ee ee ae ee ee oe te ee ee eS a a > * Ra in i We a Pt See Sic ine Mag aE ANE Ca hae SEO NAPE MEN NE NOM eo On) . Sn ei ' Fo eh Oi ett PIP a tee al { i) ae NO suit PME ee oaks rgotese ew --<-- HERE ts something most ap- i propriate about a three-quar- ter coat ang a walking ekirt. Short coats look somehow out ef place and a long coat seems only, itable for stormy or wintry weather, ut @ three-quarter coat, well cut and 'well braided, {s the Ideal model for a "trotteur," or short skirt. It is also a great relief that the cre- @tors of fashion in thelr wisdom de- creed that, although long, tight skirts were to be worn with dressy or semi- Gressy costumes, little pleated checks and stripes were to be the proper thing for morning wear. Who could quite reconcile with the fitness of things a short skirt built on the lines of a classic garment, and who would are to adapt a check or plaid to the Iness of a tunic skirt? Everything ig wisely decided for this season. The attractive walking costume Heoms to be not only smart, but com- rtable and graceful as well. Tho bot makes a perfect finish in the gather low line Of the neW revers, for & plain yoke showing beneath the Jecket always seems to be wanting in womothing. Gashmere cloth in soft shades of crown is the most popular material fe Prench suits, and they are pret- lest when finished with buttons and braid of the same color, A Vrancis model is of plaid cash- mere in tones of gray, With a line of red just visible. The jacket of plain pray is trimmed with black, rose and old, and with 1t 1s worn a scarf, one of tho novelties of the season. Whatever the women may think be the newest thing in coats, at least hey cannot accuse them of being Wanting in variety an@ grace; while he sleeves shown on apring sults @eom to have solved the problem for at least another six months, whether the solution be satisfactory or not. Japanese sleeves and their modifica- tions are no longer the vogue, arm- holes are diminiahed in sixo, and the éxtra long shoulder line has been re- aay to human proportions. But the ong sleeve hag not yet arrived, a fact that will bring great joy to sore hearts and much sorrow to others. 'However, sleeves are growing grad- ually longer, inch by inch, and while they arg not expected to follow the pace of the famous glaciers of the World, which move but an inch a year, ey are, nevertheless, taking their own time in reaching the wrist, oblivion. all the spring suits. * been Gisplaced by t aigrette and quilk ~" The plain skirts would seem to indi of the past, though the false tunic, placed Hats are erppllcg and much more piqu e qmart Liesl surest t ! HE models of the suits for spring wear show that the b ; had to give way before the all-ronquering three-quarter coat, the time seems to lean toward a ip rage offing, a simplicity in egntour, except at the neck, where the jabot ig plated to Sais come back with full favor, and have cast ry Pe: Buideh 04, ae* Ae eri 4a % 2 ky ee ée the effect, Braidin ed undersleeves and em 'and buttons have te that the cut suffle and false tucks are things etween the knees and feet, is noticeable on almost , ant. The plain, unbroken line of the basin has one side and the straight military, trimming of ht eae AS VELTIFS TO BE SEEN IN THE PARISIAN SUITS FO DESIGNS IN SUITS THAT WILL FIND FAVOR olero, popular last year, has... Infact, the fashion oF : is oidered cuffs into © ' =] = $ fe & 3 < son meaner Pu. Trimmings for Spring Gowns ILET net is, without doubt, the material most used in the mak- ing of waists and costumes for the coming season, for it is com- bined with valenciennes or Irish, or sometimes is heavily braided with narrow soutache. Irish lace, too, is always popular in combination with lace or Mnen, and now baby trish is used for stiff collars and for the tn- sertion at the foot of the flounce, Soutache braid as oa trimming is coming back to the greatest popular- ity, while gold brald, so much used last fall, is still being arranged on the newest dresses. Ordinary lace, such as valenciennes or mechiin, used to be sufficient for any costume, but now alone are ~~ handsome enough, and they must be run with gold or silver threads or otherwise adorned with fancy stitches, A Summery Hat for a Little Girl CHILD'S hat for spring was of pink tuscan straw of a quaint bonnet shape and bent into a scallop in front, each side of the brim show- ing o tiny cluster of pink flowers, while the crown was encircled with messqgiine ribbon of the same shade, tied in rosettes and ending in long ribbon ends to be tied under the chin, MATERIALS FOR HOUSE WEAR EW spring dresses are all modes that require lightness of maverial, and _ therefore nothing could be better than voile, which, as ever, holds sway, and never was it so bewilderingly beautiful as at present. There is the silk voile, dis- tinctive and graceful in every sweep, and the rajah voile, the heavy, rough thread that gives it its name lending body and substance to the material; while eoliennes in all styles and de- signg win your heart, from the part- cotton variety at less than 50 cents a yard to one that for its fineness and delicacy could almost be passed, Mke the "West India" fabrics of our Srendinothers, through a slender finger ring. Bordures, too, are shown In all ma- terials for house or semi-dressy gowns, and one of the most attractive is the sheerer batiste, a ground coy- ered with small irregular dots of blue and the border also of blue, cov- ered with the wall of Troy design. There are also the mercerized cotton voiles, dainty and cool, with enough sheen to make them appropriate for dress occasions, and jacquards, with brocaded self-toned flowers in the round, while the broad lavender stripe s lightenod with polka dots of white. A eotton