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Show HOME AND FASHIONS- Bortleoltaral Sights Abroad. scale for the control of apple scab aad T3 try and write you an article on bitter rot carried out In a neighborI saw in Europe ing orchard. Eighty varieties of ap-- l the horticulture be writes B. R would S6 41 and 108 bewildering, grapes peaches, pies, strawberries were set out Apple scab) Bones in Wisconsin Horticulturists f on the varieties Ben Davis and HuntsNothing seems Impossible with thosei man, was almost entirely prevented by Frenchmen as florists, gardeners or Hints A boat CultiI saw men lndepend- Some spraying with Bordeaux mixture. BitFields ter rot was more difficult to cwntrol ently rich on five acres of ground. I; of tha Soil aad vation saw cauliflowers eight inches across! Thereof Horticulture, Viticulture and with Bordeaux mixture. In one experiment on Ben Davis sprayed five and leaves touching the body of cherry; Floriculture. times, 60 per cent of the fruit was trees on which there were no less thanf Forty-elgh- tj free from bitter lot, while on control six bushels to the tree. Outlook far Fruit. cent was free from hours after the cauliflower was cut and! trees only per for outlook W. H. Wylie, Ohio: The it In another part of the orchard 78 the cherries picked the soil under the, fruit is fair, as the trees went through par cent of the fruit sprayed four tree was planted to another crop! the winter welL times was free from the rot, while on How they can do this is a mystery, H. M. Dunlap, Central Illinois: The unsprayed trees all but 14 per cent and as my French is limited to about; outlook for tree fruits is good. This was affected. The variety Huntsman, I could not ask many! words, forty and Applies to apples, pears, cherries which was sprayed three times during questions. The gardens between Rouent pluma Peach buds are dead. the season gave 83 per cent free from and Paris are probably the finest in R. L. Holman, Ohio: The prospect bitter rot and 92 per cent free from the world and the neatness of the for fruit is poor and the general crop apple scab, while on unsprayed trees homes beyond compare; stone houses will not be over 50 per cent of an but 48 per cent was free from bitter with d roofs, no weeds, no average. Peaches are entirely gone. rot and 6 per cent free from apple waste material lying anywhere. Pearsr There will be some plums and cherries scab. of all colors loaded the trees, and and a part crop of apples. trees trimmed in fantastic shapes,, Prof. H. C. Price, Iowa: From presLosing Hamel nod Fertility. cherries bending with fruit and, east, ent Indications the prospect for fruit Growing wheat continuously on land of Paris a few miles, so many that The season is the coming very good. depletes the nitrogen and humus in it they fairly colored the landscape. apple, plum and cherry blossoms are in addition to what is taken up by In Paris I saw oleanders that I could' ' in good condition. Peach blossoms the crops themselves. Just how this climb and at Treves tree roses, ditio.r are killed and some of the more tender depletion takes place we do not know, At the latter place, in the great rose , varieties of plum and cherry, but on but it does take place to a surprising of Europe, as late as Aug. 1, garden the whole, I think the prospects are degree. This fact largely accounts for thousands of roses were still in bloom, j very good. the rapid deterioration of lands de- What must it have been in June! For; T. E. Goodrich, Southern Illinois: voted exclusively to wheat growing shade trees they have no elm equal tot The outlook is good for all tree fruits and to summer fallow. This latter ours; their linden Is not to be com- -' will The except peaches. peach crop practice, though hoary in age, is a we can beat the; be light A few buds are ready to greater waster of nitrogen and of hu- pared with ours, and oaks of old England. The sycamore is break out into blossoms, but not mus than is even wheat growing. At the ornamental tree of Europe,; enough for a crop. Pears and apples St Anthonys Park, Minnesota, a plat and greatare never out of you sight of them promise well. Trees are leaving out of ground that was used in the grow- in any town from the Mediterranean Warm rains during the past two days ing of wheat continuously for eight to Rotterdam. (March 26, 27) are bringing out the years lost 1,700 pounds of nitrogen. Of grapes I saw no end, thousands of ' of the grass and brightening the color Of this only 300 pounds was taken up the terraced banks of the acres; wheat by the wheat crop. Four' times as -. Professor John T. Stinson, Missouri: much nitrogen was lost by soil and air Moselle and the Rhine are one continufurIn France if you qua in vineyard. The prospects for an apple crop as was used by the wheat That South Missouri are good, reaches are meant a loss of 1,400 pounds, which bished two casks they would fill one, dud take