The Farmer's Song.
I'm of the band that till the land,
And draw from earth her store;
Right happy indeed’s the life we lead,
While our days are passing o'er;
Many they are, in riches far
Surpassing the farmer's purse,
‘While other pursuits may yield more fruit
Yet often bring forth much worse.
We envy not the statesman’s lot,
Still clamoring for his class;
Nor his that fights for glory’s rights,
At some rebounded pass.
No risk have we on boisterous sea
Nor fears lest tempest whelmn
All we possoss, without redress,
While laboring at the helm
The fruitful fleld in bounties ylelds
A rich reivard for toil;
Be ours the trade to ply the spade,
And deeply plough the soil,
We walk abroad o'er carpet sod,
And flow'rets kiss our feet,
Whose odors rise to catch the skies—
A tribute pure and meet.
To all we give the means to live,
As brother shares with brother;
And thus fulfil the holy will
That bids us ‘love each other,”
Ob! Life secure from guile, and pure
To thee my soul clings ever
With all its might, in fond delight,
To change from thee no never,
RUSES FOR A DIAMOND.
I saw it kicked by the careless bal-
morals of a jaunty nurse; J saw a fat
morsel of humanity make for it with a
**hey’’—broken into divers *‘hey-eys”
by pudgy trotting and I stopped and
secured it, thereby causing the fat one
to pull up short, stare at me with two
black currants stuck in a dreamy ex-
panse of dough, insert a dumpy thumb |
in an orifice of the same expanse, and
trot back with that stolid resignation
under disappointment which is a pe- |
culiar attribute of the London infant |
population. |
Having ascertained the nature of my
prize. I proceeded to meditate on the |
proper course to be taken, which medi- |
tation resulted im the following adver.
tisement:
“Found, this evening, Wednesday, |
in the Regent’s park, nearly opposite |
the new college, a valuable diamond |
ring. The owner may recover it by
calling at No. 19 Wilton place,” ete. |
Before noon on the following day I |
was making my most courteous bow to |
a venerable looking old gentleman |
whose white hairs and benevolent smile |
added a double charm to the grace with
which he stepped forward, and waiving |
ceremony, extended his hand, saying: |
“You have taken a weight from my |
mind, my young friend, and must allow |
me to thank you.”
The insinuating delicacy of the ad- |
jective (I am not more than 45) was
perhaps not without its effect. I ac-|
cepted the offered pledge of amity in |
respectful silence, :
“A young man,” continued the pa- |
triarch, **may possibly find it difficult
to understand how the loss of a trinket |
can be a source of positive suffering to |
an old one, but—I1 am alluding to my
lost ring—there are associtaions con- |
nected with it which—ahem! This is |
childish, you will excuse my emotion.”
1 bowed profoundly in the presence
of this natural agitation.
“I have passed some hours of sleep- |
lessness and distress, from which you |
have been the means of relieving me— |
1 feel deeply indebted to you. There |
remains nothing now but to reimburse |
you for—for—a-—"' 5
Here the old gentleman drew forth
his purse and proceeded to unclasp it, |
“Excuse me, sir,” 1 stammered, ra- |
ther hurriedly; ‘‘bat, if the ring is|
yours, you can doubtless describe the
armorial bearings.”
“Armorial bearings?
mond ring.*’
“Certainly.”
“A plain diamond ring,” replied the |
gentleman, sternly. “Do not attempt |
to play tricks with me, young man. I|
will point out to you directly—""
“I beg your pardon,” said I, drawing |
back from the outstretched hand, **but |
as the ring in my possession is assured-
ly engraved with a crest and a motto, I |
conclude it cannot be the one you are |
in search of.”
The old gentleman eyed me for a
moment keenly.
‘Iam afrald you are right,” he sigh-
ed, in a tone of deep dejection; “I must
seek further. Alas! what a melancholy
termination to my hopeful journey.”
“Speed the parting, welccme the
coming guest,” 18 a very good motto, I
made no attempt to detain my venerable
friend, but as he turned toward the |
door Iam certain I saw beneath the
silver hairs a lock of dark sbining
brown.
My next visitor was a lady, expen-
sively got up, of mnposing height and
carriage, rufiled, scented, spectacled.
