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The Bear and the Monkey. A bear, wim whom a Piedmontese J'dried company earn their bread. Essayed on half his legs to please The public, where his master led. With looks that boldly claimed applause. He asked the ape. “Sir. what think you?” The ape was skilled in dancing laws, And answered, "It will never do.” -You judge the matter wrong. my friend.” Bruin rejoined: “You are not civil! Were these legs given for you to mend The ease and grace with which they swivel ?” It chanced a p!g was standing by; “Bravo? astonishing? encore!” Exclaimed the critic oi the sty: “Such dancing we shall see no more!” I*oor Bruin, when he heard the sentence, B*gan an inward calculation; Then, with a face that spoke repent ance, Expressed aloud his meditation; “When the sly monkey railed me dunce. I entertained seme slight misgiving: But Pig. thy praise has proved at once That dancing will not earn a living." I.et every candidate for fame Rely upon this wholesome rule: Your work is bad. if wise tnen blame: But worse, if lauded by a fool. —Thomas De Yrlarte. The Baby Turtle. Turtles, you know, lay their eggs in the sand and let the sun hatch them out. They do not lay them all in one place, probably because they think it safe to scatter them. Then, even though one be stolen or broken, the others may escape. The mother tur tle covers them all carefully up. one after another, with a thin sprinkling of sand, and then apparently never gives them another thought, consid ering her maternal duty done. Cer tain it is that she has never been dis covered going near these egg babies again, and when they hatch at last the tiny, soft-backed creatures at once be gin crawling aroud in search of flies and other food as independently as if there were no such thing as a mother in the world. A little girl who found one of these odd, oblong eggs on a sandy river bank in Louisiana took it home and put it in a teacup on the iabie for safekeeping. A few hours later a slight noise was noticed in that direction, and on looking in the enp she found a baby turtle, “full fledged,” but tiny, scrambling about among the bits of its broken eggshell cradle. Can You Do This? Do you remember the story of how “Betsy” Ross folded a piece of paper and with one clip of the shears ccm- j vinced the committee from the conti nental congress that a star should be five-pointed instead of six-pointed? There are two methods of arriving at the same result as did “Betsy,” as the accompanying illustrations ex ' plain. One Millienaire. “He’s a millionaire, that boy is.” The boy I was walking with looked across the way at the lad of whom my words were spoken. There was certainly nothing about the latter to suggest his wealth. “You don't say so! It can’t really be so. he looks almost shabby.” “No matter for that, I live in the same block, and I know. But I did not say that was worth a million of money.” “Oh!” The boy who was listening looked rather disappointed. Still, he was anxious to know what the other one might have, anyhow, so he asked, “V.'hat, then?” “He is what is called a ‘millionaire of cheerfulness.’ He is merry and bright the whole day long, not alone when all is sweetness and light, but when it isn’t. He has such pluck and spirit, and such unfailing good na dir* that he must have a million to draw upon, though he pays no taxes upon his capital. You never see him scowling or hear him whining. So he scatters his fortune ail about and is a blessing to the neighborhood. I wish there were more millionaires of cheerfulness. There might be, if everybody gathered up all the sun shine to be had and gave it out as royally as Rob, who goes whistling yonder.” Then I went on, leaving Dick to wonder whether he were as rich as Rob, and if not, why not. A Bee’s Eye. Did you ever look at a bee’s eye through a very strong magnifying glass. It is' made up of lots of little eyes massed together. And yet the eye as a whole is so small that it seems !n credible that it has these thousands of little parts, each one complete in itself! This sort of eye is very use ful, for as the little eyes face in every direction the bee can see above and pelow and behind as well as in front and sideways as people do.—Detroit Kree Press. Tree That Commits Murder. The Cupey is one of the most curi ng trees in the West Indian islands. Tb« seeds are borne ou Ike wings of the wind, and deposited on the branches of other trees, when they i burst into roots, which are dropped j towards the ground all around the j "nurse” tree. In time these roots j reach the ground and strike into the soil. From this moment the roots grow stronger and stronger, until Cupey Tree. they resemble a lot of rope ladders thrown over the tree. Next, the para site sends down a great cord, which twines round the trunk of the sup porting tree, at first as though in lov ing embrace, but it grows tighter and tighter, eventually strangling its benefactor out of existence. T^e “nurse" tree, thus killed, rots to ue cay. and from the immense fibrous roots of the destroyer now springs a great trunk, which rises high into the air. The cord-like roots rise often to fifty or sixty feet in height.