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How to Make a Bed

place the mattress as It was in the be-
ginning.
Second, pat the mattress gently In
the middle where it shows a tendency
to billow. If it refuses to lie down
under gentle treatment stamp on 1t
with both feet. A man should be mas
ter of his own bed.
The bachelor should now pick the
sheets off the floor one at time.
If the door bell rings while he is
doing this do not carry the sheets to
the door unless the body be wrapped in
them. If he is clothed even partly he
may deposit the sheets on the bed
until he has taken in the bill. Re-
turning to the bed examine the sheets
carefully to determine which one goes
on first. Always use the most
rumpled one. -
Fasten the ends Of the sheet toward
the foot to the corners of the bed
stead and wave the sheet up and down
two or three times. This is inspiriting
and gives strength of mind and muscle
to tucking the head of the sheet at the
headboard under the mattress. Then
release the hind quarters and tuck
them In at the foot in the same way
Now we approach the climax of bed
making. A deep breath and renewed
courage. The upper sheet Is wilful
and must be handled firmly. Moral
suasion is not useful and neither is
force. Diplomacy may be used. One
mode is to fold the sheet in two and
pin the middle Of 1t to the centre
of the mattress. This is not always
practicable because there are no pins,
Another method which can be recon-
mended is to crawl face down on the
mattress and while with tho hands
the upper half of the sheet is ad-
justed in place the lower half is
kicked into position with the feet
Then stealthily descend from the bed
Pay no attention at this moment
to the blanket, but devote attention
to the Marseilles spread. If 1t prove
intractible throw it away; it is Of no
use anyway. Then roll the blanket
into IL ball and set 1t at the foot Of
the bed. This looks artistic and the
weather may be too warm for a
blanket.
AS the beard has had time to grow
although 1t was shaved before under
taking the feat of bed making, get
out the safety and shave again.
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It reused their discomfort. They want
the wages Of the Americans and there
is no country in the world capable of
paying such wages.
All Of this is one of the reasons
why the Paris dressmaker asks four
times as much for gown made for
an American woman than Marie An
toinette paid Rose Berth for a court
gown when she was at the height Of
her splendor. The Austrian might
have gone to the guillotine much
quicker than she did II she had paid
5000 francs for an evening wrap, yet
that is what is asked and paid for one
over here.
Going back for a moment to the
Cheruit collection. there is no evidence
that this house is weary of monkey
fur. The American buyer finds that
this peltry. considered so ugly by the
Americans. Is constantly played up in
all the collections. Each designer has
a 7iing at 1t and tries to produce
something novel. Renee uses 1t
combed out into fringe and run on
squirrel fur in long gowns. Nine.
Cecil5 Sorel has ordered a silver and
black brocaded evening wrap from
her own furrier which has its edges
outlined by fiattened monkey fur
pressed out like a huge gladiola, the
long strands at the upper edge. Cher
uit uses t as a cascaded fringe around
tho neck and down the front of a
white velvet evening coat, and this
house puts 1t as a finish to the spatu-
late ends Of black velvet sash which
draws In the hips OF a black velvet
kimono frock. These ends stand far
out from the line OF the gown at one
side and give the only touch OF the
pannier that the house Of Cheruit per-
mits. The throat OF bison Is the
name given to another yellowish fur
that this house shows on many Of its
street coat suits and afternoon capes.
There is a disposition to use copper
and yellow fur on all clothes, and even
that wonderful imitation fur made of
gold and copper metallic threads, by
Rodier is again used by Poiret on an
Oriental wrap. The Galleries Lafayette
show immense collars on golf capes
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ZEN have been known in the
MI absence FROM home Of the
L V L women of the family to lie
on the bed coverlet for a couple Of
weeks at stretch fearful of their ca
pscity to make the bed again If they
yielded to the temptation to get be-
tween the sheets. But this is cow
ardice and laziness combined. No man
that is a man should fear bed; he
should remember that 1t Is an mani
mate object and no matter what he
does with it bed cannot talk back.
1t rumples also, whether he sleep on
top of 1t or under 1t. And there is
nothing that gives such a disorderly
effect to a house as an unmade bed.
The art of making one can be easily
acquired and is indeed more physical
than mental. Most men err by hastily
smoothing or attempting to smooth
the covering of the bed Immediately
after getting up. The bed naturally
resents this and humps itself to dis
play its resentment. II the practice
be kept up for few mornings the bed
becomes uninhabitable.
No, the first thing to be done after
arising from bed is to drag Off the
summer blanket and the sheets to the
floor and walk over them four or ave
times. 1t Is better to do the walking
in bath slippers; that is, the effect is
surer and sooner. The pillows. any
cbservant bachelor acquired or nat
ural) knows, are to be hung out to air
in the windows, but not too far out,
If the janitor is obliged to rescue them
from the area every morning he ex-
acts AN increased tip.
The bed having been demolished, a
good bachelor housekeeper should try
to turn the mattress at least once q
week. This Is not absolutely neces-
sary, but 1t adds to his comfort. Mat
tress turning is not one mans job
but with proper precautions a strong
I man can accomplish 1t single handed
First, fold the mattress in two; that
is, drag the foot Of 1t forward until II
meets the head; then try to haul the
head of the mattress down to the foot
Do not be discouraged II the head OF
| the foot of the mattress hits a violent
| blow in your face as 1t descends tc
place. After several heated attempts
tn accomplish the impossible feat re-
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that are made of this imitation fur in
copper colored Jersey threads. BY the
way, it is temptation to drop the
Cheruit collection to go into the sub
ject of golf capes which are advanced
over here for the pleasure season at
Biarritz, which we will adopt possibly
at Palm Beach for February.
These will be admirable for white
and pastel colored frocks on the
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American Buyers, Thanked by an Old
Fashion Of Which We Are Weary
and a New One at Which
Americans Will Look
ASkance

