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Show comes more and more distinct and It teems almost as If the latter would In a very short time be used entirely IMEFUL DRAWING ROOM AND instead of the smooth finished cloths; KITCHEN HINTS. although the cloth la by far the most dressy Id appearance, it la of more and closer weave than the Walat Made of Folds of Crepe de compact mixed suitings and homespuns, which, Chine New Way to Serve Aapara-gu- s together with Scotch tweed and covert How to Refurnish a Room cloth, are in the lead at present Cheaply Mantillas Coming. A Waist of Crepe de Chine. A very novel waist is here illustrated made of folds of crepe de chine in Refurnishing. It ts often possible lu give an old tuck effect and trimmed with lace room a decided air of newness at a straps and a deep lace yoke. Black trifling expense by changing the sofa chiffon bands are very artistically dispillows and table covers. Denims and posed and a large rosette of the same aateena can be found In all colors, and is placed at the left side. The sleeves they are easily kept in order, as both are remarkable for their novelty and fabricB can be laundered. Ruffled oddity. All the stitching is done with sofa pillows are no longer deemed mo- Cortlcelli silk. dish. Heavy cords or bindings of the For shirt waists pongee Is especially name materials are now used. A clev- recommended and it is very fetching er woman desiring to freshen up her small living room, which lias plain green walls, lias made a slip cover for her lounge of yellow sateen. The pillows which rest upon it are covered with the same fabric and are with an over design of green linen. A cover for a table is treated in the Bame manner. HOME AND FASHIONS. ' auffl-oleutl- y de sole with white Chantilly applications. The green velvet was mixed in the lace applications and the list that went with the frock was a toque of white roBes and foliage about a crown of silver sequins. That the on yioiiHsellne frock was mounted white goes without Baying, for a black transparency on black seems far from a popular notion JubI now and scouted by even tho moat Berlous-mlnde- d Lovely Summer Frock. A cambric is very smart, the front panel entirely covered by a fine trellis work of lace, the rest of the skirt striped irregularly with a narrow diamond-shapetrimming of lace and embroidery to correspond. The pouched bodice adorned In the name style has a deep collar of embroidered lawn and lace attached by a cravat of white Bilk embroidered with e blue. A picture hat of crin, trimmed with pink rosea, la worn with this lovely summer frock. sky-blu- e d pale-blu- New Features In Tailor-madeThe material for this handsome street costume is a fancy suiting, but s. It will also be quite chic If developed of smooth finished cloth. Some of the newest features in the basque or skirt as well as the broad shoulder effect, are combined in this tailor-made- ery, or over a color with a heavy laca The material is particularly yoke. suitable for the Gibson and Duches waists, the former giving the effect so much sought after Just now, In the shape of folds or tucks extending over the shoulder, the latter fastening under a double fly and showing fronts richly embroidered with Cortlcelli wash embroidery silk. The favored color in pongee is the natural ecru tint, although It can also be procured In different shades. Mercerized fabrics of all kinds will bo extensively worn, the process having been vastly Improved since It was first brought upon the market, and all aorta of silk and linen mixtures are greatly In vogue. New and Effective Idea. A dainty fine white voile has the simulated top skirt arranged In seta of upright tucks, finishing in deep points edged with a band of glace ilk attached by an entre deux of allk stitching. Pointed flounces beneath It form a becoming fullness at the base, and the plaited bolero bodice Is sufficiently short to show a full soft shirt of tucked mousseline; the deep tinted lace collar Is threaded with brown velvet and touched with threads of gold, the smart little cravat of white silk embroidered with brown, and the folded waist belt of silk forms the necessary little tails at the back Worn with this costume Is a hat of ecru straw draped with white and brown tulle, a long white ostrich plume wreathing one side. broad-shouldere- globe-trotter- For Wear on the Veranda. The new coquette wrap" or "Monte Carlo coat," so popular for veranda wear, will in almost every Instance be supplemented by a large collar of lace or of silk trimmed with lace, and an additional decoration will be achieved by long ties of rlbimn or of silk cut bias and plaited with the ends slantsmart gown. The long rolling collar ing and finished with a fine Bilk fringe and the straps over the shoulder and or dangling ornaments of braid or around the bottom of the skirt are of enamel. moire. The rovers and the extension For Little Folks. vest are of white moire stitched with Leghorn hats are the children's speaeveral rows of CortU-Hlsilk; small buttons are set down the center of cial property. Thin sheer dresses have the broad the vest as well as on the fronts, and full of are buttons yoke ruffle. clusters placed on the The pretty mother hubbard styles shoulder straps and sleeves. The latare again in favor. a ter are juito novel, the fitted Garlands of bright posies and grassof moire being completed with doth oversleeves flaring at the bot- es trim the large hats. tom. The skirt la laid In wide tucks Simple muslin hatR with ruffled and spreads out into a very full flare brims are becoming to little faces. at the hem. Embroidery