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Show MOMENT GOWNS Of THE Tht Children' Country, up tin- - hook, the pcndte, elate In orderly Rimy For all tin' JiiymiH tlillillrh mute Are K'lln fur Hway. I'ha tlmfi Rt till III will'll they board lllp IoiiimI for a illntiinl r I mini And take Unit ili'iir. J llytlitful trip 'J O old vacation land. fork Till land ban flown mid tree of fold And folili'n la noli pi... I; lliiaiaanil li'nyina, I'm told, It lie From the dull land of achoul, no riiumry lialf no brlKht, There No cllmale half no am lal And eveiv heart le Millie end light In dear mi nt Ion land. Bo here' gmlapeed to eeh wee friend From u who cannot an; May jdiiiNiire at your aide att.nd And left hehlnd be woe. And may a atrong and pack, A Maiicli and Mindy band. In aul until days mime trouplng back From old vuuitkin land. levelling Bulletin. I In at the window. "O. Mike! says ho, "llegorra now they're cornin after us wbl lunterns!" Now It may bo possible for you to surprise many a native American quite as much as a firefly surprised the two strangers from Cork. Take a largo kite that will fly well, which means that you know Just how much tall it will rarry, Remove a good part of the tall and tie on Instead a sky lan- tern. This must he made very light, and arranged so that It will not easily catch fire. Use a piece of light, thin wood, four Inches In diameter, and near the renter drive four slender nails, one Inch long, so that a candle will stand firmly between them. Above the candle loop two light wires, Bottle Trick. fastening their ends to the board. You will have to go at this expert Paste red or yellow tissue paper mont Tory carefully. Hut when you around the wire frame and your kite have done It successfully you will get Is made. Flying such a kite on a dark And It night will cause much amusement. A lot of pleaaure out of It. will not be easy for others to Imitate. bottle with a wide Get a good-sizeOur Friend the Robin. inouth and a good ccrk stopper. Then is It very easy to begin the taming got a nut (say an English walnut), process with the robin, for the young divide carefully into halves; clean It birds, when they first leave the nest, out, then bore a tiny bole through are to pick up a few enough glad each aide, and run the two ends of a crumbs, not having yet trained their eyes to the constant search for Insects. They are then easily Induced to come near the "human" who provides them, and with a little quiet perseverance will soon take the food from the band. But the father bird has to be reckoned with, and even the mother bird In autumn will drive her youngsters out of the garden, If possible, to Insure their finding a domain of their own before the winter. Her mate Is apt to appear In his wrath when the young robins are fully fledged having left the nest for a week and scatter them all, Including the mother, with beak and claws. He does not approve of any spoiling of the children, and Insists upon their spreading themselves separately over the country, In order that they may The Paper Banda. learn at once to earn their own main- line, and you will have as a result tenance, Probably he !b right, for ev- two separate rings from No. 1, as In ery robin has Its own 100 yards or so figure 4; from NO. 2, one ring half as of garden or wood In winter time, and wide as the original, but with twice woe betide any newcomer which ven- the diameter, as In figure 5; and from tures on anothers ground. No. 3 two rings linked together, as in This Is a doubly wise provision of figure 6. " Nature to Insure food for each robin, and also the destruction of Insects all . Queer. over the land. In my geography I find some things .wire frame through them. Then put Immensely queer. the halves together again, and seal Such as the folks that lie in bed all College Life in Scotland. every possible crack or bole with wax. American college boys and high day, all night, all year. Before you do this, however, bore a boys would have found student They run along, now fast, now slow, email hole In the bottom of the nut school life at the old Scottish universities but have no feet at all. (C) and leave It unsealed. This Is very different from the free and easy And do not seem to hurt themselves to serve as an air bole. if something makes them fall. Now arrange the bottom of your good time they are used to at their own seats of learning. In the early Perhaps they have an arm, or two, of ' wire frame so that it will support a part of the eighteenth century the stuthree, or even more, coin. some dents of at the Scottish universiAnd though they have no throats nor DU Having done this, your bowl "shoulder or push each tongues they sometimes fairly with water, and test the floating qua! ties could notnot roar. itles of your nut. The coin Is to serve other, could In stand at the gate, on the corridors of the Their heads are very small Indeed. as ballast; so you must experiment the stairs or their mouths are very wide, with different coins until you discover college buildings for fear they would dispute with each other, could not None of them owns a penny, yet all Just what coin penny, nickel, etc. have