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ton. On this motion Mr.. Hapgood of
feru demanded the yeas and nays. but
his demand was not sustained by the req
uisite number of five members
ON the question of reconsideration MIR.
RiXford Of Highgate demanded the yeas
and nays, ana the demand was sustained.
When his name was reached Mr.. Hap
good of Peru explained his vote by say
ing that he believed the liquor interests
were using their influence against the
bill. In explaining his vote Mr.. Taylor
of Springfield stated that the friends of
the bill did not consider themselves de-
fcated, only delayed for two years.
The motion to reconsider was refused
by a vote of 80 yeas and 1856 nays
BILLS INTRODUCED.
II. iO5, by MIR. Smith of Starksboro,
ain act to amend section y of 2Ul OF
the acts of 1872, relating to the appoint
ment of fish and game wardens. GRO
Vides of election of town game warden
al annual meeting) To joint committee
ON game and fisheries.
II. 4Vf, from the general committee as
n substitute for II. 16l, an act %regulat-
inH a." inspection Of bees, and To- amend
...i. uuo. three and nine and of No.
rots of 1910, relating to the
Of Diseases among bees. Or
.o and be printed.
from the committe" on munich
81 corporations, an act to amend SUBJ
division Nv Of section 80 Of 40. 29
OF the acts of 19o,. relating TO the char
te' of the city OF Rutland. Regulating
operation Of autos. ctC.1 Ordered 10 lie
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OF pedllers. auctionecrs. cir'uses. etc.,.
20 N granted - Trustees Of permanent
school fund. such fees to- b. distributed
annually among the various towns Tor
tho purpose Of e0ualiziue opportunities
and its rates Of "XpenditT~, IN the Sys-
tenn. as tho income Of the permanent
school fund is distributed, Ordered to
lie and De printed.
H.. I'll, from the committee ON asri-
'"lt"re. an act to amend NJ" l'I OF the
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To Beautify the Hands.
DE careful to protect the hands

DE careful to protect the hands as
- much as possible from rough con-
tact, whether at work or at play. 1t
is easier to prevent than to cure chaps,
blisters, abrasions, etc. When Wipins
the hands, give u finishing touch to
each one of the nails, smoothing back
the little line of skin that often per-
sists in growing up over the half moon
at the base of the nail.
The following simple exercises are
excellent to give ease and suppleness
to the hand and wrist: Extend the arms
Let the hands droop Imply at the
wrist. Shake them loosely up and
down several times, then twirl them
around as if describing small circles IN
the air. Let the motions be as Tree
and unrelaxed as possible. Open ana
shut the hands vigorously while eA
tending them above the head, ana
stretch the fingers thoroughly. Now
close the hands and bend at the ,;st wrist
inward, then outward, several times.
Do this easily and loosely for llmosr-
ing. and with steady rightly for
strength A little massage treatment
will help to make the hands shapely.
smooth and flexible. At manlcurlhg
times, and when applying creams ana
lotions, rub each palm briskly, then
stroke the fingers and down over the
wrists and up along the arm.
A good cream for softenlng anu h,.
whitening the hands may be made py
taking a portion of any pure colo
cream, about two tablespoonfuls. anu
working in one tablespoonful or almond
oil. ten drops of tincture OF penZoin
and ten drops of rose or violet extract
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the coat are cut to points This is a
Callot idea that was brought out by
that house last summer, but was not
accepted here until the American tall
ors got out their new late winter mod
els for the southern trade, which means
more than it indicate on the surface
Many think that these fashions are
intended merely for those who are
taking the journey south. but they
are really the advance spring styles
as the trade here predicts them.
The actual spring fashions are not
even shown in Paris until February,
but over here we must have some-
thing new, assuredly. between Sep
tember and April If we don't then
buying falls off, and that spells dis
aster to thousands more than to the
shops alone. 1t means the laying of
of employees who have no other way
to earn their bread.
