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V 26 THE SUSTDaY QUEGOKIAN, POttTLAOT MARCH 25, 1900. II A. The Box-Coat. The lady In the new box-coat Now trippeth doivn the street. She has no cum e nor crooked lln She's straight from head to feet. There Is no wrinkle any place. But prim and plain 1b uhe. Her armt flap down so limply, too And, aey. It puzzles me. Kow, 1b she plump, or Is uhe lean? Hath she a witching form? Dees she wear such a coat as that Tor looks or to keep warm? She's comely, as to smiling face, . But, leae It to a vote. And eery man would ote against That flour-sack-looklnpr coat. They do not look like other coats. Which used to be thought nice. Yet one resemblance you will And, And that Is In the price. These coats make you Just like cigars, Tajr Laura, May and Liz The wrapper neer indicates Just what the filler Is. Josh Wink In Baltimore American. ; HOOPSKIRTS NEXT YEAR 'Fashion Leading: Its Slaves Tovrnrd the Gradual Adoption of Ug;Iy Crinoline NEW YORK, March 19. Verj'Needate ly very slowly, but very surely, fashion Is leading us on to a style In skirts that Is bound eventually to become as ab surdly exaggerated as the balloon sleeves that were so ragingly popular several years ago and the very mention of which now calls forth a reminiscent smile. The changes of fashion always are gradual, even the wildest ones steal on us un awares, and just as stealthily they steal away. Those very balloon sleeves, for example. Their collapse was by no means sudden. On the contrary, to use a bi cycle phrase, they suffered a "slow puncture." Now all this preamble simply serves to soften the horrible shock of the state ment that fashion prophets are predicting hoop skirts for the coming year. Gently, gently! They are not among us yet, nor are they apt to be within a twelvemonth. But pray note the upright tucks and plaits, spreading towards the foot; the circular skirts, stitched In plaitlngs, tight about the top and left unstitched below the knees; the panels of plaits at the rides, the back or the front, all full and loose at the hem. Everything Indicates an excedlngly broad flare at the bottoms of the gowns, a bell-shaped flare that can, with soft materials, only be sus tained by wires or crinoline beneath. The ghastly .truth is out. Dame Fash ion makes ready to play the game of gTaces. We will be the grace sticks, and the hoops will be deftly tossed over us. May she practice long before she be comes quite efficient. As to the modes that are actually pre vailing at the present writing, who could complain or them? They represent the happy medium between two extremities of style. The skirts are still tight, but with a seductive tightness, made by a deft folding, decorative enough. If prop erly employed; rather than by a baro scantiness of material. Every one is set ting to work to 'devise ways and means of remodeling the habit-backed affairs that are no longer in fresh vogue, and yet that have not been in fashion long enough evon to become shabby. Can He Lot id On. Double box plaits, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, can be laid on, right over the backs of the habit skirts. The under plaits are stitched neatly ,down their entire longth. at either side, and the upper plait has the edges stitched part way down. After the stitching has been accomplished the goods may be cut away from under the plaited piece that, has been added. Another little scheme practicable for changing a tight skirt is to imitate a plaited skirt by a method of trimming. Take, fpr example, a tight, unlined skirt, made, as t-o many of them have been made lately, with an annexed circular ruffle. Match the "color of the goods in a contracting fabric If the gown is a e Venetlon red serge, make it over with Venetian red broadcloth, in this wise: Take the lower edge of the circular ruffle and lay it, at regular Intervals, In perpendicular plaits. Of course, the plaits will diminish to mere points at the top. They must all be basted down and pressed. Then, beginning just below the top of each plait, start a band of broad cloth and run it on straight up the body of the skirt to the belt After all the strips are nicely basted on, they must be stitched on with a number of rows of silk thread, and you will then have a facsimile of the fashlonble plaited skirts that have the edges of the plaits stitched down under cloth straps. The length of the body of the skirt Is all the goods that need be bought for such remodeling. The lining should be made separate. In the form of a drop skirt. Few really full skirts are seen, though none Is made without some show of full ness. Panels are to be worn, either plain or plaited, at the front or at the sides and of the same, or contrasting stuff. A charmingly quaint govyn that has Just been turned out by a reliable modiste