French Corset

THE SUNDAY CALL. HERE!

YOU

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MAKE

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FRENCH

CORSET

a9d U/itl7 a i||i§|l||i You <Sai) '5au ? 7T\o9ey.

collapse when the French corsrt hnd laid hold of them? Twfive or fifteen dollars is

cour.tcr willnot be able to tell you whether you prefer pink or blue. The ribbon is to be a double-faced satin, two inches wide. Be sure itIs heavy to avoid stretching out of shape. You willneed flve yards, at a* cents. Don't economize on your lacing cord, as a silk one costs only 25 cents, and the ribTen cents' bon demands good findings.

worth of whalebones

Is enough

lap the top and

over the

"Tape," you say. No, not tape, by any means; but satin ribbon, the best on the market. Tou may have ~uch a corset ss Van Ness avenue is- paying twelve or more dollars for. and at such a price as makes you think that something Is wrorp. But Just try and see. Come back on your

ewn daftness for damages if,after reading these directions, you can't produce a. corset that any tailor In town willbe willing to fit your next suit over. First of all. make up your mind before you start out to shop what color you want your corset to be. The girl at the ribbon

Total The chances

Your

length.

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Itlvely in the way of prolonging human life— the most valued, the only' thing of

real worth In the who!e of our possessions. In a

negative

way science

has

done

something, for it has conquered diseases

which interfered with life, but for the normal body, healthy to begin with, fortunate and without accident or disease, fcience can do nothing, and is powerless to arrest Its steady inarch to the grave. f It is well known that the' body has

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the power of renewing Itself; that every seven years each one of its molecules Is replaced

At this stage

you are

are too long, file them Eleven Inches is the required

by

a new one.

Thus

there Is

other Inhabitants of the tea. as far ub Is known, have no time limit set upon their lives, but live and grow until from v*ry bulk they become fco unwieldy -that they surpass all of their, prey In slzo

much that it can their clumsy motions.'

bo

dodge and escape

Then, weakened from lack of substance, they In turn ar« attacked by smaller but more vigorous

lapping

of the manufacture

the

whalebones over edges.

apart, and cut the down to flt. Insert and. turn

*The back or 10 la divided Into four parts. Be' sure and leave the second space from the back vacant. This must be used for the eyelets. The finishing' touch is ready. Make what is left of your ribbon into the most

chic bow that you know how to make and catch it In a Frenchy, flyaway fash-

ion in front. . If you have any friend In the millinery business get her to make the bow, for bowmaking Is an art that few amateurs ever master. Ifyou must have more frllla and fur-

belows, a yard of lace and baby ribbon may be stitched at the top of the corset. Liace at 40 cent* will do very well and

still keep below the three dollar mark. This corset will flt any waist from twenty to twenty-six inches. IfItshould prove

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Cut ribbon to same length in half and cover the steel3, the corded edges Infront.

Overcast as

most

strongly with buttonhole twist, of the Strain comes on the steel.

The eleven-Inch strip is numbered 1. Next cut out numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5. Cut two of each Inorder to save time, as both Bides are exactly alike. Baste them upon 1in order. If there is any extra length

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disturbance. Shut off the steam, stop the electric current, and the engine and

dynamo are both "dead." No more dead, though/ than ; they were before- In

reality—merely that the energy has departed. So in the human body It is the unseen energy which has the, real strength and does the work.

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In the coarser cells of the Batrachoseps the working of this force may be studied.

.'The engine itself ; has no power. The Its true nature discovered, and In time It steam in the' boiler Is Invisible. Ifa stir- may be brought under control as steam ring rod is . introduced through a pack- and electricity have .been.

may bo preserved.