the other for pay, so great' killed over Central Missouri, hut as was more than h of all the nifar south as Koshkonong and also in trogen in the soil at the time he wheat was the vintage, this the ordinary the southwestern portion of the state was first grown. What then would be wine. The apples of Europe are not they promise a good crop. At some the result In five times as many yeara as good as our windfalls. In Covent Ghrden Market, London, were hunpoints, for instance Kashkononj;, the forty years? The land would cerreport is that the crop promises to be tainly become useless for the growing dreds of bushels of gooseberries larger full of wheat and would reach a condition in size than green gage plums. Professor Albert Dickens, Kansas: in which the recovery of its nitrogen Apples promise very well, except in would be extremely difficult In adTo SU City or Creamery. some old orchards which bore extra dition to the loss of The milk supply of New York durnitrogen there heavy crops in 01; young orchards was a yearly loss of 2,000 pounds of ing February of this year was about generally in good condition. Cherries humus, through chemical action. 7,200,000 gallons, against 6,880,000 in and native plums promise well; Japanthe corresponding month last year. ese plums considerably damaged. ApriThis is an increase of over 300,000 galSeed Beet Clover BotDQrowa in cots badly damaged. Peaches lons. This increase was made in the in to a controversy Europe Owing northern part of the state, buds killed; d feed face Of a short and Amerof relative value the conflicting reports from the southern regarding paywas made? it How By supply. ican and European clover seed, the part, probably seriously injured. ing more for milk. The average price Department of Agriculture has undersome comparative experiments, paid the producers in February, 1901, taken Calttvatioa of Orchards was 2.75 cents per quart. During Febthe Initial series of which was conProfessors of the Vermont station ruary, 1902, it was 3.25 cents per quart, ducted at Many samples Washington. have been investigating the orchards cent a quart. of clover seed of known origin from the an Increase of one-haof Addison county In that state. In is safe to say Without this it Increase, different countries of Europe and fro.u part their report states: different parts of the United States that the extra amount of milk could The statistics of culture, however, As the and Canada were grown under like never have been obtained. show more strikingly the condition of conditions. out reach must cltiea great grow they of hay were made the apple growing business in Addi- at suitable Cuttings the product of further for their milk supply, and must intervals, son county. Out of 42 representative each Increase the price they pay for It. plat being carefully weighed. apple growers whose orchards were These experiments, which have now This fact always militates against the personally examined by the agent of been under way for two years, show creamery. Of the two ways of disposthe Experiment station, only eight, or conclusively that under the conditions ing of his milk the creamery is genless than the most profitable to the farmgive any cultivaexisting here the European red clover erally not er tion to the ground. The others grow is at once, but in the long run. inferior in productiveness When a farmer sends his whole milk their apple trees in grass, and often to decidedly the the Americrn. Apparently pasture or mow the grass at that American strain is better adapted to to the cities, the manurial value in It never gets back to the farm. When This is altogether wrong and unprofthe conditions of bright sunshine, peitable. It was once a debatable quesriodic heat, and dryness that exist a man sends his' milk to the creamery and gets back his skim milk, he can tion whether an apple orchard should here. For the purposes of our farmbe cultivated or not; but It is debataproduce out of that skim milk veal, a decision of the quesers, therefore, Men ble no longer. The cash returns set- tion whether to use American or impork, poultry, meat and eggs. tled that By way of comparison it ported seed is easily reached. During should take this into account when figuring milk prices. may be said that there is hardly an the past year a series of supplementary orchard, large or small, in Grand Isle experiments has been started at typiTb Summer Fm'low. county which is not now annually cul- cal selected areas in different parts tivated with the plow and harrow. The good old advice to summer falof the United States, to see whether Probably the greatest reform to be these results hold in the principal low is no longer passed on from father made in Addison county apple growto son. The plan originated In the g states. ing lies in the cultivation of the land. days of the Hebrew patriarchs, and, Slow Spread of Dairy Knowledge. Apples can be grown In sod, to be In reading