest, and below the leather strap that belted both the somber blanket and the waist hung limply the shreds of a fringed buckskin petticoat. The straggler Avas an Indian a male yet, despite his sex, he wore not a brave's dress, but the filthy, degrading garb of a squaw! He watched Dallas with cowed, questioning eyes, strangely soft and tin-Indian in their expression. After a moment, seeing that he was ill as well as unarmed, she ceased to feel afraid of him. "How," she said In greeting. lie made no reply, only continued to watch her steadily. "How," she repeated and smiled. His eyes instantly brightened. "You sick?" she asked, moving her head sorrowfully in pantomime. For answer he shambled closer and held up first one naked foot and then the other, like a suffering hound. Dallas saw that they were sore from stone bruises and bleeding from cactus wounds. "Oh, you're hurt!" she cried. The Indian nodded and at once made her a dumb appeal. Lowering himself stiffly until he was seated upoa the dead grass before her, he pointed eloquently into his wide open mouth. Dallas understood. "Hungry," she said. CTo be Continued.)

FOR MADAM AND MADEMOISELLE

By what is fashionable:. Large hats crowned with many plumes of ostrich feathers, velvet gowns with long. fiowlnR trains, and dainty lace blouses more or less elaborately adorned and brightened with threads of gold and silver are some of the latest ideas of fashion. In all the newest hats for the autumn there is a tendency toward something higher and wid-r in the way of a crown. Some of the very latest hat? in Paris, in satin and in velvet, are being made with high crowns. exactly similar to the jampot shapes of years gone by. With the wide brims, these high crowns are quite in keeping, and some of them look very effective when the hats are carried ovit in black velvet, and the crowns are looped with chains of big Jet beads. In spite of their long-continued populartiy during the summer months, striped fabrics are still being largely used for the simpler kind of tailormade coat and skirt costume. On most of these the striped fabrics are used by way of trimming cut on the cross, so that the lines run diagonally. In nine cases out of ten the coats are made with cutaway fronts, bound with silk military braid. This braid frequently forms the only kind of trimming, but In some Instances it is very effectively supplemented by a collar, revers, and cuffs in velvet, bordered just at edge with wide silk braid. There is a singular charm this turan about the new fashions in the auf ur. Not only are the skins very lovely in themselves, but they have been treated in so many new ways, and arranged with such extraordinary ingenuity, and in so many artistic and charming ways, that they seem to be infinitely more attractive even than they were last year. Touches of velvet aro cleverly Intro duced here and there, daintily braided in colors or lightly embroidered In gold or silver, while on many of the loveliest and most luxurious of the new fur garments, quantities of real lace are lavishly introduced preference being given to fine Irish crochet and to Brussels point. Ermine remains as ever, a very favorite fur, and it would be difficult to find anything daintier or more charming for a guest at a wedding, for instance, or as part of a bride's traveling costume, than an ermine coatee with a smart little toque to match. This coateo is cut with very wide armholes, and drawn In at the waist under a belt of soft Ivory-white velvet, fastened with a velvet-covered buckle. The fur is finished in front below this belt with two quaint little flschu ends. Fine white cloth Is used to fashion the upper sleeves, which are finished at the elbow with gauntlet cuffs of Irish lace laid over ivory-white satin. The under sleeves are of the same lace and satin finished with black velvet buttons along the outer arm. The toque has a crown of black velvet and an ermine brim caught up' on one sido with pouf of white marabout. To wear with an er mine coatee of this kind a plain white cloth skirt would be best. PLEATED SKIRT NOW. Now that we are not to have any hips the full pleated skirt Is not such a bugbear as it might be. Everything from heavy cheviot to the sheerest chif ion can ne pleated ana stitched very flat and well pressed; then cut away the goods from under the pleat, thus reducing the bulk about waist and hips. Chiffon and other thin goods are simply laid in deep pleats and blind-stitched down. This goods cannot be cut away, as it would show through, but by laying the pleats in accurately and pressing them properly, they do not add to the apparent size of the wearer. VELVET. Velvet Is quite the fabric of the season, of the mlrolr persuasion, and In the richest colorings, both for dresses and for theatre cloaks. In no color does velvet look so superb as In the deep amethyst-purple, and old lace Is its natural complement. Old lac is. Indeed, to be worn by all those fortunate enough to possess it, and for evening wear it is even leading to the exclusion of jewels by the fastidious Parisenne. The Jewels that go best with old lace re pearls, so perfectly in accord they are with its mellow tints and fragile lovellress. The velvet "spencer" Is being revived for wear with the lace robe, for everything In the shape of a bodice fashion, especially in the matter of sleeves, for they now define carefully th shape of the arm, and no longer run to puffs and fulness. The three-quarter length sleeve still exists, but the long sleeve Is rapidly gaining the favor of the majority. LITTLE NOTES OF INTEREST. There is nothing more attractive and prettier in which to serve coffee than thin, gold-bordered, good-sized white china cups and saucers, and this, combined w-Rh a gold-lined silver coffee set. is most beautiful, most elegant, and withal, most homelike. A comfortable way of serving coffee was seen recently in which both cold cream and hot milk were served with the steaming beverage. This was so the lover of coffee's second cup would be just as warm and as tempting as the first one, the hot milk being used for the second helping. This is but one of the many delightful delightful customs which are brought to us over the seas from "gay Paree," the city of handsome frocks and delectable things to eat. Those who like to make fudge will find they can give their candy a delicious flavor and make a pleasant variety by using about half a tablespoonf ul of lemon juice instead of vanilla. Or if the candy is not liked quite so acid, a little lemon is used with the vanilla. When you buy your next black petticoat, buy it about two inches longer, taking the extra length up in a tuck. Then, when the skirt is worn around 'the bottom, cut the worn part off, hem again neatly, let down the tuck and your skirt is ready to do service some weeks longer. One of the latest fads of ultra-fashionable women Is to ).ava tlieir waist-

