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18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1894A-TWENTY PAGES. | worn im a loose and easy manner, with « perfect indifference to whether the tail of it sticks ovt of the placket in the back of | the dress or the fold laps clear to one side, lor the belt and blouse are on intimate | terms with each other,, and a correspond- ing disregard as to whether the dress skirt and the other too have a speaking ac- |qQuaintance or not. These are the things | that are going to ultimately banish the | blouse if women’ are not careful. | Despite the drawbacks mentioned, how. lever, the suggestions for spring and sum- | mer styles show the blouse effect in every | kind of dress. A cloth walking dress, for | instance, has a very pretty overnanging | blouse of silk with a crush belt of a con- THE BLOUSE WAIST They Are Sure to Be the Rage This Summer. WHO MAY AND MAY NO? WEAR THEM a Some Suggestions for Making trasting color and jlatge _leg-of-mutton Them Prettily. DAINTY WASH MATERIALS \MWritten Exclusively for The Evening Star. HIS WILL UN- doubtedly be a blouse waist summer. Ev-| erything goes to| show it. The Eton, | Bolero and commen | blazer jacket will be worn, for all the shops are showing | them among their! new spring — styies. | ‘They are just a little} differeat from those worn last summer, the difference being {im the skirt only. It is made with a great | {deal of flare, und ts, in fact, a very stylish | rig. With such skirts and jackets a| Blouse waist in some cf ‘ts numerous | forms is a necessity. There is no ether | kind of a waist that can be worn with the | absurd little jackets. H The sensible blouse waist will be made of wash material, such as gingham, lawn, ealico or percale. If one f2els very affluent wash silk will be added; but a word right loops for trimming. Another waist, that a swell modiste made last week fora traveling dress, is of brown shot Louisine and brown velvet in widely contrasting shades. The yoke girdle and lower part of the sleeves vai a ca a are of the velvet and the tiny toque is Bere as to wash silk, so called it is &| Dine to match the sult tn shades of brown. waste of one's substance t> buy the cheap "A" Sretty little woman ta Hk heats stuff that is sold under the name of “wash silk.” It is very pretty as it lies on the counter. and the colors are “fast,” but the stuff is as flimsy as tissue p4per after it is ‘once washed. The dressing comes out in the wash tub, and it looks like an inferior ‘quality of lawn after it has been laundered. | keeps indoors most of the time, wears the daintiest blouse confections imaginable, with nearly all her gowns. She is always perfectly gowned, too. She has low-necke, sleeveless cambzic or silk waists on every of her dress skirts. These lift the ‘ht of her skirts from her hips to her shoulders and keep them perfectly ad- justed, so that there is no possible chance for them to sag anywhere. Over these waists she wears the blouse, belted lightly down, and she is always a picture to look at, because she is so well put together. This idea of a waist for the skirts of women who are so slender that they have |no hips to hold up their skirts is an excel- lent one. A new waist that has just been | made for this pretty woman 1s of helio- trope swivel silk. It has wide shoulder ruffles of cream lace and full sleeves gath- ered in a little puff at the wrist. As she is quite thin the full puffing of silk in front is extremely becoming, also the fall of lace from under the wide belt of heliotrope satin. It is quite the thing to wear the blouse | effect in waists for theater and informal evening dresses. A siim girlish figure | will look quite fetching in one made of |blush pink or yellow silk, with a wide bertha of lace, a ruffle of silk below the belt, and the lace falling back from the arm just enough to suggest that there ure good points that remain uncovered. There are fat old dowagers, however, who will insist on adopting this style in all proba- bility—blush pink and all, in spite of the fact that no woman who has passed her first youth should essay pink gowns, unless For Utility. Where is positively no wear in silk that sells under 5 cents a vari, and there is very little that will pass muster under 75 cents. A blouse waist that is to ke should be made eause no two kin in the wash | fit badly a |puimiy strle ' laundered | up without a lini Plainly made waist, with three plai's cr else perfectly plaim, nm the front id gathered ito a wide * waists have a wide oulders, with most of the | top of the slee With | the favorite collar is a} and tne sleeve will be a mutton leg, with un imitation cuff stitched on. Another waist that sppeals} | strongly to the heart of the giri who wants | *€o give the impression of w j Brother's cast-off tinen is the s ;2t is not pretty, but is jr fs all-suffictent. It is made Man's shirt, with a yoke in ‘stiffly starched bosom, relling or |edilar, three studs, uncetacned cuffs and all. Of course no up-to-date young woman | will be guilty of wearing detachsble cuffs tnd collars, and thus lead the world to + for the.s Sometimes the brute over t fuliness at the this