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Arizona republican., 1909-07-17
TYPHOID CASES coNvALEscINe

Benje Allen. a son of c. H. Allen and Blanch Allen Allen, the eleven year old daughter of Barbara Allen who have ben i'll with typhoid fever are reported as improving. The
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
Gifts for Boys College Room.

An easy way to collect many attractive
and interesting pictures is to save all the
magazines that have good pictures and
from these cut out such as please you.
When a considerable number of these
have been saved up the girl is in a posi-
ton to choose carefully those that seem
to suit her room and her special tastes
Perhaps she may want to have pictures
for several rooms, and among the maya
zines she will surely find them to suit any
taste. Many of the modern magazines
have some most artistic pictures that are
well worth keeping.
In the meantime the girl who is going
to do the framing should have practised
the work on some pictures she does not
care much about, and when she finds she
can do it accurately begin on her good
pictures. The passepartout binding can
be bought at any art goods store and at
many stationers'. 1t comes in black, gold,
silver, white and several colors and can
be found in a color to tone with almost
any room. Many good effects can be
made by using two kinds in one room If
they are carefully chosen so that the
colors- will not clash. The glass for the
pictures can be bought at any shop where
they frame pictures or from a glazier.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

N ARNING on linen is now a favorite
handicraft, the product of which is
much used for bedroom hangings and
other household decorations. 1t is also a
most attractive way of decorating collars
and other costume accessories and espe'
cially for childrens frocks and aprons.
Coarse linen is used for the household
articles and for children's clothes and the
finer qualities for collars and jabots. 1t
is much easier to do the work on the
coarse linen and much more may be ac-
compished in a short time when the fabric
used is coarse, owing to the difficulty OF
pulling the threads in the finer qualities.
The threads are pulled in groups of diff
ferent sizes, according to the pattern
which it is desired TO make, and then the
darning is done with thread of a different
color The work is supplemented with
faggoting and with simple stitching of
various sorts. Any one who is familiar
with hemstitching will find the work
comparatively easy. The patterns are all
simple and conventional and done in
rather strong colors. Red and blue on
white linen are effective; white is used on
colored linens, especially on rather dark
blue and green; gray is effective on PINK
linen, and for some rooms red is used on
blue or brown. OF course, in selecting
the shades in which the darning is to be
done the coloring of the room IN which
the piece is to be used is chiefly consid-
cred.
Covers. pillows, &c, done in this work
are finished with hemstitching or with
linen fringe.
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have fancifully knitted dull hued centres
and bright colored borders and fringes,
ana there are some very attractive look
ing ones fashioned in a succession OF
stripes showing the tartan plaid color
combinations These extraordinarily large
shawls are difficult to handle while IN
the course of their making, but they we'll
repay the time spent upon them, as they
may be used for both slumber robes and
steamer rugs.
Breakfast sacques of loosely knitted
wool or Shetland are of short kimono
shape or have loose fronts and shaped
backs. The daintiest are of white worsted,
bordered with pale blue. rose or green,
but more practical girls knit them of
darker colors and adopt a new model
which, blousing slightly at back and front,
is drawn into a shaped waist band of
broad ribbon matching the standing collar
and the cuffs of the small puff sleeves.
Double breasted, heavily ribbed, knitted
outing jackets are of gray, brown or
black worsted and have hip pockets, cuffs
and standing collar outlined with brightly
colored bands. Other coats of hip length
have fancy stripes running from the
shoulders to the lower edge of the gar
ment and from the arms eyes to the
wrist. They are made either single or
double breasted and have turned over
collars or collarless necks.
Automobile sweaters are now so eX-
tremely long that to make one is task
not to be undertaken lightly or unad-
visedly. To prove really serviceable a
worsted motoring coat should cover the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
E8zZ|n ~ AFTERNOON FRocK5 la~ tie SCHOOL Girl

other in velveteen, made with shorter
jacket, belted in at the waist line with
band of stitched satin and collar and
revers of the same, was also exceedingly
pretty.
Light weight qualities of both ladies'
cloth and broadcloth are of course still
worn, but only for afternoon and for
some few kinds of morning dress. Both
broadcloth and ladies' cloth are, how
ever, made up quite differently from the
rough materials, the skirts being really
full about the hips and an effect of con-
siderable draping being given. For n
gown to wear with a separate cloak or
fur jacket, finer grades of smooth cloth
are still made use of, and for a gown
suitable for wear in the schoolroom
smooth finish cloths of light weight are
still in vogue, although for ordinary
street wear they must for time re-
linquish all pretence to being really
smart.
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Fancy Silk Covered Boxes.

