CLINK OF GOLD
DRAWS CHINESE
Regular Traffic Done in the Smuggling of
These Objectionable People to America.
RICHES FOR “CONTRABAND” DEALERS
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Ingenious Schemes Devised to Elude the Watchfulness of
Customs Officers—Schooner Frolic with Cargo of
Coolies, Driven Into the Harbor of Provi
dence, R. I., a Case in Point
Boston—It is the lure of wages so
high that five years’ savings make a
fortune that is drawing venturesome
Chinese these days into the country
by novel shifts and in strange dis
guises.
Officially the smuggling of Celestials
across the borders is dead. Experts
in immigration and some inspectors
will say when questioned that there
is no such thing. As a matter of fact,
however, although the Chinese popu
lation of the United States is not in
creasing, and timidity and the severity
of the enforcement of the exclusion
act deter many who might otherwise
attempt to gain this promised land, j
plans for getting the contraband race
into the United States are bolder and
more skilfully concocted than ever.
Messages sent along the New Eng
land coast a few days ago to intercept
the Frolic, a schooner yacht, with her
consignment of 35 coolies, called pub
lic attention to the fact that the Chi
nese are still mindful of the oppor
tunities offered in this country. Tac
tics similar to those attributed to the
vessel’s charters are used by shrewd
speculators, many of whom are Amer
icans. Chinese who have persistence
and courage are able to make their
way here in spite of the utmost vigi
lance of the authorities.
From a sentimental point of view
it would appear that Chinese would
not care to come here for fear they
would be subjected to indignities by
the inspectors who are stationed at
ports of entry and in the principal
cities and towns on both the northern
and southern borders. This does not
apply to the more conservative of the
race, but there are hundreds of
shrewder and bolder spirits who see a
chance to gain wealth and they miss
As Italian Laborers.
no means of gaining admittance to
this country. They are eager to take
the places of the thousands who are
now, leaving the United States for
good with fortunes and competences.
Thrifty Clestials
Send Money “Home.’*
Express companies which have
branches in Chinatown in the larger
cities are busy transferring accounts
of thrifty Celestials to Peking, Hong
Kong and Canton. Hundreds of the
returning Chinamen are buying large
establishments in the trade centers
of their native country, while others
are investing in farms and planta
tions. They return with stories of how
they are often ill treated in the Unit
ed States, but they also clink the
American gold which they have gar
nered. The depletion of the Chinese
population is. as investigations made
in the principal colonies in the Unit
ed States show, hardly met by the
birth rate or by the influx of the ori
entals across the borders. The result
of all this has been to increase the
wages of Chinese workmen in Amer
ica to exorbitant figures.
Chinese are in demand not only for
work as laundrymen, but as highly
paid servants. The prevailing rate
for laundrymen is from $15 to $20 or
more a week, with board. Once a
Chinese has learned the uses of irons
and starch his services are in demand
at the highest figures. To keep up
with their work some of the larger
Chinese laundries have been obliged
to hire white help. Others whose
proprietors cannot get along under
such an arrangement are selling their
establishments. Chinese laundr.es are
at present for sale by the score be
cause of the scarcity in the labor
market.
Chinese laundrymen who save $S0
a month out of their wages aie com
mon. It costs only four dollars a
month to maintain one person In
China. A laundryman in this city,
for instance, may send money home
to maintain wife and children, also
his parents and the parents of his
wife, if need be, to say nothing of
contributing to the support of a needy
member of the clan, and yet be able
to have a substantial emergency fund.
Within a year or so an expert laun
dryman may establish a shop of his
own or found a little business in
oriental wares. If he does he may go
to China, visit as long as he wishes
and boldly pass through a port of
Across the Mexican Border.
entry as a merchant, for he is entitled
to that privilege under the law. The
ironing board, at the present time,
however, is the best means by which
the average Chinaman may find life
smooth and profitable.
