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Sap meme nae eee cerning designe and materials of | Gresses should de | eddressed to the) FashMon Bditor of The Evening World. No pat tern for designe | in thie column con Odtained, but with the desorip- furnished it te @ simple matter | 4 Sew ond distinctive feature of Gepartment is the iMustration lof, the different pieces of the pattern mecessary for the making of the gar ment, It shows how easily the at fractive design can be executed and ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Dear Fashion Editor: T wish to make a white evening dress yoke, round in front and back, having rh} Feaching over the shoulders and cin for si lown the arm, Will you st the material and design dress? I wish it white, as in aecond mourning. Am seven- years of age, but considered much om account of my height and gen- 8 R. ‘dlue marquisette RIGINAL FASHIONS FOR HOME DRESSMAKERS; PATTERN MODEL PATTRRN BASED OW 3@ Moome. DESCRIPTION. ‘This fascinating little dance frock nas @ beautiful minglinw of colores in its development. Tho foundation of pale pink satin ts with pale 1 with same jeep weailops, each Kk chiffon rose with color chenille in holding a French i [the tiniest of green leaves, Deep ma- Hine Jace Houncing finishes the edge of the tunte, algo the short kimono sleeves, The lower portion of the walet ts trim- jeniiie, the two front and back scallops holding the pink roses Waleh conunue at intervals around tho low neck. A black velvet sash drip ping one end on the left side gives a very effective finish, way. When I take out the yoke it will be too low. Would Ike just the round neck for evening wear, A READER ‘A tan silk waist trimmed with brown ‘would be pretty, or a white satin with brown chiffon over it, embroidered round the neck with pagtel-colored would also be very pretty. lace for small yoke and collar, also short underouffs, would do well. Por the rose Gress, set in a round yoke of fine dotted net and, if possible, piece in the backs of the sleeves with the material, when « fichu of the fine met, held in the frout of Ly? the bad pearls defining it, ekirt made with a short square trein. Im the front embroider a design points of lace Delt to just be- on each side of the lace collar starting front could finish the skirt two-piece, open- hip to reveal the material IMA crosswise, trimmed on either side the eatin buttons. ie Xr a yards of © 3% yards of yellow crepe me- teer, 21 inches wide, and 3% pd of Marguisette, which I dest! to for a dance frock, Am about 5 § inches in height, have medium wn hair and u very rosy complexton, Am twenty years old, K, B, have uot enough c: ay & tunlo of mar- With yellow chenili on the bottom and edge Which hang over a lace band. velvet belt and long end in the ‘Would be effective. IRS. I. REYMAN—2f you will write Questions again I will aaswer New Harlem Store Let Us Open a Charge Account for You, ished around with a fine plaiting, would almost cover it. Mave the plaiting finish the sleeves also. Dear Fashion Editor have a fine lace tunte, with flower in the design, very pretty, and ask your advice what to do to make ft up over. Would pale pink messaline do? Am lght complextoned, dark-brown ‘hair and gray-blue eyes. Also, with what shall I finish the neck of the tunic? MRS, J, P. F. Pink would be pretty for the foun- @ation of your tunio, which could be finished Layer the neck with pearl or Something for the Home- Useful and Pretty---is a gift to all the family the best sort of Xmas Gift. Our ROE NING WORLD ‘NUN SUING FOR A FORTUNE REVEALS HER LIFE STORY | Sister Mary Berchmans Shows Proof That She Is Reed’s ‘ Daughter. HAS BIRTH CERTIFICATE, Another Indicates Reed Married Miss Curran When He Was Twenty-six Years Old. ‘There were rapid developments yester- Gay tn the case of Sister Mary Berch- mana, twenty-four, a nun of the relig- fous order of Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent Paul, who is striving to break the will of Charles Berlin Reod, publisher in New York for forty years, on the ground that she ts the only child living. Arthur F. Hanst, counsel for Dr. James P. Ft to whom, with Mrs. Wililam Grant Brown, President of the New York City Federation of Wom Clubs, Reed left Ns estate, had an- |nounced that Jessie Reed, who in her jorder !s known as Sister Mary Berch- ;mans, would have to establish her iden- tity as the daughter of the printer. The young retigioune, through torney, Bayard L. Peck of No. 2 atrect, for the first time reveal full story of her early life. She showed certificates of her parents’ marriage, her | own birth certificate and the proofs that she will depend upon to establish that she ts the daughter of the publisher and ‘of the wife of his youth, Mary A. Curran. “Phere 1s not a particle of doubt,” sald Attorney Peck, ‘that’ this young woman {s the child of Charles Berlin Reed. Fiske, of his early life. It 1s possible that Mr. Willfam Grant wn and his wife had never heard of the little woman that he married when he young man, RIDAY, DECEMBE 7 onty remaining child of the marriage of That she will be able to It may be possible that Mr. Reed! the disease finally never spoke to is friends, Dr. and Mrs.