Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 23, 1892
TO-DAY.
Be swift to love your own, dears,
Your own who need you so ;
Say to the speeding hours, dears,
“I will not let him go
Except thou give a tlessing;”
Force it to bide and stay.
Love has no sure to-morrow ;
It only has to day
Oh, hasten to be kind, dears,
Before the time shall come
When youjare left behind, dears,
In a lonely home ;
Before in late contrition
Vainly you weep and pray,
Love has no sure to-morrow ;
It only has to-day.
Swifter than sun shade, dears
Move the fleet wings ot pain;
The chance we have had to-day, dears,
May never come again.
Joy is a fickle rover,
He brooketh no delay.
Love has no sure to-morrow ;
Ithas only to-day.
To late to plead or grieve, dears,
Too late to grieve or sigh,
When death has set his seal, dears,
On the cold lip and eye.
Too late our gifts to lavish
Upon the burial clay ;
Life has no'sure to-morrow;
It only has to-day.
THE STORY OF PEARY’S TRIP TO
GREENLAND.
St. Joun’s, N. F., Sept. 11.—The
steam whaler Kite, Richard Pike mas-
ter, arrived here at 4.30 this afternoon
having on board the following members,
of the Pearce and Peary relief expedi-
tions: Lieut. and Mre. R. E. Peary,
Langdon Gibson, E. Astdup, Dr.. F.
A. Cook and Mat Henson of the Peary
expedition and Prof. Angelo Helliprin,
Henry G. Bryant, Dr. J. M. Mills,
William E. Meehaa, Samuel Entrikin,
Albert W. Vorse, Frank Stokes and C.
E. Hite, of the relief expedition.
All hands are in perfect health. One
member of the Peary party, J.
Verhooef, who conducted the meteorol-
ogical observations at the winter quar:
ters on McCormick Bay, is missing.
The Kite left McCormick Bay on the
24th ult., and Disco on the first of this
month. Much pack ice was encoun-
tered in the passage of Melville Bay
and the North Water. That uecessita-
ted a broad detour about Cape York,
and it was only on the evening of the
third day that the ship finally entered
the open sea.
A halt of two days was made at God-
havn (Disco Island), and also at God-
thaab, the capital of the southern in-
spectorate of Greenland, and the point
where Nansen emerged after his trav-
erse from the east coast. Fine weath-
er prevailed during the most of the re-
turn journey.
Both expeditions bring back a rich
harvest of facts and collections.
NO SPECIAL HARDSHIPS EXPERIENCED.
No special hardships were experi-
enced by the Peary party during last
winter, although several members were
afflicted with the gripe. At the time
of the arrival of the Kite the sturdy
band were still well provided with fuel
and provisions, the latter sufficient to
last for another three or four months.
No effects of the siege are observable
on Mrs. Peary, who battled through
the dreary winter days with the full
energy of the male members of the ex-
pedition.
The lowest temperature recorded dur-
ing the winter was minus 53 degrees,
or 19 degrees above the lowest that has
heretofore been registered. The sun
sank below the horizon early in No-
vember, appearing again on Feb. 15.
Two reconnoisance excursions on the
inland ice were made in the early au-
tumn by Gibson, Astrup and Verhooef,
preliminary to locating a point of de
parture for the main journey and of es-
tablishing a base at the inner angle of
the Humboldt glacier. A penetration
of only thirty miles was accomplished,
however.
A REMARKABLE GEOGRAPHICAL EFFORT.
The main traverse of the inland ice,
which must be regarded as one of the
most remarkable efforts in the whole
domain of geographical exploration,
was effected during the months of May,
June, July and August of the present
year. The attacking party consisted of
Gibson and Cook, as auxiliaries at the
Humboldt glacier, and of Lieut. Peary
and Astrup for the journey furthest
north. A sledge journey of upward of
one thousand four hundred miles was
accomplished with the result of deter-
mining the northern boundaries of the
mainland mass of Greenland. The
route originally laid out by Liéut.