the foreign exchanges we doubt not has had something to do sure; but it is absolutely certain that one is struck with the slow with the barrenness that is now said to spread of cases out of a hundred, in ninety-nin- e the state of many of the hills On be knowledge. We have been makbetter fruit can be grown and a great- dairysilage When sciin this country for more which it was practiced. ing er profit realized if the soil is properly than twenty-fiv- e ence matter took found that the it up In Victoria, years. cultivated. Proper cultivation, accordhas been made by no fertility was conserved by permitAustralia, silage ing to the generally accepted doctrine the leading dairymen for more than ting the land to remain idle. It was of the time, consists of plowing the twenty years. One of the best of even discovered that a crop of weeds land early in the spring, and in them has made 200 tons winter was tar superior to a crop of nothing. this with a surface cultivation and has wintered 100 cowsevery on It, and Summer fallow plowing up the land or cutaway harrow he has done with spring-toot- h it for twenty years with- and leaving it bare for a season-ca- uses every ten days till July first By that out failure, losses in several ways. The upet to-dthe New Zeatime the wood is done growing and land are urging their readers per layer of soil becomes dust under papers cultivation should be stopped. Then to the silage question and tha fierce rays of the sun. In this, a cover crop of clover, eight pounds to are investigate readers that they are dry dust chemical action sets in and their telling the acre, or of peas, two bushels to behind the times. They annihilates every vestige of organic years twenty the acre, or of buckwheat, one bushei are the call matter the humus. This humus was to the acre, should be sown. The cover a proposing that thegovernment farmers free the great factor in the retaining of conference, give crop holds its place untouched till the passes on the railroads to attend it, moisture and of nitrogen. A crop, following spring, when it is turned and Import for speakers dairymen In would have shaded the ground and under at the annual plowing. Australia or other parts that have prevented chemical action of the namade silage successfully. But the New ture mentioned. The loss of humus 8on Experiments with Whnmt Zealanders are not the only people changes the physical properties of the At the Tennessee Experiment sta- that are behind in their appreciation soil, causes it to be less retentive of tion the results of fertilizer experi- of the silo. In the great state of Illimoisture, lighter in color and heavier ments with winter wheat after bare nois there are few silos despite the in weight per cubic foot Rotation of fallow show that the cost of the in- fact that just across the border in crops, including the legumes, is better crease per bushel was 19 cents, with Wisconsin are whole counties dotted than summer fallow. 250 pounds of acid phosphate per acre over with silos, and where the money Wheat and tha Heaslan Fly. in two applications, 26 cents with ten returns have been very great and the How to avoid the Hessian fly Is one tons of barnyard manure applied in increase of wealth due to the silos of the great problems that confronts 1900 and 5 tons In 1901, and 32 cents enormous. the wheat culturlst From time to with an application of 50 bushels of time discoveries are being made that lime In 1900; while accompanied by a Variableness la Cow Peas. may make it possible to in the future crop of cowpeas plowed under, 50 The most marked variation in the greatly lessen the violence of the atbushels of lime applied in 1900 reduced character of the cow pea is to be tacks. It now. seems probable that the cost of Increased yield per bushel found in the color of the seed, which where wheat is lacking in thriftiness to 16 cents, 250 pounds of basic slag to be of any of the shades of' black, it is more injured by Hessian fly atmay 17 cents, and the same amount of Tenwhite, red, brown, yellow, gray, green tacks than where it is vigorous. This nessee and South Carolina acid phosand purple, or they may be speckled is a principle quite generally accepted 19 20 to and cents. Where bare with two or more of these colors. phates In as to fruit tree insects. Prof. Andrew fallow was followed for two years the be round, flat or broad M. Soule of Tennessee says: "Wheat may they shape cost of the increase with these phoskidney shaped or flattened at the fends. on thin and Impoverished land suffered phates was 42.39 and 34 cents per The period of ripening required by most from attacks of the Hessian fly. bushel, respectively. The phosphates different varieties varies from to From the results obtained in sowing sixty gave good results In all cases, but the more than 200 days, and the same vawheat on different dates. It is apparent application of muriate of potash alone, riety will