Denard
Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 22, 1895.
THE WOUNDED GULL.
The children Jaughed and called it tame !
But ah ! one dark and shrivel’d wing
Hung by its side ; the gull was lame,
A suffering and deserted thing.
With painful care it downward crept ;
Its eye was on the rolling sea;
Close to our very feet it stept,
Upon the wave, and then—was free.
Right out into the east it went, x
Too proud, we thought, to flap or shriek ;
Slowly it steered, in wonderment
To find its enemies so meek.
Calmly it steered, and mortal dread
Disturbed not crest nor glossy plume ;
It could but die, and being dead,
The open sea should be its tomb.
We watched it till we saw it float
Almost beyond our furthest view ;
It flickered like a paper boat,
Then faded in the dazzling blue.
It could but touch an English-heart
To find an English bird so brave ;
Our life blood glowed to see it start
Thus boldly on the leaguered wave ;
And we shall hold till life departs,
For flagging days when hope grows dull,
Fresh as a spring within our hearts,
The courage of the wounded gull.
— Edmund Gosse.
ECS ——
WASHINGTON.
BY FLORENCE MARION HOWE HALL.
There are in the possession of Mr.
David Prescott Hall, of New York bar
a series of quaint old mauuscript vol-
umes, which look as if they had seen
rich service.
As they were written in the camp of
the continental army, during the war
of the American Revolution, sometimes
on the knee of the writer, sometimes
on a drum head ; as they were carried
about from place to place, borne off in
hearty retreats, or in forced searches,
it must be confessed that their looks
do not belie them.
Nevertheless, the clever 11 short,
stout, sturdy books are in a very fair
state of preservation, and are easily
legible, save occasionally at the cor-
ners, which are in some places frayed
and worn.
When I add that these orderly
books contain the general orders of
Washington to his army, it will be
seen that their interest and value are
very great.
These orderly books are in the
hand writing of Colenel Grosvenor.
On their yellow, time-stained pages
one can trace the record of Washing:
ton’s daily struggles to organize and
discipline the army, from the day
when he first took command of it, un-
der the spreading elm at Cambridge.
They abound with the most minute
details of the intention, and give us a
photographic picture of the army and
its surroundings, all in the quaint lan-
guage and peculiar spelling of that by-
gone time, One cannot help smiling
at these times, but one hardly knows
whether to smile or weep at the for-
lorn condition of our little army,
which is here so vividly revealed.
The loftiness and nobility of Wash-
ington’s character shine out in these
pages. But be often gives expression
to his surprise, and sometimes to his
just indignation at the conduct of offi-
cers and men, who found it very diffi-
cult and distasteful to submit to disci-
pline.
Washington's early experience as a
soldier had taught him the absolute
necessity of discipline and obedience,
and he gradually enforced both on the
little army of raw militia, who had to
learn that bravery is not the only
qualification necessary for a soldier.
WASHINGTON’S FIRST COMMAND TO HIS
TROOPS.
Headquarters, Cambridge, July the
3d, 1775.
Parole lookout.
Countersign sharp.
Field officer of the day to-morrow,
Colouvel Gerry.
Field officer of the mainguard to
morrow, Major Poor. :
Adjutant of the day, Gibbs.
General orders by his Excellency
General Washington, Esq., Command:
er-in-chiet of the forces of the United
Colonies in North America. That the
colonel or commanding officer of each
regiment is ordered forthwith to make
the returns of the number of men in
their respective regiments, distinguish-
ing those who are sick, wounded or
absent on furlough, and also the qnan-
tity of ammunition each regiment has.
On the next day an extensive series
of orders was given.
Returns were to be made by the
proper officers of all military and oth-
er stores, including “working tools of
all kinds, tents and camp kettles.”
The wise father of his country thus
urged upon his troops the laying aside
of all sectional spirit :
“The Continental Congress baying
now taken all the troops ot the several
colonies which have been raised and
which may be hereafter raised for the
support and defence of the liberties of
America into their pay and service.
they are now the troops of the United
Provinces of North America, and it is
hoped that all distinctions of colonies
will be laid aside so that one and the
same spirit may animate the whole
and the only contest be who shall, on
this great and trying occasion, be of
the most a service to the great
common cause in which we are all en-
gaged.”
The seventh order of this day's se-
ries urges the officers to keep their
men in good condition.
