Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1896, Page 18

18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST: 6, 18096-TWENTY-FOUR’ PAGES FAIRNEWPORT’SRIVAL ——s Bar Harbor Now Challenges the At- tention of the Smart Set. STYLES SEP AT THE MAINE RESORT Modish Gewns of the Summer Girls and Matrons. COSTUMES FOR ATHLETICS = (Copyright, 1896, by the Tacheller Syndicate.) BAR HARROR, Me., August 5, 1898. This is the month when, if ever, one would expect to s2e Newport in the height of its glories, nor is the expectation cheat- ed. But there is a haunting sladow of doubt, a cast of apprehension. A rival has arisen whese rivalry wil no longer submit to being ignored. Newport, queen as it is of ocean stmmer rerorts, is afraid of Bar Harbor—not afraid that its own glories will be eclipsed, but that they will be di- vided. Fear came upon Newport and trembling which made all her bones shake when some of the diplomats, who flee from Washing- ton every summer, began to take up the'r regidence ere. There were reasons for the change. Europeans don't like hot weather. They ure unused to it, the glish especially, like to get as far north as the In the shelter of mate is glorious. The water really never gets warm enough for bathing, but there are wonderful still reaches for canoes which somehow will always balance just right with neither one nor three inmates. And there is a mour- tain to climb where Newport has non and there is a fresh water lake or pon near the salt, and fishing and almost taste of wi are buck neighboring country in the most approved fashion. The Bar Harbor buckboard like the Bermuda donkey cart. Nearly every one tries it once. Besides there are the great Maine woods very near, and there have been tales told of deer so plentiful and so tame that they are veritable nuisar: >: about the farmers’ And the glorious 12th of August 4. when people who have schooled Ives to re¢ time after the English calendar feel that it is the season to be inking aiout killing something. ourse, there is not in Bar Harbor at palaces which call them- cottages,” where Newport has five, the houses, because newer, are far ettler and in better taste. And the so- y is a fine compeund of the aristocratic reserve of Newport and the democratic Bayety of Saratoga. There are no “nicer” People in the world than those who come | here, judged even by the society standard, | but they seem under these less conventional | skies to have shaken off something of the | Newport dread that some one not in the | holy of holies of the 4 may meet one on the street. Ber Harbor Is more like Newport than Saratoga in its frank athleticism. The canoeing girl—this is her stronghold. The golfing girl-she is everywhere, like her cycling sister. The Bar Harbor girl wears her gown loose, but well fitting. She has no use for the eighteen-inch waist. Even her shoes have often a sensible athiet! jook, and the thought of them reminds me that we are to have this year a welcome return of broader, shorter-toed shoes. And really, the toothpick des.gns were becoming ~ tri! too extreme for beauty or good taste. 1 have spoken of the aquatic girl The prettiest canoeing gown I have seen—bet- ter suited for being paddled than for pad- diing one's own canoe, however—is a skirt of fine blue serge, with a bodice of white cloth daintily embroidered with gold cord in oak leaves. This opens in front lke a zovave jacket, though it Is belted more like a Norfolk, to show a pleat of the serge smartened with little peari buttons. The white cloth is carried out over the shoui- ders with its lines of gold, and there are fine pipe-lines of white down the seams of the skirt and upon the lower sleeves, whica is not “new.” Somehow, the bell-muzzled sleeve seems inappropriate to canoeing, it looks so easy of entrance for the water | which will run back down the paddle handle if you lift the blade. ‘There is a somewhat absurd practice of wearing one’s belt buckied tightly around - waist outside the blouse. An odd co: tume in this questionable sort is a dove-gray alpaca, whose bodice is gathered blouse- fashion in front ind back and decorated with steel ornaments. The front breadth of the skirt is fenced off from the rest, apron faynion, with double bands of stee jet and a narrow line of black satin be- tween. There are side pieces a life at command, and there ards wherewith to storm the wide white sash-like belt has a long end | falling bebind, and up the inside of the arm and across the bust runs extremely fine, close pleating. The appearance is rather odd, but not at all displeasing. The new sleeve ts still experimental, so far as its final shape ts concerned. It is surely coming, yet its precise nature differs so much that it ts hard to say whether the! prevailing typé will finally be such a sieeve | as I have just described, where the arm shape is outlined by traraverse pleating down the inside, or by Ught sleeves with the cape oversiseves flounced and furbe- lowed with lace, or the elbow sleeve slash- €d deep to show a Ught undersleeve to the wrist, or the odd, ugly sleeve which begins in a huge bell at the wrist, runs tight to four inches above the elbow and then