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KATE
CLYDE
Al Larchmoal Write* el ike
Mother Who Tranipaiently At-
tempts to Pre* Agent Her Un-
attractive Daughter — Now It the
Time to Make Nice Things Foi the
Winter--Sage Advice to Girls Who
Contemplate "Seeking the Bub-
ble Reputation" la • Large City
EVERT now and then you r;ad
some sensational bit In the
paper about some well kn'wn
actress. It begins very plau-
sibly, but before you are half through
you exclaim, "Press agent," and lay the
sheet down in disgust.
Well, pray, don't think actresses are
the only ones who have press agents.
You ought to hear the relatives of The-
Girl-That-Must-Be-Married at the
summer hotel.
Positively It would make a decent
press agent blush. Miss Scrawnykins
is a lank, mouse
colored young
lady, with no
more ear for a
tune than a
mushroom and
no more soul
than a tur:iip.
It is In the
drawing room
after dinner,
and Mr. Much-
wealth has ex-
pressed his de-
light at the mu-
sic. Miss Scraw-
nykins' mother
purs: "No, dear
Mr. Much-
wealth, my lit-
"I do hate drumming my- tie Mabel does.
lelf."
not play. I have
sometimes thought it was a pity, she is
bo melodious." (Miss Scrawnykins took
one term of lessons and then her teach-
er gave it up in despair.) "But, you see,
Mabel has such a truly musical soul!
She can't bear to hear music unless it
Is played be-autifully. And so she said
to me in that sweet, soulful way she
has, 'Mother, dear, I'd rather never
strike a note than outrage the sacred-
ness of the piano by not toeing an
artist.' Dear child. I must say I do
hate drumming myself. Don't you?"
elevating her lorgnette as a very pretty
girl sits at the instrument and begins
a ragtime medley.
But Mr. Muchwealth moves off to-
ward the ragtime girl. He Is "on to"
the press agent game.
At the hotel dance, when Mabel sits
partnerless, the mother press agent be-
fins: "Yes, my little girl doesn't care
nuch for ordinary dancing, but you
>ught to see her fancy steps. I
ihouldn't like to have you repeat It,
but at Mrs. Suydams' private theatri-
cals Mrs. Social Leader was jealous of
her on account of her own daughter."
And so on and so forth ad nauseam!
The funny part of it is that such a
mother does not realize that she is In-
juring her daughter's chances Instead
of improving them.
"Hamburg" Gowns.
Have you noticed how many em-
broidery gowns are being worn this
summer? By embroidery I mean I he
old fashioned variety known as "Ham-
burg." You see whole dresses of this,
unrelieved by the slightest touch of
lace. Robes are utilized a good deal,
especially those with paneling on the
skirt. I saw one recently *at the yacht
club. It was made of the finest hand-
kerchief linen. The embroidered bands
were In a design of large daisies and
their leaves. The skirt was laid in
panels with fine tucks on the hips. At
the bottom of the skirt there was a
very wide flounce of the embroidery.
The waist buttoned in the back, of
course, and was tucked back and front
so that it fulled into a wide girdle.
The neck was cut Dutch shape so
that it could be worn either low or
high, with the addition of a stock and
chemisette effect. The sleeves were
short puffs gathered into a wide loose
band of the embroidery. With these |
soft white gowns the proper thing is
to have a belt of pale blue or pale pink
taffeta. The corset cover bow Is of the
same color and shows through faintly.
A few of the "clcct."
The white lingerie hat is trimmed to
match, and the parasol carries out the
delicate color scheme.
White with delicate touches of color
is certainly the prettiest summer cos-
tume any woman can appear In.
At this time of the year silk gowns
are marked down to almost nothing.
7/
GOWN OF WHITE CLOTH.
The gown shown in the cut is of fine white cloth. The nine gored skirt Is
trimmed with rows of narrow silk braid and cream-lace put on in points headed
with a wide Insertion. The waist is ornamented In like manner with lace and
braid.
Now is the time to secure an early fall
gown lor a song. Select a color that
will look pretty in the evening, for a
gown of silk is more worn for dressy
occasions like the theater than it is In
the daytime, and get a model that has
elbow sleeves so you can wear long
suede gloves with it. A pretty shade
of champagne silk is always smart In
the autumn, because you can wear a
brown plumed hat with it and a fur
stole that matches the hat. In buying
things at sales it Is always well to
look ahead and see what they may be
used for.
