RTKATED BE It
NAVY BLUB SERGE.
utanto gown is a costume as complete and
coiitly as a wedding dress and to every one
of the girl friends asked to receive with her
a faouvonir gift with bouquets must bo
given by the debutante. The daughter will
expect from her father a necklace , a ring era
a fan , from her mother a brooch or some
ornament that will look well with her while
coming-out gown , with less costly articles
from other members' tht. family.
Having toed the mark on all these points
the self-respecting relatives must not stint
In floral decorations for the drawing rooms
i theyjinust have ono or two bands ot music
i and they will bo eternally and unpleasantly
talked about In their social round of the
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I ladder If they set forth any less sumptuous
V refreshments than are regarded as orthodox ,
for debutante teas and champagne Is the
f one proper beverage to bo poured.
T- There Is no going behind the rule re-
It gardlng debutantes' bouquets , and hero we
como very often upon a pathetic skeleton In
the closet of an ambitious but not -too pretty
\ or too popular social bud. Having Issue ! her
' caids , bought her line gowns and ordered
> her delicate wiiws and viands , she and her
7 * mother sit with palpitating hearts to watch
her bouquets arrive. The friends of her
family and the young men In the society
I she Is entering are supposed to send them
and to appear to proper advantage ! is ob
ligatory that she receive with not one or
two but a dozen huge nosegays about her.
So obligatory , Indued , IH I his feature of the
"coming out" that not one girl in a dozen
over receives from her admirers half the
beuquetRbho appears with on her reception
i day , but stands embowered In Iho ptsles or
dered up from the florist by her diplomatic
patents However , society enjoya Its self-
deceptions , and to such an extent has the
bouquet fail grown , that this winter scores
if young girls have stood to receive their
k : friends besldo tables heaped with as many
' " * ' * llllrl > ' l iiiehe of the costliest loses and
fctaggt-ring helpless under tlio burden of pos
ies In their arms
When the coming out tea is over then
the debutante enters really on her buttpr-
lly season of brilliancy and power. If she
Is to do her family credit , like a high strung
race horse or prlma donna , her health and
forced the merely well-to-do families inti
combinations for mutual protection ngalns
the enormous expenses of the Initial tea
Two , tineo , or even flvo buds will appca
together at a single reception held In eom
boat's private drawing room , their mother
bearing each a portion of the costs and thu
the effect of a thousand-dollar entertain
ment Is secured at a third of that sum.
Framing the
Bride's Picture
It Is not unusual for the bride who I
going away for an extended trip or wh
expects to make her homo In a distant cltj
to give photographs to her Intimate friend
before leaving them.
One such bride , who Is given to doln
things unique and original , determined t
frame the pictures thus given and to do s
In an appropriate manner.
They were to bo mounted under glass I
the manner familiar to all and known a
passepartout , but Instead of the usual nui
of linen or cardboard she used a materli
which was especially appropriate and on
which made frame as well as picture worth
of being preserved among the family heir
looms.
The picture which she gave her mother ha
a mat of the whlto satin which had bee
used for her wedding dress and across on
corner was a bit of the lace with whlc
the dress was trimmed.
To a sister she gave a picture als
mounted In the white satin , but with a dc
sign of orange blossoms embroidered upo
It ; while the mount for the ono given he
maid of honor was of the white satin em
broldored with a graceful spray .of brldo' '
roses.
Friends less near received picture
mounted with the goods which had gen
to make up the different gowns 6f her trout
seaii. Tlio mount made from the materli
of her "golng-away gown" had forgot-nu
note embroidered In small scattered sprayi
while Homo of the silks and figured good
were made up plain , being sulllclcntly dec
oratlvo In themselves.
In each case the mounted picture wa
'glass with a narrow strip of
Mn a shade to correspond with
the mount. Upon the back ot
plainly written the name and
The wedding.
needless to state that the gifts were
led as the pictures alone never could
been and It Is safe to predict that
Micr brides will follow the graceful f.ish
i.
