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THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, 'PORTLAND, JULY 2J, 1900. 20 tVYJ iWhjen tbe Coddle In Over the Hill. ho sun is aslant on the dunes and the gone; li. see with a. mystical thrill. hazard" that waits near the end of tho course. I "When the caddie Is over the hill. le links are a glory of marvelous creen. Who says It Is late in the year 7 ay. Spring has returned! Just for lovers, I ween. I The larks and the cowslips are here. for. ah, I hae learned from the lips of the maid. She fully arrets with a will. lat ouch is a game most entranclnrly Blared. "When the caddie Is over the hill. Century Illustrated. 1B0RN AT SARATOGA Writes of the Musltu-Clnd Girls of Fashion's Most Brilliant Summer Capital. SARATOGA, July 23. The two-step has I'led Summer dancing-. So the wise say, and It looks as If" they rere right. Perhaps golf and tennis have been ac cessories to the murder. After a day spent actively In outdoor pport, the two-step Is too violent. There Is something quiet, restful, almost dreamy In a waltz played not too rapidly, but the two-step demands exertion, and the num ber of Summer men willing to exert them selves Is smaller than it might be. And the vitality of the Summer girl is lot inexhaustible, though some people rave thought otherwise. Boating and Irivlng and guiding the giddy automobile leave her not always disinclined for a posy evening flirtation on the piazza, in stead of the hot whirl of the ballroom. Assign reasons as you may, the fact Is jatent- Saratoga has more mllos of pi- izza than any woman can reckon, and it Is on these long, cool annexes to Its huge. Hideous hotels that Summer evening dress best to be studied. To be a white and fleecy cloud, scarcely bbscurlng the moonlight, is the Saratoga lrl's Ideal. Only at Washington is white llsewhere so universally worn. walk some few of these miles of piazza stween 9 o clock and midnight and you rill think yourself In a veritable land of clouds, where white is the only hue. To be white and fleecy Is a matter of luslln, and perhaps there Is more muslin to the square Inch in Saratoga this month lan elsewhere In the country. White muslin Is worn by women of all iges. One sees gray-haired matrons cool md dignified in snowy white, relieved by alack, whlle debutantes wear muslin arlshtened by blue and cherry ribbons. "White ."Ilk; Foundation. White silk Is the Inevitable foundation f the Saratoga muslin dress, whose de- ree of elaboration seems to vary accord ing to the original habit of its wearer. southern girls wear deliclously simple crocks, hand-sewed as to every stitch; "estern girls preen themselves In muslin toilettes fairly covered with lace and in sertion and hand-painting. New York Ijlrls' muslin frocks fit better than other iris' frocks, while the Boston girl car les her muslin with a style whose fas cination appears to lie In its apparent indifference to style. Girls from the four quarters of the globe ire muslin-clad by daylight and dark, and le muslin dress that achieves distinction lust be indeed a rare one. Last night a short, slight, slender girl ifted across the veranda and subsided in a heap of cushions. She wore sweet sprays of late honeysuckle In her hair. md her dress suited her as perfectly as If it, too, like the flowers, were a product jf nature. Its skirt was made of white India mus lin, with narrow lines of lace Insertion set perpendicularly between the seams, t was finished with a deep circular lounce put on with lace insertion, and It lung with exquisite simplicity above a Dettlcoat of white Liberty satin. The bodice was a low blouse with a lace md muslin flchu about the uncovered shoulders. A rosette of white velvet rlb- aon fastened the flchu above the bust. md the belt was of white velvet The girl's beauty was her hair heavy. iusky hair that made a halo about her face. She combed It In great cloudy raves that supplied color to her otherwise colorless toilette. Or no; there was one 3ther touch of emphasis her huge black md yellow gauze fan. The man with the white girl had a sis ter and a mother, and their efforts to lure llm from the white girl were comical to the mere observer. The sister wore a rather stately toilette f white crepe de chine, made up over link. It had an open overdress, edged itn lace and a tucked front, and Its low odice was finished with a lace tucker iu aaornea with lace and muslin bands. Mother lu White. The mother, who seemed scarcely older than the sister, was another white sroman. Her dress was white satin with deep flounce of Jet-embroidered white tulle. From the left side of her waist lung a cascade of white chiffon. Her low-cut bodice was draped from &ach