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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-28
The French

The French
Are the best dressed people in the world.
and the French are not joining the rest of
the world in the growing disregard of mend
ing In Paris the demand for mending has
become so great that the trade has crystal
lized into an art. The workaday American
woman can be found who thinks that 1t is
not economy to spend much time in mend
ing The French womans love for her
clothes and instructive respect for their i'm
portance teaches her first to make every
part of her wardrobe as beautiful, perfect
and suitable as thought, taste and skill Law
ished on II can accomplish. Then, to regard
II as Il PROCLAMATION to let ii be defaced with
spot or tear. II the damage Is such that
ordinary cleaning mendng will not affect
it, Ii is hurried TO the artistic stoppeur who
which would sound unbelievable west of
Paris.
AT her shop. making something ''as good
as new really takes place. She is a Nor
man, convent bred. and her craft is one of
perfection. which can mend a rent or set in
a piece so that 1t is invisible and the gar
ment so near like new that woman trav-
eler from Paris declares that there are no
little dress tragedies"
Domestic discplinings and confessions
too, are averted," she says, las. If the sInah
girl despoils the front of her best frock a
new piece can be set in which makes 1t APP
pear the same ever on the next occa-
sion.' and IL the man of the house burns
his coat with q lighted match 1t Will be re-
turned from the stoppeur with no sign
From the French can be learned not only
the fact that II Is economy TO have gar
ment ufended; but also the art of caring
for things with exquisite nicely. and that
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Ia Chestnut PARTY

n SAcSluul IdILy-
Has for its entertainment the old game Of
chestnut hunt. introduced with new fea-
lures. Partners are chosen by a slip
OF paper which is found inside a large
chestnut shell from which the pointed end
has been cut GA and the inside dug out
after first boiling the chestnuts Across
the opening and from holes made on each
side has been tied a gay little bow of inch
wide ribbon. These in different colors and
tied In long loops with fringed ends make
pretty showing when passed in II silver
nut bowl.
II. instead OF putting the name IN nv
itself. you can couple" II with pretty lit
lie compliment or something descriptive of
that person and make into a rhyme IL will
answer as little letter OF introduction for
the partners TO read to each other as they
meet
Each pair Of partners also receives silk
bag which, as il VIII go to the girl can be
made tancIful enough 10 use afterward for
title work or opera glass bag. Or II
the hostess likes pretty light brocade bags
with gilt tops may be picked up.
The large French Chestnuts are hidden in
large quantities, few of them being placed
where they can be seen. The partners are
then lined up Tor a Virginia reel for which
the music begins. Suddenly in the middle
OF bar IL stops, when the looking for the
cheSyruts begins. Every two or three min
utes time is called By the music starting
up again, sometimes In a waltz or a two
step or the reel again. No nuts can be
hunted while the music Is In process. Each
man and girl works together, the couple
who gets the most having prizes waiting
for them. one OF which may be The Open-
ing of a Chestnut Burr"
A chestnut supper follows, at which the
decorations are OF grasses and ferns ar
ranged on one OF the little brown German
fiber baskets. which are. especially for moss
and grasses being woven OF dark brown
water twlgs. II might be possible for a
hostess to get artificial chestnuts partly In
closed in burrs. as this Is "A new hat FASH
ion which may be found i'm millinery shops.
Simpler and easier TO get are little brown
satin chestnut fayors which carry out the
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way of wearing ones gown which bespeaks
for it an elegance which 1t may not possess
This is an undefinable art, though like
other atmospheres possessed by some peo-
pie, it can be TO some extent assimilated,
and the value it has Is tangible in making
up for greater expenditure.
Simple
Aids to beauty are apt to be forgotten in
these days of facial massage, electroiysis
and lotions for the skin, and yet there are
a few which will receive the Endorsement
of the best authorities. One of these, and
one which helps to do away with the neces-
sity of buying cold creams, is the constant
use of rain water the face. famous
skin specialist who commanded enormous
prices when beauty doctors were fewer and
farther between was asked just before she
died what was the greatest beauty aid
which she could truthfuily recommend
She answered: Eau de ciel." Even now
this remains one of the best and simplest
remedies for the skin and yet it is one
which nobody takes any trouble to pre-
serve. A woman past middle age, who has
a skin as pure girls, manages to keep
a small barrel always full. In the winter
snow is melted and in the summer between
rains she uses the MEETINGS from the re-
frigerator. The rain water that is caught
outside Is filtered through a coarse canvas
fastened loosely on the barrel so that the
water drips through Ii, This is kept clean
and the water is kept fresh and pure by
being exposed to the air and never bot
tied in tight jugs. Another thing which
a physician StipulateS as being one OF the
things essential to both beauty of face and
figure is to abstain from dope of all
kinds, beginning with alcoholic drinks tea
and coffee and extending to all nerve or
sleeping medicines.
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color effect at the table. and which are
emeries for the women and pin cushions
for the men.
The menu is chestnut PURGE served in
bouillon cups with whipped cream. Smali
roast birds with chestnut sauce or stuffing
follow this, and next chestnut croquettes
with French peas. A salad of boiled chest
nuts celery and lettuce heads, with French
dressing, follows, and for dessert Nessel-
rode pudding or chocolate ice cream, with
boiled chestnuts glace for bon bons. Have
chocolate with the supper and have black
coffee with a ffavoring of brandy after
ward in the parlor.
Where
Children are TO be entertained there are
delights in a goose party. A sheet is
stretched in the doorway and a goose head
is thrust through 1t which is made of white
flannel with bill lined with red flannel.
and which has black bead eyes It has a
! long, stocking shaped neck which is sHpped
over some ones arm and the head is Just
padded enough so that the bill can be nicely
| manipulated with the two fingers
Interest in the goose is led up to by hav-
ing some young girl tell the story of the
golden egg, after which she announces that
she is 10 appear in the part, which she
does with great deal of bowling. The chill
dren are then given little bags of popcorn,
and each Is sent up in turn to feed her
She responds by disappearing after taking
the corn, and coming back with a small
package in her bill for the small person
who has been feeding her. She performs
many antics during the process. but finally
she gives little present to each one of the
Small people, which are chosen and marked
ahead so that each child will get some ae-
ceptable little gift, from doll dishes and
bags of marbles TO masks and parasoIs and
bags of candy.
At the table there Is a pond in which
small downy geese are swimming which
afterward are given as souvenirs to each
one of the little guests, and in the bill OF
fare the bird appears as often as possible
small seed cakes being baked in goose
shape. the croquettes nodded into little
geese. and the ice cream geese being the
c1owning triumph.
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Dress for Stout Women.

