ie eens me NOTES AND COMMENTS] A Two years ago the question of rolief ers was very grave in England. Desti- tution was widespread and extreme, and there were demonstrations, proces- sions and spectacular marches to im- press upon the government the need of remedical legislation, Public and pri vate charity did its utmost, tho queen starting a subscription with a liberal _ gift. There was talk of farm colonies, pctato patches, great state and muni- cipal undertakings and so on. But with the advent of spring business so improved that the problem solved it- self largely. Last year there was comparatively little distress in England. Parliament had placed half a million dollars in the hands of John Burrs, labor's represen- tative in tho cabinet, and he used 't with care and intelligence. At the end of the winter he had a balance to turn in, Little was heard of farm colonies and other experiments, though un- -doubledly the experience of the people and government during the two win- ters had influenced everybody ,in favor of small holdings legislation and had emphasized the importance of the "back 'to the land" movement in Great Britaia. This winter, owing to the business de- pression in Europe, the unemployment question is again rather serious in the British industrial centres, There has been a revival of "radical" and extraor- dinary schemes, and the march of a little army of men from Manchester to Windsor, with tho alleged intention of "squatting" on a section of the royal park and raising vegetables, is one of these, The matter is sure to be agitated in parliament. The labor party is dissat- isfied with the attitude of the govern- ment, though John Burns has spoken. vigorously against hasty relief mea- sures end pauperizing makeshifts, The other day it moved an amendment to the speech from the throne regretting the omiss'on in the latter of any refer- ence to the question of providing work for the unemployed, and while the amendment was rejected the ministertl majority in that division was only 47, the Irish representatives and many of the radicals, togethor with most of the conservatives, voling with the labor- iles. There was political strategy in the action of the conservatives, who certainly are no more ready than the party in power is to embark upon costly and doubtful public works as a means of relicf for the temporaryily unemploy- ed. But, with allowance for partisan pclittes made, the situation is still dif- ficull enough to cause much anxiety. Micah There was issued recently in England a report by the local government board concerning tuberculosis which contain- ed some interesting statistics on the death rate from the disease in the United Kingdom taken in connection with the Statistics of paupers. It was shown that the mortality from consumption had declined from 3.99 per thousand living in 1838 to 2.77 per thousand in 1855 and to 1415 per thousand in 1906, an actual decrease in deaths from 59,- O25 to 39,746 in sixty-eight years. <A second series of figures indicated that during fifty years the ratio of paupers per 1,000 in England and Wales had dropped from 48 to 25, while the death rate from consumption had declined from 27 to 10 in the 10,000. Compari- sons were given also for Scotland and Ireland. In Scotland the ratio of pau- pers had fallen from 23 to 13 and of deaths by consumption from 40 to 22. In Ireland, where the ratio of paupers has risen in forty years from 11 to 23, the death rate from consumption Has increased from 17 to 20. These figures do not establish a di- rect connection between poverty and the disease, but they are highly sug- gestive, and they permit of some gen- ¢ralizations that are instructive to all civilized countries. As regards Grea' Britain, it is evident that'the statistics ean be explained-by immensely improy- ~@i social and industrial conditions. The era that has brought about sanitation, betier housing, a reduction in the hours of labor and an increase in the rewards of labor has saved life and diffused comfort and prosperity at the same time, If the value of the change could be es- Aimated in ferms of money it would be found that there was an immenss gain to the peopl® as a whole from expcndi- tures and concessions that were consid- ered ruinous by many mistaken oppon- ents of progress, Sue Se nena Since Columbus found his new world, £1424 lons of gold have been dug from {he mines of the earth. Their value js over $12,600,000,000. Of this vast total 1) per cent, or nearly one-fifth of the whole, has been mined in the last ter years; 30 per cent, or almost a third, in the last twenty years; 41 per cent. A in the last thirly