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Wood Carpet Must
Not Look New

Among wood carpetings those known as
the pure oak are at present considered
most desirable. although there is great
latitude of choice even among persons in
clined to follow the fashions in house fur
nishings. The oak carpetings are espe-
cia!ly popular in the strip or block de-
signs. A herringbone pattern Is shown
at the best shop very fashionable. but
Its lines would appear to be rather little
too much inclined to tax the eye. Perhaps
the block pattern is as attractive as any.
Certainly it furnishes a most desirable
background for rugs, and when rugs are
not used it furnishes better than the strip
of herringbone patterns.
Some firms Of house decorators have
sought to create a feeling against borders,
declaring them to be inartistic. But these
are chiefly the firms who are going In for
the new art movement in house furnish
ing, a movement not always attended with
the best results in ordinary houses, where
the aim is to create comfortable and at
tractive interiors rather than to conform
painfully to rigid artistic ideals. OF course.
there are many rooms where borders are
not desirable very small rooms or those
in which certain rugs having patterns not
harmonious with borders are to be used.
There are, in fact, many rugs with which
borders are undesirable. But again there
are rooms which are greatly improved by
borders. Good taste must determine wheth-
er or not border is to be used In each
particular apartment. The anti-borderites
have, however, this much on their side
that the use of border in an apartment
which should have a plain floor is much
more to be deplored than the absence of a
border in any apartment could be. In other
words, as in the case of all decorations,
the absence Of ornamentation may con-
stitute lack, but cannot constitute an OBJ
trusion-which is SO much more to be re-
GREETED than any baroness and plainness,
whether of well. floor or what not
In wood carpets showing designs white
mahogany Is frequently used with oak
when light effect is desired The white
mahogany is not SO hard as the oak. how
ever, and Is rarely used alone for car
peting. Holly wood is also very much
used with the oak for making designed
carpets. 1t is pure white when properly
treated, but this treatment requires the
greatest skill and time. 1t is frequently.
therefore, seen a little off color, in gray
tsh or cream tint. It is quite as pretty
that way and only the experts know that
1t doesn't count for as good work as 1t
should. Holly is never used for whole
floors, as 1t is very expensive,
To make the dark combinations mahOg-
any and cherry strips are used with the
oak Walnut floors. once SO popular, are
now rarely used, AZ the walnut wood has
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so far toward making the simplest gowns
look very smart and attractive. Many wo-
men, who, for instance, prefer plain skirts
contend that the embroidered jackets in
linen or muslin or lace are very smart In
the colored linens, and now that launder-
ing and cleaning is such a serious question
it is certainly a matter Of moment to have
an embroidered jacket or coat that can be
worn with the plain skirts, while the en-
broidered and lace separate Jackets make a
simple muslin gown look very smart and
trim.
These are in the shape Of boleros or Elton
coats-Etons, SO far as they are short in
back and long in front, and do not come to
the waist line in the back and are made
with the crepe sleeve. These can be bought
ready made, and at price less than half
that was asked for them six months ago,
and they are worn not only over the mus
lin and linen gowns, but also over taffeta
silk or India silk, and look extremely well
They are, of course. unlined, for If lining
were put in it would make them heavy
and clumsy, but all these jackets are more
or less In the nature Of trimmings to the
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Ouatnt JIocvele.ss Jacket


