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AUTUMN COSTUME.
The Smart New Peplum Backed Suit.
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A Malediction on Mathewson. Soon after the baseball season opened last spring Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants received a letter from a gentleman In a small town reading after this fashion: "Dear Sir Will you kindly give me some advice right away? With the bases full and Hi Hecker, the demon batsman, at the .bat, I contend that I ought to throw him my slow out drop. My manager insists that I ought to give him my high in up. This emergency is liable to arise at any moment and I would like to hear from you right away." Mathewson forgot to answer, and three weeks later he received this letter from his correspondent: "Sir I asked you an important question like a gentleman, and I expected that you would answer it like a gentleman, but you did not do so", and what is the result? With three men on bases I threw Hi Hecker my high in up, and he knocked the ball over the
fence. I hope the next time you face Joe Tinker he bats you out of the box." Saturday Evening Post.
For the Children
Prince Hirohito, Heir Apparent to tho Throno of Japan.
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MODEL IN BROWN WHIPCOBDk Although somewhat eccentric in cut, this new autumn costume is decldedlv chic. It Is made of- brown and cream whipcord, with trimming of cream broadcloth. The square, deep collar and square postilion, the pointed peplum and hanging cuffs are all interesting features of the new styles.
CLEANING EMBROIDERY. An Easy Way to Renovate Fine Nee
dlework. Apropos of embroidery, lacemakinc and fine needlework, it is well to know how to clean articles of this kind without having to send them to a professional cleaner. If you will wash all your fine embroideries yourself by the following method, not trusting them to the hired maid or washerwoman, you will, no doubt, have splendid results: Put a half pint of bran into the same amcnint of cold water and let it come to a boll slowly. After it has boiled twenty minutes strain off the bran water and add a pint of boiling water. Use this mixture instead of soap when washing fancy work, fine embroideries and laces for the first time. Be careful not to rub. wring or twist them, but just squeeze them gently with the lands after the first washing in this manner. Soap jelly made by dissolving a pure white soap in boiling watei may be used. A little salt added to the rinse water, which '- mid be clean and moderately hot. w . set the color in embroidery Bilks and cottons if there is any fear ol them running. It is best to immerse colored embroideries in strong salt water before they are washed at all. Then there will be no danger of the colors running. Fancy work should be dried as quickly as possible and Ironed on the wrong side, first spreading the work over a folded blanket coveted with a clean muslin so that when It is ironed the embroidery will stand out in bold relief, each stitch showing up as if it were new. Fringed edges must be shaken out thoroughly while they are quite damp and never touched with the iron, or they will become matted and unsightly In a hort time. When ironing lace fold a Turkish towel, lay the luce right side down on the towel and press with a warm iron ,on the wrong side. This will allow the small upstanding threads on the towel to push through the mesh of the lace and make it look like new. Never starch lace. Iron it before It i,has become entirely dry.
Life's Triumphs. Each life has one grand day. The clouds may lie Along the hills and storm winds fiercely blow, The great red eunshine like a thing of woe And death's sad skeleton stalk grimly by, Yet none of these, no matter how they try, Can shroud the perfect triumph we shall know Or dim the glory that some star will show. Set far away in depths of plirple sky. Sweet love may bring to us this day supreme. Or It may thrill our souls through art or song Or meet us where red battle surges foam; Hope's stranded wrecks the barren coasts may gleam. And weeks and months dash by a somber throng. But some time, somewhere, it will surely come. T. S. Collier.
The Irresistible Lily. When Mrs. Langtry was at the summit of her beauty and her fame when crowds followed her in Bond street sod in the Row she met at a semiroyal dinner an African king. Mrs. "Langtry, dazzling in her beauty, sat beside this king. She was In good spirits, and she did her best to amuse and please him. And she must have succeeded, for at the dinner's close he heaved a deep sigh and said to her, "Ah, madam, if heaven had only made you black and fat you would be irresistible!"
Here and There. For girls going on motor trips the little boxes of individual toilet requisites are quite indispensable. In these tiny leatherette boxes come four articlesa sachet, a wee bottle of perfume and of toilet water and a box of talcum powder. Each set Is sufficient for a trip. Instead of buttoning a flounce to a petticoat get a narrow beading twice the circumference of the skirt at the height of the ruffle. Sew one half of it to the skirt at that height and head the flounce with the other. They are easily joined with a ribbon, with the ends finished. This gives a dainty finish, and the flounce does not sag.
Imagination Needed Massage. W. D. Howells once said of a certain popular novelist: There is about as much poetry in him as there is in McMasters. McMasters.. you know, was walking with a beautiful girl in a wild New England wood. "What Is your favorite flower, Mr. McMastersr the girl asked softly. 'McMasters thought a moment, then cleared his throat and answered: Well, I believe L like the whole Wheat beat?-
Just Had To. John M. Thomas, president of Middlebury college, says that a year or two ago a certain town employed a trained superintendent, a college man who knew what a school ought to be, to exercise supervision over all the schools of that town. It was the first time some of those schools had ever been visited iu an official capacity by a salaried administrative officer. In one school a little toddler was found studying percentage, learning it by heart.
