Hata
Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 26, 1897.
CARE'S SLAVE.
It was the hudding Mgy-time,
The white boughs overhead ;
“Oh, give tome some play-time, |
Good Master Care,” | said.
head be
1 saw his in to shake—
“Not now; just wait and see—
I'll give to yon a holiday
When planting’s done,”
«aid he.
It was the glowing summer;
How cool the woedland’s shade !
Again an eager comer,
“Oh, give to-day I” I prayed*
Old Master Care his forehead knit ;
“The grass is ripe to mow:
Work on till haying-time is past,
And then I'll fet you go.”
it was the glad September;
The maple leaves were red,
“Oh, Master Care! Remember,
You promised me; 1 said.
“And you will find,” he answered mie,
“I'll keep my promise true,
And you may sport when harvests done,
With nothing else to do.”
Now winter winds are blowing—
(How weal I feel and old 1)
And, by the hearth, bright glowing,
I shiver with the cold.
And Care sits down beside me,
And counts up, one hy one,
The tasks that 1 have done amiss,
Or I have left undone ;
While I, low muttering to myself,
Wish I had laughed and sung,
And had my share of honest joy |
When I was strong and young.
—Marion Douglas, in Harper's Ba:
HIS VIEW AND HERS.
{ afraid I can’t stay very long this afternoon.
whom TI could not speak of freely and of
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She was truthful, whatever else might |
be said of her, and that divine quality cov-
ers a multitude of sins.
There were many times, however, when
she found it quite diflicult to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
It was particularly hard to do so when
Howard Zellman proposed to her. To quote
his words, which he never lost an oppor-
tunity of repeating during those days
when he first discovered that he had
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serious intentions, **All the rest of the |
world was a dreary void for which he had |
not a thought and Heaven itself held noth- |
ing one-half so dear.” She was 30 years |
old and had heard such things so often that |
she knew he didn’t mean it, but he thought |
he did and was so in earnest in his protes-
tations that he was sincere for the first
time in his life that she finally decided to
accept him. ~~ But not before she had told |
him the truth.
“I cannot understand,’ she said, rather
severely, “how you ever happened to al- |
low yourself to care so much for me. 1 |
heard you say once, a long while ago, away |
back in the beginning of our acquaintance,
that it was sti that a man should he |
so careless in sclecting a wife. When he |
buys a house, or a horse, or a piano, or |
anything else that has a money value alone, |
and that can be disposed of at will, he is |
very -particular about inquiring into its |
record. He must be thoroughly informed in |
every detail. Yet in choosing a wife, you
argued, he losesall discretion and blindly |
takes the woman he fancies, however in- |
ferior an article the said woman may really |
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be. But just think of it, Mr. Zellman; you
are perfectly willing, yes, anxious, to take
me, yet what do you know of me?”
“Don’t be a goose,” he said. “I know
all I want to know. I love you. Isn’t that
enough ?”’ i
“No.” she returned, gravely ; “it isn’t |
enough. Perhaps if you understood me bet-
ter you wouldn’t even do that.”
‘Oh. yes, I should,” he said, confident-
ly. “Nothing can ever change me. If all
the world were to turn against you I'd be
true and defend you. Ob, I just wish I had
a chance to show you how loyal I can be.”
“I'm going to give you a chance now.”
““That’s right,” he said, *‘only be sure
to make it hard enough, so you'll never
doubt me again.”’
“In the first place, Mr, Zellman, I have
deceived you. My husband is not dead.”’
‘Oh, that doesn’t make any difference,
I love you just the same. You’re divorced
aren’t you?”’
“Yes, but that doesn’t exonerate me for
living a lie. And Ido hate a falsehood. I
shouldn’t have done it, but I was a coward
and dreaded the curiosity and desparaging
remarks that would follow m ewherever I
went as a divorcee.”’
“You oughtn’t to fecl that way about it,
my darling,” he said, tenderly. “None
but the low and ill-bred indulges in such
vicious gossip. As for myself, I think just
as much of you as if he had died forty
times. Don’t talk about it any more.’
“But I must,” she persisted. *‘I must
tell you what the trouble was about.
There was a great deal of blame attached
tome. Every one knew he was very
cruel, but if you were to go back there
now and look up my record I am afraid
you would find thai I have many ene-
mies.”’
“The brutes.” he interrupted. I'd like
to teach ’em a lesson. But what do I care
for what they say ? Didn’t I tell you that
I’d stand by you through fair weather and
foul?”
