Nexr York City.—Tuck*, far from losing favor, appear to In* atcaJIly galulug grountl and will lr correct for the next, as well as the present

TCCXXD SHIRT WRIST. ■e&soD. The novel May Manton shirt waist shown la of white taffeta silk, and Is made over the fitted lining, bnt all waist materials are appropriate and the' lining can be omitted when washable fabrics are used. The foundation fits snugly and close* at the centre front. On it are arranged the portions of the waist proper. The ■

Parasol of Many Colon, lorn ties from Paris is the with n movable cover, achieved In an Ingenious and perfectly simple manner on that the cover esn be pur ou instantly, and. naturally.

Among n sunshade

frame, accompanied by several covers. A sunshade cover painted by the giver forgis a lovely gift.

Sapphires and emeralds may Ur act around'with diamonds ford the extravagance nay have opals and turquoise sol gold.

Itb diamonds If you can afyou tt In

tnny ways. Including tl e lu the novel plastronThe

Olii'o Orru. Little girls are oest dressed when wearing simple little frocks that are quite free of fuss. The very charming May Manton model mlral latest feature bertha that finishes the low neck, original Is of China silk, with blue figures on a white ground, and Is made with short sleeves and worn without the gulnspe; and made high by the addii latter, while countless materials are equally appropriate. For warm itber. dancing school or party

ran be varied Idition of the

ETON JACKET.

fronts are tucked to yoke depth, then fall free to form soft folds, but the backs are tucked for tbelr entire length and are arranged to give a

tapering effect to the figure.

The novel yoke extend* over the sleeves, bnt can be cut off at the armseyes when preferred. The aleeves are in bishop style, tucked for nearly their length, bnt left free to form puffs above the narrow pointed cuff, hands. At the neck is a regulation ilock collar with which is worn a t^ of black

velvet to match the belt.

To cut this waist for a woman of'

r the design Is admirable as It

stands and childish, simple silks, paletinted cashmeres and the like arc appropriate. For simpler occasions washable materials and darker colors

can be used either with or withour separate gulmpe. Or the waltl made with high yoke and long sleeves. The waist Is simple and full, closing

at the centre back, and Is finished at the low neck with the plastron-bertha. The skirt is straight and full gathered

at the upper edge and joined to the

’medium size, three and seven-

ds twei I seven-

i-elgl

yards twenty-one inches wide, th

and seven-eights Inches wide, thi yard* thirty-two

and one-fonrtb yards forty-four Inches Wide will ha required. _ ,

renty

a-eighth yards twenty-seven

liree. and five-eighth

•nrd* thirty-two Inches wide

\ T i Yes

Eto&s remain first favorites for light

1 their

the coming i

style 1

the fashionable world and no other is so generally becoming and useful. /'"This latest design possesses man* adtages and Is admirable both for

entire

The May Manton original

iwlng is del'

_ _ e and is of black cheviot trimmed with stitched taffeta bands and handsome crochet buttons, bnt Oxford cheviot, taffeta, covert cloth and all jacket cloths are equally appropriate and all suiting materials are correct when the little coat Is part of

own. the big si

collar id used, but when preferred this

first

weigh: jackets and will extend popularity into the coming season. No otter style has so firm a hold

vantages and

the entire suit and the separate wrap.

shown In

the large drawing is designed for tt

latter purpose a

a costnm

last can be omitted and the neck finished with a stitched band extended

from the revet*.

- The. back of the' Eton is smooth and seamless. The fronts are fitted by means of single darts and-are turned back to form the pointed re vers that meet the collar which Is jplned to the neck. The sleeves are plain In coat style, trimmed to simulate cuff*. To cut this Won tot a woman of medium size, three and one-half yards of material twenty-one Inches wide, two snd one-bslf yard* twenty-sevi Inches wide, two and one-eigbth yards -thirty-two Inches wide, one and onehalf yards forty-four inches wide or one snd three-eighth yards fifty inches wide will be retired, with two yards of studied bands to trim as Ulus-

I

r the n be

twenty-one Inches i

•elghtS -yards twenty-seven Inct

three and one-foi

Inches

inrth yards thirty-two Inches wide or four yards Inches wide will be reIth short sleeves five and

forty-four quired; wli five-eighth yards wide, four and seven-eighth yards twenty-seven inches wide, three and three-fourth yards thirty-two Inches wide or three and one-eighth yards

with

hrds thlrtytwo Inches wide, ttwo and one third yards twenty-one thebea wld* for

gulmpe. two anti one-fourth yard* of edging and three and three-fonrth yards of Insertion to trim as Ulus-

DIME NOVELS FOR BOVS HOW THE AVERAGE PENNY DREADFUL IS WRITTEN.