suggests the Louis XVI style. The skirt Is In black taffeta, brocaded with large bouquets of black silk flowers. A panel of plain, plaited black taffeta. Is let In down the front. The sides and back of the brocaded silk are set Into the belt In plaits. The bodice Is a peculiar arrangement of "black silk, plaited on the bias and cut out at the top, over a wide, round yoke of closely plaited, white moussellne de sole. A narrow strip of the plaited white moussellne, continuing1 from the yoke, descends to the waist line, the bias-plaited black silk coyeiing Its edges, but not quite meeting- over It. Straight around the shoulders a scarf of white mous&ellne de sole Is drawn In close folds and twisted In a knot, -without floating ends or loops, at the center of the bust line In front. The drapery covers the edges of the yoke. Plaited Standing: Collar. The plaited standing collar, of plaited white moussellne de sole. Is finished with a small plaited moussellne bow, at Its base In front The sleeves of brocade are tlght-fitlng and reach only to the elbow, where they are finished off with a twist and bow of plaited white mousselino'do Crossed unevenly in front. sole. The yoke and collar are lined with white taffeta. The skirt Is made with n snug drop-skirt lining finished off at the bottom with an unusually full circular ruffle, having flne leather-bone stitched into tho hem. Sketched on this page Is a pretty swirl ing skirt, with the amplitude at the sides folded and stitched part way down in plaited panels. The costume Is In cadet blue cloth and the trimming is of black s,atln, in bias straps that 'are appliqued to the front of the gown, in a large scroll ing design. Four deep Inlaid plaits are arranged at ejther side of the wide front breadth on the skirt. They are stitched half way down and pressed, but not caught, the rest of the way. The cor sage is open, over a full vest of mousse line de sole tho same shade as the cloth The little sham vest, at either side of the front, is made of sky-blue silk, elaborate ly embroidered In Japanes colors and lined with white satin. The girdle Is of black tulle. Pressed close around the -waist and twisted into fanciful rosette in. the back. The hat In the picture Is on Easter marvel, well worth studying, for Its .originality of dec oration. It is built up of plaited black tulle, over a fine wire frame. On top It la trimmed with generous twists of rose-colored tulle, but the most striking part of the decoration Is the wreath of round pink roses, half of which appears above the rim and half below. Tho rosea are not flattened against the under part of the rim, but are held out In relief by having under them an effective knot of block velvet ribbon. Small wreaths of roses, whimsically' placed, wW be a feature of the Spring millinery trimming. Another ornamenta tion will he bachelor's buttons, or other small flowers, twined close together on a wire, which will then be twisted Into Louis XVT bow knots. For those who can afford tho luxury, princess gowns aro decidedly In vogue. They are exquisite, In satin crepe de chine, or panne velvet. One of the moat delightful visiting toilets of tho season is of fine pearl-gray cloth. At the top it has a yoke, reaching down over the shoulders, and made of pansy-blue satin and white, striped silk, cut with a hlas seam, at the center of the front and back, so that tho stripes meet in down turned points. Front Crossed Over. Tho front is crossed smoothly qver to the left side, -where It fastens Invisibly, In a straight line, all the way down. At the top and bottom the lapped-over por tion has the angles rounded largely off, and triangular pieces of pansy-blue? panne aro substituted for the cloth that is cut away. The edges of too cloth laid over the panne are shaped in Irregular design, and, part way Inside of the edge, the cloth is cut out In open work and stitched over a panne lining. The sleeves, are tight and long, and open-worked, In a band down the outside, over a strip of panne. Tho hat designed to accompany this costume, is of soft white felt, with a rim, daintily rolled at one side, over a deep purple rosette. On top It Is trimmed with bunches of green and purple grapes, massed pn a foundation of ruddy grape leaves. A short boa of silver-gray ostrich tips completes the coquettish picture, which needs the framing of a carriage window. It Is, as may be Imagined,- far too delicate for the promenade. Another elegant visiting gown is in princess effect, but it Is In two parts, so that the skirt can be worn with fancy extra waists The skirt s made to a lin ing of thin, oil-boiled taffeta, and Is so deftly cut that, while it clings about the upper part of the body, It swirls well at the bottom, and extends Into a narrow deml-traln. It Is trimmed, at the very edge, with a corded piping of purple