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THE DREAM-SHIP.
When all the world is fast asleep,
Along the midnight skies—
As though it were a wandering cloud—
The i Dream-Ship flies.
An angel stands at the Dream-Ships’s helm,
An angel stands at the prow, :
And an angel stands at the Dream-Ships side
With rue wreath on her brow.
The other angels, silver-crowned,
Pilot and helmsman are,
But the angel with the wreath of rue
Tosseth the dreams afar.
‘The dreams they fall on rich and poor,
They fall on young and old ;
And some are dreams of poverty
And some are dreams of gold.
And some are dreams that thrill with joy, =
And some that melt to tears;
Some are dreams of the dawn of love,
And some of the old, dead years.
On rich and poor alike they fall,
Alike on young and old, .
Bringing to Sinmbeiing earth their joys
And sorrows manifold.
The friendless youth in them shall do
The deeds of mighty men,
And drooping age shall feel the grace
Of buoyant youth again.
The king shall be a beggarman,
The pauper be a king—
In that revenge of recomp2nse
The Dream-Ship dreams to bring.
So ever downward float the dreams
That are for and me,
And there is never mortal man
Can solve that mystery.
But ever onward in its course
Along the haunted skies—
As though it were a cloud astray—
I'he ghostly Dream-Ship flies.
Two angels with their silver crowns
Pilot and helmsman are,
And an angel with a wreath of rue
Tosseth the dreams afar.
— Eugene Field in the Ladies’ Home Journal.
A MUCH NEEDED REFORM.
Women are active nowadays in all
manner of reforme, moral and civic,
but there is no place where such work
is more needed than in their own im-
mediate neighborhood. Dressing and
living expenses have become so terri-
ble burdensome that a movement to-
‘'ward-plainness and simplicity in living
and dressing is a moral necessity. The
burden has become too intolerable to
be borne, especially when it only min.
isters to discomfort and disease, the
destruction of home happiness, and
financial bankruptcy.
Many a young business man be:
comes hopelessly involved because of
his wife’s extravagance. A recent pa-
per records the case of a young mar:
ried man who fled from his home,
leaving his property all in the hands
of his creditors, but his obligations
were all to local tradespeople
for current expenses in his
household. Some time ago the
the cashier of a bank was arrested
and imprisoned for embezzlement, He
had neither gambled nor speculated,
but his family expenses were greater
than his income, and he yielded to the
the temptation of increasing it by dis-
honest means. Woman’s foolish ex-
penditures have sent many a kind man
to prison or financial disgrace.
It is a hopeful sign that in many of
_our best young ladies schools efforts
are being made to overcome fashion-
able follies. One of our schools found
that the young ladies became so ah-
corbed in fashionable dressing that it
seriously interfered with their studies,
and a neat uniform suit of blue serge,
made in a healthful way, was required
of all the scholars. This stopped all
rivalry as to who should exhibit most
expensive clothing, and the young la-
dies were just as pretty in their blue
suits as in any others. Other educa-
tors insist that, if girls expect to hold
their place in college without breaking
down a uniform healthful style of dress
must be adopted. They cannot study
all day and spend their evenings and
vacations making and altering gar-
ments. Corsets are forbidden in many
échools, and an effort is made to in-
crease the lurg capacity rather than
diminish it.
I recently attended the closing ex-
ercises of a school of elocution and
physical culture. One class of young
ladies came upon the stage in loose
classical dress, belted in at the waist,
but without trimming or decoration,
and no handeomer young ladies were
seen that evening. The thought came
tome: What an immense saving of
time, labor, health, money, worry, and
often of character, it would be if some
such simple, healthful style of dressing
could be adopted and retained. The
constant changing of fashion is enor-
mously wasteful of everything that is
good, and promotes pride, poverty, dis-
ease, discontent, crime, and almost
everything that is bad, It is every
woman's interest and duty to be as
beautiful and attractive as possible ;
but woman are not usually attractive
when first arrayed in a new fashion.
It takes a little while’to get reconciled
even to women in bustles, or big
sleeves. But fashion, like sin.
“is a monster of such hideous mien
That to be hated needs but to be seen ;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with its face,
he first endure, then pity, then em-
race.’