ex- pands into am absurd little fat puff at the sop. Comtinations of black and white are held to be very modish. Even in flannel goods one sees them. The combination of black and white flannel, the skirt white, the bod- ice black. but much toned down with an applique of white embroidery, the pouch front under the jacket white and the belt a bow-tied biack ribbon—that ig an oddly pretty one worn by g piszza-haunting matron who ie r ved not to be a-cold along toward evening, A black and white siuk is more conven- tional. It bas the ugiy patt-top sleeves, with the bell-muszles at the wrists volley- ing smoke of lace, and there are biack silk tabs on the bust and shoulders and a wide, wide black ati belt, to atone for the fact that the ines in the ma- terials of the gown itasif are quite thin and not very Lear together, The inner bodice front is white ohiffon covered with dotted Jace, and there is yet other lace in profu- sion about the and the collar, The shade hat is omnipresent and omn! otent. Its might there is none to diapute. It rejoices in trimming of flowers or plumes, and even tulle quiiling of the ear- of white |! about the sleeves, rather an odd effect, the | « ler season is net quite despised. The fiar- ing or curved brim is more in favor than that which is straight. except where severe athleticism tempers the tdeal of beauty’s garb. Regret it as one may for the sake of wo- man’s freedom of motion, the bicycle bloomer is not seen here, any more than in Newport. That is to say, hardly ever. Plaids still hold their own, not only in the big plaids favored for golfing wear, but the finer silk plaids for gowns of more ceremonial! sort. Soft light tints of pink and yellow and green, with lace or grass linen over them, are still.seasonable. ELLEN OSBORN. . —>___—— TOLD HER EVERYTHING, A Detroit Woman's Wonderful Ex- pertence With a Clairvoyant. Two women with a bag of broken candy and another of peanuts between sat op- posite the writer In a street car the other day. One of them had just had a “won- derful experience” and was relating it to her companion in a voice loud enough to be heard by every one in the car. A reporter of the Detroit Free Press sat opposite, and this is what he heard: “I don't eare how much mud folks want to fliug at fortune tellers an’ cla’rvoyants. I know that some of ‘em are genuine. I've just come from one, an’ the things she told me fairly took my breath away.” “Do tell me about it.” “An’, mind you, she never laid eyes on me until today, an’ she told me things no livin’ human could of told her!” “What did she tell you?” “Well, first she went off into a trance, and she looked and groaned so awful I was red at first, but she told me to be calm. Then she said: ‘You are married, aren't you?” Now, how'd she know I was married? But, of course, I told her I was. ‘Then she says: ‘You have children, haven't you?’ Now, how did she know that?” “It was wonderful.” “I should say so. Then she up an’ says ‘Your husband ts a laboring man, isn't he? Now, how'd she know he wasn't a clerk or a doctor or mebbe a bank president? I'told her Jim was a laboring man, an’ she says: AFTERNOON AT BAR HARBOR. ‘He does not know that you have come here today,’ an’ he didn’t know a thing about it, but how'd she know that?” “Sure enough.” “Then she says: ‘You have an enemy; a tall, dark-eyed worran,’ and I know exactly whom she meant. ‘And,’ she says, ‘your husband {s a man who would rather be away from home than to home.’ Now, how did she know tnat "bout Jim? For he is al- ways on the go somewhere. B’longs to six lodges, an’ all that, an’ I Jaw him good for it. But how did she know but he was a reg’lar home granny?” “That's so.” “Then she says: ‘You are fond of going to the theater an’ reading novels,’ and I am. You give me a bag o’ candy an’ a good, excitin’ novel an’ let me go to see a real stirrin’ drammy like “The Two Or- phans’ an’ I'm happy, but how did she know that? Then she told me to beware of a small, blue-eyed woman, an’ I know ex- actly whom she meant. She said I'd be married twice an’ my rext husband would | be rollin’ in wealth, an’ I'd drive my own carriage yet. It was just wonderful the things sne told me.” “] should say so.” “I'l! admit that I've been taken in once or twice by these sham cla’rvoyants, but I Aidn't begrudge this one a penny of the two dollars I paid ber, for she was genuine. But Jim’d make an awful fuss if he knew I'd Spent two dollars that way, and I wouldn't dare tell ‘im “bout my second hus- band. He ain't what you might call one 0” the jealous kind, but I don’t think he'd like it. It was a wonderful experience.” ee ee ggg ghee ee CARE OF CANINES, What to Do for Fido Frem the Clncinnat! Commercial Tribune. Now that “dog days” are approaching, many owners of valuable canine pets are concerned how best to care for their animals during these hot days, when they are most subject to disease. John Leonard, an old sportsman, living at Hartwell, and well known for his wide and varied experience with all kinds of dogs, gives many useful hints as to thelr manage- ment in summer months. “If a dog is in good condition,” said Mr. Leonsrd, “it is best in hot weather to give him a