BRE A SRE RT Manos i PE SE SL tm i Loman
To a Maid Demure. { must die by his bullet, 1 glanced at
| the closed door, the walls, the bottles
T > a — Er
Theodora Oxgate gates hung creaking ; sunny pasture | HORSE NOTES. i FASHION NOTES.
Often when the night is come,
With its quiet group at Lowe,
While they broider, Knit, or sew,
Read, or chat in voices low,
Suddenly you hift your eyes
With an earnest look, and wise;
Bat [ cannot read their lore-
Tell me le or tell me more,
HH
",
Lika a picture in a book,
Pure and peaceful is your look;
Quietly you wa.k your ways,
Stemdiast duty tilis the days,
Neither tears nor fierce delights,
Feverish days vor tossing nights,
Any troublous dreams con fuss—
‘Tell me more, or tell me less,
Bwift the weeks ars on the wing ;
Years are bri f, and love a thing
Nooming, fading, like a flower;
Wake autl seize the little Loar,
(ive me welcome or farewell;
Quick! I wait! And who can tell
What to-morrow may befall
Love me more or not at all,
MY STRANGE VISITOR.
LY FRANK CLATRINGTON.
owe distance from the town of L—,
nd on one of the roads running
*t is a rambling old structure of yellow
stone, with high narrow windows,
and barn-like rooms, I: is surrounded
by a grove of fir and pine trees, which
give it a gloomy appearance.
I's is the Yellow Mansion, and as
I pass it I shudder, for in one of its
I will as long as 1
breath
Soon after graduating from the medi
cal college at X——. [ decided to set-
tle down in Li——. Of course, it would
be years before I became popular—
people do not hike young doctors—so 1
thought 1t would Le better for me ‘*o
take a place with a small rent,
The only place that suited me in
this respect was the Yellow Mansion;
it had been unoccupied for years and I
got 1t for a mere song. I fitted upa
neat room as an office and made 1t very
comfortable, the only drawback to me
was the loneliness of my place of busi-
1eS8,
However, I only noticed this at
night, and soon drove it off by reading.
Frequently I would get interested in a
newspaper or book, and find long
past midnight when I would If
i
u
never forget
14
14¢
cold December night, while I
thus occupied on a volume of travel.
the large front door slam
d of footsteps in the hall
at my watch, half past
and then 1 wondered who thes
be, for every one of my |
re doing nicely, and allin I.-
office hours were 7 to 9,
I arose to my feet and glanced out,
It was a fearful night, the wind moaned
lismally around the house, rattling the
shrunken doors and sashes, and sent
the spow sifting across the window
like sand. I felt a cold chill pass over
me. I was by no means nervous or
superstitions, but I could not repress a
ing that something unpleasant was
ut to happen.
[he sound of feotsteps drew nearer;
id presently the door op: ned and a
idle aged man entered. Ie was
slender and well dressed and {ine
seemed frightened and
wild as he looked at me and sald:
‘Are you Dr. Bracefame?"”
‘1 am,” I replied. ‘*What do you
wish?"
‘Ah, ves,’ he
what do 1 wish!
man my errand,
t tny revenge.”
Your revenge?
flow, 1 never met
aug
{ne
sat tl
aril
Heard
eieven,
Is
[ee]
AIM
Al
in
tall,
i in hin é
looking, but he
“ah,
y this
said absently
1 must explain
I came here to
’
’
1%
you before.” (I
-'8 practical jokers was try-
pring a new trick on me.)
stranger turned his jet black
eves toward me. *‘I have journeyed
miles to see you, and at last—at last, 1
have found you, You shall suffer,
As he spoke he dashed to the door,
ocked it, then giving the key a jerk
sent it spinning through the window.
I'hen the terrible truth fashed across
my mind-—he was a madman,
“‘Hah, hah,” he cried, *‘you are the
man who ruined me by stealing
Minnie. I loved Minnie, oh, so dearly,
and she would have been mine but for
fou-—it was you that won her affections,
by vour smooth tongue and polished
manners, and now she is the broken-
hearted little wife of a scoundrel.