To get a chance to avail himself of
present conditions in the labor mar
ket Chinese who have initiative or
are under the direction of some Amer
ican adventurer who is bold and re
sourceful frequently make their way
here by methods underground and
over sea.
Officers Fooled by
Ingenious Makeup.
Although smuggling them across
the Canadian border is now almost
stopped, some of the most ingenious
schemes are employed with success.
It is a popular fallacy that all Chinese
look alike and that no matter how
they are arrayed they will betray at a
glance their oriental origin. There
are white men in Vanoouver, B. C.,
who do not accept that theory, for
by shrewd manipulation they are able
to convert the most thoroughgoing
Chinese into an American or Canadian
farmer.
A coarse shirt, a pair of blue over
alls and a straw hat will work won
ders in the hands of an expert. Par
ties of Chinese going across the Do
minion in bond not infrequently leave
the trains 40 or 50 miles before reach
ing the boundaries of the United
States. Here they are taken in hand
by one who understands something of
theatrical makeup and converted into
tramps, farmers or whatever he thinks
would be best suited to their talents.
After that it is a walk to the border,
and in many cases it Is possible for
the coolies to gain their destination.
Once within the borders of this coun
try they usually prowl 40 or 50 miles
farther before they think it safe to
board a train and proceed in a more
conventional manner.
Chinese have been intercepted in
the state of Washington maxing their,
way on boats in the rivers, ostensibly
bound to work as laborers on some of
the large farm3. They are disguised
as immigrants of other nationalities.
Many of them have essayed the roles
of Italians, after incasing themselves
in corduroy jackets and trousers and
tying gayly colored silken handker
chiefs about their necks.
It i3 along the Rio Grande border,
however, that the smuggling of dis
guised Chinese is conducted with con
summate finesse. The scheme in
use there, if followed by a really cap
able Chinaman, are usually effective.
Hundreds of the more intelligent are
landed in Havana and at Mexican
ports, whence they can make their
way to this country.
Chinese immigration is welcomed in
Mexico. There is a tradition pre
served in the old histories of the Ce
lestial empire that centuries ago
trading junks from China landed on
the western coast of Mexico and
opened up commercial relations with
the subjects of Montezuma. The Chi
nese often have in mind this ancient
relation when they go to the country
over which rules President Diaz. The
Chiese learn Spanish, adopt the Mex
ican dress and manners, learn to wear
a sombrero with grace and often, af
ter waiting for two years to perfect
themselves in being imitation Mexi
cans, they bodily cross the southern
border and make their way to the
nearest Chinatown.
Many Cross Border
Disguised as Nuns.
Some of the Chinese under the di
rection of shrewd agents have even
passed over both the Canadian and
Rio Grande borders garbed as nuns.
Most of them are bom imitators, and
once tbey have seen their instructor
in familiar poses they follow his di
rections to the letter.
Little is heard these days of the
spectacular methods of running the
blockade which were once employed
by eager Chinese and have dropped in
to disuse. Chinese no longer have
themselves packed up in boxes or
chests and sent by express; neither
do they go in vans, which are likely to
be suddenly tipped into rivers. There
are seldom wild chases across the
snow from Canada to the United
States, with accompaniments o? bay
ing hounds and barking revolvers.
Such methods are irregular and unre
liable and they have been supplanted
by those which are esteemed as more
businesslike.
Chinese are not welcomed in Can
ada any more than they are here and
a head tax of $500 each is placed up
on them. It is regarded as, in fact,
prohibitive. Until three months ago,
when a law was passed assessing
them at $300 a head, no such tax was
exacted in Newfoundland.
Chinese could be carried in bond
from Vancouver without having to
pay the impost demanded of them in
the Dominion, and the result has been
that many of them availed themselves
of those conditions. It was until
quite recently the custom to permit
Chinese who were supposed to be on
their way to the United States with
proper credentials to remain in Cana
da for 90 days before they were noti
fied to proceed with their journey. By
a special arrangement, however, with
Many Chinese Laundries Now Em
ploy White Help.
the Canadian Pacific the Chinese
were rushed through the British terri
tory without having the advantage of
the 90 day clause. This arrangement,
however, did not hold with certain
smaller railroads which carried pas
sengers to Newfoundland. The United
States Chinese inspectors have ne
gotiated an arrangement within the
last few weeks under which Chinese
supposed to be on their way to the
United States must be bonded.
