‘March 15, 1445 and
Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 28, 1892
How broad, how deep, how calm, how sweet
These dear October days!
The sky bends low the hills to greet,
And through the dreamy haze,
If heaven or earth I cannot see.
Nor solve the pleasing mystery,
Tis wonderful ? October's sun
Makes paradise of noon.
And night, with all her stars as one,
Pays homage to the moon.
The sun by day, the moon by night,
Stir every sense of sweet delight.
A RCS STATI,
THE HYMNS THAT MOTHER LOVED.
There's nothing like the old hymn tunes
That mother used to love ;
I kinder think she sings them now
Before the throne above.
They bring me back the country church,
With floor and. benches bare,
‘The country folk in Sunday clothes,
The preacher’s thin white hair.
The leader with his turning fork,
Who used to set the key ; :
He taught the village singing school,
A martinet was he.
And when he lined the verses out,
My, how the folks did sing !
You see those people felt it all ;
They made the rafters ring !
And then at home on Sunday night,
We had our fam’ly choir,
With father, mother, girls and boys,
Around the open fire;
And mother’d fold her busy hands
And kinder cloge her eyes,
And look as if she saw the light
Of mansions in the skies.
I’ve traveled far and wide since then,
And famous singers heard,
I've heard the great musicians play,
But nothing ever stirred.
My soul as do those old hymn tunes
The saints and martyrs knew ; ;
They sang them through the fire and blood,
And mother loved them too !
—Mrs. M. P. Hanay.
THE STORY OF COLUMBUS,
IN TWO PARTS—PARET I.
On the road from Granada to Alcala
del Real, in the beautiful valley of Mt.
Elvira in Spain, there stands to-day
the ruined abutments of an ancient
bridge. Its high, moss-grown and
crumbling approaches lift themselves
like fading memories of a mighty
past.
And well taey may; for on that
bridge, whose stoue floor echoed to the
tread of a triumphant Islamism ages
before the red towers of the Al
hambra passed into the posses
sion « of old Spain, was pre
sented four hundr:d years ago the
sublimest tableau that the world has
ever seen since the tragedy and the tri-
umph of the Son of Man marked the
climax of the world’s history. It was
toward the middle of an April after
noon four hundred years ago that a
man of austere but impressive coun-
tenance paused near the middle of the
massive structure to rest. He was at-
tired in the aud coarse habiliments ofa
Franciscan, was accompanied by his
son, a lad of a dozen years or so.
The historians of Castile and Leon
have left but little detail of this and
other memorable scenes in the life of
the later first* Admiral of the Indies;
but it was on this bridge of Pinos that
the tableau occurred. With unutter-
able weariness of heart, with despair
battling with his indomitable will, the
man halted for a brief space to rest the
boy. While waiting here a royal cou-
rier, mounted as modern painters have
depicted him. on a mule, rode across
the valley from thesouth and reaching’
the heart-sick traveler and his son,
commanded bim to return to the royal
court he had just abandcned, supple:
menting the command wiih the state-
ment that the Queen of Castile, Isabel
la the beautiful and Catholic, had
granted his prayers, and that an expe-
ditipa to discover the Indies had been
agreed upon.
A FATEFUL MOMENT.
That moment decided the fate ot
Christopher Columbus, the son of the
wool carder of Genoa, the itinerant
map-peddler of Portugal, and gave to
Castile and Leon a new world. That
decision ot Queen Isabella, that re-
tracing of his steps to Santa Fe on the
part of Christopher Columbus meant
more to Christendom and civilization
than any other eventin profane history
sincejthe tragedy of Golgotha. = It mat:
ters not what manner of man this Gen-
oese mariner was: it matters not
whether now. after a lapse of four cen-
turies, the Mother Church condones
the moral turpitude of the man and
may lift the stain of illegitimacy from
his'son by canouizing the father, the
one fact remains that viewed in the
light of the subsequent effect upon civ-
ilization and Christianity of his unswer-
ing purpose, Christopher Columbus
stands forth as the grandest figure in
all the ages since the coming of
Christ.