Peary, passing the Humboldt glacier
and Petermann Peak, and Sherard, Os-
born and Edwards was adhered to as
closely as circumstances would permit,
and but few departures from the plan
of traveling as first conceived were ne-
cessitated,
The starting point was the east end
of McCormick Bay, over whose gran-
ite cliffs the transportation of the nec-
essaries for the journey was begun on
May 1. The ice cape at this point de-
scends to about 1,800 feet. Much as-
sistance to the transportation was
afforded by the native Esquimaux, a
colony of whom had established them-
selves during the winter months about
the Red Ciiff House, the Peary winter
quarters.
On the eighth of May the final start
was begun. Four sledges and twenty
Whale Sound dogs were pressed into
seryice for carrying supplies and equip
meni, the members of the expedition
walking, The depression of the Hum-
‘boldt glacier was reached on the twen-
ty-first of the month. A few days after
this the expedition divided, Cook and
" Gibson, who had effected their purpose
as a support, returning to McCormick
Bay, while Lieut. Peary and Astrup,
with thirteen dogs and three siedges,
laid a course northeastward.
UNBROKEN EXPANSE OF ICE.
During their traverse of nearly three
months over the most unhospitable re-
gion of the earth’s surface no mishap
of any kind was experienced. With!
pemmican, pea soup, beans and biscuits !
as their sole provisions and with no
tent to harbor them from the wind’s
blasts off the icy interior the members
of the party knew not an hour of illness
nor did a companionship of two serve
to dampen their ardor.
Most of the journey was made oyer
an unbroken expanse of ice and snow
which rising in gentle sweeps and un-
dulations, attained an elevation of 7,000
to 8,000 feet, falling off to the four
points of the compass. Travel over
this surface was much as Lieut, Peary
had anticipated, easy and devoid of
danger. From fifteen to twenty miles
were traversed daily and an average of
nearly thirty miles daring the last ten
days of the journey.
No traces of human life presented
themselves during the entire journey,
and scarcely a vestige of animals ex-
cepting snow buntings at or about the
Humboldt Glacier and sea-gulls, which
flitted across the narrow north. A
number of musk oxen were observed
and procured beyond the eightieth par-
allel
In boldness of conception and execa-
tion, in results obtained, and in the
scantiness of the resources with which
to attain the results, the Pearv-Astrup
journey stands almost unparalelled in
the annals of Arctic discovery and out-
ranks the brilliant achievement of
Nodson in his first crossing of Green-
land. The expedition fully establishes
the soundness of the views Lieut. Peary
had for years advocated regarding the
art of travel over the inland ice, and
will doubtless tend to revolutionize the
methods of Arctic exploration.
GREAT RESULTS FROM SLENDER RESOURC-
No previous expedition has operated
on, even approximately, the slender fi-
nancial basis of this one, and none has
been more fortunate or successful in
the attainment of its object. The expe-
dition adhered almost rigidly to the
lines prescribed for it, while perhaps
its most remarkable feat was the finish
on schedule time,
At the time of its departure from
McCormick Bay the first week in Au-
gust had been fixed upon as the limit
of probable return, when the exigencies
of the position demanded an almost
immediate retreat southward. Antici-
pating this return, the steam-whaler
Kite, of the relief expedition of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila-
delphia, with Mrs. Peary on board,
was pushed to the bead of McCormick
Bay on August 4, a few days after the
disappearance of the ice permitted a
free entrance.
On the following day a reconnois-
sance of the inland ice, with a view of
locating signal posts to the returning
explorers, was made by the entire re-
lief party, uader the direction of Prof.
Helliprin. The soft condition of the
snow made travelling exceedingly slow
and exhausting. At times almost every
step buried the members of the party
up to the knees or waist. The hard
crust of winter had completely disap-
peared and not even the comparatively
cool sun of midnight was sufficient to
bring about a degree of compactness
adequate to sustain the weight of a hu-
man body. No crevasses of any mag-
nitude were encountered.
