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Show are thon fastened thereto. Handkerchief Handker-chief bonnets are sometimes tiny toques of silk, tossed ami tied and pullod and twisted until it takes on the captivating semblance of a liit of tn.-a.rt carelessly pinned on my lady's tresses. Exchange, j WOMAN'S WORLD. HOW PATTI MADE HER FIRST APPEARANCE, AP-PEARANCE, DOLL IN ARMS. Women a Court Htenneraphera Marriage Mar-riage Tableaux Woman Lifted to a Jl Ithor Level The Newest ud The Inilitona la Hosiery. Mme. Patti, like many of her sisters in r.rt, is as brilliant in conversation as sho is gifted in song, and is wont to entertain enter-tain her guests at Crni(r-y-nos with many cuccuotes of her early life. Long before the could fipeak, tho diva declares, she was ablo to sing all tho aire which sho hud heard her mother rehearsing with tho director cf tho opora, and so correct was her ear that she could detect tho slightest falsity of intonation. and showed : her displeasure by tdiaking her head at i tho delinquent. I and presents a gorgeous appearance, on the top of the bedstead is a coronet supported sup-ported by a canopy. One side is inclosed in a massive brass rail, and upon this the owner's monogram is worked in brass and pearl. The whole, with the blankets, blan-kets, quilts and linen, cost more than the residences of hundreds of less fortunate people. Another remarkably handsome brass bedstead seen in a swell Fifth avenue mansion had the most elaborate hnm- j mered work on the entire top and sides. ! Gods and goddesses, little cupids and all the birds of the air were represented in great, numbers. This, too, bore a crest and monogram, and cost the indulgent in-dulgent papa of tho owner a small fortune. fort-une. Then there nro bedsteads formed of various and expensive woods, richly inlaid in-laid with pearl and brass. In fact, there is no end to the variety of styles, and furniture dealers are apparently giving most of their attention to this new demand de-mand on the part of Miss Manhattan. New York Letter. I'lanU for Winter. A pretty plant for winter decoration is a healthy young mignonette, which, when properly clipped and pruned, assumes as-sumes a vigorous, treelike sliape, ami blooms freely all tho winder. Another ! excellent choice for a flower lover whose spaco is limited is a handsome coral begonia. be-gonia. This plant, when allowed plenty of room, has a lieautiful shape and blossoms blos-soms tho year through. Its foliage is almost perfect in color and form, and, if watered once a week with diluted ammonia am-monia water, the greens are unusually i rich, and contrast finely with the dainty ' coral blossoms. Now York Ledger, j Nothing delighted her so much as to be allowed to go to tlw opera when her parents wero performing in New York, L'fTcrtii for an Autumn Dinner. If you intend to give a swell dinner this autumn you muut devise original effects. For instance, you mnst issue invitations for a diner d'Anlomne, and trim your dining room with autumn leaves of the brightest hues obtainable. Then iu tho center of "your table you mnst place a hugo epergne, which you must load down with fruit set off with j leaves, and at each of tho four comers of I the table you must place a largo silver j or china candelabrum, about the arms of which trail while, black nnd purple grapes. Exchange. 1 unhlonl In Ifonlcry. Although black remains the leading style for ladies, men, misses and chil- I dren, yet we have had several modifications modifica-tions of the cast iron rule of "black only" of Into. Men are wearing gray, tan and mode shades iu cotton and silk, tho latter for evening being prettily j docked in self color Children are usually dressed in black hoso with all frocks, though somo for best wear have stockings to match tho dress. It has often been claimed that domestic hosier' is not as well shaped or made as the foreign, for-eign, but there is at loa;-t one firm here si lling beautiful examples of silk hose made in this country. ' It is a poor fixit that won't shape its own stocking," but nothing will make a thick seamed stocking comfortable. Always Al-ways darn black hose with fast black darning cotton, as tho others soon turn green, as do, unfortunately, many so called fast bhfk hose. Ladies are wearing wear-ing tan, gray and tartan hoso with dresses to tnntch, and somo very pretty black silk hose have colored tops, heels and toes. Black cotton hose are somewhat higher in price, but it pays to buy good stockings of reliable brands." Dry Goods Economist. nnd on returning home, af'cr having been put to bed, she would creep out again when nil in the house wero fast aslsop, and perform tho whole opera to the beet of her ability by tho light of a flickering taper. i When Patti was about 7 years old she Y.'dl remembers seeing her futher in great diatres3 on tho point of parting with a diamond ornament ho possessed, eo that his children might not want for bread. Liko lightning un idea flashed through her childish brain. Papa," sho exclaimed, "you just give a concert, and I will sing!" Signor Patti laughed heartily at the idea, bnt po persistently did tho little Adelina entreat that her wishes should l.e carried out that at Length consent was piveti. Minora- Patti plaited the long hair of her tiny daughter and powdered her round brown cheeks. !She had many misgivings when tho hour arrived for her to be lr"sod for her fir.t concert, but Ilia asiniatnro prima donna herself, clutching her favorite doll "Ilenriotto" tightly in her anus, wasentirely mistress of herself, and curtseyed with laughable dignity mid importance ou finding herself her-self face to face with her audience. Her enccesft. as everybody knows, was imine- Uiate. London Tit l!i!s. Nationnl Mnurnliig In Core;!. The death of tho queen dowager of Corea is a matter of supremo concern to tho nation. All