side to the bust, where It was fas tened under a white chiffon rosette, fctrcamers from which joined the cascade prom the waist line. For half an hour one corner of tho reranda was a point of interest; but the mil had a square-set Jaw and the white irl a beautiful- unconsciousness of the laneuvers against her. and in the end I round myself watching two girls whose toilettes. If not the actions of their rela tives, promised some diversion. One of them wore the inevitable white luslln. this time over mauve. The under- Iklrt of her dress was plain and flowing; be long, open tunic swept away from he front in a foam of ecru laco ruffles. :ne tunic itseii was laid in fine plaits, as ras the bodice, which was cut low, with square neck and lace edgings. Two big. buff' mauve rosettes were placed, one leaf the left shoulder, the other at the ralst line. This girl was pale and fair-haired, and, splto of her graceful toilette, rather In effective. Her companion was a qulck- lyed brunette, with brilliant cheeks and dress of white and cherry color. Its skirt had tiny ruches of cherry-col- red velvpt ribbon set across the front. nth insertions of lace at each side. The bodice had a bolero of muslin niched JFAHIONIj with cherry ribbon, and drawn together under a rosette on the bust. The undcr bodico was of lace ruched with cherry for some distance above the waist line. Tho prettiest dress in the ballroom, when It grew late and cool enough to venture thither, was a white muslin Em piro frock tucked from the bust to the knees. About its hem was a deep flounce painted with cardinal flowers, their vivid crimson and the cool green of their leaves making a piquant contrast to every other costumo within view. Short-WoiMed Bodice. The short-waisted, low bodice was fin ished simply with a sash of cardinal color. Lace edged the decolletage and the short sleeves. An extremely graceful dress of pale blue moussellne de sole was made with a long, closed tunic, edged with ivory gui pure and falling upon a flounce of accor-dlon-plaltcd moussellne. The bodico of this dress was accordlon-plaltcd and trimmed with stole ends of lace falling from the shoulders. A dress of great beauty, but perhaps too elaborated for Summer wear, was of white tulle, upon which were appliqucd decorations in rose-colored moussellne. These applications were arranged in nar row lines on tho trailing skirt, artificial roses being dotted here and there and nestling in the frothy folds of muslin at the hem. The corsage, draped to one side, was held by a cluster of shaded roses, narrow ing to a garland fastened at the left hip. Almost every girl who danced wore, I noticed, slippers with half-French heels, toes somewhat rounded, and the whole foot covering held firmly by straps across the instep. One girl's twinkling feet showed as many as six very narrow beaded bands, clasped on the top of the foot by means of six small, bright, jeweled buckles. A girl who wore black satin dancing shoes had Ave straps arching over the instep, and fastened with buttons of bril liants: ELLEN OSBORN. GIRLS WHO KEEP COOL. There Are Some Who Can, Even In the Hottest Weather. Next to the fat man who can't keep cool, the fiercest caloric of the torrid sea son is the girl who doesn't know how to keep cool. When the maturity of chance places the fat man who can't keep cool on one side of you and the girl who doesn't know how to keep cool on the other, the caloric effect of such juxtapo sition Is a thing to flee from. Here is a proper place to puncture a fallacy, viz., that individual coolness is a matter of temperament. It Is not. In dividual coolness is a matter of common sense. Even the girf who, from the flrst torrid day of Spring to the last of the sticky Indian Summer days, when the russet leaves are eddying and swirling in the ditches, swings a fan like a flail, absorbs prodigious quantities of soda water and Ices, succeeds in inducing the powder to adhere to hor face only in spots, finds her hair as straight as joss sticks almost be fore the warmth of the irons has left It, wads her handkerchief into a pitiable little afTalr about half an Inch In diam eter wherewith to perpetually dab at her nose, and incessantly laments the cruelty of a lot which does not permit of her cruising in the vicinity of the North Cape in a white yacht from May to October even such an afnicted and afflictive girl were capable of calmly inviting the dog days to do their worst did she but devote scattered portions of her complaining hours to studying the elemental principles of the art of keeping cool. A Joy to Look Upon. The girl who keeps cool is rapidly achieving numerical strength even in Now York, says the Herald, of that city. She Is a joy to