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"HE oldest and most striking of the
artificial flowers used on spring
hats show rim about the edge
of each petal and a center of strongly
contrasting color. The colors OF these
flowers, most IF them roses. We're never
seen in flowers which grew on bushes.
There are vivid green roses with salmon
rim and center, lilac roses with lemon
edge and rich blue roses which show
crimson center and rims.
On some of tt e hats flowers are sewed
down fiat about the edges Of the petals.
One hat Of white straw shows band
of pansies fat about the brim Each
pansy is sewed in place with long black
stitches which radiate from the flower
and produce very interesting effect.
For some reason the stitches give life
to the flowers, perhaps because they
make the pansies look like suns.
A popular use for the rich Bulgarian
silks and ribbons, which are so plentiful
this spring. is i'll trimming hats. Many
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r fave you a hobby? If you haven't.
n you should have. for hobby is the
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r fave you a hobby? If you haven't
you should have, for a hobby is the
short cut ID health.
So says a woman with a hobby, and
she ought to know.
The woman Who broods on her trou-
bles, who brooe on her poverty, who
broods on her wealth or her health is
likely to suffer for it, Poor health be-
comes the poorer for thinking of it.
Poverty becomes the harder to bear when
It is continually contrasted with some
body else's pie nty. A hobby will give
the mind sonlathing else to dwell on
and SO will sryert all health breaking
worries.
You know" said this woman who
advocates hobbies for health, I'VE are
good deal like ninals We are influenced
by one idea at a time. You know the
story some on. tells of the donkey who
wouldn't go. Coaxing and beating were
both useless. Then some one came along
and forced a clod of earth in his mouth.
He got SO interested in the unusual thing
In his mouth that he trotted along with
out knowing It.
well, if we have hobbies to think OF
we go straight ahead and live our lives
as we ought to live them without know
ing it,
Any sort Of hobby is helpful. If you
are interested in photography make that
your hobby. Only go at it with pui-
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Bowdoir Caps and Shippers

edges under and firmly catching to the
fore part Of the sole, just covering the
vamp.
To make an entire slipper, cover the
sole all around with a two-inch strip of
dresden ribbon just long enough to ex-
tend around the sole. Join the ends Of
the ribbon and run around one edge of
the ribbon a very narrow silk casing.
Catch the other side of the ribbon to the
sale, after which a narrow silk elastic
should be threaded through the casing.
When the foot is slipped into the slipper
the elastic is drawn as tight as desired.
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these Jack-in-th e-box sleeves, showing
themselves on simple serges, severe linens
and ordinary crash.
They are figured, OF course, on the order
of chintz or in Persian patterns. 1t is
not difficult to find such fabrics. The
difficulty lies in avoiding them. land If the
gown is Inquired then plain sleeves are
used: but this method is not as catching
as the others. A good designer does not
leave the fancy sleeves alone in their
glory She adds belt of the same fabric,
sometimes only a bow at the back OF the
waist.
BY the way, while writing of fiat bows.
don't be misled by the fashions into wear
across the front of the waist. You will
see them in the shops, the dressmaker
will persuade you how new they are
but don't!
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arnish that will bring out the color won

derfully.
The following is an inexpensive way to
frame post cards: Get cigar box, clean
by soaking in water, and then put them
under a weight to dry. After they are dry
cut them a quarter of an inch larger on
all sides than the post cards, then take
the sides and cut them in half, which
would make them one inch wide. Get a
piece of glass and cut it about the size
of the post card: also cut four strips
about a quarter of an inch wide. Now
take your fiat piece and put your post
card on top, face up. Take your four
strips. put one each side. lay your glass
between. but see that your strips are at
least one-eighth of an inch in thickness;
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INCLUSIVE { a S n,
ions of last autumn
emphasized for this
spring is the way
one may correctly
sum up the new
clothes
D e tails have
changed and fab
RIGS h a V e grow
even more wonder.
full than last year
and as one mus
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have fresh gowns the fashions take on
serious import at this season. Last au-
tumn's frocks will do. it is true, II one
bought the new ideas in thin fabrics, but
how many women did this?