banks by their side. play or loiter up and down In any of provides the exact weight needed. the courts while the classes were In Such folks, with neither fingers, nor You will have exactly the right renor play ball, billiards or hands, nor eyes, nor ears. sult when the nut .rests exactly bal progress, bowls. A student, no matter how old Nor legs, nor backs, you must agree In an upright position, its point he wa anced even after he had become a are surely rather queer. . Just touching the cork stopper, and when at the same time It will respond Instantly to a alight tap of your on the cork stopper and sink toward the bottom, returning presently to tta original position without losing Its balance. The success of this toy depends en- ed to represent the markings and colThe Wasp as a Hunter. tirely upon the lightness of the ma- ors of a butterfly. Through the two When summer warmth has awaken terials used In Its construction. The upper corks, AA, passes a wire which ed the maternal Instinct of the Insect breadth of the wings from the tip to Is in the form of a hook, as shown at world the mud dauber wasp may be D. These hooks are for the purpose seen gathering mortar at the margin of the body is four Inches, the breadth of holding the two elastic rubber of the body a little over one Inch, the stream, pool or puddle. Filling bonds, C, that can be twisted or her mandibles, which serve as other parts being In proportion. wound up by means of the movable The antennae, or horns, FF. con'both and ahe hod. spade bead, II, which works or revolves on bears the load of mud to some sist of the very thinnest of tissue pa- two washers consisting of two small .rough surface, rock or wall or board or per, stretched on arching splints of glass beads, G. beam, She spreads and shapes her bamboo or broomcorn whisks, as When the rubber bands are twisted These horns are In- np to their fullest capacity the but'mortar, until, after many visits to shown at FF. the mud bed, she has built a tubular serted In a piece of cork shaped as terfly Is thrown up into the air, and s cell about an Inch long and of an Inch wide. Then her huntress Instinct awakens and her raids upon the spider realm begins; for within this cylinder the mother mason will put a single egg. In course of time, says a writer In .Harpers Magazine, this will hatch Into a ravenous larva, whose natural ;food is living spiders; and these the mother proceeds to capture and entomb within her mud daub nursery. On this errand she may be seen hawking over and near cobwebs of various sorts, venturing within the nteshed and beaded snares that prove fatal to most Incomers and sometimes even to herself. If the occupant, expectant of prey, sallies forth to seize the Intruder, It finds Itself a captive, not a captor. The wasp shakes the silken filament from wings and feet, turns Showing Construction and Butterfly In Flight, upon the spider, seizes and stings it, bears it to her cell and thrusts It shown at A. A second and third piece the unwinding of the rubber bands of cork, A and A, similarly shnped, acting on the upper hook causes thr therein. form the upper and lower parts of the head cork, II, and the horns, FF, ti A Monster Lightning Bug. body. Into which are fastened two revolve rapidly, thereby sustainin' Did yon ever hear the story about straws, BB. These straws must con- the butterfly In the air and causing u two young men from Cork who had tain a Joint to Insure greater strength. to move about with a circular, Jerkin' never seen lightning bugs until they The framework of the body Is now motion. came across the sea to America? It complete. The cork work and the frame of the The large wings, EE, are composed butterfly are covered with tissue pa happened that during their first night here the mosquitoes were very of the same materials as the horns, per and colored. It la very amusin' troublesome, and both Mike and Pat one splint being used for each wing, to watch the flight of this unique Ip hid their heads under the bed covers. as shown at EE. The aides of the sect, and at a little way off It looks wings are glued to the straws, BB, like oue of the most splendid varletlc Finding this rather warm, Tat to put his head outside Just as after which the paper wings are paint- - of Its klm d ; . a firefly floated shows collar sometimes Introduced Foreshadows of Autumn Hues. passribbons of band of the In color combinations there is now glimpses these emagain, and, beneath; several ing a tendency to combinations of varibroidered canvas collars are in colors in the same applique, rather wide with pierced than two colors ami several tones of ous Instances in front, and tied with the a the same color ns heretofore. Just as before, are arranged wus whipped for getting touch of gold linsd Is seen on many of ribbon, which, y on tig mail of rosettes. f.odiion rethe the lu Into a fiuht or bitting another student. then, but only a touch, so that or is never lined for sult garish. Ho was speaking coarsely tinHow to Wash Ribbons. Aluminum Is now being used In alwickedly. He cotild not walk out durTin washing of ribbons Is not with ing t lie evMiing. He could