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bassador to Germany is ex officio presi
dent of the American Women's club in
Berlin, and Mrs Tower now fills that
post, so admirablyoc occupied before her
arrival by Mrs. Andrew D. White. The
American women's organization repre-
sents the transplanted American femi-
nine club idea into Germany. 1t was
founded eleven years ago, in the first
place largely to form a home center
for American girl students in Berlin.
There are many hundreds of these, in
the university, the musical conserva-
tories and the art studios. Many are
young, inexperienced and poor.
The organization is the only feminine
club on purely American lines in Ger
many. 1t is different from most wo-
mems clubs in the United States, how
ever, in having dining and sleeping
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right shade to set of oak woodwork.
All around the edge runs an irregu-
lar application of Arabian lace of the
same color; then along the inner edge
of this lace application are embroidered
in very heavy design greenish
white grapes with their rich dark green
leaves.
Do you know how much this costs
in a shop?
Just $27, and the clever woman who
initiated it at home tells me she made
her mat (which is an exact reproduce
3 tionl at a cost of $3.5Ol
The same woman wanted some hand
some white china plates decorated with
wide gold bands. AS every one knows,
/ these are very expensive. She paid so
cents apiece for the plain white china
plates and then painted in the gold
bands. They werys fired twice, once
after each coat and the total cost was
exactly one-half the price demanded in
the shop.
This only goes to show that a woman
can make her extra time take the place
of money if she is clever.
And why not do that?
Because, when you come right down
to it, you know as well as 1 do that
most women have entirely too much
Idle time in proportion to their in
comes.
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more roses, and in the midst of them
sew firmly, with shoe thread, a stun
ming reddish brown bird having an
aigrette in its tail. This hat will be
good enough to wear to church or any
where. You cannot fail to make it
success if you will follow my direc-
tions, and it is an exact copy of a
twenty-five dollar hat 1 saw yesterday
on Fifth avenue.
Before I close I want to give you
another hint. This time it is on the
subject of wedding presents. You
know the fall is quite a time for we'd
dings. One of the daintiest gifts pos
sible is an after dinner coffee set for
two made of Dresden or French flow
cred china. The set consists of the
coffee pot with its long handle, the
little bowl for sugar, the two cups and
saucers and the pretty curved china
tray. These sets may be had at all
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particular lady I speak Of really ac-
customed the skin of her arms to the
air till they felt the cold no more tFan
her face did Of course such extreme
measures are not to be recommended
to all women, yet this case shows what
the human body is capable of.
Woman's clothing in winter is i'll dis
tributed On the upper part of the
body where the least artificial warmth
is naturally required, fashion piles a
cart load of fur and cloth. especially
about the throat, causing it to become
delicate and sensitive to weather
changes, while the feet are many a
time left almost bare. You may see
on city streets in the coldest weather
women walking about with their lower
extrenities clad in oxford ties and lace
Isle stockings. The distribution should
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As to Redspreads.

As to BedSpreads.
The clever housekeeper may beautify
her bedroom greatly if she is capable
of making pretty bedspreads. These
cost good deal if bought ready made,
but they are really not hard to sew.
For instance, take a spread made OF
wide net. The center, or plain part. is
cut square and edged with a band of
inexpensive white lace insertion. Next
comes the wide fiounce, also edged
with narrow lace point. The fu1lness
of the net ruffie is what makes it at
tractive, not the amount of lace on it
nm the middle of the plain central part
should be appliqued an effective figure
of coarse lace. and the net is cut out
from under this.
Of course the proper thing is to have
some color show through this hlmy
whiteness and covering of pink or
blue sateen laid under the spread will
do quite as well as one of silk, for the
texture is never noticeable like the
color.
If you want a really unique bed
spread make one of fine batiste. orna-
mented all over its surface with daisies
done in English eyelet embroidery. OF
course that takes time, and you ought
to have done it last summer in your
leisure moments.
By the way. speaking from expert
ence about that English eyelet en-
broidery, if you do it on frame you
will have far less trouble from the Sits
stretching and making the design ir-
| regular.
A dimity bedspread with its pale
blue or pink floral design harmon5 zine
| with the wall paper may be made twics
as effective If rather a "scattered,' pat
| tern is chosen. This design may bt
made bolder by means of outline
stitching with the same color of silk.
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sooKBINpINc FOR WOMEN.