little less food than usual, and it should be light and easily digestible. Rich and hearty foods heat the blood and so in- duce a variety of skin diseases. In many kennels Indian meal fs fed, but that shouid be given sparingly at this time. Meat should enter into the diet to some extent. Several times a weck it would be well to give bread and milk. If the latter has ‘turned’ it can do no harm: in fact, sour milk is good for dozs. Where but one dog is kept in the family there is ample for him in the scraps from the tabie. There are a number of so- 1 ‘dog biscuits’ on the market, and, as a rule, they are gocd food. But no one brand furnishes all the elements necessary to sup- port a dog: hence they must not be given continuously. “How ofte 1 should a dog be fed? It de- t on how he has been t up. Dogs do best on one meal a . If a dog has always had two meals a + if would be a decided hardship for him to come down to one, unless gradually. If food is given him in the morning, let it be scarcely more than ‘a bite,’ and at night give him about all he can eat. “Quite as necessary as food to the welfare of a dog is pure water, and it should be fresh If it is not given as freely as it ill lose his sleek appearance; his become harsh and wiry, and among es Ukely to result eczema will be . Many people keep constantly in ter given their dogs a stick of sul- That can do no good whatever, and iculd be given in powdered form. ‘It is 14 in high esteem as a preventive medi- % and is supposed to be a protecticee against skin diseases, but doubtless its bene- ficial effect when given internally is much overrated. As an external remedy, made up into an oniiment with lard, it 1s the ken- nelman’s standby. Greasy applications like this ere, however, hardly fit to use on house ad instead sulphuroug acid diluted 1s cight parts of water should be applicd, “Constant scratching in a dog is always extremely annoying to its owner. Fleas are the most common cause. The best remedy ig ingect powder, which should be ‘peppered’ on the hair and rubbed well in. The sar- coptic mange, the canine Itch, can be cured by application of sulphur and frequent washings with carboife soap and water. Eczema {x castly recognized by a deep red ‘weeping’ surface. If there are only one or two smuil spots of the disease, wash the dog all over with the strongest carbolic Soap. le careful to touch the eruption only lightly, or it will be made worse. After Washing, dust freely the sore spots with powdered oxide of zinc. If this does not heal them, obtain at the drug ai sma! \- tty of carbolie reap ares Ww acid and Canada balsam, equal parts, Dip a wooden toothy ick into cover with ary sulpwur sat pete Ee ca} Serine “Dui Weather all bathed at least once @ week, fing thon dry off on het days in their own fashion. Keep dogs out of the sun during the hottest part of the day. Intense heat after & time crases them, end they run ‘amuck’ or fall down in convulsions, The treatment in such cases Is to pour cold water over the head and body. at should be done for an at- tack of convulsions? When ft lasts beyond ten minutes, poisoning should be suspected, and the family physician should be sent for and administer fy injection chloral hydrate. Afterward the dog should be kept quiet and @ dose of castor oil given. “Convulsions are often due to worms, the best remedy for which is arnica-nut, which should be grated and a little molasses added so as to rol! it up in a ball. Put that hack as far as possible in the dog’s throat, and shut his mouth tightly until he swallows. All worm medicine should be given on en empty stomach, and be followed in about two hours with a generous dose of castor oil.” <oo GETTING RID OF A GUEST. A Story of Longfellow’s Twiee-Glad- dened Hospitality. W. D. Howells in Harper's Magazine. Another night the talk wandered to the visit which an English author (now with God) paid America at the height of a pop- ularity long since toppled to the ground, with many another. He was in very good humor with our whole continent, and at Longfellow’s table he found the champagne even surprisingly fine. “But,” he sald to his host, who new told the story, “It cawn’t be genuine, you know!” Many years afterward this author re- visited our shores, and I dined with him at Longfellow’s, where he was anxtous to con- stitute himself a guest during his sojourn in our neighborhood. Longfellow was lly anxious that he should not do 80, ‘ve tart a harmless pleasure {n out- i | | maneuvering him. He seized a chance to speak with me alone, and plotted to de- liver him over to me without apparent un- kindness, when the latest horse car should be going in to Boston, and begged me to walk him to Harvard square and put him aboard. “Put him aboard, and don’t leave him till the car starts, and then watch that he doesn't get off.”” These instructions he accompanied with a lifting of the eyebrows and a pursing of the mouth, in an anxiety not altogether burlesque. He knew himself the prey of anyone who chose to batten on him, ‘and his hospitality was subject to frightful abuse. Perhaps Mr. Norton has somewhere told how, when he asked if a certain per- son who had been putstaying his