The stout woman who dresses to her fig
ure. rather than 10 fashionable models, is
always more charmif gly gowned than she
who wears what is fashionable in Itself
rather than what Is suitable
Don't use frgls of any kind on a gown II
you are stout. Use fiat trimmings.
Don't wear wide belts.
Don't trim skirt except at the bottom
Don't wear sleeve that is full below tn
elbow.
Don't wear an Eton coat Always have
the coat line extend far below the waist
line as possible
Don't wear a Hght-dtiing coat
Don't wear bow ties. Wear something
sElaE and narrow IL tie is required.
Don't wear fluffy things around the neck
Lei the neck finishing be as nat as pos
sth2aA
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Coffee Service

Coffee Service
Has become elaborate since II is understood
that there are certain laws as TO cream and
sugar which are both hyg!euic and cpl
curean. The up-to-date housewife now has
a little covered hot milk pitcher with her
breakfast coffee service, which resembles
a little Doulton syrup jug. She serves the
breakfast coffee clear with sugar to such
of her family can still be trained into
ways of fashion and hygiene-which for
once correspond. To those who cannot, she
dlluteS the coffee with scaiding milk. II
cream is insisted on II must never be heat
ct. and IL also Is one cf the nice points that
the milk should not be allowed to come to
a boil. To have it just right it should be
put in q double boiler and watched until the
water surrounding 1t comes TO a boil, when
it should be taken out. For dinner have
the coffee made in a French coffee pot so
carefully that its flavor will convert the
most old-fashioned cream deyotee to taking
IL clear. The hygienic point of view is that
coffee with cream produces stomach acid
ity, while the combination of cream and
sugar is more injurious.
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Though

