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"""x^ * r^' - v : - • ;>•-~*M'- ,J **i u „ * *? V * * 'v. -X- „ *> *, ^ ^ >„ ^ jvy v , $ ^ * •*; ^ : \'^.«*3sk'^-iV:irV ' Y £,^T'T -M •Cv^v'^'i'^.r.Ti.'1".-^ lm.Ws&tits -.- ..'g; •%&:., W%^m^WsnffitSTiil.WIMBWiPiHWrj'iTf anrniin i 'ffiiffimriwrninninni -TinoirrTii[pm-?wriwiri " KltENRY PI, ATNDEALER, M*HENRY» mmmmt mm ip'-v.'^v :V, " V- $>\ **h #&•* i'&i - ; ^*r<> l>;^: «A AUTHOR OF THE CITY THAT BV COPYRIGHT 1912 BOBBS-MERRILLC9 WAS, ETC* •"*f.*i*•'.* ,y<i"';"' "C- '; {" ,-W,'V<'t< f'- :- ':i,'"'^.n>.-"' FOR A WHITE FROCK KXCCULENt DC8IQN 18 4hC ONB ?; «m*-t <MV*W • HIRE^I/W^ £ ^Sllt SYNOPSIS. Itomfay •North, returning to his room In 1m. Moop«'« boarding bouM at 2J& *. m., discovers the body of Capt. John Hanska, another roomer, with a knife wound on Ills breast. Suspicion rests upon a man giving the name of Lawrence Wade, who had called on Hanska in the evening and had been heard quarreling1 with Hanska. During the excitement a strange woman who gives her name as Rosalie LeGrange, appears and takes into her own home across the street all of Mrs. Moore's boarders, including Miss Estrilla, an in- Valid, who was confined to the room she occupied and whose brother was a favor- llte among the other boarders. Wade Is arrests as he is about to leave the coun­ try. Mrs. 'LeOranffp. who. while plying her trade as a trance medium, had aided Police Inspector Martin McOee several times, calls at his office to tell what she knows of the crime. While she Is th«T«. Constance Hanska. wMow of the murder­ ed roan, whose existence had b«en un­ known. appears. ts&p'- CHAPTER III--Continued. T bad to." replied Mrs. Hanska. % came to the point where I must leave him or turn criminal myself. I got funds from home and sailed for America aa soon as I could. I went Straight to my mother in Boston. I resumed my maiden name. I called myself Mrs. Wharton--and I got a situation at the seminary at Arden-- where Miss Lane teaches also. Then my mother died. At the end she made mo promise that I would never go back to Captain Hanska as long as he led that--that kind of life. Somehow he leirned, though, that I was in Ar­ den. I wanted a separation. I need­ ed "it for my own protection. You. see, there was the property--mother had left a little money. Captain Hanska wouldn't consent to a di­ vorce" "No," said Betsy-Barbara in a tone of superhuman 'sapience, "of course lot! He wanted that money." "And there were no real grounds that I knew. I had deserted him, not he me. Afterward^e went away--to Holland, I think. At least he was in Antwerp three months* ago. Then he returned to New York. He sent me a letter. He said that he would never give me up. Then I put the whole matter into the hands of Mr. Wade-- Mr. Lawrence Wade." "Ah!" The exclamation broke from the immobility of Inspector Martin McGee. For the first time since Rosalie took the reins, Constance Han­ aka seemed aware of his existence. "Yes," she said, "the young man Whom you have arrested for this mur­ der. I know, Inspector McGee, that my opinion will carry little weight with you. But I must say this--" she panned, and seemed to struggle with an emotion which, hitherto careruliy repressed, now beat Itself to the sur­ face--"Lawrence Wade did not com­ mit that murder. He couldn't have done it. He isn't that kind of a man. He is my friend and attorney. He lives in Arden. I have known him swr since I went there. He visited New York three times to attempt some m'" I'm- Wi % \1 iSkk- ."C>«ptain Hanska Wouldn't Consent to a Divorce." legal settlement with Captain Hanska. He wanted me to get a divorce. 