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This year, thanks be to the freaks
and frigidity of the clerk of the weath
er, we have been positively looking
s forward in the appearance of the new
furs and felts of autumn for the reign
i of fragile and filmy fabrics has been.
of the briefest, and. on many a day
* of July, calendared as summer, we
? should have been glad, of the cosy
I warmth of becoming fur ties and boas.
There are a number of notable
changes to be seen in the early models,
though the changes seldom go to such
extremes as to make it necessary for the
; woman with a fur garment to either
replace it or have it made over so long
as she confines herself to collars, boas,
muffs and capes. It is only when she
gets into coats that the changing
styles necessitate the expenditure of
large sums if her garments are not
to become notable because of their
lack of seasonable modishness.
The charming coloring and marking
of chinchilla fur is shown off to excel
lent advantage by the wide flat shape
of that first tie, which at the back, is
so shaped as to suggest a collar, while
then the tapering fronts are finally
finished off with a couple of tail-like
ends.
That always favorite and. fashion
able fur, mink, is represented by the
tie, where, at either side, a little furry
head peers out above a couple of tails,
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and again a fringe of tails finishes ofl
the tie far below the waist. The muff
is plain, but of godly size. The hat is
specially worthy of your attention,
for it represents a fashiofFwhich will
be very much in favor tl?3s season,
and is all made of softly shimmering
feathers, with a glimmer of gold in
their glossy brown tint, while the up
turned brim is lined with breast feath
ers of palest blue flecked, at the edges
with a series of brown spots. A ban
deau of brown velvet tilts it slightly
upward a.t one side, and round the
crown is drapedi a scarf of pale blue
satin mouss.eline, which, after being
caught by two jeweled arrow heads,
is tied- at the back in a long-ended
bow. Altogether the fashion for
feather hats is to be very popxdar.
Nor must you think that the fox ties,
which usurped so much of fashion’s
favor last season, are to be forgotten
this year—far otherwise; a muff to
match, as those pictured, the popu
larity of this particular and pretty fur
is not in the least likely to wane.
The hat is of the black velvet which is
always- in favor for the making of
picturesque headgear, but in this case
it is made distinctly novel by having
its wide, upturned brim entirely lined
with black marabout, which makes
the most becomingly soft framework
j for the face.
^ An Attractive Autumn Street Gown
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Sk Promenade costumes have become
as much a necessity to fashionable
society as are evening gowns or house
gowns. Anyone can thoroughly un
derstand this if they will but visit the
section of New York where are located
the more noted1 restaurants, or visit
the corridors of the fasionable hotels
during the afternoon or evening.
On Fifth avenue, almost anywhere
above Washington square, and on al
most any pleasant afternoon or even
ing will be found countless numbers
of these promenade gowns. But not
only are they a necessity in New York,
but they have penetrated to every part
of our land. The less fashionable of
womankind—and* by that I mean the
less wealthy—class them as street
gowns, and the same may answer for
church wear or afternoon calling.
Here is one pictured that is typical
of the elegance of this class of gowns.
The model is the creation of a famous
Paris costumer, and this is one of the
recent importations. The gown is
exceedingly simple and it is suitable
for all weathers, as there is nothing
on it to get out of condition. The
material used is royal blue cloth, and
the skirt is ornamented with plait*,
which are stitched down to within a
fewr inches of the hem, where they
are allowed to spring open, which ar
rangement- makes the skirt more be
coming, and more comfortable for
walking wear. The coat is cunningly
exit so that it forms plaits on the
shoulders, the lower one wrapping
over on to the sleeve and folding over
on to these is a broad collar faced withj
velvet, from underneath which revers
of embroidered cloth, which are held
together on the chest with a cord and.
tassels. The outer sleeves are in keep
ing with the skirt, and underneath
these are puffed sleeves of embroidered
cloth to match the revers, and these
are gathered into cuffs of cloth with a
lattice-work of narrow black velvet
ribbon on them. The en-tont-cas is of
plain blue silk to match the gown.
Jiefdfd in the Business.
“Is it your intention to put the
price o{ coal so high that the public
will have to go without?”
“Certainly not,” said the mine own
er, in a magnanimous tone. “We
don’t want the public to freeze to
death. We must have somebody to
buy coal, you know.”—Washington
Star.
Diverse Appetites.
“I wonder why donkeys eat this
tles?” said the man who is always
finding something peculiar in life.
“Oh,” answered the person who
likes plain food, “there is no account
ing for taste. If a donkey were to
give the matter a thought, I suppose
he would wonder why human beings
eat olives.”—Washington Star.
The Family Scepter.
“Of course,” said the bachelor,
thoughtfully, “there can be no such
thing as joint rule in a family. Some
one must be the head.”
“True, but the scepter passes from
one to another.”