M*a Who Cm* Write One a Merit With Esm — A Ma*«l Wrllien la lhiri>-slz Hoar* — Kulot the Aaihora Have lo Follow — Hat Its lUgld Morality. Te the romantic Imsginatlon of the small boy the writer of dime novels is of the same heroic and'fire-eating type as the heroes he portrays, writes Walter L. Hawley in the Washington Star. The actual fact is so different that if it were known, the resultant loss of glamor would undoubted!

inled

one of his daily write ployed on a daily ■

mged

k and c

lly be

■aziled by a corresponding decrease of sales. The men who write

mccompanl

dime novels do not wear their hair

no six-shooters nor many of them never

The

long. They carry r bowle knives and m

of tl

saw a live Indian or cowboy, writing of such literature Is a business

prof i

special quail flea tic are an imagination of great re-

alty.

for hard and rapid work,

dug bom

business employs a staff of rei

source and fertility, and an unlimited

iparity f sch publl

g house engaged 1b the

tgular

writer*, paying those who do nothing

• ‘ do a for the manu-

else a salary, and to those who other work s fixed sum for the ma__ script and copyright on each story.

Thus Is carried on the business of embodying and re-embodying the good old heroes. Alkali Ue. Gentleman Joe, Big Foot Sandy. One Eye Pete, Deadwood Dan. Dare Devil Dick. The Man With the Iron Hand. The Boy Detective and all the other popular favor-

who are still on duty, trailing

lies.

dlans. hanging horse thieves, rescuing kidnaped maidens, finding lost heirs, recovering lost fortunes and in other ways helping good people out oi bad scrapes and leaving bad people “cling-

a yield-

ing. weak and despairing, to

ing twig, that holds them for one thrilling moment suspended between the edge of the cliff and the yawning, rock-bound abyss a thousand feet

below."

In addition to the men who are engaged to produce a certain amount of copy within a given time In order to

•libraries” each publisher has a list of men who can write a story to order at short notice. They are claased as

“extras” or “specials.” and upon when a regular writer vacation or falls behind ii

duction of copy. These extra writ

pul

who can write a story to order

otlee. They are claasc r "•pedals," and are c a regular writer U 111.

vacation or falls behind in the pro-

Iters

called

jd-and-thunder” stories produc written to order. As a rule t

are usually newspaper i on some paper in the city-or men engaged In some other class of literary work that does not fully occupy their time. Nine-tenths of all the so-cailed

“blood-and-tl are written

author does not even select the title of his story, snd in many cases he is compelled to follow s plot suggested by the publisher or to use some Incident In real life as a basis. The publishers Veep a close watch upon the dally papers for stories of sensational crimes and adventun

i fle and

when a great event or an Incident of national Interest occurs there Is an exciting race between publishers to be the first to put upon the market a dime novel relating in some way to the affair that Is in the public mind Within a week of Dewey's victory In Manila a score of thrilling stories lo

In New York

war, i put on

the sailors of the' United States cruiser Baltimore were attacked In the streets of a South American city a few years ago, and there was much

wild talk of war. In New York put c

the news of the affair reached this country, a dime novel with the murdered boatswain's mate of the cruiser as the hero. The author of the story wrote for 36 hours without rest or sleep, producing 40,000 words of copy, which went to the printers sheet by •beet as he wrote It. This is probd for rapid literary prootter happens that a writer of such literature Is called upon to produce a story of 40.000 to 60,000

words In three days.

Writers of dime novels do not, as a rule, attempt a polished style of English. and rarely re-read or revise a page of their copy. The publishers

"‘ nt, fit

writer of dime novels most possess at

least superficial knowledge of a great variety of subjecte. He must be able to write a story of Ufe in the slums of a great city, one of adventure on the western plains, of war in Cuba or the Philippines, without making any material error In the descriptive sections." It Is a rigid rule that the plot and In-

how Improbable the deedg of the hero may be, the author must be careful to avoid Impossibilities aad absurdities. If Alkali Ike scalps an Indian In the Black Hills in the morning and cleans out a faro bank In Deadwoqd at night, the story must explain satisfactorily how he made the journey from one to the other in the time • peel-

point t

fled.

