Show G I vm IH uncups Suits with coats to match are great favorites with skaters A gray tweed has the left side of the skirt trimmed I with tabs and buttons an arrangement which is repeated in the jacket that buttons up diagonally with the same sort of tabs One tab at the shoulder fastens at the very edge of the sleeve The jacket is boxshaped in front but fits in at the waist in the back The high collar is a fair sample of the kind that comes on all the new coats It stands up close around the face leaving leav-ing no room for the cold breezes to circulate around ones neck and very effectually protecting the wearer against the elements The hat worn with this suit was a small toque trimmed high in front with birds A dress which was worn without a wrap was made with a plaited Eton that hung loose at the bottom and disclosed a waistcoat or embroidered trimming The hat was a Tam OShanter shape trimmed with waving paradise plumes I The jacket is preferable to the cape as it is more trim and offers less resistance re-sistance to the breeze than a cape Tightfitting coats are worn by many of the skaters but the loose empire jacket is more graceful and allows of more freedom of movement than the other 000 The present is called an age of reform re-form and to enumerate the many societies so-cieties which are organized for that purpose one would really think that very many people are intent upon a I radical reformation in society But on close examination it will be found that the larger number of these organizations organiza-tions are intended to reform somebody else Somebody who does not have the advantage of education and culture which the members of these associations associa-tions have enjoyed The object maybe may-be good and Indeed somewhat self denying and the members may wonder why they have no better success In their work of reforming thpse whom I they wish to help The whole difficult may lie In the fact that there are I many things in themselves which need I reform to which they should first give attention It is said charity should begin be-gin at home This may admit of some difference of opinion but reform should always begin at home and should often continue there for some time before we attempt to reform others What an army of successful reformers we should have if everyone now supposing herself I to be engaged in reforming others should begin to examine wherein she herself needs reformation and begin to I make thorough work at home What a reformation army we should soon have 000 I A woman will broil a steak says a wise woman who knows and see that the coffee does not boil over and wafch II the cat that she does not steal the I remnant of the meat on the kitchen j I I table and dress the youngest boy and set the table end see to the roast and stir the oatmeal and give the orders to the butcher and she can do it all at once and not half try Man has done wonders since he came before the public He has navigated the ocean he has penetrated the mysteries of the starry heavens he has harnessed the lightning and made it pull street cars and light the great cities of the world But he cannot find a spool of red thread in his wifes workbasket he cant discover her pocket in a dress hanging In the closet he cannot hangout hang-out clothes and get them on the line the right end up he cannot hold the clothespins In his mouth while he is doing it either He cannot be polite to somebody he hates He cannot sit in a rockingchair without banging I the rockers into the baseboard He cannot put the tidy on the sofa pillow right side out 000 I By all odds the jolliest calendar to give ones friends for New Year is the one in the form of sunflower some think like half a yard in diameter The cutout yellow leaves fairly curl with vitality while the rich brown center which by good rights should be given over to seeds is a smiling darkeys > J > 11 I face A strip of white satin ribbon is pulled over each eyeball the days of the month are on one the days of the weekthe first three letters that is are on the other The broader oneroJ which shows behind the generously r parted lips is of pink satin ribbon and shows the names of the months j in < > < > And of the little cellulod calendars starshaped crescentshaped heart 6 shaped and every other imaginable shape verily theres no end They usually show handpainted posies with harmonious ribbons However > those of us who are brutal enough to l consider the utility of a thing always 31 i wonder just what use Is a calendar it when you have to know the date in order to set it They rank with clocks that dont go jil < S > < S > < SAnd > S-And what dainty stuff celluloid is The transparent sort is especially pretty j pret-ty for the lids of little silken jewel z boxes These boxes are of thin wood or cardboard neatly covered with silk r of some dainty tint with a Huffy lining on the same The celluloid lid is I caught on at the back with two dainty bows and may be notched round pretty posies and an appropriate appropri-ate quotation may figure thereon J < S > < 5 > < > J Many shops now show quite a line of Japanese bronze The person who isnt longing for one of those quaint heathenish little incense burners is surely dead of esthetics And a weakness 111 weak-ness for bricabrac which one may drop with impunity certainly shows an econ omisal bent Oh that economy were always wealth |