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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12


Es deber del paciente, tanto
por su propio bien como el de
las personals que le rod can, pro-
curar que ninguno de sus bach
lus Sc salve del fuego.
En- el acto de toser, expelense
de la boca pequeflas particlllas
de humedad cargada de germe-
mes, las cuales constituyen un
peligro para los tenfermos, in
fermeras y demas personals en-
mediatas al paciente.
Debera este tener lcuidado de
volver ell rostro y llevar el pafio
de. mano a la boca, cada vez que
tOsa. .@ *
Los avios de CANA. y vestido
de los pacientes ens1cianse a
n1enudo con saliva Y deyeccio-
mes que contienen bacillus. Las
ir1anos de los enfermos y otras
personas cuyo deber les pone en-
contacto con estos objetos, estan
expuestas a ensuciarse. Los ves-
tidos y ropa blanca deberan ser
de material que pueda hervirse,
8 de otro modo esterilizarse. Las
sabanas Y demas avfos deben
ser bien aereadas antes de COM
ponerse la CANA, y exponerse
con frecuencia a la luz del sol.
Las enfermeras deberan lavarse
las manos Embellishments des-
pues de haber prestado cual-
4uier servicio al enfermo, 8 de
tocar cualquiera de los objetos
que lie rodean.
En- las habitaciones ocupadas
por tuberculosis, no deben alle-
garse otras personas, y es POGO
snenos que suicidarse, el ocupar
con ellos la misma CANA, siendo
particularmente peligrosas, en-
tai proximidad, las partfculas de
esputo y rociada expelida al to-
ser.
La infection de marido 8 mu-
ler. bajo tales condolences, es
muy com1n. y muchos casos de
estos he tenido personalmente
OCCASION de observar.
Deberan limpiarse y esterili-
zarse escrupulosamente los Guar
tos que hayan sido ocupados
por tuberculosis; enjugarse las
paroles, lavarse la obra de car
pinterfa, sacar y tender al aire y
sol por dos 8 tres dfas todos los
avios de CANA, y lavarse y her
virse la ropa interior. Despues
de haberse limpiado en- la forma
1ndicada sc volveran a traer al
cuarto, colgandose de modo que
puedan recibir los vapores de la
1ampara de formalina por algu-
mas horas. Ventilado nueva-
mente el cuarto, podran enton-
ces ocuparlo sin peligro otras
perSonas.
Los sanatorios para tubercu
1osps deberan tener el piso des-
nudo y pulido, las paroles pin
tadas. los angulos redondeados,
la obra de carpinteria despro-
vista de toda ornamentaclon, y
nm mobiliario que recoja POGO
polvo.
Los tuberculosis no deben es-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-03-12
RECOMENDACIONES
v Consoles Al PUBLIcO

Advertencias importantfsimas de j.
w. Kline. Doctor en- Medicina
Denver, Colorado EE. UU. Supe-
rintendente del Sanatorio de Boul-
der lodge; para la tuberculosis.
Fort Dodge; para Yowa, etc.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

1t is no use for mothers to declare
any more that it is difficult to dress
children. for never were the requires
ments of the juvenile world more con-
sidered. Even the dressing of the awk-
ward age-the girl all legs and arms,
and the boy a hobbledehoy-has be-
come comparatively easy matter,
while for the naturally graceful child
effective models are almost confusingly
thick.
All sorts of charming devices hide
the meagerness Of growing girls, among
which is a new bertha and very full
skirt with fingered widths. The bertha.
which is cut circular and delicately
trimmed. falls often to the belt, forming
a complete cape. Sometimes the skirt
is shirred at the hips, sometimes 1t is
only gathered, and in this case above
the wide hem there may be several
large tucks.
For girls below this sage-those who
still show the roundness of babyhood-
new fashions have a doll-like charm.
Little gored skirts are of an incredible
shortness. decked, in silk instances,
with tiny ruchings of ribbon and quill
ings of lace, these sometimes forming
wreaths and garlands. The bodices on
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14
BY MARY DEAN.

