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AND

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" New York City. — Simple blouse* wlib deep rouud rallar* are auious

itpMmm JgT 1 ' ' vV ' -..

(jeUerully becouiinjc.

BtOCSE WAI

Miai'.ou design Illustrated Is tucked across the front to yoke depth and Incudes tucked elbow sleeves, which are charming when the stock and t can be made bishop

mlug shield are omitted, with full length bh preferred. The tucks at the front give graceful fulness below, and render the waist effective and stylish with e add! ~

binations might ! street wear. The front Is simply full, finished with a narrow standing co closes ut the centre back. The Eton Includes a seamless back with rounded fronts and an Alglon collar and novel fancy sleeves, that arc arranged on a plain foundation. The skirt Is five-gordd with the fulness at the back laid in Inverted pleats. To cut this costume for a girl of ten years of age five and a half yards of material twenty-one Inches wide, four and a half yards twenty-seven inches wide or two and three-quarters yards forty-four Inches wide win be required v-itb one and a half yards thlrly-two Inches whip for chemisette and sleeve puffs. Deantj of the I'anams. The beauty of the Panama bat is that when simply trimmed, as It should be this year. It can be rolled Into a bundle and packed away Into a trunk or bag. and come out as good, as new. Instead of the plain baud, occasionally a Panama Is to be seen with the narrow silk ribbon, but tied in front, or a little at the side, and a quill thrust through it.

The smartest ten gowns are fitted quite close by half bodices of heavy lace; this Idea, with the broad sweep of the pleated skirt, gives a graceful effect. UlHM* FIr«.Gored Skirt. The graduated circular flounce la .1

GIEL'S ETON* COSTUME

The foundation or fitted Uning close* at the centre front. On it are arranged -the smooth back. <r tbe tucked fronts and the deep collar. The elbow sleeves ait- peculiar, being tucked In the centre and free at top and liottom and form graceful frills at the elbows. .When the waist is desired high neck the shield and stock are added and the plain sleeves can be substituted for the fancy ones whenever preferred. When made nnllned the gathers at the waist line are staid with a band of material, or the fulness la drawn np by means of tapes Inserted

t this waist

man of r yards

or material twenty-one Inches wide, fonr and a quarter yards twenty-seven Inches wide, three and three-quarter yards thirty-two inches wide or two yard* forty-four Inches wide will be required when elbow sleeves are naad; fonr and three-quarter yards twentyone or twenty-seven Inches wide, three and thfee-quarter yards thirty-two Inches wide or two and a quarter yards forty-fonr inches wide with

tonne girls are never more chi log nod attractive than when wearing some variation of the fashionable Eton. This stylish little costume Includes all the latest restores and can be made simpler or more fanciful as the trimming Is varied and the ole are plain or made with puffs. May Manton original from which the

of, banana yellow taffeta and brown velvet ribbon and fnU front and si puffs of the banana colored silk, ail dress materials can be used- B With a plain skirt, straight band Wade on the Jacket, plain aleeves t*ffetn full front seems a simple serviceable school frock. Pretty light

strated. a

marked fivorite for yonng girls’ gowns as well as for thoseutf maturer folk. It is graceful. It provides ample flare - - * d It la — v I -.'.1.. V...

and freedom and It Is exceedingly be-

The admirable Msy^Maaton

skirt shown combines It wiih a flve-

I upper portion and is satisfac-

tory in every way. As Illustrated it Is made of castor colored serge with stitched bands of faffeta. but all snlt-

and sltlrt materials arc appro-

lug a prlate

DAY OF R. B. PRESIDENT

DESCRIBED BY A MAN WHO KONWS HOW IT IS SPENT.

