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est women. both here and abroad are using
them profussly on their evening gowns.
plastron effect had quantities of ba-
rogue pearls. with ropes OF smaller round
gems. There were four Of the large orna-
ments altogether, one for the front OF the
bodice, one for each shoulder and the
fourth for the back In size and design
they are all alike. but the loops of pearl
beads connecting them were of different
lengths. With one plastron placed low on
the bust, the tips would fall quite to the
belt or even below, and the loops of pearls
would be brought with an upward sweep
to the shoulders, to droop again toward the
back. In this ornament there were four or
five strings of pearls fastened close to-
gether, connecting the large ornaments,
and then each plastron, which would more
than cover woman's hand, seemed to have
large petals outlined with smaller pearls
and rhinestones, centers of irregularly
shaped fresh water pearls and deep fringe
of beads made of alternating pearls and
rhinestones. with a baroque tipping the
end
This is one of the most elaborate of
made-up bodice trimmings which have been
shown, and could not possibly be placed on
any but the most elegant gown. preferably
one of satin or lace yelling silver tissue
man-for youth is always privileged to
wear pearls-there might be a cluster of
cabochons centered with briIliants, and sew
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lors, with their soft, brilliant carpets, flow
ers and greenery in hooks, and on smart
little tables there were already tinkling
very unsteady a lot OF egg-shell chinaware
in use for ) o'clock teas
Yes, the change was already beginning
and the bars were failing in the very mo-
ment of their triumph Many still exist
but their brightness has faded and day
after day they are becoming more and
more mere drinking places, just for drink
ers, without other charm.
Who began taking ) o. clock tea in Paris
bars?[ Why, the ladies. ces DANES as they
say, those ladies'" For a time they rev
eled ino<the high bar chairs, because the
high bar chairs were valued novelties
amusing, and adapted to set off a smart
costume and a well-turred ankle. Now
these same girls are ordering tea and
st1lleuI' in the tea rooms of the big hotels.
Tea rooms have sprung up everywhere,
and the rise of ''tilleul' is simply extraordi-
nary. Sporty automobiles and race-trac ok
men sip it like perfect ladies.
Personally began noticing it a year ago.
In company with a young provincial
Frenchman who had come to Paris to be
treated for an enteritis-chronic infamma-
ton of the in'ards-I had entered the mag
nificent rotunda of the Elysee Palace Hotel
at the afternoon tea hour. There was
music. There were lights. There was a
vast throng chatting at little tables.
What will you take?" l asked the in
famed one.
Nothing" he answered, Il dare not take
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a Juliette." Nine. Marchesi pursued, met
my husband one morning and asked: Has
your wife one among her pupils? II she
has, please ask her to bring her to me to-
morrow That was the beginning OF an
other career, for the next day took Miss
Games and my accompanied. M. Mougin. to
Gounod's house.
.'She sang so we'll that in q few minutes
he cried: I have discovered my Juliette! A
few days later he began the rehearsals with
her. singing and acting the part of Ro-
meo from beginning to end himself. The
work was dif1cult but Miss Eames at last
succeeded the great diva Patti, who had
essayed to interpret the role. and that
night the American colony was proud of
her.
'.Meiba--Nellie Armstrong she was when
she came to me-was always studious and
conscientious. Every September she comes
back to me now to study her new roles.
There Ii q photograph at Nine. Marchesfs
Of this famous singer as she was when she
first went TO the great teacher. It shows
sha sdt cut siIk BODICE S II amusing soS
today: a girlish. expressionless face, crown
ed with row 81 tight. fiat ringiets. known
to the unresenerafe as ''spit-curls," The
story Of her, unfolding has been told be-
fore. but 10 always worth repeating. lis.
ssThat morning." said Nine. Marchest, y
rushed from tho room Without word OF
comment after she had sung to call to my
husband: ] have found my start have
aAftsr that she lived IN the houss With
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The line adopted now for the evening
waist Is one that makes very decided dip
In the center Of the front. 30 that It comes
within. say, four inches of the belt. and
then rounds up over the bust. with q drop
again as It curves toward the arm. Here
1t reaches a point that is below the real
under part of the arm, and instead OF a
sleeve strap or band of Jewels is carried
up over the shoulder. The back follows
here 1t is cut away almost to the very
waist If 1t were not for the folds of tulle
which are always laid around the top OF
these low-cut evening bodices they would
be rather shocking. AS 1t is, they are lower
than American women have ever appeared
in before. and 1t must be admitted that the
fair ones look lovely in them.
