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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
MUST DRESS WELL.

1t is absurd to dream of going to
court unless you are well dressed. but
1t is the Americans to whom apparently
money is no object They seem to I'M
derstand, says an English writer, the
sort of gown that suits their own per-
sonality. Lily, duchess of Marlborough
has hardly ever been to the drawing
room without wearing one of the most
notably beautiful dresses at court She
has very fine diamonds, and the en-
broideries which have appeared on her
white velvet trains and her black satin
ones have often been interspersed with
real gems in the design American wo-
men have great prediction for white
court gowns Mrs. Goeiet and Miss
Goelet both wore white when they were
presented last season. The present
Duchess of Marlborough very often ap-
pears in white, and Lady Naylor Ley
land, a recent widow. has never been
seen in colored gown at court.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
new WRINKLES.
Fads and Fancies in
Gowns and Deco
rations.
NEW FABRICS AND TINTS.
Stitching, Buttons and
Braid for Tailor
Gowns.
new FABRICS AND TINTS.

Rows upon rows of stitching will be
used upon tailor-made and business
dresses, and the gowns that women
viii wear to walk and shop in. Eleven
rows will be run around the bottom Of
the skirt seven at the knees, five be-
tween hip and knees and three near the
belt. The lines of the seams are con-
tinued to the very top of the skirt, and
no belt is worn, the top being strength
ened by buckram, which is slipped be-
tween the lining and the dress goods.
Black, brown, jackdaw, navy and
magpie veilings are the staple shades
for fall veilings. Spotted veilings and
the heavier grades of plain tuxedos
will be. popular. Double wells have
gone out They we're hideously unbe-
coming.
Plaids greet us everywhere. Some of
them are very beautiful, with their
new tones and broken squares. Light
weight broadcloths in pastile shades
cream pearl gray, rose and sky blue
will be all the go, while the more ro-
bust shades will be made into shopping
and street gowns Novelty homespuns
will be much worn.
Velvets and velveteens promise to be
popular, and separate waists will con-
stinue to, be built of them. For the sep
arate skirt, crepon continues to be
used while grenadines, canvas weaves
and bareges will be worn as much
through the winter as they have been
the past summer. White taffeta will
make charming shirt waists, with
clusters of vertical and diagonal, tucks,
the sleeves small and the cuffs round
ed. Black taffeta boleroS viii be worn.
Buttons and braids will be the rage,
and so will silk cord appliques, jet and
chenille passsmerteries, soutache in
rows and braiding designs. Cloth
gowns have revers deliberately trimmed
with mousseline de sole, or with peau
de sole incrusted with ruchings and
guipure. The vests are made to match.
Wine color is much talked about and
will probably be used on toques, hats,
bonnets and as trimmings for gowns.
Some beautiful dahlia and plume
shades are seen in cloth, silk and wool
and light wool mix lures, and will be
very smart when built into autumn
gowns. Automobile is finding the same
favor in the United States as in Paris.
Light blues, magenta and a pale green
are added to the pastile shades which
have been 50 esteemed by elegantes
through the fall, while shepherd S
plaids in navy and white, brown and
white, red and white, and black and
white, to make up with jackets Of solid
color are selling freely. A feature of
the fail sultings is black with contrast
ing spots, stripes and figures; on the
other hand, bright colored cashmeres
have black chenille spots.
Chenille, by the way. will occupy an
important place in the winters fash
ions, being used with pretty effect in
Stripes and dots. While chenille spots
on red, green on black, and red on
black are novelties. Prune, a wing
shade that was much worn a decade or
so ago, is coming to the fore. Heather
mixture tweed, which is close smooth
and delicateiy tinted with the mauves,
grays and browns of the heather, is
lovely Wool poplins have also come
to stay.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
RRoILED LIVE LOBSTER.
Mrs. Lincoln Tells How to Prepare
This Favorite Dish.

