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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1908)
TTIF, OMATIA SUNDAY TXT.: FEnTirAttY 2, lOOfl. New Fads in Belts and Bags T mnv s.-n ih. a , . bly address book, la popular, and thia bag buT tharJetr of b," .L "ST - F - . , ,1,1-,, , - w . j Ktunin, it - -i-iib-iiB, aim ii seem mat Ir, point ot dyeing at leant tha leather r urkcra have touched high water mark. In tha morocco, which la so great a favorite with the French designer and which offer the greatest color gamut, al-r-"9t.any of the modlah colore may be f matched, and for amart yet practical little tas to be carried with atreet costume this leather is perhaps the chief favorite. At least it la ahown In the greateat number of tioveltlea, and, though It does not wear M well aa certain other leather, the charm' rf Ita coloring and the cleverneaa of lta csfgn mak women overlook thia fact. Small and medium alze bags and purse tf the e.nvelope or hand strap class are made up In beautiful ahades of violet, green, gray, brown, blue and red morocoo, and the number of the little accessories that may be crowded Into one of these com pact little bags Is really astonishing. The vanity equipment powder puff or book, tiny comb, mirror and possibly other minute toilet articles Is a common feature of the new bags, and the automobile bags, ranging from large to small, contain a re markable collection of brushes, cream boxes, etc., packed Into Ingeniously com pact form, and sometimes of the most ex quisite and costly workmanship. Many of the amart automobile bags are In pigskin, and this leather enjoys a de cided vogue for shopping bags of all the more practical types. 1 Some of these pig- la size and a containing A new bag of soft leather, plaited at the figures upon many of the handsomest leather hells and the elastic belts, whkk seem to have taken a firm hold upon femi nine favor. Wide bolts, folded once In stead of being merely crushed, are made by one or two exclusive houses In any color ordered and may be plain save for a handsome buckle mr steel studded or per nor tooled In black, white, gold or silver. One belt of this claaa comes In the most delicious shades of rose, framboise, lettuce green. Copenhagen blue, etc., and along Its top runs a deeply tooled border of Oreek key design in gold. Perfectly plain skin bags are very capacious majority are of simple form merely purse and card case, though others have the vanity equipment. Pigskin colors beautifully In time and wears longer than any other of the bag leathers, but before coloring It Is so light In color that It is likely to become dis tressingly dirty with hand usage, and for that reason many women prefer a darker leather, a dark morocco, for example, which is made up In practically all of the serviceable models common to pigskin. With a good saddle soap the soil may be washed from pigskin, and the manufac turers often use a solution of oxalic acid silk, solidly embroidered In Chinees design for cleaning pigskin articles before sending and Chinese blues and greens. The two big them home to the buyer. ' rings for handles were of Jade. Phenomenally small opera glasses are in- The teai bags of the handsomest sort. troduced Into many little bags Intended chiefly for theater use, and such glasses, a vanity outfit and purse are all combined In a bag of size so modest that It seems hardly possible It can hold fittings so com plete. ' Morocco and white and light French novelty leathers are most often pressed tnto service for the theater bag, but one finds It too In the .handsome standard leathers, such as lizard. For visiting use the flat envelope bag-if NEW LEATHER BELTS AND BAGS. top and run upon two big rings of metal large enough to be passed over the anm. has been recently launched, but Is more novel than beautiful, though the design Is employed by some very exchislve houses. The prettiest thing of this kind we have seen wrs made not In leather, but In heavy especially fine ones In Imitation of the old flower designs on white or black, are still considered chic with dressy toilets, and some extremely effective and handsome bags are of solid mesh of pearls run or crocheted together with heavy gold threads. For evening bags there are elaborate em broideries In beads, paillettes or silk on silk, and especially good effects have been obtained In steel bead embroidery and In combinations of cut Jet and crystal. Apropos of cut steel, this trimming still belts of suede or ooze calf In the fashionable shades and fitted with handsome plain