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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1908)
Activities Greatest Show oa E.,th. IILHi. are shows and shows of all varieties opera ted by Indi viduals, communities and na tions and viewed by thousands with no show at all. but the T greatest or all shows on earth .. u ..aoy show. It 1 the real thine- All i .hts are pikers. The annual baby show at Asbury Park. N J , has become something of a national Institution, bringing out each year an ln i .reused number of tiny tots, the kin and ,;-jeon of their respective households. "A Tirade precedes the real show In the main t-nt," to borrow the lingo of the circus and this year's parade, on Saturday of !.Lt week, consisted of 600 youngster and nn equal number of dolls In conveyances .-fitting the age and Importance of the Lahles. For over four hours the vast throngs sat entranced at the splendors of t ie scene and were as one In making obeisance to the tiny revelers, who trod the carpeted lengths of the avenue and rotroceded back again Into the ampht tl.ratcr where they whirled around the vsst interior and passed ones mora In re Mew before the young queen and her court who were surrounded by a brilliant throng of distinguished invited guests. .Smiling skies and tempering breeses lrnt their share In making tha eighteenth annual parade on of the most successful in the history of this famous resort. Dec orations in the hotel district. In the am phitheater and along Ocean avenue were on n much more elaborate scale than usual. There were nine divisions In ths column, consisting of doll coaches, express wagons, baby coaches and gocarts, cos tumes In fancy dress, costumes In college colors, costumes In burlesque, floats and I tiny turnouts The doll coach division was particularly strong and displayed all the familiar va riety of decorated coach and many de lightful novelties that received their full measure of appreciation from the specta tors. It was in the fancy dress costume section, however, that the parade assumed more picturesque and colored effect Many of the fancy' costumes represented up-to- date characters In public life, others por trayed the customs of ancient and me dieval times and not a few In the bur- lesque division excited continuous merri ment all along the line, .Six full grown men acted aa supreme Judges at the baby show and awarded tha first prize, a silver loving cup, to a youngster arrayed In the new-fashioned sheath skirt. The winner was Dorothy May Trlble, daughter of William B. Trlble of New York, a beautifully formed little girl of 2 years old. Her costume was of white satin, with tha eklrt so cut as to give the most tantalizing glimpse of her dimpled legs. Prizes were also awarded to ohildren In doll coaches, express wagons, baby coaches and go-carts, fancy dress cos tumes, college color costumes, burlesque costumes, twins and triplets and special prizes, a sterling silver cup and a loving cup, to children from the greatest dis tance, the first to Constance Fish, 7 years, of San Francisco, and Marie H. Tutrtago, 15 months old, of Equador, South America. The Mother of the Farm. In addressing the people of Jordanvllle, N. T., on Wednesday the president said a thing about which there can be no dif ference among observing men. It was: "The hardest worked individual on the farm is apt to ba the wife of the farmer; If you don't applaud that you ought to; 1 believe In the farmer economising, but on l.lmeslf, not on his wife." ' That Is what may rightly be called a rock-ribbed truth, needlrg neither the rhetoric of a suffragette nor the benevo ier.ee of a national commission for Its demonstration. It is entirely within Com mon knowledge, comments the Chicago Inter Ocean. It M not a truth that we need, as a peo ple, to be ashamed of or sit In sackcloth un.l ashes about. It Is an Individual af fair a personal matter for the conscience of the man whom the shoe fits. Yet it Ih a truth to which we should, as a people, give appreciative consideration, that we mny put In her rightful place of honor lu the republic the Mother of the Farm. She is not asking for public sympathy. F;ir from it. She would resent as an In trusion anything of the sort. And she would repel with fey Indignation any sug gestion that she Is not wholly abla to cars fur her own "rights" and needs advice about them from anyone. She has her trials, but she wears not her heart upon her sleeve. She knows that most of them were unavoidable that they were necessary labors of crea- tlon-and she Is patient and strong to sn- dure until those labors are accomplished, even though she may not live to com Into her reward. The men whose strength and courage have wrestled with ths soil, made tt yield first existence and then wealth and com- fort, deserve all ths praise that bat been given them. Yet without