n DID lengths of perfectly fresh satin,
III j ribbon, brocade and hand embroid-
cred linen may be utilized as cover
ings for various kinds of ornamental re-
ceptacles. A six sided fiat box for hand
kerchiefs may be smoothly covered with
delicatey hued satin, then hand painted
at top or sides or decorated with bows
of narrow ribbon. A silk covered glove
box may have a lingerie lid of hand
embroidered linen edged with lace, and
the top of veil box may be composed
of wide strips of alloyer muslin embroid-
cry or of Madeira work insertion.
Shoe boxes are transformed into writing
desks by covering them with fowered
brocade dividing the base into compart-
ments for ink bottles. pens, stamps and
clips, and using the lid for stationery,
which should be held in place by narrow
ribbon straps.
A silken covered deep square box makes
an attractive looking fancy work recep-
tacle. The interior sides of the under
section should be fitted with little spool
pockets of shirred silk, the bottom of the
box thickly wadded to serve as a pin
cushion and the under side of the I'D
eouipped with straps for the accommo-
dation of scissors and bodkin.
Powder puffs are concealed in silk OF
embroidered lingerie covered, square
powder lars. The lid of the box is de-
nuded of its sides, padded to hold sachet
powder and then fastened to the, main
portion by means of narrow ribbon hinges
50 that Il need not be wholly removed
whenever the box is opened.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

NIOW that knitting has again come
N into vogue as pickup" employment
for odd moments, girls who ply the
needles rapidly and skilfully are making
all manner of useful dress accessories.
For steamer travelling and motoring tur-
ban and toque shaped caps are knitted OF
fine neutral tinted worsted, relieved with
a band of some bright color. These caps
are tied on with silk or satin ribbon
which pass behind the ears, cross at the
nape of the neck and are bowed beneath
the chin. With them are sometimes worn
wells of Shetland wool knitted IN very
loose chain stitch.
Mercerized yarn is largely used for
knitted mufflers having shaped neck
bands broken with ribbed straight lines
which merge into waved stripes when
they Join the half yard long chest pro-
tecting ends which close under the chin
with a fancy button. :,
Knitted silk is used for muttiers as well
as for two yard long automobile scarts,
which are made up IN all the popular
colors. These silk scarfs, however, do
not afford nearly so much protection from
the cold as do those of double worsted.
They are knitted in one and two tone
effects and have ends finished with heavy
worsted fringe.
Shawls for veranda use are knitted OF
Shetland, single and double worsted or
mercerized wool. They are from two to
four yards long and from one-halt to a
yard wide, closely or loosely knitted, and
have either bordered or fringed ends.
Many of the three yard SQUARE shawls
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coat certainly a white lining is imprac
ticable. for once it becomes the least
soiled-a state of affairs which is bound
to occur all too soon-the whole costume
forfeits much of its smartness. A mar
row band of white duck and linen basted
just inside the collar will protect the lace
of the waist about the throat, should a
dark lining be objected to on the ground
of its rubbing off on the light waist worn
underneath.
AS already stated. It is the textures
rather than the lines Of the gowns them
selves which have suffered change since
last year. In the waist for a tailor suit
now that in the heavy cloths one
piece gown Is impossible, silks of all
kinds and colors are being made use Of
| Nor are these silks necessarily of the
same tone as the rest of the costume
queer changeable silks being especially in
demand and waist of vividly contrast
| ing hue being frequently worn with a
skirt of dark blue or brown. A brown
skirt is rendered far less sombre by a
waist toning from brown to blue, with
tints as we'll Of green, red or perhaps
yellow. These queer silks are most of
them delightfully."- soft in tone and give
no suggestion of crudity or harshness in
color, as description of them would per.
haps indicate.
For an essentially practical, really
durable waist there is nothing so good
as the best quality of crepe de Chine, and
for a school girl it would be an excellent
plan to provide one severely simple crepe
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New Hosiery.