There are now said to be hundreds
of Chinese in Newfoundland who have
for months been waiting their chance
to attain their ultimate goal, the
United States.
Claim to American
Birth Is Common.
One of the problems which have
worried the Chinese inspectors sta
tioned at Malone, which is the point
in this state where many Chinese are
brought from Canada, is the nativity
clause. Scores of them present them
selves and submit to arrest, for they
(.have about them as a usual thing
nothing which indicates any claims
which they may be inclined to make.
Hardly have they been taken Into
custody, however, when relatives or
friends, accompanied by a shrewd law
yer, go to the rescue with birth cer
tificates and affidavits which show
that the persons detained were really
born in the United States and as such
are entitled to admission. It is esti
mated by a prominent inspector that
if all the claims to American birth
made by Chinese be true every Chi
nese family in this country must have
75 children.
Chinese af intelligence who can
give any evidence that they are not
laborer?, but actually merchants, are
able to get into the United States with
little trouble. One of the familiar
schemes—and it is one which is often
successful—is employed by merchants
for the benefit of friends and relatives
here. The merchant will practically
close out his business, leaving, how
ever, a few outstanding accounts.
Sometimes, if his customers are good
pay, two or three obliging friends may
consent to be debtors. The merchant,
after comfortably establishing himself
in China, sends his friend or kinsman
over to the United States to close
out his business, looking after his bad
debts and generally adjusting things,
duly certified accounts are shown to
the inspectors to demonstrate the ne
cessity for admitting the "merchant'’
without delay. Frequently such a one
is found ironing shirts in a laundry,
I but his legal status is that of a dealer.
Aside from the Chinese who gain
admittance through the gates of the
country by means of keys to which
they have no legal right, there is a
vast majority who as merchants, stu
dents, travelers or actors are entitled
to all the privileges guaranteed them
under the staute. The classes with
money do not have to fear being sub
mitted to inconvenience. As far as the
Celestials are concerned who get in
without compiling with the law the
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The Returning Chinese Merchant Is
Never Molested.
high wages and the industrial oppor
tunities here make the game for them
well worth the candle if they succeed.
Rough Weather Ends
Trip of “Slave Ship.”
In this connection a real life story
| of the sea, of smuggling and adven
ture, thrilling pursuits and hair
breadth escapes, and the perilous voy
age of a little schooner, under whose
battered down hatches was a cargo
such as the slavers of the story books
carried, ended when the Frolic of Bos
ton was discovered by chance in the
harbor of Providence, R. I.
It was the sea that had been its
refuge that finally wrought the un
doing of the Frolic and foiled its ad
venture after it had played tag with
revenue cutters and customs officers
for weeks along the coast. The Frolic
was a battered and crippled ghost of
a boat when it crept into port with 42
woebegone and starving Chinamen in
its hold. In' the night, while it was
believed the crew of a storm beaten
fishing boat was repairing damage,
dories went to and from the shore
and the Frolic and 27 Chinamen were
landed.
The Chinamen were still being
taken ashore and hidden in coal
heaps, when a man employed on one
of the pockets on a dock stumbled
across a shivering group of Chinamen
and gave the alarm. A little later
customs and immigration officers
swooped down on the Frolic and cap
tured 15 Chinamen and two of the
crew. Skipper H. K. Colby, of Bos
ton, who led the adventure, and his
mate, “Al” Adams, slipped away in
a dory and escaped. On shore offi
cers captured John C. Lehnemann, of
Boston, whose part in the adventure
was convoying and smuggling China
men to the refuge of the Chinese
quarter in Providence.
