Fashion is looking np, and the in
fluence of clothes is being realized.
There is no doubt that clothes to a
very great extent make the woman,
and that man is more easily allured
by the grace of the gown than the
grace of the mind, although, of
course, he would have you think
otherwise, and will hold forth
with considerable emphasis on the
text that no man ever knows what
costume a woman has on, nor is he
at all concerned with the shape of
her hat, or the way she does her
hair! Any woman realizes more ac
curately" the real masculine attitude
towards the feminine fashions. And
what are the feminine fashions just
at the moment? Well,* they are
making conclusively for the diaphan
ous fabric, the feathered hat and the
lace insertion.
The new model Irish lace dresses
are quite delightful, specially those j
which have loose lace coats and j
skirts which fit tightly round the hips
and flow outward at the feet. I pre
fer the loose coat and the thin blouse
which is entirely made of lace, and
more especially would I recommend
this to the stout woman, for there is
much reticence in the full loose coat,
which at once conceals the outlines
and disguises its attempt. Lace is
not as transparent in its method as
in its outward seeming.
I Still, under any circumstances the
Irish lace dress, whether from Paris
or from the Emerald isle, is not with
in the reach of most of us. We con
tent ourselves, and well content our
selves, too, with dresses of fine lace,
dresses of lawn, dresses of muslin.
Never were the muslins prettier, es
pecially as some one remarked with
more wit than wisdom, “when they
are cotton voiles.” Cotton voiles grow
in number, and improve in quality
every day, while they remain pleas
antly within the grasp of the most
limited income, and disport them
selves gayly with stripes and checks
and spots and flowered patterns, the
stripes being most prominently in
favor in every color and size.
I advise those who choose a black
and white stripe to be careful to se
lect the narrowest, for in wide stripes
lurks ever the suggestion of Brother
BOnes in his Sunday best. The nar
row black stripe is altogether de
lightful when supplied with the appro
priate vest of net or lace, and per
haps a touch of pale blue ribbon to
Iform a tie or the edge of the collar
band.
Muslin and net ribbon-trimmed hats
are asserting their right to considera
tion, and the manufacturers have de
vised many novelties in hats of
linen, but these being destined to take
the place of the panama, and assum
ing equally nondescript shapes, shapes
which lend themselves to individual
influence, and will appear smiling and
even becoming when the crown Is
bunched into a hollow, and the brim
irregularly convulsed. The linen hats
with stitched brims and stitched
crowns are trimmed with scarfs of
NEW YORK CITY'S BIG DEBT.
Metropolis of the Nation Is Decidedly
Extravagant.
New York city is the master bill
contractor in the world, and the In
dividual citizen owes more as a citi
zen of New York than he does as a
citizen of the United States. Next to
New York the 25 larger cities of the
Vnited States, in the order of their
population, are as follows: Chicago,
Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Balti
more, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francis
co, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, New Or
leans, Detroit, Milwaukee, Washing
ton, Newark, Jersey City, Lduisville,
Minneapolis, Providence, |pdianapotis,
Kansas City, St Paul, Rochester,
Denver and Toledo. Their population,
according to the census of 1900, was
about 9,600,000, against 3,437,000 for
Greater New York. It is not likely
that this proportion has changed
much. Now, the total bonded indebt
edness of these 36 cities is about
1417,000,000, almost $100,000,000 Jess
Vision that' of tte “
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means that the per capita debt of the
citizens of New York is $145.35,
against $43.45 for those of the other
large cities. Boston with $116 and
Cincinnati with $114 come the nearer
to approaching New York's, record,
while Chicago and San Francisco, ow
ing only $12 per capita each, make the
£est showings.—Broadway Magazine.
Was the Best Man.
In Eldorado a bridegroom gave his
best man an envelope containing a
twenty-dollar bill to be given to the
clergyman after the ceremony. The
best man is found to have given the
preacher an enVte3ope containing a
one-dollar bill.—Kansas City Star.
Two of Them.
“Yes,' indeed.” suid Miss Upplsch,
“my great grandmother on my moth
er’s Hide was noted for her proud and
imperious bearing.”
