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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
Crincline and the Apartment House.

From the Boston Transcript.
Wouldn't it be funny If the coming of the
crinoline should work a change in our
building laws or. at least in the fashion
of dwelling places? Whatever condition it
brings about. however. will be of short
duration we can easily see, knowing the
whimsical way Dame Fashion has of chang
ing her mind, we can afford to discuss
the hoopskirt and its influences without get
ting too serious. And We should like to
know how wearers of baloonlike skirts can
expect to find themselves accommodated in
quarters where they were crowded almost
to suffocation clad in their sheathlike raj
ment VIII fat jewellers desert for suburbia
and further How else can they live in
comfort? Here furniture manufacturers
have worked day and night for years to
produce furniture that would make living
in flats less like problem than ii was at
first, and the results have been happy in
many cases. Appointments that expand or
collapse at their owners will have worked
miracles. almost, in restricted apartments,
so that living in them has really become
Joy And now the crnoline comes, or says
1t is coming. and unless that too is fitted
with collapsible qualities it does seem that
life while 1t remains with us is to be made
uncomfortable for many besides wearers of
the alleged imprOver.
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ing them made into buckles to be worn
with any ribbon their gowns may demand.
Then the fans, the fans. They come In
every size and style, and you can buy them
for all prices, from a nickel 10 hundreds of
dollars, For the less expensive fan the
smaller size is still chosen, bat in the costly
styles, where real lace and jeweied sticks
raise the price to three figures, the medium
size is preferred.
Among those to be seen at leading store
here is black gauZe, spanSled With silver,
old colonial parchment with It's beautiful
pictures of bewigged ladies and satin and
lace cavaliers, promenading above ivory
sticks inlaid with pearl; big. waving fan
of white ostrich plumes, so fluffy that you
can barely see the mother of pearl handle;
and tremendous beauty of point lace with
sticks of oriental pearl deliberately carved
and inlaid with gold.
The Japanese fan has found n rival in
the Philippine straw that Is picturesque and
costs 10 cents-with a prospect of reduced
prices when the importers ship more than
they quite know what TO do with.
Every woman carries bag OF some sort.
or rather, of many sorts. for the day has
gone when one handsome one would be
enough. The bag must match the belt. and
the belt must match the gow1-whicn &C
counts for the variety OF styles to be seen
In the shops today. They come IN walrus.
buffed alligator, English morocco. calfskin
and patent leather. All coiors and shades
favored by women of fashion are In stock.
Greens and violets notably prominent,
and of blacks there is no end. The bag, to
entirely fulfill It's mission, must include
vanity case-a tiny mirror. powder pun.
eyebrow pencil, and-other necessities OF
the fashionable complexion.
If you undecided as to wells, get q
Tuxedo This stylish weave comes in all
the usual colors. together with the newest
shades, reseda, bluet and cardinal. These
latter coors seem to have captured the pop
ular eye-just as the oculist claims to
catch the eye itself. after its wearer
has served more or less turn at wear
ing any veil whatsoever. In the plain
Tuxedo the tiny woven dot Is being
much used. and ALSO the wavy harline
which is becoming, but more trying to the
eye than palmer weave. The huge dotted
veil that the average woman puts on so as
to make herself look as II she had distorted
features and black gaps in her teeth has
given way, among exclusive wearers, to the
smaller dot OF velvet or chenille.
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A Garden Party.

A social and charitable event of this week
Will be the garden party for the benefit OF
the Soldiers. Sailors and Marines Club OF
the Army and Navy League Friday, May
20. from to o'clock In the beautiful
grounds Of the Bristol School, Mintwood
place and 10Th street. The patronesses are:
Mrs. A. R. Chafree. Mrs. George w. Dewey.
Mrs. B. H. Buckingham. Mrs. r. B. Brad
c. NJ. Chester. Mrs. c. H. Davis. Miss Free
man. Mrs. II. w. Fitch. Mrs. C. D. Gallo
way. Mrs. C. A. Cove. Mrs. J. C. Keiton.
Mrs. Aulfck Palmer Mrs. P. NJ. Rixey Mrs
w. 7. Sampson, Mrs. Edwin Stanton and
Mrs. w. K. Van Reypen.