The first signal-post, with a banner
hearing the direction to McCormick
Bay, was erected at 9.30 in the evening
at an elevation of some three thousand
three hundred feet and approximately
eight miles within the border of the in-
land ice. The course followed was as
nearly as possible that over which it
was assumed Lieut. Peary would re-
turn, and was arranged on the compass
course of the outward journey:
LIEUT. PEARY RECOGNIZED.
All around was one boundless ice-
field, stretching to the limits of vision,
with occasional mountain peaks, or
nunataks, rearing their heads, bare and
craggy, from the surface.
A second signal-post was located on
a knoll of 4,000 feet elevation at a dis-
tance of about three miles from the
first.
Once more the the expedition plunged
and burrowed in the yielding ice, slow-
ly creeping to its objective point. Be-
fore this was attained, however, a black
speck appeared over precisely the spot
that was being aimed at.
“It is a mao. It is a moving,” rang
through the cold night air, and it was
immediately realized that the explor-
ers were victoriously returning home-
ward. :
An instant later a second speck joined
the first, and then a long black object,
which the field-glass resolved into a
sledge and dogs in harness, completed
the strange vision of life upon the
Greenland ice.
Cheers and hurrabs at intervals
broke the silenze of the untrodden soli-
tude, but the distance was as yet too
great for the sound to be conveyed to
the approaching wanderers.
Lieut. Peary had, however, already
detected the reliet party, and he hast-
ened to extend to them a hearty wel
come. Like a veritable giant, clad in
suits of deer and dog skin, and grace-
fully poised on Canadian snowshoes the
conquerer from the far north plunged
down the mountain slope. Behind him
followed his faithful companion, young
Astrup, barely more than a lad, yet a
tower of strength and endurance. He
bore, true to the traditions of his race
and his earlier conquests, in the use of
the Norwegian snow-gkate or ski, With
him were the five surviving Esquimau
dogs, seemingly as healthy and power-
ful as on the day of departure.
CONGRATULATIONS ALL AROUND. ;
In less than an hour after Lieut,
Peary was first sighted he extended his
hand to Prof. Helliprin and the other
members of his party, receiving in re-
turn general congratulations upon the
successful termination of his journey.
Neither of the travellers looked the
worse for their three months’ toil in
the interior, and both, with character-
istic modesty, disclaimed having over-
come more than ordinary hardships.
Fatigue seemed to be entirely out of the
question, aud both Peary and Astrup
looked as fresh and vigorous as though
they had just entered upon their great
journey.
After a brief recital of personal ex-
EE Te SOE A SAT EXE CRA What Hr aR a) le
periences and the interchange of Ameri-
can and Greenland news the members
of the combined expedition returned
seaward, and thus terminated a most
dramatic incident. A more direct meet-
ing than this one on the bleak wilder-
ness of Greenland’s ice cap could not
have been had, even with all the possi-
bilities of prearrangement.
At 4.30 o’clock in the morning of
Aug. 6, Lieut. Peary met his devoted
and courageous wife. On the following
day, in the wake of a storm which
grounded the good rescue ship and for
a time threatened more serious compli-
cations, the Kite triumphantly steamed
down to the Pearv winter quarters at
the Red Cliff house.
In the long traverse of 1,200. miles,
was accomplished entirely on foot,
Lieut. Peary experienced little or no
discomfort from the fracture of the leg
which he sustained while still on board
the Kite in July of last year. Thanks
to the care of his attending surgeon, Dr.
Cook, and to an iron constitution early
recovery was assured, and before the
close of September the crutches had
been finally thrown aside. No displace-
ment in the injured limb is apparent.
LOSS OF MR. VERHQOEF.
The winter months in camp were
passed in preparation for the spring
journey in local excursions and in eth-
nological investigations. The ethnol-
ogical observations are specially signif-
icant.
A complete survey of Ingelfield Gulf,
necessitating a sledge jouruey of up-
ward of 200 miles, was made in April
of the present year and was participa:
ted in by Mrs. Peary, to whom the ex-
pedition owes much for the compara-
tive comforts which relieved the drear-
iness of the long winter nights.
