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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-06
ou1tship UP to Date.
From the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
A determined sutton has now found a
new way of using the motor car for matri-
monial purposes. The girl was willing, but
her parents were obdurate. He pretended to
give up hope and to be reconciled to the
idea of being merely friend of the family,
and he took out the girl and her father
for an automobile drive to Havre At a
dangerous part of the road he suddenly put
on the fourth speed, and the car sprang
away at a terrific rate. The girl sat still
and showed no fear, but her terrified father
shouted to the man who wanted to be his
son-in-law to stop. Consent to my mar
rage with your daughter" was all the
motorist replied. Still the car tore along,
and if any obstacle had appeared in the
road at least three fatalities would have oc-
Cured stop, We shall all be killed.
the girls father continued to cry. Most
certainly we shall" said the determined
young man, grimly. IF you don't consent
at once l am going to send the machine
into the ditch. and at this rate that means
quick DEATH" As he spoke he impaired
violent lurches from side to side to the car
Il consent, / CONSENT gaSped the now
vanquished parent. Immediately the car
slowed down, and the rest of the journey
was done at steady touring pace. But
during the motors previous mad career
policeman had jotted down its number.
When the girls father, to whom the ma
chine belongs, appeared in court in answer
to the summons his future son-in-law ac
companied him, and looked exceedingly
pleased with himself. When a fine of rs
francs was imposed the younger man said
he would pay it himself, with pleasure.
He confded to the magistrate that the day
had been named.
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ATSOUTHERN RESORTS
Many New Gowns Designed
for Double Uses.
MILLINERY MODELS
FASCINATING GLIMPSES OF
SPRING HEADGEAR.
Exquisite Frocks Made of Summer
Materials-Head Dressing
Accessories.

NEW YORK, February 4, 1904.
The cold wave. which in January set the
country shivering. has resulted in fashions
as widely differing as the poles. For where
some were designed to guard against the
bitter winds of the north, others We're made
for the southern exodus, which this year
began a little earlier than usual. Skating
toilets suddenly put in an appearance,
adapted to the rink as well as the ice, but
which, when the occasion required it, might
resolve themselves into pedestrian cos
TUNES, without seeming outre.
Velvet corduroy and velveteen form
many of these charming toilets, which are
seen grazing the luncheon tables of numer-
Gus smart restaurants and sometimes seen
in matinee boxes. The supple furs of the
season trim them, shaping wide or narrow
borders for the ankle length skirts, and
forming the graceful, loose coats. which
NAV in turn, be lined with a contrasting
fur So since the best materials of the
season are employed for these gowns, it is
quite easy to understand why they are de-
signed with double intention.
A number of these smart short suits,
however, are only self-trimmed. SO, when
the fur trappings are left off, and the knit
ted under Jacket. which is now a universal
resource in cold weather. is discarded, such
a toilet, since II is highly made. is pos
sibe for the mildeSt winter days.
The old trick of padding and interlninG
everything in winter is as out of fashion rs
hoopskirts But what with hand-knitted
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ST. VALENTINE FAVORS
HOW THE SENDING OF ROMANTIC
TRIBUTES STARTED.
If You Send Violets Have Them in a
Heart-Shaped
Box.

Written for The Evening Star
The custom of sending valentines has de-
veloped from a laced-edged card, inscribed
with a tender sentiment, to the elaborate
floral designs made. up by florists, the ex-
pensive candy boxes with valentine designs
and sentiments and the giving of other
dainty favors with beautiful works of art
in hand-painting and Autograph.
"Violets are the flowers for ST. Valen-
tines day" say all the florists. Deep pur-
pie violets made up into immense hearts
foot and wider across, and packed in
pretty wicker or grass basket decorated
with violet ribbons and violets. These large
boxes and baskets are always accompanied
by a valentine inscribed with a sentiment
suitable to the degree of friendship existing
between the giver and the recipient of the
Yiolets.
I'VE also pack up in the same dainty
manner smaller hearts of VioletS and two
hearts together, pierced by golden arrow.
These are arranged with ribbon loops and
decora ton, so that they may be hung up.
Last wear was the first time that florists
were called upon to make up violet hearts,
but this year the demand for these is so
great that orders have had to be placed
weeks in advance of the day.
In accordance with old poetical idea,
small wreaths of fowers-valentine flowers
are put up in dainty baskets Of sweet
grass broad Swedish-Woven baskets, little
wicker baskets and satin boxes, decorated
with ribbons and a spray of satin flowers
in the corner, or perhaps an orchid.
Violets are favorites because, in the Ian
guage of flowers, the violet signifies faith
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For Southern Travellers.