ths women their efforts would havs been vain. What the men have gained ths women havs kept and carried on. Men live mostly for ths doing of ths day's work In tho day. Their wives do the work of ths day and llva always for the future, seeing to It that In ths chll- 1 V K A irrinil W a na mt sTrukSl Si snl ...... .... ... . "" lts evil Is left behind. A flood Joko. Ba Ulough and Neighbors wars chatting on the porch. Mrs. Blough was U ths parlor near the window. Blouah kn she was listening and wanted to tease her. "Had a little experience today." ha said to Neighbors, confidentially. . "Prettiest little girl you ever saw. She was saunter- Ing along the street some feet behind a strolling couple. I was walking faster and aa I caught up with her I couldn't help looking at her, she was so pretty. She caught my look and smiled. I had no Intention of flirting, of course, but that smile was Irresistible. Then our hands touched, accidentally, and we let thera linker a minute. Sh twv&n vlkln fc.ta, to keep up with me, and ws passed ths - "u w tui vf.i "Thunder!" hs exclaimed. "Of court but mv wife didn't w ,o V'.h but m wife dldnt wait to hear that. She s gone upstairs to cry now, and sven if she accept, my explanation it mean. nowera and a party dress. What fools we husbands be!" . Tho I.eojs sbs tho Vat. "People are not nearly so much oon- cerued about being too thin as they are about being too fat, but they ought to be," said the woman physician, quoted by ths New York Tribune. "A certain degros of thinness Is leas disfiguring than a cor. responding degree of stoutness. la fact. thinness is ths fashion, so long as It doss not extend to the faoa, and tho woman who has too llttlo flesh la InuUned to oongratu- late herself upon tho fact. Laok of flesh, too, oauaus leas disootufort than an sxooss of it. The thlu woman may fael and think he is perfectly well, but she Is living In a fool's paradise, la ths first place, she u..ia..c aneaa or mem l mustered up similar beads which falls over ths scarf by narrow black satin scarf threaded reBlJ""" nervs enough ts spe.k. "Good svenin,.". girdl. of th. clinging dlreetolr. frock. through b and f knotted looly inlitatlon of fresh Thira . a swish of aklrt. l .h. r,.n LT Md'rhaP lrdl" matching ths shoulder by similar lacing, but without lnt0 tlle ,cheme- JZt in tV l, b0,Ur"- ThM 1nllM M- "k th " Ov" directoire frock of In ' t0- n vanlshln towath. lL ' " ' ther CorM of soft .uppl. black satin without other trimming , " anlshing toward the bait n.t heavllv -mhrnl.i.r. Tk.. .... .... . . . it. model Is effectv It and Views of Women Folks way not always be able to keep precisely he amount of flesh that she now has. and IT he falls off ever so little she will b3 hideous. Fat. moreover, is reserve power, it Is literally stored up energy. The thin woman may have ,-nough for current needs, but let the slightest extra Mr;.ln coma and she goes over like a nlnepln. To remedy the evil much more is needed than correct diet. No woman In the,e days needs to bo told what are the fat-producing foods, but these will do her no s oo.l unless she stops wasting her energy after she produces It. AH the sleep poaMble should be taken, both at night and In the daytime. Ajl worry and agitation shou'd bs avoided as far aa possible, and work should be done In a leisurely wuy, with frequent rests. It will seem like Uiln-sj to the woman who has been accusorried to going at breakneck speed all the time, but sho may find that she gets more done In the long run. A little moderate exercise "",u aien In the open air to in crease the appetite, but violent or long sus-' tatned muscular effort is Jut the thing 'tj be avoided." Maklna:Ilonie Happy. One of the hundred bits of edvlce doled out to women for ages Is that whloh urges the necessity of meeting the home-o lining man with a smile. No matter what do mestic trials have frayed her temper, cheerfulness must be on tap. It Is gjud advice so far aa It goes, but no matter how hard business cares press upon a man, he Inevitably has something to distract him from It, even If It be nothing more than the journey between home and business. The wife is not always diverted from matters that trouble her; theoret ically she ought to have mental strength to rise sbeve them, but a wife and mother is apt to get physically and nervously over tired. If the husband Is a "grumpy" man and rlts at his dinner in S'lence, eats as if hU mind was far off, has to be spoken to twice before he answers, and appears un appreclative of his food, then the wife. Is justified In being grieved and hurt. The Complaining woman and the grumpy man make a home that children flee from and people do not visit for the veneer of kind ness and cheerfulness, assumed for the occasion, does not deceive. The man who can smile just a little when he comes home and talk a little