A A HE SA an NOAA CURRENT FASHIONS. Ho#® to dress the ris ng generation is jast now an all-important consideration for mothers. As a %ule, American elnkiren of both sexes are dres-e exqui i o taste, with due recard ther comfort, and at a pense The 1 from four to ten years of ave, which have been popular En land for some time, are just being adopted here, The waists are cool, vet warm, being of wo jersey cloth which makes them table for any season. ‘Lhe skirts, plaited or gathered, are of plan or pisid goods, the latter being cut straight or on the bias and finished with a deep hem. A sash of jersey cloth encircles the waist, or a woolen girdle is knotted in front. Blue, brown, garnet and white jersey web- bing is uscd. The waists are close- fithng with high or sailor eollars, or loose blouses with a rolling collar end- ing in » knot over the chest. All have full sleeves and :aany are prettily em- browdered with anchors or trimmed with git butt ns. Some of the prettr- est oi wool goods are made with the gathered skirt sod full sleeves cut on the luas; the round waist fastened in the back with a shightly pointed front, nonder jacket fronts, edged with a narrow tinsel gulloon. Often they have a sash of the dress fabric fastened for reasonable ex- 80 in i iC Bt 5 1 is it { i i i i i in the side seams and tied in the back, Young misces of twelve to sixteen years wear spring gowns of Bedford | cord, cheviot or Henrietta cloth in pale | gray, tan, gray green and gray blue colors. These dresses have a bodice rund in front, fastened invisibly on! the eft side and with coat back, | Three rows of gold braid, half an inch wile, edged by bla k cord, are set below the collar to outline a round yoke. Mutton-leg sleeves have three similar rows as trimming, and the high | collar is covered with gold bra:d. I'he straight full skirt has a hem with gold braid set as a piping at the 10p. Checked cheviots and plaids of softer woul are made entirely on the bias, The simplest of cotton frocks has a! gathered skirt, with a four-inch hem, sewed to the edge of a round waist, which is shirred at the centre of the waist line, both back and front, and buttoned in the back. The high collar | and the cufls on the full-topped slevves are of embroidery or cotton passemen- $crie. A ribbon or leather belt is worn, Suede belts, also those of the dress! fabric, are stylish for misses, while sashes of the dress material or of white | naiusook, with a pleated V or vest to eorre-pond, are worn by little gir! Shirt waists aro wora with gather skirts by masses, the a draw-string at the waist line and being lorg enough to tuck under the skirt, with a pointed yoke, shirred centre, front or back pleats. Guimpe dres are seldom seen on girls over seven years of age, but will continue to be worn by the little ones. A lovely dress for a girl four years old is made of Llane and white plaid, cut on the bias, the skirt hemmed and gathered, shirt sleeves, high bodice | in | the back and having flve side pleats, | both back and front, and revers of em- braadery, imitating a low neck. Children’s evening dresses show ; great taste in their arrangement and are | especially pretty in color, texture and | design, whether intended for very | young children or girls in their teens, | High bodices and long sleeves seem | to Le the order for those dresses which | i8 a good thang from a hygienic point | of view. Whiie is greatly in favor, | One little dress was noted for the close horizontal tucking, nearly a quarter of | a yard deep, which encircled the waist; dainty little rosettes of baby ribbon | were placed here und there; the silk was not plain but a soft oriental bro- cade of great brilliancy. Three tiny cross-cut flowers with | French hems bordered another skirt | made of similar material. Two gather. | ed pieces coming from the shoulders, | disgonally, were united at the waist | line aud fastened with a deep pearl] buckle, 3 waists having oa o 8 stened { i i i oN } 3 SE —" SET i No. 965, No material is more fashionahle for these dresses than white, yellow or piuk crepe de Chine or China silk, or else flowered India silk or challi, For a 8 young miss a high round bodice of white erepe de Chine is gathered in tucks at the neck and waist, and has bretelles of mousseline de soie with scal- loped edges, Bows of gros grain rib. bon catch np the bretelles on the shoulders and are set at the points at the waist line. The sleoves are puffed to the elbow and the skirt 1s yery full. Another chff ming dress 1s of cream silk hem white tie with bright turquoise velvet, the skirt feather siitched