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Tea and Boudoir Gowns of Inspired Design and Color
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dainty boudoir (own.
Short walsted models of the empire type,
classic draperies, flowing lines from
shoulder to hem, all these were once as
sociated chiefly with the negligee. Only
In that Informal garment could a woman
freely Indulge her taate for the artistic,
but we have changed all that an many of
the lovelleat and moat modish evening
gowna. dinner gowna, etc., suggest in
the light of tradition, tea gown apotheo
aea. Naturally all thle development of the
artistic In dress reacts upon the negligee,
and, aa we began by aaylng, the designers
appear to be unusually Inspired In their
designs for tea gowns and boudoir gowns
this season.
For the handsome tea gown, the most
exquisite of the lovely, supple, new ma
terials are pressed Into service and here,
aa elsewhere, the soft crepe and satins
and neta and mouMsellnes and chiffons
prove ideal fabrics for draperies. The
popular silk cashmeres and many of the
fine silk and wool stuffs are alao much
used, by the designers, and when one
comes to consideration of less pretentlou
models the very popular challles, French
flannels, albatross cloths and cashmeres
are as much used as ever. Fine soft
broadcloths In beautiful tints are also
nuccessfully employed, but soil so readily
that, though attractive and comfortable
for cold weather wear, they are not very
practical save In medium and dark tones.
The three negligees sketched for this
'page will give a good idea of the general
' lines along which the daintier negligees
.fire being made up; but the assortment In
the shops Is so large and varied that It
is difficult to select any two or three
models as typical. Some of these models
are so complicated and ornate that they
would be difficult to sketch and still more
difficult to copy, but these three models,
. while elaborate and charming, are easily
understood.
One In while aheer silk not so thin as
moussellne, yet even less heavy than India
silk, was a particularly youthful and dainty
..gown, with Its lines of Inset lace. Its bands
of fine traverse tucking and Its lines of
tiny pink roses and leaves. A girdle cf
light blue liberty encircled the shortened
waistline, was held by a buckle of the
little roses In the back and fell In long
sah ends finished by fringe.
More ornate wa the tea gown of creamy
embroidered net over pink chiffon. There
the liberty girdle was drawn up to the
bust line In front and knotted there, with
long ends falling tq the knees and weighted
with heavy silk tassels corresponding on
a magnified scale with the tassel-like
fringe on the sleeves and over dress.
The transparent tunlo or overdress of
one sort or another draped over a cling
ing untrimmed robe of soft satin, silk, or
crene Is a favorite Idea and Is develo-!
In Innumerable ways. One especially lovely
tea gown had a drapery of topis yellow
lace the exoulslte deep yellow ttnred with
brown In which the pattern wns run with
a white thread. This loose tunle fell over
a limp simple robe of white satin, and the
girdle was of tnpas Liberty.
flueh creations as this, perfect of line
and delicious of color, are a Joy to the
annreclstlve eve. and are. of course, h'gh
prloed In proportion to their besuty. The
blue chiffon and lace of the sketch waa an
rwrfneni m"nei, p-nimns; mucn rrom me
deft touch of dranerv .breaking the straight
line of the front folds.
Fancy runs riot in some Quaint Old
World deslms for tee. rowns. "one for ex
emnle. which w'll doubtless sound distress
Inr In the telling was delectsble In the
realttv. bsd a loose, pteturesone matinee
arrangement In the old blue crepe, an ex
nuMte. dull, soft shsde of ambelln blue.
This fell In lone points at the bottom, two
at bnek and one at each side of the front
A band trimming of cream material re-
Fine Neck
Furs
There b nothing handsome than a
Fine Mink Set
ad aothint store
stylish
But even in the test ex
pensive Lanpher Fun
you will End the latest
and best styles. All
Lanpher Fun are made
with a cart and skill, the
outcome of
33 Years of Experience
AJk your dealer to show
you Lanpher Fun. If
he does not aeQ them,
tale no other write us
direct
LANPIIER
SKINNER & CO.
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Peonies, 10 cents and up. Tulips,
Hyaocintba nd others.
Stewart's Seed Store
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A NEGLIOETJ OF BLUE CHIFFON AND LACB, ONH OF WHITE MOUSSEIJNB,
LACF1 AND BMAI.L, ROSES, AND ONE OF PINK CHIFFON WITH EMBROID
BltED NET COAT.
sembllng a loose woven mummy cloth
embroidered In dull blue, pink, black and
white, ornamented the neck, fronts and
short loose sleeves of this sack and a little
blaa piping of white messallne with a hair
of black ran along the edge of the bands.
