OTE tn MA i nH rrr SO I FE Or ED OO EY
Ballefonte, Pa., Jan. 26, 1894.
THE EGRET'S PLUME.
lowin em was taken from “Our
Pas ie ay. excellent paper published
by the Massachuetts Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals, and was written by
C. F. Orne who noticed in church, a number of
Christian women wearing Kgret’s on their
bonnets and hats.
Nore.—* The little tufts of feathers are taken
from the egrets, or smaller herons. The her-
ons have tobe killed to obtain the plumes
which grow at the breeding season. The birds
are ruthlessly shot while endeavoring to protect
their nests of young.”
1 sate in the house of our Father,
When His people were gathered all,
And I looked on a fair young mother
With her children sweet and small.
Her eyes were so full of her loving,
On those infant faces bent,
That I knew her heart to the utmost
Was brimmed with a deep content.
My heart was rejoicing with her,
That her's were life's dearest ties ;
That love's softest and sweetest music
From her lips might fitly rise.
One small head lay on her shoulder;
An arm was ‘round her thrown ;
In that touch of tender carassing
What a world of love was shown !
The voice of the preacher rose softened,
As he uttered .e sweet words low
That the Savior spakeof the children
In Galitee, long ago.
.
I lifted my eyes in gladness,—
But ah! through the vaulted room
A mist blotted out the glory :
The light shut down in gloom.
I saw, in its fragile beauty,
O’er that fair young mother spread,
The delicate spray of feathers
Torn frem the Egret’s head.
And my heart was away at the seaside,
Where the heartless hunters go,
When the mother hird’s crown of beauty
Becomes her crown of woe.
For through the whole year only
When her mother-love is her doom,
Does the Egret bear for her nestlings
Her fatal, fairy plume.
The ruthless hunters covet
The lovely, waving crest,
And they strike at the heart of the mother,
Through her children in the nest.
For her mother-love impels her
To defend with her life her young;
The lovely crest is torn from her head,
And her body to earth is flung.
Where the brutal robbers have thrown her,
She hears, in her wild despair
Her nestlings vainly calling
For their mother’s food and care.
They are slowly, slowly starving?
And their death-moan’s bitter pain
Is borne to the savage hunters,
Who smile as they count their gain.
Before me the mists grew darker ;
A shuddering shook the air ;
The mournful wail of the music
Was the murdered Egret s prayer.
How could I hear the Christ-voice—
Little children, come unto me —
When those sobbing wails of anguish
Came up from the lands by the sea ?
Think of your own little children
In staryation’s fearful doom !
Oh, women, oh, mothers | and never
Wear the murdered Egret's plume !
JANET'S VICTORY.
The sun fell in a mellow flood of
beauty upon the new rag carpet of the
guest chamber. The creamy curtains
were pulled back, so no: chance was
left the sun for .doing less than its
whole duty. A great bouquet of au-
tumn grasses and fluffy golden rod rest-
.ed in a pretty wase.
A new chamber set and it will be
.nice, and Mre. Mayler half closed her
eyes and took in the supposed effect.
Then for the twentieth time, perhaps,
she went over the same road, calcula-
ting how much her chickens and tur-
keys would bring.
“And it they are as fatas I think, [
will lay by enough for Christmas pre-
sents all around and subscribe for that
journal, too, and with .a light heart
and smiling countenance she hurried
downstairs. Baby was busy with his
blocks, so she went into the kitchen to
prepare the little supper—just herself
and Jed and little Boy Blue—and a
quietly happy family it had ever been.
1f it was hard sometimes to bear and
forbear, they tried for love's sweet
sake. And if Janet was the oftenest
to yield neither seemed to potice it.
Only a lock at her bright, loving face
and one.might guess she was.very well
accustomed to forgetting No. I alto
gether, and he—he was a man, just an
easy going half blind man, that was
all
After supper the poultry was all
shut up in their houses for to-morrow’s
sale, and after an almost sad good-by
Janet the next morning saw part of her
hard summer's work roll away over
the hill to market. It was Tuesday,
And about riday Baby and I will
£0 totown and invest our money, and
she laughed almost like a child as she
toosed the baby up.
Papa’s coming, baby mise, and
down te the gate she carried her boy
for his delightful ride ap to the barn
with papa.
How did they sell, Jed ? Fat, where
they ? she asked when the wagon
stopped at the barn.
