A DOLL FACTORY. HOW SOME CHRISTMAS ENTS ARE MADE. PRES- Winter Employment for Many Coun- try People in Germany — Doli Hos. pitals in New York. brings the greater part of his vast stock of Christmas toys from Europe, Germany being his favorite collecting grounds. But he encourages American industry in a few directions, notably in cheap me- chanical tovs. The tin railway trains nnd tin horses and steamboats that run when wound up with a key are made in quantities in flrooklyn by machinery; and the cast-iron toys of the sume de- soription are made principally in New York. When ho desires an expensive mechanic! tov. however, he goes to France for it; to Saxony for his Noah's arks and all the other cary ed wooden toys: to Nuremburs for his tovs, tin trumpets and magic lanterns, and to Thuringia for k's toy china tea sots. Far more i nportant than all other toys are the dolls, and nine dolls out of ten are litle German girls. In whole dis- tricts in Germany the co ry prople spend the winter in m king dolls, tillinz their ficlds in sommer. ‘Lhe cheap wax doll, eu norelally Kiovn as tion wax.” bought in this country for 25 coats, furnishes pe haps the best idea of how dolls are nade. “modeller,” who has nothing further to to do with the makinz of dolls, mike< plaster of Paris models of the styles of heads and in demand. and sells them, singly or in sets, to the peas- ants who make the dolls, sorts of faces mmonyr the mo lels rp MIE DOS - nx may he Hinks most all pretty girls, siniling boys, old Wonen, negroes und cryin: buhios, 1 here are Throuzhout the win- ter. father, mother and the larger children unite in making pavier-mache sasts from these models, each cast being, af course. et, counterpart of the models, bat thin and lizht, ealor. The legs and : eolored paint, and the painted shoes are put on with These parts, together with the head, are tened to a cloth body stuffed with saw. dust, and dolly off to the factory, where the artistic work i . Her litabs have the proper tint, her bod is as true to nature as necessary, but her head is still her cheeks aro and her colorless eves express no intelli- gence. An expert workman in the holding doliv hv the foe 3 dips her head and shoulders for a moment in melted wax, and she « wrzes from the bath the composition-w i X doll of commerce When she is sufficiently dry she passes into the hand a girl « quickly paints the pink tinge upon her cheeks. Anotl °r erird adds the blu eves, still another the evebrows and evelashes, and she goes through the hands of a row of girls, one girl tor each tint, the whole process taking about six hours, for there are delavs while the paints are drying In six hours six girls are espected to paint ten gross, or nearly 1.500 dolls, complete. T'his requires rapid work, and the girls receive nboat $1.75 a week each. Flowing locks mohair fastened to the heal, and dolly is ready to emigrate to America. For the real wax dolla more expensire article, the molds for the head are made in three parts —one back and two fronts. The mold is filled with melted wax: which is allowed to remain for a minute or two, and then all that has not hard- ned is poured out. This leaves a hollow px head about a quarter of an inch ick, which is afterward strengthened all an « amd grav in He are dipped in fiesh VRrious bniia} BUrUADCS, 0s is more # done MIN bare gray, factory. + we ww le sal perator, who Oi are of papier mache. Some patent ‘‘wash- able” dolls are made of hardened papier mache; and when these have cloth feet, which will not break, they are a valuable adddition to the nursery. But if we do not make dolls to any extent in this country, wo repair them at a great rate. About Christmas times a “*doll hospital” is established in all the big stores in New York where toys ave sold, and dolls with eyes that should move but are fixed, with legs that insist upon being knock-kneed, with arms that are loose, with wigs that fall off, or back to be repaired or exchanged. In some of the larger concerns the doll hospital at such times containg more pa- tients thau any real hospital in the city. These returned dolls would be almost a total loas were it not that there are in New York a number of foreign doll makers, who make regular visits to the toy stores soon after Christmas, carry. ng away the killed and wounded, and ing them back in a few hours as good as new. ‘I'he monding of a doll