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Published by speelal arrangf-mont with the
. New York Hun.
Tlie porsistently popular blouso lives
on, to the comfort nnd convenience of
woiuon. Blouse for tho approaching
Hiwn are of beautifully embroidered
batiste and muslin, made over delicate
sbadod silks. The silken fabrics, nsod
in the shirt waists, that cost anywhere
from 50 cents to $8 a yard, are decidedly
useful, for they wash perfectly and never
wear out.
With regards to skirts, they are at a
standstill ; that is, all seem to bo content
with the full gored skirt, which is grace
ful and easy to walk in. Tho hats which
women may choose f roiif are certainly
the creations of some very active brain,
for no two are alike; most of thorn are
loaded with flowers.
Tho canvas gown illustrated is of
black. The skirt is novel and attrac
tive. A gored section from the knee
down is outlined with a piping of black
satin. The bodice is of hyacinth taffeta
with a tucked yoke from which dopend
pieces of white embroidery. The sloeves
have shot puffs at the top and are
wrinkled at the wrist. The gown, of
ecru linen is tasteful and bright with
its waist of ecru embroidery and bright
chine silk for sleeves and foundation.
The ruffles of the embroidery from the
neck form a yoke effect,' while the re
vers are formed of the embroidery and
are edged with lace. Rosettes of black
taffetta ribbon are used.
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"By the rustle of their petticoats ye
shall know them," said the sergeant- at
arms of a certain, women's club the
other day as the members tripped in by
twos and threes, and unconsciously she
spoke a great truth. For what can call
up each visions of feminine daintiness
as the swish-swish of silken underskirts?
Every woman, young and old, rich and
poor, loves that sound the frou-frou as
the French people call it.
"It sounds rich on other poople," says
one.
"And it makes a woman feel rich to
hear it on herself," said another.
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However this may be, one thing is
certain. Every woman nowadays, no
matter how limited her income, con
siders her wardrobe very incomplete
without at least one rustling silk petti
coat A woman anxious to improve her ap
pearance cannot do better than study
the arrangement of her hair. The ac
companying sketkehes will show how
Dame Fashion intends the hair to be ar
ranged during the reign of fluffy, thin
gowns. With the pompadour coiffure
the fair hair forms a sort of aureole in
soft wavy puffs, with only one stray
lovt lock m a relief, wuild at tho back
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is a softly twisted narrow coil between
two side combs; tho head with tho hand
bandeletto parted nnd d rested low on
tho forehead and caught at tlio back of
tho head, wliero the hair is twined into
asoriosof coils, Touching almost to the
crown.
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Last of all, but by no means least, is an
ideal coiffuro for a woman who has said
farewell to her youth. Nothing is so
becoming ns gray locks skillfully troat
ed. and that is why in tho olden times
even the youngest and fairest powdered
their hair or wore whito wigs to en
hanco their beauty. In the coiffure il
lustrated tho soltly waved locks are
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parted in tile centre ami drawn up high
at the sides, wliero .he sido locks are di
vided from the coil and twisted back by
side combs.
POPE LEO XIII.
Bismarck Says He Is the Greatest Man In
Europe.
The Pope's last oncyclical turns pub
lic attention toward tho Vatican. Tho
personality of this pontiff, who casts
aside the precedent f centuries and pro
poses unity to the Christian world, is
most interesting. Bismarck calls him
tho greatest man in Europe. His tem
poral power is a thing of the past, yet
he has dictated to tho most powerful
monarch in Europe the terms upon
which ho would receive him as a guest,
and the sovereign complied with those
conditions.
The Pope's day begins at seven o'clock,
alike in summer and winter. At that
hour Centra, his faithful body servant,
unlocks the outer door leading to his
mastor's bedroom. It is the valet's duty
to fasten this door at night, after His
Holiness has rotired; thus the Pope,
during his sloeping hours, is practically
a prisoner. Tho key of his bedroom
door, however. Loo XIII, never trusts
to any one; it is lockod at night by him
self, and the key never leaves him.
The Pope is in his eighty-fifth year
and his frame is bent and meagre. His
personality is spiritlike. His is a won
derfully musical voico the Italian
voice. The Pope's memory is marvel
ous. He has been known to recall the
faces and names of ordinary visitors
who have had audiences with him
years before. He is much attached to
Americans, and talks to them of the
great men of their country and its his
torical events.
A TOUCH OF NATURE.
When first the delicate crocus thrusts Its nose
Up through the drilling of belated uniiw,
When folded, green things lu dim woods un
cIoho Their crinkled spears, a sudden tremor goes
Into my veins mid makes me kith and kin
To every wild-born thing that thrills and
blows.
