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Millinery Modes By JULIA BOTTOMLEY. JUST now there is nothing more in teresting to the shopper than the milliner's windows. They are abloom with their autumn millinery, and their offerings seem much more to the taste of the average woman than were the early showings of the season just passed. These new hats will not be the sport of the caricatur ist, as many modes for spring were. They are not startling, and they are elegant and attractive. Dame fashion seems to have adopted a new fad— judging by the new fall stayles, it is fashionable to be sensible in choosing at hat. There is a drift toward dur ability in all millinery and especially in hats for the street. Hats of silk, cloth or leather pre dominate and trimmings are of quills, wings, well-made fancy feathers com bined with ribbon, velvet or maline. This last looks fragile, but since the process of water-proofing, it has been discovered, it holds its own with other millinery fabrics. .Three pretty new models illustrate the season's modes. The round hat trimmed with quills is a draped tur ban made of beaver cloth over a buck ram frame. This hat is also seen taade of broadcloth, felt, silk and of chamois skin combined with velvet. Some of the best models shown for fall so far are made of chamois. As it may be successfully cleaned, it will appeal to those who require a durable hat and want a pretty one. This model is a happy choice if one happens to own a piece of good broad cloth, or other heavy fabric, left over STYLISH FALL BLOUSE. Predictions of plain skirts and plaid waists seem to be coming true, if one can put faith in the advance fall dis plays. One importer includes among his samples a frock with plain gray cashmere skirt and blouse of coral pink surah checked with fine lines of black. Chemise and stock are white Valenciennes insertion and fagoting, and the flat collar and turned cuffs are of the gray material and fagoting. A large bow of soft black satin ribbon is placed at joining of collar, with ends protruding from beneath pointed piece below bust line. Peasant Modes. The peasant skirt is a case in point, with its deep kilt and its broad sash draped round the hips and tied at the back in a loose bow. Then there is the chemise paysanne of the Swiss type, expressed in snowy muslin slight- i ly gauged into a narrow band of em broidery so that the throat is left en tirely bare. The chemise paysanne has balloon sleeves cut of at the el bows and finished like the guimpe with a band of lace or of embroidery. Such guimpes as these are extreme ly useful for the frocks of girls and children, and of great beauty as a fin ish to cloth and serge frocks. The New Shoulder. It is not new to have sleeve and shoulder all ine one, yet the revived style has many followwers. Some very distinguished designers are using this method on soft little frocks. The sleeve in such a gown only reaches the elbow, dropping over a long tight sleeve of lace or net. It has no outer seam and the under one Is outlined with a narrow Cluny or lace braid. The idea of drapery is given by the fact of the fabricN being folded. The whole bodice, which joins a high-waisted skirt, is laid in folds joined by a seam in front and hooked down the back. The pattern for this is the same as the mandarin jacket. The sleeves are not left square, however, but close in at the elbows and are finished with a turned-back fold of lace or the ma terial. Autumn Hair Dressing. All coiffures are low, very much built out at the back, and rolled soft ly at the sides. Tiaras, wreaths and barrettes are the usual hair orna ments, also metal gauze wreaths in the form of laurel leaves.—Harper’s Be; from gown or coat. There is noth ing smarter than its trimming of quills, and nothing that will stand wear so well. The turban is just as pretty when finished with a group of w'ings at the left side, and an or nament placed to hold the drapery at the right. Fig. 2 shows a model covered with blue kid piped with white and trimmed with a pair of large white wings. The bow at the front is made of the leather so that the entire hat is of this material. The same model is very pretty with the hat of moire or corded silk, and the trimming of vel vet or kid. It has already proved popular made of black moire, faced with white and having a band of white kid about the crown finished with a flat bow of the same at the left side. This model is very elegant with broad black velvet ribbon used for the front bow, mounted with wings in white or black (or both.) Silk-covered hats hold the center of the stage, and those of moire and corded silk most popular. One of them is shown in Fig. 3. They are to be found in all sorts of colors and color combinations, but black and white in this hat has outdistanced all others in the race for popularity. The model shown is of white moire faced with black. Its trimming is a triple ruche of box-plaited maline about the crown and upper brim, and