Living Fashion Models
Dee's fashion pictures of ll\mg mod
.week challenge attention from pee
Juno the reputation of being will
want to keep It. Thc > show tin
seasonable garments for
: soclablo woman
| ipllclty distinguishes
netl and executed
and coat are hoavil.\
? uloso and a high light
tglo of hcarlct cloth
_ _ _ _ _ "and used as a giidl.
iir tlio wTfTst The suit throughout Is lined
v'Vth ' red satin The pale fawn fill round
hat worn with this toilet has a full fold
of f. wn velvet wound loiind the crown and a
bi'ich of hcarlet geianlunis set high on tin-
left side.
Nothing could be more distingue and
comfoitable than the carriage wrap photo
gt.phod heie. The stuff is of golden hi own
\iMfiiio , richly trimmed with Ijnx A
: black velvet collar and bow add greatly to
the beauty of the garment , as docs a deep
hood lined with red llbeity satin that falls
between the shoulders in the back
Wo also show ono of the very smartest
novelties in evening w Jf ? > s. The fnund.i
lion is pale rose colored cashmere , every
Jfcdgo Ilnlfahed by a thick deep fringe of silk
of the same shade. U.nlc fnschla and vol
Jj > i appears In effective touches hero and
there , with some handsome yellow Rus
sian lace laid over the velvet and adding
to the elegance of the garment
Heroine of the Late War
The monument erected by the Daughters
ot the American Revolution to the memory
of Rubena Hyde Wai worth , whoso name is
numbered with heroes of the Spanish-Ameri
can war , was unveiled the first anniversary
of her death , In Grcenrldgo cemetery , at
Saratoga.
The monument , designed by Mr. C. II.
. Canllold , stands upon a raised tcriaco at tlio
head of the main avenues. When the Amer
ican Hag , which formed Its veil , was drawn.
It revealed an obelisk of pure whlto gran
ite , perfect , in Its architecture. It Is thirty-
two feet high ami seven feet and six Inches
square at the base. The name and inscrip
tion are In letters of bronze. It Is usually
the work of many years to raise a fund and
eiect a monument to a hero , but scarcely
eight months have elapsed since the Mary
Washington Colonial chapter , under the ef
ficient auspices of Miss Lillian Montgomery ,
first sent out letters and began to make
requests for aid in the undertaking.
Tlio Saratoga , the Manhattan and the
Yonkcrs chapters lent their aid.
Tlio requests were quickly responded to.
Miss Helen Gould sent $100 and $100 was
contributed without delay by the Olympla
club of small boys , while some of the poor
soldiers who had boon nursed by Miss Wai-
worth's tender ca/c , unable to do more ,
sent offerings of 30 cents.
Miss Walworth Is a hero of the noblest
kind. When the war with Spain broke out
she was teaching painting in a New York
school. Her family , who far generations
hail sent a son to war to fight for his coun-
. try. had now no son to send. She resolved
i to go , J.O , nurse the soldiers. After a short
, preparatory course at the Saratoga hospital
she went to Fortress Monroe ; later to Mon-
tauk , where she took entire charge and was
s FUR-TRIMMED CARRIAGE WRAP.
PALE HOSE CASHMERE 13VENINO CLOAK. I
tlio only woman In tlio Detention hospital ,
a place filled with malaria , yellow fever anil
diphtheria. What she was to these poor
hiillcrcrs Is beyond tlio power of descrip
tion.
Even when Camp Wickoff became n pest
hole she refused to leave until she had
cared for tlio laHt patient and soon after
thu last one had gone from her cure she ,
too , fell 111. The end soon followed. Ty
phoid fever was not long In talcing her
away.
Her nanio will bo handed down with the
names of the biavo who laid down their
lives for their country's flag.
Consoling Tacts
for Spinsters
Some onu IB pioposlng u Husbands' milon
for the protuctlon of IniBhamlH ; just what
they Hcek to bo protected from Is not yet
slated , but the union Is Intended for all thu
down-trodden of the land ; that Is , of thu male
portion. 1'osslbly thu union Is to bo founded
on the same MUCH as thu School for Wives ,
lately established In Kngland.
