Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1894, Page 18

18 ABOUT TEA GOWNS Among Other Things These Toilets Make Home Happier. ALSO CONCEAL DEFECTS IN THE FIGURE The Princess is the Most Popular Style to Follow. ATTRACTIVE HOME DRESSES Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. © THERE WAS ANY garment ever con- structed that would make a plain wo- man look fetching it is a tea gown. She may be as ugly as sin and as awkward as an elephant, but when she gets on one of those Jong trailing frou-frou silken gowns, with a scandalous lot of goons billowing around the floor, to hide her feet and dis- guise the bad points of her form, and a lot of fluffy silk and lace up about her ears that gives the impression that she is cov- ering up Hebe’s neck and shoulders, a man is sure to think that he was a fool to ever Buggest to his friend that she was plain. There is a logical reason for this, though tome people are just mean enough to say that there is nothing logical about such a frivolous waste of goods as one finds in an up-to-date tea gown. It is just because there is a lot of material in a tea gown that it is pretty to start with. A skimped tea gown would be a horror. Duich House Dress. As I said before, the quantity of material used hides all the angles and bones, and the moment that a woman who is aware that she possess sich defeets knows that they are no longer patent to the world she forgets to be self-conscious and begins to enjoy herself. She feels that she is be- comingly dressed, and that in ttself is an elixir of life man who bas a grain of femi her compositir as- sured of this she proceeds to air her little graces, most of which have been undiscov- ered, because she has been so absorbed in her shortcomings perfections. that she had not time to “invite her own soul” to me out of it You find that she can talk very enter of books and pic- turea, which immediately conclude that you must beceme more familiar with, and you vaguely wonder as the tip of one pretty slipper pats the or. disturbing the lace ruffies and things, if that can pos- sibly be the awful foot that you noticed one day as she paldied around on the ave- Rue in the mud, in common sense shoes and a “reform” dr You notice that she has a very winning and if it were not for the frill that seems to almost cover it you could swear that she h dimple in her cheek once that sh tainly u remember of thi had a thin for the with > how tisgusting you go hi is the n whem y at Mrs. Blank’s ade gown that simply @ahanced all ker bad points. a gown works such a Metamo' t tea re all constru flowing and flowing lines thin. wo- man, n look stately ‘and a m statuesque while to whose \é h is an hour: they are positive : Of ec but the thin woman look well own. But you know always wa the—could in a low-ne : are so Painfully aware thin arms, the small bh the nd flatter back that you want t i be a nun; tt at will cover up n if it fails to nen Ww and adapt st the wea rs style, fall into the back- excellence. f the Ten G iress par wen. always be fens’ je any hence this tale of the time now women » had really good fe wanted to lay them have be taphorically king, sitting 1 r plainer sisters, wa i to retire to or THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1894—TWENTY PAGE has got to keep quiet. They do it over in London, and they are doing it here. Now, here is a Jenness Miller sort of a tea gown, which that apostle of dress re- form calls a Dutch house dress. If all the reform dresses were as fetching as this, women would be emancipated in short or- der. The gown will be effective in any kind of material, but is prettiest im the soft clinging stuffs, such as India silk, and the collar, which is of Oriental embroidery, will be just as charming around a white neck if made of lace, or mull, lace trim- med. I think this would be a very pretty style for maternity wrappers for the sum- mer. It would make up nicely in percale or dimity, and would not be hard to laun- der. For ceremonious occasions, a charming effect is obtained by combining magenta bengaline and yellow satin, in the well-be- loved princess style. It makes a gorgeous gown. and no mistake. Only a woman who is perfectly sure that she can look and act like the proverbial queen should give it a second thought in those colors. Of course it will be lovely made up in black with a wine red front, or most any color that suits your fancy, only remember that a tea gown, to be acceptable, must fit and hang well, no matter how loose, and it must be of becoming colors, The Popular Princess Style. A princess gown of silver gray lands- downe and front of silver swivel silk ying- ham, wit garniture of embroidered mous- selaine de sole, makes a regal garment for @ woman past the frivolities of life, and the same design can be copied by her daughter or granddaughter in brighter colors, with lighter treatment of the ribbons and laces. Another pfetty house gown, designed more particularly for the home circle, is the prin- cess form with Watteau back. It is most serviceable made cf challie or one of the Smooth-finished goods, with a front of silk. he most popular style upon which to a tea gown is the princess. You can fashion anything you like on It, from a ball gown to a night dress. It is alwaya a graceful pattern, and is so economical if you want to make over old material. The first thing to do ts to get good new linings. If you have to skimp a dress do it most anywhere else rather than in the linings. They are not seen, but if they are cheap and flimsy they sag and spoil the set of the dress skirt, and they stretch and ruin the set of a dress waist. Have your