But the “embracing” time hardly oc-
curs till fashions change again. and the
whole operation of disgust and recon-
ciliation must be peated. Itis wonderful
evidence of wemauns power toplease that
notwithstanding all this foolishness,
she still holds her influence over the
hearts of men-
If women are pretty in the summer's
style, they will be just as pretty in it
next summer ; but some irresponsible
power decides that what was beautiful
and becoming last season is hideous
this, Everything must be thrown
away or made over, which is about the
same thing, The enormous waste and
worry involved in this ever-recurring
process is worthy the careful investiga-
tion of political ecopamists, as well as
humenitarians and Christians. Life is
too short for such foolishness. Noth-
ing but sin is more ruinous to indivi- |
dnal and family happiness than in-
valid women. But tight dresses, long,
heavy skirts, corsets, and other abomi-
nations are largely responsible forsick-
ness among women and a consequent
enfeeblement of the race.
A vigorous race demands healthy
mothers. Look at the style of dress
in vogue this summer, and it is per.
haps as little objectionable as usual—
wide, long heavy skirts, that make
walking difficult. ¥The gain that would
accrue to the race, in the way of in-
creased health and happiness and les.
sened pain and doctors’ bills, if the
average skirt was cut ten inches short
er would be tremendous. By that one
simple surgical stroke of the scissors,
quick and painless, think how ‘many
hundreds of tons of mud-bedraggled
dry-goods would drop from the over-
weighted hips of womanhood. But
the very women who abbreviate the
corsage of their opera dresses to an
| equal extent would shrink at the dis-
play of a well-turned ankle.” Watch
women clutch their skirts in a vain
endeaver to keep them dry and clean.
Why must the feet be hidden any
more than the bands ? When neatly
dressed they are pretty. Skirts com-
ing to the shoe tops would be neater,
more healthful, and no impediment to
exercise.
This season the neck, be it ever so
beautiful, must be covered with a
high, warm band that is very uscom-
fortable and makes breathing and
speaking difficult, and must lead to
throat and head trouble. Why do it ?
No satisfactory answer can be given,
but educated girls and women all
blindly and meekly follow some un-
koown and foolish authority, and
tightly inclose their necks in high,
warm, stiff bands. Here is a ripe field
for the practical application of the
higher education.
Consider the sleeves, how they
grow. “Yards of material in them,
then lined with paper or stiffening to
secure fashionable dimensions. The
waist is lengthened as much as possi-
ble at the expense of vital organs.
Pockets are out of order ; no place can
be found for them in the voluminous
skirt. = Women must carry their
pocketbooks in their hands or in some
outside attachments, that involves
constant watchfuloess and frequent
loss. Hot summer days veils are worn,
covering mouth and nose and interfer-
ing with full breathing. What wo-
men have suffered and endured at
fashion’s shrine should be pathetic if it
were not so ridiculous and unneces-
sary,
All the beautiful spring days the or-
dinary household are devoted to mak-
ing and altering clothes. Last sea-
son's dresses, though scarcely worn at
all, must be remodeled or thrown
away. No time for reading, no leisure,
but hurry and flurry all over the
house till the spring sewing is dome.
The same exhausting process is re-
peated in the fall ; and in households
where help cannot be hired it usually
lasts all year. Women become old
before their time, are exhausted and
broken down, making much clothing
which is uncomfortable and unhealthy
to wear. Men wonder and grumble at
the bills, but nobly pay them when
they can.
But how to break this bondage is a
serious question. [I attended the Com:
mencement of a woman's college a few
years ago, when those outrageous pro-
tuberances calledjbustles were general-
ly worn. The principal of the school,
a refined, cultured woman, bravely ap-
peared as God made her, without one.
But 80 accustomed had we become to-
seeing ;women with humps on their
backs that this intelligent women act-
uall appeared deformed.
That is where the tyranny of fashion
hurts most—women must obey, or suf-
fer for their independence and singu-
larity.
Itis interesting to study the fashion
plates of the last twenty-five years-
Each seemed so beautiful in its day,
and go hideous now. We wonder wo-
men would ever consent to appear in
such styles. If women can make any
style attractive, why not choose a com-
fortable, healthful one? No artist
would paint the picture of the ideal la-
dy dressed in the height of fashion, but
would choose some simple style that is
always beautiful.
Women make themselves old and
ugly and worn-out in the exhausting
effort to follow the fashions. Watch
the crowd of careworn, anxions women
about the dry goods stores. Suh a
perplexing problem to know just what
18 going to be worn, and how to make
and trim it. Immense brain power is
thus wasted that might be used for bet-
ter purposes. Women are exhausted
and irritable, busband and children are
neglected, and family alienations often
result ; or the tired mother has no lei-
sure for self-improvement, and falls be-
hind husband and children, and is then
often tréated with contempt.