The close shirred under sleeves were of
this white and black messallne, trimmed
with embroidered buttons matching the
band trimming of the sack. Under this
odd sack was worn a perfectly plain
clinging skirt of pink satin. Queer? Yes,
decidedly queer, but lovely of color and
Una and . with a quaint Old World flavor
as though it had stepped out of some old
French mezzotint or painting.
Plain nets, simply trimmed In ribbon or
galon and artistically draped over a cling
ing but not tightly fitted robe, make
charming tea gowna and some .especially
chlo models are In heavy silk fur net of a
genuine gold yellow made over satin of
the same shade and trimmed with a nar
row edge of dark brown and a very little
heavy cream lace.
There are marvelously lovely things In
the Japanese robes, not merely the ki
monos, but models which were designed
here and executed In Japan, so that while
the cut corresponds with occidental Ideas
as to the desired lines in negligees, the
(exquisite materials, embroidery and color
schemes are purely Japanese. The loveli
est model of this class that we have seen
was a vlstarla design, the material
crinkly silk crepo of delicate lavender, em
broidered almost all over In great sprays
of vlstarla shading through many soft
tones of lavender to white In the blossoms
and through soft gray greens to white In
the foliage.
The neok was cut square and the gown
Activities
Is the Home Disappearing;?
1SCUSSINO causes portending
the wreck of the home In Hamp
ton's Broadway magazine, Rbeta
Chllde Dorr draws this picture
of present conditions:
One woman In five In the
Dl tne wrecK Ot ine noma in namy lanmeni ana grow in. Jm m ruio, &u iiium
I ton's Broadway magazine, Rbeta era should nurse their own children," added
I T-kn- Avtkmrm this nlntllr Phlfiirn A anflila nlllM "ftTCflnt when th
Lulled mates has abandoned the domestic
life and has become a wage earner. Even
thJs does not accurately state the situation.
In country districts only two women out
of every eleven are at work, but in cities,
that la, wherever Industrial opportunities
are present two women out of every seven
are at work, nearly one-third of tim ttni
woman population. How far the father
of the family has ceased to be the sole
supporter thereof Is shown In the statistics
gathered In twenty-seven cities and tabu
lated by the census bureau. The total
number of women at work In the twenty,
seven cities t. W4.696. Of these 17S.0M are
boarding or living In the families of their
employers. The remaining 731.666 are de-
scribed as follows-
Women the sol. wag. earner 98 861
One other wage earner in family a,'4l5
It0"" WMre In family.. ..ia,te9,
fanUly8".'0 ther ww "rner' ,n '
Out cf 731.165 wom.n .r ,v m '
supportlng the family, and between a 8 416
and 682,804 are contributing to the family
Income. Remember that these are city
workers and represent nearly ene-thlrd of
all the women In those cities. At last ac
counts the number of women In Industry
was increasing faster than the birth rate.
mow long will It be before the home, ex-
cept for rich people, will be as obsolete as
stage coacnes, hoop-skirts, .and Merrv
Christmas?
Recurring periods of Industrial depression
always bring poverty to the surface. We
have no permanent class of unemployed In
this country as yet-but we have a large
population which barely manages to keep
Its bead above water. When the tide rises
ever so little above the average this bl
population has to be rescued from drown
ing. It has no foothold but the shifting
sand, and It cannot swim. As soon as
normal conditions prevail. It rallies and Is
able to care for Its own again.
But this last panic brought something
new to the surface. It brought to light
a force at work in this land of boundless
wealth and unlimited opportunities; a force
which If not met will result In a wholesale
wrecking of homes. Already the silent
force has eaten far Into the social fabric.
Its outward and visible sign Is the fact
that on the shoulders of millions of women
has descended a monstrous double burden,
under whlcn, not only they but their chil
dren and their homes are slowly sinking.
af ether Mho Pos't Kitw,
"I continually have to deplore the gross
Ignorance displayed by mothers as to the
proper care of their children, not only as
to food, but also In regard to cleanliness,
dress and other simple matters," said Dr.
Bernard F. Fuller of Chicago to a reporter,
"and I do not hesitate to say that at least
one-half of the cases attended by ma and
other physicians need advice only and not
medicine."