The suits and gowns of last spring GER
tainly won't do if one wants to keep close
To the new ideas, and after all one rarely
is inclined to let a costume in it's second
year serve as anything except second
best
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is made into one without a lining and
edged with a full rllff1e of maine lace
caught into festoons with bouquets of
pink and silver buds
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All of these are for outdoor use on
festal occasions. but there are longer
ones even more elaborate which are used
in the house to add glory to a, simple
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A transparent one is black gauze wit
a monstrous spider web worked in col
ored beads and floss: white chiffon stamp
ed with prim rosebuds and green leave
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Pretty cards may be framed in passe-
partout. Those that are in soft gray
tints will be as charming as photo
gravures. and those that are colored ar
tistically may be given coat of picture
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The purchaser of today is more taken
UP with materials than with designs. She
is puzzled by many of them, for they are
as bizarre and meaningless as a picture
exhibit of futurists, cubists and postum
pressionists is to any one but the artists
who painted them. There is no doubt
that these exhibitions abroad and the
strength of this new art movement have
influenced the designers of clothes, but
it is easy to avoid what is crude and over
vivid and buy what is really lovely and
artistic.
Strange looking as many of the ma
terials are, their names are more difficult.
One woman says she is studying French
in order to pronounce the fashionable
fabrics. She will find that her effort is
of slight use to her in the shops, for, un-
fortunately, the saiespeople and even the
buyers are hopelessly at sea, buffeted by
words of whose pronunciation they
haven't even the faintest glimmering. The
majority take a chance at each word in
English and call it exactly as it is spelled
and the result adds to the confusion.
No two salespeople in the shops pro-
nounce;ratine alike. The majority break
it into three syllables instead of two and
give an accent to the final ''e' when it
has none.
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And when it comes to crepon, mate
lasse, bouchle, faille. eponge, damasse.
toile du jouy. velours de laine-well with
Wallace 1rwin's pen one could compose
a fantastic article on nothing but the
amazing variety of accent with which
these everyday materials are sold, not
one of which bears resemblance to the
original French.
Ian MacLaren made Mrs MacFadden
exciaim after a dreary sermon In a Scot
fish church that it was pity there was
not a chair of humor in the University Of
Edinburgh, for it would keep many a dry
body out of the Presbyterian pulpit. One
is tempted to exclaim that it is a pity
there is not a. French department for the
buyers and salespeople, for it would help
many a shopper to keep her wits.
Run your mind over the field of fash
ion today and think how helpless you
would be. even with a smattering knowl-
edge of French. if you have daily to use
almost every word in the field of dress.
Think of Robespierre, Medici, Chantilly.
filet, maline. tulle point d esprit, corsage,
decollete, wolfe just as a starter in every
day shopping words, you can work up to
hundred or more, which have increased
so this spring that one is justified in be-
lieving that there will be small use for
English soon IN the field of dress.
Suppose we English the collar Medici to
begin with a reform and call it Eliza
bethan. which it may well be, although
the crafty Catharne may have invented
1t, as she did corsets and the thirteen
inch waist. Yet any one of us would
recognize Elizabeth by her wired collar
and her pointed basque
Both of these are again in fashion. We
have modified the height of the former
and transferred the latter to the skirt,
but you will notice each Of them profni-
nently figuring in new frocks. and far
better old EliZabethan fashions than early
Victorian ones,
The wired collar Is of lace and is at
tached to whatever garment fastens in
front, except the plain white shirt waist.
Whether or not it will stand the rigors
of our summers remains to be found out.
In early spring there can be no objection
to it. The main argument made against
1t at all times is the wrongful way wOm-
en- wear il. 1t is not intended to be pull
cd up straight against the neck, thereby
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Sulphur brocade that was surely meant
for some fine interior decorating is used
to make most successful wrap Of this
kind It has an Elizabethan collar OF
thread lace, is lined with Chinese blue
mousseline. and is caught snugly about
the figure below the waist and held in
place with a cameo framed in gold
ribbon.