vel vet. The princess ovcrsklrt, crossing over snugly to the left side, is open In a narrow V at the throat, showing a shield and collar of Venice lace, lined with white satin. A small pollar and revcrs. In one piece, turns back from this opening. The collar Is piped at both edges with velvet. Below the V, where the tunic crosses over, it Is fastened as far down as the waist line, and from the waist line down It Is silt open, the edges all being piped with velvet. Across the front the tunic extends clear to the ground. At the sides, and back. It is sloped up, measur ing, at the center of the back, just half tho length of the skirt beneath. The, skirt of the tunic Is entirely unlined. At the bottom It Is piped with velvet, and, above the piping, two well-separated fan cy bands are traced In by means of rows of silk stltohing. applied close together. Tha tight sleex-es. of satin crepe de chine, are not more than four Inches In length. They are molded, with waxlike smooth nesa, over the shoulders, and ore encircled with three velvet pipings. They are worn over long, light mitten sleeves of Venice lace, lined with white satin. Without any particular rhyme or reason, a largo square cameo is placed precisely in front, at tho. waist line. Why tire Cameo T As there Is no belt, and as tho fasten ing of the princess is towards the side, one wonders. "Why the cameo?" Still, since the cameo fad Is unmistakably here. It Is worthy of record. It Is. quite true that the leaders In the details of finery are giving to their capieos whatever place of honor on the costume that will make them most conspicuous. Often one Is placed at the wrist of the mitten shaped sleeve, or it may be that two smaller ones are placed, one at each side of those high collars that are made with polnt below the ears. They are used for brooches, for hat buckles, for girdle clasps, or are placed promiscuously wher ever fancy dictates. Bandana and Persian handkerchiefs are having a tremendous sale. Bandana bodices are bright and 'pretty, and are so well liked that they have led to a de mand for entire robes, similar in effect. One of these is pictured here, In light, supple foulard silk. The ground of the silk is a rich tan color, dotted all over with white polka dots, the size of a pea. The wide border Is of scarlet, headed on with a narrow band, stamped In up-and-down bars of black and orange color. The robe is scant about the upper part and flaring at the hem. The bodice, 'of dotted tan, has the. trimming. In the very latest cut, a combination of the bolero and the capuchon shoulder drapery. Tho bolero and drapery are made of a single large handkerchief. All the lower parj of the tight sleeves Is of scarlet silk. The standing collar is dotted foulard, cut with side points, faced with white satin. A narrow, white satin girdMe is wrinkled around the waist, and a wrinkled fold of white atln Is spanned across tho bust, to hold the capuchon to gether. It terminates under two tiny white satin rosettes. The hat Is of plaited white moussellne de sole, trimmed with scarlet popples and knots of black velvet ribbon. ANITA DE CAMPI. PERFUMES OF ROYALTY. Scents Preferred by Some Croivned Heads of Europe. Up to the conclusion of the peace of Paris, which settled the latest unpleasant ness between Spain and the United States, the ladies of the Peninsular court, and Her Majesty. Queen Christina, in particular, used ylang-ylang to give their clothes, and! handkerchiefs a sweet odor. Indeed, they thought It their patriotic duty to do" so, for ylang-ylang Is one of theproducts of the Philippines. When, however, the is lands -were ceded to Uncle Sam. the fash-o-nble perfume, so long regarded as the pink of perfection, lost Its charms, and -a substitute of a Madrid maker called tin French, of coprsq) Water cf Spain, vas ostentatiously adopted, Christina author izing the dealers to use her name In push ins the sale. Queen Victoria still clings to patchpulh which perfume became the fa5hion when India shawls wem first Introduced. She scents her linen with lavender, but the face powder man and concocter of toilet vinegars and cosmetics who depended upon the custom of the Queen, her daughters and granddaughters, would have to close up shop, for, no matter how many firms a J claim royal patronage for scented wares artd beautlflera. the great ladies mentioned mystery, but the reason Is obvious why wear their own complexions. It should not be eaten from the fingers. Albert Edward, on the other hand. Is For cheese I always more oc less greasy credited with giving every new perfume and Its odor cannot be effaced by after that comes up a trial, because he likes to j ward dipping1 the fingers nto the. finger ue ti ue iasnion. ana ucrauat me suieii i I r? f sVtarrs fan.3 fl.A atVTA xttom If Altnrfl w. wms&.wtj IMIU utc .Wf.., nwi fc .