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not happen in Mrs. Morrison's day, how
ever, and she has little fear on that score
OF losing her job,
She has a studio specially fitted up for
her work at the top of the headquarters
building and the prisoners are brought To
her under guard. She has been particu-
larly successful in getting them to sit
quietly and allow her TO photograph them
with no more trouble than an ordinary
sitter would give. Men who have hitherto
done this work have nearly always had
great difficulty in getting good pictures
because the sitters would twist and turn
and screw their faces up. Sometimes it
was only after the guard had clubbed them
into a proper frame of mind that they
could be persuaded to allow the photog-
rapher to get proper focus at all. II may
be Mrs. Morrison's personality or that
whatever good is left in the most hardened
criminals responds TO the polite feminine
variation OF the request to look pleasant
After such a pleasant account Of her
success with her pictures it seems a pity
not TO be able to say that the financial end
of the business Is equally successful. There
is no danger that Mrs. Morrison will grow
rich as a result Of her official labors. To
be sure, three or four dollars day in ad-
dition TO your income from other sources.
is not to be despised and Mrs. Morrison
feels very happy over her new post. She
lifted up the studio at headquarters at her
own expense, and she is paid at the rate
of dollar a dozen for all the photographs
she takes. She makes dozen copies from
/ each negative. One OF these is regularly
! posted in the rogue's gallery with the rec
/ ord of the original written on the back.
! The others are kept for use in identifying
suspicious persons. For instance. il the
| police in another city have arrested a man
suspected Of having been previously con-
victed, these extra copies come in handy as
( helps in identifying him. Then the de-
| tectives sent to identify prisoners find
( these extra copies of great service to carry
/ with them for purpose of comparison.
/ Mrs. Morrison is a business-like little
( woman with a firm belief in the possibility
/ of a working woman keeping the personal
and domestic side of her life quite sepa-
/ rate from business She took up her pres
ent occupation because she was suddenly
! thrown upon her own resources. She had
some knowledge of the work and a studio
| in the lower end OF the city. She does all
| her own work except the retouching
Mrs Morrison's opinion is that photogra-
! ply is good. practical trade for wo-
man II she will learn the business right
through. Few of them know more than
one very simple branch.
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CHINESE FACTORY GIRLS.
They Thrive on Long Hours and
Small Wages.


A lady who has resided several years in
China draws an attractive picture of the
girls in the Chinese silk factories. In a
letter to the Los Angeles Times" she
says they are the gayest and brightest
of the native women workers. The facto-
ries are large. clean. carefully ventilated,
and well regulated. The girls are charm
ingly dressed in blue with little decorated
slippers, and smooth hair, decked with
flowers. and silver-gilt or enameled pins,
each has two mirrors, her hair brush and
her tooth brush. How much they are priz-
ed is shown by the fact that their forfeit
ure is the punishment for misconduct.
Some of the workers powder their faces,
though many of the country women have
cheeks Of rosy pink. One factory, at Sing
Chang, employs 900 native girls, with Eu-
ropean foremen and a European general
manager. The work begins at $50 a. M.
There is a ten-minute rest for a light
breakfast which is taken by the hands at
their working places, the machinery being
stopped meanwhile. At IL o'clock the
work is laid aside an hour for dinner.
| which is eaten in large room. The girls
make common stock OF their provisions.
Each girl has aat her side, while at work.
little teapot in padded basket, and
tiny teacup. She drinks tea frequently,
without milk or sugar, and IN small guam
titles. The working day is a trifle under
nine hours. In one department where the
cocoons are stripped of their outer cover
| ings and dropped into separate baskets, ac
cording to their quality, the work is by
| the piece, and many women work only
! few hours a day. Wages average about II
| cents a day. In the next department the
| sorting is more precise. and here the wages
average IL cents day throughout the
year. The spinningroom is pretty sight
| with its row of blue-robed girls. In pre-
pairing the cocoons for the spinner. each
cocoon is brushed until the end Of the
thread appears. Six cocoon threads go to
make the final filament, and each spinner
works with thirty-six cocoons in pan
before her. The children here earn cents
day, working from s a. M to p. m,
while the women earn about s cents a
! day. In the finishing department there is
| the same attention to neatness of appear
ance@as in the rest of the factory, the girls
being scrupulously clean and tastefully
| dressed. Neatness is taken as an evidence
of intelligence, and no slovenly girl could
find place in the filature. The last de-
partment of the factory is the packing
! room. Here the skeins are packed close,
formed into square bundles. marked as
| to quality, and wrapped in white cotton
for shipment to the mills of Europe to be
| MAJ into fol
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An Ideal Place for Women.