trimmed with lace, both in bands Of in
sertion and in rufles. These scarfs like
the wraps, are supposed to match individu-
al gowns but can be worn with any white
gown. or If made of black can be worn at
any time. There are also certain shades
in the changeable taffeta that are effective
with all light-colored gowns and look well
also with black. The wearing of a shawl
or scarf in olden days was considered a
mark of good breeding and girls were
taught how to wear them, and now that
the fashion has come in again 1t is anus
ing to notice how few women there are
who can wear them gracefully, but then
this is just a question of time and as
these silk scarfs are bound to be copied
this winter in fur it is just as well the
lesson be learned as soon as possible. Sep
arate wraps and coats of all kinds are a
great addition to a complete wardrobe and
this year fashion has ordained that there
should be great variety, but In design
and in color as well as in material. There
are the silk coats already described, and
then must needs be mentioned the lace and
embroidered coats and jackets, which go
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the visitor where the question of washing
frocks is concerned, and for this reason 1t
Is better to choose holland or colored linen
in preference to an all-white gown. Sail
cloth brown is capital color for the pur-
pose. as well striped blue and white or
green and white, while 1t is well to remem-
Der that when the skirt and coat become
limp or crumpled they can be considerably
freshened and restored by damping with
gum arabic and water and pressing with a
hot iron.
The following list has been suggested as
giving adequate supply Of wearing APP
parel for girl who is contemplating a
month or six weeks sojourn at the seaside:
One navy blue serge coat with two skirts.
One travelling coat or smart rain-prOof
coat.
Six lingerie or flannel shirts and blouses.
Two linen skirts with one coat.
Two holland ditto.
One muslin or foulard gown.
Two or three high silk blouses for even
ing wear.
One black .voile skirt for evening wear.
One white lace ditto
One burnt straw mushroom hat trimmed
with cherries or other fruit.
One French sailor hat trimmed with rib
bon and quilts.
One lingerie ditto.
The above list can, of course be modified
and supplemented according to the tastes
and means of the wearer. large supply
solute necessity, while 1t should be remem-
bered that walking on the seashore spells
ruination to leather, and see that a pair
Of neat beach-shoes should not be omitted
| In the matter of petticoats, the palmer
| the style as regards trimmings SO much
| the better, but the absolute neatness and
| freshness of the jupe should always be
| especially insisted upon.
Feathered millinery. or that which is
| trimmed with tulle should be vigorously
| tabooed on account Of the damage which
| is wrought to 1t by damp salt air, while
| flowers lose their color rapidly by the sea
! and should likewise be avoided on that ac-
count. Fruit trimmings, which are SO fash
| ionable just now, can be substituted fol
! them, and especially purple and white
grapes or cherries, while burnt or natural
| colored straws must be chosen in prefer
| ence to white, single days wear In the
| sun will turn the latter yellow.
The variety and elaborate designs which
are introduced in the new ribbons this sea.
| son make simple ribbon trimming all
| that Is necessary for morning wear, while
most of the palmer hats are being orna-
| mented in addition with white wings. some
of which are arranged in Mercury fashion
on either side, the points directed to the
| back,
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spects so superior to our saloon that this
employment has for centuries been monopo-
lized by women Not until recent years has
there been a systematic effort to exclude
girls from this trade. Besides the Church of
England Temperance Association, the Brit
ish Women's Temperance Society and a vol
untary Joint committee on the employment
of barmaids" have published a number Of
reports embodying the results Of careful in
vestigaticn. These prove beyond doubt that,
even under the most favorable conditions,
this employment is demoralizing and de-
grading Miss Eliza Ormes testimony in
1893, before the royal commission on labor,
is all to the same effect; and the joint COM
mittee's latest pamphlet, Women as Bar
maids" should convince all Englishwomen
that this means of livelihood cannot be too
speedily closed to their sex. If there must
be bartenders, it is far better for the race
that men should be sacrificed instead of
women.
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Hindu W omen.
A Brahmin in Madras Mail.

To call Hindu women ignorant argues
ignorance In those who say SO. 1t is a
rnisnomer. Not to be able to read and
write is mechanical defect. not an intel
lectual one. How can these women be
called "uneducated" when their intellects
have been developed and their natures cul-
tiyated under a system Of education long in
vogue in India, though very different from
what is known to US at the present day?
How can the intellect of the race have been
kept UP under the superstition that one
half of the community Is in a state of bar
barism? How do you account for a Hindu
woman who does not know how to read
and write being able to quote text after
text Of Manu-? There are Hindu women
who know the whole code Of ethics as con-
tanned in the Dharma Sastras OF Manu- and
the whole of the Puranic literature of the
ancient Brahmins. Indeed. the Hindu
woman appears to my humble understand
ing to be the most cultured OF her sax In
any part Of the world
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Loose Coat Of laffeta, end Base