&? r to his person, Is offensive to him. The young Empress of Russia delights in the luxuries of the toilet table, for which she "spends 100,000 francs per year with a single Parjs perfumery firm alone. JAPANESE) BEAUTY TOILET. Dallj Baths and Massage a Necessity for the Women. Japanese women, says a writer In the New York Press, could give us cards and spades In bathing and beauty toilets, much I as we think we know about them. In the land of the rising' sun, the dally bath Is as much a matter of course as eating, even with the most lowly. The Japanese have many public baths, yet every house has its own. The water Is heated by means of a small charcoal stove, attached to the tub. The men of the family take pcece- ' S4&P c ,&iizrrf?2 V a! V f Alif " I It ll mm 1 Ax TRianiED WITH BAXDAKA HANDKERCHIEF. dence In using the tub. then the women, and after them the children and servants. Ordinary soap is used. .All those who can afford It aro massaged after the bath. This is done by a sham pooer, who visits the house of his patrons. The massage Is taken with or without the clothing, and the victim lies upon a straw mat on the floor, with his head on a block of wood. The massage makes tho women nerveless, drowsy, comfortable, and tho flesh of their little bodies Is as Arm as friction can make it. Aftor the bath and massage, halr-dress-Ing: comes. This is no every-day affair, such as we know Jt to be, when a girl colls her hair In some loose, becoming fashion, and lets It go at that. In Japan. It Is dis tinctly set down how women must dress their crqwnlng glery, and no woman woula have the courage to exercise any personal feeling about her own hair. The hajr Is shampooed by professionals and plastered and pasted to the conven tional stiffness. The oil used for the plas tering process is extracted from camelias by the women themselves, that It may bo pure, without doubt. After the stiffening, the hair Is divided Into a dozen strands, the back drawn to a coll near the top of the head, and the front and sides ar ranged In a stiff pompadour. Making up the face Is the next step in this beauty toilet, and a mos,t Important one it Is. First of all. the face once more Js bathed carefully, then paint Is put on the cheeks and dips thick, red paint that is. not mistakable. After that, the face Is powdered, this also being put on with a generous hand. In a way that perhaps wouldn't be liked in this country of ours. But with all her care for her toilet, you niust never admire a Japanese girl. She would consider n " insult admiration of fered by any but her most Intimate friends, and even they have to apologize for the liberty taken. PROPER TABLE SERVICE. Servant Shonld Be Circumspect of Dress, Speech and Manner. It is customary nowadays, even at fam ily dinners, to have almost all of the dishes handed by the maid. The maid who waits on table cannot be too circum spect In her own table manners, or in the uniform she adopts. She should in the Winter wear a gown of black alpaca, with linen collar, white bib-apron and lace cap. In handing" dishes, to those seated at table, the maid must be careful never to serve from the right side. This is highly Improper, and necessitates an awkward posture for the one who Is helping her self fcom Jhe dish passed. Left-handed people have, It Is presumed, accustomed themselves to being served from the left To this rule there Is no exception. Everything should be handed from the left; the dish held low. so as to cause no Inconvenience, and the guest helps herself, never assisted by the maid. Thfe only occasion when the servant Is allowed to help is where wine is served; then the glasses are filled by a man servant. The maid should place the clean dishes and clear away the others with as little ostentation as possible. She remains in the dining-room until dessert, when the table Is qleaced of everything but table decorations, fruit, etc. Then she retires. leaving the family to partake of the rest of the meal unassisted. The service snouiu be. as nearly as possible, noiseless, and the waitress should never speak unless addressed. EAT CHEESE "WITH KNIFE. Certain Interesting Matters of Table Etiquette. One may steer oneself carefully and safe ly through a long, formal dinner and be tripped up at the very end. Do you know, asks an exchange, Just hqw to take after-dinner coffee, and how to eat the cheese which is then served? After-dinner coffee is always served In tpy coffee cups with one lunjp of sugar more is not perimssiDie anu no cream Sometimes the sugar is ready In the sau cer when the coffee is passed, but the piore elegant way Is to pass small silver bowls from which the guests help them selves with the aid of sugar tongs. Cheese should never be eaten from the fingers, nor with a fork. If toasted, crackers or bread is served, cut