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Show i l : I Woman's World, ' I Specially Prepared lor Our Feminine Headers, ' j JUST LIVE THY LIFE. i j " Just live thy life in full content. , ; Do all thy host with what is sent. ! Thou but receivest what was meant, 1 : Just live thy life. i j Just live thy life. Be not in fear. ! ' The strength of wrong shall disappear, I And.riRht is ever drawing near, j Just' live thy life. : ! Just live. thy life. Seem what thou art; f Kor frorri simplicity depart, 1 i And peace shall come upon thy heart. Just live thy lite. EVENING GOWNS. Si Lean Toward the Burne-Jones' Thing, ' Tempered y Common Sense. , l Catherine Reid, in the New Century, j after attending a performance given by j i Matthew Arnold in New York, writes: I noticed that the evening gowns I : were quite elaborate, with a strong leaning toward the Burne-Jones' thing, ; tempered by common sense, lit fact, i this leaning is too strong for most peo- pie to follow with great care, for there f , is nothing more dangei-ous . than to "' adorjt a picturesque style of dress with out sufficient "means to carry it out. ' The Empire style is making a. strong t light for supremacy, and certainly many beautiful gowns on that order f 5 have been turned out. The way in , which the gowns fall in lines from the i l shoulders to the hem if hem thiere is ;' . with the exaggerated long trained 6kirts, is very graceful. But these same ' .' i long lines, when the skirt is not prop-' prop-' orly curved in at th side seams, have ; no style whatever, uniess the wearer of the gown be endowed by nature with i a marvellous figure a fine carriage, and superbly modeled shoulders. Merely Mere-ly to take straight yards of heavy or tbln material, as thu- case may be, and ; hang it from the low-cut waist of an evening, gown does not insure that ; gown being in the least smart, even ; ' .when the material is of the richest. ' One gown that is very popular, and Is fine of the most expensive models of j the season, is made of crepe de chine in pale pink a transparent crepe de : chine put over a white satin princesse ; ! lining. The waist Itself is cut very low 1 ' off the shoulders, and in a point in the , back. The crepe de chine falls from that point, or rather, from the top of the w aist, to the, hem. of the skirt,..the skirt being certainly two and a. half yards long, in an unbroken line until it ' meets a succession of ruffles of chiffon edged with a curious gray lace. The gown is curved in, and yet seems to hang straight down. In front -there is a wide stole of the gray lace embroidered embroi-dered in gray pearls. A bolt starting from the front passes underneath this stole, goes up under the arms to just where the point of the waist ends at the shoulders, and there the ribbon is tied in a wide butterfly bow. fastened with a rhinestone buckle, and the ends of the ribbon a finger in width fall to the hem of the skirt. Over the top of the shoulders, and the front of the waist, and in little short caps, is a bol- - ; ' cro of grayish lace, which lies Hat ' against the skin. This costume is in tended for an evening gown, and yet is decidedly on the lines of a wrapper or tea gown. It is a very good instance of the eccentricity of the present fashions fash-ions for evening. There are some very handsome brocades, satins and embroidered em-broidered velvets for evening wear, the ' velvets with lace insertion and medallions; medal-lions; but the smartest gowns are of transparent materials. Lace preferably prefer-ably Chantilly in black over white or some light color, and with the most wonderful embroidery on the lace, s makes one of the favorite models of the year. The patern of the lace is a very fine . ; one, so there is nothing heavy-looking ' 1 ; about the gown. On this lace are 1 sewed bands of black satin or taffeta 1 silk, and at regular intervals on the ; silk bands are oblong squares of heavy embroidery in cut jet of the moFt. re- markable workmanship. i NEW OPERATIC STAR. i Miss Rose Cecelia Shay, an. Irish j' Catholic Girl of Cincinnati. ' A prima donna whose initial attempt. at grand opera has been signalized by i unusual success is Rose Cecelia Shay, i i daughter of Thomas F. Shay, the noted ! Cincinnati criminal lawyer who was ; at one time president of the Hamilton : county A. O. H. Miss Shay studied ; abroad, where she was for a time ; prima donna, of Uie Royal Opera com pany at Trieste. ' Six weeks ago she started out at the head of her own opera company, and everywhere she ! ' has appeared the critics have been unanimous in praise of her voice, ' which is a contralto of great purity and range. She also has wonderful dramatic ability, and with an attractive attrac-tive personality her continued success is assured. She delighted her audiences both at Cincinnati and Columbus, with her presentation of "Carmen," "II Trovatore" and Mascagni's master- piece, "CavaHora Rusticana." FEMININE HUMAN NATURE. Crowded Dry Goods Store is a Good Place to Study It. Marie Rideau in Boston Republic: ' 'A crowded dry goods store isn't a bad j place to study feminine human nature. "Women of all ages, races and classes of ' ' society stand elbow to elbow at the counters. Natural courtesy or innate 1 rudeness are apt to show up glaringly, and the fussy woman comes out strong in such a place. (living an order for ribbon bows, which, it chanced, it took half an hour to execute, I devoted that time to observing ob-serving my sisters as 1 sit huddled up on a stool while they pulled or pushed or patiently waited their turn to inter view the busy salesmen. Along came a little woman, who bustled bus-tled up to the counter with a big shop-ping shop-ping bag. For ten minutes the patient ; clerk pulled over shades and varying qualities of ribbons, but nothing V suited. Then of a sudden the customer remembered that she didn't know how-much how-much she wanted, and would have to go home and take measurements before be-fore purchasing. She smiled patronizingly