The National tribune., 1910-10-27

upon possible purchasers thai
many of the shops display furs which
are not what they pretend to be. White
rabbit skin frequently masquerades as
white fox and a favorite substitute
! for black lynx is dyed hare skin. In
one shop you may be told that an at
tractive set of furs is Australian mink
or Miami mink Now, there is no
such animal, and while a rose by any
other name would smell as sweet, or,
in other words, while it really makes
no difference, l suppose. what fur is
called so long as it looks well, keeps
you warm and doesn't get 'ratty' with
in week, the chances are that the i'm
position will be most unsatisfactory in
every respect We are told that rabbit.
hare, muskrat and even the skin of the
despised coon is made to do duty un-
der all sorts of fancy names. These
skins the fur dealers buy for from 20
to 10 cents apiece dye them, make
them up nicely into SETS" and sell
them for anywhere from SIS upward.
Cheap furs are usually a delusion and
Ia snare, and should be bought with
great caution. Certain kinds wear fair
ly wCIi and the best way for person
who cannot afford to purchase a really
fine fur, and who does not know good
fur from poor herself, is to get some
friend who does to select her furs for
Go to a regular furrier, one of estab-
lished reputation, for your furs, cheap
or costly and not to a department store.
ENGLISH actresses have quite fad
81 Just now of having their photo
~ graphs taken with their children,
and very charming some of these are
The English public has always taken a
decided interest in the family life OF
its theatrical people. Many popular
English actress has married into the
fashionable set over there, and, as a
general thing, all middle-class England
knows the menage of its favorite ac-
tresses quite as well as they do them
selves. The shop windows are filled
with pictures of this actress holding
her latest baby in her arms, or that
one surrounded by three or four lovely
children. The British public dotes on
this sort of thing. 1t has no sympathy
whatever with the idiosyncrasies of the
artistic temperament, and can see no
reason when an actress marries why
she shouldn't behave like other decent
married folk. A favorite actress, who
is also a good wife and mother, is fairly
worshiped by the English theater-going
public Mrs Seymour Hicks, who was
Miss Ellaline TerrisS, is prime favor
ite with them. She has small daugh-
ter, known as Baby Betty" and such
kindly interest has her audience TAX
en- in her domestic affairs that Mrs
Hicks has been known to mention
Baby Betty on the stage, the state of
her health or the fact that she sent her
love to everybody, or something Of the
sort Indeed, if Mrs. Hicks fails to do
this about so often, her admirers call
ont from the depths of the pit and in
quire for the latest news of the child,
which is rather nice. Mrs. Kendell,
who, with her husband, has played so
many engagements in this country,
used to be regarded as model of the
atrical domesticity. One hears very lit
tie of her nowadays, and no pictures or
her and her children are displayed. or
course, these are now all grown up with
children of their own probably. Ellen
Terry is known to be an absolutely de-
voted mother, yet her picture with her
children is seldom if ever seen. When
she was in the hight of her popularity
this parade of ones children or ones
domestic life was not the vogue among
actresses that it is at present, and Miss
Terry has never figured before the pub
lie in the role of mother.
THHE problem of self-support, or at
least of increasing ones slender
Il resources, has made many a Wo-
man rise from sleepless bed with tired
eyes and detected expression. Conse-
uuently when any woman finds new
way of making money she should pass
it on to her less fortunate sisters. A
New York woman (t is frequently the
New York woman who has the bright
idea), left to her own support. was put
to II to decide what she could do. Like
the majority Of women, she had been
trained for no special vocation and
knew nothing, SO she thought, but to
III Il 90 toll q
boarders, but as she had been rather
exceptionally good at marketing, she
bethought herself that she might find
"a business in teaching young house
keepers how to tell beef from mutton,
fresh vegetables and fruits from stale,
etc. The idea proved to be absolutely
brilliant in its success. She says she
has earned good income ever since
she started. She has classes of from 10
to 20 women; her courses comprise 10
lessons, for which she charges $40 a
course She gives a little talk or lee
ture first, and then takes the class to
market, where they put into practice
what they have learned. Her classes
are by no means composed of blushing
brides. When the higher cost of living
began to be felt many an old, expert
enced housekecper came to her to be
taught how to supply their families
with good food at the least cost And
so it goes with everything in this world.
The person who can do something bet
ter than his neighbor, who can do 1t
exceptionally well. need never be afraid
Of suffering for money. Emerson says:
IF man write a better book, preach a
better sermon or make a better mouse
trap than his neighbor, tho he build his
house in the woods. the world will make
beaten path to his door"
IDRiNCEss cLEMENTINE, of Bel
gium, aged 3S, and the youngest
daughter of the late King Leo
| pold, is about to be married to Prince
| Victor Napoleon, the head of the Bona
parte family and pretender to the
French throne. For 10 long years the
| Princess and Prince, who is himself
about So years of age, have loved each
| other sincerely and desired to marry,
but King Leopold, whose rNCther was a
daughter OF King Louis Philippe and
who hated the Bonapartes. refused to
| give his consent to the union. AS Glenn
entine was the only one of the late
Kings daughters who had anything to
do with him, and as she seems to have
| been as good and devoted daughter
as anyone could possibly have been un-
! der the circumstances, ii seems rather
hard that he should have turned deaf
ear to her entreaties. Altho the Prince
has small band of devoted followers,
ne has realized that IN all human prob
ability France would always remain a
Republic, and has nipped in the bud
any plct to force his claim Prince
Victor has lived quietly for years in
/ Brussels on his modest income of $10,-
| 600 a year, and seems to be very
well-behaved gentleman, indeed. About