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Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
NEEDLEWORK NOTES.

A neat little gift is small crocheteG slipper, with a chamois sole. in which a silver thimble is placed Crochet the toe and sides with silkateen. Two slip. pers can be made. tied with ribbon and one stuffed with an emery bag Each should be an inch long.
 In stitching d pocket on the outside of garment run the stitching half an inch above the edge of the pocket. This prevents the body of the garment from tearing. as is so often the case when the pocket is put on in the old way. When stitching around a cuff or wristband on the machine always turn the sleeve wrong side out, then set the presser foot inside the wristband.
 Baby bibs are nice little things for gifts. and they may be ordinary ones or the feeding variety. whichever the maker desires. Feeding" bib; measure 10 10 1G inches, with d tiny curved piece cut from the top 10 it around the neck. On the edges of this the tape is fastened. These are usual ly of huckleback tOweling or linen ami may Le embroidered with old fash toned cross stitch done with darn!n:: cotton or else with regular D. M. C. embroidery cotton.
 Something decidedly new fer bts,. : fingers is found ill the art of paintu.- raphy. which will be delightful pas time for girls or women who are DC, original enough to paint their ow-u china. The articles come stamped just as do doilies. and the operate has only to use her own judgment ir color schemes which are applied alor.z the delicate lines. The oriental mark lngs are pretty, and the colors &ra }.st~ Ing, calling for no kiln to co:uplelc :i, work.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
Young Folks
HOW FISHES BREATHE.
Extract Air From the Water by Means
 of Their Gills.

Extract Air From the Water by Means
 of Their Gills.
 Fishes cannot live without air any more than land animals can, but they don't use it in the same way. They have no lungs. for example, but make nse of what are called their giIls ill talk Ing air into their bodies. This air they get from the water, for you must not forget that all water has air in it.
 The inner part of fish's gill Is form, ed of series of little fringes made up Of small blood vessels. The water l.: taken into the mouth and thrown oH; Of the gills. In its passage it is de- prived of its air by those little blool vessels, and they send it through aIl the veins in the fish's body.
 Many people do not understand why a fish is able to go down into deep wa ter so easily, for naturally 1t requires more weight to do that than to swim near the surface The provision made by nature to enable the fish to accom- plish this is very neat and eficacious.
 Briefly, 1t consists of an air bladder which it can exhaust of air or fill with air by moving certain muscles. When 1t desires to go down into deep water it exhausts the air in the bladder. and that gives its body greater weighs: When 1t desires to ascend. it fills the bladder. and that lessens the weight of its body,
 The shape of u fish's body specially adapts 1t to rapid movement through AH1 or angles to make friction. and. be- sides, the scales of fishes are smooth and glossy and covered with sort of slime that enables them to glide through water at great speed.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
Women Writers War on suffraoe.

Mrs. Humphry Ward has not rested meekly under the rebuke of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. who retorted vigorously to the assertion of the Englishwoman that equal suffrage in the western states has been a failure. Mrs. Ward formed her opinions on a rowing visit to this country a few months ago and aired them on her return to England. Mrs. Howe replied through the Lon don Times. The novelist now asserts that in d congress election in Denver few years ago women were as active in frauds as men. Mrs. Ward has all the odds against her. Mrs. Howe has called the district attorney of Denver as d witness. and he says that out Of seventy-eight persons involved In the frauds of which Mrs. Ward complains seventy-six were men and two were women. To make the case still strong CT for Mrs. Howe and the American suffragist in general Judge Lindsey of Denver gives 1t as his experience that % per cent of the election frauds in Colorado are the work of men unas- sisted by women. This evidence seems to clinch the case for Mrs. Howe. and 1t is natural that the champions of woman's rights in England have seized upon the controversy as q weapon against Mrs. Ward. who has worked vigorously to keep women out of the political arena.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
TOWERS FOR DEAD WIVES.
An Italian Count Found to Be the
 Model Widower.