beaches or at White Sulphur Springs
in the autumn. They are circular
capes with deep collars, in yellow,
checked with brown stripes, in apple
green striped with rust, in scarlet
checked with brown. There are soft,
collapsible hats in felt to go with them.
Possibly you have them in America
by this time. If not it is wise to get
them.
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PARIS, Sept. 25.

PARIS, sept. 20.
"~HE house of, Cheruit caused a
mia sensation at its opening
4 by using real roses embroid-
cred on silk or cloth Of silver. No one
can deny the extraordinary novelty Of
this touch. Actual roses are used re-
member, that grew in a garden and
still have a faint perfume. The
brother-in-law of Nine. Boulanger,
who is the head of the house. invented
this embroidery and the Maison Che
ruit is the only one that exhibited it.
Another kind of embroidery was used
also invented by the same skilled
worker, and it was confined to only
two houses, as far as the observer
could find out.
The small house which caters to an
exclusive segment of the American
trade did not get her embroidery I'm
ished. however, until several days later
than the Cheruit opening, and even
then it was used in small quantities
The latter embroidery was made of the
material OF the gown and the design
was fiat roses connected with long
stems, all embroidered, and held to the
surface Of the frock by a quilting
stitch in gold or silver thread. The
embroidery with the real roses showed
the quilting stitch also. The petals OF
immense full blown roses were used
all in shades of pink and red, and
the metallic stitches were run all over
the petals so that they could not fall
or tear.
The roses must have been put
through some mummifying process, foi
they have no appearance of dissolving
even under the stress of hard usage,
Even the edges of the petals that are
not held to the fabric are so steadied
by the metallic threads that they
merely blow about in the breeze as
the mannequins walk.
Cheruit New Note.
This embroidery Is the actual new
note struck by Cheruit. The Ameri.
cans do not feel that tho gowns oI
which the roses are used have any
especial grace. The ekirts are made OF
: silver cloth or tulle and the roses are
punched together over the full sur
face; at the sides of the skirts are
long shooting star steamers Of vari.
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caIlot,. Dr.pery Persists.