Insnuating models in south-going MILL
merry are delightful wide shapes in tinted
Panama, sometimes shaded with wide
trich feathers. sometimes swathed alone
with yards and yards of Gauze in the same
color.
A Gainsborough model piquantly becom-
ing to round cheeks, has the wide strings
coming over the brm without more than
bending it slightly to pass below the chin
and tie under the left ear in a big bow.
Another southern chapeau is made of pale
gray MORE, gray tulle and white camellias,
the shape of this one of the wide crowned
sailors to which a heavy way of trimming
gives a very colonial look.
Many hats have suggested the colonial
period this season, but the more eXagger-
ated in tendency soon disappeared. Only
one ruffled mop shape, generally of velvet
has held its own, and when wreathed with
roses and worn by the right head this is
too charming for words.
Therein lies the gist of effective dressing
I'VE must know the rose heaven has grown
for us alone" BY their wisdom in leaving
all others unplucked do women become
members of the masonic order of Fashion.
Wherefore, if the moral is not sufficiently
pointed, all those VINO have not the ethics
of dress at their finger tips had better con-
suit more experienced tastes when making
an important purchase. Many girl be-
hind a counter can give her customer
pointers on dress, and little appeal to her
tastes will bring forth sympathies as re-
sourceful as unexpected.
MARY DEAN.
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HOW MUCH FOOD TO EAT.
Smallest Amount According to This
Rule, That Will Preserve Health.

From the Century.
How shall one determine. then, how much
food to eat? Too much mystery has been
thrown about this subject. Let your sensa-
lions decide. 1t must be kept in mind that
the entire function of digestion and assiml-
lation is carried on without conscious SUI
pervision on concurrence 1t should be en-
tirey unfelt and unknown excepting by
the feeling of bien-etre which accompanies
and follows it's normal accomplishment.
Safety is bad. II implies sensation of
fuliness in the region of the stomach, and
that means that too much food has been
taken. The exact correspondence, in II
healthy animal, between the appetite and
the amount of food required is eXtraordi-
nary. AS a rule the meal unless eaten
very slowly, should cease before the ape
tite is entirely satisfied. Because a little
time is required for the outlying organs
and tissues to feel the effects of the food
that has been inges!ed. If too little has
been taken it is easy enough to make it UP
at the next meal, and the appetite will be
only the better and the food more grateful.
No one was ever sorry for having Votun-
tarily eaten too little, while millions every
day repent having eaten too much. 1t has
been said that the great lesson homeopathy
taught the world was this: That, whereas
physicians had been in the habit of giving
the patient the largest dose he could stand,
they have been led to see that their pur-
pose was better subserved by giving him
the smallest dose that would produce the
desired effect. And SO it is with food. In
stead of eating as most people unfortu-
nately do. much as they can, they should
eat the smallest amount that will keep
them in good health.
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lambs wool corset covers and "equestrans'
which is the polite name for overdrawers
soft wool materials, tub habits and good
food, women do not begin to feel the cold
as formerly. Then the light and delicate
character of the new furs permits these
becoming ornaments to be worn on days
hitherto impossible for them, which is a
great stroke for fair woman, nothing set
ting off feminine beauty like a rich pelt of
some sort.
Ermine is the grand touch OF this win
ter and right royalty it embehshes the
beautiful velvets worn, we'll as the airy
textures employed so largely for evening
use.
Other Dainty Touches
Ermine scarfs of varying lengths will
many replicas of whose flmy toilets, how
ever, will remain in New York for theater
and reception wear. The most charming of
these gowns are shown by the French i'm
porters who are exploiting the sublime sim
plicity which. TO fall into high-fown hyper
bole, is cOstlier than pearls. The sweet in
nocence of the ingenue is expressed in cos
tunes whose price may mount up into the
hundreds: but number of the shop gowns
which quite successfully copy these eXpen-
sive treasures. are no more than $50 which,
when the fret and fume of the making is
considered is quite reasonable.
A toilet cas:no,' fashioned for the lands
of the bamboo tree. is of pink NOUS
seine de sole. trimmed with point de Venise
and bands of blue fox fur. These. in mar
row strip form. hold down double ruchings
of the mousseline. which are placed upon
the skirt above frils of the Venice lace. The
charming bodice has round lace bertha
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What Women Once Couldn't Wear.