It'is demoralizing and degrading for
women to think so much” of drese,
Too often the fashion plateis studied
more than good literature, and even at
church the mind wanders to consider-
ing some new style of dress or bonnet.
Many are prevented attending church
because they cannot afford fashionable
clothing, and others are led into a life
of shame. through their love of expen-
sive dress.
But for the waste of fashion men
would much oftener own their own
homes, be able to educate their chil
ren, and have a little reserve in bank“:
for investment or to meet emergencies.
The terrible struggle of living which is
now everywhere felt, would be greatly
reduced, and insanity, suicide, and
crime would be less frequent. Young
men would not be afraid to marry,
and money would not be afraid to mar-
ry, and money would not be regarded
as 80 important a matrimonial qualifi-
catian gs at preeent.
Au elevator boy said : “They talk
about the new woman ; I don’t know !
what she is exactly, but if she ain’t!
living, she may prove a benediction to
the race.—Mrs. C. M. Hickman in the
Christian Advocate.
Castor Oil For Jack Tars.
Thousands of Gallons Sold to Captains Who
Doctor Their Crew.
Just below the Produce Exchange is
a neat looking drug store which has g
peculiar line of trade. The proprietor
has been in the business almost a
quarter of a century, and if the adven-
turous youths who hanker to be sailor
boys only knew how many thousand
gallons of castor oil the druggist had
doled out in his time to ships captains
the said youth would decide to huut |
adventures on land.
This drug store fits out ships with
medicines. Anybody who has had
any experience with the merchant ser-
vice knows that the captain 1s usually
the only M. D. aboard, and that his
knowledge was never gained in any
college of pharmacy or medicine. In
the office of the United States shipping
commissioners-is filed a record of the
trip of every ship taking a crew from
United States ports: It is virtually a
private diary kept by the captain for
the benefit of the government. No
matter what bappene, the amount and
number of the doses of medicine ad-
ministered to the crew and to each in-
dividual ot it are set down, with the
minutest details. It appears from
these dairies that tne most popular and
potent medicine known to captains is
good old fasioned castor oil.
No matter what is the trouble with
Jack, he gets castor oil. None of the
newfangled variations of it is prescrib-
ed. The proprietor of the drug store
bears out this statement. He says
that more castor oil is administered to
sailors than any other medicine, unless
it may be salts and senna. No cap-.
tain will sail without a liberal supply
of both. Oftentime a captain bas rea-
son to believe some of his crew are
shammiog illness, and then the castor
oil is administered in doses to bring
any man to his sober eenses.
Among the medicines in the cap-
tain’s chest are rhubarb, quinine,
jamaica ‘giogerand paregoric and cer-
tain old fashioned patent medicines.
No modern discoveries in that line are
allowable. So this druggist keeps on
hand for his shipping patronage patent
medicines that the modern patent flend
never heard of, they date so far back.
Little sugar pills don’t go with cap-
tains, Medicine is administered to a
sailor with the idea that the worse it
tastes the more apt the sick man is to
think itis curing him. Sailors scorn
little sugar’ coated pilis,—New York
World,
Chateaubriand and Bonaparte.
In February, 1811, Chateaubriaad
was choeen to fill & seat in the French
academy, which was a compliment to
a man of 42. Is not 60 the age at
which the distinguised French man of
letters usually receives the prize?
Whether at 42 or 60 it is always wel:
come, There are French writers, it is
said, who do not wish to be academi-
cians, just as there are Englishmen
who do not admire Shakespeare—su-
perhumanly clever persons no doubt,
but a little out of the natural order.
Napoleon, who at this time was per-
haps vot unkindly disposed to Chateau.
briand, was anxious to see what the
new academician would say on his re-
ception and ordered the manuscript to
be submitted to him. It contained
thing of which the emperor disap-
proved, and he returned it with many
alterations and crasures. There was,
of course, an imperial explosion of
anger—one of those vulgar displays
which made Talleyrand deplore that
so great a man should have been so
very ill bred. But Chateaubriand was
firm and would not sanction the alter-
ation of a word, in consequence of
which his reception by the academy
was delayed until Napoleon had ceased
to control the destinies of France.
