The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1901, Page 22

—— OW TO DRESS WELL. By Mme. Louise. The Evening World places at the disposal of its feminine readers the services of a very competent dress- maker who will assist and advise them in planning new dresses and making over old ones. Address all letters on this topic to*Mme. Louise, Evening World Home Dressmaking Department.” Dear Mme. Lou! Tiwould like very much to get a black velvet * Gress, but do not know how to have it made. Towant ft to be a real stylish dress, but do not ‘want any colors at all. A. B. 8. Make your black velvet gown like the “cut.” As you wish to keep it all black, make the bands around the bot- tom of the flounce of black oeau de sole; cord the upper part of the skirt and waist, as shown In sketch. Make the collar of narrow breds of * peau de sole, joined together with a feather-stitch, and bring the yoke up over It in points. Make the cuffs on the sleeves to match, the yoke be- ing. of velvet, wtih a black silk orna- ment appliqued on it. The ribbon drawn through the front of the waist and large dow in the centre front may be of Deau de sole or velvet; the peau de sole Would be softer and prettier. The ef- fect !llustrated 1s obtained by slashing the waist beside the cording and Inter- lacing the ribbon, Have a crushed Girdle of the same ribbon. MME. LOUISE. Dear Mme, Louise: Kindly suggest a way of making an evening Gress for a girl of fifteen, of white mousseline de sole | with a thin satin stripe. The dress ts to rach the tope of the shoes STELLA. Make your skirt with a shirred yoke consisting of four strips of one-eighth inch heading, one tnch apart. Mousseline de sole {8 too soft for a gored skirt Finish your skirt at the bottom with an sighth-Inch accordion plaiting with @ emall ruching at the bottom and an- other where the flounce Jolas the skirt. Make your waist with yoke, collar and sleeves of shirring to match the skirt yoke; have your sleeves just long @nough to cover your elbow and finish with plaiting four Inches deep at the dack of the sleeve and very narrow at the front seam. Make the body of the waist very full blouse effect and wear a tight ribbon belt with Put a full plaiting around the shoulders where the yoke joins the walst, deeper r the shoulders than on the front or back. If you have artificial roses on your fagt summer's hat steam them over the Kettle and arrange them prettily over one shoulder with a bow of black et eibbon. MME. LOUISE. OR HOME DRESSMAKERS. World's Hint. aie Go The Evening Vashion To cut this three: @lum size 83-4 yards yards 2 inches wide, Daily e skirt In om EVENING WORLD/ DEPARTMENT A, [< HUBBARD AYER, Points on Etiquette. REE F | Dear Mew. Ayer A lady friend of imine has received an invitation to a wedding which reads: | “You and your company are invited to jattend.”” [have never had the pleasure lof meeting this couple but they are leriends of my lady friend, Is It proper for me to buy a present and should T send it by messenger in advance or pre nent It personally? What would make a neat present? I have never boen to a wedding before. Is it proper to wear a white shirt ard collar, colored tle. Mght trousers, dark coat and vest © what would be proper at this occasion? I. Cc. 8. HERE |s great Mberty tn regard [: the question of wedding gitts— far too much liberty, from my point of view. An you are not acquainted with this young couple, {t should not be expected that you will assume the position of an old friend, entitled to offer a gift to the bride, because, as you know, doubt- less, wedding gifts are supposed to be offered to the bride. If the young lady whom you are to es- cort, and who oan tell the way the bride- elect feels in this matter, assures you that It will be proper to offer a gift, it would be best for you to send something 1n common, that 1s to say, you and the young lady send one gift, which should have 3 card attached to it bearing both ends of His “Lady Friend. your names. In fashionable society tt would not ve considered proper for a stranger to offer a gift in these circumstanzes. The bridegroom‘e friends are not sup- posed to be strangers, but, as I under- stand {t, you know /nelther of the young persons who are:to be married. If the wedding !