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his conceit in fancying she cared for
him,
Then he sounded Eva, who with
woman's wit gave him vague encourage.
ment; but Nellie and he were good
friends, and nothing else,
One Sunday some of Charley's friends
came down, and Jack Heathoote
promptly chaffed him, and touch d him
on his sorest point when he said:
“Why, old man, you and that gipsy
girl have been here a fortnight, and
neither ‘spoons’ yet! I tell you what 1t
is, she has been jilted, and it has hard-
ened her, my boy. Dettar give her up;
she is no good.”
The Evening Hour.
'Tis time to draw the curtains
{ And light the evening lamp,
t And put fresh fuel in the grate—
The night is chill and damp,
{ "Tis time to find the slippers,
And leave them over there,
In the cozy firelight corner,
Beside the easy chair,
*Tis time to put the kettle on
And draw the table out,
To wake the toast and steep the tea
{Do you hear that baby shout!)
For all he's only nine months old,
He knows a thing or two}
Do see him laugh and elap his hands,
He's playing peek-a-bool
girl and the mother likes her,”
“Ber you a tenner, my
draw a blank.”
He knows "tis time to listen
To a step upon the floor;
He knows "tis time to welcome
A lace within the door,
For all the noisy time of times,
When frolic leads the van,
Commend me to the evening time,
And papa’s ‘little man.”
boy, you
Charley was heartily glad when Monday
morning saw these jeunesse dores on
their way to the station, But the chafl
made him keener, aud the next morning,
coming back from bathing, he gpied the
fair Nollie up at her window.
“(Giood morning,” she ered, joyously,
‘what a glorions morning!’
“Isn't 1t, Nellie?”
“I have been trying to reach those
| lovely apricots, but my little arms are
| too short, It is provoking, and I should
| 80 hike ove.”
| “Dl get you oue, Nellie,
will you give me?’
A TRIER ra AS
A LOVER'S QUARRkw.
“Shall we go on the river this sum-
mer, Charley, instead of the inevitable
seaside?” said Mes, Leyland, *‘“We can
take a house, play tennis, you and Eva
can boat, and we will invite some nice
people to come down.”
So Leyland, his mother, and sister
took one of those lovely cottages which “Don’t be silly, do throw one up,
nestle under the river bavks, and seem | 1 ory simply dying or one.”
to have been born with a garden com- |
plete, so little can we imagine them | paying —one apricot, ¢ + kiss—oatoh,”
without their lawns, They had their |" 1, thanks; you are a good boy!’
sailing boat, their skiffs and that latest | 4nd the brown head disappeared; and
Bat what
they loafed aud feasted their friends, | Nollie was as demure as ever, aud not
and cultivated a lazy energy, which ex- | , word about the apricots or their guer-
pended itself principally in rowing ou a | qo. ?
summer evening up the back water, and | Bat after break{ast. she said to Mrs,
watching the coil of water curling and | 1,a5jan i: ,
uncaring their hissing eddies around | py vou know 1
the old piles of the buck stage, nearly three wecks! 1 am perfectly
‘I'he tumbled chestnut blossoms had | ganamed of myself. I must really go
turned the green of the grass iuto | nome 1 was asked for one week and
cream color; the beech woods had put | have staved tures. You will never {r-
ou their vividest tints, when one day | give me.”
Mrs. Leyland came down to the boat | * Oparley walked out of the room snd
house and startled Charley from his 10- | went down to the river, lit
tense study of the gyratory motious of | stuffed his hands deep into the pockets
cigarette smoke by saying: - of his blszer and grew vicious, He
“Charley, what do you think? Nellie
MacNeil is coming to stay with us. 1
am 80 pleased, aren't you?”
Chariey muttered out something.
