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uses That Have a Color Note

saw occasionally upon heavier tailored
waists, and The finish at the wrist should
be Of the daintiest character. little pearl
buttons and loops OF tiny button holes being
used to fit the Cvff snusly.
Front frills vary from little frlls running
down each side OF a central plat to wide
single frills Of jabot character. on the
colored blouse such jabots are often OF fine
white stuff with narrow hens or button
holed edges Of the color; and indeed there
are numerous blouses whose sole touch of
color appears in such frill borders and cuff
borders.
An embroidered band Of color running
down the center front may have double
plated frills on one side only, as in the
net model pictured among the sketches, and
a single friIl on one side is also used. In
the case Of the net blouse plated frills
finish oIlar and cuffs, and in lingerie
blouses, as we'll as in those of net, a
plated frill falling over the hand and
finishing the high close-fitting collar is
often used, the idea being eminently
French, but not u~nfailingly becoming.
Bands OF fine batiste embroidered in color
set together with bands of valencisnnes
make pretty waists of a somewhat preten-
tious type and, II the embroidery selected
is fine and dainty enough, give an impress
sion Of elaborateness in excess Of the effort
and expense actually implied. The pink and
white blouse sketched on this page was Of
this class, and, smanating from a Partisan
workshop, was priced high, but offered no
great difficulties to the copyist-
Dotted n ring-dot batistes and linons
are used for the colored blouses, as well as
striped stuffs, and certain very chic models
offered by various importers lave a white
ground with colored dot, full front frill of
white with scalloped edge b~uttonholed in
color and turnover collar and cuffs Of white
~buttonholed in color to match the frill. In
black and white this model is especially
chic and for that matter many of the
effective colored models are In black and
white.
white sheer stuff with narrow border or
delicate color is often used for blouses, the
color note being emphasized by a little hand
embroidery in the same color. In the case
Of the model sketched here the embroidery
consisted merely of little pink dots, but the
general effect was excellent
Elaborate colored eInbroideries in heavy,
bold designs are often bestowed upon the
sheerest OF white materials, the blue and
white models Of the cut being a sample Of
the stunning results obtained in this way,
but on the other hand there are many models
In which the finest and daintiest of colored
wreaths and garlands are mingled with
inset lace in yokes and sleeves and fronts.
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Of awkward and unnecessary fullness and
the resulting trimness and neatness of
effect. If one can afford indulgence 1t
Is a good plan to do as one summer girl
has done.
She went to one of the most exclusive
shops in New York, a shop noted for its
fine French blouses, and bought a charm
ign shirt waist Of striped batiste cut on the
most approved lines. She paid a rather
absurdly high price for this model but has
made up for that by securing half a dozen
others at prices as absurdly low; for the
first thing she did with her French blouse
was to rip 1t carefully to pieces.
Having ripped it, she cut an exact pattern
from II. As the blouse had been carefully
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C-HB touch Of color which has
orept into 20 many OF the
modish lingerie blouses OF the
EEE season may compiicate launder-
ing problems, but II certainly
- does bring about some charm
ing effects, and. as usual. the question Of
practical utility bows before considerations
OF prettincss and fashions.
The all white blouse stands laundering
more successfully than the blouse Of white
and color. II also lends itself with a better
grace to all sorts of skirts, hats, etc, and
the woman who must count the pennies
will do we'll to etife her longing for the
dainty colored biouses and cling to all
white models; but the chances are that
every woman who can possibly afford IL
will have at least one or two OF the new
blouses. whose white is tempered by blue or
pink or soft brown or rose or green.
II Is only the sheer blouse with color
introduced that Is really new. The colored
shirtwaist OF madras or linen has long
been worn and Is not so popular as It once
was, but the colored blouse which the Pert-
SLAMS have launched this season Is Of sheer
est batiste or null or lawn and as dainty
as French fancy can make Il
, The note Of color may be in the material
itself OF in the embroidery, and the models
range from the simplest Of so-called tai
lored waists TO the most elaborate Of hand
embroidered blouses, but the shirtwaists
must be as fine and dainty in their own
way as the more elaborate blouses in
theirs. Coarse blouses in color lose all the
smsrtness which belongs to the chic colored
blouses Of the season and are even much
less desirable than the coarse blouse in all
white.
