doings orwonm moved and then rub it with the cot side of a lemon and sprinkle thickly with table salt. The ink spots may be removed from white wash fabrics by soaking a few minutes and then washing in a strong solution of oxalic acid, taking care to wash out the acid thoroughly after­ ward. Melted tallow poured on the spot while hot and scraped off when cold will also be found to be safe and often a sure remedy. SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY PRESIDENT TAFT AS HE W0UÏD APPEAR WEARING THE PROPOSED STATE JEWELS. Chinese schools and students, have grown rapidly in the last decade. Babylon’s inhabitants frequented li­ braries seventeen centuries before Christ. Under the new law for buildings ¿n New York city the number of dark rooms in tenements have been reduced from 250,000 to 101,117. “Let there be Dressmaker. Of course, every one likes to have a light,” is the motto of the board of Limitations. pleated, close-fitting coat proper with new slut each season, but four suits a inspection. He had mastered all wisdom abroad graduated peplum and straight belt of year soon land one in quite a mess of Of the 1,467 foreigners at the col­ and at home, the material at the natural waistline. His frontal bone bulged like a capitol The material is a very dark, smothly- half-worn clothes that are a burden leges of the United States, 460 hail dome. finished French serge, the frogs, cuffs, and a reproach to a conscientious wo­ from North America, 458 from Asia, He had garnered the world’s choicest buttons and collar facing all of black. man. It is often wiser and more sat­ 313 from Europe, only 154 from South fancy and fact, isfactory to remodel a last year’s suit America, 64 from Australia and 18 And with things cyclopedic his mem’ry A Gage hat in the popular tricorne than to buy a new one. from Africa. shape is shown with this suit. was packed. A good material should give twd or The United States has more (22,244,- He chortled with glee at the sight of three seasons of hard service if it is 446) dairy cows than any other coun­ new lore, handled in the right manner. It can try in the world; more horses, 23,000,- He digested each morsel-and clamored always be cleaned, turned or dyed so 532; more mules, 4,056,399; more for more, that the most fastidious woman can swine, 57,976,361, and (except British He knew all the tongues, down Choctaw and Creek, satisfy herself as to its absolute fresh­ India) more cattle, 73,246,573. He lectured in Sanscrit and gossiped in ness. In a Belfast breach of promise case Greek. A new lining, new cuff and collar the man, a farmer, won. He agreed to I Turbans of a- military appearance facings for a coat, and a general over­ marry a spinster if she could raise But they asked him to stand as a god­ are very fetching with the tailored hauling for a skirt, will put a last $500. She was able to get together father once, year’s suit quite in, order if one only only $300, so the farmer called it off, And he blundered and failed like the suit. Elaborate braiding appears on some intends using it for hard hacking and despite the fact that he had ordered veriest dunce. of the coats of the dressy tailored rainy days. the clergyman to be on hand to marry He was brave as a lion, unconquered, suits. But if the suit must make a pre­ them. The judge said that the promise untamed; appearance in good society The newest coiffure is fiat in front sentable to marry was conditional, and the con­ His hair-breadth escapes were unnum­ and piled heavily over the ears. It is one will ■have to go to a little more dition had not been fulfilled. bered, unnamed. It should be recut, the trouble, A mad dog amuck in the street scared called the Brittany. Robert Wynne, the former United sleeves made up to date and the neck not him, A brocade of a faint opal gray and ►States consul-general in London, in­ opening, collar, etc., made to answer And runaway steeds he had stopped pink made a lovely lining for a coat tends to resume newspaper work in to the last word on smart tailoring. with great vim. of rich black sealskin. the British capital. Before Mr. Wynne He had battled for life on the ocean in became postmaster-general of the Unit­ With the season’s double-breasted storm, A Singing Teapot.