“All officers are required and expec-
ted to pay their diligent attention to
keep their men neat and clean, to visit
them at their quarters * * * they
are particular to see that they have
straw to lie on if it is to be had and to
make it known if they are destitute of
this article.”
And the tenth shows that small-pox,
which in those days, before the discov-
ery of vaccination, was & terrible |
scourge, was not far distant : |
“No person whatever is to be al-,
lowed to go to *Freshwater a fishing
or on any other occasion, as there
may be danger of introducing the
small-pox nto the army.”
#Probably Fresh Pood near Cam-
bridge. '
SCARCITY OF POWDER.
The scarcity of powder wag one of
the most distressing wants of the little
army, and we find it ordered in this
first Fourth of July of our national
struggle, “that there be no piece of can-
non or emall arms fired from any of
the lines or elsewhere, except in cases
of necessary defense or special order
given for that purpose.” Our men
could not afford to waste a single
rouad of shot or powder, and this or-
der had to be repeated more than once.
Notwithstanding all Washington's
caution, however, it was found a little
later that the powder was almost ex-
hausted. The committee of supplies
had made a strange mistake. They
had made a return of all the powder
collected by the province, more than
three hundred barrels, but had forgot-
ten to to say how much of it had al-
ready been used up. There was only
enough to furnish nive cartridges to
each man.
On the 4th of August Washington
wrote to the president of Congress, tell-
ing them of this distressing state of
things, and on the same day be issued
this order :
«Tt is with indignation and shame
that the general observes, notwith-
standing the repeated orders which
have been given to prevent the firing
of guns in and about the camp, that it
is daily and hourly practiced contrary
to all orders. That straggling soldiers
who practice to pass the guards and
fire at a distance when there is not the
least probability of hurting their ene
mies and by which no other end is an-
swered than to waste their ammunition
and keep their own companies in preg-
nant and continual alarm to the hart
and detriment of every good soldier,
which is hereby disturbing his natural
rest, and at length will never be able to
distinguish between a real and false
alarm.” After forbidding all persons
to pass the out guards without proper
authorization, and declaring that any
one offending in this way will be con-
sidered as a common enemy, to be
fired upon as such, the order continues
thus : “The colonels of regiments and
commanders of corps are ordered to
gee to it that the rolls of every com-
pany be called twice a day and every
man’s ammunition examined at eve-
ning roll call and such as are found to
be deficient, are to be confined.”
In other words some of the soldiers
of the continental army needed to
have their stock of powder examined,
just as a boy’s pockets need a nightly
overhauling by his mother.
This seeming severity was made a
necessity from the great danger of the
situation of our troops. During a fort
night they were virtually without pow-
der. The British, from their position
on Bunker Hill, commanded a full
view of the American workers on Win-
ter and Prospect Hills. Indeed the
sentries of the two armies were ‘near
enough to converse together and occa-
sionally did so on the sly.
We find our noble general ‘hears
with astonishment that not only sold-
iers, but officers, unauthorized are con-
tinually conversing with the officers
and sentinels of the enemy.”
How great must have been his anx-
iety least they should betray to the
enemy our lack of the necessities of
war |
His thought that the British com-
mander must have heard in this or
gome other way of our alarming coon-
dition, but that the boldness with
which our army maintained their po-
gition made him think the story could
not be true!
Washington's constant appeals to the
patriotism and houor of his soldiers
show how thoroughly he appreciated
their bravery and sterling virtue. His
reproof to them should be cousidered
as the necessary rebukes of their
chief to his military children. The
soldiers were like members of a great
family and they occasionally behaved
like school boys.
THE DRUMS MUST NOT BE BEATEN BEFORE
DAYLIGHT.
Thus too great and early a zeal
sometimes animated the drummers, as
on July 20, 1775, when :
“Certain drums in or near Cam-
bridge very improperly beat the reveil-
le this morning before day ; although
the troops are ordered to be under
arms half an hour before daylight, it
does not follow that the drums are to
be beat at that time ; the reveille is to
beat when a sentry can see clearly one
thousand yards before him and not be-
fore.”
What this sentry was to do in foggy
weather does not appear.
Washington was obliged to insist re-
peatedly that his orders should be
read every evening to all the soldiers,
since this important duty was too often
neglected, and to declare that igno-
rance of orders would not be admitted
in “excuse of any delinquency.”
