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Hand and Glove.

From the New York Mail and Express.
yes" said the attendant in charge of
the glove department of one Of the up
town stores, ''most ladies are very particular
about their gloves, and some of them are so
fussy that it will almost wear ones patience
out trying to please them. Why, they will
make us try on five or six pair before they
are suited. and ten to one the last pair wont
fit one bit better than the first The color
is the chief objection that lady will have
against the glove we have tried ON. al
though she will not acknowledge it. She
will pick out glove of a certain shade.
think she will like it, but after she has tried
the glove on she will change her mind, The
color does not suit. She will straighten out
her thumb, or bend it back as far as pos
sible, and, of course, any glove will wrinkle
III that position She will declare that it is
no fit, so off it will have to come and an
other color or shade is sure to be selected.
like to sell gloves to country girls, because
they are so easy to please. l can always
tell one of them, but not by the shape of her
hand, for their hands are not necessarily
large and clumsy, and I have seen as pretty.
plump and also small hands belonging to
girls of the rural classes as were ever shown
by any city young lady who never did
speck of hard work in her life. country
girl never knows exactly what she wants,
but will take most ANYTHING l say is good.
In these respects she is very much like the
gentlemen. for they are easily suited. All
have to do when one comes In is to ask
whether he wants dark or light glove and
if it is to be snug or loose fit He will
always say loose. | will give him the right
size and tell him the glove will fit and that's
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Strange Women.

hOHtou COClCIy.
What is female officer dacademie?
One thinks of the travelling fellows at Ok
ford and Cambridge who were bound to go
so many miles in year and send back Lat
in letter describing what they had seen.
Sometimes they wrote books. fancy dear
old Eustace's Classical Tour, beloved by
Byron was the outcome of such subsidized
journey. Above all. they were to be fell
lows which in those days meant bachelors;
whereas Doth the officers whose travels I've
been reading are married ladies. En-
revanche, they both wore. during the greater
part of their wanderings, dresses of such an
unfeminine type that when one of them was
presented to the shah his majesty said:
You don't mean to tell me that that young
lad is woman?" Otherwise they seem
very unlike. Nine. Ujfalvy Bourbon, as
drawn by Vwillier, is so tall and stalwart
one does not wonder that, whenever they
could, her Cashmere coolies should have
shirked carrying her ''palkee." and that she
elbowed her way into the Srinuggear
bazaar, despite the attempts of the British
residents wife to hold her back. l should
not like to have cut from that dogwhip
of hers, or for her to come down on my toe
with those jack boots into which she has
the other hand, in Bayard's portrait, is
pretty and piquante, and she knows it.
She wears mans trousers, a loose short
coat, black necktie and a jaunty solar
topee, and looks so attractive astride her
black Arabian that MARCEL might well
have been uneasy did not the Persian TASTE
like that of Orientals generally prefer
plump, moon-faced beauties Anyhow the
shah was wise in pronouncing that she had
done quite right in discarding woman's
dress if she meant to go about unveiled.
"A won;ab can't do it over here" said the
Light of the World. without making a
street row. 1t would be nearly as bad /
think, if Persian lady was to walk in her
usual outdoor dress on your Paris boule-
wards; and my people are much more ex-
cusable. A strange female face is to them
prodigy; very few have ever seen one out
side the family circle"
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THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.
Some Queer Specimens That Were
Advertised in the Papers of 1910.