* He sought gravest perils to keep in coats the correct thing is to begin the It is said that the Japanese, so in­ ed States he had a long and brilliant good form. ■buttons at the waist line. genious in making curious and fasci­ journalistic career, being also presi­ While fire and tempest, or pistol and Light yokes are much more becom­ nating devices of every kind, manu­ dent of the Gridiron Club at Wàshing­ knife—• ing as a rule that the dark material of facture singing teakettles. An iron ton. He is intimately acquainted at These menaces served as the breath of the gown coming next the face. kettle, otherwise quite ordinary, has first hand with London and its celebri­ his life. Corded ribbon is being used as a the almost lifelike characteristic of ties. There is an old superstition that if But his wife sent him shopping, with samples to match, a spider settles on one’s clothes it is MODISH DESIGNS FOB CHILDREN. And he fainted—and never came-up to a sign that he will shortly receive the stratch. ? money. “When a spider is found upon —L. D. our clothes,” says an old writer, “we used to say, some money is coming «Best Dressed’’ is Defined. If I were laying down only one toward us. The moral is this: Such rule in the matter of dress I should who Imitate the industry of that con­ temptible creature may, by God’s bless­ make it this,” said an authority on ing, weave themselves into wealth and woman’s dress, “Be inconspicuous.” procure a plentiful estate.” “I may add that personally it is a great delight to me to purchase goods To get rock for the Morena dam in over the counter presided over by a southern California, one of the biggest tastefully dressed saleswoman. By blasting operations on record has just that I mean one who allows her own been successfully carried out. Describ­ »weetness and good looks to shine out ing the feat, the Engineering Record regardless of extravagant dress acces­ says that a tunnel 125 feet long was sories. Jewelry, for example, is much first driven into the face of the gran­ out of place on a working woman, or, ite. In this chamber was placed 38,950 A member of the National House of Representatives has evolved a plan indeed, on any woman when she goes pounds of powder and dynamite. This ;o distinguish Mr. Taft and all future presidents by a splendid symbol of downtown on business. It is exactly was exploded by electric fuses and dis­ gold and jewels. According to the plan the decoration is to consist of. a the same with the big bows and in­ lodged 120,000 cubic yards of rock. chain of gold with a huge pendant, which is to be a replica of the great seal ordinate high heels and tightly laced Blue books have a reputation for of State, emblazoned with diamonds and enriched by the highest art of the My advice is one or at least typographical accuracy .almost equal engraver. The remainder of this gorgeous chain is to be wrought of smaller two drefta year, well made and of to that, of the famous Clarendon Press, reproductions of the seals of the forty-nine States and territories of the good material, rather than superfluous which is said to offer a guinea reward United States, linked together with jeweled golden doves, to symbolize the flashiness. Of course, a girl should go for the detection of a single printer’s peace and unity in which they all dwell together in one republic. to the theater and to a party occa­ error in the editions of the Holy Scrip­ Such a superb embellishment, the originator of the idea believes, would sionally. It is possible for her to be tures. A “cancel” note just received fitly designate the president of this great republic and hiark him out among 1 and Syr, which together deliver, on “soldiered” around until they put him offect a sweet voice has on a man. the average, 1,500 cubic metera per into the prison hospital. He ate noth­ woman may be very pretty to look second. The water is derived from ing to speak of for fifty days, and be­ upon, may be faultlessly and bewitch- melting mountain snows. came so thin that he easily squeezed ingly attired, and attractive in every We are showing two modish designs for smartly dressed children, Titanium steel rails for railroads way, and yet too often directly she frock on the left is given a military tone with its front panel and cuff trim­ through a window of the “chronic” were first made experimentally in 1907. opens her mouth and speaks, the spell ming of narrow braid and buttons. The material is the lightest weight pale ward, having at odd times sawn Continuing his researches, begun is broken, the charm is gone. And blue chiffon broadcloth, and that combined with the silver braid and buttons through the bars. Once through the with the ordinary ultraviolet rays, Bil- The results that they showed led to window friends below helped him to their manufacture by several steel com­ this need never be. makes a most effective little dress. The