A PrMldaat Gat* Dawa ta Work Without Any Fata or Carataauy - Why tka riivata Car la a ttntinea. Xaaaaalty— latarrtawlaa tka Gasaral Maaagar. A practical railroad man. Charles l)e Lano Hlne, Is the author of an account In the Century of the waj a railroad president paaaea a representative day: After being for a few hours with a railroad president, one baa a better conception of the magnitude of the Chinese treatise on all things. The president, perhaps, has Just returned a trip to New York, where he has ded a conference of presidents of allied llnea. He has been on the road all night, but. thanks to that bualneas-ltke Institution, the private car. often erinaly considered a luxury, he api in his office fresher for work than the suburbanite who has Just come in cm the commuter's train. While the president is looking over his personal mall, word spreads about >Ig building that “the old man la back." Gradually the private secretaries of the different chiefs drop Into

. The bell * the prh

dent's private secretary what business

is moat likely to come up first, what chance there Is for

some pet i for a few

tary Is closeted with

nelly telegraphic report* have kept president Informed of events on line, but In a surprisingly brief Umq be learns of smaller happenings, of messages left by prominent callers, and of the general behavior of bis

child, the railroad.

en the president tends for hia assistant, the general manager, learns ofllcially some of the things

tee private secretary has told him as gossip, and many others of greater moment, but perhaps of less real interest. The half-hour work with the general manager may mean decisions In-

UK the expenditure of hundreds

of thousands of dollars. It may mean

Iness or anxiety to hundreds of ■*. For example. It may be de-

cided to move the company's shops

from Dan to Beersbeba. This >r* for employes, a breakit

t ties, and perhaps

The upper portion of the skirt fits with perfect smoothness, the fulness at the back being laid In inverted pleats, while below the knees It takes the fashionable flare. The flounce can be arranged over the skirt, or If preferred the material can be cut away beneath and the flounce seamed to the edge, or again the skirt can be ent fall

length and left plain.

To cut this akttt for a miss of fourteen years of age klx and five-eighth yards of material twenty-one or twen-ty-seven Inches wide, six and one-

the pre t buslne

breaking of disappoint-

fhtch means a fortune to investors In land beyond Utopia, and ruin to In the old terminus. The prealmay fell the general manager that the demand tor a dividend on the stock is becoming more

they must get without the five

■new box-care that are badly . and the building of which would affect many idle men. The

very likely calls

of the general manager to

estimate i asks why

and that

along another year without the

e pre-

» the attention to the auditor's

of last week's earnings, and expenses cannot be reduced

the general manager that the

contract for hauling Chicago dressed beef Is conditional upon a secondmorning delivery at the sea-board two hours earlier tlmn that previously given by a rival line. He also ob-

serves that the reliability and Ity of the passenger trains

the

e western tourist business.

id regnIs help-

i. that

I by the

Ing the western tourist b

the delay to the hotel-men’s special a freight wreck last week will hurt i winter travel to California, and that the new dining car must be made to pay expenses. He asks why the tonmile cost of moving freight has not necreaaed In proportion to the recent ontlay for big engines. He ventures

opinion that the sup Slowburg division rr

asleep while the city council of Rlngvllle passed an ordinance requiring the company to erect ten more electric

passenger department to book hean quarters train -or the next Grand Army encampment He makes no atipt at concealing his dusgust over a competitor’s securing ten train-loads of agricultural machinery for the western prairies. He then takes up the question of a larger terminal charge for switching care to connecting llnea. and suggests to the general manager

•hat the Mkrenue would

favorable

1 be Increased b v In the next con-

The patient and loyal general managed. who has taken all this In the Pickwickian sense in which it was intended. now has his turn. From the bundle of papers under his arm he draws a condensed estimate rof an elaborate plan for reducing the coat of transportation on a certain division by running around a bluff and locating freight-yards near a busy river instead of climbing into the town. Thdrained eye of the president catches the sali-

3,-and be tells the general ■fftiether or not funds are

.likely to be available, whether or not 'jit Is politic to antagonise municipal or

er interests. The general manager

* of the president's or-

relght. He asks authority to In- , the pay of a superintendent who baa had_a better offer from ana saving of the previous wsek by reason of better fuel furnished from the now mines. He tells ora

