Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 May 1897 — Page 5

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,SJ9T»)S'tasos?' IN HOPltS.

Borne yflartfs ago there lived on high In solitary .state A bachtT6r in sooth 'twas I,

Pursuing thus my fate. And as in sadness I gazed round, And paced tha. llonely floor, I longed, not for tins solid ground,

But just for one room more. Twas then, or not long after that. My wish came more than true moved into a modest flat

Where I supported two— That is to say .until a third Came down thrbugh Heavens door And then mv wife and I averred

We'd like just one room more.

To-day. in deep felicity. Within a. house we dwell. With number one and two and three,

And four and Ave as well! We thought 'twas ample when wc came, Yet. a% I think it o'er, I find our 'plaint is just the same—

We need but one room more.

pprchance, kind stranger, as you ret This ditty that I sing, A tear bedims your eye—you need,

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With me, the selfsame thing. Then let us join our hands and pray That sometime, when we soar Up to our mansions far away

We'll have that one room more.

GOOD THINGS FOB THE TABLE.

Dishes That Will Vary the Monotony of 11 Everyday Menus. LETTUCE SALAD.—Put a layer o£ fresh watercress, a layer of thinly-sliced cucumbers, then a layer of tomatoes with a teaspoonful of chopped chives. Repeat the process and put a border of watercress rqund the bowl. When ready to serve pour on a French dressing and toss until well mingled. The dressing may be made from six tablespdonfuls of oil, three of vinegar, with salt and pepper. There is no limit hardly to these fancy salads.

Olives cut' through lengthwise to the stone in long, thin slices are.-used to fill cup-shaped leaves of lettuee.-.-

A SPINACH LUNCHEQN—Have one cupful of cooked .and-finely-chopped spinaoh which has been seasoned highly and prepared with the cream dressing. Stir into it the yolk of a beaten egg and stir over the fire until the egg. is set. Put the mixture to one side until cold. When required stir into the cold spinach the whites of three eggs beaten very light. Pile the mixture upon a flat butWed dish and sprinkle just a suspicion of sugar over the top and bake in a hot oven fifteen minutes. It should b^ served Immediately,'for a souffle cannot stand. It is better that the guests should wait for it that it should wait for the guests.

SPANISH CREAM.—Let one pint of milk, part cream, come to a boil, and stir in the yolks of three .eggs beaten to a

cream'with

three-fourths of ajcupful_of

sugar. Let this come to a boil,""then add one-half box of gelatine which has soaked in a little milk for fifteen minutes. Let this all boil up thick remove from the stove and stir in the whites of eggs beaten stiff. Flavor with vanilla, pour into a wet mold, and set on the ico. This is often used in place of ice cream.

BADEN BADEN WHIPS.—Take the weight of two eggs in butter, flour and sugar. Cream the butter, and work in the sugar and yolks of the eggs. Whisk the whites to a stiff froth,,and mix them in lightly: flavor with vanilla. Butter some small molds, sprinkle them with sugar, pour in the mixture and bake. When done, leave them till cold, fill scoop out a portion from each cake,' fill up the cavity with strawberries, peaches, or £tny kind of fruit one fancies. Pile bn it some whipped cream and serve tnem cold.

PEACH CREAM.—Mash very smooth two etips of canned peaches, rub through sieve and cook for thrift minutes in a sirup made by boiling, a cup, of sugar with one of water. Have soaked half package of gelatine, add this to sirup and peachcs. Stir a few moments to dissolve the gelatine, place in pan of ice water, beat until nearly cold add six eggs whites, beaten stiff. Beat all the mixture until it begins to harden. Pour Into mold on ice. Serve with cream.

FRENCH PUFF PASTE.-Put one pound of flour on your pastry slab make a hole in th.e center, in which put the yolk of one egg and the. juice of one lemon, with a pinch of salt. Mix it with cold water (iced in summer if convenient) itito a softish, flexible paste. With the right hand dry it off a little with flour until you have well cleared the paste from the slab, but do not work it more than ybu can possibly help let remain two minutes upon the slab, then have a pound of fresh butter, from which you have squeezed ail the buttermilk out in a cloth, bringing it to the same consistency as the paste, upon which plkce it press it out yith. the hand, then fold over the edges of the paste, so as to hide the butter and roll it with rolling pin to the thickness of a quarter of an inch, thus making it about two feet in length told over one-third, over which pass the rolling pin then fold over the other third, thus forming a square. Place it with' the ends top and bottom before you. shaking a little flour both under and over, and repeat the rolls and turns twice again as before flour a baking sheet, upon which lay it, upon ice or in some cool place (in summer it would be impossible to make this paste well without Ice) for half an hour then roll out twice more, turning it as before place again upon tire ice "a quarter of an hour give It twd h*or£ YoHs, nialvihg seven in all, and

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is ready for use when required,

rolling Tt1*^iatever thickness according to what you intend making. Upward of 100 different kinds of cakes may be made Trom this paster" fcHUBARB PIK'r—Line a plate with paste dnd fill with rhubarb cut into Vs-inch pieces. Use apple pie plates (deep).' Mix I tablespoon of flour with 1 cup of sugar 1 egg together. Turn over Ihe rhtf£#lyuijd dot over with 1 teaspoon »f buttei". OTver with paste.

