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Paul Fletcher was in the drawing
room waiting for Ida to come. He was
fidgety and impatient. for, when you
have been vainly trying for six months
to propose to a girl, it is only natural
that you should be bit nervous on the
day when you know that you are to be
allowed to do it.
.Lida lived with her brother, and every
time Fletcher called to see her @ither
the brothers wife or his children were
in the room, 50 there was never a
chance to say anything to her alone.
Fletcher admitted that Mrs. Stafford
was a very charming woman, that he
was uncommonly fond of the children,
and that it was delightful to see Ida
so devoted to her nephews and nieces-
But it was natural that he should
rather resent the stupid intrusion of the
family as he chose to call it.
At last. however, his opportunity had
come. 1t was day before Christmas,
and Mrs. Stafford and the children had
gone to her mothers for several days.
Now, with Ida left at home with the
two servants, and her brother not COM
ing till evening, Fletcher could say to
her those things he had been longing
|. to say but which he could not bring
himself to write In a letter nor to de-
clare before the assembled family.
At length, after what seemed a very
long waiting, some one was coming.
He stood up and looked eagerly toward
the doorway. The portiere was thrust
aside, and in walked-Teddy-T
who, in Fletcher's opinion, was the
worst pill in the whole box as far as
staying power and keen observation
were concerned.
"Hullo. Teddy he said, not very cor
daily. Il thought you had gone TO
spend Christmas with your grandma"
IT din't co." said Teddy.
There was that in his appearance
that seemed to tell of some recent storm
now succeeded by calm.
You see, grandma's kind of sick and
she can't stand noise very well, and she
thinks Frank and me both at one time
are too much. The others, she says, are
old enough to behave themselves, but
she thinks Frank and I are better
apart 1 went last year. 1t wasn't
much fun, and this time I'm going to
stay with Aunt Ida
''Dou you expect a visit from Santa
Claus tonight?"
"Oh, 1 s'pose So" YEARLY. I'D just
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has perhaps forty of these enameled
beauties, wears them in but one way,
as shoulder claps on her ball dresses,
or placed diagonaily across the front to
represent a flight of tie gauzy insects.
She has one complete set of yellow but
terflies. and they are held in reserve to
be worn with soft, white gowns The
largest ones are fastened on the right
shoulder and from there they decrease
in size to the waist line. Another
fight includes every color of the rain
bow. and for them bodices of a more
somber hue are chosen as a back
ground. Wonderfully effective also are
two very large and quaintly-formed
sapphire blue ones that were worn as
decorations for a yellow crepe gown
Quite aside from the artistic effect
and originality of this decoration. the
beautiful creatures themselves have
been so minutely and accurately copied
in the enamel WORK that they are excel
lent studies of the originals. In fact,
the charming woman to whom they
belong often signs and vows that her
admirers are all butterfly lovers, and
she is being continually entrapped by
the scientific world to'tell the peculiari-
ties and species of those from Australia
and New Zealand.
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England. One of the latest is the UNI
brella with a stick so hinged that IL
can be folded to fit. exactly into a coat
box. The other is an extension leather
dress suit case. This capital continuance
of leather, though actually no larger
than the regular case, holds double the
number of garments. One side of it is
boxed, the other has a soft folded
leather bottom that can be pulled out
like the extension of a camera box or
strapped close and fiat as drum head.
The lining is done in the heaviest dark
green linen with a series of slots and
straps along the floor of the boxed side,
for holding fast the handles of toilet
brushes, soap case, etc.
REAIT RRITMNET,
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associated with the ornaments most
valued and worn by fashionab BILE
women
This prevailing sentiment is well
illustrated by lady OF fine taste who
has carried out the idea wholly her
OWL She has always had a passion
for butterflies. and in her collection are
many of the rarest and most beautiful
colored specimens known to science.
