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at the windows of the Cornelius Van
derbilt, Gerry and Astor houses, and
any shrewd will calculate that
at least one woman to keep the SasheS
as crystal clear and the lace hangings
as frostily white as they always are.
What with the increasing size of the
houses, the amount of lavish entertain
ing done, the quantities of ~silverware
steadily in use, the masses of almost
priceless bric-a-brac to be cared for,
and bowers of expensive plants to be
tended, it is no Idle waste for a fash
ionable hostess to call a number of
expert domestics to her aid.
The great ladies of New York, as it
stood half a century ago, would, how
ever. wonder at some of the servants
now set down on the domestic pay roll.
For example Mrs. Burden, Mrs. Twom-
bly, and their friends not only employ
housekeeDers, but also what is known
as a confidential maid h woman
waits on nobody. but usually gets $50
a month, and her business is to keep
the big. richly stocked linen closets in
order, dust the precious bric-a-bric. see
that no months get into the invaluable
rugs, prune. wash and water the house
plants, with her own hands wash and
put away all the costly glass and china
used at every luncheon, dinneS or sup
per party. The amount of excitement
and actual cash her efforts save in a
snlendid New York mansion more
than Justify her wages. Besides the
confidential maid in these big homes,
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consists of a deck forward. a saloon, a
cooks galley and the engine room.
Tucked in one corner of the saloon is a
tiny toilet room; a steward in snowy
naval ducks provides the refreshments
from his galley, and one man only il
required as officer and crew. This man
is nearly always a huge blonde Swede
or Norwegian. who gets big wages and
is expected to dress as daintily as 4
debutante. He wears white serge or
flannel and a scarlet cap, 10 bring out
his blonde charms to the best advan-
tage and usually the boat he manages
is herself a vision of white comfort and
tidiness. All along Long Island sound,
the south side coast and at the New
England resorts as high as Bar Har-
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PEN ALONE NEEDED
TO DECORATE CHINA

1T is quite possible for a girl to decor
ate her own tea table pretty ups and
saucers, even If she has no knowledge of
ceramic art" said a well known china
painter the other day when seen in her
studio. All sorts OF pleasing and dec
orative effects can be produced on china
with "a steel pen and pold properly mixed
Tor the purpose. 1t is really impossible 10
DO strong, firm scrolls and borders on
small articles, such as cups, saucers and
DoroerS on plates, with a brush. When
brushes are used such work is invariably
untidy and in every way unsatisfactory.
Let the girl who has an ambition to
DO the work procure a prettily-shaped,
perfectly plain cup and saucer. BY that
L mean one free from enclosing or raised
effects. After washing and drying il care
fully, moisten well with alcohol. Get a
few bottles of lustre-Green, pink and Vio-
let-also a bottle of essence for mixing
gold, and a small. square shader. She
must remember that turpentine should
never come in contact with lustre,
as II not only destroys the color. but
leaves a purple smudge. If she wishes Il
strong color, use the lustre in its full
strength, but if a daintier effect is desired,
take Il little of the essense on the brush
before dipping into the bottle of lustre. 1t
is best to use it from the bottle. as ii
evaporateS very quickly when exposed TO
the air. The brush can be easily freed
from color by dipping in alcohol. which !
should be in a small, open vessel. Also
she should have at nan a small dauber,
the best thing. an old silk handkerchief,
and a piece OF surgeons cotton.
To tint the cup. let her start at the top
with the rose lustre, work into this, deli
cately. the green towards the top. deep
ening with the violet as she goes towards
the bottom. She must begin TO pad as
soon as she has enough OF one color to
pad into another. for if she waits until
the entire surface is colored, it is apt TO
become too dry to blend the different col
ors into each other evenly.
After this tinting process is completed.
let he piece stand until perfectly dry.
Then the gold should be mixed with the
gold essence and to such "A consistency
that il will flow from the pen. If il is too
thick it will not fiow, and If it is too hin
il will rub off the china when it comes
from the kiln. If the decorator is suffi-
GENTLY skillful to copy or compose some
graceful design, she may do it over the
lustre before firing, but if not very sure
of her skill she had best apply the de-
sign by tracing after the china has been
fired.
THE handling of gold with the pen is
more difficult than writing with ink,
a new pen should always be moiSten-
ed before the work is begun. If the gold
is mixed to the proper consistency and a
little time is given To practice, the dec
will be amply repaid by the clean,
firm gold lines of their designs. Also work
lone in this manner possesses a CONNER
cial value that brush work can never at
Now. while such work is so fash
/ would recommend any girl who
use her pen with intelligence to try
l.. NJ. LAWS.
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Dor. the naphtha launch is very much
in evidence. 1t is used as the pleasure
sloop used to be, for taking off parties
a day on the water, and to the luxuri-
BUS soul it is a vast Improvement on
the finest sailing boat that ever was
built. Some of these launches are in
deed fitted up with the completeness
and beauty of a woman's boudoir. One
of the handsomest. owned by Frank
Otis. has it's saloon walls lined with
mirrors between the windows, framed
in white and gold panels. Golden
water dragons sport on a ceiling inlaid
with pearl. and beautiful white and
gold Japanese silk is used in the up
holstery of white and gold wicker seats.
A complete set of white and gilt
china and a special service of glass,
silver and napery is supplied for the
table. on which a famously good lunch
con is served in honor of whoever
catches h first fish of the days ex-
petition. Edward Post owns one of the
smartest launches afioat, the Russian
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SNAP FOR MOTHERS-IN-LAW.
East India An Ideal Country For
Them.
philadelphia Record.)