linings well fitted, and then begin to lay on the outside. It is best to have the back alike from neck to the bottom of the train—of jcourse all house dresses that are to be \Sraceful must have some train—and this may be accomplished by piecing at the waist line and then covering with a piping of the material or’a little gimp. The front, ruffles and sleeves may be of some other material. Two old dresses that will har- > or passementerie make a hand- gown out of goods that seemed hope- y out of date. I think that women pay too little atten- tion to the subject of house gowns, In the first ct Tuins a street dress to sit e with it on, and then the dress is not nearly as pretty nd ft is the duty of a wo- herself as attractive to ‘her Things do not run the home where when the on an attractive dress the man to make home foiks as possible. just right in mother puts little ones come clamoring around her to know where she is going or else who is coming. a woman saves her parlor for company, her best dresses for strangers and puts on her manners with her good clothes. Her children grow up on the! streets or any place else, so that they keep | from under her f and her husband comes home only when he can go nowhere else. I don’t mean ‘that this all happens because women do not wear tea gowns, but I do s that if women were less careless of their personal appearance a good many homes would be a happier lot. I. W. B. SHE WAS RECKLESS. Tired of Coddling a Dyspeptic Stom- ach, She Was Going to Do as She Pleasec | From the Cineinnatt Tribnne. A rather sailow-looking woman, well dressed and refined, was at a table in com- pany with another junior in years. ‘What do you want? “Oh, I don't know. etimes it seems like I had dyspepsi And T've done every- thing for it. Drank hot water in the mor ing and lived on milk diet € sively month. Then I tried the raw heef s nd took enough 1 » to float boat in. lady, somewhat her said the maid. thinki sick T was sick, ach something to think about. So I quit feoling, now J just nything T Well, just order me a] of hot mince pie and ith whipped cream. They won't hurt me any more than crack- ers, beef tea, or toast. If my stomach st long it will enjoy itself while it coe A Burning Shame. From Blue and Gras ‘ous eyes wish mouth. ed sto how should sh couldn't be s! ry him, tho’ she said, Twas a burning sham S. A ROUGH DIAMOND. | Senora Sara and Her Girls Judge a Man by His Clothes. THEY ARE TAUGHT A LESSON A Gentle Heart Under a Rough Exterior. THE MAN WITH A VOICE = eee. Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HAVE LEARNED A lesson this week. One of the erying evils of the age is a disposi- tion to judge a man by his clothes, and that failing, by his education. Quite of- ten, in the end, one that neither clothes | ” nor education will ve- heer a door deep} ings so as to show unsightly seams. Pope | said a long time ago: “Worth makes the man, and want of it the | fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.”” And both ends of his idea have received practical demonstration at our house re- cently. Walter Winn was an example of) the “leather and prunello” creature, and | when Dick announced that Mr. Robert | Evans of Arizona was coming for a Wsit of a week or more I felt like asking leave of | absence for an indefinite period. bright spots in Dick's life was a summer spent on the cattle ranch where this im- pending guest was then the foreman. Now he owns the ranch in question, and is a “cowman,” instead of a “cow puncher, which Dick informed me made a “blooming lot of difference.” I ingerred from Dick’s eulogies that Mr. Evans was a diamond in the rough, “You'll be good to him, though, won’t you, Sara?” he pleaded, as he saw me frown. “You will like him, for he has a heart as big as an ox, and he isn’t half bad, even if he can't nurse a cane in the latest fashion. You know he saved me from a lot of pit- falls when I was west. He said he knew that it would hurt my sisters to have me go off wrong. You see, I had told him what good sisters I had.” And that settled it: use flattery. Mr. Evans had been famil- jarly spoken of as “Redtop." The why of this I learned when I met him, which was that evening. I was alone in the library, when they came in so quietly that I did not know of their presence until! Dick spoke my name, and I looked up to see what seemed to me to be Paderewski's ghost. “I'm delighted to meet you all,” said the “ghost,” as it bent over my Rand in a way that the French ambassador could not have made more impressive. “You ain't no strangers to me,” he added. “I have knowed you a good while through Dick. He's mighty proud of the females in his / j family, and seein’ you, I ain’t got no call to contradict him.” Now, could any diplomat have paid a/ greater compliment? I liked the man at once. He seemed to have had a dreadiully heavy diet of Congressman Everett's “bad | grammar,” but his voice atoned for that. It was music i He was not badly dressed, but, like nine-tenths of the would- | be modish men, he made the mistake of wearing his long Prince Albert unbuttoned. His trousers were beautifully creased, and his feet were encased in real boots, with preposterously high heels. Dick says that it is not varity, but business, that makes a cowman wear high-heel boots. Mr. Evans’ attire was quite the proper thing. It was in the matter of his jew-| dulge in the wo elry that he was typically gorgeous. Three gressman’s salary for a month. Diamonds amethyst. On one hand—and I noticed that his nails were beautifully kept, a point in which so many men are sadly careless— gleamed a big gold snake with emerald eye ‘This dis- | play of jewelry is, unfortunately, not con- fined to men of Mr. Evans’ type. But in any case tt is, of cours, atrocious taste to make such a palpable display of one’s money. Our guest was tall and spare, and his} hair, which was a curious ;olen red, fell | in a tangle of curis on his shoulders. 