Advertising for husband is not alto
gether very modern plan. In 1870 ian
old maid" who signed herself Judith Crab
face, solicited life partner in the public
prints and thus presented her personal
claims:
Rather short, being only four feet two and
little deformed-"although hardly percepti-
BILE by the stuffing of my stays''-head large
with profnsion of golden hair, vulgarly
called red, color of eyes between gray and a
green with the power of looking two ways at
once; nose a good deal turned up and a
mouth which would be pretty if my lips were
not a little of a purple color; have lost good
many teeth, but those which remain have a
green or blue color, which gives a lively
effect. | use great deal of snuff, which has
taken away my color and given the yellow ap-
pearance which ] have now. Her partner
must be good-tempered and agreeable, not
addicted to drinking, as Miss Crabface ad-
mits she sometimes INDUCES little, and may
need somebody to look after her. She is not
ill-tempered except when not allowed to have
her own way. Her cats, her money, parrot
and maid Tabitha must all remain and have
their accustomed places.
Simon GreenSloe replied, and gave the
following description of himself:
Five feet high, ordiuary-sized head, short
neck: blind in one eye, over which he wears
green patch; aquiline nose, not exactly In
the center of the face; mouth drawn to one
side from the kings evil; good teeth. which
is attributed to chewing large quantities of
tobacco. which has not only preserved them.
but also given them fine chestnut color; legs
somewhat handy; of good temper, notwith-
standing the govt inherited from parent.
Another applicant stated that
He was 55. his state of celibacy being be-
yond his control, he having been necessarily
making proposals ever since attaining the
age of "A, the notifying repulses having
nearly driven him to despair This sutton
processes to be five feet high, uncommonly
corpulent, large head handy legs, an exuber-
ance of silver locks, the disgraceful color of
which is artfully concealed with powder: ewes
very small, face marked deeply with the
smallpox and of a pink hue. The breadth of
face exceeds the length by two inches: nose
and chin resemble pair of nut crackers
Take snuff and am afflicted with a severe
asthma, therefore make use of large ouapti-
ties of tobacco; temper very good; drink a
good deal, but have been so long accustomed
to it that it does not in the least disorder nv
intellectual or bodily powers, therefore it viii
not disqualify me from taking care of my
amiable partner when in that situation.
Which of these applicants the lady ac-
cepted is not recorded.
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Emn,a,s Shrinking NIodesty.


Perhaps it is not generally known that
Emma Abbott furnished the original idea for
1.-THE Mikado" to Gilbert and Sullivan;
that the opera was built around the idea of
her love scenes in Romeo and Juliet and
Paul and Virginius."
Il do not say that" said the bubbling
and vivacious little prima donna, as she sat
in her dressingroom at the Olympic theater
after the performance of THE Mikado''
Monday night, ''but I'll tell you how it
was"
Miss Abbott was attired in her Yum UNI
dress and looked as Yum Yummy as a
petite, plump figure in clinging. slimpy gar
ments and piquant face could look. Lit
tie upward streaks of pigment at the cor
ners of her eyes and over her eyebrows, and
tinge Of carmine on her full lips accentu-
ated the retrousse tendency Of her features
and added to their piquancy. Il asked Sir
Arthur to write me an opera, and he said he
would if he could only get the libretto. l
said: Now, if you get the libretto, don't
give the namby- PANTY heroines that you
have been giving. Make her human; give
her human interest. Put love scene in;
that is what attracts people, Well, he said
he and Mr.. Gilbert had been working to-
S6luGT duu OuUCI1 OuSuG w WIttC IlS IL
bretto Well, you know what kind of man
Mr.. Gilbert is He said he preferred to
write for the general public and not for any
one person. The next thing heard of was
The Mikado, with the chief interest hang
ing on a love scene, and with love satirized
all through it."
Miss Abbott for the first time plays
''Traviata" this season. Heretofore she
has DerSiStently refused tn sing in this Onera
because she did not regard it as proper in
moral tone. Il have not changed my idea
about 'Traviata, and l have had it expur-
gated and cleansed. The plot must remain
the same. and l have toned the character
down. l have made study of the Candles
of the stage for the opera. think it
suits me admirably. You know that Ger
ster and l are the only singers who can
sing 'Sempre liberal in the original key
The public will have an opportunity of judy
ing how Miss Abbott handles ''Traviata, I"
but one of the chief attractions TO the ladies
will be her dresses for the opera.
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last seen he had climbed up into the hay
loft, and was pulling the ladder up after
him.
A gentleman conversing with Brooklyn
lady about the absurdity OF female apparel,
and the frivolity of fashionable life, eX-
claimed: '.Is there on earth bigger fool
than a mere woman of fashion," Her
questioner considered himself shut up and
put down, like disagreeable book, when
the lady answered: 'sYes. the man who
admires her."
Women" quoth Jones, ''are the salad of life
At once a boon and a blessing.
''In one way they're salad, indeed" replied
Brown,
They take so much time in their dressing"
1t is said that the full dress of a native
lady i'll Colombo is hairpin and two gar
tiers, and in the West Indies that ladies
wore corsetS from instinct-a natural love
OF being squeezed.
Much ridicule has been heaped upon
woman because she can't keep secret. A
gentleman sat down to write deed, and
began with know all women by these
presents" ''You are wrong" said a by
stander; sit ought to be Know all men, "
VERY WE'LL" answered the other,
''IF ALL WOMEN KNOW IT, ALL MEN WILL"
Said Lord A. to friend, who wished
to convey matter of Importance to lady
without directly communicating with her:
How can you be certain of her reading
the letter, seeing that you have directed it
to her husband?" THAT l have managed
without possibility of failure" was the
answer. ''Shell open it to certainty, for
l have put private i'll the corner"
However, they say that the portrait of a
real woman that kept a secret is in the
British museum. 1t is said not to resem-
BILE any woman now living.
AS to the want of certain pleasing pecu-
liarities in women. we furnish these illus
trations: A teacher asked boy, who
was the meekest MANI" Moses, sill"
was the answer. every well, my boy: and
now, who was the meekest woman?"
please, sir, there never was any meekest
woman -
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The yyise,s Reverie.

