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CHICAGO GIRLS HONESTY.
Her Good Memory and Unique Payment
of Her Debt

Here is little story from New
Orleans which illustrates the way one
Chicago woman paid a debt,
Yes, this is rather a peculiar locket,
and | got it in rather peculiar man
ner," said a cotton buyer yesterday,
when somebody remarked the quaint
little trinFet attached to his watch
chain. The locket was Of gold, and an
ordinary cent piece was set In the lid
surrounded by a circle of colored
stones. The effect was odd and not in
artistic. i
THE story is briefly this" continued
the: speaker About three years ago
I was on street car in Chicago, when
one of the passengers, a very nice look
ing young lady, discovered that She
had no money in her purse. The con-
ductor was disposed to be ugly about
1t, and, of course, ] insisted on paying
the fare, giving the girl one of my
cards at her very urgent request.
cover a year elapsed, and the Incl
dent had entirely faded from my mind,
when one day l was walking along St
Charles street and was halted. by a
lady from a cab. She proved to be the
same one whose car fare I had paid in
Chicago. and had recognized me i'm
mediately, although I had hard work
recalling the original encounter. She
told me >eXcitedly that she had lost my
card on her way home and had been on
the lookout for me ever since, and also
that tSshe was in the city with some rel
atives en- route for home after a>trip
to California. While she was talking
she was searching her purse for a
nickel, but had no change. I laughed,
told her not to bother about it and
gave her another card.
"a few weeks late.. received this
loclSet with .. very charming letter,
which ! prize highly. I have had re-
markably good luck ever since I have
worn the little gift and l am super
stitious enough to regard it as a sort
of mascot. By queer coincidence the
coin chances to bear the date of the
wear of my BIRTH
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men are employed. and on what is called
the ''home farm adjacent, 800 men work
DAILY in all seasons, while more than 100
women and girls are hired simply to
gather the fallen leaves and weed gar
den beds, Lady Louisa being, even in her
extreme old age, ardently interested in
her own sex. These workers, in order to
preserve picture effect, are costumed at
her ladyships expense in a uniform of
green and white, made in the most be-
coming peasant style. The skirts, of
shamrock green, are pinned back over
skirts of darker hue, and the bonnets
are of plated straw of the quaint cottage
pattern, tied under the chin.
In all of the six lodges at Woodstock
the persons employed have been chosen
with a direct view toward giving them
specially appropriate occupations. Women
who are compelled by loss of fortune to
become self-supporting are installed,
while the various buildings erected on the
grounds also typify Lady Louisa's philan-
thropical mission in life.
Red house, one of these dwellings,, h
kept entirely for the use of privileged
sghtseers, who, however. must arrange
their dates some time in advance and
have their names duly registered. They
are received in fashion unknown to
any other show place I have ever visited.
luncheon is served. They are waited
upon in every way and shold they desire
it can take skiff and go out upon the
water.
Near by is Tiddington cottage, where
the gamekeeper resides-well cared for,
like all others In her ladyship's employ.
Beyond is the wood rangers, near which
Is stream, which Is carried five miles to
supply Woodstock with water
Not far away is a curious spot known
as "Lizzie's lawn." Here stand on a rich
sward four arbor vitaes of enormous size,
which can be seen for miles around. tow
ering high above the branches of the for
est itself These were named for the four
sisters of Colonel Tighe.
Turning down this leafy walk or that
one comes upon exquisite bowers. all ap-
propriately named--the Lennox, the Rich
mond, etc.-and all testifying to the fond
ness of Colonel Tighe for his lovely and
high-born wife. There Is also the Silver
spring, a bubbling well OF water, justify
ing its name, icy cold, pellucent and sin
gularly refreshing. and from which each
morning two pailfuls are carried three
miles for her ladyship's use To maintain
Woodstock costs $4,000 every day.
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which was fastened with white pins in
the frankest manner ina aginable each
little head showing cons spicuously on
the back, while at the other end a row
of bristling points warned hands off:
The remainder of the costume was
pretty and even elegant, but this one
feature spoiled it all.
Another maid who walked down the
street recently had her skirt on slightly
awry-only slightly mind you-but it
was enough to throw the line which
commenced at the curly knot at the
back of the head. was continued down
the plait of the shirt waist and should
have finished straight down the skirt,
completely out of its course, and so it
was quite sufficient to ruin the effect
of what was otherwise an attractive
toilette. She didn't use a hand glass,
that's certain.
Examples of this sort multiply when
one looks for them. There's the woman
who pins her bodice with tiny safety
pins, those fastenings forming a zig
gag line that it makes one dizzy to
look at. and she whose sash is maud
lin looking, it's so crooked, and a host
Of others. the great majority of the
transgressions occurring in the neck
arrangements.
The hand-glass is real necessity
not so much from motives of vanity as
from "a desire to appear decently array
ed and in order, and it's a pity, there
fore, it isn't used oftener and with
more thoroughness.
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DYED OR ReMoDELED GOWNS.
Proper Way of Preparing Material Before
Changing Its Coiof.,s -,


