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Show Home and Fashion. Chic Gown. afternoon gown la of chestnut tone of voile, embroidered In pale tan. The bodice is slightly swathed across the front, caught at the side with a big gold buckle, beneath which are two long loops of pale tan Liberty satin ribbon, and with ends depending nearly to the border of the skirt. The neck is filled in with pale tan chiffon. On the left side of the bust Is a spray of leaf bows in loft shades of cream and brown. The skirt Is cut with a frou-froflare, each seam being strapped with Louisine silk the same hue as the fabric. At the border of the skirt are three rows of the strapping. A charming that Mr. Lounsbery would bring a hun- dred dollara worth of fireworks from A Fourth of July Confession BY CHARLES EUGENE BANKS. Copyright, 190!. by Dally Story Pub. Co.) be- Sir. Arnold, I don't think you lieve what you say. Indeed 1 do. Miss Darlington." Fourth of July la a farce? Then you really think that?" I mean to aay that all the money spent In firing off crackers and burning rockets has no useful purpose. It expresses our feelings, I think, and that Is all anything can do for us in this world. I do not agree with you. There are many simpler and more sensible ways of giving expressions to our emotions than by filling the air with noise and smoke, it is childish. Grown people ought to be able to show their patriotism in a more sensible way. Fudge. You are getting as dry and uninteresting as those old books you bury yourself In most of the time. I believe In life. Books are alt well enough In their way, but that Is generally a very tiresome way. The hot blood surged into the face of the young man at the retort. He turned his 'gaze full on the girl at his side, but she was already turning away, calling softly to a robin hopping in tbe shade of an old apple tree that grew beside the gate leading into the farmhouse grounds. Mllly! he called, reproachfully. Walt till George Lounshery comes and home from New York you'll see what the Fourth of July means to a man with real red blood In his veins. He was up last year and brought more than a hundred dollars I dont believe worth of fireworks. any one went to bed that night at all. The sky was filled with red fire and 1 realized fof the first time what it meant to be an American. You mean the son of Farmer Lounsbery, I suppose? Yes. Hes a great man now, alwas born and grew up In he though this illiterate neighborhood. ' . Mllly Miss Darlington, if you please, Mr. Does your dingy old Shakespeare. leather-coverebooks tell you that a young man has the right to address a young lady that he met only four weeks ago with ns much familiarity as though she was his Bister?" The girl tossed her pretty head with an air that might have been learned in tho court of a queen, although she had little krowledge of the ways of the world outside of Mohawk Valley. But was Bhe not a woman, young, pretty, proud, whimsical as most pretty young women are? And what need had she for instructions in the art of coquetry? To the serious young student who had come Into the neighborhood with no other Idea than that of earning a modest living by teaching In the public school she had knowledge enough and to spare. He loved her, of course. There was no escape from that. She knew it, too, as well as though he had told her so with all the impassioned fervor of a Romeo. But he ' ad not told her so. How could he when she met every attempt of his to utter what filled his heart with railery. Is he is Mr. Ixiunshery a friend of yours?" A friend of mine? Indeed he Is. I have known him ever since I was a child. He is a great mah now. Cashier In a hank in the city and trusted with tons of money. Wait till you see how tilings will move when he d good-nature- d ." lie did wait, although with no pleasant anticipations. And that night he saw the rockets streaking across the sky and the honest country folk lie, ml cheer the neatly dresset. smooth si tok- en young mail who set off whole pack-aceof fire crackers witn far thought that one of iho wealthiest nir.ong t'sein would hue struck a match. And wl i it It was all over. when tli last red tin me had faded out of tl: sky. the Inst pin whi e had unit out is Spiteful l:t'!e life, tl.e I, Ml li'liich of f. re oraches s .,.;.-aril danced over s s T'f 1 : ' i i ! ' h' V i. i i i'1 :el ' I;-- i S!.i iv. n. An:-ii- l in i"b tl.e woods, t! Mie.in 1:1 fot i ' ad i In siiK-'- i I rl rl.t 1 ,d a II ! . of a his 1 1: ur. asti is 1: d :i : f . to kirn the city to voice tbe patriotism of the And her boast bad neighborhood. been made good. A hundred dollars! Why, that was more than he wai to get for tl.3 three months term of teaching Is t'e Randall district school. u A hundred good style in Paris, but the strict sesuit verity of the regulation tailor-cu- t is not adopted by the Frenchwoman. A bloused bodice with a little basque under a waist belt, opening some three Inches over a vest In front, or a coat that does not much more than turn the waist line, are tbe ravorlte models of the present moment. A Decidedly Novel 8leeve. This gown combines all the new features of the current mode. The Eton has loose fronts that open over a vest embroidered with beige and pale blue Corticelli Filo silk, similar embroidery adorning the deep pelerine collar. The sleeve Is decidedly novel and deserves special mention. New Chain Barette. dollars! What could he not have do te with the money that Still another improvement has been bad been cor mimed in an evening, fot Introduced Into the little gold pin the glory of patriotism? He thought which is intended to collect and hold of the long, dreary struggle behind fast at the bark of the head the soft, A him, and tl o dark, dreary, tedious short, uneven strandB of hair. days ahead ard a great bitterness barette is supposed to be more useful clutched at his heart and an unfamil- made after the new pattern now being iar oath rone in his throat and de- Introduced. The gold bar of the manded that he give it tongue. What barette Is Bomewhat longer than last was all this boasted liberty if it years model. From the two ends brought nothing to one and so much to swing a loop of gold chain, very fine, another? Why should this young coun- and it is supposed to support the untry