The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 35

a a THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18 1010. SIMPLE PARTY FROCK. Extremely Rimple and appropriate a town of this type for young irl. Any of the soft, inexpensive alika will admirably. A pretty combination 1s pale yellow silk, with white Jace and girdle of light blue silk.

Little "Pies" for Little People. Dee mill crackers for crust. Ca each part spread a apple sauce or any othAiling. Add meringue, it desired, and brown in the oven, or use whipped pream. For "custard spread Grunt with and brown.

With sharp knife mark in quarters. And one may have a whole pie or even iwo or three of them Women's Home Come DanIOn. Feminine Fashions and Other Features HE collarteca and Dutch necks are still popular, touch but in one evidence, rinds DeL the bigh only culmpe in morping frocks but 1u afternoon costumes as well. Sometimes 8 plain guinpe r. ur VI chifton 1s used with a ond guinspe of creum or metallic lace overly the thousseline below the base of the throat.

and there are climpses of fine inve and of not, although these are hardly Ho chie the unadorned mousseline or ebitton which vells the throat without essertInx itselt aggressively. The bolero 1s unquestlonably asserting itseif, not duly among the fanciful directoire frocks. but in the more vere street costumes 100, and delightful youthful looking costumes in velvet nave toose, jaunty ur the voicei ate el chiffen or ether accompanying frocks whose bodstufty. Ja COMIC CASBE, as in certain black relvet model, the bodice has vel. vet sleeves and the bolero is sleeveless, but En the hey shear sisave which rivas the effect of an under of reivet belonging to the toiero.

The wide cirdle almost always accompanies the bolero, that de, the bodice usually has a deep crush or plain girdle over which the bolero falls. The furriers are showing charming fur boleros for wear with winter costumes, but so far they have LOT been taken up by MERy Women. Black albelina striped with white and trimmed with narrow bands of ermine In motif repented often by French makers, and usually with pronounced BUCCOSE. The striped crepes, sux cachemires, frocks, with deep band of velvet around exist, and velvet trimming the Poinis for Good Dressers bodice tc ole fashion enother. AB rule the -tripes run vertically, but attractive imported garrow blue and black run Straps of black veiret held xE each end by buttons trimmed the frost.

-ha girdle at top and bottom and bandy of Velvet alt across the front and bark of the bodice, borderiug a shallow white rutmpe and curving conttoued down the outside of the lung si learing the shoulder line unbroken. With possibly some mod! of this and sleeve band this would 2:0 an admirable model 1 for ADJ little velvet-triuned morning frock, and there are quantities of lust suck simple models that might be readily copled and would retain good deal of their original even. in cheaper mats. The black velvet imo phould be a boon io the home dressmaker, and ha dauhtlace for iba lag of countless old frocks. The narrow line of fur will help much in renovating the old frock, as well as In beautifying the now fros! It de used in everything from tulle and lace to velvet and tweed.

19 alt cleverly applied bit of dark lend to a cheer evening frock ile past Its prime. Zibellue, soft camel's hair rooten of very glossy finish and ct varying degrees of furrness, having a decided vogue, and is a great Improvement the zibellnes of years ago. The Ur dames dull crepes. cachemire de soles. all In one tone.

soft. licht and yet rich. are combined with plain silk or velvet in some charming afternoon coatumes, and of course the chiffon or etamine trocke made up with reiver or and with coats of heavier material are Mushroom Growing a Fad USHROOM growing one ot the latest Ington, fads well that as has all atruck other Wash- cities, and interesting stories aro told of the financial resulta of this pecullar kind of farming. appears that there is a large demand for mushrooms, which will increase as the neople come back from the and mountains and take burden of entertaining in their homes. The fact Is, a course dinner is not usually complete without mushrooms in some form, and the market men are sometimes to their the demand.

Numerous private growers of have lately met witn if the stories told around Center Market ure to be believed. The abandoned vats of brewing 08- tablishment In the northwest section are reported to have been transformed almost Into beds for mushroom crowing, with AH good profits as were formerly realized from the beer. Several havo made us0 of their back yards for the purpose, with -The muabrooms aro easily grown, the yield is prolific and their mali rood. According to the figures riveR by bed 1 dealer et -the market. will grow About ninety pecka of marketable mushrooms.