Down in the neck of New York
there are swarms of foreigners who
scarcely speak our language and who,
stitching all day, must be supported
by the American women. No one VINO
has not seen lower New York in the
sections where womens apparel is
made can grasp the feeling of dismay
when the closing hour comes and that
overwhelming horde of aliens pours
down the narrow streets and one re-
alizes that every mouth there is to be
fed by woman's vanity.
No other city in the world produces
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this scene, and it is a wonder that it
has not been the subject of our artists.
Our skyscrapers have been immortal
ized as a national characteristic; why
not. then, the loft dwellers. this vast
swarm coming from the sartorial tow
ers of Babel, speaking a confusion of
languages?
Well, down there they have been
turning out coats of covert cloth which
fit the shoulders, which are nipped in
a bit at the waist. are held in by a
belt that fastens in front but does not
outline the figure, and are cut to points
in front that run out well toward the
hips. Just below the waist line there
are two pockets.
There Is another smart coat worn
now at the theater which has car
fridge pockets placed diagonally across
the chest, which give a. new touch to
be adopted by the women who like
novelty. Don't count on these addi-
tions to the coat serving a useful pur-
pose, however. as they claim to be
only ornamental.
We are threatened with an epidemic
of that peculiar greenish tan material
known as covert cloth. 1t resembles
khaki. and that in itself is enough
for the populace, neutral though we
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may be. for it smacks OF a uniform. 1t
is being introduced in q wholesale way
throughout the country and promises
to rival blue serge as an everyday
suit.
Those who object to it as unbecoming s
and who realize that the new neck
tine is as high as the chin, will have
to devise something in another color
to reach from the base of the neck up.
That is not difficult. for black satin
goes admirably with covert cloth: and
IL there is a high stock collar of this
material fastened straight up the front.
as these high collars are. with black
satin buttons, and topped with an inch
turnover of white organdie or hem
stitched chiffon, the work Of remedy
ing is finished.
If one adopts that ultra new style
of placing wide. flaring Louis XVI
pocket flaps at the side Of the waist
line of a short faring coat which is a
trick that brings a coat up to the mo-
ment, then they. too. may be of the
black satin. Such a coat worn with a
short, moderately full skirt, leaving a
pleated panel at each side and short
enough to show laced boots of black
leather and covert cloth or sand-col-
ored cloth uppers, marks a woman as
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.Short Cuts for Hows@k@@pers

will prevent them from becoming un-
manageable.
TO dry clothes quickly within doors.
apply your knowledge that heat rises,
and hang them as high up as possible
When winter clothes begin TO look yell
low put "A tcaspoonful of boraX in the
water and see how white they VIII be
when dry.
them on the line and use the hose on
them. Turn the water on Just enough
to run well and adjust the sprayer to
make fine spray: This saves time
other way.
In winter iron your table linen as
soon as it comes from the warm
rinsing water and wringer. This gives
the linen a perfectly new stiffness and
also saves it from wearing and the
tears of freezing storms and blows
If an ironing board is notched to fit
the back posts of two chairs of equal
size, it will be held firmly table
and cannot move or slip. Make your
ironing sheet of strong unbleached
muslin cloth, and, instead of pinning it
at the back, hem the sides and sew
pieces of tape to the sides. about SIX
inches apart, then when the sheet is
drawn over the board, tie the tape and
the sheet will be kept firmly in place
and will have no pinholes to start
tears.
Flatirons may be cleaned in water in
which washing soda has been dis
solved. They should be well dried and
then rubbed smooth on common salt.
All irons are better for being CREASED
occasionally with warm mutton tallow
or sweet oil. Let them stand "A few 4
days after the grease has been applied.
Wash them in strong soapsuds, then
rinse them in hot soda water and wipe
dry.