But for the loss of Mr, Verhooef, the
expedition of 1891-92 may be said to
have escaped all the mishaps that have
attended most Arctic venturers. The
accident occurred a few days after Lieut.
Peary’s return from the inland ice, and
pending preparations for the final de-
parture. Verhooef wandered off on
one of his mineralogical walks beyond
the region known to him and was pre-
cipitated into one of the numerous gla-
cial sheets which abound in the region.
He was last seen on the morning of
Aug. 11, when he stated his intention
of visiting the neighboring Esquiman
settlement of Kukan and a mineral io-
cality well known to him,
PEARY AND RYDER IN GREENLAND.
Failing to appear at an early day
fears were entertained for his safety
and a systematic search was instituted
by the members of the Peary and Helli-
pin parties, assisted by nine Esquimaux
and several of the ship's crew.
The search was extended almost un-
remittingly through seven days and
nights over mountain, ice and glacier
and with a thoroughness that left no
large area of country accessible to the
departed uncovered.
No traces of the miseing man were
discovered until early on the sixth day,
when cblitered footprints, a few rock
specimens placed on a boulder and bits
of paper from a meat-tin label plainly
indicated that days before a passage
had been attempted over the danger-
ously crevassed portion of a huge gla-
cier discharging into the eastern ex-
iremity of a bay lying immediately
north of McCormick Bay.
END OF THE SEARCH.
A thorough survey of this glacier
and of the approaches to it was made
during three days, but only with a neg-
ative result. While easily traversed
in its upper course, the lower portion of
the ice-sheet pretents an impassable
barrier of crevasses and hummocks
studded with treacherous snow bridges
and deep holes, and it is all but certain
that the unfortunate man met his fate
here.
Under this covniction and recognizing
the futility of further search, the expe-
dition sorrowfully returned to McCor-
mick Bay, arriving there shortly after
midnight of the 23d.
Mr. Verhooef, whose near relatives
appear to be a brother and sister, was
about twenty-five years old, a former
student of Yale College and latterly a
resident of Louisville, Ky. He was
much interested in mineralogical and
statistical studies, his close application
to detail making him a valuable assist-
ant. He was intrusted with the me-
teorological and tidal work during
Lieut. Peary’s absence on the inland
ice. The observations made by him
are considered to be of unusual value.
The ethnological work of the expe-
dition is probably more complete than
any that has heretofore been conduec-
ted in the far north. The exceptional
facilities afforded through long associa-
tion with the natives and their employ-
ment in all the various capacities which
a housebold graced by the presence of
a white woman demanded, give the re-
searches in this department especial
significance.
CENSUS OF THE HIGHLANDERS.
A complete census of all the Arctic
Highlanders or Esquimaux, living
north of the ice barrier of Melville Bay,
with the names and relationships of
the different individuals, was taken
together with the photographs of more
than one-half of the entire population.
The enumeration gives a total of less
than 250 souls. This most isolated
tribe lives in a simplicity of existence
which finds po parallel.” The gifts of
charity, which the generosity of Phila-
delphia has supplied, consisting of all
manner of articles useful in construc-
tion and the necessaries of the chase.
may alter this condition of life, which
is more ancient than apy on the Amer-
ican coutinent.
The scientific collections made dar-
ing the present summer by the relief
expedition are very extensive in all de-
partments touched by it. Especially
fortunate were the dredgings made in
McCormick Bay, where a number of
exceedingly rare forms ot animal life
were discovered.
Several blocks of the famous meteor-
ic stone of Ovifak, aggregating more !
thar two hundred pounds, were secured |
through the assistance of the Esqui- :
maux,
The members of the party enjoyed
good health during the entire journey,
which was accomplished without mis-
haps of any kind. Every assistance to
their work was given by Capt. Pike
and the members of his crew.