a crushed tie of velvet finished with a knot at the side. Such a model is the best of between season’s millinery, and as near to all-the-year-round wear as can be found. GATHERED FRILLS OF LACE Useful in Arranging the Fullness on Corset Covers Used with Thin Waists. A girl who is a little inclined to be thin will often find it hard to make the fullness in the front of her sum mer waists sit just as she would like to have it. These thin waists cannot, of course, be kept in the proper lines all the time, as thicker ones with bones can, and they need adjusting when they are put on. A great help in arranging the fullness is to have little gathered frills of lace or em broidery on the corset covers to be used with thin waists. These frills are also most useful with all lingerie gowns. Many of the most beautiful of these gowns have fronts that are largely made of very thin lace insertions, and they need something to hold them out. Besides, the effect of these little ruffles is much better through the transparent lace and lawn than when the buttons of a corset cover can be seen. The frills should not -be sewed tc the corset cover, but to a separate piece of muslin, which must be ar ranged to fasten on the corset cover with tiny buttons, or can be fastened with the very small safety pins under the upper ruffle. A piece of muslin or lawn must be used large enough tc cover the front of the corset cover from near the tt>p to below the bust line. On this are sewed two or three ruffles—the number depends on the height of the wearer and the width of the lace used—made of a lace strong enough to stand considerable washing, or of embroidery. High-Waisted Skirt. There is a line in gowns that threat ens to keep its popularity. This is the one that brings the skirt material up to a sharp point at the bust in front and between the shoulder blades at back. Not even the woman who is having her best frock fashioned in this man ner admits that the upreaching point is a pretty one. The human figure seems to demand points and curves that go downward, but in the turn about-face of the universe of clothes in the twentieth century one is thankful to escape with merely a perverted point. * Change in Coiffure. The entire change in the coiffure, the low head dress, with the absence of rats or pads of any kind in the front of the hair, has completely al tered the look of the fall hat. The heads of all the hats are enormous, and would slip down over the face if they were not re-enforced with halos, or lids, which permit them to rest on the crown of the head. The turban and large cavalier shapes are most prominent among the coming fashions, and velvet, plush and fur, with the inevitable and magnificent aigrette, are especially in evidence. Engagement Luncheon. A recent engagement luncheon was arranged in this manner: A loving cup was placed in the center of the table and was filled with tiny boxes of bonbons. Ferns and roses were ar ranged in the cup. Ribbons were drawn from each gift \p the plate and one little box, when opened, held a tiny card with the engagement an nounoement. Another method is to write the announcement on a placard that has a heart and silver dart run through it. This may be pla;ed in I a conspicuous place on the mantel. DAIRY-BRED VEALS BRING HIGHEST PRICES Calf Supply Is Not Increasing and Consumption Is Evi dently Surpassing Production In the Larger Cities. Veal never sold as high as at pres ent In the markets of the United States. At Chicago choice veals have been largely taken by killers at nine dollars per hundred-weight, and $9.50 has been a common quotation in east ern markets. Veal appears to have ac quired popularity, but current high prices are coincident with a lofty lamb market and almost prohibitivo quotations on the succulent pork chops. The cause of these high prices is reflected in demand for yearling cattle of both sexes and it means that the American people are demanding light cuts of all meats, showing a will ingness to pay a premium when their taste is consulted. Not all calves command top prices, for the veal eater is a discriminating individual. Color counts with him and the calf that can be converted into the pink veal epicures prize must have been separated from his dam but a short time before slaughter. Range cattle usually reach market hungry and in feverish condition and the meat dresses a dark hue, necessi tating sale at lower price than meat from dairy calves shipped from points close to Chicago and killed before hunger has become acute and the lit has been credited with making gains in territory tributary to the large cit ies east of the Mississippi river, the calf supply is not increasing and con sumption is evidently surpassing pro duction. The result has been a drain on the young cattle of the west, range bred calves of the half-breeds going to market by the million annually in response to high prices. These west ern calves do not make the best veal, weight and condition in