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Ml 408 MtS I FEMININE APPAREL WHAT WOMEN SPEND IN TIME AND MONEY FOR DRESS Some St. Paul Women Are Taking to Ready-Made Gowns as Being Cheaper and Easier to Have Fitted Than Those Made by the Modiste. Some one writes to us on the subject lOf dress and the time that a woman Bpends at her dressmaker's, and asks how in the world this is to be avoided by a woman who desires to look well. This is a difficult question and one that the writer has often pondered upon in relation to women whose wardrobes are elaborate. It is really appalling to think of the hours upon hours that are wasted by women waiting to be fitted.

Indeed, the whole subject is a vexing one to women, and many the one Vishes that some kind of a uniform could bo adopted. Of course the woman who does not take a 'interest in dress and only has a limited wardrobe, is not much but the woman who has the means to dress well and elaborately has to give a'most every waking thought to styles and to the modiste. A St. Paul who has just returned from Florida, where she has visited friends and been to the fashionable winter reports, said recently that she never saw anything to equal the dress there displayed. Barbaric splendor of jewels and materials is the only expression fits the case.

What this means in thought and effort can only be estimated liy women themselves, who know oven a moderate wardrobe costs. i A St. Paul woman said the other day: I look about and see the way jthe women dress and the money they 'spend in jewels, I fairly shiver. Not that I mean that the woman who has moans should not dress well or I spend money on jewels, but during the year or two there has been a per- Lfect riot of dress, and the rivalry and Jll-feelinrr engendered is something appalling. The simple life is a farce except among a few independent ones Whose brains make up for their lack of adornment.

It is not only the women Mho dress so elaborately, but young girls are gowned as their mothers never were, and the result is to discourage young men from marrying. Then when I see a man who has a wife and four daughters to dress, my heart goes out to him. There must come a change in this matter of dressing, and this toj-ward simplicity, for it cannot well be carried any further than it is at present." When one comes to think of all the t.nd beautiful things one might in the hours that are wasted waiting to be fitted or consumed in trying on, Jt seems a pity that some other way of pressing could not be invented. Many have partly solved the problem iJ)y buying ready-made gowns and and in this day when such beauitiful things are carried in the shops jready to wear, it is comparatively an jeasy matter to dress well with infinitely iless trouble and cost. Right here in St.

can be found gowns for every sort of an occasion ready made, and it must j.be a source of worry to dressmakers that so many women are adopting this manner of dressing. However, the modistes have themselves to blame for putting up their prices to such a figure that on'y millionaires can go to them. JThe saving in buying ready-made garments is tremendous, and while one's gowns may not fit quite as well as if they were made to order, to women who have rfome other interests in life beside clothes they appeal strongly. IF Chidlow Bread was the first to please your palate and tease your appetite without waging wat your digestive apparatus, it deserved your stead patronage. good because It Is I CH DLOW BREAD Is good because it is I made from the choicest wheat of the I best wheat country and baked by akill- I ful bakers by special process.

If you ha'vent been getting bread you like, try Chidlow. you like what you are usinjt pretty well, try M. CliiUlow you will like It better JBt WARD-CORBYCO. JlMPlMlijlMjf Reduced Rates to New York and Return Via the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Account of Spring Meeting Merchants' Association at New York, tickets will be sold from Chicago at one and one-third fare for the round trip, on certificate plan. Dates of sale, February 27, 28, 29 and March 1.

Certificates for return tickets will be honored within 30 days. Stop-over in both directions allowed at Washington, D. Baltimore and Philadelphia, not to exceed ten days at each place. For further information, address R. C.

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Paul, Minn. City Ticket Office, 244 Clark Street, Chicago. FASHIONS FROM VOGUE Prepared Specially for THE GLOBE. An odd and very pretty style of trimming is shown by the suit in the accompanying illustration. It is of violet satin-faced cloth over a foundation of the same color taffeta, and is made with a five-gored skirt.