In carrying out the pearl trimming
scheme sometimes tiny beads are used on
the skirt, perhaps in an incrusted pattern
or outlining petticoat frills. very little
of this is. however, all that is required to
tone up the gown. 1t is too elaborate and
too striking to use TO excess.
Coral trimmings for young women are
very nearly popular the pearl dec
orations. On a pink gown rejecting the
same tint as these exquisite beads they
seem to give just the right finishing touch.
Their striking color bars them from the
large plastron effects in which pearls come,
but they are considered the very loveliest
thing In cabochons and ropes. II these
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SIMPLE LIFE IN PARIS
A Marked Change Has Come
Over the Town.
EATING AND DRINKING
BAR ROOMS HAVE GIVEN PLACE
TO TEA ROOMS.
Abstemiousness is the Order of the Day
Heavy Suppers No Longer
Popular.
EATING AND DRINKING

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS. December %. 1904.
Last night at the Cafe de Paris we were
struck by strange sight
Into the swell and sporty jewel-box of
Partisan night life an aged beau led a
tender young thing. When she took off her
sables she was a mere slip of a girl in a
slip of white silk. He held himself upright
in spite of his years. His old face was
made up; his old body was held up; but he
made brave front, ordering a big hot sup
per with a precious white Burgundy and
fizz to follow.
We were not alone struck by the sight.
From half dozen tables there were curl
Gus glances cast at them, and laughing
whispered conversations.
What was there striking in the sight? 1t
was not that the man was old nor that the
girl was young. Nor was 1t altogether that
she wore a white silk slip-indeed it only
looked like a slip, being a swell gown of
great simplicity.
No. The sight was the hot supper which
the old man ordered. which the young thing
put away until you wondered where she
put 1t; which the old man himself gobbled
until young athletes dipping their dry toast
into their hot milk wondered audibly.
We were on the edge of a new year of
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of calves brains au beurre nolr and three
orders of simple boiled eggs!
| must admit that every now and then
We heard the popping of a champagne cork,
The Cafe de Paris is big place, where two
long rooms. as Ii WERE converge diagonaliy
to a point at the front door. One can never
see all the customers. We disputed to
the proportion of foreigners Opening
wine" and Philippe, the old maitre d'hotel,
was called on to decide
THE Russians drink the best" he said.
lone day Russian of exalted rank drank,
all by himself, a double Jeroboam. con-
tanning as much as eight ordinary bottles.
1t is not rare to see Russian do five bot
ties between midnight and 3 am"
Don't the Germans come next?
No; the Americans, then the BelgianS,
the English the Germans and South Amer
leans, especially the Chileans. The French
come last accomplished drinkers"
Racial Differences.
The German is always polite" continued
Philippe. HE never complains, never beats
down prices. The high-class German with
money makes an ideal customer. The Rus
sian is generous and bon enfant, but at
times boisterous and very fanciful. The
American is tyrannical and ostentatious
he pays royalty, but he must have the
whole establishment at his feet. Moreover
his tendency is toward cold-blooded drink
ing, long continued and without gaiety
The EngIIshman has this too, and more
over is watchful and suspicious--no wonder
he has been done so often! Also he tips
with difficulty. The South Americas IL very
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Pointed Paragraphs.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
The poor may be always with us, but
the n2iser is closer.
Most of the free advice we get isn't worth
the price.
Water cannot extiuguish mans burning
desire for liquor.
1t is easier to return compliments than
borrowed umbrellas.
Many young mans most pressing en-
gagement is with his best girl.
The more worthless, a man is the easier
it is for some woman to marry him.
Egotists think that they are the real
thing and all others are counterfeits.
In woman 81 novel the principal ingredi-
ents are love; ffnoneys and matrimony.
restaurant patron says you will not be
well fed unlessr the waiter Is well feed.
Some singers would never get hearing
if they We're nit members OF volunteer
church choir. 'lGass
Our idea of d truly great man is one who
can draw people more than five miles to
attend his funeral. -
OF course. youa realize that It is every
mans foremost duty to do unto you as he
would have yoa do Unto him.
