Show A Y 50 oil R A e ew rn V ir t 30 ml 41 1 the hero of the gridiron in the hands of fair admirers CARPET BECOMING it A BACK NUMBER 4 astonishing INCREASE IN THE importations or OF ORIENTAL RUGS or OF ALL GRADES CRADIS AND STILL tirey THEY COME SEARCHING tire TIIE EAST FOR FOB PRIZES INTERVIEW WITH AN EXPERT JUST RETURNED FROM HIS QUEST SOME FABULOUS PRICES YEARS or OF TOIL IN ONE RUG g in ishii the year ot of the centennial cele celebration celebi bation atlon tuo to bales of Itlen tall rugs rues were imported to america they were tile tho cheapest kind of eastern rugs know now to the it ado as aa colli collis collies s tut but they marked the practical beginning of the business in this country the very few brought hero here before that date bitte were on private order for wealthy americans who had seen nuen ind and appreciated the lug luff on their last reason some eleven hundred bales of 0 oriental ru rua s bete entered at tile the port of now new york pm bably rugs rues altogether and these were of all grades flout the che chea ripsi to ii tile most expensive these figures boily retire sent the lie growth lii in favol ut tile the orl anial jug i ue in tills this country a glowth that has mainly taken place buting lui ing tile past row few years it realen mcall begins to look lok as though rugs rua tt supplant carpet in many of our city houses they are so colv ni rit they lend such a val lely of 0 t conr one und aind color to it a room and blessed boon they do away vilh uh the horrors of luse clean ini ing almost entirely you dont know what a tellef it Is exclaimed one r cs as se sat in tile midst of her array of rugs iusa a few days ago when we niti ma d into our new house v aill fth its beautiful hard haid floora I 1 vowed that id have a tack driven into them is 01 lung long is 15 I 1 lived to be sure tile lie uga cost it a trine trifle more than carpets at the start but I 1 im in sale auie last four times as aa long and so much paster easier to take care of instead of your noor covering gather dust for or months until it la Is insufferable arid and then having in your house torn lorn up for days while it la Is being cli cleaned anad you can call have your rupa rugs tho thoroughly toughly dusted eveah lay day and they can be seat to the cleaners one or tuo to at a time without being missed ive grown younger wry very day since I 1 grave gave up having eat carpels pets on try my floors this adems to voice ohp g t nral n ral sentiment rii ano of housekeepers i dekee rs who have tried tile tho experiment one cause of tile the increasing popularity laty of the oriental rug is tile the great ereal r brieby in texture and palt eins winch much has haa come has arranged for the exclusive sale of the bhole v hole product of it a calala village in india famous tor for its rugs just juat at present the most popular thing in expensive rugs cornea comes from rom northern china it vaa mals discovered a couple of seasons ago that in some of the small email villages village an in the interior of china chim rugs of 0 beautiful colors and striking antique patters pattern were being made A n umber number of 0 them were brought to this country where they have attracted favorable notice and havo brought large prices soiling selling easily at 00 apiece AN valle hile the finest ones onea bring more than twice that amount the weaving of oriental lugs Is as aa truly an art as ill the making of tapestries or the painting ot of a picture many families in persia and india have been weavers for genet actions and tile the pi es ent members are quite content to copy the designs originated by some distant ancestor of artistic temperament jn in others the line alne sense of haryl harmony lolly in shade and color persists and ill they ey turn out now new patterns patt eins as a s ru as aa any of the older ones in a faw re cases ases amerl american and european artists S have drawn de designs algra to be executed in the east but these have usually been for bigo and expensive rugs ordered by wealthy customers for a long time tile the product of persia was the lineal finest and most moat beau beautiful but european fur nur pla deit 1 in luicir the r desire for a chea cheerier rier article hooded flooded the country with orders tor for art an interior inferior class of 0 goods and this with the general degeneracy gene gone racy of the modern persian has almost destroyed the hie artistic skill v m well made their earlier work famous I 1 recently had haai a talk with a gentleman inho alio has retained from rom nn extended trip through india persia and china in search of art treasures in tills this line oriental rugs are like allic wine vine said he in that they improve with age the most valuable russ rugs in existence today are arc the antique pers lioa many of thorn to years rid there li Is nothing that gives d a line fine rug a settled color and ti t gloss like hundreds or of bare feet tramping across it year after yea year this has lod exl to attempts at ageing by heating floating and wearing and failing but detected by a an M export expert some or of the genuine are worth as high its as it Is impossible to wear out antique rugs of fine quality for thea the were woven m with ith a warp that 1 li 14 4 like lion and every year adds addi to the alue do any of these expensive i lugs age come to america sune same of 0 thorn them have and more will when they are found I 1 would gladly pay for a ru ruff if I 1 found one worth north that sum for Ani america orlea Is 1 coming to demand the very