style of waist moderate turn-down, Theater Waist. she is wildly anxious for people to see that the blush in her cheex is ar She will see to it also that there is noth- ing to be conjectured in the way of back and breast, but the modest girl will not care to make what men term a “holy show” of herself. It is a matter of regret that girls cannot early learn these nice dis- tinctions. A poor girl may ca:ry style in every line of her neatly made, though cheap gowns, while the woman who has not learned the broad distinction between flash and cultured taste, will only suc- ceed in giving to the public the impres- sion that she is masquerading in borrowed | finery. IW. B. | ———+e+_____ THE SEWING ROOM. An Apartment Especially in | This Season. From the Philadelphi: The old adage, saved is time gained,” has nowhere no more pointed ap- | plication than in the realm of the needle- | woman. To employ the few “spare mo- |ments” (alas! to busy women how few!) advantageously needs previous method and Use at A general search for material, pins, cotton, silk, needles, and finaliy a | pause to replenish patience and amiability, cannot be counted as a favorable beginuing, | and yet seems to be the accepted one. How pattern, Watking Dress Blouse. think that t chanze h | prosy the maxim, “a place for everything, every day ttle od@ th: and how delightful the reward of keepiag en a man these same "in their places! The sl r | woman who all over the house and gives luxury of | “also reaps’ trouble: and dis- _— silk a er orderly harvest in the threads and snips so ns the dificult to remove erings of the pres: While requiring of this thread-and-ne the end, whether membe are its busy occupants stress takes up her abode The first essential, 1s plenty of light, as sewing, under he most favorable conditions, is'a tax upon the eyes. A sewing machine of the most approved manufacture, but (like a piano) its | Yalue in the inside, the beauty of polished wood and outward appearance seconds is also “a must have.” Convenience, hoy ever, is vested in the iarge closet, with its | hooks, wide shelv: and drawe: large and small, as purpose requires. How conducive to comfort the plain labels upon their |fronts, indicating contents: how. easy ‘to find “linings,” rs," &c., with the words before one as guide! The hooxs upon whic to hang half-completed garments, thus preventing creases and protection fr \dust. The furnished basket, |motten by way of smail for levery sort of work, avolds delay of making a toilet and spending an hour of precious time, and ten cents car fare to secure a | five-cent spool of twist or cotton. A lesson from experience establishes a rule for text | time, or should. | In furnishing this ttle room—presnmably |at the top of the house, cut of the way of | formal callers and other influences disturb- |Ing to homely tasks—util!ty should be the | keynote, comfort the theme. © =e | Thoughtless Cruelty. From the Ladies’ Home Companion. | “It surprises me that half the children |in this country do not grow up minus an | arm,” sald an observer of men and things. | “Do you see that woman walking with a | | | rom the heavy floor cov- ni day. ‘e to arrange the details lle doma that it made f girl k nt Seam- shirt company r that the ™ they wil! after U r Pities, too, for it is fortable garment eve > it puss 2 thousand the most com. by women ex- ard” and its If women ttle more careful how es together when they It will 1 really worn they put little child? Now, notice her when she erceses the street.” At the crossing the woman Hfted the child by one arm; it dangled in the air, and {ts feet did ‘not teuch the earth until it was across the street, when the mother dropped {t on the sidewalk. “She is safe! over,” continued | the philc her with a sigh of relief, “but I was afraid at one time the arm would be wrenched from its socket. Now, that is a sight you can witness every hour of the day—mothers dragging children out of street cars, across the streets, or up a filght of stairs by one arm. I wonder how the ep {t from mak- ing its wea blivious to those | mothers would Itke it if a being four times necessities of amp an jas la as themselves should suddenly @f taste. Just because the biouse is loose | swoop down and lift them by one arm. @nd easy is no reason why it should be | I'd like to see it tried once, I just would.” 'SLOPING SHOULDERS! Senora Sara Frees Her Mind About the New Style AND LAYS BARE THE SECRET OF BEAUTY The Cultivation of the Body Begins in the Cradle. A PURE, WHITE SOUL —— Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HE TENDENCY OF the styles seems to be that the shoulders shall slope again. I did hope that this ridiculous fashion would remain the sule property cf the fops who brought it again into vogue. The slop- ing shoulder belcngs essentially to the do- nothing class. It ts met with most large- ly among that small fraction of the human family where “Hon- est work for the day, honest hope for the morrow” has been tabooed and everything in existence has been summed up as a “bore.” They have, in fact, adopted it as their sign manual, their trade mark. I wish that they had patented the thing, so that it could never have got to