& TOCKINGS colored to match the
gown or some accessory of the cos
tune are the vogue in Paris. While
many of those worn are of mercerized
cotton, which looks like silk but lasts
much longer, they are also of lisle thread,
spun silk and silk Isle in open work and
embroidered effects.
The fancy for stripes is developed in
stockings striped their entire length in
half inch bars in lisle and silk in mono
tone, the two different fabrics contrasting
sufficiently to produce the striped effect.
A novelty in two colors shows the stripes
graduating from about one-quarter inch
size in front to hair lines at the sides
In grenadine hose are striped one-tone
effects, in tan, dark blue. |ciel, rose, white
and champagne, and in isle are stripes
of graduated widths showing combina-
tions of brown and royal blue, Of dark red
with sea green and of black with white,
green, navy blue or taupe.
In both Isle and mercerized cotton are
stockings combining plain colored sock
lengths, with striped and plaided. tops,
and there are entire stockings of clan
plaid patterns rich in red, green, brown
and yellow bars.
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lis a serious fault, which, if not properly
overcome, will have an unpleasant effect
upon your appearance as well as upon
your health.
'It is easy to forget how to smile,
continued the April Grandmother with a
note of sadness in her voice. Even III
the case of young girls the corners of the
mouth seem to turn down more readily
than they turn up, and unless the smiling
habit is formed at an early age the
muscles lose their hexibility and the face
acquires a permanently grave expression
which makes its owner seem old years
before she has reached the send of her
second decade.
"The girl who wishes to cultivate a
happy expression should take pains to
begin each day happily. If there is rain
when she awakens she should resolve to
be CHEEKY even though Nature is gloomy,
and to make the best of whatever dlsap-
lpointments are due to the state OF the
weather or any other cause. If she can
get through the day without frownipg or
making any pettish remarks pleasant
Thoughts will lull her to sleep that night
and she will be certain to awaken next
inorning with smiling face.
"a happy expression never beautites
the face of the girl who habitually gives
way to i'll temper. Such explosions are
mot only weakening to the mind and ex-
Ihausting to the body, but they leave tell
tale crisscross lines about the brow and
the mouth, whereas the girl who can re-
strain her temper under severe proyoea-
tion and refrain from replying to
Itirade directed against herself is the one
who frowns rarely and smiles frequently.
She has a happy face because she does
and if she sees anything worthy of praise
in another person she is quick to COM
mend it.
"The most lugubrious of all facial ex-
pressidns belongs to the girl whose ex-
treme self-consciousness leads her to
think that she is being laughed at or
Isnubbed by the rest of the world. Unless
some genuine friend is able to make an
Iunphilosophical girl realize that her men-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

ATOW is the season of the year when
I'M brothers and boy cousins are going
away to school and college, and es-
these institutions of learning it is an
affair of some moment as to how the
boys room shall be fitted out. There
are some fxings for his room which even
the least luxurious of boys will be glad
to have, and many girls are looking
around for new and attractive designs for
these furnishings of the masculine den.
! One of the newest ideas in strictly mas
culine styles of decoration is carried out
in heavy crash and leather. This is used
for pillows, table scarfs, waste baskets,
&c. The crash is used for the body of
the article and the leather is put on in
Applique in simple, bold designs, which
are not at all difficult to copy. The work
is done with machine, and the whole
effect is extremely simple and masculine.
Dark colors of crash or very heavy
linen are used for this purpose. Dark
brown, a rich golden brown. dark green,
blue and red are the favorite colors. The
leather harmonizes or contrasts, as de-
sired The college colors may be car
! ried out, if desired, or the walls of the
room matched.
Waste baskets made in this style are
icollapsible. They are four sided and of
ipasteboard, covered outside with the
crash and inside with linen of the same
color. The material may be over
handed at the edges or pasted If great
Ineatness is used. The bottom is hinged
at one side by linen bands and collapses
inside the basket.
Scarfs and square covers for table
covers have the leather decorations at
the ends or for borders when they are
stitched in with the hem. On pillows
the decorations are on one side or in the
corner, but this is matter of fancy
entirely. Sets to fit out an entire room
are made to match. The designs are
some of them plain straps or bands of
leather with circles, lattice work, trj-
angles or any similar geometrical de-
sign used to make a pattern. The pieces
of leather are large and the motifs not
at all complex.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
Wire Netting for Flower Bowls

Wire Netting for floWeT DoWlS'
n arranging flowers for dining room
table or in bowl for the table Of a
living room it is often very difficult to
make them stand up at all. The real
beauty of the flowers is apt to be lost be-
cause they fall on one another, and when
a large bowl is used they will often leave
empty spots, unless SO many flowers are
put in that they are crowded together.
All this difficulty can be entirely avoided
by using wire netting over the top of
the bowl and sticking the stems of the
flowers through it. With this netting any
kind of flower may be put in the largest
bowl and often large masses of one kind
of flower are particularly enect1Ve, II they
are we'll arranged
There are round pieces of wire netting
made especially for this purpose and sold
in many shops, but if one is in the coun-
try and cannot find these it is very easy
TO make them from the ordinary netting
that is used for fencing in gardens. Or
for very fine stemmed flowers wire mos
quito netting can be used. 1t is good
plan to have one of these tops for each
bowl that is used for flowers, and, II pos
sble, to have them in netting of different
sized meshes for different flowers. Inc
netting should be cut just little smaller
Than the top of the bowl. so it will rest
against the sides about half an inch below
the ton. The wire must be carefully
dried when not in use and put in the sun
now and then to keep it from getting
rusty. Even with care it will sometimes
rust. but, of course, it can still be used
until it breaks and fails to hold the
flowers
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shirt waist of the same shade as her
skirt, and to purchase also one other
bodice of the changeable silk, or perhaps
of tucked chiffon or net for slightly
smarter wear.
and velveteen make alto
gether the most attractive costumes
for afternoon. Black is sometimes
worn by young girls, but dark brown,
sapphire blue or deep green are infinitely
more sensible, since black can be worn,
and must be worn so much later on in
life, when the pretty bright colors will
be no longer possible. There is some little
braiding on a few of the newest velvet
and corduroy costumes, but those which
are absolutely unadorned are every bit
as smart and far more youthful. One
model in brown corduroy with long, half
fitted jacket, double breasted, relieved
only with wide collar and cuffs of bear
skin, was delightfully."- smart. while an
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