1 fas- cinated me, and as I sat studying the | lights and shades in it, Mr. Evans noticed | iM I reckon you all don't like my hair," he | said laughingly, as he ran_ his, tngers through it. “You see, it ain't often I get off the reservation, but I allow to tog up all proper while I'm sojournia’. Injuns | have pinted theories concerain’ hatr, how- | ever, and the duffer that wears it short is | set down as a bloomin’ coward, and they act according, which is calculated to make chings onpleasant at times. When the are right for my moccasin tracks tc to the west again, | can shed the to; I can't grow the hair in a to pertect my play that fa: I explained that hair pint but of color and curl was not often 1: et with, but an who had that I had seen a noted mus’ its counterpart. Just then the girls came bustling in from the Moody and Sankey meeiing, Rose-in- Bloom, softly humming ne of the last songs. Afi the conversation fe 2n- nels. Rose-in-Bk the piano and I heard her trying to play a passage of the tune ranning in her head. Over and over again it wove itself softly In and out ef the rsation, in which Mr. s seemed Jost interest. Suddenly he went over to the piano. Kain’t you get it, little one?" he rsked, as he laid his hand on her curly head. “Got a book? No? Well, maybe I can help yo My mother used to sing ‘My Ain Countric to me when 1 was a little kid. It goes this way. hardly caught the melod “O, please Mr. Evans, can you play It for me?” asked Rose-in-Bloom easerly. “I can't play very weil anyhow, and I have lost the book with it in. I can think it all right, but it won't play right.” “T ‘ain't much of a musicianor, but 1 oe And he sang a line so softly that I} is obliged to confess/own manners and customs and those of enough to kesp the that it was kind of her and the cthers to varnish from crack-| take a real interest in entertaining Mr. One of the | burns that way is more offensive than one Dick knows when to ® Indeed, | that Congressmen | street familiarly holding my solitaire diamonds shone on his shirt front, | in his hand; and a fourth gleamed from under his white | us that indignity. lawn tie—any one of them worth a Con- | tchouly | coneluded that the many charming things shone in his cuff buttons and on the gold that he did more than balanced the infrinse. buckle of his watch fob, while dangling at| ments on es the end of the ribbon was a huge oriental | knew how to please women. solitaire, and on the other a | a8 her own cheeks. | candy. {I | some, and I'd be sorry to. not. | these here new rules I'm kind of kno: | I reckon I can pla utry, so I have | that peculiar } | she says she forgets her poor hurt t reckon I kin pound out a sort of nolse that | will do to go along with the song if you want me to. Yes? Well, here soe” And with no more ado he sat down at our square grand, and while Pose-in-Bleom watched him, he picked up the melody, and he sang the song that Mr. Sankey has so often brought the tears with “Iam far frae my hame, often whiles, For the longed for hame bringin’ an’ my Father's welcome smiles.” n’ I'm weary culture, there was no sign of trick in usin it. It was so strong and sustated when he sang: “I'm watchin’, aye an’ singin’, O, my hame as I wait, For the sounin’ 0’ His foot fa’ this side the gowden gate One felt somehow “tha of promise, that some zladsome day King, to His ain royal palace, his banished home will bring,” had been signed, s and delivered in person, and that the ise would be kept. Ro with tears when ist strains and turning to ne—fer we kad sd about the piano--she hid her face on my shoulder with a sob. and echo- ed the feeling of each of us when she cr “O, it hurts so." His good word | as good as he is. | want to retriev I have said that his volce was sweet in| conversation, though I do not mean that it was effeminate, but in sinziag it was full of pathos that touched the heart with a strange pain; I never heard anyihiny like | it before. Clear, tender and full, it fell on the ear with a vibrant strength that vas wonderfully effectiv Rich, but without | the | Mr. Evans sprang up in dismay. “There Kiddie, don’t cry. T didn't know I was that bad. But, you see, my mother vsed to sing it, and hing she dor amed go0d to me. Now, if yeu could have heard her-- she could sing the soul out of a nightey I ought to have know ald re fe out of to go a| shoutin’ of it. I'm mi in-Bloom turned to him, and, with on her long lashes and her th cmotions that she 4, sald, with a sr like sy h rain: “Mr. Evans, if you would s z that song to rie every again in my life. It would be a mighty good thing if folks could be scared into heaven just that way.’ He declared that he had never received a sincerer compli- ment, and from that moment he was Kose- in-bloom’s sworn knight. This strange man, with his instincts as fine as silk, had a heart which was a per- fect well-spring of the unsoured milk of human kindness. He made friends of every- body. Even Jonah, who habitually snaps at his own imag: in the mirror, wagged approval of him. I was proud of the way my girls acted toward him. I rather ex- pect that some of them would take de- light in ridiculing him. Girls are not al- Ways careful in such matters. When they find those who are not of their own world— and that, by the way, is a much smaller part of the universe than the most of them tmagine—they are inclined to draw com- parisons which are invidious to the stran- ger. I remember a very serious example of this, which cecurred at the diplomatic re- ception at the White House last winter. Some young ladies were standiag with their wraps on, waiting for their carriage to be announce: they were the daughters of men in high official life, and giris of Wealth. But I regret that the refinement that should have been there was in this instance lacking. The Chinese minister and some members of his household came along just then, and one of these young ladies leaned forward and said, almost in his face, “Oh, here is the Pigtail Ambeassa- dor; now, ain't he a beauty?’ And then the trio proceeded to discuss him, as he stood where he and his interpreter could hear every word that they said. Some of the comments were simply brutal, yet they were drawing comparisons@between their China. I was ashamed of them, and so was the wife of one of the Senators pres- ent, for she approached them and _repri- manded them severely. I said to Bobbie Evans. “Why, how could we help being nice to him?” she queried, with one of her happy. laughs. “‘Rose-in-Bloom’s Mr. ‘Redtop’ is a geniusy and genius must be protected. I am afraid that he isn't much of a Ward McAllister, but he is a good deal of a Ches- terfield. Yesterday I met him on the street and he turned to speak to me, He took off that great sombrero, and Kept it off while we conv d, and he threw away a cigar that he had just lighted. That is more than most of the men of t do. They content themselves with holding their cigars in their hands, and I think a cigar that that is smoked regularly.” And he is so generous," chimed in Nora. “Why, he has given us more for our poor people since he has been here than we have had altogether before. He says that his sister would have been about as old as I am, if she had lived, and that he wants us to consider that it is her share of the fund that he is giving.” “I like him because he never presumes.” Louise looked up from the pretty cashmere dress that she was working on. She had stantly and the beautiful sentiment of the song seemed to appeal to him directly. “I reckon I'll turn in,” he said as he turned at last, wearied with the battle that had been raging within him. “I'm feeling mighty trifiing tonight; just reap- ing the whirlwind I've sowed, like as not,” he said with a sad smile as he moved over to the fire. He looked down at the flames |&@ moment, then turned and laid his hand jon Dick's shoulder. “I ain't no cross and } come guide, but, Dick, you want to sabe the handwziting on the wall in time? I'm an example of the beggars that hadn't any | weddin’ togs ready and I reckon it’s too late now, I’ve lost my chance. You're twen- ty years younger, boy, and you've got the best years of your life to play a Winning hand in. I'm favorin’ silver, speakin’ general, but the golden rule is the safest to die to, when you set out for furrin parts.” And with the delivery of this unique sermonette he swung off to his room, bidding us a cherry “buenas noches,” and I heard him singing “God be with till we meet again” as he went up the stairs. Well, I have learned a lesson and the sirls have learned one also. Dorothy as spokesman for the “Invincibles” said that they meant to treat “Redtop” well, be- cause he was Dicks friend and because they ex; pense. Sut we found, sald also this practical young person, “that his ideas of life were broader than ours, his love of) humanity greater, his nature sincerer, his heart truer to ideals than o own. We feel heartily ashamed of ourselves for our ignoble motives.” For myself, wise In my own conceit, 1 thought to “civilize” him. It was a case of the teacher being taught from start to finish. SENORA SARA. A COMFORTABLE KITCH What a Wise Woman Arranges to Have in It. ‘The wise woman makes her kitchen com- fortable. If she is her own maid of all work she finds that the trouble and thought she spends on that humble room are very wisely spent. If she has a servant she will find that the comfort of the kitchen will often be the measure of the servant's stay and her willingness to work. The floor should be painted. There should be neatly bound mats or carpet here and there, but no tacked or “put-down"” rug. The walls, When it is possible, should be covered with linolevm, tiles or something equally durable and easy to keep clean. There should be light-colored Holland ghades at the win- dows and short sash curtains of white dot- ted muslin. There should be, if possible, a safe with glass doors through which the blue and yellow crockery, the tin and cop- per vessels may be seen without gathering dust and smoke. There should be at least one shelf where cook books may repose an@ another where bright, hardy, heat-lov- ing flowers may bloom. A kitchen clock should provide the element of accuracy for given up the Saturday matinee, so that she could finish the frock in time for one of her proteges to wear to Sabbath school. “Just look at this now!” and she held it up—the red frock. “Isn't it a beauty? Mr, Redtop went with us to see poor Mrs. Lane, and she was feeling so badly because Sallie could not go to Sabbath school. You know, the child's clothes are in an awful condi. tion. I promised to get something for her to wear, and that very evening a messenger brought fifteen yards of this doilar-a-yard cashmere, and said the gentleman hoped that it would be enough to make the kid a dress. Think of it! fifteen yards of double width cashmere for a seven-year-old child. He never would have mentioned it to me again, if I had not thanked him for it when I saw him here yesterday. Anybody else, most, would have made us feel