What does this New World which
he discovered know of Christopher
Columbus ? Just what the Old
World knows, and that is very little
and very unsatisfactory. There is not
even an authentic picture of the great
discover so far as is known. The
nearest approach to a genuine likeness
of the man was painted ten years after
his death and there is nothing to show
that this painting was from another
one, or that the artist was familiar
with the features of the navigator.
Even the birth place of Colambus has
been a matter of dispute of over three
centuries.
WHERE HE WAS BORN.
Modern research has finally agreed
that Christopher Columbus was born
in the City of Genoa some time between
March 20, 1447.
By common consent, through the pa-
tient researches of the Marquis Stag:
lienno, the house in which he was
|
Buteven this does not finally deter-
mine the parentage and place of birth
of the discoverer of the New Indies. The
father is said by some historians to
have been a simple carder of wool ; on
the other hand, the brother Bartholo-
mew, who shared in a measure the
latter fortunes and misfortunes of his
illustrious brother, states that his fath-
er’s family had been mariners on the
seas around about Italy. At all events,
Columbus'had three brothers and one
sister, the latter named Bianchimetta.
who married a cheesemonger named
Varrarello. His brothers were Giovo-
ni, who died in 1501, Bartholomew,
who sailed with Christopher, and
Diego. 3 :
The early life of Columbus is shroud-
ed inthe densest obscurity, In fact,
for a period of nearly 16 years his life,
so far as its known history is concern-
ed, is a blank. That he acquired an
excellent education for that period is
evinced by his excellent penmanship,
his freedom in composition and his
knowledge of cosmography and navi-
gation, More than this Christopher
Columbus was a close student of na-
ture, what would be called now a
weather prophet; and well did this
knowledge serve him in his subsequent
adventurous career. It is pretty safe
to assert that he obtained the rudi-
ments of his education in the schools
of Genoa, though afterward it is said
that he studied atthe University of
Pavia, where he was taught cosmogra-
phy astrology and geometry. This
university training is a matter of doubt
although there is still shown at Pavia
a drawing credited to Columbus.
At the age of 14 he returned to
Genoa and shortly after went to sea.
These years were full of adventure for
the youth of Continental Europe. The
ships of the Mediteranean were treas-
ure ladened, the Moors were gradually
being driven from Spain, neighboring
principalities were preying upon each
other, and piracy was a profession of
merit. The first we hear of Columbus
in his role as a moriner is in connee-
tion with an expedition fitted out in
Genoa by King John of Anjou against
the Neapolitans. This was about
1460, One of the fleet captains was
named Colombo, but no trace of kin-
ship can be made out between him and
the future discoverer of America,
Thirteen years now elapse in which
we lose all sight of the mariner Col-
umbus until in 1473 he appears in
Portugal as a peddler of maps he had
drawn with his expert pen. It is ap-
parent that during all these years Col-
umbus had been meditating great voy-
ages, had been dreaming of unknown
lands, and revolving in his mind the
then little accepted and heretical
theory of the sphericity of the earth.
THE MARRIAGE OF COLUMBUS.
While in Portugal, as always else-
where Columbus found his chief com-
paunionship among adventurous men
who had made famous sea voyages, or
else among the scientists of that day
who had given cosmography the clos-
est study. Oae of the former was
Bartholomew Palestralo, a navigator
under Priace Henry, of Portugal, and
it was the daughfer of this man whom
Columbus took to wife. In his inter-
course with his father-in-law he gained
much information that was of infinite
value to him, but these years ot his
life were embittered by the early death
of his wite, who left him with one son,
Diego, as the fruit of ther union, There
was a romantic side to the life of Col
umbus, although his biographers,
whether striving to make him out a
saint, a fanatic, or a conscieuceless ad-
venturer, seem to neglect it. He met
his wife at divine worship at the Con-
veat of all Saints. It seemed to be a
case of love at first sight ; for shortly
afterwards they were married, and so
far as history can tell us it wasa hap-
py though
match. “io
It was during Columbus’ residence
in Portugal that the revival of learning
began in Western Europe, stimulated”
by the invention of the printing press.
