THE SCHOOLS OF
, WESTERN CANADA
In Some of the Cities and Town the
School Buildings Cannot Accom
modate the Increasing Num
bers. One of the most Important factors
In the building of a new country Is
the attention that Is raid by the au
thorities to the education of the rising
generation. Fortunately for western
Canada, the settlement of that new
country began in such recent years
that it was able to lay a foundation
for this work, gained by the experi
ence of older countries. In this way
the very best Is the result. Through
out the entire country are to be seen
the most Improved style of architec
ture In school buildings. The cities
and towns vie with each other In the
efforts to secure the best of accom
modation and at the same time get
architectural lines that would appeal.
Sufficient to say that nowhere is there
the greater attention paid to elemen
tary and advanced education than in
western Canada. A report just to
band shows that, in Calgary, Alberta,
there are eighty teachers employed,
and the enrollment 4,228 pupils. In
the Province of Alberta there was a
total of 46,000 pupils attending schools
in 1909. The total enrollment for the
year in city, town and village schools
was 23,883, and the total in rural
schools was 23,165, There are In the
province 970 schools with 1,323 de
partments. At the close of 1909 there
was a total of 1,096 school districts In
the province. Great attention is paid
also to agricultural education. The
best uses of the soil and such other
matters as tend to make the agricul
ture less of a drudge and more of a
success are employed. When there
is the combination of good soil, splen
did climate and healthy and advanced
Ideas in the methods employed In
agriculture, we see accomplished the
results that have placed western Can
ada on its present high plane in tae
agricultural world. There is to be
found men of high standing in liter
ary spheres as well as in financial
circles who are carrying on farming,
not alone for the pleasure they de
rive but for the profit they secure.
Mr. Adler, a wide-awake business man
of New York, has a ranch near Strath
' more, Alberta. He is highly pleased
with his success the past year. He
cays:
"On July 25th we estimated our crop
at 6,000 bushels of wheat. A week
later we Increased our estimate to
12,000 bushels. A few days later we
again Increased our estimate, this
time to 18,000 bushels, but after har
vest in September we found we had
20,150 bushels. If that Isn't a record,
what Is?" he asked.
"This crop was made with practV
cally no moisture," he continued, "and
we now have a better opinion of the
fertility of Alberta lands than ever
and value our lands higher than we
ever did before."
i Mr. Adler, who has been on the
ranch for about a week, leaves for
New York Saturday.
' This gentleman Is conducting a farm
on a large scale, and has plenty of
means to develop it, and his may not
be taken as a fair case. ' There are,
though, instances of thousands who
have begun life on small farms Tn
Western Canada with but brains and
the determination over and above the
couple of hundred dollars in ready
money that they possessed, and today
are owners of large farms and hand
some Incomes, all tha result of their
efforts on land that was responsive to
the touch of the hand that held the
plow. Instances such as these can be
quoted if you will communicate with
the nearest Canadian government
agent, who will also mall you free de
scriptive literature.
Ignorance.
Laura Jean Libbey, discussing in
Brooklyn her appearance on the
stage, said:.
"I talk in my monologue about love,
marriage and the other interests of
the 'heart. On these subjects women,
especially young women, are strangely
Ignorant.
"They really make me think, you
know, of the little girl who was asked
by her teacher:
"'What can you tell us of Solo
mon?' "Solomon," replied the HtUe girl,
'was very fond of animals.'
"'And how, my dear,' said the
teacher, 'do you make that out?'
" 'Because,' answered the little
girl, 'the Bible says he had 600 porcu
pines.' The wealth of a man is the number
of things which he loves and blesses,
which he Is loved and blessed by.
Carlyle.
Praise is encouraging; It brings out
the best that is in a man and inspires
him to do his duty cheerfully and
faithfully. Honry Lee.
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PROGRESS o the
INERTIA OF WEALTH
Men Actually Becoming Tired of
Clipping Coupons.
PHASE OF MODERN PROBLEM
Absence of Responsibility In Second
Generation Probably to Blame for
Condition That May Well Be
Called Deplorable.