which they reach market being against the mar ket quality of the product, but such is the demand for veal that even big calves, weighing 250 pounds and up, are bought with avidity. Forth Worth and Kansas City are shipping incredi ble quantities of range-bred veal to eastern centers of population, and when the grower is able to sell a calf for more money than he has been accustomed to realize on yearling steers he is not to be blamed for sac rificing these young animals, especial ly when he is facing a shortage of grass and most of these western slaughtered calves are koshered ac cording to Jewish law, the fore-quar ter selling on the New York market at higher prices than choicer cuts fetch. In the New York ghetto, where ko i snered beef was formerly consumed in Light Dairy-Bred Veals That Bring Highest Prices. ue Dawiers Decome feverish and ex- enormous quantities, veal is now giv cited, says Breeder’s Gazette. All calf en the preference and calf values buyers appreciate the necessity of have soared while heavy cattle have shortening the life of the calf as much sold at a discount, as possible after it reaches the stock- But after all, there is no veal in yards. The calf-killers prize weigh America as the European epicure around or close to 130 pounds that knows it. Most of the product is come to the Chicago market from coarse and badly colored when it southern Wisconsin and northern I!- goes to the consumer. Such artificial linois. Etreed counts for nothing, qual- methods as are used in France, Ger ! itv and weight everything in deter- many and EEolland by veal finishers mining prices, and a Shorthorn calf are unknown in America. There the has no advantage over a Jersey. It is calf is hand-fed from birth and when a fact, however, that more Holstein ready for the #market commands prices calves sell at high prices than any that make even New York quotations other breed, not because they make on choice veal look cheap. There ex better veal, but for the reason that ists on this side of the Atlantic the Holstein cows compose in a large possibility of catering to the veal eat measure the herds of intelligent dairy- er, by furnishing him with something men who know how to fit a calf for equal to the European article, with the vealer’s purpose. Milk may be profit. The lamb grower has done high, but feeding it to a calf to a lim- it successfully and why should so ited extent is not unprofitable. much good raw material be wasted in Despite the fact the dairy industry the calf market? FATTENED ON ALFALFA AND CORN In Nebraska many farmers fatten their hogs entirely on alfalfa although corn is the staple crop of that state. Fed with corn, alfalfa produces larger gains than any other feed. Alfalfa and corn should be fed in equal portions, and this ration beats corn alone. Al falfa is an excellent maintenance ra tion and will produce excellent pork. Fed in connection with corn it ia un excelled. The pigs in the picture were fattened at the state experiment station on corn and alfalfa and made an average gain of 5% lbs. per week. SOME POINTS FOR FEEDERS Feeding Operations Generally Started in Fall or Early Winter—Thinss to Remember. Many feeders, but more especially the beginner In the business, are apt to make mistakes when punting a fresh bunch of cattle on feed. As a general thing the feeding operations are started in the late fall or early winter and one of the main things to remember is to start the cattle upon their grain ration gradually. It must not be forgotten that for many months previous they have been on pasture and their ration has consisted largely of green succulent food. If they are taken from pasture and put at once upon a ration of rich, dry feed, the shock upon the digestive sys:em will often result disastrously. Even .though the steer has a large diges tive tract, it stands without question that it requires different functions to digest green .grass than to digest corn or corn meal, and to get the best re sults from either kind of feed the change from one to the other must be gradual. A common method of chan ging to the grain ration is to commence throwing a little corn fodder, with the ears remaining, into the pasture. In this manner the steers will acquire a taste for corn. As the amount is gradually increased their digestive or gans will accommodate themselves to the. change. Sudden changes of this kind often result in bad cases of scours or sometimes bring about equally bad cases of constipation, either of which will put the steer out of condition and it will take a con siderable amount of feed as well as time to bring him back Into a normal growing condition. Co-operative Effort. Two forms of co-operative effort are tried here: Farm fire insurance and the telephone, writes an Indiana cor. respondent. The good roads question is agitating the farmers most of any thing at present. Seven out of ten townships voted on hard road propo sition, and each one carried in the affirmative. What the farmers