The striped batistes and linons with
white grounds striped in narrow lines Of
color are prime favorites for the semi
tailored type OF blouse, and II It were not
so difficult to find just the right materials
for these waists they would not of neces-
sity mean great expense, for almost any
girl should, with the help OF a good pat
tern, be able to make such a waist for
herself.
The model most common is a simple shirt
waist with tucked yoke Of one sort or an
other, long sleeves, front opening. front
frfils and no collar. There is of course
considerable Importance attaching to the
cut for such a waist as this needs to fit
trinity and be carefully made II 1t is really
10 have style, and a sloppy. Ill fitting shirt
waist is a lamentable thing.
This season many Of the shirt waist max
ers are cutting their waists with separate
side bodies instead of cutting them In two
parts. The side body is, of course, very
narrow, but the presence of the extra sean
is more than atoned for by the elimination
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lew the elbow. so that it narrows to cuff
width and may be Joined to the cuff with
out much, If any, shirring. This shaping
is accomplished by small tucks running up
the sleeve from the cuff top.
Some of the more extreme waists are
made like a mans shirt sleeve with no full
ness at the shoulder. but this IL not gener-
ally becoming. The cuff may be merely a
wristband or a deeper cuff fitting rather
closely and tucked to match the blouse
fronts. Sometimes this deeper cuff is
headed by a tiny outstanding trin h~arnnonis-
ing With front frills; and often the cuff Is
a flat, turnback affair, edged all round by
a little frill.
The wide, stiff shirt cuff f. no longer seen
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viving ex-president of the United
- States, three women still live
- who have shared the lot of
IfA&&S1 former executives Of the ma
The three widows of e~x-presidents are
Mrs. James A. Garfield. Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. It
has nearly always been the case that the
widows OF presidents have outnumbered
former holders of the office. The strain
OF caring for the nations affairs seems
60 bear heavily on incumbents OF the chief
magistracy and It is rare indeed to have
had more than two ex-presidents living at
the same time.
Mrs. Garfield has long survived her hus-
band. who has now been dead almost twen-
ty-seven years. relates the Brooklyn Eagle.
Since his death she has lived TO see her
son, James Rudolph Garfield. steadily ad-
vance to a place of prominence in the ma
tion's councils until now he has become a
member OF the presidents cabinet. In view
Of his youth he has at least a right 70
hope that history OF the Adams family
might be duplicated and the son OF a pres
ident go to the White House. Particularly
has Mr.. Garfield a right to nurse this
dream in view of the fact that he comes
from Ohio. which has usurped the one time
place OF Virginia as a producer OF chief
executives.
In Pasadena, Cal, Mrs. Garfield has a
summer home. There she lives a larger
part Of her time In idyllic surroundings.
She spends most OF her time sewing and
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reading. She is a sweet and gracious
woman, gentle and kindly and always
ready to speak OF the triumphs Of her hus-
band.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison was not aetu-
ally a lady Of the White House, for her
distinguished husband had retired from
public life before he wed the beautiful
Mrs. Mary Dimmick. the favorite niece OF
the first wife Of the president
She became a member Of the Harrison
household prior to his election to the
presidency and after his Inauguration she
took a prominent part In all the activities
OF social Washington.
The first wife. Mary Scott Harrison. was
an invalid during a large part of Mr.. Har-
rison's stay at the White House and much
of the social duty developed upon Mrs.
Dimmick. She cared for 1t with complete
success.
When, four years after his passing from
the White House, Mr. Harrison announced
his purpose 70 remarry. there was general
pleasure and heartiest good will was ex-
pressed all over the country. On February
n. 1897, q child was born to the pair.
Elizabeth Harrison.
A woman Of rare beauty and charm, Mra.
Harrison is naturally very popular, both In
Indianapolis. where she had her home, and
in Tuxedo. N. y. where she spends much
OF her time.
Mrs. Cleveland has only lately been mads
the widow Of a president The whole life
Of this lOvable woman, since her sirlhooe
days, radiated around the life Of the only
man the democrats have succeeded IN put
ting in the White House In hHlf q century
OF effort. They were welded In the White
House during the first term OF the then
New Yorker.