It wasabout thistime that the theories
of Toscanello, a Florentine scientist,
that the earth was a sphere began to
be more widely disseminated and at-
tracting the attention of Columbus the
latter opened a correspondence with
the aged philosopher, who at this time
was past 70 years of age. Whatever,
beliefs Columbus might have entertain-
ed of the rotundity of the earth they
were strengthened by his correspon-
dence with Toscanello. The latter,
despite his correct philosophical and
cosmographical belief, was a great
dreamer ; in fact, few scientists of that
age were entirely free from the errors
and visionary attributes of the pseudo
sciences of alchemy and astrology,
which were associated, almost insepar-
ably, with every other science.
Thus it was that Toscanello wrote
about wonderful islands, on the east
coast of the Indies; of a region where
the bridges of 200 towns of Asia span-
ned a single iver, and of countries
whose commerce would shame the
shipping and commercial interest of
all Europe.
THE COLUMBUS OF OBSCURITY.
It is not to be wondered that such
unfounded yet brilliant dreams should
further fire the heart of Columbus, al-
ready burning with a desire to achieve
great things. If anything were needed
to strengthen his belief in his own des-
tiny, to crystallize his purpose held
throngh many years. The letters of
the Florentine philosopher were des-
tined to accomplish that purpose. The
mind of Columbus was turned to the
indiea; no idea of ‘land lying in the
ocean between the western coast of
Europe and the eastegn shore of the
Indies seemed to enter his mind... He
doubtless anticipated finding a wonder-
tul island, the “Atlantis of Plato, but
his dream was to reach the eastern
shore of Cathay, as China was then
called, the East Indies Islands, princi-
born has ben idenified as No. 37 | pal among which was Cizango abound-
in the Vico Dritto Ponticello.
The | ing in ‘riches and which strangely
discovery was made by tracing back | enough'in the description of geogra.
the title to the property to one Domi
naco Columbus, who is supposed to be
the father ot Christopher.
phers of that day nearly corresponds
to the Japan of the present.
At this period Christopher Colum-
not an advantageous!
ETS Tr EN oii i ri
bus was at a threshold of a mature life
| He was of an intensely religious na-
| ture, or else the chroniclers ot the old-
i en days were sadly mistaken, for the
| professions of the discoverer, his adop-
i tion of a Franciscan habit and his sub-
sequent association with religious
teachersand monks must have been
the outward expression of inward zeal,
or else the brazen effrontery of an ad-
venturer, the shameless deceptions of
an hypocrite.
CASTELAR’S ESTIMATE OF COLUMBUS.
The latest of the many descriptions
of the personnel and estimates of the
character of Columbus is perhaps the
fairest. It embraces the favorable sum
of all other biographers and is from
the pen of Emilio Castelar, the ex-
President of the Spanish Republic.
He says :—
“Columbus was of powerful frame,
large build, of majestic bearing and
dignified in gesture ; on the whole well
formed, of middle height, inclining to
tallness ; his arms sinewy and bronzed
like wave-beaten oars; his nerves
high-strung and sensitive, quickly res-
ponsive to all emotions; his neck
large and his shoulders broad ; his
face rather long and his nose aquiline;
bis complexion fair, even inclined to
redness and somewhat dishgured by
freckles; his gaze piercing and his
eyes clear ; his brow high and calm,
furrowed with the deep workings of
thought.
