foundations were laid for our
Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 8, 1895.
MOTHER'S HYMNS.
Hushed are those lips, their earthly song is
ended ;
The singer sleeps at last:
While I sit gazing at her armchair vacant
Ahd think of days long past.
The room still echoes with the old time music,
As singing soft and low
Those grand, sweet hymns, the Christian's
consolation,
She rocks to and fro.
Some that can stir the heart like shouts of
triumph
Or loud toned trnmpet’s call. h
Bidding the people prostrate fall before him,
“And crown him Lord of AIL”
And tender notes, filled with melodious rap-
ture
That leaned upon his word,
Rose in those strains of solemn deep affection,
“I love Thy kingdom, Lord.”
Safe hidden in the wondrous “Rock of Ages,”
She bade farewell to fear ;
Sure that her Lord would always lead her,
She read her “title clear.”
Joyful she saw “from Greenland’s icy moun-"
tains
The gospal flag unfurled :
And knew by faith “the morning light was
breaking”
Over a sinful world.
“There is a fountain”—how the tones triumph-
an
Rose in victorious strains!
“Filled with that precious blood, for all the
ransomed,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins.”
Dear Sn, in heavenly mansions long since
folded,
Safe in God’s fostering love,
She joins in rapture in the blissful chorus
Of these bright choirs above.
There, where no tears are known, no pain or
SOITOW,
Safe beyond Jordan's roll,
She lives forever with her blessed Jesus,
The lover of her soul.
TTT,
A TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD.
Itis Eloquently Paid to Curtin by Col. McClure.
The Dead War Governor's Virtues and Hero-
ism Set Forth in Glowing Periods by his Old
Friend Before the Assembled Legislature in the
House at Harrisburg. An Ovation and Vote
of Thanks Given the Eulogist at the Close of
His Address.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 30.—Col. A. K.
McClure addressed a large audience in
the hall of the House to-night on the
life and public services of Andrew G.
Curtin. The meeting was opened by
speaker Walton, who announced Rep-
resentative George V. Lawrence, of
Washington, father of the House, as
the president, who introduced Col. Mec-
clure to the audience amid much ap-
plause. Col. McClure spoke an hour
and a quarter, and although is was dif-
ficult to hear him in the rear portions
of the hall, very few left it during the
delivery of his address. His references
to the heroism of Gov. Curtin during
the war of the Rebellion were frequent-
ly and loudly applauded, especially
when he referred to the fact that Presi-
dent Lincoln had met the first regi-
ment of the Pennsylvania Reserves in
Washington with the remark, “God
bless Pennsylvania, God bless her loy-
al Governor.
At the close of the address he re-
ceived an ovation, and on motion of
Representative Snively, of Franklin, a
unanimous vote of thanks was tender-
ed him for his tribute to the dead Gov-
ernor. Congressman Grow occupied a
position on the stand near Col. Mec
Clure, and in response to repeated calls
made a brief, patriotic address. Later
in the evening Gov. and Mre. Hastings
entertained Col. McClure and party at
the Executive mansion.
Mr. McClure opened his address
with a brief review of the different
heroic epochs of history, coming down
to the civil war, which called Andrew
Gregg Curtin to what proved to be the
most responsible civil trust held by any
man, with the single exception of Lin-
coln. He then said :
“Forty-one years ago I sat in this
hall with Curtin asa member of the
convention whose action called him in-
to public life. He had been named
for the position of Governor himself,
but he was young and heartily yielded
to the Whig sentiment that pointed to
the late Gov. James Pollock as the
man to lead the party in the contest.
When the campaign was about to be
opened Pollock summoned Curtin to
lead his forces in the severe battle up:
on which they were about to enter,
and he conducted it with masterly
skill and energy, resulting in the elec-
tion of Pollock by an overwhelming
majority. When the victory was won
but one name was seriously thought of
to take the chief position in the cabi-
net of the new Governor, and Curtin
was called as Secretary of the Com-
monwealth with the universal approv-
al ot his party.
While few to-day turn to his record
as Secretary of the Commonwealth to
illustrate the distinguished services he
has given to his State, the thoughttul
student of our history will learn that it
was under his administration as Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth, that the
present
free school system that is now the
most liberal and beneficent in the
world. When he entered Pollock’s
Cabinet our school system was not dig-
nified as a department of the State.