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coats buttons, their hat pins and their umbrella handles to match. One sees the loveliest sets in pink and purple quartz set with tiny rose diamonds, or in crystal set in thin rims of gun metal. All hatpins are now very large, and in all cases they must bear special relationship to the hat with which they are worn. hemovim; mildew fuom i.ixkn. The case is never hopeless in removing mildew from litun. Use euual parts of soft soap and water and let It boil. If the soap is very thick it may bo necessary to use double the t quantity of water. Wet the linen in this, putting it in when dry and take it out as wet as possible. Then put it out on a clean place in the open sunlight and sprinkle table salt thickly over it. Keep watch of it, and as it heeames dry sprinkle with a very fine watering pot. so as to keep it wet, but do not put on enough water to wash off the soap and salt. Let it remain out day and night and the mildew will gradually disappear. ii;i; I'lCTimcs. One often finds a beautiful picture on the front of a magazine or in a book. and it is either framed or fastened plainly to the wall of one's room. When a frame is not desired, the loose sheets will soon curl and be unattractive, and one seldom can paste a whole, sheet evenly upon cardboard to make the picture presentable. The best way to do is to get a very heavy piece of card board and cut an inch strip the width of the picture. Paste a strip at the top of the picture and one at the bottom. The top one supports the hanger, while the lower one Is sufficiently heavy to keep the picture against the wall. THE TOILET TABLE. Do you brush your eyebrows carefully night and day? This Is one of the little details of the toilet, which carefully attended to, will soon repay you. There aro, of course, Innumerable small brushes for this purpose which can be bought, but a fine, soft smooth brush will answer just as well. Thin eyebrows can be Improved by rubbing in almond or olive oil, but both must be perfectly and absolutely pure. The arched eyebrow is the mark of beauty, whereas the eyebrows which meet over the nose are not only very opposite, but In foreign countries are associated with misfortune by the superstitious. They can be corrected by the judicious use of repillators, ' but none of those are permanent. It has been said that clipping the eyelashes will causa them to growlong and thick. The ugliest, stiffest eyelashes we have ever seen were made so by this idea, which the unfortunate possessor had heard about in her younger years and tried. When the lashes began to grow back they were harsh and stiff and before they grew out she really suffered from the eye lids sticking together as she had de prived nature of the protection the lashes afforded. The practice of darkening the. eyes underneath comes from Arabia, it is said, and was prescribed by Mahomet for the Arabian women as a protection from the glaring desert suns. Th practice has remained even through the ages, but we rejoice that it has lost and is constantly losing Its appreciative followers. Nothing is more unattractive than In flamed evellds, but there is nothing which should be so carefully handled as the eyes, and only by those have mad this sensitive organ practically a lif study. Eyo strain results in nervousness and acute pain and headache, and every precaution should be taken against It. While reading or sewing or writing steadily it Is very restful to look up now and then from one's work, changing the focus which rests and restores energy to the muscles. Bathing the eyes in hot water will often relieve the intense irritation caused by exposure to the winds and cold. Everybody ought to know that the light should come over the left shoulder when we read, write or sew, and everybody should also know that one should never read while lying down. A strong bright light should never be allowed to shine in the face. Little babies oftentimes have eyes per manently injured by exposure to llt,ht shining directly in their young and feeble eyes. FINE FABRICS FOR WINTER COSTUMES Of all the just-Imported fabrics broadcloth is preeminent and claims at tention for the many exquisite new shades in which it appears. This cloth is from fifty to fifty-four inches wide and is to be much used for the elabo rate carriage, reception, and dinner gowns, and also for street gowns in the darker colorings. The newest colors are Copenhagen blue, Caledonian green copper. Laurier, crevette, Blondine pomino, topaz and prelat, new mole eminence, bolse rose, oleander pink, and canary. Burnt ivory has superseded oyster white, and there is among the blondine tints one that is twine color and combines most effectively with heavy Russian lace; Irisn crochet is also tinted to match it. A new make of broadcloth that is only found at fashionable dressmakers. is from France, and Is of chiffon weight, with an exquisite lustre and short, close nap that does not show the rubbing the I wrong way. so therefore. Insures a durable dress goods, for the edges of foids or tucks will not wear down to the warp of the cloth as Is inevitable with a longer nap textile. In either plait or draping it shows itself to be soft and pliable, and there are over 100 of the latest shades. A satin In shades to match this cloth is also monopolized by the dressmakers and Is on the order of a heavy quality of liberty satin, being made entirely of silk, with the weave at the back, showing a twill almost In width of wale that of surah. As a matter of course. It falls into short folds or retains a plait, has an extraordinarily rich lustre and is a full yard wide. In black it has all the appearance of mirror velvet. so band-some i3 the surface. The