Another is of old pink figured satin
with a cloud gray chiffon lining with a
huge black satin rose used to fasten it
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THE N STORY
THE DOOR.

mother will have one of her good din
ners. Can't you girls just imagine
it ?"
Eve could. indeed, we'll imagine it.
Tears rushed to her tired eyes as she
bottoned up her old coat. She STUN
hled as she went down stairs oward
the street door. Tonight Eve had to
put forth unusual exertion to force
it open. II was struggling with it
when quick. light steps battered down
the stairs behind her. The mex in
slant she felt herself thrust aside, the
door swung wide and Beatrice Scott,
without a ward of apology, went out
past her. Eve caught A glimpse of a
tall, slender figure waiting outside.
Looking. she forgot to snatch her
hand away and the heavy door swung
back on its springs. 1t caught her
fingers in a cruel. crushing grasp. One
cry escaped her. too faint for any one
to hear. But instantly, as if in re-
Spouse to it. the door was opened and
her HAND released. She saw a dark
face and Beatrice behind it before she
sank into unconsciousness.
When she opened her eyes she was
in a doctors office. He was saying:
"Too bad: it's her right hand. 1t will
throw her out Of work for some time"
ut was a piece of cruel careless
ness said another voice. And. with
surprise she realized that the floor
walker was there with her. Then she
remembered that it must have been
he who opened the door and freed her
hand. She looked up at the dear,
dark face. trying to smile bravely, for
all the cruel throb in her manned
hand. She noticed that the humorous
dents We're gone at the corners of his
mouth. which looked stern and hard
and straight.
How did I get owe here" h ask
ed family. II don't remember walk
ing"
You didn't walk. carried you"
"Oh! I must have been pretty
heavy"
You We're light as a feather"
The doctor was bandasing her hand
with some soothing. strong smelling
stuff. She was beginning to feel bet
said.
1t wasn't anybody %else's,' he re-
piled quickly. May I use your phone
a minute. doctor?"
Help yourself" said the doctor.
So, as by magic, a taxicah was
waiting for Eve when she came out
of the office.
There wae a brief, blissful ride to
Mrs. Cortigan's. It almost made Eve
forget her aching hand and the fact
that there would not he any pay en-
velope nov for some time, just when
she needed it most. Before the gaunt,
shabby boarding house he helped her
to alight with exquisite Difference.
Don't worry about anything,' he
said. I'll see that our absence at
the store is explained and your place
held open for you. Don't worry"
This time there was real brightness
in her smile. 81 won't-if you tell me
not to-" she said.
The next. afternoon she was called
down to the parlor TO see a caller.
She went expecting Ito find a girl
from the store. And instead, she
found-him!
Il felt anxious to see how you
were." he said as they shook hands
left handed. Here's something to
help you to fight your loneliness" And
he put a box in her hand.
1t was only candy, hut Eve looked
as glad and astonished as if she had
been presented with gold or diamonds.
She looked down into the dainty
sweetness, then up at him. Its the
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first box xof candy I ever had given to
me-" she said.
He laughed softly, quite as if he
had liked TO hear her say that. But
Eve blushed. thinking that she had
made an unnecessary display Of her
unsophistication.
With the candy to fill in the pauses,
Eve found it quite easy to talk to
him. Other people came into the
room and he moved over to the sofa
beside her that they might be able to
talk without being heard. Nothing
urges an exchange of confidence be-
tween two young people like a sofa
and an outsider or two Eve found
she had come to the city and what
a, lonely, hard time she had had aver
since. And she found that HI was
telling her just as much in return.
More, even, for he mentioned Beatrice
Scott.
she's pretty classy" he said, with
frank boyishness. "and 1 thought l
was going to like her better and bet
ter. But that night she let the door
back on your hand-I saw it all, you
know-and the way she has acted
since-well. it opened my eyes. My
mother raised me to be honest and to
look out for the other fellow some
times as we'll as myself all the time.
mother. She's coming up to town
Wednesday,. Can't you go to dinner
with us n to the theater afterward ?
