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8462 Blouse with Vest Effect, 

 34 to 4^ bust. 



Here is a blouse which shows dis- 

 tinctly new features. It is quite 

 simple and severe enough to be made 

 of linen or pique and it also is well 

 adapted to the various tub silks and to 

 combinations of materials. Since the 

 washable silks launder quite as well 

 as cotton and linen, it is easy to com- 

 bine them and the effect is extremely 

 handsome. In the illustration, striped 

 tu]> silk is made with vest, collar and 

 cuffs of white pique but, in the back 

 view, white linen is combined with 

 colored. 



He Liberally Exercised the 

 Chautauqua. 



In southern Indiana, in the vicinity 

 of Tell City, a Chautauqua was re- 

 cently held for the first time. The en- 

 terprising" committee in charge of the 

 affair advertised it by posting placards 

 and handbills on barns and fences 

 throughout the surrounding country. 

 This method was so familiar to the 

 country lads that they supposed this 

 Chautauqua to be a new kind of circus. 

 While I was recently in that city a 

 farmer related the following experi- 

 ence with the Chautauqua. He had 

 on the farm a young man not blessed 

 with extensive mental attainments who 

 became eager to spend a day at the 

 Chautauqua. The farmer was sur- 

 prised because the farm hands seemed 

 to be about the last persons in the 

 world to clamor for high-class musical 

 and literary entertainment. 



In the suburbs of the Chautauqua 

 ground some enterprising collector of 

 nickels had placed a merry-go-round 

 and here a crowd had gathered to en- 

 joy the riding and the machine music. 

 The country lad supposed he had found 

 the real thing and spent nickel after 

 nickel, passing the entire day on the 

 merry-go-round. \\ hen he returned 

 home tired with the day's activities 

 and the long walk the farmer said, 

 "How did you like the Chautauqua?" 



"Grand, perfectly grand, but I'll tell 

 ye I rode the durned thing 'most to 

 death." 