BAKED BANANAS.—Remove the skin Jrom 6 bananas and cut in half lengthWise. Baste with 1 tablespoon of butter, melted, 3 tablespoons of sugar and the Juice of 1 lemon. Bake in a moderate bvVn 20 mthutes. This makes a very Appetizing breakfast dish for summer.

A Novel Floral Decoration,

Among the floral decorations at a recent English wedding, instead of a marriage bell, a number of smaller bells of various izes were hung together. The bells Vere mad© of white blossoms "wfth a small range suspended by a white satin ribbon for the clapper. These bells were kung from an arch made of green foliage plants. A flighf 6t white birds was anther new feature among the. decorations. Many of the^birds were suspended by-in-visible wires, and one or two of thenj Kere resting* upon the mounds of flowers fcr the handles of ribbon-trimmed baskets jif blossoms. .....

Buy the MORNING EXPRESS-

FIGURING IT OUT

36,000 Kggs Necessary to Pay for a $500 Diamond Ring. Tlie gent fromv'Yapvilic, accompanicd by his lady, after gazing for some time into the dazzling array of things that glitter in a jeweler's window, entered the store. "How d'ye do?" he said to the clerk who came forward to see what »was wanted. "I seen some of the things you had in the winder, and I jest thought I'd come in and see if I couldn't git something suitable in finger rings fer this lady," nodding toward his companion. "I'm sure we cart give you just what you want,-"*smiled the clerk. "Now, it you -will—" "You see," interrupted the visitor, quite unconscious of what the clerk was trying to say, "this lady is my wife, but that's no sign 1 don't want her to have the very best that's to be had, and I been married seven years, too. I ain't like some men in them regards, so you can trot out the finest you got in the tinshop. an' me and Mary'll take a look at the shootin' match."

The clerk knew what would tit the case to a T, but he liked to have fun with his country trade, So he set out a collection of genuine diamonds, sparkling like dewdrops in the morning sun, and he quadrupled the price to make the greater sensation.

Mary's big cowlike eyes glistened almost as brightly as the gems as they flashed up into her freckled face. "Those are something extra nice," said the clerk, shoving, them out, and taking up a line ring he added, "This one I think would be very becoming to your lady." "What's the tax on it?" inquired Mary's husband,

as

he- watched Mary

admiring it. "Well," replied the clerk, in a calculating tone, "being it's you, I'll let you have it for $500 spot cash."

The clerk fully expected to the rustic drop dead or have a lit or 3o some of the other strange things the newspapers say people do under such circumstances but the rustic did nothing except to give a quick look at his wife, which she returned in recognition of some common interest. "Lemriie. see," he said very slowly, as he took a pencil from his pocket and began figuring on an envelope, "five hundred is five hundred, and none to carry eggs at our place is six dozen for a dollar, and six times five hundred is three thousand and

the

basket to carry. That's

three thousand dozen,-ain't it?" addressing himself to his wife. She nodded and at the same time laid down the ring- carefully. "By hokey, Mary," he went on with a good-natured horse, laugh, "there ain't hens enough in 'our whole doggoned county to lay a diamond-ring like that in six months. Let's go somewhere else and git something else." "Here's something cheaper," hastily put in the clerk, seeing that he was about to lose a customer, "something that will—" "That's all right, young feller." interrupted the gent from Yapville, "but Mary's my wife, and if she don't git the best, she don't git none at all, and that's the kind of a lady she is, ain't you, Mary?"

AVh'ich must have been true, for Mary hastened to assure the clerk that she was just what her husband said she was.

SHE WOULD NOT STAT.

The New Cook Was Not Difllcult to Please But Must Decline the Position. "The situation of your house suits me, mum," said Noraji McCarty, who had visited the home of Mrs. Tenspot with a view of inspecting the inducements offered for her to assume the position of help-lady in the household. "I am glad you like it," replied Mrs. Tenspot, with becoiynng humility. "The pay you offer is satisfactory, too, and the number of people in the family. The room your help-lady occupies is pretty good, too, 'but I must ask you a few more questions l)efore I nfake up my mind to remain in your service."