Fat as batter and got highest price.
‘Cash ? aed she patted old Pride on
his velvety rose.
Yee, and Le led the horses into their
stalls,
Supper pipiag Lot, she called back
over her shoulder, as she went to the
house.
Supper passed pleasantly, Jed re
lating all the news from.town and she
listening and feeding baby, going on
{frequent journeys into the little bot-
tomless mouth after stray crusts or
other forbidden matter which happen-
ed too near.
And now let me have it, Jed, all in
my hand, and eee if it’s worth the con-
stant care and work I've endured, and
she set the boy on his knee.
What, Janet ? and he looked at her
abseantly.
My monev, and still her hand was
outstretched.
Why, wife, I. paid for the bindiag
twine with it.
You did! And you said last spring.
Do your best and reap the proceeds.
And her eyes fiashied indignantly.
Why, I didu’t suppose you had any
uge for it, and you are reaping the pre.
ceeds when the debis are paid, and he
tried to look natural.
Buy that was mine, earned by paut-
ting in over hours and extra days, and
she could not hide a sob.
Oh, well, never mind. What's
mine's yours and yours mine, and he
put baby down without his evening
romp and went out with the milk
ail.
P And Janet hurried into the dim sit-
ting room and had a good erv—good,
because it relieved her over wrought
feelings. He must have noticed her
swollen eyes, for after an attempt to
talk over his paper, he went to bed.
Days passed on and months too, un-
til little Boy Blue was a little man of
three.
heen a patient wife toa good husband
but she was wiser, and that little lesson
learned a year previously she had nev-
er forgotten, and she determined, for
the sake of her independence, for the
sake of their future wedded life, and for
his sake too, never .to be so put upon
again. She had discarded her idea
| of raising poultry, but she had a nice
fat steer which was to be sold with the
rest of the car load soon.
When baby was still alittle sléeping
bundle, Jed had brought into the
kitchen a tiny calf. It wasa raw, bit-
ter cold day, and the little thing was
almost dead when discovered.
Might as well kill it, and done with
it, Jed suggested.
Oh, no, letit live, if it can, Janet
pleaded.
Well, fuss with it if you want to,
and you can have whatever it amounts
to, and so it was settled.
It was days before it could stand
alone, but by and by it began to get
interested, it seemed, in its own life, and
grew and waxed strong. Itslegs were
very short, but stubby and firm. It
had always been a source of amuse-
ment between the two, to see Janet's
steer overtake and then slowly outstrip
Jed’s of thesame age. But it was now
considered in prime condition, and was
to go with the rest to Chicago. Janet
said nothing, but felt a great deal. So
when the returns came she waited for
him to give her share. But no
word was said, eo she reminded him of
it.
Oh, stuff and nonesense! he replied,
almost angrily. If we must keep an
account between us, I think it’s a pity.
If 1 have it or you have it, what
odds ?
But you always have it, she replied
quietly.
But I am the man, and it's my
place—
Not to cut me down to asking for
what is my own. You gave me the
calf, and would have killed it but for
me.
Who fed it? he asked.
If it’s half and balt as you say, I
fed it, and six of the other thirteen
that you say are yours.
But it's nonesense your acting so,
Ain’t you comfortable ?
Perhaps. Butitis not that. It's a
question of right. Have I not as good
judgment as you ? and her face was
very pale.
Well, of course, you'll haye the last
word, but I have the money and you
haven’t—and he failed in his attempt
to smile naturally as he turned to
go. .
Wait, wait | and so you claim you
have a right toeell my property and
keep my money, and she looked at him
haughtily.
Isay it's ours. 1f you need a new
dress or anything, say so, and he slam-
med the door.
She did not sob this time, she was
thoroughly indignant and proceeded to
carry out her plan. Jed went to town
the next day again, which favored her
plan.
As soon as he was gone she took
baby and walked a mile to see a man
who had lopg wanted to buy a two-
two-year-old colt of theirs. At one
time Jed had almost accepted the offer,
next thought better of it, and would
not let the colt go. She found little trou-
ble in closing the bargain, he supposing
Jed had sent her. Heronly fear had
been from his inability to pay cash.
But he handed her the money and she
told him he might take his property
directly.
So when Jed came home at night
Lie found an empty stall. He hurried
into the house. His step sent the
blood a little faster, that was all.
