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Show pound of sifted flour. Pour the mix-lur- e into a buttered and floured Savoy rake mold and tiake for about forty minutes in a moderately heated oven. Making the Roeettea and Botiillonnea. To make the chic little rosette wlta which hate and boleros are so attractively garnished this year, says the Delineator, take any large-sizebutton, cover it with taffeta, put of velvet over the silk, and cross-bar- s then encircle it with a double puffing f taffetas that stands out and gives the button the form of a cocarde. The bouillonne or puffing, which Is used on every sort of gown, is made with a band of taffetas hemmed on each side with a tiny velvet ribbon and gathered to form a puff through the middle. To change the air of a dress which has been worn, add to the lace ruffles an arabesque pattern in the narrowest siik ribbon. d Girl's Tuck Plaited Frock. Many of the smartest frocks for little girls are made in one piece, body and skirt in one, so giving the long Ones which always are becoming as wwll as providing comfort and freedom for young limba This one is at exceptionally tractive and shows a drop yoke, which extends well over the shoulders, giving the long, drooping line of fashion, combined with a box plaited dress. As illustrated, the material is Persian lawn wl'.h trim-al- l materials used for children's frocks are equally appropriate. . .The yoke and cuffs can be made to match the gown with some simple design embroidered onto the material, or can be made of embroidery In place of the lace whenever preferred. The frock consists of a shallow yoke, box plaited portion and the sleeves. The yoke is plain and fitted by means of shoulder seams and is entirely conwhich is arcealed by the yoke-colla- r, ranged over it after the sleeves are stitched into place. -- all-ov- Fancy Collars. Embroidered and fancy collars represent such a multiplicity of style one scarcely knows where- to touch the fingers while making a selection. The smartest of them are made of lace embroidered or of Louis XVI. embroideries in soft linen. Then there are deep lace collars embroidered with small colored floral effects In black chenille and gold thread, which brighten up a black taffeta bodice wonderfully. Narrow silk ties with lace ends outlined with a narrow silver Russian cord are pretty, and these display three or more silver tiny cord buttons on the mitered ends The lawn embroidered cravats look well on pink and blue bodices, and there are collar and cuff sets made of fine lace insertion trimmed with white eilk soutache. - Misses Blouse Waist. Blouse waists always are becoming to young girls and are much worn both with odd skirts and those to match, This one shows a novel nf arrangement tuckjB, the groups being combined with trimming straps to give a yoke effect at the front The model is made of bleached pongee, the straps being of taffeta trimmed with silk discs, but numberless materials are both seasonable and smart, cot ton and linen being quite as suitable as silk. The waist consists of the fitted lining, which can be used or omitted as preferred, front and backs and is dosed Invisibly at the center back. The front is tucked for its full length at the center, to yoke depth from the shoulders and gains the effect of a central box plait by the fact that all tucks are turned outward. The back la tucked at the center only and the trimming is arranged between the groups of tucks at the front, to outline those at the back and over the shoulders, giving the broad line. The aleeves are made in one piece each, gathered into straight cuffs White Shoes Are the Fashion. A supply of white low shoes Is now ready, and a glance at them assures us of their coming popularity. White buckskin walking shoes are not to be confounded with the oxford ties. They are made with a flat last extension doles and medium weight with Cuban heels. A wide strip of ribbed white ribbon is drawn through the single eyelet placed on each side over the rise of the instep, and this is tied firmly In a neat bow. Yacht'ng shoes, with cotton lacers, are mace of white buckskin, with the flattest of lasts, and the rubber extension sole. The Importance of wearshoe, which will ing a rubber-sole- d not scratch the decks, will be recognized by yachtsmen. Few Hints on Traveling. case will carry ail the woman requires for a ordinary trip. A change of shirtn waists, mi extra pair r A dress-sui- t twenty-four- -hour Poke Bonnets Again. The latest somersault of fashion is to turn from the lingerie hat, with , its flopping brim of lace or fine empoke broidery, to the bounet. woman must have . A well dressed at least one poke in her hat box to wrar v. ltli gowns having a downward shoulders, after the drop f.om the stylo sten in old daguerreotypea pair of easy slippers, some