“In the life written by his son,
Ferdinand, we are toid that Columbus
not only sketch most marvellously, but.
was so skillfula penman that he was
able to earn a living by engrossing
and copying. In his private notes he
said that every good map daugnteman
outght to be a good painter as well,
and he himself was such in his maps
avd globes and charts, over which we
scattered all soris of cleverly drawn
figures. He never penned a letter or
began a chapter without setting at its
bead this devout invocation: ‘Jesus
cum Mari set nobis in via.” Besides
bis practical studies he devoted him-
self to astronomical and geometrical
researches. Thus he was enabled to
teach mathematice, with which, as
with all the advanced knowledge of his
time he was conversant, and he could,
recite the prayers and services of the.
Church like any priest before the
altar,
“Ile was a mystic and a merchant,
a visionary and an algebraist. If at
times he veiled his knowledge in cab-
alistic formulas and allowed his vast
powers to degenerate in puerile irrita-
tion, it was because his own age
knew him not, and had dealt hardly
with him for many years—from his
youth until he reached the threshold
of age—without taking into account
the reverses which darkened and em-
bittered his later years. Who could
have predicted to him, in the midst of
the blindness that surrounded him,
that there in Spain, and 1n that cen-
tary of unfading achievement, the
name of Columbus was to attain to
fame and unspeakable renown ? There
are those who hold that this was the
work of chance. and that the discovery
of America was virtually accomplished
when the Portuguese doubled the Cape
of Good Hope. But I believe not in
these posthumous alterations of history
to mere caprice, nor in those after
rumors of the discoverers who died in
obscurity.
“Now as to the pictures of Colambus
The one which seems to hold the
highest claim for authenticity 1s that
known as the Jovius portrait: A
wealthy Roman named Jovius erected
a villagearly in the fifteenth century on
the shore of Liake Como and adorned
it with the portraits of those who had
contributed to the glory of that age.
Among the paintings was one of Col-
umbug, At this time, however, Colum-
bus had been dead for ten years. The:
name of the Jovius artist i3 unknown,
and the only basis for the belief that
the picture of Columbus is a good one
is a fact that the other paintingsin the
collection are of considerable merit and:
fairly eorrect. ry
AS A PORTUGUESE. NAVIGATOR,
The family consections of Columbus’
wife were no doubt responsible for his
entering the service ot Portugal, where
we find him in 1477. But even of this
‘connection little is known.
to have made a voyage to Iceland in
‘the service of the King of Portugal,
but of this and a great deal else in the
subsequent life of the Admiral much
has to be left to conjecture.
Whatever his services in the interest
of the Portuguese monarch were, they
were ot sufficient importance to war-
rant bis demanding thata fleet be
placed at his disposal to explore the
Western ocean. The Portuguese
mariners had coasted down Africa, and
by their daring had won the admira-
tion of the world previous to this time,
but the proposition of Columbus was
go for in advance of anything thus far
proposed that the King felt inclined to
respect it at the outstart. Bat the de-
mand of Columbus stood in the way ;
in the vernacular of a later age, he
wanted the earth,” and King John de-
clined to yield it up. Asa subterfuge
the King decided to refer the whole
matter to a cousistory or council,
which of course decided against the
Genoese navigator. Butnotwithstand-
ing this the King fitted ont a caraval,
and under pretense of a voyage to the
Cape Verde Island, sent it forth to dis-
cover the islands described by Colum-
bus. Before the ship had gone far
oun the Western ocean a tremendous
storm broke, and the sailors turning
back, related their story which expos
éd the artifice of the Kine.
Upon this discovery, Colambus, left
for Spain. ““Thereareconflicting stories
of this episode iu the life of the future
admiral, some asserting that his depart-
ure at this juncture was owing to the
pressare of debts and the activity of
creditors’; that he left with his son,
pretty much as a fugitive might depart.
It was in this year, 1478, that Co-
lambns appeared at the gate of the Con-
vent of Rabida, and appealed for food
and drink for himself and his son. It
was only a little journey, a mere step
He is said.
by sea from Portugal to Huelva in
Spain, and journeying along this road
he passed the convent.
As this convent of Santa Maria de
| Rabida plays an important part in the
life of Columbus, it deserves more than
a passing notice. Huelva is one of the
most South western sea ports of Spain.