“How strange!” exclaimed Miss
Knox; “mu* servant girl’s ths
Uggj|i
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crepe de chine or soft silk, the ends
being embroidered and fringed.
The newest belt is made of leather
of one color, and striped with leath
er of another color, and this looks its
best with a white foundation and
striped in black. But elastic belts
continue popular, to doubt, by reason
of .their adaptability, and belts of
ribbon either buckled or held with
embroidered buttons or hooks,' are
particularly becoming in the small
waist. Much favor is still being
shown to the riblion belt, which is
made in one with over-sleeves and
braces of ribbon, ~hese braces being
either frilled or plain, made of the
ribbon' treated simply, or made of
piece silk adorned with a trellis of
silk, the best effect being gained by
some dark ribbon which matches the
Original Design for an Afternoon
Dress.
Black taffeta, trimmed with black silk
insertion. The skirt Is tucked to fit round
the hips. Black hat with long white
feather fastened with a buckle.
skirt, while the blouse with which
these are worn Is of fine white soft
lawn.
China silk is also much in request,
mostly bearing a design on either bor
der, while the groundwork is in
variably white, and silver embroider
ies glisten triumphantly from founda
tion of straw-colored net
Straw and buff are tones which hold
their own, and may be found in net,
chiffon and glace, and attractive cloth
frocks also strike these notes, and
they look well if allied skillfully to
black and white stripes. Light col
ored cloth and heavy guipure lace,
'and black and white stripes are a fa
vorable union of fashion, and those
whom fashion has Joined let no wom
an set asunder until fashion has us
convinced they do not agree.
HOME OF THE PRESIDENT
Prom stereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. T.
Looking east from a window of the Navy department building showing
White House with Executive office in the foreground.
MAINE HAS A UTOPIA
COMMUNITY OF TEMPERANCE
ADVOCATES THRIVES.
Vice Unheard of In Benedicta—Is
Without Jail, Poorhouse, Free
from Debt and Has Cash
on Hand.
Boston.—Benedicta, in Maine, is the
Homan Catholic Utopia and the dream
of the W. C. T. U. come true. It is
tabioided Home Rule. Irish Catholics
settled in it. Their descendants,
sturdy Americans, run it. Only Cath
olics live there now, and ' probably
only Catholics will ever live there.
It is crimeless, jailless, poorhouseless,
free from debt and Ideally adminis
tered.
As a community Benedicta is more
ideal than Moore’s “Utopia” or Ba
con’s “New Atlantis.” Though 40
miles from any other town and 100
miles from a railroad, Benedicta has
electric light service, a municipal
water supply, several fine buildings,
and all the conveniences of a thor
oughly modern city.
Benedicta is not only free from
debt, but has a surplus in the treas
ury. Moreover there is not a poor
family in the place and there never
has been any occasion for the estab
lishment of any of the usual institu
tions for the poverty stricken or peace
breakers.
When Fenwick started his colony
he purchased more than 12,000 acres
of fertile timber lands, comprising
the .western half of a township in
ArQOstook county. There he began
to build up an ideal community of
temperance residents.
t Though many of the younger gener
ation have gone to cities for work,
leaving their elders on farms, the cen
sus of 1900 showed that the colony
numbered 350 persons.
Benedicta got its charter as a town
in 1874, the name being bestowed in
honor of its founder.
The nearest place where any liquor
can be bought is Houlton, 44 miles
away through the woods to the east,
and the nearest point of railway con
nection is Bangor, more than 100
miles to the south.
NEW RECORD IN JUNE BRIDES.
One Every Thirteen Minutes for the
Month in Chicago.
Chicago.—While you read these
words, stop and think! Chicago has
3,300 June brides to-day! The love
bug has been working overtime and
has broken all records.
Three thousand three hundred June
brides! That means 110 brides a day
or one every 13 minutes!
Hymen, Cupid & Co. report the
most prosperous month since the firm
was established.
Last year there were 3,103 June
brides; in 1905, 2,907; 1904, the record
was 2,758.
Marriage License Clerk Salmonson,
the man who has opened the door
of wedded happiness to hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans
and others, preached a little lay ser
mon the other day for June brides.