Cabot exhibits both the hip .pannier
and the long Tanagra silhouette with
which the house is closely associated.
There is the same impeccable Cabot
drapery which no one else in the world
seems able to achieve, just as Worth
Is never equalled in his own type Of
wrapped. deeply decollete ceremo-
NAL evening gown. Cabot continues To
make the draped evening frock which
begins with a point on one shoulder
and wraps around the figure till II
drops on the fioor in another point
But Callot does not rest her collection
on this old. even II graceful. silhou.
cite. She was responsible for the pan
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Cheruit and Callot Emphasize the Pan
nier, Which Widens the Hips Jet
Gowns Offered for Evening
s, Monkey Fur and Roses on
Il. the Latest Frocks

colored tulle or chiffon. These
streamers are kicked about by the
mannequin as she tries to walk over
the polished floor. Frequently she
stumbles. Her streamers and her feet
are continually tangled. Imagine this
gown on a dance floor, Cheruit
strongly emphasizes the short, bunch
ed skirt of tulle and silver cloth with
a negligible bodice, the entire gown
a riot of contrasting colors. Some
times she puts six bright rainbow col
ors IA the streamers that will drop to
ragged and uneven lengths on the
floor at the sides and the middle Of
the back and then masses a hundred
roses in other BRILLIANT colors over the
front Of the skirt This type of gown,
minus the rose embroidery, was worn
in America the winter before last by
those who copy stage fashions. 1t is
a de luxe edition of a. Columbine
gown.
Cheruit departs from the pannief
silhouette in street frocks and coats.
She entirely ignores 1t, except for the
fact that she often ties her hip sashes
at the left side and makes the ends
stand out by edging them with fur.
She takes the kimono as a model and
she rarely departs from 1t in the en-
tire collection. She plays variations
on it. But the outstanding treatment
of every fabric she uses for a day
gown is the kimono with its tight hip
line. its widely Tapped fronts, its lack
Of fastening. its slim but loose should
er, fiaring sleeve, slight wrinkles
across the front and a broad tight
sash to draw in the hips. 1t Is the one
piece frock which is utterly unlike the
straight chemise frock which both
Doucet and Callot retain in their COL
lection.
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a tablespoonful before breakfast, and
then omit 1t for three days, then take
it again, and so on until you have re-
peated this three tines" the creator
of the dose explained. mo need to
tell me; l was brought up on it, the
visitor said. without it l should
never have been able to understand the
feeling of the poor wretches of Dothe-
boys Hall when Mrs. Squeers fed them
birthstone and treacle. Our was mixed
in the same sort of bowl and mother
always set it on the sideboard, lest
we forget"
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| 1776, the delegates from New York
felt some diffidence in voting, as they
had No instructions. Wisner, however,
did cast a vote in favor of independ-
ence, and before August New York
had instructed her delegation to agree
to the Declaration.
There was a hearty response when
1t became known that signatures were
to be appended to the document. Sam
uel Chase of Maryland was absent
from congress on July 4 and the next
day he wrote from Annapolis to John
Adams, "How shall I transmit to pos
terity that 1 gave my assent" On
the ninth Adams replied, las soon as
an American seal is prepared l con-
lecture the Declaration will be sub
scribed to by all the members, which
will give you the opportunity you wish
for of transmitting your name among
the votaries of independence"
Elbridge Gerry of New York had to
leave Philadelphia two weeks after
| the Declaration had been adopted, and
| he wrote to John and to Samuel Ad-
ans, "Pray subscribe for me We Dec
| laration of Independence If We same is
to be signed as proposed. | think we
ought to have We privilege when neces-
sarily absent Of voting and signing by
proxy"
Of the signers who did not vote for
| the Declaration because they were not
| members at that time William Will
| liams Of Connecticut was not elected
until July IL; Rush, Clymer, Smith,
Taylor and Ross Of Pennsylvania were
not elected until July 20. Charles Car
roll of Carrollton, as well as Chase,
| was attending a meeting of the Mary
land convention on July 4. George
| Wythe of Virginia on the same day
was chairman of the committee Of the
whole of the Virginia convention, and
Richard Henry Lee was in the conven-
| ton, having been compelled to return
from Philadelphia on account of sick
ness in his family, having left on June
| 10. William Hooper of North Caro-
lima was absent from Philadelphia at
least as late as July 8. Yet all of these
members signed the Declaration, al
| though some Of them, it has been
shown, were not even members at that
time, and four members were absent.
Thomas Mclean of Delaware was
the last to sign and did not do so until
five years after the adoption of the
Declaration and at time when the
war virtually was at an end. 1t was
through no fault of Mclean. His name
was omitted from the printed copy in
| the journal.
The popular traditional idea of the
signing of the Declaration of indie
pendence presents it as graceful and
formal function taking place July 4,
i l776, in a large. handsomely furnished
chamber in Independence hall, Phila-
| delphia. To give the necessary touch
of vivacity to the picture there is the
scene of the small boy darting from
autograph to the parchment aud dash
ing down the street, calling to his
grandfather to "Ring! Oh, ring for
liberty!"
AS matter of fact the Declaration
| of Independence was signed behind
| locked doors. The city was not breath
! lessly awaiting the event outside, nor
| did the Liberty Bell peal forth on that
day the triumphal note of freedom
From these facts it appears that the
Fourth of July" might with good rea-
son have fallen upon either July or
August 2 Instead of upon July 4.
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Who Was 1t?