ripen seed in less time from that the date of seeding wheat deterof blood and bone, and 100 bushels of late than from to a considerable in early and planting mines, degree, the lime alone were unsatisfactory. The less time in dry seasons than in seaamount of injury done by the fly, and( fertilizers were sons of an abundance of complete ready-mixe- d rain, while an it is further evident that If wheat is. unprofitable and the complete home-mixexcess of nitrogen in the soil retards sown on carefully prepared land of were not so economfertilizers both and maturity. Increasing good quality where there is an abundical as either phosphates, lime or barn- the fruiting yield of vine and not ant supply of available food that it yard manure. On Impoverished soil a decreasing the yield of infrequently as com- will stool out and In a measure make peas, home-mixe- d 50 of application pounds with less fertile soils. up for the original shoots destroyed nitrate of soda, 100 pounds acid phos- pared These shoots, however, by the fly. phate and 25 pounds muriate of potwill not be so vigorous, nor wili they Ole Bill Posses the Senate. ash gave the best results. Cowpeas Last Thursday the oleomargarine fill so well as those first thrown up. gave the best returns when pastured off on the land, and the next best when bill passed the senate by a vote of 39 Broom Corn From Farmers Review: The proper-tim- e tax on the colored made into hay. Plowing under cow-pe- to 31. The ten-ceto plant broom corn is the last of on poor soil Is considered as al- product went through without change, as did also the provision for May and June, when the ground is ways profitable. taxing nncolored oleomargarine warm, so seeds will soon sprout Any cent a pound. The bill places under ground that will raise good corn will' Fruit Investigation! In Missouri. the of the police powers of raise good broom corn. Our soil Is," The government summary of the the provisions states and territories all oleomaradapted to raise finer fiber than thei work of the Missouri Fruit Experiprocess, renovated, soil in central Illinois. It should be' ment station, under the direction of garine, butterine, or imitation butter or drilled from sixty to seventy stalks per Prof. John T. Stinson, says: During adulterated, or any substance in the semrod and should be well cultivated, as a. cheese, the first years operation of this sta- blance of cheese W farmer would little corn. J, G. Monbutter not the tion about forty acres of land were product of the dairy and not mads of roe, Marion County, Illinois. under brought cultivation, twenty of unadulterated milk or cream. which were planted in test orchards. pure Some slight amendments were made In Cocksfoot (Dactylls glomerata) is a Experiments in crossing strawberries the and this will send it back useful grass. It grows best on deep, have been undertaken, and borne to senate, rich loams. It will bear the shads of the conference conmittee of th gpraying experiments on a commercial house and senate. overhanging trees. . front of white moussellne dq - sole. Theplaited AND GARDEN. sleeves are finished at the FARM elbow with a wide, embroidered cuff DESCRIPTION OF THE PREVAILING and a frill of lace. The skirt is of rose MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI MODES OF THE SEASON. cloth, studded with silver. CULTURISTS. Self-Cella- r. Boys and gins in the country may not have the facilities for their possessed by brothers and sisters In the city. At first sight this may seem to be to their disadvantage, but. In reality, it opens the doors more widely to the cultivating of individuality and the development of faculties which otherwise might never be brought into replay. Being thrown on their own sources, they are obliged to be their own teachers, to arrange their own courses of study, to form reading and debating clubs among themselves, and to exercise and strengthen their reasoning powers by solving their own knotty problems Instead of having them solved for them, says Success. What limitless opportunities present themso.ves during the long winter evenings, to earnest boys and girls who are desirous of making the most of themselves, for culture and Those who live in are ambitious who large cities, to study language, chemistry, art, science, physiology, astronomy, literature, mathematics or almost any other husubject within the range of man knowledge have their choice of evening schools, where textbooks, furnished gratuitously. Efficient, conscientious, painstaking teachers devote themselves each evening of the school week to the work of helping pupils to perfect themselves in the studies they have undertaken. Heave ho! set hear-tie- s, your sails, my : For the coast of Play-lik- e Lafirp ; While the wind blows free ,qp: Ttlie mystic sea, 'ijJa And the sunbeams gild the saridi Steer clear of the foaming breads. Sail straight for the sheltered bay, Where the Spirits of Fun have a .signal gun To welcome us to their play. Now, whatever you want to look like, And whatever you wish to be, No matter how strange, why, its presto, change! And its done for you Instantly. Do you yearn for the wings of an eagle? Or the throne of an rmperor grand? Well, quick as wink, and before you can think, Tou may have them in Play-lik- e Land. Would you like to dive down in the ocean? Or to chat with the folks in the moon? Just mention ' vour wish, you can swim like a fish, Or ascend in a monster balloon. Wedding Drew AeecMortee. New Fabric Designed Especially for Mourning Drosses Watat for Early Spring Wedding Dr.u Accessories Afternoon Ten Gown. Fretty Berthas, fichus and fancy draperies are a feature of the corsages of wedding dresses, while some of the newest and certainly most unusual models are a series of lace ruffles, falling one above the other, so that the figure For Monrnlng Dresses. A new fabric designed seems to be wound in specially for masses. Sometimes these soft filmy ruffles are mourning dresses Is called crlsplne. It is very silky of surface, and the de- quite narrow and extend from the signs vary according to the depth of waist to hem, and again there may be mourning required. It is light and only three of graduated depth, each warm, drapes well, has a small pattern one having a dainty edging of orange over it of many varieties, some recall- blossom applique. With such a gown ing the graining of leather, others as- the train may he of plain white satin suming the form of a minute silk bro- or of fancy brocade. cade. Some of the designs are of the Waist for Early Spring. order of interplaited basket work, some show open lined checks, while others are almost invisibly striped. A smart mourning gown of this fabric Is In princess style, with an odd arrangement of paneling on the skirt. These with panels are of crepe, bordered braid. The bodice has scalloped revers and a folded ceinture of crepe above the waist. The bell sleeves reach to Badges of Honor. the elbow. The undersleeves of crepe Some one has said that a boy is are arranged in soft folds, giving a well dressed when his collar graceful and supple look to the arm. is clean are The stock collar is of crepe, with a his and shoes blacked. That ought to comfort turnover of white lisse. some of you lads who have been looking forward with a little dread to the The Detachable Basque. opening of school. For though most the new fancies which are Among have better things to think of boys ground is the detachgaining steadily than the clothes they wear, still it Is able Is praiseworthy as It basque. not pleasant to have patches on your well as becoming, since It makes knees and elbows, when the boys who two bodices out of one. sit next you are resplendent in brand practically When this bodice is a close fitting new suits. , the basque is slipped beneath Tet there are times when patches bolero, the edge of the former and attached are badges of honor, while the new In the neatest Waist of flannel made with stitched possible manner by suits are like disgraceful uniforms. means of the new glove buttons, plaits and little ornamental pockets. We have known boys to threaten to The revers collar, the cuffs and the which, as used for gowns, are altostay out of school unless they could gether an American notion and have plastron are of taffeta. Wiener Chic. be dressed as well as the other the merit of being as nearly Invisible boys, when perhaps the father and as any fastening can possibly be. A An Afternoon Ten Gown. mother were well-nig- h sinking be- belt, unless It be an extravagantly A broadcloth gown that appeals to neath financial burdens. wide affair, a Swiss belt or a swathed the afternoon tea enthusiast is made A boy shows a weakness not only girdle, for example, rather gives the of light cloth, decorated with large of head, but of heart, when he decides secret away. The fact that the demother of pearl buttons. A little tea that he would rather leave school tachable basque is seen upon so many coat made of taffeta silk, to match than wear a shabby coat, when his gowns intended for the Riviera may Is worn over a vest of lace and cloth, father and mother are making sacri- be fairly accepted as evidence that it white silk. This coat is finished around fices for him. has come to stay. the neck with a simulated collar of cloth. The skirt has six flounces that Famish a Home on Papar. reach to the knees. These divide in Coming Fashion.. One of the most absorbing amuseThe fashions for the coming seafront and gradually get deeper In the ments possible to find for children is son will be directoire, but rather more back. The sleeves are long and wide the making of scrapbooks. The rain- In the Tanagra feeling, says London at the cuff. iest of days may be made enjoyablo Truth. The corset that makes a long a few large sheets of strong wrap- - fine waist line will be worse than Bodices Lees Elaborate. jiy