"The most tiresome Job I have to
do," said a certain wealthy gentle
man, on his way downtown yesterday
to clip his monthly coupons. He
actually resented a few hours' toil
with the scissors! or don't they clip
coupons with a scissors? and yet hfs
father laid the foundation of this
man's fortune by wielding for ten
hours a day an instrument very much
more wearying than a coupon-clipping
scissors.
In Justice to our complaining friend
it should be said that his distaste for
a task that to most of us would Beem
quite delectable was not due to physi
cal laziness, for he Is really very ac
tive and energetic, especially in chas
ing the perverse golf ball or the elu
sive fox or in following for many
weary hours the scent of game, and
be has, also Indeed added materially
to the treasures of his safety vault by
business enterprise of his own; but
what made cutting coupons a tiresome
and dreaded task to him was the
meanlnglessness of It all. He and his
treasure had become things apart,
there was no human relation between
them. He probably could not even re
ill the names of his bonds they
ere merely so much engraved paper
.o him.
Coupon-clipping ennui ii more com
mon than many realize. Men who do
not want to be anrioyed with watching
their investments, who are unwilling
to have any personal affiliation with
their own wealth in active operation
as working capital, who don't care t.o
own factories or houses, or farms, or
help build up enterprises, or to lend
their money and their personal expe
rience to others who could ust. both,
are pretty sure to live off coupons. In
time this Inertia of wealth without re
sponsibility even becomes so strong
that they hate the annoyance of own
ing and running a house and prefer
the colorless Inanity of a hotel, or at
best an apartment.
This shirking of responsibility and
regarding wealth, as a mere coupon
abstraction has a bad effect both on
the Individual and on the community.
Only a few generations ago the
For the Girl Who Works.
At first she allowed herself $5 a
week for food. The first two or three
expensive weeks of experimenting, of
buying perishable things in too large
quantities, of stocking up, and of 1 in
evitable wa6te, made her bills for food
exceed the amount she had set aside.
Then she began to decrease. At
the end of the sixth week she came
face to face with the astounding fact
that this new move was saving her
money.
Actually she was averaging under
1 4 a week for her food, and was being
better fed than she had ever been
since she came to the city. Her
breakfast consisted of fruit, toast or
reheated rolls, butter and coffee, with
now and then an egg.
She improvised a refrigerator for
the hot days by setting a pan con
taining her butter, milk and half a
cream cheese within another pan half
filled with water, and then covering
It with a cloth whose edges seeped in
the water and cooled all day long by
evaporation, The New Idea Woman's
Magazine.
To Clean Machine Belts.
Machine belt3 sometimes become so
saturated with oil that they will not
stay on the machine. Of all methods
this is probably the simplest for
cleansing the leather of oil and restor
ing its efficiency. Coll the belt In a
tub of sufficient size so there is some
space between the colls, then cover
with whiting. The whiting should
some in contact with the leather at
every point on Its Btirface, and if prop
erly covered in this fashion the belt
will soon be in good condition, for
the whiting will absorb the oil and re
store the texture of the surface. Be
fore being put back to use it should
be wiped clean.
Kick at
While success in business and suc
cess in medicine cannot be laid down
as a definite and exact science, yet the
experience of the successful business
man, like the experience of the doc
tor, is of wonderful value to the begin
ner.
So we ask Bill Success for a little
of his experience, and let htm point
out some of tbe best things to do and
some of the things which we should
avoid. Fairness, he tells us, Is a great
help in business. It is a good adver
tisement. If you want your boss to be
ralr to you be fair to him. If he docks
you 60 cents without explanation you
complain.
Yet the employe who Is paid so
nany dollars for so many hours' work
requently deducts a few mluutes each
'ay that really belong to the boss,
lany a youth says the boss Is unfair
nd holds him down. Before we will
Rlleve this we want to hear what tbe
oss says on the subject.