time was | not a dreadful bore, Longfellow answered, with angelic patience, “Yes; but then you know I have been bored so often!” There was one fatal Englishman whom I red with him during the greater part of a eason; a poor soul, not without gifts, but always ready for’ more, especially if ; they took the form of meat and drink. He ‘ad brought letters from one of the best nglishmen alive, who withdrew them too late to save his American friends from the sad consequences of welcoming him. So he established himself impregrably in a Bos- ton club, and came out every day to dine with Longfellow in Cambridge, beginning with his return from Nahant in October and continuing far !nto December, That was the year of the great horse distemper, when the plague disabled the transporta- tion in Boston, and cut off all intercourse between the suburbs and the city on the street rallways. “I did think,” Longfellow pathetically lamented, “that when the horse cars stopped running I should have a little respite from L., but he walks out.” SS The Saleswoman’s Hard Life. Allee Woodbridge in the Independent. The average age of our saleswomen is but twenty-two years, and it is rarely the case that a woman finds employment in any establishment for many years. In one establishment it was rumored that a recently retiring partner was to give $50 to all employes who had served him for ten yearsand by actual count {t was found that out of 2,000 employes but forty-seven had served that length of time. As a rule em- ployes are seldom retained for more than five years, and length of service uften is | Made a reason for dismissal, it being fear- ed that they may acquire th« idea that ; they have a claim upon the firm. Those, then, who enter mercantile establishments with the idea that they may rise to su- perior positions usually meet with disap- pointment. One rarely finds the same cash children employed for two seasons in succession. At the close of the holiday geason from one-third to one-half of the employes are discharged, without regard to length of service, only the brightest end shrewdast being retained. Under the ere discipline enforced only the strongest can endure this life for any length of time. Investigation proves that few can stand for more than two years without suffering from impaired health. The law regarding seats has not been generally observed, and in some establish- ments where seats were provided sales- women have been fined {f found sitting. While it is gratifying to know that women can fill these positions satisfactor- ily, yet, through accepting low wages and submitting to severe discipline, they are depriving ‘other women of employment, and since their entrance into mercantile establishments the wages of salesmen have been reduced 40 per cent. Altogether the Position of the saleswoman {is not an en- viable one, and the wise young woman will give time to learn a trade. ———_+-e+ The Little Queen of Holland. From London Society. The little Queen of Holland’s portrait is to be seen at every railway station, in all the s10p windows and on nearly every ar- ticle that is sold, from a packet of cigars to a tablet of chocolate. But when you see her you notice at once that these ple- tures are poor fac similes. Her Majesty Wilhelmina, Queen of the Low Countries, ig tall and stout for her fifteen years, and possesres the fair and pearly complexion of her race, Like all the Dutch, the young queen's fig- ure is long and flet—a sign of fidelity, the moralist assures us. The mouth 1s often smiling with fun; the eyes are large and beautiful, of an undecided color, something between sky blue and the green of the sea —the kind of eyes which give to the face a significant expression, and make one feel that behind them there ts already a defined individuality, as though their owner were accustomed to act and think for herself; in a word, one’ feela that there is there a Dutch soul, full of energy, and always ready to fight. i oo A Bear on Credit. From Truth. “What te « trust, papa?’ “An association that doesn't.” i SHOPRING IN SUMMER Se Thig Wilting Weather. A CHANCE FOR DELSARTEAN POSES Linen and Crash Are Popular Mate- tals These Days. SKIRTS IN TRANSITION (Copyright, 1806, by the Bacheller Syndicate.) NEW YORK, August 7, 1896. HE WOMEN WHO go. shopping in the summer time have an excellent opportunity to put some of their Delsartean principles to the test. At no other time is it so necessary to save oné’s strength as in midsummer, and the combination of hot weather and weari- some dragging about through the shops is well calculated to drain the reserve energy to Its lowest ebb. It is commonly supposed, of course, that nobody that is anybody goes shopping in summer, and in general that is true, but there are many reasons why there are more people in the city and fewer at the fashionable resorts this year than usual, The shops aré fairly teeming with left- over stock that is sold at “greatly reduced prices,” and that is enough to bring a wo- man up to the city for an all day's shopping expedition. Those who are sunimering at the watering places on the Jersey or Long Island coast come into New York about once a week—usually on