Heated beside this blazing sea-coal fire.
Hero In the city's ceaseless rour and din,
Far from the brambly paths 1 used to know.
Far from the gurgling brooks that blip and
shine,
I share the tremulous sense of bud and brier
And Inarticulate ardors of the vine.
Thomas bailey Aldrioh.
Uolng One's Ilest.
That is all you can demand from peo
ple and all one can insist upon from
one's self to do one's best in every
sphere and situation. In the shop or
factory, at home or at school, in the
pulpit or on the bench, the inexorable
law is the law of doing one's best.
As to wiiat is the best, that is to be
left to the individual, and it ia not our
business to set down a canon or stand
ard as to our neighbor's conduct. Let
us sweep the snow from our own side
walk first ; let us do the nearost duty to
be done; let us breatho into our work
all our manhood or womunliood, all our
earnestuess and determiuution. Then
we can peep a little at our uoighbor and
see how he is getting along and whether
the result is worthy or unworthy.
Jewish Messenger.
Daw ou Overwork.
I have learned from observation that
three things happen to a man who
works steadily without relaxation. In
the first place, he becomes nervous, ir
ritable and hard to get along with. In
the second place, the grade of his work
falls off, his services are worth less and
ho is liable to err in his judgment. In
the third place, he dies suddenly. It is
an incontrovertible law of nature,
Cbauocqy Depew. . . ..' .
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STOJIY OF THE CJIOSS.
IT WAS A SACRED SYMBOL LONG. BE
FORE THE CRUCIFIXION.
neverril liy the Anrlrnls. It Is Found In
Two Letters of the Alphabet, Which
Ilio a Mystic History. The Mark
Hnveri Men In Old Testament Times.
No symbol, cither in art or in re
ligion, is so universal as tho cross. It
appears twico in our alphalxit, as the
letter T and tho letter X. It is worn by
priests on their sacrificial robes, by dis
tinguished laymen as a sign of distinc
tion on occasions of stato, and by male
and female nonentities as taste may di
roct. It is graven on eucharistio ves
sels, embroidered on altar cloths, and
cut in relief on tombs and monuments.
Somo of tho greatest churchos and ca
thodrals of Christendom are fashioned
in ita shape. In European countries it
is common to see large crosses erected
in public places. Tho famous Charing
(chere reiuo) Cross, in London, dcrivos
its name from tho fact that it was ono
of tho places at which King Edward I.
set up a cross to mark whoro tho body
of his Cueon Eleanor rested during the
progross of tho funeral cortege to West
minster. Yet it is a mistake to suppose that
the cross has only a Christian history.
It was used as a religious symbol by
the aborigines of North and South
America, as well as by the most ancient
nations of the Old World. Proscott
tells us that tho Spaniards found tho
cross as an object of worship in tho
temples of Mexico. Researches in Cen
tral America and Peru prove that it
was used in tho same way by the in
habitants of those countries. Dr. Brin
ton, in "Myths of the New World," in
forms us that the Indians regard the
cross as a mystic emblem of the four
cardinal points of the compass.
Comparative mycologists draw vari
ous deductions from these remarkablo
facts. Let u however, appeal to a
man who is not only a comparative
niythologi.st, but a Christian priest.
"Kor my own part," suys tho Rev. bar
ing Gould, "I see no difficulty in be
lieving that the cross formed a portion
of the primeval relif-ion, traces of which
exist over the whole world, among
every people; that trust in tho cross
was a part of the ancient faith which
taught men to belio-e in a Trinity, in a
war in heaven, a Paradise from which
man fell, a Flood and a Cabol, a faith
which was deeply impress! with a con
viction that a Virgin should conceive
and bear a Son, tha the dragon's head
should be braised, and that through
shedding of blood should come remis
sion. The use of the cross aa a symbol
of life and regenera ion through water
ie as widely spread over tho world as
tho boliof in the ark of Noah. Maybe
the shadow of tho cross was cast fur
ther back into the night of ages, and
fell ou a wider range of country than
we are aware of."
It was only natnral that the early
and mediieval Christians, finding the
cross a symbol of life among tho na
tions of antiquity, should look curiously
into the Old Testament to see whether
thore were not foreshudowings in it of
"the wood wheroby righteousness
cometh." Nor was their search unre
warded. In Isaac leaving tho wood of
tho sacrifice they saw prefigured both
Christ and the cross. Thoy saw the
cross in Moses with arms expanded on
tho Mount, in the plo, with transverse
bars, upon which was wreathed tho
brazen serpent, in the two sticks gath
ered by the widow of Sarpota. But
plainest of all they read it in Ezekiel,
ix., 4, 0, "Go through the midst of the
city, through the midst of Jerusalem,
and set a mark upon the foreheads of
the men" that are to be saved from
destruction by the sword. The word
here rendered "mark" is in the Vulgate
"signa thau." The Thau was the old
Hebrew character, shaped like a cross,
which was regarded as the sign of life,
felicity and safety.