She may not realize it, it is quite worth
the while of the girl or woman visiting in
a house to exert herself to be agreeable to
her host in the same way she would if he
was not a married man. If there is the
special form of Difference which woman
owes to mankind in general, and to the one
who Is her host in particular, 1t is that
when he takes her anywhere she should
be as entertaining as possible and look and
dress the part. There's not a man living
who, when he goes about with femininity
trailing after him, is not gratified when it
has one kind Of appearance that attracts
deferential admiration and yet there is
nothing In which man suffers so much
matrlmonially as in the appearance be-
haviOr, and general social quality of the
train of women that it Is ever afterward
entailed upon him to take about publicly.
Before he was married he was one of the
men known by girls one who can be
relied upon to give them good time"
and who understood the art of doing it N
a way that passes muster even with criti-
cal girlhood. In repayment the kind of
girl who makes this distinction is an
adept in looking WELL talking well and in
the happy alacrity with which she re-
spends to his little plans and arrangements.
all of which are part of the science of
being entertained.
With the girl who is his wife's guest and
with the sisters and sisters-in-law, and the
whole run of cousinly visitors, it is differ
ent. They do not think Ii is worth while
10 uOn tnelT HSnt lHlHSS winch make the
difference in dressing up unless 1t is
grand occasion and there is another man to
be met. Instead. the night when the host
is going TO take them somewhere is looked
upon as good time to save clothes. SO
far from bothering to talk to him he is
garded as the person to take care of the
tickets. and the time is one in which to set
tie back and rest up, or to talk TO each
other.
If his wife Is one of the difficult kind he
may find that the whole lot are bent upon
taking the street car when he has planned
upon taking the elevated. He discovers
that instead of running the party his prin-
cipal part IS in trying to find out what
they want. 1t is all done with an OCCASION
al smile in his direction, which says You
don't mind"
But he does mind. Women are such
confoundedly hard work TO take anywhere
is his comment. And those who watch
him in the street cars and the ways of
the little party of women trailing after him.
do not wonder that in his part of married
man he falls back upon smoking at home,
and that, according to nine-tenths of the
wives. In his latest manifestation refuses
to be budged anywhere after dinner
GRACE RILEY CLARKE.
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Simplicity.


The tendency of all culture is from the
complex to the simple. OF all things to re-
member, do not forget this in cooking.
But there is simple and simple. There is
the simplicity of wild rose or a good ham
mer. and there is the simplicity of a broken
STOOL To omit the proper trace of salt in
the porridge is not simplicity; it is neglect.
To put cherries on lettuce leaves is not
simplicity; 1t is ignorance
To every man his own honor.
lettuce in it's place
These bad cooking ways represent the
fidgets in cooking Here is a mans idea
and ask any first-class hotel to beat II. He
has decided to get and is going to eat
Smoked Haddock.-For this he is going to
preserve the favor he desires. Wipe the
fish clean trim to the pan and pour over 1t
to the level Of boiling water. Put In the
oven to simmer five minutes. Have a Ia
blespoon of good butter melted. Pour of
the water from the fish and pour on the
butter. adding a little white pepper and
one-fourth cup of boiling water. Put It
back 70 simmer for five minutes or n trifie
more, letting it brown lightly on top. Re-
move, take out the bone and flake up every
morsel of the haddock from the skin so
that it may he spooned out easily Place
the fish hot serving plate pour liquid
from pan which remains. buttered and sea-
soned, upon the heap of flakes, and dress
the fish with plenty of fresh water cress.
He does not use any Worcester sauce. 1t
would undo all his pains.
Here is another example of the simple A
mans way. too:
Sportsman's Trout.-Take two or more
fresh young trout. perfectly clean them,
wash and wipe dry and season with salt
and white pepper. Put in a pan TO fit and
fill to their level with cream (not milk
Bake a light brown, when the trout will
have absorbed the cream. A sportsman
will walk miles over the mountain rather
than forego this rich cream. This done. it
is done. No sauces or condiments are re-
quil.ed.
Seeming and SAVIOUR.
Bachelors Salad, and really confected and
devised by a man.-Have a nice head of
apple lettuce" all leaves good and crisp
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only on this account, and with 1t shall
come that highest of all points of view,
mat 1t has been given of all the people
III the world especially to you.
No
Trip to another town or incursion into a
friends house is worth taking unless the
one who goes. brings back some new idea
from 1t for the lettering or Frightening of
the routine at home or for passing on to
one home friends. \ visit which is long
enough to afford a glimpse of the day by
day workings of friends home is most
proLlnc OF these lasting souvenirs in the way
VI new haolts and incentives. Perhaps it
- the hanlt OF word of endearment long
passed into disuse which is called back by
nearing 1t as a household word in another
FAMILY. 1t may be only the stopping to
make pleasant hour for the mother of
the FAMILY by getting ready q little tray
or afternoon tea, regardless of whether or
not there are VISITORS or the going into
her room with a hot lemonade for a friendly
chat AT night. Or 1t may be the habit Of
dressing up and getting out every day.
or Tor some larger festivity every week or
month as one has not had courage or en-
erSy to do for years
or 1t may be that a friends delightful
way OF entertaining has opened up posi-
p1-aies winch give new impetus toward
hospitality.
There is nothing like a trip to another
place as an eye-opener to the resources in
ones own. Simple little amusements that
we had not thought worth while. or plans
or entertainment that we had thought I'M
conventional all gain a glamour and a
ffeSh interest as they are seen from the
new point of view of the life lived some
where else. BY putting all these little ideas
into execution we not only get new life for
ourselves, but we take on an atmosphere
IN which there is a fresh interest for every
body else 1t is the bringing something
y NJ hi
having to the family circle which is in
hnitely precious and which is the true rea-
son outside of bread-winnng itself, of all
going forth. 1t may be only the way to
pronounce a new word, the hearing of a
new practical idea which. as the little boy
says, Is good game" They are little
things, but they are the coin of exchange
of all that is most valuable in us to each
other. They should be the gift of the
daughter to her father. of the son to the
mother, of the wife and husband TO each
other, in short, of every one who goes out
or passes in.
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using It as living room well as dining
room is practical part Of the plan of fur
nishinS or just make believe.
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Crab a la Creole-BoH the crabs in salt
water until red. Remove from the fire. pick
out the meat carefully and set aside Brown
over fire one small onion in one tablespoon
full of butter, stir in one tablespoonful of
-four and when thoroughly Drowned add
one cupful hot water and one can tOmat toes.
Season with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper,
one saltspoonful sugar and one tablespoon
full tomato catsup Boil this mixture until
it is thick. then add crab meat and let
cook a few minutes. Serve hot on a plat
ter lined with toast. allowing one slice OF
toast for each person.
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Seeming and Saviour.