But our bodies that have earned us., all we have— the only home of our soul .on

Little Hiss Peary Was Born Farther North Than

earth-rwe leave them.^ to . be preyed upon by weather and time, and seem to take delight in-" torturing our-corporeal frames with clothes Jkii&t Incommode and hinder, with foods that poison, or; at best 'half;

with"drinks that lnwith numbing narcotics enemies and destroyed. that short circuit the nerves, waste their Science ha* taught u« to feed ourselves precious life currents and wear out the for mu&cular strength, for warmth pro- human dynamo. --Nature Is indeed kind ducing, for brain work, but for life pro- to us to" permit alf this and stlll^ work ducing there has -been found no food, be- faithfully trying to repair the damage; . cause we do not know what life Is. but she does take a. little satisfaction in It Is a notable fact that migratory ani- giving uk twinges of pain as a:reproof.

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¦"According to these 'recent discoveries it la the 'potency of this life spirit that moves. our bodies and enables us to perform our^ labor; that the. muscles are , mere inert and powerless tools, Incapable of movement, in themselves except as " '. nToyr^ ¦•*;v this "subtle fluid.- which is lnVvislble and intangible. To illustrate this .the steam engine is taken as an example.

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Any Other; White Child in the World. t?

corrupt;.

and flamo and rasp,

nourish

otAer mental forces, has ing box. It can be freely moved about la opened paths which may lead to results the vapor. According, then, to in regard to our knowledge of the won- bothinvisible sight and feeling, there, la nothing: derful lite principle within us that willbe there In the boiler. Yet this tmfeelable. " accounted .the most marvelous accom- invisible something that we call steam, plishment of all. time. can move the lifeless parts of the engine What adds more interest to the search, w/vh " a. power which ;will overcome all popular, as far as the mind is concerned, earthly resistance, crushing rocks and is the fact that the life principle Is now scaling mountains. A yet more Intangible supposed by the t most advanced scienforce is the electric current 'which enertists to be a ponderable agent— a thing gizes the dynamo, doing Its work when having a concrete, existence capable of properly adjusted and controlled without being ", measured . and possibly controlled. noise, heat or any form of atmospherlo • hypnotism and

ever seen one suffering from the feebleness of senility. In fact, they appear to have no death except that of accidental or Intentional violence.. 5 r, Life, the dearest of all of our possessions. Is, for some unaccountable reason, the least prized. A man willalways risk his life to save his hat and court apo-' plexy to -recover a collar button. With certain death staring us all in the face, who is there that gives any. time to the care of his body with the object of preserving its life and usefulness? paint our houses, cover our guns with rust preventive, varnish the pictures. sheath our 'ships '. with copper.' and tar their rigging— all. to the end that their

reason why an old body should not be £s good as new. Sharks and some Inanimate substance no

the

front steels are the only stiff part of the too large, number 6 may be trimmed off. garment. Stitch the sides or number 6 "Who says we can't copy Paris fashions into five whalebone slips, about three- upon our home sewing machines?

Professor Le Brae of Antwerp Will Come to Cal5=fore la to Solve '.the Flystery of Life.. Continued from Page 3.

2 and 5 fourths of a- Inch

makes

ripping.

ready to begin. If your steels

down.

This

7 and 9 over 8. -Now you are ready to use the last and third large piece, or number 10. Fit the, pieces upon 10 as they were fitted upon 6. The fullness, which is made by the small pieces," form3 the necessary fullness to flt over the hips. After the side is well basted together stitch on the machine. '.This must be done or else you willbe forever in a state of

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Get it out and

pieces or

the side back. Baste 7, S and 9 to side. part 6.

$2 35 X are you have sewing silk

in the house.

ones.

of this kind, as they are doubled to gain extra strength. Put together In the same way as you did the front pieces, number 6 lapping over 4 and 2 over 3. There are only three pieces that form

need not be bought; take them from nothing to sper.d for that Lit of steel aii'j Romn old corset, in which they have ribbon and lace. And ifyou are one whose grown to fit you. Eyelets will have to be purse flattens faster than itfillst then you punched, at the cost of 23 cents. A leather have seen the time when the cost of a dealer will do the work neatly. Now corset left you hatless or bootless or then, IfJohn Insists upon seeing an itemEO-.-nJess. All because you must have the ized account, ought this to shock him? $175 perfect Parisian outline. Five yards ribbon at 33 cents silk lace ~. 25 Of course, you must. Who blames you? One ; "Whalebones 10 for the price of $2 35 and an afternoon's labor?