silk. Sometimes more oostly £33 No. 966. crepe lisse embroidered with margne rites, fol age and other flowers. covers the entire skirt, and a band of 1t is placed from the shoulders to the centre of the fiont of the bodice, the sleeves forming two puffs divided by bands of the embroidery. Black dresses are being shown Ser AN ng. or surah, plain, dotled or 1 . BRITE, 1 Greenaway all sti les, made similar to 8 man’s coat velvet, early spring jackets for genera wear ers of every size and design. have the ete. They breasted front, with gi or covered, and with edging of gilt cord. little ones has a plaited and the usnal reefer front. and without A new style an Jackets of lizht tan or gray diagoral cloths are most in favor for large g rls, They are made quite lo 1 with straigit double breasted fronts with two rows of large pearl buttons, or else they are rolled back i Ever from a vest Smaller ar Tay cloth the os, girls twelve w its of Pp with full alee: i sume color. a roand bo bouble breast.d, with revers, collar and full skirt gathered under a belt. The il k edged with gold pearl long e sik © 3 il revers cord and buttons « farge white f the waist, The x ios of bats for children are nui those in open patterns of white and yellow siraw are the most prominent. The little ones follow fast in the footsteps of their elders and we 1 1 aii riess. ed ie No. ™ face trim- a tiny band un- the hair, cover. ed with ribbon or flowers. Little girls of two vears have poke bonnets or hats of surah shitred on cor with soft or shirred cro hetaomed strings of sarah, : of gauze or ribbon in {rout or 4 aud sgrettes and nside the brim. to eight years of age with plana or open brims, the latter being trimmed with and ont of the openings, with a large bow of plaid same, fashionable a, rimming mall ii $ Z of ince, ged ri ‘bon, or three ostrich tips tied sbout the stews with narrow velvet Straw-hats trimmed with wreaths of flowers and a bow of ribbon in the back are shown for young misses, No. 968. rrosT viEw, | If perfectly flat in the crown a face | trimming is ad.ed of ribbon across the | top of the bead. Pink is combined red and vellow witl and popp.es with red, and tiny wh the tan straw A. RE with tan or gray, blue, black velvet ita blosson seen on with loops of tan ribbon, are No. 960 Caruorex's Croaxs ~No. 9685. The first design shows a cloak for a young girl twelve years old, and is made of blue-gray cloth with a narrow edge of dark blue velvet to the collar and cuffs. Jt has a full body and a gathered shoulder cape and is partly confined at the waist by a broad belt fastened with a miver buckle. The edge of the cape is finished with several rows of stitch- ing also the pointed enffa, No, 966, The cloak for a girl five years old, is of ecru tweed with a raidiog of a darker tan shade down the front, on the collar, cuffs and | pocket flaps. The coat and also that of the cape is orna- i mented with stitching dark milk. | The joining of the skirt to the back, {shown in No. 000, 18 covered by a platted cord terminating in pompons and tied in front. No. 967. Croax ror A Lrrrie Boy | Tunes Yrans Ovo, This pretty, little cloak is made of SBcoteh wool trimmed with white embroidery. The body of the coat is in redingote form and cut on the bias; it is composed of broad pleats with fronts and back held at the waist-line by a broad belt of the goods, The fronts of the waist open on oa plas. trou of the goods ent on the straight of the cloth. Large sailor collar trimmed with a frill of embroidery descends in revers on the fronts, Fall sleeves, cut straight way of the cloth, are gathered into deep wrist-bands of embroidery. No. 9008. Caun'’s Dress, (Front and Jack, "This neat little frock is made of spotted blue-gray wool with a deep collar of white cashmere with frilled edges. The skirt is in straight breadths with the lower edge hemmed. A slit three inches deep is at the middle of the front, and on either side of it are four two inch pleats turned toward the middle; five inches behind these pleats are four samilar pleats turned toward the back; the remaining portion is closely gathered in the centre of the back. The waist is cut full in the back to allow slanting pleats to be laid as seen in the illustration. The fronts are pleated and open on a flat plastron of dress goods. The collar 1s edged with a white enshmere rufils which ex- tends down the fronts outlining the plastron. A bias scarf of the dress goods fastened with a 1 ornament conceals the joining of the skirt and wall, Blooves close at the wrist and ornamented with buttons, No. 969, Croax von a Youwae Ginn, wT Tmmle mad Bani bn of mn on woah in i | sides are plain, pleated on the shoniders with silk fringe, and is from the body of the eloask. ing collar and large rleeves with frivge at the wists, A leather belt by a silver bnekle confines the el ak at the waist This garment may be made of ap the wool goods now in vogue for spring cloaks. : Tie yoke like cupe is | end edged | detach la | High roll trimmed i y closed f Ol FANCY WORK, EDGING, Crooner This edg'ng is smitable for iriming linen under- wear, aod is worked with tine eroeliet thread fis follows: : Ist row.