“How?”
“Well, at the beginning of married
life the husband holds it; then jt gen
tly and unobtrusively passes to the
wife, and he never gets it back again.”
“She keeps it forever?”
“Oh, no; the baby gets it next.”—
Tit-Bits.
Th roust h an Opera-Crlaaa.
“And that is the girl that Gayboy
married, eh? They say he married
her for her money.”
“He must have.”—Judge.
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PROM here eastward for from
500 to 600 miles 1 should
like to have them pull the
window blinds so that we
might not get a glimpse
of the country. It would
add to rather than detract from the
trip.”
It was a passenger on a Great
Northern train who made the state
ment to me just as our train was leav
ing the foothills of the Rocky moun
tains on a journey from Seattle to
Minneapolis.
“The country is uninteresting. There
is nothing about it to appeal to any
one’s love of the beautiful, for there
is no ‘beautiful,’ ” he added.
“Did you ever study the country
closely, and get out of it all the interest
it has to offer?” I asked. “Personally
I believe these great plains offer some
thing of interest to any one who will
give them careful study, even though
the study be only such as can'be given
from a car window.”
And I then and there determined to
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UNMI8TAKABLE SIGNS OF DEVELOPMENT.
prove my theories correct, and find
something of interest in the Montana
plains.
1 looked at the time card to ascer
tain the name of the next station. I
found a number of names at which our
train was not scheduled to stop, but
desired to get a fleeting glimpse of the
little villages which the railroad com
pany did not consider of sufficient im
portance to warrant stopping a, limited
train at. For an hour or more I
watched for one or more of these vil
lages, but none appeared'. The train
sped along over a seemingly almost
straight track, but there were no
towns. Occasionally I noticed a sign
board, but not being interested in
signs made no attempt at reading them
in the fleeting moment during which
they were in sight, and then we passed
one which caught my eye, and I read
it involuntarily. The name on it I re
membered having seen in the time card
as the name of a station, and slowly it
dawned upon me that these sign boards
which we wrere passing were the sta
tions. I watched for more of them
and compared the names I found on
the boards every few minutes with the
name in the time card, and found they
tallied exactly. These sign boards
stood for stations on one of our great
western railway lines. But before
speaking of my discovery to my ac
quaintance I investigated it further. I
asked the conductor why they called
them stations when not even a plat
form, a switch track, or a water tank
was located there; when there was not
even a house in sight.
“They are town sites, and in time
will be towns,” he replied. “The rail
way company realize that this country
is to develop, and in fact is developing,
and they have in this wfay located and
marked coming towns along their line
of road. You can buy a town lot beside
any one of these sign posts if you wish,
and every year sees a new village
spring up at some of them.”
I called the attention of my acquaint
ance to these sign boards. He had
never noticed them before, though he
had crossed the Montana plains a doz
en times, and T soon found he was
Watching with interest for signs of de
velopment and settlement about them.
Another thing I found to interest me
in the ride across those plains was
the distinct evidence of advancing
prosperity, I asked my acquaintance
if he had noticed it.
“I did not suppose it possible to fiijd
any evidences of prosperity on these
plains,” he replied.
“Do you see that farm house over
there?” I asked, as we were nearing a
rather pretentious building that might
have contained eight or ten rooms.
“3Tow note the changes in the financial
condition of that farmer. You can see
it in the buildings. Back a little ways
is the sod house that represented home
to him and his family but a very few
years ago. He was poor then, and came
west to take advantage of the farm the
government would give him. The small
house of logs and lumber a little this
side of it represents the result of his
first few years’ savings. A few good
crops had advanced him to a point be
yond the poverty he knew when he
first settled in the country, and it is not
hard to imagine the satisfaction of the
family when they left the sod home for
the one of logs, and then but recent
ly has come the pretentious home
of to-day. That the country moves
and moves rapidly is evidenced from
the fact that the sod house lives to see
the building of the last new home. It
evidences a rapid development, and
proves that there is something in these
acres of plains.”
“Dry statistics prove many things,”
I said. “For one thing they prove
that Montana is a growing state, and
that in time these plains over which
we have been riding will support a
heavy population. There are compara
tively few states in the union that can
show almost a doubling of population
inside of the last ten years. Ten years
ago Montana had but about 143,000 peo
ple, to-day the state has more than 243,
000. Ten years ago such towns as Ham
ilton, Havre and Kalispel did not exist;
to-day they are business centers of im
portance, wi.th a thriving commerce
and industry. More than 1,000,000
acres of land are under irrigation in
Montana to-day, which is more than
three times the acreage under irriga
tion ten years ago, and 3,000,000 acres
will be added to this when works now
under construction are completed.