T N interesting and pleasant occupa-
IA ton for girls is framing pictures in
passepartout, and many of them do
it very cleverly. 1t is not at all difficult
accomplishment and can be learned very
quickly, especially by girl who has some
skill in using her fingers. This simple
style of framing is especially suited to a
light and daintily furnished girls room
or to the living room of simple country
house.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

4 ONG cloaks reaching to the very edge
of the dress itself are to be exceed
ingly smart this winter for both
schoolgirls and "grown up people" but
1t is for the misses, the girls of from
fifteen to eighteen years of age, that these
ulsters will prove so serviceable. Fitted
in to the figure with a return to the long,
natural waist lines. trimmed with pretty
collar, revers and cuffs of velvet, silk or
fur, they are exceedingly smart and even
bid fair to replace the long, loose fur
wraps that have enjoyed such tremen-
dous vogue during the last four or five
winters.
Practically all street costumes this
year, save those intended for more elab-
crate style of wear than a young girl is
supposed to go in for, are of rough tex
ture. Fortunately the new cloths are of
such excellent quality that while so coarse
of finish and apparently so heavy they are
by no means too warm or of too great
weight for comfort, In our climate it
is infinitely wiser for the street garments
to be thoroughly warm, while for the
house the waists and dresses should be
kept as light and cool as possible. The
long cloaks are all of rough finished ma
terial, some of the new serges being es-
pecially in demand, but these cloaks are
all cut so as to be appropriate for city
wear and be trim and show well the
lines of the figure. There is no resem-
blance, in other words, between this cloak
and the sort of loose ulster such as would
be worn in the country for coasting,
sleighing, &c. Dark colors predominate,
and there are some mixtures that are
exceedingly good.
There is, after all, no very great change
in line in the new street costumes from
those of a year ago. There IS return
to the normal waist line in all styles OF
dress, although many-in fact the ma
iority-separate skirts are still at
tached to a three or two and a half inch
band of betting, instead of being finished
with a narrow stitched band OF the ma
terial as a separate belt Skirts are con-
siderably fuller, and as it is difficult
to arrange any pleats or tucks about the
hips in the heavy woolen material that
is now made use of altogether, a deep
bias yoke with a full iounce added at
the knees makes a fayOrite skirt model.
This yoke effect with the fulness be-
meath is seen in mum berless variations
and is unquestionably the model most in
demand at the moment. Often the skirt
is fat at the top, with a haring hounce
instead of a pleated piece added at about
the knees, the joining hidden by two
to four inch bias band of the cloth, or,
IN the case of broadcloth being used, this
band may be of silk.
The new jackets are somewhat longer
than those of last year. are still not quite
fitted in to the figure, but yet give an
impression of a longer waist line than
has been seen for some time. The sleeves
are quite small. full length of course and
IN front the coat may be either double
or single breasted, as desired. Both fiat
reyers and the shawl collar are to be
seen. the preference being somewhat in
favor Of the latter.
.
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Effective Sttchery on Linen for Household Decoration

knees. and a great many of them extend
almost to the hem of the frock. The
width need not be increased quite in pro-
portion to the length, however, as these
coats are left open at the sides from the
hips to the lower edge.
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PRACTICAL TALKS BY THE
APRIL GRANDMOTHER

tai attitude is absolute nonsense she IS
liable to become so morbidly sensitive
in time and so thoroughly unhappy that
her health will be undermined and what-
ever beauty she may have been blessed
with will quickly fade.
IA Young gentlewoman is expected to
have a pleasant expression as well as a
courteous manner concluded the April
Grandmother, ''but she cannot have these
attributes of her class unless she care
fully cultivates mental serenity.
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reaches but few inches below the hips.
There is a suggestion of the old blouse
jacket about this new model, and to some
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young girls the fashion is peculiarly be
coming one.s
For the moment white Innings have
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<fN RACTISB the art of looking
- happy, and you will not only be
happy yourself but you will make
your associates feel so, temporarily at
least" advised the April Grandmother as
she led her youngest granddaughter to a
mirror. "At this moment your face looks as
dark and threatening as those thunder
clouds which warn you against taking your
customary ride. The habit of allowing little
disappointments to make you unhappy
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= ONE few of the newest coats are
regularly belted in the waist line
- with cloth, silk or leather strap, be-
low which the coat is quite full and
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given way before those of pale gray, Of
brocade or of the same or lighter shade
of the coat itself. With very long