Whereis Topsy Jen? His stall is
empty.
I sold him to Mr. Forrest.
Sold him ! Sold my colt?
Ours, you mean. Ithought best to
let him go, and what difference does
it make? [It’s all in the family.
Difference ! I would not have sold
him for seventy dollars! I want you
to understand I am able to run my
own affairs, he cried.
Quite likely you are. But you in-
sist that my affairs are yours and so,
of course, yours are mine. I knew
where I could put that sum to good
advantage, so I let our colt go, and she
sat down to rock baby to sleep, while
Jed stood as if dumb.
There's no use talking, Jed Mayler,
Janet went on with determination, I
never was used to having no money
whatever to call my own, and I am
too proud to beg.
No oue asked yon to, he answered
doggedly.
Let me carry the purse one month
and see if you don’t call it begging,
came back with emphasis.
I will not be a hen-pecked husband,
and he gave the cat a smart slap
which sent it out of the rocking chair
and out of peaeeful slumber at one and |
at the same time.
Nor I a dependent begging grovel-
ing wile, and she left the room while |
Jed stood as she leit him for many
minutes, This was getting to be pretty
serious, Janet standing in opposition
to him, and-he lord and master! He'd
show her—he'd cut her down to bread |
and butter, he'd—and just then his
eye fell on Dandy, hisfive-year-old colt,
It bad come out of the county fair with
flving colors (blue ribbons of course.)
What ifghe should sell him! Back
over their married life he went, and
Daring that time Jauet had |
with a long drawn sigh he remember-
ed Janet's capabilities of carrying out
whatever she deemed necessary. Then
he began to walk up and down, while
Janet, in the next room, tried to ascer-
tain the fierceness of the storm by the
heaviness of his tread. Suddenly it
ceased. He poked his head in through
the doorway,
Well, what do yon want?
I did not speak, Janet answered in-
nocently.
No, what do you expect me to do, to
lift you out of pauperism ? and his
voice was mocking and stern.
Surely, your business capabilities
can suggest seme plan, she answered.
None he continued mockingly.
Then I can. I will either hire out
to you as cook, nurse, washerwoman,
chambermaid, housekeeper, waiter,
gardener, seamstress and bottle wash-
er, or else I will go halves in the pro-
ceeds of our united efforts, and carry
A Lion on Horseback.
Performance.
Hagenbeck’s trained animals at
tracted a great deal of attention at the |
World’s Fair. One of the most strik-
ing performances was the riding of a
horse by the lion, Prince. The horse
died while the Fair was going on, and
the manager of "the show has been
telling a New York paper how another
horse was trained to the work :
One who has never given the matter
a thought has little idea of the under-
taking of teaching a horse and a lion
to perform the equestrian act. As a
rule this is begun when both horse and
lion are very young. They are kept
close tozether and in time become very
much attached to each other, so that
the feat is not, at that early age of the
animals, a very remarkable one.
When Prince's horse died in Chicago
some money as long as you carry any,
and spend when and where my judg-
ment deems best; and more, if I. by
extra work try to raise money for ex-
tra luxuries, that money is to be
mine. :
His scorn turned to anger as she fin-
ished. AslongasI am a husband, [
am the head of the family and master,
and he stalked out of the house ina
furious rage.
[ wonder if I have lost, Janet moan-
ed, as she sank down helplessly. But
I will not yield. T’Il try once more,
and so feverishl- she brought down her
trunk, dragged it down, rather, and set
it in a conspicuous place. Then she
slowly went through the process of
packing but ehe did not commence un-
til time forJed to come in alter the
milk pails,
He saw her busily at work, and his
heart sank within him. But he went
out again, to Janet's dismay. He
could not endure it long, however.
What are vou doing Jen ? and he
paused on his make-believe errand.
Packing.
For what ?
Going home to see mother, and she
looked so unconscious of his presence
as she tossed some spools to little Boy
Blue, he was thoroughly disarmed.
Say, Jen, I surrender.
On what terms ?
Equal shares, and you your ex-
trae.
Very well. Here are six dollars. I
took out of the money just what my
steer and the chickens would have
amounted to, and 1 had this more.
No, keep it, he answered, generous-
ly—but, say, what did the colt
bring ?
Ah, but that is a secret, and she
laughed gaily. Ask his owner.