The two members of the crew of the
Frolic who were captured said the
little vessel had beaten about the
coast- from Eastport, Me., to Cape
Hatteras for two weeks, dodging rev
enue cutters and co^pt guards, and
buffeted by storms. They said the
Frolic’s captain only took the des
perate chance of running into Provi
dence when the little vessel had been
so battered it could not stay at sea
any longer.
A Good Fellow.
“What kind of a man is Bliggins?”
“He's a good fellow. He’d borrow
your last dollar in order to lend it to
somebody that he thought needed it
more than you do.”—Washington Star.
YANKEE WAYS A SURPRISE.
Porte Rican Astonished at Applica
tion of Common Sense.
“The Porto Rico cow,” said the
man who had been stationed on the
Island as a soldier for two' years, “is
as humble a looking animal as one
ever came across. I never saw one
hook or kick or display the least tem
per, nor did I pver find anyone else
who had. The first time I ever saw
one milked was a matter of the
greatest surprise. When a boy had
driven her up to the shed, where she
stood chewing her cud and switching
her tail, the owner brought out a rope
and tied her head fast to a post.
Then a second rope made her front
legs fast A third did for her iind
legs and a fourth went around her
boyd. She was trussed up until she
could hardly wink an eye.
" ‘What on earth is all that for?” I
asked the man.
“ ‘I am going to milk her, senor,’ he
replied.
v “And you tie her up that way twice
a day, taking half an hour each
time?”
“ ‘Always, senor.’
“ ‘But she doesn't look to me like a
kicking cow.’
“ ‘Perhaps she is not. I do not
know.’
“I cast off all the ropes,” said the
ex-soldier, “and then took the pail
from him and sat down and milked.
The cow stood as quiet as a monu
ment. During the perforaance a
score or more of men and women had
gathered around, and when it was
over I said:
“'There, now. But why tie your
cows up to be milked?'
“ ‘Santa Maria!’ gasped an old man,
as he looked around on the crowd and
crossed himself. Tf we are not to tie
our cows up to be milked how long
will it be before these Yankees will
be telling us that it is not necessary
to keep our eggs four weeks before
eating V
"You say he is a golf expert?"
“Yes. He knows all the profanity
in the English language”—Milwaukee
Sentinel.
PAPERS WALL WITH CHECKS.
Remind Owner of Time When He
Was Prosperous.
Sitting many hours a day gazing
reminiscently at the walls of a square
room papered with canceled bank
checks, Gerald de Costa, a queer old
character, is passing the last days of
his life, says a New York World cor
respondent at River Denys, Cape Bre
ton. Physicians say that he has an
incurable disease and order him to lie
down, but he insists on sitting up,
that he may look at the checks.
De Costa went from London to
Chicago after the great fire which
devastated the Windy city and be
j came a prosperous grain merchant.
He continued to wax rich until the
panic of 1893, when he was forced to
the wall and left practically penniless.
While wealthy he did a big business
through banks, and as he always kept
the checks after they had come back
through the clearing house he had
nearly a trunkful at the time he
failed.
These checks he has always treas
ured as souvenirs of his prosperous
days and when he came here in 1898
and bought a small house between
River Denys and Port Hood he pa
pered the walls of one of his rooms
with them. They are drawn on at
least 20 banks, and De Costa declares
that he can tell what each paid for.
This is all the more* remarkable, as
the man settled his personal as well
as his business obligations with pa
per. He never carried more than a
dollar in cash in his pockets at one
time, and if a man didn’t want to
cash a check he made no sale.
De Costa says that he would rather
look at the checks than eat his din
ner, and this is literally true, for aU
his meals are served in the check
room.
Suspicion Aroused.
"The population of St Petersburg
is still growing,” said the census offi
cial, jubilantly.
“We’ll have to Bee about that” an
swered the exar. "The police are evi
dently not doing their duty in sending
| people to Siberia.”—Washington Star.