Chateaubriand’s envenomed pam-
phlet on “Bonaparte and the Bour-
bons” was published in 1841 and did
more than any other piece of writing to
bring about a change of rulers, The
significance of this deadly blow was
clear enough to the emperor himself,
who read the pamphlet at Fontaine-
bleau Indeed Louis XVIII on his acces
sion, admitted that Chateaubriand was
the real king maker in this affair, and
such an admission may be held to ab-
solve a king from the simple duty of
gratitude,
The Population of Japan.
WasHINGTON, October 26.—A report
received at the Department of State
from Consul General McIvor, at Kana-
gawa, Japan, gives the population of.
that country in 1894 at 42,000,000.
Addiog Formosa, which became a part
of the country by the late treaty with
China, the population is estimated at
45,000,000. In the year 610 the popu-
lation of the country was 4,988,842,
The area of the country is given at
7,326 square ri. Compared in extent
with European countries, Japan stands
next to Spain, being about equal to
Sweden. She is larger than Great
Britain and Ireland by 6,933 square ri,
and is the eleventh largest country in
the world. Compared with Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, she has 7,100,000
more people, and in population ranks
as the fifth power in the world.
A Fight With An Eagle.
E. Leary, of South Harpswell, a
member of the crew of the steamboat
Merriconeag, hada thrilling fight with
an eagle the other morning. - Leary,
who was out in a dory, shot the bird
on the wing, and when he drew it into
the boat it planted one of its talons in
his right arm, and at the same time,
with its beak, got a firm hold of his
left arm, and set up a vigorous attack
with its wings. Leary was unable to
like the old kind we don’t want her.” | wrest his arms from the eagles grasp,
If the new woman who is said to be
coming will use her brain as well as
as her heart, and remedy some ot the
foolishness of wonan’s dressing and
and only by reaching forward and clos. |
ing his teeth on the bird’s neck was he !
able to.overcome it. His arms are
badly lacerated.
Republican Disgrace.
A Religious Journal's Views of the Harrisburg
Convention. Scenes of Riot and Vulgarity—
Things Rule the State Capital and the Cone
vention Hall, and Republican Leaders Vie
With One Another in Corrupt and Disgusting
Practices. *
The Pennsylvania Methodist in its
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issue of September 6th, immediutely
following the Republican State Con-
vention at Harrisburg, printed a
graphic and accurate account of the
scenes attending that disgraceful gath-
ering. The reportis a long and ex-
haustive one and might be printed en-
tire did space permit. A few charac-
teristic extracts are here given, the
fidelity of which will he admitted by
all who are acquainted with the inci-
dents of that notorious convention.
THUGS IN COMMAND.
“The first seeming advantage wae
gained by the Hastings faction buying
ed for a show at the Opera House on
the night preceding the convention and
placing therein—nearly 24 hours in
advacce of the convention—over a
hundred thugs, most of whom weighed
from 1807to 250 pounds each. We
saw them entering and they certainly
had the appearance of ‘hard hitters.’
Soon after beer by the keg and whisky
by the demijohn began to be carried
into the Opera House to supply their
thirst and the better equip them for
the desperate work they were expect
ed to do.
Sw» * * * » *
THE PEOPLE IN TERROR.
“Property owners in the neighbor-
hood of the opera house spent -a sleep-
less night, some of them being on
watch till the morning of Wednesday
dawned, not knowing at what moment
deeds of violence might lead to the
destruction of their property. Nearly
all night the places where liquor was
sold were crowded with a drunken,
smoking, swearing, vulgar crowd, who
staggered from one saloon to another,
and curses mingled with street danc-
ing and -Snatches of lewd songs; and
this continued most of Wednesday.
For two days it was considered unsafe
for a decent woman to attempt to make
her way alone for a single square in
the vicinity of either Third or Fourth
and Market streets. Many who did co
were openly insulted in broad day.
light by drunken strangers inviting
themselves to accompany these wo-
men to their homes.
* * * * ¥% *
““"HE MOST CORRUPT CAMPAIGN."
“Crimination and recrimination is
now going on- between the factions,
though it does not crop out conspicu-
ouely in the newspapers. None deny
that large amounts of money changed
hands and promises of political promo-
tion were made that can never be ful-
filled. It proved as the columns of the
corrupt and corrupting campaign that
ever disgraced the State, and the ease
with which the leaders ‘fixed things,’
‘shook hands over the bloody chasm,’
and divided at the dictation of the vic
tor the spoils, leaving their still chol-
eric followers in the midet of the mean-
ingless fight, is an evidence that there
wag no principle at stake, but only a
settlement of the question as to which
should be ‘the big dog in the tanyard,’
Mr. Hastings or Mr. Quay. * *
LEADERS DISGRACED THE STATE.