—Pear son's Weekly. Conundrums. When may a chair be said to dis like you? When it cannot bear you. What never asks questions, but re quires frequent answers? A door beli. How would securely hitching a horse affect his speed? It would make him fast. What is that which is full of holes, but yet holds? A sponge. What small animal is turned into a large one ny taking away part of its name? A fox. The Sparrow Hawk. The sparrow hawk family lives both in North and South America, but it is subdivided in five sub-families or spe cies. It preys upon mice and snakes, and also on small birds. It will perch for hours on some tall tree, perfectly motionless, waiting for prey. It al ways builds its nest in a hollow tree, and its five or seven dark, cream-col ored eggs are nearly round. It is a very useful bird, because it rids farm ers of grasshoppers and other small insects that are harmful to trees and crops. Game of Turtle. Here’s a game for boys and girls who have good, strong muscles. It is called ‘•Turtle." Any cumber may play, and no one player is “It," for all are “It" togeth er. The game begins by each choos ing the kind of turtle he intends to be. One perhaps is a land tortoise, another a snapper, another a mud turtle, and so on. Then they all sit i in a row resting their chins on their knees, and each holding his left ankle with his right hand, and his right an kle with his left band. This is a very difficult position to keep. At a given signal the turtles start for a goal a short distance away. It is the object of the game for the turtles to waddle to the goal and oack to the starting point without re moving their hands from their feet. Many let go before the proper mo ment, the others shout “dead turtle,” and keep on, leaving their unfortu nate companion in the background. The rules of the game demand that he wait there until the first successful racer reaches him on his way back, and touches him with his elbow, by which he is supposed to instill new life into the poor dead turtle. The latter immediately starts out again, and finishes in the best style he can. As there are always several dead tur tles, he is never lonely in his efTort to succeed. The winner is. of course, ' the one who returns to the starting place first. Hidden Telegrams. In this game you are to imagine you have a distant friend with whom you have an understanding about an expected message. It might be that there are two or three contestants for a certain prize of honor. The name of one might be Jenkins, that of another Harrison, and that of the third Sheldon. Suppose Jenkins is the successful contestant, and that you wish to telegraph to your friend simply the name of Jenkins. How ever. you wish to conceal the message as much as possible, so that the un derstanding is that the first letters of the words you telegraph will spell the name. With this explanation each player sets to work to write a clever sen tence in which the- first letters will spell Jenkins. The various players may get sentences Kke these: Judge Engle-s never knew I noticed Sally. Julia's elbow next knocked Irish Norah silly. Jack expects no kiss in Nova Sco tia. Jam eating nearly killed Ikey Na than Saturday. It is impossible that there will be any two alike, and the game is to : see who can write the cleverest. The telegrams are read aloud, and the players vote to see whose is best. ( Flowering ice Cream. Line a clean flowerpot having a two and one-half inch diameter at top with paraffine paper, fill with ice I cream and sprinkle with grated vanil , la chocolate to represent earth. Wash ; well the stems of a few daisies and insert them in the center of the cream. Lay one or two daisies in the saucer. Great Men's Advice to Boys. A youthful and ingenious autograph collector of New York wrote last yeai to all the great men he could think of saying he was a boy of 15 and asking how he might best win success in life, j All the great men did not answer him. but a dozen did, and among this dozen was the late Sir Henry Stanley. Stanley wrote: “Whatever work you undertake to do. put your will and heart into it, and try to excel others in it. If you make this as a law to yourself yeur employer becomes your friend, you be come esteemed by all and according to j your excellence fortune will endow j you.” Rider Haggard wrote: “Be honest of heart as well as in j outward seeming. Never take ad van tage by the doing of a mean or an un kind thing and read the parable of the talents once a week.” Briton Riviere, the noted painter wrote: “There is no success so valuable as the failure which leads to greater ef | fort. There is no failure so complete J as the success which paralyzes ear nest work.”—New York Telegram. Five-Minute Peanut Candy. Shell the peanuts and chop them fine. Measure them in a cup, anc take the same quantity of granulated sugar as you have peanuts. Put it a pan on the fire and shake until the sugar is dissolved, then put in the peanuts and pour into buttered tins You will find that this is delicious candy and is so easily made. I cannot do great things. I can do small things in a great way.