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Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-11-28
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In ali lie stages.
EIy's Cream Balm

eleAnsos, soothoa and heals
the diseased membrane.
II cutss calsIrh aud drives
away a cold In the head
quickly.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-11-28

nerves OF a healthy person To
she nervous woman such sud-
len sounds are like blow in
he face and they cause intense
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mothers and grandmothers used to take in
their simple afternoon gowns of wash ma
terials. which could go 10 the tub week in
and week out and return as fresh as ever.
the wash gown of to-day seems a mis-
homer.
New light weight veilings and canvas
weaves show a fancy design in the border
Often IL is very elaborate. making the gown
almost belong TO the pattern gown class.
IL is in the form of satin-finished lines and
stripes. usually OF white or delicate shades.
and often these lines are edged with hem
stitching.
Some very coarse linen weaves i'm mercer
lied effects are so silky as 10 be quite like
the bananas so stylish ten or fifteen years
ago. They look much like silk that
made up over silk they would be dressy
enough for any place. and would cost much
less than fine grenadines and other dressy
thin materials.
Dark brown Russian lace is very hand
some and a very effective trimming There
Is some sense. too. in having a whole lace
gown of a dark lace. and many who have
only been willing in the past TO wear black
lace are now welcoming the Russian laces
A white lace gown is beautiful. but so per-
ishable. Unless immaculate, it looks posi-
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blue, mauve. biscuit and all tints that are
nearly white and extremely perishable will
be swagger- They are made deliberately.
too. Thus white canvas cloth gown has
for its trimmings stitched bands of white
taffeta four inches wide and insertions of
Irish crochet. A biscuit-colored canvas
cloth has around the bottom of the skirt a
wide band Of antique lace headed at top
and bottom with lace beading. through
Every six inches a square design of the
cloth is embroidered in set figure of red
and greens. The waist shows a pointed
cape effect at the bottom of the lace yoke,
and around the cape is the same design in
lace, velvet and squares All mel il is a
together these days, and 1t seems as If 1t
would be hard to know when 1T is done.
since as long as there is a square inch of
plain material anywhere there is a POSSIBLE
ity that some other style of trimming
might be applied. So there is chance for
endless dispute with the dressmaker and
almost endless returns of the gown to her
shop.
In pattern skirts there Is a wide variety
Of embroidery. Some of ii is arranged to
go round the bottom like a fiounce heading,
again 1T follows very closely the seam
still again II is In hit-or-miss fashion,
scattered over the skirt. So it is hard to
think that any style of applying the en-
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What Domestic Science Is.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
The question is often asked, What is
domestic science?" The answer is sim
plicity itself. 1t is housekeeping in the best
and easiest way.
Our grandmothers. who rejoiced in the
distinction of being good housekeepe-s,
gained their knowledge through experience.
But experience means a long and circuitous
path to travel, and the modern woman,
who has more things her hands than
grandmother ever thought of attempting,
wants short cut TO the Elysian fields that
surround the perfectly ordered home.
For her applied science, that is, the ap-
plcation OF the scientific laws and prin-
cfples which she has gained in school. is
now TO be drawn upon for daily living and
household management, and the 'ologies
and ograDhieS turned 10 practical account.
Nor is domestic science confined, some
people believe, 10 cooking alone. Its field
Is too broad to be bounded by the stove
and its precincts alone. While the subject
of detetics, which relates to food and feed
ing, Is probably of the first Importance TO
the well-being Of the family. there are also
the questions of clothing, OF home construc-
ton and sanitation, the principles and
methods of housework the draining and
plumbing, the lighting and heating, how to
keep the family well and how to care for
them if sick or injured how to look after
the household expenditures so that there
need be no leaks and how TO satisfy the
demands of social conscience. All these
important and varied requirements fall into
line under the head of domestic science.
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style TIC many. though comparatively few
women have shoulders shaped handsomely
enough to stand 1t in its extreme forms.
