Unacceptable Prayess.
I do not like to hear him pray
On bended knees about an hour,
For grace to spend aright the day,
Who knows his neighbor has no flour,
I'd rather see him go to mill,
And buy the iuckless brother bread,
And see his children eat their fill,
And laugh beneath their humble shed.
I do not like to hear him pray,
“Let blessings on the window be,"
W ho never seeks her home to say,
“If want o'ertake you, come to me.’
I hate the prayer, so loud and long,
I hat's offered for the orphan’s weal,
By Lim who sees him crushed by wrong,
Aud only with the lips doth feel
1 do not like to hear her pray,
With jeweled ear and silken aress,
W hose washerwoman tolls all day,
And then is asked to work for less.
Such pious shavers I despise;
With folded bands and face demure,
They lift to heaven their “angel eyes,’
And steel the earnings of the poor.
I do not like ruck soulless prayers;
If wrong, I hope to be forgiven,
Wo angel's wing them upward bears;
They've losta million mills from Heaven.
THE AUCTIONEERS STORY.
This is a strange world!
never thought so until my attention
my other self with compassion, 1
to wy fellow-beings—more thoughtful
of their joys and sorrows—and that
counts for something, I reckon.
sales in my time, and never thought
corumission taken off.
But I had never thought of the story
sale—of the heartaches,
and woman’s tears,
to me, who had known the time when
of despair,
light trinket, in order to carry on a
frolic, or help a poorer chap than I was,
ment,
of the poor creatures that want and
misery have driven into old Two to
One’s clutches.
Thecatyof bb
ket for our business,
there by one house alone would dis-
count any banking, commission or
is a splendid mar-
same token, the pawnbrokers’ equal us
in power and profit, and give us some
of our biggest sales.
my fate to have a part in the following
story.
The consigmnent consisted tainly of
Zlass and silverware, pictures and
bronzes, as Clutchem & Keep were
rather first-class in their business, and
did not yet condescend to family Bibles;
but in
pieces of furniture which attracted my
attention from the fact of
an order from a Western bousg to pick
ap all the antiques and oddities afloat,
for a bric-a-brac firm.
Here were about a doz
uncomfortable household articles, in the
way of chairs, dressing-glasses and
cabinets, and I at once
sold, that they might not get into next
day’s sale, but be forwarded at once to
our Western house.
Oue article alone I
tention enough to remember afterward.
and then only because I struck my hand
me stare hard at the cause of it,
was an old cedar cabinet, brass-bound
and clamped, but rusty and forlorn
looking enough in its changed fortunes,
day’s sale, as there were two others to
then going as crazy for everything old,
but parents and friends, as either the
West or North,
But subsequent events discovered my
mistake, Our Saturday sale was a big
was bid off lively and quick.
The crowd had begun to thin, and I
was busily mopping my wet face with
a fresh handkerchief —for it was warm
work, I can tell you, to cry such sales
from ten to one o'clock—when a lady
camwe back in the store where I was
standing and approached me eagerly,
“Are you the proprietor, sir?” she
asked, with nervous haste, and [ saw
she was trembling.
*I am the auctioneer, madam,” I
said, wondering what was wrong,
will eall the firm, 1f you wish.”
“Perhaps you can attend to my busi-
ness, [—~]—do~—not— understand
these—ma ters—very well,” she fal-
tered; and then I saw she was poorly
clad, although well bred and timid,
I drew an old chair up into the cor-
ner, and asked her to sit down, and as
she did so gratefully—poor little wo-
man!—I took a goud look at her, She
was still young and pretty.
Behind her hung a long mirror, It
had grown dim hanging there, and had
a misty shadow over it, and in the two
angles of the corner stood a faded old
Japanese screen and a tall chest of
drawers,
The store was now empty, and the
fight was leaving it, as the sun was
creeping away from the door-sill and
mounting ni the roof, as if he had
waited for the sale to be over,
lady had a face that touched me
at once. he. was pale and Ju but
———
] asked,
| a8 if seeking something.
she said, eagerly,
“Yes, madam.”
“You would know the articles sent
| here?”
{ *“Probably.”
Sie looked abeut her again, and the
color came and went in her face ner-
vously,
“I have just come from Clutchem &
Keep,” she begah ’ in hurried tones, as
if ashamed of admitting her knowledge
of those gentlemen. “They —had—
some—things—I was forced—to—part
with—"" Hera she paused for a mo-
ment; then looked up at me with a
faint smile. **You hear this said so
often that I will only weary you.”