long-waisted bodice is joined to a plaited lon-Daguerre in France has recently Very few voices are so naturally skirt under a sash of sapphire blue satin, the latter tacked at intervals on the ground and took him in an auto. experimented with still shorter rays of panies in 1908, and during 1909, ac­ bad that they will not succumb to sides and finished at back in graduated loops. Miss Dainty on the right ,is The cutting blowpipe, of which so * the spectrum, measuring down to 1,000 cording to the Engineering and Mining training, and the voice can be trained wearing a quaint, pretty frock of green-striped white challis, with closing on many surprising things have been re­ units, for the sterilization of all kinds Journal, their manufacture entered to be just as sweet and gentle as we left side. The little skirt is made iq tunic fashion and cut away to show a ported, has recently been improved in 1 of liquids. He finds that the very upon the commercial scale. Experi­ please to makejt. plaited front The belt is green velvet, a few shades darker than the stripe, France in a way to render it more gen­ short rays are 25 times as effective as ments on the New York Central have A woman should speak in a low and matches the covered buttons and sleeve bands. The neck finish Is a flat erally useful. Two inflammable gases 1 the longer ones in their sterilizing confirmed those made elsewhere in voice. She should not allow her voice collar of baby Irish. must be employed. One is required to 1 power. He uses quartz vacuum tubes, showing that these rails wear several to raise itself to a high pitch, She keep the metal at a high, temperature. immersed in the liquid, and iluminat- times as long as those made of ordi­ «hould not shout her orders, This I trimming on several of the daintiest bursting into song when the water The other is oxygen to concentrate ac­ ed with currents much more feeble nary Bessemer steel. Titanium has a great affinity for -nitrogen, and since shouting and raising of the voice of the ready-made evening gowns. bolls. The sounds, they say, are pro­ tion by oxidation along the line of than those required for the mercury it Is believed that considerable nitro­ spoils tone and quality, and tends to j Coats of material contrasting with duced by steam bubbles escaping from the cut. For heating, either coal gas, vapor lamps at first employed. gen remains as an impurity in ordi­ make it harsh. A pretty voice is a the skirt are a good deal seen, velvet sheets of iron fastened across the ket­ acetylene 'or hydrogen is employed, but One of the pressing problems in nary steel, the good effects of an alloy powerful attraction in a woman, and being the most used with cloth skirts. tle near the bottom. Skill is required, as there is sometimes difficulty in pro­ aerial navigation is that of producing of titanium are ascribed to its acting she'’ who would add to her charms a not only in making them, but in regu­ curing a supply of those gases the new automatic stability. Some investiga­ as a flux, thereby removing impurities Black fur is by far the most attract ­ wondrous fascination should cultivate These blowpipe is arranged to use instead tors think that a way may be found and increasing the solidity of the steel. ive pelt for the trimming of the num­ lating the fire under them. a voice “ever soft, gentle and low.” curious kettles have been in use many the ordinary gasoline employed by mo­ to cause an aeroplane so to adjust it­ The increased cost is put at $3.50 per berless green suits and gowns worn torists. years. self to atmospheric vagaries so that ton of rails. Russian Tailor-Made. this season. The charge that bees are destructive its balance will be maintained without , Pretty with coats and colored Reciprocity. Really Poor Penman. to the fruit on the tree is not borne interference. Others are doubtful, be­ blouses is the deep cuff of linen with She sewed a button on my coat, out by the facts. Their tongues are There is a certain Philadephia phy­ lieving that stability must always be embroidery button-holed scallops and "For I was far from mother, formed exclusively for the extraction obtained very much in the manne'r in sician of considerable prominence who “ ’Tis such a thing,” she said to me, plaited lace frill. of sweet juices, and their mandibles which it is acquired by a bicycle rider, is renowned among his friends as the “As I’d do for my brother.” Street costumes will be made of pon­ are unable to pierce the skin of a fruit. that is, by unconscious adjustment. worst penman in the Quaker city. He gees