Near it and further up the river at a
distance of four miles lies the little port
of Palos. It is here that the famous
Convent of Maria de Rabida is located.
It is not a convent. but a church, and
its exact dimensions are given by a late
traveler as being 140 feet front, 155 feet
deep, and bavivg a front to the water of
216 feet. It stands on a bank, a blaff
of about seventy feet above the river,
and of a distance of 1000 feet from it.
Ordinarily its walls are a dun color,
but this year they are snowy white, as
in honor of the period the monument
of Columbus in the town is being re-
stored.
HIS WANDERINGS IN SPAIN.
There area variety of reasons assigned
for the appearance of Columbus and
his son Diego at the gate in the convent
walls of Maria Rabida, Oue is that he
sought rest and shelter on his way to
appeal to the courts of Ferdinand and
Isabella for aid in his scheme. An-
other is that he was searching for a
man named Mulier, who had married
his wife's sister and with whom he
wanted to leave his boy while on his
lobbying trip to the Imperial court. At
all events it was while waiting at the
gate for a ration of black bread and
cheese or other fare of the Franciscans
of de Rabida that the Prior Juan Perez,
of Marchene found him, and instituting
inquiries led Columbus to disclose his
scheme for reaching the Western Isles.
Of the glory which attaches to the
achievements of Christopher Colum-
bus, a certain portion of it is the right
of Juan Perez. Without the enthusi:
asm, the able counsel, the skillful and
politic intervention of this Prior, court-
ier and man of science, the Western
world would have waited for the com-
ing of another discoverer than the Gen-
oese navigator. ;
There must have been a wonderful
facination for Parez about the narrative
of Columbus, coupled with his unflag-
ging zeal and oneness of pupose, for the
Prior not only gave him food and shel.
ter as was custom for convents and
monasteries to do in those days, but
more than this he became the cham-
pion and friend of the homeless enthu-
siast, and remained so until the day of
his death. He called in sonie influen-
tial friends. navigators and scientists,
and to these Columbus recounted anew
his aspirations and hopes and theories.
Among these were the village physi
cian, a mariner named Valasio, and a
retired vessel owner named Pinzen, who
was destined to be associated with Co-
lumbus in many of his subsequent voy-
ages.
Perez immediately began to arrange
for the introduction of Columbus at
court. At thattime Ferdinand and Is-
adella were busy driving the Moors
out of Andalusia. The last fight of Is-
lamism in Western Europe was being
waged. Ferdinand, of Leon, had wed-
ded Isabella of Castile, each a sover-
eign in their own right, and although
they were united by domestic ties the
affairs of each kingdom were managed
independently.
Perez was more than a scientist and
religious; he was a man who had a
name in the world which revolved
around the court of Isabella as the cen-
tral sun, Hearing of the wisdom and
learning of Friar Perez Isabella had
summoned him to appear at court and
take the part of confessor to her Maj.
esty. But the brilliancy of court life,
the battle of city and castle, were dis-
tasteful to the Franciscan and at his
own request he was released and. re
tired to the monastery or convent of
Maria de Rabida, where he ended his
life. fia RObR 3
Nine Lives.
From the Detroit Free Press. i
He was a flirt, and a wale flirt nev:
er gets a lick amiss. ;
The harder you hit him the better.
He had asked the girl to marry him
and she was onto his curves.
“No,” she said promptly and firmly.
He became theatric.
“You have crushed my life at one
blow,” he murmured hoarsely.
“I guess not,” she responded.
“Ah, but you do not know,” be in.
sisted. © “You have killed me—killed
”
“Well, if I have,” she remarked
coolly, “you must be a cat, for [ know
seven other girls who have done the
same thing, and you are not dead yet.
You've got one more chance.
Then the iron entered his soul.
————————
A Natural Outburst.
The wife of the young Methodist min-
ister was taking up her carpets and oth-
erwise making preparations for moving.
