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f - i 1 4 "5 I, .1 r " 1 "r4 'j 4 FATAL OH AFTER V. (Continued. They haI n-aehed the end of the plat form liy this time, passing th carl and kin companion on the way. The latter glanced at them quickly, then averted bis yes so quickly, and a slight angry look Tossed his face. Yet they were a hand some couple, pleasant to look npon and well suited to each other Lord Keith tail, stalwart, graceful, in his tweed traveling ait; the girl slender and charming in her simple gray ciiwa; and. if they were east agreeable in Mr. Siuclujr's fight, many n admiring glance followed them, as they sauntered slowly up and down, the young man's head bent low toward Mian Matton's, his blue eyes rarely leaving ber beautiful profile. My ixior roses!" said Miss Hatton soft ly. "They are drooping for want of wat r, the jtoor. pretty things! Are they not fragrant V" "Very fragrant; but I am inclined to he Jealous of them." answered the young nan. significantly. "Jealous of then; -why?" in a tone of urprise. "As to what?" As toforgive me- the donor of your Keti." Sbe turned her eyes to his face with a Sjuiek look of questioning surprise. "The donor of my dowers?" she said; and then she smiled. "Was it no; from you they came?" she asked, 'I regret lo have to answer, 'No.'" he replied, a shadow of regret clouding his frank Ww eye. "'It wait not you?" she said quickly. Then 1 have been grateful to the wrong person all the day. The rose have been uch a pleasure to hie! Are, you Mire yon slid not send them. Lord Keith?" ( haite sure. Who brought ! hern to won .' t "Thev were on the table of the saloon," ie Teiilied slowly "Some one had left tbem there for me." A quick, angry Bush came into the blue tyes again, and Lord Keith bit his lip with vexation. WiweTer gent them, ! am very grote itt&," said, ami raised the rose again lo her face, inhaling their fragrance and weetuess. It wan-someone who kiiuws my tastes well," he added, smiling. love roses." ' JLord Keith's blue eye darkened with lin.;J'ii e: he who was so anxious to pk'a&e her, ought to have renicmisTeU tli at t "IViuit a strange group that is yonder." fce observed, with.au effort, but speaking in bis usual light rone; "and how utimis- rttltalily their profession is stamped uo:i tthosn." "V,hi group?" Barbara asiiej. ra iher I ilBi)giii;l!y. She was bejrinmu lo weary I -f tU- ETtmf railwsv station and M l.er! jre;ty eolor had faded. "That group t the left of those numer- -us Ymperfahi in whsrh you keep rhe soiled jflfres and tumbled dresses which are the 4uy rcmuauTs of a London season." he !'( red, laugiiingiy. "l;o you see them four men and three is omen f ( "'yes, I see iljcin," she replied, glancing 'at them ' !i.it a look of indifferent dis dain. S li somewb.''.t shabbily attired Vfoit.i were lnath her notice. "To what . -ii..i...j-t Vl oicj-sion (lo you suppose tooj neiong t Tiii dramatic." he answered, the Eioallest doubt." without ! S I f.fliider if we are n remain here all j Bight ;" Barbara said impatiently, break- tog in upon his speech, 'it is too provok- Ijjjji" 1 . Harbara looked round. The train hud J voute into the station, two or three pa- engerk liad alighled, and most ot the s-o- le aseToted on the platform hurried toward the carriages. Among the hor ryiug groups was that which had at tracted Iird Keith's attention. Barbara looked at them, and a contemptuous ex profwion crossed her face as she watched the showily dressed, sloveniy women, who eemed just then to exercise a strange fas cination for her. "Hallo where's Kobsoii?" one of the party askpd, halting just beside her. "He'll miss the train! Where did he go?" "Into the waiting room," the pretty, fellow haired girl answered as she went ii swiftly. "Ah. there he ir The train was a full one, and there was onie difficulty in finding places. Bar bara Hatton stood motiouie, holding her roses to her llw. Suddenly the (lowers fell from ber hand on to the dusty plat form. Xbe made no movement to pick them up. but stood staring helplessly be fore rhor. Iord Keith's attention was oc cupied by a poor woman whom he was fsimting viitb kindly courtesy to find a real for herself and her little child, and in another moment, the roses might have been trampled nnder foot had not a gentle (Man, in passing, lifted them. anil, with a light how. placed them in Miss Hatton' trembling hand. Their eyes met for a Moment as her lip murmured a worA of thanks. When, a minute later, Ixird Keitu re turned to ber side, Barbara's face nas colorless: and. when he bent toward tier karriedly, asking if she were ill, she look ed at him with blind. nnscVlng eyes, then rsnsed herself with a little start, "III? No: there is nothing the matter With m; but I am tirpd and Is that the carriage? Mh. ! am so glsdT "Barbara." the earl said, quickly, just U tkrjr were about to drive away, "have yaw loat your flowers?" 