The tinted chambrays and Scotch
ginghams, every year used, are still
combined with white Hamburg en-
broderies. with headings of this often
joining the seams of both bodices and
skirts.
Challie is not usually accounted a
wash texture, but the new challies are
warranted washable, and many display
charming border effects. Narrow wash
ribbons are combined with these, with
sometimes a stout lace for the yoke
and cuff bands, but whatever the mod
ell of the challie frock, it is always de-
signed with an eye to the washtub.
But the growing fondness for i'm
maculate freshness results not only in
fast tints, but in the placing of white
above all color. Never, merchants de-
clare, were white wash textures sup
piled in vaster quantities or more ex-
quisite varieties. From the heaviest
linen crash as coarse in some in
stances as a basket weave, the new
white goods run to textiles as fine as
cobwebs. A party gown for girl of
II is made of three and half yards
of Paris lawn fifty inches wide. Only
upon the bertha edge and around the
neck and sleeve bands is the lace used,
and then only a single insertion and
ruffie The plain skirt is gathered full
and deeply hemmed, and Is cents a
yard is the cost of the Val lace used.
With such dresses and other airy
white frocks, colored sashes will be
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

such toilettes are equally pretentious,
high necked in most cases, and some
times adjusted with whalebone, for
whalebone and even regulation corset
bodies are worn by such ages in France.
High face and ribbon stocks, wide
crush belts of silk or panne, and elab-
crate underSleeves, are other features
of these charming little gowns, which.
of course, constitute the best bib and
tucker.
Along with this delicious finery. inn
porters also show other elegancies not
usually accorded maids of eight and
ten. An automobile coat of red leath-
err. with a hood to match, is supplied by
one firm for a girl of six. Another firm
displays summer driving wraps for sew
eral ages in embroidered pongee, while
real lace wells are supplied for curly
heads from one to four. These, which
are white, of course. drape curtain
fashion the fronts of elaborate poke
bonnets, in whose bouffant face trim
mings delicate flowers are put.
But to chronicle spring fashions cor
rectly-for February inaugurates spring
and summer styles for children-it is
necessary to dwell longest upon wash
textures, these constituting their main
wear.
The wash materials now in the mar
ket clearly demonstrate the increasing
demand for beauty. Colors and de-
signs, with even the most inexpensive
of the wash goods, We're never lovelier,
and the majority of them have besides
the added virtue of really standing
water.
For the white and colored piques.
which will be much used, narrow wash
fringes to match are seen. these edg-
ing on made-up models for girls of
several ages quaint cape-collar and
fiowing-sleeve effects. Exquisite flower
tints are shown by the new piques
ducks, linens and drills. and upon the
handsomer frocks displayed in these
materials superb effects in braiding Oh
hand embroidery are encountered.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14
ST. VALENTINES
INSPIRATION
BY JACOB sPINDELHOEFFER.

Il thought so,' she said comfor-
tably. Il taught that young man his
pot hooks. Next time you try to
fool me remember that I've taught
most of the young men around here
how to WRITE
''Yessum," came the response from
above, and Miss Amanda settled her
self for an afternoon nap.
Five minutes later she was aroused
by rapping at the door. There was
no one on the porch but as she picked
up the envelope her sharp eyes caught
sight of Jimmie Belknap just disap-
pearing around the corner.
The envelope was old and faded:
the writing grabbed and formal, yet it
made her heart beat faster as she
closed the storm and inner doors and
returned to the sitting room.
Carefully she opened the envelope
and drew out the illuminated sheet.
1t began as hers had done long ago:
1.-THE rose is red. the violet blue,
This valentine 1 send to you.
I've loved you long. say not in vain.
Let childhood days come back again.
1t was with misty eyes that she
slipped the paper back in it's enve-
lope. 1t was the first time in full fif-
teen years she had even received q
valentine, and longer than that since
he so suddenly decide to break the
long silence?
She was still puzzling over this
knotty problem when there was an
other rap at the door and she present
ly returned with a second letter. This
was even more gorgeous than the
first, and in burning words declared:
1--we loved you long, I've loved you
well.
How long I've loved you no tongue
can tell.
Long years our pride's kept us apart,
And misery brought each aching
heart.
Let's now forget the pain and strife,
And promise that you'll be my WIFE,"
The poetry was crude, but the sem
timent found an echo in her heart.
All the long afternoon she sat in the
green rocking chair by the window,
which commanded a view of the road,
looking for more valentines. 1t was
while she was getting tea that the
third summons sounded through the
house and Jennie darted to the door,
to come back with a bulky enevlope.
MY" she teased, "but we are get
ting popular. Three valentines, to say
nothing of Billy Schemerhorn's."
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