Fer the remaining years Of his term Mrs
Cleveland presided with a charm and q
dignity that were irresistible, and that gave
her perhaps moro thorough popularity thar
any woman OF the many who have held
the title Of first lady Of the land"
For four years moro in private life, Mrs
Cleveland continued to hold q place in the
affections of the people and when In 1ss:
the vote Of the people carried Grover Cleve
land back into the chair Of washington
many a republican found the panss o.
having a democratic president lessened By
the fact that his selection returned Mrs
Cleveland to her old place.
Her tTiumphs Of the first term wer,
~abundantly repeated, and when once NOR,
the pair retired to private life to take III
their home In beautiful westlands, thel
Princeton abode, Mrs. Cleveland remainet
a beautiful memory to the nation that ha,
genuinely loved her.
Now, as a widow, charged with the re
sponslbility Of training her family, the oil
affection is still there.
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heading.
q
what Women Are Doing.
Miss Julia G. Lathrop OF Rockford, Ill,
has been made codirector with Prof. era
ham Taylor Of the Chicago Institute Of
Social Science. Besides coming from q
family of lawyers, Miss Lathrop has her
self taken a course in law.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has come out in
the open against women's rights and Is
izers Of the National Suffrage assoc
citation. A circular letter sent out recently,
setting forth the aims Of that body, con-
the marchioness OF Tweeddale, the countess
OF Jersey, Lord Dunraven and Lord Roths-
child.
In the days Of Jane Austin % or % was
supposed to be a Observation-Disclosures for
a girl, who was expected to be married
when she was II or IL years OF age. Now
adays a girl is said to be sensible who
waits until she is rs or 80 to marry and
then. Of course, marries a man very differ
ent from the hero of her salad days.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward OF Salt AXE
city, who was regularly elected as delegate
TO the democratic national convention in
Denver, is the mother OF nine children
and said to have one Of the best managed
households in that City. She Is an ardent
advocate Of equal suffrage, not because It
'broadens" the views of the modern woman
but because 1t gives the them power 10
protect and improve their homes.
Mrs. Cornwal West, better known as
Lady Randolph Churchill, in her reminis-
cences tells a story Of the old fashion in
regard to the honeymoon. II was consid
cred not only proper to remain in seclu-
sion for a month or six weeks. but almost
improper not to so seclude oneself. Shortly
after her first marriage she met a person
Of high station and, telling him that she
had been married only a few weeks, he
fixed her with q cold stare and exclaimed,
And here so soon!"
New Orleans is 20 have a juvenile court,
and Miss Kate Gordon and her sister, Miss
Jean Fordon, are being congratulated on
the success Of their efforts. Several years
ago these two philosophical women be-
gan single-handed to work for the estab-
liShment OF this court They were later
Joined by the New Era club, and together
they have managed to win a victory where
only defeat was Drophesied.
Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, supervisor
Of the reading course for farmers wives,
conducted by the Agricultural College OF
Cornell university, believes that there
should be a woman judge in juvenile courts
where girls are tried. She bases her opin-
ION on personal observation Of various ju-
venAs courts, notably those In New York
City, She believes that there are many
questions which Girls would answer truth
fully II thew was a woman on the bench,
but which they now invariably lie about
when Questioned by q man. This is one
Of the very few Instances In which Mis-
Van RAnnSelaer believes G~eGreEatton 81 the
eW0 ssLea Yeuaa ~ banadcth
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Folly OF Trusting a Man.

1t seems dreadful to think tina from
her earliest infancy q girl must be taught
to beware of man, who should be her
natural protector. writes Beatrice Fairfax
in the st. Louis Times.
THAT is what she must De taught, how
ever, and her mother is the one who should
teach her. She must trust no man until
his wedding ring is on her finger.
1t is hard on the honorable man to be
thus classed with his Infamous brother.
but q young girl is not qualified to prop
erly distinguish between the two.
The surest guide for a pure-minded sirl
10 follow Is her own instinct. If that
warns her against a man she had best
follow 1t, nc matter how attractive and
~beguning the man may be.
The thing that first draws a girl into
fast society is the desire for a good time.
Ths automobile Is responsible for the down
fall Of many a girl
Day after day she sees fashionable
women whizzing along In big, luxurious
oars and naturally she envies them. Then
some Say an acquaintance either borrows
or rents a car, or q chauffeur Rppropriates
his masters car for the occasion.