look upon. The nimbus df comfort enwraps her; she Is as a breath from the sweeping prairies; she Is ozone and liquid air in combination; she makes her little world glad of and for her. How does she keep cool? By permitting the old-fashioned courier common sense to show her the way. She need not be a scientific young .person, nor a subscriber to that cult which would Instruct her to say with groat poslttvo- ness unto herself: "The weather is quite cool. I say so, therefore I am cool, and I this heat that I hear them speaking of is pure imagination." She need not be an experimenter with the whimsical neat stifling schemes of the sundry and divers schools of medical J men, cither. But when she sits into the game with Old Sol, she is sustained by an abiding belief that his game can bo I beaten, and she beats it by straight play and level-headed methods. j She wal's for the heat to come to her; ; she poesn't go after it. She steers clear of excitement as she would a runaway automobile. Excitement makes far more heat than does a grate Are She declines to cultivate .her mentalltv with anvthlntr sensaiional whatever during the torrid) v MIDSUMMER COSTUMES IN LACE AN D MUSLIN. season, for It should be understood that this business of keeping cool is occupa tion enough and sufficiently absorbing. She seeks passive methods of reeling off the days. She cheerfully but firmly de clines to engage in Inflated conversation or any craggy topic whatsoever, but evinces a preference to talk when tho need arises for her to talk at all about old, well understood, nicely threshed out things concerning whlph the phrases come patly, without fany hoat-produclng searches for points of view. Neither Bothers, Nor Hurries. She refuses to regard her affairs of the heart or other as being worth any further bother than that which arises from breathing a mild Hope that they may continue to glide smoothly. The girl who keeps cool does not hurry. She achieves punctuality without haste. She does not procrastinate, but she sets herself an even pace and keeps herself aligned to the schedule. When the din ner awaits, she stands on the threshold of the dining-room, prompt to tho dot, for, dinner being one of the affairs of the day, she has calculated upon It." The warning bell never catches her dreaming she invites her dreams when the spaces In her -schedule are otherwise blank. The very knowledge that one Is behind the time chart Is heating, let alone the labor Involved in the effort to catch up with the schedule. Not only does she eliminate the word "hurry" from her vocabulary as apper taining to herself, but she calmly turns her face in the other direction when she Is in danger of seeing anybody else en gaged In the fruitless act of hurrying.'1 The girl who keeps cool need not lack In sentiment, but she quite properly puts her sentiment on Ice until It is able to get along without a refrigerated tempera ture. ,. The girl who keeps cool fearlessly de clines to talk of the woather under any circumstances, and she never by any chance pormlts herself to be enticed into readings hot weather stories. The girl who keeps cool encourages and cultivates the cool man during the torrid j season. Later on, whon the trees' are bare and leafless ana tne irost taxes me place of the dew, she is quite likely to refer to him as an Iceberg and a Green lander In temperature but the cool man's frigidity is restful during the period when the heel sinks into the asphaltum. Devotee of the Kimono. The girl who keeps cool Is a devotee of the silken klmona from far Japan. There is little or no weight to the proper kind of a klmona, and the little of what there Is Irks the shoulders of Its wearer. The girl who keeps cool sleeps like an Infant throughout nights when the heat is rising In visible waves from the pave ments, for she knows of a method where by her room may be kept as cool as a dry cellar. It is to hang a wet sheet not dripping, but Just weat across a line rigged up in her room. The wet sheet I absorbs the heat as fast as it generates. and the girl who keeps cool slumbers as profoundly as a wearied albatross on the bosom of a serene sea. The girl who keeps cool does not neg- ! loct her exercise, but she takes it be j fore breakfast. If shop she must, the girl who Keeps cool is tnreaamg tne mazes of the shops as early as 9 o'clock In the morning, and by the time the sun has all its shutters down and is ready for busi ness in earnest she Is back In her room and In her klmona, coolly examining her purchasos. The girl who keps cool docs not patro nize the elevated trains when she goes shopping or for an airing. She elects to ride In a far front seat in an open surface car, thereby avoiding cinders and