a piece of the cheese apd spread It on a small piece of tho bread or pracker. If no "crackers or bread are served, then you are permitted to eat the cheese from the cheese knife. This sounds very strange,, when we have been taught from time Immemorial that nothing Is ever eaten from a kidfc, but it is true. Why" It Is not eaten from a fork Us a uuyvu It Is better taste, however, to serve toasted crackers with the cheese, and. In deed, the custom has become so universal that there Is little danger of one's being left stranded with only a "knife with which to convey the toothsome bits to' the mouth. THINGS OF BEAUTY. New Skirt Waists Which Every Wo man Will Admire. Everything xan be said In praise of tha Slew shirt-waist which has at last blos somed out Into a thing Of real beauty, a dainty, feminine waist, which every woman of taste can approve. The variety Is endless, and the prettiest waists are made by hand. Fine lawns and sheer linen, cambric are popular fabrics in white. Alternating groups of fine tucks and lace Insertion form entire waists and sleeves. An embroidered beading set In between the tucks as It Is used In lin gerie. Is another mode of treatment, and again you see bands of lawn Joned with the herring-bone stitch. There are waists of all-over embroidery; waists with half-Inch tucks, edged with narrow frills of lace down the front. With four or five tucks each side, and waists of dotted batiste, striped with the finest embrqldered batiste Insertion. The transparent waists wljl be worn over col ored silk slips, as they were last season, and In that way one can have quite a variety of changes, with a very few waists. The new shirt-waist Is made with no yoke at the back, which is tucked or plaited to correspond with tha front, and the sleeves are the real dress sleeve, with a small, circular cuff, trimmed with loce falling over the hand. Fancy stocks of ribbon, laco or lawn, with a lace trimmed bow in front, are worn with them. The heavier shirt-waists, which have stiff cuffsr shirt sleeves, and. with rare exceptions, a seamless yoke back, are made of Madras cloth, which bids fair to oust the cheviots and pique from favor. White Madras, either striped, cross-barred or spotted. Is the correct thing, and it is evident that the white shirt-waist in any material is to have the lead. Colored piques, with white spots, and white piques, with colored spots, are both used, as well as the colored Madras, In stripes and checks. Wash silks, in corded stripes and checks, are to be much worn and conie In a greater variety of patterns and colorings than ever before. Wear White-Soled Stockings. A frequent cause of trouble with the feet Is the wearing of black stockings. Care should be taken to select those with white soles, as the dye is extracted by the heat induced by confinement in the shoe and acts as an irritant poison. Itching, burning and swelling often are due solely j to this cause. f To mitigate the evil in some degree the ' stockings should be change daily in Sum- mer and at least three times during the week in Winter. The feet should be bathed every night In warm water and bicarbonate of soda a tablespoonful of the soda to a basin of wajer letting them remain In the solution until It becomes cool. They rqust bo rubbed vlgprously In drying and then bathed with alcohol. msBSffl i maBsSBm wTS tytf&vL TSffvilSsS&l V5i pFtk l liV DTTy It II i Ti iiiw'r 1 t l.SSfe ' 1 III vvl ft y fV :. x t 1 1 r v M r - ' t ;fi ys. - - . rt . (Y I , J 1 v- : 1 -- y - L8 S SWIRLING SKIRTS. IX T.ATF1KT linTlR- Mother's Darllnir. His hair Is red and tangled, and he has a turncd-up nose; His voice Is loud and -strident, and It never sets repose; Hla face la full of freckles, and hi3 ears are shaped like fins. And a large front tooth Is mlaflne, as you'll notice when ho --Tins. He te'like a comic picture, from his toes up to his head But his mother calls him "darllag" when ahe tucks him Into bed. It la he who marks the carpet with the print ct muddy boqta; And rejoices in a. doorbell that la pulled out bj the xootjt; "Who whistles on h!a fingers till htialmost opllts your ear. And shocks the varlcua callers with tho slang he chanced to hear. He fills the house wth tumult and the neighbor hood with dread But his mother calls him "darling" when phe tucks him into bed. Washington Eening Star. CO-EDUCATION MOVEMENT Women Seek to Have Doors of Johns Hopkins University Opened to Them-Wesleyan Results.. The question of co-education is being discussed wjth much ardor at present In several colleges In the East. Johns Hop kins Is not able any longer to escape the problem, and the arguments pro and con may be heard wherever Johns Hopkins men gather. The students of the Wom an's College of Baltimore, says the New York Sun, have been looking on the grad uate courses of the university