buckles of gilt or stiver curvings to fit the waist snug ly are also very chic. Some particularly good belts in these styles are made up In the light wood and onion brown shades, and white and brown are combined In various fetching belts, aa In many of the new shoes, drees materi als, etc. Gossip About Women Folks Teaching llaaband How to Coo It. IMULTANEOUS announcementa SI have been made in Chicago ana I Dubuque. Ia., of what the I nrnWinH Aonnliler the hea-ln- e ' "J - nlng of the greateat achieve ment of the century the making of model husbands. The plan la such a simple one It is astonishing It was not thought of before. It constats of teach ing husbands how to cook and manage the culinary department of the household. Chicago's cooking school for men was founded by the South End Woman's club. Dubuque's school Is a departure of the Tuung Women's Christian association. It is reported that several husbands have en rolled themselves there and are taking the full course, learning everything that ap pertains to housekeeping, from Juggling a waffle iron and flipping griddle cakes to making up a bed on the mitre angle. In Chicago the promoters of the school de Clare the men are a bit bashful, rather than obstinate, and that within a year a large number of them will be "Jumping at the chance" to "conquer the culinary." The South End Woman's club member ship Is composed of fashionable women, who want it known that they are not but terflies, but thinkers. The South Shore Country club's grounds ar only a stone's throw from their clubhouse, but they waste ro time on the golf links or yachting on Lake Michigan. Their work la more se rious. The managers of the adjacent steel mills, where 10.0UO men are employed, were ap pealed to by members if the club to lend some help for the betterment of the "drudges of the home," who were obliged to work fifteen hours a day while eight hours was the limit for men. How nice it would be if the men were taught to cook their own breakfasts and put up their luncheons, so that their wives and sisters. Instead of getting up at 3 a. m., could have time to finish their beauty sleep once In a while. "A grand conception." ex claimed the managers, who voted $u0 a month to the cooking school for a year and promised $jO,0UO tf the school proved a suc cess. Miss Grace Darling, for eight years a teacher in the South Chicago High school, was installed as head resident of The Center. It was thought her extensive ac quaintance would immediately pack the 'model home" 'with both women and men who desired to educate themselves In the science of up-to-date cookery and houxe Chrlstlan Association of Dubuque, or:g.naUd also flocked to The Center, and Miss Dar ling began giving them lessons, starting with the hanging of pantry shelves and gradually leading up to stirring oak and mixing dough on the bread board; but the men well, they visited the home, scrutin ised everything, asked many questions and went away. "They'll be making mollycoddle of us all if we don't keep away from here," said n man, a mill foreman, who had been asked to recommend the cooking school to bis employe. Although the men' cooking course of fared by the South End Women' club In 9 resecerici (Established 1879.) Om MA Yom SJsssv" Whooplng-Cou.h, Croup, Bronchitis, t Coughs, Dlphthsria(CataiTh. Coa fide oca can b placed la a rem edy, which for a quarter of a century has earned unqualified praise, Restful night an assured at once. CresoJeoc is m Booa to Asthmatic AO Dtvgzlsta tr. Lurrirtsw sua tie, uiwima ami Mm if- irritated throat, of R , four a riurctot or rrom f t V as. lou. In scamps. If It V4-trewfaM C,l IMPrs-aSt.N.. j its model home, and by the Young Women's This world-wide organization has a branch apparently in the organizations tnemselves, tne real credit for the idea is traced to the Women's Christlon Temperance union. The world-wide organisation has a branch in Cook county. 