«We've only been hear a year,” she
said, and Wesley and I had so hoped he
would be sent back to this charge for
another year! I try to be resigned to
the Lord’s will, but I tell you, Sister
Wayland, if ever I get a chance to talk
to that Bishop I'll make his ears tingle
—now, you mark my word !”’
ARC FETT RR TR SOT
-—Some three or four months ago
Baron Hirsch distributed all his earn-
ings on the turf for the previous year,
amounting to $70,000, among deserv-
ing English charities, He bas ac-
cumulated fresh profits from the races
won by his horses, and he intimates
that a further sun of $100,000 will. be
available for chartitable purposes at
the beginning of 1893.
' Killed by a Straw,
Hazerron, Pa., Oct., 16-—While at
play yesterday Tommy, the 7-year old
gon of Hugh McNetluy, of Freeland,
swallowed a straw. ‘The gharp stem
lodged in his throat and he died: sever-
al hours later, having suffered untold
pain.
——Tord Tennyson was ‘intensely
fond of a pipe, ‘and wus’ seldom ‘seen
without one.
Cause of Color Blindness,
The Excessive Use of Tobacco Found Responsi-
ble in Some Cases.
The parliamentary committee ap-
pointed 1n Great Britain to examine the
subject of color blindness, particularly
in its relation to marine and railway
signaling, have made an exceedingly 10-
teresting report. They find that in the
male population nearly 4 per cent. are
either partially or wholly deficient in
the ability to distinguish rightly the
primary colors of the spectrum, The
tests were made with great care, under
the guidance of specialists whose scien-
tific knowledge afforded a guarantee of
accurate and trustworthy investigation.
Because Berlin woo! presents to the
eye a rough and nonreflecting surface,
the colors of which are not heightened
nor dulled by the light in which iv is
displayed, that substance was selected
for testing the eyes. Irom a miscella-
neous heap of skeins of various colors
the person submitting to a test was re-
quired to select approximate matches
tor certain test colors. It was found
mon form of deficincy; blindness to
green’ was the next frequency. Since
experiment has proved that red and
green are the two colors found to ba
most trustworthy for signaling purposes,
on account of their superior luminosity
and their visibility at considerable dis-
tances, the fact that these are the two
colors which color-blind persons are
most apt to mistake is, aceording to the
Philadelphia Record, a matter of the
first importance.
The committee found that the persons
in the responsible positions in the ma-
rine and railway service, where accur-
acy in determing color is essential to
safety and efficiency, could not be trust-
ed to read the signals correctly. This
condition of things possibly furnishes
the explanation of many disasters on
sea and land which have hithertc been
deemed mysterious, and it certainly in-
dicates the necessity of a thorough test
of the eyes of engineers, pilots, signal-
men and others who are intrusted with
the movement of trains and water craft.
As to the causes of color blindness the
committee report that in the greater
number of instances it proceeds from
congenital defects that cannot be reme-
died; but it is frequently the result of
excessive use of tobacco. This isa hint
worth remembering on the part of those
who may become aware of their inabili-
ty to distinguish colors. As every day
in the year thousands of lives and mil-
lions of dollars’ worth of property are
dependent for safe keeping upon the ac-
curate reading of colors by persons em-
ployed upon steamers, ships, and loco-
motives, the knowledge of the risk in-
volved should lead to thorough exami-
nation and the weeding out of those
found in this particular to have defec-
tive eyesight.
TET DTIC
Hated to Break the Set.
The Country [over who Did Not Care to Dis
turb the Half Dozen.
Irom the Newark Standard.
In a certain village not twenty miles
from Boston it appears there is a side
street locally known as Maiden lane,
This name is more realistic than ob-
vious at first, coming as it does from the
fact that six erstwhile muidens ‘have
their homes there—three on each side of
the road. The one eligible young man
of the town found it a place with a good
deal of attraction. The only trouble of
it was, as the gossips concurred, the at-
traction didn’t appear specific enough.