1t dm- not matter." she answered. "I dja'qot want tbem: they were fading." Ckw had rteanmed her graeefnl, langnld fMatMf Bow, foi her heart ttbrobbed heav t J, aasl her liM were quite steady under ' ( tntf avosr of her toil. The roses. tMr mcMaee and iarelineas, re. r 4 w)utt aht whm rain have forgot ' X3 W lufBB to law and to for- ' ' j Or had aroatrht to her a echo of a inttM s& trfefce) ti psjt froaa her for f t. C i k4 sft roe healnd- Y t " Mr; MM sssmartaa tatf it i aiJ -v; w. i.i mm WEBBl. Bv Lottie Braiam. delayed Ixri Elsdale's horses on their road from the castle, and it was but a short quarter of an hour that Barbara llatton had been detained at Stourion Station; yet that trifling accident and the tihort delay it caused changed her whole life in the time to come. 'HATTER VI. For two years Lord Klsdale and hid niere had traveled in foreign lauds, and at the end of that time they had returned to Knglaud. Mis Hatton had been pre sented, and had made her debut in the great world of rank and fashion, where she bad at om-e taken her place as a queen of beauty, aud re-eived as much homage and adulation as even she could wish. The touch of mystery surrounding her early lift added to Barbara Hatton' suc cess, in society. Thus!be girl was receiv ed with open arms in London society; and in her triumphs she forgot that these things had not been always hers. That she. Lord Elsdale' heiress, clad in purple and fine linen, should have once owed her daily bread to charity was a thought that, when it came to her which was but rare lymade her cheeks burn like lire, and the heavy black lashes droop over the proud dark eyes. And yet the thought had been with her during the past night; and iu the darkness she had hidden her face in the cambric and lae of her pil lnws, ashamed to her inmost soul of the base disloyalty of which she felt herself guilt j. The shamed thought bad lingered with her during her toilet that morning, and il had thade her even more distant than was her wont to ber maid as she dressed her: and through all her reserve she hud vaguely wondered what the woman would say if she knew that her mistress was the child of a provincial actress such a woman perhaps as the painted women she had seen at Stourton Station on the preceding day. But in the stately old hall, surrounded by so inauy signs of greatness and wealth, these thoughts vanished: all ber old dis dain ai;-.t ' ; r returned, the pretty head was icUii even more proudly than usual as she stood at the foot of the great staircase in her white gown, the old Flem ish lace at her neck stirred by the quick ened heating of her heart. As she stood in the subdued light of the rt"x unll-upon the marble Hoor of whii-b, here and there, large bear-skin rugs were thrown subdued even on a summer sun lit day, and almost somber now that the skies without were lowering and overcast, her uncle's secretary came toward ber. "His lordship will be engaged until mid day," he said, speaking with the slight constraint which was always noticeable in his manner to his employer's beautiful i niece: "but he wished me to say that Mrs. l airfax will attend you, if you care to go over the castle." "Thank you: I will send for her," .Miss Hatton returned, quietly. Mrs. Fairfax, with admiration express ing itself in every glance of her kh:ifiy eyes, on every fi-aiure of her homely face, was delighted to be the first to introduce I Miss Hatton to the beauties of her old I home. From the gn nt hall they passed I """'racing itu its silver moPbi.gs au6 bnumufi and the priceless trcisiiriHi of art in its cabinets, and next into ttie dining ro..m, v.itli its sncjiie gold and silver plate and