Almost every bodice or coat has either
cape or wide collar effect, and many of
these extend almost to the bottom of the
skirt I'm stole-shaped pieces. Many stoles
are costly and handsome. those made en-
tirely of lace especially fine Silk and
velvet are also used a deal, and often the
stole is OF narrow strips of velvet or silk
fastened together with wide rows of fagot-
ing. The one thing to be careful about is
the 1T Of these capes and stoles. over the
shoulders 1t should be perfect. and In the
circular shapes. this is almost an impossi
bility to secure In homemade product. So,
unless you can afford TO have the thing
fitted, you had better go without 1t, for IL
will have clumsiness all over 1t If you do
not get IT just right. Many ingenious ways
are devised to get the fat shoulder look in
waists. and several very pretty designs
have been shown where the fullness was
smoked across the front of the waist and
over the top OF the sleeves. This. of course,
IS only permissible In very lightweight
goods. Stirring and pleating. both box and
side pleats. are in favor. and in the thicker
materials pleats are stitched down very
firmly as to keep the arm from looking
bulky.
These effects are much varied, from those
that present a long. only gently curving
line from collar to elbow TO others in which
the shoulders curve alone is made to show
out Examination of the accompanying
pictures viii show the diversity that is in
promise In the gown of the initial pic
ture droop was obtained in a cape effect
OF the goods-dark red canvas cloth-self-
trimmed with straps having edging of black
satin. Collar. cuffs and odd belt were black
velvet. At the left in the first group is
striking example of shoulder slope. This
dress was white canvas cloth and black
velvet. so was showily composed, but
equally advanced shoulder treatment is to
be seen in all manner of stuffs. Less rig
orous following of the fashions appears in
shoulder cappings of many sorts. In the
next OF the pictured gowns were ornaments
OF spangled passementerie for the shoul-
ders. Its material was white crepe de
chine. And in the bodices of the third IL
1ustration other methods were shown. The
first OF these bodices was white taffeta, and
Its wide bands were red taffeta, the over
laying narrower ones of the material. The
other bodice was white panne velvet. Hun
garian embroidery and black velvet frogs.
You see house gowns and street dresses re-
feet this fancy. and even spring coats fol-
low suit. The pictured coat of biscuit eta
mine. black velvet and biscuit silk was
one form OF many. So slope you should no
matter in what way nature has provided
for you.
Usually when a change is made from
tight, clinging skirts to fuller ones,
wall Of anguish goes up at the thought
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OF the added weight with which a woman
must burden herself. But now il is i'm
possible 10 complain much. for materials
are so light and thin the weight OF many
new gowns that in appearance are very
full is not cumbersome. Many OF the newer
cloth gowns st.fl nj closely over the hips.
the fullness being let in farther down.
Often a yoke is resorted to- sometimes
round. again pointed. These Jokes are
pieated, tucked. plain. shirred. faggoted.
hemstitched-5n fact. decorated in almost
any way the fancy suggests. IL Is possible
10 show great originality by judicious Sc
lection and use of trimmings. and no ex-
frao-dinary store OF taste is necessary.
Weil-regulated daring is. perhaps the best
possession. From this may come success
ful designs as a dark red broadcloth with
! nine geres In the skirt and down each seam
20 a little below the knees a strip OF black
Eilk ending In two black tassels. Where
the strips OF black end fullness is let in.
This same idea Is carried out In the coat
The very light shades made ur I'm street
gowns are attractive IL the shopper only
san shut her eyes 20 their utter impractical
silify. The shades used are so very light
hat the number OF street gowns needed
viil be ruinouss White. coffee color. light
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lively untidy, and in many cases that
means that il can be worn only once before
going to the cleansers. Russian laces are
in different weights the thinner ones look
ing very handsome with thin crepes, and
the heavy webs going well with the WOOL
ems. Lace gowns show that it is such fad
to trim trimmings that ii is hard 10 tell
sometimes what the real foundation of the
gown is. Here is the way the trimming
was arranged on stylish gown of black
peau de sole: First there were chantilly
lace ruffles on the skirt, and a bodice yoke
was of the lace Over the shoulders and
around the bottom of the yoke row
of medallions cut from the delicate figure
in the lace. All round the edges of these
medallions were loops of narrow black
satin ribbon, put on as thick as they could
be.