111., the county in which Chicago lies, and this branch discovered the "world's model husband." The model husband is Hubert K. Hill, Insurance man of Chicago, who la a splendid cook and presides In the ' k notion when ever duty calls Mr. Hill to preside at club meetings. Womis ofMorroco. Moorish women have a strangely narrow outlook, according to Mrs. Mansel-Pleydell, who writes: "1 believe that they are al ways perfectly contented with their exist ences. Kaid MacLean's daughter, who speaks Arabia perfectly, told me that she had never met any Moorish lady among the many she had visited who was not convinced that the lives she anil her coun try women lead are superior to those led by the women of other nations. They seem to have no power of reasoning, nor to be able to contemplates any other outlook than their own. Their brains have never beu developed and have no doubt become cir cumscribed. An English girl and I once paid a visit to a Moorish lady. Two slave women, black aa night, came forward and ushered us through an open doorway lead ing from the court Into a loug, narrow room, and there drawn up In line were three Mooiish ladies waiting to receive us. "Each was dressed In a colored brocade kaftan, woven with gold and silver thread; the fronts were ornamented with rows of tinsel buttons and the garments were kept together by very wide multicolored belts bound several times round their ample mid dles. They also wore ropes of small pearls and quaint Moorish Jewelry on their arms and in their ears, while their feet were In cased in red leather slippers. They began at once to question us as to whether we were married or not, and when my friend told them she had no husband, nor did she want one, the Moorish women only laughed and exchanged knowing glances with each other. "It is easy to see that they did not be lieve the English girl's assertion and soon showed that she had gone down in their estimation by her admission. I thinlt they decided that she must be very unattractive Indeed. They told us how many sons they each had. Inquired as . tq the number of mine, fingered our Jewelry, inspected our Clothes, and then we bad to go, for It was impossible to carry on any further conver sation; they knew nothing and took no .Interest In anything, that we could dis cover, beyond matrimony and babies." Spaalah Wosits and- Batklag. Some time ago, relate a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle. I happened to mention the dislike of the Spanish women for bathing. 1 cannot recall In what connection the re mark was made, but It was merely meant to state an admitted fact. When I lived In Madrid the mother of a very dear friend, Senora 8 . gave to me a terrible shock by telling me that she "never had bathed In water!" Ah. In milk, then?" 1 had ex claimed, wishing to make a record as a guesser. "No, Indeed," was the reply. "In champagne, no doubt!" I said, wishing to pay a compliment, because the family was fabulously rich. "Wrong again," was the quiet reply. "I use an oiled towel, and my maid rubs 'me down with a crash hand cloth." In Spain the dangers of bathing sre con stantly set forth by some monks. Originally the fair sex was warned by monks, who practiced the doctrine themselves, although the reasons therefore were not logical, that they should remember the sad cases of Su sanna, Bathsheba and Count Julian's beau tiful daughter. La Cava, all of whom owed the wreck of their live to too much bath ing! To this hour La Cava is mentioned as a warning to all women not to wash them selves with water. When one visits that quaintest of all European cities, Toledo, he Is shown, upon the banks of the turgid Tagus, below Wamba's palace, built In fi, an alcove In which La Cava was wwnt to bathe. One day Rodrigo, last of the Goths, beheld her there, and the result was quite similar to Bathsheba's experience with the sainted David. To me the story sounded like a warmvU over version uf the Judeao escapade; but I stood In the arched alcove, with the water flowing at my feet, and, al though there Is an Arabic Inscription over the Moorish arch that ahlelds the place from the sun, but not from the surrounding palaces, I am bound to believe. I remem ber, also, that at the wretched little sta tion of Pancorbo, twenty-five miles south of Vlttorla, In northern Spain, some de vout Spanish acquaintances bound for San Sebastian Insisted on leaving the train to visit an ancient monastery' near the vil lage at which La Cava, disgraced but re pentant, had Immured herself until death relieved her sufferings. Of course the ab surdity of this Is that La Cava was not Christian. At Malaga, also, I was shown the Gate of La Cava, In a noble Moorish castle. Aa the mistreatment of this woman by the Qofh, Don Rodrigo, was the cause of the Moorish . invasion of Spain, the "gate" must have been built by the Arabs long after the poor woman had been car ried off to Pancorba. But I am not dodging the bathing ques tion. The aqueous anathemas in Spain ex tended not only to public, but to private washings. " Many instances of these In junctions are historic. For example, Isa bella, daughter of Philip II. made a sol emn vow never to change her undergar ments until