boy be favored by fate so that the even strands of hair and so keep beet positions in a great city were his them In stricter confinement. As a for the asking, while he. the student, matter of fact, the fine gold chain Is the scholar, the man with a real pur- added os a matter of ornament. pose and a high aim, was left to win his way among such hopeless surroundGreen Hate in Favor. ings? Hopeless, Indeed. For she who The liking for green Is steadily Inhod wakened In his heart new aspiracreasing, especially for hats, and the tions, made even the frowning future latest model of these shows a fine Tusbright with promise, she had turned can Btraw of the old "pork-pie- " turban from him with scarcely a word to join shape, trimmed with two emerald-greein the praiey and adulation that was ostrich feathers. The hat of showered upon the successful man of bine and green straw Is going out of the world. favor, but all green Is gt eatly to the She was heartless. He was sure of fore. Lace and tulle hats are appearthat now, and It was well that he had ing again In full force, the lace emfound no opportunity' during the broidered in fanciful colored straws of the day and evening to' give her the and. arranged to rest on the back of with a is cut with- a written declaration he had found it im- the hair with long ends. Black hats It band of stitched voile and is compossible to make in spoken words. Ar are also in favor, and' when worn with pleted with a kind of under sleeve of least he was saved the humiliation oi gowns are supremely cream liberty sillf formed into puffs a refusal. Let it be burned with, ai with straps of beige velvet Beige the other useless things of the day. velvet ribbon in a darker shade He ran his hand into his pocket. It Jeweled Nets for Hats. adorns both the jacket and skirt The was empty. The letter he had penned Jeweled nets Instead of hats are the latter shows the fashionable sheath in a fever of hope and despair was fetest thing for the little bridesmaids to the velvet a effect and gone. He must have dropped it on the heads, and the effect on fluffy, wavy trimming of straps in inverted scollawn. The thought of some one find- hair Is charming. They are very much lops stitched 'with Cortlcejll silk. ing and reading it brought the blueh the same style of nets worn by the The new skirts are fitted closely at to his cheek and sent him back over Italian women years ago, and as a the hips but flare very much indeed the fields with impatient strides. He hair ornament for the grown-up- s they below the knees. A great many skirts left the beaten path and climbing the are very smart Maidenhair fern shin- with hip yokes are shown, either of snake fence that divided tbe pasture ing with dewdrops arranged in tiara Bhirrlng, tucking or tiny bands. Joined land from the orchard hurried forward form is another novelty for the hair, with a fancy open stitch. Some very In the shadow of the trees. As he or you may have small Ivy leaves with attravtive skirt models In sheer matecame out upon the lawn a white bit of some small flower. rials are laid in narrow paper gleaming In tbe aew-wfrom the waist to the knees and below grass Gowns. The Tailor-Madthat there is a prettily shaped flounce caught his eye and be sprang forward and eagerly caught It up. It waa the For tailor-madgowns a short basque with insertions of cream lace and a envelope that had held nis letter, but or a long one is considered equally garniture of narrow gathered ribbon. It had been opened and the letter was gone. TWO GOWNS FROM PARIS. It Is said that every man has one murder in his heart which he will be ready to commit if the proper moment To the great majority thia arrives. moment never presents itself; only one In ten thousand Is therefore forced to face the gallows. Whether this be true or not It was fortunate that the person so suddenly to face the young schoolmaster at that moment was beyond tbe power of his hands. A man would have to be a devil Indeed to wish harm to a fine young woman with the fresh color of the country on her cheeks, the light of roguery in her eyes and the moonlight clothing her aa a garment. And then if she laugh merrily and the next instant throw her arms about his neck and tell him he Is an old goose," be isnt likely to wish harm to his worst enemy. I read your letter all through, you silly old thing, and there Isnt a word of truth- In it. If there was I should be caught up to heaven lqis minute. You were awfully scared when you found some one had opened it? Oh, I could see your eyes flash even In the I moonlight. And you swore, too. heard you; dont deny It. Thats what decided me. Up to that time I waa afraid you were too good to be human. Theres just one thing more you must do before Ill promise not to refuse you. Youve got to admit that tbe Fourth of July is tho grandest day in the year ami promise to celebrate It like a true American every year with real 1 shall always hold the day sacred In my heart, dearest, ho said, solemnThe first gown is of white nuns pink silk, Hie former ornamented In " ly. "it has brought nte veiling made up over pale green silk front with a gold buckle. "Slavery, sir, shivery. But, thpre. and trimmed with a beauliful emTho other cown is of very palo blue I'll try to make your chains as light broidery spangled with gold paillettes. silk. The skirt is finished at the botas irsili!i', and Frank, I love you This embroidery trims Hie bottom of tom with a nniTnw llownee, headed by better than all the rockota in the the skirt and outlines a sort, of hip a rich ni'imi in which dark red world." yoko below, while at the sides ami velvet ribbon i run. From this emhaek the skirt is slightly plaited or broidery, bands of tbe same extend When Christ Is the alphabet life gathered. upward in Hie girdle, forming panels. becomes God's literature. Tin1 bodice is rimmed at the lop and mi eie-l- able of tho front with the rmhroi-h-ryIn that on tl.- - I' runts is run with vi Ivet ribbon. I . S 'V - ' H:'1 ends finished with gold lips. The loiiar ami n'a uron aiv of ecru gulpin''- iiliii lb'- draped girdle is of the r. :ii I'bo m.'ide with a largo If a1 bniifiiii, are irimmcd at the ton and lioii-ewith t'e embroidery. n hut-li- e point-edge- .light-colore- d box-plai- ts et e e 1 yohe-fa.vhiii- . ' - . i H-- |