is an the casts have been broken, The wooden stables, kitchens, gro. geries, butcher shops and the familiar Noah's arks are all wade by hand in SBazony. What wages these simple carvers make may be judged from the fact that small Noah's arks, containing more than a score of carved animals, can bo bought nt retail for 5 or 10 cents. Even in cheap Sasony the peasants could not live by this in- dustry alone. ‘They have some other calling; and on winter nights the whole family gather about the blazing fire and caree out minature lions and elephants, “The children in these families oft n de velop pecaliur ability in making particu. lar animals. One boy may make good horses and camels, while a vounger brother may far oxcol him iu the carving of lions and tigers, Bo remote are many of tho German dis. ~ triots where dolls are made, that it is often - mecessary for the factories to send men ~ out on six or eight-liour journeys to get the heads and limbs, and in summer they can hardly be had at all, for then the doll-makers are at work on their farms. ~~[8t. Louis Republic. 4 UR BR Portuguese Work - Among Portaguese workmen and now I allude to those who have learned u there is what I may style, (rithout a ory kon, # satianal wat of ho perce of accuracy. ere in on rtuante ox ,' 81d this oon men, and practically, A door may gape at the top or bottom, windows almost invariably rattle in their sashes, but you will never | persuade the carpenter that his work is { badly done; he will acknowledge the | existence of what are pointed out as de. | foots, and answer: “That's no harm { what does it matter?” From the same | cause, straight or parallel lines or right augles, the careful earrying vat of which { makes all the difference in the finished | look of work, are also a “little more or less;"’ and then the vagurios of a furrow in any plowed field must be secon to Le upprociated, The actunl supply of first-class work- mou is practically nil, and the artisan | is not only unequal 10 the production of excellence in this special line, but, what is worse, does not the moral faculty of judgment and enjoying tle sight of perfect specimens of workmau ship. Stonecutting seems to have been for centuries ah art in which the Partu- have excelled; this and silver. smith's work are the two crafts which may be exempt from the sweeping cous demuation pussed on the srtisun of the present duy. | Black woo I's Magazine which but slight oue at first, Gangrene sot in sil caused the master s death on March 22, 1637 Batons of approximate size eontinued in existence nntil the end of the eigh- teenth contary., Strauss ased a baton as it is used to-day. Afrer his death, which occurred in 1849, the chief of the violin ists presented Johann Strauss daring one JHOSRIRS ese wis a of his popular Viennese concerts with the baton of his father in the presence of 3.000 snectators. Meverbeer used a baton of solid silver. That of Fetis was richly and gems, and Mozars conceris at Salz. little stick Post-1Yis adorned with gold I ' conducted his eliorus burg, his native ¢ity, with a ~t. v maile of Louis jade bh. ivory THE SPRUCE-GUM PICKER. tu Industry for Which Vermont was Once Famous Genuine spruce gam has almost disa IV TeMd, Bas 1 ise, f.. mars erly the low, end Form supply abundant, the tho quality first.cl now ode pre nds on mers little nt- the commendi- was rice But chance, tin mn 1 r giving i the supply tention to the gathering of ty, as there is no money in the busi- Fhe ill fires | ills pulp mills, ! i Hires, RAW In forest ave wrogght sag ee tion among the big tracts of spruce trees which formerly clothed the Green Moun tains that f the gum I cker i Sometimes a WW ouod- uel jor ning Bennington ou the pation o gone, & the aed s almost fumberman or a mountaineer in ford.a téwn ast, discovers a tree that witl vis Id sev pounds of i bi brought to Ben ready market a The price depends entirely upon the quality, ranging all the from fifty cents to $1.00 a pound. Gum of ality is readily distinguished by its which ia a marsetabie where it gum in hnds 0 a good price. wos poor opaqueness, and by its very intimate ad- misture of minute bits of bark, which became entangled in the gum it from the free inn semi-liquid Poor gum is further distinguished as being too heavy or too light, bitter and permanently sticky to the teeth in some cases, and hard and crumbly in | other specimens