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Show i h Woman's World. ST - I i Specially Prepared for Our Feminine Readers, . 1 .'!' I j AN OLD FASHIONED WOMAN. : ; .' . ; No clever, brilliant thinker she, ? AVith college record and degree; Fhe has nut known the paths of fame, The world has never heard her name, I She walks in old, long- trodden ways, . The valleys of the yesterdays. Home is her kingdom, love her dower ! She seeks no other wand of power. To make home sweet, brinp heaven near. To win a tmi!e and wipe a tear, j . And do her duty day by day j In her own quiet place and w7. Around her childish hearts are twined, i As round some reverend saint enshrined, ! And following- hers, the childish feet J Are led to ideals true and sweet, ' i And find all purity and Rood In her divinest motherhood. ' She keeps her faith unshadowed still fjod rules the world in good and ill: Men in her creed are brave and true, ; And women pure as pearls of dew. And life for her is high and f.Tand, By work and grand endeavor spanned. This sad old earth's a brighter place " All for the sunshine of her face; ler very smile a blessing- throws. And hearts are happier where she goes, A gentle, clear-eyed messenger. To wliisper love thank O.od for her. j L. M. Montgomery, j I FASHION HINTS. j Fads in Bows, Hats, and Advice on 1 I Stationery. Marie Rideau in Boston Republic: Have you seen the new Paris bow? It is quite the fad of the moment. It is made of the twofaced Mvet now so . popular. There are two upstanding , : loops, made of the velvet tightly twist ed, then there are two long tab-like ; ends. The whole thing is strongly sug- I gestive of the four-in-hand. The ends ; are cut rounding and hemmed with the tiniest of hems. A dainty beauty seen was in red and white striped velvet; another was in blue and white. Quite 1 in keeping with the vogue for castor I and blue is one in pretty blendings of I these two colors. Those who like black ! and white will admire a combination j of black velvet with a silvery lining, i Altogether, this latest conceit to make its bow here is quite fetching indeed. , The hats composed of felt of broad- , cloth folds are one of the prettiest and x most sensible novelties of the season. The girl who makes her own hats ! should revel in this chance to exercise 1 her artistic ability. Resides the ready -ut and stitched feltings for these hats, the milliners are edging the folds with Filk. For this purpose you can buy the felting and cut it in strips about an inch wide, then on one edge stitch ; ; a fold of silk of the same shade or " ' black or white, the fold showing about i one-quarter of an inch above the edge of the felt. Be sure and let the silk i extend far enough underneath so that .. j in gathering the felt on to the frame ! a little full, it will not incline to turn ; ; over and show a raw edge. ! There is something very soft and be- 1 s coming about the rough felt, even in I j ' dead white, bo trying in a smooth ma- I' i terial. I saw such a pretty hat re- cently made entirely of white ruffles I or full folds. (They are too scant to be really ruffles and too full for smooth folds.) The brim was quite broad and i turned up a trifle from the face. A j , black breast set gracefully down over ; the left side was caught with a roll of j black velvet close to the head under i the brim. The top of the hat was f trimmed with another breast and folds .". of black velvet. The effect was not one of startling contrast, because of the softness of the rough felt, and was ex-i ex-i ceedingly becoming to Lie wearer. ' Woman is known byViler stationery, I, and the old saying might incidentally have added, footwear, gloves and numerous nu-merous other things. ; Of course, circumstances over -which , ; j we have no control, namely, our purse, ( have something to do with it, but it j is appalling to think that our characters are to be judged by note paper chosen : hurriedly from a limited or ill assorted stock, or when our taste is controlled " ' by the limitations of ur purse. Un- . f ' questionably a woman does show that 1 I her tastes are ladylike and refined by it the choice and habitual use she makes i of her stationery. It is not until then j ; any reliable index of character. J f Xow, paper, need not necessarily be I I expensive to prove one's title to reline- f I ment in such matters clear, but it must ! "" I be of a good quality and must not be j bizarre in color or shape. Conservative Conserva-tive people like pure or cream white stationery best, and it is always in perfect per-fect taste, but the lighter tones of blue, j heliotrope and gray have been so uni- . . j versally used of late as to be accept able to the most fastidious. There are several tones of gray used, steel, Quaker Quak-er (a soft mouse color) adn pearl. One tone, known as military gray, is an exceedingly attractive kind for general and informal correspondence. It looks somewhat like cartridge paper, and is to be had in several weights and sizes, i This, -with two or three of the lightest tones of gray-blue shown, is decidedly smart. .. . The Eternal Mother-in-law. Cheap wits have raised many a laugh and turned many an indecent penny by abuse and sneers, by lies and railing upon the subject which should be sacred, about the .mother of the one dearest and nearest. And -many a man, who ought to know better, many a man who, if the jail stared through its bars at him, would think first of the unselfish woman who brought his Mile into a useful womanhood, sneers . and snarls and belittles his best friends, says a writer in the Transcript. Tran-script. ; - Most mothers ask little of a son or daughter, and nothing but decent civility civil-ity from the partners of their