for some time with covetous eyes, and finally a movement was started with which these students were identified to Induce Johns Hopkins to open Its graduate courses to Women. The objections urged against such a procepdjng are the usual pnes that the presence of women would be a restriction on the freedom of the men, and that one step might lead to another, and that pnee the bars w'ere down, the women might Invade the undergraduate department also. In answer to these objections, the ad vocates of admission point out the fact that nearly all the leading Institutions of the country have opened their graduate courses, without any evil consequences. The mpn do not seem to feel the presence of women a hindrance. They have not been Included yet in the undergraduate department of Yale, Harvard or Colum bia. It is probable that. In order to get some Idea of public opinion on this mat ter, a petition will be circulated, among leading professional and nonprofessional women and clergymen, lawyers, physi cians, merchants, hankers and other pro fessional an4 business men. The failure of the Maryland Legisla ture to pass the bill appropriating $50,000 for Johns Hopkins University will per haps defer the opening of the graduate courses. The nnlversity feels disappoint ed and hurt over the defeat of the bill singe It has qffered freely to the Baltl--more people single lectures and courses of lectures ever since It was founded. It has also given substantial aid to city charities, and In many other ways has tried to do Its part for the welfare of the city. Wesleyan University, which has weighed co-educatjon In the balance and found It somewhat wanting, is seriously considering the question of giving It up. The Joint committee met In New York to recelves the report of the New York young alumni on the subject of co-education at Wesleyan. No final decision was reached and It was voted that another meeting should be held before the regu lar meeting of the Board of Trustees m March. DOX'T COXFESS NOWADAYS. Sot Many Women So Frnnlc an This Daagliter qf France. Perhaps no woman was ewr better rec onciled to positive ugliness In her own person than the Duchess of Orleans, the mother of the Regent d'Orleans, who gov- erned France during the minor ty of Louis XV. She writes thuswlse cf her fown appearance and manners: "From my earliest years I was aware how ordinary my appearance was, and did not like that "people should look at me at tentively. I never paid any attention to dress, because diamonds and dress were sure to attract attention. On great dava my husband used to make me rouge, which I did greatly against my will. Ope day I made the Countess Scissons laugh heart ily. She asked me why I never tu ned my head when I passed a mlrrpr everybody else; did. I answered, 'Because I have LJ too much self-love to bear the sight of my own homeliness.' "I must have been very homely In my youth. I had no Bort of features, with little, twitching eyes, a short stub nose 41 "u luub, uuck lips. ine wuoir v ". physiognomy was far from attractive. "My face was large, with fat cheeks, and my figure was short and stumpy; In short, I was a very homely sort of person. Ex cept for the goodness of yiy disposition, no one would have endured me. It woa Impossible to discover anything- like in te.llgence in my eyes; except with a mi croscope. Perhaps there was not on tht face of1 the earth simh nnntVin- tm!- nf tieK- I hands as mine. The Klnef often told m so, and set pie laughing about it; for & I was quite sure of being very ugly. I njade up my mind to be always the first to laugh at It. This succeeded very will, thoush I must confess It furnished ma w 1th a good stock of material for laughter, "One thing that always surprised ma was how anybody could ever fall in leva with me. I was notoriously the most homely woman In the French court, and yet I was only 19 when I was married. I often asked my husband whether my look did not repel him, and what "he saw In me that he should fall In love. To my ques tions I have never received a satisfactory answer, but It seems to me that othtt qualities. In lack of beauty, caused his-attraction." "THE CHILDREN'S ROOM." Shonld Be Made a Thlngr of BcnutyJA to Little Ones!" If there is any room in the house which is destined to receive the overflow pf furniture, broken and mismatched edds and ends, you may depend upon it that room Is the nursery or "children's room." Many mothers wonder why their little sons and dauehters are so fond of run ning the? streets, preferring always to he out of the house and away from home Exercise In the open air Is the best sort of exercise, but everything can be oyer done. and the children should be taught that some part of each day must be sflent Indoors. It does not always occur tanarents that the simplest explanation of their