not throw sel embioidery combined The results. best the by trimmings In gray taffeta, and ways attended snowball at anything or anybody, Is following is a milliner's method and s aluminum does not tarnish and and during hours In the college buildInvaluable, most successful: Put the ribbon Into ing he timid not speak a word In any- very light In weight, it is of warm water, rub on some Flower designs still predominate in a lias in thing but Latin. white the soap and wash as you and good At Edinburgh the students wore thu applique designs, taffetas else. While still wet anvthlng would silks being lustrous scarlet gowns during classes. They other soft and m the right side with a hot iron iron lived In the town. There were r.o doe used. autumn and whn dry rub between the hands the coming for In colors niltorles and they knew very littlo as a leader as if washing It until all the stiffness about each other In many cases. royal blue is predicted the shade is out. then iron again to remove the In w There were, and are today at Edin- abroad, hile this country to be a wrinkles. When ribbons are washed is blue Inauguration burgh no college sports as we know termed In myrtle, in this way It is difficult to tell them much-useGreens color. them and little general college life. will be from new. shades dark other and reseda Nearly every woman knows from but browns will fall befashionable, Is to wash Paper Band Puzzle. hind their run of last year, while the experience how difficult it and shawl kincrocheted with a trick bands. and this of paper successfully Try dark shades plum, purple condiIn in and of six Inches look prime three Take paper fluffy have it strips dred hues are being manufactured tion when dry. One woman made a long and about an inch wide, and mark quantities. dotted lines lengthwise down the midAll these Indications from manufactriumphantly successful experiment. dle of each. Paste the two ends of turers show which way the wind will She put the shawl Into a pillow case, the first one straight and squarely as blow, for whatever fashion might wish tied a string around the top, and then shown In figure 1. Before pasting the to dictate she Is obliged to use the washed it in plenty of soap and hot are water. second, give the strip a twist, as fabrics in the market, at least six shown In figure 2. The third strip you always manufactured twist twice before pasting. months ahead of their use, sometimes Whipped Peach Cream Trifle. In the Now cut each band along the dotted a year. Soak coeoanut macaroons syrup of rich preserved peaches until rather soft. Beat the whites of four eggs until very stiff, then beat in by degrees half a cupful of powdered sugar and two tablespoonfuls of the of peach syrup. Mix in lightly a pint sweet cream. Whip to a stiff froth and with the place in alternate layers soaked macaroons In a deep glass on top. dish, heaping the cream Sprinkle over it shredded coeoanut. fin-ge- three-eighth- ven-tuie- d A dozen or even more wm v, ed. and each oue is cut a of one aide up through to tha T Then a small circle u cut out may be quite perfectly doc . a bread and butter plat t, ing down and making a mark by to cut. When all the haadkem have been so treated they are L ' together over and over on the that were cut by slashing tho iw. It will be found after all the. Joined that a circular ruffle fulit bottom but straight at the toe been formed, tho whole havlrg's hemstitched points. Such a u0!1 trimmed with narrow Valencies-lacewould be chnrmlng for t of handkerchief linen. t J Popular Shades of Red. The reds most In vogue just oov the tomato and geranium colors, j red of the gardenia Is also worn the matchless red of the cBf These shades are seen everyit' and in everything, but particular!; the red of the geranium worn t p. deal. The most popular red for p is cerise. e and-thes- - - The Traveling Gown. Sicillenne soft shade of rose-pinis selected for the traveling gown, and the coat bodice Is fashioned with an open front, filled In with a low-cwaistcoat of pique that may be reThere Is a smart moved instahter. little cape collar effect over the shoulders; the 6leeve is one of those models with lace fluffy elbow-lengtvelvet ribruffles, and a deep rose-re- d bon is relied upon to make the touch of color contrast that the present mode demands. The skirt Is plain, except for a shaped scant volant of velvet applied above the deep hem, shir-ring- s . .. adjusting the fit. A k White linen gown white. Coat Now an Essential. Time was when a waist and skirt were accounted a dress; but in this elaborate day a dress isn't a dress unless it has also an outside wrap of some sort made to match It and worn with it alone. This is true even of the linen shirt-wais- t frock whereto Is added a jaunty little linen coat and the proper thing seems to be to wear this third garment through the thermometer says 94 and you languish with heat. Of Green Rajah Silk. of green r. day wear, i walking length and finished at bo A Pale pink batiste frock, with open embroidery in white. embroidered charming gown silk, appropriate for nd with three tiny The draped bodice Is filled In it t with a yoke and stock