Neola. On dank, green mosses, cool and shadowed deep, Half Ia in wares of lilies tall and red, Neola lies, her soft eyes drowsed by sleep One bare, white, rounded arm beneath her head. A ravished bar of golden sunshine sleeps Athwart the yellow glory of her hair, And all his soft entangled bed he steeps In dyes of deeper color—rich and rare. The tips of lashes kiss each warm, flushed cheek, The bosom, full and white moves soft and slow, I'he wet red lips are parted as to speak— While drowsy smiles enchanted come and go. In full abandoment of limbs she lies— Through draperies soft each curve vol- gptuous lures— Hushed passion smiles from woolng half shut eyes— Eunticement all the face and form im- mures, One loose hand holds a scarlet poppy bud, Fit esublem of Neola’s fatal power, To lull the stir and actions of men’s blood, And lay them swooning at her feet one hour, Intoxicated by her close embrace, Forgetful of the world, of duty, care; Till smiling cold she turns away her face, And they awake to madness and despair. SORT, THE WIDOW’'S SECRET. s——— “1 don’t think that you treat him right,” sald the rosy little widow to the dressmaker who was fitting her trim figure to a silk gown of the color of **moon upon the lake,’’ and at the same time holding her head back and a trifle to one side, lest her tears should drop thereon. *‘1 don’t think women know how to treat thelr hus- bands.” “You must be expert in the matter,” responded Mrs, Fittem, ‘‘seeing this 1s the fourth time you have tried ‘em. Hollow in your back a trifle, as is nat- ural to you—there—sets like a duck’s foot in the mud—can’t be bettered,” she exclaimed professionally. ‘Men are good creatures when wo- men know how to manage them. They do seem to incline more to some WO- men than to others.” “You never had a drinking husband, ma'am, I suppose?” Bless you! no,never! I could not abide the breath, A woman ought to be on her guard.” “It seems so strange. Widowhood seems natural to some women—they thrive and grow pretly upon it.” The widow laughed, saying: +I never gave it a thought, but it may be 80.” “Going to be married the fourth time, Not a chick nor child! not forty yet and as plump and pretty as ever! Upon my word,ma'am,l don’t see how you manage.” “Oh, that’s a secret.’’ «Mrs. Fittem opened her eyes wide, add slowly repeated: L&1) “+ A secret. admirably with three husbands, and the fourth.” “Bless my heart!” exclaimed the dressmaker, dropping the cord she was covering to put the flounce on last. and left me well provided for.” “Lo tell me your secret, ma'am,” and the expectant, not to say pamfal hopa, brightened her wan face, It isn’t jmuch, Mrs. Fittem, and yet it is a secret, and its application case, | am sure I never expected it.” »Dear me! you seem to own up to something. Dud they die suddenly, poor critters?” “Quite the contrary; they lived along as if loth to go.” you would have felt bad.” man preparing to wed her fourth bus- band wept at the memory of the three. “Do tell me all about It,” persisted the other, with a look not sympathetic. “Your tears don’t seem to dim your handsome eyes.”’ “1 don’t know about that—I never thought about that—but, Mrs, Fittem, first and last, | have crieda great deal.” + Perhaps you bad a reason unknown to the world, ma'am. But I want dreadfully to know how you managed it. " Our widow was a sort of a Widow Wadley, easily beguiled to tears or smiles. and she began to perceive that the astute dressmaker hada some latent design in thus questioning ber, which she did not object to gratify. Accord- while the needle of her auditor clicked against the thimble in concert. “My first husband, you must know, was well-to-do, but not rich, He went to church every Sundav,and dropped 25 centseach time into the contribution box —never more or less, I knit him stock- ings and made him shirts; be liked to see women industrious and I was in- dustrious. We went to lectures and now and then to a social party—always at home and to bed at 10 o'clock. He was agreeable in temper and apt to fall asleep. Slow and automatic a move- ment, Hehad a way of looking into kettles and jars as if he expected to find them out of order;and he did so find them sometimes—it was a comfort to him. He read all my letters, he liked it. He poked over my bureau drawers, and saw all oy gloves and laces in such a mese—and in the mnud- est way reprimand me. This was a comfort to bim also. He had not a fault, he had not a vice; he had not an inordinate desire, 1 wished he bad.” “You wicked woman!’ ejaculated the dressmaker, “You didn’t knew when you were well off.” “1 know ft—I know it—I didn’t somehow grow good with such a man as I ought to have done, but when he was gone I saw it all, and almost cried my eyes out. Youses a man is a good the house, to things. weeds the conventional period, though several of the most agreeable men were attentive to me, but I shut my eyes. I managed to keep them from proposing. for I rather liked my freedom, and somehow three excellent men, who had known my excellent husband, were not to my mind. [am afraid I hated good men.” The dressmaker groaned, s“How could you? Iam sure sucha husband must be beautiful.” “That is true, Mrs, Fittem, aud he thought me beautiful, But you must understand he was a model man, and he did his best to make me a model woman, but it was not in me. We wo- men are naturally perverse. and aptto to think our way as good as a man’s way.” “So it is, only a good deal better,’ muttered the other, “ don’t know about that, I am apt to think a man is wiser about many things than we are; but, any way, married people will quarrel as a rule, because each is bent upon his own way. Now I never disputed a husband— never, never opposed him. But, as I was going to say, one of my admirers was of a different kind. He was bright, dashing high-spirited and witty. He quite took me by storm of contrast. He was not a model man by any means but he was Intelligent, loved boats, and had a fine taste for music. He had a mean opinion of women in general and was sometimes furlous at himself for loving me, He declared he would be master in spite of me, which was quite unnecessary for I rather liked to sponsibility. I hate disputes and fusses of any kind, and let matters slide in the easiest manner possible.” +4] should think you might be a little lazy,’ returned her audator. “Is that the name for it? Well, per- haps I am. He would get into a fury about his buttons, and because a door creaked or the coffee was poor, and storm about the house, and slam doors and kick over chairs, at which I only sald: *-Softly, softly, dear,”’ which only made him worse.” *+[ believe you,” said the dressmaker. “He even called me a devil once, in a sort of tender fit, and quoted Shakes- peare; ‘Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee!’ “He said I would sit perfectly calm on a husband’s coffin while he smother- ed beneath, for what is a woman to do but be quiet when a big, strong man is raging about nothing. In one of these »*] wonder he hadn't killed was all senti- pet names “My third husband ment and called me “Patiently!” cried her hearer. **Yes. When he called me pet, I had might trill my notes, queeny might be cold and proud, so he had it all ns own way. But your sentimental man wants of sentiment in return; indulged and coddied, and sees everything in a sweel Arcadian ights wants his wife to dress in out- lof-the-way styles.” “It seems to me husband understood that your second you better than “How s0? no matter; but you must seg that I am right in thinking that you do not know how to manage your busband, Mrs, Fittem.” You have not yet secret,” “Do you not guess it?" “It seems to me that you have their own way." “To be sure I did. It is fatal to man told me your port of love, Nothing is more faalt “And you married three men and in- different to alll” The widow reddened. “Perhaps I am naturally of thal kind, while you, Miss Fittem, oppose, fret and scold and are not happy your. self, nor do you make him any the bet- ter man, Men are not easily turned about.” “What would you do ina case like mine, where a man drinks?” “I would manage just the same.”’ “But how, ma'am, how?” ‘‘Well, well, muttered the widow half to herself, “I can’t find opinions and make annotations on them.” “Do tell your secret, now, 1 can not for my life guess what it is.” “Dear Mrs, Fittem, you are an ad- mirable dressmaker; my silk, to use your own illustration, sits like aduck’s foot in the mud; but you don’t know how to manage a husband. Y ou must come the morning I am to be married and see that I am all right, Mr, Blank is fastidious, My hat is a per. fect love of a hat, and makes me look charming, but let me advise you,’’ lay- ing at the same time a nicely gaunt leted hand on Mrs. Fittem’s shoulder, “Jet your husband have his own way,” and she whirled her limber little shape out of the door, with a musical little laugh that did not crinkle her cheeks ner pucker Ler eyes. Mrs, Fittem gave the moon-upon- the-lake dress a somewhat vigorous kick, and exclaimed: “She's a devil, that’s what she 18, and that is the way she has made herself three times a widow.” “85 are all women,” hiceoughed a maudlin voice, just coming in over the rear threshold. ‘Who are you contem- plating, lovey! Who Is it?" The dressmaker eyed him a moment scornfully, but the calling her “lovey” did the business for him; with mingled tears and smiles