Lieut. Robert E. Peary and his com-
panions sailed on the Kite from the
foot of Warren street, Brooklyn, on
June 6, 1891. Besides Mrs. Peary,
who was the first white woman to brave
the rigors of Greenland, were the crew
and the members of the North Green-
land Exploring Expedition of the Acad-
emy of Natural Sciences. The crew
consisted of Chief mate, Edward Tracy ;
Boatswain, Patrick Dunlap ; Chief En-
gineer, William Jardine ; Second Engi-
neer, Alexander McKinley ; Steward,
Patrick Welsh ; Cook, Thomas Pepper;
Firemen—Audrew Roost, Edward Cook
John Cunningham, Thomas Collins,
John Cummings, John Verge and Tim-
othy Looney.
On June 12 the Kite left Sydney,
Cape Breton, and arrived at the Straits
of Belle Isle on the 15th. There the
first ice was encountered, and the Kite
collided with a large ice flow during
the fog. When the fog cleared the ex-
plorers saw the whole straits filled with
one mass of ice and they retreated.
Repeated attempts were subsequently
made to effect an opening, and on the
19th they cleared and headed for the
Island of Disco. Ou the morning of
June 23 land was sighted—Cape Deso-
lation, Disco was reached three days
later.
Lieut. Peary met his first disappoint-
ment at Godhaven in not being able to
secure either dogs, guides or skin cloth-
ing, all of which were absolutely nec-
essary to the success of the undertak-
ing. After three days the party left
and arrived at Upernavik on July 1,
where the same difficulty presented its-
elf. The next day they entered the ice
of Melville’s Bay. On the 11th Lieut.
Peary had his leg broken.
It was while butting the ice on July
11, about 8.30 r. M., that Lieut. Peary
stood back of the wheelhouse. A large
cake of ice struck the rudder with great
force, whirled over the iron tiller, and
jammed his leg between it and the
wheelhouse, breaking both bones about
six inches above the ankle, He was
carefully carried below into the cabin,
where a bed was made for him on the
afler transom. Iis own surgeon, as
well as that of the scientific party, ren-
dered all possible aid, but could not
grant his request to transfer the frac-
tare in the leg to the arm. This was a
sad accident, and one which cast a
gloom over the whole ship. Although
Mrs. Peary must have felt the blow
most keer ly, she bore up under it with
warvelous courage. Her constant at-
tention and care greatly helped to keep
up her husband's courage, who, al-
though looking at it in the most favor-
able light, must have seen what a seri-
ous drawback it would be tothe final
success of his expeditions.
It was on July 27 when the West
Greenland expedition, composed of so-
cialists under Prof. Helliprin, from the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sei-
ences, bade adieu to the brave seven of
the North Greenland expedition, as
Lieut. Peary’s party was called. They
came back on the steamer Kite. The
place where Peary was left is on the
south shore of McCormick's Bay, about
seven hundred miles from the North
Pole. McCormick's Bay ison the west
shore of Greenland, about five hundred
miles north of Upernavik, which is the
nearest settlemeat to which the term
civilization can be applied. On the
rock shore, looking westward, just at
the foot of the hills that slope toward
the high land of the interior of Green-
land, the foundation for their winter
quarters was laid on July 25 and the
work was finished July 27, and then
the Lieutenant was carried out of the
Kite on a litter, owing to the condition
of his broken leg, and placed on shore
with his companions.
When the Kite steamed away and
the gray shores of McCormick's Bay
faded out of sight, it became the settled
conviction of the Helliprin party that,
as one of them wrote in his diary of
July 30, “unless a relief expedition be
sent to Lieut. Peary next summer he
and his party will never be seen again
alive,” When fthe Helliprin party
reached Philadelphia on Sept. 4 they
still felt that a relief expedition was a
necessity.
The Kite was left at St. John’s, N.
F. Oo June 27 last the relief party
which the Philadelphia Academy had
decided to send left Brooklyn on the
steamship Miranda, of the Red Cross
line. The Miranda left Robinson’s
stores, at the foot of Warren street,
about 4 ». Mm. The Arctic relief party
was headed by Prof. Angelo Helliprin.