Ostend was taken, and as the siege endured three years, three months and thirteen days,- the "royal" garments acquired a tawny color, known as "Isabel" to this hour. Southey relates that the de vout Saint Eufraia entered Into a convent of 130 nuns, none of whom had ever washed. To mention a bath was an abomination, only to be atoned for by application of the scourge. In the land of Castile, Castile soap 'is bought and used chiefly by perfidious Eng lish and American. The Spanish Goths, rabid Christians, didn't believe In washing " their bodies. Many a good fellow with enough traces, of Arabic blood In his veins to insist upon a dally bath went to the flames of the inquisition. Regalas HealtkSiy Lous; Walk. Clothed In a natty Ilittle walking suit and presenting an Ideal picture of health, Miss Olive Grarston of New York arrived In Red Bluff, Cal., last week, after tramp ing the entire distance from New York. With her was her Scotch collie, "Shep," which had been her companion the entire distance. Miss Granston started from New York last August and expects to be back home within one year. In telling of her trip she said she started out to regain her health, which she lost by keeping books In a private office in tho metropolis. She lias plenty of means to defray her expenses and is said to be an expert with a revolver The WeddTiMt Veil. A new method of arranging the wedding veil, particularly on the little bride ho need her height added to. Is the coronet fashion. Tulle, which 1 softer than lace, is used, and so puffed up on top of the head that several Inches are added to the wearer's dignity. The veil Is first put over the head In the usual way, then the front ends are caught In a series of upstanding puffs that end He the front of the head These are confined to the hair by a small wreath of orange blossoms worn like a coronet. The traditional flowers do not dominate the headdress, but form a delicate finish a they He haif-strouded In puff of tulle. This arrangement, which has the effect of a high puffed cap in front, la becoming from every point of view and is becoming so popular that brides, little and big, are adopting It. Wosneat as Tile Makers. Women with artistic talent, who also posses that unusual accompaniment, com mon sense, are not above turning their gifts to practical account In the designing and decorating of tilea ( The heavier work in connection with tile making, relate the Brooklyn Eagle, is generally left to men, but the designing and decorative treatment afford occupa tion alike for men and women. By far the most Interesting part of the work Is the designing, but success In It demands a good art training and a nat ural Inventiveness. Then there must be natural aptitude, so that the designer, even more thun the ordinary artist, ia "boa SAVE ONE-THIRD BY ATTENDING HARTMAN'S GREAT STOCK REDUCING SALE ' We wJll not permit any goods to ba carried over to another season, so we have made' sweeping reductions in order to promptly turn our remaining stock into money before the receipt of the new spring designs. We're making decisive price reductions and if you would profit by this sale if you would buy superior quality homefurnishings at from 25 to OO per" cent below regular figures, you should be quick to take advantage of this clearance movement. , CREDIT AT OUR USUAL EASY TERMS. 48 4f Elegant Rockers, were $2.25, now priced only 23 Mission Rockers, were $6.75, now priced only 20 Handsome Morris Chairs, were $11,00, now at 19 Fancy Parlor Rockers, were $10.00, now at : BR 676 IrmmW ? 4F Hi 11.75 40 Pedestals, solid oak, were $3.C0, now at 2 21 Handsome Center Tables, were $3.50, now at..." 1195 11 15 Music Cabinets, oak or mahogany, at '. 11M 19 Parlor Cabinets, very fancy, were $15.00, now at 18 Buffets, solid oak, were $28. now 17.75 T -s F.1ffgnt Iron Beds liu iuJini) Sprincf and Mattress They are of above handsome dosign, all colors of en amol, all sizes, massive tuhintr. spiln is of the best wlrp f ihrlc. niattroRfl heavy ticking, soft top, a bargain of thi highest character. ' 9 China Clos ets, solid oak, were $16.50, now 12.75 STOVES AND RANGES $9.00 Oak Ksatsr, e en cut to V.iV 22.75 934 But Bnmir, rut to IKS Btasl MaVBaTA. with rpn w ervo r. at 39.90 $48 Baa Barntr, ! AA cut to Jl.UV $19 Ru(ii, large 1? 75 famitv ma" i.l $38 StMl Bangs, sU-ho1. Tt,.B."l!t.e.e,! 26-75 7 Folding Beds, fancy mirrored tops, J9.25 Solid Oak. Dresser 8.39 These Dressers are of ex pert workmanship, made of solid oak, brilliantly pol ished, large bevel mirror, 3 large drawers, guaranteed for durability. 