1 wasn't quite ready to do that, even if I could have found grounds. But I was willing to have a legal separation --something which would have rid me of Captain Hanska and let me go my own way. 1 authorized Mr. Wade to of­ fer part of my mother's property, if that would do any good. The C&ptain re­ fused everything. He told Mr. Wade that as soon as he had arranged some­ thing--he didn't say what--he would find me and compel me to go with him. I realized that I must get farther from New York. I had a few possessions of Captain Hanska's. I wanted to re- tarn them and close with him forever. WHY NOT WEDLOCK'S BOND? ^jPHBlal Service Expert Laments the PmeX That Many of the People Remain Unmarried. Why are 39 out of every 100 men < without wives? A social set-vice ex­ port puts the question. It is calcu­ lated to provoke debate at this season. It seems there are 17,000,000 unmar­ ried persons in the United States, a greater number than the entire popu­ lation of tome nations; more than twice that of the Dominion of Canada. Bight millions of the unmarried are men, about 9,000,000 women "over fif­ teen years of age." Seven and one- quarter million of the bachelors are ' betwteen twenty and forty-four years of age. If all these women and all these i&an could be brought together br kind of matrimonial agency there vould be only a small number «f women left outside of the bounds of wedlock. .The ueattacbed are warned that married persons of both sexes have the greater life expectancy, according If luiPM statistics and other mor- Mr. Wade had an idea of making one last appeal; and I asked him if be would deliver those things at the same vims. A€olviua) UAUAUUlg i*l 1 . TV ttUQ came down to New York. That's all I know--until I saw the newspapers--" She 8topped here. Her color faded; her hands fell apart with a gesture of despair. Now the Inspector took up the ex­ amination, for Rosalie sat musing, her eyes on Constance Hanska. "What were the things you sent?" he asked 'W me see--what were they? Bet­ sy-Barbara, you helped pack them. An old miniature of the Captain-- "And some family photographs--' Betsy-Barbara put in briskly. "And an old mahogany shaving-mir­ ror which had belonged to his fa­ ther--" "And a Mexican hat-band and two knives and an Irish blackthorn stick and a silver cigarette case--" A stethoscope upon Inspector Mc- Gee's pulse would have jumped an inch as Betsy-Barbara pronounced the word "knives." But his down-turned face betrayed no emotion. "What kind of a cigarette case?" "Chased silver and turquoises--a Russian design." "What was the stick like?" "Very heavy, and dark brown as I remember. And I think the ferrule was loose." "And the knives?** said the Inspec­ tor. "Let me see--one was a little dag­ ger that he used for a paper-knife and the other was a Malay kris with a long, sharp, wavy blade. He got it in the Philippines." "Yes!" exclaimed the Inspector. And then with the sudden brutality which was a part of his Third Degree meth­ od, "And it was with that knife that Lawrence Wade stabbed your hus­ band." Inspector McGee might have thrown that very knife instead of his words, so sudden was the effect upon Con- Btance Hanska. The color left her face. Her eyes grew big and wild. She flashed to her feet, trembling vio­ lently. , "Oh, no!" she pleaded, "oh, no! Oh; that will hurt him so! He couldn't have used It--some one used it after he left--Lawrence Wade could no more have stabbed an unarmed man --" She stopped, wrestled herself back to some semblance of composure. "Don't you understand he was a gen­ tleman?" She turned from McGee's triumphant state to Rosalie's Boftened face. "Why, Mrs. Le Grange, gentle­ men don't do such things. He was an athlete--he played every game hon­ orably--do you think he would have put me in such a position, even if he thought of nothing else--he would have had to break every instinct--he --ho " "Look here, Mrs. Hanska," said In­ spector McGee, pouncing upon his ad­ vantage as experience had taught him to do, "there was what you call an af­ fair between you and this Mr. Wade, wasn't there?" Here Rosalie swung in again. "Inspector," she said, "if you go that way, I'll advise this young woman to get a real lawyer before she talks to you any more. Now, my dear, you Just answer what you please." But Constance was mistress of her self again. "AH this will come out in the trial, Betsy-Barbara. I might as well tell everything now. When he put himself in this position he was trying to help me. There was no affair, as you call it. But when he first met me he thought I was a widow. And before he knew my circumstances, he pro­ posed marriage. He never spoke of it after I told him. He was a gentle­ man. He only tried to serve mo as