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speaking. She gets born: we all know
what a sea of dainty little garments
await her advent. she gfkduases. she
marrics land she dies. just now she Is
about TO graduate. and If he Fates are
good to her. she Will his auspi-
cious occasion IN a white. cohwebby af-
fair of muslin and lace. Though it will,
no doubt. trouble her more TO decide
just how her love of n frock VIII be
made than it win to compile that won
derfui essay itself. she's sure to look an
angel and a Minerva combined once the
yards of sheer, ninsy stuff have been
cut and sewed and gotten into shape
generally. And don't we feel for her.
It's really pitiful TO think of her plunged
in despair because she can't decide
whether to be surrounded by ruffe after
rufhe or rows upon rows of insertion
she. the very girl who settled the ques-
ton what Woman VIII Do In the
Next Hundred Years" with an hours
scratching with her pen. Oh, it is pitiful.
In fact. the only parallel case IS that Of
Hercules himself-a god capable of fairly
turning the world upslee-dowr-yet sub
dued into ways as meek and gentle as
those of amy sucking dove" by the fair
omphale.
But the choice must be made; so, per-
haps. the best way is 10 sugges- a mode
or two by way of alternating Miss Sweet
girl Graduates trials. One not at all
difficult of achievement. but requiring
that very desirable virtue-patience-is
ruffed within an inch of its life. The five
gore skirt has eleven ruffies. all less than
-. ..ot.-- ILL a-1 ~ or,roI Ifctancac
apart from hem to beta dainty, airy
fairy arrangement as an nigel of a
graduate could desire. More ruffles hover
round the top Of the blouse, making a
setti..g like a great full-blown white rose.
for Miss S. G..s wise little head. and
some of them run out onto the sleeves.
tapering down to microscopic width long
before they reach the glove that will
grasp the essay that will electrify the
friends that will have assembled to gath
err up the pearls that fall from her lips.
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If. p~erchanee. she is of too serious a
turn TO tolerate the frivolous ruffle, why
there's nothing easier-all she's to do
is 60 choose delicate lace insertion. And
there's simply no end to the ways it
may be inserted. 1t may be ring-around-
the-rosey fashion from the tips of her toes
% her slender waist. or it may be in zig
zags. or a few rows of it may simulate
the apron shape with which the sex
just now is so very much in love. She
should not, however, be above having
some sort OF a little ounce round the
foot. for it gives a .most becoming set
ting Tor even feet that Leave nothing TO
he desired. OF course, thereli be rings of
the insertion round her pouched bodice;
likewise her sleeves. and some perkiness
by way of a throat finish.
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As to the real finishing toueh-but
Yea must know that that will be her sash
The warrior in the story who bade his
lady love come. grid around me my
sword and SASH could not have taken
more pride in both those killing articles
you must know that that will be her sash.
alone. 1t may be simply a ribbon, at a
few cents a yard. or it may be one of
the tremendous affairs in Ottoman silk,
vita knatted fringe at the ends. that
cost 81 or more-but whatever it may be.
it Kill form the finishing touch that will
give ~miiady-to-be the serenity which only
comes with the consciousness of being
all fait-
Every woman of Spain, Spanish or
American, that I have met. has a special
shrine in her heart for the Queen, of
whofn they speak with the same adora-
ton with which the average English
woman mentions Queen Victoria, or the
average Dutch woman Queen Emma,
says Harper's "Bazar" My American
Spanish friends tell me she has to the
most extraordinary degree the royal en-
dowments of tact and good sense. Many
OF the ~grandees Of Spain are Of far older
birth and nily Shan the Austrian
princess whom Alfonso XII chose to take
TIE place of his CATTLE little cousin Mer-
eedes after her leath. Think of Marie
Antoinette and thg French, and then oil
this young Austrian going to a land
whose language even She had scarcely
ever heard. and where she must win not
Only her peoples, but her husband
heart; for all we remember that in the be-
ginning all the young kings tenderness
Was buried in the grave of his child wife.
Marie Christine conquered first her hus-
bands love. closed his eyes in his last
sleep. and then bravery and nobly waited
alone until the time OF her trial was end
al and the p~esthumous heir to the throne
was born.
BY far the hardest part of her task lay
before her then-to reconcile the various
Spanish parties. to make for liberalism
without alternating the r~eactionary party
of the monarchy. and to take her place as
a Queen without offending the pride OF
those naughty grandees that we know sc
well through our own Motley, on the
lookout for the least opportunity to criti-
else the Austrian and, above all, to be
Jealous of her influence over the young
King. Has ever any woman in modern
times more bravely and successfully ac-
conplfshed a more hereulean task? 1t is
orly through her wonderful care that the
little King is alive He is a remarkably
delicate child. but not the imperieus and
naughty little person that legend repre-
seats him, 1 am told. On the contrary,
ne has naturally a very sweet disposition,
and is tractable and kind. His health i'm
proves constantly as he grows older.
The "Woman's Home Companion says
that in the cultivation of roses much
depends on the start. In the first place
procure the best plants possible for plan
ing. not necessarily the largest. the oldest
or the finest sorts at the highest prices
but endeavor to obtain such plants as are
stoeky. well rooted. naturally strong
growers, and such as are by nature apt t.
be free from disease.