Evening star., 1902-02-19

ting matters straight. To prevent such a
catastrophe Simple little coItrivance.
which would only occur TO q woman's mind.
VIII be adopted. Each pe.ress will. OF
- to be inserted u little mirror. which will
enable each lady to assure herself that
however she feels she is looking all right.
This may have been seen in Much Ado
ABOUT Nothing. where Bcartice uses a
mirror inside her fan.
Bishop Of London's Exchequer Shy.
The bishop Of London is ashamed of the
parsimony Of the members of the Church OF
England Preaching on Sunday he re-
marked that. though the bishop of London 8
fund founded by Archbishop TAFT. was de-
signed to raise fl .OO0.00O, nothing like that
amount had been obtained. ard he con-
trasted this with the achievement OF those
the poverty of the clergy has often been
told, but he narrated It once more with con-
vincing effect.
There are 1900 OF the benefited clergy who
receive less than f67 year from their liv-
ings, and there are nearly 5000 whose In
comes are under ff55 q year. 1t Is this
state of things that has often made II
necessary before appointing a man to a
living to ask II he has private means. as no
clergyman can keep up respectable ap-
pearance and do his work alertfy and
cheerfully on such pitiful income as f67
year This Is not the case in other Chris
tian bodies Every minister OF the Free
Church of Scotland has between GOO and
f:O0 a year and house, while in the Wes-
ieyan community the income of a minister
Is almost invariably 900 year and
house: DIR: Ingram thinks it would he
bad thing If the clergy were rich. but he
contends that it Is impossible for them to
do their work properly under the circum-
stances described. He announced that
lady had offered to provide hospice for
tired clergy at Hendon at a cost of f1 600
year.
A New Thing in Hats.
A lady correspondent writes me: Leather
or rather kid, hats and coats are something
OF a novelty. and have just seen some di-
rect from Paris which are curious, and
cannot say | think them very graceful.
The hat Is a sort of large picture descrip
tfon. made of tightly stretched giace white
realistic roses. and the crown was painted
to represent basket work Of rose branches.
The only trimming was slight drapery of
green tulle. The roses were beautifully
painted. but somehow the effect was hard.
The trifling price asked for this work of
art was ITO. 1t had already been bought hy
a well-known American. who, I hear. is
anxious to revive the fashion Of wearing
hats with evening dress at restaurant din
ners and the theatar. The leather coat was
a long one of white kid. with cuffs and col
lars of tan-colored suede. In which was
worked a pattern in gold. The kid does not
TO me sti1 and hard / was told that these
coats are extremely warm, and lady who
has just had one made In dark brown
leather told me that after a hard day in
the rain in Scotland she oiled the whole
surface Of the coat, and it remained soft
and pliable. Now she regularly polishes it
with brown leather polish. and says 1t will
turn any amount of wet and Is extremely
warm. For motorcaring these coats are in
valuable, but l cannot imagine even the
white ones becoming fashionable, as they
are anything but graceful. An Austrian
archduchess is having one made of real
reindeer skin, with the hair inside and the
tan skin outside. l saw a pretty touue OF
soft tan suede, with one large turquoise
blue quill for decora ton" L. H. MOORE.