For heating irons an old griddle iron
is fine. The griddle fits on the stove
after a lid is taken off and brings the
irons nearer the fire. Much fuel may
be saved by buying a tin pan large
enough to fit over the number of fiat
irons to be used. Make a hole in the
middle of the bottom of the pan and
fasten there, on the outside one of the
small wooden knobs to be found at
hardware stores. Use this pan to cover
the irons and they will keep the heat.
even with the gas turned low. 1t is
easy to remove the cover, as the ham
die remains cool.
If you use a fire brick for an iron
stand when ironing, the heat will be
retained by the iron much longer than
when you use the ordinary metal
stand. piece of asbestos in the iron
holder will protect the hands from the
blistering and swollen effects of long
use of the hot iron.
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a GOOD model for dancing frock
~ is white satin covered with tulle
q q fiounces edged with very narrow
lace and gold braid, the bodice being
of gold braid.
Many blouses and bodices for even
ing wear are trimmed with fringes of
ostrich feathers, and these look well
with white satin.
To very thin figures the tunics that
stand out full at the edge are emil
nently becoming. A novel kind has a
sacque back dropping at the back,
sloping up in front, and the peplum
attached to the edge has all the ap-
pearance Of being wired and bordered
with braiding mingled with buttons,
and braiding often edges the armhole
Of the long, tight sleeve, sometimes
replaced by piping or satin.
Some charming evening camiso1es
and chemises are being made with
shoulder straps of tiny satin roses.
with their attendant foliage. These
are attached by means of stud fast
ener, SO that they can easily be re-
leased and tucked away out of sight
should the exigencies of the evening
gown, with which they are worn de-
mand it. Small clusters of handmade
chiffon or satin roses appear also just
above the sleeve frills of dainty
nightgowns. or larger bunch of the
same attractive kind is fastened to
one side of the matinee jacket.
* X
Ostrich feather boas and collarettes,
with muffs to match, come this wear in
many colors, SO that any dressy after
noon costume can be matched. Plum
color, green, blue, gray and light even
ing shades can all be obtained Many
are made in snug, high collarette
forms. and provide considerable
warmth.
The home milliner can accomplish
much by means of hat bands of fur,
feathers and metallic ribbon which can
be bought ready to sew on to the small
hat Narrow bands of mink, mole,
ermine, seal, caracul or monkey fur are
cut in strips which will reach around
the hat crown and have tiny clusters
of flowers at front and back. The
flowers are often little rosebuds or
half-open blossoms made of metallic
ribbon or metallic lace. The hat bands
of metallic ribbon are not more than
an inch in width, and are sometimes
twisted into a coil Here, too, are the
small flowers at back and front.
Dancing or theater caps are charming
made of gold and silver lace and orna-
mented with small wreaths Of many
colored flowers, or with punches Of
metallic posies slightly contrasting in
shade with the tone of the cap. Many
of these have wired flaps whcich stand
away from the head at each side.
Other dancing caps set down over the
hair like a close-fitting skull cap.
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Laundry Items.

~AKING Tuesday for washday is
advised where women do all their
q own work and have little chill
dren to care for. Reserve Monday fo1
clearing up the house, looking over the
soiled clothes and mending any that
require it When the washing is done
on Tuesday, Sunday evening will not
be spoiled by worrying about putting
the clothes to soak.
A wall clothes rack should be a part
Of the furniture in every basement
where washing is done. The clothing
to be washed may be piled on 1t, and
it will be useful for holding colored
cottons when they can not be hung out
Of doors. At other times the prongs
can be folded out of the way.
A small fiber brush, such as may be
purchased at any store for cents, will
be found invaluable in the laundry.
Place all badly soiled articles fiat upon
the washboard. soap well and rub with
the brush instead of moving the article
up and down on the board. The dirt
bristles of the brush enter the meshes
of the cloth, the clothes will wear
longer and the work will not be as hard
on the hands. The rubber part of a
screws which hold the rollers are loos-
ened before the wringer Is put away.