underwear, TLIs new poke, however, la modified a negligee, and a few toilet necessiand altogether charming. ties are about all a healthy woman Very smart milliners did their requires on the way, with her um- best to introduce the real 1830 poke brella, of course. of Florentine straw with orchard truck ornamentation, but it was no go, and instead woman haa accepted a bonnet of handmade satiny straw braid trimmed simply with a band of very broad soft ribbon around the s high crown and a huge broad bow across the front. A few wearere take kindly to The fashionable coiffure Is rolled strings of black velvet tied in a ehlo In undulating waves. under the left ear, but most of Parrot red and parrot green enjoy way are strlngieas. the pokes an equal show of favor. Brown and green chestnut burs Wrapper With Spanlsn Flounce. stud a charming little kimono. No garment included in the modem Lace frets its little life upon all wardrobe is more essential than the kinds of garments, the traveling coat tasteful wrapper that can be slipped not excepted. on t need and Is Tourtelle Is a pretty amber shade, and becoming becoming toi women who cannot wear graceful at the most browns. same time that It Real glass bugl is loose and restJust as our grandmothers wore them ful. The pretty have appeared. model shown Is made of dotted Summer Vogues in Hats. Swiss muslin with The blending of delicate pink or frills of washable biue is a feature of many hats, and in lace, but Is equally the association not only of small flow- well to adapted ers but of ribbons as well is this many white cotton Green also Is a favored fabrics and to the color, and for the hat to complete a many light weight green toilet or to be worn with a wools, challie, alblack or dark blue or a natural pon- batross, ceshmere gee or Shantung gown. It Is a most and the like, and attractive shade. also to the Habutal silks that are so - Green trimmings plumes, aigrettes, charming and so delightful to wear. breasts and ribbon velvet provide The wrapper Is made with fronts this smart touch when the hat is and back, the latter being laid in Inblacd, blue, ecru or white. verted plaits, and ia lengthened by No form of headgear Is more means of a gathered flounce Joined to charming than the dainty lingerie hat its lower edge. The neck Is finished made In simple 'baby'' shape out of with a big collar and the sleeves are the finest lace or embroidery, with a the favorite full ones, gathered into large bow of ribbon as its only trim- bands and edged with frills. ming. These hats, however, have a girlish effect, and should be worn with Chicken Fried With Okra. discrimination. To prepare thia dish clean a very tender young chicken, cut It In the Joints as for frlcasseelng. Season each piece well with salt and freshly ground pepper; then roll them all la flour. Wash two doxen okra poda, thro away the stems and slice the Peel and slice pods In thin pieces. one onion, ent a quarter of a pound of Before boiling milk or' making any ham in small dices, and chop fine one sanca with milk always rinse out the west green pepper, first removing the seeds. Fry the chicken and ham saucepan In cold water. When juice ia left from canning it brown in enough smoking hot lard to may be boiled low, made Into Jelly or half cover them; thei. add the okra, pepper and onion and enough broth sirup for flavoring purposes. Macaroni should be kept In an air- or a teaspoonful of chicken glace distight receptacle and when cooked solved in enough water to cover all these Ingredients. Season the whole Flunged Into boiling salted water. The skins of new potatoes can be palatably with salt, and stew the removed more quickly with a stiff whole gently till the chicken and vegetables are quite tender. Then serve vegetable brush than by scraping. Dont tase a galvanised Iron lemon in a dish with a border of boiled rlca When brought In contact sqneezer. with the lemon It forms a poisonous Amethysts Much Worn. salt. The amethyst Is a very beautiful When anything Is accidentally stone in Itself, like the opal, bnt bemade too salt it can be counteracted cause of its small value has been by adding a tablespoonful of vinegar hitherto neglected. Now, however, and a tablespoonful of sugar. the fashion of wearing stones beautifully set and mounted artistically Is driving out the mere display of expenSavoy Cake. Boll half a pound of loaf sugar sive Jewelry and bringing ornaments with a gill of water to a thick syrup; within the reach of narrow purses. beat up eight eggs and stir In the The peridot, the topes, the amethyst syrnp; whisk this over a pan of boil- and the turquoise are all decorative, ing water till It resembles a thick and in the hands of a clever Jeweler cream, then add by degrees half a can be made effective and pretty. THE SHAKERS OF SHIRLEY Ann Lee and Her Followers in This Country Their Faith, Manner of Living and Declining Numbers. f 4 oudoir Coniidence-- OLD BLUE AND WHITE. i TH It was s woman who founded In America that peculiar religious society known as Shakers, a society never very large In numbers, and now so steadily declining that some of the Ekaker communities in our country almost passed out of existence. 