Limoges bowls and dishes, and the ninny jester sitting rooms ami boudoirs; and then they wept tip to the picture gallery, htiog with deud-and-goiie llations. whose eyes seemed lo follow the benntiful girl who moved slow ly down bctwi-eti them, pausing here and there as some piitured face struck her. And she paused and lingered before the portrait of a fair-hairt d, gray-eyed girl clad in the shining satin aud filmy luce "f n''r "' 'i'ng dress. "How beautiful,'" Barbara exclaimed eagerly: and Mrs. Fairfax g.ive her a kimi'y glum e a she told her that the si trait was thu: of the present earl's iirst ife. who had died at ber son's birth. "I must have b. ti a terrible bluw to Fm le Norman." Barbara ohwrved. "His lordship never really re-overe.l from it. Miss Barbara." Mrs. Fairfax said, somewhat tremulotisiy. "For many yenrs the sight of the poor young lord was unbearable to him. Indeed I sum,, times think that he never felt like a fath er to him uutii they brought him home dead." "Ah. that was terrible:" said Barbara, with a catch in her breath. "He met with an accident, did he not?" "He was killed In a rat) nay accident. Miss Hatton." " Will yon tell me about il, Mrs. Fair fax? I know so little of the family his tory. I it true that he and my uncle were not on very good terms just then?" "It is true. I am sorry to say, Miss Barbara ." ",nd was the cause of the quarrel a girl in the village?" "I have understood so, Miss Barbara." "Who was she?" "The village schoolmaster's daughter." Barbara elevated ber brows, while her lip curled with a slight touch of disdain. "Was she so very beautiful?" she ask ed, negligently. .Mrs. Fairfax looked at the girl's face before her ere she answered: "Khe was not beautiful she was very pretty. Miss Barbara." "And he was reaily in love with ber?" "He thought he was. ma'am," Mrs. Fairfax answered gravely, wishing this imMrious young lady would cease the questioning which revived such sad mem ories: it painedthe kindly woman wbo had loved him to touch on the unhappy story. "It was just an infatuation. Miss Barbara." "Tell me all about it. Mr. Fairfax. I have so often wished to hear." "There la but title to tell. Miss Bar bara." ahe answered. "He bad some strange notions, had the young lord he used to call himself a Itadical; and be even thought he could persuade the earl to consent to a marriage betweea them Lord Hatton was bnt a lad, yon know, at the time, Mia Barbara," ahe added apol ogetically. "He might have known that such a marriage waa Impossible. Ilia lordship was justly angry, a ad, U bt spoke more bitterly, and showed more anger tbaa be need ha done, It wa because the earl 't a ten proad man. My own lady, bta kwdeblp'i Brat wife, waa a dak daagbter." Hid Lord Hstfoa ptrltr "I neter kaew what pamed, lilaa Bate hata-M mm did. Thar na Uch warda ! r It . "I!1S!! I'll J .i. J : si'Mi- ro.ru, m.i! -:i ' Wtiy. M ti l i -fl': illl I r.t d th.i hi- .;.! !.... '. .1 M h.m in my , vi ry i a ll', jour htd-1 ' Krms ulii'i) lie u;i .111 tl;' I:m IS. r- L;ira, and loved h.iu as I nill.t hive done a sun of toy unii-aml iiis voice und.-d w!n- husky. I i-k i Lita when he was coming bai k. ami he i-nulied in a sad kind of v. jiy, and said he did uot k iow: and the rext d:y, Miss ISiirbnra. tftey brought him home ! ad crushed out of all recognition-lj myself would not have recog nized him." "Whose picture hung there, Mrs. Fair fax?" Larbara aski d. pointing to the empty panel. "The earl's ebb st son, .Miss RfirHra." "Where is it now?" Barbara queried, curious to see what manner of man it was who had deemed the world well lost for the sake of a low born woman s love. "It hangs in the boudoir where her lady ship always sat. Miss Barliara. No one enters the room but his lordship and my self. Kverything has been left a it was thirty years ago." The musing gravity in Barbara's dark eyes deepened. It seemed so strange to her that her proud, cold uncle should hide in his heart such a pretty, tender romatice as this. cn A PTE It VII. "Von quite understand me, Barbara?" "I cannot fail to do so. Fncle Norman; you have been sullicb nlly explicit" Both voices were proud; but perhaps of the two Barbara's was the prouder as she stood opiHigite to the earl in the library at the castle. . It was late autumn: the earl's