years; 54 per cent. in the last forty years, and 68 per cent, cr over lwo-thirds, in the last half cen- tury. Assuming that an increase occurs in the annual outpul, this amount will be doubled in thirty years, while if an annual increase of 5 per cent. ig obtain. ed, the doubling will take place in less than twenty years. H. F, Van Wage- pen predicts that as a result of the cre- ation in so short a time of so immense an amount of indestructible wealth as this, a general advance in the market price of all commodities may be expegt- ed, Interest rates will certainly de- cline, Wages should rise, for with this amount of new capital arising in the brief porlod every department of human activity 1s bound to be stimulated, and this will creato an enormously increas- ¢d demand not only for all those things that machinery and art can produce, but also for those than can only be prought info being by human hands and human servige, TACK OF REVERENCE We Are Dropping Pious Phrases and Ob- solete Forms of Expression. I do that I may have eternal life?"-- Matt. xix,, 16. If in the light of the new day.& man leaves the religion of his fathers; is there any religion for him in this, the day of a new generation? Is religion something of which one may have ei- ther the old familiar form, the type re- i Gace by all men, or have none at all? Many tell us that the world is be- commg irreligious; they lament what they call a tendency to secularization, a forsaking of old customs and old be- llefs. They miss the familiar forms and landmarks of their childhood, and there- {re imagine that the moral universe has jumped the track, Religion simply ts man's search for the larger, more complete life. Its rest- lessness, ils change, its continual new- ness is the best proof of its development and its vitality. If it is larger life that men want they will find it not by look- ing back to ideals and standards that have remained unchanged, but by look- ing forward. For the developing life there must be developing ideals, enlarging concep- tions, the clarifying and elevating of standards. The sources of inspiration and strength that ~ were sufficient for ene level of this life will prove INADEQUATE IN THE NEXT, If a man is not a better, larger saint an his fathers he is falling far below em. The greater part of the skepticisny of lo-~lay and not a little of the opposition te religion is but man's demand for higher types of faith, for religious ideals and characters suiled to this day. The fact that you find nothing in the phrases and exercises, the services and the consolations that mean so much spiritually to others, so far from prov- ing that you are destitute of faith may but indicate that you cannot content yourself. with the forms that once held yesterday's vital piety, you demand the fact for to-day, We are told that there is a lack of reverence for ancient institutfons that bodes only ill to the future, that the "Good master, what good thing a or foundations are slipping away because yen no longer regard with superstitious fear the customs and practices that at- tached to holy places and. persons, Does it not signify that what has hap- pened in every age is happening now, men are seeking a religion that proves its reality by its relation to our own day. ; If our faith is going to save (he world it will have to be intelligible to the street; it will have to have a meaning that the modern mind can grasp; it will have to manifest efficiency and suf- ficiency for the real problems that con- front us individually and socially. Belter fo have nothing to do with the faith that exercises itself only in the grave clothes of the past, in worship- ing the dead; YOUR BUSINESS IS LIVING. ycur great need is larger life. Search- ing, striving, serving for this is a re- hgion that justifies itself in any age. The question whether one has relig- ion or not is not to be determined by whether he has passed through some emotional experience common to men of yesterday, nor by whether he sees things intellectually as they did. It is te be known by whether he sets his faco toward more life. It makes no difference if he be labeled atheist, unbeliever, or what if he is liv- ing for the best life in himself and the best terms of life for all, if he is set- ting his life in harmony with the all inclusive divine life; he is finding life. If we really desire to make the most and best of ourselves and our world there soon develops the passion for re- ality, the love for truth, the sense of the need of every good thought, aspira- tion, example, impulse and force that the world ever has known. A new life comes {o every seeker after life; he enters a world of kindred spirits, {he good and the great of every age; he interprets his daily life in new terms; he finds new joys and compensations: he feeds on the bread of heaven, nor cares what may 'be the estimates or epithets flung at him by those who pre- fer truth's garments of yesterday to truth and life itself to-day, : HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 45. Lesson XI. Jesus Meals a Mam Born Biind. Golden Text, John 9, 5. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. (Based on the text of the Revised Version.) A Group of Discourses.--In chapters ? and 8 of John's Gospel are recorded several separate discourses of Jesus spoken by him at Jerusalem during and just after his autumnal visit to the capital city to attend the Feast of Tab- ernacles. At this point in John's nar- rative we must insert the synoptic re- cord covering the later or third. period ef the Galilean ministry of Jesus, and also the beginning of the so-called Pe- rean ministry. The events of these periods are recorded in Matt. 15, 21-- 19. 2; Mark 7. 24--10. 1; Luke 9. 18-- 10. 42, and several scattered references ir Matthew. Among the most import- ant events of this period must be in- cluded the visit of Jesus to Tyre and Sidon, the healing of the blind man near Bethsaida, the fransfiguration, the sending forth of the seventy, the par- able of the good Samaritan and the visit of Jesus to Martha and Mary at Bethany. At the close of the discourse of Jesus recorded in John 7. 10--39, the Jewish officers sent to lake him return- ed emply-handed and made their re- port to the Sanhedrin, leaving Jesus unmolested. Then, after a brief inter- val, possibly on another day he again addresses the multitude, this time tes- tifying of himself as to the source of truth and life, "the light of the world.' Again, shortly afterward, his theme is spiritual freedom. Everywhere the multitudes heard him gladly, though this fact only exasperated his opponents among the Jewish officiary the more. John is careful to note in this eonnec- tion that among those who believed on Jesus at this time were at first a few aiso of the Jewish hierarchy, but un- der the test which Jesus applies to their faith, and which was intended to strengthen. that faith, the latter proves insufficient and breaks down complete- ly, changing to bilter hatred and hos- the events mentioned in our lesson pas- sages follow closely after the visit of tility. In point of curonological order, Jesus to Bethany. They are followed in tum by the discourse of Jesus on the good shepherd and the events con- nected with his presence at the feast of dedication. Verse 1. Blind from his birlh--a fact which the man would be likely to em- phasize in his appeal {o passers-by for alms, since he would then be looked upon as an unfortunate who in all probability was suffering for the sins of his parents or remoter ancestors. 2. Who sinned, this man, or his par- ents?---A question reflecting a threefold Jewish belief: (1) thal physical suffer- ing was in most cases a direct punish- ment for sins committed: (2) that the sins of parents were often visited upon their children; (3) that even an unborn chill might commit sin for which some deformity at birth might be the pun- ishinent. . 8. Neither did this man sin nor his parents--Words in*' which Jesus repu- diates in an emphatic way the belief implied in the question of the disciples (compare Luke 18. 1-5). The actual sin- fulness either of the man himself or his parents is, of course, not denied by Jesus, Not punishment (justice) merely, but something higher, even a manifes- tation of the works of God, is the pur- pose of this personal affliction. Divinely permitled in the natural course of events, human suffering is made to serve a higher purpose in harmony with God's plans. 5. When--Or, "why," or, "as long as," Not that Jesus could not, have healed causé he willed this to be the channel of his power. Perhaps also these ma- terial means were necessary as a peda- gcgic measure whereby Jesus entered in more direct personal contact with the blind man, emphasizing by the touch of his hand the fact that the cure emanated from his person. The blind man's faith in Jesus as the author of his salyation had its starting point in the knowledge of this fact. 7, Siloam--A Hebrew word meaning literally "gushing forth." The fountain referred to was one of sweet, abundant water in the extreme southeastern part Gf the cify. Like the fountain of the virgin which it supplies, its water is marked by an intermittent ebb and flow, resulfing from the peculiar sub- lferranean character of the spring