You'll like mother, she's fine. And
she can't help liking you, because
But he paused. evidently thinking
1t best to reserve his reasons until
some future time.
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ENGINEERING.

Take a look some day at the pro-
sress of the work on the new court
house. 1t is worth watching. OF course
there is nothing wonderful about what
is being done, for the same thlns IS
being done all over the country Wher-
over buildings of considerable size are
being erected. Still, the use of the
great cranes which are employed there
is rare enough in the smaller cities
to make it interesting tn observe. by
means Of these appliances the work
of many men is lone quickly. accur-
ately and easily, whereas It was for
merly exceedingly laborious and SLOW.
Massive blocks of stone are picked
up as if they were feathers, swung on
dizzv heights through the air, and de
posted to a fraction of an inch In the
places where they are needed. A
wagon load of brick or mortar is
whisked through space in the same
manner, and M man, standing at his
engine. by means of two or three
levers, is able to do all this work in
marvelously short time. There is a
great deal of popular apprehension
concerning the development of me-
chanical knowledge among men. Many
people believe that We are less skill
full in these matters than the ancients.
The statement is often made that the
men of today could not build such
pyramids as those of Egypt because
they have no means of handling such
massive blocks of stone as are used
in those great structures. Such an
idea is a mistaken me-. If there were
any occasion to build pyramids today
we would build them, employing
blocks of stone as large as those
which the Pharoahs used. OF larger.
We have seen the statement made.
and are inclined to believe it. that
if there were any need for sue a feat.
not only could any of the pyramids
be duplicated. but any one of the
present pyramids could be moved
bodily by the engineering skill of to-
day. There are practically no lost
arts. Seine methods now to the
ancients, and used by them, have been
forgotten because there has been no
need to remember them. The average
housewife of today could not. off-hand.
make a good talloW candle. Her
grandmother could. Blu if we needed
tallow candles made at home We would
speedily rediscover the art of making,
them. The engineering skill of today
period of the worlds history. and we
are making advances all the time.
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Copyright, 1913, by w. werner.)

(Copyright, 1913, by w. Werner.)
A Saturday bargain sale was in pro-
gress. 1t had begun at 8 O'Clock and
the store was still crowded. Women
filled the aisles. iostling. eager, curl
Gus. The air was stale with perfume,
heavy with dust rising from the floor
and shaken from innumerable gar
ments. and it was still a full hour be-
fore closing time.
Eve wondered DULY how she was
going ia endure that hour. She had,
indeed, not been very fresh when she
came to h store h a morning. She
had risen at 6 o'clock, fried an egg.
and made some tea over the gas jet
and eaten from a corner of the bur-
eau. There was no room for a table
in the tiny hall bedroom at Mrs.
Cortigan's. She had walked a mile
ecaus a nickel is a nickel when you
are only earning Sc a week. and have
to pay IL nearly a third of that for
mere shelter. And she would have
to walk the mile back again tonight,
providing she We're alive at closing
hour.
Eve was very pale, Her brown hair
was moist about her forehead and
purplish half-moons We're deepening
under her eyes. A dozen women stood
pieces of embroidery thai remained
to litter it. They did not see her.
They saw only what they were after.
Yet they assailed her with questions
and because she could not answer all
of them at once, grumbled at her
"stupidity."
The fioorwalker. hearing them,
glanced at her as he passed by. Eve
felt that glance. and a flush hid her
pallor for an instant. What a fool
am" h thought. sadly. At the
same time she was trying to say po-
litely. YES. this piece of embroidery
will launder. 1t sold earlier in the
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they occupy until the following Sep
TENDER, when they are placed in quar-
tiers they occupy as long as they re-
main on the farm.
The chicks in the brooder are given
dry feed for the first W weeks. This
is made possible through the plentiful
supply of skim milk. His chickens
drink nothing else. He has figured
that 100 chicks from two to three
weeks of age drink two quarts of
skim milk a day. His dry feed mix
ture is composed Of
Four parts wheat.
One part canary seed.
One part red millet.
One part white millet.
O%ne-quarter part hempseed.