NPnHdQelDnla HecOru.)
Until the day of her marriage the
East Indian girl has beer the spoiled
pet Of her mother, but the hour that
sees her put into a p%alanCuin, shut up
tight and carried to her husbands
house, changes all tina was happiness
into misery. She becomes from that
moment the little slave of her mother
in-law. upon whom she has to wait
hand and foot, whose lightest word is
law. and who teaches ner what dishes
her husband likes best, and how she is
10 prepare them. A kind mother-in-Iaw
is a thing seldom, II ever, met with,
and rarely does she give the little bride
leave to go home and visit her mother.
OF her husband the girl sees little or
nothing. She cannot complain to him
of the cruelty of his mother, for he
would never by any chance take her
part. He sends in to her the portion of
the food he wishes cooked for himself.
her and the children, and when 1t is
ready she places it upon a large platter
and it is sent into his room. He eats
all he fancies of it, and then it is sent
back TO her. and she and the children
sit upon the floor and eat whatever is
lase
The girls are married as young as 3
years of age, and should a little boy
TO whom such a baby is married die,
she is called a widow, and can never
marry again. Married life is hard, but
far harder and more sad is the lot of a
widow, for she is considered disgraced
and degraded. She must eat only the
coarsest sort of food, and one day in
W weeks she must fast for twenty
four hours. Her food must always be
eaten away from other women. and
she must never dress her hair. never
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sleep upon a bed, and never wear any

sleep upon a bed, and wear any
jewelry.
A piece of mating upon the hard
floor comprises the couch of a widow,
and sometimes even the strip of mat
tress is denied her; no matter how cold
the night may be, she is allowed no
covering except the thin garment she
has worn during the day. She may
never look on any marriage ceremonies,
for it would be an evil omen for her
10 do so; she may have been a half
caste woman. but upon becoming a
widow even h lowest servant may
order her to do work that is distasteful
to them, and no woman in the house
may even speak one word of comfort
or pity to her. Any woman who SO far
forgets herself as TO show the slightest
kindness TO a widow is supposed to in
fallibly become a widow herself before
long. Such barbarous behavior is hard
to understand, and yet these widows
take their miserable lot as a matter of
course, not wen having the spirit to
rebel against its injustice.
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REPRESENTATION

Chicago Record.)
My lady wears a big bouquet
She calls a bonnet,
And oh. you ought to see the way
She dotes upon il.
She fiuffs it out with gauze cerise
And. pats each puff and dainty crease
Until / fear she'll never cease
Her unctuous toying.
But if | venture TO complain
She does the whole thing once again
And pouts. and murmures with disdain
You're so annoying
My lady's milliner is high
In price and standing,
And scorns my protests when 1 try,
In tones commanding,
To make her cut her bill in two:
She laughs and answers: "Apres vousi
Monsieur she wears Zose charms fol
YOU
Monsieur's so TASTEFUL
Vain mani" think l. but pay the bill,
Content TO hold my tongue until
She grows more wasteful.
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EooI and Comfortable
Dog Day Costumes
Women Wear Dresses Without High Collars But With AS
Much Beauty AS C~omfOrt-SeasOn For Lily
trimmed Hat-DesdemOna Handkerchief,
Costly, Pretty, But Not For Use.

