Show FASHION AND GOSSIP And Other Matters of a Serious Seri-ous Nature WHERE THE MODEL WIVES ARE Fashions FanoieH KIcu Women of America Gum Drops Absence Ab-sence A Fonder Heart Gnm Drops The young lady arrayed in a green uit with a verdant lover said slip was all in style for her muff matched her costume The King of Si tm is reported to have 2 3 children Fathers with only six or < even had better stop howli ig about havi g to toe babies up and down as night A Ko ton coachman fell heir to 1750 000 the other day and cruel parent who prevented their daughters from eloping with him are committing suicide right and left A fashion paper says The new underskirt derkirt pretends to be full when it really real-ly is not In this ropect it differ somewhat from a man The latter pretends pre-tends not to be full when he really is j > V VThe The Long Island postmaster who is short 1400 in his accounts says his wife wanted diamonds and a family carriage so bad that e couldnt bear to disappoint her She wears the diamonds when she visits him in jail A New York boardinghouse keeper has committed suicide By some awful mistake she served up a tenderloin steak which her boarders were able to eat and the frightful deed so weighed upon her conscience that she made away with herself her-self Poor thing When the festive campmeeting is at its summer height there is more bustle than bible about it and the average young lady penitent isfar more likely to be Acquainted with the shady walks around the grounds than she is with the disputed passage in the giltedge book which she carries around with her She is as old as her husband but she conceals the dreadful fact She said one day My husband is 40 There is just two years difference between him and myself n And the friend was mean enough to reply Is that possible Vhy I declare to gracious vou look to be as young as he is They do not speak now PATiKST1Doctor I want you to prescribe pre-scribe for me DOCTOR after feeling her pulse There is nothing the matter madame All ou need is rest I PNc Darent you mistaken Doctor Please study my case carefully Just look at my tongue Dr That needs rest toIEz A Lee avenue lady asks if we can give her any hints for indoor decoration Yes We can Always have your hair nicely combed a clean collar or ruching on your neck your dress tidy and everything every-thing in place then ask your husband I what he thinks of your decorations Ten to one your home will have more Mn hine in it than the palaces of ki gs J f Ex Oh doctor she cried In a soipm of tear Come fly as you ue er Hew before Else ere you eu b < the aim my poor little deir The borders of death will cross oer He slncked not hIs speed till he entered her door Where he found a remuk blegrmp Six ladies with tear dampened face hung Der t Apu dog with symptoms of croup 1 Fashions Fancier A Paris caprice is to lace cream velvet evening bonnets with sealskin Small flowers are strungon cords and used as fringes on bail dresses of tulle I crepe and silK J As the season advances ostrich feathers feath-ers grow more popular owing to their universal beconungiiess Merino hosiery in plain colors matching tone for tone all the shades in vogue for fall promises to popular Plush gloves have been introduced asa as-a probable rival to the Jersey cashmere style so much worn last season Chinese primroses form a pretty decoration dec-oration for this season They bloom all winter in return for very little atten tionMuffs t i Muffs to match the costume are trimmed with three tips 11111 ail ow a pugs Jjead in metal or a large outspread out-spread bird Boys of four years wear a plaid kilt skirt plain cutaway sacque over a MIU ilar vest which lsplu ted and held by u strap and buckle > C Ladies satchels are in plush elVet or leather both plain arid ornamental in the bellows style and much larger than those of last season + Colored Canton flannel is used for ssryiceable houaedresses for little girls a kilt skirt and loose blouse being the most appropriate model Fashionable leather articles are pre1 ferred in dark shades with pressed figures in repouslie Work corner and I tiasps of brass or nickel are the most stylish f r1Ej t 1 J I A new design for boys cuffs buttons consists of a twisted knot of large gold wire on one end of the link and a small square block upon which rtmfnaine is eagraved on theother > j i t pipit Ladles of Arne J lca J t The United States contains a great many weajthy s omen writes Carp in thoTJieVeiand Leader lHenry E Packers Pack-ers sister owns a life interest in 160000 shares of the Lehigh Valley xailroad the dividends of which amount to 700 OOplannually Mrs A R Allen < of St Louis pays taxes on 1197000 and Miss Bernice Morrison of the same city is taxed at lijSOO There is a cattle yieen named Rogers near Corpus Christi Texas who pwns JOOQO cattle and is worth oyer 1000000 She is the financial finan-cial agent of the ranch keeps the pocketbook pocket-book and oversees the stock while she sends her second husband to the Texas legislature Catharine