Alone with a lunatic in an old
house. It was appalling. I
ould not call for assistance, he would,
doubt, become violent; and even if
ter
For.
deserted
:
no
9
very seldomn that a traveler passed
Yellow Mansion at that hour. My
nly course seemed to be to humor him,
‘My trend,” I said pleasantly, *'I
am afraid I am the wrong person, I
do pot know Minnie,”
““You lie,” he shouted, angrily; *‘you
lie, wretch, You know, well enough,
who the girl is,
prided Limself in being called a bache.
“Well, tell me who she is,” I said,
trying Lo make the matter a joke,
**Ah, you wish to throw me off the
scent,” he answered, ‘“‘Minnie, the
girl Ispeak of, 13 Minnie Warbrane,
Those lovely brown eyes, that soft
black hair, falling like a cloud on her
shoulders, have haunted me, Well do
I remember the beautiful young girl
tripping so gayly across the meadows,
so cheerful, so bright—just eighteen:
and she would have been mine, as
said before, but for you, villain. Bat,
1 will have my revenge. ’’
* Revenge! revengel’”’ he shrieked,
and the room rang with his crazy
laughter, and then to my consternation
he drew a revoiver from his pocket,
He handled the weapon for a mo-
ment, then he leveled 1t at my head say-
ing:
**This is the way I settle old scores,
A new way of paying old debts—you
pay your debt with your life. I will
give you two minutes and then blow
your brains out,”
All was. over with me now. 1 felt
my heart beat against my side with its
steady thump, thump, sending the
bot blood through my veins.
I Jookea around the department in
despair, Yes, there was no escape, I
The handle of 1t yesembled
“Say, old fellow,” 1 said, quite
friendly, and in a careless way, ‘don’t
“What do you mean?”
“*Why, I have a deadly poison here—
a powerful drug,” (I said this grandly)
poisoned
**] thought you would agree,” 1 re-
the battery.
I will drink |
their contents.”
Hecawe forward seemingly delighted, |
sald, placing |
It was a frightful moment. I trem- |
late! My hand seized the lever,
I drewgit out aud the hollow roar of |
Swed! Thank Heaven! My faith-
ful servant would do its work till my
foe dropped dead from exhaustion,
I went over to the window—a desire
to call for assistance seized me. Plac-
my mouth to the aperture made
by the key, 1 gave a loud shout, and to
wy surprise and delight some person |
answered me. Above the noise made
by the storm, I could hear the sound of |
voices, and of footsteps which seemed |
approaching. Some one was
coming to my assistance, Nearer and
nearer came the sounds, and I heard |
them in Lhe entry.
**Burst open the door,” 1 called.
This was doneand three men enterel, |
They were all dressed in blue uniform
and on their caps were in gilt let'ers
words Riverviile Asylum, They
1 shut off the cur-
rent and my visitor was bound securely.
“You have had a thrilling advent.
said one of them, who was ad-
to be
1 bb
ure,
**I have, indeed,” I replied,
“Well,” be continued, with a smile,
‘‘you may be glad you managed him so
fly. We are attendants at the asy-
and as soon as we learned he es
He was nowhere In
town when we arrived, so we Look
on the and
occupled we yout
1 tei ’
OUISKITLS,
heard
around
thus
*Is he dangerous?” I inquired,
Vabman looked at the
i laughed.
others, and
al
“One of the woist patients in the
institution, and you may know he is
pretty rough when three of us had to
after him, He said somethin
you marryiog his girl, didn’
be sent
about
“ee
he?
g@
t
in the affir-
I laughed and answered
mative,
“Well, that's the way he tackles all
strangers. Odd, too, for he never had
any love trouble, they say. S50 now, sir
we will bid you good-bye.”
In a few weeks | moved from the ol
mansion into a pleasant little office in
Strangely enough, the poor
fellow regained reason and is now one
he most prominent business men of
- Little does he suspect that he
and that he once
’
i
ry
i
of
L—
gave me such a fright
i ————
jarefooted Boys in Gray.