Yet the cross was not always a sym
bol of honor. Among the Phoenicians
and Syrians and later among the Ro
mans, it was a punishment inflicted on
slavos, robbers, assassins, and rebels
among which last Jesus was reckoned,
on account of His proclaiming Himaelf
King, or Messiah. The person sentenced
to this punishment was stripped of his
clothes, excopt a covering around the
loins. In a state of nudity he was
beaten with whips. Such was the se
verity of this flagellation that numbers
died of it. Jesus was crowned with
thorns, and was made the subject of
mockery; but insults of this kind were
not common. In this instance they
were owing to the petulance of. the
Roman soldiers.
SOCIETY EDITOR.
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A SONG.
A bird sonred np In do f u e of the mn -
Oh, but the bird unnir irlorlntmly! -
With throb of bosiiin and flutter of wltuj,
In the rich, ripe low eluy in spring
When the bursting of blossoms had Just
bognn.
And the green on tho hlllgldo was fair to
sec.
A bird soared np In tho ftire of the sun
Oh, but his song wfu a thln to bear!
With heart attuned to a wild desire.
With tho quiver of p i' don nnd pulse of fire.
And the bund of a f oul that hnd well-uigh
won
Tho first of the golden outworks there.
A bird soared up In t!i" face of the sun
And I watched hU (light with a straining
eye:
Hnt If he descended T i-nnnot tell;
I markeil alone how his tnuslu fell.
Till tho last faint t!roli of the sonu was done,
Or lost In tho space of the plllnrlcss sky.
Youth's Companion.
THOUGHTS ON EASTER.
Some Extracts from a Sermon Delivered
by Hlsliop Sot lei lee.
Rev. Dr. Henry J. Ktitterlec, recently
consecrated Bishop of Washington by
the Episcopal Church, in tin Easter ser
mon written for tho Now York Herald
said:
Before St. John saw the ris'-n Christ,
before the Lord appeared to Mary Mag
daleno, or a single person on this earth,
this apostle, who carried in his heart
tho conviction that every wrong munt
bo righted, had tlio light of tho resur
roction break in upon his darkened
soul.
The historic proofs of tho resurrec
tion, great as they are "infallible," as
St. Luke calls them never really
bring heartfelt satisfaction alone and
by thomselvea. It is the moral proof
that is satisfying. Tlio risen Christ
manifests Himself in His fullnos, not
to thoso who aro convinced by the sight
of the eye, or the hearing of tho ear,
but to thoso who love Him and keep
His commandments.
And tho reason for this becomes moro
and more plainly manifest when wo
consider what that eternal lifo is which
the risen Jesus brings to His followers.
Whon men speak of eternal lifo thoy
keep thinking all t.hu while of a pro
longation of earthly lifo. This lifo
ends with the grave; eternal lifo begins
after death and lasts forever. The idea
of duration is, with us. tho dominant
idea. In tho BibJn tlio idea of duration
is a subordinate idea. Eternal lifo is a
quality of life.
And this eternal life has four charac
teristics. Itisanewlife.it is a cumu
lativo life, it is the lifo of hoaven, be
gun on earth'; it is a positive life; so
poeltive that aTl other things seem ne
gative. "If only," cried Phillips Brooks in
words that eclio all over the land,
"oh, if only we could lift up our heads
and live with Him ; live new livos, high
lives, lives of hopo and love and holi
ness, to which death should be nothing
but the inoro breaking away of tho last
cloud, and the letting of tho life out to
its completion !"
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REV. DR. SATTERLEE.
Man never began to live until ho be
gan to live in Christ. Ho nover saw
things as they really aro until ho looked
out of Clirutt's eyes. He gazes upon
tho same earthly scenes that others see,
but they have a new and difforent
moaning for him; nor can he explain to
others in any possible way what the dif
ference is. Men look at him and won
der how he can believe; ho looks at
them and wonders how thoy can possi
bly doubt.
That feeble and impoverished thing
which they call lifo ho who knows
something higher calls death. It is not
merely the life of a sleeper who mis
takes dreams for realities, but the kind
of existence that will die with the things
that die around it. Read tho Now Tes
tamont; see how that consciousness
finds vout again and again in the teach
ings of St. Paul and St. John and St.