she patted his dusty shoulder, and replied: “Dear, dear duckey, the nice Little widow has been telling me how--how I might be a widow." She has? She understands the busi. ness, I should think.” The idea had tie effect to sober him. “Wh t did she want you to do, lovey?" “Well—it was dreadful!” “Well, well, what was it? I'll have a warrant out and arrest her.” it, duckey, never." “1 am sure of it, I can trust you. You are not fit to be a poor lone y Younesd the protecting arm of some husband.” Mrs, Fittem drew herself up a bit at this: there was a rebeltion in her look. *sY es, she told me her secret,” she said. “What was it lovely? I am sure you your poor devoted—"' Here he broke down from some cause or other, and staggered to one side. «I told her about your drinking so, James, and how you spent my earnings, and how I get out of all patience and sometimes well nigh hate you.” This was said with grave solemnity, and then she said briskly: What do you think she told me to do?" “Couldn’t guess; but I'm very sure you won't do it.” “Never — you would mouth,” “Do tell—do tell what 1t was.” “She told me to let you have your own way-—-think of that!” The man’s eyes twinkled with wick- ed mirth. “That wasn’t so bad, lovey.” “Not so bad! why you would drink yourself to death in a month or less, if I let you have your own way." “Oh, no; I would be cautious for your dear sake, so unfit to be a widow. Let me have my own way, lovey; I'll take the risk.” And she did — she followed the widow's advice. Under the circum- stances, the reader can easily divine why Mrs, Fittem became a widow. Bt ———— ll LOTS OF FUN IN THEM. not live a Novelties in Trick Articles That De- light the Practical Joker. “New tricks for the boys?’ repeated a dealer in sleight-of-hand articles in reply to a reporter's inquiry. ‘e) should sayso. There's no end to them. There is a beautiful buttonhole bouquet, for instance. After placing it in your coat buttonhole you call the attention of a friend to its beauty and fragrance. Of course he will step forward and smell of it, when to his astonishment a fine stream of water will be thrown in his face. Where the water comes from is a mystery, as you can have your hands at your side or behind you, and not touch the bouquet in any manner. Then there is a litle monkey that is better than a surprwe party for making fun and getting up am excitement. ter it has been sifting quietly on astand or table, and being admired by your ic all around, Thea there is a cigar case made 1n imitation of real leather. same time hawding him the case. As he attempts to open it au ugly-looking pops up instead of he expected cigar, the size and shape and color of a clgar. It has a spiral spring concealed within, that is attached to the small end. One tened in the shell, agd the other end, which 18 projec when released, has a a whirring, rattling noise, s0 quickly that while the person towards whom it is pointed can see something coming and made a lively effort to dodge it. littie trick article. tion, the performer forces it through The illusion 1s so perfect that amination and the finger shown with- out a cut, scar or wound. In trick you exhibit a neat and pretty greatest is enchanted and will only work at your with the request to try IL ment he tries it he recéives a startling as the case may be. This has often been used with excellent effect by storekeepers who wish to get rid of loungers. It is placed on the counter him to retreat. A good trick is done wtih a card which you can change into a full blown rose by simply transferring it from one hand to the other." “What is new in cards?” “The wizard’s pack. This is a full pack, apparently the same as an ordina-~ ry pack, but with which wonderful and apparently impossible tricks can be per- formed. These are not done by leger- demain or sleight-of-hand. The secret is in the cards. Among these card tricks are the following: A card may be drawn, shuffled in the pack, and cut the first time; a card may be bjown from the pack after having been drawn, returned and shuffled; the two colors of a pack divided by one cut; the card discovered under a handkerchief; six persons may draw a card each, shuffle them and immediately after the per- former at once produces them, pulling them rapidly out of the pack, one after the other; the performer may leave the room, and in his absence a card is drawn, which he on his return at once picks out of the pack.” ns A How the Bride's Veil Came To Be. It was once the custom for the bride at her wedding to wear “her hair un- braided and hanging over her shoulders, At the celebration of her marriage with the Palatine, Elizabeth Stuart wore “her halr disheveled and hanging down her shoulders,” If