SOME THINGS THE BUSY WORKER IS DOING
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION
wealthy man was the serviceable
man; his property was held and ad
ministered by htm or his personal
stewards or by his family; today a
large part of the actual ownership of
wealth Is In people who feel no sense
of resnonslbllltv as to the actual labor
Pthat earns the coupon and who feel
and recognize no duties conected with
their wealth as part of the capital of
society. This effect of our tremen
dous corporate development, with its
wide diffusion of ownership and the
character of that ownership as reflect
ed in coupons and dividends, is a
phase of the corporation problem that
seems to have escaped most students.
and yet In its larger aspects it ma
well be the most important feature of
the problem.
The idle rich Is one class, but the
coupon-cutting class Is very much
larger, for almost every on who has
accumulated a few dollars belongs to
It, even our savings banks being for
the most part little more than Instru
mentalltties for the conversion of the
savings of their depositors into cou
pon bonds. Prior to the last century
the only private property of conse
quence consisted of lands and im
provements thereon, including equip
ment, serfs, live stock, etc. All such
property was held and administered
by personal contact, direct or indirect,
of the owner. , The laws of inherit
ance, primogeniture, etc., grew out of
this early character of property, and
the property relation socially consid
ered quite as much as out of any
sense of family affection.
Only a few years ago the young
man who Inherited a fortune found it
Invested in mills or lands or enter
prises which his father had built up
and which it was necessary to hold in
tact. The son stepped at once into
the responsibilities and human rela
tions of the wealth he Inherited. To
day he inherits a safe-deposit box.
Baltimore Sun.
Business Girl's Motto.
Neatness, accuracy and willingness
are the three graces of the office
world for which I will strive during
this new year.
I will be prompt and patient and
put my whole heart into my work.
I will not gossip about my fellow
clerks, but will try to like them and
work with them.
I will remember that the things
which I must do to earn my bread and
butter must come before pleasure, and
I will strive toward bigger and bet
ter things than I have done during the
last year.
For my work is my one monument
in this busy world.
INSURANCE
DEALING CHIEFLY ON UNEM
PLOYMENT R1SK8.
In
Justice They Can Be Called
More Speculative Than In
Any Other Form.
No
Insurance Is based upon statistics
that determine the frequency with
which a risk would be likely to avail
itself of the guarantee, writes Elmer
Roberts in Scribner's. No adequate
statistics concerning unemployment,
nor long- established systems for
premiums and indemnities, exist. It
has been affirmed that the need for in
surance might depend upon the in
sured person himself, and that the un
employed worknan could easily cause
himself to be dismissed, so that he
could receive money without work.
The objection has also been made that
In other forms of Insurance there can
be a restoration of the damage sus
tained, and that the remedy for un
employment ought to be work offered,
instead of payments for not working,
and that the question would Btlll be
open as to whether the Insured should
accept work that might be distasteful
to him. These objections are consid
ered today as having been disposed
of by reflections along this line:
Modern statistics of unemployment
are Imperfect, but life, fire, transport
and casualty insurances were begun
I without statistics and created them
only In the course of time. Even the
I imperfect statistics of unemployed to
day are more adequate as a basis
from which to work, Herr Doctor Jas-
I trow says, than the statistics were at
"Docking"
Moves on tbe checker board of busi
ness are made quickly, and you can
afford to be held down provided there
Is opportunity ahead. Tho boss has
his eye on his employees don't for
get that. He knows who is who. He
knows the fourflusher and the pro
ducer. He Is studying your case while
you are complaining you are held
down.
Keep Your Mental Grip.
Many people pass out of this plane
of conaclout-ness with sufficient vital
ity latent in tho billions of cells in
the body to restore them to life, if
life principle couid only be aroused,
says Orison Swett Mardcn in Success
Magazine. There are cafes in medical
history where patients have been ap
parently brought back from death,
even at the moment of impending dis
solution, by a relative or a physician
calling to them imperatively, vehem
ently, to return t life. Hut generally
WORLD
BROUGHT THEM LUCK
HUMOROUS INCIDENT THAT
PRE8AGED PROSPERITY.