Whenever she finds one that especially
suits her fancy, or has attached to it
some pleasant association, she sends it
to an enameler in London, a man re-
puted to be the finest artist of his kind
in Europe. and he makes fac simile
of the specimen. Their fantastic shape
and brilliancy combine to make the
butterflies excellent models for this
particular kind of workmanship. With
wonderful fidelity they are copied, and
even the transparent quality of~tfeir
wings is effectively simulated. They
are finally mounted SO that by pinching
their wings together the sharp gold
claws beneath fasten tightly to what
ever they are placed upon. 1t would
be equally feasible to have them made
into hair pins, bracelet bangles and
clasps for wells.
This particular women, however. who
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in this case also its presence can never
be detected. The following recipe for
a delicious ''fcndu' may be cooked
in Individual small earthenware. shall
low dishes or in an ordinary baking
dish, in either case, before pouring the
mixture in, the dish must be hot
enough to cause the bit of butter put in
first to ''sizzle." To quarter of a
pound of grated parmesan or good
variety of American cheese. add half a
cupful of milk, in which first dissolve
enough bicarbonate of potash to light
ly cover q ten cent piece Give cents OF
this may be bought at any druggists
and win be sufficient for a long time)
Mix gradually with the milk two ia
blespoonfuls of -four, first baked brown.
a teaspoonful Of mustard, pinch of
cayenne and g. tablespoonful of white
pepper. q little grated nutmeg and Two
tablesf oonfu!s of butter. Stir all care
fully in a saucepan ever the fire until
the cheese has melted. Beat three
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American Styles Are Superior to ALI Others For American
ChiIdren-Maisie Asks For and Receives Much
Advice on the Subject of Blouse Bodces

glace silk. It's not as costly as the best
taffeta and a carefully worn waist Of
this new velvet will see a trio of taffeta
garments retired to the rag bag in dis
grace and tatters."
Besides" put in the hostess, there
is nothing more novel that silver gray
panne that is tucked. The tucks must
be well spaced and so narrowly pinched
that they will stand up like cords all
over the surface of the material But
TO return to the waist on my left. 1t
was silver gray panne and the tucks
ran from throat to belt, enhancing the
slenderness of the wearer's figure. In
front over the bust the panne was cleft
apart to reveal an interlude of accor-
dian pleated chiffon of the most heav-
emily shade of blue. Baby eyes blue is
what the dressmakers call it. A wedge
of cream guipure spread over the lower
portion of the family azure vest, but
il was the only other note in the blue
and gray symphony that was accom-
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eggs in bowl and stir the hot mix
ture slowly into them, in this way the
eggs will never curdle as they would
if stirred into the hot stuff. Pour all
into the hot baking dish or dishes and
bake in a. moderate oven. with the out
side dish placed in a much larger one
filed with cold water. About twenty to
thirty minutes should serve to make
this a smooth custard like consistency
within. and nicely Drowned on top
Crisp three waters, or muslin" toast
(wafer thin slices of stale bread brown
ed quickly on d hot pan in a brisk oven
and sent at once to table, should be
eaten with this
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the horizontal as an athletes practice
bar, while at every stride the walker
rose on his heels as if the back of his
boots We're fitted with springs or he haG
inadvertently stepped on a tack. A
CANT leisure, and a woman's bow so
returned that she can see the full in
side OF the crown of the silk hat doffed
in her honor is a manner that the
gentleman of the time cultivates when
he takes his walks abroad on the fash
ionable avenue
Good things in the way of toilet con-
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the wedding. so I guided her choice
very arrfufly toward one of the clearest
pale cocoa brown ZibiIine cloth, having
a novel arrangement of overlapping
cloth bands by way Of trimming on the
skirt, and collar decoration in pale
fawn tinted Thibet goat fur.
Our choice Of a hat to go with this
wabbled for a time Between stitched
felt in mushroom shape, so very much
worn by school girls this winter. and a
pretty cilapeau of brown felt, having
frilled brim of lighter weight of
felt deliberately stitched. The brown
hat seemed the more suitable, so we
ordered it lined with a pale shade of
brown surah. full gathered and corded
at intervals. and then tuft of shaded
brown plumes at one side gave the
proper touch of elegance
MARY DEAN.
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Deed 81 bcalsekeepers.
American Women Are Too Proud to Put Employee al the
Head Of Their H0uSeS-Value of a French Maitre
dHOte and British Housekeeper.