Bomehow or other, 1t seemed to mo I
had only then understood the possibility
{ of a heart sorrow being attached to the
exchange of goods such as I had that
day sold,
“1 am anxious to help you, madam, *’
And I was. I believe I was growing
| superstitious, too; for it seemed to me
| as if a ghostly pageant was crossing
land re-crossing that dim mirror, and
| the old screen shook as if the sighsjor
| sobs were coming from it.
“Thank you! I am looking for a
cedar cabinet,” said the lady, gently,
“which was among the articles I parted
with to Clutchem & Keep, and am told
it was sent here for sale, I wish
redeem it at any price—"’
| face change.
A cedar cabinet!
1 remembered it at once. The hurt
been labeled for that day’s sale.
She grew frightened at my hesitation
“*Do not say that is gonel”
| eried, rising quickly, and grasping my
arm.** Oh, God would not so afflict me!
Look, look everywhere for it, I beg, I
pray you.”
Her hands shook so on my arm that
{ I could feel the quivering of her thin
| fingers,
it
me that there had not been one in the
catalogue.
Had I made a mistake and sent it
| West with the bric-a-brac lot? If so,
| it could be recovered,
my error, but the poor little woman
mistook my silence, and broke down
completely, sobbing so pitifully that 1
| knew then that some great cause was
hidden beneath her desire to reclaim
the old cabinet,
‘1t 1s more to me than life or death,’
i she cried out, passionately, looking
straight before her. *“‘It means my
| children's honor. Listen, and you will
i be influenced by my great need to find
this cabinet for me, I believe it con-
tains the certificate of my marriage
and my children’s baptism, without
which I cannot lay claim to my hus-
band’s estate in France, It 13 not the
but my children shall not be robbed of
the right to their father’s name."
She paused to look at me, I felt as
if a severe tension upon her nerves had
given way at last, and, crushed by her
fear of the cabinet being lost to her,
her silence and reserve had broken
down, and that she appealed to me un-
consciously in ber need.
shadowy pageant passed to an
fro across the mirror, and as she wen
on pass.onataly with her story,
seemed to me 1 saw tha whole sad epi-
sode pass in review on the dim surface,
“Fifteen years ago my busband de.
| serted me. Evil influences led him
{ astray, and, while for my children’s
| sake I would have pardoned him, I
never saw him again or heard one word
of him until I learned through the
i paper that he was dead, and had left
! an ostate to his wife and children.
“I could not grieve, except that he
| died in his sin; unforgiven by me, I
| was poor, for he left me only the house-
hold furniture, and have toiled all
these years {0 maintain my children.
| So, for their sakes, I applied to a law-
yer to obtain possession of the estate,
**Oh, the shame, the despair, of find-
ing another claimant in France to my
| children’s name and honor,
“I must prove our claim as wife and
! children,’ said the careful French law-
yer, *'by the production of the marriage
| and baptismal certiticates!™
“And I knew not where they were!"
“The minister was dead, the wit-
nesses gone [| knew not where,”
“1 feit as if my carelessness had dis-
{ honored my children, and for days
{ could get no relief from my horrible
anxiety, until by a flash, as if from
heaven, I remembered that I had placed
| the certificate with other papers in the
i old cabinet that I had parted with to
Clutchem & Keep. I went to them;
they had sent it here for sale, and now
you"
She broke down with a moan of de-
spair. It was more than I could stand.
That cry and the pitiful story forced
me nto action at once,
“You shall have back the cabinet,
madam," I said, solemuly, as if devot-
| ing my Life to its search.
The
Lhe
gratefully, looking at me with beaming
ayes,
Her face looked at me as if a halo
had stood bare-headed before her.
-the death of hope and love in this
poor woman's life-~the requiem of glad
ness and impulse,
She left me with a hopefal smile,
taking my hand with a pretty grace,
and I watched her, in the mirror, go
down the shadowy room Ianto the sun-
light of the street, and the shadows
seemed to fall from her forever,
I telegraphed the Western firm, They
had the cabinet, and returned it at
once; 80 that before many days the lit-
tle, nervous fingers were searching, in
the presence of the lawyer and myself,
for the precious papers.
She found them! I shall never for«
t her face when she held them up.
he kalo was there, as she sald, so
softly:
ow k God!"