Lenten house gowns are fine. some of
them overloaded with lace, medallions.
spangles, jewels, fagoting, embroidery
everything that is used on elaborate even
ing gowns is duplicated on these house
dresses. They lend themselves admirably
to long stole trimmings. for the majority
of them are cut princess. Not satisfied
With pam IdSOtlHS, lot VI II - seen
done in wheel shapes. and it is no easy
matter to put a wheel of fagoting into a
gown so that it viii not pucker nor in any
way spoil the fit or set
Many thin shirt waists of silk mulls and
the thin linens open in back. sometimes
invisibly. again buttoned through. These
generally are heavily embroidered. the
yoke often entirely covered with embroi-
derry. circular fiounce of the same edging
it. They are handsome. but perishable
as to be almost useless. Verify, many
trunks will be taken to the resorts next
summer, for the perishable quality of the
gowns will make necessary appallingly
large wardrobes.
New York, March 13
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Go every Day that he had to work on a
close Schedule.
In the Morning after his Wife had arisen
ara started the Fire and put on the Grid
ale. Mr.. Mordecai F. Quinsy would arise
and take few Observations OF the Wealth
er. He was a very able Prognosticator.
and one Of his favorite Stunts was to get
up In the Morning and do little Forecast
ing for the benefit of his Wife and Daugh-
ter.
After Breakfast he put on his Overcoat
and wrapped himself up in a Comforter so
as not TO catch Cold and lose the Use of his
Voice. II Mordecai r. Quinsy had lost the
Use of his Voice this Country would have
been in a Bad Way
Mr.. Quinsy knew a Druggist who took a
Daily Paper. and So the first thing every
Morning, he went to the Drug Store TO find
out what Foul Break had been made by
Congress. After reading the Paper he sat
by the Stove and laid out some Work for
the Ways and Means Committee.
After which he went down to the Station
to see Number Six go through.
After which he went up TO the Postofice
to wait until the Mail had been distributed
One day in 1889 Mordecai received a Seed
Catalogue. and after that he was encour-
aged. While waiting for his Mail Mr..
Quinsy said a few plain Words about the
Kaiser and stood up for the Monroe Doc
trine
About IL o'clock every day Mr.. Quinsy
acted as Referee in a Pool Game and then
went over to the Barber Shop to look at
the illustrated Papers containing the Pic
lures of Footlight Favorites and Noted
Criminals Mr.. Quinsy. being possessed of
an Analytical Mind, was deeply interested
in all Murder Mysteries. and for every Case
he had a few Theories of his own that
would have been a great help TO the Police.
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that he could give his Time to regulating
the Washington Game. because his Wife
did Sewing and his Daughter was an Ex-
pert Stenographer. Between them they
kept him supplied with good scent Cigars
and relieved his Mind of all Business Cares.
He had nothing to worry him except At
fairs of State
When he tackled a large International
Problem he could do so with keen active
Brain that had not been tagged out by any
cheap Exertion, such as trying to locate
the Winters Supply of Coal.
Mr.. Quinsy had the solemn Phiz of a
professional Pall-Bearer, and much med
itation had corrugated the Front Of the
Dome. Those who merely caught one Flash
of him and never looked up his Record and
checked off his Pedigree thought he was
about due to break into the Senate. To tell
the cold and icy Truth. Mordecai could not
have been elected Constable but just the
same he knew all about John Hays next
Move and sometimes he fretted good deal
for Fear that John would make a Miscue
and permit himself to be Hornswaggled by
them foreign Diplomats.
Mr.. Quinsy could sit on Kit Of Mackerel
with Bunch of Keys, a Barlow Knife, a
Plug of good eating Tobacco and about IS
cents in Currency secreted in his Jeans and
he could tell the Treasury Department just
how to manage the next sl0o.0o0.ooo Issue
Of Bonds.
One thing that worried Mr. Quinsy a lot
was the possibility that Teddy would make
some serious Mistake. He felt more or less
responsible for Teddy inasmuch as he had
formally nominated him in front of Pill
kins's Hardware Store as far back as 1889.
If he could have been at Teddy's Elbow all
the time to whisper Advice there would
have been no Chance for the Administra-
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Pictures I'm the Home.

Chicago Post.