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One of the most disagreeable features
of the wash boiler is the difficulty with
which small articles-such as handker-
chiefs, collars and small laces-are
fished out of the steaming suds. If
small cheesecloth bag is made and
these articles put into it your temper
viii be saved.
When making starch add one table,
spoonful of sugar after it boils. The
clothes will be much easier to iron
and the irons will not stick. Starch
will not stick if you add to 1t, while
hot, a tablespoonful of lard and pinch
of borax. A few drops of kerosene
will answer the same purpose. If a
teaspoonful of salt Is added to the
starch water in winter 1t will prevent
the starch from freezing out.
When hanging clothes on a cold day
it will be found a comfort to have a
rubber water-bottle filled with hot
water put in the basket with the
clothes. for the heat will keep the
clothes from freezing before they can
be hung up. Heating clothespins we'll
in the oven before going out in the
cold to hang out washing prevents
much chilling to the fingers. Two or
three thicknesses of dry cotton cloth
spread over the basket Of wet clothes
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Roasted Rabbit With Olives.

AS rabbit flesh Is extremely dry, it's
feshy parts must be well larded with
strips Of fat salt pork, or else it should
or wrapped in a sheet of buttered paper
during the roasting.
If you do not care to lard it yourself
your butcher will attend to it for you.
II you like it stuffed, parboil the liver
add, mince fine, and mix with bread
crumbs and a slice of fat salt pork
into good forcemeat, using the water
in which the giblets We're cooked to
molsten. Season with salt, pepper and
any fihe herb desired, stuff the body,
then sew or skeWer. FaSten the sheet
OF buttered paper over il with skewers
with roast rabbit are slices of lemon
basting frequently. About ten minutes
before taking the rabbit from the oven
uncover, to allow it to brown. Care
should be taken not to overlook rab-
bits. They should be juicy and a little
rare on the bone. An hour should suf-
flee for the roasting. Dredge well with
flour before taking up and froth with
in the oven few minutes while you
prepare the gravy If there is not
enough broth in the pan add a little
clear beer broth or gravy. Season with
salt and pepper, thicken with a table,
spoonful of -four, rubbed smooth with
a tablespoonful of butter, adding a
tablespoonful Drowned flour and spices
dozen pitted olives. Stir and cook five
minutes, untress the rabbit. garnish
around with olives, pour the sauce over
and serve with dressed red cabbage and
potato croquettes. A pretty garnish
with roast rabbit are slices of lemon.
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To Launder WooIen Garments.

TO clean blankets or al-Wool gar
ments, shave up half a bar OF
any good laundry soap, add four table,
spoonfuls of borax and little water,
and melt over the fire. Then add four
tablespoonfuls of household ammonia,
put in the tub and half fill the tub
with cold water. Enter the articles to
be cleaned, and let soak four hours
Then rinse in water containing 1our
wiring. The articles will be just like
new and will not shrink.
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I'D it ever strike you that the
III NJ war NAV divert the entire
III " tailored suit industry to Amer
~ ica? The reason is easy to see
The men in France who make the coats
are at the front, or engaged in some
manner of military service. Many OF
them were foreign to French soil and
hurried home as best they might when
the call to mobilize reached Paris.
None of the Freuchwomen is strictly
tailored suits. the kind that the Ameri-
can trade demands and which has been
supplied by Paris not because of su-
perior workmanship, but because of
better and more fertile ideas. So the
French output for spring will be of
soft frocks.
AS soon as the morning street suit
lost that air of striking mannishness.
and when, under the influence of Paris
designers. guided by the taste OF Paris
women, ii became ornate, then the
scepter for making the correct street
suit passed out of the hands of America
and went over to France.
This Was Il regrettable fact. We did
better work even than England, from
which came the fashion of adopting
mems styles for women. England cut
her clothes admirably, for she knew the
secret of making skeleton coats, which
has been a difficult lesson for the Amer
lean tailor; she knew that women as
well as men looked better in jackets
that followed the human form and We're
not stuffed and padded out like a false
silhouette.