The front breadth is cut in one with the hip yoke, to which the rather full sides are joined by tiny vertical tucks, and outlining these breadths are stitched bands of panne velvet of same shade of violet as the cloth. The bands are pointed at the bottom and are ornamented with large silver buttons. The back is plain and is finished with inverted plaits. The coat is a blouse model with large full sleeves, tucked at the top, and it is trimmed with the stitched velvet bands in the manner shown, the ones over the shoulders ending in like tabs at the back, caught by silver buttons, and the small collar of very dark purple velvet in an open cut-out design. The hat Is of violet chiffon velvet (Mainly About People A meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the Commercial club, under the auspices of the Art Workers' guild.

Miss McKinstry gave interesting reminiscenes of Dutch artists, some of whom she had known. The music of the afternoon was furnished by Miss Marion Lindsey, who sang several times most pleasingly, accompanied by Mrs. R. R. Dorr.

Her selections were "Spring-tide," by Becker; "Mignon," by d'Harbolet, and "Years at Spring," by Hertig. Mrs. W. E. Bramhall, president of the Civic league, announced that at next Friday's meeting Mr.

Fairchild will give a talk on early St. Paul, and some members of the committee for the St. Louis fair, will tell of what is being done for the Twin City exhibit. There was a good attendance at the meeting, which is the third in the series given by the affiliated clubs, under the auspices of the Woman's Civic league. There will be a meeting of the Sacred Thirst Society tomorrow afternoon at 8 o'clock in the Cathedral school.

Mr. Elmer Dearth, of Mackubin street, has gone to New York. Mrs. L. E.

White has returned from the South. Mrs. George Koehler and Miss Koehler, of Portland avenue, left last night for Mount Clemens. Mrs. Leon Rudd, who has been visit- THE ST.

PAUL GLOBE. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1904 with a wide, rolling brim in the shirred velvet and on the left side is a longf paradise plume shading from violet' to dark purple. Another smart street gown, trimmed with stitched bands, is of dark blue mistral etamine.

It is made with a three-piece skirt, the front breadth continuing as a graduated circular flounce around the bottom of the skirt, which is outlined by a two-inch band of blue taffeta stitched with green silk. The coat bodice has a short round bolero and three-quarter bell sleeves bordered with the stitched taffeta bands, under which Is worn a blouse, with bishop sleeves, of dark blue worsted lace lined with green taffeta veiled with blue chiffon. A stock and narrow cuffs of a novelty white and blue lace finish the throat and wrists and a wide belt of blue taffeta, with stitched edges and fastened by a dull gold buckle set with peacock jewels, encircles the waist. ingr her mother, Mrs. Crary, of the Seville, has returned to Superior.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Foley, of street, have returned from their wedding trip. Mrs.

E. J. Romans, of Holly avenue, entertained the Dames of the Round Table Thursday. Gets Rid of Her Count. ST.

LOUIS, Feb. Foster, in the St. Louis circuit court, today, granted a divorce to Countess Marie R. F. Penaloza from Count Henri de Penaloza.

In her petition the countess, who is a St. Louis heiress, charged that the count spent her fortune and had paid attention to other women. In granting the decree Judge Foster commented on the action of the count, which he said was markedly similar to that in most all cases of international marriage. "It is often the way," he said, "these foreigners treat their American wives. Ambitious mothers and daughters traveling abroad are constantly falling into such traps as these.

The courts are full of such cases. It seems to me the mothers ought to wake vi sometime. The plaintiff is given her decree and the custody of the children." GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM. Instead of exposing his precious person to the rigors of a Siberian winter or engaging himself as a target for Japanese sharpshooters, Don Jaime, the son of Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish throne, is coming to America. The young man is carried on the reserve list of a crack company of Russian hussars, but the rumor that he has volunteered for service in Manchuria is so much rumor and so little fact that it scarcely is worth discussion in view of the fact Don Jaime made up his mind more than a year ago to visit New York.

He has not changed his mind; in fact, he is more determined than ever. He is a courtly, dark-eyed fellow, with that peculiarly fair skin seen only in certain families of Castilians. His entree here will be through the Navarro and a couple of other families. The fact that Don Jaime distinguished himself in the Russian service in the Boxer insurrection In China does not mean he is desirous of entering the lists of war again when there is every reason for his coming to the new world to further matrimonial ambitions. What a buzzing there must be in those rH-al organizations, the great hive of Ladies of Maccabees of Michigan and the supreme hive of Ladies of Maccabees of the World, both secret beneficial organizations, each of which expected to extend its field of operations to New York state and enlist the sympathy and co-operation of many of the women's clubs here.