“Yes, yes,” she returned, ‘but you
must not take me blindfolded. I wish you
to know—"’
“I don’t care about that,’’ he broke in.
“What I want to find out is, do you love
me?’ =
“I didn’t dare allow myself to do that so
long as I was concealing anything from
you?”
“But can you?’
“I think so.”
“And will you 2?
“1 will try?
“And will you marry me 2”
“Think over what I have told you.
Study me. Try to understand me. If at
the end of a month you still care for me I
will say ‘ves.’ »?
He was very devoled. There were de-
fects in her nature, but he did not sce |
them. Ifis whole time was spent in ador-
ing her lovable qualities, which were many,
and before the expiration of the fortnight
he insisted upon having an answer.
“I know you better than you know your-
sell,”” he said. “You may not be aware of
it, or you may be averse to admitting it, |
but I am convinced that our affection is
mutual. Why not say ‘ves’ now 2?
“And you aie sure you will
change?”
Quite sure.”’
“Very well, then, let it be as you say.”
She was very happy. The fates that had
hitherto planned her life scemed to have |
entertained a bitter animosity toward the!
human race and the trials they had brought |
her had been many and hard to bear. she
hankful for him. He seemed so
strong and so sincere that ihe
longing to uch a man iilled her
never
Was very t
goad, so
ense of
[ form. IT care not how honorable you may
lone man in ten thousand who knows
| things which I blush to think of, yet vou
| left because I could endure the life no long- |
| take it all back.
{ it. One woman is worth a dozen men. She
| matter and keep the soil sodden, or to have
and stems should be kept elean by oceas- |
| increase.
{lentown, is sadly afilicted. Friday a dangh-
| ter. Ellen Foelker, was buried.
ed with {yphoid fever. Rosa contracted the
I soul with a sweet peace such as she had |
| not known since childhood and she wonder-
| ed if it were wrong to he so happy. |
| He seldom left her for any length of |
| time but about two months after their en- |
| gagement he went away for several days. |
| It was a cold, blustering afternoon in the |
| middle of January when he first came home |
and when he stepped into the hallway she |
attributed his frigidity of nganner to the |
{iciness of the wind outside |
‘Mercy, you freeze me. Come in quick |
and thaw out,’’ she said with a merry little |
laugh, as she helped him to remove his |
overcoat and mufller and drew him toward |
the genial warmth of the fire. He smiled,
but it was not the fond smile to which she
had been accustomed.
I'm not very cold,’ he sid. “Pm
Ada, my dear, there is something I should
like to say to you.”
The happy light diced out of her eyes and
her mouth drooped piteously.
**Yes?"? she said weakly. |
“I’ve been thinking, my dear girl, of the
advice you gave me before we were engag-
ed. Ada, you were right about men wish- |
ing to possess something that had a clean |
history. If that rule holds good in chattles |
it ought to hold doubly good in a wife. I
den’t want to pain you, my dear ; you act-
ed very honorably with me and deserve |
nothing but the highest respect and love,
but don’t you see it would place me ina
very humiliating position to become the
husband of a woman who has a—apast? I |
never realized it until I went away. I told |
my people that I was engaged. They asked |
me to whom and you can imagine what ¢
predicament I was in. We have always |
been a proud family and it would be pain- |
ful, to say the least, to marry a woman of
5s
whom an idle remark can ever be made.
you are too high-minded to censure me for
this decision. You understand, do you
not 2’ .
“Perfectly,” she said, “but before you
go for good I wish to tell you something.”
“Before I go for good?”’ he repeated. *‘I
ndt do that. We must still he
friends.”
Her lips trembled with
smiie.
“Oh,” she said, ‘“‘what- fools you men
are. Don’t you know that since you told
me, three months ago, that you cared for
none but me, I have loved you with all my
heart and soul? And you want to change
all that to friendship ! Shame on you! I
have sinned hy making a sort of an idol of |
vou. I thought you were better than other |
men, and every day I thanked God for giv-
ing vou to me. But you are just like all
the rest. Oh, I'm so glad I am not a man.
You are all so cruel. You may not mean it,’
but you are selfish, careless and ever
changing, and that is cruelty in its worst
a disdainful
be in dealing with other men, there is not
what
honor means in connection with a woman.
I did uo wrong in #he past, yet you are |
ashamed for your family to know about
me ! How would vou like then to know |
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| about yourself 2.1 have heard many things
| concerning you which I know are gospel |
truth, and you would not dare deny then
are ashamed of me, whose only fault has |
been to be abused by another man whom I |
er. Bat I am a woman, and we all are such |
idiots as to forgive and keep on loving as |
long as there is a trace of manliness left to |
love.