Since the first woman took it up,
bookbinding has received a curious
impetus.
Each year sees a few more devotees
of the art among women, who are pc
culiarly adapted for the work by their
delicacy of touch.
1t takes a strong wrist and steady
hand for some of the finer tooling-in
fact, for most of the workout when
a woman's hand and wrist become
trained she becomes more adept, as a
rule, than man.
There is a limited field for book
binding, as there must always be with
any art that it takes great refinement
and an almost scholarly taste to ap-
preciate. Yet the women who have
made success of it, above all, those who
are able to make their own designs
for covers, SIS well as execute them,
have as much as they can comfortably
do. And the work pays well.
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Help the Domestic.

So far as the cleaning and busting
go. you can always help out where it
would be impossible to be on hand in
the kitchen to help with every meal,
because the maid cannot "get it, alone.
And as for fancy desserts, ETC., let
me tell you the secret of a friend of
mine. In the fall and winter she takes
Saturday morning to make the des-
serts for the entire week, with the ex-
ception of a dinner or two, when ice
cream is the order of things.
There is no doubt about it, house
keeping may be reduced to a system
like any other well conducted business.
A friend of mine did a rather in
genious thing. She wanted a china
E1oi,teI IN The .roId hn,ada
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rooms, a gymnasium and library and
music rooms. The club building is
situated in the heart of the American
colony at Berlin, and to step within its
walls is like a glimpse of home to the
stranger woman from the United
States, who misses the dear speech and
ways to which she has been accus-
toned. The club began in modest
way, but even with the small dues it
has enlarged its borders till it now oc
cupies three floors of large and hand
some building. Some years the club
membership reaches 500. Lectures are
given free to club members, and Au1eri-
can women have ample opportunity to
acquaint themselves with the German
language and literature. Indeed, pro-
ficiency in the German tongue and ac-.
quaintance with German literature are
among the principal objects aimed at
by the student department Of the club.
One OF it's earliest members and most
ardent workers was Mrs. Mary Ban
mister Willard, er-in-law of Frances
Willard. Mrs. Willard founded the
well known school for American girls
in Berlin Her successor in the school
is DR.. Alice Luce, Mrs. Willard having
returned to America. Some of the most
brilliant students examination ever
recorded at the University of Berlin
have been passed by American girls.
IN Berlin, in the matter of music, the
most critical of cities, Geraldine Far
rar, the American singer, scored her
first great triumph. The cause OF Wo-
man in Germany cannot help being the
gamer because of American women in
its capital.
CHARLOTTE VAN BECK
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- HIS is the time of the year
when the home hunter -four
ishesi
n Pity her woesi / say "her'
because when did you ever see the man
Of the house walk up and down inter-
rninable streets with an apartment or
house renting list in his hand2
No indeed; he is content to growl at
the awful lengths Of time his wife is
taking and at her utter lack of business
ability.
IF I had this thing to do he re-
marks. 'T should do it systematically,
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TOO MUCH CLOTHING
WEAKENS THE WEARER.