cry bet best jn in this as in other household fittings the most popular rugs ruffa for the modest purt are arc at present the indian and I 1 armenian products they are aie all woven by it hand lt alth hand carded warp i ail and d I 1 last a almost as well as the very L osty costly ones somo some very attractive designs in ili rugs of medium bedlum tze are to be had fr for f r 20 or 30 considering the 0 mount amount of work lavished on them this is marvelously cheap for it takes a hindu family six or eight weeks to weave an ordinary rug it may be aue guessed sed from this that the condition of the rug weavers Is not one of great prosperity yet it pays as well as aa most other kinds binds of work in the overcrowded over crowded east cant the accompanying accompany illustration drawn front from photographs give 0 correct idea of the work luid and hie elie condition of the laborers labor cis one peculiar quIlar De than thing in connection with the armenian rug rue business Is that the recent persecutions have driven many of tile the weavers to this country and ama they arv an now to be found in all our big biff cities many of them have found employment in tile hie great department t stores where they set up their looms in the windows and ply their rade at the same time lime serving its as a useful advertisement verti for the employers As it ft in lakes acl S rather more than a year to turn out it a single rug such auch services would ecly bo be profitable to the employer as is an advertisement for a a luff jug which thus costa them GOO for labor and material sells for leis legs than ihan 1100 although many Armen armenian lan rugs are at present made in this country from imported yarns end and in exactly the same manner as abroad they tire Infer inferior lor to the genuine orientals Orient als and do not command the same saine prices the dlf dif let e 00 Is 1 said to bo be in tile the warp which cannot be obtained here of such auch toughness no S 8 and closeness of texture as 83 ell char lr no ionizes the native product of the orient IM all rights reserved TRAINED NURSES their profession not ono of unlimited ease according to the superintendent of one of the largest jarest schools for trained nurses in ili new york their occupation Is 1 not the easiest work in the I 1 it t r requires quires e almost an ideal id ial woman to a k a good nurie she mut must not only have abc all the that go to 10 make ua e up the ill e good woman but she must ll 11 b nave in addition the special qualities that atiat are ara necessary tor for the nurse she must in the fart place have perfect self control and patience there li 19 much that Is disheartening about nurs nura ilia the sick tho the man or woman vroman who nho Is suffering sulTer lne froot from disease in 1 a 0 transformed being sick folk IQ lose control ot of thorns themselves elves and do and say things lor for aich which they cannot be hald responsible particularly Is a this so in tho the case of the very poor to say ray nothing of the depraved dop di raved classes who are often treated in groat great hospitals A nurse must most always be cheerful always sympathetic capable of mentally putting herself in her patients place under her ter pleas pleasant a nt exterior she must have a ft of iron that compels the obedience of her charges cho rees women who have been teachers in moke ako tho the best nurses and in fact a large per cental cen tag of the nurses have been te teachers rich A curious fact Is that there are few new york gli I 1 Is a adiong amon tile trained nurses serving in new york hospitals ai ost of them are from tile the country or smaller cities one reason for this 0 of f course Is t that X t many girls born and brought up rn it a lai labee ge city tre are not up to the physical standard required inquired of a trained nurse HER HEB iram HAIR TURN TURNED ED GREEN experience of a woman who had her crowning glory bleached here Is a story told for fact by tho the proprietor of a chicago ladles baar dressing establishment A friend of a woman now numbered among my customers induced lur her to lave have her hair bleached during her husbands bus bands absence aasc nce after it was done the woman became frICht frightened ened about her husband after hair on his return and the she insisted upon having it dyed this s time same person who bleached it dyed it with the result that antagonist s t chemicals turned it green tile the woman was in despair and came in here 1 lo 10 0 see if we could remedy the fearful I 1 consequence quence e of her ter tolly folly tile ilia poo people pl c who had damaged her hair having advised her to cut it on off she was mia ilke a crazy woman an and 1 l kept crying you yon must do something my h husband U is will be bak back in a few days anil and I 1 dare net lot let him soo my any hair oil oh what shall I 1 dot do we well i to make a lonz ion story short after a number of treat treatments mens lier ter nal gilr sn 0 IX t with gro meet jr son there are more different adrid 1 of rugs than ever before the gloat im bunting bousis have led ulah one another in ac curing unique find stalking stil king patter lut their buyers have secured TZ the orient from turkey to he china sea in ser of odd and pleasing 4 filings one large firm in new york s r JL ci r 1 I ilal 0 vl PO 1 urn fill 1 14 L 11 4 1 4 r 1 N if ras been restored wh i it ft ng aj she bhe threw her arms armb around the th olet far torb and gold c ati pf 1 I can never nev thank you i ton toll ca can never know what this 1 to mo me arft a |