reading lamp was burning on his writing table, and the blazing wood fire on the hearth wn throning a ruddy glare over the room, with its carved bookcases and great chairs ttpho'stered in embocsed vel vet, and upon the tawny fold of Bar bara's tea gown as she stood, her charm ing dark head held haits'htily erect, but with her ihirk lashes downcast, hiding her proud, angry ryes. Iord Klsdule's displeased face softened as he looked at her- at the beautiful girl ho had brought bark to him some of his own youth and hope, "Then I need not detain you from your guests," he said, seating himself at his table. "Perhaps I have already tres passed too inui b upon your rime." "1 have been here exactly fifteen min utes," the young girl responded, quietly: "and my guests those of them who are not asleep can amuse themselves with out me. Before I return to tberu. fuele Norman, will you not show me tlx? btter of which yon have just spoken?" "To what eud?" he asked, glancing up at her. "Vou will remember that, when I decided to return to Knglaud. I feared j that this would happen that, hearing of your residence here, they'would enb-jvor to renew their old acquaintance with yuu, and " "Vou cannot tell that they have done so," she interrupted. "What else can lie desired by the letter which Mr. Sinclair fortunately gTive to me instead " "Mr. Sinclair has taken a great lib erty '" "By fulfilling my directions?" "The letter was addressed tq me." Bar bara eaid. fnlteriug a little, .ir "In a handwriting which he ft-cogniz-ed." Lord K.'sdale commented. "How should he recognize it?" Rnrbara asked quickly. "He has never seen it before." "Von are mi-lnken: I showed it to him, desiring bin; to notice it." "Bur" Burba ru's Lirk eye went quick ly to his face "you have held no com munication with The carl averted hi angry eyes ere he answered. . "Pardon me." he said coldly "one com munication passed betweea us. Lseut Mr. Mr. what is this iwrson'a rut me? a check, ntin he returned it to me torn across and Is anything the matter. Barbara?" he asked suddenly, looking up at her ns she uttered a faint little cry. Are vou ill? Shall I send for your maid or for Mrs. Fairfax?" 'Vou sent him a check!" the girl gasp ed, n itii quivering lips. 'Certainly why not .' I;d you think I was willing to lie and to let you lie under such an obligation i a low-born acior? He returned it. and I shall uot readily for get that insult." "Of course he returned it" Barluira cried, bitterly, her face death-like in its pallor. "The debt I owe him was one no iitiiouut of money could rcjiay. Hid yoti not feel shame iu offering it? The insult was yours, not bis. Uncle .Norman." "Von speak foolishly, and in error," be rejoined, with chill displeasure. "The difference ill our wsltions is so wide; " "That it might have made you more con siderate!" she broke in passionately. "At- tor as he is. he is a true gentleman. Un cle Norman. I--t me have the letter, i'n cle Norman; they may be ill or ii) trou ble; aud they were au good so good to me!" She held out her hands to him in eager entreaty, her face beautiful iu its plead ing and Bgilatiou. She was not ail heart less, this lovely girl who had so easily learued a lesson of worldlincss and ambi tion. As the enrl hesitated, glancing from ber to the letter iu hi baud, she went on earnestly: "I have olwyed you only too well until now, Uncle Norman. I have put my wst ay so easily that the thought of it make me ashamed of myself; I have given them scarcely a thought for all their love and care; and that they write at all, believing me to lie the base thing I am, must show bow gisxl and forgiving they are." "Thia ia childish, my dear BsrUra," the earl aaid, in a vexed tone. "I hoped that in your position you will attain a proud er position ere long yon would learn the folly of such neaknes. Keith would " "Oespise me thoroughly if be knew the truth," she broke in bitterly. "Selfish, base ingratitude is bardly a quality to be desired in a wife, if be ha any thought of making me such." "Any thought r the earl echoed. "You are jHklng wildly. Barbara. It 1 now three week alace Evererd acked my per mission to pay hi addrewe to yon. If he ha not spoken to you, it ia almply becauae you give him no opportunity, not because be i hesitating about that which might make other men hesitate." Barbara fianced at hiia, bar color changing. "Yoa bar told blmT aba tjaeried faintly. "Yea, I hare told him-I told bin wtoa he spoke to me, Barbara, I eoafratalaat yoa heartily oa the h yoa bar waa." At h apofca, ha stretched oat kla tfbJu t i t'l to l.er n il. H e. i ,ic goi I l"ie:s ;i,to it; but there nil no pin a:.