it- | self. : Which is by interpretation, Sent-- The Hebrew name being commonly rendered in Greek by a word having this significance. S 13, 14. Bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind--I order that these also may question the man more closely concerning the manner in which he received his sight; all for the pur- pose of finding an occasion, if possible, to take legal action against Jesus. This occasion the Pharisees were not long in discovering, since it was the Sab- bath on the day when Jesus made the elay,.and opened his eyes. 16. Keepéeth not fhe Sabbath -- Jesus did not keep the Sabbath according to the traditional custom of the Jews which sought by man-made rules to regulate the minutest details of con- duct. The rabbinical leaders often in- dulged in long dissertations and hair- splitting controversies about the right and wrong of even necessary actions on this day. 17. Again--Referring to the previous 'inquiries first by the neighbors and then by the Phariseés (verses 10, 15), A prophet--And hence God's repre- sentative and mouthpiece, 19. Asked them--They inquired of the man's parents concerning three points: the identity of the man himself, the fact of his being born blind, and the expla- nation of how he has. regained his sight. 20, 21. On the first two points the parents answer without hesitation, but on the third point they declined to ex- press an opinion. We know not--They deny emphatical- fy any acquaintance with 'their sons bentfactor. The reason for this denial is explained in the next verse, 22, Be put out of the synagogue-- The greatest disgrace that could befall au orthodox Jew; equivalent in modern phrase to being expelled from the church, though much wore serious in is social effects in a community. where everyone in good standing belonged to one and the same religious profession. fThe rabbis at a later date distinguished foolween seyeral degrees of excommun'- cation; but generally speaking, such an excommunication meant an exclusion from the social and religious privileges of God's. people. 24. Give glory to God--Referring not to the glory of the miracle which had been Wrought, but to the homage to ho paid to God by the confession of the truth (compare Joshua's command to Achan, Josh. 7. 19), 27. Would ye also become his disci- ples?--Cautious at first and respectful toward rank and authority 6f his ques- tioners, the man al. last grew impati- ent under a cross-examination. which revealed the feebleness and indecision ot his questioners. Referring them ngain to his former statement, he asks what purpose 1s to be served by going into the matter again, adding, doubt- less in a tone which betrayed the in-} fendéd irony of the query, the words of our question, 29. We know not whence he is -- Shortly before this they had claimed i know all about his parentage and earlier life, using the fact of such know- jedge as an claim to Messiahship, argument against his a SHOU 667 URRAH, it's come! I can see it H in mumsy's face!" shouted "Hurrah! Sid, . 3 Hurrah!" echoed Bess and Marian and Billieboy. : Mother smiled at this enthusiasm. "Yes, it's come,' said she, producing the letter just received from, daddy,- "and he wishes us to join him just as soon as possible." ; : = "Goin' to see daddy!' piped Billieboy, while the rest all laughed joyously. You see, the Burtons had decided to build a home in Switzerland in which they planned to spend the greater part of each year. But it is no easy matter to purchase the right sort of ground, so Daddy Burton had been spending some time in Switzerland during his ne- gotiations. Then, too, he wished to personally superintend the building of their little chalet, for, although the builders knew perfectly well how to lay, out the house to best advantage--in order that certain parts would receive the sunlight and others the cooling breezes in summer--there were certain modifications especially desired. Now, however, the dwelling was completed, and he wished his famifiy to take pos- session at the earliest possible moment. The reunion was a happy one. There was no one like daddy, you know, and they had missed him sadly during his *WITH BELLS HUNG ROUND THEIR NECKS" absence. So you may imagine how de- lighted they were to see him again and to inspect their quaint little home, 'Looks just like the Swiss cottage we've seon among the toys in America," commented Bess, after a thorough ex- amination of the chalet. "Yes," replied Marian, "but I never the source whence Jesus derived his miraculous power. His plain but ef- feclive argument, however, serves but tc augment 'their irritation, and brings upon him the severest judgment which it was in thelr power to pronounce. (The excommunication from the syna- iegue which his parents had feared is his reward for his straightforwardness of speech. 