And it seems to cling to me still,
to make me think how oh
our ev passions can
fishness and thoughtlessness,
and
THREE YOUNG LIONS.
How the Mother Guards Her Young ---
The Boy Cub, the Mother's
Favorite.
Jennie, the African lloness at the
mother and child-en was presented to
the reportsr. She was lying motionless
her eyes staring fisrcely at the intru-
ders, The little shavers were eating
She looked dignified and
In the adjoining cage lay Paul,
the father, and he seemed to fully
realize the new responsibility that
rested upon him, He would walk to the
door of the cage containing the cubs,
look in and back out, then quietly
laiddown by himself.
their arrival he slowly crawled into the
cage to see his mate, but he came out
with a bound and a yell, for Jennie
gave him a “wallop” on the side of the
head, that was hint enough that bis in-
trusion was unnecessary. Ina few days
she picked the boy-lion cub up in her
mouth and carried it out and Jad it be-
fore her liege lord and master. He
calm,
to the further end of the cage.
“Would you like to take them up?”
**Not if it’s necessary to go in there
“I'll let them out in the
» and, pulling up the door, the
male lion bounded out, closely followed
by Jennie, the mother, Down slammed
the artist and reporter
entered the cage and picked up the
cubs, The boy cub felt as soft as a ball
not over a
quarter of an inch long, and his
soft hair, as soft as wool. Hiseyes had
no lion tierceness,
a banquet:
1"
at
utterance,
his legs, and he
had four little
too full for
He
and about as sharp.
one of the hitter that she carries around
in her mouth, holding it by the nape of
the neck, as a cat carries her kittens.
[Lionesses carry their young from
thirteen to fourteen months, and they
are not weaned for four or five months,
Her diet is now a quart of fresh
COW,
bone,
milk from one
such as neck bones of mutton and
litter, The
died from
and this is her fourth
others she ate up, or they
opposite cage, is nearly eight months
old, was mused by Bill Halstead on the
a coon that climbs up the bars and drops
on Minuie’s back, and rides around the
cage In fine style, She 1s as large as a
Newfoundland dog.
The most noticeable feature about
he devotion of the
mother, Every few minutes she turned
and licked them. Her eyes never
left the visitors, whose every motion
she noticed, and when she came in
from the out-door cage after the cubs
had been handled, she bounded in, and,
standing in ti door, paused a
moment, asif t something is com-
ing, and I knew it, went to t!
cubs and smelt them all, and appeared
sat Feeding-time soon came, but
she did not appear ravenous, but, com-
ing slowly to the front, Kept looking
back at the cubs, and taking her meat
back to the rear of the cage,lying down
the cubs. When they sleep she
ws out and lies with the lion.
(Quite in contrast was the conduct of
the jaguar, which kas a three months
cub in the adjoining cage. While the
lioness mother was calm, contentment
i open
0 Say,
She ie
fafland
ised,
o
S
would
snapped
less unrest and snarling. She
not suckle her cub, and
“She knows it's near feeding time,’
says Stevens, “and will not let the cub
self fed. Yet if the cub comes near
The lion cubs have none
yellow instead of curly, coarse, black
hair, The chances are in favor of the
‘They have been
turbance whatever suffered to come
near the mother, and she appears so
quiet and maternal, that there is every
reason for belleving that they will be
reared. :
csi wn
THEATRICALS IN CHINA.
Tragedy and Comedy as Presented on
thie Stage in the Flowery Kingdom.
In China, wiuere everytaing is old,
the stage is one of the oldest and most
popular of institutions. It is recog-
nized as a moral agency, and it is kept
from backsliding by edicts the most
able in quality; its drama fills some
thousands of volumes; it has its laws,
its conventions, its traditions, its
genres, its types, for all the world like
the great theatres of the west, As in
Japan today, as in the seventeenth
cenvury France and Jacobin England,
its servants are outchsts and celebrities
at once, It is the thing for high-toned
mandarins and persons of consideration
to have play-bouses of their own (as
was the fashion in the Franceof Pompa-
dour and Mme. de Maine), and to treat
their guests to after-dinner perform.
ances by companies specially engaged;
while, as for strollers playing for
the million, the flowery land may fairly
be said to teem with them. It costs
little or nothing to manage a traveling
theatre,
Given a few trestles, a few boards,
bamboos for columns, mats for thatch
fug, a painted cloth or two for wings and
backgroun benches as your
#@pace
d, as
will hold. bv the wa! or
j can be run up in a couple of hours,
i The demzens of the quarter subscribe,
the local mandarin assists, and straight.
way the theater is in full working order.