The persistency of the men in ask-
ing leave to go off on furlough troub-
led him very much. No doubt he
sympathized with their desire to visit
their families, but what was to become
of the army if so many of its boys went
home for recess?
On July 8 he thus reasoned with
them :
The general hears with astonish-
ment the frequent applications that
are made to him as well by officers as
goldiers- for furloughs. Brave men,
who are engaged in the noble cause of
liberty, should never think of remov-
ing from the camp while the enemy is
in sight, and anxious to take every ad-
vantage any indiscretion on our side
may give them, The General doubts
not but the commanding officers of
corps will anticipate his wishes and
discourage those under them from dis-
gracefully desiring to go home till the
campaign is ended.”
ENLISTING IN SEVERAL REGIMENTS FOR-
BIDDEN.
The commander-in-chief was also an-
noyed by the restlessness of the sold-
iers, in changing from one regiment to
another, perhaps in order to be wiih
their friends, or for some other advan-
tage, real or imaginary.
“Continual complaints being made
that soldiers of regiments and compan-
jes enlisting in one company and regi-
ment have often gone and enlisted in
another ; inasmuch as the general's
whole time would be ingrossed to hear
the disputes, upon this subject, for the
future any officers who have any dis-
putes in regard to the men returned
are to apply to the brigadier com-
manding the brigade, who will order a
court-martial of the brigades to hear
and determine the matters.” *
Not only was our army without uni-
forms at this time, but even ordinary
clothing were sadly needed by some of
the men.
The Massachusetts troops, who
formed two-thirds of the whole force
(9,000 out of 14,000), were among the
most destitute, as that colony had
hitherto, borne the brunt of the war,
and the troubles which precede it.
Washington generously said, “Their
spirit has exceeded their strength.
He also ordered that “The clothing
provided by the Massachusetts com-
mittee of supplies for those men of
their Government who lost clothes in
the late action on Bunker Hill be dis-
tributed to the most needy and necessi-
tous men of each regiment.”
AWKWARD AND EMBARRASSING RESULTS
FROM THE LACK OF UNIFORMS.
The entry for July 14 says :
“There being some things awkward
as well as improper the general officers
being stopped at the out port in pass:
ing by the sentinels and obliged to send
tor the officer of the guard, who some-
times happens as much unacquainted
with the person of the general as the
privatemen ; before they can pass in
orout: It is recommended to both
officers and men to make themselves
acquainted with the persons of all the
officers in general command and in
the meanwhile to prevent mistakes the
general officers and their aiddecamps
are to be distinguished by a little blue
ribbon worn across the breast between
his coat and his waistcoat, the major
generals and brigadier generals by a
pink ribbon wore in like manner ; the
aiddecamps by a green ribbon.”
An order issued a few days later
gays : “As the continental army have
unfortunately no uniform, and conse-
quently many inconveniences must
ariee from not being able always to
distinguish the commissioned officers
from the uncommissioned and the non-
commissioned from the private, it is de-
sired that some badges of distinction
may be immediately provided ; for in-
stance the field officers may have red
or pink colored cockades in their hats,
ete.’
WASHINGTON URGES HIS MEN TO RESPECT
PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Two days after he attained com"
mand, Washington issued the follow-
ing order :
“The general most earnestly recom-
mends and requires of all the officers
that they be exceedingly diligent and
strict in preventing all invasions and
capture of private property in their
quarters or elsewhere. He hopes, and
indeed, flatters himeelf that every pri-
vate soldier will abhor and detest such
practices when he considers that it is
for the preservation of his own rights,
liberty and property and them of his
fellow-countrymen, that he is now
called into service ; that it is unmanly
and sullies the dignity of the great
cauge in which we are all engaged to
violate that property he is called to
protect, and especially that it is most
cruel and inconsistent to thus add to
the distress of those of their country-
men who are suffering under the iron
hand of oppression.”
Thus, with an eye to detail, which
reminds us of Napoleon, did Washing
ton day after day inspect, exhort,
chide and praise his little army until
the feeble crescent of his forces grew
to be a circlet of steel about the British
army as it lay in Boston town, forcing
the proud General Howe to a precipi
tate retreat.
Early in March Washington seized
upon and fortified Dorchester Heights
(now South Boston), riding among his
troops, animating and encouraging
them, and reminding them that it was
the 5th of March—the anniversary of
the Boston massacre.
The forts poured a heavy cannonade
against our breastworks, but in vain!