**If you had been around just after
the rout at Nashvilla,” said an old sol-
dier, **you would have thought there
were 10,000 elephants let loose in the
country. The ground was covered with
snow, and, as you may imagine, the alr
was eager and The routed
the snow-cov-
Corinth and
miles distant.
nipping.
ered pikes, making for
thence to Mobile, 240
We were clothed with pothing but
shirts and breeches, comparatively few
owning old hats, and bere and there a
man with a pair of shoes,
wrapped their feet in old sacks and any
sort of rags they could get until the |
made were great round |
in the snow like the tracks of |
Gen, Lowery—God bless
his soul—tried to do something for us, |
He had some shoemakers, and at night |
would make “he soldiers report at his
headquarters, where the shoeshop would
Green hides—not an hour |
holes
making. A soldier would plant his |
foot on the hairy side of the hide and
the shoemaker would cut out a round
tions, and with a coarse twine gather
up the ends and literally sew the foot |
§
i
them aside and go back to the bagging. |
When I got to Moblls with a lot of the |
fellows we took quarters in a ware.
house. Theodore Hamilton was play.
and I scufflad around and got a ticket.
I went to the theatre bareheaded and
barefooted and in my shirt sleeves. 1
thought it was the best show I ever
saw. After the performance an old
man carried me home with him and
gave me a long-tailed coat, a hat and a
pair of shoes. When I got back to the
ware-house the boys tore the tails off
the coat, but she was a double-breasted
fellow and I stuck to her, 1 looked
like a Jaybird with his tail pulied out.’’
- A new style of jersey has a round
yoke extending .to the shoulders, to
which the back is attached in three
box-plaits, which extend to the hottom
of the short basque, and are laid in so
that they touch at the waist, making a
jaunty postilion below the belt, In
front there are two box-plaits on each
side. The jersey is dark blue; the yoke
is red, amd is trimmed with coarse
black soutache; the rows placed quite
closely together at the top of the stand.
ing coliar and spreading apart toward
the bottom of the , showing the
rod between. The sleeves are trimmed
with red jersey cloth and black brad
Dreary and chilly, a dying year, and
| yet the windows of Mrs, Oxgate’s old
| brown farm-house hung out their cheery
siguals behind the fringed cotton cur-
{ tains, and when the Kitchen door
{| opened you could see the blazing logs,
the figures coming and going like a
| miniature magic lantern.
{ It was Dora Oxgate that opened it
| came flitting out to the well with a
| scarlet shawl over her head and an
| empty cedar pail in her hand. As her
light feet pattered over the carpet of
| autumn leaves in the pathway she sang
| a snatch of some good old-fashioned
hymn,
“My goodness alive] What's that?”
For, as the words thrilled from her
from the low wooden bench under
well,
sweet contralto with a scornful
nation in its sound.
Dora.”
“Joanna Elfield?”
“Yes, Joanna Elfed,
Have I fallen so low that I am no long-
into-
“It's only me,
If so, tell me so at once, and 1°11
“You know I didn't mean
anna,’ ®
“It’s hard to tell what
that, Jo-
people mean
picking at the fringe of her frayed rag |
“1 was tired,
water; so I came to the
well.”
“Joanna,” said
*‘are you hungry?”
“Hungry? No. There's a sort
craving, though, on my stomach, which
is next to it, 1 suppose.”
“Would you like something to eat?” |
“I don’t beg.”
“Wait a minute, Joanna.”
Like an arrow, Dora Oxgate sped |
back into the house, where her mother |
Dora, hesitatingly,
of
Fresh baked waflles steamed on one |
For Mrs. Dea- |
were come to tea, and Mrs, Oxgate was |
a housekeeper to ba excelled by none,
“Come, Dora, quick with that wa-,
ter,” sald Mrs, Oxgate, “and shut the
door. M
“Mother,” said Dora, speakin
slightly i “Joanna
Eifield is out by the well, She is eold
and hungry, and...”
Mra, Ozxgate’s
lines of Mis
8 close
v
or
iT a
RB ill &
embarrassed
faces hardened into |
| § sx
stone, Peabody
drew her skir
an 1
n involuntary
Peabody looked hard
Her teacui.
“Then let
Joanna Elheld
} me, Dora,
home and acted with
clors-she
instead of keepin
r F ¥
of hers for Lh
sociate for eithe
you or Soe
common, stroll
play-2
g that fine voice
e temple of the Lord, and
people do say that taken
drinking, And you expect me to of
my doors to such as her?”
‘But, mamma,” faltered Dora, half
aflrighted by her own boldness, “don’t
you remember that He came to call,
not the righteous, but sinners, to repen- |
tance?”