‘We meet under singular circum-
stances,” began the lady, with condes-
cending haughtiness, “I am the prin.
cipal of a college for young ladies"
With a deferential acknowledgement
of the honor done me, I begged to know
what had procured it,
“In the hours of recreation we are
accustomed to promenade in the park—
a delightful spot, so suggestive of the
blushing country—during our rambles
yesterday a young lady under my
charge was unfortunate enough to lose
her ring. You, sir, are the tortunate
finder.”’
“I certainly did, madam, pick up a
Hg, Dates
“Ab, how grateful my dear puopil
will be dt beholding it again!” ex.
claimed the teacher of youth, clasping
ber hands ecstatically,
“May I trouble you to describe the
i ribe it? Ad
. famond ring, sir
handsome and massive, but plan,’
i the en y
"The stl hat my young
i me, Stupid oR ,
forgotten. The crest is of the Delo-
raines, Is it a lion, passant or?-, No,
I am wrong. Unfortunate that she
should be too unwell to rapany mal
but it is fmnmaterial; I will take it to
her for inspection she will be able to
If was a dia- |
“1 feel it ay duty,” I said flemly,
*‘undér the I te oa to take overs
precaution agaicst mistakes, 1 trust
He young lady is not too seriously in.
disposed to give the necessary descrip-
tion?”
“Very well, sir] Exceedingly welll
It is I who have been mistaken. I fan-
cled-—yes, really fancied—thiat I was
speaking to a gentleman! You will
find, sir, to your cost, that the lady
principal of a college 18 not to be in-
salted with impunity. I wish you good
morning!’
Very harrowing, this. I am scarcely
recovered from the lady principal when
there 1s a dash of wheels to the door,
and a young fellow, flinging the reins
to a groom in livery, springs up the
steps to the door bell,
**Oh, dash it!” he begins, breathing
out a volume of stale tobacco. *‘I beg
your pardon and all that, but the old
woman-—dash it! I mean my mother-—
told me I should find my ring here, so
I ordered out the vessel and the cats
and spun along like ninepence for it.”
‘I shall be very glad to restore the
ring I was fortunate encugh to find
when I can discever its owner,”
“*Discover! dash it! ,Didn’t I tell you
It’s mine! I say, I wish you wouldn't
be so precious slow—I don’t want the
cats to catch cold; I've just had ’em
shampooned, you know-—napthaed and
all that.”
“What sort of a ring was yours?”
“What sert? Oh, come—as if you
didn’t know—that’s good.”’
I intimated that I should be glad to
find out if he knew. |
“Not know my own ring, eh? I know
its worth a couple of ponies. Come,
let’s Liear the damage, and I'll stump
up.”
“You can describe the device?”
“Device, eh? What, the governor's?
Bless vou, he has a device for every
hour in the day to do me out of my |
rightful allowance. Device, O, come, |
dodge, dash it!”
“1 cannot give up the ring unless you |
Oh, dash it, don’t chaff a fellow now.
deuced
Come,
80
I’ve got heavs of ’em.
be of great importance in the event of
cause of the governor.”
I respectfuily declined the proposal.
fellow, as though struck with a sudden
idea, **what a couple of muffs we are!
Why don’t yon turf the thing? I could
it!”
I replied that I was sorry I could not
oblige him, and added that he had bet-
ter obtain an exact description of the
“thing"’ from the governor. 1 recom-
wile
longer in the cold,
Mem. I am getting exceedingly tired
of my treasure trove,
room with a view to dressing to go out.
in question.
A tall, graceful figure, draped
heavy mourning, rises at my entrance.
She opens the negotiations in some con-
fusion, turning away her face. she has
fond father to her brother and her-
self,
My eye rests on the crape about her
dress, on her pale beautiful face, from
which the blush of confusion and tim-
idity had faded. Deferentially I request
her to describe it,
“*A large diamond, handsome." she
believed, *‘but valuable to her for far
other reasons.’
“But, 1 said gently,
ol 1
£0 1
+4
2
**chased on the
nside the ring there is—"
“A crest, I am aware of it,” sie an-
swered, sadly: “but I know nothing of
My brother is
face to mine. *‘Only this morning he
missed the ring from my finger uneasily;
How can I venture to tell him it
lost?"