That i.s the mistake so many women
make; they buy tilings because they
are cheap, regardless of the fact that
they have nothing to go with them or
possibly very little use for them.
Look Ahead.
Now is the time of the year to have
your upholstering done. In a few
months every one will be doing the
same thing, but during the warm
weather the upholsterers are compara-
tively idle, and the prices asked for
work are lower.
The great thing is to look ahead dur-
ing the summer.
If you take embroidery away with
you why not work something useful?
You will be buying later on a hand
embroidered linen waist for winter
wear. I know you' will. Why not buy
a plain good quality linen waist, have
it stamped and embroider it yourself
during your spare moments? You
will save a good deal In this way. The
Idea of buying the waist already made
Is a good one, because I notice that a
great many women do not make up
their shirt waist patterns properly aft-
er they have embroidered them. It
Is harder to (It a tailor made shirt
waist than one would think, and I'm
sure I'd rather have even a plain cot-
ton waist that tits smartly than any
number of embroidered botches that
wrinkle In every direction.
Then there is another bit of prac-
tical fancy work you can do during the
summer. Make
yourself an em-
broidered k I -
mono. You buy
the silk at the
upholstery de-
partment In or-
der to get the
heaviest variety
made, or the ex-
tra wide variety
will do Then
down the front
and nround tho
edge of the wide
sleeves you have
your pattern
stamped. Choose
something odd—
water lilies or
iris or any orl- t arki" hcr ,ru"k-
ental design. Embroider It In gold
thread and contrasting silks. Price
these kimonos at any oriental shop and
you will find out just how much you
save.
A kitnono of dark red silk Is particu-
larly stunning done in gold thread,
while one of black silk embroidered In
pale pink and silver made a perfectly
stunning wedding present last fall, and
It was all done during tho summer.
Embroidered slippers are another thing
for summer work, und they make ad-
mirable presents, especially If they
match the dressing gown of tho person
for whom they are intended.
In fact, the clever woman makes
nearly all her Christmas presents in
odd moments during the hot weather.
The Habitat of "Genius."
If I ever can do It I am going to
start a club to give advice to girls who
come to New York alone.
Pe::.aps tuO advice won't be follow-
ed, ami then again perhaps some of it
will be if It Is given In the right way.
In the first place, I want to say that
any mother who allows her daughter
to come to this or to any other big city
without a friend or a chaperon and
accompanied only by the mistaken Idea
that she has genius of some sort—well
that mother is almost committing a
crime, that's nil.
I havn seen a great deal of that so
called "genius," and I know how It
lives—In studios Improperly heated or
sometimes not heated at all, with a
closet gorgeously filled with boxea of
crackers, sardines and other delicates-
sen commodities; for society, a few of
the "elect" and the long haired species
of man aptly termed by a witty news-
paper woman "angoras." The sort of
man who never had any decent home
training or circle of friends and whose
Idol Is "Uohemlanisin."
Bohemian Ism! A fine word! It
covers, under the guise of art, all that
is cheap and unconventional. It is the
very word to appeal to a girl brought
up perhaps in a little village where life
is so narrow that it Is very dull. She
hasn't the sense to see at first, as she
will later, that there may be absenco
of narrowness, together with refined
surroundings, nnd that conventionality
is sometimes a very good thing in this
world of mixed people. No, indeed,
the girl who comes to New York be-
lieving in herself and In her art—what-
ever it is—dips right away into Bohe-
iniaulsni, which means "broadening her
ideals," "learning the meaning of good
fellowship," a good fellowship she may
bitterly regret In after days when sho
finds It Is not so easy to get rid of
these "good friends" as sho thinks—In
u word, doing anything that she
wouldn't have done at home.
I am not speaking now of the girl
who Is "wild"—most parents have the
sense to keep her at home—but of tho
girl who has ordinary high spirits and
who when In Rome wants to do as the
Romans do. That Is ull right, but It
depends on what sort of Uomuns sho
falls among.
Many a girl has done some crazy
thing she never would want her hus-
band or her high class friends to know
In after years Just becauso she fell
among tho worst kind of thieves—those
that steal away u girl's Ideals and her
homo ways.
1 am talking Qn this subject at this
particular time because it is now that
the aspiring young woman Is planning
her wardrobe and packing her trunk.