Model Widower.
 It would be difficult to analyze and describe the sentiment filling the breast of the ~I Italian count who has built castle With seven towers in Bi- arritZ in memory of his seven wives. It seems that here at least we have the model widower. Out of seven wives he has not selected one for exal- tation above the others. All are equal in his eyes. As no two women are alike, he married seven different kinds of temper. seven different shades of hair. seven different degrees of tongue, seven different kinds of figure, seven contrasts in beauty or something oppo- site. yet for all that this paragon among men holds all seven wives to have been equally worthy of his admi- ration. It almost seems this count is too good to be human. To follow the case further, 1t is reasonable to sup pose that had he buried seventy-seven wives there would be seventy-seven towers on his castle. The multiplica- | tion, too, might go on until a castle stood with tower for every woman on the footstool. That gives an inspir- | ing prospect, but the thought will in- l trude that the sentimental side of the count is trife too elastic. Try to i'm agine the thoughts that flow through his mind when he goes in the moon | light to the roof of his baronial castle and wanders through the maze of his memorial towers! Poor man! And yet are these seven towers really mem ories, or are they. perchance, monu- ments raised in joy over liberation? It is significant that no corner has been reserved for an eighth tower. Perhaps with the count seven wives may have been the beginning of wisdom. Seven has been classed as the magic number.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
JAPANESE CUSTOMS.
Rules oF the Tea Ceremony-Feast of
 the Dolls.

kn0 0Oi@s
 There Is a new woman In Japan" says Miss Alice NJ. Bacon, for many years head mistress of the Peeresses' school in Tokyo. "and she is the prob lem of the day in Japan. Girls are coming into the cities from the whole country to go to school. and it Is a problem to know what to do with them. They know only the old Sys. tenn. and their parents know only that, but they feel the pulse of the new life and they cannot be held back.
 "It is rather pathetic that the Jap anese girl knows so well that her school days are her happiest days SAr never plans the gay. happy years when I'm grown up.' Instead sht takes all her little schoolgirl pleasures with the full consciousness that when they are over there will come time when devotion to duty will be almost the only pleasure in life for her. She knows that after Ter school days the mother-in-law'S house waits for her and that there in the lowest place in Il strangers house she will have to work patiently her way up to tho re spect and good will of a strange fam. fly.
 "The little daughter of a wealth. house goes to school from six to sev. enteen. She learns reading, writing. natural science, English, the koto. sewing, cooking and the tea ceremony.
 "The rules of the tea ceremony were fixed about the time the Spanish ar mada was besieging Elizabeth. Every movement of the woman, every posi- ton of cup, spoon, tea caddy, towel, is prescribed.
 ITO a foreigner Japanese sewing seems so extremely simple that 1t would hardly seem necessary to study it, but the Japanese girl applies her self to 1t with the knowledge that in the future the appearance of her chil- dren. her husband. her mother-in-law and her father-in-law will all be set down to her credit or discredit.
 "She learns to cook sufficiently to direct her servants, particularly in the line of rice and pickles.
 ''The daughter of the house must learn to arrange the flowers not only artistically, but so that they will bear that wealth of symbolism found in every Japanese grouping of flowers,
 "The feast of the dolls is the quaint est of all the little Japanese girls fes- tivals In the storehouse where are kept all the family treasures there are boxes filled with dolls which have come down from the grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Each new bride brings her dolls when she comes to her father -in-law's house. and she keeps the feast each year till her eldest daughter is old enough to take it up."
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14

and tastefully placed upon the table, provide in themselves the means of carrying out novel and elaborate schemes of floral decoration. Fine wax candles are to be recommended as the most suitable artificial light for the best floral effects. though, provided they are suitably shaded, small cleo tric lamps fixed to the candle sockets on the end of the branches are excel lent. To complete a table decoration of this description soft trails of smilax intwined with the carnations nestfing among the greenery are laid on the cloth at the base of the candelabra.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
PICTURE PUZZLE FAD.
Homemade Variety Contrived With
 Colored Prints and Jig Saw.