We were masters of the situation,
the power of the British received a se-
vere blow, and Washington took pos-
session of Boston amid general rejoic-
ings.
Often, in the days of childhood, I
played among the remains of the old
fortifications on Dorchester Heights ;
now the hills have all been dug
down in the march of progress.
On the birthday of the father of his
country it becomes us all to look back
to those times of early struggle, pov-
erty and patriotism, and to remember
that ours is the work to keep the path
of progress still the path of patriot-
ism,”
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Her Father Was a King.
LEBANON, Pa., Feb. 15.—Mrs. Har-
riet A. BEskins, whose father reigned as
king of Guinea, died here yesterday,
aged 111 years. She leaves two daugh-
ters, Frances J. Eskins, of William-
sport, and Mrs. H. A. Baker, of this
city, besides, forty-four grandchildren,
thirty-seven great grandchildren, eigh-
teen great-great grand children and
Sinan great-great-great grand-chil-
ren.
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Families Are Starving.
HENNESSY, O. T., February 17.—An
appeal for aid has been issued by set-
tiers in the strip. Hundreds of families
are absolutely starving, eating prairie
dogs and horses. The suffering is un-
paralleled. Cattle have been dying in
droves as a result of the unprecedented
“northers’’ which visited both territories
and Texas within the past few weeks.
The State Expenditures. |
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Origin of Cold Waves.
It is evident from the number and | 4 Timely Talk With Prof. Hazen on Zero Weath-
magoitude of the sums asked for in the
way of appropriations for various pur-
poses, the legislature will find it diffi-
cult to keep expenditures for the next
two years within the treasury receipts,
remarks the Pittsburg Commercial Ga-
sette. The “claims” are not all in yet,
and even at this early date an aggre-
gate of $30,000,000 can be figured up.
As against this enormous sum the
state treasurer estimates that the re-
ceipts for the next two years will not
exceed $19,500,000, or about $2,000,
000 lees than for the past two years.
It is very plain that $30,000,000 can
not safely be appropriated when less
than $20,000,000 is in sight subject to
draft. There will have to be a severe
pruning down wherever the knife can
be applied, or the credit of the state
for good financiering and economical
government will suffer.
There is one thought running
through the legislative mind—that
this is a great state ; that is practically
out of debt, and that its resources are
almost limitless. This is true, and
very creditable to the financial mau-
agement of past years. But that is
one of the strongest reasons why the
greatest care should be exercised in au-
thorizing public expenditures. It will
not do to enter upon an era of extrava-
gant expenditures in times like these.
Owing to business depression the state
receipts will be curtailed as indicated
above, and it would be very unwise to
pursue a policy which will tend to in-
crease taxation or add to the state
debt.
There are some items which cannot
be curtailed, nor is it desirable that
they should be ; but there are others
that can be more or less reduced,
and many applications for money that
should be peremptorily denied. The
creation of needless offices and the in-
crease of salaries are evils that cannot
be too carefully guarded against.
Many of the schemes involving large
expenditures, while commendable
enough in themselves, are not necessa-
rily pressing. They can afford to wait
a more convenient season. Times
will doubtless improve in the near fu-
ture, but this is not the time for en-
couraging lavish expenditares. Gov-
ernor Hastings has promised to look
after this matter, and as things appear
now he will have to make use of the
veto power to ease the strain upon the
treasury.
TTT I ETE.
Housekeeper.
To make excellent iron-holders cut a
pair of worn-out boots or shoes into
squares and cover with some suitable
material, using as many thicknesses of
the leather as desired and whipping it
closely in place.
Bait the rat-trap with an oyster and
await results.
Letting clothes hang after they are
dry, or letting them hang through a
storm orin a windy weather to slap
about is not conducive to long wearing
or to help the good man’s pocket-book.
This is said to be an effectual vermin
exterminator : Dissolve two pounds of
alum in two or three quarts of boiling
water and apply, while hot, to every
joint or crevice where ants and cock-
roaches congregate. It is useful for
pantry shelves and bedsteads, for kitch-
en floors and baseboards. Use a brush
in applying it.
Wash out machine oil stains at once
with soft cold water and soap.
I PEC TY ATR TT TH
Tunneled Through a Snow-Drift.