“I am sorry to pain you,” I said
:
is
more satifactory for all
tain the description from your brother.’
mournful resignation of her air and at-
titude touched me, and as she turned I
upon the hand stretched out to the door
handle, I couldn't stand that.
“Stop!
I am sure—I feel certain—I may trust
you. Youwll tell me—'"
I take the ring from its sesunty. 1
hold it out tiraidly for the blue eyes to
examine,
1 see the look of delight overspread
ber fine features—1 see the expression
of almost childish pleasure in her eyes
as she looked up at me, as she clasped
ber hands and cried out:
“The ring! the ring! Oh, Alfred, my
dear brother!”
Her hand was upon it; such a tremu-
lous, happy eagerness in her glance;
such a caressing fondness in her way of
fingering it. How pretty she was.
“*My dear child” (I am 45), ‘it gives
me the most sincere pleasure—" Then
I stammer; then I spraug after her.
“At least you will leave your address
with me.”
What a look shades her face now!
Wounded 1ategrity mingled with pity
for me," y :
“Ah, sir,” she says, sadly handing
me the card on which she has been pen-
ciling, ‘some day you will be sorry for
this, You do not trust me,’
Certainly, I am a brute. The accent
of rep in her voles haunts wae; the
sorrowful glance of her oye—how pretty
she is! 1sit down to my breakfast in
the morning, half inclined to call at the
address given and logize for my
heathonish distrust. How delightful to
see her in her own peculiar atmosphere
mimstering to the sick brother, who is
all she bas in the world—to look upon,
if one cannoé enjoy the beautiful ten
dernass of a gentle sister to an afflicted
brother. But my letters wait and I
toy with them. ‘T'bis is a haud-writing
that I know. What does Frod want,
wonder? I tore it open; I read,
“Dear Jack: What a queer chance 4
you Gaye stumbled upon my +1
wis obliged to run down to Rory
late last and never missed it till
we sinckened as liford, A pretty tak-
ER ISO
ing I've been in. If it is mine the crest
is inside; you know it—a mailed hand
holding a lance, and the motto, ‘Armed
at the Points,’ Verily, truth is stranger
than fiction, Keep it for me, Thine,
Frep Vining.”
Idiot! Gulll It 1s quite useless to
call myself names, It is almost super-
fluous to add that when I called at a
certain address in Eaton Square to 1n-
quire for Miss Lucy Hamilton, the
lady was not found. Probably the
‘dear Alfred”’ had required speedy
change of air; probably brother and
sister were now embracing in rapturous
gratitude over the precious relic of that
one lost to them so lately, Was that
dear one not lost, but transformed?
Had the silver halred patriarch of the
first changed to the dashing buck of
third? And was the virtuous teacher
of youth only the tender sister in mas-
qureade? On my word I believed so. I
dare say they are enjoying the
Possibly it is a dodge often repeated.
But what am I to say to Fred?
——
A Geranium Slip.
“Mamma, what are you doing?”
asked Willle, looking at his mother as
she filled a little earthen pot with
mould. “I am going to plant a little
geranium slip,” sald mamma,
“Oh,” sald Willie, “what for?”
“That it may grow,” sald mamma,
“‘and then next summer I ghall have
ever 80 many of those pretty red flowers
“Yes, said Willie.
ways get a good many more of em?"
“Yes,” sald mamma, thinking of
Then the pot was placed in the sunny
and every morning Willie
peeped nto it with a queer, solemn
look, as though a new mystery
One day he asked mamma for a little
tamed it, he placed it carefully beside
he other, and took to peeping
that with even more solemnity.
best to
mamma
herself in
the opera, and
room to attire hers. But
and the white cloak and cloud at hand,
the finishing touch, the diamond pin
and ear-rings were not to be found.
Some one had taken them from
velvet casket in a room which
dom, if ever left alone.
Mamma was not tich and these were
valuable possessicns, Naturally there
the whole evening was spoiled in a
great degree, for not only the loss, but
the mystery of ic, weighed upon
It could not be supposed
that a faithfal old nursemaid could be
guilty, and the cook never came up-
stairs. Who had been in the house ?