—James Freeman Clarke. PIANO MADE WITH PINS. Have you ever thought that you would like to have a piano all your own? Well, you can make one. but it will be a pin piano. Get a piece of soft wood, pine is best, nine or ten inches long, and half an inch thick. ! It may be of any width over two inches. Now get a lot of ordinary pins of different lengths, if possible. Draw a line down the center of the piece of wood from one end to the other and drive the pins in the wood along this line, being careful to have them about a quarter of an inch apart. Drive some of the smaller pins deep into the wood, but drive the larger ones only deep enough to have them fixed firmly in place, having all at board, and you will find that each one will give out a different note; that is, if you have been careful to have them all of different heights above the board. It is a very simple matter to pick out a tune by touching in order the pins which form the notes of the tune, and as you grow used to the notes the pins give when touched, you may easily learn to play a num ber of tunes. After this you can make another and better pin piano which will al most play itself. First drive a pin into the board to represent the second note. If that note be higher than the first, drive the pin deeper into the board until, when you touch it, it gives out exactly the right sound. If the second note of the tune be lower I The Pin Piano, different heights. When you have finished the pins will look like those in the picture, stuck in the board in a haphazard manner, some of them standing a long way out of the board and some buried almost to their heads. Now your pin piano is complete and ready to be played on. Take a large, strong pin and with it pick one of the pin* in the board. It will give out a musical note. Draw your pick-pin ald*g the whole row in the than the first note, do not drive the pin into the board as deeply as the first pin, for the longer the pitt *bove the board, the lower the note U will give. Go all through the tune lu this way, driving a pin just deep enough to reproduce each successive noto of the tune. When you have finished, all you have to do is to draw your pick along the row and your pin piano will reel off the tune to tho very last note, or the last pin. t By Earl M. Pratt. Oak Park, Illinois. wwimmwm Does the devil enjoy seeing us make mistakes? Systematic fore thought is an enemy of mistakes. Amos R. Wells tells the following in the Young People's Weekly: There was sold not long ago in New York city what is probably the most expensive land ever sold anywhere: certainly the most expensive ever sold in New York. It was a tiny strip of land, and, in its widest part, it measured only seven-eighths of an inch. It was forty feet long. It contained, in all. only seventeen and a half square inches. It couldn’t be seen on the map except with a microscope. Yet it was undoubtedly there. It ay alongside an expensive plot of ground that was to be used for a Iwelling. By some error in calcula tion it had not been included in the purchase, and it had to be bought. “Why must it be bought?" you ask. “No one could do anything with so small a piece of land." “Indeed, you are wrong. An evil minded man could do much mischief with it. That seventeen and a half square inches, you must remember, reaches up into the air as high as the sky. He could raise on it an iron plate that would cut off air and light and view from the forty feet on both sides of it. and utterly ruin the finest houses that might be built there. Just such abominable things have been done. So the land had to be bought. Fifty dollars was the price decided upon as fair, and it was promptly paid. That was at the rate of $2.86 a square inch. At this rate the average city lot, 25x100 feet, would cost the tre mendous sum of $1,029,600. Rather costly dirt. Two years ago a little, triangular bit of lard was sold in New York for $200, which was at the rate of $500 a square foot, of $3.47 a square inch. This, how ever, was not really as expensive land as the piece I have been describing, because it was larger—a man could stand upon it—and it was in a busi ness section, and so was actually more 1 valuable. My purpose in relating these real estate transactions is to warn who i ever may be reading this against leav ing any strip of territory in the city of his soul to be occupied by the Evil One. ‘•This fault is so very slight. This sin is such a little one. It really is microscopic, it isn't worth bothering about.” Listen! There isn’t in all New York city a j business man half as shrewd as your | adversary, the devil. Let sin have any territory in the city of your soul, \ though it be a strip less than an inch wide, and he will build on it a struc ture that will shut out your pure air | and your cheery sunshine and your | view of heaven. Buy him out! Buy him out! It may take all you can raise of i resolution and strength and courage j and persistence. But remember, you can draw on the bank of heaven. There are endless resources up above, j At any rate—a million for a square inch, if necessary—buy him out! You must own all the land in the city of your soul. One Dose Was Enough ■ ■■■■—■ I ■■■! “Boozy" Flinders, as the neighbors I called him. was an idle, dissolute