voile with a lace. stripe and embroidered dot is especially new, as is cross-barred material with em- broidered figures in black and white on a pastel ground, The silk mousselines are especially attractive this year with a bewilder- ing variety of new patterns, while those with hollow rings in black and heavy coin dots in colors on a white ground are fascinating. Last, but not least, come the em- broidered swisses. Never were there more artistic nor beautiful designs. Dots we have had before, but never Veiling for Spring Hats HE veils for spring seem to have gotten beyond those huge che- nille dots so popular a year ago and to have returned to the plain net and embroidered variety. Some of the newest have the embroidery in ring dots, while others are merely a dou- ble thread net, and still others are pas net with the border of fancy rib- on or appliqued lace. . Instead of being sold in double width, they are now mate single width, so that one vejl cannot by any stretching of imagination serve for two, but this is, of course, brought about by the fact that ~ many of the new veils have fancy borders, and it will be impossi- ple to cut them in half, They come in ali colors, however, and even rev veils are predicted as coming favorites. in such variety, and this year there are to tempt our pocketbooks mar- velous combinations and effects in thig familiar material. Those with sprays of Dresden colqred posies thrown here and there on a white or eolored ground are exquisite ana are formidable rivals of the favorite dot. Then there are many attractive designs in bordure effects. Lovely silk mousselines are shown, the bor- der being made of graduated solid circles, overprinted with sprays of sweet peas in pink or roses and for- get-me-nots in pink and blue. Printed crepe is a most effective cotton fabric, and ig beautiful in the new flowered designs; while a mate- rial called Pekin mousseline, the thin- nest. of thin materials, striped with white satin, is most effective, the pop- ular blues and browns being seen here also, but taking the daintier, softer porcelain colorings. A silk voile with broad -- satin bands was especially beautiful in a dark, pecullar blue; while a messaline was shown that was fairly startling in the beauty of its coloring, known by the technical name of serpent. The new foulards are newer-in weave than design, as the usual rings, dots and geometric ornamentations have a ground that is crossed with stripes, Shoes and Stockings for Jaunty Costumes HIS spring we have at our disposal the styles of all the seasons in shoes and stockings. Oxfords, umps, colonial ties, three eyelet shoes, Brain tips, wing ips, brown, black and white--all are foretold as a opular choice for spring wear; but in all these shoes the toes are quite pointed, even as pointed as they were a good many years ago, when this characteristic be- came so exaggerated that the pendulum of compensation swung back to square~- toed boots. Stockings, too, seem to be as varied ag shoes, for they are Open work, hand- embroidered and of softest lisle. As to color in shoes and stockings, brown will be the ordinary shade for both morning and afternoon wear, and, of course, prown shoes require brown | stockings, but the popular white shoes are not made at the present time in buckskin, for canvas has been found more satis- factory and far less expensive, Taken all together, she who finds it impossible to get pleasing footwear will indeed be particular, for all the fash- ions of bygone years are at her service, New Skirt Linings OME of the are being linea with soft crepe de chine, and ere worn without any petticoats what- soever. The umbrella shape at the foot, which was heralded as the com- ing fashion, is quite unpopular, and the skirts, if anything, curve. inward at the foot line. new skirts Gowns for the Elderly Woman ONE are the days when matrons must array themselves in 80s ber blacks and sad grays, or, at the giddlést, lavender, after tho arrival of the first grandchild. Now those who are passing through the chrysalis of the passed thirties krow that it is only for a little while, only a few years until time silvers dune colored locks and turns the wept- over crow's feet and wrinkles into the "esharacter liner" and "patience fare tows" of alge. Then may be onte more donned the dainty colors of youth, taking care that, as se the 8o \ phadow of former charm {fs le a a worn must be softened to w At a recent social gathering was & dear old lady, and her gown Was the daintiest and most appropriate of the many there congregated. It was of dark magenta messaline, lustrous and soft and throwing on her kind, sweet face almost the soft flush of youth. The bodice was drepea from shoulder to waist and finished with a narrow piping of velvet of the same shade. The collar and shield-shaped piece in front wore of venetian lace of & most delicate pattern, made up over chiffon and threaded in an intricate design with thread-of-gold. Laid over this in emall lapels, soft- ening, not concealing, the lace, Was a small vest of the same magenta, hut fn filet net outlined. with the gold The aloayen were large and full, with deep cuffs of the lace and outlined with soft ruffles which fell well over her arm. The waist line war tndefi- ite, the skirt long and full, and with er soft hait piled in white puffs on her head she was the grande dame, indeed, and charming to the vision, Angel Sleeves Again VENING gowns are delightfully E picturesque and the sleeves are things of especial beauty. They are almost invariably of thinnest mate- rialg and are arranged in such a mane- ner that they permit the whole arm to be seen even while they pretend to ngel" draperics of chiffon, tulle or other transparent materials falling low under