His most conerete feeling at the moment
was that his motner bad disturbed him
from a position of absolute comfort,
which had taken over an hour to per-
fect,
But his miod was just sufliciently |
aotive to conjure up an idea of Nellie
MacNeil, dark-eyed, with brown hair,
strongly marked eye-brows, well set
head, petite, scornfully passive, a girl
who had waltzed with him at his |
mother’s last dance, waltzed better than
he did, and bad shown it by a careless | back to town?’
ennni, which was half unconscious but| «Yes but I've changed my mind,
wholly effective. She was an allowed | Your mother wants me to stop a few
beauty, but she bad a cold, caustic | more days.”
humor which startled any ballroom fope Charley went to the bost house, got
who, lured by the tinge of voluptuo out the boat and handed Nellie in with-
ness in her face, attempted a flirtation. | gut sayidg » word, ;
She was also an heiress, She had on | sulky, and evéft ber ex
the mother's side foreign blood, possi- | couldn't rouse him. .
bly gipey in remote ages, on the father's “Let's go to the beech woods;
Scotch, The first gave her her under- | such a glorious morning.”
current of passion, the other that cold- | “All right,” said Charley, and turned
ness which the mashers took as a per- | the boat up stream.
sonal insult, {| They said nothing,
In the particu’ar suburb 10 which the ing in
Leylands lived every one knew every | viciously with long sweeping strokes,
one else, and consequently every ome | They moored under the bauk, tied up
¥uew Nellio MacNeil; she was not a |the boat, and strolled up the waler
favorite, but her position as a recog- | meadow, over whigh bug the high
wzed beauty prevented her from beteg | beech Woods which shimmered and
Shuclutely disliked. The men sneered | gleamed like emersids in the morning
at her goldness, aud threw oul smoking | sun, whilst beneath the trees the sun
room hints; their inillects failed to | struggled through and lit up the dark
20preciate a gir! with melting eyes and | hillside with a network of black and
a freezing manner, Young Leyland | stiver snaded,
thought about the fair young Nellie very “Let's go up to the chalk quarry,’
wuek as his friends did, bus being con- | and Nellie scrambled up the stédp bask
peited and addieted to that kind of com- | with a splendid assumption of energy.
plimentary verbiage which 1s dignified | Half way up she was fain to sit panting
by the name of flirting, when he heard
of Ler arrival, he determined to try his
hand on the hitherto invineible Gipsy,
a8 her schoolfellows called her; il he
won, there was the fortune; if hie lost,
well, at any rate, she shouldn't damage
his heart, She was an heiress, and
Leyland had debts which grew heavier
and more unbearable each day,
Nellie arrived in due course, and she
and Charley and Eva and Mrs, Leyland
speat all their time on the river. The
days seemed one long summer picnio,
and Nellie soon became as devoted to
the river as even Eva or Charley could
wish, Bhe and Eva made a pretty pair,
the Light and the dark, the bine eyes
and light hair of one, aud the dark
srisp hair and flashing eyes of the other,
Charley lazily steered, muiled, and
soached his crew, He aiways tock care
shat Nellie rowed stroke, and Mrs. Ley-
and gently quizzed ham on the point,
As for Nellie, she grew more enthusias-
ile day by day. Wasn't better than
aorrid smoky London, this river with
ts broad sunny reaches, its long, low
water meadows, ita beech woods, and
ts fresh breeze from she Berkshire
towns, and the more enthusiastic she
grew, the more Charley warmed towards
ser, Was this the cold sueering Lon-
fon beauty, this brown skinned gipsy,
who laughed when people pointed at
ser sunburnt face and arms, who went
wout in an old straw hat Charley had
given ber, and a white flannel gown,
which was certainly not a Redfern?
Then Eva, who was somewhat of a
match-maker, began to let Nellie and
her brother find themselves alone, Time
Mter time she was sure she couldn't
eave Mrs, Leyland; wonld she mind?
Phey didn't mind, and gradually got to
going off alone without waiting for an
sxcuse. Leyland laughed to himself
aneasily when he thought of Nellie,
I'hey were always together, and yet he
aad never begun flirting,
There was something about Nellie
which ented him, and it piqued
or much they were to-
ether, she was ways the same-—
Bright. Rumotons, shi. almost Bohe-
wmispn-but never
never passing
line w separates
have beeu here
hated being fooled like this, she conla
go home if she wanted to. Those eyes
were a frand, she had a heart itke a
stone; he hated her, he would go away
to the Eagadine with Jack, they could
have any amount of fun, the girls there
weren't so inferpally stuck up,
could be’affectionate at afpiveh, and so
on, until he lashed himself into quite a
fary with the poor httle uncouscious
Nailhe,
“Now, Charley,” said a voice behind
him, *‘take me out for a row.”
It was Nellie,
“Why, 1 shought you were going
tra brightucss
“ -
it's
Nellie lay bask.