READING, Pa., February 16.—Some
farmers of Berks county were able to-
day, for the first time since the blizzard,
to reach this city. Many of the town-
ship roads are still impassable, and
nearly everybody who can handle a
shovel is engaged in opening the drifted
highways. The Supervisor of Robeson
township, Samuel Lewis, encountered a
drift twenty-two feet high and sixty
feet ‘wide on the road leading from
Beckersville to Adamstown. This was
tunneled, after which John D. Mountz
proprietor of the Beckersville Hotel,
drove through with a wagon drawn by
four horses and crowded with men and
women.
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DuBois Young Man’s Luck.
Howard W. Bowman, gon of Mrs. E.
K. Bowman, of DuBois, seems to have
struck it rich. For the last couple of
years he has been engaged in various bus-
iness enterprises in the southwest. Re-
cently, while in New Mexico, Bowman,
in company with another young man,
secured some property near La Belle, a
new mining town. Rich deposits of
gold were found on the property, and a
company, in which Bowman holds &
controlling interest, was formed. An
offer of $25,000 for the land was refused,
and experts have placed its value at
$5,000,000. It will be developed.
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Sound Proof.
A gentleman who lives ina Southern
town the other day employed a carpen-
ter to partition off a part of his study.
and particularly instructed the work-
man to make the partition sound proof,
The carpenter declared that he could do
this effectually with a filling of sawdust.
When it was finished the gentleman
stood on the other side and celled to the
carpenter on the other : “Can’t you
hear me, Smith ?”’
«No, sir, not a bit,” was the prompt
reply.
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Had Thought About It.
Kind Lady—“Do you ever think of
the solemn fact that we all must
die ?”’
Tramp—‘ Yes, mum, often.”
“So do I, and I hope to die the death
of a Christian. Have you ever thought
of the death you would like to die ?”
«Yes, mum, I'd like to be drowned in
a beer vat.”
A
Buckeye Ambition.
«But, great heavens !” said the man,
uyou are already an editor, postmaster,
Justice of the Peace and undertaker.
‘Why in thunder should you have the
county clerkship ?” :
“Sir,” said the other man, proudly,
drawing himself up to his full height,
«I was born in Ohio.”
¢r.—No Blizzards in the East.—Biting Blasts
From the Northwest, Probably Dueto a Down~
rush of Rarefied Air From the Frigid Regions
Up Aloft.
Writing from Washington to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat a correspont says:
«We have some kinds of weather in the
United States that are unknown abroad,”
said Protessor H. A. Hazen yesterday.
«Take the recent cold wave, for example.
It was a record-breaker, you know, car-
rying the rigors of winter to a lower lati-
tude than has been known for 60 years
at least. Florida suffered $4,000,000
worth of damage. At Pensacola the
oranges froze hard on the trees. The
thermometer at Tampa fell to 18 de-
grees above zero—5 degrees below the
lowest ever noted. At Orange Park ice
two inches thick formed on ponds. A
cold wave of equal severity, it is said,
struck the flowery peninsula in 1885, |
but temperatures were not then recorded
with reliable accuracy.
BLIZZARDS UNKNOWN IN THE EAST.
“Cold waves are unknown in Europe.
We may justly pride ourselves upon
them as an American institution It is
the same way with blizzards. Who
ever heard of a blizzard in Europe ?
The thing does not exist over there. In
England some very extraordinary no-
tions prevail as to blizzards. When a
Yankee finds himself out in a blizzard
his customary resort is to take off every
stitch of his clothing. You never heard
of that, eh ? Well, the statement is made
by many British authors. I have suc-
ceeded in tracing it as far back as Aber-
crombie, the eminent meteorologist,
who gives it his unquestioning indorse-
ment. Where or how it originated no-
body can say. This quaint myth is
based on the idea that a storm of this
character produces a demoralizing effect
upon the mind to the person exposed to
its fury, causing him to shed his gar-
ments when he needs them most. I
myself have been on the plainsin a very
severe blizzard, but I felt no such incli-
nation as that described. And no won-
der, inasmuch as the air was filled, not
with snowflakes, but with actual nee-
dles of ice, which stung most painfully
wherever they struck the flesh. These
ice needles are a phenomencn peculiar
to blizzards ; but the latter have another
eccentricity yet more remarkable. The
wind seems to blow all ways at once,
and whatever direction you may pursue
it is always in your face. Such a thing
as a real blizzard is not known in the
Eastern parts of the United States ; it
belongs to the West. The so-called
blizzard that struck New York and
buried the metropolis under several feet
of snow in March, 1888, was not the
true article, but merely a great storm.
