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Apron-Makes Useful Combing
f .Jacket - Laundry Bag Also
Is a Good Suggestion.
It Is the clever woman who can
make one article serve two or three
pun. -ses. A very usual , unpretentious
towel can be fashioned into other ac
cessories for woman's use , and from
the coarse kitchen toweling to the fine :
- jdamask / ' squares there is an excellent
. held for clever manipulation.
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From the unbleached kitchen ma-
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terial , witu its reel or blue stripes , a
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h very practical apron can be fashioned
. or washday.
L + Measure a length of the toweling
TTom waist to knees , and allow for a
. I deep turned-up portion that will form
t : a convenient pocket for clothespins. ,
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edges I and then in two lines to form
three compartments. This division al-
lows a distribution of the weight and
prevents sagging. Gather the fulness
. Into a band with narrow strings.
A fine damask towel furnishes the
material for a quickly made combing
jjacket. Fold the towel in order to get !
jthe / longer center line and cut up al- ,
inost to the center of the form. .
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Now fold into quarters and mark a
Circle that will be large enough to fit
around the neck.
' It the towel has r. colored border , it
Is well to match this ; in colored tape or
1 t jwashable ribbon for the binding that
Is used for the front , around the collai
i line and for the short strings that tie
I jthe convenient thing.
I The quality of this jacket makes it
Possible ! to wash it and insures fresh-
iiess always.
! ' As a laundry bag , the white towel
jcomes as a quick suggestion. The
short ends are hemmed down and
btltched in a double row for the draw-
trings. The bag is a matter of a few
tminutes ! , and can go into the washtub
With ! the small pieces that it holds.
These are but a few suggestions for
he towel that perchance you are able
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blessed ] with an ample supply , you
anight } turn one to a use a little differ-
en : , from that of the bathroom.
USE FOR CORONATION BRAID
.Makes Handsome Trimmings , Either
Alone or in Combination
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With Laces.
All of those who are wedded to the
fise of coronation braid will find re- -
newed demand for 'that favorite little
( article in its present combinations
[ , with Irish and cluny insertions and
edges.
There is a certain generous quality
bout this wavy braid , with its light
and . heavy patches , that enhances al-
most any piece of work to which it is
applied.
For use on handsome summer
frocks , it Is now variously combined
with laces to make straight strips of
rimming or medallions. These last
are extremely simple , and may be
, used for dress decorations , or to edge
household linens such as centerpieces
jand bureau scarfs or sash curtains.
I A half-inch center is crocheted with
a steel crochet hook and medium fine
hread on a beginning consisting of
three chain stitches. To the half-inch
disk sew 16 petals made of a con- '
tinuous row of coronation braid of
that number known as "small corona-
tion. " Each petal will consist of two
- of the heavy portions , the turns being
[ made on the slender spaces. This will
! produce a perfect daisy , and now there
[ Is crocheted fast to its outer edge a
. \ tlny : Insertion of thread looking like
the ladder pattern.
Persian Bordered Scarfs.
Lovely scarfs are fashioned from the
Persian bordered chiffons and mar-
quisettes combined with maribou.
i The tones known as natural and the
White feathery stuff combine prettily
jwith the fragile fabrics.
1 In using the printed materials only a
border ] of the maribou is necessary for
jgood \ effect , while when a solid color
' } forms the foundation a third strip must
[ be added through the center of the
. Jscarf. Otherwise the little wrap may
Qook skimpy and lack character.
i Another pretty idea in scarfs is to
mlace / two different colors over each ,
Other ( and then edge all around with
tthe maribou.
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I Novel 1 Ring.
A stunning ring for the little finger
is made from four or six gold wires
joined at top only with a row of
tones that reach almost to the first
Joint. These stones may be of one
kind , as turquoises-as many as
there are sections to ring-or they
can be differently arranged that Initial
of gems spell name of wearer.
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With $10 and time to look through
the shops the average woman can fur-
nish a bedroom with finishings so it
will be attractive. A prospective pur-
chaser will discover that green striped
seersucker for hangings , bedspreads ,
etc. , is smart looking and inexpensive.
Of such material I have in mind a
piece with fine stripe. The color is
pale , the green line intersected by one
of tan. The fact that this washes is
a point in favor , and that no ironing
is required Is another virtue at a sea-
'son when laundresses' are sometimes
hard to find. Moreover , this fabric
does not crumple , and the many times
it is placed on and removed from a
bed will not muss it. Made from this
goods one bed cover I saw recently
had sides find ends hanging over. Put
around this , so it lay on the edge of
the mattress , was a nine-inch band of
linen , the same shade as the green in
the seersucker. This was repeated In
the bolster , and on the table and bu
reau covers , as well as on the drapery
curtains which hung straight to the
sill. The latter were run on small
brass rods which were concealed by
the hems. Such a set for a room is
not difficult to make , nor does it take
long if a sewing machine is used.