ping paper, cut in the size desired for useless. Skirts are to contrast with The newest bodices are less elaborthe book and folded into two leaves, those of the bell shape actually worn, ate than they have been and show with a collection of old magazines and and will fall in straight, close folds. some form of basque, tabs all around Sandals are talked of as more In haror postilion ends at the back. The papers full of pictures. A novel kind of scrapbook recently mony with classical dress than shoes. blouse coat with basque ends in the made represents a doll house, each The present Japanese mode of dress- centre of the back is to be stylish. A page being a room. Advertisements ing the hair Is doomed. One already belt that passes through slits In the material and fastens with a handsome furnished the pictures, bach article sees bandeaux a la Grecque. Imita illustrated being carefully cut out in outline and pasted in an orderly manner on the page to which it belonged. The kitchen has a range, table, chairs, broom, cooking utensils, irons and ironboard. In the drawing-rooare sumptuous couches, chairs and cabinets, with a perfect love of a fireplace and vases on the mantel. Windows, doors and fireplaces for all the rooms were found in the advertising pages of magazines, and add greatly to the charm of the surroundings. New York Tribune. moment on important themes. Demosthenes, the king of orators, would never speak in a public meeting without previous thorough preparation. Daniel Webster when once pressed to speak on a subject of great importance, refused, saying that he was very busy and had no time to master it When a friend urged that a few words from him would do much to awaken public attention to the subject he reIf mere be so much weight plied: in my words it is because I do not allow myself to speak on any subject until my mind is Imbued with it On one occasion Webster made a remarkable speech, without notes, before the Phi Feta Kappa society at Harvard university, when a book was presented to him. After he had gone a manuscript copy of his eloquent impromptu address, carefully written, was found in the book, which he had forgotten to take away. m Face Book Idea. Quite the latest idea is to have a face book. Instead of the now album, in which one's It is really a pity to have there, "Where things happen just as you friends were worried to do somed sketch book is thing, a choose; But its getting quite late; if we wish chosen. In it you get your friends each to draw a head of some sort-g- irl, to steer straight. man, child or animal. It does Why, we havent a moment to lose. not matter if they cannot draw at all. Heave Ho! Set your sallB, my heartThey must do their best, and the aties, often prove For the world of real women and tempt of the the most amusing. They should, of " men. And some other day we will finish our course, sign their names to the pictures, although some will probably replay, fuse to do so. The collection when In the Country of Play-likagain. finished is usually most interesting, exceedingly comic attempts being in- tions of China crepe will be In great terspersed with the charming sketchfavor for gowns. As the Olympian es of ones artistic friends. goddesses did not wear hats or bonnets, the Inventive faculty of the milwill be severely taxed to Invent liners The Bnrned Thread. dressed Soak a piece of thread in strong salt things suitable to classically of ladies the The ladles. directory two and or three repeat water, dry it bonnets times. When thoroughly dry tie one boldly adopted and turbans. on a to chandelier and end other the Indian Smoka signal The Indian had a way of sending or lower end tie a ring or some small Importance of the SlMve but not too heavy article. up the smoke in rings or puffs, knownewest gowns are not showy; The now is for It the experiment ready ing that such a smoke column would they are elegant The cut Is so perfect at once be noticed and understood as Set fire to the thread, and behold the that little trouble they can be a signal and not taken for the smoke ring does not fall to the floor, nor alteredwith to fit any one with the usual thread break. of some campfire. He made the rings does the The skirts are not showing figure. The is: The has thread explanation the little fire with his by covering quite so much flare as earlier In tha blanket for a moment and allowing in reality been burned, but the salt season, and It is the sleeves still the with which the thread was saturated the smoke to ascend, when he insleeves which is the principal point solid a forma and that supcolumn, the fire covered again. The stantly of of departure. It Is the elbow sleeve, column of ascending smoke rings ports the 'ring. Varied experiments the Du Barry sleeves, the Grecian said to evsry Indian within thirty can be made, using several threads for sleeve, the Marie Antoinette sleeve one article. out! Look There an is miles: call