he common property. The edict has gone forth. how- ever, that shoulders shall slope, and now all the girls are trying to train do n a the shoulders that they have been so ly E s having an almost mas line squareness. We will no longer see women with the level shoulders that Phid- fas gave his Minerva or those of Frax- itile's Venus, but must take up the man- tle—pray heaven, the manners and morals will be left to molder—of Anne of Aus- tria and of Madame Maintenon me Pompadour and all the others who wore the tiny panniers, the round-neck dresses, the falling collars and the rare laces thal are again so much prized. In those days they wore, too, hoops and busil+s, slippers without heels and preposterous head dress- es, and were always “swoonin ‘There are a great many things that women will do when fashion commands, but | think they will draw the line on the silliness that made that period notorion: Woman's dress is constructed more near- ly on hygienic lines than ever befure in the history of the world. Greek lines were loose enough, but they were not hygienic. If one of those ancient Grecian goddesses should be set down in this nineteenth cer tury of energetic hustle she would tind flowing robes about as much of a nuisance as a trained dress at an inauz ball She would be simply impracticable. The Grecian woman did not liv 3 she did not go to office or clerk in a store. She did not give 5 o'clock teas in a six by ten parlor, and she didn’t play tennis or bowl or fence, and she didn't have te run up and down stairs forty times a Jay in the Mother Hubbard thing called a Greek dre I heard a dressmaker say not lon.¢ sin n that before many years a :nodiste would bie have to study anatomy, so as to be to construct a dress on absolutely s tifle Mnes. The sloping shoulders are not a pleasing innovation to Dorothy and the rest girls, and tney wer our house the other of opinion was that the ful nor pretty. Then the « : constituted t turned on what real beauty, anyway. That Thing a Woman's Beauty. “] was reading what a French writer said about it the other "said Bo I don’t quite agree w' find beauty mainly in the physical woman. She must have small rosy ea-s, a slender white throat, small white hands, nicely tapering fingers, a smooth serene brow, uniformly arched temples, small mouth, narrow eyebrows, which do not meet, dazk eloquent eyes, small pretty feet, be not too tall, graceful, have a gentle voice, good taste, and be attentive in her de- meanor to others. O, yes, she must have ‘superficial’ cation. Now how do you the picture? hat was Grenaille, was it not?” asked Elaine, from the depths of a big chair. “I think I recognize the sentiments as his. It is my candid opinion that he would tle of beauty ay back in stand a poor show as an apo today. You see, he wrote the sixteenth century. Woman then was a creature of sentiment, a lovely lacka- daisical die-away being, given to trembling emotions or swoons of insensibility at any emergency. A tender fragile flower, care- fuily reared under glass. Her delicacy was abnormal, and her descendants feel to the present day the effect of her false system of living, and exhibit it in delicacy of frame, overstrung nerves and a_ morbid shrinking fom responsibility. I don’t think that the woman who pronounced lunar apostrophes, in thin kid slippers, swooned when a man told her he her, and repeated succession when he suid that he didn't, is to be compared with the women of today. The nineteenth-century woman is built on broad lines. She is robust and stands on he: own feet. Her intellectual balances the emotional side of her nature, and she stands on the same plane with a man when she invades his world. The creature that Grenaille describes could not do that, she may have been pret but {it was the prettiness of the Dresden china figure. The nineteenth-century woman is just as beautiful, and a great deal nobler, in my opinion.” “I don’t think that mere regularity feature amounts to much,” said Nora, re- flectively. Nora is as pzetty as a_haif- blown rose, and just as sv “T think there must be something back of a face to make it really beautiful. The windows of the soul must not mirror an ungarnished interior.” Beauty a Local Issue. “[ heard an awfully homely girl give her idea of beauty once, and when I thought it all over, it seemed that she had it about right.” said Dorothy, laughing at the re- membrance. “I have heard of people who would stop a clock, they were so homely, joved the operation twice in of but I never believed it till I saw her. Positively, she had not one redeeming feature. But talk about soul and mind, she had abundance of both, and a sweet voice beside. One day we got to talking about what constituted a really beautiful woman, and she said that she believed that it was like some men think about the tariff, purely a local matter. ‘Beauty in one land is the reverse in another,’ she went on. ‘I think, individually, that tt Is soul that makes beauty, and nothing clse. I am as pretty inside as any girl that eve: lived. Take a lot of pretty girls in the dark, and my chances are as good as any to be called a beauty. Let a blind man smell a bunch of mignonette, and a camellia, and he will say that the mignon- ette is the most beautiful, because it ap- peals to the beautiful as interpreted by him, far moze than the pure white flower, which he must test with another sense to appreciate. This proves that beauty, as s0 called, is in the looker-on and not in the looked upon. Let a man listen to two girls chattering in another room, and he will be in sympathy with the one who has the sweete> voice. Men have been known to fall madly im love with a voice, and later with its possessor, although she was as homely as a woman could well be.’ I think on the whole that my homely friend's theorfes are nearly correct.” Bobbie nodded her head approvingly. “I think that a beautiful soul makes a beau- tiful face, but {f the soul {fs lovely will not its owner want to keep its tenement as sweet and clean and as perfectly dressed as possible. We should not despise or belittle the good gifts that nature has bestowed upon us. They were surely given us for some wise purpose.” After All, Dress is Important. “Indeed they were, Bobbette,” interrupted Elaine, as she bent to touch the cheek so temptingly near her. “The question of what constitutes the highest personal at- tractions is one not yet reduced to simple terms. They do not depend upon face and form alone, that is certain; but unless a man {s blind as a bat he certainly aces the material person before he recognizes the mental or spiritual attractions. It is diff- cult to define beauty, and equally diMeult to draw the line upon homeliness; but. I think there are two prime requisites to real beauty, and they are health and taste. With those two, @ woman with a modicum of brains can make herself charming, and to be charming is better than to be a wax figure beauty. At least sb it looks to m “You have both, Elaine, and you are charming. So we accept your theory un- challenged. Please mount the platform end give us a lecture on how to become beauti- ful, and, what is more to the point, tell us how to retain it after we have got it.” And, amid a chorus of “just the thing,” Nora flung a big hassock in front of Elaine for an impromptu platform. She was a little disconcerted, but, with a merry laugh, de- clared that as private lectures were the order of the day, she was perfectly willing to do her share in furnishing food for the hungry mind. “But what shall I talk about, and where shall I begin?” she asked. “Tell us where to begin to get beauty of body and soul and mind,” suggested Louise. “Is it ever too late? And can one begin too early?” “The cradle is a good starting place,” suggested Dorothy. Strart Right From the Cradle. “Indeed it is,” replied the matter-of-fact Elaine. “Somebody has said that the way to build a perfect man is to start a hun- dred years before the child is born. And if there is anything in heredity his theory is the correct one. Men follow out this theory with stock, and I don’t see why it will not hold equally good with human beings. But as we cannot go back of the parents, the cradle is the place to begin to make beau- uful women and stalwart men. I have had a good deal of experience with little chil- dren in the hospitals and kindergartens of Chicago, and do you know, girls, I have the profoundest sympathy for a baby. Some of them do have such helpless mothers! Now what sort of a show for life would a baby have that was placed in the arms of one of us today if we didn’t have mothers or sis- ters or somebody to care for it for the first six months of its life, while we were learn- ing that it its bands were tight {t would suffer just as we do in tight stays, that to- bacco smoke will give it colic, and tea and coffee are only fit to poison its elders? I do certainly pity the average baby! Just think if one of us was taken today and plumped into the arms of a giantess, who wanted to be good to us, but could not understand our cries, and sup; she tossed us in the air to hear us catch our breath in fright, and then because we howled laid us over her knee and trotted the breath out of us. “Suppose she chucked us under tne chin to make igh, and when we indigaantly shrieked instead she filled us up with such slops as catnip tea and peppermint on t theory that when a baby cried it nad either the colic or was hungry. Think of having body that visited the house stuffing finger in your mouth to fea ‘he teeth that a proud mother insists re there, end being forced to face a glaring sum that the guest may see the color of your eyes. I il you that the first two or three vears of a child's life are its hardest ones, and It ts a wonder to me that by the time a child is five years old it has not devalcped into a perfect little fiend. There is the injudicicus humoring which effectually spoils it. and then come the indiscriminate spankings to eradicate little tricks which were taught it at two and thought cute, but which at five are forward and impertinent. ‘The child sees the injustice of it, and rasenis !t in the only way in its power, by being worse than ever. EASTER DECORATIONS A Pretty Combination of Egg Shells, Cotton and Tissue Paper. A LUNCHEON SOUVENIR How to Make Dainty Dolls for Old and Young. A VARIETY OF STYLES