And I say to the mother of such a girl—
In fact, to tho girl herself—wait until
you know some one nice In the big
city to which you are going. Somo
oTle who will keep an eye on you, who
will Invito you to tea and to dinner
occasionally und not let you lose sight
of tho true refined homo atmosphere
so many girls forget utterly while they
am struggling alone In a big town.
There Is no loneliness like tliut of u
great city. It will take you a long
time to make the right kind of friends,
so don't start unless you liavo at least
one homo open to you. It may make
a world of difference to you In after
years.
A LINGERIE WAIST
OF SHEER NAINSOOK.
The lingerie waist pictured to a
French design carried out In sheer
nainsook. The hand embroidered yok«
Is done In broderle anglaise and aatli
stitch. The emplecement is Joined fo
a yoke of hand run trucks. The stock
and cuff bands aro embroidered, and
tho sleeves have tuck.i running from
shoulder to wrist.
ROTHSCHILD'S GUIDE TO 8UC*
CESS.
Here Is the list of rules of living
which the late Baron Alphonse Roths-
child distributed to tho youth oi
France:
Shun liquor.
Dare to go forward.
Never be discouraged.
Be polite to everybody.
Employ your time well.
Never tell business lies.
Pay your debts promptly.
Be prompt In everything.
Bear all troubles patiently.
Do not reckon on chance.
Make no useless acquaintances.
Be brave in the struggle of life.
Maintain your integrity as a sacred
thing.
Never appear to be something mora
than you are.
Take time to consider, then declda
positively.
Carefully examine into every detail
of your business.
Hat. 6
Larchmont, N. Y.
A CLEVER WOMAN EDITOR.
Miss Florence Levy Is editor of tho
National Art Annual and a well known
critic und art lecturer.
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IN:
THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
The Princess of Wales always enjoys
her trips abroad after the stress of the
London season, and she first learned to
appreciate the beauties of Switzerland
when traveling with hrr mother years
ago. The princess is a great walker
und thoroughly revels In long "tramps"
through the country districts. She and
her lady In waiting, Lady Eva Dugdale,
have many tastes In common, walking
and exploring the untrodden ways be-
ing among the number.
Women Educators
In Hiflh Places
. *
TO those who are happy to be-
lieve the world Is approaching
the era that will
Ring out the thousand wars of
old.
Ring In the thousand years of peace.
:he rapid advancement of scholarly
iromen to the higher places In the emu-
lators' profession is a cheering sign.
Poets, seers and women sometimes dis-
:ern truer than lawyers and war gen-
erals.
Encouraging indeed to those who be-
lieve In the era of peace it is to find
Miss Estclle Reel, the eminent organ-
izer In school affairs, for a third term
appointed national superintendent of
Indian education. Sho was originally
President McKinley's appointee, in
1898. Miss Reel is herself a noble
product of American public schools, In
tvhich she began her career by becom-
ing a tcacher. She migrated early to
Wyoming, where she was soon made
jounty school superintendent because
f her splendid organizing faculty as
tvell as her educational qualifications.
She possessed also the invaluable
quality of getting on harmoniously
with people. Again she was dauntless
and untiling. After serving for awhile
as head executive of a county school
system she was made state education-
al superintendent of Wyoming. Then
It became necessary for her to make
long journeys by wagon, on horseback
and often afoot, through all kinds of
weather, many a time through the un-
broken wilderness. She slept.now in
a wagon, now in an Indian tent and
again rolled in blankets upon the
ground itself, but not once did either
her health or her grit fall her.
Since holding her present office Miss
Reel has bent her energies especially
toward the Industrial development of
young Indians. Give them a trade and,
above all, the discipline of steady work
and they will not be apt to la]«ee into
barbarism again, she argues. Par-
ticularly desirous Is Superintendent
Reel to preserve the original Indian
Industries, such as basketry, bead work
and the decoration of leather and bark.
Some of the most exquisite Industrial
art work ever produced In America has
been made by Indian women who
never saw an embroidery needle or
frame. It Is these unique Indian In-
dustrial arts, the arts of peace, that
Miss Reel.Is endeavoring to preserve
among the'nation's wards at the same
time they are acquiring tfle white
man's education.
In New York city the position of dis-
trict superintendent has a salary of
from $5,000 to $6,000 attached to It.
In that politically governed city women
teachers have little^ chance to secure
the beat paid places in the public
•choo's and aa yet only one has re-
vived an appointment aa
perlntendent.
school principal a number of years.