of embroidr cream batiste and lace Insertion steel buttons and a ruffle of e matching those on skirt trim then and the latter is used on the eft sleeves. A hat of green straw ta with parrot wings completes the i lsh costume. snife-plaite- d French Cream Frosting. Four cups of white sugar, one cup of hot water; put on fire and boll without Btlrrlng for Bbout eight minutes, (f It looks thick test by dripping from a spoon, and if it threads remove and rub some against side of cake bowl, end If it will rub into a ball, pour all out and meat rapidly with wooden For Lovers of Luxury. tpoon, adding flavoring of rose, vanilla Serviceable Eolienne. An example of luxury is a dress or orange as It cools. It will cut soft Eolienne has a place among coat soft strawberry pink cloth, will for several days. This can also be this season, but voile, save deeply square collar traced do materials mixed with nuts and made Into nut bonbons and colored with cranberry in coat and skirt costumes, has lost with padded gold thread embrek favor with the coatmakers. The silky and showing a vest of real lace t Juice, or green, made from parsley. Take tender parsley leaves, wash eolienne lends itself readily to the with pale blue bows. Over this tho: dry and pound in a mortar until Juice flowing lines of the loose, full coat, be worn a black net and velvet rltl Is extracted. Strain Into a cup and whether short or long, and Is a serv- and lace scarf, and one of the a put the cup Into boiling water to get iceable material; though, on the tiny hats of gold lace trimmed hot. A few drops will color a pale whole, a taffeta coat is a better Investpink roses and tied with black ment than one of eolienne, even If ribbons. But such frocks are not green. more expensive at the start. the moment; rather Just now do Novelties In White Serge. devote ourselves to coats and tb ot New Fad Is Kerchief Ruffle. In the white serge frocks, the choosing the former Impartially If a girl Is making a fancy white short Freneh makers have Introduced many basqued and bolero shapes, novelties In cut and line. The Empire petticoat to wear with transparent latter round, touching the F05 Ideas that have taken bo firm a hold skirts she can not have a prettier everywhere, but not trailing npot lately appear here, as elsewhere, and ruffle on It than one made of handker- and being cut on the cross and fd Empire coats, long or short, are made chiefs. the hips. up In white serge or white cloth with skirts to match and with severe tailor GOWN OF BROWN LINEN. finish or with collars, cuffs and motifs A SUMMER BLOUSE.' One of the most charming linen of heavy open work embroidery on This Paris model is an excecdii gowns of the season is pictured In the dainty and attractive blouse of ai linen. sketch below. The original is a very that is best appreciated during a late French design secured direct from warm Beautifur Blouses. daya of summer, when modeste the t who made It. uncomfortable, deSurplice-cu- t Is It blouses, leaving the becomes very throat bare or worn with a transpar- signed for a traveling gown, but can sheer white lawn Is used, and ent gulmpe and collar of lace, are liked be worn a great deal through the sum- frdnt edges of the surpllco are for summer frocks, but though charm- mer. The loose jacket is trimmed lace, set In to the ing they are not so youthful as the with heavy blouse frilled to some sort of yoke and goods, and the sleeves are finished fastening In the back, and they should be reserved for the older girls. Here agnln we often find very heavy cm-hrdery, applique or band Insertion bordering the surplice, while the rest of the frock is trimmed lightly and fluffly in Valenciennes insertion and edging. Heavy embroidery insertion scalloped on both edges and with Valenciennes frills bordering the scallops Is liked for the surplice borders and may be used, too. upon the sleeve and as heading for skirt flounces. r o Decoration for Blouses. For our blouses to be seen at their best It behooves us to provide them with fresh and attractive neckwear, since ou neckwear to a large extent depends their success. Beginning with neckwear for the slmplo shirt waist or shirt, as the English term it, there is a new turnover collar, some three Inches deep, of canvas linen, embroidered with a spot. Beneath this Is passed a band cf chameleon ribbon or plain glace silk, fastened with a roBettellke knot In front, high up against the collar, and the ends which are plaited, are knotted a few Inches frdow the neck, and end In e fan-llk- flutei Rainbow ribbons are used for a similar purpose; the knot and ends are formed of two soft ribbons In different colors. A border to the hem-stitche- d with an edging to match. llghr than the brniil linen. The skirt Is a new design ornamented only with would he charming In almosf any if the colored linens, or In white with s lace to match. . rid, K " j ated with fine embroidery J ,tf the tucked vest Is also erigoa p embroidery, and a wldo le . .. g ruffle finishes the short a charming model for warm (J. the low neck, are to be this summer. If, however. (lf, not care to wear a collarie this one can be made up collar. |