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Show SHE MADE GOOD. Daughter of Capitalist Something of a Financier Herself. A member of Vassar's graduation class, the daughter of a Chicago capitalist, cap-italist, is noted for her generosity and prodigal liberality. A short time ago her father, who is self-made, began to fear that his daughter did not appreciate appreci-ate the value of money. She promptly wrote demanding that her allowance be stopped and set to work more as a joke than for any other reason to see just how- much she could do for herself. She had spent several years in Europe -when a child, and spoke French and German with such ease, that she always elected a course in one or the other that might prove a rebate on study expended in other directions. Consequently she secured se-cured several patrons in the city whom she visited weekly to converse amiably and instructively with their children in whichever language they chose. At home she had an excellent French maid, whose operations she had often watched with interest. She put up a sign announcing,' "Shampoo at 25 cents,, manicuring at 15 cents; latest and most approved methods. Buy a book of tickets tick-ets and save money." She opened a bootblacking stand and impressed her lazy roommate into service. They who had formerly slept until getting any breakfast was a gamble now rose at dawn and disposed of long rows of boots. The girl's father, among other things, was an officer of an express company. Weekly her laundry was franked home that her dainty garments might not be ruined in the college laundry. She suggested sug-gested yet another industry. She became be-came a laundress of turn-overs and fine handkerchiefs. The 10-cent store furnished fur-nished the outfit at a price that would have delighted the Salvation Army, and she made enough out of itto pay her bill at the grocery store representing many a college spread. It happened to be near a basketball game. She rented a sewing machine and went into the. flag business, making 80 per cent on each pennant. At the end of the month she sent her father an account of her career, which so pleased that gentleman gentle-man he had just won a victory over his board of directors that he came on and took her and her friends to New-York, New-York, where the time of their lives was theirs for the asking. His alarms were so successfully quieted that he begged her to give up business for the present and let him support her until she finished fin-ished college. Public Opinion. The Linen Girl Put Together. The path of the embroideress who "would accomplish a complete linen outfit out-fit is just now easier than that of the expert Needlewoman. She can buy stamped linen shirt waists for $2.50, which, made up and embroidered, come at $18 or $20. Dickies accompanied by sailor collars come already cut and stamped for 75 cents. Hat crowns and brims, from 50r cents to a dollar, and. belts ready stamped are about 35 cents, while the same thing already lined and embroidered is still held as high as $1.50. Linen boleros are stamped in dots, all over and with scalloped edges to be buttonholed. Parasol covers both seamed and round came stamp'ed for both eyelet and French embroidery. The hats are made over wire frames lined with Val. lace, and trimmed in flowers. A centerpiece can he utilized, for a hat by replacing the 6rown with a little larger piece of linen than the one which is cut out of the center. A good idea is tb starch the brinis to these hats as stiff as possible before making up. For the woman who does not understand the mysteries of "eyelet" "eye-let" a-good point to remember is that the larger holes are cut with the scissors. scis-sors. Two intersecting lines are cut through the center after running the circle around with needle and thread just outside the - stamped line. The corners that are formed by the cuts' are then rolled back with the needle before the over and over work is begun. In making up goods that is not already stamped, it is not difficult to draw the pattern for one's self by using dots, circles, lines, daisies, ovals, or any of the simple little figures that are known as "repeats." - The French embroidery, which . is over and over, is used for all solid work and is also used in working with linen floss on the fine handkerchief linens. Sometimes both English and French . embroidery are seen, on the same gown, and an ' elaborate French importation seen the other da.y not only had both, but was filled in with tiny hand run tucks, and put together with linen lace. v The handkerchief linen for making these gowns comes at $2 a yard in thirty-four-inch goods, although there are several qualities down to 50 cents. "Robes" of this handkerchief linen can now be bought in which. the hand tucking is already done, and which are also finished with hems and insertions of Val. lace, but in which the former machine work is replaced re-placed by stamping, which can be done at home, by hand. For a plain linen skirt a good idea is to buy one of the exceedingly well cut and well fitted kind at $5, and to stamp a pattern on it for French embroidery. The shoes to match colored costumes are more and more in demand. Buckskin Buck-skin shoes come at $S a pair, and of the suede and canvas substitutes canvas can-vas