A ne'er-do-well cousin of the family,
weeks
It was so terrible Lt) suspect anyone,
but a professional thief would not have
taken the diamonds and left a watch
that lay beside them, and mamma and
papa put their heads together in
to solve the mystery,
There were inquiries made, hints
thrown out that would have led any
repentant purloiner to restore the lost
jewels. But nothing came of them,
And as they were too valuable to lose,
serious measures were al last taken to
discover the real thief. A detective
was employed, and he, a grave serious
man, with an acute eye and a deep
voice, after a prolonged interview with
A few days after, he returned with
the information that he had put his fin-
ger on the man, and that it only re-
main:d to prove what he had done
with them.
The little dressmaker wears alpaca to
woman would steal
Her father and
penter, Cook hasn't a relation.
It’s your cousin.”
“Oh, I am so sorry.” sald mamma,
“1 thought Noakes was wild, but I had
no idea he was wicked, Really I can't
believe it now.”
“When a young mau is wild, you
may expect anything of him,” said the
detective, ‘And I suppose, as it’s in
the family, you'd like it hushed up?
Just want the thiugs back, nothing
else.’
“Certainly,” said papa.
“Certainly,” said mamma. “Poor
Jackl how would his mother feel, if
she were alive to know it? I shall tell
bim that’
**Not a word to him,” said the detec-
tive. “You see, of course, he'd deny
it; and you'd never be sure who took
them. You couldn't bring it home. I
don’t think they are sold yet. The
young woman probably will undertake
that, [have my eye on her, She's
followed wherever she goes,’’
“This is terrible!” said mamma.
“Terrible! terrible!’ sald papa. **No,
we'll not punish poor Jack; only of
course my wife wants her diamonds,
They were her father’s wedding present
to her, Poor John Noakes!”
Late in the evening the detective
called for funds and to mention that
the young woman had been seen on
Noakes’ arm peeping into a jeweler’s
winddow.
“It is growing quite expensive-—the
detective business.” said “")
really can’t see why I shouldn't just
speak to Jack myself. If he has them,
he'll hund them over to me, and no
more need be said about it. I am as
sure he 18 guilty as the detective ia."
At breakfast time the detective
called again, He had begun to doubt
that the girl had thing to do with
the matter. Noakes had kept his
secret, ‘‘Have you told him that you
have missed the diamonds 7°
“Yes, sald mamma, “Oh, real y I
Joa} sare he is iinocunt, I Sung to
Mamma,” piped .
bother about your diamonds. You’ll
have plenty more,”
*‘Hear the child!” cried mamma, “JX
ought not to talk before hum,”
“And 80 mamma must not bother
about her diamonds?’ sald papa.
**Noj; she'll have plenty more,” said
Willie.
tive. “I know,’ sald Willie,
secret,’
“That child knows something about
those Jewels,” sald the detective.
“Now, my little man, who took your
mamma’s diamonds out of her room?’
he asked,
“Nobody took ’em. Oh, mamma, I
meant to surprise you.”
*“To surprise me?”
“Yes, mamma. Don’t you know
you told me if any one had heaps of
diamonds, they'd bs rich ? “Well, you
told me if I
grow, and you'd have plenty.”
‘Yes, dear.”
**And so I planted your diamonds in
my flower pot, but they haven’t come
jupyet., When they do you'll have a
diamond tree and be ever so rich,”
The secret was out.
In a few minutes the detective had
the pleasure of investigating the depths
of Willie’s flower-pot and bringing out
the jewels; and Noakes wondered why
his cousins were 80 excessively polite to
him when next they met; for, thonzh
the mystery of the flower-pot was re-
vealed to him, he never knew that he
had a detective at his heels for four
weeks,
“It’s a
Advantages of Low Ceilings.
Rooms with low ceilings, or with
with the window-lops,
lated than those with
says the Scienlvic
high
Monthly. The leak-
Keeps all parts of the air in motion in
such rooms, whereas if the celling
lugher only the lower part of the air
above the window tops,
To have the currents of fresh
circulating only in the lower parts of
the room, while the upper portion of
| the air is left unaffected, is really the
worst way of ventilating; for the stag-
nant atmospheric lake under the ceil-
| ing, although motionless, keepsactively
at work, under the law of the diffusion
culating beneath it.
| Do such accumulation of air is possible,
{ for the whale height of the room is
the floor is swept with a broom. Low
ceilings have also the advantage of
enabling the room to be warméd with
less expenditure of heat and less cost
for fuel
A
Rain-Measurer.