The others were Dr. Henry G. Bryant,
member of the Philadelphia Academy;
V. W. Stokes, sketching artist ; Dr.
Jackson M. Mills, surgeon ; Albert W.
Vorse ; William E, Meehan, botanists ;
C. E. Hite, taxidermist; Samuel J. En-
triken and Capt. Richard Pike, the
“ice-master,” who was a member of the
Greeley expedition of 1881.
Provisions were taken on the Miran-
da to last until the party reached Me-
Cormick’s Bay, besides a vast quanti-
ty of stores for use in the Arctic regions.
Every member of the party was san-
guine of finding Lieut. Peary. They
signed an agreement, which wag shown
before the Miranda sailed, and which
read as follows:
“We shall make our first stop at
Godhavn, Disco,” said Dr, Bryant, just
betore sailing. “There we shall meet
the inspector of North Greenland. We
ought to make that place in about ten
days from St. John’s. As the reports
that have reached us say that the ice
is late in breaking up this year it may
take us longer to get there,”
From Disco, Dr. Bryant said, the
party would go to Upernavik. They
would then strike Melville Bay, which
is the most dreaded, Dr. Bryant said,
of all the Arctic waters, because of the
floating ice this season. North of Cape
York, at McCormick Bay, was the
camping ground of the Peary party.
Dr. Bryant said that should it be found
WEAR LL le
that Lieut. Peary and his party were
not there, a large quantity of provisions
would be landed. Should the condi-
tions prove favorable, it was the «inten-
tion of the scientists to examine Hum-
boldi Glacier and to obtain as many
specimens as might be had of Arctic
life for the Academy of Natural Scien-
ces.
The Miravda lauded the party in St.
John's just before the great fire. The
whaling steamer Kite had been thor-
oughly overhauled in dry dock, and
was found in excellent condition. The
relief ship was commanded by Capt.
Edward Murphy, first officer; Patrick
Dumphy, second officer; Alexander
McKinley, chief engineer ; John Pens-
bon, second engineer ; Lawrence Hack-
ett, chief steward ; Bernard Wall, sec-
ond steward ; Alexander Lindsay, cook;
John Cunningham, Andrew Roost and
Edward Croke, firemen, and Thomas
Hayes, John Geary, Richard Fleming
and Daniel McDonnell, seamen. The
Kite was fully provisioned for eighteen
months, besides having on board twelve
months’ provisions for the Peary par-
ty.
The relief party expected to sail from
St. John’s on July 4, but we were de-
layed until the following day, caused
by the transfer of apparatus and goods
which were carried as presents to the
Eskimos.
Tach member of the relief expedition
signed an agreement on June 8 by
which they pledged themselves to be-
come members of the expedition fitted
out under the auspices of the Academy
of National Sciences at Philadelphia,
the leadership of which was delegated
to Prof. Angelo Helliprin, They indi-
vidually and collectively promised,
“upon their solemn honor,” to faithful-
ly observe, fulfil and carry out each
and every stipulation. It was agreed
that in the event of the loss or disabil-
ity of Prof. Hellprin that the same ob-
ligations should be extended to the
second in command, Henry G. Bryant.
All materials and specimens secured
it was agreed should be deposited with
the Academy of Natural Sciences.
The publication of scientific matter
pertaining to the expedition is to be the
exclusive property of the Academy.
Members of the party also stipula-
ted that from the time they left Phila-
delphia until five days after their return
they would not furnish any matter for
publication without the consent of the
leader of the party.
While they recognize the fact that
spirituous liquors may be a necessity
during the voyage, they pledge them-
selves not to indulge in the same to ex-
cess.
——David Bruce, the inventor of the
type-making machine, died in Brook-
lyn on Tuesday night. Mr. Bruce was
in the ninety-first year of his age and
had been in failing Lealth since he ‘re-
ceived a stroke of paralysis in July.
