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I TO RESTORE A CAMP MEETING AMONG SAVAGES. GIBSON FRAMES FOR PORTRAITS. told for a week, and then she will neglect it for three or four days. No woman can hope to restore beauty at that rate. She must form a habit of attending to her face night and morning, as regularly as she brushes her teeth and hair.

Why should she neglect the one and not the other, especially when it requires very little more time and when the stake Is so great? Even ordinary cleanliness ought to dictate more care of the skin than the average woman devotes to it. "It is a constant source of surprise to most women to see how well the general run of actresses and singers manage to' preserve their good looks. But this should not surprise anybody, for it Is merely a matter of attention. Any woman may preserve what beauty she has quite as well as any actress on the stage. All that she need do is Just what the actress does.

"For instance, if an ordinary woman of thirty should begin now to follow out the practice which has been Ade-Una Patti's habit for years, she will be surprised to see how rapidly her skin responds to a little care and attention, and in one month Bhe will find a marked change in her appearance. Of course some skins have been so long neglected, that they require the attention of a specialist in skin diseases. If your stomach gets out of order, you go to the doctor; if your eyes hurt you, you hunt up an oculist at once; but when you see your skin growing parched and blotched with pimples and blackheads, you merely whine and whimper at the sad fate that is depriving you of your beauty, when all the time your skin only, needs a little medicine or pity 'twere to say it a little something to eat! "Madame Patti's treatment applies to the average skin namely, that which is neither very good nor very bad. It will not cure eczema, but it will prevent the waste which Is constantly going on in the skin of the face. This Is what she does, night and morning, every day of her life: "When she rises In the morning, she wrings out her crash wash cloth in tepid water, rubs on a little pure olive oil soap, and upon that puts a little rose cream; then she proceeds to wash her face and neck Just as any other woman does, and without consuming any more time than dozens of others do.

She removes the soap from her face by rinsing the rag In clear, tepid water and rubbing her face, after which she wipes it gently with a soft towel and puts on a little powder. She does not put water directly on her face, because that dries up the natural oils of the skin. At night, when she retires, she washes her face in the same manner, and instead -of putting on powder rubs In a little cream to bring out the Impurities while she Is asleep. She repeats the same process after a drive, and whenever the face needs cleansing. "Exposure to the wind Is very bad for the skin because it dries up the natural oil.

Even the ordinary air will do this. That is why the skin of the body is usually so much softer and smoother than that of the face and hands. For this reason, a little cream rubbed in from the outside is necessary to compensate for the waste that is ronstantly going on. "Just look at this chart for a moment. It will show you more about the composition of the skin In five minutes than I can tell you In a day.

Here you see little globules, marked well, they are the fat cells that oil the skin and the muscles underneath. You see how they are connected with the veins find the sweat glands that lead up to the surface of the skin. So long as these last, and the pores are kept free from impurities, the skin sets Its needed supply of oil and is soft and pliable. The muscles get nourishment from the same source, and soon shrivel when deprived of it. When the fat cells become exhausted, the supply must be supplemented from the outside.

Indeed, It la very dangerous to wait until the natural oil is gone before beginning to feed the skin with artificial oils. The pores are little mouths that drink up food as ravenously as a little animal. The atmosphere, the impurities in water, the modern mode of living, all these conspire to rob the skin of Its nourishment, and the woman who neglects to furnish It with additional food runs the risk of becoming ugly in her youth and positively disfigured in old age." Copyright. 1897. by Bacheller Syndicate.

ws MOT? ffmm mm 11 NEGLECTED SKIN. Mrs. Mary Scott Rowland Tells How to Preserve It When Restored. MUST DO AS ACTRESSES DO. Knowledge oi Skin Culture Need Not Be Confined to Per- sons of Wealth.