131 Sanitary Steel Couches, were $5.00, cut a rjr to d.D 38 Large Steel Davenports, were iu.z&, now , 11 Combina tion Book Cases, reduced 14.75 6.43 7 'solid oak and mahogany Library Cases, 9.75 Mail Wr"e Orders S lor oar Prompt- J New iy ruicd Ca,al3 Sol d Oak 15 Ladies' 3resslng Tables oak or ma hogany, 13.90 9M C8 Kitchen Cabinets, com plete with bins, etc., 4.68 f- ilVl -.. -V- . . . ' 15.48 Kxtenion Table The table Is Jf handsome pedestal denlsrn, with round top. massive base and large carved claw feet, Fix-foot extension, fitted with easy running slides, handsomely poliwhed and thoroughly guaranteed. Parlor Suits, 3 and 5 pieces, reduced to 22.40 , . w This Solid Onk IT PC iibon7a IJiJ J This Sideboard Is of hand some design, has extra large French beveled mirror, elab orate carving and a most brilliant polished finish. 12 Couches, Imported velour coverings. . . , 9.74 I Carpets Brussels Carpets, splen did quality, fine for wear. . ZC Velvet Carpet, high pile, very rich CQ0 and beautiful. ..ZfZJC Ingrain Carpet, 36-ins. wide, good wear- ZQ ing carpet . c MBBSBSBBBBBBSSBBSBBBBBJSBl I L m. Feather your nest 93 I4P4-I4I6-I4IS DOUGLAS ST 20 Couches, covered in Nan tucket leather, Rugs 9x12 Brussels Rugs, no miter seams, lf.75 firm weave Brussels Rugs, 1 065 8-3x10-6 14 Wilton Velvet Rugs, 9x 12, high pile, first qual ity, guaran- 'lf.75 teed and not made"; but a women are more gifted in resourcefulness than men their chances of success in this branch of work should be even greater. The simplest branch of designing consists of the de signing of single tiles. The samples tiles In a manufacturer's showroom give some idea of the variations possible. The pat terns vary, tho corola vary and all admit of yet further variations in order that the craze for novelty may be satisfied. The higher branch of designing includes the arrangement of tiles for the decora tive treatment of a large area In ac cordance with some special design. Tho highest kind of decorative work Is the painting of a group of tiles so as to form a continuous picture. The unglased tiles are arranged flatly in a frame, the design is sketched and the picture is painted with colors which are utted spe cially for decorated pottery, and which will stand firing. When the design has well sunk in and dried, the painted sur face of the separate tiles is dipped into a liquid which when subjected to the great heat of the kiln forms a transparent glazi. The tiles are numbered at the back, baked with special care, and are then ready for use. Most of the simpler tiles have their flat upper face dipped into a glaze and baked, others with moulded surtaxes ure trealej with two or three colors, and this work is done largely by women. The flowers are painted one color, the leaves another, and the conventional ornamenta tion another. The appearance of a tile when the glaze is first .put on is quite un like what it is alter It lias been fired. The beautiful blue, green, and crimsons which we admire so much In the finished tile appear as dull grays, buffs and mud color before they are acted upon by fire. Another decorative treatment of tiles whl'.'h is comlnjr largtly to the fore Is known as "slip outline." and this is dane by women. Instead of having a molded pattern, a plain baked tile has a design lightly sketched with a lead pencil. The outline is then covered Willi a uniform thick line of pasty iaze. which is squeezed from an India TJbuer ball held in the palm of the right hand, through a glass tube, which resembles.the filler of a fountain pen. When the outline has hardened sufficiently to prevent the glase from running the design is filled in and ornamented with colored glasea, and the tiles are then baked. The smallest tiles are known as mo ttles, and they are nutde In tiny cubes of a uniform color throughout. As the mo saics vary in color, they are capat.le of A Home Remedy That Reduces Fat. Would you Ilk to have a nice firm risure, but escape the tiresome, bone brvaklng exeicUj or the fcoul-elckenlng diet of the old-time plan of reducing ex cess flesh? Then go to th druggist and ask for this inexpensive mixture: ounce Aiarmola, H ounce Fluid Extract Cascara Aromatic, and S ounces Hyrup Simple. Take a teaspoonful after meals and at bedtime, snd In a few weeks you can be as fit piiVstoaUy as a f aw n. Mix these Ingred ieuiSoM hume If you wish, but see that you get the Marmot in a sealed package. Wheu frtu It acta uuickwi being arranged in artistic designs, and the laying of mosaics gives employment to women. Wiln the design in