Prosperous Merchant Dates Day of
Good Luck From Happening That
Then Caused Laughter.
A now prosperous Washington mer
chant recalls an incident in bis early
start in business which, slight as it
was, remains, he sayB, vividly in his
memory. He had been on the lookout
for customers in his little store during
the greater part of an exceedingly
dark and dismal day. Telling his
Juvenile assistant to fetch htm if nec
essary, he stepped across the street
to see an acquaintance, also a young
man who bad Just Btarted upon a mer
cantile career in a modest way.
The latter he found to be in the
same predicament as himself. He had
not had a customer all day, and his af
fairs generally, had of late been du
bious. After discussing this common
melancholy situation, the two friends
in adversity relapsed into a moody
silence, and stared out at the rain,
which still continued to pour down
"like heaven's wrath."
Suddenly the first mentioned mer
chant gave a start, as though he had
received a shock from an electric bat
tery. A tall individual, dripping with
moisture, had stepped into his estab
lishment. He was preparing to croBS
over, and see if this could be the long
looked for customer, when the tall
man came out and proceeded In his
direction. Entering the store, be dis
closed a funeral visage quite in keep
ing with his somber garb. '
"I beg your pardon, gentlemen," he
said in sepulchral tones, "but I rep
resent an establishment which makes
a specialty of furnishing mortuary
memorials at a very low rate, if or
dered at present. Now, you are young
men, it is true, but even in the event
of your not choosing to purchase a
tasteful tombstone for a relative, you
yourselves might care to take advan
tage of my very unusual offer "
The merchant says that both his
friend and he date their prosperity
from the good laugh they had at this
Juncture of the melancholy stranger's
announcement.
A Condition Deplored.
"Do you think a secret ballot pro
motes honesty in elections?"
"Can't say that It does," replied the
painfully practical politician. "The se
crecy of It tempts to many men
whom you have paid to Vwte for you
to go back on their words."
FACTS TOLD
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the time of organizing most of the
branches of existing Insurance. Tbe
objection that the beginning of the
benefits of insurance depends upon the
will of the insured person himself has
been answered by pointing out that
this applies likewise to liability Insur
ance, where bad faith in the person
Insured is possible.
8ucces.
Never talk or think of failure or ad
versity. Be determined io succeed,
and permit no thought or word to sug
gest anything else. No matter if
things today go wrong. This shall
also pass away. Tbe world Is your
friend, though It may seem al times
to be against you. The world seems
to be against you because you have
not met the world in the right way.
Change yourself. Be a friend to every'
body the whole world. Expect every'
body to be good to you, and desire
constantly to be of real service to
man. And ere long fate will change.
Believe that everybody is against you,
and you rub them all the wrong way,
Know that the true side of mankind
Is a true friend to every aspiring soul,
and then place yourself In touch with
the ideal in man; meet only his bet
ter side, and your life, as well as the
life of the world, is made richer there.
by. Never think nor apeak of failure
nor adversity. Think success, speak
success, breathe success, attract sue
cess, live success, and be saturated
through and through with absolute
faith in your own success. Believe
that the world Is for you, that noth
lug Is against you; and so your faith
is, so shall it be unto you. Eternal
Progress.
the victim's conviction that he cannot
get well and that he must die para
lyzes and destroys the disease-resist
ing power of tho body, so that there
Is nothing to check the malady, which
may be fatal only because of the loss
of fulth and the patient's conviction
that he cannot recover,
Thoroughness.
Everywhere thoroughness Is rated
high. All lines of work require it. It
la a quality that employers need most
urgently. It is absolutely essential
to successful business. A business
man can't afford to Jeopard his bus!
ricss by placing It in the hands of the
girl who half does her work. He
hhows that the Injurious results o
neglect, forgetfulness or indlfforencf
may be far reaching.
Drawing with Ruling Pen.
The easiest way to draw a wavy
line with a ruling pen is to use the
edn of a coarse toothed comb 1
which the teth are fairly stiff. Th
pen should be drawn fairly rapidly to
make a smooth undulation In the line.
