The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-11-12


for young girl is made plainly with full
waist aud with a skirt unadOrned except for
rufile at its hem. Over the shoulders one may
bag e q bertha as handsome rs simple as one
wishes. 1t may he made Of fine lace, hiffon,
net or silk. The sleeves are short puts to the
elbow. where they may be finished with wide
rufie il one wishes. The bertha over the
shoulders be made either all the same
width or it may be narrower over the
shoulders and wide in The middle OF the
front and back-a style more graceful for any
but the slim girls who can stand the wide
RIFLES.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop-Nathaniel Haw-
thorne's daughter-is devoting herself most
nobly to the relief of " the pain of The world"
She has undertaken to nurse and care for the
poor who afflicted with cancer--surely a
heroic task. Leprosy itself can hardly tc more
repulsive than this disease, and especially so
among the very poor in the sluEis of New York,
where the sick have few chances for being
clean or comfortable, or even careful. Mrs
Lathrop has prepared herself for the work by a
thorough course OF training in the hospitals
As she goes about tho miserable tenements
there are constant demands on her skill, her
sympathy and her purse-a hali-starved little
boy who wants med icne for his sore throat
and sorely needs some break fast; sobbing
woman, whose husband is both sick and drunk,
and who has no food, no bedding. nothing at
| all sick old women, grooming aud moaning as
they do char work or washing to make enough
! to buy themselves bread all sorts ana degrees
OF misery bodily and mental. are brought be-
! fore her in her walks. Her letters to the papers
have brought to her supplies. funds and offers
! of services from the many whose sympath les
are ready, and she has some volunteer assist
| ance in her work
| Mrs. Lathrop is a gentle, God fearing woman,
aud is glad to labor all the day aud far into the
night for sick and grooming humanity. She
claims no right to criticise reprove her
patients-she simply helps them through their
distress, aud does il for the love of God.
Mrs. Castle, an American-a Californian
has been sentenced by the English courts to
three months Imprisonment for shopiifting.
Mrs. Castle is woman of wealth and good
social position in her own State, and it seems
| is really victim Of nervous disease, Klep-
tomania." Doctors cknowledge that there
may be such trouble, and in her it seems
wcll-proven that she really has a mania for
taking things from the shops. and that it is a
kind of insanity. But the English court saw
fit to sentence her 10, prison, although she was
Frustrated with grief and shame over the affair,
and had to be taken Immediately to the hos.
pital ward of the prison.
So
1t seems Michigan woman is a successful
manufacturer Of chewing gum. A Chicago
woman has secret process for making the
yellow tissue paper used by telegraph compa
MES and for associate press dispatches. and is
making pretty fortune. Another we'll known
young woman is making profit out of fine book
binding, and there is no end to the things
woman can do we'll, if she will only try.
A profitable business for women is to estab-
lish tea-rooms, where during the afternoons tea
and cakes or mullins are served daintly and al