40 we not habitually wear too
much and too heavy clothing for
health and hardness? Lately I
was introduced to several ladies. One of
them was very thin and sharp featured.
She had the rasped, unhappy look of a
woman who is not in good health. who
suffers from SO called nerves and in con-
sequence carries a chip on her shoulder
for the human race in general. Later
at least one reason for it became ap-
parent. In q conversation on the sub
ject of proper dress in dog days the
rasped looking woman said:
EVEN in the hottest weather I al
ways wear four petticoats and my regu-
lar underwear"
She said it too actually with an air
of complacency, as though - heaven
have mercy on her poor. misguided
soul-it was something to be proud of.
She even looked severe rebuke at those
who confessed that, for their health's
sake, they wore in summer the least
amount of clothing that would be con-
sidered conventionally correct, and in
winter the least amount that was sufh-
cient. to protect them from the cold.
Her countenance expressed that she
had her doubts whether such people
were quite proper or noti
But think of six bands and six sets
of strings, hooks and buttons around
one poor, suffering wonan's waist!
She was suffering. She had one all
nent or another constantly and in win
ter she said she almost died of the
cold, and no wonderi The four petit
coats were then made of heavy ma
terial. and she dragged about with her
certainly four times the weight of
clothing any woman ought to do. She
could have little life in her, little power
of physical activity-ssvathed in wrap
pings like q mummy. An OK could not
stand it,
clothes, and. determined one. Not
even for perfect health's sake would
she discard one single petticoat.
Cool weather is at hand. Gradually
| change your clothing from thin to
| thick according to the temperature,
| but don't jump into furs and heavy
| flannels at the first kiss of jack frost.
| Jack is a merry old fellow, and he will
treat you kindly if you meet him half
way and do not scare at him. Inure
| your body to the cooler air, so far as it
can be done without incurring chill.
/ Brisk physical exercise in a cheerful
| spirit and in the open air is a sover-
| eign remedy against taking cold, also
caught one.
There is really something almost like
superstition in the way we pile upon
| ourselves such 3 monstrous weight OF
| clothing IN cold weather. 1t is really
/ possible. if one possesses a determined
| will,t to season the whole body till it
4 can bear cold almost as well as the
face does. It was only because we had
| to let the face out in order to see and
! to breathe that we have not mummied
| it too up in wrappings. A lady whom
/ I know resolved that she would control
/ her bodily sensations to the extent of
wearing indoors in winter light gar
rnents With loose flowing sleeves Her
| occupation demanded the free use of
/ her wrists.
Actresses must in winter wear fire.
ouently short sleeves and low necked
| gowns on the stage. Yet actresses do
| not suffer more from cold or take cold
oftener than other women do. The
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IN AmeriCan
4 4 W/Oman s Work For
Women In Europe
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yacht when it has been anchored in
German waters.
Soon after Charlemagne Tower was
appointed ambassador to Berlin he and
Mrs. Tower gave a dinner that is still
remembered in court circles because of
it's magnificence and the manner in
which the emperor complimented them
and through them the United States.
Mrs. Tower had had previously social
diplomatic experiences in two of the
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
AUTUMN SONG.

Pluck marsh bloom and marigold
Where the sedge and river weed
Catch the feet. the twining reed
Crowns the nymph that lurketh coldI
Summers rose to dust hath rolled,
Song is hushed on signing lips,
Gem by gem the bright chain slips,
And loves votive beads are told
Pluck marsh bloom and marigoldi
Autumn's glowing wreath is shed,
And her pal1id lips in dread
Close on sorrows manifold.
Leave the gardens, dear of old.
Where the harsh wind maketh bare
Swaying boughs, and the chill air
Nurnbs the blossom overbold.
Come where water flags unrolled
And pale Iris lifts her head
Ere the latest flower be dead
Pluck marsh bloom and marigold!
g. Kirkrnan.
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and you can just
bet your life I'd
get it over in a
dayl''
When his bet
ter half finally
drags him up
town to look at
two apartments
the pick of a
Weeks hard
work-l1e barely
glances at the
first and is all
tired out with
the walk to the
second, so that
he almost re-
fuses to ascend
the stairs. If
any other place
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drawer she used for her silverware.
Now that the round oak dining tables
may be bought for so little I can't see
why any one need use a square table.
would rather have the cheapest of
cheap round tables than hand carved
square one. The round surface IS SO
much easier to decorate prettily, and it
adapts itself SO much better to a small
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

Y n no European capital is American
womanhood more nobly repre-
sented along both useful and orna-
mental lines than in Berlin. Like
his uncle, King Edward, Kaiser Will
helm likes American women, and
specially honors them on social occa-
sions. Mrs. Robert GoeIet enjoys the
friendship of the emperor and he has
paid his respects to her aboard her
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coop ADVICE.