OR THE CITY BEAUTIFUL
Artlitlo Wave Sweeping Clvlliiatlon
to More Beautiful Realitation
In City Building.
An exhibition at the Royal Acad
emy, London. Illustrate : concretely
and impressively the universal atten
tion that is being given to tho matter
of planning the growth of cities and
towns upon both scientific and artis
tic principles. Not alone in what are
regarded as the more progressive
countries of Europe Is there bolng
manifested a purpose to lay out the
suburban growth of clti's upon care
fully devised and supervised plans.
but even Turkey and Persia have
caught something of the artistic wave
that is sweeping civilization to a bet
ter and more beautiful realization In
ity building.
An idealization that Is, In showing
on paper what the Ideal city should be
the drawings of a few American
architects which are on display at the
Royal Academy are concededly lu ad-
ance of any similar exhibit by any
f the European architects or city
planners. These American plans,
however, which have been drawn with
reference to certain American cities
re dreams merely dreams that may
never come true, because tn tbe
realization they would entail a tear
ing down and building over on a scale
of magnitude that is apparently Im
practicable. While the I'nlted States
makes the most Impressive showing
In the history of city building, it is
Germany that shows the best mate
rialization of artistic and scientific
ideals.
While we are talking on this side
of the Atlantic about a glorified Bal
timore or a paradisical Chicago, the
Germans are doing some real glorify
ing in shaping not only suburban
growth of their Important cities, but
in rearranging the central business
areas and the older residential sec
tions. The German exhibit at the
Royal Academy illustrative of modern
city building occupies seven galleries,
and what has been accomplished in
scores of German towns and cities is
set forth by maps, drawings and in
genious models. During the past
forty years German cities that bad
been previously for two or three cen
turies at a standstill stage of popu
lation growth have doubted, and in
some instances increased threefold In
population. In such cities there are
new town and old town section, but
in many Instances the older sections
have been so vastly reformed that
the early layouts, or, rather, lack of
layouts, have been lost in the modi
fications.
SPEND MONEY IN BOOSTING
Towns and States Carry Extensive
Campaign of Advertising Their
Resources.
Spokane, Wash., laid out more than
$100,000 last year holding herself tip to
the public gaze; Memphis expects to
spend $25,000 this year for the same
purpose; St. Paul, $18,000; Chicago,
with a "Booster club" of 3,000 hustlers,
pays an advertising manager a salary
of $10,000 a year and does not conBld
er that she really needs much boosting
either.
The advertising bills of the city of
New York during the last six years
aggregated a trifle under five millions
of dollars, says Business. Denver, Des
Moines. Detroit, Kansas City, Mo.; St.
Louis, Toledo, Minneapolis, Montgonv
ery, Ala.; Buffalo, Oklahoma City, To
peka and Wichita, Kan.; Indianapolis,
New Orleans, Rochester, Cleveland
one might fill a page with a list of the
cities that are boosting and booming
themselves systematically and reso
itttely, sn laying
ooln To" do it
out their good, hard
The Oreata Georgia association.
with a meroWthlp of nearly 20,000, is
at work rahrtec $200,000 to be used in
exploiting ts state and expects to es
tablish permanent advertising head
quarters tn any cities throughout the
country, Uiawteslppl is getting busy
with a somewhat similar plan; 80 Ne
braska newspapers have pledged th.eu
Belves to methodically fipToit 'their
commonwealth and, to raise $25,000
within the coming year wltrL 'which to
do the work; the Northe;rn, Pacific
Railway company has Jiibv put a force
of 30 writers and publicity men to
work on a campaign of advertising for
Oregon.
Wtrk of Landscape Architects
, The quest after qualntness, original
ity and harmony Is pursued In, elites
by the landscape architects. Ths first
number of Its official quarterly maga
zine, Landscape Architecture, has been
iBsued by the American Society of
Landscape Architects. It "prints a let
ter from President Emeritus Eliot of
Harvard, hailing Its appearance as a
"sign of the sound development of the
new profession of landscape architec
ture," which embraces city planning,
arrangement of formal courts, play
grounds and gardens in dense cities,
and "every variety at decoration for
bouse lots, sites of public buildings,
station grounds and factory yards." All
these structures may bo quaint and dig
nified, as well as the broad open spaces
of parks and forests.