has been suggested that the bride’s veil, which of TRAGEDY OF A RED CAP. The German Drammer Goes to Bleep and gets his Forehead Stained. Three or four drummers were sitting in the fmoking saloon of a sleeping car. The hour was late and the air sultry, and one by one the drowsy drummers dropped off to bed. Finally but one was left—a fat, perspiring, sleeping and snoring Teuton, who wore a traveling cap pn his head and rested his adult feet on the Pullman upholstering. For half an hour there was no interruption to his slumbers, but all of a sudden the train stopped as quick as the full force of the steam breaks could stop it, and many of the passengers were awakened by the jar. No one was hurt, however, and beyond a sort of dull thud in the smoking saloon and a few extra wheezes from the dry throats of the bhalf- smothered occupants of the unventila. ted upper berths, no sound at first broke the midnight stillness, But finally the dull thud in the smoking saloon was | followed by an unearthly cry from the | same source, “Hulfe! help! help!” Commotion followed as a matter of | eourse, and there was a rush to the | smoking saloon. The porter was the first man there, and he found the Teu- 1 i tonic and lately snoring passenger danc- | which looked like blood from his fore- | head and bellowing at the top of his | voice. “Gott 1n himmel, I'm kilt, See de | plud—see de plud! Got un doctor | quick.” i Kind hands laid the injured man up- | on a seat, and awe-stricken faces gath- | ered round the sufferer, a8 a man who | i sald he was a doctor bent down to make | i “There is no fracture of the skull,” said the doctor finally, and with a grave | face; “the brain, may be a trifle dis- | turbed but there is no danger of serious results, There is no wound in the head, and the only injury is that to the ner- | vous system, In future the patient must avoid wearing traveling caps lined with | red material when he sleeps and per- | spires freely,or these symptoms may re- turn,” | There was a moment's silence during | which the sufferer’'s eyes met those of | the doctor, and then he seized the of- | fending cap. threw it on the floor, | stepped on it revengefully, and ex- claimed: i “Nefer once more I vare a ret cap to safe mine soul from der pad blacel” Let's Drink, ! Down in a town in Alabama I found a native with his chalr tipped back un- der an awning in front of a saloon, hat toes showing through his boots, faded old mule, head down and eyes closed, | been | Was | looking from man to mule, trying to see if 1 could establish a chain of evi-| dence, when the native straightened up and said: “Stranger, ye ain't g this kentry?”’ “No. “Powerful glad drink.” I declined, and his . : a 2 nn’ to settle In to it hear Let's he t wok fifteen cents’ “Stranger this is a powerful bad ken- try—powerful bad.” “What's the matter?” “No chance fur a poor man--not a Let's drink.” ! I declined, and he took his usual dose with a sigh of satisfaction. “Look at me!” he said, as he re- “I'm a livin’ evi- | dence of the fact that this 1s the wust honestly desires to break bis back in | agrycultural pursuits, I've been goin’ | down hill as stiddy as clock work fur | the last twenty y'ar. Stranger, wet | 1 replied that my whistle required a | dry atmosphere and he went and took | it straight again. “Yes, sir,” he said, as he got his nabob grinds me on one side and the infernal dutch on the ether, and I'm “Do you farm?" “What's the use? Nothin’ that I planted ever growed. It’s allus too much or too little raln.”’ “Then you speculate?’ “Mebbe I do. Mebbe if I trade a mule wuth a hundred dollars for one wuth sixty you can call it speculation. Say, let's licker.” I declined, and he never shed a tear as his corn juice went down. I tell you, a poor man hain’t got no ‘round yere, and he’s bein’ ground into the dust,” he observed as he enlarged the hole in the top of lis hat so that a tuft of hair could stick up through it. +t seems to be a fine country.” “That's a deception.” “But you have a nice climate and can raise most everything.” “Then, what ails me? Why hain’ I a Southern nabob? Why Sturt I ride a hoss, an’ wear good clot an’ hold an offis?"’ “Because,” I answered, determined to lie to him, **your wife is probably a very careless ma while you have never carefully studied the foundation principles of economy.” “Stranger!” said be, as he rose up and shook hands at once, “you've hit it plumb centre, and you are the only man who ever has! All the rest of ‘em say it’s "cause I kin do more loafin’ and drinkin’ than auy man in the State of Alabama. Stranger, write them words down fur me, 1'll get the hang of them in about an hour, an’ then I'll go home an’ gin my fam’ly to understand that they've got to buckle right down to economy or hunt for other diggins. Let's destroy about three fingers of the juice.” insta os AAA —-PBeaded materials and an abund- ance of jet trimmings and ornaments combined with lace are those chiefly employed for summer mantles, Jet ornaments and are and, consid- hr bead more beautiful ever how ita) Shan : are not with, ws FASHION NOTES. ~=Itound ball buttons are in betler favor than flat ones, —Stripes of various shades are in favor at the present time, —Chenille fringes in novel effects are being shown, with good results. —Neck-wear—the variety is Iim- mense—the beautiful things shown be- wilder one, —Bead and jet trimmings in an inex- haustible variety of styles are offered by our importers. —Gloves with broad embroidered baek, self or contrast in color are worn for driving and travel. ~The etamine biases come in all col ors, but the cream is preferred, with very narrow ribbon run diagonally through the meshes, — Very petty fichus of muslin gauze or erape are now being prepared for sum- mer toilets to wear by way of mantle with elegant tollets, —Sometimes the handkerchief | edged with embroidered daisies (tiny affairs) in colors—red, pink, blue, yel- low, eream or black. ~—Point d'esprit net and lace cote used for evening dresses over yellow or red and plentifully trimmed with yel- low or red ribbon and flowers. —The newest of new very fine linen lawn, with a quarter- The wide hems and im- mense initials have had their i i = HORSE NOTES. ~Colonel R. P. Peprer’s probable nomination for the $10,000 race at Hartford, will be Judge Lindsay, 2.21}, by Bostick’s Almont, Jr. —Cooper Haten’s pair of sorrels, Cinderella and Clara (full sisters), dropped a pair of colts by Indiaman, at Camden, N. J., on May 17. A}, Harris, of New York, has a running team in Major Banks and Evergreen. He drove them a half in 53} seconds recently, and repeated in 53 seconds. —D, Swigert, Elmendorf stud, Muirs, Ky.. lost on May 17 the bay filly foaled March 29, 1886, by imp. Glenelg, dam Stamps, being a full sister to Louisetie, — Biggonette is tbe first filly to win the Withers stakes since it was founded 1874. Only three filhes have won England’s Derby during 107 years. —J. B. Thomas and Tony Newell, James A. Balley’s fast double team, i i | i i | | York Gentlemen's Driving Bince Maxey Cobb’s death Bailey’s pair are looked upon ; —The Rockaway Steeplechase Meet- ing was a financial failure because i edging many of the hems is the merest edge. are worn for evening; some few wear a delicate shade of yellow, while others cling to black; the latter, it is said, is vanity, for no glove gives one’s hand so small and delicate a look as black. —Ribbon-bound edges of lisse, finely crimped, find many admirers; then there is lisse and crepe in every fash- jonable color made in fancy designs, in biases with loops of mere shreds of velvet between, and with every shade of tinsel, —Chantilly, Spanish, Mechlin, val, Jrussels and ecru ginghams (all imita- ness) are the craze, everybody buys and ities require an expert to decide upon their claims, —Silk and linen gloves are both eco- nomical and pleasant to wear; silk! noon without a finger’s end peeping through we would so love to write in thelr praise, they are all so cool, 80 much a part of summer. ~—Chemisette plastrons is the new name for the old time *‘dickey’’ when it was worn by thesternersex. Thisisa tucked linen front, shaped like a shirt bosom, has a high standing collar, and folded lawn tie around the neck, fin- ishing in tiny bows and ends in front, Plain duck is also used for these chem- {settes., while fancy linen, duck and pique form vests in tailor-made sults, ~— Another pretty summer costume for a young lady is of gray muslin de- laine, sprigged with small bunches of rosehuds and forget-me-pots, It has also pleated and crossed fronts, show ing at the top a little bit of fnely pleated chemisetle, The back is plain, the sleeves tight, with a narrow drap- ery over the shoulders. The Dexter B. Goff says he has sold to W. Whitehead the ch. g. Spider, by Iron Duke, dam by Jupiter, for $10,000, —It is believed that there will be not less than twenty-five starters in the Ban Fox at preseut rules i | | | i | i | —Thomas J. Dunbar has apologized in writing for his offensive language to President Edwards, of the Cleveland Driving Course. —The expulsion put upon R. H. Conklin at Hartford for not starting Rarus after selling him to Mr. Bonner for $306,000 has been permanently removed, —A dispatch from Louisville, Ky,, says a charter has passed through the last two Legislatures, quietly, by which an association consisting of Emile Bourller and others, may pur- chase lands in or