Certainly," replied Mrs.. Tenspot, humbly. "Ask all you lilw.* ., "Do you ride a bicycle?" "Yes." "Mr. Tenspot, too?" "Yes." "Do you provide a bicycle for your cook?" "Yes, certainly. We have one for her exclusive use." am glad of that. Some people seem to think that cooks ought not to ride a wheel." •'Oh, we would not think of depriving our cortk of that privilege." "What make is the wheel?" "The same make as Mi'. Tenspot's and my own—the Ripsnorter." "Then, ma'am, I'm soyry, but I can't come." "Why not?" "I don't know that make. I couldn't think of ridin' anything but the Jimdandy make of bicycle. Good-by, mum."

HINTS FOB THE HOUSEHOLD.

Any direction for -cleaning that makes labor lighter is always welcomed by the working woman. Finely powdered fuller's earth is strongly recommended in washing china. It should be mixed with warm water, rubbed on the article, and then rinsed off in clear water.

In case of a sjudden leak, and when it is quite evident that the plumber will not be as impatient to get to you as you are to have him, mix some yellow soap and whiting with enough water to make a thick paste and stop up the'' leak yourself. It will do temporarily as well as solder.

No good housewife is without her own special and favorite disinfectant. A simple and effective one may be made of charcoal, mixed with clear water. Speaking of charcoal, it is well to remark that a little of it sprinkled/fn water containing cut flowers will keep the water fresh for some time.

Irons may be .made to last for years and they may be treated in such fashion as to wear out in a lew months. The first great secret of, their preservation is to keep them from rusting. To this end, when not in use, they should be stowed away in a clean, dry place. If, In spite of this care. or. more likely, because of some neglect, they should still become rusty, rub them thoroughly with lard and beeswax and then with sandpaper.

Pixnishiqg Shopkeepers.

France knows how to protect the rights of her people. Anybody who doubts the genuineness of an article of food that he has purchased from a Parisian tradesman may take it to the mhjjieipal laboratory for analysis. It will cost him nothing to have it analyzed and the fact determined whether it is unadulterated or adulterated and if the latter, the law deals with the offender without further action on the part of the purchaser. The shopkeeper is liable to be heavily fined and imprisoned and has to display conspicuously in his shop window or on his door for a year* a large,placard bearing the words. "Convicted o? adulteration."

The cheerful alacrity with which a young man will guide his girl towards a milliner'^ shop windo-w before they are married is equalled only by the marvelous skill with- which he will steer her away from it after she beconjes his'wife.

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PROGRESSIVE EXPLETIVES.

Her Final Exclamation Was Warranted and Doesn't Need, to le Written. She—I had tho worst time this morning. I hung.a portiere in my room. I wouldn't let the upholsterer do it, and I wouldn't let anybody help me, because I wanted: it done in a particular way.

He—I didn't know you knew anything about— She—I don't but I was bound I'd do it. Well, I'd asked them where I bought the. pole to have it sawed off the right length and they hadn't done it, and-I had to get a saw and do it myself. I couldn't saw it even, and I got. all out o£ patience, and I kept saying "Good gracious!" till Aunt Mary looked at me aver her glasses she doesn't approve of expletives for young ladies. 1-Ie—You are sure it was "Good gracious?"

She—It was, at that stagp. I got the brackets up all right, but I went and drove a. nail part way into an end of ttye pole to start a place to screw in the fancy end, and when I tried to pull it out I broke it square off and I couldn't pull the piece out. I was so pro-smoked! lie—What did you say ,then?

She—I said, "Plague take it!" There was nothing to do but to saw oft an inch or so to get a fresh end. I had a fearful time doing it. It looked as ir somebody had chewed it off, and I sawed my fingers.

He—And you saidShe—I said "Confound it!" right out loud, and Aunt Mary -went out of the room. I got the pole up finally, and stretched my arms till .they were lame, and. got both ends screwed on, and then found I'd forgotten to p,ut the. rings on. I was perfectly desperate. My neck ached, and my back, and I was getting dizzy-

He—And yo^ continued your remarks? She—I—I said "Darn it!" I couldn't help it. I unscrewed one of the ends and got the rings on* and screwed it-back again, and then I hung the curtain, and goodness knows how long I was at it. I had it all-up once. I found I'd- turned it wrong sine to, and hung it all over a,nd got it too short, and hung it ,fouv times altogether, and my hair was all tumbled down and every bono in my body ached and my fingers bled where I'd' sawed them— lie—And may I inquire what—

She—Yes, you may! And I don't care a snap if I did, cither. An angel from heaven couldn't have said anything else. But it was as well that Aunt Mary, had gone out of the room.