—* make 17 chain, for the | first i alf of a scallop, 13 double crochet | into the back mesh of the 8rd chain | bh chain, connect to the | Oth of the 17th chain, b slip stitches on | the 5th, 1st of the b chain, a pieot (for a picot 4 chain and a elip stitch on the preceding double), for the second half 0 the scallop 2 donble, into the same mesh with the 3 double, 2 chain, a slip stitch into the same mesh with the 5 doub’e of the last scallop, 2 scallops for ea h of which make 38 chain, 5 double into the back me-h of the first of th m, 2 chain, and a slip into the same mesh with the 5 double: then 5 slip stitches on the 11th—10th of the 17 chain at the beginning, 10 chain con- nect to the middle double of the lust scailop, b slip on the 10th—6th of the | 10 chain, 9 chain, a preot (4 chain and | a slip on the first of them), 5 chain, | connect to the same stitch last conne t- | And RT RAF 2 ch od to, hain, a slip on the 24 of the O chain, 9 chain, connect to the mid- dle double of the middle seallop, 1 7 chsin, coune t to 1st picot, crochet around the preceding 7 chain, on the same stitch with t er! a single i the previous ¥ chain, single on the next free stitch, Oth of the preceding , 1 chain, u slip on the Oth of the preceding 7 chain; * a picot of 4 chain and a sip on the 1st of them, 6 chan, another 3 chain, connect to the 4th single be- oa chsing con ‘ 14 9 tid ont 300%, a slip on the first of the chain, repeat, from jieot, 6 chain, a picot, 2 chain, ¢ to the 44h one con nected to before, 1 chain, a ship on the Ist of the previous chain, 5 chain, connect to the middle of the 1st picot, 7 single around the 5 chain, 3 work 10 single around the next suo eeceding 6 eh ain, then 7 single around the succeeding DO chain, a slip on the next free stit bh, 9 chain, 3d and 4th of the chain following the next picot; repeat from *, but in every preceding 8 once; then a the single before i { ' the Ist picot to the middle of the last to the middle one of the last 7 single in the preceding pattern the same stich with the preceding double, keeping the upper mesh of it stitch, working off its upper mesh to- double; repeat from®*, f ARAL hy FEN 4 t (AEN POS a LOR RL MARE i ER — Cunnoroeuen Tea Cron. —The prin. cipal feature of this most elegany deo- work, he ma erial linen, DOLL end $ OF cob used is eresm-colored congre } reion, on is emb ol ered i wash silk ton ol suit Rarning, # are used in the Lace 8 31 four Ne Les 18 WOrKs ! 7 The : . Holbein stitches AIRE, i 18 square of twenty. 1 int dd Lin shod fBrst icunaation net frame with thread the Bri yo naw er 60 should pattern, except for v hich use vers & 1 he same work Linen in { number 72, These squares are preity for tidies, covers for pincush- ous ele, This illustration shows the drawn work in detail, Six Hawpxercaigy sachet is very appropriate for & birth- inal. It is formed of a piece of ivory quarters long ioubled by nd a yard and three be- thirteen inches ong with fumed wadding laid between, is painted or embroidered a Pe r- The rivbon simply wrapped around the bandker- chiefs and ued in the top. design. BILE HANDEERCHIEF CASE, 14 siiverw Are ol funny 1 shows this lorry about i to that effect QO. wear his initials, he wrote giving his name and adding «( The initials being unknown to Englisl trade routine, to his dismay the piece arrived with his initials ana C. O. D cat on it. # apna A ———— A woman at Atchison, era. ’ iE ii i 1 SRARATS a 4 iid Aiwa ua J 0 ort Cd FER AP EN AL IRL 5 x, . gy EA Wan bn = We ns ee Ly FoR 3% SAT AN v4 90 _n Sn re pat fl 2 yt Ee Re oo A Famous Peeudonyma, Marion Havland-—1n 1850 | contested i for a 850 prize story. 