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Show j I Woman's World. j :' ' Specially Prepared lor Our Feminine Readers. i , ! ' THE WOMAN THAT'S GOOD. i O youth is a madcap and time is a t'hurl; i Pleasure palls and remorse follows J . 1, after; i 1 The world hustles on in its pitiless -whirl. I j With its kisses, its tears and its laugh- I ' ttr. I j But there's one gentle heart in its bosom 1 of white, 1 The maid with the tender eyes, gleam- 1 ; injr. 1 Who has al! th wealth of my homage i 5 tonight. j Where sht lies in .her Innoceitt: dream- I irg- t 1 And a watch o'er her ever my spirit will I keep, I While the angels lean down to caress 1 ' her. And I'll pledge her again in her beautiful sleep The woman that's good God bless her! Ah, Bohemia's honey was sweet to the fip, And ahe song, and the dance were alluring al-luring ; (The mischievous maid, with the mutinous mutin-ous lip. ; Had a charm that was ever enduring): But out from the smoke wreaths and i music and lace '" . ' Of that world of the tawdrily clever, ; There floats the rare spell of the pure ! little face That has chased away folly for- ever. IAnd I drain my last toast ere I go to my rest (O. fortunate earth to possess her!) To the dear, tender heart in the little white breast ' The woman that's good God bless her! FASHION'S DECREES. The Oriental Djibbah Has Captured London Society. London, Nov. 13. Fashionable Lon-. Lon-. ; don has an absolute novelty in the way of dress, a novelty which, moreover, i is wholly its own, and for which it ' owes nothing for suggestion either to Paris or New York, which is rapidly i coming to the. front as the originator i of new ideas in dress as in .other I things. The djibbah the English art-, art-, 1st and his wife, who brought it from , the Orient, where the latter found it in a royal zenena, have elected to retain re-tain its eastern name is decidedly i novel. Indeed, it is so much so that I it is not quite easy to define it. It is j not exactjy a morning costume; in its , own country it figures as a robe of j Ftate: although loose and flowing, it is j : hardly a tea gown, nor a wrapper. Yet . , . t it might easily be made to take the j ; place of any one of these. The adapta-? adapta-? bility of the new garment is, in fact, its greatest charm. The djibbah may be ' exquisitely simple, or splendidly elab- '. , s orate, as the intending wearer likes. ' ' In perfect proportioning, flowing lines, and in the graceful fashioning of the ! ' open Oriental sleeves consist the shape-j shape-j - )y whole. The gown is collarless, and j has no aperture, except that left for 1 the head something after the manner I of a Mexican blanket, but the choice 1 ; of a color, both for the djibbah and for i the bands of a contrasting hue which serve as the background for the pretty . ' needlework at neck and sleeve hems; ' j still more the stitchery which ranges ' from the simplest point Russe to elab-! elab-! s orate embroidery, affords wide scope for the exercise of individual taste and artistic talent. I This is, doubtless, the reason why the new gown has at once leaped into i favor in artistic circles. Mrs. Stephen ! ! ; i Crane, Mrs. J. M. Barrie. the daughters i of Burns Jones and of G. F. Watts are ; all wearing it for their 'at homes," ) while other less prominent women are . ! following their example. Ojie enthu- i siastic disciple of this new departure has announced her intention of wear-; wear-; : ; ing it indoors and out, and, in fact, : I i lias already begun to use it as a call- ing gown. However, no one has yet been so daringly unconventional as to l "J lA-al 1 Hit UJlUMClll XJll LUC BUCCl. i That the English copy of the Orien- I tal gown may come short in nothing, eastern dyes and eastern stuffs have ' ; ) been imported for its manufacture. The i. , Orient also supplies the beautiful em- , j i broideries with which it is trimmed. I j i ' Most assuredly a well made djibbah ,i il Is a fascinating robe. It is almost uni- 1 versa lly becoming, especially so to the I tall and slender woman. The flowing 1 lines show to best advantage upon a j tall and graceful figure, but a small i ; woman, if she be not actually dumpy, ; may look her best in a djibbah of a , j becoming color. It is quaint and emi- , , j nently picturesque, artistic to a de-i de-i j fixee, and most convenient, since there , i i ; ' is not a single hook to be fastened, i ; ; Already it has almost superseded the ! i long loved tea gown among the ultra-fashionables, ultra-fashionables, and all our leading dressmakers dress-makers are busy with its manufacture. ; Apart from this one great novelty, , i "we are not threatened with any radical '':. changes. The shape of the corset re-' re-' ! mains the same, and the corset is the ! accepted foundation of our fashions. , Straight fronted and long over the hips, . ' : the poise of the feminine figure is still the same. J The newest collars are more than large; they are small capes, in fact. ,!.', They are sometimes quite round and j sometimes are out in a sort of rounded sailor shape. Embroidered lawn and lace are still used for them, but the ' latest are of old flowered silks or rich brocades and droop in points over the 1 shoulders. Capes are reappearing; indeed, they have already arrived. The coilar to the newest coat.Iets are really capes. A i charmingly pretty short sacque is of ! shct duck's breast glace silk, trimmed ; with tiny ruches of the same silk pink- ' pA out on the edges. The round shoul der cape to match was finished with . i throe full pinked, ruchen and the gar ment tide in front with long ends of pinked silk, making a bog bow with l streamers. ' Some of the wraps shown in Regent !nnd Bond street