Don’t, Jen—don’t be so offish—you
don’t seem like my little old Janet, at
all, aud he pulled her to him.
I'm not. I'm Mrs. Janet Mayler,
partuer and equal sharer in the firm of
Mayler and—and his big palm stopped
further speech. But he took it away to
kiss the lips that once had been so hard-
ly won, and then to toss little astonish-
ed Magyler, Jr., up and up, to come
down safely again upon papa’s should-
er, for a dizzy ride around the disorder-
ed sitting-room.
After supper, while Jen was busy
washing dishes, Jed was in the sit-
ting-room, rocking baby to sleep. He
never could sing but just the first
strains of Sweet By-and-By, but he
would go over these with untiring zest,
never even halting long enough to let
his voice fall, until sometimes, out of
of very agony, Janet would plant her
foot where she knew the period be-
longed. But to-night she listened with
sweet content. She knew he was won
completely, for he never attempted his
one song unless very peaceful with all
the world. And as she thought over
her little attacks and skirmishes she
felt well repaid, and from her heart
went up a prayer for strength to be a
woman—fearless and independent
where right was concerned and a
mother worthy such a dear little boy.
— Farm, Field and Fireside.
Known to Fame.
Olive Schreiner as She—An
Pen Picture.
Acquaintance’s
Considering her repute we know very
little of Olive Schreiner, the author
of “The story of an African Farm,” and
more recently of “Dreams.” And one
hears even less about her personality.
Pephaps this is due to the fact that liv-
ing most of her time at Cape Town, she
is out of reach of the literary paragraph-
er, A few weeks ago an acquaintance
of mine traveled with Miss Schreiner on
a voyage extending over some ten days,
and he was permitted to become very
well acquainted with the author. From
him I learn that she is a most charming
womanly woman. Her features are
clean-cut and strong, her figure below
the average height, her eyes are dark
and capable of storm as well as love.
Her voice is buoyant and clear; her face
as open as a child’s and as swift in its
responsive expression of light and shade,
yet marked by reserves of strength and
will force. One finds in her none of the
marks of literaay pedantry. You will
watch in vain for any of the heavy-foot-
ed movements of George Kliot., She
meets you more than half way in con-
versation. She draws you out to your
best and truest, and is ready to join you
whether upon the ground of woman’s
world, the pleasures of England, or the
deep things of Buddha, but you must
not rashly refer to her own writings, es-
pecially to her “African Farm.” Chil-
dren most of all she loves.
Her family is intellectual divided.
Her brother was reeently elected Attor-
ney General at Cape Town, and at this
dignity to her brother Miss Schreiner
was elated. He is an ardent temperance
‘advocate and an ageressive Christian:
Likewise is the authot’s married sister,
Mrs. Lewis. The father of the Schrin-
ers was an old German missionary in
Cape Colony, and stands revealed, to a
certain extent, in the old German of
“The Story of an African Farm.” The
‘mother was of Scottish descent, and is
now in the Roman Catholic Convent in
the Colony. Others in the family are
Christian propagandists. : :
Em
—— Read t he WaTcuMman
it brought up a problem of an entirely
different nature. The first thing tobe
dove was to get a horse. It took me
three days to find one that looked any-
thing like the one that had died. 1
finally found one, and had him careful-
ly examined by a veterinary surgeon
to ascertain if his temperament was
one we could depend upon. It was,
and then we began the work.
Prince knew his business all right,
but the horse knew nothing. We be-
gan by taking him into the cage ior
half an hourat a time, and leading
him around the circle. Then days
were spent in teaching him to obey
the whip and to understand the Ger-
man language, for all of our tramers
are Teutons, There came days in
which the big boar hound that a-com-
panied the lion was taken into the
ring with the horse, and finally the
horse and the hound were stabled to-
gether until they became thoroughly
acquainted. They were ted at the
same table, and every effort that we
could summon was directed toward
teaching the horse and the dog to be
friends.
Finally one day we strapped a pad-
ded saddle on the horse’s back and got
the boar hound to mount. He sat in
the saddle about a second. Up went
the horse’s heels, and the hound was
thrown against the side of the cage.
Bat this did not discourage the train-
ers ; they kept at it until they got the
horse so that he would permit the
hound to ride.