There is in Russia a district which Is
wholly administered and during most of
the time exclusively inhabited by women,
says the Philadelphia Times" 1t is the
Province OF Smolensk and comprises a
district of about fifteen square miles, from
which all the able-bodied males emigrate
in the spring and proceed to neighboring
towns and districts in search of work, re-
naming away about nine months of the
year. In their absence the woman culti-
yate the fields and manage local affairs
generally under the presidency of a wo-
man mayor. Before nightfall the women
assemble in sort of club house and play
cards till / or 2 in the morning. Virtue
there is compatible with unlimited cakes
and ale, and though the hours are late
and so much time is given to amusement,
the commune is prosperous. disorder is
unknown, and it is one OF the best con-
Quoted portions OF the Empire. The
Czarina takes an interest in it and is
proud of it.
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a Thin woman's wall.

Goodness gracious!" said the slender
girl, don't I wish that were not so thin
this hot weather. All my plump relatives
are groaning and declaring that I ought
to be thankful, but that is simply because
they don't know anything about it. If I'm
slender, of course I remain slender, and
nothing could induce me TO get any addi-
tional roundness by artificial means. but
my dressmaker is not troubled with any
scruples. Just let my plump friends look
for once at that nice tailor made jacket of
silk that is so becoming to me. The fash
ionable figure is so and so. my figure is
SO and so. and the two do not agree. but
l must be fashionable. Hence, there is
not policeman or a military man who
carries around so much cotton batting
in the lining of his coats as l do in mine.
Now. If 1t. is any more uncomfortable to
wear flesh than It is cotton batting I
should like to have someone try it. For
tunately | don't have to wear that Jacket
all the time. New York Times.
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THE CYCLE PERAMBULAToR.
The Very Newest Rig for Nurse and
Baby.

The very latest thing in baby carriages
is the tricycle. with two seats, one for the
child in front and another for the nurse
who does the propelling. The weight is
so placed that it is impossible for this We
hicIe to upset, even if the nurse is as care
less as they are reputed to be. 1t is con-
sidered a great Improvement over the old
fashioned perambulators. which were kept
stationary while the policeman was being
entertained. Now the up-to-date nurse
will refuse to speak to any save those in
the bicycle squad. The nurse and her
charge will get plenty Of fresh air, and the
danger is reduced to minimum There IS
only one further improvement possible
now. and that is the invention of an auto
mobile perambulator. and perhaps in year
or two one OF the questions that the ap-
plicant will ask her prospective employer
will be. Have you an automobile peram-
bulator?" and if an answer in the mega
tive Is given she win refuse to work for
such old-fashioned people. This time has
not come. however, and now the most that
the most exclusive nurse can ask viii be
for cycle perambulator.
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Glove MOnogrnms.

The two latest fancies of our fair Eng
lish cousins, writes a smart American wo-
men in London. is the embroidering of
monograms on gloves and writing in white
ink Gloves made to order with mono
grams are devoid OF stitching on the back,
and the monogram is embroidered in the
centre Those which are purchased from
stock and then embroidered have the mon
ogram set between the thumb seam and
first row OF stitching. and others have it
placed on the wrist below the stitching. II
is almost too soon TO tell whether this new
fancy is to be popular. II is certainly yer!
striking, and is open to the serious OBJ
lection that it has tendency to make the
hand look larger than the ordinary glove.
glove of suede in the new bluet shade,
with a white monogram in the middle OF
the back is really to the conservative taste
more striking than pretty.
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A Royal Lnundress.