Peter. Thoy all use tho same words to
expross this consciousness. What is a
sentiment, a metiphor, a figure of rho
toric to tho world meant to them a ro
ality and a real contrast.
To ono who is alivo in Christ, exist
ence without Christ eeems mere death,
for "He that hath tho Son hath life, and
ho that hath not the Son of God bath
not life."
Why She Poses.
"When a girl comes in and insists on
a certain pose or expression," says a
Boston photographer, "you can bo sure
she ia gottiug up a picture for a certain
man. Sho has quarreled, porhups, and
sho means to convey by the picture that
sho is sorry. Very few girls will say
that they are sorry, but they will go to
an elaborate trouble and expense to get
a picture representing thum lookin;;
mournfully into gpaoo or glancing ap
pealiugly in a sort of 'Oh, please don't
be cross with mo' way. Their idea is to
put the picture up in some conspicuous
place where he will see it. His heart
will be softened, ha will say something,
ind then they can have it ovor."
Bit YA NT'S OLD HOME.
CEDAR MERE STILL KEPT AS THE
POET LOVED IT.
It Still Stands on the Itoslyn Hillside.
Here the Toot Wrote s Orent Many of
His rooms, and jit Was Hero Ho I'assed
Away,
Just ns it was when the poet know
it, the home of William Cullen Bryant
still stands on tho Roslyn hillsido in
Long Island. It was here that the in
spiration for many of his sweetest
poems was derived, and where tho poet
himself passed tho latter days of his
lifo. Tho spot and surroundings well
exemplify Bryant's lovo of naturo,
for:
Here Is continual worship; naturo hero,
in tlio tranquility that thou dost lovo.
Enjoys thy presence
Here, too, amid all the boauties that
he loved and admired so much, tho poet
died.
Cedar Mere is tho pretty name that
Bryant bestowed upon his Roslyn homo.
Tho largo two-story mansion, with its
broad piazzas, looks down upon the
waters of tho Sound. It is built of
heavy oak t3 withstand the severe
winds thut in winter beat npon the
headlands along the Sound shore.
Tho timbers aro as stanch and perfect
as thoy wero fifty years ago, and give
evory evidenco of enduring for a cen
tury longer.
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Tho houso was designed in tho old
i Colonial style. A wide hallway ox-
tenda its entiro length. Tho interior
stylo ia also Colonial. There aro old
fashionod open grates, huge chimneys
and carved balustrades. In tho hall,
library and drawing room there are
many valuable paintings, photographs
of poota and authors, and many fine
' steel engravings, representing a portion
of tho poet's collection.
i Bryant first camo to Roslyn in 1814.
ne was always more than a summer
visitor to the village, for in its affairs
ho took a decided and manifest interest.
Its poor ho helped, and when other
troubles beset the community he fro
i quontly came to the rescue with money
I or advice.
I Tho Bryant Hall and Library bears
tostimony to his munificence. This he
built, with tho sole stipulation that the
' village should always keep it in good
repair. In 1800 the village put over
; tho entrance to tho hall a tablet bear
, ing this inscription :
! "In honor of William Cullen Bryant,
who founded this library A. D. 1878,
this tablot ia erected by his grateful
; fellow-townsmen, A. D. 1890."
I EASTER'S FEAST OF EGGS.
The Custom of Kilting Them and Exchang
ing Is Cen mi les Old,
With Easter comes the feast of eggs.
Gobelin informs us that the custom of
giving eggs at Ea"tor is to bo traced
back to tho theology and philosophy of
tho Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks,
Romans, fcc, amo"g all of whom an
egg was tho emble n of tho universe,
the work of the Suj reme Divinity.
Hutchinson romnrks that "Tho egg
was held by tho Egyptians as a sacred
emblem of the rerovation of mankind
after tho Delugo. T'ie Hebrews adopted
it to suit the circumstances of their his
tory as a type of t-'ieir departure from
the land of Egypt, and it waa usod in
the Feast of the Passover as part of the
furniture of the tab'.o, with tho Paschal
lamb. Christiana Itave certainly used
it on thia day, as retaining the elements
of future life, for the emblem of the
Resurrection. It seems aa if the egg
was thus decorated for a religious tro
phy after the daya of mortification and
abstinenco were over and festivity had
takon place, and as an emblem of the
resurrection of life, certified to us by
tho Resurrection from the regions of
death and the grave."
With the Minority.
There aro no compensations in life
moro delightful and soul satisfying than
thoso that come from service and sacri
fice for the welfare of our fellow-men.