a gentleman would under the circum­ stances." "Has it struck you,'.' asked the In­ spector, "that this might be used as a motive?" "This is perfectly dreadful!" cried Betsy-Barbara. "Constance, you shall not stay here another minute. You come with me to a lawyer!" "That's right," said Rosalie Le Grange shortly, "Inspector McGee, you can excuse us!" "Not for a while," said Inspector McGee shortly. "Madame, I must have your official statement as to what you have just told me--before I let you leave." Now Constance had risen; and Bet­ sy-Barbara, In a .state of suppressed fury, stood beside her, flashing sparks from her golden hair and her blue eyes and her little white teeth. In­ spector McGee stepped to the door to tality records. It is too mucb to ex­ pect that alarm over this will provoke a matrimonial stampede. Like moBt statistics, these should not be swal­ lowed whole. Is it not probable that m*ny persons are single because they are sickly? One difficulty about Join­ ing all these maids, bachelors, widows and widowers, of course, Is that the excess, respectively, Is not in the same place. The woman suffrage de­ bate reminds us that in some states the men outnumber the women, while in some the women are in equal or even greater numbers. The women obtain the vote easier where they are in the minority.--Providence Journal. Russian Synod Rules. The Holy Synod of Russia, says Le Cri de Paris, keeps careful watch upon all that pertains to religion. The synod has Just suppressed on the restaurant cards and on the labels of wine bot­ tles the words "Lachryma Christl (Tears of Christ), the name of a fam­ ous Italian wine grown In the neigh­ borhood of Mt. Vesuvius, judging the words to be offensive because attach­ ed to the pleasures of the table. A lit- summon a stenographer. And Rosalie, quick as thought, slipped up beside Constance. "Not a word more than you can help about this proposing to you---not a word!" she whispered. "Step into this room, ladies," said McGee. "I'll join you in a moment. We wont need you, Mrs. Le Grange." Alone with the Inspector, Rosalie Le Grange stood regarding him from top to toe. He faced her in a little embarrassment, which he covered with bluff. "In love with Hanska's wife--and Hanska'd mistreated her--and she wanted a divorce and couldn't get It. Wade and Hanska had quarreled. Wade goes up there with his curio shop and lays it down on the table. They quarrel again. Wade's a fencer. He picks up that knife and lets him have it just by instinct. Then he walks out of the door and gets rat­ tled and beats it. Of course, It would be hard to establish first degree mur­ der on what we've got now--but we'll get It." "You think so, do you?" replied Ros­ alie. "My, don't promotion make a smart man of a pavement-pounding cop!" "Guess you don't know," replied Mc­ Gee, "what this man Wade said when he pinched him In Boston and Jold him what it was for? He said: 'I didn't kill him, but by God I'd like to shake hands with the man who did!'" In the Inspector's voice there was"an air o| finality and triumph. "Did he say that?" asked Rosalie; "did he say that?" She mused for a moment, revolving many principles of human conduct drawn from her large experience. "Martin McGee," she said at length, "I told you a while ago I wasn't going to monkey with this thing. But I'm an old fool--and I'm in it--my own way, as I always worked." McGee laughed. "I thought you couldn't keep out," he said, "but you'll run against Law­ rence Wade at the end." As the two strange women came through the door, they found R.osalie Le Grange waiting. Constance looked her full in the eye; and suddenly her hands went up to her own face and she surrendered herself to her misery. And oddly enough, she turned In her distress not to her friend and com­ panion Betsy-Barbara, but to this strange woman. As a bruised child runs to its mother, she ran to Rosalie Le Grange and bowed a weary head upon her shoulder. Rosalie, took her to the bosom on which--in her own queer way--she had. borne the bur­ dens of thousands for thirty years long. . 