This is the season of the made over
gown for the home dressmakers with
thoughts centered on economy. A
gown may be SO dyed or remodoled that
those who never wear made over
dresses will be none the wiser. There
are many things to be learned and
remembered before one can make a
success of making over such as turn
Ing the material wrong side out and up
side down; the pressing between two
pieces of clean cotton cloth, to save it
from the gloss of the fiat iron; the
combining with other materials ready
for making, the making of collars,
cuffs, belts and vests from the sleeves:
making sleeves and waist parts out of
the cores of the skirt; making an en-
tire waist or matinee jacket from
skirt; piecing, matching plaids and
stripes; covering seams and rows of
old stitching with trimming of braid
and the lengthening of a skirt or
sleeves with narrow rnilliners folds.
wide bias folds of a contrasting color
or material, or with O ruff1e or nounce.
Some people have not the slightest idea
of the innumerable makeshifts possi-
BILE to deft fingers and quick brains in
domestic dressmaking.
The very first thing to be done is to
rip the dress to pieces and after
thorough brushing and shaking, re-
and stains and sponge very carefully
with Spanish bark; then, if desirable,
the material may be dyed. This rem
oyated material will look Like new
In dyeing dress material do not
wiring it out, but hang cut dripping wet,
and allow it to dry slowly in the shade.
This prevents shrinking. Wr!nging it
out encourages it on the other hand
to draw and shrink.
With the material carefully spread
out on table, study it to see how it
can be cut to the best advantage to
suit the new style of dress. A pretty
dress may be made to look like new
by combining the plaid or striped ma
teriaI of one dress with the plain color
of another. OF course, stripes and \
plaids must match and colors must
not clash In matching stripes sim
pie pian,a If followed accurately, will
help very much. Take a paper dress
pattern. with the sewing lines traced,
and pin this carefully upon the plaid
or stripe and cut out, and with the
pattern still pinned upon the cloth,
fold upon the material with the waist
line Straight, and see that the stripes
are evenly matched. Now lay upon
this piece the pattern next to be cut.
WITH seams folded back to sewing
lines. and with waist line even with
the other waist line on the pattern;
then cut. allowing enough cloth for a
seam. If carefully done the stripes
when, the seams are stitched will be
found evenly and perfectly matched
1t is a very simple and accurate plan,
and Is found to work successfully in
matching the most difficult plaids. The
sleeves may be made of the back
breadths of the plain colored skirt, the
waist portions from the large plaid
sleeves of the old-fashioned waist The
plaid skirt may still be the same al
teredFin shape, however, and trimmed
with folds of the plain part of the
other skirt.
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A Crusade Against Men.

The Woman's Municipal Ownership
league of Chicago, under the direction
of Mrs. Mnona Sterns Fits, has started
a crusade against men who monopolize
car seats when women are standing.
Cards are distributed in street cars to
men who are seated while women are
standing. The cards bear the following
legend: Gentlemen, stand UP and give
the women seats. You can vote for
municipal ownership and stop this
thing-they cannot" Mrs. Fits is cred
tied with being the originator of this
original scheme, which created quite
sensation The idea was to call the at
tenton Of the men to the fact that
voters We're responsible for existing con-
ditions, and to show both men and wo-
men that If men claim that women are
a protected class, women. some of them
at least, have sufficient courage to de-
mand that protection. Many men con-
fessed that the card was the first re-
minder they had ever had that men are
indeed responsible for evil civic condi-
TONS and that women are not respon-
eible. yet suffer equally with men the
injury done. Mrs. Fits belongs to a
family Of reformers all of whom pos
sess "the disposition to break up the
old and adopt the new" as she ex-
presses it. One of Mrs. Fits sister is
head of the Wisconsin librarian COM
mission, and has a national reputation:
another sister is mayor of Florence,
Ore.
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DANCED WITH WELLINGTON.
Buckled on Sword of Waterloo Hero at
Richmond Hall.