While out calling the other afternoon a
small boy answered the ring of the bell
and at the same time volunteered the in
formation that mamma was dressing and
the girl was out" I said that 1 should
wait for mother and, childlike he proceeded
to entertain me. He began by showing
me the pictures on the wall-all of which
had been selected with care. Before a fine
autotype of a familiar Corot he had a
story to tell of Orpheus and his lutte. A
small print of Canterbury Cathedral
brought out the tale of Thomas a Beckett
first riding on his white mule with jingling
chains and gorgeous raiment. then lying
senseless at the foot of the altar. There
was a portrait of Beethoven, an Aurora,
Sistine Madonna, Greuze Broken
Pitcher" and of these and more this boy
of eight had stories to tell
He was not an extraordinary child in any
sense of the woodworking but the ordi-
nary fun-loving, marble-p:aying boy-but
he had been let into the secret of enjoy
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and ate a hearty Dinner, after which he
returned to Main Street smoking a Farm
Hand Regalia and gazing thoughtfully at
the Ground, trying to straighten out the
Panama Canal Business
In the Afternoon he hung around the
Court House more or less because he played
a good Game of Checkers. and besides he
liked to be on hand in case the State needed
the Services of an unprejudiced Juror.
Mr.. Quinsy had Weak Back. which pre-
vented him from splitting Wood. but he
loved some kinds of Work. and the Honest
Toll that suited him best was TO sit on a
Jury in Case involving Assault and Bat
terry.
If there was nothing doing at the Court
House Mr.. Quinsy usually went tc a Real
Estate Office and grappled with the Trust
Problem. He had given much Thought TO
the Matter of legislating against Infamous
Combines. and he was one OF the first to
discover that the Trusts were trying to
whipsaw the Working Glasses.
About the time that he had solved the
Trust Problem he had to go over and see
the Afternoon Train go through and wait
for his Mail once more.
Late in the Day he usually dropped in at
an Undertaker's Shop where a Veterinary
Surgeon and a retired Truck Farmer were
collaborating on Foreign Policy for the
State Department Mr.. Quinsy always
able TO slip in a few Suggestions. He was
dead set against the Anglo-Saxon Alliance
and believed in the Annexation of Canada
even if il involved War.
AT $50 he would purchase a Pound Of
Oyster Crackers and have them charged.
Then he would go home TO Tea and tell
Mrs. Quinsy and Daughter to fix up the
Sofa for him, as he was suffering from a
Headache and wanted 10 Rest for little
while.
Moral-what we need in America is the
Gospel of Relaxation.
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New York Commercial Advertiser.
A clubwoman told this story ito illus
trate one of the most amusing-and try
ing-phases of human nature and expert
ence encountered by the club settlement
workers, and also the innate nobility Of
character attained by some women
The woman of whom the story is told is
well and favorably known to clubdom and
is famous alike for her beauty, impressive
appearance, kindness of nature and hand
some clothes. She makes a point of dom
ming the most pleasing and effective of the
latter when she visits the social settle
ments. just as she carries flowers and
bright pictures thither whenever she can.
She wore, upon the occasion of recent
address to the woman's club of a certain
well-known settlement, a hat upon which
every other woman riveted envious eyes.
The handsome clubwoman's address dealt
with the necessity of neighborly and sister,
~ kindness among women. She illustrated
the lecture with many pretty stories and
closed IL with an earnest exhortation to all
her listeners to be friendly whenever posi-
BILE. She herself would always be more
than glad, she would be grateful, If oppor-
tunities for proving her own gratitude in
this connection should occur. The next
morning brought her a note from one of
her eager listeners-a note borne by dirty,
neglected little child:
Dear MIS- b, the note ran, DelHS
translated into understandable English and
spelling. you said yesterday you'd be glad
to do anything you could TO help us. VIII
you lend me the hat you wore at the meet
ing for my sister, who works in a millinery
store, to copy? I'll send IL back to you to-
morrow, If youth be so kind to me, and be
ever so much obliged"
The richer woman. after a brief struggle
with herself, loaned the precious bit of
millinery, which was duly caricatured, in
Halsted-street fashion. by the borrowers
sister, and with much delight and
satisfaction by the borrower herself And
here is where the innate nobility of charac-
ter mentioned makes it's appearance-the
woman owning the caricatured "bunnit
has continued to wear Ii weekly when visit
ing that particular club.