Charley, whose sulk seemed to have
affacted his wind, Be joined her at
jpst, and threw himself at her feet and
iit a pipe. fo .
“How slow vou are this morning,
Charlie, What's the matter?”
¢[—slow--nothing."”
They then had another climb, and
this time Charley gave Nellie his hand
and helped her up through the wood
and over the bare roots of the beech
trees and the loose fliuts which here
and there showed through the dust and
brown leaves. Then Neliie slipped and
Charley had to hold om tight te a
smooth trunk, while she clung to him
as the loose stones rattled away down
through the bushes and took the dry
leaves and twigs with them,
Nellie gave a little shriek; and Char-
ley grown desperate, and warmed by
his struggle, saw his chance.
“What if I let you go, Nelle?"
“Oh, don’t! n't be so stupid!
Oh!” as more stones came rolling down,
**do hold me!”
“Pay me for those apricots, then,”
“Don't be so silly, Do be carefal, I
know we shall slip.”
“Nellie,” said Charley, drawing her
closer, and his heart thumped so he
could hardly bold on to the tree, “do
pay me; don’t be so ernel.”
Nellie was silent, but her checks
burned, and her brown eyes looked up
appeslingly. They bad lost all their
fire, Charley bent down and kissed
her, Bhe shivered at his touch, and
their two bodies swayed towards one
another irresistibly, Then, as he bent
his head again, she toached his neck
with her lips, It was but a touch, yet
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ulrushes looked like king's sceptres,
und the veriest weeds like nature's own
They
and the lovers laughed at their own
inziness as the slow stream took them
on,
Eva was on the lawn as they pulled
up; she ran laughing down to the stage,
“Well, what excuse have you, sir, for
spoiling our lunch?”
Charley handed Nellie out of the
boat, took her up to his sister with one
word, ‘“I'his,” and the two girls kissed
one another, and ran in laughing and
i another's pecks, as
| girls,
So they were betrothed, and the long
summer days slipped away and the
lovers were happy, but ever and anon
Charley would notice that when they
were most glad, a strange look of pain
would flit across Nellio's face and take
the light ont of her eyes, and throw her
lips out of laughter almost into grief.
| Bo one day, as they were sitting on the
| path above the high chalk quarry, a
favorite spot with them, for through
{ the break in the woods they
there see the long valley of
{ happy. For answer she turned and
kissed him, but he pressed her again,
{ and then she said slowly:
“Charley, you ouall me Gipsy, 1
i sometimes think 1 am one. They can
i tell the future, cau't they—and read
destinies in the hollow of the hand!”
**No, silly little Romany! they can’t.
| Bat why do yon ask?”
“Ones I had a foreign nurse, Charley,
who came trom Hungary, Some of
my people brought her over, and she
taught me to read our fates, 1 have
read mine; it is very bad.’
{ “My little Gipsy, don't
{ things.”
| “Well, Charley, you may laugh, but
1 fear, nevertheless,”
The winter came, and Nellie and
Charley were as bappy sas two young
lovers can who have plenty of
money. any amount of spirits, and the
fondest deseription of parents.
But Charley had to go away on busi.
ness, and Nellie away on a visit, They
wrote pretty frequently, but the usual
lover's quarrel cropped up about some
| trifle, and Nellie declined to auswer
Charlie's rather impatient note. He was
| piqued aud could not help thinking of
that frequent look on Nellie's face,
Sue never cared for me, he thought;
i sie is secretly engaged to some one
else; she likes me a bit, perhaps, bat
! more from pity than love, So the hearts
of the two grew wider apart Neilie
| had the spirit of her reputed sccestors;
Oharley was Hiled with his idea. So
Mrs, Leyland saw to her grief that the
two had parted and though she tried
i fo reconcile them it was no use, and she
gave it up at last with a sigh of pain
A year passed, aud Charlie's creditors
inorcased in inverse ratio to his means,
he was at his wits’ end, One night at
say such
be
of noneertain age. They got on well to.
{mbeeility, and, above all, she was re-
puted rich, Charley was desperste; he
| had made an impression, he saw; should
| be strike? A vision of dark imploring
eyes, of the white chalk cliffs, aud the
broad river, and the flattening
| woods, of the clamber up the bill, and
{ the wooing aud the winning eame, but
jit faded away, and Charley and the
| well preserved blonde, with much sin.