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The Law on Women's Hats.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
II is so seldom that one can find anything
20 criticise in the admirable decisions of the
al RELATE court that 1t seems like heresy to
differ from the able jurists who compose it
even In matter trivial. apparently as
the trimming OF hats. The court has sol
emily declared. and thereby established a
legal precedent. that trimmers of millinery
arc not artists. AS a strictly legal propo-
sition this view of the matter may be emf
uenuy correct Doubtless arguments were
aCduced to raise a reasonable doubt in the
minds % the eminent jurists. and in such
cases a negative decision is always safe and
usually has solid foundation in law.
From sentimental and artistic stand
point, however, there is an abundance of
evidence to show that trimming a hat as
II should be trimmed is not only an art but
properly should be classified as one of the
line arts. As the apparel oft proclaims the
man, so does the hat or bonnet in multi
lolG ways proclaim the woman. If "a man
Is known by the company he keeps how
much better IS woman known by the hat
she wears Indeed, one may almost read at
q glance the Character, the temperame
and the life history of the average woman
~ closely observing her hat. A woman
h35 Is IN truth the index TO her heart and
MIND BY he harmonious blending of color.
mo curl OF a feather or the drooD in a
hover one may perceive the evidences of
EultuFe or artistic appreciation and dell
secN OF taste or the utter lack of the uual-
't.eS mat make women admira BILE
10y me same tokens beauty of face and
ensemble may be aCccntua ted or DESTROYED
10y means OF changing hats Hebe might be
transformed INTO Medusa and vice versa
transformation depends entirely upon how
1t IS trimmed
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with trimmings of Irish crochet. Cluny
lace and embroidery. A particularly dainty
style reaches the waist and back, its full
ness laid in simple folds of the material.
Valenciennes insertion and lace-edged ruff
f1es finish the edges, and medallions of
Cluny used at the waist and shoulders.
The newest cuff is six or eight inches In
depth and must exactly match the collar.
OF belts and buckles there are end.
The wash belts of linen, embroidered and
plain-the latter preferred-are popular be-
cause they may be Numbered to look as
good as new-but they must give the palm
of beauty-and expense-to the latest novel
ties that might come under the heading of
TOO numerous to mention
For one blessed thing the elastic belt. that
yields to circumstances, has been revived,
to the delight of the women who loved them
a quarter of century ago. One exceed
ingly handsome model has buckle and
side and back pieces of cut steel with
cut steel beading run in Powered design
through the belt itself The embossed belt
in rich, many-colored feathers is useful az
we'll as stylish, and nothing could be more
servceaDle than good honest wearing belt
of black crushed kid. AS to buckles, they
come in gold filagree. chased silver. gun
metal and jewels. Women who possess
heirloms, canoes and the precious stones
too large for present day brooches are hav-
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service. Absence from work in a store
without good and sufficient reason is not
tolerated. One manager also stated that
when a boy comes TO him asking for a Job
he always glances at the applicants hands
to ascertain if the yellow marks of cigar
cite smoking are on his fingers. If so. the
interview is terminated at once without
satisfactory results to the boy.
During vacation time in the summer it
is stated the employers enabled to OBJ
tain better class of boys, and the supply
is increased. The boys who attend school
usually are better disciplined and they have
been taught to be regular by the rules OF
the school. Their term of employment.
however. usually terminates when the vaca-
ton period ends in the fall and then the
employers difficulties return again.
There is a great demand for steady, in
dustrious boys in Washington. for this kind
of lads is at a premium. and they may
be reasonably sure of advancement IL they
can learn the lessons of patience and at
tention to duty. The manager of one of
the largest business establishments in the
national capital worked. when a boy, for
s25 a year, but he was not afraid OF work
and kept at it, The boys of Washington
today haye much better chances for promo
ton than those of forty years ago. What
they need, according to the men who have
been boys themselves and who have deliy-
cred messages, run errands and swept the
office, TOO. is the quality OF sticking 10
thing, whether they are obliged TO work or
not.
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cry. The blouse hangs baby fashion. and
is held in place by white satin girdle.
The three-quarter sleeves are of the tucked
material with fall Of embroidery.