THE ORIGIN OF COLD WAVES.
«Cold waves are very strange phenom-
ena. Nobody knows with certainty
where they come from or how they are
formed. They are formed somewhere
inland in the far northwest, in the lati-
tude of greatest cold, which, as you
know, is a good wey south of the North
Pole. At the North Pole it is probably
comparatively warm, and that extremity
of the earth’s axis is perhaps surrounded
by an open and an unfrozen sea. As
for the typical cold wave, my belief is
that it is composed of air drawn down
from the higher and more frigid regions
of the atmosphere. Ascend to an alti-
tude of 80 miles above the earth’s sur-
face, and you might find a rarefied air
at a temperature of 100 degrees below
zero, or even much lower. The body
of cold formed by the downrush of this
frigid air from above starts on a journey
eastward across the continent, travel-
ing at the speed of a fast railway train,
say, 35 or 40 miles an hour. As it pro-
ceeds it spreads out. Obviously, the
cold air would be gradually warmed dur-
ing the trip unless the wave were re-
plenished with cold in some fashion. My
notion is that while the wave is in tran-
sit fresh cold is continually drawn into
it from above, where there is always an
unlimited supply of air at an extremely
low temperature. Finally, the wave
passes off over the ocean. In some man-
ner the Allegheny Mountains seem to
interrupt the passage of cold waves, to
a certain extent, as if the cold air was
banked up against the range of hills,
and its passage thus impeded. On this
account it is very dificult to predict
cold waves for the region about Wash-
ington,
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America a Hundred Years Ago.
Imprisonment for debt was a common
practice. -
There was not a public library in th
United States.
Every gentlemen wore a queue and
powdered his hair.
Almost ail the furniture was import-
ed from England.
An old copper mine in Connecticut
was used as a prison.
There was only one hat factory, and
that made cocked hats.
Crockery plates were objected to be-
cause they dulled the knives.
Two stage coaches bore all the travel
between New York and Boston.
Virginia contained a fifth of the
whole population of the country.
A man who jeered at the preacher or
criticised the sermon was fined.
A day laborer considered himself well
paid with two shillings a day.
A gentleman bowing to a lady al-
ways scraped his foot on the ground.
The whipping post and pillory were
still standing in Boston and New York.
Beef, pork, salt fish, potatoes and
hominy, were the staple diet all the
year round.
Buttons were scarce and expensive,
and the trousers were fastened with pegs
or lacers.
When a man had enough tea he plac-
ed his spoon across his cup to indicate
that he wanted no more.
Leather breeches, a checked shirt, a
red flannel jacket, and a cocked hat
formed the dress of an artisan.
There were no manufacturers in this
country, and every housewife raised her.
own flax and made her own linen.
The church collection was taken in a
bag at the end of a pole, with a bell at-
tached to rouse sleepy contributors.
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Not in His Line.
Miss Golddust—Are you fond of
water colors, count ?
Couut Non-Bathskie—Naw ! I don’t
"like vater in anyding.
For and About Women.
. “THE NEW WOMAN,”
She does not “languish in her bower,”
Or squander all the golden day
In fashioning a gaudy flower
tpon a worsted spray ;
Nor is she quite content to wait
Behind her “rose-wreathed lattice-pane,
Until beside her father’s gate
The gallant Prince draws rein.”
The brave “New Woman™ scorns to sigh,
And count it “such a grievous thing”
That year on year should hurry by
‘And po gay suitor bring ;
In labor’s ranks she takes her place,
With skillful hands and cultured mind ;
Not always foremost in the race,
But never far behind.
And not less lightly fall her feet
Because they tread the busy ways ;
She is no whit less fair and sweet
Than maids of olden days
Who, gowned in samite or brocade,
Looked charming in their dainty guise,
But dwelt like violets in the shade,
With shy, half-opened eyes.
Of life she takes a clearer view,
And through the press serenely moves,
Unfettered, free ; with judgment true
Avoiding narrow grooves.
She reasons, and she understands ;
And sometimes 'tis her joy and crown
To lift with strong yet tender hands
The burdens men lay down.
E. Matheson.
Ribbons are in great demand, especial-
ly very broad ones. They make their
appearance as folding sashes with long
ends on dresses, ruches and epaulettes
on cloaks and often are tied in a large
bow over the chest. The most fashion-
able ones are black velvet and those
with both sides of = different color and
texture, and among the latter the com-
bination of white and black is quite the
furore.