"Old and ugly at twenty-flve! and nobody to blame for It but yourself." That was the consolation that I received from Mary Scott Rowland when I asked her what to do for my disappearing loveliness. In my heart I knew she was right, but I didn't like the medicine administered in such an unsweetened state. However, I had come there for remedy, and as she owns to forty-seven years and is still pink-and-white and beautiful, I could not but regard her as authority on the subject. If Cato learned Greek at eighty, surely it was not too late for me to learn beauty at thirty. "The chief reason why women ade before they are thirty is the fact that they are either too lazy or too stingy to 'feed their Skin will not live without food any more than a plant or other organism: yet some of you women expect it to flourish and bloom like the rose without a particle of nourishment.

You wait until the wrinkles come, not making the least effort to ward them off, and then you begin rubbing to smooth them out a proceeding which is just as likely to make them worse as better. The wrinkle is by no means the first stage in the decay of beauty. A great deal has been going on underneath before it makes its appearance on the surface. Just wait a moment, and I will show you a picture of the human face without its covering of skin," and she dashed out into an adjoining room for a couple of charts, one representing the muscles of the face, the other a magnified section of the skin. "It is these muscles," said she, "that are the most important element in the composition of a good complexion.

They are the foundation, and when they are allowed to shrivel and shrink, no amount of rubbing and smoothing can prevent the skin covering from shriveling too. They lose their firmness, and the cheeks sag down like bags on either side of the jaw. There are thousands of examples that might be cited. Look at Ada Rehan, for instance, that very Juno among actresses. She has allowed herself to age.

The facial muscles have Hot the firmness and plumpness of MAGNIFIED SECTION OF SKIN. outh, which they might have just as well as not by paying a little attention to the matter. Even your cheeks are getting flabby, and you ought to be at the very zenith of your natural good looks. "It pays to take care of your face whether you consider It 'your fortune" or not. There isn't the slightest doubt that Madame Patti's lasting popularity Is due in great measure to the preservation of her beauty, and the great diva has never made any secret of the fact that she takes the most excellent care of her complexion.

"What does she do for her skin? I will tell you exactly, for nobody knows better than I. Mrs. Langtry does practically the same thing. So do Mrs. Kendal, Julia Marlowe Taber.

Melba, Calve, Jessie Bartlett Davis, Beatrice Cameron, Mrs. Leslie Carter, and dozens of actresses besides, not to mention members of the royal families of Europe and well known millionairesses of this country. There is no earthly reason why a knowledge of skin preservation should be confined to persons of royalty and wealth. To be sure, they often require more care on account of the constant drain upon their vitality by the demands of society, but a poor woman very often evens up matters by hard work and anxiety. "It ought not to cost more than fifty dollars to make the difference between beauty and ugliness, and what woman would not give three times that amount If she could but get back her youthful pink and white? The greatest trouble with the average American woman Is her lack of persistency In following up a prescribed treatment She will do what she Is ALL ABOUT OF FASHION.

Indians of Oklahoma Who Have Exchanged Hatchets for Hymn Books. A WOMAX n.S CIVILIZED THEM. Brave lsarelle Crawford lives Alone With the Savafcs Sixty Miles From a Postage Stamp. A Christian camp meeting among savage Indians Is a novelty to most people, but that is what is about to take place in the western part of Oklahoma, Through the work of missionaries some of the Klowas have accepted the Christian religion, and are about to hold a meeting of their tribe to promulgate the new doctrine among their friends. The coming camp meeting will be held In Saddle Mountain, where many of the Klowas are now living, and other members of the tribe are gathering by scores from every direction to attend the strange services.

A great arbor la being built of branches from the trees and of red, white and blue bunting, and will be profusely decorated with American flags. When the time for the meetings has arrived the "rousing committee" will go about the prairie ringing dinner bells to call the Klowas front their tepees to the meeting place. The only missionary at Saddle Mountain Is Miss Isabella Crawford, daughter of Professor Crawford, who was for fourteen years a lecturer on theology In McMaster's Hall. Toronto. This brave young woman has devoted her life to work among the savage Indians.