Dr. Fuller was here during the tubercu
losis congress, and speaking about milk as
a food, for Infants said the best food for aa
fell straight and clinging yet loose In front,
while In the back the fullness was plaited
In cleverly Just between the shoulder
blades below a smooth embroidered yoke
effect
A band of lavender liberty satin Just a
shade darker than the crepe bordered all
the edges of this robe.
Beautiful tea gowns for elderly women
In the soft grays, the prunelle shades and
In black transparent nets or laces over
amethyst or white are shown.
To come down to models more practical
for the average woman and within reach
of women with moderate dress allowance,
one finds delightful little, ahort-walsted
models in crepe de chine, whose skirts are
untrimmed and whose short, loose bodices
have only lines of trimming around the
neck and on the short over sleeve or I
shoulder and a tucker and undersleeves 1
of tucked or shirred cream' net, the
tucker ending Just below the base of the
waist A soft girdle is swathed about the
waist and knotted with long scarf ends
whenever It Is becoming. A gown of this
kind will do duty for any sort of at home
occasion, and indeed has little or nothing
to distinguish it from some of the simple
evening frocks.
In albatross there are pretty loose robes
bordered with wide bands of embroidery
In silk or soutache and often lined with
silk, so that they are not after all, such
Inexpensive trifles as one . might think.
The silk lining, is not, however, a neces
sity. One attractive robe In pink albatross
had a border of soutache embroidery, a
Greek key design in black. The front
crossed to the front and fastened there
with three big buttons covered In pink
and soutached In black. Similar buttons
of Progressive Women in Various Walks of Life
Infant is mother's milk, as 1t contained all
the Ingredients necessary for proper nour-
mother has or has had consumption or any
other chronic disease. The baby should be
nursed at regular intervals during the day
and once or. twice during the night.
"Most of the people these days are af
fected with acute diseases, chronic ailments,
general debility from which they could save
themselves with little knowledge. People
shut themselves up in close sleeping rooms,
never feeling sufficient Interest in the mat
ter to ascertain how much pure air Is re
quired for one person and even when told
that one adult actually consumes 150 cublo
feet of air an hour, still submit to the con-
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open window or a Dearoom, mrgun wr ui
tltl ld- Tet culd re fM mo "ke
to result from the sensitiveness produced
by sleeping In closs rooms than from any
amount of fresh air admitted at night
"The same 1 true of food. A child's nat-
ural tood mllk- Tet how 0,Um d W
her ot mother boast that her child of
on or two years, or even less, eats what
ever she does, heedless of tne aci, even
when told, that the very reason It doea not
care for milk Is that Its appetite has been
perverted by unsuitable food or drinks.
"The almost Invariable mistake made In
city homes Is that of excessive clothing and
too warm rooms. Tnese two minga i
among the most frequent reasons for taking
cold so easily."
The Kewest Profession.
One of the newest professions for women
that paya well la that of "demonstrator,"
and every big department store In New
York has scores ot good-looking young
women employed to "demonstrate" some
thing. The growth of the "profession" was man
ifested In an advertisement which shows
the beginning of a new class of these pub
licity promoters, and would seem to Indi
cate that there Is no limit to the nature of
the work. The ad In question reads:
"Men and women without teeth wanted;
paid by the hour; Friday, a. m. to 13 m.
X. T. Z."
The persons engaged will sit In a store
window, exhibit the mouth without Dr.
Forcep' teeth, and, whirling around, show
a double set at J6.SW, and incidentally the
difference they make In the countenance.
The pay of the demonstrator depends on
tiie nature ot her or his work, although
most of them are women. Good looks is
essential to corset exploiters, while the
woman who shows how a piano may be
turned Into a folding bed doesn't matter
so much.
As a rule a demonstrator Is paid 86 a
day, while some exceptionally pretty or
stylish woman who shows things used or
worn by her sex get more.
With the schools of saleswomanshlp
teaching young wosnen how to approach a
prospective buyer with a fascinating smile,
the demonstrator actually shows curious
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SLtT T,VJ, Ofce-1824 F,.rn.,n St. mMW
held back the cuff on the loose three
quarter sleeve.
Challle, In plain light tints, with bands
of white soalloped and embroidered in
the color bordering neck, fronts and
sleeves are dainty and practical. The
scalloped border turns back over the ma
terial like a facing. Sometimes, Instead
of being embroidered in the color of the
robe the white Is embroidered in black
with good effect
Eiderdown robes, wadded silk robes,
zenana cloth robes and even blanket
of white scalloped and embroidered In
lines, have grown much more shapely, and
garments attraotlve aa well as comfort
able are now shown In these materials,
particularly In the senana cloth, which is
made In lovely colorings.