and rajahs. The latest patterns She looked so pretty sitting there, Grapes have been taken intact from Birds, the best of fliers, it is remarked, used to write them letters and then in both goods havè changeable hues I quickly stooped and kissed her. the interior of a hive in which they do not possess mechanical stability, feel hurt when they could not read the same as silks. “’Tis such a thing,” I said to her, had been allowed to remain four days. but maintain their balance in gusty them. When he wrote to persons who “As I’d do to my sister!” Seed pearls lead in the list of jew­ A grape which had been smeared with weather by action which has become were not familiar with his scrawl they els for hair adornment. They are —Smart Set. honey was licked clean, but’ was not bo habitual that it is unconscious. Thus frequently would not know whom the used in combination with fluffy tulle injured. The bees inserted their the element of intelligence is involved, letters were from. Some time ago Dainty Ruffle Condemned. or on the classic bandeau. The dainty little ruffle that suits SO tongues in pinholes made in the skin although by virtue of long practice he introduced a typewriter into his Petticoats • to . wear under velvet well a pretty head, making it look like of a grape, and extracted some of the It is applied without conscious exertion office, and this rendered the body of gowns have an upper part of mousse­ a flower rising from its calyx, is con­ juice, but they were unable to enlarge of the will. the letter intelligible, but did not clear line de soie, with a flounce and little demned by fashion. The wired lace or the holes. From 1900 to 1906 L. S. Berg carried up the difficulty over the signature. frills of some heavier silken fabric. Writing about the family of King on investigations round the Sea of Now, however, says the Record, he net collar now stops abruptly, and has First of all, silks will be worn this a most unfinished look to eyes accus­ Albert of Belgium, a Berlin corre­ Aral, and the results have been pub­ has had made a rubber stamp bearing year, especially changeable taffetas of tomed to the ruffle. But fashion must spondent says: “Little Prince Leopold lished in Russian. They lead to the his name and address in printing. He two tones, This is really the most have change, even if It be for the is making rapid progress as a violin­ conclusion, contrary to that reached signs his name in the usual scrawl, but important feature as yet 'developed worse. ist. He displays no phenomenal talent. by others, that there is no general dry­ alongside he impresses his stamp. It relative to forthcoming materials. The music teacher has a painstaking ing up of this inland sea, but that is a little humiliating, he says, but he Discovered. and intelligent assistant in Queen periodic changes of its water level oc­ no longer has any trouble about per­ Women always were gentler than Elizabeth, who is an accomplished vio­ sons to whom he writes not knowing Inlc Stains. men. They say: “O heavens,” while linist. A picture which was recently cur, and that the level has been ris­ from whom the letters are. ing continualy since 1880. Berg finds Fresh ink stains may be removed oy men say just the reverse.—Atchison taken shows the queen in a plain black the salinity 10.75 per 1,000, as against the application of sweet milk, and this Globe. In the west, an automobile story is skirt and a white shirtwaist, with not more than 12 per 1,000 about 1870. is good in cases of colored fabrics always started on every man who the smallest ornament visible, stand ­ The sea has now a superficial area of makes more than a hundred dollars a Wearing New Shoes. which may be affected by chemicals To prevent shoes from blistering the ing in a plainly furnished room, vio­ about 24,000 square miles, but is very month. and acids. Fresh stains should be This model has the full pleated skirt saturated with cold water and then heel, paste a small piece of felt or vel­ lin in hand, teaching the Little prince. shallow, the mean dejtth being about The city is always in the situation of 90 acceptable to the American woman, pressed with clean blotting paper. Re­ vet in the heel; then they will not It is the kind of picture which wil 220 feet., Its total volume of water is go far toward winning the respect and only about one-tenth of that of the a i poor man with very extravagant also the new seamless shoulder» the peat until no more stains can be re- slip up and dor ' estem of the people,” Lake of Baikal, which has* but little 1 tastes. Science Invention