Monday, while the brain is still on fire with the flame kindled by the advertisements of bargains in the Sunday papers. One sees them in the ladies’ parlors in various stages of liquefication and lmpness. They look like so many Delsartean pupils brought there for a lesson in physical cul- ture, but they are really gathering nervous force by putting thelr previously learned lessons into practice. They recline on the couches, “relax” their backs and arms in a large, comfortable chair, double their feet up under them, or assume any other posi- tion, whether graceful or otherwise, if It is only easy and restful. A Wily Plan. It was a wise and wily man who first conceived the idea of a resiing parlor in connection with a dress goods emporium. It gives the shoppers a chance to get their “second wind,” to speak in training par- jance, and after, this they are good for all day. eats Nearly every second woman one meets Wears a linen or a crash skirt, which is sufliclent eyidence of their desirability. These skir(s arg being made up and sold off at very low rates. The crash is cheaper and lighter, and a nice cne can be bought for $1.98. I¢ yoh happen to be short you can buy nfisses’ lergth in, nen for the same price, but a tall woman must pay $2.48 for het linen skirt. It is well worth the money, “however, for we still have at least three moré hot weeks to endure, and the coolnes§ of? linen will be appreciated for August weather. Some women live in shirt waists a nen skirts all summer. Any cool waist $f dimity or organdy looks well with stich a skirt, and the linen one is found very ‘gonvénient to take the place of the originaf skir} which has become soiled around the bottom. The bow te js the fashionable one for shirt wafst3, gingham. Gingham Ues are very stylish, White collars are rarely seen now, having been discarded for the ribbon stock, but many collars are made of the same mate- rial as the waist and are found much more satisfactory for hot summer days than the perishable one of white linen. Stylish Costumes, Many of the stylishly dressed women one meets are actresses, and though their cos- tumes are sometimes a little too pronounc- ed, they are well worth noting as an in- dex of what styles are most effective and as a forerunner of coming fashions. Sum- mer is the only time when these “profes- sional people” are free to go about the stores and gratify their woman's propensi- ties for shopping. The girls from the vaudeville stage are very much in evidence, and some of them wear rather fanciful costumes. They usu- ally go about in couples, either dressed alike or as foils for one another. Two of these who looked like twins in their identi- cal costumes wore dresses in a black and white check, trimmed with plain black silk and white Valenciennes lace, with the most remarkable Salvation Army polk bonnets of black silk, trimmed with white feathers and checked ribbon, A dark beauty with Jet black hair did her shopping in a cerise and linen lace waist, with black embroidered skirt. The linen lace was made over cerise silk, and there was a cerise velvet collar and belt. The satin skirt was embroidered with spangles and jet. But the sleeves were the most striking feature of the costume. They were black and white striped silk ia stripes about a half inch wide, and had patches of the embrofdered linen set around here and there on the puffs. ang is made of silk, jinen’ or’ | hat vas St fist om Hagan shape, with. cerise an rple poppies : @ back, and she wore anvell with “wicked dots.” That is a term which I haye heard used to de- scribe the veils with large, flat velvet dots, and to appreciate its force one has but to see a pretty face smiling through one of them, Pale Blue Pique. A pale blue pique dress was very evi- dently meant for hot days, judging from the lace yoke that hardly veiled the soft white neck beneath. It had a bolero jack- et that was laid in tucks running around and fastened in front with frogs of dark blue braid. Around her throat and waist white ribbons were tied with bows at the back. The skirt was trimmed with bands of dark blue briid. The wearer was a beautiful blonde, and her yellow hair was twisted in a coil so loose that one could hardly see how it stayed up; but that ts part of the actress’ profession, to produce an effect without any apparent cause. Bolero and Eton jackets are great fa- vorites, and are especially attractive when made of lace or fancy embroidery. A fig- ured organdy with lace bolero is a pretty variation upon the usual flounces over the shoulder. The skirt, figured in pale helio- trope, is shirred six times around the hips, and hangs in soft folds that are a relief from the many-gored skirt. Underneath the lace bolero is a green batiste bodice, and around the edge of the bolero is a pleated flounce of white batiste. The com- bination of heliotrope, pale green and white is exceedingiy fresh looking, and the fin- ishing touches are the white mull hat, with purple flour de lis and green leaves, and the green parasol, with linen stripe. Sleeves in T: ion. Sleeves are an all engrossing topic at any time, but especially so in their present transition from puffiness to