FOR THE BEDROOM.
PRETTY THINGS ARE OFFERED
IN PROFUSION.
Knitted Bed-Spread Is Coming Into
Favor—Cover for the Pillows—
Bolster .Rolls for Furnishings
of Cretonne.
Various materials for making bed
spreads may be found in the shops
In the heavy dimities, cretonnes, den
ims, art tickings and linen taffetas.
Some of the newest spreads are of
white taffetas printed with different
flowers to harmonize with the fur
nishings of the room. A spread with
a border of cretonne to match the
border on the curtains, and even the
wall paper, with a trellis or border of
the same design, is very attractive.
Hand-embroidered linen spreads are
also quite the fashion. They the
beautiful as well as durable. There
is nothing prettier than a bed cov
ering entirely of white. For those
who want their bed to look dressy,
many new patterns in lace and net
coverings are shown.
With the return of old-fashioned
furniture, the knitted bed-spread is
also somewhat in favor. As a rule,
the work is done in squares that are
fastened together and then finished
with a border of plain knitting or
crocheting. This sort of spread is
durable, but it is very heavy to laun
der.
A small spread for the pillows is
just as necessary as the large one.
Very often the bed-spread is made
long enough to cover the pillows.
For those who do not care for the
old-style pillow sham, a cover is
made of an oblong strip to match
the spread. When this sort of cover
ing is used, the pillows should be
laid flat on the bed. If one has plenty
of room the pillows may be stored
through the day, and a bolster roll
of pasteboard covered with material
.to match the spread, can be substi
tuted. These bolster rolls, however,
are used rather when the bed is
dressed in cretonnes than when in
the simple white.
DISHES LIKED BY JAPANESE.
Recipes Worth Trying by the West
ern Housewife.
Japanese Sushi.—Cook a cup of rice
In boiling water. After boiling about
ten minutes uncover the kettle ancf
add any salt fish. Cook until done,
turn out on a plattertand pour over
it a mayonnaise.
Japanese Shuriko.—Cook rice in
salted water until well done. Form
into cake on a platter and pour over
it a sauce made of red beans cooked
in a syrup of sugar and water.
Japanese Salad.—Put half a cup of
well-washed rice in boiling water,
cooking rapidly for 25 minutes. Drain
and dry. Put half teaspoonful salt,
a good dash of pepper and six table
spoonfuls olive oil into a bowl, and
after mixing thoroughly add a table
spoonful fine shredded onion and two
tablespoonfuls vinegar. Pour this
dressing over the hot rice, toss and
stand aside until cold. When ready
to serve, cover a round dish with the
Japanese crosne, which you can get
in the Chinese quarter, and turn the
salad in the center, mound fashion.
Around the base of this mound ar
range a row of sardines, as though
swimming, then garnish with red
beets cut in narrow threads like fine
noodles. Failing the crosnd, use let
tuce or cress.
Nut Cocoa Cake.
For nut cocoa cake, cream one cup
of sugar with two-thirds of a cup of
butter, add three well-beaten egg
yolks. Add two and one-half cups of
flour, sifted with two and one-half tea
spoonsful of baking powder and one
cup of sweet milk. Beat the whites
stiffly and then add to the batter, with
a quarter of a cup of cocoa and one
cup of mixed chopped walnuts and
pecans which have been slightly
floured. Bake in a shallow pan. For
an icing mix two tablespoons of butter
with half a cup of cocoa, add one cup
of confectioner’s sugar and a quarter
of a cup of thin cream or rich milk.
Boil about five minutes and then beaf
until creamy. Flavor with a little
vanilla and spread over the cake.
One Way to Cure Toothache.
The abrogation of the Dingley law
to “smash the trusts" would smash
them last of all. Before this were
done it would smash the small inde
pendent concerns which can maintain
themselves against the highly paid
labor competition of the trusts, which
could not maintain themselves against
the cheap labor competition of foreign
producers. It would smash the wages
of American labor, which must come
down to the level of foreign labor or
be thrown out of work. Any man can
cure a toothache by blowing out his
brains. To repeal the Dingley law as
a means of breaking the power of the
trusts would be to kill the national
body when only the trust tooth re
quired attention.—N. Y. Press.