{ paring and affection of coyness ou her
| part, became “‘engaged,” married as
becch
i moon, They went nto Wales, and
| was seized with an irresistible longing
| fo go on the river, so they took boat and
At Goring they stayed;
| and Charley went out the next morning,
| telling his bride he would be back to
dewa to see some old bachelor friend,
{he said, It was a hie, for he feit he
| must go and see the old reat over the
| quarry where he and Nelile had sat so
| often, He pulled down, tied up his
{ boat, and ran up through the well re.
| membered i, past the tree where
she had paid him for the apricots to the
seas where they once so happy. It was
occupied, and by Nellie] Her face was
worn, her eyes had lost their fire, the
elasticity of a year ago had vanished.
Charley moved on in a dream; she saw
him, turned a deadly white through
her rich brown skin, aad tottered into
hus arms,
“Why did you go away, Charley?”
“My love, I thought yoa had forgot.
ten me.”
There was one reproachfal look, and
the lovers stood for a few minutes silent,
leaning over the rails on the edge of the
quarry looking over the same tree tops
down the same valley as of yoro,
Then Charlie said, “My love, I am
marriad,”
Nellie gave one thriek, and fell faint.
ing against the railings. Charley took
her in his arms, smothered her face with
kisses, when-—crash--the railing he was
leaning against had given way!
That night some woodmen found the
two bodies at the foot of the olf,
clasped in each other's arms, There
was that in their faces which made even
those rade men nneover.
Killing Off the Crows.
—
More crows have been scan his win.
ter iu the vicinity of New Haven than
befora. Bosfore the recent rain
storm the crows were compelled to seek
ood near the centers population,
for whom the birds
A THIBETAN STUDENT.
De Koros, the Great Asiatic
} Scholar, Lived and Worked.
| How
Probably there never was a scholar
who, in the pursuit of his favorite
study, was eapable of such abstemious-
ness or showed such a lofty contempt
for the very necessaries and decencies
of life as De Koros, He lived like an
eremite, barring the use of the hair
shirt and the scourge, At Yangle, with
four months in an apartment nine feet
square, The temperature was below
zero and the three were regnlarly
snowed up, Here De
betan manuscripts literally trom morn
ing till night, with hands so numbed
that he could bardly turn over
pages, His food was boiled rice
tea, flavored with raneid butter, He
drank no spirits and would not eat
fruits, though Zanskar produces chest
nuts and apricots in abundance,
latterr, when dried, form the chief foo
of the natives He cared nothing for
the outer world; wanted neither news.
papers nor modern books, but was quite
| happy with Thibetan volumes oun relig-
ion, astrology, poetry, philosophy and
and
types, and kept in indestructible book-
cases of cedar, At Titaliva, he lived in
| a native hut, regardless of heat, damp
| and mosquitoes, He refused the hospi-
| tality offered him by Major Lloyd, who,
! we believe, commande . a detachment of
Sepoys at Titaliva, In Caloutta he
never even took his ride on the Course
in the evening, bu: walked about the
compound or limited grounds of the
Asiatic Society, and only saw an int.
mate friend or rome Onental scholar
No wonder that Eoghsh officials were
i compelled to describe him as ‘a singu-
| lar union of learning, modesty and
greasy habits,” A countryoan, who,
a8 an artist, happened to be 1 Calentta
and paid him a vist, was evidenily
amazed at this “prison Ife.” We are
not surprised to find that he had some
difficulty in expending the monthly al
lowance of fifty rupses granted bm by
the Goveroment; that hie left notonched
a sum voled him by the Council of the
Asiatic Society and that Le repeatedly
refused all aid from private sources,
Indeed his retiring snd modest disposi.
| tion was not incompatible with a cer.
tain amount of uvamiable hanghtiness
aod asperity,. We conid wish that
he bad lived more generously, changed
his bine cotton dress oftener, and en-
joyed a few simple pleasures. Dominie
Sampson was a profound scholar, but
in the roins of Derncleugh he feasted
with Menilies, and fairly drank her
{ health in & eupful of braudy. A more
generous diet snd a little quinine might
ave enabled De Koros to survive
malarious fever of the Rangpore Terai,
King Ludwig's Fairy Cave
A writer contributes an inleresting
article on the palaces and buildings of
{ King Ludwig IL io the Bavarian high.