Our first President probably never shot a
mountain Hon, ibut what he did to the Brit
ish lion was amply sufficient
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crets in nutrition and energy that science
is on the point of disclosing.
Last Tuesday a sensational communfca-
ton was made to the Paris Academy OF
Medicine. It relates to the action exercised
by inffinitesmal doses of solutions of metal
obtained by passing an electric arc be-
tween two metallic electrodes immersed in
distilled water
Gold. silver. platinum, copper and other
metals, when thus placed in state of ex-
treme dilution varying in extent from nine
nfths TO two-fifths of miligramme per
cubic centimeter, acquire strange properties
which render them reservoirs of life and
force
They act as ferments. by impregnating
organic matter with hydrogen and oxygen
and disarticulatiHg, so to speak its chemi-
cal structure and involving its elements in
new combinations. The phenomena is quite
inexplicable in the present state of knowl-
edge; out new light is thrown on it if one
considers these metals as being in FRA
diant state, in which the molecules of bod
les infinitesimaliy divided reveal a latent
energy hitherto unsupported
In Radiating Condition.
1t appears, indeed. that it is not the met
ais themselves which act as specifics, but
their metallic substance when in a ra-
dating condition. Experimentors are as
founded to find that "a simultaneous in
lection of few cubic centimeters of these
metallic solutions produce intense reactions
III the human system the wonderful ma
ture of which is only at present limited at
one thing, however, is certain They are
curing pneumonia by means of these iniec-
lions. Out of fourteen cases SO treated
thirteen were cured before the sixth day
and the fourteenth began to eat and made
no complaint, but died suddenly from an
emooius of the pulmonary artery
now In the very month when the initial
facts of this discovery were communicated
TO the Paris Academy of Medicine, Sir Will
lam Ramsay said, in Harper's Magazine,
apropos of radiant NATTER"
III, as looks probable, the action of B.
rays, themselves conveyers of enormous en-
ergy, on such matter glass, is to build
up atoms which are radioactive and conse-
quentiy Of high atomic weight; and If 1t be
round that the particular matter produced
depends on the element on which B-rays
IAN and to which they impart their en-
ergy-if these hypothesis are just then the
transmission of elements no longer appears
an idle dream.
The philosophers stone will have been
discovered and 1t is not beyond the bounds
OF possibility that it may lead to that other
goal OF the philosophers of the dark ages
the elixir vitae. For the action of living
cells Is also dependent on the nature and
direction of the energy which they con-
tain; and who can say that it will be i'm
possible to control their action when the
means of imparting and controlling energy
have been investigator"
ihe sports OF Paris want to be in at this
nnlsh STERLING HELLO.
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man on the beat preferred.-Harper' 8
Bazar
When does courtship begin? At the mo-
ment when man first meets his affinity?
AT the time when he realizes that 'the only
girl in the world is his affinity? Or at the
time when he determines to let her guess
his views on the subject?
This delicate question was raised in the
English probate and divorce court The
president, Sir Francis Jeune, was COM
PEELED to admit that the solution was be-
yond him.
The point was raised in this way. A
young man named George Whitehead was
asking the court to declare that the Scotch
marriage between his parents was valid.
His mother, Mrs. Whitehead, was called
as a witness in support Of his case. and
gave evidence about her courtship. which
began, she said, in the gardens that hank
Princess street, in Edinburgh.
How long had your husband been court
ing you when he proposed to you! asked
Mrs. Whitehead hesitated, finding the
query hard to answer, and the president
came to her rescue.
Can any one say that! he remarked.
81 doubt if a man knows himself when ne
first begins to court girl."-Chicago Tr1o-
une.
The other day there died in the east an
old lady She was known to many, many
people, yet to no greater NUMBER tnan
thousands of public men-senators' gov
errors of states, mayors or great cities,
philanthropists captains Of industry Stlll,
when this old lady died the journals OF the
metropolis gave to her death and oDsequies
columns of their precious space-many
times more than they often have to the
deaths of very famous men-men VINO hao
been powers in the state
And why? Not because she was great IN
ber nrofession-for this old lady was not
great-but Just because she was simple
and good, and because that goooness ana
that simplicity, radiant from ner person person
ality. had. during her long life, impressed
itself upon thousands OF men and women
and made them love her. Just goodness-
that's all the reason why there were print
ed about Mrs; Gilbert long anu .eaoe 1re eao
man or woman has been curly uismisseu
in one brief paragraph.-The Argonaut.
