-' *• jjLt Oil were feminine feet
v cased in covering more
tractive than that to be
‘ ound in the shops just
ow. The general tenden
cy toward elaboration and
extravagance is reflected
r as in all other details of
dress.
^re is no real change in the high
^walking shoe. The styles that have
</>' found favor still hold their own.
s Ne’^j'er do ties for street wear vary in
any' „ -iked degree from those that
have been popular.
The rage for walking slippers which
started last spring with the Colonial
slipper is unabated, but the Colonial
has rivals for street use in the sandal
and an entirely new patent leather
* slipper which has a seam right up the
middle of the vamp front and fastens
over the vamp with a heavy gilt buckle.
It has the high French heel, not- the
military heel, and though it is not a
very sensible slipper for walking is
nevertheless used for that purpose.
Tan will be the favorite color for
outing shoes. When the russet shoe
lost prestige the year before last, the
calfskin in no sense took its place for
comfort. Nothing can be so cool and
pleasant for a summer hard-worked
shoe than the tan leather.
High tan shoes will be extensively
worn, for although they are not so
fetching as the ties or the Colonial
and sandal slippers, they are preferred
by many, as they shield the ankle. A
form of the sandal tan slipper that is
attracting notice has three straps
which fasten with brass harness buck
les.
White ties, and ties of white suede
and tan leather combined will be used
for dressy outing. The tennis shoes
are about what they were last year,
and also the riding boots.
Brilliant as are the season’s shoes
and slippers, the stockings easily keep
pace with them. The black silk lead
with their usual quiet popularity
only some are not so very quiet this
season. One finds them plain and
ribbed and open-worked as of yore, but
many are of a fancifulness that de
lights and surprises.
Some are inset with long, ellipjtical
medallions of black thread lace, oth
ers with similar medallions of black
net embroidered in color. Some are
striped up and down with lines of tiny
steel beads, others with lines of black
spangles.
Some are embroidered with stately
clocks of severe lines, others with
clocks not so severe that burst into
little rockets of flowers at the tops.
Some are dotted with little rosebuds
or wreaths of minute flowers, or bright
sunbursts; and the favorite grape de
sign trails over others.
A great rose adorns the instep of
some of the most charming, the stem
of the flower scrolling up from the
toe of the stocking. There is really
no limit to the variety of black silk
embroidered stockings.
Sloping Shoulder Is in Vogue
*
A TYPE OF THE PERFECT SHOULDER.
IrOVV to acquire the ideal
shoulder is a question that
is to-day of quite as much
importance as how to se
cure an Easter hat. The
^ perfect shoulder is even of
more enduring importance than the
Easter hat, for the lack of the latter
may be forgotten, but a lack of the
former is ever present.
To be perfect the shoulder must
slope. Not made to slope by the use
of artificial pads introduced into one’s
gown, bnt slope naturally so that per
fection may be displayed with the low
cut evening gown. For the woman
to whom nature has given a pair of
square shoulders thert? is much hard
work and much self-denial if she
would acquire the curve that is pro
nouneed ideal.
The sloping shoulder takes us back
to the modes of 1830, when the sleeve
” cap was fitted to the shoulder and
when my lady appeared very long of
neck. The shoulder seams were in
those days cut very low to give that
slope, which was then considered a
line of much beauty.
The. beauty expert has solved the
problem of sloping shoulders without,
the aid of the modiste and these are
some of the suggestions she offers for
accomplishing this much to be de
sired result:
Take up your stand in front of the
mirror and throw out, your chest.
I'l'ake a dee]) breath, and as you do so
try to lower your shoulders. Pull
them down, so to speak, until, instead
of standing out square and warlike
__ they are curved and pretty.
You cannot make them wholly slop
ing at the first trial, but you can do
something for them. You can slope
them a little. Draw the abdomen in,
throw the upper part of the chest out
as far as you can. Now, w ith a mighty
effort pull down the shoulders, throw
ing them back at the same time.
All exercise to assist the square
shouldered girl is one that can be per
formed w ith tlie pocket handkerchief.
Take the handkerchief by the ends
and twist the ends until the handker
chief is a long, tough, string affair.