Its direction was one of the secondary
duties of the Secretary of the Common-
wealth, and he wae the first incumbent
of that office who systematically organ-
ized the free schools on the broadest
basis, and with the efficient aid of his
deputy secretary, Heory C. Hickok,
opened the way for the universal edu-
cution of the children of the State.
Later as Governor he was enabled to
build the grand structure upon the
foundations he had laid. Next to
Thaddeus Stevens, the author of the
free school law, and to George Wolf,
the heroic German Governor who ap-
proved the measure, our grand system
ot tree education of to-day is more in-
debted to Andrew G. Curtin than to
any other of our public men.
On the 23d and 24th of February,
1860, I again eat in this hall and was
an humble participant in one of the
most important political State conven-
tions ever held in our history. The
more heroic element of the new party
that was about to make its great strug-
gle for State and national supremacy.
bad but one candidate in that conven-
tion for Governor, and that man was
Andrew G. Curtin. Had there been
anv issue but that of choosing a leader
for the State contest, he would have
been chosen without serious opposition;
but the conflicts of ambition which are
felt in all parties, and which are often
to be commended as vastly more bene-
ficial than hurtful in obtaining good
political results, were disturbing in
that body. It was the ablest conven-
tion of the kind I have ever seen in
Pennsylvania and from the beginning
through the two days of its session, it
was a battle of giants; but on the sec-
ond ballot Curtin was made the candi-
date by a decided majority, although
geven other names, some of great
prominence, were presented and earn-
estly pressed against him.
The Democrats nominated against
him Henry D. Foster, one of the ablest
and most popular leaders of that party
and Pennsylvania has never before or
since witnessed a State Political con-
test that was so ably conducted by the
opposing leaders, or that enlisted such
universal interest amongst the people.
The result is one of the memorable
landmarks of the political history of
the Nation. Curtin was chosen Gov-
ernor by over 32,000 majority, and his
election practically declared Abraham
Lincoln the next President of the
United States.
Before Curtin was inaugurated as
Governor of the State, in January,
1861, evidence of the settled purpose
of the Sonth to attempt the violeat dis-
ruption of the States was given in
many sections. States had formally
seceded from the Union ; forts, arse-
nals, arms and custom houses belong:
ing to the government had been seized
by the authority of the seceding States,
and civil war seemed inevitable unless
the border States could be held to their
allegiance. Never before in the hie
tory of our statesmanship did such
momentous problems eall for solution,
and Pennsylvania being the most im-
portant of all the Northern States, in
view of her southern border and the
moral and physical power of the Com-
monwealth, was looked to from every
gection of the country, both North and
South, with intensest anxiety. To
have faltered in the faith of the people
who had called the new party to pow-
er, would have made rebellion only
the more defiant; to have answered
madness in passion would have weak-
ened every friend of the Union in the
South and probably decided the des-
tiny of many against the maintenance
of the Republic.
President elect Lincoln could not be
inaugurated for nearly three months,
and no declaration could come from
the national government to guide the
States in declaring their relations to
each other and to the Republic. There
was no precedent in all our history to
dictate the utterances of the man who
was to speak not only for the most im-
portant Northern Commonwealth, but
whose deliverance would be accepted
as defining the attitude of the entire
loyal North on the issue of war or
peace. The men of to-day who be-
lieve that they bave to grapple with
great problems of s tatesmanship know
nothing of the fearful responsibilities
which had to be assumed in defining
the position of Pennsylvania at the
threshold of civil strife.
I need not detail the arduous and re
sponsible duties imposed upon Gov.
Curtin at the outset of the war. They
are well understood by this intelligent
audience. The annals of our history
tell how the State credit was maintain-
ed, how every quota of troops called
for was promptly filled, how the sol-
diers were cared for, how the sick were
ministered to, and the dying brought
howe for sepulchre, and all under the
inspiration of Gov. Curtin’s liberal and
patriotic policy.
When his first term was about to
close he gave the highest evidence of
his unselfish devotion to the great con-
flict in which the life of the Nation
trembled. The ceaseless exactions of
his official duties had left him broken
in health, but he never ceased in the
performance ot his great work. I was
present when to several trusted friends
he declared it the duty of his party to
elect Gen. William B. Franklin, a gal-
lant Pennsylvania soldier and a Demo-
crat, as the candidate of the loyal peo-
ple of every political faith to succeed
him in this gubernatorial chair.