is best, for it is cheaper to have cleaned. The shoemaker's orders attest at-test that women are crazy for spats or gaiters, rather which can be made of the linen fron one's own gown for $2.95. And, though they are, particularly particu-larly smart on some people, la necessary, neces-sary, and warning woru is, "Fat-ankled women,, please do not copy." One of the newest fads in things that match is the little glove handkerchief which conies lace trimmed and in colors. . Don'ts for Business Girls. . Don't be lafe at your work and then expect consideration because you' are a young lady. Don't expect to be treated as if you Mere in society. You are probably doing do-ing the work that was done formerly I by a man. and if in small ways you are j not considered as much as you are at j home, remember that you are in business. busi-ness. ' I Don't have your friends come in to j see you during business hours. , Don't let your friends ring you up at i the office, even In the lunch hour. Don't complain constantly about your work, ft your work is not congenial con-genial to you. make up your mind to get some other employment, but don't , whine. That never helped any one. j Etiquette of Mourning. j ;ood "taste, which governs etiquette' to a great degree, would assuredly sug- I gest that one who is dressed in th ' heavy black of deep mourning, should not attend public places of amusement. It is true that to those who really do not care for anything- outside of their own pleasure, life seems all too short to devote many days, much less years, to the memory of their dead. It is bet ter, unless the mourning be real, to not assume it a t all. Better "to not clothe the bodv in its habiliments than to wear them while the spirit longs for gayety. If black is not worn, or rather the deep, .combre crape that denotes the loss of some one presumably near and dear, there can be no u.uestion of decorum de-corum or its lack. But to see a woman with streamers of crape and deep-bordered handkerchief dancing merrily or enjoying an uproarious farce, is incongruous, incon-gruous, t say the least. Very maiiv good people object to mmirnms;. - The ' opinions of such aro entitled to respect. They are left at perfect liberty to do as they please. It is only when the thoughtless forget that certain rules of society must not be violated, if they wish to be considered consid-ered well bred, that laws of any kind are necessary to settle the questions of time, seclusion and the like for all concerned. con-cerned. ' Made With Raspberries. Raspberry Pudding. Sprinkle one cup sugar over one quart raspberries, mash and let them stand until the sugar is. dissolved, stirring and mashing the mixture occasionally. Squeeze it through a coarse cheesecloth. There should be about one cup of juice. Add boiling water to make one pin t of liquid, and put it on to boil. Wet three tablespoons table-spoons of cornstarch in . little cold water and stir it into the boiling syrup. Add a saltspoon of silt and cook ten minutes, stirring frequently. Beat the whites of three eggs stiff, but not quite dry, and stir them into the thickened syrup just before removing it from the fire. Turn it into a mold which has been wet in cold water and set it away in a cold place. Make a custard sauce with the yolks of the eggs and serve with it. , Raspberry Pie. Bake the two crusts with a mock filling of old linen. When ready to serve fill the undercrust with raspberries, sprinkle thickly with powdered pow-dered sugar, add about two tablespoons of thick cream, and cover with the top crust or with a meringue. Straw berries may be used in the same way. Raspberry '. .Preserve. Allow equal weight and sugar and fruit. Pick over fruit carefully and lay aside the largest and firmest berries. Mash the remainder remain-der and put on to boil for ten minutes, and then squeeze them through a cheesecloth: put this liquid on to boil with the sugar, remove the scum, then put in the whole berries; let them boil up once, skim them out into jars, filling nearly full. Boil the syrup down until there is about enough to fill the jars, then rut the berries back and boil up once more. Fill the "jars and seal quickly. Proper Breathing. The Japanese, although men of very small, stature, are among the strongest in the world. Any boy of 14 or 15 who will faithfully practice their system of producing strength will find himself, at-the at-the end of a few months, able to cope in feats of power with the average man of 25, and all this without the dangerous danger-ous practice of lifting very heavy Weights, says St. Nicholas. It should always be remembered that rest must be taken after each exercise. While resting try deep breathing. Stand erect, though not in a strained position, posi-tion, and at each breath draw the abdomen ab-domen in and throw the chest out. As the breath is exhaled, let the chest fall inward again, and the abdomen outward. out-ward. From twenty minutes to half an hour is a long enough time to devote , to jiu-jitsu and this includes the time spent in breathing during rests for deep, correct breathing is in itself one of the best exercises possible. In inhaling draw the breath through either the nostrils or the mouth, as preferred; pre-ferred; in exhaling, always let the breath escape through the mouth. |