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A DAINTY CORSET COVER. rattern No. 5904. Well-fitting cor set covers are an important consideration in a woman's wardrobe. The illustration shows a simple dainty model, that is the prettiest little garment possible to wear under a thin lingerie blouse. The square neck yoke may be made from a strip o embroidery, and the other parts or linen, nainsook, Icngcloth and batiste.' The fullness at the waist line is gathered and held in place by ribbon-run, beading. Valenciennes lace or narrow embroidery will all trim such a garment daintily. For 36-inch bust measure one and three-eighths yards of 36-inch material will be requiredSizes for 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. This pattern will be sent to vou on receiptor 10 cents. Address all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. ie sure to give size and number ct pattern wanted. For convenience, writa your order on the following coupon: No904. SIZE. NAME ADDRESS. appearance of two fabrics of shades exactly corresponding denotes that tna winter's costumes are to combine one or more materials with the main part of cloth, and this makes the fact prominent that Hie weight of satin and silks to be used In conjunction with broadcloth is more than usual, the satin3 particularly being heavier, the great suppleness, however, continuing despite the gain of bulk. Not only Is broadcloth in an unlimited number of plain shades, but also in stripes, combining two or more colors, and in shadow stripes as well. Checks and broken plaids likewise abound, s-.ms of them In such rich, dark tones that they are called invisible plaids, and In fact a close scrutiny Is necessary to determine the various colors. These will be used for the walking suits and other gowns on the tailor-made order. Vogue. ONE HAY'S MENU. Brenkf nr. Grape Fruit. French Toast and Syrup. Potato Warmed la Gravy. Coffee. Rolls. Luncheon. Beef BrotU. Cold Tongue. Baked Potatoes on Half Shell. Olives. Baked Apples, Tea. I)ii:nrr. English Hot Pie. Fried Sweet Potatoes. Fruit Salad. Celery. Toasted Crackers and Cheese. Coffee. I'r.tafor on Half Mirll. Bake rather large potatoes In a brisk oven for about 5 5 minutes. When soft, take out, cut lengthwise, remove the interior, taking care not to break tho skin. Put Into a bowl, and for six potatoes allow a tablespoonf ul of butter, a teaspoonful salt, one-half teaspoonpepper and a scant cup of hot cream. If milk is used be more generous with the butter. Unsweetened condensed milk may also be used. Now whip briskly until the mass is as "light as a feather" and snowy white, return to the shells, smooth the top of each with a knife dipped in cold milk, set on tha oven grate to cri.-p and serve at once. A little grated cheese Is sometimes sprinkled over the top of the potatoes, then crisped. KnulUh Hot IMP. Fry a chopped onion in two tablespoonfuls of drippirg butter in a frying pan, lay in a pint of cooked or daw beef, cut in one inch pieces and dredged in Hour. When the pieces are brown on both sld-s pour in gradually a pint or more of hot water or stock and a tabiespoonful each of tomato catsup and vinegar. Stew gently for one hour, then a id three potatoes, a stalk of celery, a cairot and a turnip, about the same size as the betf, a banquet of sweet herbs and salt and pepper to taste. Stew one hour more, then serve like soup in a tureen. More liquid may be added as it cooks away.

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