Xow take Fie ends in hand and see
taw them across the back of the neck
continually.
This is fine exercise, but as soon as
the girl athlete can manage it she must
try not to touch her neck with the
handkerchief. She must hold her arms
behind her head, but the handkerchief
must not touch the neck. There is a
certain shoulder exercise to be ob
tained in this manner which is very
refreshing.
Another exercise is to take the
handkerchief by one end and fling it
around her head. In the loose end she
must tie a weight, and thus, with tlio
handkerchief in her hand, she sits and
flings it to the breezes. This waving
exercise is good practice for the shoul
ders and it gives them a certain poise
and agility, so to speak, which will
prove very useful in the search for
sloping shoulders.
Carrying dumb-bells in the hand*
has also been recommended. But this
is tiresome. It does the work, but one
becomes weary. The dumb-bells which
are heavy are merely carried about,
not swung, the object being to exert
a pull upon the arms and the shoul
ders.
Bowing is one way to make the shoul
ders slope. Th« one who is exercising
must take the rowing position. This
as nearly everyone knows, is a sitting
one, with the knees slightly bent and
the arms out. In the absence of a
[mu ui mu a uut van gi mu til lUC
legs or anj- other firm support for the
arms. The game is to pull a long, long
pull and a strong, strong pull, but not
long enough or strong enough to in
jure tlie back.
A continuation of such exercises as
these will in time give curve to prac
tically any pair of square shoulders.
An Artistic Arm UeMcribed.
The proportions for an artistic arm
are as follows: Length of arm from
shoulder to finger tips, 28 7-10 inches;
from shoulder to elbow, 12% inches;
from elbow to fingertips, 15% inches;
around the upper arm, 10 inches;
around forearm, 8% inches; around
elbow, 11% inches, around wrist, 0
inches. One exercise for developing
the arms and adding to the shapeli
ness of the shoulder requires a wand
or cane, which should be grasped by
the hands extended above the head.
Swing the arms and shoulders in uni
son, first forward, then backward. Ex
tend the arms at fullest length until
they are nearly as possible at right an
gles w ith the body. Swing in this way
at the rate of about 15 movements to
the minute. The shoulders must be
swung with the arms, or the exercise
will have little value.—Chicago Daily
News.
Ankfil anil Answered.
“Why,” asked the youth from Lud
low. “is a wife called the better half?”
“Because,” replied the Cummins*
ville Sage, “she usually gets the best oi
the other half.”—Cincinnati Enquirer
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| VARIETY IN MEN’S FASHIONS1
There Are Many Little Ways in Which They May
| Be Well Dressed Though Out of Style.
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It. is an accustomed contention that,
as regards clothing and the manner
of wearing it,
man enjoj's. nowa
days practical 1 y
no eh a n g e of
style. Men’s at
tire. we are told,
lias “settled into
a groove;” from
season to season
it remains very
much indeed as it
was. Ts this so?
Our illustratio n s
will answer.
At the outset we
must note an im
portant fact t o
which this young
In Hand or Pocket. gentleman well
provided with gloves calls our atten
tion. llis gloves, we see, are not ac
tually being worn; but, “to show,”
they can be carried in no fewer than
six “accepted” ways. These are, as
we perceive, (1) loose in hand; (2) in
hand with walking stick; (3) upright
in breast pocket; (1) upright in side
pocket; (5) thrust into opening of
coat; or (6) inside pocket and folded
down.
The point thus emphasized applies
likewise to several of our other ex
amples, for it tells us that if man has
indeed few fashions, there are many
changes that he can ring upon those
styles that are permitted to him. And
each such change is in reality a “fash
ion” in itself.
In further proof of this argument
these} various types of trouser fash
ions are tendered. From (a) to (e)
we have styles that may severally be
termed the “military,” “crumpled on
boots,” “turned up but hanging full
length,” “well above boots,” and “well
turned up,” the latter a cool summer
style. Each of these different “mod
els” may be said to be “in” or “out”
as we please, just according to the lo
cality where, for the time being, it is
or is not in favor. In the background
we note on the left the “wide cut over
boots," and on the right the “moder
ate peg top” shape, each of which pat
terns. in one quarter or another, is
likewise always with us.
