NEW IDEAS in TOILETTES New York City.-Smart blouse waists are much in demand to wear with jacket suits and the very necessary separate skirts that have come to

[A FANCY BLOUSE]

stay. The simple style illustrated exemplifies the fact that tucking is not indispensable to the realization of a fashionable waist. Ivory white peau sole of good quality is here charmingly combined with Irish crochet lace over corn colored satin and trimmed with shaped bands of the silk piped With black panne velvet and stitched

on each edge, tassel ornaments finishing the pointed ends. Velvet belt closed with fancy clasp. The lining is fitted with single bust darts centre back,

under-arm and shoulder seams and closes in front under the plastron that is included in the right shoulder seam and hooks over on the left. the blouse proper has single pleats laid at the end of each shoulder seam and is cut away at the neck and fronts to disclose the ____ and yoke of lace. The sleeves in bishop style are arrange on fitted linings which are faced at the lower edges to form cuffs, shaped straps being added to match the waist, trimming. Shapely epaulettes of lace give length to the shoulders, but these may be omitted if not desired. To but this waist in the medium size three and three-quarter yards of material twenty-one inches wide, two and three-quarters yards twenty-seven inches wide or two and five-eighth yards thirty-two inches wide or one and seven-eight yards forty-four inches wide will be required with one and one-eighth yards of lace and four and a half yards of piping to trim as illustrated. Woman's Eton Blouse Jacket. In spite of the tendency toward long and three quarter coats the smart blouse Eton has renewed its hold on the popular fancy and is more in demand than ever for suits as well as for separate wraps. The added basque gives a more seasonable effect, but none of its smartness is lost when that portion is omitted. As represented in the alrge drawing by May Manton it forms part of a albelline costume in rich dark red and the lapels are faced with fancy velvet in black and white. The edges being simply tailored with double rows of machine stitching. The garment is simply fitted with wide under-arm gores and shoulder seams. The front lap in double breasted style when closed, but may gracefully be worn open as illustrated. The neck is finished with a double collar that rolls over at the seams. The basque portions fit smoothly over the hops meeting closely at the back and flaring ____ apart at the front. It is seamed to the lower edges and the belt conceals the joining. The coat sleeves flare stylishly over the hands and the garment is warmly interlined and lined with white satin. Velvet corduroy, kersey, broadcloath, chevoit, and all heavy wool suiting will develop sastifactorally by the made. To cut this jacket in the medium size four yards of material twenty-one inches wide, three and three-quarter yards twenty-seven inches wide or one and three-quarter yards fifty-four

Inches wide will be required, with fiveeighth yards of facing eighteen inches wide to make as illustrated.

The Colonial

is a favorite model for a house shoe. It is guiltless of French

heels, and has a sufficiently broad sole, with extensions running all around. Its distinguishing feature is the broad, high-reaching tongue, with central

point and border stitching. Colonial shoes Invariable have a buckle of considerable size. Usually it is square, and always is at least as broad as long, never round or long or oval. For ordinary use there Is a Colonial shoe in dull Oxford kid; for smart afternoon wear or evenings you have the Colonial of patent leather, with silver, gilt, nickel or bright silver metal. The Season's Favored Colors. Black, black and white, and some very delicate and beautiful shades of gray and brown are the favored colors this season for full, fluffy ostrich plumes on visiting and promenade hats with matching feather boas suite.

Handsome Velveteen Costumes. Louis coats of velvet and separate waists of velvet will be much worn; also shirt waists of velveteen in dark shades are relieved o their plainness by a vest of bright color or white material. giving a sharp outline to the coat.

Girl's Long Coat. The comfortable long coat that closes to the neck is a favorable style for cold weather. The stylish example here illustrated by May Manton combines with this feature the triple capes and

may be varied by the omiasion of one,

two or all

three. Dark red kersey

cloth is the material chosen, the edges being smartly tailored with machine stitching in black and smoked pearl

buttons close to the double breasted fronts. Hat of black beaver trimmed

with soft loops of red Liberty satin ribbon and black tips. The fronts are stylishly loose to box style and join to the backs by under-arm seams that with the centre back curves becomingly to the figure, wide revere roll back above the - closing and the neck is finished with a turn-over collar that closes invisibly to centre. The sleeves

are in regulation coat style finished at

the wrist with rounded cuffs. The capes fit smoothly over the shoulders, and may be included in the neck seam or finished separately and hooked on

under the collar. Coats to this style may be made from any suitable wool fabric, velvet, corduroy or cheviot all being fashionable.