“How do you dare quole
tures to me!” cried Mm. Oxgale, her
brow clouding darkly. ‘‘Briog in that |
pail of water at once, and let us have
no more discussion, ’’
Thus rebuffed, Theodora Oxgate
crept back again into the frosty twi-
light, dejected and empty-handed.
“Ah Joanna Eifield, *‘I
thought how it would be, Everybody's
doors are shut against me
“Is it true, ™
3 3 .
sae Das
the
Scrip
sald
Joanna? whispered
Dara, coming close up to her,
*‘Is what true?”
**That you drink?"
“Of course it’s true. You
drink if you were drivenas lam! There
are Limes when you could sell your soul
for a chance to forget! And that chance |
is only to be found in —drink.”
“Oh, Joanna, I am so sorry for you.”
“Sorry! Say that again, lass! Peo-
would
me.’
‘But listen, Jeanna,
to do different?”
“I am not 80 bad as folks think me,
except for the craving for drink. 1
have been nothing worse than wild and
Only when a girl gets on the
it a duly to give her a push.’
oid self 77°
“How can 1?
me?"
**Y our superb voice, Joanna.”
“You wouid have me sing myself into
respectability, eh? And in the mean-
time I should starve,”
“You need not
Herel”
Quick as lightning she drew a small
gold chain, with a gold locket shaped
What is there left for
starve, Joanna.
her neck.
“Dear Joanna, take this,
money for your needs,’
“*Are you in earnest, Dora?’
“Of course I am. Hush! Mother is
calling me, I must go.”
‘tod bless you for this,’’ said Joanna
huskily. **And, Dora, one word more
~Jot me kiss you just once"
By way of answer, Theodora Oxgate
threw her arms around the tall girl's
neck and pressed her soft, red lips close
to the other's cold mouth. And as she
did so, something plashed on her cheek
5 hot tear,
The next minute Joanna Elfleld had
disappeared into the world of shadows
that was hovering over the autumn
landscape. And as she went, she mur-
mured to herself :
“Some one believes in me yet! It's a
strange sensation, and yet—it gives one
something to live for, after all 1”
* "- . . . "-
“Dora! Theodora! Why don’t you
answer? But no one thinks it worth
while to pay any attention to me dowa-
days!”
It was Mrs, Oxgate's shrill, piping
voles, as, helpless from paralysis, she
sat 1n her cushioned chair by the door-
WAY.
“What is it, mamma?” Dora asked,
coming to the door.
The Oxgate farm house had drifted
It is worth
to match,
sadly to decay, Fences had fallen ;
%
lands were neglected; grass meadows
had toppled over with tier own welght
of harvest,
**I'he carriage with them grand peo-
ple that has bought Glenwood Place.
A gentleman dressed like the Prince o’
Wales, and a
flashed fit to blind one,
riage is stopping! Sure’'s I live, the
tic gingham.”
to settle her scant skirts over her poor,
useless feet as the tall, stately figure
swept up to the door.
“This is the Oxgate Place, is it not?”
the lady asked, in a deep, sweet voice,
that betrayed her at once,
swered promptly:
**This is the Oxgate [P’lace, and you
are Joanna Elfield!”
Avenel,” she rejoined, smiling. ‘‘Here
my husband, George, this is the
friend 1 told you of, whose hand ten
and set me in the right place.”
“Dora.” she adcCad, **that night was
Beel 1
httle gold chain with
I knew then that one
your
|
— Patsy Clinker, pacing record
2.20, has taken to trotting.
prove profitable at New Orleans,
—~James Pettit will train Charles
~The trotting stock of the late Al-
den Goldsmith will be sold on March
{1 and 2,
-—W. P. Balch, of Boston, claims to
| 8ince October 8, 1880,
{ --A syndicate has purchased Lhe
Miverside Driving Park at Buffalo, for
| $27,500, being $550 an acre.
W. J. I ¢ys has purchased the 3-
| year-old gray filly Venetia, by Dis-
~The get of imp. Morteme:
| 41,100 in 1886, Winfred heading the
11
| participating in 4490 races and winning
i 71.
