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department. There arc simple styles in 
lingerie and net blouses that arc very at¬ 
tractive for girls; voile hand-embroid¬ 
ered with scallops and eyelets, and thread 
tucks, or net with.-deep frilled collars. 
Those cost from $3.75 to $5.50. Another 
girli.sh style of blouse that can be made 
very inexpensively is awning striped dim¬ 
ity in a variety of colors. These are 
plain, tailor-made, and arc just the thing 
to wear with a plain serge skirt. These 
Stripes include such combinations as 
brown, blue and fawn, fawn, green and 
rose, blue and white, rose and white, rose 
and gray, etc., all in combinations of one- 
inch and two-inch awning stripes. There 
are attractive striped voiles that may be 
made into such blouses. Slip-on middies, 
both with and without sashes, arc very 
popular. We see some copies of imported 
models in dark blue .serge, with pipings of 
French blue or tan, and sash to match. 
These come in sizes 10 to 20 years for 
$0.75. A blue serge middy is an extreme¬ 
ly useful garment for a young girh to 
wear over dark or white skii'ts. White 
middies, also of the .slip-on style, are seen 
in great variety from $1 up. 
Dkkss Note.s. —The new corsets are 
straighter than last year’.s models, with¬ 
out any nipped-in waist line, and the 
saleswomen tell customers to buy a size 
larger than their older models. With this 
straight, natural waist line so small a 
corset cannot bo worn as when there is 
more curve. Whatever may be said of 
the absurdity of some modern styles, they 
do not include the unnatural hour-glass 
figure of former times. The corsets are 
all very low, and a plump person must 
wear a brassiere, both for comfort and 
appearance. Nearly all styles of corsets, 
even as low as one dollar, are made in 
fle.sh color as well as white. Models for 
slim figures arc made without bones over 
the hips, which adds much to their com¬ 
fort. 
Filet lace is much used in trimming 
blouses. The lace is inset in bands and 
used to trim collars and cuffs. Filet is 
also much favored for trimming .separate 
collars and other neckwear. 
Heads are highly favored in trimming; 
many dresses are beaded in self or two- 
tone colors, and we even see beading on 
some suits. _ ' 
When a dark suit is worn, if the waist 
worn with it shows a distinct color in 
trimming, be sure that the hat goes with 
it. Some wearers seem to think that as 
the blouse is covered by the coat, this is 
not worth consideidng, whereas it always 
shows when the coat is loosened, and the 
same brighter color, in both hat and 
blouse brings the whole costume into 
harmony. 
Spring J^lAXERiAns. —Linen is to be 
very fashionable this season, ijerhaps be¬ 
cause it is so high priced. Medium weight' 
French linen. 4(> inches w’ide. is 05 cents 
a yard in white and colors; Cossack linen 
45 inches wide is a semi-rough fabric 
like Russian crash, $1 a yard. Crepe or 
momie linen, in white or colors. 40 inches 
wide, is '85 esmts a yard; linen eponge, 
soft and semi-rough, 30. 45 and 54 inches 
wide, is $1, $1.25 and $1.50 a yard. 
Handkerchief linens are 85 cents a yard 
up; they include plain colors and also 
printed designs. stri,)es, dots, checks, etc. 
In warm weath.-r silks there are many 
handsome- printed foulards and tussahs, 
which will make up beautifully, but good, 
silks, as a rule, are very expensive. The 
sports silks, in all sorts of brightly col¬ 
ored printings, are largely fibre silk. 
There is a great revival of the strong and 
useful Shantung pongee, and the .Tapan- 
ese are now making it in imitation of the 
genuine Chinese fabric. Japanese “Shan¬ 
tung” being offered at slightly lower 
I)rice. The heavy cotton materials called 
sports suiting, but giveif a variety of 
names, are extremely attractive in their 
bright-colored patterns on white, cream 
or sand colored ground, and will be use¬ 
ful in separate skirts, or as trimming for 
solid-colored or white materials. 