fel- ! low. with a wife a great deal too j good for him. She bore with patience his shortcomings, found excuses for him. and took in washing to help him earn the living. But one day Boozy came home more intoxicated than usual. He threw himself upon the bed without stopping to take off his shoes, and went to sleep. Then Mrs. Flinders’ patience gave way, and she resol veil to administer suitable punishment. She procured at once a large gunnysack. ripped it open, spread it on the bed by the side of her husband, rolled him over coon it. and sewed him up in it with .ftod strong twine, leaving only his head free. Six or eight hours later, when she thought he had had enough sleep for her purpose, she rolled him over on his face, and with a stout, serviceable rawhide, borrowed during the inter val. she began operations. “Wh-what's all this?" demanded Boozy, rousing himself and beginning jo squirm. His wife was too busy to answer him. Whack! whack! fell the raw hide, wielded by an arm which had i been developed at the washboard, j and was nerved now by a righteous | indignation. 1 Whack! whack! whack! For the first few moments Boozy roared in anger and tried desperately to free himself, but it was of no use. The tough gunnysaek held him se curely. And still the blows fell. Whack! whack! whack! whack! whack! From blustering he went to plead ing. "O. for pity's sake, Marthv,” he begged, squirming and wriggling, “let up! Are you trying to kill me?" "No! (Whack> I’m reforming you! (Whack!) You lazy. drunken (whack!) vagabond. I'm giving you (whack!) what you’ve been needing (whack!) for a long time!” Whack! "O. good gracious, Marthv! Ouch! Don't I'll quit drinkin'! I’ll go to work! Ouch! Don’t, Marthv!” "If I'll stop now and let you out of that sack, will you promise to turn over a new leaf and be somebody after this?” demanded the wife. "1 will,” he promised, thoroughly sober now. "So help me." She ripped the gunnysaek open again and let him out. and to her sur prise perhaps as much as to that of the neighbors, Boozy kept his prom ise Mrs. Flinders never had occa sion to administer another dose of her medicine.—Youth’s Companion. The Hand of Death p Softly she slept in the night—her new born babe at her breast. With a tiny dimpling hand to the yield ing bosom pressed— As I rose from her side to go—though sore was mv heart to stay— To the ease of the laboring ewes that else would have died ere day. Banking the peats on the hearth. I reached from the rafter-hook The lanthorn and kindled the dame, and, taking my plaid and crook. I lifted the latch, and turned once more to see If she slept: And looked oti the slumber of peace: then into the night I stepped— Into the swirling dark of the driving, blinding sleet. And a world that seemed to sway and slip from under my feet. As if rocked by the wind that swept the roaring, starless night. Yet fumed in a fury vain at my lan thorn’s shielded light. Clean-drenched in the first wild gust. 1 battled across the garth. And passed through the clashing gate— the light of the glowing hearth And the peace of love in my breast the craven voices to quell— As 1 set mv teeth to the wind and turn ed to the open fell. Mv Over the tussocks of bent 1 strove till I reached the fold, brow like ice. and my hands so numbed that they scarce could hold staff or loosen the pen; but 1 beard a lamb s weak cries the gleam of my lanthorn lit the night of its new-born eyes. My As Sorely l labored, and watched each young lamb struggle for breath. Fighting till dawn for my flock with the ancient shepherd—Death: And glad was my heart when at last the stackyard again I crossed. And thought of the strife well o'er with never a yeanling lost. But ere I came to the door of my home, drawing wearily nigh. 1 heard with a boding heart a feeble, querulous cry, I.Ike a motherless yeanling's bleat: and I stood in the dawn's gray light. Afraid of I knew not what, sore spent with the toil of the night. Then, setting a quaking hand to the latch. I opened the door; And. shaking the cold from my heart, I stumbled across the floor Unto the bed where she lay, calm-bos omed. In dreamless rest: And the wailing baby clutched in vein at the lifeless breast. I looked on the cold, white face:* t! »n sank with a cry by the bed. And thought how the hand of De th had stricken my whole joy dead - My flock, my world and my heart—w th my love, at a single blow: And I cried: “I, too. will die!” and it seemed that life ebbed low. And that Death drew very near, when I felt the touch on my cheek Of a little warm hand outthrust, and I heard that wailing weak. And, knowing that not for me yet was rest from love and strife. 