beaded ends, and broad chined limon-
l ribbon, with its ends and edges
slikily raveled into fringe for the depth
of an inch. There are also scores of
ways of making strings ornamentally
useful; by folding them round the
throat and tying in a big fluffy bunch
under one ear or at the back of the
neck; by letting the strings answer in
place of a necktie, or by half draping
them Onward and pinning them, with
a highly ornamented brooch as a big
breast-knot of tulle. a little to one side.
Not less noticeable than the hat
strings at this period, when the details
Of the toilet come out showily and
strong, are the handkerchief in which
feminine love of daintiness fairly rev.
els. Every woman al present carries
two. One in her pocket, a simple, SER
viceable linen hemstitched square bear
ing her initials, and hat is TO be used
and not seen. The other is a tiny tuft
of prettiness tucked into the wrist of
her sleeve so that all its lacy edges
are exposed to view. These sleeve
and well may they arouse ill-feeling, if
lost, mislaid or stolen. for some of
them cost a pretty penny. They are
made of the finest white French hand
kerchief batiste, having a broadish
frill of cream footing made fast about
the edges by delicate ~buttonholing.
Another type is scalloped in large shall
low curves, and just beaded with lace
on the edges. while inside the handker-
chief space the batiste is pierced with
wee lace flowers. 1t would chill the
purse of an economical individual to
the prices paid for some of these
small mouchOirs. but the solace in their
purchasing is they never wear out, n
are meant for show only.
Burned-bread brown is now the color
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Dew York Palaces
Deed n1dny Servants
Ten DOmesticS the Average Number But twenty-five Nee.
eSSary in Large Establishments and Cornelius
Vanderbilt Employs Fifty-Three Men
at Mrs. MOrgan'S Door.

In the good old days. when genuine
republican simplicity reigned in New
York. the wives of the most wealthy
nabObs in the city conducted their
households with the aid of five serv-
is the essential number in anything
like a s lartly managed house, twenty
five rule in one of the lesser town pal
aces, and there are at least seven
houses on upper Fifth avenue where,
including stable and house help, the
list of employees numbers nearly fifty
busy men and women. Just take a look
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The women who are going down to
the sea in yachts, or even the humble
sailing dress very nearly ~reconciled
perfect comfort and Taimert with ex-
ceeding grace and beauty. Go the
rounds of the resorts where Old Ocean
and the ladies are enjoying one an
others company. and you cannot fail
to remark hat for deck and beach
suits the heavy high collar is no more.
All the most fashionable and undeni-
ably most attractive little costumes Of
duck. pique or flannel, are cut to give
the throat perfect freedom, and though
it is entirely true that all women do
not with equally satisfactory result en-
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night he patrols the entire house, and
all day he is ON duty. but especially is
he alert when an entertainment is be-
ing given, and a crowd. of guests offer
opportunities for the entrance of sneak
thieves.
Added to their actual usefulness in
the house. these male domestics are
considered excessively modish and or
namental. and il was Mrs. Pierpont
Morgan who set the now prevailing
fashion of three men in attendance on
"at home" days and made it obliga-
tory for the front door bell to be
answered on the instant. AT Mrs. Nor
gan's great Madison avenue residence,
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Rule of the Blouse.