of our country want is some good state laws and aid without too many frills and red tape. Heating plants and watef systems are being installed in most of the modern farm homes. The abun dance of natural gas that is found in drilling for oil in this locality makes this a popular heat, and in most partn of the country natural drainage ifl good. Specialized Farming. This is a day of specialization ail right; but specialization in farming means that a man raises enough of crops for family and stock, then puta his best licks in on some particular line of farming. However, the farmeT who specializes too much, i. e., thf* one-crop farmer, has overstepped thn legitimate limits of such and the law of diminishing returns will surely pu' him out of the business of farming. Imported Weeds. It is claimed that thousands of dol lars' worth of weeds are annually im ported into this country to be used in making medicine. Such weeds at wild mustard, burdock, jimson, dan delion, vrhich our farmers consider great nuisances, are sold to our chem* ists in large quantities. A quartet of a million dollars was paid last year for 5,000,000 pounds of wild mustard alone. t I THE AM ATOMY OE A MOSQUITO THE scientists in the service of the United States and the states which are waging war on the mosquito have discov ered a new method of exter minating the pest. This method consists in propagating and distributing a parasitic worm which lodges in the body of the mosquito and kills it or checks its egg-laying powers. It has for several years been recog nized that the mosquito is one of the worse public enemies of the American people. Upward of 15,000 deaths oc cur from malaria, which is spread by the mosquito alone. This figure does not count the vast number of people whose systems are weakened by ma laria and thus easily succumb to oth er diseases. The discomfort caused by the mosquito in many parts of the country is also a grave injury to pros perity. Therefore, anything which tends to exterminate the mosquito is of immense public benefit. How greatly some regions are in need of relief from mosquitoes has just been shown by the dispatches from Chenier au Tigre, a large and fertile island in the Gulf, off New Or leans. The mosquitoes there have bred in such quantities that the inhabi tants have been forced to keep in doors altogether, while the cattle have been killed by the mosquitoes filling up their nostrils and throats and cho king them. The new worm which kill the mos quito is known to science as agomer mls culiois—meaning “roundworm of the mosquito”—and is recognized as a destructive parasite of the wicked in sect. It is also called the “hairworm” in many places on account of its re semblance to a small hair. It spends at least part of its life in the belly of the mosquito, and, in the case of the female, when it does not kill her, it prevents her from reproducing her species—a result equally satisfactory. Very little is. known of the life his tory of the worm, or how it spends the early stages of its existence. It is a newr discovery. It was first found and identified, only a short time ago, by Dr. John B. Smith, who, as ento mologist attached to the New Jersey agricultural experiment station, at New Brunswick, has charge of the mosquito survey of his state, which has a wide-spread reputation for pro ducing a remarkable crop of mosqui toes. Theia are, as is well known, many species of mosquitoes in New Jersey. But the worst of them all, so lar as ability to annoy goes, is the brute with striped legs. This is the real and original “Jersey mosquito.” It breeds in marshes, though it flies thence for great distances, and scientific men know it as “culex solicitans.” Necessarily, this species cuts a very large figure in the problem which Dr. Smith is engaged in tackling. With a view to studying its life history in detail, he has built on a marsh a cage of wire net, with a framework of scant ling, big enough for himself to occu py In this cage he has reared the marsh mosquitoes, watching them through all the stages of their de velopment, In the midst of their nat ural surroundings. Incidentally, he has subjected many specimens to mi croscopic examination, to find out how the egg-sacs of the females developed, and other such points. On a number of occasions, while thus studying the female insects, he noticed that their abdomens seemed abnormally enlarged. Finally, his curiosity being aroused by this phe nomenon, he tore open the belly of one of the Insects, and found Inside of it two-hair-like worms about a third of an inch long, and nothing else. They were something new to him, and so he sent the worms to the gov ernment helminthologist — signifying “worm man”—in Washington. The worm man. Dr. Charles Warden Stiles, promptly identified them as “round worms” of the kind popularly known as “hair worms" or “wire worms.” He also gave them the long Latin name already mentioned, and said that they were undoubtedly para sites of the