From st. Nicholas.
While we may pick and choose and do ex-
actly as we please about our clothes, there
have been, in times gone by, IN many coun-
tries, and even in our own, what were
known as ''sumptuary laws" These laws
regulated expenditure for dress. for orna-
ment, for food, or for whatever refresh
ments you might give company when they
came to take lea.
Among the first of these sumptUary laws
was one made in Rome in 21j b. c.. and
called the Orphan law" / declared that no
woman should possess more than half an
ounce of gold, wear Il dress of different
colors, or ride in a vehicle in the city, OF.
within a mile Of il except on occasions OF
public religious ceremonies. This law lasted
only twenty years
Italy and France are the countries where
most of these laws have been passed, and
some of them read very strangely. In 1880.
in Italy, no woman was allowed to wear Il
dress with figures painted on it; she could
only have them embroidered. And in l34S
in the same country neither dark green nor
black dresses We're allowed to be worn in
the morning.
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Outlook for Tan-Colored Shoes.

From the Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Judging from the statements of shoe
manufacturers, wholesalers and statesmen,
the demand for tan-cOlored shoes and other
light shades for the approaching spring and
summer season will not be phenomenal, nor
will it exceed the expectations of several
months ago. The season is now far
enough advanced to give fair indication
of what may be expected In the call for
this class of goods. The opinion seems
quite general that tans in the various
shades viii be confir ed principally to high
class goods, a small amount to the medium
fine grades, and with very few among the
cheap lines; that tans will sell more freely
III the larger cities than for several years,
especially in the east and middle west, and
also that their sale will not by a long
margin affect that of the black finishes
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No Simplicity in Price.

But the deceitfuliy simple frocks when
are the order of the day and all their de-
ceitfully simple accessories, if made to or
der or bought in imported shape, are Woe
fully dear, of course, but remember that il
is the fashion to sew, and that this is the
season for reduced materials.
Strictly speaking, since women have so
entirely gone over 10 summary textiles the
sale of fabrics originally devised for dog
day use never ends. All the printed mus
Inns and embroidered SWisses and silk nets
of August go with women through the WIN
ter, with the exception that they are cheap
er now than they will be later on. House
gowns in such textures have been seen all
the season, and the increasing demand for
lightness and daintiness is booming the
shop stock.
Charming toilets suitable for theater or
other evening dressy wear are made OF
French barege in pale cOlors. ribbon velvet
trimmed. Pale violet is a good choice for
gown in such material, with the velvet in
a deeper shade and in varying widths A
more becoming color to the majority of
compilations will be found In pale blue,
with which white chiffon yellow lace
vests and undersleeves so splendidly. For
that matter. such details set off any gown,
provided it is not intended for hard wear,
in which case they create something of
dowdy look. There is a time and place for
all things; a time for being fine and time
for being simple, and whatsoever disregards
the law is in danger of fashionable extinc-
I inn
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as those which come from France.
Still another white gown which turns to
contrasts of color Is of liberty gauZe with
chiffon skirt frills and embrOiderieS in Shad-
ed silks A dance frock for Il debutante is
of white chiffon with rucheS of the same
above yellow Nalenciennes f1ounces, and
toilet for young matron is OF black gauze
in black velvet, held down by ornamental
guipures.
Have High Girdles.
As to the form of the dainty toilets,
which however rich their materials,
press delicious girlishness, the bodice,
whether high or low is always gathered
full and most often girdled high. The
skirts, tucked and shirred at the hips, re-
veal an increasing tendency toward width,
as well as a return to the narrow fril!s
double ruches and simple band trimmings
of the long ago. Sleeves, elbow wrist
length, are full without eXaggeration, Tor
the genre OF such costumes requires care
full restraint in matters of detail. Indeed
so entirely without immediate challenge IS
their tournure, that they may be worn with
perfect taste by women in the fifties, aad
it is only after awhile that the onlolk~r
notices that it is Mrs. SO and Sos frock
which is young and not herself.
Covered by long cloaks superbly effec-
tive, the most airy of these simple cos
tunes are sometimes seen at the the2ters
where the growing habit of going without
hats is resulting in some fine hairdresSmg
Among the many varieties of shell and
metal combs displayed by coiffeurs are now
seen Wrea tbs of small artificial roses. with
a bow and ends of satin ribbons, which
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Fatigue of the Retina.
ondon Pail Mall Gazette.