One part red and white corn grits.
One-half part rice.
One-half part ant eggs.
One-half part dried flies.
One-half part ground gribbled mar
rowfat peas.
Two parts of pinhead oatmeal, and
5 per cent of grit. -
The soft mash consists Of rice cook
ed in skim milk, dried with biscuit
dust and ground oats.
Neither does Mr.. Barron's general
feeding mixture aid us materially In
solving the question Of feeding. Few
have the time to give. Here it is:
Two gallon buckets of wheat boiled
in forty gallons Of water, and to this
is added, when boiling. clover hay,
the mixture being allowed to stand
two hours. when to this is added one.
third bran, one-third biscuit meal,
one-third middlings, and 10 per cent
meat scraps. The mash is given In
the evening and the birds are allowed
to take their fill.
A generous supply of grain is fed in
litter every morning and he also gives
an early feed of w parts wheat hall
part maize, and one part oats. giving
less maize in the summer than in the
winter. For green food in winter he
feeds mangels every day.
In regard to the trapnest. Mr.. Bar.
ron declares that for the past six
years no cockerel has ever headed
one of his hens unless it was bred
from a trapnested bird that had "a
record of more than 200 eggs a year.
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season for twice what 1t is offered
for here today. 1t would make a nice
petticoat. l should think you'd need
inches wide"
The ~foorwalker turned and came
PACK down the aisle. His name was
WIN Andersen. He was tall, slender,
dark. There We're humorous dents at
the of his boyish mouth and
a certain sweet frankness in his clear
eyes. Once on a time. and not SO long
ago. he. 100. had sold bargain en-
broideries, but he had been efficient
and had risen fast. No knowing where
he would stop. He might have a store
of his w some day, they said. These
Young country men had a way Of get
ting what they wanted when they
came to the city and showed them
selves to be really in earnest.
He did not this time glance at Eve.
His eye We're turned instead upon
the counter just across .he aisle from
Ewes where Beatrice Scot was also
selling emhroideries. Beatrice Scott
looked as fresh as if she had Just
come from her bath. Her blond hair
waved charminglv about her flushed
face. Her movements We're leisurely.
She-let her customers wait for pleas
ure. and, though she had not sold
'hc-IlhlI as iIuS1 as Eve. neT APPEAR
ance spoke all the more loudly in her
favor.
Beatrice smiled at the f1oorwalker.
who smiled hack at her. All this he
fore h very eyes of o Eve. who
felt as if she had lot a smile left in
her. A wicked pain gripped Ewes
heart and her hands trembled as she
measured off the %founcing and some
body noticed them.
Just see how clumsy this girl is"
said a woman's low voice. She's
other counter. 7 like the looks Of that
blond girl there"
Everybody goes to her; everybody
likes her looks hetter.' Eve thought,
miserably. But then. she isn't as
tired always as I am"
Why, indeed, should she be as
tired? She lived at home. She had
no board to pay. and every one OF
her Sc she could spend. There was
always more money to he had from
her parents. In consequence there
was not a prettier or better dressed
girl in the store than she.
Across her embroideries Eve, still
with that pain in her heart, saw the
floor walker pause, swing round and
go hack to say a WORD to Beatrice.
Already the whole store was talking
ahout their budding romance. And
Eve had to listen-Eve who had lost
her innocent heart to him at the first
word he had ever spoken to her. OF
course. she knew that he was above
her as high AS the sur is above my
adoring blossom. She had tried to
reason herself fancy free. but she on
~ went on caring more and more. He
of all the big. u%nfriendly city seemed
to speak most clearly to her Of the
home she had left, perhaps because
he, too. was from the country. The
very fact seemed to make kinship be-
tween theh. ct he did not recognize
it or her.
It was, mercifully. 6 o'clock at last,
Thank goodness, it's over and tomor-
row is Sunday" Beatrice Scott cried
as she donned her smart coat and
bonnet. Won't I rest, though. I
shall carry home a box Of chocolates
and a good novel. And I shan't get up
till noon. It's chicken-Sunday-so