Purposely we have as yet omitted
reference to style (f), which is in its
way a curiosity. The fashion, like
many others, came from England, and
is said to have originated there when
the finer qualities of American shoes
were introduced in London. The idea
being to display the “Yankee’ shoe.
Coats, like other items of men’s
wear, continue to demonstrate that
LONG. SHORT, WIDE AND NARROW.
fashion certainly does exist. But as
the above illustration evidences, there
are various styles to select from. Pro
ceeding from the left, we notice the
“perpendicular” or “tall'and slim” pat
tern of coat, and the “horizontal” or
“stocky” variety. The remaining
couple of men adopt overcoats of con
trasting outline. One garment-is long
and hangs strjght down, the oilier is
quite short and of bell-like design.
All these are “fashions,” and they are
all “in” at once; some, of course,
boasting more admirers than others.
We will- now deal with neckties. On
the left is a “breastplate” specimen, a
huge tie that quite tills and overflows
TIES TINY AND TREMENDOUS.
(he opening of the waistcoat, imagine
the quantity of silk required for this
“chest protector” and compare it with
the tiny bow that is the choice of the
gentleman depicted without a hat; or,
dwelling again on the considerable
width of the first ample cravat, then
glance at the “boot lace knot” adopted
by the man wearing an overcoat.
With hats the tale is thesame. Man,
speaking generally, has for different
seasons and coca- _
sions, his silk hat
and bowler, his
straw hat and
cloth cap. To these ' /
he is faithful; and - i
mere alterations * r Jtlft
In tti*» chnnp of ' C ^
each serve to keep
him “in the fash
ion.” Sometimes,
as- we show, his
low, curly silk hat
becomes a real
“chimney pot,” _
every intermedi- Hera Extremes Meet,
ate variation be
ing worn before either sueh extreme is
reached, the pendulum, with “beat”
that may take years to accomplish,
swinging backwards and forwards
from one to the other. One summer
sees him with straw hat with narrow
AT THE SAME ANGLE.
band perched lightly on his head; the
next decrees that sueh headgear shall
have a wide band and shall be worn, as
also depicted, well rammed on. The
“bowler” may be a very diminutive af
fair indeed, as seen on the left, or of
the more ample proportions of the
other example of the pair. The hat re
mains identical; only the pattern
varies.
Reference has already been made not
only to “clothes,” but also to “the man
ner of wearing them.” These two heads
tell us something as to this latter point,
Remark the two hats—which we pre
sume may here be regarded as
“clothes.” Each, as the dotted line?
(a, b) show, is worn at the same angle,
and yet the heads beneath them are re
versed. Sometimes the fleeting style
of the hour stipulates that headgear,
to be “correct,” shall be so manipulat
ed, either down-over or up-from the
face, just as- the fashion whim of the
moment has it. MAY OWEN,
\
SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS
Water Polo Games.
Until the final water polo game is
contested in the Amateur Athletic
union champion
ships at the Cleve
land sportsmen's
show in Ap r i 1,
there is hound to
he eonsiderab 1 e
interest in both
the contests
scheduled for the
I’niversity and
At hie tic club
te a m s. F red
Wench, the noted
athlete of Yale
ahiversi t y, and
Captain Louis Hadley. Cilpt. Louis Had
ley, of the New
York Athletic club water polo teiin,
will be players of national reputation
in this wonderful sport called “foot
ball In the water.” Wenek has been
on the ground helping to make the
championships representative for sev
eral weeks, and many patrons of the
show will have formed some ideas
about the tank sport by the time the
championship has been decided.
Although the game originated from
the species of tank handball in Lon
don in 1870, there were no formal
rules drawn up for it until 1885, when
“aquatic football" rules were printed.
In 1888 the rules were revised and
the sport was called water polo. Since
then American colleges have taken
well to it, and Yale’s team has had
some sterling struggles with western
’varsity and athletic club teams dur
ing the last few seasons.
Cay of tbe •‘Fan" Coming.