Rule of the Blouse.
In the beginning of things dressy this
season, all women laid in a stock of
white clothes. and ave worn them in
dustriously, but rs summer ~deepens.
femininity is irresistibly affected by
the floral riot of color in nature, and
August promises to be as full of rich
blues. glowing pinks, vivid reds and
clear, cool green as a ripe flower gar
den. Many shrewd, industrious girls
have furnished up their white frocks
with applications of colOred braid and
colored needlework edgings. Shirt
waists are giving way all along the
~seacoast to white and cOlored flannel
sailor blouses. which, with snowy pique
petticoats, form the smartest a on
the sands. BY way of a thorough
going yachting gown, nothing is IN
sidered more graceful and tasteful than
a pique skirt, all white. of course. save
where it may possibly be shaped in
flaps along the side, and those laps
bound with gentian blue serge braid.
Topping this off is a blouse of fiannel,
the same color as the skirt braid. haV-
ing a wide collar of fine white en-
broidery falling over the shoulders
in a jack tar square, n cuffs of the
same turned away from the wrist.
For a fresh young face and slim young
figure. no gown could be more suitable.
Besides Sklltully eNadlng the heavy
hot neckyoke TO so noticeable an ex-
tent. the summer season has brought
conspicuously forth d new millinery or
nament. and far and wide hats are
trimmed with Gala lilies. The Ely
itself, having a cup of white velvet
n a long pistil of yellow velvet, is
made one-half the natural size Of the
stiff, handsome blossom, and The long,
dropping green leaves that
- ~ annrrrh IN fhafr IrT-7r-i1,r nr,1.
TO decorate an entire hat. \ pollen
yellow bergere shape of straw is the
frame to use for a lily hat. and with
these ~chapeauX a pale pink chiffon
veil, its edges lightly ~buttonholed, is
sewed on to the brim all around. Not
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cook our meals in the sunshine. This is a
great saving % firewood. and shows that
the Lord will provide"
"A hurricane struck us the other day
and moved our office into the next county
just in time to ave us the trouble of
paving house rent"
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where so much money is lavished in
decoration, so much plate used and
jewelry worn, it is necessary to keep
a door man. He is one of the three
men usually employed in a fine house.
One of the trio is the butler, the sec
ond is his assistant in waiting at
table. rubbing plate and valeting the
gentlemen, but the third employee
rarely leaves the front door. and he is
personally responsible for the safety
OF the v~aluables. Three times in the
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The News From Whitsett
ATLANTA constitutional

The following original items are from
the Whitsett Enquirer:
John Johnson happened to the accident
of having his left leg cut off; but he was
fully insured. and will now have enough
money to go into business on his own ac-
count. We congratulate you, ,Bhn."
The editor has been laid up for a week
past. but we are glad to say that he is
out again-$O and SEQ"
THE weather is so hot that we can
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consul is the proprietor of one decor
ated wholly in Russian woods and fab
RIGS. and not a few of the finest are
possessed by women who dearly love
a boat tina is not dependent on a
breeze and that takes one safely home
when the waves threaten TO upset ones
dignity. EMILY HOLT
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from HRS. Sumter
to- Mrs. PmAham.
~[LErTER TO R PrxkHAM no. z6,a44J

lLEAIEk 10 MIS- PtskHAN no. 7o,24l
Zone year ago last June three doc
tors gave me up to die, and as 1 had at
different times used your Vegetable
Compound with good results, 1 had too
much faith in it to die until / had tried
t again. 1 was apparently an invalid,
was confined to my bed for ten weeks.
l believe my trouble was liberation of
gomb).
AFTER taking four bottles c: the
Compound and using some of the Liver
Pills and Sanative Wash, at the end of
wo months 1 had greatly improved
and weighed 155 pounds, when l never
before weighed over 13s. Lydia f.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the
best medicine l ever used, and l recon-
mend it to all my friends ."-MRs. ANNA
EVA GUNTER, HIGGINsvILLE, Mo.
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Mrs. Barnhnrt Enjoys Life Once More.

Mrs. Barnhnrt Enjoys Life Once More.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-I had been
sick ever since my marriage, seven
years ago; have given birth to four
children, and had two miscarriages. I
had falling of womb, leucorrhea, pains
n back and legs; dyspepsia and a
nervous trembling of the stomach.
Now l have none of these troubles and
IAN enjoy my life. Your medicine has
worked wonders for me."-MRs. S.
BARNHART, NEW CASTLE, PA.
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Wagener's Grove.