“Let me tell you something more. The
best man that ever lived is not good enough |
for the most ordinary woman. Tused to say |
I didn’t like women ; that I preferred to |
make my friends among men. But I'll
I'm so sorry "I ever said
does not desert a loved one when calumny |
assails; she is faithfnl ; she is brave ; she is |
strong to endure. Mr. Zellman, I do not |
wonder that you found out we were hat |
suited to cach other. Iam a thousand |
times too good for you.” i
“Ada! Ada!’ he said, “have I deserved |
this? I know I am not good enough for
you. I didn’t mean what I said. [—"
“Of course you didn’t mean it,’’ she in-
terrupted. ‘You never do. - I'm glad I
found that out in time. T’ll be foolish
enough to weep for you days and weeks
to come, but even such grief will be sweet-
er than the knowledge that I had married
a man who considered himself degraded by
the union. No, no, I do not blame you. I
am glad it is all over.”’
He went around to the club that night
and played a game of billiards.
“My engagement is off,”’ he said, light-
ly. “Oh, what a roasting I got! What
queer creatures women are, anyway. So
changeable.”
‘‘She sat by the fire,
terly.
‘‘One more dream ended,” she sobbed.
“What a muddle life is, anyway ! Heaven
help usall.”—FEmma V. Nise, in the Chi_
cago News. :
alone, and wept bit-
Care of Palms.
Several kinds of palms are quite suitable
as house plants, and their enployment for
this purpose is rapidly increasing. They
appear to do well with very little care and
always make a fine appearance. They
should be placed where they will havea
fair amount of light,—but not.direct sun-
shine. In parlors with lace curtains before
the windows they seem to be suited,
though at north windows it would be best
to have no shade between the plants and
the glass. They will after a time show fail-
ure if Kept on a table in the centre room or
in a dark hall. They are not particular
about any exact degree of temperature ; in
living rooms where the temperature, ac-
cording to different customs, usually ranges
two ov three degrees below seventy, or
three or four degrees above, they seem to
do equally well, the night temperatures he-
ing several degrees below those named.
The soil should be kept moist and there-
fore, as a rule, daily watering is needed.
fowever, it is best not to over do this
water standing in the saucer or jardeniere. |
| Petter to let the soil become somewhat dry |
rand then give a good supply of water, suf- |
ficient to thoroughly wet it. The fronds
ional sponging, and scale insect never should !
be allowed to fasten upon the plants and
If they appear they should be
promptly removed.—Fiel’s Magazine.
ters Die From Typhoid ever. |
recede |
The family of Dr. J. C. Al-
Two
Peelker, of
Naturday,
Both suiler-
Resa, another daughter, died.
illness while nursing her sister.
Nel(tie—That old Miss Shell is worming
her way into the affection of young Spark-
lev.
Laura—I
Money an ¢
thought she sine hier |
as Uo
-to entice people from the rooms.
SITUATION NOW MORE HOPENUL.
A large Increcse in the Iron and Steel Business.—
Better Demand for Woolens.—A Gain in Boots and
Shoes—A lumber of Metal and Textile Industrial
Establishments have Reopened—An Improvement
Shown in Railway Earnings—A Demonstration of
the Ability of American Steel Makers to Compete |
in the World's Market.
R. G. Dunn & Co., in their weekly trade
Review, said on Saturday that business
conditions are looking uv in this country
and a decided increase alcng all lines may
be looked for soon. -
A large increase in the iron and steel
business, on account of sales covering eight
to twelve months’ production of the largess
works, a better demand for woolen goods,
: gan
and slightly better for cottons, a gain |
which may prove lasting in boots and shoes, |
slightly better prices for wheat, cotton,
wool and iron and a money market well
adapted to encourage liberal purchases
against future improvement in business,
have rendered the past week more hopeful
than any other since early in November.
The heavy excess of merchandise exports
overimports in January, the continuance
of exchange rates, showing that Europe is
still largely indebted to this country on
current account, and the prospect that
Congress will adjourn without any dis-
turbing action, all have their favorable in-
fluence upon the money market and upon
future undertakings. In nearly every
branch, the great iron and steel industry
feels the upward impulse supplied by pur-
chases of steel rails, said to be half a mil-
lion tons each from the Illinois Steel com-
{ pany and from the Carnegie company. he-
sides some from other companies, in part
as low as $15 per ton, about $100.G00 to
foreign purchasers at $17 to $18, but all
recent sales at $20 at eastern and 821 at
western mills.