4 story is told of the Princess Louise's
visit to the, ,Bermudas. These Islands be-
long to Great Britain. The islanders de-
termined to give her reception, and
both rich and poor made ready to do her
honor.
One day she was out sketching. for. like
the Queen aud the rest of the daughters.
she is fond CT sketching. She was thirsty
and called at cottage door for water.
The good woman OF the house was busy
and refused TO go for the water. She. OF
course did not know who the Princess
was; she was busy ironing; she was IRON
ing a shirt for her husband 10 wear at
the reception of the Queens daughter.
she said. Oh. no. She could not leave
that to get water for anybody.
IF you will get me the water" said
the Princess. II will finish ironing the
shirt while you are gone
So the Princess ironed the shirt while
the woman fetched the water.
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THE SQUASH GAME.
This Is Society's Latest Method of
Enjoying Itself.

Enjoying itseif.
Mrs. W. X Vanderbilt, jr., is building
squash" court at Newport. and un-
doubtedly all those who can afford 1t will
soon have them in that summery resort, as
society women are taking it up. says the
philadelphia Press"
Workmen are starting her new court,
which is to cost 81 900. 1t is the talk of
society.
One wonders every year what new pas
time society people Will invent.
There must be something new; one can't
go on playing the same thing year after
year. And now the latest fad, or fads,
for there are two this summer, are 10 be
squash" and badminton.
Squash is the familiar English game
called ''fives," only instead OF being played
with the hand a regular tennis racket is
used to bat the ball against the walls.
To play this new game one must have
the proper building, which costs about
81, 900 to erect 1t consists of long hall,
oblong in shape. with a solid wooden
floor, ceiling, and walls.
Around the top a little railing runs,
where the spectators are supposed to sit
and watch the players These are usually
two in number, who are divided from each
other by line marked on the floors. One
OF these, the server. strikes the ball upon
the wall within certain line marked also
on the walls.
Her companion catches it On the bound
with her racket, and she in her turn throws
it against the walls, and so on, until the
ball falls.
Around the top of the building are little
windows covered with wire netting.
II the ball strikes one of these that play
is ''out," also if it strikes band of sheet
iron that runs around the building.
The game is simple and exhilarating and
promises TO be the most popular pastime.
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Women Sailors.

In only one country have women SO
far "emancipated' themselves from old
customs as to become sailors before the
mast. In the navy of Scandinavia they
are men-of-war's women. They share
the same perils and have only the same
privileges as the men.
Whether the woman on board is the
wife of the captain or of the commonest
sale, she is compelled by the Govern
ment to do the work of a man before the
mast.
Women pilots are also usual thing in
the navy of both the Scandinavian and
Danish Governments. They sail far out
TO sea for the purpose of meeting the
incoming ships, and conduct them to port
as safely do male pilots.
Old and experienced Scandinavian ship
captains say that women make good pi-
lots and are preferred to wsn, in that
they have more patience and are not so
liable, through intemperance, to dash a
ship on the rocks.
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tempted to pinch and scrape in order to
put something by for themselves.
The woman who earns. on the other
hand, especially one who earns on large
scale, is more often than not open-handed
to a fault. The case OF uoyelist-the
late Mrs. Olipkant-is one in point. This
courageous pen woman lived always on
the fat Of the land, travelled. en- princesse,
sent her sons to Elton and TO oxford, and
practieed all the amenities of life. Al
though a good Scotswoman, we are tod
by a writer in Blackwood that 'she hated
small economics. To travel expensiyeiy
was her way She never would travel
second-class. She had none of what she
calls the faculty of economics in her.
She stayed at the very best and most eX-
pensive hotels; she dressed in the richest
OF silks and satins."
Mrs. oliphant, in short, though a trifie
daring in her expenditure, is good type
of the open-handed working woman. There
are at least two famous English author
esses today who live-aud entirely by their
own exertions-like the wives of peers.
They have town and country mansions;
they go to Italy, to Egypt, TO Japan, when
the fancy takes them; they drive the most
snowy horses; they entertain like South
African millionaires. To think of them
as mean is to imagine an impossibility.
They earn large sums and they are at con-
siderable pains to spend them as quickly
and as joyously as may be.
II is the same with actresses and singers.
The prineely hospitalities of a certain diva
are world-famous. Your popular actress.
as a rule, would like to have four hands
with which to throw her money about, and
| she does it. indeed to such effect that a
monster benefit is usually got up to supply
her with the necessaries OF life toward the
close of her career. 1t is possible, indeed,
| that women in this connection are some
what akin to gamblers. II they make
money with ease-or, at any rate. with not
too strenuous toil-they are prone TO spend
| it in the most tolerably light hearted
1
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A NEW KINK IN Wells.
Sporting Women Now Wear Them
in Oriental Fashion.