34 Cast him out--By force from their presence, and undoubtedly also by for- mal procedure from membership in the synagogue, Finding him--These words imply a searching on {he part of Jesus. 39. For judgment--Not the act of judging, but its result as determined by the attitude which men take toward Christ. "This manifestation of latent character was one of the ends, although not the supreme or ultimate end, of his coming into the world." They that see not--Those who recog: nize and admit their ignorance, like the blind man who had inquired of Jesus, "And who is he, Lord, that I may be- Heve on him?" They that see--Those who deceive themselves and imagine that they have no further need of light, like the Phari- sees, who said: "We know... and dost 'thou teach us?" 41, Hf ye were biind--In the sense of being conscious of ignorance as was the man who had been blind. Ye say, We see--iIn spiritual pride and self-deception they were taking the guilt of their ignorance upon them- selves, thus making tmpossible a fur- ther reyelation of truth to them. icin «Pe ti MARRIAGE LOTTERY IN INDIA, Every year in the Rumai country, in India, a marriage lottery is held, gener- ally in October. The names of all the marriageable girls and of the young men who are tired of a bachelor life are written on slips of paper and thrown into separate earthen pots. One of each kind is drawn out at one time by a local wise man. The youth whose name is drawn obtains a letter of in- troduction to the young woman whose name accompanies his, and then all that remains for him to do is to start courtship with all the ardor of which he is capable, SR ee os TT SPEED LIMIT. He--Did you see where a judge some- where said that the bad cooking of the women drives men to drink? She--Yes, but even with that excuse, the men needn't break their necks tr7- ing to exceed the speed limit. i A' TEST: .OF RICHES, "How do you know that young man can support you.in the way you: have been 'accustomed to?" "Oh, father, I'm sure of it. He's supported an automobile for six months and that's more than you have ever been able to do." iF "Full of Glory. '~ William Dean Howells, the popular writer, says that when his talented daughter, Mildred, was a child she looked up suddenly from her break- fast one bright morning, and sald: "Father, I am full of glory." "What do you mean?" asked her father. "Why," said the little girl, "a sun- beam just got on my spoon, and I have swallowed it." Fitting Punishment. Toby--Boohoo! Boohoo! I got whip- ped for doin' nothin'. Tony--Hone", what did yuh do, Toby? 0} gh hin', I tell ® whooping cou Me got t an' when §; ) pa to buy me a flute and let fake \cevone @ looked more 'noyed t: 6 did when I used to cough, an' saile Tight into ma ee | pemmeteieamee CALF LOVE. He--Are you a vegetarian? She--Oh, no, I love good beef. He---Ah! I. wish I were a. beef! She--Well, I like veal, also. ou. I've just: RRS ay Misslonary--"I have come {9 inform : 30. rer is marvel--The haugh-{ you that the Cannibal King says he will y and passionate abuse stirs the man} eat your wife in a few minutes!'. Mr, 6. Anointed his eyes with the clay--|:te indignation, and he is not slow to| Henpeck--'Well, there's one consolation take advantage of the opening afford-}--I'll ket she'll disagree with him} she al the man witbout these means, but be-ed by their profession of ignorance of | ways did with mel" Saf. THE PROCESSION STARTS even dreamed of having ft in such a glorious place. Why, looking up through your big dormer window that great mountain seems as though it were about to fall on us. How much snow it car- ries on its summit!"' "Big moutain has white cap," gurgled Billieboy, more excited than any one else. At luncheon Sid told of his rather dis- couraging experiences in attempting to make the natives understand him, "I tried both French and German at the village, but they didn't seem to know either language. However, I came to the conclusion that it wasn't alto- gether their fault when I spoke what I thought was pretty good French to a Frenchman at the hotel. He Hstened to me for a while as though puzzled, and then asked me if I wouldn't mind using French, as that was the only language he understood." When the laughs had died away, Sid went on to tell of a celebration which was to be held at tho village on the morrow. "Yes, it's what they call the Chal- andra Marz, a celebration held always on the first day of March to welcome the return of spring," explained Mr. Burton. Shortly before daybreak next morn- ing they were awakened by the mu- sical tinkling of bells in the distance. At breakfast Mr. Burton observed that early in the day all the boys of the village go about the streets ringing we bells hung about their necks, "In a little while,' sald he, "they will gather about the fountain in the public square, after which they will have their procession."