Nebraska Newspapers

    loop City Northwestern
4. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA.
Radium, it is said, will clarify dia
monds, but will it take them out of
hock?
Bertha Krupp’s income is $2,400,001
a year. And she doesn’t seem to be
anxious to purchase a title.
A little English widow has obtained
$15,000,000 as her portion. How a
man could love that “mite!”
Now that pepper is $3 a pound in
the Klondike, what do they use to
sprinkle on their watermelons?
A Chicago woman who stuck a hatpin
In a policeman eleven times was fined
$7. Virtue is still its own reward.
Some banks now disinfect all the
money they handle. It is such things
as this that give us that tired feeling.
A new play, entitled “An Honest
Politician,” was produced in New
York. Realism on the stage is mori
bund.
More than 500 students worked their
way through Columbia university last
year, without going out on a single
strike.
There was an explosion in a powder
mill at Goes, Ohio, the other day.
Things are reported to have gone at
a sacrifice.
A Chicago man recently choked to
death on a beefsteak. If people will
indulge in such luxuries, they know
what to expect.
New York is now discussing the
question, “Shall men smoke every
where?” What might be called a
burning question.
Even if we ever have a woman pres
ident, there is no just reason to sup
pose that her message to congress
will be mostly postscript.
A study of the mikado’s new poem
tends to confirm the suspicion that it
is designated to be read to the enemy
in moments of great crisis.
A Japanese man is advertising in
the Washington papers for a situation.
He can probably get one, without
much trouble, by going home.
If Mrs. Chadwick had tried her
confidence game on Hetty Green,
there would have been a warm time,
but no money would have passed.
While the coreless apple may fill a
long-felt want, what we really need ia
one that has a barb-wire entangle
ment against the industrious worm.
Tha Sun proudly refers to New York
as “the Babylon and Bagdad of the
Wes,.” Is it the Sidon and Tyre and
the Ssylia and Charybdis of the West?
May Yohe explains her New York
trip by saying that she just came for
some more money. Thought it might
be some more reputation she was af
ter.
And now the porte has yielded to an
American ultimatum. The sultan has
got so now that he can yield grace
fully to an ultimatum in almost any
language.
The flowers that bloom in the
spring, tra la, cut a very poor figure
in comparison with the high-priced
buds that bloom all the year round in
hot houses.
A French scientist declares that dys
pepsia can be cured by smiling. He
neglects, however, to explain how dys
peptics may succeed in getting them
selves to smile.
We don’t see anything strange in
the story of the Ohio convict who for
feited his parole and lost his liberty
by getting married. Men who are
not convicts do that.
Physicians say that hiccoughs will
not attack any one who keeps the
tongue constantly moving, but only a
mean man, reading this aloud, will
congratulate his wife.
If John Barrett has to pay $13
apiece for shirts in Panama, allow
your imagination to dwell for a mo
ment on the probable price of a shirt
that would fit Secretary Taft.
Speaking of the irony of fate, don’t
overlook the case of William Sharp,
a descendant of the Pequot Indians,
who has been fined for mutilating a
tree at Orange, Conn. Injun, spare
that tree!
A New York policeman recently
made $200,000 speculating in real
estate. He should be advised to
watch out for targe, flashy-looking
women who approach with notes from
Andrew Carnegie.
* Poker, according to the decision of
a German court, is not a game of
chaftce. Many a sympathetic Ameri
can who sits up occasionally with a
sick friend and goes home with empty
pockets will he inclined to agree with ]
this dictum.
Young Mr. Tiffany of New York de
clares that he will have to seek charity
if the court keeps on refusing to let
him have more of his father’s estate.
Of course the dear young man couldn’t
think of working a little now and then
to help himself out.
Fining an umbrella thief $75 may
seem at first sight a severe penalty,
but think of the millions of previous
criminals cf this sort that have gone
unpunished. Viewed as a concrete
expression of the accumulated ind.g
nation of ages it was paltry and fee
ble in the extreme.