patron-izingly on the saleswoman and said she would return and be sure and call for her. The saleswoman cast a discour-. discour-. ' aged look after her as she departed. "Do you haw many like her?" I asked. ' "Oh. yes," sh replied; "there are lots of them. She will come hack and look everything over again and then decide that, after a'l. she won't take any- thing just now, but will let it go until ' next week. That is the last I will ever see of her, probably. She will go somewhere else and do the same thing and it will be a week before she really buys her ribbon." Then arrived a ponderous old party ' In sable cape and geneva! magnificence. She had an expression as if she had 5 breakfasted upon vinegar. She nearly f . knocked me off my seat, and then : glared at me through a lorgnette ; (thouuh 1 wasn't two feet away) as if I had deeply offended her by daring j to be in her path. Throughout her . .'.; dealing her manner was so disagree- ; 1 i hle end overbearing I wondered that i I leswoman was a hie to be civil and attentive. As she left the counter her parting remark was: j -i 'ec,tnt you ,end the things as ordered. You people are verv unroll- I s able. 1 . The saleswoman flushed a little, but - '::" ?' V'' v made no reply beyond a pleasant bow toward the retiring dragon. "You will be surprised, perhaps, to know that she belongs to one of the oldest and bluest-blooded families in the city." ""Which leads one," I rejoined, "to recall the words in the old poem which state that " 'It isn't all in bringing Up, Let folks sy what they will; To silver scour a pewter cup it will be pewter still.'" Just then my bows came back. As the girl passed the purchase to me she asked appealingly: "Do you wonder that sometimes we saleswomen are tired and vexed and find' it hard to call up "a pleasant smile?" And having watched a half-hour of an eight-hour day, I was ready to say-that say-that I was not, emphatically. Next came a keen-eyed, sharp-faced little woman; she was hunting for bargains, bar-gains, and peered into all the boxes displaying short lengths, fene picked out a number with an eye to width and Quality. The store did not make much profit out of her purchases, but she knew what she wanted and got it without with-out fussing. An. ample, motherly woman came along. She announced that she wanted neck ribbons for Christmas gifts. She was shown the proper kinds, picked out a number, paid for them and departed with a kind word to the clerk. "She's a positive comforc," said the girl. "She, knows what she wants, and when she sees it buys it without changing 'her mind a dozen times. She always comes to the same clerks and has a smile of recognition for us. We are all glad to wait on her." A fat Jewess pushed two women aside" and- planted herself firmly at an advantageous point before the counter. She was shown some figured ribbons in gorgeous shades. She wanted the lowest low-est price on a purchase of six yards, and when she was told that it would have to be at the same rate as for "one sh. retired in disgust. A little girl trotted up with an air of great importance and responsibility. She wanted 3 cents' worth of baby ribbon rib-bon of a shade to look well on a light-haired light-haired doll. She had the doll with her, and as she was willing to trust to the saleswoman's taste in picking a becoming becom-ing color, the purchase was satisfactorily satisfactor-ily made and "even change" deposited. Tor the Girl With Straight Locks. Here are some new ideas in curling irons: A round stand of tin forms an apparatus ap-paratus to be used on a lamp chimney for heating a curling iron.' It is placed over the top of the chimney and has a hole in the center. ' through which the curling iron is dropped, sc that it comes in contact with the heat of the burner. This arrangement may also be utilized for heating water over a lamp, which is done by placing a small vessel on the support. A cylindrical tin box about two inches long constitutes in Itself a perfectly per-fectly equipped apparatus, including a bottle for the alcohol, the alcohol lamp and a stand on which the latter is placed while the curling irons are being be-ing heated. A curling iron of ordinary dimensions heats itself in a measure and commends com-mends itself at once to the girl of straight locks who travels. The iron is hollow and packed with asbestos. It is put into a receptacle containing "alcohol, "al-cohol, and this the iron readily absorbs. ab-sorbs. The curling iron is perforated with numerous small holes, and when the time comes to heat it. it is simply taken from its receptacle, a light ap- plied to the numerous small holes I which have absorbed the alcohol. When the curling iron Is heated the flame is extinguished, and it is in readiness to impart at once a wave to the straight locks. Women and the Wits. Love decreases when it ceases to Increase. In-crease. Chateaubriand. If women were humbler men would be honester. Vanbrugh. A woman's hopes are woven as sunbeams; sun-beams; a shadow annihilates them. George Eliot. Love is a bird that sings in the heart of a woman. Karr. A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts. George Eliot, A short absence quickens love, a long absence kills it. Mirabeau. Coquetry is the desire to please, without the want of love. Rochepedre. Men never are consoled for their first love nor women for their last. Weiss. One should choose a wife with the ears rather' than with the eyes. Pro- j verb. Consideration for woman is the measure meas-ure of a nation's progress in social life. Gregoire. Women especially are to be talked to as below- men and above children Chestrefield. It is born in maidens that they should wish to please everything that has eyes. Glenn. There are people who are almost in love, almost famous, and almost happy. De Krudener. The two pleasantest days of a woman are her marriage and the day of her funeral. Hipponax. Let a man pray that none of his womankind should form a just estimation estima-tion of him. |