the arms form o most becoming background for delicate white flesh. On the outer, side they open right up to the | shoulders although sometimes they are euught together above the elbow by -- light clasp or knot of velvet. Womer" with thin arms will find sleeves of this kind most flattering, as they soften ans gular outiines and throw a becoming shadow on a sallow akin, , Grape it. THE ABYSMAL DEPTHS, (By A, Banker.) It is stated that if a large thick sheet of plate glass be inserted in the hull of a vessel, the bottom of the sea can, within certain. limits of depth, be ob- served with startling distinctness. And what a weird spectacle must be present- ed by that charnel house of the ages; what an assemblage of venerable relics of the past; what a melancholy array of many a gallant ship struck' down by nature's wrath and hurtled prone into the chambers of tho deep, carry: ing down to a walery grave perhaps hundreds going forth to a new country, animated with buoyant Hopes and glad and sanguing Va Roe $ of Be en noppiness. And there they 'fis, tinec? fined, and unknelleds fo mark thelr grave; no monumen no mausdleum, recqrd their virtues, Here, perhaps, is a Spanish galleon, jaden with untokl treasure--vast, stores of gold, ata precious stones, and wond- rous Azlea jéwellery--the plundered spoils filched by "those 'blood-thirsty buccaneers from the hapless natives of the main, slaughtered if-they made re- sistance to the despoiling greed of those thieving marauders, and now them- gelves slaughtered by irate nature, and éntombed in the midst of their ill-got- ten booty. Or herve the scene of a great naval battle; several old-time men-of- war--handsome and graceful frigates, a fine line-of-baltle' ship, and perhaps two or teal corvettes ee war-sloops; their batter and shot-riddled, broken 44 tt masts in ng the fury of the -ter- PS a i 6 Ay a to thie ey 'i gu ae F : ut there Gre other sighls fo be geen, not gruesome or melancholy, but grace. ful and ever beautiful gardens of the sea; parterre: of fairy coralline; wav- ing fronds of feathery flora of the ocean; many hued, animated séa-flowers, their leng tentacles moving to and fro 'ready to seize an unwary young mullus¢ which ventures too near the beautiful thing; together with many another fair and graceful beauly of the deep, Aye, the broad ocean, though so fair and so lovely, yet all down<the ages has claimed her. hecatombs of victims, whose whitened bones still lie there 'n her ruthless grip. But on the Great Day, when the' sea gives up her dead, all that mighty concourse will stand pefore the Judge of ail; those who have fought the good fight of faith and whose Inisdeeds have ae obliterated from the record by the Redeemer, who bore, Himself, the punishment on them, re- ceived with joyful acclaim into the realms of glory; those" who' rebelled against their God, driven out from His presence, popoeeson, 7 IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, Bishop Blomfield was one of the many witty: Englishmen whose good things have found their way into a recent volume of reminiscences, "Leaves From the Note-Book of Lady Dorothy Nevill." Bishop' Blomfield was led into @ con- troversy one time with a learned man fas to the mental superiority of the Bast over the West, and his opponent, as a parting shot, said: "Well, at any rate, you cant dispute that the wise men came from the Fast." "Surely, that was the wisest thing they could do!' retorted the bishop. A boon companion is seldom looked upon as a boon by the family of the man he associates with. VICTIMS OF RUSSIAN ANARCHY. Terrorists Suéceed in Driving Out the Landiords. The progress and, results of the re- volution in' Russia generally, and throughout the Baltic provinces in par- ticular, where it has been spending its utmost fury, are almost unknown in this country. One frequently hears in Western Eu- rope hard things said of the Russian Government in its' dealings with, the Revolutionists, It is necessary to travel through the three great provinces of Gourland, Esthonia and Livonia, and see with one's own eyes the overwhelm- ing devastation wrought by the Revo- lutionists, to measure the full extent of the reckless havoc and savage cruel- fy practised by them throughout their unhappy land, That mantial Jaw DS essary no one who Se T seec and hear, styyin lies Who have lved 'in thi gia all thdir Vives, can possibly doubt, wriles a Riga-correspondent. . Had st been introduced sooner, and. stringent measures taken earlier, murder and outrages of the most brutal kind would have been 'prevented, and an enormous amount of valuable properfy--castles, mansions, farmsteads, forests and crops --would have been saved. The Govern- ment's fault has not been over-severity, bul too great leniency and forbearance, In these three provinces 192 proper- ties have been looted, wrecked and burned. The country is a desolate wWil- derness; the.owner's of these properties, where not murdered, have had to flee for their lives and hide themselves in the forests. to suffer there the most fer- rible hardships from exposure in Rus- i Bands, headed hy red » qarched through the conte death and. destruttion every dj And all this is by ne means abt an end. Whatever may have been the destruet tion of life in the French Revolution il may be doubted if the destruction of homes and properly was .as great in France as in Russia, Theepsemiling topinion is that if complications arise" 'n Turkey tho outbreak. throughout the -- Empire will exceed all that has gone ™ before, hags, Iry carl rection, Pith Masia CEA Ra MORE ABOUT HIM, Old Grimes had died, Reyerent hands removed the long" black coat he had always worn, 5 Then it was discovered why he hai kept {t always buttoned down before, He had no vest, oe