mosquito. But in the THE WAY A Y£LLOW T£Y£R nasQu/ro bites meantime Dr. Smith had started in to examine large numbers of marsh mos quitoes for worms. In a lot that was sent in from Barnegat bay he found many infested. In fact, every collec tion received at the experiment sta tion from Raritan river to Cape May yielded numerous worms. He thinks it beyond doubt that the parasite shortens the life of the mos quito it infects—though this, of course, is a matter unimportant com pared to the prevention of reproduc tion. Apparently, the worm does not diminish the insect’s appetite at all. One afternoon, at Anglesea, Dr. Smith occupied himself for an hour in cap turing marsh mosquitoes that came to bite him, and found that fully half of them were infected. On the other hand the infected in sects were noticeably sluggish and easily recognized by their actions and appearances as diseased. Investiga tion showed that they were least nu merous in places where the worms were most common. Evidently, then, the worms are agents of nature for keeping mosquitoes in check to a cer tain extent. They do the work with great effectiveness. It only remains to be ascertained whether their ef ficiency in this line can be important ly increased by artificial means. In other words, is it practicable to breed the worms artificially and in troduce them into mosquito-cursed places? The first thing to be done, obviously, in making such an attempt, is to obtain definite and exact knowl edge of the life history of the para site. Fortunately, although almost nothing is known as yet on this sub ject, there is a good deal that can be inferred with reasonable certainty. For example, there is hardly any ques tion of the fact that the worms breed in marsh mud. Dr. Smith has found them not only In the adult mosquitoes, but also in the abdominal cavities of the larvae and pupae—the twro forms of mosquito life following the egg, both of which are water-dwellers. It seems evident, then, that infection takes place in the water and nowhere else. That is to say, the worms (themselves water-dwellers) attack the “W’rigglers” and the pupae into which these larvae transform themselves, and bore into their bellies. Food, Yes; Money, No. "I meet a lot of beggars,” said the East side woman, “but they’re never hungry; they always want money. Gen erally it's a couple of cents they ask for. A woman with two small children came to my door once and said she was about to be dispossessed, and would I please give her a couple of pennies. I don’t know whether that satisfied the landlord or not, but she was apparently content with her two pennies. Others come and ask for help, but they shy off when I offer them food. ‘No, lady,’ they say; ’If It’s all the same to you, I’d rather have the money.’ And when they And out that it isn t the same to me they are quite disgusted. Long ago I hoped to get rid of them by handing out the carfare they requested to go to Brook lyn or The Bronx, but It never worked. Next week they were back again look ing for more easy marks. But I've been cured. Any creature, however, wretched, can get something to eat at my door, but no more ’couple of cents’ from me.”—New York Press. Czar Is Largest Landowner. The czar of Russia, with J0.000.000 acres. Is the biggest landowner in the world. Dissertation On The Dawn Humorous Writer in Lippincott’s' Makes a Few Remarks of More or Less Value. The m®st difficult, exasperating and rantankerous pessimist with which the Bmiling, festive and irrepressible op timist has to deal is the fellow who takes some stock in the old saying that it is always darkest just before dawn. There is, of course, no argu ment over the fact that dawn is a joy ous occasion, even if it is more pleas ant to stay up for it, under proper con ditions, than to get up for it, but, says the pessimist, admitting the truth of the adage, one cannot tell when It is darkest, until he actually sees the dawn. He is likely to say, further more, that if it’s going to bring dawn any sooner, let it get dark as—almost anything, and the sooner and darker, the better. One positively cannot argue against such logic, for, as aforesaid, dawn is a joyous occasion except to the man who is alseep, and he doesn’t count As for the man who is intoxicated, it br—-—-* ■-— is also a question whether many of the beauties of dawn are not lost, because he is already so busy with his own re sponsibilities that he cannot take on any new joy. Then there is the man who would stay up all night in a brilliantly lighted room, practicing auto-suggestion by repeating the word ‘■good.” Under the glare of artificiality such a man would be prone to claim that there was no darkness outside, but that it was all inside. But, if after settling up he went out at the first faint blush of dawn, it would look to him Eike about 30 cents’ worth of adulterated tallow candles, and it might require several subsequent sittings with the cards running better to dispel the hallucina tion. All these, of course, are exceptions which cannot be considered. Normally darkness and dawn have to be taken just as they come, and they continue to come with regularity,‘pessimists and optimists to the contrary notwith standing.