1 wanted to hide my identity, and so | irriedly made up v he initial jetiers HUT» by HAIes, t 8 pRendonvi of my first na n * Hawes CONnvevin ms both Lh "HE ial Viry Max OH offi. allied Gison "WER AY cer in the Fren syd we Max Biouet, : war hie wa ner by th I Heh and sent to England, wher an Irish fies O'Bell, loved, courted, mari i back to Frances Paul Blouet, i Ouida—My pen name was born the ligp of a litle : , CRs by my first nan sound «Weeds 5 ¥ nr} ico ivi, Wi } i § i (1 Bnag iid g me iil to Cia. s lips, dresced if, it bas remained, 3, lin . I took the pro hild! aa tion from the « and It became, Ouida, Ik Marve! a8 Washington letter «Jk ‘Ik Donald Mitchell signed Marvel,” the compositor made it Marvel,” and #0 it stood. Sidney Luska Henry Harland. Grace Simply a faney of Greenwood First the naine “ ireensyood {race Was Grace: adopted ” when 20 years old, ra Josiah Allen's Wife—Marietis ley adopted this in order get from commonpliice signatures, Timothy Titcomb—Dr. Holland took this name for alliteration only. Mrs. Partington B. P. Bhillaber “‘get it up” without writing or think- ing; it caught, and he kept it, Nasby-—D. R. Locke probably took it from a remembrance of the battle of Naseby. Oliver Optic | used it as a signat Beat in Ingersoll, Hol- 10 away v ure T. 10 he ¢ Adams first a poem; it mitinaed it. “Fanny, fond ed to please, a She liked ” her mother’s Fanny “ri and the thought of of is suggested the rest. F. J. Stimson got this ness for ier J. 8 Dale from old law books. Jennie June—Jennie Croly was called the “Juniest” little girl town #t articles Jennie June, « OF in signed her fis and has been sorry almost ever since. Dare—Mrs. DD. Power i adopted this to hide her sex and pre. Shirley ~. serve her initials Joagui filler iller was taken | for Joaquin Mari a Mexican b vy, { when your CaRy i when h Eli Perkins name given came e began writing. Andon had this him } us Ward. Joeedle Yaweoob Strauss’ —( Adams found it fitted well poetry and was thor £1 F. his rman. into pt Hidden Jast in Time, the Riberisn is one of the conversationalista can He is a very unassuming man and very mod- est. Bome of his most thrilling ex- periences will probably never be put in print, or, at least not for a number of years, for, strange as it may seem, Mr. Kennan } to again visit Russia at the end of two or three years. He had very many narrow escapes from death and the mental strain pro- duced by them was naturally very great. One of these, which bas not been printed, occurred once while he was in a Nihilists house. He had papers with him which, if found, | would result in his being instantly shot. He was informed that the of- ficers were on his track, snd would ar rive at this house within five minutes. Russian officers are very thorough when making a search for anything of this nature, and what to do with these papers was 8 most pertinent question. Jut to think was to act, and taking up a hand-glass upon the table he pried out the back with his knife, bastily put the papers in the frame and re- stored the back to ite place just a= the officers arrived. The search was made, the glass raised from the table, but the papers were not found. This is but a sample of the many ex- periences Mr. Kennon had in Siberia. i He says that the horrors of .the prison : there in vogue cannot be de words so as to convey any accurate idea hearer, {| —Philadelpliia North American. i - —— —— {| Abraham Lincoln's Marriage Notice. An original copy of the Sangamon | Journal, printed Springfield, Hl. { Nov. 11, 1842, was added the col lection of newspapers at the Libby {| Prison War Museum a few days ago. The paper at that time was supporting Henry Clay for the Presidency, and his name is conspicuous at the top of the editorial column. In the advertis. ing columns of the paper is the follow. ing marriage notice: “Married in this city the 14th inst., at the residence of N. W. Edwards, Esq., by the Rev. C. Dresser, Abraham Lincoln, Esq., tc Miss Mary Tod, daughier of Rober Tod, Esq., of Lexington, Ky.” This tells a story in which every Americas is interested, and the paper is believed to be the only copy in existence con taining it. War Prices. A shaggy looking veteran dropped into an Upper Lisbon street barber shop Monday and got a shave. Aft the shave be wanted his beard trimmed just a bit, and then he thought he would like his neck “rimmed up” some, not 8 haircut but just a little slicking np When be got through he asked the price. “Ten cenis.” was the reply, the bar ber thinking that it ought to have beer A quarter, The old fellow looked up with & sor of yearning look and sad: “That so? Still keep up vour wa prices, don’t ye?" Lewiston Journal A 0 0 3 OM RAI 5 A: i When you find two men In the same buisness who claim 10 be fr* vds, yor have &wo mare hive ; Mr. | explorer and ex most entertains whom a perso ng George hs i nan, Oe ¥ n meet. O11 8 pr sValem ! Rl ribed in y the reader or Ht io eC —
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