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Tailor-Made d
for Spring

The short skirt being now a fashion.
able fixture, is, of course, receiving a
very special amount of attention from
the aides-de-camp of fashion, each
of whom seems to be striving. to pre-
sent this favored garment in specially
attractive form.
The model shown here is of hopsack
tweed, in a shade of gray light enough
to be pleasantly suggestive of spring.
like weather, and yet not too light to
be thoroughly se%rviceable. The smart
little sacque coat is made distinctive
by its wide, bell-shaped sleeves, and
its prettily-shaped collar of white
cloth, strapped with black satin, while
then the cleverly-cut skirt is gored
to the knees, where its wide plaits be-
gin to open out into a most becoming
fulness, and are arranged to clear the
ground all round.
Another sacque-coat costume that
is attractive and simple is of royal blue
cheviot, the gored skirt having all it's
seam finished with rows of stitching,
and a stitched strapping Of the cheviot
bordering the fronts Of the sacque
coat, which, you see is cutwithout col
lars or revers, and SO well-cut too,
that it looks equally well when worn
either open or closed. The skirt is,
in this case, allowed to touch the
ground all round.
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Trifles in Lace and Ribbons

ribbon, and beneath the belt is to be
seen a very convincing front of ecru
lace over pink silk; a large bow of the
silk adorns the front. while an edging
of narrow black velvet on the bows
and rows of it down the front complete
a dainty trimming.
Another is a heliotrope silk cravat.
edged with gold cord and finished with
a couple of cascades of cream lace.
Quite new and pleasing is the stole
collar. This is composed of a rather
course brown lace over cream satin,
the trimming consisting of rose pink
chenille balls and edging, while a motif
of the same ribbon. emily much wider,
is arranged to fall over the front of the
bodice. The lining is cream satin.
Smart, too, is the ribbon belt with
long sash ends made up over lace, in
black it can be worn with any dress,
and will be- found a most useful
possession. ELLEN oakoNpK
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The Evils Of Child labor
in the United States ~
We Employ MOTE Children Under Is Years of Aoe
Than Do Some of the European Countries.