2ve there are but ten cr twelve members left In some communities in which there were once several hundred. One cannot be long in a Shaker community without hearing some mention of Mother Ann, the long ago departed high priestess of 8hak-erdowho had special revelations from heaven," and who was the head of the church In America until the time of her death on the 8th of September, In the year 1784. Ann Lee was the daughter of a blacksmith in Manchester, Eng. She was born in the year 1736. Her father was a poor man with ji large family, and Ann went to work In a cotton mill when she was but a child. She grew to womanhood with almost no education, but with a liking for power and authority. She had a ready tongue and plenty of native ability. She claimed to have had heavenly visions, and was in much tribulation of soul over the degeneracy of the world when she was but 14 years of age. At this time Jamea and Jane Wardley, the latter having received a call to "go forth and testify for the truth, were creating considerable interest in the religion of the Shakera. The Wardleya had been Quakers before Jane Wardley became a prophetess, who had it revealed to her that the second coming of Christ was at hand and that Lis second appearance would be in the form of a woman. Ann Lee was 23 years of age when he Joined the Shakers. She was st this time married to a man named Abraham Stanley, a blacksmith, and had had three or four children, all of whom bad died. Even before her marriage Ann bad been strongly inclined toward a belief in the necessity of celibacy for those who would live truly spiritual life and receive the highest divine blessing, and she it waa who finally made celibacy a requirement of membership in the Shaker Church. Those who wore already married could unite with the church by living apart A woman of greater force of character, and more powerful as a preacher, Ann Lee soon exceeded the Ward-ley- a in power and authority, aiiu she became the leader of the church. Sho proclaimed the doctrines cf the Shakers boldly and loudly on the streets of Manchester, and was finally arrested and sent to the Old Bailey prisin on for obstructing the highway She was thrust Into a Manchester. cell so small she could not He down In Here she was kept without food for two weeks, and it was expected that she would be dead when the door waa opened, but a young fellow of 19, named James Whitaker, to whom Ann bad been kind for many years. In some way gained access to the mixBailey, and supplied Ann with a milk inserting by ture of wine and the item of a tobacco pipe through the keyhole of the door, so that sho. waa very much alive when released I When abe came forth it waa with it Few combinations of color are more The outline of the yoke ia a peculiarly charming worn by young girls than good one, but can he rendered simpler the old blue and white shown in this by omitting the scallops when prevery attractive waist. The foundation ferred. To make the waist for a girl Is blue Swiss muslin with white dots, of 14 years will be required 814 yards r lace of material 21, 2 the yoke and ruffs are of yards 17 or 1H finished with white puffings and the yards 44 Inches ride, with yards r lacc. rVmir? is mv!i !r visibly at the back. of all-ove- all-ove- OX,S CHUROn wonderful tale of bow Chrlat had appeared to ber in the prison cell, and that he had become one with her In form and spirit. This went the Wardleya one better, and Ann was now regarded as the head or mother of the Shaker church. Ann maintained that It waa made dear to her in her vision that as there was neither marrying nor giving In marriage in heaven, so should there be none among the true members of the household of faith on earth, and ceiibucy became from that time a very important part of the Shaker faith. Finding that her claims as the bride of the Iamb, were meeting with a good deal of ridicule, Ann bad another revelation," in which It was made plain to her that it was In America that the foundations of the church were to be laid. So it was that in the year 1774 Mother Ann and seven of her followers, five men and two women, came to America. One of the men was Ann's husband, but when she insisted on introducing celibacy into the church he rebelled and was It la no longer one of the faithful. said that he in time took unto himself another wife. Ann and her followers remained in the vicinity of New York for some time, and finally they purchased land at Watervliet, N. Y., and