near Louisville, They may open an office In The incorporators expect ~Bive Wing, the winner cf the to Ben All in the Kentucky and is bred to run fast and He was purchased at the Runnymede yearling sale by Barnes & Co. for §1200. He was little better than a mediocre performer last top, so as to form a limp puff. Moire sash round the waist, tied in long loops and ends a little at the side. This, with a yellow straw hat, turned up with starts. He filled out, however, has thickened and and is now a really fine-looking colt. ~The Brookiyn Jockey Club, with a capital of $500,000, filed articles of incorporation with the Sscretary of Its loca- in the town of Gravesend, county. The objects of the association are lhe raising, lmproving and training of horses by producing proper ground and track for exercising, Its powers are to be exercised by a Board of seven Directors, comprising, for the first year, Philip J, Dwyer, James Hyde, Willlam H. Jordan, Charles tion is roses and forget-me-nots, forms a charming toilet for a summer fete or flowershow, is of tabac-colored woolen canvas. Tho skirt, loose and ample, is looped up at the side, and slightly draped up behind, over an underskirt of grosgrain silk, striped red and dark green, with fine streaks of goid-yeliow between. The bod- ice is made blouse fashion, of the same canvas tissue as the skirt; it comes and is fastened with a bayadere sash of silk galloon to match the underskirt. This bodice iz open in a round shape over a chemisette of the stripad silk, A very narrow frill of this same silk Is put on just inside the edge of the sleeves, ~Dresses of light fancy woolens are frequently made with pleated bodices, the fronts of which are crossed like a fichu. For instance, a very elegant toilet is of peacock-green surah and pale-buff open-work velling. There is an underdress of the surah made par- fectly plain, with high bodice, tight sleeves and round skirt gathered at the waist. The overdress is composed of a bodice without sleeves and a tunic skirt. The bodice has pleated fronts, crossed at the walst, and showing the darker surah bodice in the opening; the back is piain, but also open in a point down the middle, and finished mn a short, square-pleated basque. The tunic is pleated at the back, slit opea on the right side, and loosely draped and hooked up over the left. ~There is much talk going on about plain skirts and flat backs without puff or drapery, but the fact remains that the great majority of new summer dresses are draped, and that the tour- nure, if somewhat less exaggerated than before, is still an indispensable ad- junct to the modern toilet. It is cer- tain the draperies of dresses are less elaborate than they were this time last year. Skirts are composed of widths falling loose over the tournure; some- times these widths are of different ma- terials—widths of plain fabric are com- bined with widths of figured tissue, employed for the tablier or half-tumic, slightly | up in front and at the gide, or, for the tunle, very much draped over the hips by strings of rib- lace-like — We like to say a good word for the As a class they are industrious and painstaking to i i i i { i 3 i Particularly is this the case go. The trainer of the running horse has stpervisory duties to perform, but the trainer of the trotter has a double b calling he must be a man of genius. 8 ascertain just what an animal musi have to balance him; to regulate and accelerate his gait requires the exercise of an intelligent mind. No two horses are gaited exactly alike; each ope has his little peculiarities, and it is for the trainer to find out how each should be treated. The art of the traiper Sally for the highest mental and physical tributes. He should be courageous, patient, strong. active, intelligent, con- sclencious and skillful. It fact, the characteristics of the successful trainer would make him successful in any other walk in life. Setting aside the mental cares of these men, how few realize the bodily fatigue they have to undergo. We were led to make these remarks from hearing a request made of a noted trotting-horse trainer to give the requester’s horse a mile or so. The proposition was politely declined, and, judging from the expression of the amateur's face, the driver was set down as a churlish fellow, A little re. flection would have convinced the gen- inconsideration, trainer with say ten horses under his care has a responsible and laborious charge. In addition to studying wants and requirements of each, he further called upon to handle himself. The quantity of work 3 some horses require a great dea hand execute. To be successful in il ie 5 gE 2 ki
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