Borne very pretty little wrappers of the
shortwalated type are made in the fancy
shoppers how the wares she Is hired to
show off, look, or work, or act.
Where formerly manufacturers had to de
pend on signs and labels, the business com
petition Is so keen now that shoppers have
to be shown the merits of some new thing.
On upper Broadway, In an automobile
supply house, a well-gowned woman de
monstrates how a patent veil can be put
on or off In a second. In a big depart
ment store a middle-aged woman with half
her face free from wrinkles may be seen
demonstrating a bleach. Biscuit makers,
pancake flours, soups, new shoes, health
corsets and patent beds' are being shown
dally by this army of the new profession,
and many women travel all over the coun
try "demonstrating," with a route laid
out like a theatrical star. A week in St.
Louis, a week In Chicago, a week In St
Pul. nl on. Their expenses are paid,
"elr salaries besides.
The new employment has proved a' great
boon to many women, and the first feeling
of nervousness over the publicity part of
It soon wears off.
Oaly Oa of Its Kind.
The Women's club of Magnolia, Mass.,
Is said to be the only one of Its kind In ex
istence. It has a membership of something
more than 800, all women, employed as
workers In the hotels, boarding-houses and
residences of the summer population of that
resort
The club was thought out and founded by
the pastor of one of the Magnolia churches
several years ago. He opened a room
where women could meet rest read or
play games. The club soon outgrew Its
quarters, and several of the summer resi
dents, seeing the benefits afforded by
such a club, set to work to provide an at
tractive clubhouse.
The new clubhouse Is a two-story build
ing containing an assemby ball, a parlor,
sewing snd reading rooms, a kitchen and
eleven sleeping rooms. The majority of
the members are young women who work
during the summer as domestics to earn
money to continue their education. The
membership fees, 60 cents a yesr, and the
rent of the bedrooms meet all the expenses
of the bouse, which Is kept open only dur
ing the summer months.
Morass for Meddle Gifts.
There Is one particular shop In New York
which makes a business of buying dupli
cate wedding gifts and It has show windows
where these articles are displayed with
price tickets on them, announcing the bar
gain prices. It Is a morgue of fashion and
mausoleum of all that is silly and extrava
gant. Repousse silver and bottles Incased
In the aame metal are among the principal
exhibits. These bottles and decanters are
alwsys hard to keep clean, besides being
apt to break, and then It is Impossible to
have them repaired. It is not now the,
vogue to have a display of useless articles
on one's table or sideboards, ar.d in conse
quence much of this "wedding gift" silver
has a cheap aa well as out of date appear
ance, and It Is dcubtful if it will ever come
In again.
As everything Is served a It Russe, there
is no occasion fur quantities of impossible
knives and spoons, platters and forks. The
kaiser baa a horror of silver. It Is said.
challles, the bordered challles, finding es
pecial favor for the purpose. We have
seen one charming model of this sort In
a challle of white ground with a black
dot and a border design on inch band of
plain black. A black liberty scarf girdle
with fringed ends was worn with this.
Leaves From Fashion's Notebook.
As a rival of while this season for hand
some evening gowns there Is a pale shade
of buff which is exceedingly attractive. It
comes In chiffon cloth, satin and guazes.
Dead white cloth, chiffon cloth and silk
will be used this winter for elaborate In
door garments. To give these color a wide,
soft belt of velvet Is to be added. The ef
fect la quite vivid.
It Is no longer considered fashionable
to wear large puffs in the coiffure. It
makes no difference whether they are
one's own or bought and applied. They
are out of style.
Tulle and ottoman silk and velvet crowns
and Insists upon dining off china, and a days much more closely than they do to
dlsplay of family heirlooms In the way ot , day, so that practically every creation dls-
preclous metals Is only In good taste, or
permissible, on state occasions. One does
not care to have the table look either like
those set In shops for the display of wares,
or again those devised by writers on eti
quette or "helpful suggestions or hints to
young housewives" or anything of that
kind. And we get such extraordinary Ideas
from returning hotel chefs and stewards
who air their knowledge In newspaper In
terviews or from a few facts garnished
with much fancy. I read In an English
newspaper a few days ago a recipe for
serving cysters before dinner in the Amer
ican fashion. A grape fruit was necessary
and the interior was scooped out, and
twelve "natives" coppery tasting bivalves
with a decided flavor of their own, and
often very good, but with toc strong a tang
to admit of any mixture of seasoning. Over
the grape fruit and the oysters, which were
to be surrounded by cracked Ice, was to
be poured a savory sauce, the principal
ingredient of which was mushroom catsup
flavored with anchovies and tinted with
lobster coral. -
Baace far the Gamder.