Then came the next step. We had
made for the purpose a padded lion’s
skin, which we drew over the body of
the hound, except the head. For days
the horse and the poor hound, which
was swathed in the padded lion’s skin,
were kept together until the horse got
used to the changed appearance of the
dog. Then the skin of the head of the
lion was put on the hound, and the
hound and the horse were taken into
the ring together, The poor horse did
not understand this at first, and made
a lot of trouble, but finally permitted
the hound, in disguise, to mount his
back and take a ride.
A week was spent at this, until the
horse knew his business thoroughly.
Then came the most ticklish part of
the whole business, that of bringfhg
the horse and the lion into the same
cage. For a week or more the horse
had been stabled where he could see
the lion. We took the horse in one
morning, and then, after putting him
through his paces, let the lion, Prince,
in. The big beast came up the incline
leading to the cage with that long
swing so well known to observers of
animals. He evidently did not recog-
nize a difference in the horse, and
mounted his pedestal, ready te begin
the act. At the crack of the whip he
leaped on the horse’s back, and oft
they went,
Several circuits had been made
when, for some reason, no one knows
what, the lion sat down on his haunch-
es and emitted one of those terrific
roars that startle everybody. That
settled it. For the next ten minutes
pandemonium reighed, and I did not
know but it would be a case of Kiliken-
ny cats, with trainer, keeper, dog
horse and lion, instead of felines. The
lion was thrown against the cage; he
resented it and made a spring for the
horse. The trainer grabbed an iron
rod and the keeper a whip, and it was
only after a sharp struggle that the
lion was subjugated, and it took a
much longer time to quiet the horse.
For days we could do nothing with
the horse, bat finally the Fair was
closed and the animals were brought
to New York. For the last week the
training has been going on, and we
have now the horse and lion in good
working order.
Heaviest in 20 Years.
Been
Northern California Has
Real Snow Storm.
San Francisco, Jan. 20.-~The worst
snow storm for 20 years is reported
from the northern part of the State.
At Redding, the snow is drifting badly
causing a number of accidents. The
river is rising rapidly and the low ly-
ing country is threatened with inunda-
tion. At Sissons, the official snow fall
for the last 24 hours is 48 inches. All
north bound trains are blockaded.
A farious snow storm is raging in
the mountains northwest of Sacramen-
to, on the line of the Southern Pacific
Railroad. All the snow plows are at
work in the monntains, and the avail-
able men are at work shoveling snow.
Enjoying a
SES —————————
Wellesley’s President Dead.
Miss Helen A. Shafer, Head of the College, Suc-
cumbs to Pneumonia.
WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 20.— Helen
A. Shafer, president of Wellesley Co!-
lege, died today after a brief illness, of
pneumonia. She was stricken down’
about a week ago.
Miss Shafer succeeded Miss Alice
Freeman when she resigned the presi-
dency of Wellesley a faw years ago,
Miss Shafer was born in Newark, N. J |
though she left that city with her family
while yet a mera child and made her
Lone in ihe West.
“authorities of the city. An opportunity |
How to Clean Smoke.
How the Two Animals Are Trained for the A Plan Hit Upon in Birmingham—Carbon
Washed Out.
The directors ot the Birmingham
mint have adopted a practicable
method of remedying a longeodured |
nuisance, The thick black volumes
of smoke proceeding from the high
chimuey stack of the local mint have |
long been a serious annoyance to the |
district, and the shopkeepers in partic- |
ular have suffered to no 1nconsiderable |
extent from the same source of trouble.
The mint company has suffered as |
largely asanyone in the vicinity, aad |
has had, on many occasions, to answer
the complaints ot the health inspectors
and to pay heavy penalties incident to
the proceedings that have from time to !
time been taken. ;
Recently a gentleman who owns a
large joinery establishment at New- |
bury, Berkshire, expressed his willing: |
ness (0 sash the smoke of an original |
process of his own. The invention,
which he hasiatroduced at the mint,
Las met with the entire approval of
the directors of the company and has
also given satisfaction to the health
|
|
i
was afforded a representative of the !
Gazette of inspecting this extraordinary |
arrangement of making black into
white. :
First for the smoke is drawn from
the stack by a powerful fan, and it is
then forced through a revolving cylin-
der into a tank filled with water. Per-
forated beaters are affixed to the back
of the cylinder, and these drop into the
water and scrub or wash the smoke,
which is pat back into the chimney
in the form ot a perfectly pure vapor.