These are the points on which he laid
stress:
1. Love your husband always.
2. Be his companion, his friend, his
chum.
3. Never, never ne suspicious or
nagging.
4. Study his tastes and give him
what he likes.
5. Get up and cook his breakfast
for him.
6. Make his home as attractive for
him as you can—as attractive as the
club or the saloon.
PIE WILL SOON BE A LUXURY.
Pure Food Law Will Raltfe Price of
Desert and Other Things.
Washington.—The operations of the
federal pure food law are plainly going
to add still further to the cost of
living in American homes, flow much
the increase will be can only be esti
mated thus far.
The manufacturers whose products
and methods uiill require to be
changed in order to comply with new
regulations can only guess at the ex
pense of the changes. But speaking
broadly, the use of preservatives and
coloring matter has made it possible
to sell many staple articles to the
public for less money than they can
be sold for when these are not used.
Take the single list of canned fruits
and vegetables, pickles, preserves,
jams, jellies, catchups and the like.
C9loring and preserving matters are
used in these. Some manufacturers
claim to produce them without pre
servatives, but the housewife who
wants to know how much is saved by
the privilege of using these things
will be able to learn by asking her
grocer the difference in price between
the goods that are guaranteed to be
free from these seasonings and those
which are not.
She will learn that for the greater
part the articles guaranteed to be free
of such preservatives or coloring mat
ter constitute the limited aristocracy
of food articles, at prices which make
them the luxuries of the comparative
ly few.
Pie at any rate is going up when
ever sodium benzonate is denied to
the makers of the insides. The slice
which now sells at five cents will
command ten, and the ten-cent por
tion will go for not less than 15, ac
cording to the dire predictions of the
pie purveyors. Pie will become the
luxury of the rich rather than the
staple of the bourgeois dyspeptic.
Two Oldest Editors.
John W. Oliver, of the Yonkers
Statesmen, is said to be the oldest ac
tive editor in the United States. Mr.
Oliver will be 92 on April 30, yet he is
on duty at his desk six days a week.
The next oldest editor is said to be
Charles Holt of the Kankakee Gazette,
of Kankakee, Ind., who is 90.
Only One Service a Year.
Story of a Curious Little Church on an
English Hilltop.
London.—There stands upon a hill
in the village of Uphill, in the county
of Somerset, a small and very old
church, which4s surrounded by caves
in which the bones of all kinds of ani
mals have been discovered. This his
toric place of worship, which looks
down upon Uphill castle and the vil
lage itself, was at one time the only
place of worship for miles around.
For Several years no Sunday serv
ices have been held within its wnllB,
and the only time that the public is
allowed to worship there is one night
in the year—on Christmas eve—when
the vicar of Uphill or some other cler
gyman officiates. ^There is a footpath
leading up the hill to the church, but
as the hill is a very, steep one and the
distance great very, lew people visit
the church. It is by order of the ec
clesiastical commheloners that it is
opened to the public ones * year.
this interesting edifice, one of which
is to the effect that the church was
purposely built on the top of the hill
so that the preacher could feel con
vinced of the sincerity of those who
accomplished the task of climbing to
it. The church has been visited by
people from all parts of the world. It
is the only building in England—prob
ably in the world—in which Divine
service is conducted only once a year.
8and Artists to Combine.
Atlantic City, N. J.—“Artists” who
eke out a livelihood oi^ the b&ach here
by modeling figured in the sand, have
organized a sort of “trust,” to chase
off the beach all would-be artists who
they declare are spoiling*their bus
iness. Headed by James J. Taylor,
the original sand artists will apply to
Mayor Stoy to set aside a day for an
open contest and thus weed out the
undesirable element.
success should be
more **>■» rftsmifg
%'-iLMc3£&£,
JEWS PLAN UNIQUE BANK.
Profits to Be Given for Development
of Palestine. *
Tannersville, N. Y.—At the next
session of the legislature of the state
of New York the Zionists will have a
bill presented authorizing the estab
lishment of a bank in New York city,
which will be unique in that it will
be closed on Saturdays and the profits
of which will be devoted to the devel
opment of Palestine.