By all means lft us encourago (he
modern developments of quaintness io
cities.
Quick-Growing Trees Planted.
Trees which will grow large enough
In five or ten years to affurd the pedes
trian shelter from the hot rays of the
sun dining the summer mouths have
beeu planted around the department
of tho interior building and also along
the south sldo of F street northwest
between Seventh ami Ninth streets.
They are fast growing shade trees
such as are planted In all parts of the
rcti.lentlal sections. Thy will. It Is
believed, do much to keep the side
walk in their vicinity cooler than has
been the case during the hot days.
Good Time Just Now
to Replenish That
Depleted Wardrobe
THE first clothes event of the New
Year is not a change of fashion,
but the crucial moment for the
purchase of clothes at economies.
Unfortunately for the merchants
many womon plan for the replenish
ing of their wardrobes at this season
when prices are diminished.
Especially American women are
thus clothes wise. Such women are
not only financiers, but are geniuses,
therefore they deserve not only the
admiration of others loss knowing
but ti.clr husbands, writes Marlon
Morris in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
However, a woman must be convers
ant with values to be able to reap a
harvest of economies. The woman
who does not, and also the one who
has no foresight about styles may be
favorably compared with the man who
buy a "gold brick."
This year tho knowing woman can
easily save more money than ever be
fore. Why?
Prices Must Be Cut.
Foi several weeks the newspapers
have published many bargain sales of
women's clothes this signifies that
the market Is crowdod and that the
pressure was too great lo hold out un
til now. During December, women
gave little thought to any shopping
except for Christmas, so the market
was but little relieved. Now comes
the onslaught! And It will be the
most drastic cut of prices In years.
To explain the reason I must turn the
calendar back more than six months.
Iast May and the beginning of June
were quite cool and women did not
buy summer clothes until the weather
changed. As a result, many stores
held back their orders and that pre
vented the makers from starting on
their autumn models. Finally when
they did start, labor troubles occurred
throughout the country and every
thing stopped until the early autumn.
Unfortunately, the warm weather
lasted until later than usual. When-
the manufacturers started on their
winter work they hurried to make up
for lost, time, thinking that the women
who usually bought early would buy
later. However, their calculations
were overestimated and now the mar
ket Is flooded with some of the pret
tiest attire fashion has created in
many seasons. So now there are
dozens of advantageous opportunities
heretofore unknown even to the
clothes-wise woman.
Because a woman can always afford
to have several tailored suits espe
cially when she Is able to get the ex
tra one or two at greatly reduced
Simple
rHE first Is Sslmple little bodice
of caBhtare, to match the skl-
with hlch It la worn: it Is. .
kimono K'nd has a yoke of Un to
matchv embrolfored with doss silk;
this in carried, down, outr,fde of Bleev
to cuff, whiih is of fititln. Guipure
lace la usod for the fcmall yoke and
undor-aleeves.
"Mat? rUvavretsulred: 1 yard cashmere
'46 lnohes wljde, yard satin 2C
Inches wide. 1, yard lace 18 Inches
wide.
Th second would look well in
sprigged nlnon made up over a foun
dation of satin; the slight fulness at
neck la drawn into a narrow satin or
velvet band; bquare of embroidered
satin are arranged at back and front.
Long coats of watered moire silk
are made in Paris tight fitting, en
veloping the wearer from head to foot.
Heavy thread and metal laces are
pretty features of the winter hats de
signed to wear with dressy clothes.
For evening wear gold or silver
tullo turbaus are seen with tall
aigrettes or groups of marabout feath
ers. Ecrusso levant Is the name given to
that flno grain leuther of high finish
that is so popular for purses and
bag.