1 caught the babe to my breast and looked in the eyes of life. — Wilfrid Wilson Gibson in Dondon Spectator. Big Returns from Dime. “You often hear of men running up a small sum of money into a good big bank roll, but I did something once in Omaha that, so far as I know, beats all records when the amount originally invested is consideied, said E. W. Gaylord of New Orleans. “I was waiting in Omaha for a re mittance from my firm, and, having no coin about me, was feeling in that lonesome state that the money less man alone can appreciate. To kill time I walked into a gambling house, having not the remotest idea of doing aught save watching the players. As I stood in the vicinity of the roulette wheel I mechanically thrust my hand into a pocket of my vest and extracted a lone dime that I did not know was on my person. I actually felt ashamed to put it on anything, but something whispered it might win. and. sure enough, when the wheel stopped my coin had won. Again I won; and again until that ten-cent piece had brought me in $9. “This is pretty good interest. I thought, and cashed in. taking my $9 and moving over to the stud poker game, and investing it in chips. My - * * • * ** * % t it tv % « U « i | luck followed me here, likewise, | and I ran up my stake to $85 in less | than thirty minutes. Considering what a big return this was, I began to feel a chilly sensation at my pedal extreme ties, and as it was near the dinner hour, I made this an excuse for quit ting. "After dining, the desire „to press my luck was too great to be resisted, and being near a hundred strong, I went back to the sporting establish ment and took my seat at a draw i poker game where the buyout was $50. table stakes. It’s no use to weary you with the details of my play, but from the very jump the fortune that had been with me earlier in the day stuck. I held the most marvelous series of hot hands ever known, straights, flushes and fulls without end and several sets of fours, and on nearly all of them got good plays. "To cut it short, when I left the game in the small hours of the morn ing I cashed in $2,750, and got the money on the spot, the house man remarking that if this was my usual style he would like to engage me at any salary I’d name to play for him." ' —Washington Post. ■■ Morning Jac.*.?;. Never has the demand for tasteful jackets been greater than at the pres ent time. This one is eminently graceful and attractive ac the same time that it is most comfortable to the wearer and lends fashion of wear ing with a skirt to match. The model is made of white batiste with collar of inserted tucking and trimming of lace frills; but all materif.s in use for garments of the sort Are equally appropriate, the thin wash silks, the long list of lawns and batistes and, for cooler days, the very attractive and serviceable thin wools. The jacket is made with fronts and backs and is shaped by means of shoulder and under arm seams. The backs are cut off at the waist, giving a bolero effect, but the fronts form long points which can be allowed to hang or be knotted at the waist as preferred for garments of the sort and the sleeves are loose and wide, cut to form points at their lower edge. Hja The quantity of material required j for the medium size fs Sty yards 21 inches wide. 3 yards 27 Uachek wide ; oi 3 yards 32 inches wide, with a* yards of inserted tucking, 5 yards of j insertion and 10 yards of lace to trim • as illustrated. _______ A Good Summir Drink. An excellent summer drink which is very popular in England, and might be drunk to a larger extent in this | country, is rhubarb wine. For rhubarb wine it is necessary to have ripe rhubarb. Into one gallon of boiling water put eight pounds of rhubarb, in thin slices; place in a pan, and cover closely with a thick , noth or blanket, and stir three times a day for a week. Then strain through a cloth, and add four pounds ot lump sugar, the juice of two lem ons and the rind of one. To "fine” the wine, take one ounce of isinglass and one pint of liquor and dissolve at a slow heat. Add to the rest of the liquor when quite cold and cask it. Do not bung tbe cask until the fermentation is over. The quality of this wine improves very I much with keeping. — Smart Colors Are the Vogue. Last summer white reigned supreme at the more fashionable resorts. This ; year the pendulum has swung in the direction of the most violent colorings. ' The smartest reefer and loose coat ef fects are reseda green. American Beauty red. Yale blue, and strong tones of lavender and purple. These coats, heavily embroidered and braid ed in cloth and silk, are to be worn with white dresses and colors with which they naturally tone. This Will Tempt the Appetite. A pretty and appetizing gift to any one that is ill is a basket of orange and lemon jelly in orange skins. Cut the tops from several thin-skinned oranges and through this opening re move the pulp. Fill the skins with a stiff orange or lemon jelly, and stand them upright until the jelly is hard. Then put on the covers and arrange the oranges in a pretty basket. Morning Bonnets for Wee Girls. Quite the cutest bonnets shown for wee girls this season are the regular sunbonnet shapes in white pique or duck, with face ruffles of colored lawn or chambray. The ruffles are in pink, blue, American beauty red and pale green, to match linen frocks of the same shades, and they are made with plain hems or edged with [ narrow lace. Time-Saving A list of the contents of a closet 'acked up inside of the floor will save viueh wearisome hqnt/-.