Costumes, scenery, app.intments—to
all these luxuries the Chinese is
He asks no
actors; that much is enough for him.
As for the actors themselves,
is hard to gather whether they are good
or bad,
delights of strolling as sympathetically
as if Le were Banville himself, or had
8AL
Albert Glatigny.
it is true, that, as in Japan, all female
parts are played by the boys; that the
dramatist are nine In number—the
bachelor, the low comedian or libertine,
the old woman, the soubrette, the
go-between, the young girl of noble
birth, the courtesan and the woman of
equivocal virtue.
In the Chinese drama there
48 many styles as there are literary
epochs in Chinese history,
is appropriated to a particular epoch,
and has a name of 1ts own.
dramas of the Mongol period are known
as Joys of Established Peace; those of
the Soul dynasty as Diversions of the
Quiet Streets; those of the
Flower, and so forth,
ir}
to
Tsa-ki plays, wh belong the
iC
is the Pi-Pa-Ki, or Story of the Lute.
Kao-Tong-Kia, a good deal of
In the first tableau
hero, Tsai-Yong, who lke
his
and
of
and
leaving
young
bachelor
parents
aris,
his
{
i
i
|
HORSE NOTES,
will most likely
purse races
~-Majolica, 2.15,
only be entered in special
this season,
- Pair expects to lower the double-
Phallas, was
Case
Chief,
by J.
by
I.
~Phallas
recently sold
Two of the favorites for the
~The horses are galloping at Jerome
as much pleased with the new track,
Mr, Thomas 8B. Harrison
by lung fever, a year-old
Frank Work drove Edward a half
on
!
|
examination at
wins the prize and therewith the hand
of the amiableand accomplished Nicou;
that in her society he forgets his father
honors by
the virtuous
Lae
that
with all
Techao;
buried
virtuous
—Ban Fox has retired and Con Cre-
g
tucky Derby, with Silver Cloud a strong
second choice at © to 1.
- A, Loudon Snowden writes that
from Mr, Parker, of Reading.
Goldsmith
Alden claims that
é
heavy rain,
—John 8, Clark has sold his standard
stallion, Jersey Wilkes, by
Wilkes, dam Lady Patchen, to W. P.
C. Jefferson,
and
~W. W. Bair offers to match Me-
wins a precarious livelihood by singing
by both his wives,
and ceremonies as are their due,
There are pretty scenes in the play; but
an inordinate amount of talk,
The Chinese have invented many
A peculiarity of all those pleces
- 1
ville,
and certain paris are sung.
When the actor makes a statement, he
makes it in his natural voice; but when
he has to point a moral, or express a
philosophical idea, he does It in song,
Applied to our own stage, tuis practice
would have admirable resulis. For
instance, the sailor would dash to the
rescue of the wjured heroine with |
accustomed lion ramp, and the ‘Back,
villains! Dastards, come of old
time. Then, however, uplifting his
manly baritone to music, he would
warble forth the well-known moral,
and in melody declare that the man who
3 iid lay bis Land upon a woman,
ing in the way of kin iness 13s unwor-
the name of an Eoglishman. This
sxample, and the reflection that in
England as in China every actor would
be (as it were) his own slow music, may
perhaps suffice,
- -——
India Wheat,
$B
1s
oni
Worl
1}
“India,” said a gentieman, who has
recently been traveling in the East,
“ranks third among the wheat-growing
and while the
machinery used in cultivation 1s of the
the finest
United States, where ma-
“*“The Indian farmer
an inch wide, and half an inch thick,
which is sharpened at the lower end
and fixed in a triangular piece of wood
attached to the yoke on the necks of
the bullocks by a rope of manilla grass,
This plow tears up the ground like a
harrow and by hard work can be made
to go over nearly an acre of land a day.
