Show T nT1TIir I i oJ y i I J I iI I L i prj I < < I lUll II I I 1 p I 1 1 SOCIAL HAPPENINGS 1 L Mrs Uaura Trask of Beverly Matt 1 Ma-tt of tlw late Hon A B Emery is i visiting Mvg Susie Emery She will SG to Park City tomorrow to spend a few < rveeks with Mrs White 11 The board of Labor gIve a ball at Ghristensena hall this evening the proceeds to be used for the library and readins room on Second South street 1 c under the control oC e tuG board t 31rs Frank Jennings read acm paper a-cm Greolc Drama and Mi < s Teasdale one on Boman Drama at the Cleolan I yesterday i f S Th Lotus club i 3 making excellent progress in Its preparation for the entertainment en-tertainment at Unity halL The poses jilast < que representing the offering to IBis and the Egyptian maiden at the Vveli Will be exceedingly artistic The llfttableaux are under the direction of th < i school of epre ion II a Last evening the semiweekly dancing danc-ing faolrees at Chnstensans hall were t resumed after the interruptions of the past weelt and will be continued rous o t the spring TJIE FASHIONABLE BEOnGR TABLE TAflLEfi In seating guests at dinner it is indispensable in-dispensable that sufficient space Is allowed al-lowed between them for them to move freely and for the servants to help them without difficulty The table Is J flrstr covered with a thick cloth nf wool 1iiit or cotton and over this Is placed the iableclothi which should not hang down too far A scarf embroidered in colors goJden yellow is ot present most favored partly covers the tablecloth table-cloth The middle of the table is oct oc-t cupied by a low jardiniere filled with flowers and fruits Around it are arranged ar-ranged small dishes on feet holding I small cakes and bonbons The comI lia tiers are placed at the ends of the table The light should be clear and bright The menu rests near the plate of the guests with the card bearing his name These menus are ofi all sorts 4r l I It r I > Imnm GoWN Carda decorated with exotic flowers and landscapes are more in vogue at present than anything else The nap I Mn is plainly folded in a triangle in which is slipped a French roll The prince of Wales permits only one knife at a time to each cover which is much more convenient than the ag sortment of cutlery that is sometimes I I Maced at a guests plate to take up fcoom and engender confusion The Ssaver consists of a plate with knife I poon and four or five glasses at the right tha napkin and fork being placed at the Jeft The soup is poured into the soup plates the moment before dinner din-ner IP announced The fork is changed immediately after the fish cournc Cheese is served after the entremets 4 and before dessert Small square crystal butter plates are among the table novelties Sand S-and azaleas are employed for the flora ornaments A new decorative idea Is that of having a number of bowls of j tinted rJass placed about the table on fflat mirrors the bowls being fill d with flowers carelessly arranged TUG dinner gown illustrated is of black velvet and satin The velvet < kirt has a slight train and is ornamented orna-mented with two jet quilles ending in a cluster of jet drops The satin bodice has a square decolletage outlined with E jet The bodice is plaited at the waist in front and has a corselet belt < with a jet buolsJe The sleeves are of satin JUDEG CROLLEfl WhAT VOllEy AliE DOLG John Richard Green the English historian his-torian whose work entitled A Short History of the English People has become a classic died in 7iS2 white Btill comparatively a young man His widow Is still In the prime of life and bids fair to rival her husbands fame SB she has shown much talent in carry Ing on historical studies and writing since his death Jilary N aiurfee whose pen nama Is I Charles Esrbert Craddock Js a native tTnnesgee where the scenes of her Siorles of mountain life have been laid L She has always been a cripple The Chinese now find It more profitable profit-able to raise fcmala Infants than to strangle them In 1370 the average price of a wife in the Flowery Kingdom w11s5 low It is EO Lady Gwendolen Cecil daughter of the Marquis of Salisbury who is h rather r-ather secretary is becoming prom I iient among English nobleman as a writer of fiction She has had a number num-ber of short stories published in mag zlties and periodicals the best of Kvhich is The Closed Cabinet which appeared In Blaekwoods for January Law lectures to women are being given now by tha Womans Legal l Education Edu-cation society They are drawmeroon lectures by eminent practitioners The first lecturer was 2Ir Charles Hare former law partner ot Chief Justice Fuller Mrs Hobert Carroll vife of the pastor ol the Lake View Baptist church Chicago has conducted services ser-vices very successfully for teveral sundays Sun-days in tha absence of her husband Mr Carroll wab called away on serious business > so rather than allow Uw church doers to be closed Mrs Carroll has kept up all th regular meetlnjrs I trhe had attended lectures with Jr darroll at the Chicago university whet he wafe a Mud tit and thus jiained the knowledge and St ensth for v > 1gIilt = fWtll E J l i I r i he work which she