and lace guimpes are As the season advances the prefer especially pretty with the darker waBh ear for mixed or fancy suitings be gowns. under-sleeve- b Mr Hlh In ths apace of sky Reign Inaccaaaiblo Kate; Yield aha to prayer or to cry? Anawera ahe early or late? Change and rebirth and decay, Dawning and darkneea and light Creature they are of a day. Lost In a pitiless night. Men are like children who play Unknown by an unknown Sea; Centuries vanish away; Hho alts the eternal She. Nny; but the Gods are afraid Of the hoary Mother's noil; They are of things that are made. She waits the eternal She. They have seen dynasties fall In ruin of what hns been; Her no upheavals appall Silent, unmoved and serene. Yes, yes, lady! I'm thinking It waa the time Daylla died. She took a hard cold and died, Daylla did, and BY JAMES W. KILBURN. a good riddance she was! Manys (Copyright, 1MI, by Dally Story Pub. Co ) the time Ive s&ld to her, Daylla, It was yellowing fall weather when mend your ways! But, tclik! Theres I came upon the camp, flanked by a no use talking to such cattle! Tchk, cornfield, a woman, whom I had seen lady, you can't tell em! She was a npon the road, aat on a stump smok- bad lot!" Yet she was a good mother, I ing. A red shawl was knotted under her arms and earrings protruded from said. her head handkerchief. She knocked Ay, lady, she Lad a boy, maybe the ashes from her pipe, but her eyes you mind him, Daylla's boy? set deep In a worn face looked Yes, he was a beautiful youth. only at the blue line of mountains be- What became of him when she died? hind me. I sat upon another stump, He went far away, and was well and presently she said: rid of her. Im thinking! "Then you never saw him after"Will tbe lady have her fortune told? ward? I persisted. Sb floundered "The last one you told me did not slightly. come true, I replied, and was reOh, yes, lady, he come to be a warded by seeing that pipe removed fine man, he did. The finest you ever with as much surprise as Is compat- seen! And to think you- mind the ible with one of her stamp. Her ejta boy! were now dark wells, to be fathomed It was needless to look at her to know the Intense, pent eagerness of by no light plummet. Tls not always a poor gypsys every line, as she leaned forward, with a hand upon the stump and her fault, she said. You told me I should cross the eyes devouring my face. He had curly hair and beautiful water and marry a dark man, and Ive lone neither. eyes, I said. "There is water still there, lady, Ay, twas surely him, she breathed. and the dark men are not all dead! But I thought him disrespectful to Twas at Tivoli Fair I proceeded, "the day the lion got loose and the Daylla, and I feared that he would keeper was hart" I paused, remem- break her heart some day. She was bering all that the day had involved. so good to him. There had been robbery and arrest, My companion glanced nervously and it was said that the gypsies were over her shoulder, and replaced the The incident had been pipe, with an assumption of bravado. Implicated. forgotten, but not the personality of No, no, lady, sho died easy, Daylla the woman who had interested me. did. He was well rid of her, too. He Suddenly the name came to me, giv- was a fine lad, I tell you! I arose and said that I was sorry en by the woman at Tivoli. "Daylla Herne! Dont you remem- not to learn more about Daylla. There was trouble at the Fair that ber me, Daylla? And the talk we had? There was a tense contraction day," I added, and I feared her son She was on of the whole figure, as though some might have been In it. wild, secret thing were roughly awak- her feet with a spring. Who dared tell the lady that lie? ened from under the frozen coverlid It's a lie, a black lie! The boy warn't of winter. "Twas not I," she said lmpurturb-ably- . there! You tell 'em who says It they I never saw Tivoli Fair In all lies, lady! Daylla's boy warn't there! my mortal life. Some other gypsy, Her voice raised, and suddenly the lady! But 1 can tell the lady a better tent flap lifted and a young man came He showed the remains of fortune nor that! Knowing that out. directness is not the route by which beauty, but his face was now sodden such creatures arrive I said: Per- with drunken sleep. Shut up.there! he called, tell the haps so, but I should like to find Daylla Herne again. Have you ever lady's fortune, cant you? Dont mind heard of her?" her, lady, shes a fool!" She knocked the ashes from her Ay, Im JiiRt a fool, dont mind me, the gypsy tell the ladys and lady! defenpipe through the veil of fortune," she repeated, her gaze following him. Maybe you havent a 6 coat now, lady? Theres them thatll want coats over bail this year. No, the coat was for Daylla's boy," I said, as I left her. I took the road skirted by a woods, and presently there came a crackling of underbrush, the red shawl of the gypsy broke through the leaves, and she stood panting beside me. Hold on, lady, stop a bit! she said, with a band on her heart Lady, If I tell you true where Daylla went afore she she died, mebby you can get me a man's coat, too. It'll be cold after awhile, and theres them that'll need it bad! Tell me all about Daylia Herne, I said. She lowered her voice and came nearer. "Twas this way, lady, and you tell It straight to them as said Daylla's boy was there when the robbing was done at Tivoli. He hadn't a mortal thing to do with it, Daylla done It herself! But Daylla, she got caught and locked up for five yean for It, and no more'n she ought tove got Thats "Will the lady have her fortune told?" why she didn't come for the coat, she aiveneas there seemed to leap a