The cost of the bed is about $3, The and growers peck for 754 tho for the beat second grade, the size and quality da- termining the price. He figured out that inree women of his acquainiance were clearing each about $56 a month out of mushrooms grown In the collar of their homex, The market man said a good collar was the best place to raiso mushrooms, He said the things necessary to success were few. Firat, the collar in which they are 10. be grown must be kept at a Luis of about and well ventilated, and arrangements ahould bo made to liave the moll moist, Gond fertilizer, rich in phosphate, must be used to form the foundation of the had bc neederably-unne dirt floor. Two loads are necessery for won ionis.

Tho spawn can be procured in the shape of bricks from the florists and nurseryman, The temperature- of the bed must be tested, and no planting must bo done until it la below 96 degrees. Then the brluks CAN be broken In half-inch plecos and distributed evenly over the bed. In eight or ten duys white threadlike growth will begin to appear, and when this is noticed the bed must, be ered to 'the depth or one-balf to threequarters of An Inch with sandy loam. The beds are bullt in conical shape, startin from a. base.

about three fest wide and building up to about two and halt feet high, with width of about tan inches on top. A frame of alx-Inch may be used to keep the bed In Washington Star. English and American Girls ENGLAND it la the boy of the TamIly who la tirat conaldered; in Amortea It.la the girl. Every. roughness is smoothed from her path: she IN.

rule, spared an and, it necessary, innumerable sacrifices are made in order that he girlhood should be as gay and free from caro poimible. In short, her life is apparently to be one perpetual round of enjoyment -N mande upon her time, BayI correspandent of the London Times, in an article may provoke some controversy, He continues: The spheres of girl life are sharply defined. Thus the "collere" girl and the "society" girl represent entirely differout sides of girl life. The "society" tiri is perhaps the most characteristic product of her couniry and 10 most frequently encountered. Adapbeing one of the keynotes of -her quick and observant mind, she is a decharadler, coupled with 27 unusually lightful companion, In her thirst for "being up to date," she 18 equally Interested in clothes and culture.

Clubs such as the Review Club and the Magazine Club digest the world for her. and provide her with neatly worded lozenges containing the essence of any and every subject. Her conversation 1s, therefore, neually brilflant, capecially 09 she al- that sense of duty to herself and to her hostess which, Causes her to exert evary faculty In order to show herself off the best possible light. She has the infinite which capaolty amounts for In this -case to positive genius. Her taking pains in her dress English sister, with considerably more natural.

possibilities, auch as complexion, hair and reneral health, lacks the realIzation as a duty of good dressing--that far to make up the reneral appearance of a well-dressed woman. Owing to the state of politics, both National and municipal, It is. almost impossible for the women of the country tp take any real interest in such topics as they. do in England; and nothing more surprises the average American than the interest and deep knowledge which English women display politIcal affaire. The majority of Amorican Woman STG not interested in questions of National Importance; their interest rarely extends beyond the town which they live, sometimes to the State, but Tarely to the Nation at -large.

It Is a curious and notable fact that in the greatest democracy In the world the trend of feeling is far more individualistio and local than collective or National. There Are Very few links, usually none. between the American girl and THEATER OR DINNER DRESS FOR DEBUTANTE. A mimple, dainty frock of white ciene meteor- -the skir: trimmed with thren Apop Rounres of lace. The cart of lace.

or depende An the amount At money one wishes to expend on same. Wide lace insertion outlines the square neck. and the whorL AFP made from the Bounce lace. Tiny pink TOSAS and foljage head the top founce on skirt and trim the nock. Tho deep girdle la rose pink satin.

GORGEOUS SYENING GOWN. 41 1. 7 The popularity of Jet has not waned for evening and each day one sees handsomer places. Here we show most striking dinner of apple green satin, artistically velled with black chiffon. The fornt 18 almost hidden under Forgeous tunic jet, extending from bust line to near Hem of skirt.