III oEtNhtuf
Fashion. who is always having quiet
sort of wrestling match with her bold
rival Comfort, has been victorious this sea-
son, and now declares boldly that in her
train she will have no more sunburnt,
tanned or freckled faces. She has endured
them long enough. Her adherents also are
beginning to see the absurdity of allow
ing the heat of one summers day to van
quish all the whiteness and softness that
has been procured to the skin by infinite
care and attention during the winter
Wells are undoubtedly a nuisance when
on the golf field, wheeling or yachting,
where clear, unobstructed vision is neces-
sary. In fact, as long as they interefered
with the sight they were impossible. This
year, however there is new way of wear
ing them which makes them a trifle more
bearable, and leaves the eyes uncovered.
The lower selyage of the veil is first
arranged loosely about the shoulders and
pinned securely at the back of the neck.
The veil is then taken up over the face
and the upper selvage drawn tightly
across the bridge of the nose and under
the eyes to the back OF the head. BY this
arrangement the forehead and eyes are
all OF the face that is left exposed to the
sun; and the brim of the hat should be
such as to sufficiently protect them.
Brown tissue, or chiffon wells. appear TO
be the ones most often chosen for this
purpose; the black ones are really too
grewsome and hideous. Sometimes a
white veil is used to cover the face and
brown one is loosely dropped over from
the brim of the hat to do away with the
unpleasant glare of the suns rays upon
the white veil. 1t is said on good author
ity that the old-fashioned green wells will
also be worn in this way during the sum-
mer.
One unaccustomed to seeing wells worn
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White Ink.

The use Of delicate white ink TO cor
respond with white crest or monogram is
an exceedingly refined innovation. II may
be used with very delicate tints, but is, OF
course. most telling on paper Of some deep
shade. Deep Russian blue or Sultan red
shows 10 great advantage under white ink.
The very prettiest. however. are the wedge
wood effects in a variety OF shades Of blue
the blue-gray being the most effective.
The monograms and crests used with
wedgewood blue papers are OF the tiniest,
10 carry out the wedgewood effect in its
entirety. OF course nothing but pure white
WAY must be used with this combination.
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THE VERY NEWEST GIRL.
An Outline Sketch of the Latest sum
r,er Maiden.

The summer girl who lives on the piazza
and talks aimless chatter. the futtery friv-
olous ice-creamy firt whose one ambi-
ton is to be more engaged than any of her
shallow kind has been replaced with some
thing of newer and better pattern, girl
of higher healthier type. Here is what
the Philadelphia Press" has to say of her
success
She golfs. She bicycles. She has an
arm like a blacksmith and she can walk
like Weston. The surf has no fears for
her and seat on the moonlit piazza no
charms. She has got past the point at
which she initiates men and their clothes.
She has learned better. She has her own
athletic costumes. always prettier than his
and generally more sensible.
She is out of the woods in many senses.
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READ ABOUT MRS. MORRISON.
She Is Official Photographer to Police
Headquarters.