The man who exploited the manu
facture of "fancy brands” of cigar
ettes in this country has just died in
Massachusetts. If he has gone the
way his cigarettes went, we are cer
tainly sorry tor him.’
Heart of the Fire.
From the heart of the lire do.rss the vision
rise.
It is good to sit in the after-glow.
While some one's hand in your big one
lies
And nobody there to know.
Ah, golden gleaming its many towers,
The palace ye build, ye twain! —
Where two shall dwell thro’ the lovelit
hours
In a golden castle in Spain.
Who is it laughs In the dusk behind?
Who luiks in the shadows there?
Will the years that are coming to yo»
be kind
And the end of the dream be fair?
Ah. boy and gill, who the lovelit eyes!
Will the faith and the love remain
When only a crumbling ruin lies—
Your fallen castle in Spain?
TP(pl§(Bn(C ff
I/anraF
(Copyright. 1904, by Daily Stoiy Pub. Co.)
Lattis sat directly in front of the
wide window and looked with pensive
eyes out across the fair expanse of
meadow. Her pretty lips drooped
daintily at the corners and now and
then a quiver swept over them.
Scarcely a single sound broke the sum
mer stillness, and this served to in
tensify the girKs thoughtful mood. Be- |
fore her in swift panoramic review
passed the little commonplace events
of her life. There was not a thing
above the ordinary nor even below, in
fact, nothing worthy to remember or
forget. But now of late a change had
come. A new sense of dissatisfaction,
a queer feeling of loneliness was steal
ing into her being and a longing dan
gerously near a passion filled her
heart. She was too young and inex
perienced to analyze the cause of this
revolution. Impatiently she tossed the
bit of embroidery aside and arose.
“Mr. Duram,” she gasped as she
faced a man who stood back of her
chair.
“What ever were you thinking so
deeply of, little one?” he asked, with
a smile.
“I don’t know’,’’ she spoke gravely;
“I am feeling gloomy in spite of such
beautiful weather. I believe I am
growing dissatisfied and just a little
lonely.” Her voice sank to a whisper.
Then her sunny head dropped into her
hands on the arm of the deep chair.
The man made a movement as if to
draw nearer, but he controlled him
self and settled back to his former po
sition.
“Lhttis,” his voice was unsteady
with emotion, “come into the garden;
you must be sad. It hurts me—it
hurts me.” Then his hand w’ent out
to her.
She raised her head suddenly and
met his look. Involuntarily her hand
went to her heart, a burning blush
flew to her cheek and mounted to her
very hair and receding left her white
to the lips. Like a burst of glorious,
blinding light the truth came to her.
She snatched her hand from his,
sprang up and took a few steps back.
Then she heard his dear voice: “I
love you! I love you better than my
soul.”
■ Tlie girl's whole being responded to
his declaration; there was a delight
in his caress that swept all else from
her. Love took possession of her so
completely the whole world seemed to
lay within this one man.
“Sweetheart,” he whispered, “will
you come with me at once? Will you
trust me, dear, and come—now?”
“Now?” she asked tremulously.
“We can be married here to-morrow.
I love the place and I should like to
spend the happiest time of my life
here.”
“I cannot marry you,” the words
dropped harshly from his trembling
lips. The girl sprang from him and
drew herselt to her full height proud
ly.
“Aud you dared to love me!” burst
in an angry passion from her. “You
have won the one love of my life, you
have taken my heart and beat it cruel
ly, but you cannot trample it into the
dust. I will not let you, I will not!”
“Lattis,” he answered, stung to the
quick, “I have meant no wrong. God
Sat directly in front of the window.
knows I love and honor you above all
else in the world, and because of my
love I cannot leave you so—dear,
dear—look at me.”
The girl looked up.
“I forgive you,” she said simply.
“And I may come again?” he asked
numbly.