-. i ring smile on her lips. "You will show me the letter?" she ur'cd. and with little gesture of annoy anee Iird F.i-lnle dnpjied her baud. "It is impossible that you should hold any intercourse with these people," be res' iind"! impatiently. "They would hold none with me," ahe , answered bitterly. "It would not ap-nr so," the earl re niarked. sicmfii-nntly, glsneing at the let ter He held in his left hand, hesitating whether he should give it to her or not. "You will let me have it. Uncle Nor man?" Barlra pleaded, with a humility foreign to ber. "On condition that you do not answer It." he returned. "I give you my promise." the girl said hastily; "I have given you no reason to suppose thflt I would brenk'it." Standing in the ruddy firelight. Bar bara opened the envelope. The sheet of paper h contained was ut a lettJ-r: it bore the date of the previous dsy. and these words ouly "Many happy returns of the day." "I could not answer It even if I wished to do so." she said, huskily, holding the paper toward him. "There is no address." The ear! glanced at it i-areieswly. "It apiiears to me that their friendship would be better shown by allowing you to forget what cannot be very pleasant to remember," be returned. "You will lie happier wben you do so. Barbara. And now I will detain you no longer." He rose and held the door ojHn for her with stately, old-world courtesy, graceful, especially, from a man of his years and iu his posiikm to a girl iu hers; aud Bar bara smiied slightly as she isissed out of the library, and the heavy portiere fell behind ber. (To be continued.) lypoi-raphlca! Hrrors Tjiioirrai-Uicfll error soineilmefi cause really serious trouble and annoy ance. On i: titer Decisions they are fsitn- ply amusing. Some years ago au advertisement of a political meeting was Insertt'd Jo a PhilmU Ijihla paper. The advertisement was ititetiiled to announce that a well known lender would address "the m:iss" that evening. Owing to the misplacement of a "space," however, the public of Philadelphia was inform ed that the address would be delivered to "them iiHxca at National Hall." A religious ptiper culled the Gospel Banner, which Ih published at Augusta, Me., once attracted attention through the nrat.k of a printer, wbo transposed two words of its motto, so that it read: "In the name of our God we will up net our baiiuer." The ihiiIksIou pt a comma was the cause of a suit for lllnd brought against a Western newspaper by the lnveutor of a patent medicine. A testimonial to the worth of bis cotnioiml was Insert ed in the paper, and read an follows: "I now find myself completely cured, after being brought to the rery.gatea of ib aili by having taken only five bot tles of your tnedit Inc." The comma, which should have come after i tii' word "death." wit unnoticed by the couipoi-itor. Youth's Compan ion. The Vn,!c"'i Gold Sp on. A curious Ktory is told by Lady Mid illeion of how one of giieen Victoria' smallest gold spoons waa lost and found. A iHtiy attended a state ball in a dress, the aklrt of which waa arranged In rtemendlflllar pleats in front, stitch ed across at Intervals, and unknown to ber, a gold teaspoon got lodged at (sup per In ono of these receptacles. Of course there waa one xpoon missing aft er the ball, and the fact caused great perturbation to the oHIHal In charge of the gold plate. The next (spring the lady went to a drawing room In the dress ahe had worn at the atate ball, aud an she bent low before Her Majesty, the pleats of h:-r skirt expanded, fliitl the gold spoon fell at the queen's feet! Youth's Com panion. The Human Hide of Bismarck. No greater contrast could possibly be IinaiflUM tbau that which existed be tween the Bismarck of private life and the Bismarck of politic. "Id the borne circle," writes a correspondent, wbt knew him well, "he was perfectly charming, easy going and good na Mir ed. He was passionately fond of chil dren, aud I have aeen ulna over and over again have a game with th' little ones of hi gardener, who were very familiar with ului. and would not hea llaie to climb upon hi knee. Once, when hi gardener's llule girl died, the great statesman went to condole with hlrn. He waa dreadfully upset, and while holding the poor father' hand, bura into lwr, for he waa very fond of the chJld.