There's a quiet, clever, notoriety- hating
little woman in Newark, n. j., whose oe-
cupation probably takes the prize for un-
usualness. So far as heard from Mrs. Nor
rison is the only woman in the country. or
in the world for that matter, holding the
post of official photographer to police head
quarters. Her work consists in taking pic
lures of criminals for the rogue's gallery
which is feature of police headquarters
in Newark. as we'll as other cities. Since
criminals have begun to appreciate the
possibilities of changing their appearance
by different arrangement of the hair or
another style of hirsute decoration, pho
tographs have fallen somewhat in esteem
Some day, no doubt, they will be suppressed
ed by a record of measurements, thumb
marks and such things. 1t will probably
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THE DOORSTEP GIRL.
She Is Seen to Advantage These Sum
mer Evenings.

mer Evenings.
Doorstep visiting is becoming a feature
of city life again. The doorstep girl is
often pretty girl. daintily attired, and
her cushions are frequently downy affairs,
so arranged that the sides of the door
form comfortable resting places for the
visitors heads. This unconventional re-
ception room is, therefore, popular place,
and the hostess, who has many friends,
holds high carnival in 1t each evening from
TO 10 or thereabouts, says the Baltimore
News" Young men en- route to other re-
ception rooms drop down on one of the
cushions for a minute and linger an
hour; neighboring girls run over for tiny
chat, the children about stop to ask ques-
tions-too many sometimes-until when
mademoiselie counts up her guests before
retiring she finds that she has held a regu-
lar lat home"
The doorstep girl ia a gracious hostess
and dispenses the hospitality of her home
right generously alike to the just and the
unjust, Her reign for the summer mas Just
begun, and perhaps she will be a greater
belle than some of her friends who spend
the time at grand resorts if her tact is. only
equal TO her good will.
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A Petticont Fad.

No matter OF what color your petticoat
may be, brilliant or pale tinted, black
silk hounce just at the very bottom is the
chic fad of the moment. Above this you
may use any mode of trimming that your
taste suggests. Flounces are as much in
vogue as ever the more the better, but
the manner of their finishing is quite new
The narrowest possible velvet piping. OF
whatever color you desire, is run on the
lower edge of each fiounce and forms a
heading for the top one. Brilliant plaid
silks Will be reserved chiefly for street
wear. while the new shaded glace taffetas
and the lowered moires will be the most
charming accompaniments for ball gowns.
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prres Mt Weddings.

In England it is yet the custom for
some little masculine relative to attend
upon the bride in picturesque costume. At
recent English wedding there were two
pages. The boys were costumed in cav
alier style after an old portrait in the
brides family. The suits were of mauve
poplin, prettily trimmed with cream mill
tary braid. The little cloaks we're lined
with white satin and turned back with
mauve bows. The hats were OF white felt.
turned up. with big mauve feather.
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ARE WOMEN sT1NeYp
That Is the Way Most Men Regard
Them.

There is a fine old masculine prejudice
that women. as class. are stingy. The
whole question hangs closely on to the
power of earning money. and the woman
who makes her own life and her own liv-
ing is rarely guilty of the vice of parsi-
mony. The horrors OF rigid domestic
economy are usually praetised by wives to
whom weekly dole for housekeeping is
handed out; women who. not possessing a
penny of their own and having no pin
money settled upon them at marriage. are
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PincnppIe Lnce.

Pineapple lace sounds cool and COM
Portable like dish of pineapple ice. 1t is
made OF the fibre of plant grown in the
Philippine Islands, and which we have
sometimes worn as pineapple cloth-a fine.
sheer fabric. No doubt someday We will
wear many garments fashioned from vege-
table fibres grown in LuZon.
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in this new fashion is apt to be rather as
tonished at first, by the Egyptian-like,
curious effect it gives to the whole fig
ure. The scheme for protecting the face.
however, is really good one. When the
veil is not too thick and especially when
is also not without subtle amount OF
attraction.
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tury of athletics has plainly raised the
American level, and no one can today make
the spring round OF score of our schools
for boys and girls without seeing that the
American boy and girl OF today are bigger.
stronger, healthier, and more wholesome
than ever before.
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BEHOLD THE JULIET HAT
Fashions Millinery Tribute TO Miss
Maud Adams.

Miss Grnnt. Princess-to-be, Has Re-
vivcd the Catacuzene Bracelet.
Royal Garter Blue Is the Newest
Evening CoIor-BaDGIes for Debu-
tnntes-TulIe Pigeons for the Hair.
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Keep Mother In Repair.

Mothers wear out If not kept In repair
and for that reason every woman with
children to look after should insist upon
a nap every day. So say the doctors
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One unaeeustomed to seeing wells worn