Pass on. Do not dwell too much upon
your failures. Do not look back too
much. Life will not bear this retrospec-
ton, and indulgence in vain regret is
not a fitting luxury for those who have
their fortunes to make.
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- =
s m all c o $ t :.
Choose a brown
felt sailor shape
with a very firm,
much turned up
brin. Then sew
across the back
q b a n d w o
inches wide Cor
more). Fill this
in with two
b u n C b e S o f
shaded reddish
brown roses anu
a fall of brown
chiffon. Around
the crown sew
a stiff band of
brown velvet. On
the left of the
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
A STUNNING EVENING GOWN.

be exactly the other way. with the
feet and lower portion of the legs
warmly clothed, the rest of the bods
need not carry dead weight of elotl1-
ing. Fur caps and heavy wooden head
coverings should not be used except ID
the coldest weather. They cause the
hair to fall out.
MARY GOULD I,Yrr.E
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

It is said that the Arabian poets class
sified feminine charms as follows FSoua
things black--hair, eyebrows, eyelashes
and pupils OF the eyes; four things
white-the skin, eyebalIs, teeth and
legs; four things long-back, fingers.
arms and legs: four things broad--fore-
head, loins, hips and eyes; four things
smai1-the ears, chest. hands and feet.
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being '1ikely" he hastily pulls out his
watch and declares he has business
engae ement and must go back down.
town right away.
So much for his powers of endurance.
But the woman? All. that's another
story She goes from house to house
inspecting radiators and plumbing and
refrigerators, interviewing janitors and
asking tenants if they had SUFFICIENT
heat during the past winter. She walks
endless streets, seeking six rooms for
the price of five. or seven for the price
of six. as the case may be. only to find
that when the price and the number of
rooms agree the neighborhood is noisy
or the bed chambers are dark.
Then in some places, otherwise great
ly desirable, they won't let in the chill
dren, or the bull pup, as the case may
be.
My word, but it's a merry world for
the woman who has to make a dollar
do the work of s5!
MonS5 Saving Suggestions.
Speaking of housekeeping arrange
ulents il seems to me that there are
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Painted in the gold bands.

closet and didn't have the money for
it, so she took an old oak bookcase, had
the wooden sides removed by a cheap
local cabinetmaker and glass ones sub
stituted. As the sides were narrow, it
did not take much glass and conse-
quently the bill was small. The lower
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
And. Aaain. Eeonomv.

Here is another economical hint It
tells you how to make a pretty hat at
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
A Pretty centerpieee.

And speaking Of centerpieces. have
just seen an exquisite round embroid-
cred mat to be left on the table as a
decoration between meals
1t is made of eeru linen, just the
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

prices, according to the decoration Of
the china.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

centerpiece of ferns or any other in
expensive decoration.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
SEX
Girl. sCHool DRESS.

Practical aud pretty is the girls
school dress seen in the picture Ine
skirt is perfectly plain save for a Jew
plafts at the waist The oooice = -,
IN to date sailor affair with chemisette
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
TIE ARAnlAN lnEA oF lr.

MARY GOULD LYTLE.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
FINDS MATERIAL.
FOR NEW NOVEL
epecial Dispatch to The CAN.

SACRAMENTO, March 27-Gertrude
Atherton, the novelist, visited Sacra-
mento to-day with her daughter, Mrs
Russell. Mrs. Atherton said she had
been touring Northern California in
search Of material for a new novel
She declared she found this section rich
in memories and interesting phases of
life. She said she regarded it as supe-
rior to Southern California in these re-
spects. She mentioned having found
near Ukiah a tribe of Indians who
nave preserved the manner of living
followed by them before the white men
reached these1shores
The novelist rs especially attracted
to Suffers Fort. She was surprised to
learn that in the city cemetery lie the
remains of William, the favorite son
of the great Alexander Hamilton. the
subject of one of her recent stories. COL
onel William Hamilton died in this citv
in 1850. He was a child when Aaron
Burr killed his father ina duel. Mrs
Atherton said she, was now at work on
a story dealing with Aaron Burr.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
SAY EPILEPSY
CAUSED DEATH
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NAPA. March 27.-The trial of at
tendants 7. d. Shanahan and oscar
Ritzman of the Napa State Hospital
on charge of killing patient Luis at
the institution last December was re-
sumed in the Superior Court this morn
ing. Dr. /. Cohn, third assistant physi-
clan at the asylum, testified that he
was present when DR.. l.. A. Frary made
the autopsy on Luis body. He said he
believed that Luis death was due to
cardiac epilepsy and not to shock from
his injuries. He declared that the
E-shaped marks on the body of the pa
tient could not have been made by
striking him with strap tipped with
a brass buckle.
At the afternoon session DR.. Cohn
stated that from the examination of
the body of Luis made on December 26
he concluded that the ribs were broken
when Attendant Shanahan fell upon
Luis body after Ritzman had pulled
the patients legs from under him. Dr.
A. j. Kahn, well-known Napa physi-
clan, was then called to the stand He
stated that the death of Luis was due
to an epileptic fit which he had in
tensified by fiercely struggling with the
attendants. The E-shaped marks or
bruises on Luis abdomen, said
Kahn, were caused by the severe pres
sure against a brass buckle and were
not made by blows DR.. w. Rumsey
gave practically the same opinion in
the case as DIR. Kahn
Frank league, head attendant of
ward B at the time of tragedy, testi-
fed that several times he saw patients
at the asylum come in with broken or
cut restraint straps. He said that at a
lecture given by Superintendent E. E.
Stone of the asylum last summer the
advisability of pulling the feet of a pa
tient from under him was discussed.
The method was indorsed as proper
under trying circumstances.
leagues testimony closed the case
for the defense. The trial will be re-
,sumed tomorrow morning
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
ENGINEERS FOR
PHILIPPINES
Many Officers Ordered to
Sail From San Francisco
to the Islands in July
OTHER CHANGES SLATED
Long List of Directions for
the Army and Navy From
the National Headquarters
special Dispatch to The Call