The kindergarten had been studying
the wind all week-its power, effects,
etc.-until the subject had been pref
ty well exhausted. To stimulate inter
est the Kindergarten said, in her
most enthusiastic manner: Children.
as | came to school today in the troll
ley car, the door opened and some
thing came softly in and kissed me on
the cheek. What do you think it WASP
And the children joyfully answered
1.-THE conductor !"-Harper's Magazine
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the Articles of Confederation and the
CONSTITUTIONAL of which he was In
strumental in preparing.
The committee elected Jefferson
chairman and instructed him to make
a draft of declaration. The COM
mittee submitted its first draft June IS.
July the congress adopted the res
oiution presented by Lee and resolved
to take further consideration on the
morrow. On the third the committee
had not finished its labors, but on July
1t presented a completed draft to the
body, and after a long debate, which
continued until the night, the con-
gress adopted the Declaration of In
dependence. After the committee of
the whole had debated the paper for
hours Benjamin Harrison reported to
congress that the Declaration of hide
pendence had been agreed to by the
committee of the whole. The paper
was again read and ordered printed.
The Declaration was committed to
the printer, Dunlap, Immediately, and
the broadside was ready on the fol-
lowing day, July s, when it received
the signatures of John Hancock and
of Charles Thomson, president and
secretary of congress, respectively, au-
thenticating the copy to be forwarded
to the governments of the thirteen
states. The signatures were followed
by the words: "By Order and in Be-
half of the Congress-"
Copies of the broadside were sent
to the various states and to the COM
handing officers of the continental
troops. 1t is not certain that each of
these bore the signatures of the pres
ident and the secretary.
On July 10 it was ordered that the
Declaration passed on the fourth,
should be fairly engrossed on parch-
ment with the title and style of The
Unanimous Declaration Of the Thir
teen Unitel States of America and
that the same, when engrossed, be
signed by every member of congress"
On August the journal records
that 1.-THE Declaration of Jndepend-
ence, being engrossed, and compared
at the table, was signed by the men,
bers."
AS to the signatures to the Decla-
ration, volume might be written.
The common understanding Is that the
fifty-five men whose names are ap-
pended were present in congress on
July 4, 1776, and asserting TO the
Declaration. This understanding is
far from the truth.
Signatures appear on the document
of men who were not members of the
congress at the time the Declaration
was agreed on. 1t has been suggested
that the proper Interpretation of the
orders of congress to have the docu-
ment signed by every member, was in
tended to include those who became
members about this time.
But Henry Wisner of New York,
who voted for independence, did not
sign, and Robert Morris. who did not
cast his vote for the Declaration, did
Wisner was absent in New York on
August to attend the provincial con-
gress, to which he had been elected
and evidently never had an opportu-
nifty to affix his signature to the doe
ument.
There was a reason for the delay in
appending the signatures apart from
the time necessary to have the docu-
ment engrossed. 1t was intended to
have the Declaration go out to the
world as the unanimous declaration of
all the colonies, and on July Fourth,
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Takinu Your Choice.