Wolfe of New York the daighti of old Peter Wolfe who married Loriilards two sisters and got a 1000000 with each of them has its income jfroY C55QJOQOia year and she owns real estate to about 0000000 Iiipig J > tgers of Texas l she is i about 50 years old and plain in all her habits She is single too and lives all alone in a big house on Madison avenue and wentyfourth street New York It is aid that she was engaged to be married ears ago but that her affiai ced died a few days before the day fixed for the vedding Mrs Wm Astor is worth 1000000 and Mrs Marshall Roberts he wife of a mining king who died one years ago is said to have assets which will foot up 8000000 Mrs A Stewart has a princely income no loubt Mrs G mmellis said to contest with Mrs Garrett the reputation of being the richest unmarried woman in the country and Englands wealthier heiress I see is a Miss Hamilton who has large estates in Scotland and an income in-come somewhere near 500000 a year The Model Wife Scripture and history and poetry vie with one another in soundig the praise of the model wife The man who i blessed with a companion worthy then the-n line of a model wife can snap his finger in the faces of all the old bachelors that ever breathed and give them points each day in every exalted pleasure that make life worth living There is no danger of his applying for a divorce II Unfortunately for the married men 01 this generation the model wives ar most all dead The struggle for existence exist-ence was too much for them The cease less silent selfsacrifice needed to build iip a model domestic character could only be met and borne as long as then was any ap > reciation of the personal laws 1 of dit I that underlie all sort of ideal existence 1 he men who appreciated appreciat-ed model wives and were in return willing o be model husbands were so few that the good wives that is the model wives grew discouraged and took totheir craves or some more congenial occupation The few model wives that are left are cherished by their husbands beyond even I their cigars or their horses The model wife of the workingman clerk or business i busi-ness man has some appreciation of the ten thousand little labors petty cares and annoyances that her husband has to go through each day in his workshop or office She considers that such worry ing cares are a part of the duties by which her husband makes a living for himself for her and for the children if there are any And when the husband comes home from his work tired per haps cross and hungry and out of sorts she is always read tomeet him with some quiet and gentle good cheer her own person is attractive and restful to him She always had some pleasant scheme in mind tj make his home hours delight ful to him and so make herself indispensable indis-pensable and a constant joy The model wife does not see how many poor and silly or exacting things she can say to her tired husband If she has anything to ask she waits until he is rested and fed She invites pleasant people to her home not to show how many rich things she has but to make her husbands home hours pass cheerfully cheer-fully She knows that if she is half a woman no other can displace her in her husband affections She is always more attractive in her manners to her husband than to other men She is the genius of the household But unfor tunatey most of them are dead Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Times ABSENCE uA FONDER HEART It was in the early summer when my love and list p rted She the se iside sought and left me in the city broKen hearted I to swelter through the summer she on sea kissed shores to winder But her llbt WOfCllS giveme < omfort Absence mikes the hem grow fonder It How Joved the little letters that from time totime she sent me AsIxetS it seemed that they a momentary Heibreeze lent me When she wrote of picnics bnthnsj yacht iupirlps then nude me poide Well the truth of that old saw Absence makes the heart grow fonder Oft she spoke of her admirers how she jnidelhem dunce attendance > Mad them trry books nnd baskets and for sweur their independence Spoke of one she nicknamed Croatia who on her his wealth would squander But she added Dear old goodie Absence makes the heart grow fonder It So I worked away quite happy through the broiling summer weather Longing for the coming autumn when wed walk the world together Though her letters were less frequent still I very often conned her Last one where the postscript told me Ab jsenee makes the heart grow fonder Fewer still were now her letters and she wrote I m very busy I expostulated mildly with my wayward < witching Lizzie Once m re came the same old answer any other neemed hey ud her Dont you know you stupid Willie Absence makes the heart grow fonder One more letter yet she Rent me while she at the seaside tarried Laughing at our mild flirtation telling me that she w ism irried 1 And twas thus her note concluded as I read my face grows yellow t Absence muses the heart grow fonder louder of the other fellow Century |