Shortly before the ceremony the prospec
tive bridegroom called on Rev. C. W.
Wendte, a Boston clergyman, to give In-
structlons.
"I have beard." said he, "that you cus
tomarily omit the word 'obey' from the
marriage service. Will you please oblige
me by Inserting It tomorrow?"
The clergyman promised to do so, and
when the crucial moment came he said,
"Wilt thou, Luoy, promise to love, honor
and obey?"
1 will," answered the bride.
The minister went on: "Wilt thou, Ralph,
promise to love, honor and obeyT"
The bridegroom hesitated, stammered,
gulped, and responded, "I will," evidently
rot wishing to create a scene by desiring
an amended question, but later he re
proached the minister.
"But you asked me to use the word
'obey'," protested Mr. Wendte, ,wlth a
twinkle In his eye. 'How was I to know
that you wanted It for the lady only?"
Iksnlss (ha Hats ef 1880.
One of the popular corners In the fairly
bewildering millinery floor at one of Chi- i
cago's big stores haa a tiny stage set with
a spinning wheel and colonial furniture
and graced by a pretty young woman at
tired like the girl of 1830.
8he la not only a very pretty girl, but
she has a quiet humorous appreciation of
the quaint hooped skirts and the still
quainter bonnets whicti she dons and doffs.
There Is no band-clapping nothing but
murmurs of admiration at the beautiful
style displayed, evidence of a quickened
appreciation of the fact that "grandmoth
er's" costume was very .far fiom being
what the caricaturists would have on be
lleva All the hats there are more than a dozen
of tbenv have been "built up" from the
designs shown in a collection of 100 fashion
plate brought over from Paris tills year.
These prints depict the styles prevailing
In Franc from U&0 to about IbCH. Ameri
can fashion copied the French In those
will be used with ' fur brims for toques,
and will be far lighter and more hygienlo
than the all-fur, which are too heavy for
anyone to essay.
Instead of lace and mesh net there will
be a good deal of colored filet net used
stamped In the new way. It is not unlike
the flower net UBed for summer frocks
and blouses several years ago, although
the mesh is many times thicker and more
open. This gives it distinction.
The high class dressmakers are advocat
ing simple waists of colored crepe de chine
to wear with the winter cloth suit. There
Is the heavy texture that can be gotten for
this purpose. It does not look too dressy
In combination with serge and cheviot
One of the departures In the fashion this
winter Is the - matching of the sleeve to
the bodice Instead of to the yoke. This
does not mean that the sleeve Is of the
same material as the waist, for It Is usu
ally a transparent fabric, but It matches
In color.
A lace blouse to match the suit will be
more In fashion this year than a plain
played was worn In America.
Thla was abundantly proved by the ab
sorbed Interest displayed by some of the
elderly women who passed through yes
terday. "My dear, I haven't seen a 'snowdrop'
In fifty years,", ejaculated fine woman to
tier daughter as the model put on a tiny
white bonnet "Dear me, dear me how It
all comes back!"
None of the hats Is for sale, though
there Is an unremitting pressure on the
part of visitors to buy them. One, indeed,
waa sold In the first hour of the opening
on Monday, but that was by mistake.
While the hats run largely to the "poke
bonnet" or "shaker" class, they are all so
soft In effect made so by an abundant use
of chantllly lace and sometimes by lots of
shirring that they are generally voted by
the women as not at all Inappropriate for
evening wear today.
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British Husband Is Boss.
A recent legal decision in Great Britain
has fired the suffragette heart. The women
of England awoke the other morning to
find that they did not own their own wear
ing apparel, given them by their husbands.
Tnlg cIothlng belongs to the husbands and
may not b seised legally or otherwise
disposed of without the husband's consent
In fact it Is impossible for a husband to
give bis wife anything coming under the
bead of "paraphernalia." His proprietor
ship never ceases and the wife's posses
sion never begins. It seems to be a sort
of loan. The points of law that stand out
In the greatest prominence In the decision
are these:
First A wife cannot dispose of parapher
nalia during the lifetime of her husband
nor can she dispose of them by wllL
Second Paraphernalia, though not Hable
to selsure for debts, are so for ber bus
band' debt.