sprrseness. A pretty compromise has simulated puffs festened at the shoulder and hanging something like monk's hoods behind the upper arms. The sleeves are tight and smooth, reaching only to the e!bow, with a ccuple of lace flounces at the bottom. The rest of the bodice is made basque fashion, with a muslin yoke and embroidered vest. Immense loops of ribbon stand out from the ccllar on each side, and bretelles of mustin are knotted at the shoulders and at the top of the vest on each’ side. Skirts are also in a transition state. They are somewhat narrower and will be trimmed. One of the new skirts has fans of light silk set on lke gores all around. ‘This skirt is worn with a waist that has its two sides unlike. Both sleeves have rather beuffant puffs at the top, but one of them 1s untrimmed, while the other is almost covered with the double flounces that start at the right shoulder and grow narrower ard disappear under a ribbon at the waist. The newest hat trimmings and the ones that will be worn in spite of the protesta- ticns of societies for the prevention of bird slaughter are those beautiful birds with magnificent, long osprey feathers in their wings and tails. One ofsthem set up in the front of a “nose hat,” with a little tulle or mousseline for a background, is sufficient trimmi:g for a hat, and it is well that this fs so, for they are very expensive. Many of these have already appeared on the summer hats, and they will be even Tore numerous in the autumn. The girls at the summer resorts are bring- ihg out their prettiest dresses now, for Avgust is their last month, and if their “trump cards” are to be played at all, now is the time. The August man will not tind it easy to resist the combined onslaught of pretty gowns and pretty girls, no mat- ter what his previous resolutions may have been. = ses. HOUSEHOLD HINTS, Sweeping is an art, but there are lots of housekeepers who do not know it. Of what use is it to sweep if you leave the curtains dragging on the ficor, the upholstered fur- niture to catch all the dust flying, and if you flirt half the Unt into the air, to set- tle on the olled furniture and on the walls? The proper and very easiest way to sweep is to push all the movable furniture into the next rocm and cover up with cloths kept for the purpose the tables, couches and such articles as cannot easily be moved. If you have upholstered furniture that cannot te moved, whip it lightly, then wipe with a clean piece of old siik and cever up. Dust down the pictures and the tables before sweeping to remove the old dust that may be there. Sweep slowly and evenly, with long, smcoth strokes, after rolling and pinning up the curtains and throwing the windows open. Let the dust settle for half an hour. Then, with a clean soft cloth, go over all the furniture in and out of the room, shaking the dust cloth often in the open air to rid it of gritty dust. A room swept in this manner will remain clean for dzys, where hours will suffice to litter up the room swept in the common way. Have regular hours for feeding the baby, just as ycu have for feeding yourself. It stands to reason that the child can’t stand irregular hours without hurt any more than you can. Bates regularly fed, bathed and regularly put to sleep are usually much better natured than babies brought up in a haphazard way. The utmost caution should be observed in the focd given teething children at this season of the year. Fresh fruit, corn, to- matces and pastry will probably be iIn- jurious in most cases. Of course, vege- tables and pastry ovght never to be given to tee:hing children, or to children under e'ghteen months, but you occasionally find mothers who let nursing babies eat mash- ed potatoes and fat meat and drink tea and coffee. Such bables are usually as cross as two sticks, and never sleep at night, but of course it wouldn't be safe to suggest that the mothers are at fault in their meth- ods. Brolled liver is considered a delicious tid- bit. Dip thin slices of liver in sweet bacon fat and broll on the gridiron over a hot fire. Serve on a hot platter, with finely sliced fried onions. Children crave sweets, and the craving should be gratified in a measure. sugar makes very acceptable candy for them, if you have not spoiled them with “tought” candy. Drop a ting bit of min: or flavoring of some kind on it. Small. plainly-made cookies with currents in them are usually quite appetizing, and smal! patty-cakes of the “sponge” variety that have nice crisp the kinds that have butter and cream in them. If you find yourself inclined to drink too much water y-hen the days are blistering hot, try acid drinks with the least sugar imaginable in them. A few drops of lime or lemon juice squeezed in a glass of water and a few grains of sugar added will often quench thirst when nothing else will. Cold tea Is said to be quite as good. Corn pudding is very nice. Ten medium- sized ears should be Nghtly pared down and then stripped with a dull knife into a bowl. Add three well-beaten eggs, a tea- spoonful of salt, half a cup of milk and a tablespoonful of flour. Beat well. Melt a heaping tablespoonful of sweet butter in the pudding dish and stir in the