Jet fringe edges the point of satin hich A1)s in between opening of tualc. A band of rose lace furnishes the Anish of front of decollette neck, and, black s11k Brussels not outlines shoulders And short sleeves. America that work, admirably done as It is done by, a class of women who are highly educated indeed, but who have riven Uh their livas to that one object and form a apart. The men whom the American girl masts arm, rule. men of her Own city.

who have abrewd knowledge of business and who pride themselves on being able to "axe man. They have probably traveled to Now Tork and to Chicago, and their standard measure in outward success, not perhaps always hut of nrnminence In the public eye. The English girl is Frequently brought In contact Ute as it is lived In ditterent of the Empire, for some of her men-folk are sure to be' by wanderlust. which has. 10 often oped into the power.

of The interests du her lite 4 stead of local, and thin is' reflected in all that she doom. Her very charities extend from Lebanon to Lebombo, and her sport from polo in India to cricket in of an English. girl's and sport- they are both Indulged: In with that cleanness and vigor which are possible through health of body and only mind. with, perhaps, an accompaniment of rustio dullness, By nature the American girl la colder and less emotional than the English girl. and bor attitude toward men is one.of unfailing comradeship.

Tel At the same time women are considered by the American a face apart, who be placed upon a' padental and propitiated by much attention and many In a the chivalric instinct in alInge. most too deenly implanted In the Amer1can man, and In of his ideas concerning women he although he would be horrified to be told no, mediaeval. And here again we come upon 0118 those deep. lines of. clevage divide the American ideala tor womanbood from the English.

In England, before marriage, the man and the girl see com- after paratively little -of each other; a but and the woman must be prepared to marriage the common lite is necessity study bin Interests and to: make them more or her own. America; before marriage, -the man and the girl are excellent triends and comrades, much freedom. in. their Intercourse; after marrlage the tWO scom. to lead separate lIves.

The man is wholly wrapped up his ness, and the woman, when her work in the house. lg. ovar, devotes most of her Some Holiday Recipes Some Holiday The Christmas Plum Pudding. without plum pudding," Bays Emma Richard in Woman's Home Companion, "would seem like the play of with Hamlet left while you can buy a fairly good pudding in a Lin can, the homemade article gives far more satisfaction and a larger quantity for the same expanditore. A young English friend rave me.

his mother's rule some years ago, And I havo used it year year with real pleasure. and as it lasts my family most of the winter. I think it an economical dish. It will require one pound of beet suet, one pound of currants, one pound of Sultana one pound af mined (lemon, orange and citron), one pound of flour, two ounces of sweet almonds (chopped fine), one-nalt teaspoonful of mixed spice, one -halt a nutmeg, 0116 pound of sugar, one emall teaspoontul of salt, the rind and juice of two lemona, three soda crackers rolled tine, six eggs and one-fourth of a teacupful of ayrup. Thoroughly mix when drs.

then wot with egg and syrup and water enough to make very aticr, then let stand over night. In the morning put in bowls and cover with clotha, then put in A kottle or holling water. Boil it eight Strut When waited tv, Again or steam until thoroughly heated through. Serve with elther hard or snft SAUCO or cream As I own 8 lArge steamer. I gudily steam my pudding instead of bolling it, And I like it better that Home Companion.

Homemade Fruit Cake with Nuts. One pound raisina, one pound currants, wanhed and dried, one-half pound citran. oile pound flour, almost one pound butter, nine eggs henten acparataly, two traspoonfuls of vanilla with a itttle 1emlate if you Har. Aloo, pound English walnuts. Sprinkle the raising and currants with flour.

Cream together, butter and augor and add well treaien 01 CRAP. Tuen niternately fruit, flour and nuts. Stir the mixture well, then add vanilla and of cgga, beaten stiff. Bake In alow nven, Better results are obtained if sent to confectioners for hi.king. her fellow-citizen: She has her Own set, but the lower no termed, hardly cope wilblo her.

any rate far leas. than the her English in whom the feudal idea 16 still strongly that the well-1 in of those who were. and still Are more Or less, subordinates, A matter of genuine concern. Among the American girls the debutantes of the year keep exclusively to been out for couple of years; while between girls and married women there very little social intercourse. Obvlously the American 0rl 18 great loser by this separation of the ages, for she misses the Immense advantage of hearIng about lite from older, and therefore more mature minds.