Coats and Stitts. —New Spring suits 
show a straight line or ideated skirt, 
often with coat iileated to match. i\Iany 
of the skirts have a regular pegtop out¬ 
line; others are barrel shape, the outline 
being (piite distinct from the short flaring 
skirt of last year. The one-i)iece dress(‘s 
show a slender outline with lengthened 
waist line, and either straight or draped 
skirts. Spring coats for daytime wear 
show much brighter colors ; among them 
are periwinkle, turf brown, jade. g(df 
green, citron, platinum and tapestry blue. 
Lingertk Sans Oarnituue.— Hand¬ 
made uiuh'rwear and blous<'s from Paris 
were noted that were plainly made, .and 
without trimming. These were beautiful 
garments of refinement, and much more 
expensive than more elaborate machine- 
made* articles. Some have hand hejn- 
stitching, some marrow bandings or in¬ 
sertions of cedored linen_ or batiste, some 
nari'ow quillings or frillings. All are en- 
tirelv free from the usual lace or em¬ 
broidery, and are thus easy to launder. 
.Vmong' blouses of this class are models 
of French voile, hemstitched by Imud. 
rose, blue, flesh or wdiite ; they were nricod 
at $5.75. A frilled voile blou.se. the frills 
edged with contrasting color, wi.'- $8..50. 
There were also slip-on blouses of voile, 
having a pcplum edged with contrasting 
color, and belted with i)atent leather. 
l)rice $7.50. Ratistc or washing organ¬ 
die are attractive In hand-made blouses, 
and this fine hand work takes the place 
of 'fancy work for those who like hand 
sewing.' 'Vi''hen we price such garments 
in the city shops we realize that hand 
sewing is an art. 
'Ghe RURAL 
“Balked” 
(Continued from page 422) 
go in there with a hand-scythe.” 
I never lost but one bloated cow. but I 
did have my doubts about that critter o’ 
Jim’s. Her head and legs was all that 
kep’ her f’um floatin’ off to the next 
county. ■ But by hard work, we had her 
on her feet before mornin’. .Tim was the 
tickledest man I ever see. Said he 
wouldn’t ’a took a hundred for her—she 
was the best cow in his dairy. They 
wa’n’t no mse goin’ to bed at that time o’ 
night; so, it bein’ warm, me and him set 
on his wagon and swapped conversation 
whilst he smoked. 
I dunno why I hadn’t rec’lected the 
warnin’ he give me at the picnic. Mebbe 
’twas because I was most drove to death 
in hayin’, and too tired to think much 
about anything. Henry’s better’n any 
hired man I ever see, and wuth any two 
sich as-you can git nowadays. But with 
all the improved tools we’ve got—hay- 
loadei's and sich, lessen we have a very 
fav’rable season they ought to be at least 
three good men on our place in hayin’. 
But hired men of any kind is as skurse 
as hen’s teeth, these times. So, ’twa’n’t 
till I was in the midst o’ tellin’ him 
what a good investment I was makin’ it 
come to me. ’Twas too late to draw in 
my horns then; so I told him the hull 
thing. 
He’d bin quite conversational up to 
■then. I allow that the Lord knows more 
about regulatin’ the weather’n us poor 
mortals; but .Jim’s got the idee that it 
ain’t got no bizness to rain in hayin’ and 
harvest time. Bt now he set's there 
puffin’ his pipe and* sayin’ nothin’ quite 
elokent. I know .Tim ; and that told me 
what I didn’t want to hear. He finished 
that pii)oful and got half-way through 
another before he .spoke. 
“JOzry,” he sez, “if you was diff’rent I 
wouldn’t think ha’f as much of you as I 
do, but I’d have more respeck for your 
bizness ability. You think ev’ry other 
man’s as honest as you are. Tint' the old 
Nick his.self ain’t the on’y devil walkin’ 
about, seekin’ whom he mav devour. The 
diffrence is, the others don’t roar—they 
purr, and lay on the soft-soap. 
“You say you ain’t give him vour 
check yit—well, don’t, till after you’ve 
called up Ephrum P. .Tones and ast him 
what he’ll give you for one hundred 
shares in the Interplanetary Automobile 
8ucker and Rube Dh'estment Comp’ny. 
I see my cows coinin’ up f’um the night 
paster—if you don’t start pretty soon, 
you wun’t be home in time for milkin’. 