Gum of the finest grade is either trans. lucent or transparent, of a light-amber color, filled more or less with minute bub. bles of air, breaking with a short, shin ing fracture, and having a sweet, peculiar and balsamic odor and taste. The word “gum,” however, is popularly misap- plied, as the substance is, properly speak. ing, a resinous matter. A large portion of the gum offered for | sale in Bennington is sent West in small packages by mail. The reason for this i# that large numbers of Eastern people who have gone West miss their ne. ; customed “chew” and send back to their | old home for small supplies at a time, In this way, too, quarter-pound packages of gum are sent across the continent California, where the article is valued almost beyond price. The Ohio and Michigan branches of the Olin family, who recently held their annual reunion i in Bennington, “cornered” about all the spruce gum stocks in town. , Several years an enterprising young man, Hl. W. Martin of Benning- ton, worked up a very large trade in | this commodity. | express, and freight were sent by him to remote sections of the country, and the demand was often greater than the sup- ply. The gum, however, which was of extra fine quality, was obtained in the i State of New York. Mr. Martin was susbequently appointed postmaster at when ded eX sinte. rery to Gor ago i abandoned. tin Vermont is Alonzo K. Bishop of | Woodford. He is a professional in this peculiar indostry. Bishop is about forty. | five years old, stout, well built, good. | natured, and wears long hair, | owing to its stickiness and its liability te | and a Yankee-notion peddier. But when i { about, penetrates the deep forests of the mountains in pursuit of his favorite call- ing, which he has followed all his life, | nrmed at one end with a sharp chisel, at a considerable distance from any haman habitation. < [New York Times. Ca A NE Phosphorescent Infection, The carious discovery has been wake that the phosphorescesee frequently ex. hibited by many species of the crustaces is infectious. A French naturalist, M. Giard, bas traced the phosphorescent light in Talitrus to bacteria in the mus. cles, these muscles always showi oF et On hing Tl vidun same luminous “ ucod ch and oho inne. men, however, died within re. (St. Lucie Republie. QUEER ROADS IN CHINA. { Curiosities of Travel and Postal Ser. viee in the Flowery Land. Minister Denby has just sent to the Department of State sn very interesting { description of roads in Ching, Outside | of the cities they are of the most primi | tive nature, being merely lines of ruts {| noross the fields, In summer they are futhomless, impassable bogs, and travel, except on fool, is practieally suspended. The pig-taded orientals have never taken much trouble with roall-making, partly bhecanse throughout their country the plains are a network of waterways, nat- carrying burdens Las always been pre ferred fo that of beasts over the narrow and circuitous mountain pusses, for militury purposes seem never to have been thouzht of by the Chinese, The great campaigns of the Mongol and Mancha emperors were conducted with hor des of tiving cavalry along no fised Prrities Caina has telegraph lines snow, bat os to their introduction intelligence ved to the center of govern. went from outside provinces by an elab. post stations, These were placed about thirty miles apari, and refays of horses were constantly kept in readiness for the imperial couriers, By such means dispatches were seat to dis. tant provincial capitals at the rate of 250 Kubla Kahn, the Mongol emperor, had more than 10,000 post sta. with 30000 kept for the use of messengers with the mounted eclnbor de system of fost me SSENPOrs Was The latter their y miles apart. © pire Wis alive orate svetem of imiies per dav, tions horses. especially In con Couriers nection an also maintained, wore swift runpers and stations thre were ouly By them the emperor is said to have received news from pla eR ten days’ journey distant in twenty-four from 1) dave away within ten days. hours or information points Fruit gath ered in Peking in the morning was thus ir palace, distant i an ths sisinitted to the summer travel, : : arriving the next dav. fava’ PAVE evening ro who carry imperial (rartok and LL Hasa Thibet, make the entire t £ NK) miles on he rae bad kK in without i i b spatel are ni nd the latter s» that th end broken MCsBENIers ore if irom one ho font at their destau % Couriers ron hetw “en nl olf siz pnd } relied, hae r bodies ii tho of #i = sii CY es blood hey sometimes die on tigue, spondence post rival establishments in firms employ their horseback posure and fat offices, of whi h hese who travel on on foot or by steamer wh waibis Between cities, where the tifies a regular mounted service, and small parcels are carried v-five or ghty ges for small excessive, a letter being sent fron to 1 for 10 lomz distances er, the m i Sse gisian about bow £83 disproportional ly entsin cOonts postage is he United States legation has frequent occasing large. 