under obli- ations; not intentionally, perhaps, but the feeling would have been there. It is true that Mr. Redtop—we all called him that, he seemed to like the singular title—was not an unabridged edition of “Good Form;” he carefully protected his linen by making a bib out of his napkin. But I have seen men do that who dine with the President in official capacity. He was indifferent as to the vehicle that got his food to his mouth also—knife, fork or spoon, it mattered not, yet that was perhaps par- donable, for I have witnessed a Supreme Court justice eating pie with his knife. A giddy young guest of ours commented on the fact that one evening at dinner he cooled his soup by blowing it in the spoon: and it was with @ good deal of satisfaction that 1 heard Jernie tell her that she did not think that as bad as tipping the plate to get the last drop out, a habit we had all noticed In the young lady herself. He was addicted to ramming his hands to the bottom of his trousers pockets, too. I did not ike it, but my dislike does not arise from the helief alone have the right to do at habit Is, he did not in- e one of walking along the arm and dbow he never even offered one of Neither did he use pa- On the whole I have it. But bad as tl nor musk. blshed rules, He certainly Every morn- ing we found by our breakfast plates the loveliest flowers. Those for Rose-in-Rloam were always half-opened rosebuds as pink Later In she day the flowers were supplemented by bon bons, the boxes costing five times as much the That was. of course, very bad form, but I could not bear to hurt his generous heart by refusing the costly trifles, At last I feared that Rose-in-Bloom would be spoll- el bs 3 him fo Suggested to him chat she was but a child, and his way of irea* might be hurtful. messes “Spoil her? he repeated after me, in con- sternation, ‘hy, you kain’t spoil that kid! She's the prettiest, brichtest. female Ive kKnowed since my mother and sister diel. ‘lowed T was treatin’ her like a sister. PMS A: though I'm always a gittin’ off the il and stampedin’ the herd. now right- ening up—"'s'p » we cal! it a _misdeal and begin the game over again. ‘Lone of : ‘ eked out. the next hand better,” and I let him * : ea betee Mr. “Redtop” got@as much interested in Rose-In-Bloom’s charities as he did those of the older girls. Children seemed to be his delight. He went one day to see the little lame sufferer, who was fading out of | life like a crushed flower, Rose-in-Bloom told me of the visit in her grap! y. all men of strong vitality tender for those who were to constant pain. was most under tribute | phorescence ceased as soon as intense cold the culinary experiments, and a big splint- bottomed rocker should be one of the prominent furnishings of the room. —---- eee IN SERVING CHILDREN. As Important to Cater to Them as to| should be done. It is perfectly preposterous | are not done in pale Their Elders. From the New York Times. A woman who has tried it says that the way things are served is as important to children as to their elders, oftentimes, al- though the former may not be able to for- mulate the difference. For example, she says, my children, all of them, disliked hash; no matter how carefully it was made, it was invariably refused. One day it ec- curred to my cook to put the hash into lit- tle cups, and set them in the oven to brown. She did it, serving one to each plate, and since then “mince in cups,” as it is judi- ciously called, is a favorite dish. Another point which the same authority Suggested Was to serve the things the chil- dren like the least, when there is a differ- ence, at their hungriest meal. This is usually luncheon on school days. They come home ravenous, and the sauce of a good appetite imparts a relish to the dishes that at other times do not receive a cordial welcome. Any one who habitually caters to a family of growing children will appre- clate ary assisting hint in. the work. INTENSE COLD. Its Influence on Mrguets and Electric Discharge in Vacuo. From the Electrica’ Engineer, Prof. Dewar is making steady progress in his wonderful discoveries as to the effects of low temperature. He gave the results of his more recent experiments in a lecture before the Royal Institution, London. The table was covered with many flasks of Nque- fied air enveloped in carbonic acid snow. He said that he had proved that at abso- lute zero metals have the same degree of conductivity to electricity, however much they may differ at higher temperatures. Prof. Gladstone's theory of refractive in- dices of gases had been perfectly con- firmed. He found that a low temperature greatly increased the strength of metals. Iron at —1S0 degrees centigrade has twice the cohesive power it possesses at an ordi- nary temperature. fully saturated magnet was found to have its power greatly increased by a re- duction to —180 degrees centigrade. Intense cold has a strange effect on color. Prof. Dewar sponged a scarlet card painted with jodine with liquefied and the brilliant scarlet changed to orange, but recovered its origina! hue immediately after it be- came warm again. Many brilliant experi- ments were made ding electric dis- charges through exhausted giass globes. All the well-known phenomena of phos- applied. The ele by any route rather tha ‘ough the globe, What did this mean? asked Prof. Dewar. Obviously that something was now frozen cut which had before enabled electricity to pass across the vacuous space. = soe Regulniion Temperature, From the Fortnightly Review. The power pontaneous regulation of the temperature resides in the mechanism whereby more or lees blood ts s skfh as a result of relaxation or