Chains aro no longer lu evidence
for tho black velvet bags; all have
long bilk cords by which to swing
them from tho arm.
Huge sailor or round collars of fur
or fum y fubrlcs mark the 1911 even
ing coat, and bunds of fur are at the
foot of many.
Fine threads, fine dots, fine meshes
and a general delicacy of structure
prices. When selecting a suit in a re
duction sale it is not wise to choose
any kind but one that Is plainly tail
ored and then not extreme. For In
stance, it will be Just so much money
thrown away to purchase a suit with
a hobble skirt, as that mode is passe.
Neither Is It wise to select a novelty
fabrto that has been the craze of the
hour. Broadcloth, cheviot, conserva
tive, suitings, velvet and velveteen
will prove good Investmentsespe
cially the three first mentioned, as
they can be comfoitably worn in the
spring. The only time It la advisable
to select a rather fanciful suit Is when
one is fortunate In securing an Im
ported model at about half price be
cause nine chances out of ten the
style will be in general vogue next
season.
Topcoat Is Never Amiss.
As I know of no garment that gives
so much comfort and pleasure as a
topcoat, I urgently advise every wom
an to have at least one. And now Is
her chance to get It, as this has been
decidedly a coat season and there Is
certain to be a surplus. Whether one
has a motor or not, there Is a satisfac
tion In having a top coat ready for
that unexpected trip; or for one when
traveling and shopping. If one antici
pates an European trip in the spring
or summer, now is the time to get a
steamer coat. Undoubtedly the most
charming topcoats in the history of
fashion will be sacrificed In spits of
their elegant sturdy tweed and home
spun fabrics. I should also advise one
to take advantage of lowered prices
on seal plush coats as these in the
fine Imported qualities quite rival Hud
son seal, and besides they are certain
to be in style next season.
Advisability of Buying Furs.
Even though one may not have
urgent need for a set of furs or a fur
coat, I am sure that the purchase of
either will prove an excellent invest
ment. But In doing so, only purchase
a staple fur. Do not think of buying
either raccoon or opossum, as these
furs have been popularised this setv
son and as merely a fur, neither is
worth much. I should certainly rec
ommend buying lynx, as this fur Is
not always modish, but is rapidly be
coming extinct this season there
were only J, 400 lynx animals to fill
the demand. However, do not buy a
fur that Is called "Russian lynx," as
that is only a Russian lynx cat gen
uine lynx comes from Alaska. Skunk,
mink, ermine, genuine fox, Hudson
seal, moleskin and sable, of course,
will be advisable selections.
Bodices
also on Bholders and sleeves; thee
arts finished off with little satin bands.
Materials required: 1 yard nlnon
42 Indies wide. IV, yard satin, I
squares offembroidery.
For the third some such material as
cashmere, crepon or popllnette might
be used. The fastening is at the baok,
but the trimming of embroidered gal
loon is so arranged that it gives the
appearance of side fastening.
The collar and bands round the
over-sleeves are bound with silk. The
yoke and under-sleeves are of piece
lace.
Materials required: 1V4 yard cash
mere, yard silk on the cross, 2
yards galloon) 1 yard lace 18 Inches
wide.
nnd design are predominating fea
tures of the new veils.
To Renovate Velvet. '
Velvet Is being so much worn this
season that; a hint on how to renovate
It may not come amiss.
The velvet should, first of all, be
stretched, pile Bide upward, over the
steam from a kettle of boiling water.
As the steam begins to rise, get some
one to brush up the pile briskly with
a stiff brush. Then spread out flat to
dry, and afterward brush lightly again.
wnen me material has ben worn a
u s very soiled sponge
ii ufciniy wun Denzme.
AutA R nnnat I... ri
An automobile bonnet for a babla
a novelty. The headgear Is sugai'toaf
In shape and la fashioned from blue
fcilk In a mass of shirring, flolshed
with a band of palelue marabou.
An InchJvlde elastic is passed under
the youngster's chin, and in this way
the hat is held close to the head. The
rubber is concealed in tbe casing of,
pale blue silk shirring.