pretty and picturesque, ana no sooner
is a popular juvenile created in notion
than the garments peculiar TO MN or
her appear in real life. The long
wasted blouse suits worn by an ire
pressible youngster of recent fiction
have been a boon to 2-year-olds, who
hitherto We're confined to the ignom-
my of frocks. The sskirt-like tail of
the coat makes the get-up sufficient
ly babyish for looks, and the tiny
Knockers underneath supply the man.
nish touch every small boy Graves.
Such suits are seen in all. the shops
for children's wear. and though not
labeled. the little pink and blue cham
bray models are easily recognized.
Many Russian blouse suits are seen
for boys more advanced in years, but
somehow such models seem to recon-
mend themselves principally to chap
pies around and only slightly above
the baby stage. A dressier suit made
in pique, duck and linen is called "the
duke" Knee trousers and a tailless
blouse with a straight military collar
shapes the model of this, which may
show edges of color with a matching
sash knotted Spanish fashion at the
left knee.
Youths are next in the order of con-
sequences, but except in the case of
country suits. strictly speaking, the
thin tweeds and flannels and serges
used this long while continue to dress
them. 1t is only in the matter of de-
tails that their manly and matter-of-
fact tournure is altered, and these de-
tails are confined to odd waistcoats,
eccentric colored handkerchiefs and
fashy ties.
Apropos of such splendors and the
colored shirts, which will be worn by
both men and boys, one recalls a shirt
sported in Henri Murger's inimitable
Vie de Boheme"-patterned modestly
with a design of wild boars chased
by dogs" Exactly this story may not
be told by the male bosom this sum-
mer, but it will be tale closely re-
sembling it; for pointer dogs and ter
rier and bull pup heads appear on
number of the new masculine shirt
ings.
Those designed for feminine use,
when colored, run to extreme simplic-
ity of pattern and delicacy of tint,
with black and white effects every
where Astounding. White shirtings
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY FEBRUARY IA. 1904.

ness be gained by one of the wide
leather belts, which have succeeded
the very narrow ones of year ago.
These belts. originally designed in
Paris, and costing still. in the import
ed shape. anywhere from 81 to $12-
these last embroidered-are almost as
much worn by children as grown-ups.
The handsomest models in them are
double or triple tongued with gilt or
silver harness buckles. and the kid of
the softest quality, which, because of
the width of the belt. is necessary for
a good fit.
Others far cheaper than these
styles, however. may have the tongue
gathered fussily through a single
square leather buckle. and the young
girl who has only rs cents to spend on
her belt will find such sorts quite good
enough.
Belts for young children of both
sexes are an absolute requirement,
the long-waisted bodices and blouses
calling for them. For these ages,
however, the leather girdle is very
narrow, entirely unshaped and sup
piled with the plainest metal buckle.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

Miss Amanda gave her a good-na-
tured cuff and left her to finish the
supper preparations while she took the
envelope to the sitting room, and
turning up the light sat down to read
it.
AS the sheet unfolded she gave a lit
tie cry. 1t was the wedding certifi-
cate Jed had bought at the County
Fair long ago in anticipation of their
marriage. 1t was the fall before their
quarrel, and she had supposed it lost
long ago. For a moment the tears
blotted the writing from sight. Then
she slowly read:
''There was a time we thought that
this
Would be seal to welded bliss.
It's old and stained and out of date,
To get new ones not too late.
If still you think you'd like to wed,
I'll get a better one,
"Yours
Jed"
There was an cutlery, and Jennie
sprang into the room dragging the
sheepish Jed by the hand
81 found him in the woodshed when
I went out for more wood" she cried,
land he really thought the valentine l
sent him was from you. 1 write just
like you. Amt it funny!"
But there was no answer. The ,si-
lence of twenty years was being made
up for.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

a few pressed flowers, lock of hair
and a yellowed sheet of paper en-
blazoned with pierced hearts and other
devices of Dan Cupid. This he placed
beside the valentine just received.
For awhile he studied them in silence;
then he slapped his thigh.
I'm just about right" he confided
to the base-burner. 1.-THE writings are
just about alike, and by Jiminetty it's
leap year, tool"
From another drawer he drew a
number of sheets of paper as gor-
geously decorated as the ones upon
the desk before him. They were yell
lowed by age. around the edges, but
the colors were still bright, even
though they had lain there for twenty
years. He had bought them for a
valentine years before, but the advent
of the singing teacher had rendered
them useless. Now lat Amanda had
shown disposition to take advantage
of leap year, she could not lack en-
couragement. He carefully mixed up
the ink with a little water to the
proper consistency and, selecting a
pen, began his labors.
Two miles up the road Miss Aman-
da Perkins was studying over a val
entine, which read:
why should two hearts lie bleeding
Ger the troubles of the past.
When inclination's leading
To the marriage bells at last?'
This was boldly signed Jed" but
Miss Amanda's sharp eyes quickly de-
tected the difference between the
clerkly hand and Jed's uniformed char
acters.
"Jenne!" she called sharply.
"Yessum." came the reply from the
regions upstairs.
who did you get to write this
valentine?" she demanded. WAS it
young Schemerhorn ?"
"Yessum," was the prompt re-
saonse.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