of contr tion of its blood vesseis. When the skin tried to pass “Oh, Sara, you ought to have seen him said Rose-in-Bloom. “He up in his big, strong arms a sings ‘W e and 1 Sha Whiter Than Snow’ and ‘Home of the Soul till and imagines she hears the angels sirg- ing to her. Sara, bis voice had tears in| it all the time. And we went and cot her a doll ani some picture books that cost an awful lot of money and some fri | I don't know what ail thought he must he God ‘le, he was so good. Of course T knew than that, but I didn’t tell her so.” And that was cnly a small part of his man unostentatious charities for the little chil- dren. One evening I asked Dick to tell me Mr. Evans’ past. “Where did he come his velous voice?” T queried Jane said that she Luse better be “You let past lie buried, Sara,” said this loyal brother of mine. “You need not fear contamination. J would not have brought him here had I not known him well | ory enough to trust him. You touch day the hands of men who are not ty His mother was a mous opera singer. She died when he only fifteen. ‘Then he rirt Greasers say he is ‘touch>d,’ mus you know, and sometimes I more half believe it.” that. ‘The n » men e turned the blotted iriving to keep an, The charity iden indeed to those yw past errors. At the Moody Meetings. We went several times to the Moo Redtop seemed drawn there could not resist. The nt to let it xo at the girl insistently not for us to as! ter the records of tho: ha a or women who ad ages of rer of silence ves ¢ o meetings. force hy xperience of many sed by those servic wn on rth. On us Was s fashion, Ww to the piano when we got hom not much of a player, but his ments were perfectly Suited to h Mr. § a Wanderin in our top sa b; power for geod a lula mi ufter a pay to rance to his own hopes and longings light in the dark “Not now, but in the cc It may be in the s ‘e'll read the me n some time we'll half to aimsel r ever kas a heart hy, who si to quiet moods, h nging book, which she still held, at Kindly n and placed it on I would never be ugly nor ill-tempered | the Tack before him. He responded in- | chilled, ard perhaps catches cold. s | but 1 | body ‘That was the! s will never be { that last night dit and and he| 1s heated its vessels relax and contain a surplus of blood, which, if exposed to or. dinary e ul intiuences, rapidly be \eooler. Hi in three 5 ation, conduction and or jamounts given off by th ans varving | scording to circumstances. It is estimated yout 7 per cent of the whole smount imai heat passes off through the nt. If the skin be freely exposed to cool air, |much heat is lost by radiation; if the air be dry and in motion, a still larger qu lof neat becomes latent by the of the water excreted by the sweat glands. |Thus it is that under normal conditions, a rise in the bodily temperartur |flow of blood to the skin, followed by warmed by exercise nt of air, rapidly and e: becomes ling of the temperature, on the other hand, diminishes the quantity of blood in the skin, so that radiation and conduction of surface are reduced to a inimum. jon and tion from the internal surface of the lungs consti- {tute another means whereby heat is lost; our present purpose it is umneces- ry to do more than ni ti The main use of clothing is to prot ally and to maintain it at an and proper temperature. Civilized wear artificial | y situated | who are provided This d Jing, A man | ed to a cu st the equity |man, who ts c jclothing, is |than the lower animal: | with suflicient natural covering. back more t ja by the opportunities wich clothing atfords of rend the wearer compara- tively Indep of external cireum- | stances of clin aes —— Superciliousness. From Truth | He (retired pork that confounded have to go, and don't y u forget it! | Heavens, Philemon! | reverse?” He—"No, ma‘am; but the feliow cut me | | dead on street today, just as I was about to introduce Ward McAli too.” 2ee air of Trousers. Desizn for a m Puck j (Drawn by a Small Boy.) Fig t Fig (pron) (back) | fire for five or ten HOUSEHOLD CHAT The Proper Spring Treatment ‘of Children and of Furs, SCME THOUGHTS ON KITCHEN UTENSILS As to Cottons and Are the Colors Fast. THE WEARING OF JET Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. These warm, bright days the little ones who have been housed up all winter are turned out into the sunshine to grow with the grass and the flowers. That is all right, for the children need the change, but it is liable to bring trouble to anxious mothers. The soft spring air is freighted with earache and sore throat for those children who are in a measure predisposed to such afflictions. For this reason maay children are kept indoors when they should be out. If the child complains of earache heat a little vaseline in a spvon and pour in the car while it is pretty hot. The chiid will howl, of course, but you need not be frightened. It will not hurt it one bit, and in a few moments all signs of earache will have disappeared. For the throat a cloth wet in cold water applied at night, with a flannel one over it, will generally be all that is required. Whatever you @o, do not be constantly “doping” child’s stomach makes a very poor depos- itory for drugs. “Eat slowly, and you will never overeat,” is the advice of a hale and hearty old man of seventy-tive. ee © we It is not generally known that keeping the feet warm will orten ward off headaches. On the same principle, keep the stomach in good order and you will not be iikely to have cold feet. In fact, you can be pretty sure that when anything ails you the stum- ach is the first thing to look aiter. ry There is often great injury done to those | who are ill by