eae Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HREE HEADS were bent in earnest consultation, and three brains were racked to their utter- most depths for some new and original idea for the decorations for an Easter lunch- eon, We had had rabbits and chickens, eggs of brightest hues in baskets or nests, or supported by gay ribbons, lovely hand- painted eggs, dyed eggs and candy eggs; but all these ideas seemed so worn out that we were simply pining for something new. While we were thus plunged in despair Margaret suddenly exclaimed, “Oh, I have it, girls! I have it!” She threw herself back upon the luxuriantly cushioned couch, but it was some time before our entreaties could prevail upon her to disclose her bril- lant idea. : “Well,” she said at last, “you remember those queer heads we made last year of eggs—each with its big hat and broad ruffe to stand on? Why not make whole figures, instead of just the head “Oh, pshaw! is that all?” sighed Bess. “I don’t think that would be nice; they would be so large, and then, besides, what would we make the bodies of?” “Why, you do not catch the idea at all,” explained Margaret. “I mean to make the body of Simple Mode of Life. “I think—to get back to the jiestioa of healthy growth—that a little child is simply a little animal, and we should have the same care for its well being thar men have for their blooded stock. It shu:ud be fed only those things that agree should not be handled and ts t irritable by everybody that would not invite chronic dysp stroying the coating of its stox strong drugs and soothing siruns than I would think of impairi usefulness of a fin tor dog by dosing it, The mother who permits her baby to te uffed with sweets that she knows with herself, or dulls it into qui narcotics, is paving the w ills every kind. Some babies with con. tions of cast iron’ live through such t and seem strong. But it is only one in a hundred. A child to grow up in a perfectly heaithy way should have oniy the plainest nd simplest food. It should 4e comfurta- bly clothed and grow up in the open air. Hot-house children never .lo amount to . Pid Mee eeee A Market Woman. the egg, and that will make the figure quite small. The heads are the most troublesome. If we only had some small eggs it would be lovely. I should think pigeon eggs would be just about right; but then we have none, so we must try to think of something else.” “Why wouldn’t a piece of an egg-shell do for the face, and then cover up the edge with the hair?” I suggested, having hith- erto been taking in all that was said) “The very thing,” they cried; and so we all set to work. We first visited the pantry and selected a dozen light cream-colored eggs. The longest ones we decided were the best for our purpose. We then punctured them at each end and easily blew out the inside into a cup. With our box of gay and deli- cate colored tissue paper, odds and ends of crepe paper, a lot of cotton wadding, the mucilage bottle and a sharp pair of scis- sors we were ready for the pleasant task of making and dressing the dolls. First we made a ball of cotton for the head, and glued on the piece of shell we had cut from the side of an egg; then a small piece of cotton was fluffed out and fastened on the head, so as to completely cover the outline of the face. Of course we had different styles of coiffure for each doll. The head was then securely glued to the large end of an egg, exactly the same col- There are three things that a child most have to grow up wholesome and good—comt- fortable clothing, plenty to eat and wise A chiid should be made to otey But whatever else [ Jil, would nit a child to be taugat things finally ‘unlearn.’ My music tea aid to me, ‘lam forced end Vv eradicating cf false It would be better if yon had a piano; one never quite geis over bad metho I think that is true with children. Some of the children in cho kindergarten had no training at all, ard the fraction left over would have been bet- ter without any, for what they had was of a vicious sort. A horse trainer would be discharged on the spot who was discovered teaching a colt to kick or bite or rear, be- cause it looked ‘cute,’ when its duty in lite was to beat the record trotting, fer faults of that kind will destroy the vatue of the animal. Because It Looks Cute. “But I have seen children paid to do a parrot-like recitation of shady songs, to sully their red lips with the latest slang and to smoke pipes or cigars just to gratify the taste of some inconsiderate brat#, who thought it smart and who liked to see the wry faces made. They were not the chil- dren of the slums, either, but of well-to-do people, who later would wonder how Provi- dence ever came to afflict them with chil- dren whe would swear, drink, smoke and had all the other small vices, when they had ‘tried so hard to rear thei righ they really had after these small errors had grown to be habit. One mother, I remen- ber particularly, almost cried when she was relating to her pastor the trials she had with her young daughter, whom she characterized as a ‘regular little limb, with the tastes of a circus come li yet I knew that when the child was small she was bright and quick and had been taught to do the