# to be tn the after- noon, the costume you suggest would |‘ do, excepting that a white tle and a white walstcoat would be tn better form. Evening dress ts fashicnable for all occasions after six o'clook in the even- ing. If you have no evening Gress, and many good men are not possessed of what {fs called @ “full dress sult," wear the costume you describe, except with the chan I have noted. More Thrifty Than Sentimental. Deer Mrs. Ayer. 1 am going to be married soon. My In- tended lives in a Southern city. The wedding will take place at her home. We are going to live in New York. As I expect a lot of presents, would It be proper for m@ to have my name and aa- dress on the Invitations, so that they need not be sent to her home and then back again? In doing ao we run the risk of having them broken, and besides, the unnecessary expense of transportation PERPLEXED. AM afraid there ts nothing for you to @o but conform to ordinary conven- tions in this matter. It would not do for you to suggest tc your friends to send wedding gifts to your New York address. Wedding gifts are supposed to be sent to the bride at her home. You can, of course, with your wedding announce- ments or wedding Invitations Inclose what Is called the “At Home" card, giving your New York address, and it in very likely that some of your friends will send their gifts ¢o your bride after you arrive in New York, but only those Persons who are dilatory or more prac- tical than fashionable will be apt to take this method. Bridal presents are for the bride, and should properly be made before the wedding to the bride-elect at her home. LETTERS FROM—|: THE PEOPLE. Clgarcttes Not for Women, To the Editor of The Evening World: “OM-Pashioned Mother" writes twenty-one-year-old girl fnsima on mnoking claarettes at home with her father, Let me sty a few words to that Mics of one-and-twenty: Clearetie smoking, whether at home or eleewhes tn a practice thi a spark of wom that her jena about her would amoking one single thought, You should be med of yourself. Pind « more domestic source of recreation than thie. f utterly fall to comprehend how any father cen conadentiously vanctioa this and allow bis daughter to smoke Me ts not worthy of the name af father; and 1 pity the mother of auch a girl, bly seetng others do thts, thicl her, too, to do mo. I, mynelf, have two ststers, love them dearly. Were ether of them to fa amoking 1 would never tn my life rec them as my neat of kia. 1 sympathize with “Ol4-Fashtoned Stother’ tn having auch an wawomanly caughter “MODESTY."* No. Only of Americn, To the Editor of The tng World A saya Jobn 1. Sullivan was champion of the world; UB says only of America. Kindly decide, Was he champion of the world? A and D. A Dramatic Story. tor of The Evening World The look @ trip to where they met "The Mesrenger Moy then to “Colorado;"" there he ww Yorkers’? Ariton + who “The Auctioneer’* “1 would Join ‘Miranda of the Halei who fas juat made Holden" Cominas The Royal Family" Brter Wh Quatity No. Chrintman, To the Eitor of The Evening World Is Thanksgiving a legal holiday in every State? Which Is the mot generaily observed holiday throughout thla country—Christmas or Thank giving? SF, MA . “Antonius Stradivarius ly let me know the meaning of the follow. “Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensta Facle- a bat Anno—1790,"* Tata ts tn an old violin which VOLUME 42. Published by the Press Pu No, 33 to 63 PARK RO’ ishing New Company, York. ped) NO. 14,608. q Watered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. With the Raines law, as with most excise laws, the more you excise them the better they be. ————— In the case of the enlightened reformer famil- larity with the enforcement of Sunday excise legislation usually breeds contempt for the law and charity for the violators of it. In the pub- Hshed opinions of ministers and others on the Raines law there is a general tolerance and in- dulgence for the man who would rather have a glass of beer than a glass of soda-water on Sun- day that were not observable when the law orlg- inally went Into effect. It Is becoming. a prin- ciple of sociology—for American application, at least—that the more legitimate personal Iberty a man is given the less likely he is to abuse it, ae “How far is tt from here to Paterson as the crow Mies?” “How the dickens should 1 