The enormous orders have advanced
Bessemer pig at Pittsburg only 15 cents
per ton, with Gray Forge a shade lower
there, and no considerable change appears
in finished products. The sales of wool are i
sharply declined. The larger mills have ac-
quired full supplies for the present, and at
an advance of prices they appear ready to
drop out of the market. "The demand for
| woolen goods does not seem to have ex-
panded materially and no quotable change
in prices has onl during the week.
Wheat dropped to SU@5, but rose to =3.25.
Receipts of corn have been well nizh
double last year. * The volume of business
is not accurately represented by clearing
house exchanges, owing to the exira holi-
day this year at some commercial cities.
| But the daily average appears to be 3 4 per
| cent. smaller than last year.
The railroad
earnings begin to show improvement, he-
ing 9 7 per cent. larger than last year for
the second week of February.
Failures for the past week have heen 303
in the United States against 250 last year,
nd fifty-eight in Canada against sixty-six
last year.
“Old Hickory's "Inauguration,
A Mob Followed Him from the Capito! and Invaded
the White House.
Mr. Joseph B. Bishop has an article on
“Inauguration Scenes and Incidents’ in
the March Century, which is an © Inaungura-
tion Number.” Mr. Bishop says of Presi-
dent Jackson's inauguration :
An eye-witness, who took a somewhat
jocose view of the day’s events, wrote that
the most remarkable feature abeut Jackson
as he marched down the aisle of the Senate
with a quick, large step, as though he pro-
posed to storm the capitol, was his double
pair of spectacles He habitually wore two
pairs, one for reading and the other for
seeing at a distance, the pair not in use
being placed across the top of his head. On
this occasion, says the eye-witness, the pair
on his head reflected the light ; and some
of the rural admirers of the old hero were
firmly persuaded that they were two plates
of metal let into his head to close up holes
made by British bullets. When he ap-
peared on the portico, we are told that the
shout which arose rent the air and seemed
to shake the very ground. The ceremony
ended, the general mounted his horse to
proceed to the White House, and the whole
crowd followed him.
“The President,’’ says a contemporary
writer, ‘‘was literally pursued by a motley
concourse of people, riding, running helter-
skelter, striving who should first gain ad-
mittance into the executive mansion, where
it was understood that refreshments were
to be distributed > An abundance of re-
freshments had been provided, including
many barrels of orange punch. As the
waiters opened the doors to bring out the
punch in pails, the crowd rushed upon
them, upsetting the pails, and breaking
the glasses. Inside the house the crush
was so great that distribution of refresh-
ments was impossible, and tubs of
orange punch were set out in the grounds
Jackson
himself was so pressed against the wall of
the reception room that he was in danger
of injury, and was protected by a number
of men linking arms and forming a barrier
against the crowd. Men with boots heavy
with mud stood on the satin-covered chairs
and sofas in their eagerness to get a view of
the hero. Judge Story wrote that the
crowd contained all sorts of people, from
the highest and most polished down to the
most vulgar and gross in the nation. ‘I
never saw such a mixture,” he added.
*‘The reign of King Mob seemed triumph-
aut. I was glad to escape from the scene
as soon as possible.”
The Schools Must Wait.
The state treasurv will pay no more
school warrants before April 1. Between
400 and 500 of the 2,500 districts in the
state have not received their share of the
$5,500,000 for the current year. Many of
these are small districts and depend almost
entirely on the state appropriation to run
their schools. The money due them in the
ageregate is nearly two millions. The sus-
pension in payment is due directly to the
burning of the capitol. The warrants and
{the warrant book of the department of
public instruction were destroyed alone
with many other valuable documents and
papers. It will take the departmer, some
time to ascertain the districts which have
heen paid and gets its affairs in shape. Al
the districts that have not been paid will
have to file an affidavit and certificate
signed by officers of the school board be-
| fore the department issues their warrants.
