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Show Silk and Cretonne Toilet Cases. -j One interesting girl has made a sn ilty of c - ing old .snuff and jewel lixe 1 1 She has learned to mould meial. to mak I'nnd to npoly enamels ami lo set semi I precious jewels in ornamentation of liei work. Anothi r has -'.Men her spare tinn t to Ihe designing of lxofc plates, a spi. i cially v !,ioh, ns several others, can b : I turned to financial account should Ihe nr : cessity arise. I I To have a eciilty lhat is worth w hil mean considerable work and concent n- i tion of purine. Hut in the end it in-.variably in-.variably repays its joung mistress in the I interest it adds to her life and in the ,, paths it o.h-us for her to give pleasure to others. IT is not every young miss that op pre ciatcs the advantage of having a snv clalty. To possess one, however, ever should it verge- on fnddism, sets si gir apart from the average humanity am! causes her to be regarded as a distinct lersonality. More is reinircd of a girl al the present time thnn that she shall pas along amiably with the crowd. She must be something unusual or do some oue thins belter than others in order to Ik? looked uon with interest at home and abroad, j Happily, the capabilities of American girls are varied and very numerous. Art, music and literature afford them the usual oppoi-l unities front which lo select the specialty best suited to their talent. Hut even after casting their lot with one of the arts it is not infrequent for ihem to sieve it down to some small Hctlinii I : which thev think they cau excell. A girl with n talent for music realiy.es that she caunot compass the whole range of the urt with any degree of proficiency without giving U it hr entire life. She specializes, therefore, rhoosing for her held of action a distim live style of music. This may be ballad singing or the rendering ren-dering of curious old folk lore minus, uo accomplishment now very popular. It may again be lullaby melodies. If instrumental instru-mental music is her metier she may follow fol-low Chopin to the exclusion of all other composers even to the point of beiug known a a Chopiuite. It Is the same with art. A girl who paints prefers now to make a specially of mural deoiratiijn. pastel portrait or of the one kind of artistic work lu which she feels she is most at home. One young girl has found her specialty iu Ihe study of the live of great cotn-j posers'. Sh" has thus combined music ; und literature and made herself as well) acquainted with the details utnl intri- eacies of the experiences of various mil-1 sicians as if they were members of her! family. When she sits down at the piauo to play some celebrated passage she men- j ti..ns an a little preface the exact circumstances circum-stances under which the comisition was written. To the majority of her listeners this is very interesting. Other young Kris take as iheir specially spe-cially the collecting of objela d'art. A few even are clever enough to do it In view of the increased value of thing! as a collection rather than as separate! specimens. They begin with a few thing of moderate value, theu thcru out; buy others more rare and costly, nnd so kre" doing until they arrive at owning mostly museum pieces. To collect, snuff In. vcs. old fans, miniatures. r t i 1 1 n.,ri.- ami J.ide ore all special) !c iu which 1 1 1 . to dale girls Indulge. |