The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-25
PERTINENT TOPICS

Nowadays we who grow roses in the
garden have to fight for them, says Eben
Refford, the veteran florist. If we don't
the insects will come out ahead, and we
will not have one fine flower from them.
Those who have pinned their faith to
hellebore, and bought it from the druggist
only to find that it had lost its freshness,
and was worthless, and those who have
tried paris green solutions only to have
their bushes look as if fire had swept
through them, will be glad to know that
a homemade inseeticide can be made at
the cost of a few cents which will do
most effective work against the enemies
of the rose. Take a quarter of pound of
ivory soap-the kind in use in the house
hold, or obtainable anywhere-shave 1t
into thin strips and cover it with water,
and set it on the stove until 1t dissolves.
Then add 1t to a pailful of water, and ap-
ply to your bushes, being sure to see that
every portion of them is reached by it.
Have some one bend the bushes over and
hold them in that position while you apply
the preparation with an ordinary garden
sprayer. In this way you get at the un-.
derside of the foliage where the insects
like to hide. Begin the use of itsearIy in
the season, and use it two or three. times
a week until the insects take their de-
parture.
The ready -to-wear haG of .thes summer
girl will this year be daintier than ever
Womankind< is to be very feminine this
season, from the crown of her head, with
its Janice curl, to the tip of her buckled
low shoe. Instead of "a stiff, aggressive
sailor, she will wear one with a softly
curving brim. The quills, If she uses
these for adornment, will also curve soft
ly. Graceful lines and picturesque ef-
fects are everywhere. e,
There is more individuality, too; and
her outing hat may. be anything that is
fetching, and the more daringly original
the better. But in the main it will sbe a
sailor with trimming on the Alsatian order
These sailors are wonderfully smart
If one have the features to stand It, oc-
casionally the stiff sailor of last season
is seen. But the new shape shows a roll
ing brim and broad low crown Some
have decidedly broad bri1ns, limiting by
their width of the shepherdess hats -
The preferred trimming is crisp bow
of taffeta or Louisine ribbon made on
Alsatian lines. This bow is taut and trim
if one can stand this smart effect.
The Colonial Low Shoe.
The fetching colonial shoe promises to
take the place of the popular Oxford this
summer. There is something SO essen
italy dainty and feminine about it that
every girl except the masculine one falls
in love with It at sight. Then, too,
things colonial are all the rage, thanks
to Janice Meredith. Richard CarYel and
few others. So there is every reason
to expect the colonial shoe to be omni-
present this summer.
Then, too, it will make even the .larg-
est, fattest foot look pretty. What more
does it need to find favor in feminine
eyes? It is cut on the shape of the OK
ford, but there is no lacing. Instead, a
high tongue runs up, giving a prettily-
archedA instep effect. Sometimes the
buckle is in leather, but more often 1T is
in old silver or gold. The shoes are both
in patent leather and calf, and are just
as aristocratic and dainty looking as were
the bellies who wore them hundred years
or more ago. One would think they were
only suitable for dress wear But fashion
says not. She says the summer, girl will
wear them morning as well as afternoon.
They are so pretty they tempt one even