—Lippincott’s. HER PHYSICIAN ADVISED ■ Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Columbus, Ohio.—“I have taken Lydia E.-Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound during change of life. My doctor told me it was good, and since taking it I feel so much better that I can do all my work again. I think Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound a line remedy for a 11 woman’s troubles, and I never forget to tell my friends what it has done lor me. —Mrs. E. Hanson, 304 East Long St., Columbus, Ohio. Another Woman Helped. Graniteville, Vt. — “I was passing through the Change of Life and suffered from nervousness and other annoying symptoms. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound restored my healthand strength, and proved worth mountains of gold to me. For the sake of other suffering women I am willing you should publish my letter.” — Mas. Charles Barclay, B.F.D., Granite ville, Vt. Women who are passing through this critical period or who are suffering from any of those distressing ills pe culiar to their sex should not lose sight of the fact that for thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which is made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills. In almost every commu nity you will find women who have been restored to health by Lydia JEk Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. And He Suffered. Little Willie, suffering from an at tack of toothache, had paid his first visit to the dentist, accompanied by his mother. Father, on his return from the office that evening, was nat urally much interested. “Didn’t it hurt?” asked father. “Sure, it hurt,” replied Willie. “Weren’t you scared when the dent ist put you in that big chair and started all those zizz-zizz-zizz things?” "Oh, not so much.” “That was a brave boy. But, surely, you suffered?” “Of course I suffered. But I just kept repeating over and over the golden text we had in Sunday school last Sunday.” “The golden text? What was it?” “Why, ‘Suffer little children to come unto me,’ ” replied Willie, glibly. “I kept saying that over and over to my self, and the first thing I knew it didn't hurt any more.” Poker Finance. Mose Coonley (a winner)—Guess I’ll cash in, boys. Abe Mokeby (also to the good) — Guess I’ll do de same. Jefferson Yallerby—Me too! Bill Bingy (the banker, a big loser) —Well, I guess yo' each done got an uddeh guess a-comin’, gen'lemen! Ownin’ to dis heah attempted an’ un called-fo’ run on de bank, de instertoo tion am now suspended an’ won’t re sume oppyrations till de panicky feel in’ hab fully subsided an’ de foolish depositahs continues doin’ business as fohmahly. And it’s youah deal, Mose Coonley!”—Illustrated Sunday Maga zine. She Buried Her Face in Her^Hans. On'a Time Limitation. In spite of the reputation for latltu dinarianism he gained from his early trial for heresy, the late Prof. Jowett of Oxford was Intolerant of preten tiousness and shallow conceit. One self-satisfied undergraduate met the master one day. “Master,” he said. “I have searched everywhere in all phil osophies, ancient and modern, and no where do I find the evidence of a God.” “Mr.-,” replied the master, after a shorter pause than usual, “if you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave this college." CHILDREN SHOWED IT Effect of Their Warm Drink in the Morning. A year ago I was a wreck from coffee drinking and was on the point of giving up my position in the school room because of nervousness. I was telling a friend about it and she said, ‘We drink nothing at meal time but Postum, and it is such a comfort to have something we can enjoy drinking with the children.’ “I was astonished that she would allow' the children to drink any kind of coffee, but she said Postum was the most healthful drink in the world for children as well as for older ones, and that the condition of both the children and adults showed that to be a fact. “My first trial was a failure. The cook boiled it four or five minutes and it tasted so flat that I was in despair but determined to give it one more trial. This time we followed the direc tions and boiled it fifteen minutes aft er the boiling began. It was a decided success and I was completely won by its rich delicious flavour. In a short time I noticed a decided improvement la my condition and kept growing bet ter month after month, until now I am perfectly healthy, and do my work in the school room with ease and pleas ure. I would not return to the nerve destroying regular coffee for any money.” Read the famous little "Health Clas sic,” “The Road to Wellville,” *n nke*; “There’s a Reason.” ' Ever rend fbe above letter? \ new 'tie appears from time to time' rhi'T re srenulne, true, and full of 'humau