-London Chronicle. A Herlea of Coincidence. 8uiemtitlut people will regard th following aa ometlilng more than a re markable aerba of coincidence. Twelve month agt. laat April two ala-ter mar ried two brother cm the same day ami at Ibe ame church. A couple of moot ha alnce each ter gave birth to a female child on the aatue day. The children recelaed ttoe uine tmtnea and wera chriatctxd by the wme clergyman. Sub acqueMly 'a"b child became unwelL The same doctor attended iKith, but, despite hi attention, both died and were burled the same day and by the same mtnlater and undertaker. The writer oleuinJy assure ua thai be can roucb for the accuracy of the forego ing taii:iut ftervlng a Good Pwrpoae, CaJtar I aeit you a poem about thn waaka axo. What have you done wl.li t Kdltor-I'm bofdlng It very little walk lt)7 I to thinking that we art pot getting out aa good a pap -r aa wa oufjbt to, and then I take that poem and aa bow much worse (be ahoct might be, and that make ma cheerful gain. Bar, bow BMfe'll on Ukt (or Hr-CWaa Nw, APKOXS IN FAMliltfi. MOST UP-TO-DATE OVERDRESS ES RESEMBLE THEM. The Krdlncote in Mouse Oowni'Ii aa TJnfailinif Sign of Newness -Some Fashionable and Very Expensive Coituuirn t bat Majr l)e Imitated. New York ciirrcipondVure: curreat standards in dress, many a woman- is tricked out ill her best when the front of her is VfyWl covereo riy an apron. ijr5 VfciE '"1:lt ,''N'11'1 mean v5l that she wears some delicate bit of mus lin and needlework, for the stylish apron is not u n accessory, but part of the gown. All sorts of dresses have them, from the beautiful gowu showing a double apron of velvet dip ping front and back, aud seeming to hold down an avalanche of cascading frills of light material that completes the skirt, to something really domestic looking. On the latter order was this first pictured gtiwn, though it, too, was a drcsH-up. its pretense at domesticity being the shallow sort that really is iinsuited to household duties on the personally conducted plan, Its apron likeness disappeared, too. when viewed from the opposite side, where the skirt was without u punel. The bodice and underskirt f ill! g.wn were the warm brilliant red so much indulged in just now, etnipisd with bands of a rod a shade darker. The revers turning away to show the yoke were faced with a love ly shade of pinkish gray, to match the gray overskirt, whose chief beauty was in simplicity of fold and delicacy of color and material. It ia frequently when the overdress wa x a; a Its,".: i . 4 ' .yA TO HE STI OIIIH EVEN IF takes the apron shape that the most ab surd arrangement are sen. Vet it is possible so to dispose the simplest apron effect as to obtain much individuality, j The second picture show this. Thi cut could hardly fail to be attractive, no mat-1 ter In what materials nnd colors it was' carried out, but as sketched on a wearer! it was finely suitable. She was a perfect- j ly typed blonde the china doll kind, with ' pink and while skin, teat up-blue eyea and j distinctly yellow hair. Bodice and un-j derskirt were a china blue silk, the drap-j ery an ivory white broadcloth. So start ling was the contrast that ouly a second glance assured one of the ivory tint. The j little quilling of ribbon was pure white satin, fluffed at the edge with ivory chif fon, the iKidice drajM-ry being carried out to match. The apron overdress helps along the no tion for sheath skirts very prettily. The drapery in thia dress met high on the hip not shown in the cut, and at this side, front and back, was drawn to the tigure without the faintest fullness. It was abort enough at the back to allow the pos- Itlrely necessary apriog for th train of the aklrt, bat no shorter. A ftw saodels ar showa lapping at the back, as If really to swatbe the figure, th ends narrowing Ukt apron string and coming around to Use front again as part of u belt Boom form of overdress la chosen four tines oat of lira for indoor wear by fash ionable women. If au apron does aot aoggest the cut, tbea tb redingote ia like ly to do so. The latter bas the adraatag at Mwawaa. A bona gown la which th radlajow eao ba traced most b saw. That cm be bail) of th a proa aart 3 wfea thrc la wtrawnradaaj ba AW ,ie. 9r.