the hot suggestlveness thereof, and the nauseous soft coal breath of the engine, which is decidedly a feature worth avoiding. The girl who keeps cool has picked up the habit of frequently permitting the stream from the cold water tap to run upon hor wrists. FEMININE GIRL RETURNS. Fluffy Gowns In Order, Parasols Re sume Their Reljcn. Tho woman who doesn't spend an ex travagant amount of her allowance this season In riotous buying of parasola, either has unusual self-control, or is lack ing In femlnlno taste. Never before were sunshades of one sort and another so attractive. The eternal feminine instinct is asserting itself with growing flrmnesj, and mannlshness as a feminine affecta tion Is distinctly and undeniably going out. The Summer girl will go In for out-of-door sports and wear golf skirts and shirtwaists and even drive or walk about the country without wearing a hat, but her golf skirt will be ankle length Instead of boot-top length, and she will wear soft silk and ribbon and lace col lars with her shirtwaists; and, if she doffs tho hat she'll make up for it by a particularly knowing parasol. The freckled, lobster-hued, sun-baked girl isn't to be in It this season, so c New York Sun says. No more rolling sleeves up to the elbows and putting salt water on the face and hands and arms to that the sun may get In thorough work and achieve wonders In the line of tan and freckles. Freckle lotions and cold creams and sunburn cures aro being paoked with tho Summer wardrobes of girls who would have scorned them last year. One feally can't wear tucks and frills and laces, and dainty frou frou things, and soft pastel shades and low cut house frocks, flshu draped. If one is going in for tan and freckles. The day of frills And furbelow is here, and so tho leather-skinned Summer girl must change her spots and try to be an Eve Una and a Dl Vernon rolled in one. Outlnjr. Hats. There are outing hats of every shape and description this' Summer, but all of them actually protect tho face.fc Then there is the long lino of bewitching sun bonnets which began a triumphant career last season, but are in their glory" now, and range from a dainty pink or blue version of the sunbonnet of our grand mothers to marvelous and fascinating creations of chiffon and mull, warranted to make a pretty girl absolutely fatal, and invest even a homely girl with a charm. This will bo a terrible season for the Summer man. The- mannish girl was good fun, but one could survive her. Be fore tho Intensely femlnlno girl In an or gande gown and a flower-covered picture hat, or a chiffon sun bonnet, even the most crabbed woman-hater Is likely tb go down. Then to go back to first principles, there are those parasols. No buying one .white or neutral-hued parasol and making it do for all occasions, this season! One needs a dozen. They come in all the. soft pastel Of Pink Crepe de Chine. shades and the prevalence of the pink ones adds another note to the swelling harmony of femininity. The girl who cannot look pretty under a shell pink parasol should take treatment for her face. Add tho pink parasol to the organ die frock, and Where's your poor doomed man The coaching parasol is the favorite of tho hour. It is a stiff parasol in taffeta or heavy silk; and, with the club stick Is decidedly new. The stick is very heavy and large, and Is cut off bluntly without a ferrule, while the handled end also terminates bluntly, as though chopped off, or swells Into a heavy knobb. The covering Is In plain delicate colors or In an occasional corn flower blue or vivid crimson. Other and more elaborate parasols have slender sticks and are cov ored In Dresden silks, taffeta applied with ecru laco or embroidered by hand, heavy moire. In delicate shades. Showy Handles Tabooed. The day of the elaborate handle Is past, and the well-dressed woman taboos the showy, gold, silver. Jeweled, Ivory and Inlaid handles Into which any amount of money could be put- A plain wooden stick and handle is the proper thing the preference. In the parasols of dainty color, being given to English furze, which Is a pale creamy wood and harmonizes and beauty of tint. The money one can not spend in handles m.o be put Into parasol covers. There are stll fluffy chiffon effects, and one may pay $200 or $300 for a lace-covered parasol, but even in these cases, the handles are still simple; and, expensive as they are, the chiffon and lace paranoia haven't the vogue or the style of tho stlffer ones. Flufllness and elaboration have slipped down from the parasols to tho frocks, and tho former must make up for their sevrity of form by delicacy and benefit of tint, Tho most artistic and elaborate parasol of the season Is hand painted. Here, too, the