Another gown whose simplicity Is its chief
charm has the skirt cut in panel cores
wide enough al the top to permit the skirt
being gathered, but not SO full as to con-
ceal the fine beading which joins the gore.
or the dainty scattering of marguerites
which commence at the hip line and which
flower the bottom of the skirt The square
yoke is of Valenciennes lace; the sleeves
elbow length. finished with ruffie Of the
fabric, and the waist Is caught with q
long white satin sash.
Another is of white organdie and Mechlin
lace the skirt slightly gored. with more
elaborate design than scattered rosebuds
the sleeves made and gathered with fine
white elastic, to permit of easy laundering
and the sash of white watered ribbon tied
at the waist with the new butterfly bow.
Still another is of the time-honored swiss.
the skirt full and finished with a cluster
of inch-deep tucks. The half-length sleeves
are tucked and finished with fall of
Cluny lace. and the sash is OF white satin
brocaded with daisies in raised cream.
AS an authority on the subject says.
Simplicity and suitability are the cardinal
requirements of the gradual ton gown'-but
in many Instances the present require
ments call for Il greater outlay of money
than the old-time girl used to spend on her
entire wardrobe for the summer.
Fashionable shoppers these immediate
days seem to have laid in their stock of
gowns and millinery. and are busy select
ing the last accessories before leaving Tor
their summer life at mountain and sea-
shore.
In the realm of neCkwear, for instance.
exquisite novelties are shown every day
In addition to the collar and cuff sets OF
lace and embroidery, there are now coat
sets OF linen pique and scrim, both hemmed
at the edges tailor fashion or finished with
needle work and lace They are worth ouy-
ing for economical reasons, no matter now
much they cost as they give TO the PLAIN
est Elton or blouse coat a dressy effect, not
otherwise attained. Hand embroidered
stocks are in ever increasing demand, Inc
favorite design being the round effect with
long embroidered tabs.
Fichus, that worn over the simplest
organdie gives it a garden party charm
are developed in sheerest lawn or null
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

An official Of The Postal Telegraph Com
pany in this city believes that the difficulty
experienced in securing boy workers is due
to the lack of manufacturing and CONNER
cial enterprises in the national capital The
number of families in which every member
has to be a bread winner is limited here
and the boys who do not go to school in
many cases are not really obliged to work
unless they desire and therefore feel that
they have no responsibilities.
The Western Union now has a force of
about seventy-five messenger boys, but we
could handily twenty-five more" said
Mr. R. G. Callum, who has charge of the
messengers of the Western Union in this
city. I'VE constantly need boys" he con-
tinued. and are always trying to get them.
We have offered TO guarantee 81 day
each to twenty boys who will work regular
ly and who will not lay off eight or ten
days out of each month except for good
reasons.
The telegraph company officials state that
a messenger boy can make from 81 a week
to $3.50 and 50 a day. and that some of the
steady working, reliable messengers aver
age about $50 month. The average mes
senger boy, however, works only about
twenty days out Of the month, and about
every thirty days the company is called upon
to fill the places of ten fifteen boys
who have become tired of their jobs. Owing
to the difficulty IN obtaining messenger
boys the telegraph company Is obliged to
overlook and forgive many shortcomings
of these ''leaden-heeled Mercuries of the
street" Perhaps a messenger will fail to
appear for work two days out OF the week,
but when he returns he is not discharged.
for the company would only encounter
more difficulty in iilling his place, and then
perhaps the new boy would be as fun of
failings as the irregular worker. Each boy
is given many opportunities to reform his
habits and only when a boy is found TO be
dishonest or grossly negligent does he get
the sack" as the boys term their dismissal
from the service.
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soon leave Washington to make her home
In Boston.
con- Mrs. Mary c. Beach, Mrs. Bennett a.
Allen. Mrs. Horace *. Fulton. Miss Alice
NJ Apple. Miss Emeline W. Cllft, Miss Ma
bel L. White, Mrs. Florence X. Solger. Mrs
AlonZo Skunk Mrs. H. c. Thompson. Mrs.
Charles A. Leith. Mrs. A. f. T. Hansmann
Miss Fannie Lee Reeves, Mrs. Charles Cliff
ford, Mrs. J. J. narrower. Miss Hattie II.