A new measurer of raia-falls exter-
nally resembles a small upright clock.
case, and is internally composed of a
cylindrical vase, in which is a peculiar
float, having attached thereto an up-
right rod, terminating in a delicate
spring pencil or pointer, A drum, on
which a suitably-prepared diagram is
fixed, turns by means of a clock attach-
ment, so that as walter enters the vase
a curved line 1s traced on the sheet,
| showing the height to which the water
{attamsat any given time, This machine
is intended 10 be placed ifside the ob-
servatory, and to be connected by
means of a pipe with the collector out-
side, The registration of this instru-
ment has the two great advantages of
being constant and automatic,
_— -
SHE“ Awfully nice dauce at
Masham’s last night!”
He—' Yaas., Were you there?"
She—*"Was I there? Why, I danced
with you three times!"
He—**Really! So glad.”
©
“HAVE you voted, Uncle Johnson?"
| “Yes, sahil I voted early dis mo’n-
| ing de republican ticket sah! Den at
{ noon I voted for de dimmycrats, and
| jist afore de polls closed 1 deposited a
{ ballot for the proliibitionsit, Yes, sah,
| I allers vote. I'm too good a Christian
| to neglect my duty, sah.”
Mrs,
EE
OF
an
Miss De Siva
Badger is such
| man.”
Miss Knickerbocker—*'I never no-
ticed it. What makes you think so?”
Miss de Silva—*‘1 rode down street
with him on a Broadway car the other
day and he got up three times and gave
his seat to ladies ™
Bostox "Mr.
eccentric young
i
|
i
i
Tie nudity craze in New York has
Lad a new manifestion. The butchers
1i%0 up as one man mn opposition to
dressed beef.
Ss —
A MORNING paper has a heading en-
titled **Gale ordered to leave.” The
gale’s departure would be received with
general satisfaction since all agree it
has beea blowing quite long enough.
A DAILY newspaper has been started
in Greenland, As there are only about
thirty days in the summer and none in
the winter, it is thought that the editor
will be able to skin through the year
without mortgaging his snow hut,
A witty old physician, on meeting
a reighbor’s ducks in the road, was
saluted with the usual *‘Quack, quack,
quack!” See here,” he cried to the
neighbor, *‘keep these ducks at home,
or I'll shoot 'em. They're indulging
in personal remarks. *’
tn f=
“Can you give me a bite or two?"
asked the tramp, “Certainly,” re-
plied the farmer. *‘Here, Towser,
Towser!” “Never mind,” said the
tramp, as he cleared the wall, Don’t
go to any trouble about it. I thought
you bad it handy. I'm not very hun-
gry now.”
A Ric darkey having been
MOND dar re.
uested 8 his opinion of a can-
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I sr 5
HORSE NOTES.
~The b, m, Butterfly, 2.194, will not
be campaigned this season.
—Gius Wilson's Cleveland stable
cludes Josephine, trial 2,194.
A. 8, Cassatt, Chesterbrook Stud,
has purchased the ch, m, Sadie Somers,
fouled 1875, by Alroy, in foal to Eolus,
in-
~—In addition to the splendid new
stables just completed at Latonia, the
Jockey Club is having its betting-ring
enlarged,
~ Lady Russell, the 4-year-old sister
of Maud 8., has arrived safely at Palo
Alto, Cal,, where she is to be bred to
Electioneer.
—J, B. Haggin’s horses arrived at
Louisville on April 26 from California,
Ban Fox takes his daily gallops with
the others,
Ernest Maltravers, Graceful and Penie-
tan, Robert Steel’s campaigners, are at
Suffolk, under “Dod” Irwin's care,
just purchased the br, m,
2.23, by Hamlet, dam by Clark Chief,
and Mary C., a 5-year-old. by Magic,
dam by Montrose,
Driving Club of New York has decided
between Harry Wilkes and Majolica, to
be trotted some time in June,
~Quite a number of valuable road
horses have died recently from that
{ fatal disease, spinal meningitis,
their horses which show
i x
| of sickness,
epidemic of the disease,
{i =-An important change has been
made at Jerome Park.
stand four feet up the stretch
0 bring it parallel with the timer’s
{ stand, and thus make the imaginary
line at the finish straight.