The rivalry recently arisen, however, which became so bitter it wound up in the supreme court, is likely to retard further steps in extension by either organization. The great hive of ladies and the supreme hive of into such a it is admitted that the success of one is dependent upon the existence of the good features almost have been forgotten. "And all because a parcel of women were at the head," said a woman member. "What they needed to keep them from quarreling among themselves was a fighting man!" "I see that Sir Henry Irving said that the panic in the Iroquois theater in Chicago miarht as easily have occurred in a church," remarked a Sunday lieabed. "Why, the man doesn't know what he is talking about.

In the theater we are always trying to amuse satan; in the church we are always fighting his flre fire. I don't go to churoh because I am not needed as a volunteer to assist in putting out hell fire; the preacher's forever throwing water on it, and no asbestos curtains are necessary. I never heard of a panic in a church except at a wedding, when a lot of insane creatures tried to appropriate the bride's flowers." Perhaps radium will cure the liquor habit. Let's try it. It is by no means established as yet that the vermiform appendix is not the seat of the whisky desire.

It is established, I believe, that such as have lost it are ardent haters of everything alcoholic. Now, let us experiment. Take twelve healthy men; remove from six the functlonless little enemy and record the results. If those operated on refuse thereafter to get down off the water wagon let us start a temperance crusade on substantial subcecum lines. If it is inexpedient to cut off the appendixes of the six, let us try radium.

After seventeen years of hard study Dr. George D. Swaine, of the Michigan board of honlth, says he has discovered a permanent cure of the craving for drugs, including morphine, chloral, cocaine and arsenic, and also for whisky. Some faith might be reposed in this article if it were not bo catholic. There is one medicine which is said to cure no fewer than cures none.

Tf Swalne's discoyerey cures the whisky habit alone accomplishes enough. The doctor says it cures while you wait. The longest period necessary is forty hours. There are 175,000,000 gallons of whisky now in bond in the United States. It will take our vast army, of "Whafll-You-Haves" about two years tcf put them down, as they will, by the addition of water and other adulterants, be 300,000,000 gallons when passed over the bar.

Dr. Swaine will have something of a job saving that whisky "for the arts." "Cold," said the Christian Scientist, buttoning his warm fur-lined coat, "is merely the absence of heat." "Thankee," said the shivering beggar, "but it ain't the kind of absence that makes the heart grow fonder." An American from the West visited England several months ago, and, fall- Ing in love with the Isle of Wight, took up his abode in the village of Rye. He had not been there a 'week before the people began to ask Xi be knew James, the novelist. "Very- Indeed," he replied, though he had never heard of our self-expatriated fellow citizen. "Wonder where he Is; I'd like to see him." Being informed that James lived In Rye and was a celebrity there, our friend rushed off to a book store and prdered the complete works of the novelist.

In due time they arrived, and he Isolated himself for a month to read up on the author so as to be able to converse with him about his novels. It was his habit to stuff himself with a writer's works before making his acquaintance. Being a man of large means and Western push, he had not a great deal of trouble in obtaining an introduction to James, and at an opportune moment opened fire with a laudation of "Aglncourt." James endeavored to appear interested. From "Aglncourt" he leaped to "Castle of Ehrenstein," from that to "Henry of Guise." which he said was his favorite novel. "One of the earmarks by which we all know you, Mr.

James," he laughed, slapping the writer on the knee In jovial fashion, "Is your fondness for the 'two horsemen." Now, tell me honestly, how many stories have you opened with those 'two James was furious. "I much fear you have mistaken me," he said with icy coldness. "The works you have mentioned were Written by Mr. G. P.

R. James, and the two horsemen were his private property." "But surely you ain't 'shamed of your writings?" "Not in the least. But I am not the person you expected to meet." "What? Not James, the celebrated novelist?" "No. He was the other James Englishman. He died in 1860." "And who might you be?" "Just Henry James, author." "Well, I'm glad to you, anyhow.

No hard feelings. I hope. It was ail the fault of that- British bookseller, who worked off a lot of G. P. R.