o heart of mine, is our estate
Our sweet estate of joy-assured?
1t came so slow, IL came so late,
Brought by such bitter pains endured;
Dare we forget these sorrows sore,
And think that they will come no more?
With fearful eyes scan my face,
And doubt how can he find it fair;
Wistful watch each charm and grace
Z see that other women wear
OF all the secrets of loves lore
l know but one-to love him more!
/ see each day he grows more wise;
His life is broader far than mine;
l must be lacking in his eyes
In many things where others shine.
o heart! can we this loss restore
To him, by simply loving more?
/ often see upon his brow
A look half tender and half stern;
His thoughts are far away, l knowl
To fathom them l vainly yearn:
But naught is ours that went before.
o heart! we can but love him morel
I sometimes think that he had loved
An older, deeper love, apart
From this which later, feebler moved
His soul to mine. Oh heart, o heart,
What can we do-this hurteth sore
Nothing, my heart, but love him more.
SAKE Holm
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the end of it, unless he wants it tried on.
and then the first pair always suits. Why,
| would rather wait on ten gentlemen than
ON three ladies.
at is much easier" the lady continued.
''to fit glove to large hand than to a
small one, for little hands are almost sure
To be'Out of proportion some way or other.
The average size in ladies' gloves is 81 and
the gentlemen's ~. | can always tell
within quarter of an inch what size glove
a person should wear. You will take ~.
will prove it with the measure" and she
did.
In answer to his question as to what the
prevailing styles in gloves would be for the
coming season. the reporter was informed
that for street wear the mousquetaire- a
kind of undressed kid-with embroidered
| backs, was the proper thing and that there
was more demand for the tan shades than
| anything else. This color, it was thought
would soon be supplanted by the different
shades of gray, which. it will be remen-
bered, were very popular last spring. For
evening the plain-backed glove for both la
dies and gentlemen still continues to be in
vogue Several handsome pairs of ladies'
gloves thirty inches in length were shown.
They are intended to reach clear to the
shoulder and are worn with sleeveless cos
tunes at receptions, balls and parties.
Champion of the Sex.
Little Rock Life.
IT'S claimed by those writers inspired by
God that Adam, our father, was naught
but clod, mere clod of earth, and, when
breathed into life the first thing he needed,
of course, was a wife. Though a handful
of dust sufficed for man, woman was
built on different plan; while the least
Whit OF wind blows man every way,
woman is solid and solid will stay. No
matter how tritiing and worthless the man,
a woman will love him as long as she can,
and when she finds out he is worthy no
longer her pity and love will grow stronger
and stronger. Thus has it been, thus ever
twill be, if there's blame anywhere he will
say it is she; from Adam. our father. they
learned the mean way, and ever on woman
the blame they will lay.
When driven by want she in business en-
cages, for the very same work she receives
half the wages; should she ask for her
rights, she's crazy, that's clear, she has got
ten entirely out of her sphere. The dude,
who scarcely can walk OH his feet, and
thinks he can capture any girl he may meet,
says: ''See that girl! Amt she mashed
uPoii IHe! OHo GllIlhS. w udt d puppy
that fellow must be!'
Although woman never was made from
clod, you can but admit she was made by
her God-an image of angels, an object of
love, helper to man and sanctioned above;
but, to buy up the men for all they are
worth-they are nothing, you know, but a
mere clod of earth-and if sold out at once
at their own estimation, oh, would it not be
a grand speculation.
Now, woman all, my fellow creatures,
back me up in this, my speech. sirs, and
all men they ought-or might. grant to US
what is our right. But whether or not. this
is our boast; whate'er they're worth, we're
worth the most; for grant this fact they all
of them must, women are women and men
are dust.
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the flimsiest Isle thread articles. wort