MOST ORIGINAL CLUR IN AMERICA

Thirteen Women I'romise to Divulge the Secret of Tlinir Charms, Indiana has the^most original woman's club in America. In that board, breezy state, perhaps, there is room for such a thing. The possibility of its existence in a more narrow-minded community is doubted. Its membership is small^ being at present limited to thirteen, and its main object is to increase the fascination of each and every member. Every woman who joins pledges herself to dN vulge the secret of such charms and aceomplishments- as she may possess, and, as far as possible, to impart them to ,}ier fellow members. Accomplishments such as singing, playing, dancing, even cooking, known- by some, are to be taught to the others. So far, so good, but the difficult part is in the next group of bylaws. Defects are to be jveeded out. Any young woman observing serious faults in a fellow member is to labor with her until such mental or moral blemishes are removed. All peculiarities of temperament are to be closely watched and fully discussed, with a view to the improvement of their owner. This is the point at which the tolerance and broadmindedness of the Indiana woman is expected to show itself.

Orange Shortcake.

Two cups of flour, two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of bptter and one cup of milk. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together: rub the butter thoroughly into tho mixture. Pod* in the milk and stir with a knife, turn ou^ on board, roll thin and bake in three jelly-cak© tins in quick oven. Have ready four oranges cut off the rind and slice lengthwise in thin slices. When crust is baked take out and butter. Spread oranges on each crust, pile together and eover top layer of oranges with a soft icing made as follows: One cup of sugar, four tablespoon fills of water. Let boil until it threads then smooth. Pour quickly over shortcake and send to table at once.

Simplicity in.Summer Homes. Physicians say that the fashion of simplicity in summer homes is in direct Consonance with a craving of human nature. The heavy furnishings of winter drawing i-oomsi and living rooms are distasteful for systematic causes when the breath of July is over the land. For this reason the summer housekeeping should be simple. Piiie floors, covered here and there with rugs, wood furniture with graceful curves but no carving, plain, almost-- unpictured walls, the thinnest draperies, if any at all, as a positive remedial agent to the spirit worn with the winter complexity of city resiuences as well as city life and cares.

Woes of Leghorn Plaiters.

Leghorn hats are lovely for summer, but perhaps women would wear them with less comfort did they- know the hardships their production entails. For every sixty-three yards the straw plaiters receive three Rence, and this rate the most they can earn is two pence a day, while the majority earn but a penny. The plaiters "struck'^ a short time ago, and, crying: "Abasso* la moda!" (Down with the fashions!) they threatened to wreck the city of Florence. Regiments of infantry and squadrons, of cavalry were called out to quell the disturbance.

Women In the Mercantile Marine. Norway and Sweden bear the distinction of being the only nations of the world in the mercantile marine of which the women enjoy the same privileges and share the same perils as the men. Whether the woman on, board is the wife of the captain or of the commonest sailor,* she is compelled by the government to do the work of a man before the mast, and the women are- even compelled to perform look-out duty at iiight.

The New Skirt.

It will take some time to become accustomed to* the nfew shaped Skirt, whieh Is So entirely different from those of the last tnree' seasons. It has straight front and sides and fan back, plaited under until it is smooth across the back at the waist line. The tops of the front and side gores are very narrow,'with the back jrider.

Children Not Sensick.

It is the testimony of almost all captains of the ocean-going liners that children are rarely if ever seasick—a fact that ought to prove of some suggestive therapeutic value to those who attempt to prescribe remedies for this dreaded but apparently inevitable affliction, pi

It is not generally known that rais cannot resist sunflower seeds. A trap baited with these seeds is the ropst ejffcctlva method of catching them.

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NO KEID11BE WSIELED

EVERY WOMAN MIY AND SHOULD KEEP HER tm FRESH, SMOOTH, A*B CLEM^

TA1DE OF A GOflJ) COIPLEIION

One Skin. Should. Be Renovated Every Spring and fall, Sajra an, Expert, a^., -. ReLiglouHly as. One's Uptime,. "A* woman should renovate her skin every spring and fall as religiously as she renovates her house," said an authority on the subject to a distressed young woman the other day. "Renovate her skin?" repeated the girl, in a mystified way, rubbing one hand over, her rough,, leatherly cheeks.^ "Yes, renovate it,'-' repeated the authority. "She, should give her skin a genuine fall. and spring cleaning, and she fails in hbr duty to herself and her family when she_ fails to do this." "Well, my skin certainly needs something," put in the girl mournfully. "And so does mine," added a middleaged woman who had dropped "in. "It needs renovating, I tell you," the authority went on. "Bveriy woman's does after being shut up in our. hot, furnaceheated houses all winter. Don't you know how plants come out and flourish In the spring, when we put them out. on the window ledges and givo them new earth and nourishment and care? Well, the complexion wi#l do the same if properly renovated." "You must have had a house cleaning on your countenance," said the girl, looking at her enviously. "You ,haven't got a .wrinkle, not even the tiniest line about the eyes and mouth, and you are as pink and white as a baby."