To cut this coat for a girt of eight years five yards of material twentyone inches wide, four and a quarter

yards twenty-seven inches wide, two and three-quarter yards forty-four inches wide or two and a half yards fifty-two inches wide will be required.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A use has been discovered for the hull of the cottonweed. It is to be used, in a mixture with flax fibre, as material for the manufacture of paper. Peat Is being made Into a kind of wood that will answer admirably for paving and railway sleepers. Peat wood can be made to resemble any kind, from willow to oak; it will not warp, is very durable, holds nails and screws with a firm grip, and becomes harder when laid on damp surfaces.

Bombay is cursed with badly arranged and unwholesome houses possibly to a greater extent than any other city in the world. To get away from such tenements during the hot, dry season, camps are established in parks and open places about the city in which tents are erected. In these camps thousands of people live during five months out of the 12. Electric energy from wind has been successfully obtained to both England and Germany, but It la to the latter country that It has been actually put into use. M.G. Coux of Hamburg used a windmill with a regulator, which

keeps its speed constant, no matter what the speed of the wind was and

succeeded so well that there is a strong probability that it will be used in small villages in Germany and supply electric light and power at a low cost.

We know that it is dangerous to sit between two stools, but apparently S. Foxton of England has been thinking hard about the late worthy M. Euclid or of latter-day politicians, for he has

provided a much-enduring bus-riding population with a triangular seat. This seat is a kind of three-sided drum, formed of flat boards or laths, and revolving on an axis. This method ensures one part of the seat always being usable, dry and clean to spite of rain, for the uppermost one protects the two lower ones. Of course the invention could well be applied to private and public garden seats. But users should sit fair and square; otherwise--!

Carriagee lighted with electricity ivomlM to be used to the near fnure. The lights, will illuminate the nterior of the vehicles, to addition to

of the carriage at will In the centre of the top of the vehicle is a small electric bulb which casts a light of the wires which connect the switchboard and the bulb is hidden by the black enamel. The purpose of the innovation is to furnish light when the occupants of a carriage are entering of leaving, and it promises to be a much appreciated improvement.

Signaling Mars Impossible. The very largest city that this earth has ever known would be altogether

too small to be visible to a being dwelling on the planet Mars, even if that being were endeavoring to see It with a telescope as powerful as the greatest and most perfect instrument in any observatory on this globe. If the whole extent of Lake Superior was covered with petroleum, and if that petroleum was set on fire, then I think we may admit that an Inhabitant of Mars who was furnished with a telescope as good as that which Mr.

Percival Lowell uses at Flagstaff might be able to see that something

had happened. But we must not suppose that the mighty conflagration would appear to the Martian as a very conspicuous object. It would rather be a very small feature, but still I think it would not be beyondthe reach of a practiced observer in that planet. On the other hand, if an area the size of Lake Superior on Mars was to be flooded with petroleum and that petroleum

was to be kindled, we should expect to witness the event from here is not a large object, and the conflagration,

but as a tiny little point of just discernible light. The disk of Mars is not a large object, and the conflagration would not extend over the three= hundredth part of that disk.

It is sufficient to state these facts

to show that the possibility of signalling to Mars is entirely beyond the power of human resources.--Sir Robert S. Ball, in The Independent.

Metal Eggs for Cooling Drinks. Use of cracked ice for cooling drinks has long been frowned upon by the

by the medical profession because it opens

up many avenues to disease by reason of the microbes it contains. Recently in inventive genius patented and is just placing on the market a metal egg that can be used for refrigerating purposes. It is of nickel plated copper. It is hollow and about three-quarters filled with water, which is frozen solid before the egg is ready to use. For cooling a glass of milk, for instance, it is indispensable. Where the addition of the ice would dilute and spoil it the refrigerating egg may be utilized and the milk cooled at once.

Shirt Waists a Boon to Millionaires. There is not so much fun in being rich or great or proud unless one can also be comfortable and many a millionaire has envied the barefoot youngster whose single suspender was his main annoyance. Now the shirt waist enables the millionaire to be almost as cool as the urchin. It may be another illustration of the tendency of these modern days. The rich are getting almost everything--even the comforts of the poor. --Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.

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