very things that her mother was then so bitterly bewailing. She loved to sing, and they were at some mias to teach her the lines of a low song sung in variety theaters, because the sentiments were so ‘funny’ as coming from her baby lips. The mother was only reaping what che sowed. “Certainly the seeds of beauty are sown in every soul. If the sunlight of love and tender, watchful care are withheld, the seed will not sprout at all, or, if it is strong enough to start, it will be like the slip held down by_a stone, weak, tender and mis- shapen. Washington Irving said, ‘Tt is the divinity within that makes the divinity with- out;’ and I believe it. That is why I think that the cradle is the place to begin to make people beautiful. I have been a long time getting to it, Louise, but you see that I think you cannot begin too early to acquire As for the other question, whether late—weil, it is never too late vyho wants to her friends can do so by making herself attractive. It is too deep a question to consider just now, except in the abstract, but I think that there Is always a chance for improvement as long as one re- tains the faculties with which they were born. When we get too old to iearn, it is time for us to get out of the way. Of sll disagreeable things on earth, deliver me from_the woman who thinks she knows it all. She is the very one who should be taking beauty lessons, for she has failed to learn the first letter of the alphabet of beauty, to be considerate of the feelings of others.” “It looks to me,” said Jennie, reflectively, as Elaine paused, “as though you had made out a pretty strong case against mothers, as papa would put it. Do you really think that mothers are to blame when their children fall to grow up to be good men and women?” It is the Mother's Duty. Not always, but very often. Mothers are too willing to put off on servants the care of their little ones; glad to get them out of the way. No paid person can be expected to take the interest in a child that a mother would—that is, if she were the right kind of a mother. Yet the health, morals and man- ners of the children of the rich are looked after by women, as a general thing, whom the mother of the children would not permit to sit at the table with her, and certainly would not entertain in her drawing room, to say nothing of her lack of education and mental endowments. Her language is gen- erally a mixture of slang and localism, and the children pick that up the first thing. She fs often really vicious,but this the mother does not find out until after she finds her children have become contaminated. A child’s mind 1s like a piece of wax; it Is easily scarred when young and pliable, and the scars sink deep. A man will tell you of some little incident of his early childhood and be nonplussed to answer correctly a question of an occurrence of last week, with which he was perfectly familiar at the time. To sum it all up, girls, 1 am of the opinion that soul and body, mind and matter, must work together to make a truly beautiful woman, or a manly man, and, I think, ft is a duty that we owe to the Creator and to our associates that we make the temple of the soul as fair for its tenant as we do the palace for the material man.” Well, that was a jump, wasn’t it? From sloping shoulders to souls; but, some way, I think that the girls worked it out all right. I know they made me do some very hard thinking after they had gone to the matinee, and I wondered if, according to Elaine’s measure of one’s accountability, I had very much margin. For that matter, have any of us? SENORA SARA, able training. never touched 2 ti A Dainty Little Lady. or as the face; the arms were made of rolls of cotton and glued to each side in the proper position; a few stitches at the wrists shaped the hands. When the skirts were glued around the waist we found that they were so stiff that the little ladies stood up beautifully, and we gaily vied with each other to see who could produce the best effect. There were ladies of high and low degree, and of all nationalities from the peasant and merry little country lassies to stately dames with powdered hair and trailing gowns, and fair young maidens of the present time, making a gorgeous and beautiful array. Margaret's last creation was pronounced the achievement par ex- cellence. A ladye of ye olden tyme, and a beau in continentals—the soft white queue tied with black, was “simply killing”—and as she had true artistic skill she gave to all the finishing touches with the aid of brush and water color—giving to each the expression in eyes and features most ap- propriate. They will make a charming addi- tion to our Easter luncheon as they stand by each plate holding the name card. A detailed account of some of the cos- tumes may prove of interest and assistance to those desiring to make these Easter souvenirs. The first figure shows how the doll is constructed. It represents a market wo- man, the dress, indicated by the dotted lines, 1s of bright red tissue paper, with A Maiden in Yellow. big puffed sleeves. A kerchief of white paper is crossed in the front, while an apron of the same ts tied in a big tow in the back. The odd little bonnet