\$ lor some par ticular thing, especial',/ «\ien required in a hurry. The same method can be j applied to bureau drawers, as far as | tabulating the contents goes. They may be entered in a notebook for con venient reference, each drawer being designated by number. The Floss Book. A dainty gift for the girl who em broiders is the "floss book.” a long, narrow book, bound in small-figured cretonne, and tied with bows of rib bon. The pages are of stiff card board, covered with plain linen, with straps for holding skeins of silk, linen or mercerized cotton floss. Pretty Yachting Costume. For the warm days of the summer yachting season the fancy linens are in high vogue among the fair yachts women. In one gown the double effect of coat and blo jse Is cleverly attained in the cut of th» fronts. Coming well below the curve of the hips, the little blouse waistcoat is inserted in the loose fronts, fastening invisibly under the strap at the left side. A belt of white suede encircles the waist, pass ing beneath the front straps and giv •* ing *. loose effect to the coat. Th* sleeve is plain, with a dark blue linen cuff inlaid with the white suede, and the white suede further appears a:- a piping to the straps which decorat the full thirteen-gore skirt. The littl— round sailor hat is likewise in whit • suede and simply trimmed with a broad band of black velvet tied in a flat, square bow at the side. Risotta. Put a heaping tablespoonful of but ter into a saucepan with a tin minced onion, and stir over the fire until the butter begins to color. P. into this a scant cupful of raw r and stir off and on for fifteen n utes. Should the rice get too dry a i a very little hot water. At the er. ' the fifteen minutes pour into t‘ saucepan a scant quart of boil;;..: water and cook fast for another flf teen minutes. Finally, drain off ar. ! put in rather more than half a cupful of strained tomato juice seasoned with pepper, salt, a pinch of mace and a large pinch of lemon peel, grated Simmer for ten minutes mere and serve. The rice will remain whol*. but be soft and most savory. This is a popular Italian dish and very good. Wide Collars and Other Fvilis. A summer feature is the wide col lar. It is made of various materials, one of the prettiest being of white taffeta. It has black polka dots a;; plied. These dots are of black silk upon the background of white silk Around the edge there is a piping of black silk, and underlying the collar there ara points of salmon pink tar feta. Each point is trimmed with a lace medallion. Such a collar dresses up any evening blouse won derfully. Worn over black or wh:v it really makes the whole dress, for it gives the note which was lacking Good Way to Serve Orange Jelly. Care and a little time are needed to serve orange jelly in the follow ng way: Select even-sized oranges and cut them in halves. Carefully remove the pulp, leaving the compartmonu unbroken. Fill every other space with a thin orange jelly, poured in with a spoon, and put the shells on ice unu the jelly is firm. Then fill the empt> compartments with stiff whipped cream and serve. Gay Striped Ribbons. Color is plentifully used in the tie* and stocks of the year, the idea being that a plain gown is thus easily bright ened and smartened. Striped ribbon such as green and gold, old rose anj black, red and green, blue and biscuit and so forth, is employed. It is no ex aggeration to say that there are turn dreds of different designs in neckw. a: on view at present. To Keep the Hair in Curl. Put a teaspoonful of borax and a piece of castile soap into a jar. an i pour over them half a pint of boil ing water. Stir until they are i: solved. Put the mixture into a tie and cork it up tightly. Dam^_ > hair thoroughly with this mixture be fore curling it. Old Lace in Vogue. If there is in the house a bit of un used old lace search for it and fetch • out. Never has there been such a demand for laces of all kinds. Th old lace that has been tucked awa; for years tan now be used to mak • the daintiest of hats. Hats for Children. Children’s pique hats are now maij with high poke crowns. Both crown and brim are of the pique, and from the latter depend full lingerie ruffles. Bust Confiner and Reducer. Every woman of generous propor tions knows the difficulty of wearing the fashionable thin blouse and its necessary full corset cover with sa isfactlon. This very excellent gar ment is designed to meet just that need and will be found absolutely practical. It extends down well over the top of the corset, so supporting the bust and confines not it alone, but also the flesh under the arms, which so often is annoying in conjunction with the thin waists, and is worn be neath the dainty cover of lawn or batiste. The model is made of heavy strong white linen, the casings at th back being of webbing, or belting which gives additional strength bur English drill and coutil are eqtia. y mvA appropriate and satisfactory. The straps over the shoulders are elastic, so allowing perfect freedom at the same time that the object of the conflner Is attained. The garment Is made with fronts, side portions, backs and upper front portions which are joined one to the other, and is closed with buttons and buttonholes at the front aad adjusted with lacings at the back. The quantity of material required for the medium size is ^ yard u inches wide