She lives alone among them, the only white person on the mountain, and Is seventy-seven miles from a railroad and fifty-seven from a post office. When traveling among the camps she shares the tepees of the Indian women, and when at the mission headquarters has only a corner In a tiny cabin which she can call her own. The cabin serves as schoolroom, chapel, kitchen, and sitting room, and has to be shared with an Indian family and whoever of the dusky tribe may chance to claim their hospitality. Her scanty food must be shared with those whu come many miles to hear her teachings, and with her neighbors when the tribe's rations are exhausted. Since the Indian brave has never learned the ethics ot chivalry, and since no servant Is provided for this lonely missionary, she must do all tho menial work of hor station with her own hands, even to the chopping her own fire wood.

From ten to thirty come dully to the cabin to be taught, and her services as friend, nurse, counsellor and teacher are required In the camps for miles around. It is she who has taught the Indians of Saddle Mountain to plough and plant and harvest, and has encouraged and stimulated them tosomethlngapproach-Ing industry, The women also are learning to use stoves and cook properly, and to care for their children somewhat after civilised customs. Perhaps the saddest task which falls to the lot of this young missionary is the burial of the dead. Hefore her advent Into the camp the Indian burial customs prevailed. Upon a death In tho camp the men and womon cut off their hair and fingers, and gashed their bodies and limbs frightfully.

Every thing belonging to the departed man was burled in his grave, and his horses and stock were driven to tho grave and shot there. Often the bodies were scarcely covered with earth, and became food for roving wolves, Hut now among the Christian Indians all Is changed. Miss Crawford herself makes coffins from wooden boxes, covering them with white cloth, and also helps to dig the graves. In a recent letter Miss Crawford writes, "The only way I can live here Is to live right among and like the Indians, consequently I have to eat what they eat. I could never afford to feed all these crowds anything but the cheap- 4 ISABELLE CB.AWFOHD.

est pork, beans, apple sauce and syrup, and 1 couldn't be mean enough to eat anything belter myself. Yesterday some one killed a beef, and I wish you could have seen me eat. Today I am feeling so much stronger for I had been living on bread and syrup for over a week. Two weeks ago we ran out of food, and had to go twenty-live miles In a "prairie schooner" to Fort Sill for fresh supplies. I camped with the Indians and shared a tepee with fourmen, three women and three children.

As I was only one I offered to sleep In a kind of corner and let the others who had children and husbands sleep In the beds (Indian beds). Consequently I spread my bedding on the ground and crawled In. In a few minutes one dog came and crowded on the quilts, then another and another till I was surrounded by ten, all wanting a corner. I had to keep shoving them off all night." Copyright, by Hacheller SyndicaU. Skirts and Corset Hooks.

The short petticoat which nearly every woman wears winter and summer very often adds to that bulky appearance around the waist which Is so objectionable. This may be avoided by making the yoke pointed at the upper edge as well as the lower, and slipping the point underneath the corset hook that should be sewed on every corset at least two inches below the waist. Indeed. It Is better to make all one's skirts In this manner. Even the dress skirt will hang better, if fastened a half inch below the waist in front.

New Fad Among: the Younger Set in the Society of Baltimore. The fancy worker never wearies ot Inventing new photograph frames, perhaps because the perfect one has not yet been discovered. Every Christmas a new design comes out, and If it Is pretty It becomes the fad for a little while; but gradually Its iaults begin to show themselves, and it is soon discarded. It is rare that a single design continues a whole year in popular favor, A recent one, however, which is going the rounds in the city of Baltimore, admits of so much variation in its composition that it may prove longer-lived than most of its predecessors. It has grown out of the popularity of Gibson's Pictures, which are great favorites with the younger set of society girls.

The Idea Is, in brief, to cut out figures and scenes from some of the choicest black and white pictures, tint them In appropriate colors, and paste them on a large piece of cardboard. The cardboard may be of any shape desired, but most of the frames are made either square or oblong, with an oval in each upper corner Just large enough to accommo- date a photograph. Success in making such a frame depends very much upon what sort of an artist one is. Some prefer to pasta on the figures and supply scenes painted from memory. In such cases, the scene Is always of a character that will call up pleasant recollections of occasions In which the persons photographed participated.