Lay the lobster out on the table on its
stomach, fiatten it out and hold it firmly
with the left hand, protected by a towel.
if the fellow be lively. says Mrs. Mary j.
Lincoln. With sharp-pomted knife held
in the right hand, make.a quick cut in the
section between the back and the tail.
This sewers the spinal chord and kills him
instantly. Or. if you prefer you may
smother him by plungiug him head-fore-
most into boiling water for five minutes
Then begin at the mouth and make a
deep incision, drawing the knife quickly
through the body and entire length of the
tail, dividing shell and all into two equal
parts. Lay the lobster open remove the
coral and stomach but leave the liver
Remove the Intestinal vein from the tail,
and crack the qraw shells with mallet.
Put It on q Creased wire broiler, and lay
1t close to the hot Goals. Brush the flesh
over with melted butter as soon as hot
Broil eight rninutee on the flesh side.
turn and brot six minutes on the shell
side. Serve immediately
Melted butter rs usually served with
broiled lobster, but l prefer a maitre
d-hotel butter. Two tablesnoons butter
creaned and Seasoned with ofe-half tea
spoon salt, one tablespoon each lemon
and minced parsley and few grains of
paprika.
Have plates very hot, as lobster cools
quickly, and provide pincers or nut crack
efs for cracking the claws and oyster
forks for picking out the meat.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
RICH. BUT DEMOCRATIC.
Mrs. George J. Gould is Not Above Do.
ing a Favor.

ing TdNOF.
Even Helen Gould is not more demo
cratic than hear beautiful sister-n-law
Mrs. George ]. Gould, formerly Edith
Kingdom, the actress. The old story is
revived to the effect that she viii enter
tain deliberately this winter in her New
York palace, which has been closed
since the marriage of her husband
sister to Count Castellane.
NO better illustration of Mrs. Gouls
amiability can be given than an Incl
dent of her last trip through the far
west in her husbands private car. Mr..
Gould was looking over his southwest
ern railroad properties, and in addition
to Mrs. Gould and his children, he was
accompanied by several railroad Off
GERS, and most of the journey was made
on special train. In New Mexico. how
ever, it was necessary TO add the
Gould car to a regular passenger train
for few hours. This train made tie
regular stops, says the New York Post.
At lonely siding a shabbily dressed
woman and a lanky little old-fashioned
girl of seven or eight boarded by mis-
take the car in which Mrs Gould and
her children were, and the blunder was
not discovered by the train hands. The
woman gaSped with aStonlshment at
the elegance of her surroundings and
the little girl timidly shrank into her
Sunbonnet. Il guess this must be one
of them parlor cars" said the woman
to one of the Gould maids. Before the
servant could reply Mrs. Gould sat
down beside the pair and asked whett-
err she could not get something to eat
or drink for them. Thank you kindly.
num- said the woman, but we eat
just before leavin' hum. But that was
before sunrise"
Mrs. Gould beckoned to the maid, and
in a few minutes a table was spread
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
MARRoN's GLAcE.

and after removing the outer skins, cover
with water and boil till soft-thirty min
utes to an hour, depending upon the kind
of chestnut: then peel very carefully and
put into a dish. Make syrup of one
pound Of sugar and half cupful of
water boil briskly for five minutes, or
until IT threads (by which l mean the
sEpup m 1or to on cod atar u a%d qp
into the syrup. Let this cool and pour
over the nuts, and leave for thirty-six
hours or longer in a warm place. Lift the
nuts out and drain, and while they are
draining make another syrup with the
same quantities of sugar and water, add
ing also a pinch of cream of tartar, but
this time allow the mixture to boil a
little longer, say seven minutes. Take off
the fire and place the nuts in carefully,
and return to the fire, and again bring the
mixture to q boil no more. Stir the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
DuMRsELLs FOR WOMEN.
sandow, the Athlete, Recommends
Them, But They Must Be Light.


What women need, says Sandow, is a
system of exercise which will develop
and strengthen the various sets of mus
Giles tremendously. Dumbbells are what
Sandow recommends and when these
simple weapons are ingeniously used no
part of the body can escape from their
beneficial effect. Proper exercise de-
velops the chest and makes the waist
slender and thus the French corset is
not mourned by the dumbbell disciple.
Sandow does not believe in heavy
dumbbells, pair of 21s-pound bells are
heavy enough for the beginner. Regu-
larity is essential to good results, and
even 10 minutes exercise each morning
will do wonders for the languid, stoop-
shouldered girl. The athlete lays stress
upon the fact that muscular develop
ment in women does not mean knotty,
pugilistic looking arms and necks.
'tWomen's muscles are long, and do not
develop in size so as to form bumps
and hard, abrupt lines" he says. They
become firm, close knit and rounded,
showing sufficiently to give a delicate
moulding to the form. This is due to
the layer of fatty tissue, between mus
Gle and skin, which softens all the out
lines, so that the danger really is, not
that a woman should have too strong
lines, but that want of exercise should
cause her to have no lines at all, but a
sort of shapeleSs rotundity"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
FRESH BUTTERMILK.
A Healthful Drink for Invallds and
Children.