Bachelors Salad, and really eonfected and
devised by a man.-Have a nice head of
apple lettuce" all leaves good and crisp
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only on this account and with 1t shall
come that highest of all points of view,
mat 1t has been given of all the people
In the world especially to you.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-04-10

Storage fer niture-L. F. Hobbs,
Phone 90. ap s-su.tuim
Want It hauled?-'Phone 96.-L. F..
Hobbs ap 8.su.tu1m
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ATTEMPT
TO BREAK THE WILL
Safarkey v. Moore Cut Oft 1hIr-
! teen Of His Offsprings With.
ESTATE WENT 70 EIGHT OTHERS
Man Wto Was Famous en- Account Of
Being u. Fss''sr 81 rwsnsy-0ns
Children Left His Estate in such
Away That Those Who are plssat-
isfled Go to Court.

One Of the most interesting fights
to break will that has ever occurred
In the Circuit Court of York county
was tried last week by Judge Tyler
mt Yorktown
The case is that of J. w. Moore
against The administrators mad heirs
of late Starlsey w Moore. who was
famous throughout his county on ac,
count of being the father of twenty.
one children.
In his will the dead man left his
entire. property. TO the eight children
by his second marriage. He stated
that he had helped and assisted his
children by the first marriage while
he was living and that the children
of the second marriage were given the
entire property, consisted of a farm
and money.
MIR. j. W. Moore, one of the sons
by the first marriage, is. endeavorinE
to break the will and to have the
property equally divided among all
children of both marriages.
After hearing the case Judge Tyler
has taken the matter under consider
alton and will render his decision al
the next term of his court in York
county.
The case of the two colored boys
under indictments for assaulting an
old colored woman. will be heard al
Yorktown on Thursday.
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PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.