nonsense with the children is as much of a model as the woman who can be light-hearted In tha midst of aggravations that come even In the beat-managed houses. lout of Hetty Oreen'a Opinions. Mrs. Hetty Green, the venerable mil lionairess of New York, took her thoughts off Interest bearing notes long enough to voice a few thoughts to an Interviewer, some of them piquant, egotistic and grouchy. These three will do: "They all have to coma to me even President Roosevelt. A woman may not vote I am not saying I want to vote but if you sis a woman with money, you are just as powerful as a man with money. Money is the real power In the political situation today. "The women of Amerloa have helped to make hard times. All they rive for, all they cars for. Is clothes the latest shape In hats, ths newest tangled skirts. And they are none too particular how they get what they want or-who pays for It. Oh, I am not saying that American women are not moral, but I do say that they do not care what price their hus bands and fathers and brothers pay for the luxury and finery they demand. More men are driven to dishonesty by the white hand of a woman, stuck all over with jewels, than by their own love of horses, rloh food and gay times. "Ths American child la not taught how to save money, but how to spend It. Every thing they want give it to them so lung us you have the price or credit that's the pollejj of the modern mother, and aha la raising a nation of spendthrifts, whose one thought la to get what they want when they want It. That is why men and women, the few who know how to save. Tiny Directoire GW YORK. 8ept. . The vogue of the directoire bodice and the shortened waist line will continue throughout the season of the designers and manufac N turers are true prophets, for trimming departments of the shops .r of corsage garnitures designed spsclally for the embellishment of the horts wsisted. high girdled frock. Boms of these garnitures are merely blsarre, but many are both handsome nd practicable, and though ths prices often high an old frock might be furnished Into modlshness or a simple frock made to havs an air of elegance hy ths use of one of these ready- made garnitures as inexpensively as In any other way. go much of ths effect of these scces- ,orles depends upon ths beauty of their color schemes, workmanship and de- ,igIU that a BMn bImck ... can givs but little Idea of them. The tiny empire or directoire bciero In one form or another Is a favoiite with the e1nrs. and this little arrangement Is ulu"ted In several of Its phases, na ' tB" oommonest of these is out low and wi"" In the neck, extends just blow th W8jt line. Is held by straps ov,r the 'houlder and fastens In the back. Tnl Jet or corsage garniture is usually nid nt heavily embroidered, some- times In pearl and gold, sometimes en- Urely in Jet. sometimes In exquisite col- oreo bugles and beads of delicate irl- descent colors, sometimes ' in silks and glemJng metal threads, Some of ths garnitures cut on these lines and designed, of course, for evening fnvki ,,i..iu u . , crystal and gold or pearls and gold and ra unianea at ins ootrom by a fringe of nst heavily embroidered. Thev n nna. - J " lihtv fiv nr ill in.-h .nri iM m 'n """" l ,rOUnd the body on" or twlc- , then b. ,jr.wn bark Q knot looaelv in front arM fn in i IfTiTJ hJ.Lu' " ..-. In other words, they are like the popu- r uuenjr saxin scan giraiea In lorm, but ara mads to match the other trimming ' th frock. A set of this kind, bolero J11 girdle In black net embroidery with cut Jt beads of various sIsps, Is Illustrated nHr ri would bs extremely effective in connection with a black house or evening frock otherwise very simple. Of shape stUI mors piquant la another modal wtth pointed fronts crossing In sur- Pcs fashion. This. too. was shomn In jet. but it was offrd also to embroidery of various delicate huod crystal beads snd bugles on fine white net and In pearls and gold on white. One of the handsomest boleros wa have seen was of black silk filet and opened In will In time be masters of those who know only how to spend." ilrU In Their College Year. Hookisli ness and grinding study, and above all specialization, whatever may be said about It for boys, is utterly unnatural for girls In the teens and early tweniioa. Tney nave all-sided knowledge got in a way that fits their more intuitive and at til same time more mature minds. After ag.