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——Arthur Duestrow, the millionaire
| murderer of his wife and child, was hanged
in the jail at Franklin county, Miszouri, on
last Tuesday. It was another case in which
drink maddened the onee loving husband,
tionate child. The murderer pleaded in-
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i there’ black and deadly, his yellow eves
| and the hope of sometime throwing off the |
j monarch, and this act has aroused the wild- | s a
and simply wallow in idleness and content-
“case known to the writer two delicate ana-
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[leopard with about 3,000 seidlitz powders
| destroyed a happy home, and made him |
take the lives of a devoted wife and affec- |
ne i Mie aby pte | able of plants.
sanity, hut the jury and governor believed |
that a man who deliberately takes the |
poison that fires his ‘brain to cause him to
| tive the fatal shot is deserving of the full |
extent of the law, be he millionaire or!
aiid
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| it, to gnaw it, to tear it to rags and splin-
Greece and Turkey.
Something About Crete, the Bone of Contention Be-
tween Them.
The exciting news of the last week eon- |
cerning the strained relations between
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! Greece and Turkey over the insurrection
in Crete and the possibility that it may
i lead to war, has aroused great™ interest. |
This is the more so from the fact that |
Greece has for so many centuries occupied |
so prominent 2 place in the minds of men
through being at one time the leader of |
the world in art and literature and hy rea- |
son of the richness of her historical annals, |
Hers has been such a record of glory and !
achievement in the past that there is a
sentimental interest in the affair thas |
would be lacking in the case of any other
European nation.
The island of Crete, or Candia. is
ed in the Mediterrancan to the south of
Greece, hemg in alinost the same relation
geographically to that nation as Cuba
the United States. The parallel is also |
borne out in other ways. The majority of |
the Cretans have the same réligion, Greeks
have large commercial interest in the island,
and have considerable commerce with it,
while the national sympathy is all with the
struggling islanders.
The island is about 160 miles Jong and
averages 20 miles in width. Its population
is upwards of 270,000, of whom 260,000, are
Christians, members of the Greek church,
while the remainder are mostly Moham-
medans. It has an authentic history, run-
ning back more than 3,000 years. It was
for a long time a part of the Eastern Roman
empire ; it was captured by the Saracens in |
the ninth century, was in turn under the |
rule of the Venetians and the Genoese and
over two centuries aco was allotted to the
Turks, who have controlled it, with a |
slight interim, ever since. Under this rule
the Créfans have been the constant vietims
of oppression and frequently of religious
persecution. This has heen zecompanied
by many insurrections and attempts to
throw off Moslem rale.
In 1821, in 1852 and in 1:66 there were
notable insurrections. The last was a oen-
eral rising of the Christians and resulted in
1369, after much hard fighting and many |
atrocities, in the granting of a number of
reforms. But the curse of Turkish govern-
ment still hung over the island, stifling the |
energies of its people, while the traditional !
oppression of the Porte vexed them., The |
consequence is that the old unrest remains |
yoke of the Moslem tyrants is always pres-
ent. Latterly, the Christians have had !
the hatred of their oporessors inercased hy
the massaere, of their fellow Christians, the |
Armenians, by the Turks. This
sulted in an uprising, which h
considerable proportions and has aroused
the strong sympathy of the Greek nation, |
which Fas not as yet forgotten its own suf- |
ferings I of the Turks, having
independence carly int
after many years of hal
fighting and many unsuccessful attempts,
This sympathy with the Cretans also ex-
tends to the government of Greece, which
has now sent a fleet to Crete in spite of the |
protesis of the Turks, It is commanded |
by Prince George, a son of the reigning |
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has re- |
med
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est enthusiasm among all classes and has
ever been indorsed by the party in opposi-
tion to the general policy of the govern-
ment. The disposition of the whole peo-
ple is to support the crown in this aggres- |
sive movement, and it looks as if it would
be so dificult for Greeee to back down from
its position that the prespeets of a conflict
seem to be imminent.
In case of a war Greece would, of course,
be numerically no match for Turkey. The
population of the former is at the present
time probably but little more than 2,500,- |
000, while that of Turkey and her depend-
encies is about 26,000,000. Turkey could
invade Greece from the north, but the
Greeks, as of old, could fight for years
among their mountains without being dis-
lodged and would not easily be conquered.
The Grecian army isabout as large as that
of the United States, containing 24,887 of-
ficers and men. The peace footing of the
Turkish army is 180,000, while its war
footing is 800,000. In naval power, how-
ever, the two nations would appear to be
pretty evenly matched. Owing to their
situation the Greeks have always heen
great sailors, and have given a good account
of themselves on the sea. and their navy is
as good if not better than that of the Porte.
—Pittsburg Zimes.
Are Bananas Wholesome
No Doubt of Being So if They Are Cooked.