Oatmeal and bran bags which are used
in the bath to whiten and soften the
skin, can easily be made by the average
woman. Take five pounds of oatmeal,
ground fine, half a pound of pure castile
soap, powdered, and a pound of Italian
orris root. Cut a yard of thin cheese
cloth into bags four inches square, sew
three sides on the machine, leaving an
opening in the fourth side. Fill the bags
loosely and use as required. Bran can
be used instead of oatmeal and in the
same way. Use the bags as a sponge.
The bran is especially effective asa
whitener, and is good for some affections
of the skin, while the orris root gives 8
delicate and lasting perfume.
The shape of the spring skirt differs in
no great degree from the winter model
of the front gores and godet back. In-
stead of the deadly heavy haircloth,
however, the interlining is of the lighter
grass-cloth, a Paquin wire braid giving
the proper stand-off effect at the feet.
The jacket, whose short bottom flares
slightly over the hips and lies at the
back in two inturning pleats, is tight fit-
ting. It opens over a trim, high-collar-
ed vest of blue and white pique, and the
large sleeves are gigot-shaped and held
in place at the top with shirring. This
shirring, by the way, marks all the new
tailor sleeve tops. The cutaway jacket,
too, is offered as a rival for the longer
coat, and a younger fancy for this than
the one described is to have the tail rip-
ple slightly all round.
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The best tailor sleeves yet seen are, as
heretofore, huge mutton-leg affairs, cut
on the bias, They are not perceptibly
stiffened, but are held gracefully out by
a solid linen interlining, and often good
effects are made by laying the lower in-
side seam in pleats. This brings much
of the fullness from underneath, and it
is balanced by a cluster of pleats at the
upper inside seam, the two causing the
seam to fall over the arm in heavy half-
ring folds. Another becoming sleeve
being adopted for new tailor gowns is
made with a vast upper arm puff and a
long cuff, that fits the forearm like a
glove. The puff drops sharply from the
shoulder, the outward bulge that now
distinguishes all modish sleeves coming
only at the lower part.
The day of frowsy, frizzy hair has en-
tirely gone by, unfortunately for the
girls with fine soft tresses which fail to
make any show atall without the friend-
ly aid of the curling tongs. Thick
glossy hair, with only the least bit of a
wave, If any is now the correct thing,
and, though it might not appear so at
the first glance, it is really more trouble
to keep it in good order than it was to
manage the crimps and curls which re-
quire manifold little paper wads or the
withering hot irons.
One of two very youthful evening
dresses is made of spotted muslin with a
full plain skirt over one of taffeta, which
may match the muslin or contrast with
it. The full simple waist is cut square
at the neck and edged with a frill of the
material, with here and there a small
bunch of flowers. A band of ribbon
goes around the waist and ties in a bow
on the left side, from which it falls half-
way down the skirt and ends in a bow.
Chiffon and mull are favorite mater-
ials with young girls for evening wear.
A dainty dress of white mull is trimmed
around the skirt with a curved flounce
of the same, headed by a tiny wreath of
rose buds and caught with pink satin
bows. The baby waist is belted with a
sash of pink ribbon, and the neck is
finished with points of pearl and pink
spangled trimming. Pink ribbon forms
the straps over the shoulders.
Pique coats will be all the vogue for
small girls this sumnie.. Some are short
and some are long, but all are elabor-
ately trimmed with embreidery. Jaunty
little coats are double breasted and reach
just below the waist line. They fasten
with smoked-pearl buttons and have
double collars of embroidery. Some of
the pique coats reach the hem of the
gown and are made with long English
capes of insertion finished with an em-
broidery frill. Large pique hats are sold
with these coats. They have a Tam
o’Shanter-like crown buttoned to the
wide brim, A little French model of
a pique coat and hat shows the short
jacket of white pique. The deep sailor
collar is of insertion, lined with pale-
green silk and trimmed with a frill of
embroidery which also shows the green
silk beneath. The pique hat is made
with a green silk Tam o’Shanter crown.
Other pique coats are trimmed with in-
sertion, which is lined with a dainty
color.
There are between 300 and 100 women
in the United States who have received
their degree in pharmacy, the majority
of whom have charge of the drug rooms
of various hospitals.