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"Yes, I've just given, my skin a very thorough spring cleaning," answered the authority, "and I've just passed my fortyeighth birthday. Let me tell you women something. As. long as a woman- is free from wrinkles she doesn't hesitate to tell her age. Funny, isn't it? But just let a few* lines or a sign of crow's feet appear' and the best and strongest characters of our sex, if they don't fib outright when questioned about their age, refuse to answer on the ground of selfincrinjjnation, as the lawyers say." "Oh, mudam," exclaimed a- woman fully forty years old, bursting into the room "what do you think.? Mrs. Inquisitive had the impertinence to ask m© "what I did to

KEEP MY COMPLEXION

so smooth and soft and youthful, And I wouldn't teil her! I guess I'm, not going to give a good thing away. Why, just think! if we women who know the secret of eternal youth gave it

away

every wo­

man would ward off that perspna.1 devil of womankind, old age.',' "Don't you think, you wor.e a little selfish not to tell your friend liov you keep your skin youngs?" the,.expert asked, with great candor. "But that's, tho way with women. Maybe some day wo will, grow, broad-minded enough to give, up, that pettiness. Morfe..than half of my patrons are just like you. When any one asks them what they do to their skin they say: '1? Why, I don't do. one blessed thing: Only to-day I got a letter from a customer in London saying, she. asked her own sister, who. had just been over here and had had her skin renovated, who treated it and what she was using on it now, and the sister said! 'Oh» I went to a Dr. So and So, and his medicine did me so much good that my skin too,k on the bloom of youth. I don't use anything on it.' I was the Dr. So and So, and the same steamer brought me a large order for preparations and- skin foods from the sister who said Dr. So and So was responsible for her, good looks. When sisters can treat each other that way, what can we expect of women who aren't related? It's a, rare thing to run across a woman who will tell another of something ih^it will improve her looks."

By this time the room was filled with women. There were all sorts and conditions of complexions visible. Some looked like peaches and cream, others like ancient, parchment: some reminded one of wild roses, and again others called to mind the tanned hide of a monkey, old and middle-aged, and the sixty-year-olds drank in every word that the authority uttered as eagerly as did the girls of sixteen. It vfks great fun to listen to the questions they asked and tho answers they got. "Can the skin be restored to any degree of youthfulness?" Sisked a grandmother. "Certainly," answered the authority. "There is no skin so tough, wrinkled, and leathery-looking but can be restored. 1 wish American women would learn that they can preserve a good complexion until their dying day, and if it is lost that they can restore it." '•Should every woman's skin be cared for in the same way?" asked a muddycomplexioned, middle-aged matron. "Yes, where th'ere is no disease of the skin, all complexions yield to the same carp. Perhaps a very dry skin would require a different food from one that is naturally more oily, but the method of renovating every face is the same. You who' are bothered with rash, pimples, ache, or blackheads should have special remedies prepared to meet your individual casoe. It pays a woman to have a good clean skin. It

HELPS SOME WOMEN

to catch husbands and aids business women in securing places. The other day I read an advertisement for a number of girls, which said that none with rough, ugly, muddy complexions need apply. I was so interested that I went down to see what kind of oflise work made it neces.sary for the employes to have pretty complexions. The man said they wanted several girls to do ordinary clerical work, and that the just didn't intend to employ girls with greasy-looking, rough skins, because they had to look at them so rnach. I don't blame them at all. Nothing is so attractive in a woman's appearance as a clear clean-looking skin. A weil-groomed woman of sixty can attract a man where a bad complexioned woman of thirty would utterly fail. When a woman's complexion is in first-class condition she can wear any garment of any color and look well. I want to tell you women one thing. If a woman neglects her skin her husband makes an astonishing discovery some day. He may live with her twenty-five years before he does so, and then the bloV is all the harder. He discovers that his wife doesn't look young, like his neighbor's wife, who he knows is really years older. At first he is hurt, then he begins to be a little disgusted, and the next thing the wife knows she has no hold on her husband. A woman may be as ugly as a hedge fence, but she can»hold a man until judgment day if she keeps herself young and smdrt." "Let me tell you all something very funny," Interrupted one of the customers w(bo was a minister's wife. "I have al­

ways-roughed

every

a bit, and although I've

been ^married twenty years my husband never^ suspected it. One morning, somehow, I got on a little too much arid when I" walked into the breakfast table he exclaimed in the most startled and horrorstruck tone, 'Yofi are painted! Go immediately and wash it off and don't ever do that again. It is a dreadful sin.' No criminal ever felt worse than I did, and I went to .Jj, MY DRESSING ROOM an3 scrubbed every remnant of color off. When I retnrned to the table he gave me qne look and said, 'Go immediately and put it on again, but take care never to overdo it.' Since then I have evercised great care." "You got too much on," answered the authority with a laugh, "because