sort of citizens will they make? What
sort of 81 ildren will they bring into
the worli? 1t is the contemplation
of these two question that has START
ed the present crusade against child
labor.
Both inside and outside the mines
children work for the coal men, and
while the work itself is not particu-
larly arduous, the conditions sur
rounding the immature wage-earners
are unhealthful, as is attested by
their pale faces, stunted figures, lack
of vitality and childish spirits. In
the mines the little coal employees
tend the doors and drive the mules;
outside at the breaker some are en-
gagged in picking over slate and 9TH
ers drive the mules used for draw
ing the loaded cars. Eleven hours a
day the children in the Pennsyl-
yahia mines have been accustomed to
work; the little slate pickers almost
continually bent over at their work.
The children employed in mercan-
tile establishments are comparatively
lucky, the discipline received and the
neatness required being of educa-
tional value. And in this work the
worker has an opportunity to rise,
may be able some day to arrive at a
well remunerated position. A writer
in the New England Magazine gives
the instance Of n woman enjoying q
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ment.
a England, in Germany, in France, and in fact in most of the
.Aer leading nations of the world, the public have been educated up to
the point of evncing an interest in the navy, and it is this interest that
has made the navies of those countries great. Navy leagues have car
rid on this campaign of education. They have thousands and hundreds
of thousands of members whose united efforts are pledged to the further
ing of the best interest of the naval service of their country.
Our navy is worthy OF the same efforts on the part of our citizens,
and the good work has been started, and the Navy League of the
United States" has been incorporated with such men as Hon. Benjamin
F. Tracy and Hon. William McAdoo as president and vice president.
respectively The object of the league is to do for the navy of the
United States just what similar organizations have done for the navies
of other countries-to develop an interest in the naval service of the gov
eminent, to work for its advancement, and to educate the public in the
value of the service to the government, for no nation is strong unless it
be strong on the sea. This work is being done by the organization Of
local branches throughout all sections of the United States, and by the
distribution of literature bearing upon the subject to the members.
From the leagues secretary, Mr.. George B. Satterlee, 81 Broadway,
New York, comes the report that applications for permission to organ
ize branches are pouring in from all sections of the country. This is as
it should be; the American people should be awakened to their duty to
the navy, and it is to be hoped that the efforts of the publcsprted or
ganizers may be crowned with an abundant success along these lines, for
in no other way can the inertia of congress be overcome and a strong
navy secured to the country.
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lWWlHILE we perhaps have
IN ii" not been so guilty in u
attitude toward child
workers as England one
was, yet much blame ac-
crues to us because of our
neglect of the little %toilers. Once in
EnglaBd's history children of both
sexes were engaged in unhealthful la
Dor in her coal mines; when girls
and boys of six years, mere babes,
were put into the mines and under
harsh taskmasters forced to exert
their puny strength. We who marvel
at this wrong against childhood
should open Il eyes at conditions
that exist to-day in our own land.
To-day there are more children I'M
der Is years of age employed in the
United States than in either Eng
land, Italy or Germany, in proper
ton to the population.
From time to time all over the
country voices 7 lifted in protest
against The evils of child labor. but
factory, mine, mill and other indus
tries have been able to get all the
children workers they wanted. Of
late a new crusade against the wrong
has been started, and it now looks as
though the movement, which is very
widespread, was going to bring about
effective reforms. Jealous factory in
spectors are engaged in the remedy
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range from the severe in point of plain
ness to the daintiest of ornamentation
and elaboration.
Fashion has adopted the fiat tab
finish in front, in place of the band,
Of last spring. The tabs may be long
or short, narrow or wide, single or
double, the ends of a strap running
around the base of the stock, or the
%turnovers at top of the stock; cut in
one with the stock, or stitched on as
an afterthought; but tabs there must
be.
The bowhasnot entirely disappeared,
however. 1t is still found in the con-
servative houses whose mandates in
shirt-waist realm have weight, and
it will have its loyal friends all sum-
mer, for the bow is chic and pretty and
does not lock old-fashioned as many
modes do, the instant they lose fash
ions first favor. Still, the ministerial
tabs are chic and pretty, too-and they
are new.
The variety in the new stocks is not
SO much in shape as in ornament and
workmanship. "Stock with tab front
would describe almost anyone ofithem
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but each differs from the others in
finish.
Fancy runs riot within the demure,
straight outline, and along the fiat
surfaces, and the neckwear of the sea-
son carries Il the note sounded in
the popular stole-quiet line and or
nate detail.
The popular silA stock for every
day wear is made of black taffeta or
peau de sole and is tabled. 1t is SO
very plain in design and finish that
care should be taken to wear notice
ably pretty turnovers with it. The
tabs are finished in French knots, runs
of stitching, or tiny satin or passe-
menterie buttons.
White taffeta silk stocks stitched in
lines of color have a plaid band about
the base with pointed ends which pass,
crossing each other, through silk COW
cred rings in front. This gives almost
the effect of a bow, yet is fiat.
The fine lingerie stocks are an es-
pecial feature this season, and a pre-
vailing note among them is the use
of bias bands fagotted together. Often
Irish lace insertions form the body
of the stock and tabs, and this inser-
ton is edged by several row of the
fagotted lingerie folds. Sometimes
the folds are made of colored lingerie
batiste and the result of the combina.
ton is charming.
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I is wonderful how the adj
ditional little velvet ribbon,