"You should not teach him percent-1
age," the "superintendent said. "lie does not know how to add and subtract." "But I've got to," the teacher answered. "The front part of the 'rithnietic is torn out."
Photo by American Press Association. When Mutsuhito, emperor of .Tapan, died a short time ago his only son, Frince Yoshihlto, became emperor. The new emperor has three sons, and the eldest of these. Prince Hirohito, becomes the heir apparent and may one day rule the Japanese empire. Hirohito was born in April, 1901, and
is therefore just past eleven years of age. His mother's name is Sadako, and she is a daughter of Prince Kujo. A great many of the Japanese names seem to end with the letter "o." Hirohito's two brothers are named Yasuhlto and Nobuhito. One is ten years old and the other seven.
Word Fashions. The history of the word asparagus shows bow. even in the days of dictionaries, word fashions change. In the eighteenth century, even in elegunt usage, the delicacy was regularly called "sparrow grass." A dictionary of 1791 says that "sparrow grass" is now so general that "asparagus" has an air of stiffness and pedantry. "Sperage" had been the usual English form In the sixteenth century, but In the seventeenth herbalists brought back the original Greek and Latin spelling "asparagus." Pepys varies between "sparrow grass." "sparagus" and "sparague." No doubt the eighteenth century relapse the last, and the "a" Is back for good now.
Helping Him Out. "Life is a burden to me." "Take an interest in something. Have an avocation. Take up golf " "Aw. life isn't worth living." "Then take up aviation." Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Life Story of a Sow. To get the full flavor of this anecdote, which occurs in Watt's "Edinburgh and the ljothians," you must know Edinburgh's Cowgate and its curious buildings. It happened to Dr. Guthrie, after whom a street in the neighborhood, inclosing part of the Horse Wynd and College Wynd, is named. Dr. Guthrie had climbed to the summit of a tall "land" one day on a charitable visit. When he entered the room he perceived a sow. of which the family seemed very proud. "However did you get that great animal upstairs?" asked the doctor, panting after his climb. "Ay, but it never was doouP was the laconic and conclusive reply.
An Unwitting Executioner. During the Boer war of 1SS1 one of the sentries of a British regiment, having been found asleep at his post, was tried by court martial and condemned to be shot. At the appointed time he was marched to a spot outside the camp, and the troops were drawn up to witness the execution of the unfortunate man. Just as the officer in charge was about to give the order to fire a bullet flew Into the group of officers and men. and the prisoner fell dead at their feet. The shot was from the rifle of a concealed Boer marksman. In "sniping" the British troops he had unwittingly acted as executioner. !
Ways of Wives. "I see this paper says that a wife Is
entitled to one-third of the husband's
salary." "Yes: but the trouble is that so many wives don't seem to know which third it is and take all three!"
Sparkling Glass. When you wash your pieces of glassware next time try dropping a few drops of bluing in the soapsuds. The clear look this simple yet most effective treatment gives and the way the pieces sparkle will be a revelation.
Moon Causes Rs'n In Africa. , A new Instance of the supposed consection of the moon with rainfall claims the support of highly scientific authority. Heavy rains are safcl to occur In South Africa at intervals of nineteen years, and this period coincides with the lunar cycle of maximum north and south declinations. . E. E. NovilL late director of the Natal observatory, finds an explanation In the moon's attraction. The theory Is that a permanent cloud belt is drawn along by the moon and that as the moon nears Its furthest point north the mass of clouds is made to Impinge on the mountains in Natal, plvlng excesslTe xainfalL Chicago Tribune.
Home Hint. 'What can I use to clean carpets?" asked a correspondent signing her name very bashfully. "Young Bride. "nave you tried your husband?" replied the answers editor.5 Cleveland
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Fooled the Doctor. "I remember one time," said a comedian, "when a medicine show came to our town, and father went to the performance. As you probably know, it used to be the custom of the medicine 'doctor' to try to make the audience
think he was merely selling his iuedi-1 cine to advertise it. Such was the!
case -the nightmy father attended the show. The 'doctor when he began telling of the virtues of the cure-all declared that since he was merely advertising the medicine, he would positively sell but one bottle to a person. It would be impossible to buy more than one. That night my father reached home very much elated. He came into the sitting room and pulled a bottle of the medicine out of each side pocket of his coat. " 'I got ahead of the durned sinner!' he said. "'What's that?' I asked. " 'Why, that feller said he wouldn't sell us more than one bottle apiece, but (here he shook his head and smiled) I fooled him. I got two.' "'How did you do it?' I asked. " 'Why, durn him,' replied my father, 'I bought one. Then I went outside, took off my coat an' come back in an' bought another. The blamed chump never knowed me.' "
Talking Shop. Partners may be chosen for this game by writing names of women on one set of papers, such as Eve. Jill, Juliet, Judy, and names of men corresponding to them on another set of
papers, as Adam, Jack, Itomeo, Punch. .