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skin. Nearly every young *irl has a smooth comflexion." "t'es, my skin was lively when I was a girl," said an" elderly woman, "and I never in my life used anything on it but soap and water, and I wish ou would look at it now. A baby elephant's skin is soft ana smooth, as elephants*, skins go, by comparison." "Some water acts as poison to the skin," said the specialist, "and soap and water is responsible fop many tough, leathery skins. Whenever, possible use only distilled or rain waier on the face, and no saafi should ever'be used except the purest olive-oil soap. It is the hardest thing in the world to persuade women that It is economy to use only the finest preparations on the face. A woman will come to me to have me renovjate her skin. She will get all the preparations I advise except say, the soa^ or poSv(|eV, and she refuses to buy these because sho has a box of,powder or a, cake of'soafc on hand which she does notHvlsh to throw away. She will admit that the powder or soap irritates her skin, and then go on and use it to .save it. Is It wise, to use powder? Yes. A-French physician told me once that, the^e was a sotmd physiological argument for face powder when it is chemically pure and it rarely 'ever is. He said £hat when a woman got up and thoroughly cleansed her face in the morning, it was better for, her to fill the open pores with a clean, pure powder before going out than to get them filled with dust '"id dirt, and he claimed that powder .made the skin germ jfroof many times. Women tell me that it costs too much to keep the skin young, that all the preparations 1 advise are so expensive. S* they do seejn, but it costs to put anything through a chemical process. Most women don't like to put cheap shoes on their feet, cheap gloves on their hands, and cheap flowers and feathers on, their hats, and yet they, expect to keep tho bloom.of youth by putting cheap preparation# on their faces." "Can you teach a wonjian to restore her own complexion?" asked a faded, wrinkled beauty. "Yes, and I do so daily. Women in society often wonder why actresses and singers retain their youthful looks. 111 tell you why because they learn? to preserve their girlish skins. Take Melba, Patti, Calve, Olitzka, Bauercneister, Mrs. Kendal, Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. Julia Mar-low.e-Tabor, Jessie Bartlett Davis, ^Irs. Leslie Carter, and dozens of other women before the public, keep their skins young, and also hundreds of society women, and I am always glad to tell, any woman how she can improve her looks. I wish all women, woul^ give pointers to oi\e another. Men, as a rule, have cleaner skins than women because^, they do^ not^ wear veils and they .,

TAKE BETTER CARE

o£ their skins. They use fine, soft soap in shaving, and do not plaster their faces over with injurious preparations. A great many men get advice about their complexions, and they aren't dudes either. Not long ago a young fellow, came to me and said he wanted his complexion renovated, for he felt that it wasn't up to a good, clear, clean mark, and that he wanted to look his best, as he was trying to marry a rich young widow. I gave him a good overhauling, I can tell you. He had to stay away-from the widow a week, but ho looked so stunning after his skin had had a good housecleaning that he caught her, and now they are married, and she has set in to preserving her complexion." "I came in here for my. son," put in a swpet-faced old. lady. "He has £0 go on a trip to China, and wanted me to ask you how he cculd best preserve his complexion. Some one has told him that inapy times it will be impossibl® for him to use the water." "Do you advise the use of a scrubbing brush lor the complexion?'! asked a pretty girl before the authority could answer the old lady. "Emphatically, no," answered the specialist, "A scrubbing brush is not fit to put on anybody's facts unless made of camel's hair, and then a very small one would cost $5, and even rich women don't want to pay that. To scrub the skin with a bristle or rubber brush does it more harm than good. It even irritates the cuticle to rub it much with the tips of one's fingers." "I'm going to own up," said a tall woman. "I've always used a face bleach. Of course nobody would ever dream that J* do, and I want to stop it, but can't. My face looks so horrible I'm afraid to leave it off. Do you think my complexion could possibly be restored?" "Certainly," answered the authority, "and what you've just said proves that I am right in holding that women never see themselves as others see them. There is not a woman in this room who could not tell at a glance that you are kalsomined, as I call it. Other people can tell that you use face bleach as readily as if you wore a sign across your chest announcing the fact. Nothing gets the skin in a more horrible condition but porsisfent effort will restore it." "Tell us just how you keep your skin looking like a young girl's?" urged a matron on the shady siae of 40. "Well, at night I wash it with rose, cream. I smear it on lightly all over the face, but I don't knead it in as the old colored cooks knead the buttermilk into their biscuit dough, and that's the way most women apply things to their faces. Then 1 take a soft wash cloth, dipped in tepid water, rub a little olive oil soap on it, and wash my face with that, gently rinsing the soap off with the cloth. I dry my face by softly patting it with a towel, and^finally' put on a little retiring cream. This cleanses the pores of dust, dirt, and impurities, and at the same tinle nourishes the skin while one sleeps, and it wards off wrinkles. In the morning I wash off what the retiring cream has caused to ooze out of the skin with rose cream and olive oil soap, and then apply a few drops of skin tonic by means of a moistened cotton cloth. Before this is quite dry I powder my face lightly, using a puff, and wipe it off with a soft handkerchief. Any soap, rag, or anything used about the face should not be used for anything else. A woman who takes care of her skin in this# way need have no fear of old. age. What do we care for the burden of years so long as we are left without wrinkles?"