Richmond Hall.
Lord Byrons famous poem beginning
"There was a sound of revelry by night
and the celebrated battle of Waterloo are
both commemorated in the person of
Lady Louisa Tighe.
Near Kilkenny, ireland, on the banks Of
River More, lies Woodstock, the vast es-
tate of Lady Louisa Tighe, and here sur
rounded by every luxury and loved and
honored by all who know her, lives the
daughter of the Duke of Richmond who
almost a century ago buck,ed on Lord
WeIlington's sword when he left Brussels
on the campaign which amazed the world.
Dominated by its superb baronial man
sion of granite, hewn and carved on the
estate, Woodstock extends over a circuit
of 10 miles, and its walks. roads and
drives extend 500 miles. Connected with
the estate are some curious privileges,
among which is the right of tenants to Law
all their grievances or disputes before the
lord of the manor-not entering the house
to do SO, but standing in a courtyard di-
rectly outside Of the study window
Near by is the shooting tower, build
Ing overlooking the wide preserves
Though dczg are killed by the hundred
only the riSat side of the animal is ever
cooked and eaten at Woodstock. 1t is
supposed this custom arose from the fact
that in generations gone by a favorite
animal was accidentally wounded on the
left side, and its owner declared that
heneeforth in the length and breadth of
Woodstock no deer should ever be shot or
harmed unless the sportsman touched the
right side. ss -
On this portion of the grounds alone 2OO
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HOUSE
a New Occupation That Has Found Vogue
in Gotham.

in Gotham.
Professional "house openers" of
which peculiar profession there are
many members of both sexes in New
York, are hard at work just now
Their duty is to go into the homes of
well-to-do people, who have been away
for the summer, and get everything
in apple pie order for the home COM
ing of the family. When a house has
been unoccupied, except by caretaker
or two, for three months it requires a
general furnishing up to make it hab-
liable. 1t is this furnishing up that
is the business of the "house opener"
He sees that all the hardwood floors
are redressed, all the carpets taken up,
cleaned and put down again, all the
chimneys cleaned, the kitchen range
and furnace thoroughly overhauled,
the plumbing and gas fixtures inspect
ed and put in good repair. lace cur
tains cleaned and properly draped, and
the same with the portieres. all the
windows cleaned, all the brass and
bright metal polished, fires started and
every room carefully swept, busted and
arranged so that it will wear that un-
mistakable but indescribable air of
having been lived in. All this is i'm
possible to the average servant. 1t
demands the services of a man or wo-
man of taste and culture, who can see
things with the eye of the owner and
arrange matters as if he were there.
1t is a profitable employment, but 1t
is only cne man or woman here and
there that can take it up. The heavy
handed dullard has no business in such
a calling, but the bright, quick seeing
person, who has lived in a comfortable
home himself, and demands for his
own comfort the niceties of life, finds
here a congenial task that pays him
better than most lines of work into
which he would drift if he had not this
one at his finger ends.
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LONDON SMOKING NURSES.
The Habit Frankly Acknowledged BY
Ono Sick-Room Attendant.