from the London Pail Mall Gazette
NM. Broca and SulZer have discovered
that the fatigue of the retina, caused by
blue light, accumulates in the retina, and
takes a relatively long time to go away,
even when the action of the light has been
short. The same phenomenon exists for red
light, but to an infinitely less degree. In
this observation, 1t may be remarked, we
have perhaps the secret of the red (vermil-
iion) and green GENERALLY flashes observed
by some persons when walking alongside a
hedge. through which the sunlight comes to
the eye. The retinal impression of red may
leave the eye before that of green, and
cause the two flashes.
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Will cure any case If taken you direct was
a common drunkard for twenty years hut today I
am free of any desire for liquor. You have found
the specific. God bless you,''
Mr. a. l.. L.. Atlanta. Ga. writes: az was horn
with love Of whiskey and drank II for thirty-two
years. 1t finally brought TO the gutter. home
less and triendless. l powcrless to resist the
craving and would steal and lie get whiskey.
-Four boxes OF 'oRIINE' cured of all desire and
l now hate the smell Of liquor
Price, 81 per box. Mailed in plain. sealed wrap
per by Orrnc Company, 81 1ith St. Washington.
d. c. Interesting booket-Treatise on Dunkerness
(sealedi free request.
Sold and recommended by
SlMMS'. 18th st. and New York ave.
WILLIAMS, 9th and SITS al
WELLER'S. 100 sth st. Sc.
DAY $, 14th and Z SITS.
HENRY EVANS. 800 924 F st. NV.
F. p. WELLER. 1884 St. Washington.
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Cure Guaranteed or Money Refunded.