Still better are the marriage schools which
are being developed in normally on very
pinclical lines. It Is for girls and women
only , and tlio value of such a training cannot
bo-overestimated. Girls leave the marriage
school competent to undertake ! the manage
ment of n house und a husband. The glilH
who liavo graduated from thcuo schools
have been extra lucky In getting married , BO
It IB said.
Another society which has been organized
In Denmark Is the Celibacy Insurance t -
ciety. Ha object Is to piovldo for those
women who cither cannot or will not pro
vide themselves with husbands. Tlio
preinluniH , which are at various scales , begin
at thu ago of Hi and end at 40 , a period at
which it IB supplied most of tlio members
will have abandoned any thought of mar
riage. Such being the case , the woman
leceivcs nn annuity for life. If , however ,
she marries at any timu after or before 40 ,
who forfeits nil her claims. With the profits
thus ntcrulng by clianco or purpose the so
ciety hopes to provide for its incmbeift
doomed to single blessedness.
Old maids in the United States nro out
numbered by the bachclorH , although It Is
popularly supposed that the contrary is the
< aso. To come to exact figured , there arc
7 127.707 bachelors and 3.221,101 spinsters.
E\en In Massachusetts , where It was thought
that old maids constituted a laigo proportion
tion of the population , they could each llnd
a husband and then not exhaust the stock of
mnglo men. for there are 220,085 men ami
only 219,255 women who have not yet entered
into lh ( bonds of matrimony.
New York state has 120,000 more bache
lors than spinsters. Only one stale In the
union has more fotnnlo celibates than male
and tlnil. Is Calif'nil i. In which then- are
f.i ! , infi i f the fi nner and 22S2 ! ) of I ho Kill r
Thu Htnto f.f Washington has perhaps the
largest excess of forlorn slnglo men S0.rii7 :
all ( old , unmarried damsuls iinmbeilng only
9,181.
Out of an eiiual number of bachelors and
wldowere between 2r. and , ' ! 0 years of nge ,
thirty widowers remarry for evoiy thliteon
bachelors to enter the bonds of hymen f ir
the first IImo.
For every spinster married between 30
and on two widows are romntrled. n , th
facts are eloquent In favor of the compaia-
tlvo advantages of matrimony.
In olden tlmcH n tariff of matches wan
estahllBhed In Franco , In which thu various
degrees of wealth necessary for a girl to
enter the different ranks of French oooloty
were sot down as follows : A young woman
with u dowry of 2,000 to 10,000 franco n
year wan n match for n retail trader , a
lawyer's clerk or a bailiff ; a dowry of 12-
000 entitled one to nsplro to n dealer In silk ,
a draper , an Innkeeper , n secretary to n
great lord ; one with 20,000 francs might
look OH high as nn advocate or a govern
ment officer of considerable rank ; onu with
from 30,000 to 100.000 francs might hope
for a marquis , n president of Parliament , u
peer of Franco , a dnko.
What Her
Aspirations Were
Tlieiti was llttlu of the Idealistic about thu
essay of n KansiiH girl at her recent gradua
tion. Her teacher had Riven her for a theme
thu phrnso "Iloyond the Alp Uos Italy. "
She astonished her preceptress and school
mates by these emphatic words :
"I do not cato a cent whether Italy lies
beyond the AlpH or oven In Missouri. I do
not expect to set the river on lire with my
future career. 1 am glad I have a good , very
good education , but I am not going to inlHUsp
It by writing piolry up essays about the
future woman. It will enable mo to correct
the grammar of any lover I may have , should
ho speak of 'ilorgs' In my presence or Bay
ho went somewhere , it will also como handy
when I want to figure out how many pounds
of soap a woman can get for three dozen
egg at the giocery. So I do not begrudge
the time I have bjiunt In acquiring It. Hut
my nmbltlono do not lly so high. I just
want to marry a man who can lick anybody
of Ills weight in the township , who can run
an eighty-acre farm and who has no female
relatives to como around and try to brs.s the
ranch. And I will agree to cook good din
ners for him that won't send him to an
early grave and lavish upon him n whole lot
of wholesome affection and see that his razor
hasn't been used to cut broom wlro when ho
wantw to shave. In view of all this I don't
cure If I do get a llttlo rusty on the rule of
three and kindred things as the years go by. "