Dried Apple Pudding.
Two cups of dried apples, soaked
over night, chop fine; 1% cups of
sour milk, cup of sour cream, a
little salt, 2-3 cup g£ molasses, 2 tea
spoons of soda, flour enough to stir
it stiff. Steam two hours. Serve
with sauce.
Sauce for Pudding.—One cup of
sugar, % cup of butter, 1 heaping
tablespoon of flour. Beat to a cream.
Pour boiling water on it. stirring
briskly till of the right thickness.
Set it on top of teakettle to cook and
season it with lemon or anything to
suit the taste.
First Washing of Blankets.
When washing a new blanket for
the first time,' begin by soaking it for
12 hours in cold water, then rinse in
clean water. This will remove the
sulphur used in the bleaching. After
this wash the blanket in a lukewarm
lather made of boiled soap and water.
Rinse well in clear water, shake thor
oughly and hang out to dry.
A Refreshing Odor.
To obtain a lasting and refreshing
odor of sweet violets, put half an
ounce of orrisroot, broken in «n»n
pieces, in a bottle with two ounces of
alcohol; cork it tight and ah«ire well
then leave four or Ave days.
Proper Care of the Hands.
Exercise for the Hands and ^rms.
*Td give $1,000 for a nice pair of
hands,” said a business woman, “and
more if it would do any good. I am
doing pretty well now, for a woman.
But if I had nice hands I would be
a rich woman in a little while.
“Hands do a great deal for a per
son. You can wear a veil over your
face and you can shade your complex
ion with a hat. You can partially
cover your bad features with your
hair and you can drape this and ar
range that so that your face is not
brought out into the broad, clear light
of day. But with your hands it is
different.
“A woman can wear her gloves in
the street. But even in gloves one’s
hands show. The minute the gloves
come off the hands are displayed,
piteously and shamelessly. A woman
cannot put her hands behind her, no
matter how stubby her nails may
happen to be. And she can’t sit on
them or wrap them in her apron or
get them out of sight in any way.
They have got to show.
“A good pair of hands wins the day
many a- time for a business woman.
If she can lay her hand upon her desk,
well shaped and perfectly cared for,
it is worth good money to her. There
is something that is so prepossessing
in a good hand.
“The woman whose hand Is short
and thick and whose nails look as
though they were chopped ofT with a
coupon clipper has much to contend
with. Nobody likes her and every
body fights her. The sight of her
hands makes people warlike. They
can see at a glance that she is the
heroine of many battles, and they do
not take the trouble to shield her
from further attacks. Anything is
good enough for her.
| The Fashionable Hand Is White and;.
Well Groomed.
“If her hands, on the contrary, are
nice and soft, white and well shaped
and if the nails are long and tapering
! and pink to the very tips then people
j like her. They feel that she is a lady
and they want to be gentle with her.
It is entirely different with the woman
with a warlike hand.
“Hands are sometimes deceptive
and it often happens that people w'10
have done no hard work at all are the
owners of hands that are scarred as if
from battle. There isn't much excuse
for it, the manicures say. And bad
i hands mean bad management.”
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JUST WHAT TO BUY
BEST MATERIALS TO SUIT THE
MODEST PURSE.
One Gown of Voile, Preferably Helio
trope, Should Be First Selection
Serviceable for All Nice
Occasions.
“Just what shall I buy?” asked a
woman of her modiste. “I must make
a nice appearance, and I must wear
my gowns a long time. And under the
circumstances I realize that I ought
not to buy carelessly. What would
you get if you were in my place?”
The modiste hesitated a moment.
"I am trying to decide," said she.