A committee headed by Nathan
Prensky, a merchant of Brooklyn;
Henry Jackson, of Pittsburg, and Dr.
B. L. Gordon, of Philadelphia, re
ported at a session of the Zionists’
convention here that stock to the
amount of $50,000 had already been
subscribed for, with promises of a
similar sum as soon as the bank is
established. One of the features of
this bank will be a steamship broker
age department, which will serve to
protect the poor and ignorant Jews of
the East side of New York city from
the frauds practiced on them by irre
sponsible men.
As soon as the bank in New York
city has been established branches
will be opened in Boston, Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Cleveland,
Chicago and Cincinnati and in other
cities where there are large Jewish
settlements.
It is anticipated that the profits of
this enterprise will be so large that
many projects for development of the
industrial and agricultural possibili
ties of Palestine, which are now in
abeyance, will be successfully carried
out and the way opened for the set
tling there of an enormous Jewish
peasant population.
to Save the coal supply.
Crude Methods of Production Have
Caused Immense Waste.
Washington. — The government,
through the United States geological
survey, is planning with the producers
of coal to place far in the distance the
day when the country’s coal supply
shall be exhausted. Crude methods
of production, with more attention
paid to cheap production than to sav
ing and scientific methods of mining,
have resulted in an astonishing waste
of coal. This will never be recog
nized, for it lies buried deeply in
abandoned mines now filled in. Also,
it is planned to prolong and regulate
the supply of coal by new methods
of mining, which will, no doubt, result
in adding many years to the existence
of the now available supply.
The extravagance in the production
of coal, amounting to almost criminal
waste, has not had the effect of re
ducing the cost to consumers. This,
at least, is the opinion of Edward W.
Parker, of the geological survey,
was a member of President Roose
velt’s coal strike commission, and pro
bably is more familiar with coal con
ditions than any man in the country.
“One of the greatest problems to
overcome in the production of coal,”
said Mr. Parker, “is a reduction in the
waste of mining. Only a few years
ago only 40 per cent, of the coal in
a mine was marketed. Sixty per cent,
was lost. Cheap mining methods
caused this waste. Under improved
methods the waste has now been re
duced *to from 30 to 40 per cent.”
GIVES LOCATION OF THE SOUL.
Man Who Hopes to Photograph It
Says It Is in the Throat.
New York.—“The soul of a man Is
soft and gelatinous, small, practically
shapeless, and situated beneath the
first rib. Below the Adam’s apple in
a man, and in a woman at the base of
her throat, is a spot of little or no re
sistance. It i3 from this place when
the hour of death has come that the
soul must be taken. It does not pass
like a shadow. It is not a flight. The
soul must be drawn out by an angel
sent by God to perform this opera
tion, and this seat of life is trans
ferred, warm, palpitating, to a body
the counterpart of the one it has left.
It is substance, material, and could be
as well caught by the camera as the
human face.”
It was thus that Henry /Price of
Mount Vernon explained recently his
theory of the soul’s passage and the
possibility of obtaining a photographic
reproduction thereof.
“I do not think, by any mekns, that
all men have souls. You may and
may not have a soul, according as you
have merited it.”
52 Gotham Murders In Month.
New York.—Four hundred and
ninety-eight deaths were reported to
the coroner’s office in June. Accord
ing to the monthly report of Chief
Clerk Jacob E. Bausch, 236 were due
to violence or accident, the remaining
262. being sudden deaths due to nat
ural causes. Of the deaths by vio
lence or accident 52 were homicides
and 29 were suicides. Thirty-nine
bodies were found floating in the
rivers. Sixteen persons were killed
by carriages or wagons, 15 by the
street railways and three by automo
biles.
PAPER PROM CORNSTALKS,
German Inventor Said to Have Solved
the Pulp Problem.
Berlin.—The problem of providing
for the enormous consumption of pa
per caused by the immense number
of newspapers and books published in
our time, which cannot possibly be
supplied much longer with the ma
terial manufactured from wood pulp,
has practically been solved, it is de
clared, by a German engineer named
Drewsen, who has invented a process
through which all kinds of paper can
be made out of cornstalks.