| lands, The deseription
rics one in imagination to the splendors
of the “Arabian Night” caves, “It is
a high, spacious stalactitic cave, with
many offshoota, secret niches and ob-
soure recesses, before which you stand,
‘rom sll ecorvers, niches and clefts of
the rock—from many recesses covered
with colored «lass, to right, to Jef,
above, below streams a sea of light,
now vyeliow, now green, uow violet,
rose, red, or blue, suflasing all parts
with an indescribable splendor. Above
all thus flaming beauty a rainbow spreads
ita jovely light, The pracipal cave 1s
about fifteen metres 1m diameter, and
den metres high, From the background
rushes like liquid silver, glittering and
breaking into spray, a beautifol water.
the face of the rock, It feedls a
little pus, occupying three-quarters of
{ the asor of the cave, whose clear surface
blending lights with en.
chanting beauty, Un the lake is a
polen skifl covered with rose-ornaments,
the hinder part of which enlarges into
ia shell. Standing on the bow of thie
diminutive boat is Amor, spanning his
bow. Rightand left the boat is adorned
with red coral, A pair of doves, whose
bills are united in kisses, are shown ih
the act of alighting upou the left side
lof the boat, Two golden oars await
| the appearance of the mariner, Above
| on the rock rests the bewitching siren,
combing her golden waving locks with
a golden comb, Oo the wall of the
cave, too, is Hacki’'s beautiful picture
of **Tannhauser Blumbering in the Lap
{of Venus,” There is aiso a mirror
three and one-half meires high and
down
broken in transit before this one was
safely affixed to the rock. Near the
place where the mirror stands a small
stair with wooden rails leads to the
king's seat, It is a seat some two
metres in length, the back part of which
is formed out of a giant shell, while
roses and rushes entwins it all around,
Here King Ludwig IL loves to sit and
gaze nt once on pictures of life, love
and beauty,
Statesmen Who are Queer Drinkers,
“Some of these statesmen are queer
drinkers,” the saloonist went on, “A
member I know drinks about forty
drinks a day. He fills his glass to the
brim and tolls the barkeeper, when it
runs over, his sight is bad and he can't
seo well, One must have three lumps
of sugar, a tables ful ¢f water and
= aalf goblet of whiskey for his usual
dram, Ho dusts a little nutmeg over
this, gulps it down and exclaims every
time he does so that it is a drink fit for
the guds, One congressman drinks
beer in great quantities, snd he always
puts pepper sauce in it. He is an
econominal fellow and says that pepper
sanoe makes the beer burn his stomach
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trained for the fall races.
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of track harness for Maud 8.
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! =The Island Park track was
aged to
| the extent of $5000 by
| recent floods,
|
| ==Joe Davis, (record 2,
{ hard work to trot 2.51
| Florida track,
{ Ferran, of Louisville, for $7500.
Fides,
€) 3: 4
record 2.224, owned
last week of pleuro-pneumonia,
—Seventeen thoroughbreds sold
{the Megibben sale in
brought $14,920, an average of $877,604.
- Mr. Frederick Gerker has
“
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| Brook, a bay mare, sald to trot in
racing at the old rospect Park
Jockey Club.
J. T.
stands a fair chance
Montgomery
Year,
of
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winning
stake Memphis
—John Spellman, the
decided to refuse Mr. 1H
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ride nexi season, and will
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gains’ £
continu
table of race-hi
—The 2 year-ol t Cam put
chased by W. H. Fearing for $4000 at
the Lorillard sale, beseeny
by Fearing I Lorillard
Matt H a i ow ti 3
SLAall dYTHEs Will Lain Lue coil,
Mr. Harnson,
yHES,
las
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It is rumored that |
one of the stewards of
Driving
Conrse, should resign, Mr.
be made Vice President.
driver, took part in the
C., races, winning a mile heat
ber favorite runner Marvie B
S04, 1.53, 1.544
J. B. McFerran, Glenview
Louisville. Ky., has sold to Mi:
ham, of Bloomington, Iil., the black
{ Coit, Oneida, bred at Glenview, loaled
{in 1884, sired by Nutwood, dam
quoit, by George Wilkes, for §2500,
~The bik &, Superb, by Ethan Allen,
damn Mischief, by Harris’ Hamble.
tonian, died of old age al New York
February 22. He was the
Great Emma C
Char wslon, NS,
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Sat
On sire of
Western, a
Prince, Harry Conklin and Superb, Jr.