The Gocing and Going of the People
You Know.
Mr.. Frank w. Moore left here last
evening to visit in Baltimore, Phila-
delphia and New York.
Dr. c. d, Haas, assistant physician
in the National Soldiers Home Hos
pital, left there yesterday for Wash
ington, to spend his vacation.
AIR. Charles 7. Taylor has gone on
business trip to Baltimore and
ether cities.
Cadet George Peek, on the Virginia
Military Institute, is the guest of lis
mother, Mrs. Sallie Peek at Acorn
Point. Cadet Peek is here to take the
examination for admission to che
navy academy.
Mrs. John Sclater. accompanied by
Miss Page Sclater, will start this ev-
ening for Baltimore, where she will
visit for several days.
Miss Mary M. Hopkins, of Charles
Town, w. Va, is the guest of her
brother, Rev. Abner c. Hopkins, jr.,
in East Hampton
Miss Ethel Booker will leave here
FRIDAY for Washington. where sh,
viii spend the Easter Holidays with
her friend. Miss Dryer.
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NEW CARS FOR RAILWAY.
Hampton Roads Line to Put on Bet
ter Eot,jpn,enf

Hampton Roads Line to Put on Bet
ter Equipment.
The first installment of the twelve
new cars being built at High Point,
N. c.. for the Hampton Roads Trac-
tion Company, will arrive here about
April is and will replace the pom
derous cars which have been used
On the line.
The cars are similar to those used
on the Church street line in Nor.
folk, being of the single truck type
and seating about thirty-two people.
The seats are latitudinal like those
on the Old Point cars on the old
line. The cars are larger than the
Chesapeake & Ohio cars. though
smaller than the Norfolk express cars.
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Haul anything-Phon s6-L. F..
HOLDS. ap S.su.tu1m
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Barbour. Park avenue church, Nor

Barbour. Park avenue church, Nor
folk, Va
In attendance during the day SEES
sions:
Rev. e I, Wexford, First church,
Newport News; DR.. J. B. Ayler, elder
First church, Newport. News; Rev
w NJ. Hunter, Second church. New
port News; Mr.. Fair, elder Second
church, Newport News; Mr. Geo G.
Reed. Client church, Norfolk; E. r.
Barksdale. Portsmouth, Va.
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Haul anything Phone ss-L. F.
Hobbs. ap 8.su.tutm
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w. r. Lawson

NO. 10 N. King st. Hampton, Va,
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WHERE THE DELEGATES
WILL STOP IN HAMPTON
List of These Who vii! Attend the
Spring Meeting of the Norfolk
Presbytery.


Below is given the list of the dele
gates who will attend the spring ses-
sion of Norfolk Presbytery and the
homes at which they will be ell
tertained while in Hampton.
Rev G. w. Shipley, Suffolk, We.
Rev. P. B. Henderlite. Accomac Va.
with Mrs. VIM. Baulch at Rudd's
Cottage.
Rev G. S. Lingamfelter BerkIey,
Va; Rev. H. L. Walton. sharrfs
Wharf, Va, with Mrs Carroll Gar.
nett.
Rev. Chas. Friend. Belle Haven.
Va. with Mrs. II. R. Houston
Rev F. w. T. Pittman. Williams.
burg, Va, with Mrs. j. F. La Crosse
Elder from Park Place church of
Norfolk, with Mrs. j. F. La Crosse
Rev, G. q. Bishop, WILLIAMSBURG,
Va; Rev. r. A. Robinson, Mr.. wal.
ter Thornton, with Mrs. w. A.
Picker
Rev. w. H. Graves, Gloucester,
Va; Rev. Jas. Rennier, Norfolk We !:
Elder, First Church, Norfolk, Va.
with Mrs. H. l.. Schmelz.
Rev. J. w. H. Summerell Norfolk,
Va. with Mrs. w. A. Lossaman.
Mr. Geo. Face, Second church.
Norfolk, with Col VIM. Thompson.
Rev. A. S. venable, Bay View.
Va; Rev. ]. B. Waller Norfolk va;
Mr b T. Powell, Wachaprague. Va. !;
Elder from Holmes church, with Mrs.
Segar Whiting.
Rev. F. B. McCluer, Richmond Va;
kev. Arnold Hall, with A. G. Hop
kins. Jr.
At the Augusta hotel, quests of
different members of the congrega-
ton:
Dr. S. P, Ward, Belle Haven, va;
w. B. Schenck, williamsburg. Va;
u Y. Tavener, Berkeley. Va; j. w.
=
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Debate Much Enjoyed.

The second debate of the "Y and
|" club was much enjoyed at the
Young Mems Christian Association
last night The question debated was
Resolved, That Fire is More De-
strhctive Than Water" Warren How
ard and Albert Ransone spoke for the
affirmative. while James Tennis and
Taylor Wilson represented the mega,
tive, The judges gave decision in
favor of the affirmative.