The solid carbon which is washed
from the smoke is brought out at the
bottom of the tank all bubbling and
boiling over, to all appearances a black
foaming froth.
The arrangement of the apparatus
allows an inspection of the washing
process, and of the vapor, which, after
the cleansing has been performed in
the tank below is pertectly white and
odorless, and is thrown through the
chimney into the air as steam. It is
an interesting fact that the black ex-
tract is admirably adapted for use in
the composition of paint and printing
while the ammoniated water remain-
ing after the process of washing pos-
sesses the properties of a powerful dis-
infectant,
What Eyes Indicate.
~
Character to Be Judged Frum Your Neighbor's
Optics.
The long, almond-shaped eye with
thick eyelids covering nearly half the
pup'l, wheo taken in connection with
the full brow, is indicative of genius,
and is often found in artists, literary
and scientific men. It is the eye of ta.
lent, or impossibility.
The large, open, transparent eye, of |
whatever color, is indicative of ele- |
gance, of taste, refinement, of
wit of intelligence. Weakly marked
eyebrows indicate a feeble constitution
and a tendency to melancholia,
Deep sunken eyes are selfish, while
eyes in which the whole iris shows in-
dicate erraticism if not lunacy.
Round eyes are indicative of inno-
cence ; strongly protuberant eyes of
weakness of both mind and body.
Eyes small and close together typify
cunning, while those far apart an open
indicate frankness. The normal dis-
tance between the eyes is the width of
one eye : a distance greater or less than
this intensifies the character supposed
to be symbolized.
Sharp angles, turning down at the
corners of the eye are seen in persons
of acute judgment and penetration,
Well opened steady eyes belong to the
sincere, and wide staring eyes to the
impertinent.
Gray eyes are supposed to be the
strongest, blue the weakest, while
large eyes are most subject to the de-
fect known as near-sightedness.—Nzw
Yorke Weekly.
Mexico 400 Years Ago.
Relics Plowed Up and Ruins Still Standing of
a Former Civilization.
Everywhere about the valleys of New
Mexico, invariably upon eminences,
and usually high, flat-topped mesas or
table hills, are the rains of hounees of
the ancient semi-civilized Indian popu-
lation that lived there and tilled the
soil before the coming of the Spaniards,
four centuries ago.
The numbers of this old population
can be only vaguely inferred by the
numerous cobblestone foundations of
their houses, still well defined above
the surface of the ground, and by the
debris of the fallen walls which consti-
tute hillocks, grassgrown and intermix-
ed with occasional old stone utensils
and countless fragments of pottery.
This pottery when turned up by the
spade is found to be handsome and
varied in color and as fresh of tint as
it could have been when the village
was destroyed or abandoned, and every
tradition of its existence lostin prehis-
torie past.
Genuine Diamonds.
Two Remarkable Finds, One in Wisconsin and
the Other in South Carolina.
Special Agent Komitz, of the Geolog-
ical Survey, has made a report con-
cerning two diamonds finds. He says :
“In October, 1893, a small boy near
Oregon, Wis., picked up a small semi-
transparent pebble. The stone was
taken to Prof. William IH. Hobbs, of
the University of Wisconsin, at Madi-
son, and it was found to be a genuine
diamond. It was sent to New York
for further investigation and proved to
be an elongated dodecahedral crystal
weighing 8 7-8 carats. Its color is
slightly grayish green.
Quite recently a diamond was found
near the Kings Mountains, North
Carolina, which weighs # carat, It is
of a light canary color, and has a re-|
markably brilliant surface.”
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Black sashes of veliet or satin ribbon
will be in favor next summer. Fast-
ened in & point in front with a silver
| buckle they will give a jaunty finish to
the plainest costume,
An extremely pretty evening orna-
! ment for the hair of a brunette consists
of a narrow band of silver, which al-
most encircles the head, ornamented
with two little silver wings perched up
erectly a little to either side of the part-
ing in front.
In speaking of hop sacking, the
! material that was such a favorite last
season. We are advised ugaiust its
use for tailor gowns, asit stretches so
that a perfect fit is almost impossible.