be it black or colored, will
improve little lace novelties,
which are dear to the heart
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salary of $4,000 a year who started az
cash girl in the first department
store in America, the 'Fair" in Chi
cago.
Since the aforementioned census
of 1880 much legislation has been en-
acted toward the reduction of the
abuses attendant upon the employ
,ment of children. The appointment
of factory inspectors has worked we'll
in some places, though many inspec-
tors are incompetent and dishonest
in the performance of their duties.
Careful statistics have been gathered
in reference to child labor; state
laws passed restricting such labor, in
regard to apprenticeship, with refer
ence to the prohibiting of the en-
%ployment of children for dangerous
and immoral purposes, for the pro-
vision of proper meal times and sani-
tary surroundings, limiting the hours
of labor, setting an age limit, and
the requiring of health certificates
for each worker. The juvenile court
and social settlement aid truant Off
Ger and board of education in their
work as friends of the children. And
the free kindergarten is a help not to
be forgotten.
New York and Massachusetts are
very Jealous in looking after the in
terests of their little ones, and Illi-
nois is becoming very aggressive
against the sweatshop evil. The COM
pulsory education law has been a
great protection for the children. In
the six southern states which have
no compulsory education law, or no
child labor law at all, the bondage
of the small workers is most dis
graceful-as once it was in both New
England and old England. In North
Carolina 5000 children are at work
in the cotton mills, and something
less than 70 per cent. of them are
able to read and write. Many of the
children are under ten years of age.
The average wage for 12 hours of
work is 80 cents. In Alabaran 1900
small children work in the cotton
mills. In South Carolina and Geor-
gia many of the mills are run by
children under 12.
The south. with it's remarkably
sudden SrOWtH OF Manufacturing IN
dustries-113 mills being built in one
year, 1S99-has some excuse for it's
present failure to protect it's chill
dren. In time the wrAng will prob
ably be righted, the problem of la
Dor meet with Il better solution. Let
us hope that that time is not far off.
Inthe Alabama mills now toll mites Of
six and seven, toll from sun-up some
times to long after shutdown. And
little helpers of four are not un-
known. An Inspector once asked a
small child what she did when she
was tired. 81 cry" she shyly an
swered. The mills hat run at night
have for workers sleepy little chill
dren, who now and then must be kept
awake by dashes of cold water. 1t
seems too dreadful to believe, but
this is a fact, not fiction. Of course
these workers are poor white trash
of the south, and some say their COZ.
dition is not worse than before the
factories were built.
KATHERINE ropA
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ing Of the evil, legislators are busy
drafting bills, sociologist and philan-
thropist are doing what they can to
protect these citizens unable to pro-
tect themselves.
One writer says: There are laws
enough on the statute books, but
who cares to use them??" When par
ents equal employers in greediness it
is hard indeed to furnish adequate
protection for the helpless children.
Parents will swear falsely as to the
age of their offspring in the hope
that the family income will be aug
mented by the small sums that can
be earned by the latter. They keep
them from school, lie, and do what
they can to elude the vigilance of
factory inspector and truant officer.
Not only is it the children hat are
harmed by this tendency to employ
the very young, but cheap labor
drives older and stronger workers out
of the field. Every community where
the labor of children is extensively
made use of is marked by crowds of
idle, thriftless elders. Natural con-
ditions are reversed, the strong look
ing to the weak for support. The
children have no childhood, the men
n o manhood.
Back in 1880, when the census of
that year made known the fact that
1,118,356 children between the ages of
10 and Is years were employed in
gainful occupations, easy-going Amer
leans began to wonder if, after all.
they better not follow in the steps of
certain English agitators, who moved
heaven and earth to get passed fac
tory and other acts dealing with the
system of child labor. But little was
accomplished at first in this coun-
try, the demand for cheap labor in
creasing with time. Some time after
the census of 1880 a New York IN
spector reported: "Year after year
we have seen the demand increase
for smaller and smaller children, until
it became a veritable robbery of the
cradle to supply them"
In addition to the children who
earn wages outside, there are many
homes where the child is engaged in
"piece work" Mother and child of
ten toll side by side, their long hours
of labor bringing them in scare the
scant necessities of life. In n home
described by MI. Jacob Riis, who is
such a Jealous student of conditions
among the poor, the mother was not
able to equal a little daughter in
money earning; while the former
stitched away on shirts, the deft
hands of the latter pasted linen Gov
ers on tin boxes. Any number OF
queer occupations in which tots are
employed doubtless could be founG
by an investigator in a city of any
considerable size.
Long hours in the close air of cot
ton and wooden mills is not the sort
of thing on which a child can thrive
Young boys are employed, to theil
lasting harm, in glass works, in DO,
factories the arsenic and paste sick
en- the children workers, the nicotine
In tobacco factories, and the water il
silk factories. In such places thou
sands of American children spent
many years Of their childhood. VIVA
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any interest in clothes at all.
There is shown in the illustration
a dressy fichu, attached to a lace sailor
collar; silk muslin is used for the
fichu, which is gracefully knotted in
the center, and the ends trimmed with
lace to match the collar as far as pos
sible. A pretty air of style is intro
duced in the knots of black ribbon
velvet either side of the collar.
Truly beautiful would this garniture
be carried out with Limerick point, a
crochet lace which is in high favor just
now, and of which many people possess
lovely specimens.
Another Illustration is Of a smart
.waist-band Of guipure lace and velvet
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-03-28
Of tbf Grip 1Sacillus
By DR.. CYRUS EDISON