You take another look at Bossy and 
hitch your boss, and by that time I’ll 
have a cup o’, hot coffee ready fur you— 
that ile.-stove o’ Lizzie’s '’11 bi'le it 
quicker’!! a wink.” 
Me’n Henry wa’n’t quite through 
milkin’ it'hen I see Edie pickin’ her 
dainty way through the stable, the wav 
girls do, nowadays. I 'bet they ain’t a 
cleaner stable ’n mine between -here and 
Now York City, hut I’m glad she ain’t 
the in.spector. When she found out 
which cow I was emptyin’, she stopped 
and waited. 
“Popper,’! she sez. when I riz up and 
stepjied over the gutter, “I’ve got some¬ 
thing to tell you.” 
“All right. .Sweetheart,” I sez—and 
she looked sweet to me; “jist as soon 
as I git this pail o’ milk strained into 
the can. I ai!rt up enough on science 
to know where it ud git ’em, but the 
.scorin’-eard sez if I let this pail o’ milk 
set in the barn two minutes, it ’ll col¬ 
lect nineteen thousan’, two hunderd and 
fifty-six bacteria. IMebbe ’twould. and 
mebbe t’wouldn’t; but I ain’t goin’ to 
take no chances.” 
She follered me out, and whilst Henry 
milked the last two cows she told me 
about a conversation her and Mrs. Sho- 
walter ’d had the previous evenin’. 
Piled down, her infermation showed 
that my fust impressions of Mrs. Sho- 
walter and her husband wa’n’t so fur 
o’ the way. The lady didn’t approve of 
what he was a doin’ to me at the same 
time and pretty nigh the same place— 
them two bein’ up in Edie’s room. 
I manidged somehow to keep out o’ 
his way till nine o’clock, when the 
Riverton banks open. 
“Hello! Central,” I sez. “give me 
the First National of Riverton, please.” 
“Hello! First National; I want to 
talk to the preserdent, 
“That you. Mr. Jones? All right— 
how much Avill you give im* fur one hun¬ 
derd .shares in the Interplanetary Rubber 
'’riri* and Automobile Supply Comp’ny?” 
“Why, Fjt:ry Barlow —you too I” he 
sez. 
“Never mind that—how much?” I 
ast him. 
■“You mean how much will we take to 
receive ’em as a present, don't you?” 
“Are they as wuthless as that?” I ast. 
“Oh. much more wuthless ’n that!” 
he sez. “We wouldn’t allow ’em in here 
for any consideration—we don’t deal in 
junk, you know. Better call up the 
Kolodzi.ski Rag. Bone, Old IMetal and 
Putrid Paper Emiiorium, 24 Water St. 
Anything else we can do for you to¬ 
day, Ezry?” 
I manidged to git out “No. thank 
you,” but I dunno’s he could hear it— 
I was so holler inside.^ I didn’t wait 
to make sure, because jist then I heard 
Showalter callin’ his wife out. He was 
settin’ in Sam Randall’s buggy, and 
N E W-YO R K E R 
tellin’ her to hurry up—he couldn’t wait 
all day. 
I flew out there like a hen-hawk after 
a chicken. 
“Hold on, Mr. Man,” I sez. “You owe 
my wife a matter o’ ninety dollars fur 
board and lodgin’. Now is the free and 
accepted time fur you to shell it out; 
because you can’t take your trunk and 
suit-case without you do—and you’re 
leavin’ us fur good, this time.” 
“What's the matter now?’ he bawls— 
all het up. 
“Oh, nothin’ much.” I sez. “We’re all 
liable to make mistakes, once in a 
while. I mistook you fur a honest man, 
and you mistook me fur a sucker-^ 
though I must .say you wa'n’t .so fur 
out o’ the Tvay as I was; fur if ’t 
hadn’t bin fur Jim Bunco you’d a-landed 
me all right.” I didn’t want to say 
nothin’ about his wife’s .share in it. 
“Jim Bunco has had his nose in my 
affairs ever sense I started in to do 
bizness up here,” he sez. I’ll fix him!” 