business will be ut a standstill for months, and every Curean man, woman and child will have to go into mourning, which, it is calculated, calculat-ed, means at the very least, and to the poorest, a month's wages, in a country where nine-tenths of the population at any given time are on tho brink of starvation. star-vation. London Tit-Bits. The clothing of the child should not bind or too much confine the body, for it will have on the mind, on the soul of tho child, the same effect it has on tho body. The mother who keeps long dresses half a yard below tho little limbs after they liegin to tanglo up commits a crime against the child. Let it be an light us the requirement of warmth will allow, and free the little limbs from long dresses as soon as possible. The tight fitting trousers that are put on little boys are au abomination. Miss Orrac II. Dodge, ex-school commissioner com-missioner of New York, and Miss Clara de Graffenreid, clerk to tho United States commission of labor, who took half of Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanter's prizo for tho best essay on child labor, have been making a two months' journey together to-gether in Europe to investigate the conditions con-ditions and hardships of tho working girl, with a view to their amelioration. C'liryMintliemnnifl Gron-ing In Favor. Chrysanthemums are now very much in favor among swell women. They aro brilliant in color and contribute a pleasing pleas-ing and decorative effect to a woman's costume. The yellow ones, which are very yellow indeed, are the most highly prized. Some of the large ones are priced as high as $1.50 each. The florists say, however, that the largest chrysanthemums chrysanthe-mums in this country are very small compared with the chrysanthemums in Japan, which oftentimes attain the size of an American sunflower. Tho chief objiH'tion to the uso of chrysanthemums heretofore has been that the odor of them is not at all pleasant. Yankee ingenuity, however, has been at work on the problem suggested by this objection and some flower dealers have able through the use of chemicals applied dirvctly to the growing plant to achieve a flower which is odorless or almost al-most so. It has been not nnnsual in the flower trade, it is said, to add perfumo to flowers occasionally by dipping them in some fragrant essence, but tho chrysanthemum chrys-anthemum case is the firvt case of flowers flow-ers going through a process of deodoriza-tion. deodoriza-tion. Exchange. I Women a Court Stenographer. A dispatch from Montreal says that several members of the Canadian bar have objected to the appointment of Miss Grace Eaton as official stenographer at the court house on the grounds that thero is a great deal of evidence taken before the courts which is not fit for women's ears. Several of tho Chicago judiciary were visited and their opinions opin-ions asked as to whether this objection was well sustained. Judges Dlodgett und Walter Q. (Jresham were found together, to-gether, and said they could see no reason rea-son why a woman should not perform tho duties of stenographer. "There are too many cases, of course," said Judge Blodgett, "where the evi-denco evi-denco is not even fit for men's ears, but if a woman enters the arena of labor she must take chances on having her sensibilities sensi-bilities shocked. It is recorded that in some cases where the evidence was of a particularly racy character the court t room has been cleared of all women, including in-cluding any female officials there might be about, but these cases aro rare." Continuing, Con-tinuing, Judge Blodgett, who also spoke for Judge Oresham, said: "The official stenographer of our court Is a woman, and I do not remember that she has complained of the nature of the evidence which she was obliged to take down, and if it was not exactly fit for publication she no doubt reulized that ' it was simply a matter of business, noth-iing noth-iing more. I think on this matter our Canadian coufreres are a little too sensitive." sensi-tive." Chicago Tribune. A home for women teachers was opened hist fall at Dresden, (feriuany, in a building of its own. Teachers of any nation can stay at the home temporarily tempo-rarily for forty or fifty cents a day and enjoy the benefit of a local teachers' association. as-sociation. Retired Herman teachers can live hero with one room for if 100 or with two for $175 a year. Mrs. E. B. Custer, always a favorite in New York society, will presently return hero for the winter. Mrs. Cluster has spent the summer in Montana and the Dakotas, revisiting tho scenes of her eventful and happy life with her gallant husband, to whose memory her new book, "Following the Guidon," is another an-other tribute. Mine. Fatti-Xicolini's new theatre at Crsig-y-nos s?t!o :rr.t.T IHft people and can easily lie transformed into a bidl room. Handsome easy chairs are provided pro-vided for tho auditorium, and nearly :i()0 electric lights make daylight of the interior. It will ba formally oiened next year. Mr. Weir's i'ooalnfr Mr. R. F. Weir, wife of tho professor of chemical surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, tidings of whoM death have just come from Milan, was more widely known and iidmired than most women in strictly privato life. During tho civil war she was n hospital nurse at Frederick City, Md., where not only tho sick and wounded Federal soldiers, sol-diers, but the captive Confederates as well, were tenderly cared for. Mrs. Weir was then Miss Marie Washington Mc-Pherson, Mc-Pherson, whose delicate cookery not less than her faithful nursing helped tocom-plete tocom-plete the cures which tho skill of Dr. Weir had begun, and whose unfailing kindness made her name a household word in hundreds of homes both north and south which she has never seen. Harper's Bazar. The Cure of the Throat. This is the time of year