COTES 



1603 



COTTON 



save for the hat. This still appears in black 

 and gray. Let us select a light violet paper 

 for the body of the hat. Place thin white 

 paper over the head of the figuje. Trace the 

 shape of the hat and rim. This gives the 

 outline shown above the carbon paper, in Fig. 

 7. Here is also shown the method of tracing 

 the hat shape' on light violet paper. Fig. 8 

 shows the shapes cut from light violet and 

 violet papers. These shapes are pasted in 

 position over the gray and black hat of the 

 wearer. Flower shapes of intense yellow and 

 leaf shapes of yellow-green should be added to 

 the hat, to give the necessary finishing touch 

 to the costume. 



The completed costume, which we see in 

 Fig. 9 only in black and white, gives but a 

 faint idea of the color charm of. this beautiful 

 design. 



As fashions change, our problems in costume 

 design can be kept up-to-date by following the 

 foregoing steps, with figures chosen from the 

 current magazines or fashion plates. B.S. 



COTES, kotes, SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN 

 (1862- ), a Canadian journalist and novel- 

 ist. As SARA DUNCAN she won a name for her- 



self by letters and sketches of travel contrib- 

 uted to the Toronto Globe and other news- 

 papers in Canada and the United States. After 

 her marriage to Everard Cotes in 1891 she 

 began to write novels, many of which deal 

 with life in India, where for many years her 

 husband was a correspondent. Among her 

 most popular books are An American Girl in 

 London; Vernon's Aunt; The Simple Adven- 

 tures of a Memsahib; His Honour and a Lady; 

 A Voyage of Consolation; The Other Side of 

 the Latch; The Pool in the Desert; The Con- 

 sort ; The Story of Sonny Sahib ; and Cinderella 

 of Canada. 



COTOPAXI, kotopak'se, the loftiest active 

 volcano and one of the most beautiful moun- 

 tain masses in the world, in shape nearly a 

 perfect cone. It is in Ecuador, on the eastern 

 chain of the Andes Mountains, about forty 

 miles south of Quito and sixty miles northeast 

 of the peak of Chimborazo. The most recent 

 estimate gives its altitude at 19,613 feet. Its 

 crater has a* diameter of 2,600 feet, with a 

 depth of 1,500 feet. There have been many 

 eruptions, the most recent of which occurred 

 in 1903. 



OTTON. Over 400 years before the 

 birth of Christ the Greek historian Herodotus 

 wrote about a marvelous land in Asia, from 

 which travelers returned with stories of a tree 

 that bore wool "exceeding in goodness and 

 beauty the wool of any sheep." The "fleece- 

 bearing tree" that called forth the praise of 

 these travelers in the Far East was the wonder- 

 ful plant from whose fibers much of the cloth- 

 ing of the civilized world to-day is made, and 

 whose seeds furnish food for man, beast and 

 soil; it is a plant deserving well to be called 

 exceedingly good and beautiful, and to bear the 

 title so often conferred upon it "King Cot- 

 ton." Since the days of Herodotus many have 

 tolds of its merits, but none more eloquently 

 than the Southern orator, Henry W. Grady, 

 who said of it: 



What a royal plant it ig J The world waits in 



attendance on its growth ; the shower that falls 

 whispering on its leaves is heard around the 

 world ; the sun that shines on it is tempered by 

 the prayers of all the people ; the frost that chills 

 it and the dew that descends from the stars are 

 noted ; and the trespass of a little worm upon its 

 green leaf is more to England than the advance 

 of a hostile army on her Asian outposts. It is 

 gold from the instant it puts forth its tiny shoot. 

 Its fiber is current in every bank, and when, loos- 

 ing its fleece to the sun, it floats a sunny banner 

 that glorifies the fields of the humblest farmer, 

 that man is marshaled under a flag that will 

 compel allegiance of the world and bring a sub- 

 sidy from every nation on earth. 



Brooks in his Story of Cotton writes: 



Cotton to-day is the friend of the poor and the 

 luxury of the rich. It is made into cloth so 

 coarse that it sells for a few cents a yard. It is 

 made into fabrics so fine and so beautiful that it 

 can hardly be told from silk, and so heavy and so 

 thick that experts can barely distinguish it from 

 wool. It is made into rope and cord so strong. 