know? think I'm a crow?" Do you om When the Presidential fist shook the table the Kentucky office-seeking delegation speedily reached a conclusion. It did not need Prof. Donovan's credentials to convince them of the pugilistic possibilities in the President. so If there 4s a ‘dual personality” In every man, Pittsburg is Inclined to belleve that there are two Dr. Jekyls in Mr. Carnegie and no Mr. Hyde. oe Old Squeezeum—Ah, this {s a glorious bon- fire, boys! Pile on More wood. Thags the ‘way to make a blaze! “To stay away from God for a girl'’—that fs, to go to see your sweetheart Instead of going to church—"is to put a girl.in the place of God,” says the Rev. Dr. E. L. Stoddard, of Jersey City. if the girl is of the right sort the young man’s religious principles will not suffer. The deification of a deserving young woman brings some men as near to heaven as they ever hope to get. —<----- “But where is the money for this scheme of yours coming from?" ‘From the mint, of course. Do you take me for a countertelter?” Mre. Elza Hunt, of Derby, Conn., who has reached the age of one hundred and one, says her length of years is due to the fact that she ever wore corsets. On the other hand, Lady Jane Carew, who died yesterday aged onc kun- dred and four, had been a woman of fashion all her long life, and presumably did not disdain the use of corsets to preserve the youthful sym- metry of her waist. A woman who died In a Pennsylvania village Iast week at the age of one hundred and eight attributed her prolonged Ufe to the pipe, which she had smoked for half a century. “Thinking makes it so” in many cases, but it is regretfully to be feared that the secret of prolonged years is as elusive to a Brown-Sequard elixir of life specialist as it was to Methusaleh. ~ THE UNCROWNED KING. By R. B. MORRISON. The Boys—We would, Mr. Squeezeum, but there ain't any more in your yard. We took the last atlok. ‘ VEN SIDE LIGHTS ON THE NEws. West Point's yattered buildings are not objects of beauty. Architecturally they compare with the halls of a modern American university much as an old roadside grist mill compares with the elaborate equipment of a patent roller milling plant. Circumstances as well as his own self- respect demand something better of Uncle Sam 1n the matter of architecture ‘or his great mili- tary school; but the quality of the output there is still highly satisfactory. Like that of the old Brist mill, it {s not much to be improved upon. Military tradition has always discouraged any appearance of luxury in barracks, and that may be why a United States post, except for the folHage in summer and the flowers in the gardens of the officers’ wives, is a bleak and cheerless Even the pampered young gentlemen who purchase commissions in crack British regiments affect bare walls and plain fron cots of the Wellington pattern as tem- Whether a soldier would be any the less valiant for sleeping on a hair mattress and washing in a porcelain tub instead of a tin basin is yet to be discovered. Place of residence. Dorarily preferable to brass beds. The football hero isn’t. -_—- “Have you been long in the ricing business’ “Not so often as I've been short.” Enline., Old Squeezeum—My wood! You young ruf- fans! I'll teach you to destroy property! Time and place: Opening night of “Gay Mistress Nelle Harum." Hous is jammed with people. First-nighters are out In force. Curtain has just fallen on next to last act, says the Chicago News. In tho foyer: First Playgoer—Pretty fair, eh? Second Playgoer—Considering that the whole thing has been done to death for the last ten years, yes. First Playgoer—Last act wasn't 50 bad {f they could ever be prevailed on to leave out the screen. Third Playgoer (very young indeed)— Hello, men. What think of her? Ain't she superb! I'm to take supper with her to-night. She gave me a souvenir just now; went behind, you know. (Digs finst and second playgoers tn ribs.) A glove! One she used In the second act where— (Looks dazed on finding nim- self alone, then chuckles understanding- ly.) Jealous old dogs! In the wings: Miss Tootsie Butterfly to Miss Rosle De Vere—Say, didn’t we paralyze ‘em in that serenade? His Phbebicteleliciicrieicr ie rick | | | SEEEEEEEEE ES biciviciviniceeintet. DEY AIN'T DEEN A SMASIHL-UP YIT."" niba pretty near lost track of what! come next in his own picture gallery} when he heard ‘em clap us, Bet our part's cut down to-morrow, It's an lel inlelnivieininivloieininielelelniniet: =i=! ie i! = minis 5m) ‘Nae question of hair-dressing has been Ung certain sections of London . ‘The well-known artist, recently contributed his ideas on the sub- Ject to a London periodical. BEARAL “You must tell your his diet," sald the physician. ‘Tell him beef and potatoes. sald Mrs. Cumrox, after a moment's consideration, "I suppose It is just as well. Beef and potatoes are get- ting so expensive that even the wealth- {at families need not be ashamed to eat them."’