April 15 the baseball fan will pos
sess the day. The president in the
midst of his big
tour may be coin
ing epigrams that
will live in Amer
ican history, but
thonsand s an d
thousands of peo
ple will not take
heed of them that
day. By common
consent, there is
no heed paid to
the news of the
country of world
“Play Ba’l.” on the day that
the umpires in. the National league
cities stalk down to the home plate,
(sweep the rubber, adjust their masks,
toss, a clean, new white ball to the
pitcher who is to twirl the first bender
and shout “play ball.”
Eight teams begin the pennant sea
son on that day. and only half of tin in
can win. By nightfall, when the re
sults of the contests are known, a
million or more fans—intense devo
tees of the national sport—will have
figured out the chances of fife teams.
Small matter that one game does not
make a season any more than does one
robin make spring. The fan is the
most prejudiced person in the world.
His wish is fat her to his thought, and
if his particular team captures the
first game, there is no longer any use
of playing out the schedule. So much
for the fan’s loyalty. But let his team
strike a “toboggan” during the sea
son; let a favorite sticker fall in his
batting average, and the fickleness of
the fan becomes apparent. 'Ball play
ers realize that they are like actors—
they must please the public as well
as the management or their baseball
careers are brought to an untimely
;nd.
Ti)e Pigeory Races.
More than 800 owners of cotes that
contain the best homing pigeons to be
found in this coun
try are getting
ready to send out
their birds on the
« races that afford
'k. __ -so much innocent
Hid enjoyment, to the
members or tne
clubs affiliated
with the National
Association o f
Homing Pigeon
Fanciers. Before
the summer is well
on races every Sat
urday of 1,000
miles will not lie
uncommon. The
birds will have lie
come accustomed to long flights by
that time, and fortunate indeed will
the owner be whose birds have made
the best time against head winds and
bad weather. Victory is as much a trib
ute to his care in raising the birds and
their trainingas it is to the stock of the
fowl.
Chicago fanciers have not outlined
their schedules for races for old birds,
but they will be forthcoming soon.
Some of the shorter races will be to
Princeton, 111., and similar points, while
later on flies to Emporia, Kan., will be
given. Up in Milwaukee the homing
club will begin May 4 with it 20 mile
race. By the latter part of May the
birds will be taking races to l.vcnia,
Sun Prairie, Ma/.omanie, etc. Stations
in Iowa art- scheduled for later races,
especially to t'almar, Britt and Shel
don. ,1 tine 14 t here w ill be a race of SCO
miles to Scotland. S. I)., and a week
later the birds will go to Ainsworth,
Neb.. COO miles. The climax of the
racing schedule is saved for a race to
Yellowstone park, more than 1,100
miles, and there will be entered'for this
some of the best birds in Wisconsin.
Jur.t 30 is the date fixed for this event.
“In all the world there is not any
thing like pigeon flying for pure ama
teur sport,” said F. S. Ward, one of the
most promiuest fanciers in the middle
west.
i E. G WESTLAKE
BOXERS A POOR LOT.
Tlfve) Are It crii r*leil hy Mo»t ol the
i 1’eoplo In Chinn n* Arrant
A n 1 mu nceM.
Aii American who is hack from China,
after a considerable exploration in
that land, says that there is a good
deal of misapprehension in this coun
try as to the makeup of the Boxer
legions. They are not politically im
portant, in his view; on the contrary,
they represent the revolutionary, un
clean, ignorant element that is to be
found in every mu ion, in the sans
culottes of Paris, in the dynamiters of
Madrid, in the rioters of Pennsylvania,
the communards of the Belgian mill
districts, but lower still than these, be
cause the highest level of society and
intelligence in China is not very high.
The emperor he found to be weak, in
decisive and inconsequent; the em
press, who has usurped his power, is
shrewd and foxy, says the Brooklyn
Engle. As to t Ire Boxers, he says:
“They are the poorest Jot in.('Jiina, and
they have been hypnotized byHi^jnee _ —
Tuan and the other leaders.