The operation of plowing Is repeated
five or six times before each sowing, or
about ten times a year, as two crops are
raised. After the last plowing the sow.
er follows after the machine and care-
fully drops the seed into the furrow,
“In September, if this is the summer
crop, the harvesting begins and is car-
ried on by men who, with sickles, cuta
handful of grain at a time and tie it up
into sheaves as they go along. It is
then threshed, or, rather, stamped out
by cattle on a hard earthen flour, and
the straw as well as the grain Is care-
fully saved to be used for fodder for the
cattle, After the wheat is threshed it
is winnowed by dropping it from an
elevated platform to the ground, the
wind blowing the chaff away, The
Brahmin priests are consulted about
each process, and are liberally paid, in
fact almost the entire profit of the erop
18 turned over to them,
*“The average yleld is about four-
teen bushels to the acre, but the poor
farmer can seldom afford to eat a loaf
of wheaten bread, his diet consisting
almost entirely of herbs and fruits,
““In #pite of the obstacles of ignor-
ance a Sop erty these farmers raise
240,000,000 bushels of grain a year,
ten times the quantity raised
the State of Dakota, w ]
uarter as much territory devoted to
Wheat raising as India.”
Hts AI MP
«It 18 said that a movement 18
at Shippensburg, to have
mile heats, three in five, to harness,
over Belmont Course. Mr. Bair has
placed in Robert Steel's hands §250 as a
forfeit,
—Dr Cyrus Wanrer, of Kurtztown,
Pa., thinks © vi kd
pacer, Ix
leading, a
at now negotiating
of Boston, the present
surrounding the grounds, are being
ricultural Society.
—Willlam Meaney, the jockey who
horse Jim McGowan, now Bourke
Cochran, has been reinstated. Meanes
has been In Australia since his expul-
sion.
~~An adjourned meeting of the
Board of Review of the Nationa! Trot.
ting Association will be held at the
Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, at 7 P.
M., May ll. Communications intended
the consideration of the Board
3
of
id be forwarded to Secretary T. J.
f
x
Veil
Frank Bower haa swapped a 5
year-old pacer, a trotter called Gypsy
Girl, and the well known bli g. Nigge:
Baby, which was the mate to the bik.
m. Mollie (at one time this pair was tix
rastest double team In Philadelphia),
for a black mare from Eli Kendig &
Bro., said to trot close to 2.70,
~Kpapsack McCarthy has come to
the front, and offers to enter two double
teams, one of pacers and one of trotters,
give a
ys willing and
cater for new
the
“Knap is al
always ready to help
worth of their money.
~-A despatch from Eatontown, N.
ing at the races at Monmouth Park last
He was taken to Freehold
who Is matched
—John Murphy,
Club track, on May 135, for $1000,
is getting himself into shape for the
and a change must be made at the end
of each mile. Murphy’s horses will be
J. O. Nay, A. L, C., Bluestring, Ghost
and De Barry.
~Join E. Turner says the Point
Breezs track is as good as any in the
country, and he predicts that it will re-
main a racetrack for many years
to come. He gives his string of trot-
ters work over it every good day, and
has commenced repeating them. He
complains of the backwardness of the
season, and says that his horses are all
big and fat, but strong. Trinket,
he says, goes better than for two years,
and he expects to win some money with
her this year. The ch. g. win
Thorpe, 2.16}, is also looking and
acting ‘better than he did last YOar.
Billy Button, 2.18}, will trot in the
Philadelphia eircait. Overman, 2.10},
will be campaigned this season. He
looks better than at any time since
coming from California. Dick Organ,
2.24}, has been roaded by his owner,
Mr. Peter Foy, since the close of
last season's campaign, but he willbe
driven for money n this year, start-
EE The b. g.
ing first at Pou
Faro, 2.20}. by brino Gift, dam
a thoroughored, is getting sharp work,
The little b. g. Matchless, (Mattie
Lyle’s colt) record 2 37}, will be cam-
and so and ch. m, Lady Alert,
24}, by Mambrino Lance. Vargrave,
b. 8. by Woodford Mambrino, dam
Virginia, by Alexander's Abdallah, 1s
expected to make a trotter. Others in
Turner's string are: Frank b. 8.