as well as color. and the embroidery is
done in chiffon and fine chenille.
This frock is only one of many we'd
ding gowns in course of preparation
THAI illustrate the fad for fine hand
work upon wedding gowns. The exact
ing bride. who would be truly up-to-
date, wants eGery stitch of her gowns
made by hand. The fine, flIny material
that is to be worn over voluminous
draperies of other delicate materials in
spring weddings must all be scanned
and hemmed and gathered and shirred
by hand. Not only this, but the careful
needlewoman sews seams together with
delicate feather or lace stitches; she
embroiders the finest of flower wreaths
and sprays of flowers in pure white,
where a fullness in the gown is caught
under a seam, or between trimmings
of fine lace or ruffles.
Little ornaments-single pieces-of
handmade lace are in great demand
for wedding gowns, and these take
months to work where any quantity of
pieces are required. The frock en-
broidered in sweet peas is the task of
five months; one made of white silk
lace, worked abroad, has taken over
eight months; gowns in which hand
made Honiton and Duchesse are prom
inent have taken months in the making
These lace and finely embroidered
gowns are made in such a way that
the latest within of fashion may be
carried out in the drapery of the
sleeves and bodice as we'll as in the
skirt, by means of chiffon and tulle
folds, fiounces and shirrings, so that
a bride who spends any amount of
money in getting a superb handmade
wedding gown made may rest easy
in the knowledge that her modiste
will see to it that it is in the latest
style, as we'll as in the latest fancy
of fashionable society.
Cross-stitch has not yet attacked the
wedding gowns, but Chinese fiat-stitch
and Japanese raised embroidery have.
and, therefore. the crepe embroidered
robes sent over by the Oriental wo-
men will be as fashionable as they are
beautiful and far less expensive than
a specially constructed frock at home.
Some idea of the fineness of the
hand-work upon these new wedding
gowns may be had when it is known
that young American needlewomen,
whose eyes are perfect so far as sight
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

and lustre are concerned, do a great
deal of the work on the gowns, as
sisted by powerful magnifying
glasses. The cobweb-like stitches are
put so close together in the embroid-
cry and the lace that an amateur
needle-woman could never tell one
from another.
Whole wedding dresses are being
made OF narrow folds of chiffon in
scroll and flower patterns held to-
gether with loose lace and feather and
picot stitches. The cobweb effect is
produced in some cases in real imita-
ton Of the web of a spider in SHIN
mering threads of glossy silk.
The trousseau comes in for as much
hand-work as the wedding gown, and
the innumerable ruffies of taffeta that
mingle with those of pleated chiffon
must be daintily pinked on the edge
and sewed on by hand. If feather
stitching is used above them, so much
the better. The white lawn under
skirt has an ever widening fiounce
made of narrow Valenciennes insert
ing, and strapped across this fiounce
at intervals are handmade straps of
fine hand embroidery upon batiste.
These straps are narrow at the top
and wider. with rounded ends. at the
bottom. The bride may have her
them, or small orange blossoms may
be sprinkled up the center. while the
edges are worked in small scallops
with embroidered polka dots in the
scallops. Hand embroidery is repeat
ed above the fiounce of such skirt.
A simpler form of the hand-work
done for a bride is shown in a flannel
skirt. 1t is of the finest white flannel
with a hair line of silk running
through it, and the bottom is cut in
square tabs all around. The seams
and borders of the tabs are worked in
white silk feather stitching, while each
tab has an orange blossom in its CEN
ter. From below. and showing be-
tween the tabs. is full fiounce of
tilmy, white, hand-run Limerick lace.
The fashion of making shallow
yoke pieces of hand-run Limerick lace,
the brides frocks, is one of the sea-
sons fads. So is the shocking which
adorns much of the brides underwear
and her dainty negligees.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14
IF you love me as love you,
No knife can cut our love in two,
And this / send to see if you
Will promise always to be true"