“As the thousands of camp-followers
stood in front of the opera house dur-
ing the session of the convention to
which none were admitted but the 297
delegates, the newspaper reporters, and
a few of the favored ones (most of the
seats in the house being vacant while
the streets were thronged) we did not
wonder that thoughtful ministers, law-
yers, doctors, professors and business
men who have always voted the Re-
publican ticket, discussed the question
as to whether a limited Monarchy
would not be preferable to such a Re-
public.
“Both leaders disgraced the State
for whose good name they were sup:
posed to stand. * * * x *
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
“Mr. Quay now says it was only a
‘truce,’ but the war goes on in the
enemies are put under his feet. Will
Christian men continue to follow such
a leadership? History must answer.”
That Long-Winded Pugilistic Fight.
Hor Springs, October 27.—Accord-
ing to Mayor Waters and Secretary
Wheelock, of the Florida Athletic
club, everything relating to the pro-
posed fight is to-night in statu quo so
far as the citizens’ committee is con-
cerned. From a well informed source
the information that within forty-eight
hours the governor has been in com-
munication with the colonels of several
militia regiments in the capital and
other cities within easy distance, and
had obtained an understanding that
their men could be gotten together for
transportation at an hours’ notice.
These developments had paturally a
disquieting effect among those interest-
ed pulling the fight off. The talk
about pulling off the fight on the land
near El Paso, the title to which isin
dispute between this state and the
United States was also revived and it
was said that on Fitzsimmons arrival
a proposition would be made to bring
the men together on the territory iin
question. November 19 for a $25,000
purse and that a certified check for
$10,000 would be ready as an evidence
of good faith on the part of the pro-
moters.
Re ————— TE.
A Customer Easily Suited.
Tramp . I'd like to have my teeth
filled.
i Dentist: What will you have, gold
or silver ?
Tramp : Oh, bread will do as well
out an opera company which: was bill- !
name of municipal reform, till all his.
making night hideous with their yells
Methodist had anticipated, the most |:
Letters by the Million,
One Result of the “Chain” Plan of Edna “R.
Brown.—Figures That Ave Incomprehensible
in Their Immensity—The Missives Are Still
Pouring in from Across the Ocean and the
Government is Worried Over Their Number—
Houses, Barns and Haystacks Swamped With
Responses to the Appeal for 1,000,000 Can-
celled Stamps.
As a result of the ‘letter chain”
scheme started by Edna R. Brown of
Kaneville, [11, for the ostensible pur-
pose of collecting 1,000,00 used stamps
for which a medical institution would
give treatment to Mattie E. Garman, a
crippled girl, letters are pouring into.
this village postoffice at the rate of 6,000
a day. The operations of the “chain”
have been practically stopped in this
country, but letters cogtaining frem 5
to 100 stamps continue to arrive from
foreign lands. The postoffice, every |
house.in the surrounding country and
even the barns and haystacks are
swamped with the millions of letters ad-
dressed to Miss Brown, who has recent-
ly become the wife of the village black-
smith. As they keep on coming by the
bushel from foreign countries the gov-
ernment can do nothing but send them
to the dead letter office at a heavy ex-
pense, and from there they will never
be reclaimed.