“Better do it by telegraft,” I sez; 
“Jim’s a leetle mite dangerous at close 
quarters. Howsomever, that ain’t the 
bizness before the meetin’. This ain’t no 
Swindler’s Retreat—not after they’re 
found out, nor it ain’t no free-for-all 
boardin’ house; so please hand out the 
ninety !” 
“Not ninety cents,’ he screams. “I’ll 
git that trunk and suit-case out o’ here, 
if I have to send the sheriff after it. 
Y'ou’re a—” 
“Y'es,” sez I, reachin’ up and gittin’ 
a firm holt on his collar, “I’m all that, 
and more too—stand to one side, 
Henry; I can handle this alone. We’ll 
let that pass fur the present, Showai- 
ter; but you’ve done two things that 
make it my painful duty to kick you off 
my premises, instead of orderin’ you off 
—you’ve perjured yourself by callin’ me 
a thief, and you’ve swore in front of 
ladies after due warnin’ that I don’t 
tolerate no sich pei'ceediu’s.” 
“Oh, please Mr. Barlow let him go,” 
his wife sez. “Do it for my sake, Mr. 
Barlow'!” 
“No, ma’am, Mrs. Showalter,” sez I, 
“not any more. Fur your sake, I give up 
one chance to lam the daylights outen a 
dirty skunk with a clear conscience. I 
may never git another.” 
By that time I’d stood him on the 
ground. “Now git!” I .sez, and I give 
him a fair to middlin’ .start with my 
number tw'elve. With my left hand in 
the back of his neck and my right foot 
payin’ its resiiecks ev'ry other step a 
little lower down, the percession .went 
down the yard to the road. Then I'hap- 
pined to rec’lect he hadn’t parted 
comp’ny with that ninety yit, so I 
brung him to a seat on the grass by the 
free-deliv’ry bo.v. I held out my hand. 
“Ninety dollars, please.” I sez. “It’ll 
have to be in Uncle Sam’s money, so 
you can put that checkdjook back in 
your pocket. I don’t cal’late to accept 
nothin’ that can go To protest, or come 
back marked ‘No funds,’ this trip.” 
Did you ever make a dog leggo a 
rabbit? Then you know jist how he 
looked. 
By that time. Henry ’d got their stuff 
aboard the buggy, and she drove down 
to us. Before he could git aboard, here 
comes a automobile with .Tim Bunce and 
the .sheriff in it. 
“Good mornin’. Mr. Showalter,” sez 
.Tim. “Bin takin’ a dustbath? Best 
vermin-exterminator they is! Allow me 
to interduce my friend, the sheriff.” 
“Very pleased to meet you. Mr. —er, 
whatever your latest name is.” sez the 
sheriff. “It affords me much pleasure to 
inform you that iniyment has bin 
stopped on ev’ry check you >have taken 
in. and that Mr. Bunce has ev’ry share 
for which yon have hin paid cash.- 
“You Avill. without further ceremony, 
repurchase them shares f’um my friend. 
Mr. Bunce. Immeditly subsequent there¬ 
to, you will percecd by the nearest route 
to the railrijad junction five miles east 
f'um this spot, and take the first train. 
If you ever show your mug in this 
county again while I hold office, I’ll ar¬ 
rest you on sight.” 
When they started, us men-folks took 
off our hats to her —that’s more’n I ever 
see him do—and the wimmen shook 
their han’kerchers. He didn’t make a 
move till they got to the corner—a hun¬ 
derd yards f’um our place. Then he 
handed her the lines and stood up and 
shook his fist. 
“You blankety-blank hayseeds,” he 
yells. “I’ll git even with you yit—■ 
’spe.shly you. Jim Bunce I’’ 
Me ’ll .Tim don’t skeer very easy. Re¬ 
sides. ’twa'n’t long before we .see in the 
liaper that some judge down in New 
York City sent him to Atlanta fur 
three years fur usin’ T’acle Sam’s mails 
fur fraud’lent puppose.s. 
The visitor was addressing the Sun¬ 
day school. “Children. I want to talk 
to you for a few moments about one of 
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den away in the dejiths. as it were, un¬ 
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During this pause for oratorical effect a 
small voice was heard—“I know. It’s 
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