—The broodmare Bertha, by Harold,
{dam Jean Wood (dam of Clermont
| 2.50), by Melbourne Jr., died recently
at Bellaire Stock Farm, Woodl
Ky.
als
MALAKE,
it renewed the fountain of
(God bless you for it 1”
nels had Dora Oxgate so much
prosing old bore, her mother. Sut
having her
of was always to
which
And Dora Oxgate, although she had
life had not been
in vain.
so ARI Assess
A Proposal on the Rail
I was sitting on a train about to
leave Richmond, Va,
parly ci and one
the vacant
coach was
escort could
himself
On.
seat by my side,
1. and
a ontented
a 4
ling
by stan
conversing about
It became dark, and I U
wok which I had been readin
ng was farther from
to be
t the ey
1
an eavesar
ch struck up
bell, for In
¥
his earnestness
@é seat {
#8 you can picture yourself,
1g with the lady's ear and mine
In free
on a public conveyance,
Tes
formi:
an equilateral
America and
did think
them of my presence.
lear closer and whispere
know by this time
3 10 you mean.
that I may claim you as mine?
After a little pause she said, *'I am
very sorry, but [ am afraid our paths
through life will have to diverge.”
He expostulated of coursh;
triangie,
. #
ICCESSATY LO
iy varnis
not A remin
ou
I
i
A
Presently he
1 ny
what my at.
May I hope
then,
The twilight deepened, and I still
regled my eyes, After awhlie the
disconsolate lover returned, and re-
“I have spent
wretched minutes, Can
wy
the gloaming sounded
fifteen you
Her volee ip
like music to him, I have no doubt, as
she answered: ‘1 have been thinking
over what I told you. No one knows
what may be in the future, and per-
haps our paths may converge.’
Just then the whistle Liew for my
up my posses.
“Do you get
Allow me to help you with
And with shining eyes he
off here?
these
me off, even controlling himself so far
as to bow respectfully as I left,
On looking back I could see the lady
The
—-—
Curions Coincidence.
The other day, while a Michigan
Central train was walling at St
Thomas, a young man of 25 was ob-
looking old gent of 50 who had come
through from Chicago. Finally the
young man stepped up and inqured:
“Jsn’t this Mr. B——, of Chicago?"
“Yes, sir.”
“I am Mr, J——, formerly of the
same place, but now of Toronto. Do
you remember me?’
* Really, I do not.”
“I was a clerk in you pork house,
1 aspired to the hand of your daughter,
You drove me hence because I had no
ducats,'’
“Oh, yes, it seems as if I do recall
something of the sort.”
“Well, sir, I want you to understand
that you made a mistake. i am now
worth $18,000, and could glve your
daughter every luxury.”
“Eighteen thousand dollars, eh?
That's quite a sum.”
“Yes, sir, and I'm the man you
drove hence,”
“Eighteen thousand dollars,” mused
the gent. “What a curious coin.
cidence! That's exactly the sum my
daughter's husband gave her the other
day to buy summer pug dogs with! 1
must jot this coincidence down.”
Somebody held the young man up
until the weakness left his knees a lit-
tle, and then he went hence some more.
i —————
«A. A. Bonner and C. H. Chatfield
certify that Colonel LL. Kip's team,
Ethel Medium and Birdie O., trotted
for a wager to beat 2,25 at the New
York Driving Park, June 14th, 1883,
and were given a record of 2.24, being
driven by John Murphy, according to
the rules of the National Trotting As.
sociation,
~~ Thursday and Friday, Mareh
3 and 4, at London, Eng., the Messrs,
i Tattersall will sell the entire stud of
{the late John Grout, of Woodbridge,
Suffolk.
~-Ten
| which were on the turf |
{ races out of 315 starts
| $46 563, of which Jim Gray
| ted 817,060,
| =. H, Nelson, of Watervil
| has sold to Dr. O. G, Cil
the brown 3-year-old stall
wood, Jr., by Wedgewood,
| Howe's Bismarck
wae] D. Willi of
tor of the Middletown S
sold to BR. KR, Hoss,
stall Volunteer Clay. by Harry
Clay, dam Voluntary (dam of Black-
wood Prince, 2.231}, by Volunteer, for
$5000.