settled upon It, and there la to this day in Watervliet a settlement of the believers in Mother Ann as the second Christ Additions came slowly to the little community at Watervliet. In 1779 a remarkable religious retown of vival began In the near-bLebanon and in oilier places. The converts cjaiincd to have had visions, and they went into Irunr. Some of them, notably Joseph Mcacham and Lucy Wright, went to confer with the members of the little settlement of Shakers regarding their visions. The result was that Joseph and Imcy and many others became firm believers in and a society of Mother" Ann Shakers was established in New Lebanon, and this society also exists unto this day. Within a mile of the town of Shirley, in Massachusetts, forty miles from Boston, is a little remnant of a onee flourishing srsicty of Shakers established in the year 1793 with a adults and membership of forty-fou- r twenty-twand children. youths Mother'' Ann had visited this neigh borhood several times before the church was finally established. She was the guest of a prosperous farmer named Elijah Wildes, who eventually donated his farm as the nucleus of the large possessions owned later by the Shakers. The Wildes house remained standing until two or three years ago, and visitors to the Shaker settlement were shown the room in which Mother Ann preached, and also the room In which she was concealed ono night when a band of men from the village appeared at the farm bent on mobbing the heretical Ann, whose doctrines s were regarded by some of the as little short of monstrous and evil to the last degree. But Elijah Wildes and his wife clung to the new faith, and the Shirley settlement finally grew into a prosperous colony of more than 100, owning above 2.!no acres of land In o Shir-leyite- common, besides a church, a dosen or more large and splendidly built brick houses, great barns, a dairyi a mill and shops of various kinds. A thriftier or more Industrious class of people never inhabited the earth. Nor can this singular sect be surpassed in exquisite rleanllneas. The interior of their homes, like the exterior, is severely plain, but clean and orderly to the laat degree. The world of fashion gives them no concern, for their dress is ths ssmo year in and year out. In former years they had n distinctive form of dress for both men nnd women, and this dress was very similar to that worn by the Quakers, and, whllo this distinctive style of dress Is no longer adhered to rigidly, the Shakers always dress simply, and their Sunday garb la plainest of all. Elder John Whltely, now an oldt man of 86, and paralyzed, has been,, for a great many years at the head-o- f the community of Shakers in Shirley, He came from England many years ago, and has been ono of tho Shakers of Shirley about sixty yearns He Is a patriarchal looking old man,, with an unblemished record of chart actor. "Father John," as they call him now, can no longer direct the affairs of the community because of the infirmity of years, but his faith la un- -. shaken, and he still believes in ail of the claims of Mother Ann Le& Tho Shirley community has dwindled to a little community of bnt tea members, three men and seven women, and several of them have been members of the community for more than fifty years. There has been but one addition to the community in thei past six years, and the youngest member must he nearly fifty years of age. One of the most interesting buildings at the Shaker settlement in Shirley Is the church, now more than 109 years old, and entirely unchanged in all that time. The main audience room is and entirely without ornamentation of any kind. There are the four bare white walls with the woodwork painted a dark green. Above are a number of rooms in which the minister once lived, and the nearest house is a small brick structure which was the minister's shop, for he worked Indeed, just as his flock worked. every one works In a Shaker community. In the year 1840 there were as many as r,000 Shakers in the United States, and It la doubtful If there arr of that number now. Ono nf tho largest communities Is at Canterbury, N. II., where there are about 104 Shakers. The Shakers of are an honpeoest, industrious and ple, who regard purity of character and a life of usefulness and sobriety as of greater consequence" than any worldly honor nnd glory. They ar extremely hospitable and charitable, nnd very gentle in spirit. They are at peace with each other and with tho world. They belie vo in the life eternal and the necessity of preparing for that life here below. A picturesquo and Interesting sect, their numbers are dwindling, hut this does not depress them, for they seem to live ia an atmosphere into which none of the cares and vexations of this earthly life can enter. old-tim- e one-fift- h to-da- y God-fearin- g |