0 to i the in of ith missionaries ir y in the prov From Peking to Chinanfu. the capital of Shantung, is about 225 miles, and the usual charge for transmit. ting a letter thither is 40 Com petition forces the postal establishments to be very careful and reliable. In North China, where waterways are not numerous as in the south, inter communication has alwavs presented serious difficulties, which ne Communicate » terior, Shantung. particularly inces Cents, wy 10 attempt has been made to oy Broome, are to be crossed by ferries only. while the smaller streams must be forded. At the fortes the ferry boats are intention ally constructed with a high side board so that carts cannot be driven on without unhitching, This gives emploviment to a crowd of hangers-on In lifting on and off the carts for a compensation. la time flood there is apt to be i crossing the streams at all. Where na. ture has afforded no convenient The large rivers of HO way of sn podi ment bad characters sometimes dig holes inthe road so as to obtain employment ju helping carts through. A Speenlation in Cats, Here comes a story for vou sounds almost like an out-West fairy tale, but I min told that it is strictly tree: “Daring the first days of ‘Pike's Peak, when that country was being occupied by mining prospectors, their cabins were overrun with rats--not your domesticated house-mice and rats of an old civilized community, but rats—-large, ravenous rats— with teeth and digestive apparatus capable of managing anything from a tough old boot to a dainty pices of breakfast bacon, “This state of affairs came to the knowledge of a thrifty Dutchman, poor, but willing to earn a bright dollar if the way was only pointed out, and roused his dormant ideas to take advantage of the rat nnisance and profit thereby, The Dutchman secured a yoke of oxen, rigged filled the same with good eats which his neighbors were glad to be rid of. With this outfit he started across the plain for Pike's Peak, a tedious joarney of some wix hundred miles, This, witl scant any encounter with their victims. “Their serival spread joy among the honseholders, and everything was set aside to purchase nats. ‘When the stock of our worthy Dutehman had boon spead. ily converted into gold-dust, he sold his team, returned on foot across the desert plains to Omaha with over 21.500, and wright a farm near by. But the olimax of this veuture was attained when his faithful oxen strayed back to hin," [St Nicholas, A Official RB d Tape. I The new extradition treaty with England is said to show by its practieal workings one of the finest esemplifis cations in the word of the red tape process of how not to do It. A man wanted in Hoste known to be iu oil | London. The Boston police cabled to | Scotland Yard a deseription of the man, | with particulars of his crime. After more than a month the Secretary of the Governor of Massachusetts came to ses i the Boston chief, to inguoire if he wanted Peach oo man from London, He said yes, The was then carried to the Gover wor, who communicated it to Wash- ington, whence it was forwarded to Minister Lincoln, who waited on the British Foreign Office with the infor. mation. Thence it was communieated to the Home Office. which notified Scot. lund Yard to arrest the culprit. Beot- land Yard replied that he had gone to Antwerp a month before, New Orleans Pieayune. fnswer Cause of the Chinese Riots. “There in o deep plot behind these auti-foreign riotsin China which goes far bevond the feeling against the mission. aries,” said Colorel W. H. Brind, of the British Army, at the Tremont House, +1 spent several years in China, and one cannot travel in any part of the empire that be does not see o feeling of discon. teut among the natives. The