The habit Of smoking is said to be
quite prevalent among London trained
nurses. An English nurse was recently
interviewed on the subject. and she OBJ
served that she believed that the habit
was not peculiar to the minority. She
observed further that "the niceness OF
our personalities is so important an
item in our private training that the
idea of any of us being supposed to
reek with stale smoke is simply alb
surd. To efface the trace of decent to-
bacco is a small affair-only a matter
of the toothbrush and water No one
disputes the disinfecting properties of
its qualifications. Bar US from the use
that we may enjoy sore throas in pre-
ferences. Nurses have hundreds of irrl-
tating, trifling worries that wear like
the dripping of continual water. Our
training does much to fortify the char
acter, but when nerves are oveIstrung
and sleep Is broken the effect of
cigarette is of immediate and soothing
relief. Our pleasures are not so nu-
merous that We should be debarred
from one which, pursued with modera-
ton, at the right and in the proper
place, gives our patients no annoyance,
and is not only harmless to ourselves
but enables us to return to our invalid
bright and cheerful. Nothing is Of more
immediate benefit to the sick than to be
tended by those possessed with a sweet
content and a happy serenity of man.
ner, and it Is my opinion that cigar
cite is of great assistance to possess
this demeanOr so essential.
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the ROSEBUD GIRL.
l to-day!

She is sixteen summers old to-day!
Mark her calendar. ye who say
That summer must have its winter, too,
And find that it's one long summer
through!
Bird and blossom and breeze in tune:
A summer morning. no afternoon.
The rose in her cheek from June to June.
She is sixteen summers old to-day!
There's a moon for her when the suns
away;
There's a song that is only for her to
sing:
There's a bird that is waiting to try its
wing;
There's a beautiful world, as vet unseen.
That is waiting for her to be its queen
Time is a youth and the years that were
Are only just sixteen to her.
She Is sixteen summers old to-day!
That's what her first two sweethearts
say
Mother and father-and I'm afraid
We are all sweethearts of this sweet
maid!
VIII some philosopher now, who knows.
Tell us the mystery of this pearl,
why II takes one year to perfect a rose,
And sixteen years for. a rosebud girl?
The Independent.
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JUST AS TALL AS THE VENUS.
Correct Proportions of the Noble Woman
Nobly Planned

Correct Proportions of the Noble Woman
Nobly Planned.
The recognized perfection for wom-
ans stature is five feet five inches, the
height of the Venetian Venus. The
other accessories for physical perlec-
tion according to the Arabic code,
are:
Back-Hair. eyebrows, lashes and pu-
pills.
Whte-SlSin, teeth and globe of the
eye.
Red-Tongue, lips and cheeks
Long-Back, fingers, arms and limbs
Round-Head, neck, arms, ankles and
waist.
Large-Forehead, eyes and lips
Narrow-Eyebrows nose and feet.
Small-Ears, bust and hands
For a woman five feet five inches. 1873
pounds is the proper weight, and If she
be well formed she can stand another 10
pounds without greatly showing it.
When her arms are extended she
should measure from the tip of middle
finger to tip of middle finger just five
feet five inches, exactly her own weight
The length of her hand should be just
a tenth of that and her foot just
seventh
The distance from the elbow to the
middle finger should be the same as the
distance from the elbow to the middle
of the chest.
From the top of the head to the chin
should be Just the length of the foot
and there should be the same distance
between the chin and the armpits.
A woman of this height should meas
ure "a inches about the waist and 81
inches about the bust, if measured from
under the arms and 43 If over them.
The upper arm should measure l3
inches and the wrist six.
The calf of the leg should measure
14& inches. the thigh 25 and the ankle
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THE FASHIONABLE BOA.
It May he of Feathers, Fur or Tulle
and Is Beautiful.


and Is Beautiful.
The standard length for boas this sea-
son is one and half yards, although
close collars of ostrich feathers are seen
that frame the face in full ruff. De-
lightful boas. meant to be worn
throughout the evening, are of white
mousselne de sole, edged with small
feathers. Boas Of chiffon, mousseline
net and liberty silk are crimped, ehiIred
and plated in a fashion that is simply
irresistible. A collar of black Brussels
net, for instance, is in full, fine plaits,
quite wide at the back of the neck
and tapering to the belt. edged with a
small doubled ruche of liberty silk. An
other combination. which includes scarf
and collar. is of plated liberty silk,
and has long ends of the supple tissue
shirred their whole length, the rows
of gathers being diversified at intervals
by clusters of ruchings. third black
boa is lightened by a little color in the
guise of an inch-wide Persian border
in dull reds, cleaning with gold thread
There are also boas of endless COM
binations, tulle and lace. and several of
white chiffon lightly figured in black
are interspersed with many loopad
knots of narrow black or tinted velvet
ribbon. captivating boa and muff are
too lovely for mere words to describe
Imagine the boa of creamy white chif-
fon, edged with Tom Thumb fringe AMI
interspersed with tails of marten; add
to this a muff of white silk, covered
with looseiy-puffed chiffon, rutfieG
around the ends with chiffon, bordered
with the brown fur; invest them both
with a perfume that is suggested rather
than expressed, and you have a bit of
artistic caprice that, of course could
only have come from Paris.
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most Washingtonans are too we'll
aware of the girls social eminence to
venture on any impertinence to her,
stepped up, bowed, and said, airily:
waiting for somebody?'
The girl turned to look at him.
Guess you've forgotten me-" he
went on with growing familiarity. Il
saw you at a dinner last week"
The girl looked at him steadily for
a moment.
was at Colonel Blanks. You are Col
onel Blanks butler, of course. No.
don't know of anybody who wants a
butler Have you tried the employ
ment agencies?"
And then, slowly and calmly, she
walked away.
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NEW INDIAN SUMMER GOWNS.
Fashionable Fancles for Last Days of
Hs.' Hot Weather.