Finally, after spending a couple of
winters impartially before the half-doz-
en firesides, 1t became plain that Eunice
Maria--she of the end cottage and. the
Sandy hair—-was receiving enough at-
tention and Baldwin apples'tv warrant
suspicion. Pablic excitement ran bigh
and ebbed and ran high again as
months went by.
Nobody knew why the suitor waited
unless, as a brother deacon said, because
he was “natu’liy slow.” At last, right
in the face of a new conjecture, the an-
nouncement came that he was going to
marry a young woman in a neighboring
town. This was a blow—a blow so hard
that when the deacon’s wife heard of it
she put on her china aster bonnet and
went over to the bridegroom-elect to in-
quire into the subject. :
«Now, look here; Joshun,” she re-
proached him gently. “I should’er
thought yer might ‘er suited yourself
out’er six in Maiden lane.”
«Waal, I did think on’t. I did
think on Eunice Maria raal ser’us,” he
admitied, ‘but truth wuz, I just hated
‘| to break the set.”
Facts for Farmers to Ponder Over.
A farmer ought to consider how this
tariff of McKinley works against him.
It cuts off competition 1n furming im-
plements here, and the manufacturer
who sends a horse-rake into the South
American market and sells it for $19
charges $25 for it here. The Cum-
ming feed-cutter is sold in South Am-
erica for $60 and here for $90 ; the Clip-
per cutter is sold in South. America for
$9 50 amd-liete for $13; the Ann Arbor
cuttef No. 1° is ¢old in South America
sold in South America for $40. These
are a few of the frauds the McKinley
tariff practices on the fatmer. ;
Points about Finger Nails.
Broad nails indicate a gentle, timid
and bashful nature.
People with narrow nails are ambi-
tious and quarrelsome.
Small nail indicate littleness of mind
obstinacy and conceit.
Lovers of knowledge and liberal sen-
timent have round nails.
Choleric, martial men, delighting in
war, have red and spotted nails.
Nails growing into the flesh at the
points ‘and sides indicate luxurious
tastes.— Medical Qlassics.
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Revered Bluelaw—My dear young
lady, I am sorry to see that you are not
a regular attendant at our Subbath
weetings. Why is that?
Young Lady—1I should like to go,
but I am so nervous that I can’t sit
stil. !
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to tha Episcapal church. —Judge.
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Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
that blindness to red was the most com- |
to it.
“Hamlet.”
for $16 and here for $28,and No. 2is’
The World of Women.
Swedish girls begin, at an early ace,
to make and finish the personal and
house linen which they will require
when they are married.
Miss Harriet Monroe, who wrote the
World's Fair Ode, is not only suing the
World for its premature publication,
but is going to write a whole volume of
rhymes.
A piece of chamois skin bound on the
edges, shaped to fit the heel and kept in
place by a piece of elastic rubber, worn
over the stockings, will save much
mending. :
Nearly all of the hats turn up at the
back with considerable flat trimming,
while the decoration for the hat proper
takes the form of single, double and
triple Alsatian bows.
A swell novelty in outside garments
is shown in the Russian jacket, which
is in exact imitation of the long three
quarter garments that one has seen in
pictures worn by a party of exiles bound
for Siberia.
Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer, the flrst
president of the W. C. T. U., is a beau-
tiful white-haired woman, bright eyed
and vigorons. though passed her seven-
tieth © year. Mrs, Wittenmeyer has
written several books.
The latest thing in sweet pillows is
one filled with clover blossoms dried in
thesun. A case sixteen inches square
filled with these was covered with licht
green India silk embroidered with a de-
sign of clover leaves in each corner,
with scattering clover blossoms here and
there over the centre.
A charming costume in fawn broad-
cloth had a straight, full skirt, with five
bias bands of velvet edged with sable.
The bodice had great velvet sleeves and
a vest of white cloth appliqued in con-
ventional figures of the velvet and bor-
dered with the fur. The collar and
sleeves are treated in a similar fashion.