empire, | believe, in on the verge of a great rebel. lion within its borders. The present government, known as the Mantchoo dynasty, is made up of Tartars almost altogether, and the rebellious spirit is being cultivated among the people with the view of expelling the Tartars from the throne, The people in China have always being taught to believe the em- peror is the son of heaven, This ides WORTCRSIY a is now exploded among the | 5 and intelligent classes and they no longer rinin their former reverence for the Turtar throne. The empire is honey. combed with seeret societies which foster this sutagoni=m to the present governs Fhe greatest of the societies is the Kaloa Hui. perhaps, which numl among its active ny of the tary officers aud a lar centage of mend. JETS em bers ma high mi ge pers his insticated the of riots nguinst foreigners, I the standing army is the society said to have Series be. Heve that they these riots for no other purpose than to embroil the Partar rulers with Europ ers, The idea i every day among mn Cine cause of the that the incited the have | LE Jase gt win is 2 * fristiiréy g stronger i i uew ern usg the Chinese patriots that be rated soon ME SNARE gieat discontent Mantehoo moiern in Ch ¥ dynasty | BTOUTNEs : "» } wie Delonge 1o bo Mongoli Hot ood for the Sickroou. ul $ OF MICK Pt he fen in i % * ches iis * io) # : . i ghest oetion £ VETIOus peri hospitals whore the phy siCian certain and the sufferers are compelled to abide by them. Ir sick rooms the nurse should gently but firmly compel the patients to submit to intelfigence which has in view something higher than the mere temporary grati- fication of the taste. Seasoning io | used in the hospitals except to a very limited extent, O¢ pper is nearly always refused except in cases prescribe — | sal i. raice ang reguinbions onl for sick is seldom Salt can limited way used in a bot pw spicing helps to stimulate the stomach to take Those who have been prostrated by discase for » long time require foods that will be nutritive and gently stimulative in their this nature are generally found in the various dishes made from fish, game, beef, mutton, poultry, eggs, peas, baked potatoes and other substances. They can be made into a variety of dishes and combinations, with just enough season. ing to make them palatable, but not harmful. Hot milk, drank with a spoon, is generally a good nourishing food used extensively for patients in the hospitals, sat it should be absolutely pure and free from all discase germs. Baked apples bave had good resaits as an invalids food, but much sugar should be avoided. Oranges are recommended at the begin. ning of an meal. The great food. for the sick room, however, is pure, unadaiter. ated arrowroot, which can be made into an variety of dishes. The powdered ; should be moistened with cold water, and then boiling water be poured on it until it is transparent. It should be sweetened | slightly Yankee Blade. where a little Fand food, Foods of f actions, mucilaginous root Preventing Coal Dust Explosions. A sacocssful method of preventing { cost dust explosions has been adopted in { various German mines. The usual | method of sprinkling water in dusty parts { of the mine has only a limited value, as { much of the dust generated in the mining {of coal is hereby unaffected. Water is | now forced under a pressure into the coal {to be mined, thus not only setting the {dust in advance but facilitating the re- {moval of the conl. Holes one meter | deep are drille] at a distance of about | three meters. Here wooden plugs are inserted and through them are ran iron pipes from § to 1 meter long, with open. ings between 2) and 3 millimeters large {and connected with rubber hose. lm. | portant factors in the successful appli cation of this method are the water pres. sure obtainable, the quantity of water injected oud the firmuess of the seam, the last item depending to some extent jen the sizeof the coal pillars in the work. ings. [Chicago News. A Portable Hospital. During the recent maveuvers of the French army 0 thorough test was made {by the medical corps of a portable | hospital invented by M. Espitallier. It measured sixteen metres by five metres inside, and could receive twenty beds. Packed for transport it weighed 2,000 kilogrammes, and was drawn by two horses. The framework of wood and iron is fitted with panels of carton, or cellu. lose, which