James' trash on me." Up-to-Date Japanese Countess. A "new woman" In her own country is the Countess Hayashl, who advocates "jiu-jitsu," the Japanese system of physical training for women as well as men. It is to this method of strengthening the muscles that the men of Japan are Indebted for their wonderful, wiry, strength. Upon it they are depending for the endurance which they believe will enable them in the present war to conquer their powerful Russian enemies. The "jiu-jitsu" was until recently a secret system of physical training, taught only to the nobility.

Now men of all ranks share its benefits. Countess Hayashi contends that women also should receive the training 1. The countess is a very modern woman in her ideas. With the spirit of progress so evident in Japan she has adopted European dress. Alack, A Yak! 'Mid pathless deserts I groan and grieve, In weariest solitudes I leave My track; Bemoaning the fate that has chistened me.

In spite of my whiskered dignity, A Yak: 0 happy child, with the epithet Of Abe or Ike or Eliphalot Or You little wot of the blush of shame That dyes my cheek when I hear the name Of Yak! Better a bok or a slithy sloe. Or a mythical beast in the starry zo- A polypsd or a pelican. An an ichthyosaurus, than A-Yak! And so, through the vallvys hereabout 1 sob this plea, and the echoes shout It For the sake of art, and my pride as well. When you write my name, will you kindly spell It Yacque! Johnson, in Harper's Magazine for March. An old bird isn't caught with chaff, and a Wise man isn't tempted With a cracker bag after I I BSSI whi HBm rml i row By I I''J I MM IPBI li ESSM Mi VllvvVlCl cv 1 DISCUIt The kind that come in an air-tight, (I 1 LITERARY "GHOSTS" WHO I WORRY ENGLISH READERS! DEADERS on this side of the water are curious to know how much there really la behind all the suggestions that have been made recently as to the existence of "literary that is, unknown scribes who are said to write novels, short stories or what not, to be signed by authors of reputation and published as their work.

That the public should be getting interested in this question is only natural, considering the deflniteness of some of the statements that have been made of late. It was the remarkable letter signed "Proxy" and published in the Author, the official organ of the Society of Authors, that started the discussion. Its writer, who described himself as "the real author of two stories that have appeared serially and In book form as the original work of a well known literary man," declared that the occupation of literary ghosts was quite a common one. Moreover, this particular spirit defended his calling sturdily. "I may be allowed, perhaps," he wrote, "to draw attention to the advantages which the system of 'farming fiction' may be said to possess where the Interests of the unknown the ghost, the hack, the proxy, call him what you will at stake.

Personally, I look upon the well known writer who 'farms his work as a sort of heaven-sent being, and not, as many appear to consider him, a species of Impostor. Ask any writer of popular fiction, and he will tell you that every year the applications he receives for long stories as well as for short stories increase until It has come to this: He must decline to undertake to get through more than a comparatively small amount of work; (2) he must 'scamp' a portion of the work he has agreed to do, and thus, In the long run, ruin his well earned reputation for producing Interesting stories; (3) he must call In the aid of a proxy, or, In other words, 'farm out' the surplus." Since the appearance of this letter there have been on the part of the Society of explain it away as a jeu d'esprit, but there is a general belief notwithstanding that the document was genuine. As the result of inquiries In the New Grub street of today the writer found no one prepared to deny the existence of literary "ghosts." It was declared, in fact, and the names of both parties to the transaction given, that one of the most famous writers in this country, who has been represented by rather a considerable amount of work In the past year, has been dependent for much of It upon the efforts of a paid the undistinguished husband of a well known woman writer. The thing seems Incredible, but my Informants declared that there was no doubt about it whatever. The editor of a popular magazine declared when interviewed on the subject that the "ghost stories" were absurd.

"If Dad work appears under a popular writer's name," said the editor, "he will soon decline in public favor; whereas, on the other hand, If a 'ghost' can turn out consistent good work there is every reason for him to write under his. own name and get paid more." Notwithstanding there appeared In a London newspaper recently a statement by one who described himself as a "ghost," that, If he had something to sell and needed the money immediately, instead of hawking work around or dragging out impecunious days awaiting a check, he took it to a popular writer whose work is In constant demand and obtained cash down for It. "I sell it to him." he said, "and he can do what he likes with it. There is no fraud or. the public, for the popular writer I refer to knows what his editors want; he edits for editors.