Homemade Variety Contrived With
 Colored Prints and Jig Saw.
 X picture puzzle craze has struck the land. and old as we'll as young have succumbed to its Vaccinations. Some of these puzzles are most elab crate and sell as high as $S. but any clever girl can make them if she learns how to use that very simple tool. jig saw. or if she has a brother who likes to have fun in this way.
 The first requisite of the puzzle is an artistic colored picture, and if you have any old magazines or English periodicals you will find among them very choice things for the purpose. Paste the picture on a thin piece of white holly wood exactly matching 1t in size, and then with your little Jig saw carve it up into all sorts of fantas- tic pieces. Before you cut your picture up. however. study it we'll to get it photographed on your mind or else you may find 1t impossible to get it to- gether again. Keep the puzzle in a box and don't let any of the little pieces get astray. for the loss of even one piece will hopelessly dfsfgure the picture. Choose pictures with good deal of detail in them, for this sort are far more interesting to work out than the others
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
THE SAG0 PALM.
Its Great Value as a Producer of Food
 For Man.

Its Great Value as a Producer of Food
 For Man.
 One of the most important of the palm family is the sago palm of the East India archipelago. says the Chi cago News. The tree fiourishes only in low, marshy situations and seldom reaches height of thirty feet. It at- tains a starch yielding condition at the age of fifteen years. The stem is then gorged with mass of starchy matter. around which is hard outer rind about two inches in thickness. Were the fruit allowed to form and ripeu the whole of this starchy core would disappear and leave the stem a mere hollow shell. for when the tree ripens it's fruit it dies
 It seems strange that man can con- sume tree. but 1t is so. The prep aration consists in cutting off the branches and the hard rind of the trunk. The stem is then divided into sections and split up. and the starchy pith is extracted and grated to pow der. When the starch is roughly STdleu UT pUuEuSu 1HlO pulp duu uliuS into cakes one tree will feed a man for whole year.
 That which Is intended for exporta- tion is mixed into paste with water and rubbed through sieves into small grains. It is known as pearl sago. bullet sago, etc. according to its size. and is served on our tables and in soups and buildings. 4
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
RiddIemaree.

What tongue is it that frequently hurts, yet never speaks word? The tongue of your shoe.
 What is it from which you may take away the whole and still have some left? The word wholesome"
 When is newspaper like saw: When it is filed.
 Why is the English grammar like rheumatism? Because it is torture Caught yer).
 Why is a bookbinder like charity :: Because he often covers a multitude of faults.
 Why should an artist never be short of money? Because if he is good at his trade he can draw money.-Phila- delphia Ledger.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
A Dish of Fruit.

Do you like pencil and paper games? Here is good one: Give each of your guests a pencil and piece of paper on which are these words:
 CAHEP RECHYR DEAF REPA NRAEOG WRSBYRTARE PELAPPENI NELMO NTOCACUO AAABNN PRAGE CALBKRYBRE PMUL GIF TARCURN
 The hostess explains that the letters are jumbled, but when strengthened out will form variety of fruit. A prize may be given to the one who ar ranges the best dish of fruit first. The fruits are:
 First column-peach, pear, pineapple, banana. plum; second column-cherry, orange, lemon. grape. fig; third col umn-date, strawberry, ,cocoanut, black berry, currant.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
Humor ane Philosophy
 By DUNCAN n. SMITH
SURE THERE IS.

Is there q Santa Clausf What
 A question:! Hush, doubter! 1t was settled Long before you were born. Hold your scorn. Whats the answer. prayf In the Affirmative. With a big A. DidSt never see Tho father of the family, Lord of creation, The household noise, Ring.Gastcr of the show. Wadins the snow Loaded To the guards With trinkets, Toys. books, Yards Of bright ribbon. Sewing machines. Grand pianos, ,s Slcds, skates And crates Of candy That come in handy To fill the crannies2 Answer me. - Did you never see That patient old beast of burden Dad.
 Put almost to the bad Physically and financially Under the strain, Making Q freight train Of himself? If not. Go find a spot Where you can watch Him pass a given point Putting and grooming. And then You will never again Have your doubts.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
A NEW DECORATION.
Floral candelabrum For the Up to
 Date Table.