He did when he knew that his re-
nomination would be nearly or quite
unanimous if he were willing to accept
it, but he believed that individual
ambition should ever yield to the pub-
lic welfare, and he sought thus to uni-
fy all political parties in our State in
support of the war, and weaken the
hopes of the insurgents by the great
State of Pennsylvania having effaced
party lines to sustain the Union of out
fathers. In this recommendation to
unite the whole loyal people of the
State on Gen Franklin for Governor
the friends of Curtin heartily acquiesc-
ed, and Isimply vindicate the truth of
history when I say that had Gen.
Franklin been nominated on a war
platform by his own party, that nowmi-
nated its candidate in this foram on the
17th of June, 1863, he would have
been enthusiastically accepted by the
Republican organization and elected
by practically a unanimous vote.
There were political leaders of that day
in both parties, and they dominated
the party opposed to Gov. Curtin, who
did not believe that the interest of an
imperilled country were paramount,
and they suffered defeat as they deserv-
ed.
The Republican convention to nomi
nate Goy. Curtin’s successor met in
Pittsburg on the 5th of August, nearly
two months after the action of his polit.
ical opponents. He felt that in justice
to himself and to his family he should
not be a candidate for re-election, and
under any circumstances not involving
the existence of the free government,
his declination would have been pre:
emptory. He felt, as did many of his
closest friends, that the care and la-
bors of another campaign would bea
sacrifice of his life to public duty.
If he had simply desired political
honors they were freely proffered to
him. On the 13th ot April of that
year, I bore to him from President
Lincoln an autograph letter voluntari-
ly tendering him a first-class foreign
mission at the expiration of his guber-
natorial term, if he were willing to
accept it. That would have been an
inviting compliment for one who sim-
ply scught political advancement, and
it promised rest for the weary and bro-
ken Goyernor : but when it was ao-
nounced that he had been tendered a
mission, and that he would probably
withdraw from the gubernatorial con-
test, the response came from half a
dozen of the leading counties of the
State within a week, unanimously in-
structing for his renomination, and
demanding that he should be made the
candidate.
While the battle of 1860 presented
many elements of doubt because of the
want of unity and organization of those
who were partially or wholly in accord
with the party that Curtin represented,
the struggle tor his re-election present-
ed even graver elements of doubt. It
was one of the most memorable polit-
ical conflicts in the records of the State.
More than 75,000 sons of Penugylvania
were in the army and without the
right arm of suffrage. They could not
be furlonghed to participate in the
election, and is was not until a year
later that our amended fundamental
law gave them the right of holding
elections in the field. That four-fifths
of these soldiers would have voted for
Curtin’s re-election, could they have
reached the polls, was not doubted,
and with them practically denied suf-
frage, and with partisan feeling greatly
intensified and party lines drawn with
the utmost severity of political disci-
pline, his defeat seemed inevitable at
the outset.
It was not merely a contest for the
election of a Governor ; it was the ong
political battle of Pennsylvania that
was the crucial test of the purpose of
the people to sustain the administra
tion of Lincoin and the prosecution of
the causeless war that shadowed the
land until the Union should be fully
restored. «It was the most sober, the
most earnest and the most aggressive
political campaign that I can recall in
50 years’ observation of our political
contests. In every section of the State
the people gathered to hear the orators
on the hustings, but instead of the
boisterous cheers which usually mark
such demonstrations, men listened with
bated breath as the issues of the war
were discussed.
He was saved trom defeat by loyal
men breaking party lines, and by the
constant appeals from the army which
came into almost every home of the
Commonwealth, to re-elect Andrew G.
Curtin, the Soldier's Friend. It was
the mute eloquence of the brave war-
riors of the Union that came from their
camp fires and their hospitals that
reached the hearts of fathers and
brothers and sons at home, gentle as
the dews which jewel the flowers in
the morning and as fragrant in every
home where there was sorrow for lov-
ed ones fallen, or anxiety for those who
survived the tempest of battle. There
was but a single issue in that contest
and the victory was for positive loyalty,
as Curtin was re-elected by over 15,
000 majority.
Curtin emerged from that desperate
but glorious contest utterly broken in
health and suffering from serious ner-
vous and mental prostration ; and soon
after his re-inauguration he was com-
pelled to leave the Legislature in ses-
session and journey to sunnier lands to
restore his shattered system. I cannot
forget the day when many devoted
friends who had been by his side in
sunshine and storm, bade him farewell
as he sailed from Philadelphia in
gearch of health.