- iiSoiAHlui CIlHN UT 'lNSHuS ouA
Children.
Here in the south, where we have to
guard against malarial affections, we
thnN ereas dea, of buttermilk, and
have found it invaluable as prevent
i've of many ills of the flesh, says a
writer in What to Eat" For instance,
there is nothing in the way of food
product to take its place in cases of
bilious temperament 1t should be put
on ice while perfectly fresh and drunk
freely, two or three times a day, with
or without solids; that is, either at
meal times or between; but since it is
very nutritious, 1t should be considered
a part of ones meals and not a mere
adjunct like water. 1t is one of the
most beneficial drinks for invalids and
may be safely given to children over
two years old; but buttermilk must on
no account be kept in tin vessels or left
uncovered in hot close places, for un-
der these conditions it absorbs odors
and germs, and ferments. producing
unwholesome, If not actively poisonous
gases.
Down here where we use so much of
It, we treat it almost as carefully as an
epicure treats choice wine-keep it in
glass jars in a spring house or on ice,
and Immediately after emptying the
jars they are submerged in clean, cold
water to prevent caking and souring,
and washed and summed
For very aggravated cases of bilious
ness let the patient put himself on a
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
AT A CHICAGO HOTEL.

A young widow, accompanied by a
woman friend, went TO Chicago not long
ago, and has related this experience to
some home friends. according to the Bos-
ton Saturday Evening Gazette. The widow
being attractive and her friend none the
less so, had the misfortune to excite the
in the dining room of the hotel where they
were staying. of course, no notice was
given by either woman. both being I'M
comfortably aware of the unfiattering at
tention. When the ladies arose they OBJ
served one of the men questioning the
waiter. presumably about themselves and
a moment after reaching their rooms were
surprised by the knock of bell boy
bearing two cards on his salver, The
widow picked up the cards and read
aloud Mr.. Wheeler and Mr.. Wilson,
Without moments pause she turned to
the boy: Tell the gentlemen l am not
in need OF any sewing machines"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
LATEST WORD ON COFFEE.
Glass, Not Metal, and Green, Home
Roasted Java Are Requisites.

iva Wv SNNG nv stOAdiSlkCSs
The latest word of those who know is.
that to be perfect, coffee must never
while 1t Is making come in contact with
any metal. For the breakfast table, at
least, it should be made in glass.
First buy from a depot of medical sup
plies flask of annealed glass, which
looks like an ordinary water bottle. The
price is 80 cents-no great outlay consi-
dering the bottle will stand boiling water
without breaking. Then pay cents for
q glass funnel to fit into the bottle neck
and 10 cents for dozen round bits of
clean, coarse white muslin.
Coffee itself is the next thing. 1t is
real Java, bought green of a dealer who
has regard to his word, at 50 to so cents
the pound. 1t is roasted to a nicely at
home half pound at a time, and ground
just as it is wanted. 1t may go into a
chased silver lidded bowl without the least
harm. The water may likewise boil in a
silver kettle, over q brass-mounted spirit
lamp-or even on the plebian gas stove
before it comes in sight. The one essen
tai thing Is to have it in plenty and
freshly boiling
First pour cup Of the boiling water
in the flask, and turn it deity about,
heating the flask all the way up. Then
pour 1t out, whip the funnel in the flask
mouth. line the funnel with one of the
muslin rounds and put into it three heap
ing tablespoonfuls of the ground coffee.
Then slowly, steadily, gracefully pour on
the water-which has been kept bubbling
through, stir the wet coffee lightly with
a teaspoon. More water goes in as the
first pouring filters through, says the
philadelphia Inquirer. Three spoonfuls
of dry coffee ought to yield three cups
of the coffee essence.
1t is really coffee essence which comes
out of the flask. 1t is almost black, per-
fectly clear, full of coffee flavor and
aroma. Only the most confirmed coffee
topper can drink it neat Other folks re-
quire the cup to be half filled with boiling
water. Those who like whipped cream in
It make the water a third. Thus a single
fltering will serve a considerable tea
party. The muslin and the spent grounds
are thrown away after each altering.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
RULES FOR PLANTS.