If the scenes are not actually painted from nature, or if the frame maker Is not an artist, It is better to search one's collection of pictures for scenes suggestive of the characteristics of one's friends. For the member of a college crew one should of course select a water scene or possibly a glimpse of the training table. If that is obtainable. For the glee-club man it should not be difficult to find a mandolin ot guitar player. A light canoe in a qulel nook on a frame containing a photograph of one's favorite oarsman would suggest a world of associations to either member of the canoeing party.

As Mr. Gibson Is very versatile in his art productions, it ought to be possible to find almost any scene desired somewhere In a collection of clippings from maganlnos and other periodicals. If one wishes to decorate the frame around the edges with flower wreaths and the like. It Is better to use water-color paper Instead of cardboard. The whole may then be framed under glass, or pinned up on the wall Just as it Is, with mica transparencies to protect the photographs.

Such a frame Is a very acceptable gift for friends between whom photographs have been exchanged. Sometimes an appropriate Inscription Is add ed when the frame Is Intended as a gift. Engaged or married people may connect their photographs with a painted lover's knot. Indeed, the list of variations Is endless, and as it would be Impossible to name them all It la brttcr to leave the rest to the tmaglna. tlnn and Ingenuity of the reader, Copyright, 1S97, by Psoheller Syndicate.

LITERARY BLONDES. Characteristics and Eccentricities of Some Famous Women Who Write. Among the women prominent In the literary world today, it Is interesting to note that many of them are of the delicate blonde type. Marie Corelll, whoso books sell enormously and are translated Into nearly a doscn languages, Including Arabic and Hindu- stance, In distinctly petite, with a fragile figure and a mass of curling, reddish gold hair under which large, dark blue eyes look questlonlngly. She was born In Italy, but was adopted In early childhood by a London physician, the father of Eric Mackay, tho poet who.

like Byron, "awoke and found himself famous" on the publication of his volume of sonnets "The Love-letters of a Violinist" which gives him high rank among tho younger Victorian poets. Corelll lavishes unbounded admiration upon his work and frequently quotes his poems In her novels. In the "Romance of Two Worlds" she has made copious extracts, with warmest laudatory comment, from the "Love Letters." "The Romance of Two Worlds," by the way, has the distinction of having caused her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, to forego part of a night's repose, for Her Itoyal Highness refused to go to bed until tho last chapter was finished at two o'clock In the morning. One of Marie Corelll's eccentricities is a dislike to being photographed, and another is a determination not to marry a decision which a good many men have vainly sought to change. She has made a fortune by her writings, so can afford to be Independent.

Frances Hodgson Burnett Is also a blonde. In one family of her friends she Is called by the caressing pet-name of "Fluffy." She Is delicate in coloring and has a mobile face, rather serious in repose but lighting up Into charming humorouaness ot expression when among Intimate friends. Mary E. Wllkins Is another blonde, small in stature and with a face whose earnestness recalls her own "New England Nun." One day at Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton's one of her famous Fridays in a group which Included several noted people, among them Miss Wllkins, Julia Marlowe and Oscar Fay Adams, the conversation drifted into reminiscence and, with a good deal of laughter, confessions were made of childish sins.

Miss Wllkins related her one falsehood with a smile, It Is true, but in a way which clearly showed the sensitive conscientiousness of her nature. Once when very small she strayed Into the dining room btfore dinner and climbing up to the table abstracted a few grapes. Hor mother coming in soon after noticed a slight disarrangement and asked the child if she had taken any grapes. Hastily the little one answered "No, mamma," and the matter dropped. All the afternoon, however, the falsehood sat heavily on the child's conscience until in the twilight she threw her curly golden heal upon her mother's lap and sobbed her confession.

A Forecast of the Summer Girl The Dangbs on Her Chatelaine. An Easy Sleeve Trimming One Use for Old Cream Lace-. if; I V1 THE SUMMER GIRL, OF 1897. THE WOMAN chatelaine, none too poor to be In harmony with it. Of course, the quality of the chatelaine should suit that of the dress with which it is worn.

