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Show Woman's World. 'ZZ', I Special!' Prepared for Our Feminine Headers. I ADVANCED TELEPHONE GIRL. (A movement lins br.-n inaugurated to Five the t.lcplK.no tit-Is instructions in elocution. Current News Item.) The hello nivU will study li.,w fi best i f'imil( i:lt . And sunn they'll luivi- ;i morning test to K'-t tln-ir tMlk 1.11 sir.tijrhi: we'll try to cull the men mun up. when lc in jcccnts li;ir. We'll hear some hatiKlit v tnai.l upbraid poor 'Jiily Vere do rc" ; And when The bell out of fix the hello jrirl f-o bright Will sweetly tell us that the '-Curfew Shall Not King Tonight."" (The hello girl, in weary tones, no longer will complain: "I fcaid the line was busy now. please ring us up again." Ah. rir'- in limpid accents she will hope- , fully reply: "We'll sort the ones we knew so well pome sweet day. hyp and bve." And when the wires are crossed, and she ; " is puzzled which Is which. She'll softly read the thrilling; lines of : "At the Misplaced Switch. " The hello girl will practice now until her voice is preat; :' Shell arpue Patrick Henrv-like when patrons would debate: Shell Kje us Shakespeare. Kiplinp. 1 Moore, ami mavbe lines from Hood; I On Sundays she ll read Beecher s word to ! make the sr ice good; I A'lfl w hen her hip diploma conies, to. It I she will be true. I And never shout "Hello:" apain. but sav I "How do you do?" I Josh Wink in Baltimore American. A SEASON OF FURS. Dame Fashion's Decree. Regardless ol the Weather Prophet. This is to be a season of furs, and without regard to the prediction of any weather prophet. Fur coats and i wraps, fur-lined garments, suitable for the coldest climate, are to be fashionable, fashion-able, w hile such variety of trimmings of fur and fur neckwear was surely never seen before. Sable is still the most fashionable of all furs, and the more expensive it is the more fashionable. fash-ionable. It is used, too, in the most casual way, to trim cloth coats that certainly are not in any sense of the 1 v.ord expensive evening wraps. The - i , hih collars of sable are made of real- I 1 ly most marvellous specimens. I 11 is no longer fashionable to wear I ' - the full hiph ruffs, for all neckwear I must be low and flat. Boas and col- 1 , 1;1,s are cut rather differently from last I season: the long ends are in style, and J ;l Jabot of yellow lace adds greatly, to I 'he effect. The boas of the long-ha"ired I ,urs a''1 very much in demand, but I hey, too. show this change of stvle, If fr lhey are not so thick as formerly f at the back of the neck. I Krmlnc Is used more for trimming I house gowns than for street gowns, but , it is also used in revers. facings and collars. Young girls wear the white 1 und gray fox. but older women look I much better with the dark furs sprin- i kled with white. First and foremost f conies the sable, then mink. Lynx and I fx are worn with mourning, and also with dark cloth street gowns, and are becoming In effect, but sadly fragile. Persian lamb and astrakhan are popular, popu-lar, and the astrakhan coats are very-smart. very-smart. Sealskin jackets are expensive enough to please the most extravagant, extrava-gant, but. oddly enough, have not succeeded suc-ceeded in outsing the Persian lamb jackets from their position as the smartest of all fur coats. These last ; are made in a. number of different styles, all more or less elaborate. In-i In-i deed, it is rather difficult to find many that are not conspicuous: but let it be remembered by the womanly ho would he well dressed that conspicuous effects ef-fects are to be avoided, for there is slowly but surely growing a belief in I , : the idea that a lady should never cause J herself to be conspicuous in public by ! 1 the eccentric appearance of her I clothes. I What to Wear This Winter, j A ( harming new wrap is a Russian 1 f . Mouse made of shaggy material to j wear with a short skirt. I ' Trimmings of heavv braid anJ e-al- 1 loop will be worn more than ever be- I f fore. f ilrcen is the favorite color of the ; sen -son. the more subdued shades pre- vailing. I Black silk waists, to he worn with ! odd skirts of black .serge, cloth or ! cheviot, are much in vogue. For evening wear nothing is more popular than black net or mousseline , I over black or white silk. The new flannel waists have flat but tons and long-waisted pouch fronts. Small metal buttons are much used for trimming dresses this autumn, i The pagoda sleeve is the latest thing , in Paris. It is small at the top and widens toward the bottom, where it bei-anies fiuite large. Some of the newest things in furs are long stoles, or little round collars with long tabs. Little tight-fitting fur coats are also popular November Ladies' Home Journal. Short Skirts. The woman who believes that .good taste in dress depends as much upon its conformity to occasion as to fashion fash-ion will never be without a well-tailored short skirt in her wardrobe. She will wear it for shopping. Cor traveling and if she is ;t -woman engaged in business busi-ness she will wear it