| of Poslam proves was al But it ts certainly @ fact| and Poslam S: his youth, Drove it goes without saying.” TOWN. According to the marriage certificate exhibited yesterday, Reed, the young ton of a Confederate gunboat captain who died a prisoner of war in New | York Hospital tn 184, was twenty-six jWhen he marrted the young Irteh- American gir] with whom ‘ho had fallen in love while he was workmg in the counting room of Martin B. Brown's printing office in New York, Mary A. Curran was twenty-one ycars old, a native of New York, daughter of Ber- nard Curran and Julla McKeover. The marriage was celebrated with high mass at St. Stephen’# Church by the Rev. Father Francis Grechelean Feb. 14, 1882, est sent a copy of the the city clerk to be recorded March 27, 1892. The birth certificate of Jessie Teed | Siows that the young Sister of Charity | Was born In New York at No. it | Nineteenth street in August, 1887, the young clerk occu a flat w The w Reed was vorn a Protestant, & special dispensation, it was learned yesterday, had been obtained from the Bishop of New York, that he might be married in @ Catholic church, Miss Curran refused to marry anywhere but in her own church, The advent of littie MADDENING SKIN DISTRESS So Quickly Relicves and Cures. Those who are affected with eczema, acne, itch or any aggravating skin dis- ease, will sealize how needlessly this torture is endured if they will but us: Poslam, the perfect healingremedy. Itch- ng is stopped at once, The progress of ‘the cure fs rapid and. all evid A test purpose a writing to the E, 32 West Twent, Druggists eve boratories, k. ) the that Jessie Reed was his daughter, eat building is full of thousands of suitable, substantial Christmas presents. Substantial, ing soap ) MET GIRL HE WED IN COUNTRY |Needlessly Endured While Poslam | Jence of | for this | e had by | Teaste nearly cost her mother's life. The physician attending her wi Dr. C. E. Gilbert of No. 40 West Twenty-third street, who had been the family Dhysiclan of the Berlin family, of which o grandfather, Jacob Berlin, was the head. A Bittle « hig seoms at this late day ‘das, according to a state- ment je yes by Mre. Bilnor Heissinger of Rosebank, 8 I, the Berlms had fallen out with the young erapegrace Reed, after he had dared 0 marry the girl of bis cholc SPIRITUALISM ONE OF CAUSES OF A DIVORCE. In 1893 Mrs, Mary Curran Re cause Reed stayed away home and went with a y vers in spiritualism and reincarna tion, divorced him. ‘The divorce was followed by the death of the young wife @nd mother, At that time Jessie Reed Was six years old and her aunt, Mary Schmitthauer, a dressmaker at No, 604 ook the little girl to live ne following @ear Reed, urged by his friend, John W. Fletcher, began a sult to get the guardianship of the chi |, bes h from ng set of be at to give. truly express your esteem of the The two aunts of the girl testified against Reed. Mrs, Dempsey, the sec- ond sister of Mary Curran Reed, told Reed's ideas of what a young girl [should live on, She said Reed had ‘sent the child at different times flowers and “birds.” His idea of pleasing the appetite of a six-year-old a basket of fruit and a chic | ridge, sent h directions | should be cooked and spiced. This sort ¢ menu did not please the mind of the ‘ourt and Reed lost his suit to recover the girl, though it was shown that he hi paid his wife $2,900 before her death for a complete reli from any she had upon him. re was a May Day festival in Central Park and little Jessie was the Queen of the May, walking at the head of a procession. At the Fifty-ninth street entrance to Central Park the pro- cossion was met ister Theresa Vin- cent of the New York Foundling A‘ lum, who mado the acquaintance of t! child, Arrangements were made for t girl to pass under the spiritual guidance Simple Preseription Wonde: tal lees and Biadder Care ‘The following simple prescription bas become famous on eccount of ite remarkable cures ts enses of Kidney and biadder ailments, Get ott ounces of good pure gin and add to it one-half ounce Murat Compound and one-half ounce fluid ex- tract Buchu, ‘Take one to @wo tenspooufule of this mixture after each meal and at bed thne, Tt quickly relieves backache, rheumatic pains in lhe joints, and other,well known eymptome which can be had at any good drug store and are easily mixed, Be sure to we good pure gin, Also make fure to use the genuine Muraz Compound, which ‘comes in a sealed wooden tube, as a sutvtitute will not give the desired results, For children, in case of bladder weakness, give ten to fifteen drope diluted in @ little water at bed time, of Sister Theresa and she became a member of the order that had looked | fter hor childhood. person to whom it is given? 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