A fine gold one, for instance, looks out of keeping with the shirt waist and sailor hat of the morning, Just as diamonds and cotton dresses are inadmissible, or diamonds and anything else before noon. Silver buckles at from two to five dollars are now on the market, in all sizes and shapes with designs of which) no two are alike. Some of the oxidized buckles are set with dull jewels, such as turquoise and queer looking stones suggestive of Asiatic charms and talismans that are very much in character for summer girls. Some have three chains, some five, and others have a ring upon which a number of things can be hung at once. I counted eleven chains on a gold buckle.

It seems to be the thing to wear an uneven number of thfm, as there Is a mysterious connection between chatelaines and flirtations, and there Is said to be luck in odd numbers. One- of the prettiest gold chatelaines I have seen had only three chains from which there hung a memorandum tablet, a gold pencil and a vinaigrette, each of which was set with a largo amethyst. The particular girl who wore this preferred to put perfume In the vinaigrette rather than smelling salts, as she is a strong, healthy young woman not given to fainting and she is fond of sweet odors. It is her fancy to affect purple In everything, and so, as she has her chatelaine set In she wears violets when she can get them and carries violet perfume In the vinaigrette as a substitute when she is without them. The gold buckle with Its equally fine attachments is without doubt a thins: of beauty, and nuiny a young woman yearns for It as she does for a silk petticoat, but after all the sliver one answers every and Is extremely useful, particularly to the working girl.

To have one's pencil and notebook always at hand In attractive form is a convenience which is worth the money spent for it. and the more additions one can make to the collection without overburdening oneself the greater Is the advantage derived therefrom. The stamp-box, for instance, though often scoffed at as a nuisance, will be found very useful to fill that want for "just one stamp" which no woman feels until she has written a letter In a lodging house late at night, when all Uncle Sam's supply stores were closed up. Of course, the stamp box Is not Intended to hold all one's stamps, but It is very convenient to have a means of carrying two or three somewhere about one's person without having them stick together or break The summer girl has not yet come out In her full toggery. She is still lying low, for she does not wish to take off the edge, so to speak, of the sensation which she is accustomed to create.

She wants her triumph to be complete, with never a chance fo anyone to say she Is an old story from the May number when the June issue is out. No, she Is saving herself for the month of rosea, to blossom simultaneously with the i other beautiful summer things. But by the same token she Is budding and rap-Idly unfolding her petals under the careful and solicitous nurturing of her best friend thedressmaker. Indeed, she has already bloomed In the modiste's conservatory, but has wisely refrained from displaying her gorgeousness until a more suitable season. Nevertheless she has been discovered arrayed in all her midsummer glory, and is the way she looks and will look for one day in the season, at least.

She wears a suit of white pique, made quite plain, for upon this particular day she will prefer to be fetching rather than "winsome and lacy." The skirt Is plain, and short enough to display her round-toed shoe. The bodice is a blouse with collar and bow tie and buttoned cuffs, very like a shirt waist, and she wears a chatelaine by all means a chatelaine with everything UFeful and useless dangling from It like a warden's prison keys. And who knows but that each one of those chains may represent a heart enthralled in enchanted misery by her many charms! It Is becoming quite the correct thing, by the way, for young gentlemen to present their sweethearts, or even those whom they merely admire, with things to wear on their chatelaines. It is not necessary to wear all the attachments one has upon every occasion, and thus one can have more than can be worn at once and vary them to suit the time and place, as well as the character of one's escort. Some girls even go so far as to carry match boxes from which they proudly produce the "light" for hislord-shlp's cigarette if they don't happen to object, and there are few who do, more's the pity! The stamp box, the court-plaster case, the folding scissors, comb, penknife, and the thousand and one things that the foul fiend invented for man to carry In his overburdened pockets have now been fitted with rings and are being visited upon the summer girl by long-suffering man In seeming revenge for the tons of fol-de-rols he has been compelled to carry about in the shape of Christmas presents.