He was a New Yorker by birth, and
of Scotch parentage. His father, whose
name he bore was a printer by trade,
and in 1815 started a pressroom in’
New York. Young David on leaving
school began business with his father,
continuing with him several years,
They issued the first copy of the Bible
printed in this country, Mr. Broce
reading the proofsheets. In those ear-
ly days type was made by hand and
Mr. Bruce conceived the idea that the
work could be done more expeditiously
‘by machinery. While the young man
was carefully considering the idea that
had come to him his parents removed
to White Plains, N. J. In 1838, after
much patient work, young Bruce got
out various patents that covered a ma-
chine turned by hand, which would
turn out eighty or ninety types a min-
ute. Then he made an ifaprovement
and invented a type-casting machine
that could be worked by steam. Mr.
Bruce had always insisted that he was
defrauded out of the rights to the more
perfect machine, which, itis claimed,
18 used to day with some slight improve.
ment. Mr. Bruce started a type foun-
dry in Brooklyn forty years ago. He
later engaged in the die cntting busi
ness. Mr. Bruce was a devout believ-
er in Spiritualism.
He Has Nothing to be Proud of.
From the Walla-Walla, (Wash.) Statesman.
In an address before the Republican
league of Illinois, Mr. Reid said that
‘we need not turn our faces, even in
reminiscence, to the past.” Well he
may be anxious to place a veil over his
past. His past is not savory in the nos-
trils ot those who admire patriotism and
and that unselfishness that should char-
acterize a candidate for the vice-presi-
dency of these United States. When Mr.
Reid attempts to close his eyes and take
retrospective view, there is one word
that he cannot efface from his mental
vision, and one that makes life a horrid
nightmare to him, and that word is
“rats.”
EE IT
More Than He Could Stand.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
First Sweet Thing. ‘“Are you type-
writing for old Briefs any more ?”
Second S. T, “No He had some pa-
pers to make out about a ‘partition suit’
one day last week, and just because I
asked him if it was anything like a di-
vided skirt he got mad and fired me. I
don’t care, though; I'm going to get
warried just as soon as Willie gets his
salary raised, anyhow.
More Than One Kind.
An Englishman at the Hotel Athe-
num asked a bell boy to bring him
some good gum. A stick of the boy’s
tavoritz article was procured, the boy
assuring our English friend that it was
unsurpassed. To the bell boy's aston-
ishment, the purchaser began to rub a
piece of manuscript with the gum, Af-
ter 4 few seconds of vain rubbing he
asked how we use gum in America, It
took sume time to convince him that
in America an eraser is not “a gum.”
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i The World of Women.
“I have a family tree,” he plead,
| “To aid me in my suit,”
i “Perhaps you have,” the maiden said,
i “Bat I don’t like the fruit.”
{ Glycerinated water renders the skin
| soft, white and supple.
{ Hats, no matter how elegant, are not
| as effective for full dress as an elaborate
coiffure.
Use rain water for washing the face
when ever possible. It is excellent for
the complexion.
Rough, grater-like fingers may be
made smooth and white by rubbing dai-
ly with a lemon slice.
Guipure lace berthas looped high
above full pufled sleeves are much in
vogue for young matrons.
‘When using a towel do not always
rub the face in the same direction.
You will thus avoid wrinkles.
Miss Jean Loughborough planned the
Arkansas building for the World’s Fair
and superintended its construction.
The most simple dresses are decorated
with wide ribbon sashes, which cross at
at the back and form a large butterfly
bow with long erds.
Above all things give the face
daily several hours of absolute repose,
in which the features may have a much
needed freedom from expression.
Bangs and trains must go. This edict
has been issued by the fashion aristo-
crats of Europe, and lovely woman,
“who stoops to conquer,” must govern
herself accordingly.
Long sprays of holly, wild roses and
other blooms placed on a black velvet or
satin ribbon are worn across the front
of the bodice, being arranged from the
right shoulder to the left hip.