THE COMING MAN.

A pair of very chubby legs,.. Incased in scarlet hose A pair of little stubby boots.

With rather doubtful toes A little kilt, a little coatCut as mother can— And lo! before us stands in statd

The future's "coming man."

His eyes, perchance will read the stars, And search their unknown ways Perchance the human heart and soul

Will open to their, gaze Perchance their keen and flashing glance Will be a nation's light— Those eyes that now are wistful bent

On some "big fellow's" kite.

is

impossible for women to see themselves as

othe»

see them. If we only had mir­

rors in which we women could see ourselves as we are and as others think we are too, most of us would be afraid to look in the glass. The day comes to

woman when she is conscious of a wish that she had taken care of her

Those hands—those little, busy hands— So sticky, small and brown: Those hands whose only mission seems

To pull all order down Who knows what hidden strength may be

Within their tiny clasp, Though now 'tis but a taffy stick In sturdy hold they grasp?

Ah, blessings on those little hands, Whose work is yet undone And blessings on those little feet

Whose race is yet unrun! And blessings on the little brain That has not learned to plan Whate'er the future holds In store,

God bless the "coming man."

A Dress Worth 850,000.

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The costliest dress in the world belongs to Mrs. Celia Wallace, a Chicago lady, and is worth $50,000. The principal material of this wonderful Costume is heavy duchesse satin of cerulean blue. The court train (two and a half yards long) and the full skirt are lined with heavy satin. The skirt is trimmed at the sides and front with two great shawls of Brussels point lace, a yard wide and three yards in length. It is adorned with diamond pendants, and the lace is held In place by diamond suuljjurats. Tbe lace cp.st JSi.000.

THE HOT WEATHER STAYS

ELEGANT AND LIGHT WEIGHT ARE THE FASHIQN FOR ARID SUiHt0 ,DAYS»

ARE iSHORT, HATE FEfJOfllS

Corset Makers Are Complainii That th« Love of Sport Will Shortly IlJiin the Corset Bosiuess.

A little zone of silk or satin with tho fewest possible bones Is the new corset. "For this decrease in the size and strength of stays," says an amiable French corsetiere, who boasts th&t<$sho imports and makes only for ladies of very High "degree, "your new American passion for the sport is directly, nppon* sible, madame, and the same thirt&js becoming, the cise Jn Paris. Why, 2'Should say the wheel and the golf club' ougfit to bear what we might call the blafivft, for let me tell you a little secret. The ladles who come into my shop for fitting and measures demand less and less whalebone, fewer steels than ever before, and some of them wish they needed to wea* no corset at all. Par example, look.here, if you please, and here," and the plyigp little woman laid two pair of stays sld« by side. The first was a shapely measuring seventeen inches from top' to, bottom of the front steel, compounded of the stiffest coutille and fifty choice whalebones, six side steels and ten steel bust braces three strips of satin ribbon and ten whalebones about six inches long composed the second. This," indicated the French woman, "was the ap« proved corset, according to the pattern of which we made thousands two years ago, and this is