The dime novel writer must also be

writ!

ary individual along through other

stories and new i '

1 carry the Imagln-

•tories and new adventures wit changing his habits or permitting him to repeat himself in deeds of daring. It often happens that one central character U carried along aa the hero through 20 or >0 stories published In the modern "library” style of such fiction. While the same name or nom d# plume may appear on the title page of each story, a dozen different authors perhaps contribute to the series each taking up the'characters

where they wsrs left by '

writer, and carrying them on lo new fields of adventure. A publisher who had created a romantic western adventurer with a name that proved popular with the boys contracted with one "of bis regu-

•torles. After sixteen i

two weeks Ively adver-

certaln dates, the

had been Issued, one every t

tens!v<

rtal

publl Iters. '

Used to a

and the other four extei

> appear o

author fell III. The publisher sent for

who was e spa per. and

arranged with him to take-up t work and carry on the central characters unchanged. In order to prevent delay In getUng out the stories as advertised. the extra writer had to read up the careey of the hero from the start and write four novels of forty thousand words eacn In twenty days. The task was successfully accom-

nlghts and Sundays to the stories, h< dictated them to a stenographer

working sometimes six and seven

hours at night s

t a rate of two thous-

do not attempt any other work, are able to produce one story of

forty thousand to

thousand to fifty thousand words a week, for six months or ayear with compaiaUve ease. Under pressure. they can readily write t week, but could not long conUnue that

id of rest, out a

schedule of his story, to work out a plot to the end In bis mind, snd name all bis characters In advance, cannot write dime novels. He must be able to take a Utle. a name and an Incident suggested by the publisher, and write

if a specified lengtl

the plot i

long conUi rithout s p ind physli

The author who attempts to lay o

■. to work o

rate of production without a period complete mental and physical n

s to b

a story of a specified length, letting the plot grow snd develop as he writes. He must invent names as he forms the letters that spell them and

create a thrillln

Virtue n

- climax

lumph. in the

that ■

incident < rays triumi

dime novels, and vice be overthrown; the desirable consummation being achieved invariably In the last chapter. and the hero must be an example of all the virtues. Nor must the villain be too wicked, for In certain re-

spects

be too wicked, for 1: is the morality of thi

ie dime novel

wholly

Is very rigid. It may surprise many who denounce such fiction i oily bad. to know that the' publls will not permit a line or situation that might so much as su_ esney or vulgarity. The villains as well as the heroes all swear "under their breath,” and oaths sre never used In the lines of the story. Four or five large publishing housesl n New York produce tons of such literature every week and the business is conducted lu a systematic way. There Is the shirpest kind of competition in the trade, and the writer who can suggest and work aut new and novel

will find a

luce.

d a den i produc

gw. a India

THE EXILED BOERS. Th* Brillsh Bav* ScatlaraO Th*m Widely la Different Fart* af th* W-fld. A small sketch map. occupying a corner of the Geograpfalschrr Anzleshows the places In Potugal and la where hundreds of the Boers captured in South Africa are now kept In confinement Having distributed the prisoners from India to ..Bermuda It will certainly not be easy for them to plot against the British governCrooje's soldiers, the first large party to fall into the hands of the British, were landed on the island of St Helena in April, last year, and have been living ever since on Dead wood plain, as the Islanders call the plateau that rises about 600 feet above tne sea on one side the port of

Jamestown.

Another part of the Boer army, 700 In number, marched eastward over the Transvaal frontier into Portuguese territory. They were captured near Komati Poort, the- gateway through the mountains by which the railroad Irom Lorenzo Marques ascends to the Transvaal plateau. They were sent to Portugal at the expense of the British government. which Is now paying the cost of their maintenance. Four hundred of them are confined in the cllldel at Pemcne. a small fortress on a peninsula .-uftlng out into the sen a little north of Lisbon. It is a very secluded place, the few thousand 'inhabitants around the citadel being devoted i

most exclusively to lace making. Four hundred men are all that the storage capacity of the citadel would accommodate. and so the ofher 800, excepting the oncers, were sent to Alcobaca. a fevf miles Inland. Commander Pienaar, jrl»o was In charge of the party when It surrendered, is kept a prison-

famous monastery

Christ to whom was conceded the privilege of “conquering the new world.” whose deeds of prowess and

both In Brazil and'tn the

e them an enduring

. _ jesirable reputation. The other oncers are confined at Caldaa

da Reinha.

Another transport from South Af*

iparity be

ut Indies gave and not very drain

100 miles to Ahmednagar. Their present situation does not appear to be particularly inviting If tt la proper to call Ahmednagar “a hot waterless, pestilent hole," In which terms a correspondent of th Manchester Guardian has given bis opinion of It ■ Another batch of prisoners has been sent to the Bermudas It seldom happen* In any war that the defeated prisoners are so widely scattered.—

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