For the room of a young girl noth-
ing is more charming than white mus
lin treated in similar fashion with
bands of flowered muslin. Any of
these wash , look cool and are easily
kept fresh.
Unbleached cotton makes satisfac-
tory curtains and covers , although I
am aware it may not sound as if it
would.
To make a desirable effect the mus-
lin must be used in a room which has
a positive color on the wall - that i. . ,
red , blue , green or yellow must be
sharply in evidence. Let the curtains
in such room hang to the sill , having
the edges trimmed with small ball
fringe. The bed cover needs the
same finish , as does any other piece.
This is lovely , and , of course , will
wear for years. - Helen Howe , in
Washington Star.
HAT STRINGS MUCH IN FAVOR
Undeniably a Picturesque Adornment ,
But Are Occasionally Out
of Place.
4 They must be worn with a certain
piquant smartness , or you willl defeat
your purpose and bring down upon
your head the ridicule of those who
know. It is. not to m be denied that
there is a decided acceptance of the
fashion for a certain type of pictur
esque costume.
It would seem trite and unnecessary
to suggest that " hat strings belong to
the afternoon hat ; but if the fact be
recognized that there are many crimes
against good taste committed in the
name of fashion , it will be realized !
that some facts must be reiterated.
The large flat hat is a beautiful
model which the hat strings
upon can I
be placed with impunity. The droop-
ing mushroom shape , with its quaint ,
old-fashioned garland of silk roses , is
another type that will carry the hat
strings.
Of velvet , silk or chiffon these may
be. Perhaps velvet holds first place ,
giving a black contrast for the flower-
trimmed shape , as it reaches from one
side under the chin rather tautly to
the other side , from which it may
hang in loops and ends.
Silk and chiffon , being more supple ,
are treated in a different way. They
hang looaey from the sides of the
shape , and are knotted and caught to
the corsage. Some models have the
bands tied at the back-a line that
must be discreetly adopted.
It is needless to say that "beauty
is its own excuse for being , " for the
hat does not rely upon the tied bands
for its security. Modern women will
never relinquish their hold on the vil-
lainous hatpin. So if you wish to
carry out a note of your costume that
is an echo of older times , and if your
features are suited to the style , tie
your hat with the bands.
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time artistic shopping bag is shown
here. It is made of gray linen , em-
broidered with two shades of green
and brown. The centers of the con-
ventional flowers are buttonholed eye-
lets in brown. The short petals are
in the dark green and the long petals
in the light green. A heavy gray silk
cord is run through the casing near
the top of the bag , and the same cord
is sewn round the bag.
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Wooden Bodkin.
A wooden match or toothpick may
be made to replace the missing bodkin
by merely folding over its point an
en < \ of the tape or ribbon and then-
turning the stick so that its whole
length is wrapped :
I It will then run through the casing ,
I "Vtthout danger of less of the ribbon.
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When the clock struck four , I was on the floor
The bells began to ring and the cannon to roar ,
The guns to fire and the crackers to snap- , t *
This is the Fourth of July.
NCE upon a time-if you are ex-
acting as to dates , the time fell
l _ between 1836 and 1860-there
; : : was a country parson who kept
a record of his Fourths. In the
I 1U year 1855 he broke into poetry
and the quoted quatrain was
the result. This record of his
Fourths , taken from his jour-
) nal , was published in the Atlan
: % : ' , tic Monthly.
- Now if various and sundry
reasons , all excellent in their
way , did not keep this es
teemed magazine closed to the eyes of boyhood ,
it is to be feared that this parson , despite his
poetry , would be voted a cross old man. For
when the Fourth fell on Sunday he saw no reason
why it should be celebrated on any other day or
in any fashion not in keeping with a seemly ob
servance of the Sabbath. Instead of gladly ac
cepting the bounty of the calendar and having
a trilogy , a series of three dramatic and exciting
days fraught with danger and delight , this gloomy
personage would have limited the day's events to
a sermon and a prayer. .
In his records can be found testimony against
him , for they read :
"July 4 ; 1847. , Sunday.
"July 5. Monday morning. This is celebrated
as the Fourth of July very improperly. Yesterday
was the day and ministers might have preached
upon the subject of religious freedom ; this would
have been sufficient and ought to have been sat-
isfactory. But no ; there must be noise , the drum
must beat and the cannon roar , the children be
dressed in their best and paraded , and 'Don't
these children look nice ? '
"Oh , yes , very nice , but if their parents vould
teach them to respect their superiors and behave
with propriety it would be far better. Well , there
has been a general turnout , rich and poor , young
and old , all mixed up together. This is a free
country-but not so , it is a country of slave hold-
ers. We hold 3,000,000 of our fellow mortals as
slaves-and how inconsistent.