Chatelaine buckles are bping sold In all grades from white metal to enameled gold of the finest quality, and no to pieces in one's purse. The change purHe with a limited supply of car fare Is another convenience which the working woman likes to have dangling from her belt, even though the average man docs disapprove of this seeming carelessness of one's cash. The silver chatelaine and the linen or plquu suit make an excellent combination for summer service as well ns attractiveness. I'ique stills, in blue trimmed with white, or all white, are being made for yachting gowns. The white ones are usually trimmed with embroidery and pearl buttons.

One blouse that buttons at the side has embroidery running from the waist to the shoulder on one side with pearl buttons and Biraps to balance It on the other. It Is pouched In front, but the back Is quite scant. Plain hats are not very much In favor with the summer girl. Nearly all are trimmed with flowers, and that very profusely, too. Wings are very fetching on the sailor hats, and one cannot have too many.

A combination that is very pretty Is light brown straw trimmed with large wings of a lighter tint, mull loops and twists, and purple asters, with a knot of green velvet to relieve It. Such a hat can he worn with any dress. A sailor hat with a wide, plaid ribbon band makes a stunning bit of plain headgear. One is often puzzled to know how to trim the made-over sleeve around the wrist, for of course it can not be left plain, If the sleeve has been cut long enough to turn back an inch at the hand it may be merely faced with silk and rolled back. But if, as is usually the ease, the sleeve is just the right length it can be pieced a couple of Inches and then faced.

Open the sleeve on the lower side and then quill In some lace or pleated moussellne ruffling, making it nearly three inches wide on the under side and narrowing to nothing at the IriBlde seam on top. A half yard of that wide, cream lace, whichhasgone out of fashion forflounc-Ing, may be utilized for a yoke or chemisette to wear with any dress that Is cut a little low in the neck. Buy a half yard of cheap, cream colored Batln and make a yoke and collar of It, covering the yoke with the lace laid flat and smooth. Any shade of ribbon may be used to tie around the neck. It is often advisable to cut the neck of the dress low and square and sew the yoke down to It.

but the yoke should be opened in the back to be pretty. ANNIE LAURIE WOODS. Copvright. 1SS7, by Bacheller Syndicate. How to Make a Greek Lamp.

Anyone can easily make a Greek lamp. Knock off the bottom of a goblet and hang up what is left in a sort of basket of netting. Pour it half full of water, and put on top of that a little oil. The wick, about as big as a pinhead, sticks up through the middle of a triangular piece of tin on each of the corners of which is Impaled a bit of cork, so that It will float about on the surface of the oil. Kerosene oil Is imported from Russia in square tin cans.

Owing to the tariff, it costs 30 or 40 cents a gallon. After a case Is emptied, a wooden handle is set into it and the thing becomes a water pait. A family which possesses a dingy and battered oil lamp of European pattern is proud indeed, and not poor. The candle commonly used Is the rushlight, not so large around as a lead pencil and burning with a very feeble light. The tallow is not white, but a rich, dark brown.

A Joan of '61. Every new war develops its Joan of Arc of greater or less ability. The Revolution of '76 produced the famous "Molly Pitcher," and the War of the Rebellion developed a heroine In armor who fought real battles side by side with men. Her name, which deserves remembrance at this soldiers' memorial season was Kady Brownell, and she served successively in the first and fifth Rhode Island Infantry. Greek Graduating Themes.

There will be a plethora of Grecian gowns, as well as Greek subject matter, at the various commencement exercises where fair "co-eds" are permitted to orate next month. The Turks little knew what a hornets' nest they were stirring up in this country when they fired on the descendants of Leonldes and Themistocles. A Drawing Card. The damsel of even a "wee, small voice," if it have no really objectionable features about it, will find that it adds greatly to her summer attractiveness to know two or three taking little songs with mandolin or guitar accompaniment, and now Is the time to learn them gown is too elegant to admit of the.