When she returned from her summer
vacation in 1903 she was told she had
been made district superintendent, and
nobody was more surprised than her-
self. But one who knew her well said:
"New York is fully as much to be
congratulated as Julia Richman. We
might consistently extend felicitations
to the city fathers and mothers."
Miss Richman Is a woman who has
the natural mother heart. All children
are her children, and she began work
fof those whom shfi could reach. It
was her own choice to be assigned to
one of the huge city's tnost poverty
stricken, most congested districts. She
has said that her hobby. If she has one,
is children's rights. During the years
when she was an actual teacher she
realized that there Is a stupendous
work before public school teachers in
this country. That work js the Ameri-
canizing of the children of foreigners.
If the primary school mistress cannot
do this, then nobody can.
Before sl c became superintendent
. Miss Richman had labored to A inert-
.• canize both parents and children in her
Julia Richman, shows all the world
what a woman superintendent can ac-
complish, In one of the poorest, worst
and most crowded foreign districts of
America's most foreign city.
Being a woman, it followed that
Miss Richman received her appoint-
mant apart from any political consid-
eration or pull, and that alone gave
her great advantage, because she went
into office with a free hand. More-
over, just like a woman again, she did
not seek an appointment which New
York city men school principals ap- district. She was prominent in the
parently think belongs by divine right work of the Educational alliance, she
to them. Miss Richman had been founded many soc ial clubs among the
Et telle Keel.
MRS. OLIVER HARRIMAN, JR. .
•
A bright ornament to New York's smartest set Is Mrs. Oliver Harriman,
Jr. The New York smart set draws on Kentucky not only for beautiful and
fast horses, but also for beautiful women. Before her marriage Mrs. Harriman
was Miss Grace Carley of Louisville. One of the most noted emeralds In the
dtotriet u-J world to Jn-.poasesslon of Mrs. Harriman. It to ju large as a twenty-flve cent
That one, however. If #s piece and to act in a Florentine ring, which to 20$ years aid.
foreigners of New York's famous east
side and strove to enter for good Into
their lives. Mothers' clubs were es
tabllshed by her, too; sho had Friday
afternoon entertainments, musical and
otherwise, at which professional per-
formers of high grade freely guve to
the children their best talent. During
the summer vacations Miss Rlcliinan
several times went to Europe to study
educational systems there and to dis-
cover whether France or Germany or
England had any better methods than
we have.
She loved hcr work, was an enthusi-
ast in It, and that was why, when she
went home after vacation two years
ago, she found she had been appointed
to the very honorable and lucrative
post of district superintendent.
A factory girl or milliner's assistant
would think herself harshly treated If
she were re-^
quired to work
as many hours
a day as Super- $
intendent Rich- jf
man does dur-
ing tho school
year. She l e- h
gan by putting fj
in sixteen hours
a day In pro-
fessional work,
and she has con-
tinued It. There
was so much to
be done to start,
and ever have
grown up under
her hands vast-
er nnd hlghct
aims to be achieved. Tho pupils of the
truant school, boys under sentence for
Incorrigibility and Inveterate "hookey"
playing, are her especial care. These
live In the truant home and have to
make their own beds and help with
other housework. Miss Richman calls
them her own boys, and with her wis-
dom, sympathy and strength she has
been able more than once to change
to the upward path the career of a
boy alreadj well along In the down-
ward road She gives the boys of the
truant school the unalterable assur-
ance that they can come to her as their
friend always.
In no one of the professions has
woman advanced both Iri honor and
emolument so rapidly as In that of
I the teacher. Year by year the aver-
age salary paid to women public school
teachers is rising nearer and nearer to
that of men. In several states It Is now
actually on n level with that. Women
are frequently Instructors and pro-
fessors In institutions of learning ex-
clusively for men students.
Bryn Mawr college, which comes
nearest of any Institution In America
to being a university for women, Is
presided over by a woman, Mary Carey
Thomas, Ph. D., LL. D., one of the
most scholarly women living. Mount
Holyoke college, which grew out of the
school founded long ago by Mary
Lyon for the higher education of girls,
has, too, a woman president with a
string of degrees to her name. Miss
Mary E. Woolley. Mary Lyon did not
dare In her day to name the school a
college, much less to call Itft chief ex-
ecutive officer a president, but women
have shoved the world on since then.
Wellesley college, likewise, has Its wo-
man president, Miss Caroline Hasard,
an a. M. of the University of Michi-
gan. marillA Weaver.