Third The husband, even during hi
wife lifetime, may sell or give away at
pleasure his wife's paraphernalia.
What Womea Art Delagr.
Marl Corelll continues to write snd
speak against "votes for women" in En-
must pass is so full of dread that the thought fills her with apprehension.
There is no necessity for the reproduction of life to be either very
rainful or dangerous. The use of Mother's Frland prepares the system
; use oi
d it is
for the coming event, and it is
remedy is applied externally,
ind has carried thousands
women through the crisis
with but little suffering.
- all expectant uwUuiri milled free. I 7
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white or ecru one. One does not have to
dye the lace, as the shops offer the mater
ial in all the new colors. Green and brown,
blue and violet, are among the colors, and
the shades of these colors run the fashion
able gamut. 1
If you are skilled In the art of tying
twine or string, your hands are needed for
the new dlrectolre sash. The ends ef It
are now twisted Into the sailor's Turk's
head knot. This Is a new touch and It Is
quite effective. The folds of silk are laced
and interlaced In exact sailor fashion Into
the large soft balls which end the stream
ers. With the skirts that have a center seam
In front and that are cut to hang straight
from a line three or four Inches above the
top of the waist, there is a pad attached
Just In front. It Is made of cotton and In
closed In the lining material, so that the
Inside of the skirt will be neat looking. It
Is about four Inches long and two inches
wide, and runs down the center seam di
rectly over the waist line. It keeps the
skirt from sinking In, which Is always In
artistic. !
gland, while Beatrice Harraden Is busy
traveling from place to place giving read
ings from "Ships That Pass In the Night"
and her other books to raise money to belp
the suffrage cause.
The Sketch,' an authority on beauty m
London, says that the countess of West
moreland la the handsomest woman ot the
"Edwardlun era." She Is described aa "tall
and fair, with lovely blue eyes and golden
hair and Is very fond of all outdoor
sports."
The Woman's Henry George league of
New York placed Itself on record as pro
testing against the Board of Education
giving food to hungry school children as
"a step toward state socialism, and urges
that Instead the tenement house and side
walk laws be enforced, so that the unem
ployed may find employment and support
their own families."
Mrs. W. W. Grlnnell Is the editor of the
organ published In New York by those op
posed to woman suffrage and It is a small
sheet of only four paces, while the organ
of the New York suffragists, called the
News Letter, haa twenty-odd pages and
Is said to enjoy as large a circulation aa
many of the dally papers. Miss Harriet
May Mills Is the editor.
There are sighs of regret in some quar
ters because the most important bud of
the year, Miss Ethel Roosevelt, shows no
sign of declaring In favor of the auto
against the horse. There is no denying
that the president's hostile attitude to the
horseless carriage has Injured its vogue In
Washington. Mrs. LonKWorth did much
to give heart to those who preferred gaso-
"ne t9 P"ncln steeds, but she has kept
so exceedingly quiet since her marriage
that her aid could not stem the current.
The most popular girl, without doubt. In
Germany Is Princess Victoria Louie,
daughter of the kaiser, who Is a pretty
little maiden of sweet 16. and not so little,
either, for the young lady is quite aa tall
aa the wlvea of her big brothers. Bhe Is
considered too young for sweethearts by
her father, but nevertheless her name haa
been mentioned in connection with most
of the princes of other countries, and when
the time comes there will no doubt be
more of them come wooing than she will
know what to do with.
Mrs. Emily Treat of Hannibal, Mo., 1
aid to b the first woman to bs employed
as an official court reporter In this coun
try. Some thirty-five years ago she ac
complished on of the greatest feat a
Shorthand reporter had ever performed up
to that time. Bhe reported and made the
transcript of the testimony in a railway
lawsuit involving a large sum. It required
something over six months for her to com
plete the transcript but when it was done
she received high commendation for the
exoellenc of her work and the sum of
O.M. .Mrs. Treat 1 still in acUv service.
No woman can be happy
without children; it is her
nature to love them as much
so as it is the beautiful and
pure. ' I he ordeal through
which the expectant mother
Moiner r nana prepares me system
passed without any danger. This
passed without any danger. This