covering is usually of plain heavy silk In white or a pale tint, and the form is severe, though occasionally the silk Is gauze covered and tho painting la done upon the gauze. Almost any price from $15 up, can be paid for these para sols, the fcrlce varying with the qual ity qf the work and the fame of the ar tist. SALTS THE CARDS. Curious Superstition of n. Woman Who Should Know Better. "All women are more or less supersti tious," said a business woman to a writer of the Washington Post recently, "but it isn't often you come across ono who is so frankly ready to admit it as was the old schoolmate with whom I spent last Sunday. She has a charming house in the country, where she lives with a husband and a family she has collected. I arrived late Saturday afternoon, and we spent most of the evening with the cards. We didn't play not exactly but she told my fortune and read the cards for me as she used to do for the girls Jn school. I had gone to my room and was Just putting my curl papers on, when my host ess came to the door. " 'Do you know where the cards we had are?' she asked. 'I can't And them anywhere.' " N, I don't,' I answered, "but I'll help you look for them in the morning.' " That won't do.' said she. 'I must have them tonight! "Sq I went with her, and eventually we found that I had put the pack behind a photograph on tho mantel. I made her tell me what on earth she wanted with cards at that time of the night, and Anally she laughed shame-facedly and told me she wanted to sprinkle salt on them over Sunday. The old mammy who taught her to read cards had cautioned her solemnly never to leave them un salted over Sunday." It brings bad luck, or the evil spirit gets into the pack, or something I don't know what, but I do know that that girl, with a University of Minnesota A, B. to write after her name if she likes, wouldn't for worlds leave the cards unsxlted." SARAH GRAND AWHEEL. "Wears "Rational" Dress and Advo cate It for Others. Mme. Sarah Grand does not like the cycling costumes worn by the women of England, and has good reasons to urge In behalf f what is known as the "rational" dross. She says, Indeed, there is no othor suitable costume. - She flrst learned io ride in Paris, and went to the school there dressed In what, in England, was considered an appropriate costume, but found that the cycling teacher objected. He was not willing to teach any one to rldo with the chance of accident, aggra vated by skirts. His pupils wished to learn, and as he was firm, the only thing to do was to dress as he desired. Once wearing the costume, no other could be thought of, and now Mme Grand goe3 to the Continent for cycling because the ra tional drcsj obtains there. "No one," she says, "should dream of cycling, any more than riding horseback, without the prop er dress.' Tho French women, she says, wear their nationals for walking, and on the moors wear a long tunic or a short skirt, which thoy discard at tho flrst opportunity. Some of the rational suits, which have been worn in England Xme. Grand de scribes as Ideal, and says the wearers make a really elegant appearance. An unnaturally small waist, with the in creased size above and below Iti has a Tldlculous appearance, and It is necessary to preserve the natural figure. "I don't say that extremely stout wo men look well in ratlonals,' continues Mme. Graiy, "but I never find that ex tremely stout people look particularly well in any style of dress." Mme. Grand advocates the rational dress for business women, and for walking on muddy, windy days in the city. "I suppose," she adds, "that If one of our Princesses rode the wheel in ratlonals every ono would fol low, and the objections would soon fade awa" PULLEY-BELT APPENDICITIS. New and Distressing Malady Due to Slnsrulnr Cause. "A new and strange malady has ap peared In Washington," said a Connecticut-Avenue physician, to a reporter of the Washington Evening Star, "which has af flicted several of my patients, and which bids fair to attack the gentler sex as the season advances. "I was called In by the husband of a lady, who told me In great alarm that, while she was preparing for the theater sho was seized with sudden and violent convulsions of the head, neck and ver tebra. Her sufferings were very acute, the symptoms finally becoming so severe that her head was twisted around to ono side to the extent that sho faced back ward. "I was much concerned on the way from my office to the house, as the indications pointed to strychnine convulsions. J "I found the lady's head turned quite j arouna, indicating a serious wroncn oi tne spinal column and the muscles of the neck. She was in a state of coma. I ap plied restoratives. After considerable