An important point in setting out plants
is to firm the soil we'll about the plant
after setting it in the ground This can
be best done with the feet, tramping the
soil gently Immediately about the base
and against the stalk Of the plant. This
serves to keep the plant in position, so
that It will not be whipped about by the
wind, and prevents the air from getting
ont Of the pots, dip the ball of soil sur
rounding the roots in water, and pour a
little into the hole into which the plant Is
to be set Fill the soil In about the plant,
and compress II as suggested above, and
If no water is applied for a week the
plant will not suffer. BY the former
method only the surface of the soil IS
wet. and the roots of the plant remain
dry.--Robert McGregor in the May Wom-
ans Home Companion.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
MODERN ENGLISH GIRL
Not the Maiden That Americans Have
Pictured in Their Mind.

Pictured in Their Mind.
Girls, of course, are not any more
in fashion in London this season than
they were last The young and even
the middle-aged married woman dis
tinctly queens it over the debutantes
at most entertainments, where the
world which amuses itself is most apt
to congregate. Very few bachelor En-
glishmen are What are called marry
ing men" nowadays, writes a London
correspondent. They like to emulate
the volatile butterfly, and fit from
flower to flower" without having any
urgent necessity for resting at the
heart of any specially charming bios.
som, and as the married woman OF
smart English society is apt to be
rather loud mouthed and free spoken
with men during these latter day times
I think she has much to do with the
evolution of what Mr.. Pineo calls ''the
creamy English girl" from her typica
expression of colorless and inanimatt
charm into that rather racey ant
slangy young woman who is called the
Nowadays the shy girl is apt to be
called the sly girl. Possibly she does
not deserve the term, but still 1t is Civ
en- to her with that pleasant ambiguity
of expression which is always the mos
dangerous weapon of the feminine sex
/ remember reading long ago. about the
typical English girl; who had large
feet, square waist, divine com
plexion, wonderful hair and who wore
a respirator and no corSets. | think
this was the accepted American idea
of the tender flower of British girl.
hood. 1t is an exploded theory, how.
ever, for the English ingenue now cul-
tivates her figure wears French heels
such as would make the well bred New
York young woman shiver with dis
gust and who certainly has a bloom
on her cheeks such as never was the
result of Dame Natures paint box. Nc
longer, ,&lso, are the white muslins, the
blue sashes. the baby frills and the
white silk gloves of the period wher
sweet English girlhood" and The
Duchess" reigned supreme, either con-
picuous or possible. They are simply
out of the running, and Miss Violet
Meadowdew is as keen upon betting on
Sloans mounts as she Is upon accur-
ately gauging the effect of her latest
and tightest princess gown upon the
crowd of Johnnies in the park. And
yet, with all this up-to -dateness on the
part Of the English maiden, 1t Is her
mother, her aunt and sometimes even
her grandmother, who has the majority
of fiirtations on hand, and who invarl-
ably has a string of dear boys" trail
ing in the rear of her exquisitely ad-
justed Partisan gown.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
LUNCH AND LUNCHEON.

A dispute as to the word "lunchp and
luncheon" recently arose between Mr..
and Mrs. William Dean Howells Mr..
Howells championed lunch as the pro-
per term. while his wife defended lunch
con" At last, at Mr.. Howels sugges-
ton. they appealed to the century die
tionary to settle the question. well. /
was right after all, he exclaimed in tri-
umph, and he read aloud the following
extract, quoted as showing correct usage
I'VE lunched fairly upon little dishes OF
rose leaves delicately preserved" From
what author is that sentence taken?'' In
quired Mrs. Howells. why, 7 declare.
from w. d. Howellsi' .'Pshaw!" was
the retort; hes no authority"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
H1s AUToaRAPH.