mass. Bake half an hour. Touch mosquito bites with strong salt water, a drop of coal oil or ammonia, and almost surely any one of these will cause the itching to cease. Wild or cultivated green grapes, just beginning to turn, make delicious jelly. Treat exactly you would the riper fruit. You can give it an exquisite flavor by toss- ing two or three rose geranium leaves in the boiling juice. Grated green corn cakes are great break- fast delicacies at this season of the year. Grate the corn in the milk into a bowl and uge two eggs, half a cup of m!ik, two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder and a half cup of flour to a cupful of the grated corn. Fry tn sweet butter or meat drippings, as you would griddle cakes. Serve crisply hot. It is said that a liberal use of milk, ap- plied as one would water, will clean up ink if used as soon ae spilled. How many people ever ate stewed cucum- bers? Cut them in quarters, peel and re- move the seeds, salt, boil until tender and | serve with sweet cream on toasted bread. Obstinate discolorations caused by paring potatoes or peeling apples can be removed with a vigorous rubbing of the hands with a ripe tomato. A well-kngwn society woman says she never permite herself to go in negiige in very warm weather. “In winter,” she says, “I give myself the luxury of ‘hubbara’ wrappers, loose shoes and go without cor- sets, when I have time, but in the summer I keep myself scrupulously ‘fixed up,’ and I know by experience that I do not suffer half as much with the heat as I used to when I went around in big slippers and loosely flapping garments, vigorously using a big fan and panting for a breath of fresh air. You may say what you please,” she concluded, emphatically, “but 1 know that a well-dressed man or woman is very much better pleased with self, very much better company fdr others, very much happier in every way chan one who goes around ‘down at the heel,’ whether the same is enforced or indulged :n because of lazines “Don’t talk politics, don’t talk religion in hot weather; that Is my recipe for keeping cool,” said a good-natured fat man. “You may run the gamut of all human emotions and harp upon every string without stirring your blood if you eschew those two topics, | and you can invite apoplexy in ten minutes by the watch by discussing either with the mercury at 98 degrees. ees THE NECK AND THE BUST. A Sunny Temperament Conductive to Carves. Unless there is a marked phthisic tend- ency or an inherited wasting disease, writes Harriet Hubbard Ayer in the New Ycrk Journal, any girl or woman can develop her neck and bust to a condition of health and beauty. Unfortunately, at least in my experience, the flat-chested women, with rare exceptions, are such nervous, mercur- ial creatures, with poorly developed mus- cular systems and defective circulation, that it is very difficult to persuade one to a persistent course of physicai training; or, indeed, to follow any prescribed treatment. This type of woman does everything by ex- tremes, and when I see one with shrunken chest, stooping shoulders, pallid face, fine, scant hair and unusually long spine, and she says spasmodically that she wants to do something to make herself round ard plump, and I tell her how, 1 know there is trouble ahead for both of us. If L couid catch one of her and take her away from her books, her views, her ambitions and her dashes from exaltation to despondency, and settle her down cozily in a bit of a hut far up in the mountains; if 1 could per- suade her to conscientiously try for three monihs to forget everything but the sky and the sun and the beautiful world; if I could make her once feel the intoxication of merely living, when to tive is to sill one’s lungs with pure oxygen #nd one's spirit with an almost divine asj ion for the good and the true; if I couid prevent her wasting her forces until she was fit, I would fetch her back a guidess in form and a revelation to her friends in a newly quired virtue named placidity. N tic you will, the splendid chest and lung dev opment of her opposite, the happy-go-lucky little sister of the rich or p20r, whose tem- perament answers for her curves. 1 have never seen @ woman with a >eauiiful neck and aris of the nervous typ-. The best treatment for scrawny women who desire to increase the waist measure and thus develop the bust is first and fore- mest as much rest as possible, freedom from ali the cares and anxieties, nourish- ing food, deep breathing, vocal culture, gymnastics, out-of-door exercises, hot water ablutions, followed by coid water and friction with a lotion of skin food, massage and electricity. The regimen includes eight to ten hvurs of sleep, rat- ural, of course; all sleep induced by hyp- notics or sedatives is positively destructive to physical beauty and a thousand times worse than insomnia in its effects. A diet consisting of farinaceous foods, grains, Loat | mote, cream, cocoa, eggs, potatoes, beans, | ming for developing the bust, but delicate, crust are much better than | corn, peas, macaren! in any form, sweets in any wholesome preparation, will ald in the flesh-forming process. Meats ere not fattening, except