Her self- -sufficiency 1s largely the troduct of bet education, which, rule, has been cleaned from books: are now country 'and with now enterprises. she has litt16 reverence for antiquity, whether of person or of custom, and utility or pleasure are the chiet suides she has a for the past, and fB. 00 the whole, more romantic than her English cousin, but it does not enter Into her everyday life. The English girl, on the whole, cOmrather with. the American as far as culture and its cation are concerned.

The country lite led by the majority of the English girls render them somewhat dull as social factors, even Ir it gives them that knowledge of nature, A8 a birthright, which 18 denied to the town-d welling American rirl. The contrast. in fact, 18 between product of nature with the most artificial of products of the most "up-to-date" mmunity. On the other hand, In England It is, niter all, customary for every girl to be Interested in some sort or other of 80- cin! and philanthropic work, whoreag In How to Cook Venison. The prims Inint of venison is undeghtPoly the raunch.

though a shonidey or neck of venison properiy conked is A very toothsome dish. Thr Jain host rut Into chops and cutlets. the being only suitable for soups, ragouts and pies. When It is. possibic do so venison shouid be hunk for at least Women's Hats in Theaters whlin the uncovered Read: for woman in theaters wan preached visorously in the newspapers, 1t took some time for the rule to become general.

Yourg hafora every roman in. theater removed her hat, but It came at last, and for the past twenty years the custom has been imperativeater 7 Why Japanese Girls Can Cook. In a mounting thread of steam from dish of her own creation Japanesa women much romance whit! of smoke In the Arabian Tales ot Joy blessed that mempry. passes the underatanding of She certainly foals common mortals, for that is the oreator-in coin with which the cods pay the art. Bind ronder, then, that the 'simple act of drinking ten has been turned to nomething more than mere art-1 cult, sacred cult, with all Its spiritual and philosophical Amali WODder.

too, that in the Japanese dishes one V1 LUI DC 00 LanD many other arts A dich of fish called kol- something like German carp, but which, of course, is. -is wroucht with touch not unworthy of the master painting of Okyo, the founder of the Maruyama School. And no art 1a 10 pleasant an one that brings about the apotheosis of life's necessity into thing of art. And eating and drinking are no only a necessity, nut necessity that cutes lo me every day, and usually three times at that. THis "is the reason why the cooking takes high place In the of Japanese iris.

It is taught in the pubMc schools; it is teacht again In the THE present younger generation el theater- goers cam bardly beltere that chara whan RaVer thought of taking off their hats in theater, even in the parquette. Buch was the case. The hats were as large then in these dare. Yet there they alWaFE in the theater. wastiing about all over the auditorium.

shutting off everything but themselves from at least 50 per cent of the audience, It had beeu a tong-stanlug crierance with men ever slave the firet theater built to America. Protests to were many, haut she woman were and nothing was done in the matter of mitithe nuisance until Daniel Frihinan bravery took the mauer 1A In the late when he was the cozy tittle Lyceum Theater (n Fourth arenue, he entered on TO KeeD women's out of his about diploma! fealty. It vas problem that must De handled with the utinost delicacy. but the construction of his building honed him, and hir keen observation of feminine nature did the reat. Let the women think be had nu vurpose but tv favor them and they would take off their hats Ag naturally as mon.

Kirut of he the lady membera of his OND Incediato to remove their hats, and they In turn prevailed woou their friends to 40 40. At first these ladies, appearing ballees In the auditoriem In violation of all tradition, created retarded as mild little sensation, better than and freaks; but soon common sense prevailed, The audience pot accustotried to seeing them and other women began to imitate their good example Mr. fur. niabad commodinu retiring room adjoining the man lobby of the Lyceum, and. besides putting in all the toilet regulaltes, such as large mirrors, dressing and comfortable chairs, be hid finlant number of honks placed on the walis to accommodato all the hats likely to come in on any ordinary night.