dif-' Acuity I succeeded In reducing the muscu lar tension. I was also fortunate In get ting her cranium back to its normal posi tion. When sho recovered consciousness she was able to look forward instead of backward, to her Intense delight, and the decided relief of her husband. Luckily for her the tension had not been of sufficient duration and vigor to lorm a permanent position of the muscles. l would have been rather awkward for hor to have gone through life with- her face looking west over her left shoulder while the remainder of her body walked east, "I diagnosed the ailmenfas pulley-belt-splno-appendlcltls, accompanied by ex treme rigor of the mastold-jugular mus cles. My advice to ladles who wear the pulley belt Is. not to feel that their lives depend upon having the points of tho dia mond in the center surely, squarely, truly, exactly, precisely, positively and perfectly even In the back with the center of the skirt, or their necks may become dislo cated In attempting to see around, down and behind, and remain so forever," About the Baby. In Spain tho Infant's face Is swept with a pine bough to bring It good luck. In .Ireland a belt of woman's hair Is placed about a child to keep harm away. Garlic, salt, bread and steak are put Into the cradlo of a new-born baby in Holland. The Grecian mother before putting her child in the cradle, turns three times around before tho Are, while singing her favorite song to ward oft evil spirits. The Turkish mother loads her child with amulets as soon as it is born, and a small bit of mud, steeped in hot water, prepared by previous charms. Is stuck on Its forehead. At the birth of a child in lower Brit tany the neighboring women take it in charge, wash it, crack its joints, and rub Its head with oil to solder the cran ium bones. It is then wrapped in a tight bundle, and its lips are anointed with brandy to make It a full Briton. In the Vosges peasant children born at tho new moon are supposed to have tongues better hung than others, while those born at the last quarter are sup posed to havo less tonguo, but better TWO PRETTY reasoning powers. A daughter born dur ing the waning moon Is always preco cious. Chicago Times-Herald. Do You Belt 7 Do you belt? This is a question that women are now asking each other. It Is a feminine secret, learned from our sol diers. It is that the constant wearing of a stiff belt reduces the size of the waist. This has long been a well-known fact in military circles. A man's girth was al ways found to be considerably smaller after a year's service. Of qourse, it's bad for the health. Military surgeons are be ginning t protest against soldiers' belts. But lovely woman doesn't mind a little thins like health. WOM "I Doubt It." Were a pair of red lips upturned to mine. Where no eyes saw to whisper about it, "Would I then resist the profferd caress? Well, may be I would, but I doubt It. Were a dear little hand to nestle in mine, With a tempting- suggestion about it. Would I let It drop, without one fond clasp? Well, may be I would, but I doubt it. Were a small dainty waist where my arm might entwine With the charm of the woolnr about It, Would I stop to ask. If 'twere naughty or not? Well, may be I would, but I doubt It. Philadelphia Inquirer. SYNONYMOUSWITHINSULT Ella Wheeler Wilcox Held to Sharp Account for Uncalled-for Advice to Summer Girls. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, not content with setting forth the primeval crudeness of her emotions, In the unhallowed verso of "Poems of Passion," must needs come out in everyday prose and drag the young girlhood of America through the slime of evil imagining. Tho "problem" question has been made much too prominent in our literature of recent years. The result is unsavory and unpleasant reading. So long as It is kept in the realms of Action, where people are mere "flgments of the brain," it is endurable. But when it is brought boldly forth, and, with heedless ness aforethought. Is used to smirch the fair name of our Innocent, pleasure-seeking Summer girls, then is it time to call a halt. In her advice to these girls, Mrs. Wilcox takes entirely too much for granted. "Youth and Summer," she avers, "form a dangerous combination." Shall we then send our young people to Alaska, from May to September? She says: "Earth dons her green robes, and woos the kisses of the sun." .How romantic! But It is not new. "Love and passion flow during the Sum mer solstice." I tako Issue with Ella, as to young people loving each other better In hot weather. Winter also has Its al lurements. Come Down, Ella! She further Informs us that, "when schools, churches and business houses close, the practical and workaday side of human nature draws down its blinds, and the door to the languorous and emo tional side opens." Now, what should possess a sensible woman to talk such trash as that? If it were not too slangy, I would say: "Climb down from that 'languorous' perch, and wash dishes, and feed the chickens, for a wholesome change. And don't He awake worrying about our girls. Their Inherent modesty needs no lasciviously worded prenez garde' from you. The very free dom accorded our young womanhood is its warrantee of safety. 