Narrower. Miss Hattie Reeve, Mrs. Middle
ton Smith, Miss Sidney a. Duffie, Mrs
George Marsh, Miss Anna Graham, Miss
Alkaline Graham. Mrs. Nellie Barrett Miss
Edith Rutherford. Miss Thomas o. Taylor
Mrs. John Doyle Carmody: Mrs. VIM A.
Lowe. Mrs. Lillian r. Messenger, Mrs.
Thomas Snowden, Mrs. Sylvester r. Burch,
Mrs. +. A. Y. Casanova and Mrs. VIM. II.
Decker.
At the meeting of the executive board of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
this week Mrs, Cheesman, president OF
Hamlin Union, extended an invitation to
the quarterly to meet in Hamine Church
Friday. June 16. which was accepted.
The Legion of Loyal Women. by invita-
tiou of the Department of the Potomac. G..
A. r., Col A. p. Tasker, commander. will
participate in the exercises at Arlington
Memorial day. The committee designated
by the legion for assigned duties in tie
ceremonies are: Miss Julia G.. Burnett, pres
Iuent, MIS- NJ. \. INudlp, vice ple@luehIi
MIS-. y. S. OdeIl. past president; Mrs. c. A.
Ferris. Mrs. IL. A. Ensle and Mis-. c. A.
Bollinger.
The COnEenials have cards out for their
first outdoor assembly, Tuesday evening,
May %. at Chevy Chase Lake. Dancing at
S O'Clock.
Martha Washingto Chapter, n. s. d. A
r.. at its monthly meeting at the Ebbitt
Tuesday evening. elected the follow .ng Off
GERS for the ensuing year: Regent. Mis-. II.
i. Gerald: vice regent Mrs. jefferson H
Mllsaps; registrar. Mrs. Howard F. john
son; recording secretary. Mrs. Morris CroX-
all; corresponding secretary, Mrs. James n.
Edmonston: treasurer. Miss Agnes Gerald
historian, Miss Selden; chairman of music
committee for entertainments Mrs. Morris
CrOXlll.
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At recent convention Of railroad and tel
egraph officials in New York city one OF the
200 officials present called for all those who
had been messenger boys early in their
career to stand UP. No less than seventy
five men arose in response TO the call.
Many well-kn0wn men in official life
started as wage earuers as messenger boys
The street ''Mcrcury's' record Is not bad
and notwithstanding the standing Joke as
to his slow movements when on duty. yet
he seems to move rapidly when he gets
started in the business world.
Notwit outstanding the boys chances for ad-
vancement. all the employers " boys in
terviewed declared that as a rule the lads "
today do not seem to be ambitious for pro-
motion. especially if such advancement en-
tails steady application to their work.
There are more opportunities for succeed
ing today than there were thirty years age.
but when the boys know they are not
ambitious to advance or to work steadily,
excepting in unusual cases.
As an illustration Of the difficulty expert
enced by the telegraph companies In So
curing messengers. an official OF the Postal
mentioned an instance OF a year or so ago.
when the company sent around to all tho
charitable institutions in the city and adj
dressed letters TO the local ministers askiug
them to give tie company the addresses %
any boys who might be secured to act as
messengers.
the boys already in the service and in addi-
ton the telegraph companies almost daily
advertise in the local newSpa pers for mes
sengers. Signs bearing the words Mes
sengers Wanted are frequently displayed
in the windows Of the companies offices
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Telegraph messenger boys are no worse
than other lads" declared a local official
who ought to know. for he has had charge
of his company's messenger service here for
more than twenty years. with the ex-
ception of few who are unusually steady.
all boys are thoughtless, mischevous and
noisy and have no sense of responsibility.
good messenger has to have lots of life
in him and of course that means he is go
ing to whistle and have as good a time
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Many small boys are needed in the de-
partment stores to run errands, wrap bum
dies and serve in the delivery department
The managers of the department stores are
constantly keeping their eyes open to dis
cover steady, reliable errand boys that may
be promoted to bundle wrappers and then
to clerks, from which positions they may
rise to become managers of departments.
Bright, active boys are also always in de-
mand for positions in the offices Of the de-
partment stores.