when school children liegin to tie silk handkerchiefs sV.r.r.t the throat. It is not well to do this, if one can possibly do without the mufllinr. for if once liegun, it must be carried through the entire season, or colds will result. Then, too, covering Hie throat is apt to make it sensitive. Tho muscles of the throat can bo strengthened strength-ened by reasonable exposure. But singers sing-ers and speakers should always cover the throat after singing or speaking, when going into a cool room, or into the open air. A light bit of lac?, or any open work covering for the neck that will admit of ventilation, is tho best protection. Jfew York Ledger. j Miss Edna Lyall has been recovering her health and enjoying convalesence from invalidism on the borders of Dartmoor Dart-moor for several weeks. She is so much improved in health that she hopes to resume re-sume her literary work during tho winter. For the instant destruction of roaches stir into a half-pint of hot paste a dime's worth of phosphorus, adding when cool a quarter the bulk of grease. This should bo placed where they frequent, and they will lie while eating it. Marriace Tableaux. ' ' The women of Boston gava a unique entertainment in the Hollis Street the-utre. the-utre. The evolution of the institution of marriage was represented throngh its various stages, from the marriage by capture cap-ture to the imposing modern celebration of the rite. Tho first tableau was the seizure of the Sabine women by the early Romans. Next was the "Marriage Market of Babylon," Baby-lon," with thirteen pretty girls on the blocks, tho auctioneer singing their praises and tho nobles examining them all critically. Following this was the Indian ceremony, represented by the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, and next camo the Japanese weddiug represented iu gorgeous style. Then thero was tho Russian marriage, mar-riage, copied after Makowski's famous picture of tho wedding feast. The husband hus-band is in tho act of saluting bis timid bride, who shrinks from the jokes and laughter of the guests at the table. Kelt camo the Dutch marriage, copied from Tomer's celebrated painting entitled en-titled "A Peasant's Wedding." In the background tho wedding guests are rlancing, while in front stand the happy bride and bridegroom, the husband half embracing his wife, who accepts it bashfully bash-fully and awkwardly. Tho tableaux ended with a scene in Gretna Green tho lovers, who have arrived in timo, und the irato parents, who havo arrived too late. Boston Letter. In London driving gloves of white chevrette suede kid, Laving tho palm, first linger and thumb lined with tan, are worn by ladies. They have f.uir buttons, but-tons, and are embroidered in white or ertuiiu Nc More Ilrneolets. Thn pupils in tho Philadelphia School of Practice are rebelling again st an alleged al-leged outrage p"ipetrated by Miss Hall, the principal. It seems that somo days ago that lady issued au edict to the effect ef-fect that no pupils in the school at e al-lowtd al-lowtd to wear bracelets. There was a vigorous protest from the larger girls, bnt Miss Hall carried her point, and all but two pupils yielded. Tho parents of thes two girls raised such an energetic storm of disapproval that their effspriug ore still permitted to dazzls their mates with a display of the oiT.Maents. It le claimed, however, that some of the others, while apparently complying with tho new requirements, iu reality wear tho bracelets concealed beneath their sleeves. Being forbidden, they aro naturally tho most desirable things in the life of tho school girls just now. Being asked tho re,u(on for this edict. Miss Hall explained that she thinks bracelets are unnecessary on the wrists of school girls; that they are noisy und interfere with writing and other hand work. Jewelry distracts the attention of the pupils and causes envy among those who are not fortunate possessors. She also remarks that the reform may bo carried still further. Philadelphia Special. Woman I.irtnl to a lilgtifr I.cvi-1. In au address before the conference of Baltimore charities, Mrs. Mary A. Liver-taore Liver-taore stud: The changes in tho laws relating to women have been wonderful. In Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, iu financial matters, the law places mo on a better footing than it does my husband. Tho best tiling about theso changes, too, is that they been wrought by men. Wouin u has been li f ted to a higher level than I ever hoped to i live to see bar occupy, and it would bo t. mazing if all tlave things did not lioar frnit. It has borne fruit, and this conference con-ference today is one of them. Woman aro everywhere using their advantages in helping their neighbors. The power of organization is a new thing for us, for when I was a young woman it was nut possible. In those days it was often said that woman was woman's worst enemy. We do not hear it now, and if it ever waa true it is not now, for today woman is woman's truest friend. Everywhere women are building build-ing homes ?n which they may carry on their work of helping those lesu fortu-ftate fortu-ftate than themsuiveB. They will carry iu the work to results we cannot see sow, nail f which we hardly dare Ireaia. j A Hamlkerehief Ilonnet. If you know "what's what" yon have bought yourself or made yourself a handkerchief bonnet. At least that is what they are called, but they are so small that a handkerchief would blush to find itself so insignificant. These "handkerchiefs" are really tiny strips of lancy silk that permit themselves to be fwisted around a wire frame. Strips of j ttaby ribbon, by courtesy called, strings, ! The Kewcst Fad. j , The story ces that the newest faA of i the fashionable women (if Fifth avenue j is a rivalry in obtaining the handsomest ; bsdstaMt. 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