She did not answer, but stood in the
shadow with averted face. The man
hesitated and his heart, told him how
completely at his mercy this trem
bling girl was, and yet—he loved her
and his whole self cried out, “Lattis,
Lattis!” A timid touch aroused him
and two soft lips whispered in his
ear, “Stay.” Then because of his si
lence Bhe drew back and cried with
abandon, "God, what have I done?”
The mao crossed to the door and
went out without a single backward
glance, nor did he utter one word,
though he heard the girl’s dry. heart
breaking sobs
Late that night Lattis rose from
her couch .where she had been lying
tossing and sleepless, threw on a
loose gown and dropped into a chair
before her open window. The brilliant
moonlight shone into her room. Sud
denly from out the shadow on the
veranda a form appeared and before
she could move or cry, kneeled be
side her and clasped her close.
“Lattis,” a voice she knew well
whispered. “Lattis, I have come,
dearest; I have come-”
“Jack, you must go—I want you to
“If you love me, go, go.”
go—my heart is breaking. If you love
me, go, go.”
“You don’t love me.” He used man's
old reproach, the subtle weapon a
man always uses to win the woman he
covets or loves.
“I do, dear, and you know it. And
because I do not want to hate you, I
bid you leave me at once.”
This was not the logic he expected,
and it startled him a little. Then all
his manhood uprose.
“Lattis, you are a queen; your heart
is the purest in the world. Because I
love you in the best way a man can
love. I will go. Good-by—dear-”
his voice broke into a sob. He pressed
his hot lips to her hand and went
quietly away.
HOW TO KEEP YOUNG.
Growing Old Is Largely a Habit of
Mind, Says Writer.
How old are you? The adage says
that women are as old as they look
and men as old as they feel. That's
wrong, says a writer in the New York
Times. A man and woman are as old
as they take themselves to be.
Growing old is largely a habit of the
mind. “As a man thinketh in his
heart so is he.” If he begins shortly
after middle age to imagine himself
growing old he will be old.
To keep one’s self from decrepitude
is somewhat a matter of will power.
The fates are kind to the man who
hangs on to life with both hands. He
who lets go will go. Death is slow only
to tackle the tenacious.
Ponce de Leon searched the wrong
place for the fountain of youth. It is
in one’s self. One must keep one’s
self young inside. So that, while “the
outer man perisheth, the inner man is
renewed day by day.”
When the human mind ceases to
exert itself, when there is no longer
an active interest in the affairs of this
life, when the human stops reading
and thinking and doing, the man, like
a blasted tree, begins to die at the
top.
You are as old as you think you are.
Keep the harness on. Your job is not
done.
It Was Good Advice.
The man laughed uproariously. “I’m
a pretty healthy looking specimen, am
I not, doctor?” he asked.
“You certainly are,” answered the
physician.
“Well, ten years ago you told me to
prepare for death.”
“Did I?”
“You did.”
“Well, I see no reason to be hilari
ous about it. That’s good advice at
any time, isn't it?”
"Yes, but-”
“Doesn’t your preacher give you the
same advice?”
“Of course, but you see-”
“Well, why don’t you go and laugh
at him? I did only my duty by you,
and from what I know of you, I would
say that I can’t think of any one who
has more extended preparations to
make. Good day, sir.”
“Sometimes,” mused the man as he ,
went out, “it is easy to make a point
and difficult to clinch it.”
Japanese Loan.
The new Japanese loan was the first
international loan ever placed in Lon
don, New York and San Francisco
jointly. In the last named city the
Nevada National bank managed it
The San Francisco newspapers ex
press pride at being published as one
of the “three great financial jtrters
of the adobe.”
IN SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS.
Two Are Becoming Powerful Civil
ized Nations, Says Writer.
For eighty years the South Ameri
can republics have worked out in
strife, tyranny and anarchy the fate
imposed upon them by the premature
assumption of rule by peoples unpre
pared for such responsibility, says a
writer in the London Chronicle, and
out of the welter of dishonesty and
violence there are now emerging at
least two powerful civilized nations
which will lead the way to peace and
prosperity that even Venezuela, the
least reputable of them all, must fin
ally follow.