'You poor lamb!" she exclaimed; "you poor lamb! : Now it's going to be all right, dearie--and you're eomin' home with me!" "And that!" said Rosalie Le Grange as she retold this tale to the only per­ son who ever enjoyed her full confi­ dence, "was the queerest way that ever I saw of sblleitin' custom for a boardin'-house." CHAPTER IV. A Man Who Laughs, "What will become of me?" wailed Mrs. Moore to Rosalie Le Grange. And Rosalie forebore at first to an­ swer, for the ultimate destin^r of Mrs. Moore appeared, Indeed, black and uncertain. The police, having ran­ sacked, measured, and photographed the Moore boarding-house to the limit of their Imagination, announced after four days that Mrs. Moore might bring her establishment back. But when Mrs. Moore notified the boarders, she met--the expected. They would not come. Rosalie Le Grange pulled out a chair and gently pushed Mrs. Moore into It. "Now let's talk this over sensible*" she said. "It certainly does look asj if I'd played it low on you, gettin' j boarders away. You can't blame nu for offerin' my place that night. Neith­ er can you blame me if they want to stay. I haven't asked them to. It hasn't occurred to you, I guess, that .1 own this house and furniture. I haven't got any rent to pay. More­ over, with this Mrs. Hanska and Miss Lane, who came in unexpected, an' some particular personal friends that are comin' next week, I'll be full up. Qu.ess you can see how I make it pay" Mrs. Moore flopped. "What will be­ come of me!" she walled. "Now, Mrs. Moore," said Rosalie, "with the high rent they charged you for the old place, there was no future for you. You were bound to fail. I've tie Interdiction was made concerning t&e Llquer de Saint-Georges, of which the French consul at St. Petersburg had asked introduction into the em­ pire, though as a matter of fact St. George drank only water. The Holy Synod has gone further and now for> bids postal employes to obliterate from the stamps the effigy of the em­ peror, who is the head of the church, for to do which would be to soli a sa­ cred Image. i got a better wiy. Plhso busy, an* I'm gOin' to be busier. You see this house -^-well, it ain't my only Interest. An' jest at present I'm rushed to dsatu. Goodness knows, standin' off reporters the way I've had to do this last week, is one woman's job. I've got to hire a housekeeper to look after things an' tend front door an' help out with the cleaning. How would you like that? Over there, you were carryln' the whole thing an' workin' for your board. Here, you'll git thirty-five a month, an' 111 do the worryin'." ^ "Oh, Mrs Le Grange!" walled Mrs. Moore; and this time the moving emo­ tion was gratitude. So, at the end of a mighty anxious and perturbing week, the old Moere household settled down on Rosalie Le Grange, shook Itself together again, and returned to the dull routine of its days. The two new boarders--they Were longest naturally in settling to the routine. Indeed, two or three days passed before the others grew accli­ mated to their thrilling and somewhat perturbing presence. But Constance and Betsy-Barbara behaved through a soul-racking week in such manner as to secure Rosalie's growing affections and. to win the respect of the rest. On the morning after the inquest, Constance quietly took her place at the common table in the dining-room. The rest of the boarders stilled their tongues for embarrassment And not only embarrassment; undoubtedly there was prejudice. Rosalie, pre­ siding at the head of the table, did not make the mistake of trying to lull this feeling immediately. She let mat­ ters take their course for two meals. At the third, she tactfully drew Con­ stance into an argument over the dis­ tance to Paris. That served for an opening. Little by little, the sweet­ ness of Constance, as exploited by Rosalie Le Grange, made itB own way. What had been a kind of horror of a woman in her situation, became pity and sympathy. As for Betsy-Barbara, that sprightly young person was popular from the first. She took hold of the Hanska- Wade case as though its settlement devolved upon her alone. Within three days she had interviewed every one in the house, from Mrs. Moore to Miss Estrllla, and had formed a half- dozen theories, all proving the inno­ cence of Lawrence Wade. It