Ing acbi

lalature's bill for gnei* He that It would W *«• 9?® —_.r department to stop JtQTDiM- , dollar excursionists a two^Pb] 1 lednle for a hard three-hour run. He urge* conciliatory measures toward the city council of Bucktown. which will repeal the speed ordinance as soon as the old morning accommodation train la restored, and “Number Six" (the 8b Louis express) can then get through the town on time. In the most nonchalant manner he sake to be excused that he may catch a train leaving In five minutes, as he has an appointment for the next morning hundred miles away. IB oCles fortlta IMd-amlVom

SIT oil general manager finished, the private secretary Is entertaining two or three reporters of afrs. The president sees out. shakes hands, and tells them rates are to be suffer than ever; that the stockholders are tired

empty bags. He then Jocosely asks them for news about his road, as he has been In New York helping bis wife do her shopping.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Arrayed In all his state clothes the Sultan of Johore is a glittering curiosity. He wears gems worth $12.000,000. They sparkle In his crown, on his epaulets, fn his girdle and in his cuffs.

Australia

Chinese

popul 000 i

are some of the “aolideat" men lie community, and. as in British Guiana and Trinidad, where there are 4893 and 2200 reapecUvely. they numr many shopkeepers and general irohants, aa well as miners and rail-

way builders.

Great Bend. Kan, la proud of a hand-to-mouth b reading-making feat achieved there recenUy. Wheat which

the Held at noon was harvest-

r mac! a mill

ed and thrashed by

it. made Into bread, baked and o ed for sale by C p. m. Great Bet ierts that this record cannot !

Dlamandl. a native of Pylaroa. one of the Greek islands, la a remarkable calculator. After a mere glanci blackboard on urea are written he can repeat

h th* arithi

After a mere glance at a a which 30 groups of flgtten he can repeat them

In any order, and deal with them by any arithmeUcal process. It la said that he never makes an error In cal-

ciilaUon Involving b

i. and be can

vellona _ _ mandi writes poetry and novels In the intervals of business, nnd shows considerable Intellectual capacity. How many person* who dally cat sandwiches are aware that it to to

the Earl o

popi

name? The story r in question was ve cards, and in order

l> to eat he u

at put between two and eat these as he p This got to be called a “sand' gradually.the inverted commas dropped as the word became an ited one In the language. There la a certain lady known to

officials as the

_ ry.“ who Is posof the extiiordlnary eccentricity of entering a.'bus and qnltUng it again before it has proceeded a doien paces. It would appear that she has followed this precUce for man* yc - bnt the reason for It has baffled Ingenuity of several 'generaUons conductors. Some believe, that he mind was affected yare ago by the loss of a friend oi relaUve. and that she wanders accordingly from omnibus to •ojnhibus In the hope of encountering the missing party, but whether this solution of the mystery be correct or not the writer Is unable to haxard the faintest guess.

■1 of Sandwich that

food owes its b that the earl

the London omnibus

“Itegent Street Mystery.” who to

illdog n I above

•nad a soul above butchers' meat." and “went for the leg of a don." It appears that Taff, “dtosatUfled perhaps with the curriculum' ot Christchurch, and pining for higher education.” one day strolled, on his own account into Balllol. “There he

Ball

Prof. Jowetl 'Ine In the

>" Unforunately.

plate on t\e delinquent's

rett and promptly

bit that celcbreted^dlTlne In the leg:

bit him rather badlj^'

collar revealed the Identity^ of hi* owner with the consequence of an unpleasant Interview between the Urte Dean Uddell and Mr. Price. Mr. Price's punishment waa of ahffrt duration: but the dean toaued an order that no dog was agalh to be admitted within th* gate* of Christchurch for all time. Mr. Price, however. had one consolation. Confined within the gates of hto college, as hto dog waa banished beyond them, heard that the provost of Oriel, would seem to have beard of the episode, “had invited Taff to breakfast and made much of him."—The Tablet

ffalirmkd •« t article on the psychology of crime spoke of the Influence one suicide to apt to have upon others with a tendency to self destruction. An couftlly custom phase of ohftra oui in ft notion said to be o

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