1t Is not always safe to choose the
pleasantest thing, without looking any
further. If it were only question of
enjoyment, many farmer would
choose to hunt wild flowers in the
spring instead of putting in his seed,
and to lie in q hammock under the
trees on sultry summer afternoons in
stead of cultivating corn. All of us
must choose, sometimes, between pres
emf pleasures and future good.-Girlg
Companion.
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And she shuddered as she spoke. But
even at that she knew that the shudder
was for effect. So strong is the force
of tradition that she went home that
very day and mixed herself the child
hood dose, deciding that if there were
any virtue in the combination of
spring and a blood purifier she might
as well benefit by it. AT all events it
could not hurt her.
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THAT DREADED SPRING DOSE
Who of Middle Age Foreets the Brim-
stone and Treaele of His Youth
full Days2

1t stood on the kitchen cupboard, q
bowl of yellow pottery containing a
sticky mass of the same color and
strangely familiar Could it be the
spring dose of her childhood? 1t was !!
Sulphur and molasses! And the mid.
Victorian woman had mixed it for her
grandchild. remarks the New York
Sun. you take it three days running,
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forth the glad tidings, pro-
k HJ claiming liberty in the land.
@ And George Washington be-
gan to fight the British
This Is about the way the average
acknowledgement to say some olde-
Americans-thinks the Declaration of
Independence came into existence the
independence of the United States of
America was secured and the Fourth
Of July became national holiday.
While some of the details concern
ing the Declaration Of independence
will always be matter oi argument
among historians, the sequence Of
events Is clear and runs like this:
Fighting between the Americans and
the British began April 10, IT'S, at
Lexington. Even after the fighting
was on it was some time before the
movement for independence gained
much Roadway in the public mind.
February 10, 1776. a committee ap-
pointed to prepare an address to the
country presented its report to con-
gress. This report reads in part:
1--WE have been accused of carrying
on the war for the purpose Of estab-
fishing an empire. We disayow the in
tention. We declare that what we
aimed at and what we are entrusted
by you to pursue Is the defense and
re-establishment Of the constitutional
rights of the colonies"
1t was not until June Z, 1776, that
Richard Henry Lee Of Virginia intro
duced a resolution which was to be-
come only less familiar than the Dec
laration itself. This resolution con-
tains the famous sentence: THAT
these United States are and of right
ought to be free and Independent
states; that they are absolved from
all allegiance to the British crown,
and that all political connection be-
tween them and the state Of Great
Britain is and ought to be dissolved
This resolution was debated many
times by congress. The chief speak
ers for separation were John Adams,
his cousin, Samuel Adams; Roger
Sherman, Oliver Olcott, Richard Henry
inson Of Pennsylvania led the opposi-
ton for delay, prominent among his
followers being John Jay, James Will
son, James Duane, Edward Rutledge
and Robert r. Livingston, but it was
evident from the beginning that they
were in the minority.
To save time a committee was ap-
pointed on June IL to frame the Dec
laration of Independence. Strange to
say, Richard Henry Lee, who was the
father of the resolution, and by par
liamentary right should have had the
craftsmanship of the committee, was
left out of it. The reasons for this
omission have been variously ex-
planned. 1t is fact that he was alb
sent when the committee was named
having been called home by the illness
of his wife.
The five members were Thomas JEFF
ferson of Virginia, John Adams of
Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin Of
Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Con-
necticut and Robert R. Livingston of
New York. All five were prominent
in the congress and in national affairs
Roger Sherman is unique in American
history as signer of the four great
documents: the Articles of AsSocia-
tion, the Declaration Of Independence,
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The middleman should not be self
centered and content to do middling
well.
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BENJAMIN HARRISON

Ill LIE
THOMAS JEFFERSON wrote
the Declaration of Independ-
ence. And congress signed
it. And the Liberty Bell rang
forth the glad tidings, pro-
y HI claiming liberty in the land.
And George Washington be-