so capably undertook under-took There are now twentynine widows on the pension rolls ot the government l eceivlng 100 or more a month and It the House agrees to the Senate l1flse iving 100 a month to the widow of General Banks and Thomas L Crltten den the list lull embrace hirtyone names Most of these are widows of distinguished army and navy officers and receive the 100 a month alloyrance But 166 a month goes to the widows of Generals Logan McClellan Fremont Fre-mont Cook and F P Blair and Mrs Philip H Sheridan and Mrs DavId D Porter get 208 a month pension while the two living widows of presidents Mrs Grant and Mrs Garfleld receive 415 or 5000 a year The Young Womens Christian association asso-ciation of Chicago Is about to erect a fine new building seven stories high fitted up with all the modern conven ences and accommodating 300 guests Board will vary from 250 to f5 per weelc There wilt also be accommoda ion for women traveling alone who want all the comforts of a good hotel ww wIthout the attendant publicity These will pay hotel rates This association began its work sixteen years ago in a frame dwelling on Michigan avenue i with accommodations for thirty girls I I HOUSEHOLD 3IATTERS Camphor placed next to furs will make their color lighter In blacking the kitchen stove better bet-ter insults are reached If the bla king k-ing is wet with coffee instead of water Mud stains may be removed by washing wash-ing with water to which has been added ad-ded a spoonful of ox gall and a little spirits of winTry win-Try some Way of amusing your child i f he cries during his bathS cork which will bob about with every movement move-ment of the water or an egg with the contents blown outDo out-Do not neglect wounds no matter how slight from dull or rusty instruments instru-ments that might produce lockjaw I They should be immediately soaked not h n-ot brine and the smoke from burnIng burn-Ing woolen rags win also prove beneficial benefi-cial cialA A new style of bottle for poisons that 10 described by the Lancet has the neck on one side and is of such a shape that it will not stand up Lying Ly-ing on a table the word poison and the label would always be in view and by reason of its peculiar form it would not be mistaken for the ordinary ordin-ary bottle It Is a mistake to make a large tea biscuit Properly speaKIng a tea biscuit bis-cuit should not be more than 2 inches i in diameter and proportionately thick w hen baked This given a delicate moist flaky biscuit which will be cooked through before the outside crust has become hard or over brown For oyster catsup take one Quart of oysters one tablespoonful of salt one teaspoonful of cayenne pepper and same of mace one teacupful of cider vinegar and one teacupful of sherry Chop the oysters and boil In their own liquor with a teacupful of vinegar I skimming the scum as it vises Boil three minutes strain through a haircloth hair-cloth return the liquor to the fire add the wine pepper salt and mace Boil I fifteen minutes and when cold bottler b bottle-r use sealing the corks Commercial Advertiser Tea out of a large box loses Its flavor Ceylon tea packed like 1 Blue Gross is always more reliable than that sold loose Tlic J ew Von nn8 Honcynaoon The new honeymoon as described by the correspondent of a daily seems almost as intolerable as other new things The writer is a barrister with chambers in the temple Thinking to find domestic comfort elsewhere than In those dreary precincts and at the same time an intellectual as well as social companion for life he wooed and was accepted by a charming lady doctor doc-tor He wooed her in the interval between be-tween the classes ahe attended and the examination she passed with honors in London and won her through the penny post while she was taking a degree de-gree in Edinburgh This toolc four years and then a flourishing practice in Yorkshire fell Into her hands and was too good to be refused The patient wooer asked her to name the day she consented She was rather busy but would spars time between her visits to patients to drive to the church and get married it the bridegroom could run up to Yorkshire for the ceremony He did go In a terrible snowstorm But entirely ignoring the timehon ored pleasures of the oldfashioned honeymoon she has returned to her work and has sent me baclc to the law I am spending my honeymoon alone it is dreadfully dull London Lady The rnraiiolae Jn Favor The turQuoIse is once more the latest lat-est thing in jewels It is however rarely set alone but almost invariably combined with diamonds Sometimes pearls are used with turquoises but the effect is nothing like so good as when brilliants are in evidence For blonde women no ornaments are more becoming than those pale blu stones with their sparkling surround ings A tiara of elegant design seen recently was studded with oval turquoises tur-quoises each point of the whole device being tipped with round stones N Y Recorder 9UR8 Cousins in San Francisco Miss Phoebe Cousins lectured at the California theatre In San Francisco on Sunday evening her theme the Golden I Gol-den Calf She dealt chiefly with the eviis of the monetary system |