The boy employees in the stores however.
are required to give stricter account OF
themselves than those in the messenger
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the olden days. They are ambitious to re-
ceive high wages and hold lucrative posi-
lions, but they do not seem to possess those
qualities of Observation-Disclosures. and the de-
sire to advance steadily by hard work.
which characterized the boys of fifty and
forty and even thirty years ago"
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work in the construction department. where
ne can learn to become a lineman and ac-
Qulre fairly good knowledge of electricity
IN the operating room the boy learns how
TO nle messages on the proper wires. and il
ne Is ambitious he soon learns how to ham
Ole the ticker and It Is only a question OF
Few years before he is an operator. and
a good operator can always get good po-
sition.
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The Glover Family.

There is too little decorative use made of
the various flowers of the clover family:
the tall and fully odored sweet and king
clovers of the roadside; the big-headed cat
tie clover; the honey-sweet rose-colored
clover. the small white bee clover. One
might say that none of these are decorative
flowers for house use. but that depends upon
massing and arrangement. l have an old
purplish-p pink luster pitcher which becomes
a distinguished piece of decoration when
surrounded by a cloud of the great pink
heads of cattle clover. In truth. the beauty
of most of our common flowers depends
upon the manner of their use. Few flower
arrangements are more satisfactory than a
jar filled with branches of tall roadside
sweet clover stretching its spikes of
small green white blossoms half way up the
wall of the room, and sending forth from
every bit of a blossom a breath of flower
incense. This particular variety does not
feel at home in gardens or in the immediate
neighborhood of houses. but elects to swarm
over abandoned brickyards and along bare
professions of railroad ties. 1t is more
beautiful In growth than in flower, yet there
is in i enough of beauty to add greatly to
the decoration of the home.
The appointed flower decorator of the
family will know that many things that
grow are comparatively ineffective in single
specimens; and yet If a single specimen
has force enough to catch the eye where it
stands among grasses it will be multiplied
an hundred fold by bringing a hundred
stalks together into a mass, instead of a
dot mere line of color.
Does any casual flower therer know the
blue vervain? One branching stalk of it,
showing from purple to blue, among swamp
grasses is hardly noticeable but 1 had a
tall, deep violet-colored glass, which I kept
through June for fieur-de-ls, and through
July and early August for blue vervain
Truly. the long elegance of its growth the
poise of its steeples of purple buds broken
mere and there Dy rnff1e Of tipy
som, make of it a fine and aristocratic rival
Of the kingly fieur-Ge-iis
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Why, the opportunities for messenger
boys around a telegraph office are wonder
full he continued. Look at this list OF
millionaires, railroad presidents and tele-
graph officials"
And he produced a list of well-known
men who at an early period I'm their career
wore the uniform and badge OF a messenger.
Among Others this list included: Andrew
carnegie. Sir William Van Horn, president
OF the Canadian Pacific railway; Marvin
Hughitt, president OF the Chicago and
Northwestern railway; W. A. Gardner.
general manager OF the Chicago and North
western railway: Col Robert c. Clowry
president OF the Western linton Telegraph
Company; T. Z. Cook. general superin-
tendent of the Western Union; Albert J.
Earring. president of the Chicago, Niiwau-
kee and St Paul railway. Henry r VIII
liams, general manager Chicago Milwaukee
and st. Paul railway; Benjamin L. Win
cheil. president Chicago Rock Island and
Pacific railway; w. c. Brown. vice presl-
dent New York Central and Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern railway, and others.
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Ishmael Of Flowers.

Except the thistle" 1 have said, and this
Is truly a noble exception When one has
succeeded in getting together hundred or
more Of these great, honey-scented, pink.sh
purple disks in a corner of the sitting room,
1t becomes haunt for humming birds.
and the out-of-door thoughts which hover
around 1t are quite as much to be well
coined. Yet even this noble blossom will
do better in proportion to the length OF
that the stems and leaves wither long be-
fore the blossom. Beautiful as 1t Is, 1t is a
very Ishmael Of flowers. with its "hand
against every man, and every mans hand
ering.
For house decoration 1t is convenient to
class wild flowers under two heads. those
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cry. The blouse hangs baby fashion, and
is held in place by a white satin girdle.
The three-quarter sleeves are of the tucked |
material with a fall Of embroidery.