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At the Dre..maker.. Convention.


New York Tribune.
The numerous patients of leading New
York physicians reported to have been
recommended by their physical advisers to
go to the president of the Dressmakers'
Association for correct "corseting" did not
materiaIize yesterday afternoon, at least
not for the edihcation of the public. Miss
White also declined to give the names of
the recommending physicians. They might
back out and say they never sent them"
she explained. There were sufficient mod
els, however, for elaborate demonstration
in Masonic Temple Sixth avenue and Twen-
ty-third street, at the conventions after
noon session.
Il haven't been able to get quite as fat
woman as / want" apologized Miss
White. These ladies' indicating the row
of five models, "even the stoutest of them,
don't weigh more than $50 pounds. / just
want to see what can do with 225-pound-
er- Why, can make her more dainty and
stylish than woman of only l3o pounds.
whose eorsets aren't put on right I've
tell you that the American women have
the best style to them of any woman God
ever made II they are 'corested right. III
they're not they look like the old boy him
SELF. From the day l show you how 10 put
on corset you'll begin to live. You might
as well be dead as wear EN- like most peo-
pie do. Why, I've shown half dozen lady
physicians how to put on corsets this week.
Some of them had never worn them before;
thought they'd make 'em sick, and you
never saw such round shoulders and hol-
low chests. But when | got 'em into those
corsets my way they said they never felt
better in their lives. Think of that, now!
You must get your diaphragm to working.
That's the point And you can look the
same at sixty that you do at sixteen. 1
don't make any allowances for age. / don't
have 10. Throw out your chest stand on
the ball of your foot. stiffen your knee and
no matter how old or how fat you are, you
don't feel any heft at ALL
An unusually large audience was in evil
dence to see fat women made stylish in
three minutes" and when some one to-
ward the back called out that she couldn't
,see," the model was put up on a chair on
the stage. Then somebody giggled. You
don't come here to laugh" said Miss White;
you come to learn. Why, when I'm fitting
a corset l never see my customer as
woman. just think of her as figure. It's
mighty kind of these ladies to stand up
here. anyhow, for your instruction"
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broidery could be much amiss. In pattern
suits the waist decoration conforms to
that of the skirt.
Some embroidered lawns have embroidery
all over the material while the gown is
made of fiouncings. only the lower part
of the fiouncing showing embroidery.
Sometimes, too, Irish crochet is combined
with these awn-embrodered gowns, but
it is not pretty to see two such widely diff
fent trimmings on wash gown. When
you consider the ease and comfort our
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ment in pictures Before a colored print
of landscape by Dias. which was pinned
10 the door frame and had probably come
with the Sunday paper his Imagination
found way into the depth of the woods.
he admired the coloring and peopled the
forest with robbers and creatures OF fancy.
Some clever person had given him the
magic key to a world of enjoyment beyond
the sidewalks and car tracks. Wherever
he might travel in after years he would
never be alone. This fable, as old AeSop
would say, has a moral. Choose pictures
that have meaning and tell the children
about them. They will prove an endless
source OF entertainments, and then, are we
not continually crying for culture and an
upward way In education?
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w - 5 of grand
mothers girlhoOd
are suggested by the
fore C as I ings OF
spring fashions. Es-
pecially is this true
of bodices and coats.
whose most notice
able new character
istic is droop at the
shoulders, which is
a re-echo Of styles
long bygone- Trim
mings OF these new
dresses are essen
TALLY of this day,
and generation. so
the quaint general
appearance Of long
ago is not repro
duced. The long
droop is becoming
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Soft wool fabrics, such as yelling, alba
tross and canvas, are much In vogue and
make charming afternoon gowns. This
stylish model is suited 10 all. but is shown
lace.
The quantity of material required for the
medium size is for waist ga yards q. 8
yards 81 or 2 yards "A inches wide, with
a yard OF all-over lace and 3i2 yards of in
sertion to trim as illustrated: for skirt 1014
yards u. yards q, or 5I4 yards A inches
wide.