The recent revival of that prolific topic
of discussion, Are bananas wholesome ?*’
brings out again all the old and some new
arguments. There is perhaps no subject
upon which doctors so universally disagree
as this. In the minds ofsome practicioners
the banana is almost a poison to young
children, from its indigestibility, while
others regard it asa most valuable food.
The same is true of the various mothers
questioned. One has ‘brought her child-
ren up on bananas ;”’ another avoids them
‘‘as I would strychnine,’’ and so on.
The concensus of opinion, however, seems
to be that the fruit is nutriment of high
rank, and it is the exception when it is not
found digestible, certainly if cooked. Ina
emic children have been brought round to
vigorous health, the chief ingredient of their
remedial diet being cooked bananas. The
fruit is halved lengthwise with peeling,
sprinkled lightly with sugar and put in the
oven on a porcelain plate for fifteen min-
utes.
Fiercest of Beasts.
The Black Leopard Most Savage of Quadrupeds.
The black leopard is admitted to be the
most savage and intractable of all quadru-
peds. The horrible black leopard Death, in
Eugene Sue's “Wandering Jew.” who
was followed about by a loathsome English-
man, anxious to sce him cat his tameris
declared to be a scrap overdrawn. He
hates the whole world, and wants to fight
ters ; and he is staring, dancing mad because
he can’t get at the world to do it. He lies
ablaze, ready to pounce cn you—if only
those bars suddenly nielt away.
But they don’t melt and you come no
nearer. Then he flings himself at the bars |
with a yell and flies up and down over and
about his cage like nothing but a black
swallowed separately and suddenly cffer- |
escing all together inside hin.
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— The willow is one of the most adapt-
A willow switch stuck in!
the wet ground will almost invariably take |
root and become a tree.
—To cure a cough or cold in one day |
take Krumrine’s Compound Syrup of Tar.
If it fails to cure money refunded.
25ets. |
Fdressmaking
| pointed front and back,
i of silver cloth and the upper and back of
tively in the haress asa
| the goal of the averags worker.
{ ful Chicagoan who has rexched G5 years
! rest for thi
dollag,
Mrs. McKinley's Costumes.
Those For Use During the Inaugural Festivities
Cost $86,000, or $18,000.
The inaugural wgedrobe of Mrs. Wil-
Liam McKinley, preparations which have
been the objects of two visits to Chicago on
the coming first lady of the land, is com-
pleted. It consists of ten rich costumes of
satin, velvet and silver cloth. The cos-
tumes to be worn on inaugural and state
occasions will he among the most magnifi-
cent ever displayed in Washington so-
ciety. .
The cost of the,costumes will be bhe-
tween 56.060 and $3,000. They are pro-
{ nounced by those who have viewed them
to he among the best creations of the art of
<, which have yet heen attained
| in this country.
fhe gown to be worn at the inaugura-
tion is especially handsome. The material
is what is known as cloth of silver. The
ground work is of white satin heavily woven
with silver thread in a conventionalized
lily design. The train which is plain, full
and sweeping, measures two yards and a
half in length. On the leftside it opens over
a panel of seed pearis embroidered on satin.
Beginning at the bottom is a flounce of Ve-
nedian point lace of a special and heautifnl
design, a half yard in width, which cas-
I'caded narrow at the bottom and gradually
widens toward the top until it is extended
[its fnll width over the hips and out to the
back, where it is partly conccaled under
the full train.
The right side of the skirb is also slashed
{open half way up and under that is an cm-
broidercd petticoat of pearls.
The bodice tight fitting and slightly
The lower part is
pearls. The same beautiful lace that is
used in the flounce is fastened at the waist
line in a nairow point and is draped wider
toward the shoulders in a V shape
The collar is of pearl embroidered satin
and from it is a high Medici collar of the
lace. The sleeves arc long and fairly tight
| and are finished at the wrist wich Vandyle
effect, embroidered at the edge from which
{they fall from narrow lace of the same de-
sign as that on the skirt.
His Idea of Rest,
Had Worked for Thirty Years and Would Now Do
Nothing but Loaf,
A business man customed to
hard work for many years usually finds
idleness irksome. Men who have been ac-
‘ule do not like
to retire, although retirement in old age is
=aid to me the other day : “1:
quit. I have worked for thir
cut a week's vacation ; now I am going to
“years. t have camed every
I possess 3; now Tin to spend
noney and stop werrying aceuntu-
. “ hd
lating
to
ie.
I apulauded this determination and in-
quired how he intended to spend his lei-
I sure.