windows are mantles of the Louis XVI type; small, round capes with long stole or rounded ends I I i nnd with large round hoods. Just now the favorite material for these is a I coarse ecru etamine brocaded with "targe flowers in gay colors. The man-ties man-ties are lined with silk or satin in shades to match the flowers, or else in Si-ass green, and are trimmed with quillings of narrow ribbons of the same color. Such wraps do not crush the sleeves, which continue to increase in Kize. The fullness is. however, between be-tween the elbow and the cuff, the upper up-per part of the sleeve being still fitted closely to the arm, although epaulets are occasionally seen on stylish gar-- gar-- : ments. Most of the new hats are large and fiat, but velvet toques still obtain, profusely pro-fusely trimmed with marabout or ostrich os-trich feathers. This is pre-eminently a velvet season, and by far the greater number of the new hats are altogether of velvet or of felt, velvet trimmed. I A Strange Siamese Custom. 1 ' Every Siamese girl who reaches a I certain age without marrying is tick- I eted and labeled and placed in a priv- 1 leged class, under the special care of I the king, who binds himself to find a I husband for them all. His method is 1 delightfully simple. A prisoner in any I of the Siamese jails may gain his j pardon and release by marrying one 1 of the ineligible class. Whether he is I already married or not is not of great I consequence, for in Siam it is not nec- essary to draw the line at One wife, j This method of matchmaking can hard- I iy result in domestic bliss. j f Street Etiquette. 1 . In meeting a lady in a public thor- I , oughfare in America a gentleman al- 1 ways waits for her bow of retogni- 5 ; tion before lifting his hat or addressing j her. In Europe, however, the contrary is the established rule, it being the gentleman's place to bow first, when, if the lady desires not to recognize him. she ignores his salutations, thus , giving the cut direct. It is not good form in any place for a lady to stop a gentleman in the street for the purpose pur-pose of chatting with him. though slfe may with perfect propriety pause to speak if he take the initiative. Prolonged Pro-longed talks in the street are not, however, how-ever, considered ood form, even be'-tween be'-tween persons of the same sex, the better bet-ter plan being to walk slowly until the conversation is concluded. , A YOUNG CATHOLIC POET. ' Among the younger poets of New York, perhaps none is more promising than Mr. Thomas Walsh, whose" work has attracted serious attention for the past three or four years, in the pages of magazines like Harper's, the Atlantic, At-lantic, the Century, Lippincott's, the BooKman, tne Smart Set, the Cosmopolitan Cosmo-politan and the Critic. In this hour of prolific verse-writing, when names are suddenly made well-known well-known through work that is only passably pass-ably good, when one can force himself into public, notice simply through repeated re-peated appearances in certain quarters where merit is not the main consideration; considera-tion; at such a time it is a relief to find one young singer who could doubtless doubt-less make his nanie almost a household house-hold word, but who, because of a sincere sin-cere devotion to his art, refuses to publish pub-lish promiscuouly and at every least opportunity. I forget what great editor ed-itor it was who once said that the danger dan-ger menacing, our young authors; and particularly .our young poets, was their seeming desire to rush into "print before the best in them had had time to grow and mature.. .It is very true that the enormous - number of magazines maga-zines .issued today offers a temptation to those seeking recognition .which it is hard to resist. But when 6ne has a real message to deliver he will always be heard. Edwin Markham is a fine example of the beauty and value, of waiting. For many years his voice was heard only through an occasional lyric, but the moment came when he stirred two continents with his powerful power-ful poem. Mr. Thomas Walsh is essentially a lyric poet. The lyrist has always been needed; it is absurd to believe that the writer .of epics is the only . poet whose influence the world has felt. Shelley and Keats tore down an ancient an-cient myth. The "Ode to a Skylark" will live as long as "Paradise Lost." There are few Catholic poets who' in j this era have gained recognition, but more pitiful still," few of those who have been heard have allowed any religious re-ligious feeling to permeate their work. But readers will discover . in Mr. Walsh's poems. a beautiful and tender love of Christianity, and in innumerable innumer-able lines he proclaims his faith. Let me quote 'Deipara"-: I . Two names, are .sovereign on the Hps of man, . Since ever Time with deathless wings was shod, - Or the white order of the world began The name of mother and the name of God. But He who on the gibbet would resign His godhead to the trembling hands of Death, - - - - Calling thee Mother of Himsflf divine. Made glory bankrupt In a single breath. There is not, I believe, a more daring or beautiful statement than this in any of Father Tabb's or Father Faber's poems. It is of course truly Catholic. Charles Hansen Towne in Rosary Magazine. - - A "Woman's Steps. How far-will a woman walk in a lifetime? If Is a-little difficult to fix the average mileage per day. of the average woman. Some women are fond of walking an average of at least two miles a day. It 1s safe-to say that every woman walks half a mile a day, even if she does not go out, but attends only to her household duties. If a woman lives to be 50 years old, she will have walked nearly 10,000 miles. |