The girl gets the longed for opportunity
and, yelled and cloaked, she goes whizzlng
along Just as she has seen her rich and
fashionable sisters so. ana she feels just
as grand as they looked.
She Is intoxicated by the excitement and
the chances are that there is a stop at
some road house. where most of the party
have something to drink.
The first time she refuses anything to
drink, though she feels foolish and prudish
In doing SO. The next time she is ovsrper-
suaded. and that is the beginning Of the
end.
During her daughters infancy and child
hood the average mother Is all care and
watchfulnsss. and then, when the girl is
grown In years, but still a mere baby in
judgment, she Is LEFT largely TO shift for
herself.
Small wonder that the END is frequently
a tragedy.
But, after all, dear girls you yourselves
are the ones most responsible for the hap
piness OF POUR future and your good name.
Remember that once the latter is black
ened nothing on earth can Whiten II again.
Just at present having a good time may
seem the most important thing in the
world 20 you, but all the good times on
earth won't oaDpenAats fer the agony xou
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Endurance OF Women.

Although men as they run are perhaps
musculariy stronger than women, says the
New York Globe, their inability % with
stand the elements and their reliance upon
clothes places them considerably below the
so-called weaker sex IN the matter Of un-
clothed toughness. Women wear clothes
for ornament; men use them as a pro-
tectve covering. A group Of men marooned
clothesless on an island in the temperate
zone might be expected 70 die off in a
month from draushts and colds and rheu-
matism. The health Of women similarly
placed would suffer little from the en-
forced exposure. The fact appears to be,
therefore. that in everything but muscle
In vitality. r~uggedness, character, disposf-
ton. brain power. is the
tougher. not the weaker. sex.
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A New York woman says that there is
a great demand for nurses in the families
of ordinary people who might be able to
pay from SO to SIS a week, but would
expect the nurse TO not only help with
the sick ones, but assist with the work
that is so much greater when there is sick
ness In the family. The trained nurse as
a general thing would scorn to do anything
else but her work proper, and she has her
rights, but it will certainly be a good thing
for the country when some one establishes
a kind Of working nurse who is not above
helping those who cannot afford to hire
the trained nurse and servant as well and
are. under ordinary circumstances, their
own servants.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-02
Leaves from FASHIONS Notebook.

LGhNCh NOACDOOAs
Colored embroidery plays al important
part in satorial affairs, although the white
guimpe is 80 becoming that 1t is generally
retained, even where the color is brought
into the decorative scheme.
Lingerie guimpes and yokes OF en-
broidery are a most important part Of the
feminine wardrobe, as they aid immeasur-
ably to freshen and dress up a simple silk
or Bingham frock.
The vogue of muslin embroideries has
lone much to simplify matters for the
home dressmaker and especially for the
woman who must DO considerable making
over in order to join financial ends.
In its various widths. the muslin en-
broidery flouncing is perhaps the best of
all sartorial friends that Dame Fashion
has OF late years vouehsafed TO the woman
who must dress herself daintily and mod
estly on a limited income.
Many lingerie petticoats have knee floun-
cings headed with two-inch wide headings
run through with pale ribbons, but others
broidery landings entire deux with bastlste
tuokings.
Some Of the daintiest lingerie costumes
seen this season were made at compare
money, because of the adaptibility Of en-
broidery flouncings, insertions and band
ings and OF medalllons and g~alloons inter
mixed with pretty laces.
There is always room in the Jewel cab
met for one more onamen In the shape
of breast pin or buckle and the newest
buckles are made OF imitation stones set
in dun gold or In gilt. The largest and
showiest of purple stones. jade, sapphire
and rhinestones are set in gilt and worn
with a gown of any pastel shade.
All fashions are designed for slender fig
ures, but those with which we have TO
reckon now are better adaptable 10 avoir-
dupois than usual. and a skilful dress
maker can work a complete transforms
ton merely by the adjustment of the waist
line and the direction OF the lines OF the
skirt. II Is possible, too, to take a cubit
or two from None's girth-and add II "a
ming a skirt.