“I Lave bought a Liomesicad in Blank”?
he said, naming a small Michigan town,
“ind I shall remove there with ny family
nent. ’’
“But bow will
time 2 I insisted. a
“Well, I'll hunt and fish,” he said.
“Good—but that will not keep vou busy
the year round,” I ventured.
“No, but I shall read. Dll take all the
papers, I will get together a little library,
100.”
“Will that occupy all your extra time 27
“Oh, I shall watk about a goad deal, 1
dare say. Exercise—you know—great
thing for an old man.”
“Is that you entire prograth 27’
““No-no : not exactly,” he said, hesitat-
ingly. “I'm going to organize a private
bank down there and manage it.”
You pass
Your spare
A Nice Job.
The tariff and trust vultures are gathering
at Washington, and the Indianapolis bolters
who “‘were better 20ld men than the Repub-
licans and better Democrats than the Deno-
crats,”” must be.very happy in the contempla-
tion of their handiwork. When the McKIN-.
LEY bond issues begin, to keep the ‘‘endless’’
charm going, to enrich the bankers, and in-
crease the interest bearing debt, they will,
of ‘course, be still prouder of their job.
Ravages of the Plague.
The returns of the Bombay health au-
thorities showing the ravages of the plague
report that since its outbreak there have
been 6,853 cases and 5,447 deaths from the
disease in that city, and in the entire Bom-
bay presidency 9,911 cases and 8,005
deaths.
——A child gets considerable more satis-
faction out of a nice large wooden hox of
clean sand than Napoleon ever found in all
his empire. With a bucket and shovel,
chips of wood and bits of brick the small
one is good enough even to astonish
his grandmother. Wouldn’t this be a sug-
gestion for the distracted mamma who
is racking her brains to discover new
sources of amusement.
——David Livingstone’s father was a
thrifty Scot. One day David brought
home word that a heavy tax had been put
upon tobacco. His father was just filling
his pipe when the sad news was brought.
“If we have togive it up,” said the old
man, ‘‘we might as well begin now;”’ and
so saying he knocked the weed out of his
pipe,” put it into his pocket and never
smoked-again.
Deacon Shanghai— ‘Dat boy certain-
ly is full ob music, Mis. Jackson.”
Mrs. Jackson—‘'Yes, deakin, hit coises
nachel too dat chile. His pap war run
ovah by one 0’ dem street pianners.”’
He—How is it that a woman never
learns to sharpen a lead pencil ?
She—She doesn’t have te. There's al-
ways a man round.
Cruel.
Maude—I hear Mr. Quills is a director
in a company.
Claude—Yes.
He directs envelopes.
——=She—Rigein and Hilda are perfect-
ly insepar
I heard she had frozen on to
——Robby—Daya, what was “The Crime
13 93) £
Papa—Oh, that’s when your gra:
came to live with us.
of
y for the WATCH.
-—- Subeerit
"| bit of wold.
= TITAN
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN:
Mrs Marilla M. Ricker, a lawyer of
Dover, N. H.. announces herself as a ‘candi-
date for the office of United States Minis-
ter to Columbia.
Short necked women are not of very
much use to themselves or to their dress-
makers this season of the year. To
be fashionable one must have a long
neck. Collars, the depth of which is meas-
ured by the quarter of a yard, seem an ab-
solutely necessity of feminine adornment.
They are not only high, hut they must al-
so be broad, and their wired expanse
stretches out the cars till it as-
ard from
sumes the proportions of a salver.
A novel eostunie for spring is made of
dark blue and white shepherds’ plaid with
a wide plait, both back and front, on the
bodice, narrowing toward the Lelt, and a
[ plain skirt with a wide plait in front,spread-
ing out wider at the foot and fastened down
just below the waist with fancy buttons.
Buttons also decorate the front plait on the
bodice above the bust, and blue silk forms
the collar and belt.
The sleeve of the moment certainly has
length to recommend it almost in * propoe-
tion to the size it has lost, and the pretty
fall of lace at the wrist is very becoming te
any but the short stout arm.
The belle no longer looks with, horror as
a chance gray hair when it appears amid
her curly locks, nor weeds it carefully from
her head. On the contrary, gray hair on the
temples is Guite the vogue, and it is whis-
pered the wigmalkers art is resorted to in
order that the young woman of the period
may display this fashionable coiffure.
Small switches are made from the wisps of
the natural hair mixed with the proper
shade of gray. The fad is gaining ground
in New York, and many girls in their teens
are seen on Fifth avenue whose heads are
prematurely gray.