"July 4 , 1852. Sunday.
"July 5. Monday.
"The community were not satisfied to have
yesterday as being the Fourth of July because
they could not serve Satan so openly and boldly
as today. My : opinion is that when the Fourth
of July comes on the Sabbath it ought to be re
membered in a suitable and proper manner by
assembling in the sanctuary and hearing the proc
lamation of peace announced from the pulpit ,
'good tidings of great joy which shall be to all
people. : Suitable prayers and suitable readings
would be a suitable acknowledgment that our
blessings are of God , but because this won't do
we must have a great noise and bustle and much
that is derogatory to the Christian character must
be put in operation. "
He didn't like the methods of celebration any
better when the glorious day fell in the middle
of the week , for July 4 , 1849 , he wrote :
"Wednesday. At the rising of the sun the bells
of the city are ringing and the cannon roaring
calling , upon those within hearing to awake , arise.
and call upon their God , and give him thanks for
this great blessing , our national independence ,
Which we this day commemorate by making all
the noise we can and by acting as well as we
can , and as bad as we can. "
All of which would justify any boy in the
belief that though the parson may have been a
God-fearing personage who walked the narrow
path all his godly days and was never even tempt-
ed by a lingering desire for pleasant primrose by-
ways , he ) must certainly have been rather an
unpleasant person to live with and that the milk
of human kindness which was his portion , though
it may not have soured , was as certainly lacking
in cream.
How different was the letter which John Ad-
ams in the first flush of joy over the adoption
by congress of the Declaration of Independence
wrote to his wife. Its date , July 3 , may give some
ardent young Americans excuse for firing their
crackers before the dawn of the day which even
lawmakers say may have its claim shattered
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This first historic Adams , first vice-president ,
second president of the republic which he helped
to bring into being , was a good husband. Busy
as he must . . have . been , for he was a foremost - _ fig-
ure in the stirring events , "the Atlas of Indepefl-
dence , " the "Colossus of that debate" which pre-
ceded the vote on lhe nation-making . resolution
he wrote on July 3 two letters to his wife , Abigail.
In [ one he said : "Yesterday the greatest question
was decided which ever was debated in America ;
and a greater perhaps never was , nor will be ,
decided among men. A resolution was passed
without one dissenting colony , that these united
colonies : are and of right ought to be , free and
independent states. " In the other : "The second
day of July , 1776 , will be the most memorable
epoch in the history of America. I am apt to be-
lieve that it will be celebrated by succeeding gen-
erations as the great anniversary festival. It
ought to be commemorated as the day of deliver-
ance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty
It ought to be solemnized wrth pomp and parade ,
with shows , games , sports , bells , bonfires and
lluminations , from one end of this continent to
the other , from this time forward forevermore.
You will think me transported with enthusiasm ,
but > I am not I am well aware of the toil and
blood and treasure that it will cost us to main-
tain this declaration and support and defend these
tales. ! Yet through all the gloom I can see the
rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that
the end Is more than worth all the means ; and
that posterity will triumph in that day's trans-
action , even though we should rue it , which I trust
in God we shall not. .
Though posterity selected , instead of July 2 ,
July 4 , the day on which the formal Declaration
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of Independence prepared by a committee of five ,
headed by Thomas Jefferson , was discussed and
accepted , the resolution for independence was , as
these letters show , really adopted July 2.
It took a long time for the petitioners of the
colonies to conceive of independence. Leaders
like Samuel Adams waxed impatient with those
who believed a peaceful settlement of the trouble
was possible without separation from the mother
country. Yet Washington in the first congress
denied that the colonies desired or that it was to
their interest to set up for independence. Frank-
lin looked updn it as an event which , if it must
comewas lamentable.
Lexington and Concord and Bunker hill favored
the radicals. June 7 , 1776 , Richard Henry Lee of
the Virginia delegation , following the instructions
which he had received from the council of Vir-
ginia , presented a resolution , "That these united
colonies are and of right ought to be free and
independent states ; that they are absolved from
all allegiance to the British crown ; that all politi-
cal connection between them and Great Britain
is and ought to be totally dissolved. " John Adams
seconded the motion and a debate followed. There
are no authentic reports of these debates. The
war had not yet been won. Public report of what
was said would have been of extreme danger to
these men , who , intteefd , would have been hanged
had good King George been able to get them , but
hanging men is like making rabbit pie-you must
first catch the rabbit. - -rW ip' : ! : CSSat-S
r J.tJ > .likely that thase who led the debate in
support of the measur were _ John and Samuel
Adams , Roger"Sn'erman7 _ _ Oliver"Woicott , Richard
Henry _ Lee " and George Wythe. Those opposing
were pt bably John Dickenson , John Jay , James
Wilson and Robert R. Wilson. It appeared . . that
four New England - colonies - t , Massachusetts , Rhode
Island , New Hampshire , Connecticut , ' and three
southern colonies Virginia , Georgia and North
_ Carolina , were prepared to vote at once In the
affirmative , but as unaiifmifcy : was desired a final
vote was postponed until July 1 , and a committee
composed of Thomas Jefferson , Benjamin Frank- _
lin , John Adams , Roger Sherman and Robert R.