WHAT WE ARE MAKING

for '07. Let me tell you, it is sad. but the old corset is done for. Your wretched sport in which you American women find so much pleasure is ruining' bur trade. There are just half the number of stout women to make for that we used to have. With golf and bicycling they are reducing themselves, and you see what they now demand. The perfect corset for this spring must be cool and short, very light, have few bbnes, and, above all, give freedom in the waist. Here is what we make. For the gbl course, a perfect baby of a corset, in which you count just twelve bones, and the length nine inches. Instead of coutfl, silk or satin, a cotton net doubled is the material we use. You would hardly call that a hand of steel in a glove of velvet, would you, especially as there are only two steels, instead of six, any longer use4 in our best corsets, and those must be very thin and very flexible. The idea of this mere belt, as you can see, is but to give the figure slight support, and leave hips, waist and arm free for the grand swing and the great twist necessary in using the clubs Sometimes instead of net we employ a kind of flat basket work, made of" narrow bobbin, and again we build the same sort of little corset out of strips of ribbon half a~n inch wide and running round and round the waist. Such stays

simple afternoon RECEPTION toilet still less bono arid" lacing is resort* ed to, and ordinarily slim women use th# little zone supporters entirely. Se» here!" and the proprietress of the shof so full of dainty wares, drew down square box and took out a contrivance of three rose-colored satin ribbons, caught together at intervals with clusters of. two whalebones, about 6Va inches long. By clasps hidden under rosettes of harrow ribbon, this zone of ribbons passing about the body clasps in front. Still more lovely were the zones made of white lace, braced with a few boner, and hooking together in the same way, while to wear

over

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WOOLEN UNDERWEAR

always does on a warm day. Besides, for delicate" persons of course they are much safer than the openwork ones. All the corsets I've been showing you herei however, are meant for stout women. Just come over here, and I'll show yfiu what the slender girls and matrons use. Here is a satin dress corset, eight inches long, cut in a deep in front and so sliced away on the hips that just a handful of bones and satin remains. There are one or two hboks in front, and i£ you will kindly observe tho big hook we fasten low down in front, under which the belts of petticoats catch, you will see it is made of gold, with tiny jewels sfct in it. Now for evening wear we have still another stay. It opens but once in the back, and there it laces, you see, like the bodice of a ball dress. Only the long pointed front is boned and that heavily, while on the hips, by slashing what we call the skirts of the corset, no confining pressure is made there. 'By means of the laces behind this corset can be made to fit every curve of the figure, and they have been introduced in behalf of the summer ball gowns that are cut on the early Victorian models. These all are the stays for occasions when more or less ceremony of dress must be observed. When at home in morning suit, or

-t

are

considered by

ladles of experience quite as nice for the wheel, for tennis and for ,riding as th(j' golf course. They, are cool and light ana pliable, yet we have patrons who -catch cold easy and adopt these, the new wool* en Corsets. They have no laces in the back, you see, and are woven of pure wool, in one piece, that measures only twelve inches across the waist line. That twelve inches, through the elasticity of tho wool, is easily drawn out to fold close about a 22 or 25-inch waist, and this woolen girdle hooks up in front in a perfectly orthodox fashion. The women like them because they are so easily put off and on. When off they spring back into the smallest compass, and they really do keep one cooler, as

"either of these delicate

stays were corset covers made of alternate bands of lace and ribbon, sleeveless, cut in a deep surplice in front, and gathered into a ribbon belt at the waist i|ne.

DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A QUEEN

Not Allowed Many of the Privileges o3 Her Humblest Subjects. The Queen is not allowed a great many privileges that the humblest of her subjects can boast. For instance, she is denied the pleasure of handling a newspaper of any kind. She does not read 9 letter from any person except from her own family, and no member of the royal family or household considers It etiquette to speak to her of any piece of news in any publication. AH the information th® queen is permitted to have must first be strained through the intellect of a man whose business it is to cut out from th« papers each day what he thinks she would like to know. These scraps 4ie fastens on a sfik sheet with a gold fringw all about it, &nd presents it to Her Majesty. Thi» silken sheet with gold fringe is Imperative for all communications t« the queen. The deprivations of the queen's life are illustrated by an incident which occurred not long ago. An Ameri* can lady sent Her Majesty an immense collection of flowers of the United States, pressed and mounted. The queen was delighted with the cofifectio'n, and kept it for three months, turning over the leaVeS frequently with treat delight. At the epd of that time, which was as long as she was allo.wed by etiquette tc Keep it, she had it sent back with a letter saying that, being Queen of Great Britain, she was not allowed to have any gifts, and that she parted with It with deep regret.

Just IJke a Woman.

A Chicago paper says that a man went home from business and found this notice in his wife's handwriting in a conspicuous place on the front door: "Dear Fred—I have gone over to mother's, and have hidden the key So that no one can find it but you. It is under the left lower corner of the door-mat!'

The following toast was pronounced at a fireman's dinner, and was received with groat applause: "The ladies their ejes kindle the onlv florae against which there no

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