hand, the worker spreads a large sheet of brown paper on a platform, and, kneeling over the paper, she glues small parts at a time and sticks her mosiacs on the glued sur face according to the design. Sometimes the mosaics have to be shaped to fit into awkward corners, and with a smart knock on a chisel-like tool she chips off por tions to make the shape right. The de sign is always reversed, because when the mosaic is fixed in position it is turned over and pluctd on a bed of concrete, and when it is firmly et the brjwn paper, which appears 011 the op, is washed off with warm water. Women Given I'enalona. Among the women who have received retiring allowances from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of lead. ing are: Frances Mary liazen, pro fessur of Latin, Mont llolyoke; Adtlia F. Jouiibon, history. Olierlin; Mary J. T. Saunders, French and German, Kandolph Macon Wonuns college; ilelo Louise Mellen, pbilcs. Tufts; Marie Auguslin, French, 'i uiane University; Jane Caldwell 1'ixun, Eigiinh, Tulane, Jane Smith Wat son, Wells; Helen .Morgan, Firk univertu ; Mary l:.li:s, Aiills college; Maiyaret Law rence, 'labor college; Amelia cioras, L'ni veiiity vi AiaLuma; Julia Seam, Univer sity of Nashville; Sarah Bainiier, Western College lor Women. Leavra Front Fashion's Notebook. Lovely bancs of velvet ure used a vesu for street gowns and uuwirr Uretej Weil. A sirred suit, dark and rather sniootn in textuie, is uemunued lor spring wear aiiu II. e ii, oi popular snipe, just at. the pnj lhg moment, it one llul snow s a sligut tin'. i'l pui;ne ucroas the blown. One of tl e qa.te new features Is the i.ip scan". This, upon a slender tiguie, is lovely. It ii made of very filmy mai.er.al aim is finiMit ,1 with a bonier 01 fringe. is worn aruund the hips raiiier snusly a. id ui tied in a knot in the back. Materials tiivcri d to form floral figures are among tl e vuit materials. And there are Ihile coals compli lely covered Willi silver banri,. to 1 ki like a coal of mail, 'll.eje are qun warm and can be worn eveiiu.gs arm .r nice occasions when onu would requue a little wrap. The velvet dress is now very much in favor. As a street gown it Is worn snort snd trimmed with little besides iis d.fp hem ,ul, perchance, a niching of taffeta. The coat U short and finished with fancy vet and wide cutis turning back from sleeves mat are of medium length. Tre spring girl will wear tulle and violets ( st her throat, anj vastly Lecomruing tho new neckv.tur is to her. There are delicnte pink tulle bows that fasten under tl.e chin to give a most becoming setui.g for the face,, and there are tulle bows of creamy white that are cauxt.l Willi an enameled violet. The belt fature has taken on some pretty new touches this month, and the girl who is out buying her beltings can (el tome tlung that U quite unusual, b'he should, however, visit the counter where beltings are sulii ty the yard. And heie she should s left suc'.i colors and materials as will best fit her wardrobe. In tne selection of th neck scarf there I wide variety Thr is th crepe de chine scarf, with its misty rose-hued border. There Is the scarf of chiffon taf feta, with its embroidered edge, and there sre the veilings, which are cut up Into scarf lengths and trimmed with fringe. Any and ali of tuese make becoming throw shawls for the netk. In buying a sown (or spring on Is drawn toward the plaids and stripes, which are becoming to all figures. In the stripes there are invisible effects, and obscure In design, which are very hernmlns; to Hie woman who is blessed with too much fig ure. A plain little skirt, made with, the conventional plaits hanging rather full around the ankles and scml-tlght fitting cutaway coat, are styles that are becomlne to most -women. Of course, there Is no style that looks well upon the woir.sn who weighs .0 pounds. But the average figure, even though not perfectly classic In Its lines, can adopt this Fkirt and cutaway without going to extremes. What Women Arc Doing The Mothers' congress Is held once In three years, snd will meet In Washington on March 10. Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, wife of the former senator from Idaho, is one of ttie most interemed members of the' con gress in promoting the welfare of the jtiiiilren of the ountry by instructing their mothers througli the medium of the congress. Miss Hannah Hennpxy has been elected one of the ttiree trustees of the Central Trae'es and Labor union, the central labor organization of 8t. Louis. Mo. Tl Is se lection . makes her a member of tile ex ecutive council, the first time a woman iai ever been selected for that posltlin. Miss Hennesny Is financial secretary of the local Garment Makers' union. Mrs. Andrew Cuneo. wife of a New York banker, is quite an expert automobl.is', and would like to enter all the races that are open to men eTperts. She thinks a woman Is quite as skillful and equally ss cariul In the management of tne machine, and she has a record for fast driving tl at sha thinks should admit her to corapctl I n. Georsre Harvey, In the North American Review, advises girls to catch a 'husb-.nl while "he is young, docile and ilastic," ami It is best tiiat he be In love, lb- may then be trained In the way in which he should go. Only widows, he siingss, should choose men w ho write essays on the conduct of life or philosophy. Nothing should be left to chance, and while not overnlce, tho woman should be particular. Jt Is announced, says Science, that Kmlls Berliner of W ashington, one of thttpirie." tors of the telephone arj Inventor of the gramophone, has given I12..VO as endow ment of a research fellowship fr wom-n wiio have demonstrated their ability 'tl carry on research work fjn i.hy.slcs, c.icm istry or biology. The foundation, which 's in honor of the donor's mother, will be known as ill Sarah lierllner research fel lowship for women. The award will te made bv a committee of women, of which Mrs. Christine I.aild Franklin of Ualtl murj is to be the chairman. The London mayoress incn ases the popu larity of the girls learning rook:ng and laundry work at manual training schools by attending the yearly exhibition and talking to them and their mothers on the value and worth of such training and the neces sity of keeping in practice in such work la their parents and their own homes. Trie girls are taught now to make portable din ners and how to pack them and keep them hot, as well as to understand higher branches of cookery. In laundry work she was pleused lo see that they had been taught besides Ironing, how to take oui sta.ns. prevent colors from running, and other accessary things. Rome, Italy, Is to have a congress of women. 1'he Italians are entertaining mod , em ideas of tiie possibilities of women and those of all classes will come together in the congress to consider tne best way of improving conditions. Among tuple of dis cussion are the education of the women of tho lower classes, the Improvement of eco nomic condition of women and the protec tion of women emigrants. Mrs. T. V. O'Connor, wife of the Irish ad vocate of home rule, and a former Ameri can girl from the state of Texas, now visit ing in the United tUates, bays that astute 'La.glisli politicians tell h.-r that In seven yeais englishwomen will have the right of suffrage. Mr. O'Connor says that her bung a Texas woman makes her admire I'residcnt Koosevelt for his courage under all circumstances, her state putting a premium upon that quality. She has lived twenty-two years in Kngland. The strictly religious or morally educa tional character of Miss Helen Gould's gifts does not appear except when they reach large figures. These lesser gifts of hers are not genet ally known: To the American School for Girls st Luxor, Egypt, (j.OiO; to the American College for Women at As siout. In Kiypt, Ji.OO); to the American fchool at Cairo, $o.io; to American schools at Jerusalem. Damascus and Tarsus, iXouU each. And there are many like instance. Mrs Russell Page has given S-50,000 to New York City for use In the city hall to restore the governor's room to Its former stale of historic Interest. A desk one owned by George Washington, one used by Thomas Jefferson and th chair used by th first vice president will bo part of the fm nisi, Ing. The plan of John McComb, who was assisted by the French architect, Leniaire, will be of value In restoring th room, successive city administrations hav ing made a waste of It generally until artistic New York rebelled at the vandal ism. Mrs. Florence Pooley of Topeka, Kan., was brrn at St. Helena, where her grand father lived during the time of the Im prisonment of Napoleon and was th sec retary of Sir Hudson Ixwe. the governor of the Island at the time. Mr. Pooley had chargo of Naj olenn himself In the rela tions that were obliged to be maintained with the governor, and Mrs. Pooley has many Interesting stories of the great Frenchman In his imprisonment. She says he was well treated and not only had neces sities of life, but asked for luxuries that were not always possible to obtain. 8 PERFECT Used by people of refinement EjtallUhed ia 1 866 by r