The new process provides for the
removal of the outside covering and
the making of the marrow into pulp,
with which paper of the finest quality
can be manufactured at a cost much
lower than the wood pulp process at
present in use.
Owing to the large quantity of corn'
raised in every country of the world,
It Is predicted that the new process
will provide the world with all the
paper it needs If the supply of Wood
dtouk^tecooie exhausted.
To judge from the active plans
which are under way for the great
international exposition at Tokio in
1912, one would think that Japan was
too busy to take seriously all the
talk of war with the United States
which is going the rounds of the
press at the present time. Certainly,
international shows and international
conflict do not go together, and it is
doubtful whether the busy little is
land kingdom of the mikado will
choose the destructive policy of
war rather than the constructive
one of stimulating her industries and
commerce by a great world’s fair.
TQiat Japan can fight she demon
strated in the refcent conflict with
Russia, and that she can enter as
heartily into the commercial and
industrial competition of the world
she is demonstrating more clearly
every year, and from now until 1912
she will be desperately busy prepar
ing for what she hopes will be the
biggest world exposition ever held.
As a sort of prelude to that greater
event of five years hence, there is
now being held at Tokio an industrial
exposition which, while in its inspira
tion a purely municipal undertaking,
is in reality national in its charac
ter, and as such worthy the study of
those interested in Japan’s industrial
development.
To the foreign sightseer there is
much in the present show to warrant
not only one visit but several, and
gives him a faint hint of the large
things which may be expected in
1912.
The site of the exposition is Uyene,
the largest public park in Japan. This
park is situated on elevated ground in
the northeastern part of Tokio and
covers about 138 acres of ground.
Like everything else found in Japan,
Uyene park has a history linking it
with the days of the old civilization,
when the emperors were permitted to
live in regal seclusion at Kyoto while
the Shoguns ruled the land from
Tokio, then Yeddo. The park is as
sumed to have derived the name by
which it is generally known from the
fact that back in the days* of the old
Tokugawa Shogunate, a feudal lord
from Uyeno, in Iza province, had a
residence on this site. In order to
insure submission to the Shoguns the
the feudal lords were compelled to
live in Yeddo, where they could be
kept conveniently under the watchful
eyes of the real rulers. Later, one
of the Tokugawa Shoguns spent a
fortune in building here a temple, ri
valing a famous one at the imperial
capital. Like everything else con
nected with the Shogunate, this was
swept away in the great contest of
1868, which restored the imperial fam
ily to actual power and ushered in the
glorious era, the Meiji. The Japan of
to-day reckons its time from that aus
picious event, this year, A. D. 1907. he
ing the fortieth year of the Meiji.
Uyeno was the scene of the first
great exposition of the new era, that
of 1877. In 1879 the grand reception
to General Grant was held there, and
since then Uyeno has always been se
lected for the big affairs at the na
tional capital. It has been greatly
beautified by the unrivaled skill of
famous native landscape artists until
to-day it is unquestionably one of the
most beautiful spots on earth.
This year’s exposition was con
ceived as a means to the encourage
ment of the post helium development
of all branches of domestic Industry,
to pave the way to the great exposi
tion of 1912. The outlay for build
ings has been something over 1,000,
000 yen. While most of these are
temporary, some are of a semiper
manent character and will be util
ized in that greater show of five years
hence.
About one-third of the park is en
closed in the three compounds within
which are located the large buildings
and the smaller ones of the different
! concessionaires. At the main en
trance stands No. 1 building, U shaped
and In the Roman renaissance style.
The entrance is in imitation cf the
’Mumphal gate at Rome, the dome
fifty feet in height
In the left wing of No. 1 building
are large exhibits of porcelain, earth
enware of all kinds, gold and precious,
stone work, lacquer ware, bamboo and
wooden ware, furs, hides and leather,
silks, chemicals, ivory and shell work,
and many articles for personal
adornment. The right wing of the
building is given over to displays of
the mineral resources of the empire
and to educational and scientific dis
plays.