matter­ ed not that Rosalie, already her con­ fidant, shattered all these bubbles. Betsy-Barbara would simply interview her witness again, and blow another. Constance was her daily and hourly care. I leave to the newspapers the of­ ficial events--"the developments" of that week. Indeed, they reported few essentials which we do not already know. The inquest was over; the body of Captain Hanska had traveled the road of flesh to the crematory; Law­ rence Wade was held in the Tombs without bail, to await action of the Grand Jury. The evidence against him was circumstantial but strong. He had proposed marriage to Mrs. Han­ ska. Both he and his attorney tried to keep that out when Constance went on the stand; they lost, and she told the fact with a simplicity which filled columns and columns of space next morning. She Insisted that he never mentioned marriage after she told him her story. Lawrence Wade, nat­ urally, wanted a divorce. Captain Han­ ska had refused. There was the mo­ tive, perfect, comprehensible. Wade and Hanska had met twice before and quarreled both times. On the night of the tragedy, Lawrence Wade, car­ rying a hand-bag, had gone to Captain Hanska's room at about ten o'clock. The bag contained, among other things, two knives. Lawrence Wade admitted this; and admitted also that he had left all the debris which littered Captain Han­ ska's table. "That was part of my errand," he said. He had gone frctu Mis. Moore's to the Curfew Club, had' found from the desk clerk that there was a one o'clock train to Boston, had telephoned for a berth, had taken the train, had been arrested in Boston while engaging passage for Liverpool. At half past two, Captain Hanska had been found dead--stabbed in the heart with a clean thrust by one of the very knives which Wade admitted bringing from Arden. The Coroner's physician testified that Hanska had been dead an hour, and probably longer. The knife traveled an upward course. He must have been stabbed standing. If so, the thrust came from the "front" of the murderer's hand--a fencer's blow. And there was no doubt that Wade, was a fencer. The putative defendant, although a lawyer himself, admitted all these facts except touching upon his rela tlons with Mrs. Hanska. He volun­ teered the opinion that such a man de­ served killing. On the night of the murder, he said, they had quarreled again. Hanska had refused all pro­ posals. Thereupon he had taken that consignment of small possessions out of the bag, and had departed. On one point alone was he vague. He did not tell fully why he had started so suddenly for Europe. "I was afraid to stay," he said once. His attorneys intimated that he would explain this, also, If there were further proceed­ ings. On this point, Constance com-' netted her only indiscretion. It was that very afternoon when the feminine "sympathy writer" succeeded in reach­ ing her. "I know why he did that/' Constance told her, "anrf I'll tell you, if he won't. HO could do me no fur­ ther good and he was afraid of what he might do to Captain Hanska. He said before he left for New York that if he failed I might not see him for a long time." And so the Coroner's jury found that John H. Hanska came to his death from a knife wound at the hand of Lawrence Wade or persons unknown, and recommended that the said Law­ rence Wade be held to await action of the Grand Jury. He went back to the Tombs under guard. Here and now, the corporeal pres­ ence of Lawrence Wade shall fade for a time from this story. You havq, of course, concluded by this time that he is innocent. Perhaps you are right; the unfolding of this tale will tell. Leave him now in the Tombs, to play his own native resolution against the forces of darkness and to gather what consolation he may from the visits of his Lady of Sorrows and of her little golden girl-comrade. In Whits Broadcloth or Charmeuse It Would Make Up Splendidly-* V ?