always in business busi-ness hours. It is uncleanly, if nothing noth-ing more, to allow a dress to drag over ' - ' pavements anil in stores, and both ungraceful un-graceful and difficult to hold up. The trailing tailor-made skirt is an important im-portant feature of every woman's wardrobe, but it is reserved for calling, the club and the matinee. The richer costumes are of smooth-faced cloths. Brown and black will be seen most frequently on the street, though green and blue are used to some extent. Helen Marshall in the November Woman's Wo-man's Home Companion, i PERSONAL NEATNESS. I Even Homely Girls Can be Radiantly and Beautifully Clean. (lirls should try to live up to George Kliot's quotation. "The Beauty of a Lovely Woman is Like Music." In a lllorist's shop the other day two women were noticed choosing llowers to send to a house of death, and "this card." said one of them, "goes with the box." She glanced as she spoke at the card which she held in her hand then hastily withdrew it and searched in her pocketbook for another. "There was a touch of soil on the card." she explained to her friend, as they turned a war, "and do you know Kstelle w as so exquisitely dainty that one could not associate with her the slightest thought of blemish. When 1 saw the trifling spot on my card. J felt at once that It would have offended her in life. and must not be near her in death." This chance glimpse of an unknown life that has closed impressed the listener lis-tener anew with permanent and radiating radi-ating charm of perfect neatness. In a ; sentence a personality which had em- ( bodied it had been revealed as com- i pletely as If the dead woman had been a life-long friend, and its unconscious ! ; influence again emphasized. The old i ' axioms that bracket neatness with re- j ligion are a recognition of almost di- i i vine charm. Cleanliness is next to god- liness; order is heaven's first law; these i are not chance sayings. They carry a deep truth by which we should all ! - ; profit. If neatness is admirable in any one, f 1o the girl and young woman it is in- f I dispensable. The fairness of youth, ' r V - X ,v particularly feminine youth, attracts every ey.-. When the fairness is dimmed by mussy hair, uncared-for teeth or nails, a skin that shows that ten minutes in the bath is not a part of the daily routine, it is as if the perfection per-fection of a line picture were clouded with spots and blemishes. i Not ;il girls can be beautiful, but every girl can be radiantly and exquisitely ex-quisitely clean. This means, first, absolute ab-solute bodily cleanliness, only possible with a daily bath, frequent washings of the hair, constant care of the nails atnl teeth, and, after that, clean, carefully care-fully brushed and aften renewed clothing. cloth-ing. A pitfall of the moment to careless care-less girls is found In the little neckbands neck-bands now enjoying such wide vogue. They developed to protect delicate rib-lxms rib-lxms and chiffons from too soon soiling, soil-ing, it seems likely that something will have to be devised to protect these, in turn, from loo long wearing. Mussy. rumpled ties, vest fronts, bodices and finery of any sort are an abomination and should not be permitted in these days of easy renovation or replacement. replace-ment. ;iris may take a lesson in this regard from the other sex. "As neat as a man" is a frequently heard expression, j and woman should not blush to admit that man's reading of neatness should be finer than hers. Yet a few hours is the accepted masculine wear of a shirt and collar, and his clothinir is so con stantly brushed and sponged and pressed that at every street corner there are caterers to his trade. The , habits of neatness should extend to this care of belongings as well as to their wear. Articles that are carefull put away in protecting receptacles after any removable dust is brushed or shaken off, not only last much longer, but at all times make a much fresher appearance. If girls could once fully appreciate the almost dazzling enchantment of their natural charm which is produced by radiant, fragrant neatness, they would fairly walk with peas in their shqes to secure it if it could not be obtained in any other way. And, here, while on the subject, is a suggestion for the care of the teeth and mouth. Nothing is better in the way of preservative for the teeth and preventive of disagreeable consequences conse-quences in the mouth than bicarbonate of soda. Keep a jar of it on the toilet shelf, using a pinch in a third of a glas sof water morning and evening, with the toothbrush, and to rinse the mouth freely. This is the advice of a prominent New York dentist, who says that the wide use of this cheap and convenient article would almost drive his profession profes-sion out of business, for, he adds, "we dentists have about decided that an absolutely clean tooth structure cannot can-not decay." The soda, it may be added, is one of the best preventives of Riggs' disease, that serious complaint which is found, in embryo, at least, in almost every mouth. |