—Washington Star, tek eee eiciei-: WHAT DID SHE MEANP The following note was received by a desperate lover of Chicago: “Dear Claude: I am awful sorry you contemplate jumping off the pler, 1 hope you will reach the other world ‘Truly, y ALVERTA. “P, 8.—Be sure and burn.”” —Chicago News. THE YULE Loa. Poetical sentiments about the Yule log| witl*soon find expression In print. Here la a Western artist's conception of a Puritan father In the role of hauling in the log. DRAMATIC CRITICISM, Two young men sat through the first act at a local theatre, then adjourned +} to a neighboring tavern for refi ment. The acting was bad and would have: ‘the use of stimulants by,’ awful blight on our young lives to maled | the principals jealous. Say, did you see Witte Fitz-Green and Mr. Bantawe down in front? They both grinned lke = noodles at me. Huh! Oh, I don’t know! _ i Huh! Bay, I was the one to introduce % you to my set. You'd better— Up In the gallery: Snake Smith to his pal, Chimmle Morlarity—Why don't dey git do move on ‘em, an’ hev tings doin'?) Dey ain't bin a smash-up yit, jis’ gabble, gabble, smack an’ holler. Chimmie—Dis ain't de place. to come, ,,) I tol’ ye, fer t'ings doin’. Dis fs fer de swells what gits on der ear wid nolse an’ sich. Dey won’ stan’ fer de mid- night express an’ a thrashin' machine makes 'em sick. All dey wants ts de high han’ and de p'lite bow, Snake Smith—Well, dey gits it here an’ nawthin’ else. Let's sneak fer do gang. Way back: First Scenery Man—How' she doin’ instde, Joc? uf Second Scenery Man—To the good. Ol' man Jes* whooped ‘er up bac! oe till you'd thought he had ‘em. Ses he: goln’ to be a run." First Scenery Man—Well, it had 9m orte ‘er seed sich eggshell stuff for the care it needs, an’ such all- fired heavy stuff for the weight. Sez the boss: “This hes got to be handled Jes’ right; more im- portant than the plot. Kin you do It?" "I've done !t before," I sez. “That's y im Bittin® you." sez he. So they're takin’ to it? Well, they'd orter! Manager (ton one)—I'm — holding my breath till this Inst act. If he sta: calm and she warms up and the moon don't jiggle, and the applause 1s taken up after it's started, then the piece Is bound to go. THAN THE PLOT.’ Star (to leading lady)—It's all right to have a fuss or tivo off the stage, but for Heaven's sake don't sink into my arms with only the grace of a dis- turbed ramrod. I nearly lost out on that balcony scene. Say, Kit, make up. | Leading Lady—Well, I don't mind if I do. But next time you call me down don't give way in public. Curtain goes up on last act. The star stays calm; the leading lady warms up; the moon rises serenely and the house applauds. The curtain goes down "Gay Mistress Nelle Harum" @ ‘ling succe es any but the players. When about to re-enter the buflding only one coul produce his return check. ; “It's all right,” @aid he of the check airily. “You remember him, he's with me. “Yen, moi ho answered the gatekeeper, doubtful than polite, “bur he ma: given his check to some other per- ‘But he didn't," was the convincing reply. “He's a stranger bere, and hasn't an enemy In the city," The gate opened wide.—Boston Ree ord. MRS. WU. Mrs. Wu has arrived fn this country, and is speeding toward Mr, Wu. Shé will have a number of questions to am swer.—Chicago Tribune. or Tt ts a sign of m rity to have sete Ued opinions on unsettied subjects.—Lome don Truth. The city sleeps, the hour ts late, And bold highwaymen He in waits The coal man comes all unaware That danger lurks before him there, He passes on, unscathed, unharmed By thieves as if his Ife were charme@ A fellow feellng bids them stay— He les in welght another way. —Indianapolls News, ALLITHE SAME