children, vhile there are few sons-in-law but ask far more of the mother. The mother may have been first with her daughter: she probably was not, al- ' t end hugged the delusion and cannot bear to see another come into her place. She must bide her time. Years bring sanity and the daughter turns back to the mother love and learns that there is room in her heart for that and for the other love as well. Wise """ is the woman who, when marriage brings changes, gains to herself a son instead of losing a daughter: and the way to do it lies through self-abnegation. The other side, the mother of sons has more to endure. Just why, on principle, a woman hates her husband's hus-band's mother, no one can tell. I believe be-lieve it is from jealousy, the hellish . thing that is innate in all women. A I woman in love wants all: she wants J her husband's thoughts and admira- 1 tion: be she never so imperfect, she I vants the man she loves to adore her J . , perfections. She hates his mother be- I cause he remembers her love, because I he knew the mother before he knew I : her; she hates her for being good, for j 1 being bad, for having so lived as to be respected by her son. That mother, I too, may bide her time, but it will 1 visually be in vain, for so long as ' women are women, the mother of the i " husband will be hated. The mother, too, expects her son to t - be as he was before marriage she for- i ' ' pets he was often neglectful and dis- ? ; 4 respectful then and lays all his pres- : ent shortcomings at the wife's door. i ' Happy it is for her if she can live her f ' life apart; if hard, bitter fate does not I ' -. , force her to receive shelter or money I from the son for whom she suffered V and sacrificed. What is the remedy? ! i 1 Sane thoughts may help the two j! 1 ; women to an outward semblance of i ' concord, but only when two angels love r" llje same man, and one is wife and ' . ... ,.... ... .. . ... . . . - . , the other is mother, will there be harmony. Is a man justified in clinging to his mother after his marriage? Believe me, this question was recently asked in this department. He is inexcusable if he does not. It is in the nature of things that his wife and children come j first, but he is an ingrate if he forgets his mother and fails to be a support and stay in her declining years. A graceful, well-bred woman accepts the inevitable and does not belittle herself her-self by wrangling about so hopeless a question. She ought to look at her own son and try to imagine her grief if that far-off woman, the future wife, should feel toward her as she does toward her mother-in-law. I knew a woman who sat fondling her baby boy and who suddenly spoke from a full heart, "How I shall hate his wife." That is the whole subject: Jealousy. A Cure For Gossip. Very few of us in this critical day are free from the slight propensity to what is called gosgip; wherefore the following little story may . teach a necessary lesson: Once upon a time there lived in the famous old cloister of Ottobeuren, a very dear old priest. His name was Father Magnus, and he was the favorite favor-ite of the whole monastery and of the parish as well. He was utterly incapable inca-pable of speaking severely to any human hu-man being. One day he started to go to the next village to visit a sik priest, and as he left the priest's house on his way home a woman tripped down the steps of the adjoining house. He knew her for one of the villagers and when asked if she might walk along with him he cordially agreed. After a bit the woman broke out: "Oh, Father! I cannot tell you what a wicked woman you know her my neighbor is." "Is that true? Then let us make linste to KflV tho Picorv fnr Vior that she may turn from the error of her ways. In the name of the Father " and so on through the fifteen decades, Frau Anna Maria making the responses. re-sponses. This carried them ..about a third of the way home, then the woman again took up the grievance: "Oh, dear. Father! how can I ever have patience with that woman?" It is hard to be patient; let us say the Rosary for you. In the name of the Father " and the threefold Rosary was told again. The poor woman had to pray whether she would or no. But when the last Hail Mary had been said she felt that her chance had come, and she exclaimed: "Really, your reverence, if you could see the way that woman makes her husband suffer!" "Ah. poor man! We Avil! say the Rosary for him." By the time this was finished they stood before Frau Anne's door, and the baffled gossip made up her mind that it would be some time before joining Father Magnus in another walk. Promises of Marriage. There was considerable discussion not long ago as to the position of the church in regard to the obligation to fulfill promises to marry. A prominent western theologian has stated the rule of the church as follows: "An obligation obliga-tion to" fulfill a promise of marriage binds in conscience only when made under the following circumstances; First, when the parties have the mental men-tal capacity to make so serious a promise and when they may lawfully marry, according to the canons of the church. Children of tender years and adults of unsound mind are incapable of entering into an engagement of marriage. A promise of marriage is null and void if made by those whose marriage itself is prohibited, for no one can be bound by promise to take an unlawful oath. Hence engagements are void when made by those related within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity con-sanguinity and affinity or by 'those whose marriage is otherwise interdicted inter-dicted by the church. There can be no obligation to fulfill a promise to do what is a grave violation of the law of the church." |