111
iid
~The French Creek Trotting Circuit
{of the State, It
| Titusville, Erie,
includes Meadville,
Oil City, Franklin,
{around Erie. The meetings will open
{at Meadville on June 18, A series of
| running races will be inaugurated over
| the same circuit,
~ Fires seem to have become common
among the stock farms, On the night
| of April 10, Mr. D, Swigert had a nar-
row escape at the
The foaling stable on the farm took
| fire, and was nearly destroyed.
{| Polka, were in the stable at the time,
but as assistance was prompt they were
both got out without damage.
{loss is about $250. Mr. Swigert is
unable to sccount for the fire, except
i ton,
—~Kpap" McCarthy and Quinton
are open for a race with any other dou-
ble team in the city, either trotters or
| pacers, Mr. Cohnfield’s great pair,
Maxy Cobb and Neta Medium, are
mont and Lorene, Frank Siddali’s
pacers, Doth of these teams are In
Bair's stable, and in speaking on the
subject the other day Bair said: *I
don't think Siddall’s parr will give
Marlowe and Gossip, Jr. a race; but |
| should like to try them with Ma_y and
Neta for a little money.”
Rochester Driving Course on the 5th of
July. A stake, open to all horses, will
be trolted on that day in a series
{of heats restricted to two horses each.
| The horse which wins the greatest
| number of heats 13 to be awarded first
money, If there are five starters—say
| Harry Wilkes, Trinket, Majolica,
| Clingstone and BSL Julien—it will
| require ten heats to decide the tourna-
‘ ment, Entries will close on May 15,
{ tion, The Rochester Driving Course
Association will add $500 for each
horse that starts,
| ~The list of entries to the spring
meetings at the four Philadelphia
tracks, is larger than for many years,
| and the proprietors feel rather jubilant
| over the fact. Belmont has the largest
number, while the Gentlemen's Driving
Course, which is somewhat handieapped
by being obliged to bold its nweeting so
early, has the least number. The
Driving Course will have the benefit of
giving the first meeting, however, and
if the weather chances to be fair the
attendance of spectators is likely to be
as good as at the other tracks later on,
when the relative speed of the horses
will have been tested. Many of the
horses are entered at all four meetings,
others only at one or two.
It i8 provable that the Ball estate
at the Junction of the Township road
and the Philadelphia and Trenton Rail-
road, will be the site chosen for the pro-
posed Tacony Half-Mile Driving
Course. The following is a partial list
of the stockholders: William Disston,
Charles McFadden, Omar J. Kinsley,
James Garland, Horace Disston, Fred,
Gerker, James Horrocks, James Lewis,
Lewis F. Castor, Joseph Brown, John
Sidebottom, Robert Steel, E, M,
Thomas, Joseph Hartel, Willlam M.
Singerly, Frank Siddall, Samuel Dane
jels, Jacob 8. Disston, H., IL. Disston,
Jr,, George S. Robb, Thomas W. South
and J, F. Bailey. Only 200 of the 300
shares of stock will be sold, and of these
150 have alieady been disposed of.
~The famous old black ing Gen-
eral Butler died at C Levinus®
fart, nos Jerome Park, 26, He
was in 1853, by Smith Burr, (son
of Burr's Napoleon )-1sadora, which was
sald to have a strong dash of Messenger
blood, He pulled a road wagon over
the Fleetwood Park Course abouts
|
—— A A AA ANAT
FASHION NOTES.
~-Dronze shoes and very fine brown
silk open-work stockings are universal
ly adopted for evening wear with light
dresses,
-Yery small rosary bead buttons are
used to trim and edge jeckets that are
fastened with big, flat, or medium-sized
ball buttons
~Sateen, seersuckers and ginghams
80 closely resemble silk and wool that
their cotton origin 18 only revealed to
the touch,
—Too abundant neck dressing meets
with small favor; the close, neat high
collar effect being preferred by those
who know how to dress. :
--Spripg jackets of fine striped
checked cheviot are trimmed
cord ornaments, the cuffs
ais
moire Antique or velvet,
or
with
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“Mikado foulards are among the
latest novelties shown in dress goods,
New laces and embroideries are also
{ imported for garniture,
| Pretty littleshoulder wraps made of
| beaded velvet or plush, or heavy corded
| silk, are very short in the back: the
| fronts long and tapering, usually end-
ing in tassels, a tasseled ornament often
finishing the back.