Hand each guest a slip of paper with a name on it, and each one hunts for his or her partner. When all are properly paired off the leader announces that at a given signal all the ladies are to talk to their partners for five minutes about household affairs, shopping, preserving, fashions and servants. Each man must listen attentively to his partner, and
when the five minutes are up he must J
write a brief account of her conversation on paper, which the hostess has In readiness. Five minutes are allowed for this. Then the men talk to the ladies for five minutes about business matters, stocks, law, medicine, horses, cigars, and the ladies in their turn write a short account of what they have heard. The hostess collects and reads the papers awarding a prize for the best one.
The French and English of It. That fine artist, Legros, had always declined to learn English, but he took an inconsistent step, for he had himself naturalized as an Englishman. The Incident gave occasion to one of his best replies, and, though an austere painter, he was a Jovial wit. "Well, Legros, how do you feel?" asked a friend on the morrow of the naturalization. "Why, particularly happy," Legros answered. "Yesterday I had lost the battle of Waterloo and today I have won It"
A Surprise For the Weather Prophet. A century and a half ago people used to depend upon the weather prognostications in Partridge's Almanac. One day rartrldge himself put up at a country inn for dinner. The hostler advised him to stay the night, as it would certainly rain. "Nonsense!" said Partridge, and proceeded on his way. Soon a heavy shower fell, which so impressed the traveler that he instantly rode back to the inn and offered t he hostler half a crown if he would tell him how he knew the rain was Lmimmlnent. "Well," replied the man, with a grin, pocketing the coin, "the truth is we have Partridge's Almanac here, and he's such a liar that whenever he promises a fine day we know it will be foul. Today is set down as fine." The weather prophet, like many other weather prophets before and since, passed on discomfited. Strand Magazine.
Never Touched Him. One day during the South African war an orderly delivered a message in somewhat free and easy language from Lord Kitchener to General Smith Dorrien. "Tell Lord Kitchener I shall be ready to move in two hours." replied Smith-Do rrien. "and remember to say please the next time you speak tc me!" Returning to Lord Kitchener, the orderly duly delivered the message.
4 And yon have to say 'please' the next
A Repeating Game. After a stand-up game a rather funny game, where all the company may sit. Is to have one person chosen to call and the rest to repeat: One good fat hen, two ducks, three plump partridges, four squawking wild geese, five felicitous oysters, six pairs of Roman striped hose, 7,000 Spanish, soldiers, eight cages of Heliogabulus parrakeets, nine sympathetic, apathetic, didactic, propositions: eleveu superstitious astronomers viewiug Venus in Venice, twelve European dancing masters teaching Egyptian mummies to dance at Hercules' wedding If any one laughs in the course of this he must pay a forfeit. The one who repeats most smoothly and solemnly must be the caller out and begin gibberish over again.
A Mine of the Incas. One of the famous lost emerald mines of Peru is said to have been discovered recently by a Greek immigrant. This man had some land near the little village of Acomayo, and he wanted some lime for building purposes. So he set some workmen to digging out lime
stone. The men dug iu a depression J
that looked like a natural cave. Soon, however, the Greek proprietor thought that the cave did not look natural, and he began investigating. He thought it might be a mine, and so it was so they say. He found three different holes with emeralds in them farther down In the old workings, and then it dawned on him that he had discovered one of the lost mines of the Incas, the sovereigns of ancient Peru.
Conundrums. Why is it dangerous to walk into the country at this time of the year? Because the hedges are shooting, the cowslips about and the bulrushes out. What is the difference between a blind man and a sailor in prison? One cannot see to go, and the other can't go to sea. When do your teeth usurp the rights f your tongue? When they are chattering. Why is Buckingham palace the cheapest palace ever built? Because it was built for one sovereign and furnished for another.
The Difference. When he knows the fish are biting He can dig an acre lot; When he's asked to spade the garden. My, oh, my, but it is hot! Youth's Companion.
Put H''s Foot In It. "Good morning. Mrs. Smithers. This is the first opportunity I have .had to congratulate you since your marriage I" "My name Is not Smithers; It la Jones." "Why, Smith told me you were getting married and when 1 asked him who the lucky man was he said It was Dick Smithers f
Mr. Smithers is the name of the maa
time yon speak to him!" be -wound nr. I rejected. And yon mar tell"
unexpectedly. - -A "Ofc eacnse me" Houston Post.
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