pink net or chiffon or silk muslin Is trimmed
with two bands of taffeta. The waist is a
mixture of lace and net and taneta, ana the
short little coat is entirely of the taneta
made of the lace. 1t is extremely dainty,
and although the original model was IN pale
pink 1t has been copied In white and black
as we'll as in other dark colors, and always
with satisfactory results.
X
The embroidery and braided jackets are
works of art and there would seem to be
no limit to the amount of embroidery that
is put on them or to the price asked for
them. Fortunately, for once there would
seem to be some reason for the cost, as
the work Is so elaborate and so beautifully
done. A yelling gown Of dark blue would
In this be extremely simple were 1t not Tor
the elaborate little jacket worn with 1t.
The skirt is in plaits. Around the hem are
two rows Of silk soutache braid and one
wider band of braid, but the little Jacket is
entirely covered with the braiding and is
most attractive little affair, the sleeves
hanging loose like capes that reach to the
elbow, but the sleeves as well as the body
Of the jacket are covered with the braiding
not sewed as 'twere, SO that 1t stands up
and looks richer in consequence.
The veilings and pongee gowns were the
first to be made with these separate jack
cts, and be 1t understood the gowns are
complete in themselves without the jack
cts. but made in either princess effect, with
the corselet skirt or with the two piece eff
feet of skirt and waist. The jacket was
J. )se yet was an exact counterpart of the
waist over which 1t was worn and fitted
tight This year an effort is made to have
ii seem loose, while in reality 1t, as has
been said, indicates the lines Of the figure.
When it is a short bolero 1t fits close to the
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public in sufficient numbers to tell whether
the style would be popular or not, but In
the meantime the woman who is possessed
of one may consider herself decidedly clever
in being rather ahead Of the times. In light
taffeta silk or in black silk, with very hand
some embroidery on collar and cuffs and
with lace ruffles, they certainly ex-
tremely smart and effective, and look espeS
cially well with the new hats trimmed with
the long piumes. and which also are on the
picturesque order.
X
The medium length and long silk coats
that are now seen are not so smart as they
were. The long motor coats In silk seem
rather to have put them to one side and
they lack the approval of popular fancy.
However, they are In style, and in some in
stances are attractive. The elderly woman
rejoices in them, and In black taffeta or
heavy black silk for elderly women they
are very attractive. In the meantime the
smarter coats Of cloth in light colors
and on the simple lines that have been de-
scribed, and there is also a most charming
fashion of long cape, or rather a medium
length cape, the sleeves of which are in
shawl shape, that is used a wrap on all
occasions and that is tremendously popu-
lar. 1t is rather interesting to notice that
all the new gowns that are being made up
! now for travelling and for general hard
wear are made in the Norfolk style, so that
1t would seem as though the Elton coat
that has been SO extremely popular would
not be revived again this winter. These,
however, can be used separate coats,
which the Elton could not be, so that may
be one reason that for the moment they
are more in demand than the other.
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Women as Letter Writers.

Andrew Lang. in New York Critic.
Today women sometimes take pains to be
entertaining in her epistles. and men, as q
rule, do not. The art of spelling even may
come to be lost, as by the lady letter writer
of Conservative opinions who described Q
certain newspaper an a ''wrotton wradical
Vrag."
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The Mustache.

From the Lady's Pictorial
A few years ago girl would have been
quite ashamed to have introduced q clean
shaver man to her friends as her, fance.
During the past decade she has been almost
equally anxious not to present one with
pnustache Yet, withal I believe in her
heart OF hearts woman likes q good mus
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LTHOUGH 1t is supposed to be more
fashionable at the moment to have
skirts and waists OF the same ma
! terial rather than to have coats
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BAY VIEW.

Master Samuel Burns. OF New Brit
ain. Conn. is visiting hi, grandfather
Mr.. Samuel Burns.
Miss Lydia Johnson. oi Wilmington
is the guest OF Mrs. +. J. Johnson.
Misses Rcbccca Jannc> and I.oi,
White were the guest, 81 Bay View
friends on Sunday.
\ large barn is being erected ON the
Chantila farm owned by Hugh Ar
mour. OF Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Cameron
OF North East were the guests OF
Mr. and Mrs. L. b. Smith on Sunday
Miss Ruth Burns. OF Uayrr de-
Grace. spent Sunday with Bay View
friends.
Bay View NJ. P. Church is installing
electric lights. They will be ready
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RISING SUN.