A pretty affair in this goods that was
not intended to be so severely tailor-
made, was of dahlia color, with a plain
full skirt ard a jacket with a open front
over white chiffon. The big revers
were piped with two folds, one of black
and the other of white satin, and a sash
of black satin ribbon slipped under the
vest front and ended in a bunch of loops
, and long ends in the back.
Speaking of juckets the most exclusive
women are ordering theirs without the
umbrella skirts, as this pretty style had
been imitated so largely in
the cheap ready-made coats that it
was no longer desirable for the haut ton
The drooping sleeve will, however, con-
tinueto be worn, and overskirts, the
bugbear of the economical buyer, have
come to stay.
A couple of bright cretonne cushions
will give a cosy air to a room of plain
turnishings. In a pretty chamber a
deft-handed girl has a rocker uphol-
stered in bright red and dull brown, and
a box which holds her hats, covered by
the same, does duty for an occasional
seat. Her table is covered with a tur-
key red cloth and holds a number of
books. Itis one of the prettiest rooms
imaginable, and yet the whole furniture
would not amount to the price of an
enameled desk for a more expensive
apartment.
The natural wocd umbrella handle
has had its day. Round handles of
wood, about five inches long, ornament-
ed with fine carving and capped with
gold or silver, are the latest styles.
Mrs. Caroline H. Dallas tells the
Springfield Republican that when she
first went to Washington, over 40 years
ago, Daniel Webster said to her : “Re-
member you mav have what political
opinions you please, but the woman
who expresses them is damned.”
The New York women all affect
black for church wear and in a walk
down the avenue Sunday tbe best dress-
ed are mostly attired in the double
breasted ‘frock coat’ with plain skirt
to match of black serge, hopsacking or
diagonal. The coat fits hike wax, has
small revers self faced and full skirt.
A small white lace chemisette shows
between the lapels, and the throat band
is of crimson or turquoise blue velvet.
This plain costume is considered ‘‘chic”’.
The hats are usually of ‘black felt
bound on the edge and turned up in
front with a pair of Valkyrie wings and
a bright velvet rosette. Small bonnets
are also worn by young ladies as well as
older matrons.
Another handsome costume was a
skirt of black moire with a velvet coat,
with a fall of white lace front
and ‘nl crash. collar’ of rose
pink. The bonnet was a mere “scrap,”
but an impossible “serap’’ for any but a
Parisian milliner to make, being a bit
of jet, a piece of white lace, a black rose
and a jet aigrette, but quite perfect in
its ensemble,
The violet is the favorite flower this
season. The American beauty rose,
which was so popular among the fash-
ionable last winter, has taken a back
seat, and violets in the forms of bouton-
nieres and immense hand and corsage
bouquets are now in greater demand.
Very large bouquets of violets are the
particular fancy. It is not unusual for
a florist to receive an order for a cluster
of 500 violets, which means a bill of
from $15 to $20 against the purchaser.
Neariy every young lady one meets has
a large bunch of the double light violets
now preferred to the single dark blos-
soms, tied with a half inch wide mauve
satin ribbon, and tucked either in the
revers of the coat, or high on the bust,
or pinned to the muff.
Light gloves are much worn for
church. Pearl color with black or self-
color stitching is affected, but red pique
gloves, with large buttons, are also
worn. I see fewer tan and yellow
gloves than formerly, and more dressed
kid, four-button length, than suede or
mousquetaire. Black gloves are much
liked also, however.
The parlor of a tasteful young woman
has a cheap wall paper that suggests
June, with crumpled roses of pale pink
and leaves of soft olive on a cream
ground, and a dado that is between a
light gray and green, with just the
shadow of roses upon it. The floor is
covered with cream-white matting, and
the curtains, of white Swiss muslin,
with broad white frills, are held in
place by ribbons that match the dado.
Over each window is one long, scarf-
like curtain of China silk of pale green,
carried over the top of the curtains in
simple, loose drapery and falling in one
long end over one of the muslin cur-
tains. The bookshelves ere of pine,
painted in white enamel. The furni-
ture is of rattan in its natural cream-
white color, with a divan of the same
heaped with pale pink, green and yel-
low cushions. The piano in the room
is encased in oak ; there ‘is a pretty
light oak writing desk is in one corner,
a wicker ten table in another and a
bamboo screen wherewith to create an-
other corner wien it is needed.
Louis XTIT models are preferred by
modiztes to the familian Empire styles.