form the walls amd ceiling, and the whole can be erected by the soldiers in four hours. The hosp complete in every reapoct, and bas eatira satisfaction daring the ta Ficayume, .. Sl i THE LADIES. THE PRESIDENTE WIFE IR 1115 SECRETARY, | Mme. Carnot, wifo of the President of | France, acts us secretary to her husband, always, and, when he is over-pressed { with business or is desirous of taking some little repose, as well as during his { ull corrent affairs with a care. und per- | fect knowledge of business routine which | she owes to her early training; for in bier | girlhood Mlle, Dupont White was the | constant companion and also the amanu. cusis of her father, and had carly to learn to sacrifice her own tastes and amuse. | ments that she might be the right hand of the able political economist.- York World, PHYSICAL IMPROVEMEST OF THE 82%. ene day there suddenly came over me curious little lonesome feeling. It seemed sa chilly and forinal, so unlike myself to | be nddressed as Mrs.” at every hand, and never to hear my own dear origin name, “The more I thought over the matics the more despairing | became, Never, never could 1 hear the o'd familie *Miss’ when anybody spoke 10 me, “Thereupon 1 netually locked myself in my room nnd wept so Jong and bitterly from pute vamesickuess that my kL bund besought me tearfully through the key-hole to tell him what was wrong “He was very much hurt when I first | explained the cause of my grief, but when | brought him to a realization of my loss, he grew symputhetic, and, do you know, for a long time he called me by my maiden name, That wore ofi with the honevmoon, however, but even to this day I Line, in think sadly of my lost Hiustrated Ameriean. recently called attention to a fact, sus. young women of the present day are bet- ter developed physically, taller, plumper, ttronger and healthier than the young women of 50, 100, 150 ar 200 YOars ago, de improvement of condition and aspect there are no steps backward. One jour. nal has called attention to the circum. stunce that whereas a century agoa hand. some woman inspired sentiments of such an admiring curiosity that her arrival or departure drew vast crowds and rewarded the patieat waiting of hundreds; beauty f the same sort is so general nowadays is to evoke no ripple of excitement. {Chicug i Post. THE XEW BODICES bodices i all made over a 1 hie new fitted lining material of re The only i the | i lining and on the inside of inces where the & united to the the waist are arin o Wij ioe it the two sonms under the nd at the shoulder seams, i Thenew linings are effect that The ris are ward us possible, leav- It be the first hile the second nre set he sown thing noteworthy the slender four they give to the brought ns fa orsage. Ng only about an in tween two darts, durts but a short Sashioned : 3 LINIE O53 bat ‘3 Hain tailor dresses sary for the figure of the hack baad ic petals as described, wntre « ne front of ‘ " enied under a veivel in front and te t 21 ane gt Tne ado] teaching i] Wives $4 i i ory giris { women homes for a vear of marrage. > { teaching of e is something the i it factory giris how to lis like th As s% a factory girl mes engaged to be married she gives up her position and fakes « mplovment with in i ®inisgy he. frome woman ws ho pledges herself to teach the girl she baking, sweeping and all wifely arts At the end of girl is qualified t and i chance, there should be a the matrimonial cap and the voung womaa has learned so ail Hows cooking ho 7 YVeur abhont Of ae IRE the o keep house properly y Aud if. by sap the economical A mis between thi that BOTY I0e, lip, much she can go right on in domestic earning good wages, if she so desires i Louis Re Pp iblie A GEREN BEONEE I was told, writes a aris « dent, that boas a In 184 that is to sav, the long ones-—wounld be abandoned this season, but from the amount and variety + OrTeRpon- every window, hut more especially around every mondaine’s neck, 1 very naturally come to the conclusion that my inf mant's tip was of a very uncertain kind. With regard to these comforters 1 may also add that fur, ostrich and cook's the present moment, while long fiat stole. IADURTEIEE Fu WOSES. It in ve ry grievous to notice how grent and various are the difficulties in the way af making new cmplovments success? Phe first and really important difficult of men objecting to admit women to new