In equatorial Africa a wife can be
bought for ten bundles of hair pins.
This is the reason why wives of African
explorers will never permit their hus-
bands to smuggle any hair pins into
their luggage.
Box pleats appear upon some of the
newest mode in dress skirts. Some of
the pleats show at the back only, others
in {front and on still others they form a
Watteau fold that reaches from the
neck to the hem in the back.
Beef-eater crowns are again fashion-
able, with either flat or rolled brims;
and, like the long popular English
walking hats, are trimmed with a sim-
plicity which should characterize all
hats intended for utility purposes.
The question of pockets in the tightiy
fitting skirts of the day is being solved
by making them at the side exactly
like a man’s trousers’ pocket. These
proksts should come just in front of the
ips so that they do not gape open, and
there should be one on each side.
The beautiful and daring young wife
of Lieutenant Peary, who braved the
rigors and perils of a winter in the Arc.
tic regions, and the civilized woman
.who has been nearer the North Pole
than has any other of her sex and cul-
ture, is said to be only about 23 years of
age.
you want a Frenchy dancing robe
set right to work, girls, to get together
something that is inky from top to toe.
A guazy, diaphanous tissue, dead black,
with a long, pointed waist, black gloves
fitting to a line, black fan spangled with
scintilating fire-flies, black shoes with
black silk hose and a tuft of jetted rib-
bon in the hair will create a costume
which stamps the wearer with an indi-
viduality not to be attained with ordin-
ary color combinations.
The correct art of serving an ice is
something to be acquired. At a green
luncheon given recently the ices were
served on porcelain leaves. Af each
place was a doily of fine linen cut to re-
present a leaf, with the design outlined
with green silk; resting “pa the doily
was the porcelain leaf. Kach leaf re-
presented the leaf of an American tree.
A piece of paper and pencil were given
to each guest during this course, and
the one who wrote the most correct list
of the different leaves represented receiv-
ed a prize.
Some new arrangements of ribbons
are on imported gowns, A large broad
bow of ribbon set on the chest, and
quite covering that part of the corsage
is a late Parisian fancy. From this bow
ribbons descend on each side of the waist
and are taken up in the back to form a
similar bow to that in front, put just be-
tween the shoulders, from which fall
long ends, making the Watteau effect.
Another dress has the ribbons from the
chest bow going down to a point at the
waist-line in the back, then knotted in
up-right loops. A third fancy is that
of making the ribbon outline a deep
apron, having a large square bow of
four loops tied almost at the foot of the
front breadth, each loop tacked to the
skirt to keep it well spread in shape.
The ribbon then curls up on each side
of the skirt to meet at the waist line in
the back, and drops thence in long sash
ends. Velvet ribbon, moire and satin
are used for these decorations, and it is
necessary that the ribbon be double
faced, as both sides are shown in differ-
ent parts of the trimming.
Anyone who has crossed the great
ocean and spent any time in London
has doubtless wondered why a white
straw bonnet and fur cape have been
deemed suitable for winter weather,
while the same capesand felt hat have
been donned when parasols and perspir-
ation ruled the hour. The only answer
that we could ever obtain was that fit
was so very English,” and that presum-
ably tha reason why our usually sensi-
ble maidens are making guys of them-
selves in donring a felt sailor hat that
is not at all in keeping with the fllmy
owns worn at this season, being usual-
B of a dull brown in color, stiff, broad-
brimmed and much more suggestive of
hard travel than daintiness.
It is made and finished like a man’s
Derby and is altogether too mannish
even fora tailor-made gown, yet it is
English and therefore will be worn, but
how the pretty girl who revels in her
fluffy bangs will ever reconcile herself
to this severe style is a mystery, as to be
entirely correct the hair must be plain-
ly drawn back from the fore-
head and braided into a round nest
of tiny braids covering the entire back
of the head, but in the rage to copy the
modes and manners of the subjects of
her gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,
how many dress and social atrocities are
committed, yet are not only forgiven
but extolled, because they are so very
English.