Two years after be retired from the
gubernatorial office I was assigned the
grateful task of presenting to the Re-
publican national convention of 1868
his name as a candidate tor Vice Presi-
dent and to cast the united vote of
Pennsylvania in his favor. Pennsyl-
vania was not then a doubtful State,
while Indiana was regarded as debata-
ble between the great parties, and it
was this consideration that largely if
not wholly dominated the action of the
convention that chose Schuyler Colfax
over the War Governor of Pennsyl-
vania.
One of the earliest appointments
made by President Grant after his in-
auguration was the voluntary nomi-
nation of Curtin for the Russian Mis.
sion. It was entirely unsought, but
coming as a generous tribute from the
head of the national government he ac-
cepted it, and was more cordially wel-
comed at the court of the Czar than
were any of his predecessors, as is testi-
fied by the beautiful portrait of the
Russian Emperor that adorns the now
desolate home of Curtin as the gift of
the Czar himself.
Immediately after his resignation
and return from Russia, Curtin was
chosen as a delegate-at-large to the con-
vention to revise our State Constitution,
and he was not only the author of
many of the most beneficent reforms
introduced into that instrument, but he
was one of the most useful of the mem-
bers of the convention in hindering
many of the more dangerous features
sought to be engrafted upon it. His
ripe experience in the government of
Pennsylvania, and his intimate famil-
iarity “with all the vast and varied in-
terests of our people, equipped him to
render most conspicuous service in
shaping the new organic law.
A few years thereafter le was called
to the popular branch of Congrees by
the people of his district and twice re-
elected. He had then outlived the
conflicts and resentments of his many
desperate political battles, and not on-
ly as a Representative but in every
social circle of Washington, every face
smiled at his coming. When he retired
from Congress his public life closed ;
his work was finished.
One of the first acts of Gov. Curtin
|
after he was inangurated in January,
1861, was to organize a complete sys
tem of investigation, into the actual
condition of the South. The strictest
secrecy wae observed, and I doubt
whether any officer of the government
at Washington had the same accurate
and practical information as to the real
purposes of the seceding States. His
agents were in every State in the South.
some as telegraph operators, others as |
commercial men and yet others as ac-
cidental sojourners, and the informa.
tion that came to him from these
sources thoroughly convinced him that
the South was terribly in earnest ; that
her people were substantially united,
and that civil war was inevitable, This
information was known to a very nar-
row circle of those around him, and!
while he knew how fearful the peril
was, the general conviction of mem-
bers of the Legislature and of the many
visitors who came here to discuss the
issue, was that those who were moving
for war in the South were simply
bombasts and would never meet the |
North in deadly conflict.
A pointed illusiration of this senti-
ment I recall, for its impress can never
be effaced. On the night after the sur-
render of Sumpter a caucus of the ma.
jority party of the Senate and house
was held in this hall and I attended as
a member -of the Senate. Civil war
was upon us, and the most fearful prob-
lem ot our history was presented for
solution. How should it be met ? Ad-
vised of Curtin’s complete and accurate
information as to the attitude of the
South I appealed to the caucus of the
party that was charged with the re-
sponsible action of the State, to realize
the fact that we were upon the thres-
hold of war, and that the South, being
of our own blood and lineage, if plung-
ed into a struggle with the North,
would make one of the bloodiest wars
of history. For this utterance I was
hissed in every part of the hall. Alas,
how fearfully was that prophecy ful-
filled.
One of the important events of the
war in which Gov. Curtin played a
most conspicious part is little known
in history, and but imperfectly iknown
even by those who noted the great
movements which have transpired. T
refer to the Altoona conference of the
Governors of the North. It was that
conference and its heroic and patriotic
utterance, penned by Andrew G. Cur-
tin and Jobn A. Andrew, of Maesa-
chusetts, that inspired the Nation
afresh, that promptly filled up the
shattered ranks of the armies, and thus
saved the Republie.
In a conversation with the ex-Vice
President of the Southern Confederacy,
some years after the war, he told me
that the severest blow the South re-
ceived in the early part of the conflict
was the Altoona conference of the
Northern Governors that rallied the
patriotic people to the support of their
armies when the South believed that
they bad won the decisive battles of
the war. The author of that confer-
‘ence, the hero of that achievement,
‘was Andrew G. Curtin.