The girl who was Miss Brown ac-
knowledges that no medical institution
ever made an offer to treat Miss Gar-
man for the stamps, but she had a
vague idea that if she could collect
1,000,000 stamps she could sell them for
$100 and devote the money to the sick
girl. To carry out the idea of the
“chain” the first person sends out three
letters. Each recipient of these sends
three, and the second series thus pro-
duces § answers, the third 27, the fourth
81, the fifth 278. When the 18th ser-
ies is reached the number of letters re-
ceived exceeds 1,500,000. The increase
is colossal from thence. If the chain is
unbroken, the number of the letters in
the 50th series would be 269 sextillions,
181 quintillions, 720 quadrillions, 169
trillions, 607 billions, 546 millions, 004
thousand 671. The table carried out in
full is as follows : z
142,383,303
427,150,979
1.281,452,937
3,844,358,811
11,533,076,433
34,599,229,233
103,797,687,609
311,393,063,097
933,073,189,291
2,799.219.567,673
8,397,658,703,619
25,192976,110,857
75,578,828,332,271
226,736,784.996,813
680,210,354,990,439
2,040,631,064,971,317
6,121,893,194,913.951
18,365,679,584,741,853
55,007,038,754,925.559
165,291,116,264.776,677
495,873 348,794,330,031
1,487,620,046,382,990,093
4,168,860,139,148,970,279
13,406,580,417,446.910,837
40,219,741,252,340,732,511
120,659,223,757,022,197,533
361,977,668.271,066,592,399
1,085,933,004,813,199,777,797
3,257,799,014,489,599,333,391
9,773,397,043,318,798,000,173
£9,920,191,129,956,394,000,519
89,7€0,573,389.869,182.001 557
269,181,720,169,607,546,004,671
807,545,160,508,822, 638,014,013
If thie chain is carried out to the 80th
series, which is the limit in England, a
glance at this table, which is carried out
to the 50th series, will give one an idea
of a total almost too great to be ealculat-
ed and far exceeding ordinary concep-
tion.
The country people in the vicinity
bave taken hundreds of thousands of
the letters out of the postoffice in the
hope of finding rare stamps for which
philatelists will pay high prices. Two
were found that brought $5 each.
Endurance of the Reindeer.
Mr. F. G. Jackson has marvelous
tales to tell of the reindeer, their speed
and endurance as animals of draft—so
marvelous, indeed, that he must forgive
us for suggesting that he has made a
mistake in his figures. “I have myself,”
he writes, ‘driven three reindeer a -dis-
tance of 120 versts within twelve hours
without feeding them, and I heard of a
case where a Zirian drove three deer
from Ishma, on the Pechoar river, to
Obdorsk, on the Obe, a distance of 300
versts, within 24 hours. A reindeer or
Samoyed verst. by the way, is equal to
four Russian versts.” In other words,
Mr. Jackson says that he has driven
three deer for 12 hours at the rate of 40
Russian versts, or 27 English miles, an
hour. And the Zirian, with a similar
covered 710 miles in 24 hours. The lat-
ter, by the way, must have crossed the
Ural mountains and one or two rivers
into the bargain. Surely there must be
some mistake.
There exists, it is true, a well known
tradition of a reindeer which once—
about 1700, we believe— carried impor-
tant dispatches for the king of Sweden
800 miles in 48 hours, and, dying in the
service of its king, is still preserved, in
skeleton form. in a northern museum,
But that, after all, is only a tradition.
Better authenticated records do not give
a higher rate of speed than 150 miles to
19 hours, which is considerably higher
than what is attained by any other ani.
mal.— London Spectator.
The Tin Plate Trade.
According to the report just made by
a special Treasury agent, the total pro-
duction of tin plate during the past year
was 193,000,000 pounds against 139,000,-
000 pounds for the previous year. Dur-
ing the year twenty-six new companies |
began manufacturing tin plate, and sev-
For and About Women .
There are perhaps few amateur or-
ganists in England to equal Mrs. Glad-
stone. :
A very charming fashion, which is
all the go now, is wearing a fichu.
Some are of delicate muslin, some of
soft Liberty silk and some of chiffon.
Those of lisse, with two oe three frothy
frills, are wonderfully atiractive. They
are worn in all colors and in figured de-
signs, although the snowy ones are real-
ly the most attractive. They are very
long and are caught at the belt with a
pin or passed under the belt to hang
down in long ends. It is a very simple
matter to make them. Take a perfect
square of some soft fabric which is raf-
fled with one or more ruffles about the
edge. Itis then folded in shawl fash-
ion and worn over the shoulders.
How to Lost FLesH, THE TESTIMO-
NY oF ONE WHO HAS SUFFERED AND
BEEN REDEEMED.—After much study
and looking about she determined upon
a regimen. She instantly gave up sug-
arin tea or coffee, and milk at any
time. For two months she took for
breakfast, luncheon and dinner only
beefsteak and toast, and now and then
spinach and lettuce ; always oranges—
oranges in plenty. She drank with this
clear coffee or tea. Sometimes she took
claret. She limited the amount of
water taken through the day to one
quart, or at most three pints. Some of
this she drank before or after meals.