permitting people to visit | them who are regular Job's comforters. Only the cheerful optimist should ever be permitted to stick his head inside a sick room door, oe se ee Some day, perhaps, men and women will learn that nothing is ever well done in a small household if the master and mistress are ignorant of the manner in which it to expect servants to be inspired to do that in which the mistress is so lamentably lack- ing that she can neither praise nor censure it. One thing is sure, if you would have well-trained servants you must yourself be o “ors. competent to correct their errot A few days more and furs will be a su- perfluous article of attire. Then comes the question of whet to do with them so that the moths will not invade them. One lady who has never had a thing harmed by moths in her nearly twenty-ti ears’ experience puts her furs and woolens away in a © chest, a few sizes smaller than a “meeti house.” This chest she had made purpose- ly, and they cost a good deal, but they rever Wear out or get out of style, so that it is really a safe investment. Before put- ting her things away, she beats and ex amines them carefully to see that no larvae; are deposited in them. Then she sprinkles them liberally with good black pepper of her own grinding. She used camphor for a year or two, but found that the pests vould incubate quite as rapidly ae though they thrived on camphor, but there is some- thing about the pepper that destroys the moths in embryo. seeee A hair brush should be carefully cleaned as often as once a week if it is put to the proper use in brushing the hair every day. Soap is apt to soften the bristles. The best wash is a teaspoonful of borax in a pint of water or the same amount of soda in a pint of water that is about blood heat. Shake the brush back and forth in this water and the dirt and grease will disappear like magic. Then rinse the orush in warm water and stand on the bristles to dry. Do not dry in the sun or near the fre. . . ee In the zeal to educate the young and pliant mind too many mothers forget without health learning loses its best bene- fits. There is great danger in forcing the mind of a child to the detriment of the body. A physician who is authority on diseases of children says: “A child in full vigorous health will acquire more Enowl- edge in six hours daily than in tweive. Twelve hours’ study in a Jay is too much by at least five hours for any young per- son. Every person under fall adult age needs eight hours’ sleep, aud some need more. In order that sleep shoukd be healthful and refreshing they require at least six hours of recreation and active exercise; anything less than this is incom- patible with full health and vigor, . ee In France, whence comes the boast that its women are the most volatile and charm- ing in the world, over 5,004,000, or one- third, of the women are laborers in the field.” American women do thart that. They make home beautiful for the men who own and tili the fields. ee a ee If there is one injunction more another that humankind should heed, it is that they should “keep in a good humor.” It is not the great calamities that embitter existence; it is the petty vexations, the small jealousies, the little disappointments, the minor miseries, that make the heart heavy and the temper sour. Anger is a pure wasie of vitality; it is always foolish, and generally disgraceful. No man does his best except when he is cheerful. company of a good-humored man is a per- petual feast. A good conscience, a sound stomach, a clean skin, are the elements. of than good humor. Get them, and keep them, you Want your friends to shun you as though you were a pest. sits . The pots in which tea and coffee are made should be washed out quite often. Of course they should be and thoroughly éried after but something more than that nece: y, becay the fine settlings of the ee attach themselves to th annot be dislodged by the yet they will ruin the vor of the coffee if left her long. Never put soap in a coffee 2 you do you will drink soap-ttz ages for a meal or two afterw tablespoonful of soda and ‘set it boiling. In half an hour the pot wil. weet and clean. Do not dry with a cloth, but set the on the back of the stove till the slow eat has dried it. a me housewive find it impossible to cook h bage, whose means h-scented foods, nd the like, in, that are dear: just because it seems :mposs: out of the metal. They sh try burnt Wash the vessel in soda water, “ary it, then lift the stove and turn the vessel over nute: as clean and sweet as applies only to iron uten: orous scouring will generally ss. #8 strong If you find that too rapidly you our tins 2 cause of the li to imprope putting them shouid 4 with a dash of hot waier scald. and dried with a clean dry cloth, t over the heat of the before being hung te Dp. for a Mternai vig in ware. A range t caref every morning and all the ers remove will consume A, A’—Pockets. > eit ole leather or bolier piate. | | a who has her woman who s for beauty shoaid for it will only is coming when women wash bef not a bit of use ok eepers, they will lushingly tell you that ey thing fs fast, and so it is—to go. A fe general rules gan be depended upoa, bi your children. A | that | things better | The | come well through on the wrong they do not, you can be very sure goods will fade when it is \kight lawns—those of a white stripes or flowers, in natural colors, can judged in the same way, but that a lawn is not likely to fade very v because the delicate colors never look against a white background. The jawns will all fade, and are a poor in | Ment, except in red, brown, deep blue black stripes, or small figures of those ers. In the colors mentioned they laundry very well, ik : Dark colored cottons should be washed xery carefully to obtain the best results. The water should be warm, but not hot, and should be expressly for the Purpose. nothing else having been washed in it. Cottons, if white, leave lint, which gathers on dark fabrics.’ Soap bark is bet- ter than soap, and in any event should be put into the water and never applied direct- ly to the fabric. It should be rinsed in two Waters, both made warm and very dark with Dlueing. If starch is required, use cornstarch, and instead of water use coffee freed from every suspicion of grounds. Boll the starch well: if you will use gum-arabie instead of the cornstarch and dilute it with the coffee you will obtain even better re- sults. Iron on the Wrong side with a hot iron. By the way, never undertake to wash dark cottons except on a clear, when you can get thi ried | Moments, Much ew nag and thin, | tub in good | the process i j inclement day. Hl . Never sit facing a window to work at anything if you can sit that way help it, and if you must y your eyes and let the Tight fall directly upon your work. The very best light is over left shoulder ny anaee afer. not strong should ha’ siasses if found mh a thing that no en out of life because of i vision that might have been saved it stvended - earlier. _ BATHS AND BACILLI. The microbe and the bacillus are of more terror to the modern housekeeper than dust by the pound used to be to the old-fashioned | man will be more than interested in—she will be profoundly grateful for—the gestions herein made. In the ideal house, of course, drains jbe Jaid and ventilators adjustea j not even the most stubborn of | circumvent their use. But still lack a little of the ideal. | erecn marbie, but zinc and plaster | —_ To make these |and varnished paper must moment the inside of the stained and chipped it should | by an expert. The bath should | first with strong soda and water, | the first coat of enamel should be of course when the bath itself is and entirely dry; then, after two other coat should be given, and then, twenty-four hours more, the bath shi be filled with cold water, which should left in it for another similar 5 give one more coat of enam to thoroughly dry and bave an absolutely perfect “ any maid or boy could Varnished paper is the best for tiled walls yet known to But even when the best have been used only the will insure a really | The moment a bath housemaid should hyena ys eng hang ong brass rail provided for the purpose, and she should also take to the room of that individual the bath, for, of course, kept —— to each rent towel or piece allowed there. She Ne cea i i bee i i Hh H He i ot should to or, better still, ina | Kitcten pipes and attention of a plum! daily vse of hot water and soda. houses in which pipes are cording to the most of cae oie ae every Toom open | air is the deadliest foe of three inches open at | From the Nebraska State Journal When Cora Belle Fellows was wedded to Chaska and came with her dusky Nege lord to Nebraska the skies seemed bedecked with “pizen.” Her eyes were as dark as the dismal hereafter and her hair was as straight as a two-by-six rafter. heart of Chaska succumbed to |for an Indian knows what an elegant face | is; and they met when the moon, the calm |atmosphere mellows, nor cared for the heartache of Cora Belle Fellows. | One night when the storm king the coal | scuttle Minnekadinctum were married. And Cora she waited and bore his abuses and he'd return to his wife and papooses, weeks rolled by till the looks of her ecub- bard reminded her sorely of Old Mother | Hubbard. Then Cora, disheartened, dis- eusted and gaunted, deserted une home that ber Chaska once haunted, and mingled once more with her friends, broken-hearted, and Cora and Chaska forever are parted. A moral this tale bears to girls who, through folly, or strange love of romance, imagine it jolly to cast their sad lot with the sons of the wildwood and seek a di- verce from the friends of tneir childhood. The romance is short, as in this case re- ed, for Cota now knows she was sadly mismated, and has, with the rest, the un- happy reflection of duty to half-breeds that need her protection. The question of fi dian civilization involves not the horrors of mixed procreation. An Indian has to be dead to be decent, which fact has been known a long time—is not recent—and his- tory shows, from the best observations, that balf-breeds are worse than their tribal relations, I weep for poor Cora and both her pa- pooses; I shudder to think what a gosling a goose is; I feel indignation that Chaska should leave her and skip with another an@ basely deceive her, and think that the law should recetve a few patches to shut off these semi-barbarian matches. sar tes Methodical Exrctness. From Harper's Bazar. To have time and place for all things” is very commendable; but I cannot help thinking that an old lady of my acquaint- ance might sometimes carry her methodical exactness a trifle too far. She is a martyr to intermittent fever, and when last I visit- 1 her she was suffering from an attack, After telling me about all she has to en- dure from her enemy, she called in a ser. vant to give her orders for the evening. As nearly as I can remember they were ag follows ave vou washed the dishes yet?" ma‘am. “Well, scour the knives and forks, ama k the oatmeal for breakfast, and peel atoes. ‘Then give the cat some mile that all the doors and windows After that put on a fire and fill the Jugs with hot water, and make me « hot drink, for it will then be time to have my chill.” nr oa the pc and “An 0} From Puck.