Do not think that a pretty face will ex-
cuse a lack of regard for others’ comfort or
happiness. Cultivate your manners to the
neglect of your beauty, if need be.
The beauty will fade, but the reputation
of saying the right thing at the right time
indly regard for others, will make one
as charming at 60 as 16. If the speeches
of tactless people can be only momentary
annoyance it would be senseless to notice
them. but many times they are more than tri-
fles, and all who poss this undesirable
trait should be warned against it before it
becomes a habit. Every one is sensible of
the atmosphere of cheerfulness, of hope and
energy, which surrounds it, and of the hap-
pines it sheds abroad. Ivery one admires
and welcomes it in others, and wishes to
Everyone is ready to acknowl-
edge that itis one of the chief blessings
with which man is endowed.
And it will not be such a difficult matter,
after ail, to cultivate this cheerful spirit,
if we set ourselves to the task ; then, witk
tact and good taste there will be no necssi-
ty tobring up the subject of beauty. I
will show for itself.
Women are now deeply interested in
Summer fabrics. Certainly they were nev-
er more fascinating, The variety is infi-
nite, and large, bold patterns seem to pre-
dominate. The skirt, with many gores, and
each scam trimmed with narrow lace-cdged
ruftles, either bias or straight, arounid the
bottom is very smart, and the skirt rufiled
to the waist will also be very much worn.
The New York Sua suggests several chie
models. The dainty frock is built of pale
blue and white organdie, trimmed on the
skirt and the front of the bodice with lace
ruflles, which are headed with a narrow
frill of lace, with a miiliner’s fold of hlue
taffeta silk to cover the gathers.
Another pretty design for the dress is
tucked in groups of five tiny tucks, up and
down the bodice and around the sleeves
which have three small puffs at the
top, and lace insertion is set in between
from the belt up to the bust. Wider tucks
of three in a group trim the skirt with the
same lace insertion between.
Still another model shows the lace trim-
med seams and three lace-edged ruffles
around the skirt.\Three little frills trim
the shirred sleeves, and the bodice is shirred
around a lace yoke to form tiny puffs, while
fancy gold studs fasten it down the front.
Ribbon belts and collars with the lace frill
at the back are the desirable finish.
A simple and pretty dress of spotted
foulard is trimmed with ruchings of flow-
ered lace on the skirt and sleeyes and bod-
ice, where the trimming forms a yoke, and
the material is tucked between the ruchings
below.
The new piques are finer in texture and
more dainty in coloring than ever before.
They are both striped and figured, but the
plain colors in light tints of blue, pink and
heliotrope, with satin-finished stripes, are
quite the prettiest of all.
This material will be made up in the coat
and skirt style of gown. A pretty mode}
has two rows of embroidered insertion on the
skirt and one row on the square revers of
the coat, which has a white silk vest tuck-
ed and trimmed across with narrow lace
frifis.
The style of skirt with many gores is
best for the pique gowns, and the seams
may be outlined with narrow embroidered
insertion or trimmed with braid of various
kinds, one of which is like a cord and gives
the effect of a piped seam.
The short loose coat is prophesied as ome
of the reigning models for pique gowns and
in the bolero form, just reaching the helt,
and prettily braided with white, it will ‘be
very attractive over the colored silk shirt
aists, provided it is suited to the ficure.
No matter how one may be busy, if
is quite possible to always find time to at-
tend to one’s toilet at night. One should
not simply drop one’s clothes and tumble
into bed, else neither one’s self nor the
clothes will look attractive in the morning.
Have plenty of hot water aud a dash of co-
logne, and give your face a thorough lav-
ing. The result will be as refreshing 2s an
hour’s sleep. Brush the hair for twenty
minutes, it will be glossier.and thicker for
the trouble, and your nerves will be sooth-
jl by the process. Then after the exercise,
gFobe yourself in a warm gown and drink a
class of hot milk, weak cocoa or even hot
water, cating a wafer or bite of toast if you
like. When the smail supper is finished
vou will be ready to go to sleep without
any insomnia cure, and in the morning YOu
will waken refreshed and thoroughly in geod
humor with youself and your world.
That woman who ean wear her hair
“pompadonir by veason of her low forehead
and abundant locks will Mind one of the
new Sring models very becoming.
It is little move than a wreath of roses fit-
ti ely to the head, the crown a flat
: ide is a white ajgrette.
et strings tie under the chin.
Atl one
Black velv
ir a shee run down at the heel.
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