It has nover troubled me to be
in the minority. If you want genuine
ploasuro in a battlo go in with a minor
ity on ?omo great principles affecting
tho welfare of society. You feel the
bracing of muscle and nerve, the rising
of tho will power, the determination
not to go down. It is glorious. Chas.
Carloton Coffin.
AND EASILY UNWOUND.
"She's all tho world like a ball of
twine."
"Indeed?"
"Yes so wrapped up in herself."
New York World.
PAttKIIUltST SKVKIIK.
SPECIMENS OF THE DOCTOR'S RHE
TORIC WHEN HE'S FEELING GOOD.
In Keeent Address the learned llnetor
Who Overturned New York's I'olluo le
partment, Oats Loose In tin AiniiliiK
and Highly Rntertalnlnir Fashion.
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkl,nrt, of
New York, is not only ono of tlio two
or threo best known clergymen in the
United States, but is the ono most con
spicuous clerical warrior.
He attacks with a vigor that knows
no tiring the things he boliovo hateful,
and his denunciations ring with an in
voctivo and bitterness which have few
parallels.
Hare aro some characteristic extracts
from a recent address:
"As gorillas, snakes, fleas, and otficr
vermin fill a niche in the divine econ
omy of material things, so their human
analogues, although an inherent nui
sance, aro an historic utility."
"Our cities are hotbeds of every spo
cios of individual, social, and economic
iniquity that the cultivated tb'pravity
of the human heart can doviso."
"New York is only a sample of what
distinguishes our cities generally. New
York five years ago was literally fester
ing with disoase and slimy with its own
noisome putridity."
"Binghamton, a hotbed of Tammany
ism, not Tammanyism of the Croker
type, but baptized lammanyism. Tam
manyism that has been christened over
a dry font Plattism, that is by so much
worse than Crokerism, as it has caught
the trick of decency and millineried it
solf with the affectations of respecta
bility." "My roiled condition dates from
away back, and neither does drought
dry the channel of my feelings nor cold
weather freeze it over."
He thus doscribed the New York
Legislature:
REV. DR. PARKHURST.
"When two sets of thieves soek to
discourage one another's rapacity, you
always know there is an amicable un
derstanding as to the lootings. That is
legislation. That is the sort of unctions
maw that is even now watering with
beastly voracity at the succulent pros
pect." About the Greater Now York bill
Parkhurst had this to say:
"The meanest and sneakiest thing
about tho consolidation bill is that it is
not a consolidation bill at all, but the
mere shell of a bill that will be loaded
by and by with you don't know what,
and they don't mean you shall know
what.
"Thia movement is being jammed
through by Tom Pb tt and Dick Croker,
either of whom, if possible, is worse
than the other, whoe souls are reputed
to have soldered themselves together in
the damnable cons tiracy to make the
consolidated city pasturage ground upon
which to graze theii political cattle.
Dr. Parkhurst w de the remarkable
statement concerning the Raines' Ex
cise bill which recently became a law
in New York State.
"If the Ten Commandments hud been
jammed through in the way tho Raines
bill has been jammed through, I would
broak them the whole of them."
Of Senator Lexow, chairman of the
famous Lexow Committee, which in
vestigated tho Police Department of
New York and was largely instru
mental in overthrowing Tammany, the
Doctor giys:
"That little pip of a Lexow that is
saved from being a barren zero only be
causo of tho inteuer that he leans
against and helps to make ten of, pro
poses to govern us."
"That little rubesient stateman from
Rockland county, Piatt's right bower."
"That turgescent little exclamation
point."
THE MORNING BREAKS.
Tho morning breaks, and with It brings
The llrst fuint breath of Spring,
And hearts, like happy birds ou wings,
for Joy are caroling! ,
A thrill ruus through the frozoa earth,
A trill pervades the air;
Preaui.'inu banishment of dearth, '
Foretelling all things fair!
Eaeh shivering bough enwreathed shall glow
With wuulth of summer bloom.
Unmindful of the blasts that blow,
Forgetful of the gloom!
And henrts bowed down by weight of woe, '
HouIh shivering in Life's blast.
Beneath God's Hinile shall radiant grow
la bummer-land at last!
Grace Appleton.
The Cap or the KplilM.
A mo.st interesting discovery was
mado at (jliizuh on February 24 last.
While Colonel G. K. Iiaum, who has
boon carrying on excavations around
tho Pyramids and the Sphinx, was at
work on the temple which litis between
the foi'o paws of the latter colossal
monument,' lie suddenly came upon the
missing cap of the Sphinx at a distance
of fourteei or fifteen feet below the
surface.