“What’s the attitude of the mass of
the people toward the Boxers? Why,
every one is down on them. That’s be
cause the people who are intelligent
enough to see the drift of events real
ize that every outbreak of these mobs
makes the nation’s position more diffi
cult and perilous. They don’t want any
more invasions of allies, nor any fur
ther excuse on the part of Europe for
interference with their government,
anti they realize that it’s to their own
interest to keep the Boxers quiet.
Still, the Chinese have no love for
white men. They regard them all with
suspicion. ‘Foreign devil’ is still the
common name for us, and the natives
who have been Christianized by our
missionaries are known by a phrase
that might be translated, ‘secondary
foreign devil.’ ”
When it Is remembered that very few
white men are in China for their
health, any more than the Chinese are
here for ours; when the forcing of the
opium trade on China is recalled;
when the violation of tombs and tem
ples, unutterably sacred in Mongolian,
eyes, is borne in mind; when, also, it
is seen that the profits of railroads,
telegraph lines and other enterprises
are going largely into the hands of
strangers, it does not seem remarkable
that the Chinese should have little atMMan^
fection for the foreigners.
,• nrvi mif- /
GIRL WHO FOUND HEKSEjaJimt.
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Slip Started in to lie nn Klocntion1st,
lint Turnpil to the Advertis
ing HUSl II PSM.
It is not often that a thing done for
pastime turns out to be one’s chief re
source, and the serious business under
taking becomes a pastime; but a cer
tain young New York woman has late
ly experienced this odd reversal of in
terests, says the Sun of that city.
She sits in an office all day now and
evolves pugr.lgs. aerosticfl^iHU^tSrtrfrH *'
com'id ation rirffiTrs i^rtnisiness adver
tisements. lint her original aim was
to be a professional tourist and public
entertainer. *■
Always when at college she was
called upon to supply the nonsense
rhymes ami character hits that the
girls wanted for private circulation or
for the college annuals. And now this
aptitude for playing on words and
looking at matters from a lively,
facetious standpoint brings her good
pay.
“There are •*’''*”♦ «>= ’"any de
elaimers and dramatic speakers', in
tin* amusement world now ns c\n
work profitably, and not many jieo^ ,
pie making commercial riddles. So
I cast my lot where there is the
most likelihood of appreciation,” she
says regarding her work.
“A rebus that I wrote and illustrat
ed for a friend on her birthday and
that brought in several of her char
acteristics was seen and commented
upon by a business man.
“ ‘Why don’t ygk put that lively in
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in' i <*** .* -*•v * uu
7>lo are compelled to have tiu+f 1roiu*—
ness brought before the public in a
taking way. even if they never hear
a dramatic recitation. You must
change your calling.’
“And lie sent me my first adver
tisement to construct. It was to bo
a puzzle hitting on a certain brand
of Swiss cheese. My work was liked.
I got into the spirit of i and made
several sample puzzles just on imag
inary wares which, were pronounced
good.
“That was nine months ago. Now
1 devise proverbs, enigmas and arith
metical puzzles, sometimes in num
bers, sometimes in Roman letters,
for business folks all over the coun
try, for shoe dealers, plumbers’ ap
puratus, chicken powders, what not.
And I am getting more and more
confidence and expcV^encc.”
Sun’s Am oh at Sunset.
Curious deformations of th," sun’s
disk as it sets have recently been
studied by l)r. Prinz, of tlfc
P.elgian observatory, by the aid of
photography. The most common of
these are simply indentations of the
disk. Sometimes there is appearance
its of flames issuing symmetrically
from opposite sides and uniting
above in a single jet, which disap
pears to give place to another,
formed in the same way. These phe
nomena. according io M. Prinz. are —
tine to horizontal layers of air of dif
ferent density, which refract the - Jg
.■uni’s light. Some such appearance of
the solar disk at sunrise may have
originated the familiar legend that*
i n Master morning the sun dances ¥*.
as lie rises.—Success.
Ituleil by Autocrats.
The South African colonies andf
islands owned bs tiermaiiy have nKt^gj^H
local legislature or even crown eoijJp
eiis. Mach is ruled by an autocrat Ajj
pointed by the emperor.+~X. Y. sfejej