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One of the Latest Models Opens in Front,
Reaches the Shoetops and IS Slightly
Confined With a Girdle.

material fastened with a self-colored
buckle. The narrow shoulders merge
into a big collar of beaver, which
closes at the collarbone. but stands
out at the sides. half way to the arm
holes, in a manner difficult to de-
scribe. There are huge round cuffs of
the same fur.
The skirt has pleated panels between
plain ones, and the hem. which is quite
even all around, just sweeps the shoe
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A New Opportunity.

When American tailors finally yielded
to the persuasion of women who knew
what was right and artistic, and left
Off the papier mache effect, then we
leaped ahead by bounds and gained
supremacy in tailored workmanship
than even France acknowledged to be.
the best in the world.
Paris, taking up the kind of work she
hated, wrested the supremacy for de-
sign out of our hands and turned our
Inannish reproductions to naught by
iHventing the kind of street suit that
the Parisienne would wear. Clever for
them, but disastrous to us. For more
than decade our tailors. especially the
wholesale ones, have gone to Paris
more than once a year to get the ideas
for a new seasons style in American
coat suits. and the output of the coun-
try has been modelled, even if modified,
by the suggestions given out in France.
Whether our designers for coats and
skirts can be really independent of
Paris remains to be seen. There is
every reason to suppose that they will
make an effort in certain directions,
but the prospect of that efforts be-
coming vital decreases each day as
certain French houses continue to send
over their own brand of tailor suits.
If there is one place where we should
strengthen the line of American pro-
duction in clothes, to my mind it is
right here in the making of outdoor
coats and skirts, for which our work.
are fitted.
In this field we have tremendous op-
portunity. We are immeasurably bet
ter in this line than any other nation.
In the cutting, fitting and assembling
of cloths that make a mannish coat
suit we lead. In the sewing together
of all garments we have no equal.
No wonder the French sewing women
are so poorly paid, is our continuous
comment whenever we see French
clothes fall to pieces after three weeks,
which is an unfailing trick of theirs.
Short Wasted Coat.
The trouble so far has been that the
American tailor banks too heavily on
this perfection of workmanship and
gives too little credit to the impor-
tance of new and good styles. He will
make 1000 copies, probably; and
spread them from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, of that quite adorable model
OF Jeanne Lanvin, who dresses the
young of Europe. and which she sent
over in November; it has short
wasted coat with a jaunty half-lone
Ieplum, equally full all around the
hips, and swinging up a bit in front,
Win back fuiled IN at the waste line
and held there by a loose belt of the
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FOR THE WELL DRESSED WOMAN

| These are composed of elaborate bead
ings in rich patterns and combinatio
of colors. There may be pearl or
bead tassel at one side of this cap, or
an airy burnt feather, or "a big bow
of tulle can be placed at one side.
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lar as it has been. women grow in
creasingly fond of it, but sooner or
later they must bend to the new sill
houette and omit that girdle at the
hips, for the deepened Russian waist
line is doomed for the spring, although
the Russian blouse coat is not.
The second coat is really top COW
ering. 1t rarely reaches the bone Of
the hip. Sometimes it shows the gir-
die and it is garnished with frogs and
conspicuous buttons that are military.
but not especially an echo of today's
war One must remember that several
of the dominating houses showed mill
tary models at their first August OPEN
ings, which were prepared during the
first of July. when France was bask-
ing in the peace and prosperity of an
apple orchard. The warlike clothes
then arranged We're echoes Of the old.
old wars, from which France believed
herself delivered for ages to come.
Poor France! sharing with Belgium
the pedestal of pathos.
Advance Spring Styles.
The new kind of coat is fastened in
front on straight line, which opens
as soon as it passes the belt. There
need not be belt in front; in fact.
the tendency is to omit it there and
run it only across the back exactly
at the waist line. Often the fronts of