2.204, by Hermes; Dom Pedro, b. 8,
2% iin a Na i i)
\ Ww; Rn
by Kentucky Prince, and Jory
— Se
Sateens multiply In every imports
ant phase of progression
| ~—DBniliant scarlet has again become
| the fashionable eolor for all dresses,
—Colored laces will combine with the
foulards for stylish summer cos-
{| tumes,
SLE
— Every material has embroidery,
| even cotton, and almost all these have
{ box robes,
1
Bridal slippers | couple of white
{ ostrich tips well curled where formerly
was a spray of orange blossoms,
~All
{ china or silver on the fashionable din-
ner-table are tall and high at present
ave oo
the decorativa places of glass
~Marvellous are the des
summer ball dresses, where black
| figures largely as a material and
| bead ornamentation 13 exquisite
~High eollars of solid jets are
with black costumes, and are very |
| coming,
~-Fine embroideries
iaces are used with s
elle
een astrimu
r shiacte zis
2 New suace &
a rial
ana
i8 «
r blue is ano
— White lilac is
| among the artificia whic
this season beautiful
{| more reasonable than ever,
—A pretiy pale pongee
| dises of gold-colored silk inel
ventionalized pansies in shaded
Between the discs the ground
{ with pale viole :
- A pretty
flowers
IDWers,
Ore
scarf of
a VE
SEARON'S Sulnmer
| whe vel
| whal novel
embroidery of
shade of bl
vil
Adiid
~-Sashes of
¥
Walereo silk
ribbon are worn t
lark wool, velvet
They are placed
the back, and
¥ to the bottom of the
oof
the
younets are made of light, coars
v plaited with fine strips of
‘olors, else of pl
ps, with binds of gold, whi
colored beads. There are also capotes,
with crowns forming a network of black,
garnet or other bea :
* A
Or
sash, with a full is wore
{| with nearly all dresses, Sashes
may be of the material, with embro
ery or lace, or they may be of sural,
| ribbon, silk grenadi or faille, accord
ing to the occasion and the goods with
(i
i
whicl .
yung girl, in brown
1, has the skirt ar-
ranged in Irregular pleats. It has grace-
ful over<drapery looped back. The
basque has a vest of surah, pleated
with velvet on side, Collar
cuffs are also of
A aiid r
aa DULL OT
and white homes;
cee bs
each
ana
the velvet,
sunshades are of glace
i ob of two shades of eolor—bilue
and garnet red, pale blue and cerise,
green and crimson, Liae and gold, seal
brown and blue, and so on—with pretty
handles of carved olive or orange wood,
A wourning novelty is a fine En-
crape with applique figures in fine
zine or drap d’ete with black
silk embroidery. out between
the figures and leaves a semi-transpar-
ent fabric great effectiveness, It
cemes in full-width goods for wraps,
ral widths of flouncing for
d trimmings.
very few fancy fx
wats, and those shown
vy new features. Some
18° feathers, and some
ird-of-paradise feathers in
1 be worn; rds
ik, sh
glish
1 x YT
it 1s cul
of
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however, being only suitable for very
slight figures. For ordinary dresses a
turned over or standing collar is equal-
ly appropriate and turned back cuffs of
embroidery are desirable. Small ball
pear] buttuns are best for closing the
| waist,
— Petticoats for dark toilets are made
of black or dark colored silk; they are
| trimmed with a thick ruche of faille of
the same color, pinked at the edges, or
| perhaps with several ruches of black
| lace. There are also petticoats of moire,
| or watered stuff in all colors, adapted
| to the dress with which they are to be
| worn, a dark petticoat belng worn with
| with a light dress,
~The old forms of porcelain have
been revived for afternoon tea services
and some of them are very gaunt.
The favorite colorsare black and goid,
pink and gold, brown and coral red.
The service consists of teapot, cream
and milk jugs, water-kettle, sugar and
slop basin, a covered muffin dish and
six cups and saucers on a circular tray.
—For young ladies, preity walking
costumes are made of woolen etamine,
and consist of a plaited skirt and tunic
of some dark shade or color, trimmed
with narrow fancy braid, woven with
gold or silver braid. The skirt is ar-
ranged in flat treble plaits, and is
trimmed with braid, pat on in series of
seven, five and three rows. The tunic
is open at the top in two large revers,
edged with braid, over a plain plastron,
striped across with the same. This
tunic is arranged into a short drapery
in front and limp puff at the back, The
belt 1s entirely covered with braid. The
sleeves have facings to mateh.
~There are many indications that
blues, purples and lavenders are to be
much worn this summer. The Parisian
correspondent of La Boa Ton, one of
the most reliable of French- American
fashion publications, says in a recent
letter: “From tume to lime we come
back to our old idols. For a long perioa
back we have not worn any violel, but
for this season this charming color will
be recalled {rom the exile to which it
bas been so long banished. Even now
for ball dresses a great many flowers and
ribbons in mauve are worn.
Charming dresses are made of mauve
and straw-colored sik. Is there any-
thing more pretty than a of
iy funiture af
cade or a garniture of
over a white or black lace toilet »