ham, bacon, etc., and perk ts objectionable for many reasons. There is no exercise better then swirm- hervous women should only attempt sw! ming after they have been exam'n Pronounced free from any spec weakness of lungs and heart. It Possible to develop the hust where the: any structure about the walet or therefore the corset should be loose. ding of any wort is death to the natural beauty of a woman's figure. Massace is very effective to the rest—physical cuitur and @iet treatment. In giving massage tt must be remembered that the breast ts especially delicate, and should never be brvised. The mechanical appliances sold for the purpose of developing the bust. In the form of a glass bell, ts a most nd zed is im- is Pad gercus = instrument The glandular Structure of the breast makes it pecu Nariy sensitive, and many terrible mala dies have been tnduced by various brutal mechanical devices of this nature A lotion made as follows is excellent to aid in flesh building: Elder flower water.. 5 Sin ple tincture of benzoir Tincture myrrh.. Linseed o'l...... SAE lp The linseed oil may be kept apart added in equal quantity to the liquid fc of the other three ingredients, be all mixed nd 2 or it may together and Kept in one bottle. Where the texture of the #kin ts dry and leathery an unguent is better suited to the case than a lotion. The fol- lcwing is an excellent formula Cocoanut off 5 Spermaceti White wax.. Lanoline. Glycerine Tincture tolu..... Tincture of benzoin. Orris extract... 20 drops Melt the first four ingredients over a hot water bath; while cooling stir cor adding the three last. The be: friction and massage in promoting healthful and natural growth of the bre cannot be overestimated. The re antly, tle pressure and stimulus of the trained hand will courteract a tendency to arrested velopment, and if voice culture and ele tricity are added as supplements the good effects will be seen in a few days. HE HAD STRUCK Thought He'd Go Back and Utilize the Katilers, Written for The Evening Star by M. Quad. About 10 o'clock in the forenoon we met @ covered wagon drawn by an old blind horse and a bob-talled cow harnesse! to- gether. The man was walking beside them, while the woman sat on the front s at smoking her pipe and putting a black pat on a pair of gray trousers. The rest of the wagon was filled with tow-headed « and household furniture. “How ‘fur is ft to Franklin?’ asked the man as he yelled “Who: to his team and made a cut at one of the children trying to get out of the wagon. I told him and asked if he was leaving his claim and going back to civilization. “That's what we be, st he earn- Neer, estly repl nis ye and is too much ur me. Can't raise live bushels of corn to acre. I jist got Cawggoned discouraged and picked up and left Any rattlesnakes back there Any ra’ i Why “Because a man at Franklin is a pint for ail the rattlesnake oil h He asked me to notify all settlers. ou had snakes on your farm “Snakes, s'ranger—rattiesnake ! Wh great lands, but there was fifteen of ‘em un- pulied the quilts off! aim of mine They bit my other hoes a a der the bed when we There is rattlesnakes on that “till you can’t rest. y and they bit my other cow, and they bi calf and a hog and my sister-in-law a my hired man! Thar's millyuns of ‘em, fat and sleek and iley, and—whoa! eit around yere! Mother, do you hear what this man says?” “Yep,” complacently answered the wo- man. “iow many snake "Bout a miilyun.” ‘And how many pints of fle will they make?” Fifty thousand, I guess.” “And at $2 a pint that’s a clean $100,000 in the next three months! Stranger, fur God's sake git outer the way and lemme turn about and head fur my claim, and if you won't say anythin’ about ratilesnake's fle to any one else I'll make you a gift of the land as soon's we've cleaned the reptiles off!” He got the team around on the run and put on the gad, the woman caught a pair of twins just as they were falling out of the Wagon, and away the outfit went at a hot pace, and, though two chairs, a feather bed and a wash tub fell off bchind, there was no stop to pick them up. The discouraged Pioneer had “struck ile” at last. - a Greek-Letter Needlework. Some of the needlework done on the summer plazzas is going to ornament col- lege rooms next year of brothers of the fair makers, or of some one else, and is an appreciated novelty in college needlework. This is, by the way,a distinct department in decorstive art; it is always in demand, and new designs or treatment are quickly popular. The new note this season is the ornamentation of table or bureau covers, did we leave behind?” p-neushicns, pillows or what one will with Greek-letter designs. They are intended for college men who belong to Greek-letter so- cieties. The de 1 be stamped on the material at any of the woman's exchanges or art stores, or @ worker handy with her pencil may get the design and colo: trom a college pin, and enlarge it to the propor- tion of the article intended to be decorated. eee Action Probable. From the Cincinaat! Enquirer. “Dat ar is a likely lookin’ mule, Rastus—“L‘kely? Yo" find out he’ likely, ef you git neah’m; he’s liabie mo'n From Life. A COUNGJL OF WAR IN THE DAYS TO COME.