An autograph of Napoleon has lust
been sold in Paris scratched across a
list of things which the empress Jo-
sephine's mistress of the robes proposed
to order. What foolish wastel" scrib-
bled the imperial husband 'Forty-six
pieces of white point lace and as OF
Chantilly, 10 grand court dresses. 20
dresses walking costumes, 10 shawls.
240 pairs OF pink silk stockings. l can
not tolerate such waste But like
many another man, since fashion began,
the great emperor had to tolerate the
foolish waste" few months after
ward Josephine wanted a new ward
robe and wrote at the foot Of the Of
Tending list: Mime. Hamelin can do as
she pleases with above articles Of
clothing Josephine.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
BRIDES WHO BUY RINGs
Growing Practice Which One JeweleF
Thinks Has Its Advantages

Growing Practice Which One JeweleF
Thinks Has Its Advantages
Isn't that new wrinkIe?'s, asked
the chance observer. s4
~What?" said the clerk.
'sFor the bride to buy the wedding
ring replied the observer, turning to
look at the young woman who had just
gone out with her purchase of IA
karat gold-filled ring.
The clerk, who turned out to be the
proprietor also, laughed. Not at all
! in this part of town. he sale. The
practice has been in vogue here for
several years and has continued to
grow in popularity until it has become
/ quite the proper caper. Indeed, when
\ man comes in here now and asks to
look at plain gold rings, we consider
him little off color and feel rather
mean toward him, as though he were
usurping a feminine prerogative. Any
way, why shouldn't the woman buy the
ring, looking at the matter from
common sense standpoint? It saves
no end of trouble. a ring from a
womans point of view is a matter not
only of sentiment, but also of adorn-
ment She wants her jewelry, how
lever cheap 1t may be. to be d ofnthe
I proper cut and the proper size. Now,
!
and select the right kind of ring even II
he has got the measure? Not oneiout
| of 20. 1t is lot more satisfactory for
all concerned for the bride to come In
and pick out what she wants without
troubling the bridegroom, except of
lcourse, for the money. He always set
ties the bill; at least,I suppose he
docs. s a seggses
"You see, this is a neighborhood
where the people don't stand much on
the fine points of etiquette. They insist
upon the ring to tie up the contract
with but two-thirds of these rings are
unengraved and sell for from 81 to 81.
Its fun to see some of the women when
| they first state their errand. They beat
about the bush and make their wants
known in such a coquettish way that
I don't wonder sometimes that the
young man. whoever he may be, has
Hest his head. Maidenly modesty, sup
pose, makes them shy, and they begin
by saying they are looking for plain
gold ring for a friend with a finger
! about the size of mine. When they
SAY that, I always smile. L know what
1t means. New York Sun.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
MELoNs RAISED oN THE BoTrI.E.

The green watermelon is usually able
to hold it's own against the small boy, but
1t seems that it is unable to compete
with modern science. The scientific water
melon grower now fattens his melons for
market with just as good results as the
man gets who raises live stock. Your up
to-date melonist operates on the stem of
the melon and Introduces a cotton fuse
into Ii. After the stem heals the& fuse
lis passed through a cork and into bottle
filed with water which has been sweet
ened with sugar. 1t Is said that one melon
day, and that melons brought dp ioti the
bottle weigh in the neighborhood of Is
pounds and have a sweetness of fdisposi-
ton that can not be tested in any ruu-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08

a printers point of view; but any little
suggestion she wanted to make she ran
along with the article in the following
fashion:
MI and Mrs Brown Smith gave on
Monday an elegant dinner of fourteen
covers. tEor goodness sake, spell her
name Smy-last week 1t went in Smi.
ano she was fearfully cross about il. !
Mrs Indigo Blueblood has sent cut
cardg for a ball, at which she will in
frcduce into society her lovely daugh-
ter. This is all right This Mrs. Blue
blood has some sense, and doesn't in
the least mind seeing her name in
print. It's the other Mrs. Blueblood
we had the fuss WITH Mrs. De Perk-
. ms contenplates a visit to Paris early
in she spring. Don't stick her down at
the tail end Of the column, whatever
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08

steady diet of buttermilk and bread
or cereals for one week and he will be
amazed at the result,
OF, course, care must be used not to
take too much, even of this plain food !;
fruit should not be eaten at the same
meal with buttermilk, but moderate
amount Of bread, crackers and plain
not fried-meats may be taken with
perfect safety.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08

thoroughly mixed Strain, and you will
have a clear fluid left, which will keep
for an indefinite period: Into each basin
Of water used for washing the hair put
one OF two tabiespoonfus OF this liquid
Rub well into the scalp and through the
hair. Rinse in clean, warm water. Rub
with linen. towel till partly dry, and
vigorously till perfectly dry, when the
hair will be delightfully."- soft and glossy
An excellent tonic for the hair Is made
bv mixing one quart Of bay rum half a
teacupful of table salt and four drains
of tincture Of cantharides.