The room being as conveniently easler for lady coming In to hang her bat there than to take it into the theater. The first night that the hooks were there only few of them were uned, but on the socond and third nights NIAnY more hooks carried hate, tor the nowa of the apread and everybody wanted to try the experience of not wearing hat' In theater. In week the whole parquette of the Lyceum occupied by headed Goth who had not a theatrical performance since, boys. they used to tre. quent the rallery, had coma Into their OWn.

The other managers had been Ins Mr. Frohman's proceding. with curioalty, and when they found hia plan TAI A SUCCORS all hastily made provision for the corn of women's bate. Not atl of them had the space for hooks, but they did as Tell they could, and PRETTY DANCING FROCK For tire dancen, the needs pretty. simple.

ave we OUTKent today charming model to pink mescaline. Frilla of real cleans trim skirt intervals below bias bands of the allk. nut on indicated. double frill of lace Anishes the neck of the otherwise plain bodice, made kimono style, and the girdle of the material energies to the pursult of social pleasUras. In fact.

they can not really be said to lead a common lite. fault; for he rule considers His To A lacre extent. this the man's wife such a delicate object that she to speak, put under glass and cares and worries. and. even are carefully kept from her.

She takes DO autive DArt in 'the man'n everyday life, tor often completely of his financia! position and is absolutely dependent upon him The idea of marriage or 1 definite allowance la abhorrant to the American mind: the and yet, American when all la, bald and done, woman, with All her independence, Is the most dependent. of. women; all not he who real holds the purse strings after mister? In no other country does one feel more what the then have made them. It 11 profoundly that the women are largely mora than probable thit the large number of divorces in America Are due to the Cha' to find A Teal partner and comrade women In Instead of the more finanoial the average American man 1. It seeme to be.

well-bigh impossible that with mt1 her wonderful brilliancy and enera? Ahould tall in the future to bring her of mind the American woman talents to bear on' the National be Af- asted; but there are sighs present their talents that in at hand, and one can. not but belleve that It not vi long before the American of rirt and Wo. men tant part they have to play in the social awaken to the fact. the Imporwelfare. of their country.

seem to be in a state of transition; and Today the Engiish girl and woman the one can English only women hope of with the future will be confidence that able to apply their natural practical atincta to the solution of the many clal problems of the day. -In which they ATE alwaya ready to so largo 40 Interest. At the same time they would da. well to take a Jeaf out af the book of their American sisters in the art of making the best of themselves both, in looks and convorsation. It 18 also about time thai the girl should abandon the attitude of past ery' generations man In the light of a possible hueof her son in regarding, band.

and should to cultivate friend- that habit of mind which makes real ship and comradeship between the sexes a possibility, feathered guests, and beasts in addition e. winter garden with a fountain and two flower robms-one at each end. Im. The TOOTS aTe fitted with el! modern. ning water.

while they. are Also provements, such as electric light, runprovided with automatic feeding dishes. In the winter garden will found two the floor. And four sliding doors giving access to 'the' surrounding rooms. Batteries for the electric light are contained in the 10 I- chine room, A8 also are the apparatus for working the lifts, 2 for wAter with a capacity of one gallon, and switchboard for the lights on the third floor.

The whole building is certainly a marvel of ingenulty and constructive skill. and it acema a pity that' we are unable to tearn what the birde themselves think of Strand Magazine. Inventions Made by Women. A few patents by women bave made fortunes. One woman patented contrivaner for trimming 1.10 bottoms of dress ekirts so they would bang evenlya great boon to the homo dresemaker.

