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Show ! Woman's World. z:,7. Specially Prepared for Our Feminine Readers. Her SpelL What's your spell of subtle art, Lady, thus U win our hi-arf.' I? it that your fact- is fair. Your manners soft as summer air? Is it iliat your voice's tone lias a i-veetness all its own? Is it thnt your gentle mind Knows no thought that is unkir.dT I Is it that each living thing Moves your heart to pitying? Is it ihfit each flower that blows Y'ou for Nature's lover knows? Ts it that within your eyes Much of quiet susdom lies? i l Tell me. lady, what the spell Vins "s thus to iove you well? ! Fashion Pointers From Paris. Here is a brief resume of what will be worn in the capital of fashion this v inter. The winter coats will bo long and have pockets on both sides, the" most popular color being tobacco brown. All Raiments will fit more looselv than at present, with a tendency' ten-dency' to fulness. A great many fancy buttons and little ornaments will tie used on dresses. Sleeves will be somewhat some-what plainer, and almost all the new-skirts new-skirts trimmed in some way or other. Dressv waists will have bolero fronts, and black velvet belts will be much in vogue. All belts are to be worn full 1n front, the idea beir.R to make the waist as long as possible. On the autumn au-tumn hats velvet is combined with tulles, and gauzes and delicate lacs. The new hats are all fiat, and are worn over the forehead. Havana brown ; with preen, dark preen with black, and reseda preen with black, Havana ' find pray, preen with gray and silver, ' blaek with gold, and Havana brown I with peacock shades, are some of the new- colors and combinations. The October Ladies' Home Journal. Shape of Skirts Unchanged. Skirts, always an important point in. fashion, are really very little changed. If vou examine the new models care- . fully you find just, a suggestion of mo'o fullness around the hips, but this is after all the exception and not the rule, for there are quite as many close - fitting skirts as ever. One pretty cloth model is in box plaits an inch and a half wide all around, and stitched ; down fiat to the ,knee. Another most ' gracefully hanging skirt is in many J narrow gores shaping out in a pretty i flare around the feet and fitting the i hips perfectly without an extra inch of J material except directly at the back, t- where the inserted plaits are stitched t down a few inches from the waist line. ' All the seams are lapped and stitched down in a way to give them the ap- i pearance of plaits. t I Toreador Hat. f The toreador hat has been revived I for traveling, but it shows very little ; trimming, indeed: in fact, nothing more than a rosette of very soft satin and a couple of xiuills. This shape is not uni-1 uni-1 versally becoming, but it is smart when properly adjusted. The newest toque of all appears to be a plateau shape folded in two, the principal trimming, generally a. wreath of flowers, veiled in tulle, being found between the two : brims, with a. bow of velvet ribbon -at i the back resting on the hair. The ordinary or-dinary plateau shape continues as popular pop-ular as ever. ' Red a Prevailing Color. Red is a prevailing color in the autumn au-tumn street frocks and no woman can breathe easily at the present moment unless she owns a red hat. Hats of soft shaggy red felt are trimmed with p.mne velvet, glowing velvet, roses shhdmg from brightest scarlet to a j crimson so deep that it is almost black, Scarlet geraniums are favored, too, and red dahlias are used with good effect. ef-fect. Artificial autumn leaves and berries ber-ries are successfully introduced, not r orly upon thee red hats, but also I upon other hats more sombre. !A Chic Tailor Gown.. For the woman who can w&ar it, nothing in the shape of a fall tailor I suit is sweller than the perfectly se- ven- long skirted cutaway jacket and j pii.in gored skirt, worn with an elab- i orate waistcoat. A costume made upon I ; this model, and which is particularly ! chic, is of rough black and white goods and absolutely- untrimmed, save for old silver buttons. With it is a dcuble breasted waistcoat of, very j heavy raw silk, embroidered all over in dull blues, rose, greens and silver. ' The waistcoat, fastens with silver but- j tens, matching those on the coat, but ' smaller. A Relic of Savage Vanity. A French savant is protesting vigorously vigor-ously against the practice among civilized civil-ized women of wearing earrings. He pronouni.es it not only a relic of barbarism, bar-barism, extraordinary and incongruous at this stage of the world's progress, but remarkable besides, in the light of our improved sanitary knowledge. Kvcry wound, or even abrasion, of the skin is a danger spot, thoroughly understood un-derstood in there days of germs and microbes, and wanton laceration of a i healthy part of the Body for the display dis-play of gold and jewels is a relic of savage vanity which the modern woman wom-an should be ashamed of.