~The jacket comes to the front
oung ladies Made of checked,
ed and boucle cloths, with vest front,
longer coat, back and a
narrow braid or rows of stitching, large
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watered stripes seem to
a new lease of life, be-
for combination with every
ti ool goods, and made the
foundation - with lace for elegant tea-
| gowns, especially pretty house-gowns
and morning wrappers.
i
—A novelty in the shape of a beaded
cape is of line garnet seeds, strung in
fine diamond pattern, with tiny swing-
| ing peanants of the same covering it.
The fringe is twisted and of irregular
lengths, giving a scalloped appearance
i; one of the most
to the edge.
{ admired wrappings vet pre-
is
1 rbadzimir is a favorite,
is firmly woven il does not
ull like the cheap grades of
| Ottoman; It trims splendidly with lace,
| jet or velvet, and for tea-gowns in any
| color Mandarin yel-
low, and mauve are
{ among the favorite tints for the pur
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—A handsoms wrap of olive brown
is made with long square {1
and a short pointed back, finished with
wide flounces of black thread lace,
Above this lace at the back are two
or burnished jets
{ rows of red bronze
pendants. The
woloat .
: YEIVEL ont
{ and burnished shell
| front and collar are also finished with
| pendant shells and burnished jet fringe.
| The sleeves are of velvet and silk bro-
cade, the figure outlined in burnished
jets,
— Embroideries are preferred to lace
| for cotton dresses, though the latter is
sometimes used. Regular flouncings
| vary from eighteen to forty-five inches
in depth, In most patterns there are
but two widths, one for the waist and
sleeves, the other, forty inches deep,
| for flouncings, or for the entire skirt,
gathered full Into a belt and worn over
a plain skirt or cambric, with a narrow
or two, either of embr r
rufils
plain goods at the hem,
oidery ©
oIna-
the
Summer wraps are always
mental rather than useful, and
wraps, if such they can be called, that
are imported for us in the summer
| months are no exception to the rule.
They are heavy, but not warm,
are only useful! as an elegant finish to
one’s costume, In that respect they
are entirely successful, Almost without
| exception carriage wraps are covered,
| wholly or in part, with jets, Irrides-
| cent and burnished jets evidently have
| the preference, although steel jets fol-
| low closely in popularity.
-—For the present, high effects in
{ headgear are still the rage. But it 18
| hinted that their reign is nearly over,
and this is a consummation to be prayed
{ for, Their towering and absurd shape
| have proved unbecoming to any type of
| face or feature. But, no matter, it is
the fashion, and one must endure it for
a time at least. The bonnets are most of
them very pretty, but the style of trim-
ming is monstrous. It gives one’s head
the appearance of a drum-head cab-
bage, and going to seed at that, The
coquettish little fish-wife poke appears
again in straw of every shade, and also
made of wire with pent-house brim and
Normandy crown, covered with a soft
puffing of China crepe or silk-wrought
net. Nuns’ caps and French princesse
bonnets are sold, made of jet beads
strung on wire. Some of them are
hned with colored silk, and some of
them are worn as they came, without
even a facing, so as {0 show the hair
through the open meshes, A very pret.
ty bonnet is of white tulle, with a bord.
er of white beads around the edge.
The draped tulle forms a sort of cock-
ade over the border; this cockade is
fastened with sprays of pink and white
heather,
—The betting privileges at Lexing-
ton, Lousville and Latonia are now
controlled by the same firm, and the
question of not giving out » entries
the night they are made 18 being
discussed. The owners of town-pool
rooms oppose the change, because if the
new policy is carried oul it will hurt
their business. They cannot sell on
races unless favored with the official
list of entries, Some of the owners of
horses who have been in the habit
of backing their nominations the might
before the race also object to the
change. that
it al the betting
argue
to the track
the odds on favorites be cut down
so rapidly as to give the owners and
trainers very little chance to get their
money on at satisfactory rates,
=A dispatch
and