gieaui was locked up in Jail, lady, see? of longing, the longing of an alien to Perhaps there is a mystery In the air of autumn. At any rate I felt It touch once more the beloved toil. I've seen her, lady. Oh, yea! A I could not then aver that this woman was Daylla Herne, therefore I told bad lot, ahe was! I should like to know wbat became her I should have a coat ready for of her," 1 persisted. her the nezt day if she would come "Hard to tell what becomes of the after It. But the next day she did not aplikes of her!" Do you know where Daylla west pear. The young woman I had seen in the ramp came, ho.vevor, and ask after Tivoli Fair?" 1 asked. The Lady of the Valley. d New Way to Serve Asparagus. One of these who Is fond of good living, has just returned, and Is bubbling over with culinary secrets discovered in many lands. Fox one thing, she has a new way of cooking asparagus, which she says Is delicious, and which, at any rate, la a change from the method now in vogue in the average nouschold. This ah picked up In Poland. Fl le Poles, she says, boil the stalks as we do, but when placed on the plate ready to be served, crumbs of toast that have been soaked In butter are sprinkled over the green ends of tho vegetables. Over this the melted butter is poured. The toast crumbs are an appetizing variety to the dish. i FA TE. Silent, unmoved and serene Reigns In a world uncreate, Eldest of (hid and their Queen, Featureless, passionate Fate. -- W. 1j. C. In The Fortnightly Interview. Mantillas Are Coming. For the moment they are not warm, but in the near future we shall see much of etamine or batiste mantillas In abadea of ecru or yellow occupying a place among Bummer garments. The shape will bo that of a very small round cape with very long, broad ends in front. As a garniture of these will necessarily be a mass of frilllnga and ruchlnga of lace, embroidery, and mouaseline de sole in the same shades, they will constitute dressy and light little garments very acceptable both for town and during the hot Beanon in fashionable resorts, or at the seaside. When lining is required it will be in white or Green and Black and White. Green was most effectively used the other day on a frock of black mousse-lin- e n U ed If 1 were the lady woo had promised the old woman a coat Because she wont die easy till aha gets It, lady." said she. I offered to accompany her back to the camp and take the coat We hastened by way of the cornfield, and when we reached the woods, an old man came out of the tent, smoking. She's gone, he said, with a backward jerk of the thumb. The young woman took her baby from the wagon where it lay whimpering, and followed me Into the tent A figure lay upon a straw pallet, under a ragged cover, and the face, now stripped of years by deaths serenity, awakened my memory unmistakably. Where is Dayllas son?" I asked, suddenly. The young woman started and Blared at me. La, lady, howd you ever know her?" she said. I explained to her, and while walking the baby back and forth, she said: It cant do her no harm now, nor him neither. She waa so fierce about being known lest the law'd get him. The law don't want to be bothered with Jack Herne no moren we do, I guess. He was around here yesterday getting all he could out of her; 'twas him made her heart get so bad. She coat that for wanted him. You see, Daylla was sort of cousin to pap, and ahe come and nursed ua all through fever last year. Oh, he waa the good sort! But a fool about that there son of hera. My man drove him off last night and told him If he ever shows his face here again well give him up for the robbing at Tivoli Fair that time. Did you mind that time, lady? Twas the time he loosed the lions and got up a robbery, all hlmBelf. Oh, he waa a whelp! And Daylia Herne, ahe got him away and let herself be caught, vowing shed done It, and got herself locked up for five years for It Daylla Herne locked up five mortal years for stealing, and pap, he's known her to keep a whole camp straight In her time by being so straight herself. Why, ahe hated stealing like sin, and wouldn't eat stole food, Daylia wouldn't Since she come out of jail shes hid away. - I-- et Wheres Daylla's son?" I asked sud- denly. feared lest she'd disgrace him Daylia Herne disgrace the Ukea of him I Afterwards I went my way marveling over the mysteries that are held from our solving especially the divine and tragic mystery of motherhood. HER IDEA OF CHAMOIS. Servant Used Dinnar Material with Which to Wash Windows. doctor In Germantown who la bUBy telling a little Joke on himself, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. It appears that he employed an Irish servant, who had Just arrived from the ould sod." Starting out one morning, he noticed hla office windows were rather dirty, and calling Bridget he Instructed her to clean them before he returned. At tho same time he told hor that he would stop and purchase a new chamois skin and send it home, and with this she was to clean the windows. After he had gone hla rounds he returned to hia office. Glancing at the windows he found them thickly streaked with grease. He called Bridget, and the following coloquy took place: Bridget, didnt I tell you to clean the windows?" Yea, aor." "And didn't I tell you to use tho new chamois?" Yes, aor." Well, did you us It?" There la a prominent Sure, I did, sor. Let me see the chamois, said doctor, and Bridget promptly brought it. Then for the first time ho learned that hla wife had left the houae a half hour before he did In the morning and had sent home some tripe. The doctor decline to say what happened to the chamois skin. tho |