Wi
~Jjon a 3-vear-old bay stallion, full
i brother to Erin, by Belmont, dam
Evantide, by Woodford Mambrino,
arrived at the Cedar Park Stud this
week, having been recently purchased
| by Robert Steel from W, A. De Breuil,
of Thornton, lll, lon is designed for
stock purposes. He 1s 16 hanas high
| and now weighs 1250 pounds
Messrs, Morrow & MeCard, of Cal-
ifornia, offer to mateh their trotter,
Arab, b. g.. recerd 2 171, by Arthurton,
dam Lady Hamilton, against any trot-
ter in the country barring Maud 8,
The conditions pamed are best three in
five, in harness, any good track
mutually agreed upon, in June or July,
e stakes to be $5000 or $10,000 a side,
~All & meeling the Cleveland
Driving Park Company, held on March
2d, it was decided to open a stake of
£5000 for the Grand Circuit Meeting,
to be held July 27 to 3u. The Detroit
| Association will open a stake for a like
sum, and will have the choice of naming
the class, If Detroit selects the 2.40
or class Cleveland will make
stake for the 2.30 class,
~The new Fairfax Stavie. managed
by A. F. Walcott, of New York, bids
fair to make itself known od the turf
this year. G, R. Buchanan will be ita
tisiner and George
| jockey. The stable consists of Cyclops,
| Cataline, Housatonic, Hercules, Shaw-
i pee, Hypasia, Valissea, etc, and flue
California-bred youngters recently pur-
chased by Mr. Buchanan,
—J. I. Case has recently purchased
twelve brood-mares to breed to Phalias,
including the b., m. Huntress, record
| 2.20%, three miles in 7.214, foaled 1884
by Volunteer: Two bay fillies, by Ken-
{ tucky Prince; Nara (12) and Bertha
{ (11), both by Botspur (son of Rysdyk’s
on
11
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of
its
2.25
| genger Duroc; black mare (11), by
brino Patchen, and Fild Lark, by
Enfield,
~The $10,000 stake opened by the
| 8t. Louls Fair Association, condition.
{ally that Miss Woodford and Freeland
start, 18 attracting covsiderable atten.
tion, and will probably be the means of
bringing the two cracks once more
together. While the Dwyer Brothers
do not care to make a special trip to
the West, they are not the men to shirk
the issue, and it is highly probable that
they will enter Miss Woodford, and not
improbable that their new purchase,
! Pontiac, will also be nominated,
—Some time since there was a story
going the rounds of the press, concern-
ing & mare owned by an Orange county
dominie, that raised ber owner from
poverty to comparative aflinance. She
was a black, of Denprebouc ing >
pearance, with a knee, we domi.
nie, Rev. A. B, Scutt, bred her in 1873
to Knickerbocker, but was prostrated
by paralysis before the colt was foaled,
and found himself unable to pay for the
service of the horse, John E. Wood
waived his claim, and gave Mr, Seutt
$100 for the colt. This colt was sold
for a long price to Benjamin W, Hunt,
of Eatonton, Ga., and is as
i, nt —————
FASHION NOTES.
all sorte
Jets and fancy beads of
are still favored adoraments,
almost as soft
» and drapes very gracefully.
Gypsy cloth is a
i etatnine
its various shades and blue
the new
! ed In
| of every Lone are shown in all
| goods,
Loops of narrow ribbon
in cascades are
| ball dresses,
- 1 he higher
i set on the front
| posed Lo be,
ATTAnNZ
very fashionable fm
Y
a hu
a bonnel trimming J
thie ow phi uo
the more chic iL 1s sup
i
~=Anerican ginghams are very fine
| this BEASON, ANd BOE are seen in Jap
| anese patlerns,
~ Entire skirt fronts of
and bead work come
| spring importations,
embroidery
among eary
~repe lisse and gauze are daintily
t embroidered with silk and are 1m all the
| evening colors as well as in white
| black,
O
~~ New spring woolens come wit
| canvas-woven grounds, on which ar
| stripes, bars, and figures of boucle, vel
{ vel, and plush,
i
| Alpaca mohair isone of the new fab
| ries used in Paris for evening dresses
| the favorite tints being turquoise blue
and shell pink
The fas
ric with narrow str
ugling a plain fab
8 and tiny checks
3
it
ye the style
pion of m
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in
thoug
one costuine, 18 1 bat
iit
h la mode, is not admirable
Much variely |
suitable for mourning, as
weather become
herr
Ie isdl
& OO!