Miss Mary Patten, OF Liberty Grove.
visited her brother. f. Pattcn and fam
lily this week.
Mis-, ilbcrt Burlington has been the
guest OF relatives in Swarthmorc and
during her visit attended the Com
Increment exercises at Swarthmorc
College.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Reynolds OF
ONicrd, visited his mother. Mrs.
Amanda Reynolds, who is now quite
SICK, hlvng had stroke OF paralysis
thi5 week
Mrs II. Linn Worthington entertain
G ia number OF friends with cuchre and
finch On Wednesday afternoon from ,
to : O'Clock. Prizes were awarded to
Miss Alma NJ. Keilholtz and Mrs. 7.
VI. Sterrctt. Those present were
Misses Jcnette Reynolds, NJ. Alkaline
Smith, Alma Keiholtz,. Mary Haines.
Gertrude S. Dare, Mabel Duyckinck.
Mau1e and Hanna NJ Kirk. Louise NJ,
and Florence T. Worthington. Mrs.
Charles Burlington, Mrs. Frank R.
Cherry. Mrs. J. NJ Sterrctt, Mrs.
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Mir. and Mrs. T. w Jackson gave a
birthday party in honor ui their daugh
ter, Ruth, on Saturday. June .. She
received number ui nice presents.
hpiss Annie Rca, al
was the gcust OF Miss Alva Thomas
last week.
Mrs. Duff spent last week with Mrs.
L. W. Jackson
Mrs. T. h. Mullin visited friends
at Pcrryvlle last week
Miss Edith Thomas spent SUM
with her parents.
Mr.. William Thoma, and wife spent
Sunday with Mr.. Edward Jackson and
wife. al Blythcdalc
Mr. Aired food and wife spent
Sunday with Mr. II. c. Aiken.
Mr. Wilson Coudon, Jr; Of Elkton
is visiting his grandparents OF thi,
tiwn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Pounds were
the guests oi Mr.. and Mrs. p x. Nc
Mullen on Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Gorrcll and son visited
friends at Blythcdale last week
Mrs. Grace Hasson spent Sunday
with her parents at Principle Furnace.
Mr.. Rea and Mr.. Gorrcll. OF Como
wingo, were the guest, OF Mr. and
Ms. Gorrell on Sunday.
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PORT DEPOSIT.

II The weekly devotional meeting Of
the Epw"rth League will be held next
Sunday evening at the usual time and
place. The leader for the evening is
Miss Lille +. Butchcnhart The sub
jcCt for ConSidcratiOn-"O Account
ing Gal. o., 10; Rev. 20. Ills. The
leader is exceedingly anxious for a
iun attendance.
Mr.. Cecil @. .Pecplcs OF Philadcl-
phia, visited his brother, Mr.. Adam
Peoples, this week.
Mrs. John F. Johnson was a North
East visitor last week
Miss Mary Whitclock. Of Darlington
spent few days with Miss Grace Holm
this week
Mr., Ronald Bond, who has been out
in Kansas Tor the past nine months, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. Nellie Bond.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Atkinson, Miss
Beulah Crcswcl, Miss Maud Atkin-
son and Miss Helen Atkinson spent a
very pleasant day last Thurs day with
Mrs John Keen. OF Rising Sun
Mrs. Robert Nanneman and daugh-
ter, OF Havrc de Grace. visited relatives
| in town this week
Rev and Mrs. J. P. Otis, OF Rising
Sun, were Port Deposit visitors Tues
day.
Captain Perry, OF New York, was
the guest OF Mr.. r. F. McClcnahan
this week
Mr.. John McClenahan spent a few
days this week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard MeClenahan, of Princeton
and Mr.. and Mrs George Hagerty OF
Allenhurst n. ].
Mr.. Gustav Metzgar, of Virginia,
was Port Deposit visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Edward Schneider and Miss
Catherine Schneider, OF Baltimore, are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs George Camp
bell
Mrs. John Mitchell, of Baltimore, is
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attended the State Council of O. L. A.
NJ, held in Baltimore this week. Mr.
Dcckman represented independent
Council OF North East
The body OF an unknown white man
about 25 years OF age. was found on
the p. b. & w r. X. tracks near
Stoncy Run just below town, on sun
day morning His BODY was badly
mutlated. He was supposed to have
fallen from train.
Rally Day at North East. Sunday
June y, is to be great day at the NJ
+. Church OF North East. Ever since
building the new church four years age
they have been reducing the debt, and
expect ON the 18th to clear off the last
Thousand dollars. DR.. Thomas l.
Poulson al Ridley Park. Pa. former
pastor and a very able man, is To
preach in the morning. The afternoon
will be given to the regular annual
Childrcn'S DAY exercises, with an adj
dress by Rev. II. A. G.. Wc,tcrhclI, oi
Wilmington. also a former pastor. y
platform meeting will be the order OF
the evening. with each visiting minis
ter, mcludiug Rev \. s. Mpvhray
Presiding Elder, >pcakinE DIR. Nov
lral is also expected II sing. lie, all
friends ii Christianity. who can at
tend and enjoy the day. ticking al"n"
with them a contribution which will
help to float th, church C'c1r II al
debt
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62 % secure the biggest crops Of corn,
fertilizers must be used literally.
Apply at least 500 pounds to the acre~-wth
81 per cent. nitrogen, per cent available
pho phoric acid, and per cent Potash.
Potash is most important factor in corn
culture. Our practical books for farmers are
yours for the asking-no cost or obligation
of any sort, and vast fund of invaluable
information in them.
Address, GERMAN KALI WORKS. % York
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CHILDS