-s of segregation in a narrow circle, the very going to Collegu and exposure to the manifold Interests of Its atmosphere and the presence of so many personalities and sets is ilxclf a treat strain, especially as the girl's Instinctive tendency Is to live more in her immediate environment and to master It better than boys and to care less for what is remote In time and place, or for abstract things. Bhe must and ought to devote a larger share of her total capital of psychophyslc energy to matters of dress, social activities, health, body-keeping and regimen than boys of equal years. She Is riper at the same age for love and thoughts of marriage, is fittest to associate with men some years older than she, says G. Stanley Hall, author of "Adolescence" In the Sep tember Appleton's, so that If In co-educa- tlonul colleges her male associates are chiefly those of her own age and stage of advancement, she is likely to be a little disenchanted with the sex in general, Judging it from the Immature specimens who are her classmates. The latter are much farther from any serious thoughts of wedlock for which they are less pre pared, and so In a sense have a certain unfair advantage over her In all matters In which the affections are liable to be In volved. It is often questionable whether in social intercourse with their own sex, girls are not more prone to overdraw their energies than are boys, and whether they are also not more burdened with a sense of duties tu their teachers, classmates, club, sorority, than are their brothers. The great present danger is that, owing in part to the very altruism of tho girl's nature, her loyalty and sense of duty, she will overdraw her physical energies before anyone knows It, least of all herself. It is not soluly a ques tion whether she graduates better in health than Bhe would have been had she remained at homo, but whether sne ought not to emerge still better than she does. Nervous tension, over-cxcitenient and Incipient neu rasthenia and hysteria are very hard even for experts to diagnose. But it la the very diathesis of womankind that they tend to put Into things In which they are inter ested more energy than their system can bear, and spend not only income but cap ital. Especially during the eight or tea years when the primary and secondary sex qualities that constitute so much larger a part of woman's body and soul than of man's need so large a share of the total supply of energy; erudition, if bought at the cost of ever so little pelvic and pec toral development, comes too high. Woman's Attractive Age. "When we speak of the attractiveness of woman, w really mean the attractiveness ot woman to man," wrote a woman con tributor In the Bun Francisco Call recently. "With men the question of when a woman Is most attractive is doubly com plicated, because It depends not only on the woman, but on the taste of the man himself. Not many years ago, if this question had been aBked, the answer would have been unhesitatingly made that a woman Is most attractive between the ages ot IS and 20. Most of the heroines ot classicul fiction are mere children. "It must be confessed that, with rare exceptions, the modern rian prefers some thing more sophisticated than sweet 16, though it Is undeniable that the unintelli gent woman Is at her best when she Is In her teens. This Is easily understood. "Almost ail young creatures are beauti ful, and heaven gives to even the home liest woman a day of grace between lu and 13 when she Is pretty with the pret tlness of fresh cheeks, and dewy eyes, and glossy hair. Boleros and Corsage Garnitures ACCES30RIKS OF PASSEMLNTEH1E. front Ilke a tmy conventional b j- lero. The net was embroidered beau- tifully In vivid peacock blues n a 0 1 d- and around the edges of the little Jacket was a fringe of minute black I,' " . ,,n. . . m .v.. ,. -' an... ,uug I .ill lit ilia IttTL'tV ... , l" altogether artistic and charming. , . urn' ' " ul Ian oned from wide embroidered band, of net. mm tuner loveiy corsage mrniuirei, cross- Ing surplice-wise In front and back and enoing unuer son giroiea maae irom me same supple bands, weighted at the ends with balls or tassels. Hers there Is end- less variety, but of course only the softest of embroidered nets are available f.-r girdles, stiffness mr.klng ths proper swath- lng effort Impossible. Highly artistic and decorative stole arrangements are Included among the elaborate garnitures with which we are dealing, and the model sketched here will give a good lda of the lines upon which they sre built up. A band falls from e-vch shoulder quite to the knees In front and back, widening slightly as It descend.; and Just below the bust, where the shert- tned waist line would occur, a band of The fronts did not meet, but were tie I.'