ts of red, tied with a bow of white. The second illustration is of a dainty little lady, her white hair ts piled high and is decorated with a pink aigrette. The dress is of pink crepe paper, cut very low in the neck. The back is arranged in a full 7 | Watteau train, which sweeps majesticall | behind her. The front of the skirt od ithe flowing sleeves are of white tissue. | The fan is a plaited piece of pink paper, over which she coquettishly glances. The third design shows a stout little maiden*dressed in yellow. Her hair is ar- ranged quite long and is surmounted: by 5S apd lon ge ed aoe — .) buffed crown, is very simple, being gathered about the low neck and belted in just be- In Violet Crepe. low the arms by a wide sash of yellow. The sleeves are of double puffs with a ruf- fie at the wrist. On one arm she carries a tiny basket, made of the end of an egg shell, with a stiff white paper handle. The last design is of wiolet crepe. The skirt is made in three ruffles, while a nar- row ruffe is arranged ‘about the neck. The | full es is belted in with a sash of the same. sleeves are a full puff. The peak- a4 hat is also of violet. a am sure many people who have long passed their childish days, as well as the little ones, will be delighted with these | dainty “trifles light as air.” GM R —-o-—__ HOT WATER FOR THE SKIN. . Try It and See if Your Complexion is Not Benefited. “How much your complexion 1s im- proved, my dear!” said young Mrs. Noodles to a friend of hers the other day. “Per- haps I, ought not to speak of it, but I cannot forbeathe compliment.” “Hot water,” she replied, briefly. “Hot water? “Exactly so. You never heard of that as a cosmetic, perhaps, but it is a new thing. The skin doctors are all recommending it. For my own part, I have the highest opin- ion of its efficacy, judging from experience. Thanks to it, I seem to have got rid of an eruptive tendency which has caused me a great deal of annoyance, not to say dis- tress.” “You don’t say so! Pray tell me, how do you apply it?” “It is quite simple as well as harmless— two very important advantages. Buy a soft sponge and twice a day, or oftener if it be convenient, mop your face with water as hot as you can bear it. Be Mberal with the application and follow {t promptly with cold water. You will find that it has a wonderful effect in beautifying the skin.’ Nowadays, in various barber shops in Washington, one sees signs that read: “Shaving, with hot steam towel.” This rocess originated in Boston. It is a most luxurious method. After the face has been duly scraped towels moistened with steam an¢ as hot as one can bear them are put around the face. The sensation ts extreme- ly soothing and agreeable. A judicious fee Destowed upon the tonsorial artist will prolong it pleasantly, one towel after an- other being applied to the number of a dozen perhaps. The Boston barber shop that introduced this system has found another use for it in a modified form. It enjoys a regular patronage from giddy youths and men about town who suffer pertodically from swelled heads in the morning. They visit the establishment referred to and have them reduced by heat. The method consists in wrapping first around the head a hot dry towel. Over this a wet steamed towel, superheated, is put, and then another and another. The ef- fect to the eye of a temporary wreck from over-night dissipation done up in this style is very odd indeed. As soon as the cloths get cooled they are replaced with fresh ones. It is said that the effect is very sat- isfactory and enjoyable. —_—>—_——_ LIP LANGUAGE THE NEW FAD. England's Upper Ten Learning to Speak Without Articulating the Words “Lip language” is understood, says the London Graphic, to be the latest craze which will occupy the spare time of society in the place of banjo playing and skirt dancing. Somebody once sang something about When meek gray eyes droop stfli more meek, And dimples play at hide and seek, There's but one language lips can speak; ‘Tis brief, but rather pleasant. Perchance we have all of us had some ex- perience of this kind in our time, but it is quite a different kind of lip language that I am now alluding to. It is reading and un- derstanding words shaped by the lips with- out articulation. That this is possible is well known by the efficient manner in which deaf actors have been able to take their part on the stage, and if people become proficient in the art, it will be surprising how quiet society will become. Doubtless, life will be somewhat dull; but, at any rate, we shall be spared that per- petual babble and cackle which ofttimes makes a dinner party so wearisome, and we shall get rid of the roar and buzz of over- crowded assemblies. If perfection is at- tained in the art, with a couple of good opera glasses, people will be able to con- verse when a considerable distance apart. The male practicers of the art will undoubt- edly have to shave, and it will be a nice point of law to find whether slander or libel conveyed by this silent system will be ac- tionable or not. Probably the only people who will object to the new pastime will be those perpetual jabbers, those incessant jaw exercisers, to whom nothing is so