spheres of work, ix aliwost entirely over come, but there is more fear of wjuring their cause by their women } Wn preity ha cklings and w ranglings than there ere Hers market go coent scheme that that which Miss Grace Harriman started » little more i for was from the opposition of men. ior instance the A nore gad are Judy deners, than a year ago was never ds Vises giving omen who naxing a living AIN- Work o chance fair re had the s ind muneration. g ' : practical work begun doeners boeoame a hous i if. Nowe of the novie they il 3 ¥i & 1 sei things when the GIsinissod DeCnusg Were ready market. there were foultfindines baekhitings concerning minor mutters and the result of it all was not only moar wd a annoyance to all e Cvitabie paw Women jexrn to enter HHL ANY serious work so i to sink 1 lices, and bok innol b us they camtented fads, their work Ww hy in it followi ing. source, it is fic] profession. Daring 114.585 Russia into value tions under which inst the than S60 from represented a success f re favorable in Russian. Why, theref ould not Laglis) CEES BUDDY the | farmin (4 course DoOuiTY £m besides the se. and the pr nests with nest.egg chickens nol very oemp d tl } « doubt that if pou try farnung is don in a practical ant business like wan it ii have pracucs Pall Mal nns snething guisition of a smal run s princement « tien but the pretty well § cated yg Teaning G1 wil 5 ana =atistaoctog Ie jit Lrazeite, short wh * a rgd i « are of figus 1 OF Apvigue fn 1a " eden portiers « are at their best an i # wl eflech: ¢ under the gastight some of aves Tur ina the very disagrecabis rugs are fou warm house. Yokes of fry of cloth, or to fen ing 1 2 1 plied to cloaks i : i WOOIeH CORK AN BOW AD any of the It is fraer now then ever before in the history of fashion that fine feathers do not make fine binds Scarlet waisteonts, embroidered with fine gold braid, are iu high favor among the women of fashion to hogs | not all dead vet by any means. Ne Purple, heliotrope, sapphire, © ns flower, apple green, and pinkish bro that expensive little animal. boas, 1 fancy. usod to bo termed in by. gone davs Victories, The ostrich line of plame as heretofore, The latest novelty, however, and which 1 told you of several weeks ago, is curled feathers; others are made of per. fectly flat and uncarled *‘plumes,” and although pretty, are not so light in ap- RUE MISSED IY 20, “It's an old trick of the trade with the novelists to tell how young women, when in love, never foil at a certain juncture to double.lock their room doors, and with many Hushes and heart-beatings write down their Christian mame coupled with the surname of the man whom they have promised or hope to marry,” com mented a young married woman lately wedded to a fine man of her choice, “I mappose it is the way of many sen- timental girls, though I mover did it my- self; instead, | underwent a very differ. gat emotion, of which 1 don't think nan vo any comprehension, but w find is not peculiar in my case. 1 moan grief of having to give up one’s maiden name, “All the time 1 was ong I never took any thought for the on which | was to drop my own nice surname title, for whiok I bad such a tion, nud be sddressed by Now effects in portrait photography a™® {nothing if nm startling. The het looks to be in a cloud “oot smoke.” - of Some of the new skirts are made with pocket slits on both sides of the front, and are trimmed with passmesnterie, gimp, or velvet. Faille Francais, bengaline, gross-grain, | ottoman, peande soir, and serge-de- Lyon silks will all continue fashionable | through the winter, The novelty in bodices just now iss | velvet or satin, without trimming of any fenthers, The mufller for full dress is of some | xolid, deep color, and is inthe of an enlarged bandkerchicf, to be folded to a width from four to five inches, placed about the neck under the swallow tail collar and folded acess the waistoont opening. The new French skirt, or umbrelia skirt, as some call it, on account of its shape, is the very Jutest skirt for walk. ing costumes house wear. It molds the figure below the waist and around b moans of a few darts, the entire fullness being adjusted ut the back. The seams on the bodices and skirts of silk or velvet ev wos are being overlaid with a narrow slik gimp or pas sementerie. Silver or gold seems to be used for many
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