. -i. i "Twenty-three Is an Meal t me o' the clock for tho woman of average Intelli gence and pulchritude, unless she haptens to be collegebred. If she haj had the mis fortune of acquiring the higher educa tion, she It still Up-hcavy wiih learning and self-esteem over having discovered the ancient Greeks and Romans, and U requires ten years more for her to find O it that, for a woman to bo thoroughly charming, she should have had a good education and forgotten It. "For the woman, however, who is meant to be human nature's daily food, no age Is more attractive than 23. She Is In the first flush of having Just arrived. The slim promises of girlhood have been real ized in the full beauty of womanhood. She still has illusions, but they are not delusions. She still is innocent, but no longer Ignorant. "Her Intercourse with the opposite sex has a certain frankness and comradeship that Is not the least of her charms. She seems so safe that sho Is deadly danger ous; statistics show that more women marry at 23 than at any other ago. "The bachelor woman is at her best at IW. because she is consciously charming. She has ail the advantages with which nature originally equipped her, and she hus added to them the frills and furbelows of art. She has learned to enhance her good looks by better dressing, and to put a red shade on the lamp, and kit with her buck to the light. She has also learned how to talk, and, better still, how to be s fascinating listener. "At 36 the extremely clever woman reaches the summit of her fascination. The woman who has more brains than heart Is never more dangerous than then, for she 'has taken the measure of mankind and plays upon its weaknesses as upon a harp with a thousand strings." What Women Are Doing-. North Carolina has just acquired Its first 'woman dentist, Mrs. 1). Z. McGulie of Asheville having obtained a license to practice from the North Carolina Den tal association. There are said to be two women In New York receiving salaries of I20.00U a year. They are both designers of wo men's dresses for concerns making a spe cialty of handsome ready made garments. Mrs. Annie L. Lowrpy, who died recently at the age of 85 at her home in Phila delphia, left half of ItiOO.OOO to charity, much of it going to humane societies. She left Jo. 000 to a cousin to be used In caring for her pet dogs and parrots. To three servants she left $18,000. Miss Julia Lathrop of Chicago has been made a co-director of the Institute of Social Science with Prof. Graham Taylor. Miss LathroD has been interested In fhi subject of state charities for some time, and is besides a lawyer in a family of lawyers. Irish women seem to be ahead of tholr American sisters in some respects, as Miss Ina Kichiuond Is manager of the Magherafelt gas works at Dublin. She is considered the best gas expert in Ire land and Is the first woman to hold such a post. She began in the postal service and afterward studied the subject of gas In all its ramifications. ' Mrs. Ellen 11. Richards of the Institute of Technology at Boston says that nlne tenths of the Illness of the human body is caused by the food eaten and more than one-half of such illnesses are caused by unclean food. Food is a great car rier of ills-ease, and it rests with the housewife to see that .she does not give to her family that which has been ex posed to unclean exposure or handling. There are not a great number of women doctors in Germany, but in llerlln a hos pital has been opened by two sisters, both doctors, which may lead to something more In the way of advancing the profes sion for women. The two sister doctors are Franzlska and Henrietta Tlburtlus and it w.ts they who planned the hospital. Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward, who went to the democratic convention as a delegate, is the mother of nine children and Is aid to have one of the best managed households in Salt I.nke City. She is in favor of women's suffrage, not because of any Intellectual stimulus that may come from it, but because she Is the mother of nine children and wants every opportunity to protect and make her home better. Mrs. John O. Johnson of Toledo made a new record as nurse and steamboat captain the other day. Her husband, the captain of the John Hchulte, was disabled during a storm on the lakes. Mrs. Johnson not only acted as skipper in his place, but took the wheel and brought the vessel safely down the Detroit river and across Lake St. Clair to Toledo, besides caring for her husband. the same embroidery runs around ths corsage, loosely confining the stole ends. These models are furnished in Jet and In colors, but the Jet are particularly ef fective, the design, delicate and worked out In small beads over the shoulders, growing bolder and larger and taking un'.o Itself large jet beads or paillettes as, the warfs broaden toward the bottom. Tha same designs are worked out in pearls, tiny pearls thickly embroidering the uppr part, while toward the bottom great lr- . Suix-rbiy embroid- e ' d m?,lf; satin velvet or net for the filling , of a part Q. very low cut cor- sages are supplied Dy the designers, n o correspondlug trimming necessarily appearing elsewhere on the frock, and directoire waistcoats also are In evidence In all degrees of elegance, usually of embroidered satin, cloth or velvet. As for the ornaments of braid, of