MIR. J. T. Blake is having his house
repaired by Mr. Frank Shippers
Mr. Herbert Rose spent Sunday
with Mr. Peterman.
Miss BESSIE Hartnett spent Sun
with Lewisvile friends.
Mr. CasDar Garrett has found new
plan Tor keeping the birds from his
cherry trees.
MIR. Samuel Fisher and father spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Z. c.
Mitchell.
Many OF the Childs people visited
Oxford Fair Friday last,
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Stewart Ward. Mrs. Clara Turner,
Ms. Er J. II. Jenness. NJ. j B.
s. sci and Mis-. Dr. T. b. Moore.
Mr. W"ham NJ. Poguc vas in Phila-
delrh'a on Monday and Tuesday.
Nj. Dare Hopkins ha, returned
hom, from Pr;ncct N University iur
the summer vacation.
y treat mnnv OF the Rising Sun p,o-
pie attended the commencement cXer-
else, ut the West Nottingham Acld-
my on Thu sday afternoon.
Mrs. Sara H. Nice, OF Baltimore.
has been visiting NJ. Carlton Kimblc
and daughter Miss Fife.
Miss ld.A Brown, OF Lancaster
county. is spending some time with
Mr.. ia Reynolds and family.
DIR. +. b. Moore has recently been
visitor IN Washington ID. {,
Rising: Sun defeated Port DEPOSIT in
game OF base ball at that placo on
Tuesday afternoon by the score o.
q to ).
Mis-; Iiahha Reynolds was the guest
81 Miss agnes Mowbray in Port De
posi-, during the week.
Mr. Samuel llamblcton spent a i"w
days oi this week in Philadelphia and
cth"r llacCs.
Mis-; Gertrude Chapman spent We'd
nc>day with Miss Ellen Clifford At
Clovcrly.
Mr.. Herbert Cochran. Of New Mar
Ilet, Md. ha, been spending a week
With Mr. Edwin l.. llaincS.
The Cecil Farmers Club met with
Mr. Alfred Kirk on Wcdnc ,day
Mr.. Cr,i'ic Fng'aNd and dan ,""r,
TAc'ma oi Philadelphia. have rcccm "
h"cn visiting Mr. J. O. IIjnlmnn nd
family.
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CHESAPEAKE CITY


Mr.. and Mrs. G.. s. Woollev spent
Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Mr.. T,b, r I,,..1ess and so, r
thor AID Mis-. Rnna Ra;swanaer ~
Po1t;,nnrn ,.;.;,.L tL.;r ,,,rcnts NJ
and Kris Inhn Rriswan@cr several
da,,s 1ast wccl
w. r., DIT, l., ,
MISS i,s,'' g., I ii .r las I I.; ',.u
~ i'o' H. ''u'' .rt y"SoD ''''N ''''''''''e
10, ''s' summer N"G"'''il
Mrs. J.. iIer; Miss EllZabeth tiaZ-
e. o! madcIpma' and Mrs; H. b.
Jones, OF baltimore. are spending the
su'nmcn at the Anchorage
Mrs pclmar SmthcrS is visiting her
mother. Mrs. William Young, at Bel
Air.
Mrs. Edward Clark, OF Baltimore,
| hqs been visiting Miss Alice Clark.
ur Harry CIrovcr ~ Wilmington
| visited his father r CIc,Ter the
| rast week
Mis-. Eddie Ferg,,son al Cec;1to,
| :, yi.;,;,p hnr sistrr Mr., Ryron Ron,
rh,1Io
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The Ordway new era., 1906-09-14
Three Great conversationalists.

The three greatest conversational.
lists with whom 1t has been my good
fortune to come into touch were MAJ.
zini, DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Bismark.
OF these, DR.. Holmes was the most
spirited in the bel esprit sense:
Bismarck the most imposing and at
the same time the most entertaining
in point OF wit, sarcasm, anecdote and
narrative OF historical interest.
brought out with rushing vivacity and
with lightning-like illumination CT
conditions, facts and men.
IN Mazzini words there breathed
such a warmth and depth of convic-
ton, such enthusiasm of faith in the
sacredness of the principles pro-
fessed and OF the aims pursued by
him. that it was difficult to resist such
a power of fascination.-Carl Schurz.
In McClure's Magazine.