Lise
use the
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dery fasie
throat,
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of
The comfortal
shoe for ladies no longer
OF
ace aver
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the instep,
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kid
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nuns we 7% soft
and having Je
bits ®,
wie 1}
mg ul
Fine corduroy is
materials for ng suits,
hy itself, or in combinatior
camel's haar
e desira
It is
iv i
am
+. will
ie WaiKing BE
ade up
4
Wilh cashimnere, serge, ot
Irish poplii
Bretelles high dog col-
of . straps, across ful
sow se walstcoats and velvet
fine frocks of
£
ics in the spring.
floral
signs and gros surah are mew silk ma-
terials for spring wear. The surah has
a soft rich twill, and the Tussore i:
used for drapery for silk or velvet,
— For party dresses for little girl
nothing is prettier than white cashmere,
with collars,
cuffs and borders of colored or white vel-
vel, frise, or striped plush or Astrakhan,
~The domesti to be used for
millinery purposes this spring, as well
as for dresses and draperies over silk o
satin foundations, show some peculiar
features, lines or threads being so wove:
in among the ecrape that the effect of
stripes or bars Is created. These and
{ the plain crapes are in every conceivable
{ hue and shade to match or go w
surahs, satins and brocades, with wh
they may be most fully com
bined,
Cotton goods are evidently in great
demand even now and this spring an
suminer they will be made up not
n house dresses, but for complete cos
tumes, a d novelly in colton
shows a gingham ground, in checks
plaids and stripes, in one hue or two m1
more colors i { bouretis
ther in single
with outl in
threads, « shade
thread may be in one hue, with bourette
Ks a brown speci
knots of anothe
men with © and blue threads
{ knotted with red and gold.
An almost endless variety of fabrics
in silk and cotton for spong, earls
summer and even midsummer wear
+8. Aanag gh
IATR ( ve vel ve lviel
t
SUN pes or
lusltn ar } i
LAAN, Ale 8 UNG
flue wash f
to on
abr
— 1 ussore silk with
frise de-
* CTA
Tapes
dg
7
i
od
A
beauti
ons
oc ide ad
nes
or the
a8 In
vile
! retail establishments, while manufac
turers, commission merchants and im-
porters in Philadelphia and New York,
are kind enough to show samples or
specimen pieces of decided novelties
not yet ready for general introduction.
| 1t 1s most wonderful to realize how
| every idea and conceit that comes
| within reach of a designer in fabrics is
| grasped, utilized and illustrated in the
| numerous materials intended for dress
| or household decorations, The pamt-
ings on china are reproduced on wall
| paper, and in turn brocades, silks, jutes
and cotten are woven in similar designs,
| and now the soft silken fabrics with
ground in wall paper shades, woven
through in beautiful floral conceits and
quaint figures, are used in place of lace
or Madras to form window or inside
sash curtains, such us ire arranged very
full and tied back with a bright hued
ribbon. In some houses special rooms
have walls curtained with these silks,
ghirred on to brass rods at top and bot-
tom, and the ceilings are finshed by a
shirring or fullness of the silk in
umbrella fashion, coming «ut from
beneath an artistic centre piece, io
Japanese or antique style.
~Small bonnets, high hats and tur-
bans are announced for the next siason,
and the shapes are similiar to those now
worn. The small capotes have coronets
falling back from closely fitting brims,
or else the brim is slightly flaring, with
scalloped edges, and is to be filled in
with puffs of gauzy ribbons and flowers,
The crowns are narrow, but both short
and long crowns are imported, showing
that the hair may still be worn either in
a high soft coil, or ina medium-low
plaited coll, or still lower in a drooping
® loop. Round hats for the spring
and for city streets will have high,
crowns, with the brim wider on
side and rolled closely against
the soft-crown turbans
will