Hot Weather.
There are fashions for Indian summer
as well as for the more definite seasons of
summer and winter. The Indian summer
gown to be worn in October will follow
the cut of the summer gowns now being
prepared for shelving, but woody stuffs.
lovely albatross. camel's hair and French
Hannels will be used. Creoon is revived.
too, for this purpose Scarlets, brilliant
greens and white will be worn, and also
Will all shades of brown, but the latter
will not be so characteristicaly in fash
ion. Wools dotted with silk, sometimes
in smooth polkas. often in loose knots. are
most effective. Such materials are made
up in combination with silk, often accord
ing to elaborate design. and are intended
for a career later at the theater and house
wear.
Some of these dresses will be of little
use except for the season after which
they are named. These are for wealthy
folk. More sensible gowns are well suit
ed to this new fancy in names, and serve
until worn out. One shows for Indian
summer only by its color-cut and finish
being without striking features. It's
broadcloth was Of deep red Embroidery
of white silk was used freely. black VEL
vet supplied belt, collar and piping for
both skirts. and white-corded silk gave
the V-shaned yoke. Ruff1es of the dress
goods. edged with faint tracery of en-
broidery, were used as shoulder finish. In
view of the unanimity with which first
class dressmakers declare that such
shoulder treatment is out of fashion, it is
surprising to see 1t crop out in stylish
gowns, frequently on the output of these
same critics. That it is about past there
is no denying. That is occasionally ap-
pears is because women insist that plain
sleeve tops make them look narrow
chested, end there are really very few
permissible ways of trimming the shoul-
ders, &
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NEW USE OF HAND GLASS.
Convenient Small Mirror Should Reflect
Neck and Shoulders.

Woman's vanity doesn't always ex-
tend below her head.
Every girls dressing table boasts a
hand-glass, of course-that is, it does if
she's a real girly-girl with u ia r
amount Of vanity. but one sometime s
wonders when she looks at the maids
on the streets to what use these inn
plements are put. for the toilette of the
average feminine shows so often a total
lack of symmetry that one cannot be-
lieve she spends much time using the
refectors. At least she doesn't let her
gaze wander below her head, it would
seem, for, while her coiffure is all right
usually, the collar below is often a
sight.
One young woman in a car the other
evening had on a black velvet stock
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HER RETORT.
How One Girl Embarrassed an Imperti-
nent Man.

nent Man.
] think that you can always trust
the American woman to take care Of
herself, and of the American girls
ability to do it, l haven't the faintest
glimmer of a doubt, says the Wash
ington Post. The friends of a girl, who
lives in Eighteenth street are telling
these days of an adventure which be-
fell her one afternoon within the fort
night, and IL | tell no names, l am at
liberty to repeat the story to you. She
was standing, this Eighteenth street
girl at the corner of F and Eleventh
streets, waiting for girl friend. who
had gone back into the store on that
corner to buy something she had for
gotten. A very dapper young man, a
stranger. doubtless, in the town, for
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-07-27

scene of small but bloody war. Judge
Onear Of Mount Sterling says troops will
have to be withdrawn, and that the only
way will be to let the Towards and Ba-
kcrs fight it out among themselves.