Nor was he merely heroic in war;
he was equally heroic in peace. I saw
him when the thunders of the shotted
guns of rebellion across in the Cum-
berland Valley reverberated around
this capital, and when the archives of
the State were gathered and loaded for
flight, and I saw him day and night
when the legions of Lee made the fate
of battle tremble in the balance during
the three bloody days at Gettysburg,
but he ever rose in his appreciation of
duty as perils rose before him.
He was ever faithful, ever wise and
ever heroic, and when the news of Lee's
surrender was flashed to thecapitol, and
the armies of the rebellion furled their
flags and sheathed their swords, from
that day until thejday of his death he
sought to bind the bruised hearts of war
and to restore the North and South to
union and fellowship. All brave men
are heroic in war ; all brave men are not
heroic in peace, and I regard his efforts
for reconciliation after the work of the
reapers in the harvest of death had end-
ed, as one of the brightest stars in his
crown.
Gov. Curtin was not only hercic in
war and heroic in peace, but he stands
out single over all the rulers of the
States of the Nation in bis heroic hu-
manity. He was the first of the loyal
Governors to organize commissions to
minister to the sick, to care for the
wounded and to bring every son of
Pennsylvania who had fallen home to
his sorrowing friends for sepulchre.
There was not & Pennsylvania com-
mand, even in the most distant part of
the South, that did not feel the kind
ministrations of the Governor of his
State, and never did a letter come to
the Executive office from a soldier in
the ranks, however humble or however
unreasonable its purport, that was not
answered from the Executive office.
He was called the Soldier's Friend, and
the title was no invention of the dema-
gogue. It was fashioned in the spon-
taneous gratitude of our gallant war-
riors, who knew that when they entered
battle the wounded would be cared for
and the dead would be brought back to
be entombed with their loved ones who
had gone before.
Did he err? Yes; let the unerring
accuse him. If only the sinless cast
stones in political and personal conflict
its pathway would not beso thickly
strewn with mangled reputations. He
was thoroughly human or he would not
have been great. It is the inexorable
decree of infinite wisdom that the judg-
ment of man shall be fallible and that
he must stumble in error, and it is best
that it should be so or it would be thus
ordained. Man is human and fallible
to teach ali that only God is God. But
who of our public men, tempted and
tried as was Curtin. left less of public
error to be forgotten? There is not a
citizen of Pennsylvania, whose annals
have made so heroic by the record of
Andrew G. Curtin, that would not join
me to-night in saying of him that ‘‘the
grave buries every error, coyers every
defect, extinguishes every resentment,
and from its peaceful hosom spring none
but fond regrets and tender recollec-
tions.”
The Thracians brought tears to the
birth couch and flowers to the tomb.
They held that life was most blessed in
its ending, but in that age there were’
few masters and many bondmen, and
life was corrowful in its burdens. In
our happier and better civilization gar-
| lands come to the cradle and to the
' grave and life may be blessed alike in |
its morning, its noonday and its eve-
| ning time. The great life that il-!
lumines its pathway by achievements, |
however richly blessed when its work is
' finished.
I stood by the side of my fallen chief
! when his eyes were lustreless and his '
| strong, beautiful features cold in death, !
i and TI could not but feel, even in the
| sorrow that bowed every heart, that a
| great heroic life was blessed in its end-
ing when its task was fulfilled. He
bore upon his breast the shield that in-
{spired and protected him in his grand-
est efforts. It was the insignia of the
Loyal Legion, and its motto of “Lex
Regit; Arma Tuenter’’—Law rules ;
arras defend—had ever been his guid-
ing star in his labors and sacrifices for |
the preservation of free government.
In sweetly mellowed gentleness he had
waited for the inexorable messenger,
| and when it came he was 1n readiness.
Nature, kind mother of us sll, in voice
50 soft that ‘““there’s nothing lives twixt
it and silence,” called to the heroic but
! weary child; The shadows of night
have gathered ; come to rest. Patriot,
statesman, philosopher, hero, friend ; for
& few swiftly fleeting days, farewell.
|
A Misunderstanding.
Being An After Dinner Episode Told in Letters
and Telegrams.
Her letter to Him.
MipNIGHT.
Dearest; Do you know who is
writing to you ? the happiest woman
in the world! When you left me an
hour—or was it a century ago—life
and the whole world had changed.