Chile and the Argentine Republic,
the former with its immense seaboard
and varied climate, the latter with its
Fuego to the torrid zone, have appar
ently done with revolutions, and are
advancing with great strides.
Bolivia, cooped up in the Andes and
deprived of her only port, holds with
in her rocky bounds wealth beyond
the dreams of Ophir, yet inaccessible
for want of roads; Colombia, with its
vast Cauca valley of fertility unimag
inable, and its mineral resources fabu
lous in their extent; Brazil, with its
thousands of miles of unexplored hin
terlands of forests and waterways;
Peru, with its Inca mine still unex
hausted—these may all be richer than
Argentina and Chile in the wealth that
comes quickly but they are for the
future rather than the present, and
their best hope is to win stability and
security as the two leading republics
are now rapidly doing.
WANTED TO AIR LEARNING.
Girl Had Not Coached Herself in His
tory for Nothing.
A member of the faculty of the
University of Chicago tells of the sad
case of a young woman from another
state who was desirous of attaining
social prominence in Chicago, says
Harper’s Weekly.
Soon after her arrival there she
made the acquaintance of a student at
the university, to whom she took a
great fancy. Evidently it was at this
time that she realized for the first time
her early education had been neglect
ed, for she said to a friend:
“I suppose that, as he is a college
man, I’ll have to be awful careful what
I say. What’ll I talk about to him?’
The friend suggested history as a
safe topic. To her friend’s astonish
ment, she took the advice seriously,
and shortly commenced in earnest to
“bone up” in English history.
When the young man called the girl
listened for some time with ill-conceal
ed impatience to his talk of football,
outdoor meets, dances, etc., but finally
she decided to take the matter in her
own hands. She had not done all that
reading for nothing; so, a pause in the
conversation affording the desired op
portunity, she suddenly exclaimed,
with considerable vivacity:
“Wasn’t it awful about Mary Queen
of Scots?”
“Why, what’s the matter?” stam
mered the student, confused.
“My gracious!” almost yelled the
girl; “did’nt you know? Why, the poor
thing had her head cut off!”
The Groom’s Argument.
The late ex-Senator Ransom ol
North Carolina was in early life a
famous planter. His plantation was
a model one, and frc-m all over the
state visitors came to inspect it.
After the war he reduced his plant
ing operations considerably, but he
still kept up a handsome estate. He
would often talk of the dissatisfac
tion of the reconstruction period and
of the naive views about salary that
the freedmen of the time held.
“In my stable, for instance,” he once
said, “I employed a skilled coachman
and an unskilled groom. To the coach
man, of course, I paid the larger
wages. The groom, as soon as he
found this out, complained to me about
it.
“ ‘What for,’ he said, ‘do you pay
Henry more than me, sir?’
“ ‘Because,’ I answered, ‘Henry is
a skilled, experienced hand.’
“ ‘But then the work,’ said the
groom, ‘should come to him a good
deal easier than it does to me.’ ”—
Kansas City Journal.
What’s in a Name.
Representative Olmsted of Penn
sylvania, says that old Dr. Levi Bull
was a clergyman of the Episcopal
faith and lived in Chester county, his
state, not many years ago. The good
old doctor was called upon to bap
tise a child, the offspring of a family
with the surname of Frog. Without
any preliminary observations the
father and mother were called to the
front at the end of the second part or
lesson of the service.
“Name this child,” said the doe
tor.
“We name it after you, sir,” said
the mother, as she handed the baby
to the doctor.
“Oh, but you named the last after
me. It was was christened Levi,” said
the minister.
“Well, doctor, call this one after
your t’other name.”
And the minister did, christening it
Bull, and the youngster went forth
with the cognomen of Bull Frog.—
Boston Herald.
The Doo’# Cold Nose.