the nlmSleSC Isle Unread arUlcieS, WOrJ
about dime per pair, but she got 81, and
I'll tell you how. She is possessed of the
incest, softest, smOothest, warlnest little
hands that were ever attached by nature ia
shapely arms. When she got prospective
male customer she began by measuring
across the knuckles of his doubled-up fist,
in the usual manner, to find out what size
of glove he wore. Having ascertained, she
picked out pair trifie toe small and prof
fered them to him. Of course. he had
trouble in getting them on, and remarked
that he would have to ask for larger ones
She sweetly murmured, 20 no: let me try"
Taking right hold of his paw, with an
ELECTRICITY
of touch that went from the tips Of his
fingers to his remOtest toes, she began to
rub pull and press the glove, slowly but
not painfully inclosing the hand with it.
The operation generally lasted FIVE minutes.
and some evenings she turned into the
treasury S12 an hour right along. | don't
mean to say that she required the constant
consciousness of the good cause to sustain
her in the job, for l noticed that she Sc
lected her customers with reference to
youth and looks. And the decrepit old
beau who enforced himself upon her got
other than agreeable treatment, take it al
together. She gave him his dollars worth
of palmistry, and he was visibly enraptured.
Not only did he insist on both gloves being
put on, but he had to have each separate
skinny finger worked Iaborlously clear into
the glove.
''Ahr' he exclaimed effusively, ''you
really are devoted to this noble charity.
hate to impose upon your good nature to
this extent"
''Oh, never mind.' the girl blithely re-
piled; sit is little unpleasant, of course,
but think of the dreadfully shocking ser
vices that the nurses in the hospital have to
perform for suffering humanity. Pm sure
l ought to be willing to do something trifie
uncanny in the same cOmmendable cause. :"
Only the buttoning Of one glove remained
to be done, but the old chap didn't wait.
BETWEEN SPELLS OF DUTY
at my counter l made this study of hats,
and they comprise about the most stylish
and effective specimens in the really re-
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markable collection. You will observe that
height is the chief characteristic. How we
are going TO carry such structures through
a windy winter is more than can see.
Readiness for cold weather has been at
tanned by most of the fashionable New
York women. Wardr0bes are supplied
with new underclotheS, and the material of
these is often a mixture of silk and wool
downy enough to make the wearer feel that
she is an angel floating in a cloud. Woven
combination garmentS-articleS with body,
legs. arms and all the shapelness of a wo-
man-are no longer eccentricitieS of dress
reformers, but have become accepted things
IN under raiment. They are great health
protectors. because they admit no draughts,
and therein give uniform warmth. In
some of the stores where they are sold the
feminine clerk invites you into curtained
aleove for measurement. There she runs a
tape-line around you at several attitudes,
from arm-pitS to ankles, and the other way
TO the wrists.
FURS
are warmer in proportion to weight than it
Is possible to make any woven stuff. whether
of wool, of camels hair or goats hair.
Furs are more easily put on and off than
cloth wraps. The can be more effectually
ludll
wool or even silk-Quilted and wadded or
beece-Hned garments. They are far more
beautiful, and can be worn with dressv
silk and velvet or plain cloth or novelty
wool costumes at pleasure. In the end
they are cheaper, if well chosen and bought
from a frSt-claSS furrier or dry goods house
whose standing inSureS a tirSt-claSS fur de-
partmept. For the first of the season
there are exceeding short wraps of fur in
attractive forms and variations of the dol
man visite. Seal is the favorite fur for
these, and otter and beaver bands the
trimming The real OF simulated tails of
the animals whose fur trims the garment
are frequently seen on short, long and
medium length fur garments. The
1Judic is one of the varieties OF
medium length seal wraps. but,
viewed from the front. it looks like long
cloak. 1t fits very close, and is curved over
the tournure il the back, while the points
extend nearly to the bottom of the dress in
front They. as well as back. which meas
ures about twenty-five inches from the
waist-line to the bottom, are fringed with
sealskin balls alternating with Alaska sable
tails. There are no sleeves. the back being
curved up sleeve-like to go over the arms al
he elbows, somewhat like sleeveless dol
nan visite. Another very handsome me-
dunn length for dolman is of black Alaska
sable, fringed with tails of the same. One
Of the most comfortable and practical of al
winter garments is the standard sealskin OF
sitter sacques, forty-two inches in length
but for the very coolest weather those who
can afford more than one fur wrap choose
long Newmarkets, raglans and ulsterss OF
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Rich, but.Plain.