satin, cord, etc, they are legion. Never within our memory has there been such a fliod of similar trimmings and one car. obtain them In any of the modish colors though black la the prime favorite and Is used upon all colors. The smart dressmakers snd tailors often prefer to design and make their own but- tons and ortaincnts in order to Insure In- ml Mm It $16,500 IN PRIZES GIVEN AWAY FKJCE FOR. CORRECT HE line of Pianos carried by The Bennett Co. is of such a high degree of excellence, and the various makes so well and favorably known, that their names are already household words in the majority of homes in Nebraska and neighboring states, but in order that all may become familiar with the fact that the Kreatest line of hih-irade Pianos in the West is to be found in our ware rooms, and in order to obtain a large and comprehensive list of prospective purchasers of Pianos and Organs to whom we may present the merits of our instruments and explain our equitable selling system, we have inaugurated a contest which we believe to be the most interesting, and at the same time the most liberal ever attempted by any Piano house. THE CONTEST t Trinted below you will find a Puczle Automobile Wheel, aroand the tirs of which ws have placed the letters which form the names of some of the different makes of Pianos we represent. Ws wsnt you to rearrange thess letters correctly sad write ths names which lbs letters form in ths plsces left for Ihst purpose between the spokes ot the wheel. In order that you may essily understand bow to do it, we have completed one answer. Study the puizla carefully, also ths arrangement of the word PACKARD, snd you will havs little trouble in completing the rest sf the answers. THE RULES GOVERNING THE CONTEST Are very simple snd will bs easily understood. They must bs strictly complied with, however. 1. Ths contest is open to all, except employes of The Bennett Company or persons connected with other rossic houses, 2. Th correct name and rHrees of 4 nroric'ive purcher of Pisnrsor Orrans MUST be written in the spaces prv vided lor thst purpose in the wheel. Eiercise great care in sending in these names, for, as explained above, the principal object of this contest is to enable us to widen the scope of our operations and get in touch with those who are now, or may bs later on, in ths market for a piano. 3. The contest will extend over a period of 30 days, beginning August 21st snd ending September 19th, and prizes will bs awsrded snd the winnsts announced as soon as possible sfter the closing of the contest. 4. No contestsnt may send in more than ons solution. S In order that all may hsve equal chances of obtaining sn sward, ths prises will bs distributed ss sxplained below. THE PRIZES 1 Louis XV Grand Piano 1 Magnificent Art Grand Piano 1 Upright Cabinet Grand Piano 1 Upright Cabinet Grand Piano.. 1 Upright Cabinet Grand Piano.. 1 Upright Cabinet Grand Piano.. 1 Upright Cab;net Grand Piano.. 1 Upright Cabinet Grand Piano.. 1 Upright Cabinet Grand Piano.. 1 Mahofjany Upright Piano 10 Prizes of $10 each in gold. . . . 132 $75 Credit Certificates An attractive souvenir will be presented to all who par ticipate in the contest but are not fortunate enough to win one of the prizes mentioned above. CONTEST CLOSES POSITIVELY ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, AT 4:30 P. M. I,M 1 1 rprlirht 3CS-.' A- v . Art Model r 1 I Cabinet tgJFTaWCtisron cjppyTtN Hrand Ff:m' i ... y"d sW ri.no r --- pianos jr7V55Jk l : Z';vS'',SSV MM, '; Jlk fell'. i&MWwjw mm Mm 'it ?rVadP..B. CS-N After filling in your answer to the puzzle, write your name and address very plainly en a separate piece of paper, enclosing same attached to the solution of the puzzle, and mail to THE BENNETT COMPANY . OMAHA dlvlduallty, but many of (he readymade Urines of this kind have the exclusive hand made air this season. Duttons, flat or dome shuped, formed of satin covered cord colled round and round upon Itself are much uEcd, as are buttons and ornaments of silk soutache handled In the same way. Narrow folds of black satin woven in and out In basket design cover some of the bis flat butt.n moulds with good effect, and crocheted, embroidered n.