When Noah, perceiving ’twas time to em
bark
Desired the Creatures to enter the Ark,
The Dog with a friendliness truly sub
llme
Assisted in herding them. Two at a time
He drove in the Elephants, Zebras and
Gnus . .
Until they were packed like a boxful of
screw's—
The Cat in the cupboard, the Mouse on
the shelf. . . ,
The Bug in the crack. Then he backed
in himself;
But such was the lack of available space
He couldn’t tuck all of him into the place;
And so. though the rivers rushed over
the plain
And down from the heavens fell blan
kets of rain.
He stood with his muzzle thrust out
through the door
The whole 40 days of that terrible pour!
Because of which drenching, the Sages
unfold,
The nose of a healthy Dog always Is cold.
—Arthur Guiterman, in New York Times.
Invalidates County Vote.
The county clerk of Glenn county,
California, invalidated the whole vote
of the county by accidentally trans
posing the names of the Republican
and Democratic candidates on the bal
lots. But it is not likely that any
action will be taken, as throwing ont
the vote would make no change in
the results of the election.
Caprice in Trimming.
Those who are always on the look
out for new trimmings should learn to
make “cretes.” To make a crete take
% frill of silk and scallop both edges.
Now shirr it a little way from the edge,
until the frill is moderately full, and
set it upon the skirt.
This will make the edges stand out
like narrow ruffles, each side of a full
puff.
And there are different ways of mak
ing cretes. They take silk and cut it
in strips and double it. Both edges
are now pinked or frilled, freyed, or
scalloped. The frill is now shirred
over a narrow cording and the cord
is pulled until the frill is just full
enough. It is sewed on the skirt or
the waist upside down, so that the
edges will stand out in the smartest
imaginable fashion.
Light Blue Silk Waist.
Blouse of pale blue louisine, the
front and back forming a plastron
ornamented with
fagoting. The col
lar and narrow
chemistte are of
guipure, bordered
>with a shaped band
of silk and a plait
ing of mousseline
de soie or lace,
which is wider
around the neck,
forming a sort of
collar. A knot of
- » velvet ornaments
the front.
The sleeves are plaited at the top
and again on the outside at the bot
tom, where they are finished with
flaring fagoted cuffs and plaitings of
mousseline de soie or lace.
The girdle of the silk is ornamented
in front with knots of velvet.
Waterfall for St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg is looking for a
waterfall, and has been so looking
for more than twenty years. Its object
is to find a fall capable of furnishing
sufficient power to supply St. Peters
burg with electricity. Hitherto the
most suitable for this purpose appear
ed to be a cataract in Finland, which
it was proposed to utilize for the
working of an electric railway. Fur
ther researches, however, have result
ed in the discovery of the Kirimemi
waterfall on the river Voksen, forty
six miles from St. Petersburg, with
energy equivalent to 25,000 horse
power. This waterfall is forty-five
miles closer to the Russian metropo
lis than tnat in Finland, and is offered
for sale at a considerably less price.
Unless the difficulties of conveying
the current prove insuperable, the
Kirimemi waterfall will be purchased.
_
Whitish-Green Chiffon.
A charming dress for a girl who is
to help receive wuh one of next week's
debutantes is of pale whitish-green
chiffon, its plaited skirt trimmed at
bottom with two noops of waved and
knotted green ribbon. Its bloused
bodice has a lace bertha and is dainti
ly garnished with ribbon knots. There
is a tiny chemisette of white guipure.
Every saucepan that has been used
and is finished with should be filled
with cold water and put on the stove
to boil out.
Ebonize old or unpainted furniture, j
especially chairs or library tables, by I
rubbing in a mixture of lamp-black
and turpentine.
To clean nickel scour with pulver
ized borax, use hot water and very
little soap. Rinse in hot water and
rub dry with clean cloth.
To cut fresh bread easily and neat
ly heat the blade of the breadknife by
laying first one side and then the
other across the hot range.
Always buy an extra yard of stair
carpeting, folding it under at each end
ao the carpet can be moved to equal
ize the wear over the edge of the
step's.