Free stage from Fort Douglas to
Wagener's Grove every Sunday from
Il to 8 p. m
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that captivates all tastes, and that
promises to gain d great following
when the autumn cloths come in. 1t
is the one brown tone that does not
make a skin grow sallow when in its
neighborhood, and gloves of it, shoes,
belts and strawS as well. show, by
their richly bronzed skins, what sway
the new color is already exerting.
Among the paler tints blurred blue is
rapidly superceding the pastel blues
that came into large notice during the
spring, and the last development in the
silk dress is its many small flowers
edged with fringe, made of its own
raveling.
Beveled Edges Reign.
Very recently a most charming frock
for a midsummer bride was made of
ivory t~affeta, decorated with small
LOUNGES to the knees, in a full ruff over
the shoulders n over the sleeves. and
every flounce was raveled out on its
edge for half an inch. The consequence
was "a costume unique in hat il bore
no lace about it, and that in its fringy
whiteness it suggested some lovely
deep-sea flower rather than a creation
of a human artist. This rarely pretty
toilet was relieved on the left shoulder
by the usual velvet bow. Indeed. what
evening dress is now without its big
Topped and wired contrivance of tinted
bia velvet at some point on the bod
ice2 This TO- seems an essential, for
if you will closely observe the fashion,
able women after 6 o'clock p. m, you
will not fail to remark that all, or
nearly all. her dinner n dancing
dresses are in one color. The modistes
not now mix their tints for g~aslight,
and a study in blue, or green, or red,
without the jar or contrast of another
tone, is considered the acme of good
taste.
The exception to this rule is the bow. !
On a blurred blue dress, it is a bow
IF turquoise or powder or periwinkle
blue velvet: if it is a pale green gown,
but on a black or white gown it can
be what please. The black lace
dress is usually accompanied by a ger
anium end Knot and a white lace or
silk frock by a strong verbena pink,
Or clear pollen yellow velvet wheel,
tied sometimes with an inside mist of
,hiffon of the same tint.
MARY DEAN.
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magnitude, and two beautiful high
born CrOsbys. Misses Eleanor and
Gladys. make their debut next season.
Now, there is not one Of these young
women whose names 10 not stand for
good birth. good brains. good temper
and a superior order of Deauty. as we'll
as heavily laden pockets, n s,9iQUs
will be the loss 10 u society if Il
one of them is persuaded into a for
eign alliance.
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always is the veil used as a shield to
the complexion. its modish use is as a
soft brim edging. but its two long ends
at the rear are crossed against the
hair, and when brought forward and
tied in front, serve as strings aud an
chorage for the hat itself.
Ornamental Hat Scarfs.
En- PEASANT it seems essential Just
now to give every hat, save the con-
fessediy sporting ~headgear, a pair of
strings. In the shops they are selling
sets of them in innumerable STYLES.
There are strings of lace and point
esprit. and black velvet ribbon with
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White and Gold Launches.

Ye, no. for the naphtha l~aunch-not
a bit of a cookie shell with an ill
smelling little engine pulling in the
stern, but a long. low-lyipg. clean
built. swift-keeIed, lu~xuriOusly ap-
pointed pleasure craft, is the naphtha
as p%atronize1 by society sea-
dogs. y naphtha is the latest and one
of the costliest toys the smart sporting
fraternity have found. and Il proper
costs about $4,000. 1t measures
about fOrty-five feet in length, and
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COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK.

CtPITAL PAID IN, 100000.
General Banking In All It's Branches.
Directers-Dr. Theodore Meyer, John J.
Daily, . J.. Salisbury, MOyian G. Fox.
Thomas Marshall. w. P. Noble. George
n. Downeys John Donnelia;- Newell
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-14

Dr. David Blaustein Of the Educa-
tional Alliance ~ New York city spoke
az some lengths I'm the main as fol-
continued on Page SiND
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PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE,
because She Loved Him So"
KEITH'S NEW THEATRE-Contin
uos performance.
OLYMPIC THEATRE-William and
Walkers Colored Stars.
WESTMINSTER THEATRE - Fred
Riders Moulin Rouge.
INFANTRY HALIe-Polo. New Britain.
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THE WEATHER.
Rain Tonight and SUNDAY. Probably Clearing Sun
day Afternoon or Night Warmer.

Washington, Jan f4.--Fo, New Eng
land: Rain tonight and Sunday: clear
ing Sunday afternoon or night; warmer
tonight; brisk southwesterly winds in
creasing.