Back of this is No. 2 building, in
German gothic style of architecture,
wherein are agricultural, horticultu
ral and forestry exbibits and aquatic
products. «
In No. 4 building, Swiss-gothic, Is lo
cated the display of army and navy
equipments of all kinds; here also are
the government’s trophies, of the war
with China and the war with Russia.
No. 5 building, in Italian-gothic, is
the only three-story structure in the
compound. It contains many rare ex
hibits of embroidery, clothing of all
kinds, and a great variety of piece
goods illustrating the output of the
various spinning mills of Japan.
Probably the Japanese reverence
f jr the beautiful is responsible for the
fact that the building given over to
art does not have to suffer the indig
nity of being merely designated by
number, as these others are. This is
the Fine Arts building and here have
been gathered together the best works
of modern Japanese artists, with some
good examples of the old art as well.
A public reception hall built in imi
tation of an ancient palace is one of
the unique features of the architec
tural picture. This is for the recep
tion of distinguished visitors.
The Foreign Exhibits building, Ma
chinery hall, Formosan building, and
a number of quite large buildings con
structed by private enterprise—such
as that of the Mitsu Bissan Kaisha.
the Gas company and others—are in
the second compound, in another part
of the park and some distance away.
Of these the Formosan building, con
structed in Imitation of a public hall
in the island which Japan took from
China, presents the most attractive
appearance, as the other buildings are
like exposition buildings the world
over.
This second compound is situated
on the bank of the beautiful Shinobad
zu-no-ike, which is described as a
“lotus pond.” but which we would call
a lake, since it is about a mile in cir
cumference. Across this lake there
has just been built a handsome cause
way of stone; on its east bank stands
the grim and gaunt skeleton of a
“shoot-the-chutes.”
This lake is the most attractive
feature of the exposition grounds.
Lining it are many little shops of all
kinds, from the different prefectures
or states. In the crowds surrounding
these shops there is to be seen every
phase of Japanese life. The war put
a good deal of money into the hands
pf the country people, and, thanks to
cheap excursion rates, these have
come in large numbers to Tokio. With
the exception of the war trophy dis
plays, these little native shops seem
to be the greatest attractions to the
crowds from the country, though the
foreigner who wanders this way cer
tainly divides interest with them for
the time being. Many of these people
have, apparently, never before looked
upon one of the white faced “barba
rians,” and as he wanders from shop
to shop he is honored by the presence,
at a respectful distance, of a large
bodyguard, whose friendly curiosity
in his bartering and his purchases
adds a decided zest to the proceed
ings.
LOOKED SUSPICIOUS TO HIM.
Youngster’s Reasoning Natural Under
the Circumstances.
Five-year-old Lewis had on several
occasions successfully evaded his
nurse, and paid surreptitious and de
lightful visits to the workmen on an
apartment house in process of build
ing at the comer of his block. As the
result of his observations there he un
concernedly ' and without prejudice
emitted a choice and varied assort
ment of profanity at the luncheon
table. His shocked mother tried to
impress upon him that never, never
again muBt he repeat such words.
But Lewis either -lacked discrimina
tion or his parent’s warning had not
been sufficiently impressive, for a few
days afterward he vented a notable
addition to his vocabulary of exple
tives. His mother this time waited
not for speech, but promptly and
ltnnly seised the young man , and
washed his month out with soapsuds,
which she had alr&dy demonstrated
S» an effectual spiritual cleanser. A
E-iraz
few days afterward Lewis was watch
ing the nurse give his six-weeks-old
sister her bath, and when nurse care
fully washed out the little mouth
Lewis asked interestedly: “Nurse,
has baby been saying naughty
words?”
Statistics of Great Industry.
At the census of 1905 the number
of sawmills reported was 18,277, and
their combined capital was $391,621,
184. They furnished employment on
the average to 223,674 wage earners
paid $100,310,891 in wages, consumed
materials costing $263,865,101, and
manufactured products to the value of
$491,524,662. In this induiitry Wis
consin ranked first in value' of prod
ucts, Washington second. Michigan
third, Louisiana fourth and Pennsyl
vania fifth.
Scottish Way of 8ayin(| It
His life extended from .1750, the
year of his birth, till 1824, when he
died.—The Scotsman.
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