'Give a dog a bad name,' etc Shadow a young girl persist ently, and you Induce, perhaps, the very Ideas you wish to guard her from." Mrs. Wilcox goes on with her dreary surmises of evil. "I have seen rocks," she says, "overlooking the sea, dotted with men and maids, on Summer nights, as thickly as barnacles, while somewhero, out of sight and hearing, unmolestlng parents and chaperons exist, in true American confidence that all will be well." One can imagine the poetess drawling this long-winded sentence. But think, for a minute, of the fair Ella cast ing baleful looks of suspicion on a lot of merry people, "thick as barnacles on the rocks!" Does she want their guard ians to drive these young people, frankly and publicly having a good time, Into those Isolated, "out-of-slght-and-hearlng" places? It Is hard to decipher the mean ing of this worthy mentor. An Insult. Her language Is simply an insult, couched In the form of advice. This tak ing for granted that a voluptuous nature Is universal Is a little too much to be borne patiently. It drags the "trail of the serpent" over the purest motives and acts. Our girls and boys are apt to have an Innocently good time, whenever and wherever they are met together, and be it Summer or Winter; and those suspl-cious-mlnded persons who look narrowly at their merry pranks, through slltted eyelids, imagining untold disaster, are EVENING WAISTS. like unto the spider which can only spin from within. It is all really too bad. Mrs. Wilcox has, it "In her" to do noble work. She has. in fact, sent forth many wise and witty screeds of verse, with messages of truth and tenderness to. humanity. This de basement of her genius to an unjust in sistence on the "under-side" of human nature Is a fault one hopes to see reme died. MARY C. BELL. MAN WHO CHAR3IS WOMAN. Physical and Mental Strength an Absolute Essential. The man who charms all women must, says the Omaha Bee, have the suggestion of bodily strength. It may be a strength AN J which has been imrired, but the signs of it must be there. The roan whose face is "peaked," whose eyes are not straight forward, whose hands are thin and dry and callow, and whose pato is devoid of hair, never charms a woman. If a wom an were always to tell the honest truth she would say that the man she found fascinating was the one she never laughs at, who had no point on which her senso of the ridiculous could rest. He is not necessarily serious himself, except in all things which concern her. She Is delight ed to laugh with him. It Is a humiliating fact that a woman notices flrst tho way a man stands on hi3 feet. The strength and power of his legs and feet may typify to her his position la tho world. The man who trots along may bo of an angelic disposition, have the face of a Raphael, and the intellect of a sage, but no woman ever worshiped him. She wants him to step boldly. Women seldom find a smiling man fas cinating. They are apt to distrust or to And commonplace the man who is too readily good-humored. They admire a more complex nature, ono which can dis criminate. The ladies' man, the creature who seeks women's society constantly andi Is altogether gallant, they treat withsmall respect. They are necessary to him, not be to them. But that woman docs not live who does not And a fascinating quality in the mart with a quiet sense of humor. Sometimes she will even allow It to direct Itself against her own Idiosyncrasies; or, rath er, that particular Idiosyncrasy which 1 not her "sore spot." That must never be touched or recognized. It is the man who seems firm, decided, and strong, and yet who can consider her, who wins a woman's heart and holds her allegiance. Perhaps no better Illus tration of the way not to do it could be made than John Drew's part of Mr. Parbury In "The Tyranny of Tears." la this play Mrs. Parbury loves her hus band devotedly, but cries at him when ever she wants her own way. She is what her husband calls "exfgont." In the first act he wants to go on a week's yachting with an old friend. She cries. Every woman In the audience sits In de spair, because not a mnn there has sense enough to know what that woman, Is crying about. It Isn't because he made, his plan without consulting her. Had she done