To-day the value of farm property in
Montana is $118,000,000, ten years ago
it was less than $50,000,000. Montana
is now producing some 2,000,000 bushels
of wleat each year, while ten years
ago th'e state produced less than half a
million bushels. There are a hundred
items that prove Montana’s develop
ment, and the sights seen from a car
window but go to prove the accuracy
of these statistics.”
That night we crossed the boundary
line into North Dakota, but my ac
cjuaintance no longer looked upon the
Montana plains as uninteresting.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
Class of ’02.
Mrs. Klondike Nuggets—Who are
these people, anyhow?
Mrs. C’ornsqueeze—Made theii
money- in Texas oil.
Mrs. Klondike Nuggets—Dear me!
How painfully recent!—Puck.
EDEN WAS IN AUSTRALIA.
to Declare* n German GeohiRlst Who
Say* Tlmt Country Alone Kal
flll* Necessary Condition*.
The cradle of humanity has bee:: lo«
cated more than once. More than one
anthropologist has staked out a little
section of the globe and has said:
“This was Eden.” But now another
scientist lias used certain premises as
a compass and certain theories as a
chain, and lias surveyed a new portion
of the world ami has located a new
nursery, states the Chicago Tribune.
Australia is the new Kden and l’rof,
Schoetsensack, of Heidelberg, is its
discoverer. His conclusions were pre
sented to the Berlin Anthropological
society at a recent meeting. The
methods by which they were reached
are as interesting as the conclusions
themselves.
With this assumption fixed Prof.
Selioetensaek, with his knowledge of
the various forms of life which existed
at various times on the globe, began
to count out the regions'where it would
have been impossible for man to have
been nourished.
America, Europe, Asia and Africa
were quickly put out of consideration
as there existed on these continents
animals which would have destroyed
every trace of human life in extremely
short order.
Life could not have been sustained
at the northern and southern extrem
ities of the globe because of the cold.
The brain of man at this time w as not
sufficiently developed to enable him to
discover lire, and he could not have
warmed himself. The only place men
could have existed where ferocious
beasts lived would have been in the
trees, and if they had led such a life
the result would be a four-handed in
sieau oi a iwo-nanueu race.
Everyone of the scientific premises
forces the conclusion that men were
developed in some clime where the
temperature was moderate, where
food was easily obtained, and where
life was not a continual struggle
against animals superior physically.
Such being the case, the anthropol
ogist finds but one place answering
that description. That is Australia.
At one time this may have had a con
nection with southern Asia. Here
man may have been nourished and de
veloped, he reasons. It is safe from
carnivorous beasts which could threat
en the existence of men.
Such carnivorous animals as existed
on the island or continent were too
small to be a danger. The dingo, or
wild dog, now known to have existed
there with prehistoric man, was not
a dangerous foe. One of the marsu
pials was carnivorous, but it was
neither large enough nor strong
enough to have been a danger at any
time.
There was an abundance of food
easily procured-, and the elimahe was
tempered to a weak race. There more
easily than anywhere else the art of
making fire might have been discov
ered. ,
Australia also lacks the dense for
ests which might have produced an ar
boreal race, but it is pointed out that
the tall Australian trees would be cal.
ciliated to produce just such hands and
feet as the human race actually has.
All these theories have led Prof.
Schoetensack to pronounce with posi
tiveness- that Australia was the cradle
of the race and that it was the garden
of Eden.
How HiK'h Bird* Fly.
The height to which birds fly even in
the finest weather is likely to be gross
ly exaggerated. Inaccurate persons
commonly talk of seeing wild fowl
“miles high,” oblivious of the fact that
their normal vision would not at such
range include birds at all. Balloonists
have good opportunities for something
like exact observations, and some aer
onauts have, in fact recorded inter
esting statistics of bird flight altitude.
Hergesell, of Strasburg, encountered
an eagle at the height of nearly two
miles, while he also found storks and
buzzards at something just short of
1,000 yards.—New York Tribune.
Lnrfft Import* of Precious Stone*.
This is a busy season among im
porters of precious stones, and they
are doing a business this year that is
unprecedented. Appraiser White
head, of New York, says that the ap
praised value of precious stones im
ported through that port since Jan
uary 1 last was about $16,250,000. Of
this sum fully $2,000,000 was for im
ports since the beginning of August.
This was far beyond the record of
any previous year. All sorts of
precicms stones are included in these
figures, but. they are chiefly dia
monds, with pearls a good second on
the list.—Jewelers’ Circular.
V Ctrl fled.
“I have no head for mathematics,”
remarked young Borem the other
evening.
“That’s what I told mamma yester
day,” rejoined the girl with the
fluffy hair.
“How did you happen to dish out
that inforntation?” asked the young
man.
“Mamma asked what I thought of
you as a prospective suitor,” replied
the fair maid, “and I told her you
didn’t count.”—Chicago Daily News.
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