* "Oh, can't we go and sce it?" pleaded Marian. "Yes, I mean to take you," replied Mr. Burton. Breakfast was disposed of hastily, and soon they were in the village. The pro- cession was an interesting one. It rep- resented the return of the cattle to the summer grazing grounds. First came one of the largest of the boys, who was dressed in black knee-breeches, white stockings, old-fashioned wooden shoes and along nightcap. He carried a milk pail on his arm, and was supposed to be the owner of the herd. The others fol- lowed In single file, each personating a cow. At the end of the line another large boy, dressed in rough clothing and wearing a broad-brimmed hat. In his rand he carried a staff. This boy is the herdsman, whose duty it is to ses that none of the cows drop out of line (the cows always march in single file) or stray from their accustomed pas-« tures. Singing a "yodle-song,"' this procession Rey Enea) E COULDN'T help being funny-- H Pierre couldn't--and if I was as funny as Pierre I'd run off to a circus and be a clown, too. But that wasn't the first time Pierre ran away. Once he told Jimmy and me all about how he followed his uncle on board ship, 'fore the vessel sailed from France, and how Pierre's uncle decided at last to keep him. Pierre's uncle, you know, is chef at our hotel, so that's how we came to know them both. Jimmy and I knew--oh, a long whilo-- how very funny Pierre was, 'cause one time when we gave a little entertain- ment he came dressed in a clown"s suit and danced queer dances and sang all sorts of funny songs, So we weren't surprised a bit when Pierre ran away. He'd always said he was tired of help- in' his uncle in the kitchen--that"s what Pierre did, you know---and soon he was going away somewhere. It did surprise us a whole lot, though, when in the very next circus we went to see whom should we find but Pierre! He cama over to the ropes and actually spoke to Jimmy and me. Yesser, he did! Jimmy and I felt prouder than anything. Soon as Jimmy and I get to be as big as Pierre--an' he's almost a man--we're goin' to join a circus, too, without wait- in' to grow as funny as Pierre. Most likely we'd have to wait a hundred years to be that funny. wended its way from house to ipeette where gifts of frult and nuts were cOol- lected, Mr. Burton informed the others that with these gifts the boys would give a feast that afternoon to all the villagers and that the day would end d song. goes psi later Billieboy burst into the house, clutching in each chubby fist a bunch of scarlet poppies. "Oh, mumsy," eried he, announcing an important discovery, "there's noth- gate Se aiken little Billicboy,"" laughed mother; "put, as @ matter of fact, that is all they. do raise here. They have no grains of any kind, or even timothy. Grass and clover they. have, and, that is all."' Sid visited the aelghboring town quite DECKING THEIR HEADS WITH WREATHS frequently now, and had already madd quite a number. of friends. Today ha asked his father if he could not attend the national athletic carnival, which he had heard would take place within the next few months. Mr. Burton promised to go with him, and then gave a very interesting talk on athletics and sports in Switzerland. Besides shooting, che Swiss have very few of the sports with which we are acquainted. But nearly every Swiss, man and boy, engage in gymnastics-- wrestling, running and the like. The in- struction is almost entirely under the control of the government, and there are branch clubs of gymnasts in nearly every town. There are a great many contests and reunions which are more or less local, and once a year a great national assemblage, when winners in Sapo events are presented gifts by the "crowned maidens." - = what interested Warian most was the opportunity every kind of weather. summer down on & leve with all, you had fein gide to ie tance, 1 bet ee amount of sno te .4Joyed themselves immensely. Amid such surroundings 8s ia not take dons Ep e months, to s ¥. Boo! noes and with its ending the val of the Aupentiedung, when t] turn of the cattle from the mou was celebrated. Here in easte erland, in the lofty valleys of all the original customs had survi "Ag we saw the zpring testi certainly shan' miss seeing ae . Burton. = gn climbed all the way uP the men and women products in large baskets, wht loaded upon thelr shoulders & ried to the base of the mountain, Hi the butter and cheese were packed wagons. The cows, who had been ing on the tender grass high mountain all summer, were now down, Then the long is Dwalt and weseas began its 1 the_-village. ~ --{n the meantime, their prepared to welcome thi m. tion, led by a company of ch out to greet the returning boys and girls were arr very best garments and cal ri older me a ia of flowers, while the the party bore banners and vices made of colored pepe When they met the train stood on both sides of the ro sang their song of welcome. T decorated the heads of the wreaths, and packed the: the great piles of cheese wi the wagons were laden. Sid was shouting and wavin with the best of them as the. entered the village. His. brothers cheered him from the ro! All the villagers united in so: Finally a stop was made cheese and butter were remov the wagons and stored. 2 day there was a grand frolic o plot near the town, where played and songs were sung. Tired, but thoroughly please they had seen, the Burtons ente chalet that evening. And as B Marian began to sing softly t dine of the festival song, "Hu the Alps," the irrepressible § up his hat and shouted: "Hurrah for the Alps and land."' : Even Mr. Burton joined in t rahs that followed, while M whispered to herself "and th Paruy Pier W'S Just the horse for little Dicky They say he hasn't got a trichy He' omica} to keep; ae Ran Ht j aan Sag , 6 ben ly doesn't mg a enp, Ry Eve iat Tun away, sae > Rea Che 5 Queh gentle wayal Hig must have beam Very nicely broken in. = bee ¥, Whon an a oe EPnwe ' even ink pore he waag * ry, cow #5 & Wooden rocking-horee ot zy eS & guch a happy little home." LUNY lace shows signs" the most popular of t & for summer suits dresses, although during the just passed it has divided ho the ever-fashionable Irish, lace coats for summer use af this pillow lace, and during three years it has relegated sance lace to its proper use = teins and table covers. Cluny is a very beautiful an Wie ornament for any costume, 'eause it is made of @ linen thi is especially appropriate as @ tion for Hnen dresses. At th time it is not as expensive heavy as the Irish crochet. Some of the lace coats are tint deep shade of tan, while oth white are lined with silk in some shade. The popularity of cluny also prevent coats of embroider net from coming strongly into 1 for the darned net, no matter beautiful it may be, always 1 @arned look, while lace should 1 look Ike lace. : ee It is yet too early to tell defini how smart the lace coats will he Y 'for ordinary wear, but certain that, if they are worn on the st they will not be strictly good 1 ' oe Mea M ways considered rather @ aggeration of the indivi touch to personal belongings, ant new glove-marking is no exceptt the rule. It consists in having 0: initials cut in the upper part of the | and pasted underneath is a piece satin. This ts the same idea show the new pyrography work, only th green and red satin are used, while Gloves the satin matches ihe dress. he new monogram must. be pl exactly right, in order not to look diculous, and the correct spot is j : above the wrist on the right hand, Like all such novelties, it must its day, and, on the whole, it is an i provement on the hand-embroider ONOGRAMS on gloves were ee ek a nencnbea Bordure Chiffon HIM most eharming of materials handsome summer gowns is t hew bordure chiffon hand painted in dertgns of roses and violets, T satin stripes which form the bordu ~ graduated in size, the first being ou reas | an ineh wide and the nee eng almost two inches wide . ; dresses are most charming ma Shamir wigan is, In fact, the only. Phe eeraeaee Tiate to chiffon. tunie over t flo, and tt a re es. "while the lace most appr 1 aye notl dresses is diencon, whiah sees © tone In with the matertal, 5 A autigul chiffon gown i sieeat aararnt a in lots on , Gs @ from b "4 7 is Provides as long a veiey Sear ossibie to procure a the dreds art original Ani ne SY : % Long Sleeves HE mousquetaire sleeve show. E Signs of increasing poppinetin put happily they will be the wrinkl klud made of net or filet, with the seam. shirred and bound in tape to prevent it: élipping on the hands. It 4s a becom ing style for tho girl with thin a 'and)it Is Very fair that het day show come, now that elbow slecyex have be bP a eg for 80 long. ss sind is ee sonable to s ot a the latter fashion wi (antirely out at any near ae ie Longe oO f . Be oleate cuted ah barter sleeves, With short A t pola ¢ Bass, eB a ve 'oO mush Worn at gowns and even He