«lrf0hss That Add DIstlnrtlojgQ to the Qsrmeat. Undoubtedly white in the winter is A luxury, but there are numerous oc­ casions when it seems so "just the ining" that a frock in white cloth is a source of unending joy to those who can afford it, write Lillian E. Young In the Washington Star. Whereas the dress itself may not necessitate a vast expenditure, it is positively essential to own a full-length wrap to wear over the same, and thus does the cost mount upward. The frock I have sketched today seems so nicely appropriate for white cloth that I am sure it will prove it­ self an acceptable design for any one who contemplates such an indul­ gence. ^ Duvetyn, peau de suede or broad­ cloth would be splendid for the pur- V ^ fiJifcen greaves, CORSET CHOICE AND CARE CHAPTER V. % • ' • .. Tommy North. Tomlny North, after the fint day; was a pawn in this game--a captured pawn, laid to one side of the, board. The police held him, it 1b true, until after the coroner's verdict; then with­ out apology,-the turnkey cast him loose. His first concern' was for his mother in the village of White Horse, Conn. Only by false aseurancee and by the assistance of air aunt, who hid the newspapers from her, did he suc­ ceed in keeping her away from New York. He hurried to her, and in two days mollified her anger--not at his being accused of murder, but at his be­ ing drunk. He returned to find his job gone. Tommy North took such catastrophles more philosophically than most. He had filled and lost a dozen jobs in three years of New York. "Easy come, easy go," was his motto he told Rosalie Le Grange when. ; -kf if 7. SHAKESPEARE AND THE BIBLE Period of Rigorous Fsstlng. The fast of Ramadan, "the month of raging heat," commemorates the period in which the first part of i4he Koran is said to have been received. When observed according to the com­ mands of the prophet It is a fast of extraordinary rigor. No food or drink of any kind Is permitted to be taken from daybreak until the appearance of the stars at night. This abstinence is absolutely binding upon the faith­ ful, whether at home or abroad, and only those who are seriously ill are excepted from its provisions. These must keep the fast as soon afterward «ts possibly for »ltk» number of days. Abundant Proof That the Qrsst Post Hss Not Ignored God In His Writings. In contradiction to a statement made by a French writer asserting that Shakespeare had ignored God in his plays, E. H. Sothern looked into the subject, with the result that he found that the deity is mentioned no less than 700 times in the Shake­ spearean dramas. "Even in 'Richard III.,' he points out, the supreme being Is mentioned 97 times. Shakespeare makes rever­ ent use of the word 'Almighty' six times, while the word 'Redeemer' is twice used in 'Richard II.' The Holy Ghost Is never mentioned, and the word 'Savior' only once. "That Shakespeare was a close Bible student Is Instanced by the fact that 43 Bible characters ajre mentioned in the plays, some of tnem as many as ten times. Scriptural- incidents and places, such as the Bull of Bashan, the field of Golgotha and the bosom of Abraham, are rotenred to ta 10 or "What Will Become of MoT" She Walled. he called to take away his possessions, removed by her from the Moore house. "Tell me," s^ld Rosalie pausing from folding coats and regarding him, arms akimbo, "do you really like the stuff?" Tommy North, unaccustomed to self- analysis, turned this over In his mind for several seconds. "Well, no," he said at length, "can't say I do. I suppose everybody loathes the demon when he's going down. No, I don't like the taste of It. Anyhow, I've got so that no one suspectB my maiden emotions. I don't make * face or choke auy longer." : ^ (TO BE CONTINUED,) * ^ ^ Twenty-nine United States railroads have .182,9(2 stockholders. more places. There are also hun­ dreds of Bible phrases used. In most cases literally Btrewn throughout the works. He has also used scriptural themes profusely, and the moral in­ culcations of the plays are identical with those of the teachings of the Bftbi«,N DIdnt Annoy Mlm. *•' A gentleman took a country friend to the opera one night to hear the "Melsterslnger" performed. He was very anxious to see the effect of Wag­ ner's glorious music on the country- Bide, and watched him keenly during the rendering of the overture, which, grand as it is, Is a little noisy, more especially when the bang of the drums and the crash of the cymbals oocur at