chil dren's ceslre to be forever on the go Is because they haye no place at home suffi ciently attractive to hold them there. The nursery should be made a place of beauty to the little ones. Instead of half-wum and cast-off furniture, it should be 'fur nished with an entire new set. Oak furni ture is never expensive, and Is bright and cheerful In a living-room. . Qne of the prettiest adjuncts to a chlld'3 room, says the New York World. Is a pic ture screen. Make the screen of plain blue or red denim, on a light wood frame, tnd fasten the pictures on It with smalt brass paper clampsi Every child ha its own collection of photographs and picture cards, and when these are arranged artis tically, the effect is dainty. A toycloset with ample shelf rom is another requisite of the nursery. Tho children should be taught that this closet must be kept In order, or It will copn show an accumulation of litter. A weekly renovating will keep it fairly clean. , If there are cushions in the nursery, they should have good, strong covers of denim, fastened on by buttons and button-holes, so that they can bo readily re moved and, laundered when. ;Qlled. Till draperies for-the small tQl'e. tables, ?, tains, etc. .shpuld be of fine white musjljv. capable of enduring innumerable wasrj lng3. It Is well tq have two sets. If pw Bible, so that they may be changed evey week or so and kept In spotless clear ness. . I HQW IT SHOULD ID MADI". ' Snjrgestlons for Iinpnrtlnp: Dcllclcas Flavor to Potato Salad. The French have a tsccr.t with r-g-d to potato salad that, whila very hlmiK yet if known and dpplled to one America dish, would' change vJt3 charae'er mu h 'or the better. "We. each one cf us. can brire to mrd r the wholesome flavor of po'atps and dsh gravy frqm a Joint of beef, ps this Is ofea the first tnat" cf the family d nncr to have been allowed after an il're s. Tie Frenchman's secret ennb'e? us" to lm-ct this flavor. In combination w'th the rclth of a salad, if we have at hand a sxa 1 t of coarse gravy meal, or a ti-y p"t of beC extract. The meat is to be heated thrown, and every trnca of Juice pressed out and salted to taste nr enough of the ex'ret used to give a good meat llaor to law tablespoonfuls of hot wattr. The potatoes are to be c-oked as "wasy" as possible. With old po'atoes this canbo dene by throwing thm into the collar I r and spreading them out ore by o-e o In come thcrough'y cool. When preparng the salad, each tMn slica of rottto is to be Immersed Into the beef ju'ce, just leng enough to take the flaor wlthr.ut beccn lns: moist enough to "Break: When iho oil, pepper, salt and vln-gar are added and all ge Uly toss d. the s a ad is ready 10 said to table. Finely chopped parsley Improves the cp rearance: but is not called for in the recipe, while tho beef gravy Is lnsLsfed upon. u INVALID ROOM, Care Shonld Be Used in Selection nnd Arrangement. ' The room occupied by an Invalid should receive careful attention, as much depends upon It. In some cases even the sick one's ultimate recovery. An over large roam Is not desirable, as It Is too hard to keep clean, and is, besides, apt to be draughty. The room should have a southern or a western exposure, and be as cheery and bright as loving thoughts can make it. Little furniture should be used, and that the simplest and plainest. Heavy uphol stered furniture wearies tho eye of the invalid, and, besides, accumulates dust and microbes In an objectionable way, It Is a good plan to use nothing In the room that cannot be washed thoroughly with warm water into which a few drops of carbolic acid have been put. Heavy curtains have no place In a sick rooni. They attract disagreeable odors and taint the air that passes by them. Much more to be recommended are simple cur tains of ew'es tied back with cheery rib bone, that can be changed and washed every week or so. The first floor Is a bad place for an In valid room, for not only Is It too near the noises of the street, but It catches all tho foul air that may ar'se from the cellar. Neither Is the top floor gpod. That la quieter, it is true, but it Is too near the roof, and Is therefore apt to be hotter thin any other room In the summer. ' Cnre of Children's Teeth. An experienced dentist says that the carelessness of parents frequently sacri fices the personal charm of their children to an extent wholly unnecessary. The flrst teeth should be preserved until actu ally pushed out by the second, aa the jaw contracts when they are removed any considerable length of time before the sec ond. The flrst set should be brushed with the softest possible brush, and a good paste, and when signs of decay appear tha child should be taken to a competent dentist for advice and treatment. In this way the child Is almost assured of sound, evenly growing teeth when womanhood or manhood is reached. I