Whereas some women will go into vast
establishment intent on spending Ger.
tain sum, say, on an article OF Dress anu
will successfully scrutimze mar uoxeI
things besides what she originally wanted
and retire without buying any, man Will
stray in without any fixed plan or pur-
chase and will sometimes purchase large
quantities of goods that he never dreamed
Of wanting when ne entered the shoP.-
London Truth.
A kings love dotted the country with
beautiful memorials of his married happi-
ness when Queen Eleanor died on Novem-
her %. 1890 Not content with seeing that
"her obsequies were performed with mag
nifcence suitable to the greatness OF his
love and the deepness of his loss Edward
I had nine crosses erected between Lin
coin, where she died, and Charing. where
her body last rested before Its tnterment.
They were all beautiful: and when we
think OF the Albert memortRl-but perhaps
it is better not to think Of It.
It Is pleasanter to remember the pretty
derivation of Charing Cross, scorned OF
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the new century. and all around we recog-
nized ourselves the children of that opening
century.
The old man represents the past" muir
INJURED a young swell of forty-fve Mon
dieu. l feel like tenderfoOt beside him He
is of the generation of Rochefort. the Due
de Sagan and the high-rOllers of the en-
pire. He eats like Alexandra Dumas. AL
fred de MuSset or Prince Narishkinr'
He orders like Russian said another.
Let us say he orders like foreigner
replied the first. recovering his self-esteem.
And isn't it a good thing for our after
theater restaurants that the foreigners have
still the courage to order and eat? They
don't get rich on u.s." He emphasized the
us
The upshot of it all is that the simple life
has struck sporting Paris.
Simple Dishes.
We looked around us. 1 counted twelve
glasses of milk, here and there, on different
tables. Three young men were taking light
tea. in the Vienna style. The commonest
order was cold chicken garnished with
little cold ham and great cubes of hyper
concentrated meat jelly. The simple life
does not exclude expense. There are meat
jellies of which a small quantity will repre-
sent whole chicken.
The grilled bones of our prehistoric an
cestors and London-by might are also hav-
ing their day. though one oftenest sees
simply the grilled marrow. 1 saw one order
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A Song Of Youth.
From the Westminster Gazette.

From the Westminster Gazette.
How shall learn the still wisdom.
The patience and calm Of giving
!, all afire to conquer,
Quick with the JOY Of liying2
Salt with desire of travel
Are my lips; that the winds wild singing
Lifts my heart to the ocean
And the sight of the great ships swinging.
How shall bow to a blind Heaven
That asks OF me resignation
. l, with q crown invisible
And a kings secret citation?
Shall sit in silent surrender
That am strong and keen at the quarrel,
Dreaming forever of victory
And the scent of the victors laurel2
Nay. I will fight for my Kingdom,
And the cup filled for my drinking.
l VIII grasp life's teweied sw0rdhiit.
Or face Its point unshrinking.,
Ny voice shall sound to the cedars,
Will shout against the thunder.
Ana use the earfh for my glory,
TIL, singing. 50 under.
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crate corsage decoration made of perfectly
initiated pearls or other precious jewels.
These trimmings come to US sewn and
woven into various patterns ready to be
placed on the low decolletage, and at the
most careful scrutiny appear to be the
genuine article. There is nothing of the
tawdry theatrical glamour and tinsel about
these regal ornaments and the very smart
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eral tiny ropes of pearls to be looped across
the bust and shoulders.
1t Is a matter of note that all decollete
bodtces are now made quite as low as it is
possible to cut them. In fact, the smart
thing Is to have very little bodice at all,
just wide girdle with some sort of trim
ming around the top and straps over the
shoulders.
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tea and 1t will be no use to ask for tilleuI"
"Garcon, two tilleuls!" l ordered. And
they camel
DO you often serve it ?" l asked the wait
err.
Ten or twenty a day he answered
calmly, land the demand is growing steadi-
lyt
That was a year ago. Today there is not
Paris tea room that does not make a
specially of the real thing-not nauseous
'quartre-fieurs." "the four flowers smell
ing like the perfume known as new-mown
hay, nor large-leafed tilleuP' loaded down
with orange flower water either: but the
true silvered tilleul," the Hungarian lime
or linden tree, young leaves and blossoms.