Intervals. But the countryman's face remained absolutely unmoved. At last the Lon­ doner could bear his frftjnd's indiffer­ ence no longer. "Doesn't this glorious volume of -sound affect you?" he said. "Oh, not in the least." wis the calm reply. "You forget I'm * fcpllar- maksr^-I <nn<Vw -TJIMIfc Suitable for White Broadcloth or Charmeuse. crepe, crepe de chine or charmeuse in an ivory or oyster white, would ap­ ply. If white is ont serviceable enough one of the light silvery grays will work, out charmingly in this same de­ sign. • There is a blouse with three-quar- ter-length sleeves cut in one, and with the front edges faced back and open to the waist. This space is niied in with a soft net or chiffon guimpe or a small straight vest section embroid­ ered with cherries. There is a girdle of black velvet ribbon tied in flat loops in back, and over this hang two pointed vest ends attached to the front of the blouse. The sleeve ends are faced back and then worn over a full-length guimpe sleeve of net or chiffon. The skirt is slashed from waist to hem down the left side and there laid in a broad box fold lifted above the regular skirt length and leaving an opening at the feet. There are even gathers around the waist and drapery resulting from the lifted fold. A very quaint note is struck in the embroidered cherries and feather- stitched scallops encircling the entire skirt width below the hips. The cher­ ries are < done in red worsted with green stems and leaves, and the scal­ lops are worked in black. The design is a conventional one of two cherries above each scallop, with stems cross­ ed, and can bo coarsely worked in s short time. ' If gray is used, the same color Scheme applies; in fact, there is no prettier combination than red with gray, but in this case I would suggest that the girdle be kept red instead of black. Or, again, red may not be becoming to some, in which case both the embroidered design and the girdle can be carried out in emerald green and prove equally attractive. Sffect of Colors. *Khe stont woman should know that yfellow increases her natural size. Satin also makes he look bigger. Blue is a sllgMly enlarging tone; white is stationary. Black, seal brown, navy blue and the deepest of crimsons are all tones that make the wearer look sllmtner. ADAPTED FOR SLIGHT QIRL Expensive Ones Are Most Economies! Ii» the iEnd if They Are Properly _ Looked After. The care of an expensive corset pro* longs Its life for wooks and eve*. months. So the woman who buys ea» pensive corsets ought to know how to take care of them. First, a word, about expensive co^ sets. They are real economy for tb# stout woman. She breaks a cheap coi^ set in a week or two, and never feels comfortable or looks well in It A» expensive corset, made of stronger mar ierials, boned, perhapn more nexibiy, surely more eerviceably, wears .five or six times as lour *s the cheaper one. The film woman can well wear cheap corsets. If she Is slight and of normal proportions, these will doubt­ less feel quite as comfortable and look quite as well as the more expen­ sive sort. Then she can indulge in the luxury of getting a new one as soon as the old one is worn or soiledi ' The expensive corset must be Bent to the professional cleaner occasion­ ally. It is possible to clean a corset at honje, although it wiV not > look as well as one cleaned by profession­ als. The corset should be stretched out on a board and scrubbed with a brush dipped in soapy warm water to which a little borax has been added. It should be scrubbed until as much dirt as possible has been removed, and then it should be rinsed in clear water. Then it should be pinned out flat on a board to dry, in the air, but not in the sun. >< The French woman follows a ipot plan. She has several corsets all the time, and alternates wearing them. The ones not in use are aired and then wrapped about a wooden cylin­ der, to which they are neatly pinned or tied. They are then wrapped in tissue paper or in a muslin or silk case and laid away until needed. Two cor­ sets worn this way wear longer t^tao one worn constantly. • ... 