John S. Campbell has
school and employed a
wikevs and the
at New Or-
La. e8
of
52
Fr
droeck’s get, Lhirty-nind
3, won
i captured
le, Me.,
v, of Boston,
ion Wedge-
by
dam
br
okly
tock Farm,
on
established a
teacher
e benefit of his
r 4
f his
from
logan
stable
other
of
weekly
Alxiallab
1
ng her sale. But now that she has re-
covered the subject is revived, It may
be merely idle gossip, bul one the
most prominent jockeys is the author-
ity for the statement that the Messrs,
Dwyer and O'Reilly bave come to an
understanding and the Dwyers
will take her, subject and if,
when she is galloped, she shows no ef-
fects of her late Hiness in the shape
roaring or whistling, ele., they
pay Mr. O'Reilly his price.
R. P. Bepper has sold to P. IL.
Silver Tecumseh, Mic Bulletin,
bay colt, foaled 1882, by Onward, dam
Mistress, by Hamlin’s Almont Jr., to
Mr. Bidwell, Tecumseh, Mich., Ara-
gon, bay colt, foaled 1884, by Madrid,
dam Mistress, by Hamlin’s Almont
, to J. G. Ladd, Beatrice, Neb. Plu-
tus, bay colt, foaled 1883, by Onward,
dam Flushing Girl, by Scott's Thomas,
9.21: also a bay coit, fomied 1836, by
Madrid, dam Dream, by Administra-
tor: to J. B. Ross, Madison, Ind., Ad-
venturer, bay filly, foaled 1885, by Pre.
tender, dam Zest, by Woodford Abdal-
lab (sire of Kenilworth, 2.193); also a
bay filly, foaled 1886, by Margin (son of
Almont), dam Ingenue, by Egbert; to
A. Rightmyer, Saugerties, N. XY ., Dar-
eslona, bay colt, foaled 1884, by Mad-
rid, dam Extract, by Woodford Abdal-
| lab,
~The Montgomery, Berks and Ches-
| ter Counties Agncuitural and Hort
| cultural Society, located at Potistown,
Pa., recently beld its annual meeting
and re.elected the entire old Board of
officers. The society is in a flourishing
condition, having earned 30 per cent.
| on its capital stock last year. A 10
| per cent. dividend was declared, the
4
Ol
hat
¢ Seta
vo WA,
’
Of
§
ih
M4
ihe,
Jr.
| the property. Since this society was or-
| ganized two years ago over $16,000 has
{been spent in permanent mprove-
wuents. The buildings have been erec
compare favorably with any of the kind
in the country. The mile track is one
of the best, Pipes have been laid and
water conveyed throughout the entire
exhibition horses, Two trotting meet-
ings are given yearly, in the spring and
fall. The managers hope to make their
Mount Holly Fair, and with her supe-
rior grounds and railroad facilities the
Jerseymen will have to look to their
laurels,
~The following 2.30 trotters died In
1886.
Maxey Cobb, by Happy Medium
Lucy Fry, by Blue Ball... ......
McMahon, by Adminstrator...
General Butler, by Smith Barr
Fides, by General Stanton. .....
Rose of Washington, by Green's
: Baa Glibreths Hore.
Cap! DOR...»
Loy Turpin, by Bell Morgan.
Flora P., by Mambrino Sample.
st. Dennis, by Blue Bull
fa Grange by Soltan..,.......
Belle Oakley, by Ganbaldi
Almont General. by Almont Jr..
(7) Clover, by Young Hindoo. ..
Kate Campbell, by Scott's Hia-
Kismet, by Sultan. ........ «cu
Wayland, by Falcon. ..........
Nymphia, by Mambrino Patchen
M 1 Lambert, . ..
by
Belle, by Blue B
2.13
2.20
2.31
2.21
2.21
. .