IF you want to know why We have
no frst-class professional housekeepers
in this country volunteered the inn
porter of a real live English specimen.
lit is because the American woman is
too proud and far too Independent to
allow an employee to manage her home
That is also the reason why we with
the best ordered. most luxurious homes
in the world suffer from criminally
wasteful domestic management, and
the worst service of any highly civil
lied people. In France or England,
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of well fitted getaways accompanied
by white waistcoats. gray gloves. pat
ent leather shoes and high hats. I'm
deniabiy on men of good figure the eff
feet was very nearly that of the or
thodox full skirted frock coat.
Every properly adjusted evening tie
OF white lawn goes twice around the
collar before it is drawn into a bow
that still leans toward the butterfly ef-
feet. While the ends of the tie are cut
square, the corners of the dress shirt
collars round off gracefully in accord
with those of the cuffs. Slight though
these details seem, they form the deli
cate line of demarkation between the
fashionably and unfashionably dressed
man.
Another straw that shows the way
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CANT wretch?" began the hostess, with
mock severity. Il heard you say"
Eyes, did say that papa was nearly
at the end of my tether. The dear old
boy has been made to spend shock
ing amount this season." interrupted
Maisie, repentantly. II am afraid he be-
gins to think that a successful debu-
tante daughter is a rather expensive
luxury, and that he would have done
far better 20 let me go in for training
as a hospital nurse. However, now that
we have put our hand to this social
plow, l warn him there is nothing
gained by looking back but this time
it is not gowns, it's house waists. smart
little blouSes, OF which l am quite
shamefuily in need, and 1 have permits
sion to buy two. They must be chic,
and they must be becoming and I've
registered a truly solemn VOW that the
bill for them both shant be of a size to
lessen in the smallest degree papa's APP
petite for his Christmas turkey
A Debutante's House Blouse.
What I really want is a blouse of
cloth, colored cloth, but the style must
not border at all on the shirt waist. I've
discovered by very shrewd investiga-
ton that the smart house blouse for a
debutante is not of silk and not shirt
waist It is cloth of a light becoming
tint made up with what l call a dressy
effect and is worn with a dark silk or
cloth tailor skirt in the morning and
sometimes in the afternoon when one is
very informally at home to just few
dear friends"
''Or in other Words explained the
hostess, squirting one handsome gray
eye at bit of sky blue crepe cloth
spread on her pink palm, when one
is at home in the bow window with
ones best man, Ell. My dear Maisie.'
in a motherly tone, I've been a debu-
tante myself. and pretending not to
observe the warm flush in the cheeks of
the girl opposite, L would have a
blouse of that pink cloth you have just
laid on the green cushion. Brown eyed,
fair skinned women always look their
best in caressing shades of rose or
bland azure, and / can prescribe just
the style of makeup for that svelt lit
tie figure of yours.
White Calve Sang.
AT an opera matinee last week. she
continued, Il saw a woman quite your
age and build, wear one of pink and 1
took down its chief and most charming
features while Calve was warbling the
jewel song in Faust The body itself
was of cloth, having plain French
back and a cluster of the queerest,
dearest little slanting tucks under
either sleeve. These tucl1s threw just
the requisite fullness and stiffness into
the fronts that opened we'll over the
bust TO reveal a full vest of cream
white Liberty silk Onto the edge of
the cloth fronts were sewed stiffened
wavy bands of stitched pink glace silk.
A folded band of glace silk finished off
the waist line, the collar and cuffs were
of silk and the wearer of this fetching
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ing a pleated back
Pleated Backs.
who is wearing a pleated back 2"
questioned Mrs. Van Knickerbocker,
dropping with a sigh of acute eXhaus-
ton into a mothergy looking arm chair.
why, everybody" came the answer.
as a cup OF the most fragrant tea was
set on a tiny wicker stand before her.
"Oh, nonsense, / think they are ugly
and clumsy. I've not seen a really well
pleated back this season, and I've just
come from a tea where all the women
were wearing shaded ostrich feathers in
their hats. Last week 1 saw the new
Henry Arthur Jones play, and not an
actress showed any but habit back
skirts
There, now, you are. out of sorts and
tired began the hostess, soothingly.