sweet as the sound of their own voices. ———_+-e-+-____ A Poet’s Predicament. From Life. Alas, for the fancy that led my In ‘the wondering ways of rhyma! How little I thought, when I wrote them then, I should hate my verses so fiercely when I should read them in later time. How little I knew they would wreck Of my hopes at a future dase? T sold the verses. and casted the check, spent it (I think it was Porm ‘ ‘And went on my daily way. = yay ‘thar — Distrinited ieee toe “helinoicet Addressed to a maiden “fond and true,” Whose hair is “golden” and eyes are “bine”— And ber hair and eyes are brown! —<o-—___ Sonnet to April. We greet you, April, lightly tripping in, And list while you im silvery tones recite Your prologue, rosy from your rapid flight, Foretelling scenes that shall forthwith begin. The budding violet you gently bold In your fair-molded band, and your warm breath Awakes to life from its most seeming death The dandelion with its crown of gold. The mayflower opes its half closed drowsy eyes, And breaks iu smiles to see your lovely face; Across the stage you filt with airy grace, ‘While o'er you falls the sunshine of the skies. You come o'er snowy hills and tce-bound streams, And lead us to the Paradise of Dreams. —WALTER ALLEN RICR Articled Cle: From Life. Miss Gush- h, colonel, just look at those magnificent elms. I am sure you love trees. Col. Blank—“Dearly, Miss Gush. ed to love them during the war.”—i r —} FOR HOME FOLKS How to Spoil Bread and Children's Stomache. WHISKY AND BAD BREAD In Giving Dinners Follow Common- Sense Rules. BAD HURRY AND OVERWORE Written for The Evening Star. 8 dress you that it will scale twice as easy. water on and do not let fat custard and pumpkin baked in. Set the tile squarely ter of this and fasten with will take two or three course, it must be painted with the This makes a cheap stand, but if the has a bit of taste, it is capable Some treatment, and will Hail i ; the enough to select its own reading. . . . If the baby has the hiccoughs, moisten jitdle sugar with @ drop of vinegar and A good cook says that the secret cookery, except in judicious use of flour, butter, herbs with salt and pepper, a the ‘pplication of a very slow iy appear. stove is the only thing in will put @ woman out more wait on her guests or members ily to come to a meal after it is - . . Se It is said that if you have to take medicine that you can quite effectual! Suise the taste by using ice water to it in, and drinking ice water just taking it, s0 as to numb the sense with the cold. It ts a good way to take o! Eat a crust of dry bread right after bit! medicines; it will destroy the bad taste once. ev we eo If you want a nice rug that will wear well and yet not cost a fortune have one made of a long wool sheepskin. A great many of the rugs sold in the market for are nothing in the world but long sheepskin. Get some farmer who has sheep to cure the skin for you, then color it your. self with the wool dyes that are sold ready prepared. feel BRE i “2. 8 @ @ Here ts a good recipe for ebonizing wood, Soak the wood to be treated for two days in warm alum water. If the article hap- pens to be a table or something quite as large smooth and clean it carefully, then with a brush apply the hot alum water as often as possible for the two days. Then boil a handful of logwood chips in a quart of water until it measures only a pint. in this a piece of indigo as big as a iy and apply the liquid hot, using a brush, This will make the wood a violet color. Apply this three times, waiting each time for it to dry. Boil a little in some vinegar and give a coat of Let the wood stand the three days, polish well with a chamois skin and nish. “2. © © © Here is Swift's idea of a good dinn would hardly pass muster in this age: ii é i “Give no more to Than he’s able to digest; Give him always of the prime, And but little bs @, time “ag . n*t it children to drink tea semen’ Ei'Goes not add to their one bit; on the contrary, it is hurtful. It cannot be anything else, it has been settled on good authority unless carefully made, which they are, tea and coffee are absolutely hurtful It is senseless to give children jants of that kind when they not need them, and only tease for them because they are sometimes withheld. . 2 . ids ere are two or three common-sense Bit that would save a would-be enter- tainer a lot of heartache, if she will only heed them. The sensible housekeeper never tries to make her dinners and teas more tently permit. It is always a source co of annoyance to attempt to do things that are beyond the limitations of your cook or you have a reputation beyond your hi and of which she has heard. Make things pleasant and pretty in your own simple fashion, and you will be a success—that ta, if you have displayed spotless linen napery shining glassware and burnished silver, and have had the good taste to invite only those who are congenial to each other. os In severe paroxysms of coughing. a table spoonful of glycerine in a glass of hot milk will give almest instantaneous relief. _ 2. 6 || In setting the table the blades of the knives should be turned from the plate; the | bowls of spoons and tines of fork: ibe turned up _—