I hope I said good-night to my hos-
tess—I don’t know, I am bome now,
and I only know that you love me, I
never dared to hope for such happi-
ness. Beloved, to be loved by you!
How I pity other women who can nev-
er know that bliss—poor other wom-
en!
Before I sleep—I wonder shall I
ever sleep again—I must, in jus-
tice to you, to myself, tell you a
secret that has long been heavy
on my heart. When to-night you
whispered that you loved me and I
turned and told you I had long loved
you, did you guess my secret? You
were silent then : the flowers danced
before my eyes—did you guess how
long I had loved you? Hopelessly,
passionately, sinfully ? Let me confess
now. Long ago, when my busband
lived ; when I had no right to have
given you my heart, my soul. I hid
it from you ; pride helped me. I eaw
po sign that you cared for me. I
thought nothing of the sin—only the
shame to love a man who gave me no
thought even—and then he died and I
was free, but you cared nothing for me
His friend, you came to comfort me. I
wept upon your shoulder—an, those
tears burn yet! The rest you know—
those sunny days in Italy; those long,
long afternoon’s by the sea, when only
you and I shared God's solitude ; and
now you love me!
You will never know ; I can never
tell how much I love you—there is
beggary in the love that can be reck-
oned, but come to me to-morrow early,
and read, perhaps, in my eyes what
my lips can never say. Good-night,
dearest. N.
His letter to Her.
MIDNIGHT.
Do you know who is writing to you ?
The most wretched man on earfh. I
have done a shameful deed. An hour
ago we stood together, youand [. How
beautiful you were ; your beauty rush-
ed to my brain. I only felt the power
of your presence, your delicions man-
pers. I must be brutally frank, To-
day an old friend returned home. We
met, after years of estrangement, and
were reconciled ; we spent the day to-
gether at the club. I remembered my
dinner engagement. 1 took you down;
you jollied me for being quiet. I sat
very still ; the lights, the flowers, the
heat, the roses beat upon my brain. I
knew I must sit it out—the long din-
ner. Later we stood among the flow-
ers in the conservatory : the wine was
in my head. Your beauty, your near-
ness, your eyes—ah | your eyes! Good
God, what a brute wine can make of a
man !
In the spring before I met you in
Italy I had asked a women to give her
life into my keeping, and she cousent-
ed. And now I must be true to her if
such a thing as I can be true to any
woman. She loves me and is alone.
you pity me and have sll the world at
your feet, I dare not ask for your for-
giveness—that is not for me; you will
despise me’ and that I deserve.
May I hope for one word from you ?
A telegram from Her to Him.
Enclosed you wrong letters Pray
return it unopened. .
Telegram from Him to Her.
Telegram received before letter, I
return it as you desire.
From Her to Him,
Dear Stopip Jack: How I laughed
at your letter. Did you really think I
took you au serieux ? Am I not suffi-
ciently a woman of the world to know
when a man has dined too well ? Now,
I have a little confession to make in
taurn—the letter you returned, as I re
quested, was really a lecture, well
deserved on your part, but your contri-
tion touched my heart—hence the tele:
ram. So you are engaged! Come
and tell me all about it this afternoon
at 5. N.
From Him to Her, on a mass of
roses.
1 A thousand thanks, dearest, kindest,
| sweetest of women, Thies afternoon,
! then, shall kneel at your feet and beg
| forgiveness ! J.
Extract from Her dairy.
He will never know that I know.
Extract from His dairy.
She shall never know that I know.
For and About Women.
APPLICATIONS oF Hor WATER.—
' Headache almost always yields to the
simultaneous application of hot water to
the feet and back of the neck.
A towel folded, dipped in hot water,
wrung out rapidly and applied to the
stomach, acts like magic in cases of
colic.
There is nothing that so promptly
cuts short congestion of the lungs, sore
throat or rheumatism, as hot water
when applied promptly and thorough-
I ;
A towel folded several times, and
dipped in hot water and quickly wrung
‘out and applied over the toothache or
neuralgia, will generally afford prompt
relief.
A strip of flannel or napkin folded
lengthwise and dipped in hot water and
wrung out, and then applied around
she neck of a child that has the croup,
will sometimes bring relief in ten min-
tutes.