Trainon blue and old rose are grad-
ually usurping the gold and white com-
bination as a colorscheme for household
decoration. All the models in furniture
and stuff for hangings are now of these
soft and pleasing tints, which are as
lovely by gaslight as charming in day-
light, and which clash not at all with
other tints and colors.
1tisannounced that many corsages
are to be worn different from the ¢kirts
which they accompany. But this state-
ment needs qualifying. The corsage
may differ from the skirt, but it must
never look as though 1t did not belong
There must always be certain
connecting links—a corselet, girder, .
bretellas, yoke or collarette like the
skirt or its garnitures.
The becoming fashion of wearing the
veil over the brim of the hat and drawn
easily below the chin, which suits near-
ly every face, is being superseded some-
| what by a return to the old plastered
style. The veil is fitted below the brim
and drawn closely over the hair; If
women will adopt this ugly method
again at least cut the veil tissue or net
on the bias, which adds grace and deft-
ness to 1ts adjustment and prevents the
unbecoming slip to which strapped veils
often resort. :
Alovaof a wrap is known as the
One recherche model is
made of black velvet. It reaches tothe
waist and is guiltless of plait or fold,
but is quite loose and fastened to the
figure by means of brace of silk. The
collar is thrown back, and so are the
fronts of the cape, this arrangement
forming revers. A delicately-tinted
silk lines the garment throughout. This
cape does not need, when made of vel-
vet, decoration of any kind; although ‘a
row or two of narrow jet braiding may.
be used with excellent effect about the
edges.
For evening wear at the theatre the
great loose capes seem to have come to
stay, and with their high collars made
in’ond ‘piece with the back, their bands
of fur and their rich linings, the only
wonder is how we have done so long
without them, for no matter how ele-
gant the jacket it will press: the sleeves
into. wrinkles and the lace into folds that
happen to be worn under, it. -
| The great easy, yet wonderfully styl-
ish, capes supply a long-felt want,
therefore the women of the. world will
wear a stylish jackets when occasion |
does not demand their removal and the
Yooser garments for receptions, theatres
and other heated assembles. that necessi-
tates the taking off of one’s wrap.
Princesse dresses are to continue style
ish during the coming season, and they
will be worn even more than they have
{been ‘during the present season. One
of ‘the models which have been sent
from abroad is capable of being used for
the simplest as well as the most elabor-
ate toilets. It is of foulard, baving, on
a shot ground of white and apricot, lines
of emerald greer: forming broad stripes,
ote of which is spreckled with black
while the next has a slender garland of
apricot-colored flowers. The corsage is
cut down on the neck and shoulders,
with a guimpe and high collar of dark
green velvet above, around the opening
and crossing with the corsage to the left
side of the waist, where it diminishes to
a point, in a deep bertha of plaited apri
cot chiffon, veiled with black lace, the
chifion projecting an inch at the edge.
Along the left side of the skirt, and
apparently a continuation of the bertha,
is a cascade of lace over chiffon, caught
at intervals by three butterfly knots of
green velvet, a fourth knot at the waist
forming part of a green velvet belt.
The full balf-long sleeve has a frill of
lace over chiffon. This fashion of using
black lace as a transparent is much ad-
mired ; but it chould he a fine, delicate
lace with a small pattern, Chantilly be-
ing the prettiest. In this dress the soft.
girdle or sash deducts from the length
of the waist, and give a novel and pret-
ty effect, which is becoming only to the
slight figure. Other Princesse or polon-
aise gown aro made with a fitted back
and a straight front, which is plaited in
box plaits, and confined by a half belt
that cbmes from the side seams and
passes throngh:shits at the inner folds of
the plaits ; the plaits extend below the
waist and gradually lose themselves in
the skirt, which has no trimming at the
toot.” House gowns are also made lin
this way, with'a Watteau plait at’ the
back, and # belt coming from under it
and passing under plails at the front.
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