Another suggested to her husband, who WAS mechanically inclined, that the titormometer on the outeide of an oven about the hant In. really told nothing side; what tho oven needed was A heat vAlve--some arrangement whereby an aperture in the oven would automaticAlly open when there was too much heat, thus maintaining the correct tempersturn for baking bread. Ile perfected the ldca, patented it. and hAs profited largely through Its sale. Anothor woman, after many unsuccesstul efforts to find A corset that would adjust itgelt to her corpulent uTe, discovered the lack that had not been provided tor by corset makers and: get about designing one to suit herself.

it areal comfort, patented the idea and is Loday At the head of a large factory where these special corsets Are made. An valided husband had reduced her to sewIng by the day for living for both hafore the thought at her new corset. Another woman discovered through experiment 8 feed mixture that made her hens lay: she gave It A patented it and 11: 1 It on the market wEth errat Another compounded A diriofectant that killed Insect life In her chicken house, And that alto proved officacious for use In hospitals and homes following Infectious Illnesses. This VAS patented and is now sold in largo Delineator, ninner schools. To know now to Trie and read la Treat this; to know hon to cook in a greater thing, with the ed luster of being.

necessary. Bonaparte's, American Sweetheart. Just two. burial and a halt years after the death 'and of. "Old on Christmas Eve, 1809, all Baltimore raps with the greatest social event that the elty of beautiful women had ever witof Jerome parte and satin The coat, groota in a purple with costly.

embrolderies And cold lace, whose skirt, lined with white satin, in the latest fashion of the Directory bure mondo fell over Als satin knee breeches and silk the tori vi the diamond buckle clasped his low -cut shoes. His wAs powdered snowy white trasting well with his dark eyon rich complexion. The bride wors white munin from, of diaphanous texture, such as the famous Indian Jooms made famous curies, which, despite rich embroidery and costly lace, revealed the beauty of Arms and neck. and fitted in the treme fashion that emphasized the botlines of her faultlem and perfect form, the clothes worn by her might have been put 1n my pocket" wrote a lively correspondent of that letter writthy ora. "Eer drew of an extremely "tine ber dreas she wore but one AHA Cond 1 showered upon her, and the of honeymoon Were dream of nogs and gratified ARTISTIC ORIENTAL GOWN.

LEE Recipes before being cooked, which w111 not only Improve its flavor, but will render it do digestible that persons of quite weak digestions may safely eat it, though for them it will be best, plainly roasted and served with a plain gravy. When roasting stouider ur neuk- vi venison be gure to cover It well with Blices of fat (mutton fat for preference), it has none or very little of its own, while the hasting of all venison joints sHould be continuous or the Mesh be apt to eat somewhat dry. --The Queen, Queen Mary and Her Needle. Queen Mary of England, Ty en expertenced needlowaman She is not only an able dressmaker, but 58 wonderfully clever at lacemaking. She has taught her daughter the way of making lingerie gowne, and has Insisted that the PrincoS8 be trained In the same sevore school as Her training was most rigorous.

snc was taught the value of practical arts, and, despite her royal positiod. she never was led to believe she should fritter away her time. Her hushAnd has boon merlous in that resnent. for he is earnest and tond more of solemm pursuity than society affairs. The Queen has met many American women, but she lias made warm friends only with those who are Interested in charitica, litcrature or have some special aim.

To such women the Queen often has said she wished society women would give up high heels and long and learn needlework. In fact, she even has paid that learning to cook W28 touch better than spending an Afternoon at the A Birds' Hotel. Although there Is. perhaps, tendenry nowadays to house OuT Data 121 more comfortable quarters than a was once thought neceasary, the limit of luxury in bird COACH ha; aurely been. reached in the unique structure knowh 8.9 the "Hotel Canary." It has been bulft in his spare time by Arthur E.

Dunning of the clerIral staff of the American. embassy In Berlin. unri. commence tone 4- IMA valy re pieted, which fact in itscif says much for the elaborate character of this palace for In size the Motel Canary 19 75 inches long by 15 inches wide. And it has A height.

the tower of 51 Inches. It contains rooms for twenty-two One of the most charming evening bullt on Oriental lines. TAB recent10 Worn bu A Tell known Dunker bolta construction. and the materials used 'were pink satin as a foundation: over this WAR a pinited black chiffon skirt, which opened to knee depth on left rite, End the shown. whole was bordered by a aids sand of heavy embraldery The bodice In surpilce kimono fashion employed the name materials, And the cold einbrnidery filled in the -cut bodice and served a Anish to short tom of skirts.