For a while It looked as though the
princesse, with the panel, having become
common, would lose its prestige, and II dio
a little, but 1t has bobbed up again So
renely. All surplice effects, too, are al
good as ever, in spite OF their popularity
In the spring, which might easily have
overthrown them, Arranged with care, 81
gives beautifully long lineS esp(dally when
the tGa sides met without S1axStRg eaGt
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papes." She resigned in disgust, Indignantly
refusing ito be a commercial traveller for
scandal or anything else"
"Ah," exclaims the wide-eyed zealot from
Lonelyville when q blase sister tries to
pierce the golden, glamorous veil Of her
illusions. but think Of tho lovely people
you meet, the celebrated men and women,
the wonderful, broadening influence Of the
contact with all phases of Lfe."
Weariedly the blase one will admit that
she meets charming people. There flashes
retrospectively a delightful chat with a
great, g~iacious prima donna, of a genial
half hour on books and art with a clever
man Of note, of the newest sensation In
murderesses. gleefuIly unwrapping her
tinsel soul for a half-page article.
Also specters of other things rise up to
confront her; specters of hours when she
lay in wait for reluctant notables in hotel
Hobbies, celebrating acerbic m~onosyllables
into a story because her paper demanded
1t, of the derisive silence of the eminent
politician she bounced upon at his door
step, brazenly demanding that he reveal
some purposed coup; of the tragic, grief
furrOwed face OF the defaulter's wife a.
she explored the broken heart to tell heI
paper How It Feels to Be the wife OF g
Rogue" Of insulting buffers ana ~grinnins
maids a. she tried to make her way into
the mansions Of tho yellow rich. Side by
side with snatches of things worth while
are ranged visions OF bitter humiliations
Of intense rebellion, Of outraged pride. IL
the woman Journalists memory gallery
It's where the tyro falls-this road Of
humiliation. But she who aims above the
womRn's page must surely make thu
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the worlds personal feeling, must triumph
always the thought OF her paper. 1t sound
like a hardening process, yet paradoxically
the average newspaper woman is broader
and sweeter in sympathy, deeper in feeling
than the average girl OF the Sheltered
life," and the secret lies in the magic
phrase, She underestimate"
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MedaI for GirI HeroIne,

Notwithstanding the fact that she was
denied recognition by the Carnegie Hero
Fund commission, little Myrtle McAdoo Of
Hot Springs. Ark, received a gold medal
for her act Of heroism last December in
saving the lives Of several trainmen.
Although only s years OF age, she took
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Reformer Called Down.

State Representative George Glenn of
Georgia, who framed and introduced in the
Legislature a bill "to protect men from the
wiles and Establishments OF women" has
Just encountered unexpected and, as will
appear to his married brethren, insurmount-
able opposition.
Mrs. Glenn is against him-dead against
him, relates the Chicago Inter Ocean. Not
withstarding he and his friend. Major Gull
pepper Pinckney have been assuring the
country that all right-minded women
would be with them in this fight, Mrs.
Glenn writes from whitfield county, in the
postscript to q letter in which she sets
forth in full her objections to Mr.. Glenn's
course, ''Quit your durn foolishness and
come homel"
1t has ever been thus when a married
man has attempted to bring about q re-
form in the interest OF both sexes which
would compel women to dispense with
those little frivolities which allure. Every
time q married man has openly attacked
rainbow stocking. pekaboo waists, or any
thing of that kind, on the ground that such
things are Objectionable to all good women,
his wife was certain to call him off. II not
exactly In the language OF Mrs. Glenn, at
least in language which Is easily under
stood.
This probably accounts for the fact that
married men are seldom successful social
reformers. All Of their inclinations are in
the direction Of the social uplift, but the
moment they begin to display any famil-
iarity sven with the names Of the different
wiles and Establishments put forward
by the opposite sex for the allurement OF
man they are invited by their wives to
quit their foolshness and come home.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-02
The Woman In JournaIism.

Discussing woman in journalism in the
bohemian. Ellen Farley writes:
Yet even when her shell has hardened
and snubs rebound like rubber balls. the
newspaper woman shTinks from an assign
ment that sends her probing raw. gaping
heart wounds II her ideals are lofty she
tightly hugs the knowledge that She is
writing a human document; that behind
the detail OF petty scandal she Is pointing
out how the soul bears itself in its great
crises; that she Is tabulating psychological
statistics. But there still remains that ap-
pallinS resemblance between her work and
back fence gossip.
A legend OF the Herald office tells Of a
fsrvent nsoPhyts who was awakened on
being BY a wise gamln OF the
streets as the aARA GhO travels Ger d