Grip is contagious and if the public were
fully aware of that fact many unnecessary in
fections would be avoided. The grip germ, a
spirilluln, or bacillus, locates itself principally
in the mucous membranes of the respiratory
tract, and it is an air-borne disease, one ac-
quires it by breathing in the germs. Ample
evidence of its contagiousness is found by its
passage through a family, a city or a section of
the country, travelling along the ordinary lines
of travel. 1t is in this way that it was brought
to this country some IS years ago coming in
teamers from Europe.
A GREAT MISTAKE is MADE BY
THE MAN WHO RFTJIRNS To HIS
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1patrtotn Gtt5ens ann the Dabp
By JARVIS B. EDsoN.

1t is a part of every patriotic citizens duty to his
country to show an interest in the various branches of
public service. In the United States there is no branch
of the government service which needs the strengthen
ing hand of the patriotic citizen SO much as Our navy.
1t is a part of the service that meets with entirely too
little encouragement from the public at large, and e-
pecially from the public of the inland states.
The American navy represents the interests of the
farmer of Iowa quite as much as it does the fisherman
of Massachusetts,; it represents the interests of the
miner Of Montana unite as much as If does the mer-
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WORK TOO SOON AFTER AN ATTACK OF GRIP.
To avoid catching the grip, keep out of the way of people who have
it, keep warnna and keep your feet dry. If your baby has the grip, don't
kiss it. If your stenographer has the grip, send her home until she gets
well. If your friend has the grip, send him flowers and regrets, but don't
calf eli him until he is well. Don't get tired, and above all keep warm
and drt When you do get the grip, take a dose of physc, go to bed and
send for a doctor. ~
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daughters all wanted money the moment their father had entered the
house, not giving him time to eat his dinner. If the mother had had
any tact she would have prevented such a scene as happened.
My sympathy is with the men when the women seem to 20 little
appreciate the getting of money. Just let them start out collecting in
the morning and keep at it all day. They will appreciate money by
nghtfal.
For the last two years how many families at the death of the head
of it have found themselves without means of any kind, living at a fear
full rate and then in the street. AS a general thing children go bad be-
cause the mother is not at home to look after them. I am grieved be-
yond anything to see the children left with the servant girls while their
mother goes about, and when company comes they have those fearful,
ilbred manners. which the mother knows is dead wrong.
Fathers and mothers think the world of their children and ruin them
with kindness. A few good lessons and a good, sound whipping now
and then, showing you are master of the situation, would help them
immensely in after years, when you are not there to care for them. Re
verse things from what they are now.
Get up in the morning and go to bed early. 1t is the cause of sue
cess in life, and, above all, take no impudence from your children; no.
not one word. Show that you are master.
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5pare got tbe Btrrb wttb tbe Gbtln
BY MISS FLoRETTA v1N1NG.
WeM-knoyn k1assacbusens NeD5poper PubMber md Writer
H>ber and Writer.

During what class as my visiting season
| am a guest every night at dinner in different
houses. 1t astonishes me to see the il-bred
manners of the children of the different homes.
Where there is only one child they seem to own
everything, including their fathers and
mothers.
One or the other of their parents excuses,
when in my opinion nothing short of a good
sound thrashing would avail anything. An
other thing, children should go to school, rain
or shine, hail or snow, if they are in good
health.
I was disguised the other evening when
no less than the mother and three different
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'RING brings with it fash
ions in accessories as we'll as
in gowns and hats. Among
these accessories none are
prettier or daintier than the
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Salvation,

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symptoms W nervous di.o,i.,
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