Often she squeezed the juice of a lemon
in it. When the two months were
over and the flesh-had begun to dimin-
ish she ate other vegetables and fruit,
corn, peaches, celery, but never any
vegetable that grew underground—po-
tatoes, onions, parsnips, turnips or beets.
She never ate--and this was her most
important rule—she never ate anything
fermenting in character, any pears.
plums, grapes or sweels. Because
bread has a fermenting quality in it,
she always toasted it dry. Pudding she
never touched, sauces nor cake. If any
food led to flatulency in any form she
knew at once it was food to be avoided.
By-and-by, after the first few months,
she allowed herself now and then an oc-
casional sweet or an ice, but never as a
| habit.— From Harper's Bazar,
Ribbons play no small part in the be-
deckment of the half-mourning frock,
for dressy occasions. Broad ribbons of
the softest surah are shown in both
black and white, and are arranged on
the frock in sash effect.
An exceedingly smart gown of black
silk grenadine, made over black satin, -
has decorations of white surah run
through slides of jet set with tiny pearls.
The skirt is a very gracefully cut affair,
the stiffness of the satin and the grena-
dine making it stand out in the smart-
est sort of way. The bodice is plain
and seamless, the thin outside setting
smoothly over the fitted underlining.
The sleeves are in the bishop style, and
stand out stiffly down to the waist.
The bodice has a dainty arrangement of
white surah ribbons brought from the
low-cut shoulders through a pearl-set
slide across the bust, through another
slide, there to the waist, where the ends
fall half way down the skirt, finished
by a full bow. A wide stock of ribbon,
with an immense bow at the back, fin-
iches the costume. A gown of soft
white wool is treated in the same man-
ner, substituting soft black surah rib-
bons for the white ones.
The postillion back again appears,
and if ever there was a back that only a
women of faultless figure should risk
that is the one. If yoa have that sort
of a back, all right; if you haven't,
“‘beware’’ is the word, and is should be
read witk the gory melodrama’s em-
phasis. The watteau back is on the
way, too, and it will come combined
with the open shepherdess front and the
petticoat styles. Of course, this sort of
thing will not be rushed into at once,
or women would all seem to have rigged
for a fancy dress ball, but it may be as
well to gather up any pretty flowered
brocade you come across, because of
this sort of stuff are the watteau shep-
herdess affairs made. Don’t call it a
ruche or a boa, but style ita tour de
cou. Then having got the name in
mind—whether you can pronounce it
or not—don’t pay more for it than you
would if it were a plain United States
name,
The prettiest way to arrange your
bair ? Especially if it is very long,
very thick, and a most beautiful color,
yet cannot be worn hanging down in
braids, because you are too tall for any-
thing so childish, nor fastened up in a
graceful Psyche knot at the back of the
head, quite near the neck, because it is
too heavy, and comes tumbling down at
inconvenient seasons. Lovely hair,
but an embarrassment of riches, is it
not ?
If it were my hair, and I were the
dear young girl who finds it a bother
and a burden, I would coil it on top of
my head and wear it like a crown. I
wouldn’t mind its having the effect of
making wme look taller, and I would
stand up very straight, and look as tall
as I could. In my opinion height is a
beauty, and I never care about & girl's
being tall, except to admire her. Tall
girls must mind that they carry them-
selves well, and do not stoop nor crane
their heads forward as if they had lost
something and were perpetually look-
ing for it. You remember Tennyson’s
picture, do you not,a word picture such
as only a poet could paint :
: “A daughter of the gods,
Divinely tall, and most divinely fair.”
If the coronal effect were unbecom-
ing, or gave a feeling of weight on top
of my head, then I would braid the
hair in several strands, and mass it all
over the back of the head. I would
simply part it in the middle, and avoid
fringes and bangs, and little curls,
crimps, and other atempts at decoration
in front. When hair has a natural
wave er ripple it is very pretty, and
enteen are now making or preparing to
make black plate. With the new mills |
now being constructed, the country will |
have a capacity of 570,000,000 pounds a
year, or within 10,000,000 pounds of its
total annual consumption. These fig-
ures, however, must not be mentioned
before any Republican who thinks we
cannot make tin plate without McKin-
ley protection.
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should have its way, but straight hair
is pretty too, and girls should be zatis-
fied to wear their hair in the style na.
ture intended for them.
The day of the glazed kid glove for
dress occasions seems about over. The
soft, dull suedes are once more popular
and glazed kid is regarded as a poor
substitute for the heavy dogskin
gloves dear to the tailor made girl.