tho same he would have been fu rious. The fascinating man would have said, quite frankly: "Gunning wants me to go yachting for a week. Would you mind 1C I went?" And sho wold have thought of the thousand things she wanted to do, and would have packed his traps gayly and bidden him godspeed. But he who charms knows the femlnlno nature. A man vu woman loves can have anything she can give him that he will ask for. It's not the asking that makes all the row. If a. woman knows absolutely that sho can do as she pleases. It Is her feminine nature to abnegate herself. She gives the road to everybody, secure and happy In the knowledge that she can have It when sho wants It, And that fact the charming, man knows. Your really fascinating man, has nothing to fear from acquaintance. His charm Is strengthened by propinquity. Why name his qualities? But one covers him; he makes life Interesting. And ho Is the only man who ever knows the full charm of any woman's personality. AN IDEAL UNION. Felicitous Married Life of Mr. nncl Mr Gladstone. "No more felicitous union ever existed," says the Boston Transcript, "than that of the "great English statesman, William E. Gladstone, and his wife, known la maidenhood as Catherine Glynne. Sho was a famous beauty, and he was simply fitted to appreciate her loveliness, which, from year to year, he learned wa3 as much or character as of appearance. That she was content to play the part of true helpmate, all who have ever seea the couple together have borne witness. Intellectually, she was perhaps fitted to make a name for herself had sho so chosen. If he had not been so exceed ingly great, he mteht haVe been known only as hor husband. But she was sat isfied to be his prop, remaining In the background when necessary, or coming; to the fore If he had need of her there. In the busy, hard-woiklng days of his life she was his constant attendant, and It has been said that his moral strenu ousness was oftentimes due to her influ ence. "Then, as Illness and old ago made it necessary for him to lessen his public duties, she continued to be the true help mate by watching over his physical com forts In the tenderest way. It was said at the time of his death that her unceas ing care had undoubtedly prolonged his lfTo. It must have been gratlfylmr to her to hear this, for she had clearly mad this her mission. When his life went out she felt In a sense that her life-work was done also, and she looked for tho summons to leave this world with n feelings of dread." Women n HanUeri. One of the latest activities upon which? women ttave entered is that of banking. They are said to make good 'cashiers, and not a few of them arc found fn prominent financial Institutions through out the country While some women have little natural aptitude for business, when they aro told a thing once they almost lnvarlnbly remember It and seldom make the samo error twice. They are quick, -as a rule. In thejr accounts. Few people have any accurate Idea of the number of women who keep separate accounts or who own stocks and bonds. Many are the widows of rich men, while some have Inherited large sums of money from fathers or other relatives. There also Is a consid erable and growing class of women either actively engaged In business or silent partners in some enterprise from which large dividends are drawn. It Is getting to be more and more the custom Y pay household bills with checks, the bank account for this being: carried in the name of the mistress of' the house. Women Make Good SmngRlers. The best smugglers In the world are: said to be women, and among them nono are more successful In baffling the vigi lance of the Custom-House officers than the Americans. Astuto and daring as they are, however, they sometimes get themselves Into trouble, as two recent prosecutions at New York attest. But where one of these violators of law la caught, a score escape and beat Uncle Sam out of his dues. There are scores of American women, and probably those of other countries, who are a match for the shrewdest officials in self-possession and sang f rold. Side Lights on Life. Somehow the marriage of a grass wld ow with a rako seems to savor of thdS eternal fitness of things. , A fool praises himself, but a wlso man turn3 the Job over to a friend. It is easier to take things as they coma than it is to part with them as they 50. The only difference between a violinist and a fiddler Is that one draws .a salary, and the other doesn't. Some men are so full of human naturo that they have no room for principle. Chicago News. What a Snap! George Washington a husband was, Whose morals mounted high; Oh, what a snap for his good wlfo. For ho couldn't tell a lie. f Baltimore Americas 1 !