A strikingly novel table decoration Is here shown in the shape of an artis- tic floral cendelabrum, which consists of six branches springing from a handsome cluster of fiowers arranged at the top of q slender column. The arms consist of branches attached to the central column. which is daintily decked with fine creeping greenery and carnations in several shades of delicate pink intwineG around both columns and branches.
 Groups of these pretty floral cande- lahra of different sizes. artistically ar rlnrrd with choice flowers and foliage
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
MILL RIVER

The vital statistics of New Marlboro for the year 1908 were as follows; Births recorded, 2l; marriages, II: and deaths, 27. Five deaths were of persons between the ages of 80 and 50 and two between 90 and 90.
 The newly elected officers of the Mill River grange were installed hy MT. and Mrs Edwin Candee, of Sheffield, and refreshments were served.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14

Explain to your wife that you mean to he more saving and careful during the coming year and you feel sure that she loves you enough to help you retrench. She will thus be encour- aged to start saving by buying you n twenty-five cent necktie for a Christ mas present.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
AS THE OLD YEAR DIES

Pay off all your old grudges. Never mind about you debts. There is no doubt whatever that a good lawyer will be able to collect them for your creditors, but you will have to attend to your grudges yourself.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
Salisbury Man Dead.

Carlos w. Adams died in Salisbury on Thursday morning. He has been resi- dent of the town Of Salisbury for many wears and was widalr known ..o was i,. I... & sgu aaprs. ...
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
EorestaIled.

You remind me so of dear, good friend I used to know-same features, same manner and similar voice.
 "weIl, I am not like him in one par ticular." -.t Whats thatT'
 "I have no money to lend" E
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14

Put your indigestion into the hands of an expert physician. How can you expect to hold to the resolutions that you are going to make and entertain chronic indigestion twenty-four hours a day too?
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
A Make Believe Noah.

Old Noah was 9 handsome man. His robe was brilliant red. He had face of lovely pink. A round hat on his head. He held his hands down by his side, For he lived long ago When pockets were unheard of things And trousers, too, you know.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14

Polish your toilet silver a little every day with a soft. dry cloth, and it will not need to be polished once a week.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
SHEFFIELD

Mrs. Harry King has gone to Hillcrest hospital for treatment.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14

These are the trying days when a woman looks horrid in one of her old gowns and perfectly scandalous In new one.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14
!n to fret about the way the coal

Begin to fret about the way the coal fin the bin is disappearing. A warm season may occur during the winter, Gad thus the coal may hold out. so If t'.r ramily would have had tu get along without the annual coal worry.
Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14

Take all yoar old grouches out ana bury them. You will during the clos ms holiday season accumulate such fresh supply that an ordinary house witI not hold you unless you have II clearing out of the old stock before the holiday rush of goods comes !a
The sun., 1909-02-21
Black & Colored English Mohairs

BLACK MoHAR sIcnIAN, so inehea
BLACK STRIPED MoHAR, ~ inches.
CoLoRED MoHAIRS, fancy weaves,
street eolorings,
BLACK SERGE, ~ In.
The sun., 1909-02-21

unfashionabe. Evening house enter
tainments other than dinners and dances
were practically wiped OF the slate OF
fashion, and the latter With few excep-
tions have been given for young persons,
What is more, men, young, old. middle
aged. have been expected TO present
themselves at ths noon and the middle
of the afternoon wedding ceremony,
at the afternoon musicals ana at homes
at the coming out teas.
In the opinion Of one hostess the change
has come none too soon. For the last
two or three years the number OF men at
even the biggest and brayest afternoon
weddings has steadily dwinoieu. 1ounS
men in particular have shown more ana
more marked dislike to turning up in a
private drawing room at any time OF the
Hay earlier than the dinner hour There
;s !, good reason for this Their detection
is not due to q lack Of appreciation OF
invitations or any lack OF interest IN those
who give the entertainments Dut 10 more
enticing bait elsewhere ,,
to be believed, are too eager for outdoor
snorts. Country clubs haven't been mul :.
tnlied around New York for nothing and
country houses are not kept open all
winter long simply to give employment
to a large force Of servants.
-In short it must be an entertainment
of an extraordinary character that will
Iure men TO ones house OF an afternoon
these days" said woman with two
pretty daughters.
AT Maud's coming out, ana she ls
nom,lar girl, up to O'Clock there were
ppot half dozen rhen in the drawing rooms.
which were jammed with women. and the
men who did come letter were mostly older
men. friends Of my husband and me rather
than Of our daughters.
sNot long ago an afternoon reception
was given at Fifth avenue house Tor
visiting English woman OF tltle VINO ,ne
drawing card. What happenedf why.
40 IL turned out 70 be glorious day. there
The sun., 1909-02-21
MORE EVENING PARTIES NOW
HtRDTR TO GET MEN TO tP-
rEtR ~ THE AFTERNOON.
The r,rn,ns Wedding In Fair Way I"
uc,NnI -- Dinners and Musicales More
iommOn Than for Nears-increase
nt outdoor sports a Chief Fnctor.