&, 0M i ii l! 1 1 I alUfLK VBT THOB'Q ISt IIDIVIDOAI.ITr. I or poionaise is Just as graceful and b I coming as the apron, but neither I M yo; hful. This adapt it especially to the yoi :ig matron. 'J ue model of the next picture wa at ome simple and far from conventional. It s oped at the back nearly to the foot of the skirt, giving a line almost unbroken fro".i the collar. Thia means that the Ht'. rcr must stand well, and that h j THE I.IKK MUST UK S(W. I ! must either Is? proH rly "built out" or possess prettily curved hips. The ex treme severity of the side line is brokea by that clever extension upon the redln gote, of the wiili' collar which i a part of the front of the bodice. Gray ladies' cloth made this princess polonaise of the gown pictured, pretty old fashioned strip ed brocade silk showing stripes of flow ' eretl lavender on w hite ground giving the .under dress. All the neck fixings wera ; while. The ri'dingote was not lined, th scums being strapped on the inside. That is a new notion, and is becaucs the cloth i Is aiippoKcd to hold more closely about the hips if not lined. There is u great saving a ims t'OHSEKSIOX IS IMPOSSIBLE. in expense by doing without lining, but there is a hiss in picturesiiieiiess. Women should remember that it is tim lo consider the purse when they are ready to make purchases. When "looking" (tbs word is quoted to convey the inclining continued shoppers give it), bs.k only at the best ni'slels. No womnn needs to use velvet, thread lace, ermine aud double faced satin in carrying out her dress, but she is almost sure of exclusive style If she studies models in those rich good. A group of such elegant costumes makes up today's concluding picture, and tbey should Is- instructive even to women whose year's supply of pin money would not buy I he least pxH-nsm of thein. The first whs biscuit colored velvet, a skirt of white satin corded fo silver showing under the silver embroidered vandykea of the velvet. The fur lined cloak wa vel vet to match the dress, lis trimming being white satin ribbon. White satin ribbon and flowers made the pretty bodice fat ening, and the yoke mulched the aatla edge skirt. Striped broadcloth and fur, both neces sitating great outlay, were combined in the next gown In this row. Bead any ad mired suiting and knife pleated black chif fon, nnd the cost become reasonable, while the model Is right off the reel, and to be seen elsew here ouly in materials aa expensive a those first mentioned. An entire gown of silk velvet mean a hard rap at someone's purse, and also means that there must be an extensive wardrobe back of it. The gown pictured was royal violet velvet, collar and yoke thread lace on satin. A cloth gown of the same color with handsome braiding on tbs sstln would be very attractive. When It come to planning fur trim mings, it is a case with most everyone of devising to make a little fur go a good way. The model remaining in the Illus tration I attractive for this reason. It wa carried out In brown cloth nd sable, but the amount of fur does not need to be so great, even If the high collar wera to be attached, which It need not be. Its fur wsistcost, over which the scslloped cloth edges were snugly drawn, wa very novel and pretty, and the lace finish over the fur quite correct. It ihonld be noticed that aot a skirt of thoa shown here baa tbs fitted Sonne recently so' abundant. Nor will there b one among next spring's careful dressers. It's a sudden death, due to too great pop ularity. Copyright, William J. Bennett, a wealthy man residing In one of the fashionable quar ters of Brooklyn, baa been having so man qoarrel with hta neighbor that b baa moved ont. For rveng be ad vertise bl fine bona to let to a color ed family only, with tba Bwr chil dren tb better." Ho haa ao far r fuaatf ail offer frosi whit peopt wbo bar wanted to mt th hooaa, Th ofiht-boau? rat haa ban tatro dacol ia tlw Kaaatsui aooul a tic A? '4 W5 m I 1 A-" - i 4 s. .t 1 K - ' 1 I 1 V 't s --'hit '.. ' ... '0
