The National tribune., 1897-04-08

| side and little breast pocket. The skirt is
| short, round, made with big box plest turned
| under in the back; has pocket bustoned up
on one hip aud pIacket on the other. Is
! made without lining, but with prettily-
stitched hem. The shrt-wast is of linen or
silk, as may be fancied.
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Bicycle boots may now be had for So or SIS,
| and all the way between. Leggings cost from
45 cents to 65. and are very neat and comfort
able when worn with any easy fitting low cut
shoe.
All Winter the women have been wearing
the English walking hat with their bicycle
costumes, but this Spring they have returned
to Tam OSlanters, Derbies, aud straw sailor
hats. The Tam OShanters are usually made
of the dress material with dark band and a
quill through the bow at one side
The Derbies are hideous.
The straw sailor hats arc just coming in and
some particularly pretty ones of mixed straw
with dark band are neat and becoming.
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The great difficulty with bicycle skirts is to
make them so that it will be easy for the rider
to mount aud arrange her skirts with the full.
ness in the back falling half to one side of the
saddle. half to the other. Various patterns
with divisions, bloomer- backs and skirt fronts
have been devised-none of them entirely satis-
factory, and many clumsy. The best plan seems
to be to make the skirt close-ftting over the
hips and gored in front, after the usual fashion
for skirts, and to make the back full and lay it
in big double box pieat. tho box of the pleat
being underneath so that the skirt divides
easily aud neatly when the wheelwoman
mounts.
Little leather bags. just big enough to hold
handkerchief, car fare, aud the bicycle-lock
key. are liked by wheelwomen.
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To bake shad in q homo oven and to stuff
him we'll is a valuable arr in these Spring days.
Around Washington there is a belief that the
shad is best when it is nailed to plank and
broiled in front of great fire. But any house
keeper can have deliciousIy cooked fish if she
will follow this recipe: In dressing the fish
make small opening. Wash the fish out we'll
and stuff it with cup of bread crumbs that
have been mOistened, seasoned with pepper,
SALT celery, onion juice, chopped parsley, and
the juice Of half q lemon. Fasten the opening
with toothpicks, and lay the fish OIL three
slices of bacon in the bak;ng-pan. There will
have to be two or three tablespoonfuls of water,
also, in the pan, to keep the fish from scorching
at first. Basic the fish with melted butter
until enough juices have been formed to baste.
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sized fish. Serve it with brown sauce made
from the juices.
The Scribbler's Club of Buffalo is club of
clever women. Three speakers are chosen for
every meeting to entertain the club. They
are given 10 minutes warning of what their
topic will be. They have to learn to be quick.
witted and to keep up with the times, for the
topics assigned to them have no limit in their
range. At one Of the recent meetings the SUBJ
jects were FREQ Art in America" Municipal
Government" and "Woman's Place in Insur-
auce."
There is talk OF asking Clara Barton to go to
Cuba. Spain cannot protest. as she signed the
Red Cross treaty, promising to allow the Red
Cross officers, nurses wagons, and supplies
within their territories whenever there was
great need. Our papers are making political
matter Of it, and shouting that if Clara Barton
goes down there the Spaniards will soon fluid
themselves compelled to give up their brutal
warfare. As fac to herald Miss Barton's
work Is political is great mistake. Miss
Barton must 60 simply as . nurse, with eyes