Buttermilk is excellent for cleaning
sponges. Steep the sponge in milk
for some hours, then squeeze it out
and wash it in cold water. Lemon
fuice Is also good.
Fancy Shirt Waist.
Blouse of light weight wool shirred
along tne snouiaers
and made with
box plaits, the lat
ter trimmed with
soutache and mo
tifs of passemen
terie.
The full sleeves
have deep cuffs
trimmed with the
soutache and mo
tifs and finished
with lace and
wrist ruffles. The standing collar is
of lace.
For Travel or Driving.
In describing coats the field is so
wide that it is not possible to cover
the whole ground. One style seems
to be almost indispensable, and that
is a long, fur-lined tweed or cloth
coat. Such a coat is a wrap par ex
cellence for driving, motoring or rail
way travel. The mode has no rival
so far as comfortable knock about and
comprehensive wear is concerned. One
example of a coat of this description
is made of light gray tweed, and is
lined throughout with squirrel lock,
handsomely adorned exteriorly with
a huge roll collar and revere of gray
Persian lamb.
The Season’s Fura,
Numerous faddish furs have been in
troduced this season, and are enjoying
their meed of favor. The skin of the
babr rail is one of these. It is in*
variably rigidly tailored into flat muffs
and small scarfs, to be worn with me
trim walking suits. Sometimes one
sees smart little “bubbling” coats of
yetta, often trimmed with leather.
And again one sees this reversed, and
the coat of the leather with trimmings
of the yetta.
Pony skin is also developed into
long and loose auto coats, and for very
coldest weather rather shapeless af
fairs in bear are appearing.
Moleskin is losing ground this win
ter. The furriers discourse its use
because of the very great amount of
labor required in its fashioning. They
claim the prices they can obtain for
mole garments do not cover the great
labor of sewing these tiny skins. Then,
too, the mole, like uie broadtail, is a
very thin skin and easily torn, and
garments of it are far from service
able.
Dress Wrinkle.
The newest wrinkle in dress is the
sleeveless jacket. It would be a bo
lero if it were of a little different:
shape. It is made exactly like a little
tight fitting coat, except that it has
no sleeves. Its material is something
pretty, usually a brocaded silk, and it
is abundantly trimmed, making a gar
ment of a great deal of elegance.
From the bolero to the sleeveless
jacket is, indeed, only a step. The bo
lero in all its forms is well known.
And the sleeveless jacket will soon
be. It opens up such a fine possibility
for pretty vogues that modistes are
rushing into it headlong and are
spending a great deal of money upon
it. It has taken the fashionable world
quite by storm.
The skirt to wear with such a coat
as this must match the waist and thus
a very handsome costume is made, a
dressy thing for any occasion.
In Light Taffeta.
Blouse of light gray-blue taffeta
plaited at the top, where it is trim
med with embroid
ered squares bor
dered with bias
bands of taffeta
fastened with fan
cy buttons. The
front of the blouse
is trimmed in the
same way, and the
yoke, or guimpe, is
of guipure.
The sleeves are
plaited at the top
and again below to form two puffs,
and are finished with cuffs trimmed
with embroidered squares, bands and
buttons. The wrist ruffles are of lace
or guipure.
Paprika Snitzel.
Cut two pounds of thick veal steak
into small pieces, roll in seasoned
flour, fry brown in salt pork fat. Re
move the meat from the pan, add two
tsblespoonfuls of flour to the remain
ing fat, brown lightly, and pour in
gradually the strained liquor from a
pint can of tomatoes. Add a slice
of onion and carrot, three bay leaves
and a bit of mace, then return the
meat to the sauce, cover closely and
simmer three-quarters of an hour.
When done, remove the meat, add a
little more salt if necessary to the
sauce, a large pinch of paprika and
strain on the platter. (The pork fat
helps to season it.)
A New Dessert.