"If you love me as / love you,
No knife can cut our love in two,
And this / send to see if you
Will promise always to be true"
Jed Hartley looked at the gaudily il
Illuminated sheet on which red hearts,
blue forget-me-nots and purple passion
flowers waged chromatic war. 1t was
the first time he had received a valen-
tine since he was a boy. That was
twenty years ago. The valentine was
from Amanda Perkins. He could re-
member it as well as though it were
yesterday. The verse read:
'"rhe rose is red,
The violet blue,
This valentine
/ send to YOU
That was in the year when they left
school. He was eighteen then. He and
Amanda had been as good as engaged,
but Amanda had taken up with a sing
ing teacher who had studied at the
Boston Conservatory, and they had had
a quarrel over him. 1t was sufficient to
keep them apart long after the spruce
singing teacher had left the town and
had passed completely out of the
Holmsdae life.
Now at thirty-eight he was still a
bachelor and Miss Amanda was spin
ster with no family but the daughter of
her dead sister. Jennie Carter was the
image of what Amanda had been TWEEN
ty years before, and Jed gave start as
she came swinging down the road.
Got a valentine, jedi" was her
greeting. do let me see it, I'll bet it's
a comic one, you're blushing so.''
She stood on tiptoe but Jed evaded
her and drove her down the road with
good-natured assumption of severity
Once out of sight she agilely climbed
a convenient tree and gloated over the
sight of Jed standing there examining
the highly colored sheet. She slid down
as Jed turned and went into the house.
The little sitting-room in which he
found himself was a rather cherries
apartment. Only once a week did a
woman penetrate the house and give
the touches that only a woman can i'm
part. There was a solid looking table,
a few chairs, base burner and a huge
mahogany desk and book case COM
bined.
Jed went straight to this. After a
moments rummaging he drew from
one of the drawers a faded packet.
In this were some time-stained letters,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

few save young girls can wear success
fully.
Even the brides have caught the fan
cy for off shades of white, and one of
the smartest of spring weddings in
New York has a surprise in store for
the invited guests. This is nothing less
than a gown that is an embodiment of
the tints and sentiment of spring.
In cloud of billowy. pearly white
chiffon-glistening with that soft luster
that fire chiffon holds in it's mesh-ap-
pear to float pale sweet peas, in all the
tints known to these flowers of spring
but Of shades so delicate as to be more
suggestive of coler than color itself
The sweet peas are made as nearly like
those of nature as art can manage it,
The petals of chiffon are natural in size
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

are still more seen, the made-up gar
ments displaying for the girls who are
permitted to wear them the strict
tailor finish which is now approved.
For girls under IL the prim severity of
shirt waists is not advised, but above
that age they may be worn, and
much of their staidness taken away by
a new skirt model. This is full
pleating affair held over the shoulders
with ornamental suspender bands of
the same material, which gives the
shirt waist underneath a more childish
look. This skirt, especially if it is
made in dark material-such as blue
serge-will be found a valuable addi-
tion to a school girls wardrobe.
Both colored and white waists may
be worn with it, and a touch of smart
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

There has been a determined effort on
the part of women to whom pure white
is not particularly becoming to find
something that is white and yet not
white. To please these fanciful fair
ones manufacturers have sent from
abroad some of the daintiest of stuffs
in oyster white, and ivory and cream
and other off shades of white, softer
and prettier than dead white, which
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

much worn, the hair bow and bodice
knot matching.
A pretty and stylish fad is to have
the ornaments worn also express the
color of the ribbon, coral beads with
a sash of the same shade, turquoise
with blue and amber with yellow. For
dress-up purposes, white stockings are
this understood that the black legs
once admired seem now distinctly out
Of date. Girls below s, like boys of
similar age, continue to wear white
socks, and for them short neck chains
of white coral-the round beads faint
ly tinged with pink-are a new ca
price.
In truth, everythin is done to make
the small child, whether boy or girl,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

-Mountaineer Child lin TENNESSEE
"Are you literary person, sir?" AS
tonished Yourselves: why do you
want to know?" Mountaineer-"WeIl
papa is out of work just now and he
said that if you were literary person.
perhaps you would pay us so cents a
day for talking dialect for your book"
Baltimore American.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14

THE young man talks a great deal
about his estates abroad" YES" an
swered Mr.. Cumrox. Hes like one or
two others who wanted to marry into
the family. He's anxious to trade his
imaginary estate for some of my real
estate. Washington Star.