From New York Letter.
Mrs. Stewart visits the store once famous
as A. T. Stewards every week to see the
novelties there, and order new gown or
bonnet OF something for her house. but she
is SO unassuming that, unless the clerk wait
ing upon you said: There is Mrs. Ste
wart," you would not imagine the delicate,
plainly-dressed little lady walking by with
a companion attending her had any special
interest in the establishment. If you had
reporters eyes you would see the rapid
chances cast by her over every counter she
passes, and also see how deferentially the
whole waiting force observe her. Mrs.
Stewart is not old or gray; her hair is
brown her figure erect and her step firm.
Her dress in the street is plain, but of the
richest material, but she evidently does not
seek to parade the amount of her riches be-
fore the public.
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COSBY CLARA BELLE
Chats About the Insidious Charity Fair
and the Bewitohing Society Girl
Behind the Glove Counter.
The --latest Love of Bonnet and the New
Costly Wraps Of Seal and Sable
Which Defy the Cold.
A Little Advice to Women Who Are
Burdened With a Superiority of
Adipose Tissue.
How Demure Bride Was Detected
and Several Bridesmaids Unex-
pectedly Kissed.

- New YORK. Nov Cove girls have
been gay and giggly this week at charity
fair in the University club in aid of a hos
pital fund. We have wickedly inveigled
the men into expenditures against their will
in the customary ways, sacrificing our deli
cacy in the most heroic manner; and in one
instance fair daughter of millionaireism
devised and executed a novelty. She
clerked at a glove counter. Her goods were
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Bucklen,s Arnica saIve.

The best salve in the world Tor cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever.
sores, letter, chapped hands chilblains
corns and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money
refunded. Price % cents per box. For
sale by Lambie g. Bethune and j. p. Allen.
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There is opportunity for the display of
individual taste in the make and trimming
of house dresses, and the Partisan dress
makers have taken advantage of this fact.
The imported morning, tea and invalid
gowns are as odd and pretty as one could
desire, and all manner of material is used
in their construction.
The breakfast-gown shown in Illustration
is modelled after one made for the Princess