THE UGLY GIRL MAY
BECOME ATTRACTIVE
SOMEBODY says that many ugly
women might become beautiful If
they were not too lazy for per-
sistent effort. Nothing Is truer. A de-
termined will to bo beautiful and
steady effort toward that aim will
transform the "homeliest" girl Into a
thoroughly attractive one. Moreover,
so far from being reprehensible It 1b
the fixed duty of every member of the
feminine sex to make herself as come-
ly and pleasant as possible. The girl
does not need to be reminded of this.
She lakes to It naturally. But the mar-
ried woman needs the admonition. She
owes it to her husband and children
and to civilization to make and keep
herself attractive.
To be beautiful a woman must have
a pretty face, an erect, graceful figure,
neat, Immaculately clean yml becom-
ing attire, polished, charming manners*
and a sweet voice. It may be observed
that under the heading of httlre are
included becoming arrangement and
tidiness of the hair.
And on each one of the divisions of
the great science of beauty culture a
whole chapter might well be written.
Sometimes scant and light colored
eyebrows und eyelashes make Insig-
nificant a face? otherwise comely and
expressive. In such case It Is quite
permissible to darken them and pro-
mote their growth. For darkening the
eyebrows a preparation of 100 grams
of ollvo oil, 15 grams of crushed gall
nuts and 4 grams of sal ammoniac
mixed together In vinegar is recom-
mended. The druggist will prepare It.
Apply to the eyebrows and very g< ntly
to the outer tips of the eyelashes
every night with a camel's hair brush
and wash lightly olt in the morning
In warm water.
The following mixture, It I ; said, will
often make scant eyebrows grow thick
and long: Quinine and glycerine, equal
parts. Rub softly, but thoroughly, In-
to the eyebrows dally. Finally, take
plenty of sleep at night and do not use
your eyes for reading or for fine work
except when you are obliged to.
A good complexion Is an essential of
beauty. Nearly every woman can have
It with proper diet, added to strict
habits In the matter of cleanliness.
Food should be simple, nourishing and
moderate In quantity; meals should be
regular. A very light breakfast with-
out meat Is best. Plenty of fruit and
eggs, whole wheat bread and nuts
well masticated constitute the outline
of a good diet for health and complex-
ion. The Japanese have probably the
smoothest, finest grained skin of any
race, ami they live largely on rice with
some vegetables and a little fish. They
also have a variety of sweetened cakes
of simple character, and of these they
aro very fond. But the general rule
with them Is light food and not more
of it than will absolutely satisfy hun-
ger.
With all our supposed attention to
cleanliness both the Japanese and the
Chinese can give us lessons In the mat-
ter of bathing and keeping the skin
pure and healthy. The Individual who
does not wash his body all over dally
would bo a very dirty person In Japan.
The best way to take the dally bath Is
to scrub the body with very warm
water and ® moderately stiff, soapy
brush, afterward rinsing the soap oft
A SUMMER EVENING WRAP.
The pretty summer evening wrap Illustrated Is of Ivory white taffeta silk. It
Is cut with a tunic effect and trimmed with rows of mechlln lace.
thoroughly In cold water. A good cold
cream should be rubbed Into tho face
and throut every night. If you are In-
clined to be bilious, every morning
squeeze the juice of half a lemon Into
a glass of water and drink It before
breakfast. It will correct the condi-
tion.
No woman can bo pretty without a
comely mouth and good teeth. Strict
attention to tho teeth Is essential. If
the front ones aro prominent and
crooked call In the aid of a skilled den-
tist. Sometimes when the front teeth
aro Irremediably ugly an expert den-
tist is able to cut them off, leaving the
sound roots, Into which may be insert-
ed crowns of proper shape and alae,
entirely changing the mouth for the
better. Keep the Angers away from
the mouth. A certain pretty young
woman makes herself offensive and
disgusting by continually biting at the
hangnails around her finger tips. Ugh!
MARY GOULD LYTLE.
QUEEN AMELIE OP PORTUGAL.
The queen of Portugal Is a most in-
teresting woman—bright, witty and
amusing. One of her hobbles is med-
ical science, and to this end she pro-
motes medical studies and founds hos-
pitals in Portugal. Queen Amelle even
got so far at one time as to persuade
her husband to let h«r prescribe tor
him! She Is much more worried about
his obealty than he to. However, af|cr
a month of hia wife's treatment he- As-
elded that between tfeah and i
the fore )*<ier
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