Mr.. E. T Sims, Brooklyn, n. Y, writes: Use
my name twenty year drunkard restored TO
manhood and health by four boxes of 'oRRINE
1t is a wonderful and marvellous FOR the drink
habit
Mrs E. WycIf New York city, writes: " OR
R1NE' cured my husband, who steady
drunkard for many years. He now has no desire
for stmulants, his health is good and he is fully
restored to manhood. He used only five boxes Of
'oRRINE.-"
Mrs. W. L. D.. Helena, Mont, writes: 81 have
waited year before writing you of the perma-
rent of my son. He took sanitarium treat
ment, well other advertised cures, but they
all failed until gave him 'ORRINE.' He is
now fully restored to health and has desire for
drink
Mr. U. L. r.. Kansas City Mo-, writes: II am
satisfied that drunkenness is a disease and the
worst in the world 'ORRINE,' in my opinion.
ja9-s.D
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fitness. Next in point of popularity is the
red rose, signifying love, and the forget
me-not, whose name speaks of remem-
brance.
The orchid. which signifies refinement. is
not so popular as other flowers for ST Val
entine's day, but great many orchids are
being ordered to accompany handsome
satin and cardboard valentines.
A Cupid in Bisque
Some of the florists have prepared fancy
baskets and boxes decorated with ribbons
and flowers and interviewer with ribbons.
as well as hand-painted affairs These
sometimes have little Cupids, in 'bisque.
among the decorations.
Candy is a favorite gift for St. Valen-
tines day. The young man whose fate is
undetermined is more apt to send flowers
which breathe his SentimentS-for II is all
the fashion now to send flowers with their
sentiments-but the young man whose flu
ture is settled by a solitaire diamond ring
will send his ffancee one of the boxes of
candy especially got up for the day.
These boxes come in many sizes, from
foot and a half across to tiny red heart
with Cupid perched upon the top beside
a spray of orange blossoms lilies of the
valley. Valentine candy boxes are all in
heart shane, in satin or brocaded silk. and
are hand painted on the top with spring
blossoms, or are embroidered in small
wreaths and sprays, in fine ribbon embroid-
cry, with fancy embroidered ribbon Dor
ders. These boxes are made inside into
the handsOmest of work boxes, glove boxes.
jewel cases and the like. while satin and
lace and hand-painted mouchoir cases have
a box of candy of any size tucked between
the folds All these tokens are accom-
panied by suitable verses and sentiments
upon dainty lithogra phed valentines
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Last Resort.

From the Chicago News.
No said the money shark, I can't ad-
vance another shilling on your patrimony."
THAT being the case" rejoined the young
man, TN have to see what some Verdant
American heiress will advance on a case of
matrimony.
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Pin Point Flashes.

Nothing could be more productive of effect
for evening use than the tiny spangles now
employed, mere pin points of gold and sill
yer, some in uneven masses and glittering
like sparks Though not always put on by
hand, they augment the price of a gown
enormously, especially if they are of the
imported variety, for our own tinSels. if
much cheaper, are by no means as beautiful
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Glass Lessons.

rom the Cleveland Leader.
Here is an advertisement of man who
offers to teach French in six weeks for So"
said the shoe clerk boarder. pealsing over his
paper.
What system is that?" asked the school
teacher boarder.
1.-THE mass meeting plan." said the come.
dian boarder
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set in and cut low enough to display dog
collar of pearls and brilliants. The hat is of
white yak lace with white and black ostrich
feather. and around the shoulders for orna-
ment more than warmth, is worn a wide
stole of ermine with medall!ons of the yak.
A delightful evening gown designed for
months use in Havana is of white tucked
silk gauze inset with thin Russian lace in
closing hand painted medallions outlined
with sDancleS.
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WHISkEY AND BEER HABIT
PERMANENTLY CURED
OR INE -


Physicians drunkenness of the
creating morbid craving muant Continued indulgence
whiskey beer stomach lining stupees the
digestive thus destroying the digestion and running the health
No will health membranes
"ORlN permanently the craving for liquor acting
directly restoring
normal conditions the appetite
health No anitarum ORINE be taken
home without publicity Can be given secretly desired
Cure Guaranteed or Money Refunded.
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may likewise be the privilege of the most
modest evening function. These pretty TIL
fes are dubbed "pompadours.' but theJ
are not worn square the head as in the
time of the princess of pink and blue but
rather rakishly to one side, with the hair
beneath smoothly pomDadoured and PEI
haps a black patch the chin.
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To make legs and hips symmetrical L
know of no better exercises than the mat
work given a few weeks ago. To develop
the bust, shoulders and upper part of the
back practice deep breathing for ten min
utes daily in the fresh air, and use dumb
bells and Indian clubs. An elastic exer-
ciser. such as can be purchased and fas-
tened to the wall in your own room. would
be excellent for you. Directions for using
these appliances come with them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-06

To keep the hair In curl dissolve three
ounces powdered gum arabic in half a pint
of rose water, then strain. Apply immedi-
ately after curling
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For whitening the hands cut a lemon in
half and rub the hands with the exposed
pulp. If the skin is irrtated by this use
lotion afterward. White Vaseline is excel