That evening drawingroom entertain
n"r'- aro bound to come back Is generally
airuiod hvthe wiseacres in things social.
fp IN, reason IL is natural outcome
of he present day popularity of outdoor
sports aud country life with the class
Will i ,ets the pace and the fashion for
'".,,l Entertainments.
Nur 80 many years ago. evening musi-
r-' rcceptons aud weddings were quite
IA" lnng in the most fashionable circles.
Persons who were posted in the what's
rE1' oI social onservances never dreamed
of holding elaborate social functions
in the afternoon. and except perhaps
on sunday afternoon men young or
old lever dreamed of putting in an APP
pearauce at afternoon social Affairs IL
va perfectly good form TO hold the
coming out receptions of even the most
Prominent debutantes IN the evening, TO
give musicals and card parties and re-
ceptions for the older folks in the even
ipg. The smartest brides OF the winter
were married at O'Clock. After the pre-
scrlbed period Of honeymooning. longer
th"n than now, the housewafming OF
the BRIDES first series OF receptions took
place in the evening.
For the last ten years or 90 II has been
dinerent. To be married In the evening
was TO put oneself down a. hopelessiy
The sun., 1909-02-21
CHARMING NEW ORNAMENTS FOR THE HAIR.

from their tips by an almost invisible
chain u single large brilliant. This stone
fell little over the forehead just below
the part and was immensely becoming,
though such an arrangement requires
an exceptional face.
Empire combs have come back with the
Empire coiffures and in Paris and London
there has been a rage for the genuine
combs OF the period, very high prices be-
ing paid in many cases for the antiques.
Even where the stones used are not real
gems. the design and work manship often
give real value to these combs; but ex-
cellent reproductions have been made
from many Of the most attractive Empire
designs, and these will content the woman
who does not care TO spend large sum
upon an ornament which is likely to be
but passing fad. Dealers in antiques
tell us. however that they have sold a
number OF the genuine old combs, chiefly
in dull gilt and pearls.
Ribbon wound in and out through the
hair and passing entirely around the
head in fillet fashion Is simple. effective
adornment much in Use, especially for
girlish coiffures, but this arrang ement
must OF course have careless grace.
and we have seen some ribbon fillets
drawn tightly around the head which
were sad parodies upon the mode.
Sometimes a flower or other ornament
at the left front supplements the ribbon,
but a soft knot will answer the purpose IL
it is effectively tied and placed. Gilt
gauze ribbon is much used for such fillets
and il pressed into service too for many
Of the more formal coiffure ornaments.
Three. strands of such gold gauze, plated
or intertwined and finished with a knot
Of gold or a gold rose, make pretty fillet,
and silver ribbon is used
Among the more bizarre ornaments
which cross the front of the coiffure in
one. two or three bands and finish in
round jewellei bosses above the eyes
or over the ears, one finds gold or silver
The sun., 1909-02-21

gauze used for the bandeapx and twined
around with strings of small pearls. while
the round ornaments are thickly studded
with pearls.
Some Partisan bellies have taken up
a type Of Empire doinure even more ex-
treme than that of which description
has already been given. This shows
the hair parted and quite fiat on top,
waved in very large soft waves and drawn
down over the ears and even falling
against the cheek. Below the ear it is
drawn loosely back ward and fastened into
a showering cluster Of little curls set just
below the crown of the head and reach
ing To the neck.
With this coiffure one of the fat fillets
may he used, or the round jewelled orna-
ments already mentioned may be passed
over the ears. but the mode is not likely
to find a great many adherents.
Three lines of wire threaded pearls
with ornaments Of some kind at the ends
are often used to con6ne low fluffy