“But there is really no reason for in
decision. If you are going to have
only one dress, it is best to get a
voile. Let the color be a pale helio
trope. And be sure that you have a
number of violet things to match.
Your umbrella, your gloves, your hat
and your wrist bag can be in violet
or heliotrope.
“Your Voile gown must have a lin
ing and for this purpose you can get
a linen taffeta. You will have a drop
skirt and you will want a waist lin
ing. When you have these you will
be gowned. Trim your voile with
black and white satin, using just
enough of it to give it the French
touch.
“The voile is serviceable for calling
and all nice occasions. And you can
feel that you have one dress-up gown.
It wears well and looks dressy until
it is gone. You can, if you so de
sire, have two drop skirts and two
waist linings. But let one be white,
which makes the heliotrope look much
softer and more delicate. Your other
drop skirt should be a deep purple to
make your voile look entirely differ
ent.
“If you can have two dresses, let
the other be a medium blue cloth, In
one of the new shades of blue. Let it
be made in street style with belted
jacket and side-plaited skirt. Let it
be as snug as possible, and trim it
elaborately with braid.
“If you can afford, still, a third
dress, let It be one of the new novelty
mixtures which resemble men’s suit
ings. They are both smart and dura
ble and they make up charmingly into
coat suits. Let the skirt be plain and
cut with a foot flare and let the coat
be an Eton. But do not let it be too
severe. It is smart to trim such a
stilt was green and blue plaid, which
is always pretty.”
The modiste might have added that,
with these suits, there are small and
very pretty hats with a touch of fur
upon them which make the costume
very smart. These fur hats come
trimmed with silk and made up in
turban shape, or in irregular shapes
that become all faces.
A Hint from Paris.
Hats of plaited and ruched tulle or
malines, with a sable animal laid
about the crown are topped off by
long and voluminous plumes. The ef
fect is exquisite. One model of white
ruched tulle, as sheer as mist, had a
sable animal laid about its frosty
masses and from one side poured a
vaporous and abundant black paradise
plume held by a beautiful ornament of
brilliants. One of pale pink tulle tad
a dark sable animal and a tan colored
aigrette springing ofT at one side,
after the coquettish Parisian, manner.
Artistic Effects in
Drapery of Windows.
German Exhibition in Connection with
Development of Art in the
Home.
In connection with the movement
for the development of art in the
home, the interest of Germany was
made manifest recently in the form
of a most interesting and artistic ex
hibit of furniture and other acces
sories. It took place in Berlin. It
New Effect in Heavy drapery.
was claimed that if home is to he
the cherished and sacred shrine of
all that is good, it should likewise be
the meeting; ground of all that is beau
tiful. The eye should be pleased, the
taste should be gratified as much
as the heart and affections engaged
It was to prove the possibility of this
that the exhibition had been organ
ized, and, f urthermore, to demonstrate
that the craft of the furniture and
cabinet maker had raised itself at
last from the standing of a trade to
that of a fine art.
There was a splendid display oi
curtains in the exhibition. One set
were remarkable for a clever device
for lightening the effect of heavy
drapery. The curtains were thick vel
vet ones, embroidered. The top
piece was also of velvet, but there
was a strip of net, embroidered with
the figures of swans let into it.
through which the light of the win
dow showed. This quite neutralized
the dull and heavy effect of the rest,
and made it almost light and airy.
Dresden Girdles.
Dresden ribbon girdles should be
confined to frocks of thin or cream
fabrics. The striking inappropriate
sight of one with a heavy, dark wool
en skirt, and a cheviot shirtwaist is
not infrequent.
French Waists.
The French waists are made up be
fore they are embroidered, and in
this way they secure a certain uni
formity of style and design. The
trimming is sure to be straight, which
is not always the case when the waist
is made up afterward.
The embroidery, the raffles, the lit
tle buttons and even the ribbon trim
mings are all symmetrical. There is
a complete look which the hap-hazard
waist never has. All waists should
be made up before being embroidered,
or ruffled.