-'d plain satin but tons are used In profusion. The use of the browns with mahogany tone Is Irvdicated In the supply of beautiful embroiJereU net trimmings In those shades, and there are many exquisite gray and green embroideries, but many of the hand somest effects are In the peacock coloring, whli h were new last winter, but are to be popularized this season. Leaves front Fashion's Notebook. Tho autumn 1-ats as yt- enow no great change. They follow closely upon the styles of summer. It will not be unusual this winter to see tight sleeves that fatten from the very top or the arm to the wrist. The style will be carried out in smart coats and In sheet afternoon or evening bouse frocks. Ureen arl black combine peculiarly well and one of the finest of the fall blouses f ir day wear is n'.adu of green pongee wltn black silk cuffs and collar. Thtre Is a tailored finish throughout e-n to the little breast pocket elaborately stitched with black. The lniro.lucUi.il of strappings on the outer side of the sleeve Is doing s great deal fur the oui-uf-dale waist. The sleeve Is slit to the suouldr; a little fan of lace Is iii.'t In tin- she. i'ii or opering, and over his fan of lace there are placed straps of luce, braid, taffeia or bias velvet. A lingerie blouse of decidedly cream tone WU4 made of champagne colored lace over a earn colared nirfun lining. The neck piece ontia'eii of a little silk bow, knotted In the front, witu loops and ends of dlffer ert lengths. The bw was made and se cured with a hook and eye under the chin. Women who are dressing on a moderate allowance have made the discovery tnat It Is nut really uie material that counts so much aa the way the walat ts made up. It la tha style, the trimming and ths finish. Often It Is the way the walat Is worn. A simple thing like a well chosen stock or a smart piece of ickwear will traiitfonu s SOLUTIONS TO THE PUZZLE BELOW How the Prices Will Be Awarded One (1) Piano and $1,000 in Cash snd Credit Certificates for the best answers received, as follows: (1) Between August 21st and August 23rd, inclusive; (2) Between August 24th snd August 26th, inclusive; (3) Between August 27th and Aagust 29th. inclusive; (4) Between August 30th and September 1st, inclusive; (5) Between September 2nd snd September 4th, inclusive, (6) Between September Sth and September 7th, inclusive; (7) Between September 8th and Septsmbsr 10th, inclusivs; (8) Between September 11th and September 13tb, inclusive; (9) Between September 14th and September 16th, inclusive; (10) Between September 17th and September 19th, inclusive. A total of 10 Pianos and $10,000 in Cash and Credit Certificates. .Value $1,400 .Vitlue 1.000 Value 650 .Value Value .Value 600 575 550 525 450 400 350 lOO 0000 .Value .Value .Value .Value . .Value . .Value plain waist Into something that 1- becoming and dresy. ' Beautiful black girdles may be bought for Wear with all walxts and all inmeilui un impressed Into the service. There is tha black girdle of embroidered suede; the girdle of black silk gathered In many flds; there Is the narrow black enameled leather belt and there are numerous black elastic belts and girdles studded with steel or beaded. The woman who wants to be spectacular In her huts can invest In a wide brimmed hat of brown felt, which ran be faced with gold colored satin. The brim will be wider in the buck than Jn the front. One side of the hat will flare upward and there will bn a wide crush of gold satin around tlx- tall crown. Finally, there will be placed half a il.iicn wings rUht al the frunt polluting slightly backward. A Frleadlr Thief. "An acquaintance of mln,' l ad a queer exiil"nce the other day,'' faid a man who has not much faith In anything. "A short time ago he was Introduced to a pickpocket by a frhnO. Tl. plckiHK-kat la fn if tne hcrt In th? bus. ness. 'My friend didn't tl ink anything mure about him. but the ether Light he a. In a saloon, after he hail ln-cn celehrnt lng most of tlie d iy. He was prt'y happy and the plckpi cket came In. My friend had a diamond stud In his tie. AMERICA leads the World preeminently in the superiority and skill of her dentists PERFECT has been prepared by an American dentist since 1866. It cleanses, preserves and beautifies the teeth and imparts purity and fragrance to the breath $16,500 IN PRIZES GIVEN AWAY FR-EEr with a screw attucliment. The pickpocket walked up. " 'You may not remember me," he said, 'but 1 met you the other night with so and sn. Take a bit of advice from rrM. You may lose that shiner of yours If you're not careful.' "Then the pickpocket looked at the dia mond. He said the screw attachment wouldn't step a good thief from getting the dlumrnd. but he could fix that. He fished aruiind In his pockets and produced a rubber band, which ho tied around ths screw. " 'Now,' he said. 'they can only get your stone by biting it off." Nsw York Sun. A Bachelor's Heflrctlons. If a man had all the money thri Is In the world ho wculd blar.is his luck be cuiae there wasn't more. The thin a woman admires about her husband's Imslnens sagacity la how nearly auccetisful It sometimes Is. The rea.ton a woi.iun says hrr prayers sn faithfully In so that if anything goes wrong it won't ! her fsult. A girl with freckles ftcls .lust ss philo sophical bout them as a n an does about tt :i g In a Mock market panic. The man who la always paying compli ments to women may be an awful liar, but he doesn't need sny affidavits in that business. 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