Hot water taken freely half an hour
before bed-time is helpful in constipa-
tion. :
The laws laid down by fashion for
wearing of mourning at present stands
thus: For a widow the duration 1s 18
months, for one year of which crepe is
worn, for three months silk, and for the
last three months half mourning. For a
father or mother, or for a father-in-law
or mother-in-law, nine months crepe,
three months silk, and three months
half mourning. Fora child over 7
years six months crepe, three months
i silk and three months half mourning ;
_ while for grandparents, brothers, sisters,
brother-in-law or sister-in-law, three
months crepe, three months silk und
three months half mourning are the al-
lotted times.
The rage for fancy waists made of
every sort of dress material isso great
that establishments have been opened
both 1n this city and out of it that man-
ufacture these pretty garments exclu-
sively, Instead of diminishing in pop-
ularity they are likely to become a
standard article of dress, like a long-
mitted glove or a black silk stocking.
Even ladies of wealth have been swift
to discover the merits and advantages
of the variety achieved by the posses-
sion of half a dozen different waists to
one handsome black skirt, rather than
putting the same expense in one or two
entire costumes which soon bear their
date and tire with their sameness.
“The little curl in the middle of the
forehead’’ has almost disappeared, and
the hair is now parted in the middle,
waved, and a few loose little curls are
allowed to fall at the side of the fore-
head. Curling the hair loosely about
the brow is always softening to the face
with much style, to affect the severe
style so popular in the smart set. It is
not as pretty nor as becoming and a lit-
tle wave all through the hair is desir-
able.
The three women members of the
Colorado Legislature—Mrs. Carrie
Clyde Holly, Mrs. Francis Klock and
Mrs. Clara Cressingham—are consider-
ably above the average of intelligence
in the Legislature. Mrs. Holly is a
dark and pretty woman, with a wealth
of dark hair. She went to the assembly
to take ber seat accompanied by her
husband and child. At tirst the door-
keeper refused admission to her hus-
band and child, but they were finally
admitted as visitors. Mrs. Holly was
born in this city, has a good figure, and
wears her hair in a striking style. Mrs.
Klock, who was born in North Lee,
Mass., is somewhat indifferent on the
question of dress, but it is deeply inter-
ested in all the great questions of the
day. She is not afraid to say what she
believes. Mrs. Cressingham is a slight
blonde. with blue eyes, isa stylish
dresser, she has a good figure, and is a
clear and forceful speaker. She was
! born in Brooklyn and is the oldest
. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seth W.
Howard, of that city. It is predicted
that she will be very popular with the
members of the Legislature.
Miss Clara Brett Martin, the leading
woman lawyer in Canada, has been
nominated for School Trustee in
Toronto.
It is said that sleeves for spring and
summer gowns will be very much
smaller than those on my lady's winter
gowns. This is, indeed, pleasant news,
when considered from a financial out-
look, but the woman with a large waist
will surely not hail this information
with delight. The voluminous sleeve
seems about to be cut down in its career
of expansion, for the Princess of Wales
and the Duchess of York have declared
in favor of one of more modest propor-
tions.
A beautiful waist was worn by a fash-
ionable young matron atthe Lillian
Russell matinee last Saturday. It was
made of black and white striped satin,
shirred to form a round yoke. The
waist was cut round and had suspender
bands of ribbon decorated with jet and
tied into bows on the shoulders. The
neck was trimmed with a crush collar
of cerise miroir velvet, with a rosette
at the back and one at each side. TFold-
ed around the waist was a belt of black
satin ribbon. Long ends of the ribbon
fell from two rosettes at the back to the
edge of the skirt, which was a handsome
godet, made, I think, of silkwarp
Henrietta. The sleeves of the waist
were full, untrimmed leg-of-mutton.
The girl of the period begins with a
buckle at the throat; a large square
gold buckle set into a black velvet
band. Out from the opposite sides of
that buckle there run bows ; four bows,
long bows, black velvet bows that reach
even to the shoulders. Down from be-
hind the four bows there falls on each
side a black velvet end. That end
comes nearly to the waist and stops un-
der a fat rosette of biack velvet baby
ribbons. The waist itself is very trim-
fitting. It doesn’t appear to have any
seams. The girl just growed in it, like
Topsey, apparently. It’s made of a
pale rosy brown cloth, that’s warm and
delicate at the same time. It has sleeves.
You know sleeves, though they say you
can cut them presently The sleeves
are of black and brown and apple green
checked silk ; shiny and changeable.
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