bottom

center

proper curves at the bottom. The side piece or 6 comes next. Cut four

stf els

But did you know that you can have it For punching eyelets

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¦jfte perfect as % (Jei?uii^e pari5iai7 Bit of

pollou// jfye^e Dir^etiops

Is not writtpn for the woman of dross reform. It has no interest for i her who prefers to wear a ;»otato Back gathered about the neck. For it's all about that bewitching little pickpocket, the French corset, and how to koop your money out of its hands. You non-reformers who listen, how many times have you seen your purses

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the answer, and remember that each mis- cmlnence, ;Is confronted: by.half a dozen doing will snap brie of the 'little fibers of' higher, and •more distant which were :all the none-too-sturdy thread of life."I." unsuspected .before. Until the study of these large-celled liseSo little, » in:fact. :Is known, of :life that ards was commenced; it-had seemed as itr is, not possible to even 5 Intelligently, though the search for tho essence of life,. theorize upon it.. -\" '• ',, Its nature or origin, was hopeless. : ¦"¦ ItIs difficult to conceive how. little we I ' more the" subject was '• Investigated know,', for t so much has been" discovered farther away it Beemed. as' difficulties] recently that it seems as though"' science mals, and particularly, birds which rpend Do not blame your luck, then, when some- arose not singly but in' ever-broadening had; every thing; In';its grasp, yet '¦ the "very their summers in the north and winters thing hurts you, but say, rather, "What vistas, plied on' each other as 'mountains,, simple ;question of.whether ,the 'earth is a south, give, seem never In the to evidences have I done to bring on this deserved range upon range, -where the .^traveler, i: molten globule with, a thin; crust ;on lit, d old a»c, and certainly no person bu punishment?" Think and you will find as ho accomplishes' the ascent of each or a solid suhere of moderate coolness, ia

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ITTLE Marie Aknighito Peary, daughter of the famous explorer,

not seen her since she was 11 months old. An Eskimo named Keshu was the first

:yet

, 'unsettled. .When such very plain and otherywbite^child in the world, dur-^ Marle In her arms. He recognized the problems as this are yet to be Ing one of her.father s expeditions to nnd\c hild at once, notwithstanding the chango pole.' Her: birthday occurred on Sep. that a few years had made in her appearsolved. It Is , no wonder, that the impon- the ternber 12, 1S93, at Anniversary Lodge, ance, and • he.danced "about her so vigorderable agency 'we. call, life,Is 'still In an then Lieutenant' Peary's In ously in his excess of delight and kept up - headquarters ,;, Greenland. such a succession of shouts that Marie at unknown .realm •;' awaiting the 'i coming of Northern • Twice since Marie has visited the coun- nrst was somewhat alarmed. But perhaps some pioneer discoverer. try of her birth.-once In'the'summer of memories. Ion:; forgotten.-came back to

;material,

'With -next' spring.' when the Belgian scientist arrives ;here, will¦" begin the 'most

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1&97 and once again this year. It was on July 20 last that-Marie; and her: mother sailed from, St. Johns. N.F.,' on the

her and soothed her feara. Keshu was quickly followed by all the

inhabitants of Cape York who were abla to jump along the ice, and .they gathered In a ring around" Marie, their faces shinprincipally ing is with her In years But-it. visit with pleasure and all ejaculating In cent*; In chemistry of vegetable and - that:these few .lines are» concerned, chorus. "Na, na. nana. nana!" which Is an animal ,substances, in electricity of ;the 1897 great was a signal Her arrival the of eel- Eskimo greeting of welcome and expresrarer forms, and particularly in teleDathy. ebration among the Eskimos, who bad slve of great delight.—Ledger Monthly. .

Important: experiments: In;biology that stanch ship the Windward.to join Lieujbeen!'' made. ,.The -work ; / of re- tenant Peary in the frozen north. ¦

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