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en
- Walerproofs have
quite elegant and oroame;
They are of silk
ber; the silk,
become
| Inanties,
india-rub-
is either clored, in
beige or
else It is striped or p #1 in various
shades or color. The newest models are
made in the with
visite sleaves,
~The Marie-;
also rnuch in vogue, F
the hair is arranged in
brown,
Linootes
Lig VES,
utoinette coifiure 18
CO if
or this ire
rouleau; it is
face
and fastened straight down, but merely
wi pins, but
’
This s lo#s
tl
tvie d
very becoming
to ladies who have a low, broad f
head and straight eyelrows
— By way of red
ing is a very new model:
Is thiek-ribbed woolen Tie,
navy blue. The fronts are
straight down from the neck
right side on
sed over the
hed in
ornament of dull
navy blue,
side
tele ]
strip of passementerie braid, s
ting a thick plait, follows tl
both fronts from the necl
Jewess sleeve 1
to remain loose,
re
fol
» tnateria
mgote, ow
1.
Gals
fastened
; then
yr
£333
the
¢ Is rounded and
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under ar
passementerie, ais
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lapel of redin remains
I jan the left-side one;
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left h V.
three full plaits
quence the
gots
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~Tortolse-shel
coiff
combs
ure are also ext
Coiffures are still
hair being brushed
and arranged in
of the head; these
fastened the
while the
on one
ionable, rn very
up fron
the
high, the
the roots loops
nd
top are
pins
a little
18 parle
in very
users
100pS
with Lortoise-sh
miall or nd
Sail com
In front the hair
in the middle and arranged
small bandeaux or small cl
curis over the temples.
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fa 1 ge 3
i8 place
side!
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~— Another style of redingole, wer
elegant and unique, of iron gray
fancy armure cloth, +» front 1s macede
like a cuirass bodice, from the
neck, and like 2
jersey; it is ‘
shoulder
show
panel is
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’ «Tout?
whew TRORA
that it
and
Oh
sun
The material ft :
answers both for foundation, skirt
drapery, and when made the
dyed wool runs no risk « Om
or sea, besides | g of great durab
If, however, any special s
be desired this can
by of dye,
the cloth becomes subie
certainty of all artific
the ornamentation of
balding answers better than
elise, and the designs can
ened by having a ti
silver woven inl
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has
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en
neans
anything
bright-
gold
be
iresd of or
y the braid.
in London
an
wary wed-
80 unigue
only a
the entire
dress was of
leading dressmaker
SUuCCess! Vv
vation the
ding gowns, ant t
and pretty
description
trousseau. The wedding
the softest, finest French cashmere of
a creamy hue over white silk, It was
bordered with marabout, and platings
of mervellleux were carried up on one
side, bunches of orange flowers form-
ing a panel; the marabout was used {or
the upright collar to the dress, and was
carried around the long sleeves of the
high bodice, looking warm and com-
fortable even in the cold weather we
are now having. The cashmere blended
well with the fine old lace vell., There
were many beautiful gowns In the
trousseaq, such as sapphire blue velvet
for dinper wear, made with a long
train en pripcesse, the bodice square,
draped with lace. Its perfection was
the simplicity of its arrangement,
There was a cream-colored satin which
could be worn on these full-dress occa-
gions when a wedding-gown 18 expected
to be donned; it wa: cut three-quarter
atroduced
ordiz
18
give
but
or
4
HOS
of
epaulette of old lace on the shoulder—
a style which cannot find too many ad-
herents. The upper portion of the arm,
which is now much too freely shown,
is rarely “a thing of beauty,” but
theses epaulettes just veil it suficiently,
and a stomacher of the same lace cov-
ered the front of the bodice, folds of
A stylish
afternoon visiting dress was acombina-
tion of dark electrie-blue silk and
Havana-brown cashmere, draped with
a bordering of sable, matching the
out~door jacket. The silk appeared as
the foundation of the vest and side
panels, the rest wasa study of skilful
drapery. A teagown was made of
prune velvet, with a long falling front
of merveilleux to match, and plenty of
valenciennes lace intermixed. A terra
cotta brocaded silk was intermixed
with mousse cashmere, and worn with a
bonnet of the mousse tone, trimmed
with gold chrysanthemume., A great
deal of cashmere is being wsed for
evening gowns, the bodices being
draped witn soft silk, showing no
tucker, the slik forming a sash 4
across the front of the bodice, ad
fancy dresses were most successful;
Spring, in white tulle, the skirt tel.
med with ribbon bows and snowdrops,
an Shanlsits of the same on one
shoulder; the other uw Tudor Queen,
made in a rich peacock brocade, with
ink roses, interwoven; the front of
bodios and skirt was a mass of