The editors know, or are presumed to know, what the public wants, and they edit for the public. There is satisfaction all round." It is likely, however, that there won't be satisfaction all round if the public gets to know definitely that this sort of thing is common. Readers of Rider Haggard's novels and of "The Yellow Van" would have enjoyed being present at the meeting of the trustees of the so-called "Garden in London the other day, for both the author of and Mr. Whiteing were present and spoke. This scheme of founding a model village for working people near London on the lines of those started in the country by the philanthropists, Cadbury Lever, is one that chimes in exactly with the views which Mr.

Hazzard has expressed so often of late, and which inspired Whiteing's most recent book, and the authors gave it their blessing heartily. Rider Haggard's remarks were devoted chiefly to the financial outlook for the "Garden City," which he found favorable, but Mr. Whltelng's text was the disbelief, which he said he found everywhere, that any good thing could be the result of creative effort. "People believe," Bald "The Yellow Van's" author, "that everything must grow, not only in a good historic sense, but In a sense that is neither good nor it must run a certain preappointed course of evil, a kind of hugger-mugger, in which Providence only does good by stealth." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is "standing" as a parliamentary candidate In the Conservative interest for Border Burghs, the Scotch constituency, Is beginning to have his troubles. His supporters, who include many Great articles and charming short stories make the March number of MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, "the best at any price" Thomas Nelson Page Sympathizes with (he South and knowswhat be is talking about, in the first of a threat series of articles on the Negro Problem CALEB POWERS POLITICAL MARTYR Samuel Hopkins Adams tells the incredible story of Caleb Powers, who now lies in a Louisville jail sentenced to death as an accomplice in the murder of Goebel overthrown by partizan politics.

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McCLURB COMPANY. 142 EAST 2Stb STREET. NEW YORK (OFFICIAL.) City Comptroller's Office St. Paul, February 16th, 1904. SEALED PROPOSALS Will be received at the office of the City Comptroller, by the Sinking Fund Committee until 12 o'clock noon, on March Ist, 1904, for the purchase of $75,000.00 of Refunding Bonds of the City of St.

Paul, Minnesota. These bonds are Issued pursuant to ordinance No. 2430, passed by the City Council and approved February 6th, 1904, authorized by Chapter 351 of the General Laws of the State of Minnesota, for the year 1899. approved April 20th, 1899. The proceeds of these bonds are to be used for taking up $75,000.00 of St.

Paul Bonds issued April Ist, 1879, for railroad aid, and become due April Ist, 1904. Bonds are in denomination of $1,000.00 each, with coupons attached, and dated April Ist, 1904, and run for thirty years, maturing March 31st, 1934. They bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, payable semlannually, interest and principal payable at the financial agency of St. Paul in New York city. Delivery of bonds will be made at the Comptroller's office of this City, where payment must be made by April Ist, 1904.

A certified check payable to the order of the City Treasurer of St. Paul for 2 per cent of the par value of the bonds bid for must accompany each bid that will be considered. Bids will be received for all or any part of the lot. These bonds may be exchanged at any time for registered bonds of any denomination. The Committee reserves the right to reject any and ail bids.

Proposals to be marked "Bids for Refunding Bonds," addressed to LOUIS BETZ, City Comptroller. prominent Ha wick tweed manufacturers, are Impressing him with dreadful tales of hard times and bankruptcy in the district, but the annual statement of the Hawick Savings bank. Just published, shows that the record of deposits for the last year was the largest Bince the institution's establishment. Which has inspired a Liberal newspaper to remark, rather cruelly, "Sir Conan may have a greater task to explain away this fact to the Hawlck electors than to explain away the death of Sherlock York Press. Snowslide Is His Death.

SANDUSKY, Ohio, Feb. Avery Henderson, well known in military circles former chairman of the Republican legislative committee of Ohio, a resident Of Sandusky, has been killed by a snowslide at Roosevelt. Idaho. A. H.

I uflL the The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature A 7 The Troubles of the Trust Ida M. Tarbell tells how the Standard Oil was accused of buying Payne's seat in the Senate. Mr. Rockefeller's reply was silence 7.