That is what IT Is. 1t looks like tea leaves
mingled with dried blossoms; and 1t is in
fused and drunk exactly like plain tea. It
is lightly sudorific (sweating), calming and
anti-spasmodic. 1t irritates no stomach. It
is grateful and warming 1t produces no
nervousness. Indeed, it Gains nervousness.
And there you are. Tileal! The latest,
most fashionable Paris beverage. Tilleul, a
grandmother's speciality like catnip tea!
The sportiest FOUNDERS of Paris order TIL
leull They want their heads clear to play
poker. They want their heads clear to talk
To the ladiesi
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PEARL GARNITURE
Now Used Extensively on
Corsage.
A PLASTRON EFFECT
QUANTITIES OF PEARLS AND
ROPES OF SMALLER GEMS.
One of the Most Elaborate Of Made-Up
Bodice Trimmings for an
Elegant Gown.
A PLASTRON EFFECT
From Redfern Designs.

From Redfern Designs.
Copyright. 1904 by R. F. Ayres.
As though the handsome pearl collars and
necklaces, the ropes and chains of jewels
that now adorn feminine beauty were not
wholly satisfying to their love for gems,
the real stones are augmented by an eIab-
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A Striking Tendency.

note the tendency. which is a striking
one. One meets this tendency toward the
simple life in eating and drinking at every
turn In up-to-date sporty Paris. One might
think that the spirit Of the times was guild
ing 1t In order to prepare Parisians and the
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Give way to Tea Rooms,

Three years ago-two years ago-the bars
were at the height of their vogue. When
entertaining tourist friends the bars were
our trump card. Great Scott, If 1 could
only speak French!' was the tourists ex-
clamation, dazzled by their lights. colors,
perfumed warmth and swish of femininity.
"It's a bar set up in a parlor," the tourist
would say to u.s. Yes, they were gaudy par
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strings are made Of alternating beads OF
coral and cut crystal greater brilliancy and
beauty Is impaired to the trimming. Even
though bodice garniture of this style Is
not used 1t Is effective to trim the frils of
the dancing skirt with an edging of tiny
coral beads These are carefully sewn on
by hand and should not be heavy, else they
will crush the diaphanous frills.
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generous, good drinker. gay to Stiffness.
and very. very noisy"
Whom do you have to help out often
est?' I asked.
1.-The Frenchw answered Philippe, re-
gretfully. ''Only few nights ago three
celebrated painters lost the use OF their
legs"
ut does not even prove that they have
not attained the simple life" retorted the
young Partisan of forty-f1ve. TT only
proves that they were unable to drink
Doubtless they were celebrating some great
event"
And we completely agreed with his gem
eral proposition when the matre d notei
went on in answer to a question:
Ladies Do Not Drink.
"And the ladies'? Oh. they do not drink
nowadays. The last to pride herself on
holding UP her end is Mademoiselle 1rma
de Montigny. OF late she, too, has taken
to vichy and milk Like the others, when
she calls for champagne now 1t is for the
looks of it only. Perhaps it is sooriety' per
haps prudence, perhaps calculation, per-
haps gastritis."
Here is a civilization in which the IN
fiuence of woman is all powerful IN fact
and not merely In appearance-as In Amer
lea. One of the party put the whole thing
down to women:
I'VE men of Paris follow our women he
admitted.
And they follow their doctors" fnterject-
ed a lovely brunette, with eyes Ike mid
night suns and the faintest possible shade
of a mustache.
Half the truth Is here. Even the butter
flies of the theater and the Palais de Glace
have learned that neurasthenia oftenest has
It's beginnings in the stomach; and they
dread neurasthenia-nerve TREAS the pest.
Also they have learned they cannot keep
their fat down except at the price of steady
vigilance; spasmodic efforts, however heroic.
avail nothing. Also they are making up
less, travelling more and more on their fair
bare faces; and the simple life Is the only
one for the complexion.
If 1 were asked to cite one salient fact to
prove the growing domination of the simple
life in gayer Paris 1 would simply point TO
the decline of the bars and the rise of the
taarOOms
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OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean,
And thus between them both, you see,
1t didn't matter, because, anyway,
Bridget would only cook what the police
man on the beat preferred.-Harper's
BaZar