You've been too hard worked over
Christmas shopping"
For Small Daughters.
in addition to having fitted. out my
whole flock of small daughters with
new costumes for their cousins we'd
ding. no small job in itself, l can as
sure" added the weary one, although
/ don't know that anything gives me
greater pleasure than a long morning
at the ohildren's outfitters. for juvenile
IaSnlcnS are lovely nOWddayS- Sucn
smart picturesque suits as the children
do wear, and the dressmakers import
Partisan models to copy from, though
for my part / prefer the American
styles for our young people.
Ny mind this morning was all torn
between a charming checked red and
black velvet suit and one in fray cloth
for my Oldest girl, Beatrice. Those short
piled chucked velvets. set off with a
touch Of fur, are the most modish
choice for girls. about IA. but Beat
rice has mind of her own, and as
serted it like a. wise little woman in
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month and on this he caters for the
servants table that is by no means
supplied from the larder that feeds the
family. Every servant is entitled TO
the scraps he or she leaves and has his
or her own plate, knife, fork, spoon,
ETC., and when meal is over these are
washed and set away by their owners
in their special cupboards. Scraps are
an important item to the thrifty
French domestic.
I'm England there is a woman who
does this. and every handsome English
house is built with special housekeepers'
quarters, a sitting room and bedroom.
Some American houses are now being
provided with these special two rooms
Model British Housekeeper.
my housekeeper is of the typical
sort. She is about 40, plump, pleasing
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favor of the gray cloth. 1t is zinc gray,
and so simple and yet so timely, for
there is a graceful tunic overdresS and
its edges are all scalloped with a double
row of silk cord. falling upon a plain
urderdress. The scallcn finish is given
to the big collar on the waist that also
shows floral embrpidery in saad = gray
silks, and the hat we chose il. peri
Wrinkle blue velvet with twists of satin
antique ribbon and a tuft of plumes by
way OF crnamentation. Now, l know
that sounds most fanciful as / tell it.
but the impression the gray gown gives
Is one of almost studied simplicity. for
/ am not one of those mothers who be-
Eeves in letting a small daughter ex-
haust all the pleasures cf elegant and
elaborate dress before she has reach
ed 16''
You are Just the woman / want t.
talk TO, then, aproDos of the sort of fur
should allow me 12year-o5d Clarice
TO wear" said the hostess. "She is teas
ing me to give her set of fox or sable
things"
Furs For Children.
My dear womani" INTERRUPTED Mrs.
Van KnickerDocker, don't make your
child worid-worn woman before her
time. A little girl should never, never
wear anything but a touch of astra-
chan on a richly colored wool coat, or
stone marten on a very dark one. If
You mean to give her fur pieces, then
give her a muff and neck piece of gray
squirrel while IL it's a muff and boa
she wants gray Thibet goat is the only
thing for a child. Keep the costly furs
until the time comes for her to put on
long dresses and jewels around her
neck. My 9-year-old May, a dear
blonde child, needed a new wrap for
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and a settled widow who entered serv-
ice at is as a scullery maid and has
worked up. She is addressed by the
household as Mrs Brown, and every
afternoon her tea is served in her sit
ting room at o'clock by a maid She
drinks tea aud eats her dinner alone,
later. wearing a plain black sslk gown,
a muslin wreath cap and small lawn
apron Every servant in the house,
with the exception of the butler, is
under her direct control, and for the
good or evil that every servant does
she is responsible.
''she accepts my directions with a
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body exhibited a small chatelaine of
gun metals caught in one side of her
belt, and iler gloves, ] observed, were
of that peculiarly fashionable color
known as gun metal gray, and were
fastened with one very large white
pearl button. The skirt that went with
this was a plain black inconspicuous
affair. and / must confess l extracted
almost as much pleasure from the sight
of that tidy, modish little waist as
did from a sweet thing in panne on my
lift"
Now For the Panne.