5;:. MODES JUST NOW POPULAR Hints That May Help ifo the Selec^M J of the Wardrobe for the Com- V ing Season. - Softness Is an essential for all ma­ terials, whether they be silk or wool, considering the prevailing style la dressmaking. One of the latest notions is a dress with a front train. The fashion lead­ ers of the directoire period had them, and hence they come to us. These front trains are necessarily held up. They need much grace in the handling. The object of the ultra-fashionable dresses is to produce a large effect at the hips, though the hips them­ selves must look small, often carried out by a short apron made very full. Many evening gowns are conspicuous for the lack of sleeves, ftnd very lit­ tle stuff is needed for the bodice. Near­ ly all draperies are carried backward, and often there is a bustle effect, which possibly next season may be ac­ centuated. Some of the opera cloaks are showing rolled fur collars dyed the exact shade of the mantle, even if }t is gr^en, blue or pink. Hitherto fur has been respected by the dyer. Caracul and fox will talte any shade, and, in red, mauve, with velvet of the same tone, is specially beautiful. The zouave Jacket has come back again, and seems likely to be a rival to the blouse. It 1b long enough at the back to be pushed over the belt The front is loose, and opens over a» undervest. Many of them have turn­ over collars, edged with .fur waistcoats. FUR AND VELVET The honors of the season in the mil­ linery line seem due to black velvet. Most often is it s e e n c o m b i n e d with fur and no more beautiful or becoming combi­ nation can be found. The shape shown here was covered with black velvet The crown is high and square, the velvet slightly fulled, cre­ ating a 8emi-"tamN effect. The brim consists of a puffing of velvet, above which is a broad band of fur. A novel aigrette of bipwn ostrich fronds in palmlike effect is placed on the left side. The black velvet, brown fur and brown feathers produce a most beautfr ful color, effect. "• - w - ,< W; 'i'T A io' • Kit: *fi t- ;iCA *. '"j Bolero Costee With Appropriate Adornment Mskes • Very At­ tractive Garment. 4Nr nty slight girls' sort# «f the new bolero coatees are sufficiently at­ tractive. For example, one composed of Stamped velvet in a rich shade of elec­ tric blue and bordered witty black fox. The fronts were rounded and the back hardly reached the waist line. The border of Boft, black fur formed a nar- row cellar, and it also appeared on the ends of the long, tight sleeves. The little coat was lined with shot taffetds, which Bhowed shades of rust* red and blue, and it was to be worn over s' tar.go tea gown of supple black satin. A particularly smart little hat ac­ companied this costume- -The crown was rather high and shaped like a cone, while the brim was very narrow and straight The hat was entirely covered with wide bands of electric- blue silk braid, and at one side there i Jaanty little suwnt made New Cravat Pins. Some of the handsomest cravat pins are secured on the artistic safety pin mountings. The ornamental part of the pin, or head, is fixed on the head of the safety pin, which is of platinum or gold. y • Per Evening Wear. \n- v A beautiful and distinctly origin^) evening gown Is fashioned of soft, thick, creamy ch&mpagne colored s* tin of dull surface and draped slight Jy but cleverly. blsck horsehair and jet beads. I recently saw another admirable lero of similar outline. In this case the material was cardinal-red velvet, and there was a collar in silk guipure of the same shade of red. This collas was bordered with skunk, and the same fur appeared on the curved cuSS which fell over the hands. It was • very smart little coat and was worn °VefreT nai^y Mj)|l New Lunch Cloths. Handsome luncheon cloths Sfe w broiHered and inset with lace un-- they are fairly allover patterns of beatt tlful and varied motifs. One that wii an endless source of delight had ovals of Italian cutwork. panels of needle point lace and odd portraiture circle* set somewhat like the cogs of a wheel with scrolls of punch work and of soft id embroidery. There were sUctesi lace Inserts all told in this and an mm qulBite real lace edge. The faahlon&ble colffu^s is adi ed with a flat band of pearls er Uants.