WASHINGTON, March 27.-Army
orders: Captain Herbert Deakyne Is
assigned to Company B of the First
Battalion of Engineers and will pro-
ceed with Companies A and B from
San Francisco. to sail on the transport
leaving about July for the Philip
pine Islands. First Lieutenant Alfred
B. Putnam will proceed to Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan, and report to the
commanding officer of Company A OF
the First Battalion of Engineers for
duty and will accompany the Or
ganization to San Francisco, to sail
on the transport leaving about July
l for the Philippine Islands. First
Lieutenant Albert E. WaldrOn Is re-
lieved from duty with the Second Bat
talon of Engineers at Washington
Barracks, District of Columbia, and
will proceed to Fort LeavenwOrth,
Kan, and report to the commanding
officer for duty with Companies A and
B of the First Battalion of Engineers
and accompany the organization from
San Francisco, to sail on the transport
leaving about July 1 for the Philip
pine Islands. First Lieutenant Clar-
ence H. Knight is assigned to Com
pany A of the First Battalion of En-
gineers, to proceed with Companies A
and 3 from San Francisco to sail on
the transport leaving about July 1 for
the Philippine Islands. Second Lieu
tenants Charles r. Peters, Ralph T.
Ward, Robert P. Howell Jr., Joseph
H. Earle and Roger D. Black will pro-
ceed to San Francisco, to sail about
July l for the Philippine Islands.
Post Quartermaster Sergeant Ernest
C. Wright of Des Moines, Iowa, is re-
lieved from duty in the Philippine
Islands and will report to the COM
manding officer at Fort Des Moines,
Iowa, who will send him to Fort Win
gate, n. NJ, to relieve Post Quarter
master Sergeant Henry r. Ole. Ser
geant Ole will be sent to Fort Mo
brara, Neb., to relieve Post Quarter
master Sergeant George Wirth. Ser
geant Wirth will be sent to Fort Glib
bon, Alaska, via Fort William II.
Seward, Alaska, for duty. Chaplain
Francis Joyce, u. S. A, is assigned
with the rank of first lieutenant to
the Fourteenth Cavalry and will pro-
ceed to San Francisco and sail on the
transport leaving about May 1 to join
his regiment in the Philippine Di-
vision. Post Commissary Sergeant
James M. Clifton, now in San Fran
cisco. will report to Major Charles r.
Krauthoff purchasing commissary of
that city, for duty.
First Glass Private Andrew ]. Law
renee and Private Albert E. Peyton of
the Signal Corps of the cable ship
Burnside at Seattle will be sent to
Fort Liscum, Alaska, reporting to the
commanding officer for duty in con-
nection with the Alaskan military
telegraph system.
Navy orders-Rear Admiral w. NJ.
Folger is detached from duty as COM
mander in chief of the Asiatic fleet
to his home to await orders. Rear
Admiral C. J. Train will assume the
duties of commander in chief of the
Asiatic fleet. Rear Admiral F. w.
Dickins will assume command of the
coast squadron, hosting his flag on
board the Texas, at Key West.