--It may be added, for the sa ant's enlightenment, that the. custmi is by no-m.eans .so prevalent as formerly. Comparatively few mothers .nowadays, even those whose ears bear the traces of the puncturing, punc-turing, needle, consent, to the opera -. - . " for their daughters, and still few er daughters suggest or desire it. j I How to Keep Young. I The surest way to- keep young is to preserve your interest in people and in things. Are modern women more j keenly interested in their lives than ! modern men are in theid lives than the secret of their remarkable yout'i-fulness? yout'i-fulness? Certainly woman's life "is perpetually per-petually becoming more varied, more full. She does a thousand things now that she used to leave undone. Both in work and in play she has a far better time. Perhaps that is why she is getting get-ting so preposterously young. She is gazing towards the horizon of time and watching the far-ofT figures of cuming joys against a sky in which Hierc are not so many clouds as there used to be. Her youth should put man on his mettle. With her beside him. he ought to be ashamed to look careworn, to boeonia fat, or bald, or fretful. I-et him imitate woman, and soon we shall have found the philosopher's stone. We shall be w hat we feel, and we shall feel always say. 22. I Side Combs Out of Style. There is cause for rejoicing upon the decrease in the vogrue for sidecombs. Nowadays, it is almost as bad taste to be seen with one of these articles in the hair, as it was. a short time ago, to be seen without them. Never was , there a' more striking example of what i 11"' abuse of a fashion mav accom- plish. In itsHf. and of itself a pair I to each head the sidecomb is an ex- - Iremely useful article. I lis well nigh I indispensable to women with locks in- I , dined to straightness. p,ut when it ' comes to a dozen sidecombs to a head ftuk in anywhere and anyhow, and ! ? "with no regard either for utility or I decoration, the effect is absurd. The ; j Pidecomb is almost as extinct now- i I adays as the pompadour. j "Watch Fobs for Ladies. ! , Vhs for the watch are in fashion ; ' sgain for women, and they are worn tucked throiich th M jj tti old devices which the jeweler can invent are wrought out in these little fancies, every sort of fancy stone, as well as valuable gems, being used in the varied designs, while for riding there is a leather fob with a fancy monogram for ornament. , If You Want to Be Loved. Don't find fault. Don't believe all the evil you hear. Don't jeer at everybody's religious beliefs. Don't be rude to your inferiors in social position. Don't repeat gossip, even if it does interest a crowd. Don't u.Jerrate anything because j you don't possess It. j Don't go untidy on the plea that; everybody knows you. 1 Don't contradict peoplp. even if "you are sure you are right. Don't conclude that you have never had any opportunities in life. Don't believe that everyone else in the world is happier than you. Don't be inquisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friends. Don't get into the habit of vulgarizing vulgariz-ing life by making light of the senti-I senti-I ment of it. Sick Calls. Only call at the door unless you are sure your friend is able to see vou without harm. Enter and leave the house and move about the sick room quietly. Carry a cheerful face. Speak cheer-f;C cheer-f;C pleasant words. In order to cheer, you need tell no lies. If your friend is very ill, do not fall into gay or careless talk in the attempt at-tempt to be cheerful. Don't ask questions, thus obliging your friend to talk. Talk about something outside and not about the disease and the circum stances or tne patient. If possible, take something with you to please the eye and relieve the monotony mo-notony of the sick room a flower or even a picture which you can loan for a few days. If desirable, some little delicacy to tempt the appetite will be well" bestowed. be-stowed. Stay only a moment, or a few min. utes at the longest, unless you can be of some help. "When Girls Should Marry. A girl should marry when she is capable of understanding and fulfilling the duties of a true wife and thorough housekeeper, and never before. No matter how old she may be, if she is not capable of managing a house in every department of it. she is not old enough to get married. No matter how-plain how-plain the home may be, if it is neatly I kept and the meals (no matter how simple) served from shining dishes and clean tble linen, the husband will leave his home with loving words and thoughts and look ahead with eagerness eager-ness to the time when he can return. Let a girl play the piano and acquire every other accomplishment within her power, the more the better, for each one will be that much more power to be used in making a happy home. At the same time, if she cannot go into the kitchen." if necessary, and prepare a good meal, and serve it after it is prepared, pre-pared, she had better defer her marriage mar-riage until she learns. If girls would thoroughly fit themselves for the position posi-tion of intelligent housekeeping before they marry, there would be fewer discontented, dis-contented, unhappy wives and more happy homes. Popular Fashions. A Girl's Allowance. Modern life that helps to make a girl self-reliant and independent, if necessary, is the life into which all girls are educated for the most part. To this end. the school girl's allowance allow-ance has reference. Many mothers see fit to begin in this way, giving a daughter an allowance from which to purchase shoes, gloves and ribbons. These may be made to cost a good deal of money, but if care is taken in choosing them there is no reason why they should be so expensive. It is never nev-er too soon for a girl to know how to manage her own spending money. One of the best things is to have her begin with an allowance for these same articles. arti-cles. In wearing ribbons around the throat and waist, as is now the fashion, fash-ion, of course a good deal of material can be done away with, especially if a girl is at all careless: but if she has to buy her own ribbons she will soon learn to be a little more careful and to buy Judiciously. Five dollars a month is a liberal allowance for gloves and ribbons, end even shoes can. with economy, econ-omy, be bought out of this, although shoes are now expensive. It is not necessary nec-essary to buy shoes every month, so some months there will be left So for ribbons .and gloves alone. Half that sum has been found possible for a girl to get along with and lo.i very well, and. at the sanje time she is learning habits of economy. t . |