What a boon to the housekeeper a
new dessert is! Here is one which 1
am sure you have not tried, and once
tried you are sure to have it again.
It is called chocolate pears and is
made by paring four pears, cut in
fours, and saute in butter until
i
browned. Arrange In serving-dhv
pour over the following sauce
chill thoroughly. Cook two o*4MMMD
sweet chocolate, one teaspoonHll||ilPi
one and a quarter cups of milk, in
double boiler five minutes, then add a
teaspoon arrowroot, mixed with a
quarter cup of cream and a pinch of
salt, cook ten minutes. Melt one and
a half tablespoonfuls of butter, add
four tablespoons powdered sugar and
cook stirring ronstantly until well
caramelized. Add to first mixture,
add half a teaspoon vanilla, and strain
over pears.—Montreal Herald.
Nothing brightens up a dark suit so
elegantly as a white hat and a little
ermine cravat.
For evening wear the feathered
stole has a dainty rose of a camellia
fastened at the left side.
A trimming fancy much seen Is the
use of silver-edged straps and buttons
of kid or leather.
One of the new lace blouses has
perfectly close plain sleeves after the
fashion of ages ago.
There are hats so big that they
are ridiculous and others so absurdly
little as to be ludicrous
Silk and fur are happily combined
in gowns of the new soft silk, made
ornate with fur bands.
So light and pretty are the mara
bout hats one wonders that any w’otn
an should choose heavy fur creations.
Shot Silks Are Coming in.
Shot silks are coming in, and are
used just now on Louis XVI djnner
frocks for the underskirt and cuff?
and revers, the rest being brocade. 01
course all the hats are tricorne in
some form or another, and on the
whole are pretty and generally be
coming. One form of trimming is to
lay a feather across the crown, from
brim to brim, and add one very long
one, which trails dowrn on the back
of the hair and in some cases sweeps
half way around the neck.
Continental Hats.
The continental hat has more vogue
than ever and appears with variou?^
modifications. Some of the smartest
models have the under side of the
rolling brim covered smoothly with
black velvet.
The upper side of the brim and the
crown are on beaver in white or some
pastel shade, and clusters of velvet
roses or the rather absurd gold oi
silver grapes are tucked into the
brim’s indentations.
Pretty Theater Waist.
Blouse of light ecru crepe de chine
or peau de cygne, forming a sort of
boleroi gathered
at tne Dottom to
form a little ruffle,
which is headed
by a puffed band
of the material,
through which
golden brown vel
vet ribbon is run,
the latter knotted
in front.
The bolero is also
gathered at the top
where it is trim
med with puffed bands of the
material and bands of lace insertion.
The puffed bands border the fronts
forming scrolls over the blouse, which
is of ecru lace, as is also the yoke.
The sleeves are made and trimmed to
correspond.
HANDSOME TOILETS IN BROWN.
The first is of brown cloth trimmed
with bands and motifs of brown
crushed velvet or plush, and with
braid. This trimming encircles the
skirt and forms the yoke of the
blouse, which fastens a little on one
side with gold buttons. The turnover
collar is of the cloth embroidered in
green and brown, and the standing
collar is of white cloth or silk, also
embroidered in green and brown.
The basque is attached under the vel
vet girdle, the latter fastened in front
with a gold buckle. The leg-of-mutton
sleeves are trimmed at the bottom
to correspond with the rest of the
gown. The other gown is of brown
panne. The skirt is shirred at the top,
except in front, where it forms two
box plaits. It is finished at the bot
tom with two flounces, set one on the
other, and headed by little frills of
brown taffeta or satin. The draped
fronts of the bodice cross and are bor
dered with bias bands of the panne
ornamented with embroidered buttons.
The yoke is of cream lace and the
shoulder collar is of cream lace and
brown silk lace. The puffed sleeves
are shirred along the outside and or
namented at the top with little frills
of silk or satin. They are finished at
the elbows with frills of chiffon and
lace. The folded girdle ia of the
panne. _