Livingston , was appointed to prepare a formal
statement for the world.
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Lee , the mover of the resolution , would per-
haps have been named chairman of the committee
had not his wife fallen ill. As it was , Jefferson
received the honor and'save for a few alterations
by Franklin and Adams the Declaration of Inde
pendence was written by him. The original draft
In the state department in Washington , save for
these ; interlineations by Franklin and Adams , is
in his handwriting.
July 1 debate was resumed on the Lee resolu-
tion. July 2 all the delegates but those from New
York voted in favor of it and it was of this action
that John Adams wrote to his wife. The original
resolution having been carried , the formal decla-
ration prepared by the committee to show a due
respect for the opinions' of mankind was reported
and discussed until late July 4 , when it was finally
accepted and signed by the president of the con-
gress , John Hancock , and the secretary. Within
a week the provincial congress of New York ex
pressed its approval. August 2 an engrossed copy
of the declaration was laid before congress and
received the signatures of delegates from 13 col-
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New Jersey did not sign until November. \
Grim jests were passed. Hancock , writing his
name large said that John Bull could read it
without spectacles and impressed upon his com-
rades that since the fatal die was cast they
must "all hang together in this matter , " which
gave Franklin a chance for his bon mot , "Yes
indeed , we must all hang together , or assuredly
we shall all hang separately. " ,
A fat delegate - some say it was Harrison , oth-
ers that it ; was Carter Bruxton Of Virginia-said
to one of light weight , either Carroll of Carrollton
or Gerry of Massachusetts : "When it comes to
hanging I shall have greatly the advantage , for my
neck would be broken at once , while I fear you
will dangle In the air and hang for some time. "
The fitst public celebration of the Declaration
of Independence was probably that of July 8 , 1776
when John Nixon read the statement in the yard
of the statehouse in Philadelphia and the king's
arms were taken down in the courtroom. In New
In 1777 , in honor of the Orst anniversary of the
glorious day , every soldier was ordered an extra
gill of rum. In 1778 the general orders read : "To- "
morrpWj ! the anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence , will be celebrated by firing 13
piece's or cannon and a feu de joie of the whole ; -
line. " Even as early as that parades wgrein , .
order. A description of one shows that elaboraTe ? *
hair dressing is not of the twentieth century only
and that the Tories were not so insignificant as' .
to escape . e , . . notice. q. 4 L : > . -I s c : ! yysu : : S . . ! , si . . -rr.h : _ - . . . . . S . : ; ; .
. "We had a magnificent celebration of the anni
versary of independence when handsome fire-
works w"eeT ! displayed. The Whigs of the city
dressed up a w'bnian ( with the monstrous head
dress of the Tory ladies and escorted her through
the streets with a great concourse of people. Her
head was elegantly and expensively dressed. I
suppose about three feet high and proportionate
width , with a profusion of curls. The figure was
droll and occasioned much mirth. It has lessened
some heads already and will probably bring the
rest within the bounds of reason , for they are
monstrous indeed. The Tory wife of Dr. Smith
has christened the figure Contenella , or the Duch
ess of Independence , and prayed for a pin from
her head by way of relic. The Tory women are , _
very much mortified notwithstanding this. "
Barbecues , fireworks , parades , picnics , white
dresses-these seem early to have become a part
of the day's celebration. Noise and accidents
also , early developed. Julia Ward Howe , in her
reminiscences , tells that she remembers her own .
distress as a child because the Democratic mayor
of New York , Gideon Lee , prohibited home fire-
works. Fortunately for her and her sisters and
brothers , they lived next door to the mayor and
he made an exception In their favor.
In 1857 she listened to the ode written by Em. .
erson and read In the town hall at Concord July
4 , 1857. Perhaps he caught the spirit of even the
day's noise better than the other parson. At least
he wrote more kindly of It : j ' .
The cannons boom from town to town -
Our pulses beat not less. - -
The " Joy bells chime their tidings down. . , ' .
Which children's voices bless. . .
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