TELL me about it instantly demand
ed the girl on the divan. for yours is
the last word 10 be said as to the cloth
waist. Pink it shall be. and now for the
panne. can put panne inside my limit
for the next blouse quite as easily as a
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humility no decayed gentlewoman
would show. and with a respectfulnesS
no confidential ladyS maid ever feels.
She gets $50 month and an allowance
for paying the servants wages and
catering to their table. and she it is
who sees that no waste goes on in my
house.
with a prayer of thanksgiving and a
quiet mind 1 can now nightly lay my
head ON my pillow and l don't expect
to come down with nervous prostration
at the end of the season The storm
and stress of housekeeping has passed
by me and no longer must / cody count
Off $500 a month to waste as most fash
ionable hostesses' do; no longer do I
haunt intelligence offices when dozen
engagements press, and no longer do
sit down to weep on coming home from
a hard afternoons calling, to hear that
the cook has left in rage, the parlor
maid has smashed my best bric-
and the laundress scorched a hole in
my best tablecloth-
American Woman's Mazeshift.
But let me tell you what lots of our
rich women do. They don't mind hand
dergartens, but they deeply resent
sharing the command of their house
holds with competent woman For
my part. I think every big American
household where there is a great corps
of servants should have one of these
competent women at the head, and
very soon, in consequence, We would
see a marked Improvement in the Am
erican maid servant, for training domes-
tics is one of the important missions
of the English housei5eeper. she takes
in ignorant girls and teaches them first
to be competent kitchen maids and then
promotes them as their value and
knowledge increases, and thus the gen
Grafton of English maid servants. the
deftest. most accomplished Comestics
in the world. are trained in their pro-
fession. Clever and versatile as the
American women may be when thrown
on her own resources, she has no gift
for educating crude talent. When she
has wealth and luxury she simply
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New York, Dec. PIT would be a
true charity, in any kind-hearted and
artistically intelligent woman, to give
me her best advice with regard to
these samples remarked Maisie coax
ingly, as she laid a half dozen bits Of
bright silk and cloth and webseof lace
on the rotund front of one of the big
diyan pillows, amid which she sat costly
enthroned.
Another gown, you pretty, extraya-
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solves the difficulty by paying fabulous
wages, overlooking q good deal of in
competence and retiring to a hotel
every now and then to recover from the
battle with servants"
MILLICENT ARROWPOINT.
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where half as much money is spent,
twice the work for the servants to do
and a third of the conveniences put
at their disposal, the fashionable coun-
try or city house is conducted with a
noiseless regularity that fills the Am
erican visitor with nothing short of
amazement. In houses where the in
comes are by no means large a corps of
finished servants will be found, that
only our mililonaires over here can at
ford.
lust so long as the American woman
is head of a modest household she is
the most all around capable housekeep-
er in the world; she can face sitter
odds and rout Them more utterly than
any French or English woman living.
We are the only women in the world
who, when deserted at a critical mo-
ment. can cook a meal and yet sit at
the head of the table, while that same
meal is being served. in a fetching
frock carrying on the conversation as
though nothing had happened 1t is a
charming faculty, but when she is put
at the head of corps Of twenty serv-
ants and great country house her
system fails
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French Maitre d'Hotel.

"a big. fashionable household is just
like a big ship, it's got to have a cap
tain to direct its course and an engin-
eer to run the machinery. and in the
foreign countries they realize and pro-
vide for this. In France IL is usually a
maitre d'hotel who shoulders the do
mestfc burden. He has worked up in
the service and his word is law to the
servants. He hires and dismisses them,
plans their work, sees that it is done
and he guarantees to keep the men and
maids we'll fed on a stated allowance.
The mistress gives him sum every
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In Eeaven.
Detroit Journal.)

tDelEOll JOufLdil
In heaven there is no marrying or Civ
ing in marriage and no occasion. there
fore for anybody 10 sing. -Oh. Promise
4 Me- during the progress of any cere-
niony whatever.
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ENAMELED BUTTERFLIES.
Woman Who Has Collected Forty
Beautiful Specimens.

individuality, the crisp flavor of ro-
nance are becoming more and more
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Pleated Backs.

panied by a gray cashmere skirt show
ing pleated back"