It by whatever name you will Three smokes built enemy near! till it is the sleeve that makes the close together meant attention. Two Slmplo, Clever Trick. gown this spring. meant smokes Camp at this place." Bend a match in the center so that Travel the plains and the usefulness it forms an acute angle and place it Charming Louie XT. Costume, of this telephone will over the neck of a large bottle; on top This charming costume Is worn by once become apparent. at of the match place a piece of money, Mile. Lender in La Passerelle" at the Sometimes at night the settler or a cent for instance. The trick is to the traveler saw fiery lines crossing put the money into the bottle withthe sky, shooting up and falling, per- out touching the match or the bottle. haps taking a direction diagonal to your finger in water, holding it Dip the lines of the vision. Ho might over the where the match is were the signals of bent, and place guess that these allow one or two drops of the Indians, but unless he were an water to fall on that point The two he might not be able to In- sides of the angle will open slowly, ' terpret the signals. The allowing the money to drop into the bottle. ed non-artlst- lc e, long-distan- old-tim- er old-tim- er le Ho Royal ftoacL Young people especially are inclined to believe that orators are born and that eloquent addresses mads by prominent speakers are entirely extemporaneous and are the thoughts of the moment it is well for them to remember that there is no royal road to suocess in n walk of life. Even great orators have generally refused to speak on the spur of the -- red-tile- one-fift- high-price- lf one-fift- h, ay buckle is sometimes a finish. This coat has a blouse sleeve rather fall' Just above the waist, but quite plain at the top. The front may be slightly d and finished with small turndown collar and revers of fine embroidery. The basque, whatever shape it Is, should be cut to look as If It were all in one, yet may be made quite separate on a little band that the belt covers. double-breaBte- Tacks In Silk Waist A variety is given to silk waists by tucking them In half inch tucks, which are then run with several rows of stitching of a contrasting color. Small box pleats stitched on both sides are also seen on many plain taffeta waists. The pleats extend to the waist line In the back, but on the front are stitched only to simulate a yoke. In Some waists the front pleat3 extend to the waist line, there being four on each side of the front of the waist with two in the centre In place of the one traditional wide pleat There are buttonholes in both of these centre pleats, and the waist Is fastened with links of silk to match the color of the waist Marmara of tha Modes. Ochre guipure is verv much used. The habit back is used on two-thirof the skirts. All belts point dewn in front, no matter what their width. Black Chantilly Is the favorite lace for trimming foulard gownB. Pongee silk trimmed with string-colorlace will be smart for summer Johnny Wanted Jam. wear. Mamma was serving the jam pudRed is fashionable. Red hats and ding. will be worn with black, parasols a Johnny, will you take little pudwhite and pale gray gowns. ding?" The grande elegantes have scarves Johnny Yes; will you give me the of lace falling from the back of the ends, please? hat to drape the shoulders like a Mamma But why dp you wish to mantilla. have the ends, Johnny? Mme. de Pompadours favorite comJohnny Why, when I was in the bination of pink and pale blue and kitchen I heard Mary say to cook: the rose pink with black lace of Mme. Put a good lot of Jam In the ends, du Barry, are everywhere In evidence cook, because you know the ends are In the new modes. Paris. The Theater du Vaudeville, always left for us." Robes de luxe for Evening wear are embroidered of rose taffeta, Is jacket with lace ornamented with flowers. garnished and blue green delicate with Bridal Veil and Shroud. The wide, draped girdle of grayish diamonds anil other precious stones. The bridal veil of a Japanese young blue liberty passes under the embroidWhen the cme first started mock lady is subsequently used as her ered hands which border the fronts. gems were used. Now the Jewelers are preparing rose diamonls and chip-pinshroud. Directly after the marriage Jabots of cream lace form the revers. of other stones m such a way It is carefully put away and reserved , The stock and cravat are of black until death makes its use again satin, the latter almost covering the that they may be sewn on lace. ds ed gunpowder and fine bark, meant the same as the columns of smoke puffs An enemy is near. Two arrows meant Danger. Three arrows said Imperatively: This danger is great. Several arrows said: The enemy are too many for us. Thus the untutored savage could telephone fairly well at night as well as in the daytime. Star Monthly. fruit-grower- clover-growin- well-boun- coal-scutt- nt gs 1 ed as nt one-four- th |