FOR THE LADIES, FRESHER UP THE FACE AT NOON, Take in your bag, along with your Bunch, a little vial of glycerine and, if you can afford it, rose water as well. At moon you will find that it pays to freshen up your face by moistening the skin with the water, adding a touch of the glycerine and another dust down with the puff. All this sort of thing is so restful to a tired woman. Try to arrange so that the midday snack will contain something that is a trifle strengthening at ieast. I could write a chapter on this subject if 1 had time. SHOWY The showy pics are a feature of the new millinery. Long stick Pins have heads of jet that are veritable clubs, pear-shaped and faceted. There are rhinestone heads of the same shape. Generally, two of such pins are used to- gether, crossed in front or thrust in where the trimming most needs them. The very large stones in every gem color are used in pins and are set in jet, and straw, and net, for tiny bonnets. The pins made of these stones have the gem variously set, perhaps circled with a gold equator, or set in the centreof a square of jet.— New York Times, PINS, THE CHANCE TO MARRY, A woman's chance to marry at from 15 to 20 years of age is said to be 144 er cent. From 20 to 25 the chance increased to 52 per cent; from 23 to 30 it diminishes to 18: from 30 to 435, to 15% per cent. of an nomarried woman sink to 3% per cent; from 40 to 45 a still further dimin- ution is seen, her chance being but From 45 to 50 the old maid’s chance of getting a husband is but three.cighths of 1 per cent, while from 50 to 55 she is supposed to have but one-quarter of 1 per cent of a chance. It should, how 24. ing make numerous ocgupations out of the question when necessity calls upon living, will be pleased to hear that a new field was opened to them, one which heretofore has been solely owned by the ignorant and unqualified. This new oc- cupation is that of child's nurse. Perhaps at first it may seem a menial position, but when one considers that there is no work that needs greater care or more re- fined feeling, the tending of helpless babes assumes an entirely new and difer- ent light, There is no royal road to learning, and to be a thoroughly competent nurse a woman must have a training that will fit her to cope with the ailments and dis- cipline of the little ones under bar care, says the Philadelphia Times. When a true woman considers the trust that is placed in her by the mother who gives over her baby to her charge, there can be no position more honorable or worthy than that of child's nurse. An infant is far too precious a thing to be tampered with by inexperienced or ignorant people. There is the mind as well as the body to be carefully nur. tured. This does not mean that any system of teaching should be undertaken, but the active brain in its unfolding should have ever before it an example that will furnish the fundamental principles of a gracious and refined manhood or woman- hoofi, Very few would think a doctor's months’ training therefore the child's nurse should be able to cope with the sudden attacks of croup, hood that come without warning and need both prompt and efficient treatment. does not apply to widows. Accurate statisticians, who in a mistake for the world, affirm that a FASHION XOTE=R and ues, is woven with she in very bright Sombre reversible Sera it effects h place her figure up to eighty-two, H I AL) seventy-six to eighty-two times better than that of a spinster, THE CULT OF CANDY. a current coin of polite society. hospitalities. and sleeps at a country house, for in- stance, makes it his first duty on return- ing to town to forward a three or five- pound box of bonbons to the daughter of the household or to the hostess self. The perfection to which what some onc calls the ‘cult of candy” has attained, makes the offering of these sweets one of almost any degree of luxury. Candied violets and other crystalized flowers range from $5 to R85 per pound, while some of the sugared fruits are nearly as expensive. When it comes to the boxes which hold the toothsome goodies, it is possible to pay a bill of sizeable propor tions for the choicest, Hand painting, real lace, heavy ribbons and even jeweled effect, are not cheap elements, and it is these which go to the perfection of t modern bonboaniere, — St. Louis | public . he > t SKIRTS OF LACE AND SHX A revived Parisian fashion for skirts of lace and silk is to cover the gored silk skirt with three scantily gathered flounces of lace. The skirt may be either black Tailor suitings come in fine stripes and new colorings. Oriental sideband is a plain stuff with wide, fantastic Eastern border Poplins sprayed all over with ramb. jing flowers and foliage are exceedingly popular, A fashionable tint for evening gloves is that called beurre frais, or fresh butter Some people have a positive mania {or jet. They wear it on their bonnets, on their dresses and on their cloaks, Silk-and-wool cheviots are the rage. maiden or ma tron. Sheer organdies, bestrewn with dainty or plain. With it is worn a round bodice of crepe de Chine ora coat of brocade, if the skirt is plain, or of the skirt fabric, if fancy silk orsatin is used, in slight mourning, to be worn South during the spring, is a clinging skirt of black India silk, covered with flounces of unfigured black silk net, trimmed with rows of narrow black watered ribbon. The round waist is of grepe de Chine, trimmed with hage revers of the net bordered with rows of the ribbon. The silk sleeves are with very full puffs of the net, draped with long loops of the ribbon, and the inted girdle is of India silk. —{ New Cork Post three THE FIRST LADY IN FRANCE, Mme. Carnot is a brunette, with dark and crepe challies, are all among summer fabrics, diagonal is a new ano Jocquard has a rather with Silk-and-wool beautiful fabric indefinable silky much lighter than the background. of surface, desigs Entire bodices lace and ribt Empire-style are a convenient to the wardrobe, They are to ir with different skirts, as fancy dict in addition be worn pale h eliotrope gold -shot in black I 3 WNC egse Kets of Jad Paris-ma i with th lined mauve and braided ¢xira long surah, and elegantly t and gold, are cut in style, new in veils is made « bordered three rows of ¢ i tied in front Something fine Huss around in net, ecdae with narrow black velvet with three iower ribbon, tiny bows Petunia is a fascinating new colo A graceful afternoon dress of black crepon with three of petunia ribbon. It petunia velvet siveves and a belt of the same. New felt hats of pale rose pink and heliotrope are trimmed with or jouquils intermixed with freon velvet ribbon, with damask oses and corn silk guipure lace, 1s addorned velvet FOws nas violets, or r lace capes fashioned much like the winter mxiels, with velvet or jetted yokes and collars, have made their ap fashions, long before they are required. New tailor-made costumes for early spring wear in Directoire, Russisn, and strictly English styles, showing shortened moulded features, and hair as black and glossy as black satio. at once intellectual and charming. Out side her official duties, which are many. Mme. Carnot leads a very quiet domestic life. She rises at 8 o'clock. in their composition Among the many new adjuncts to dress theatre wear, tied at the neck with broad ribbons. They are ornamemtal, cup of coffee and a roll, is served to her in her dressing room. Until 10 o'clock she occupies herself with her private letter to one or the other of her children, only her youngest son, Francois, who is at school in Paris, being at home, At 10 o'clock she joins the President in hii library, and aids him in examining the voluminous mass of letters which arrives daily at the Elysse. Her thorough knowledge of modern languages and her intelligence and unfailing good sense make of her a valuable assistant, not even cover the shoulders, A noiable feature of the new seasons will be the elegance of its all-black wools, dashes on a twill 1 o'clock in the breakfast room palace, and is usually a very simple re- past. Guests are seldom invited to lun. cheon at the Elysse, as both the Presi. dent and his wile prefer entertaining sheir friends at dinner. Lunch once concluded, Mme. Carnot, on the days of State dinner parties or balls, gives audience to her chief cook. Then Se drives out, either to accompany her husband to the opening of an ex hibition or the inaugumtion of some charitable institution, or to some other official function. The ordering and superintending of her toilettes takes a deal of her time, and is really one of her officials duties, the dress of the wife of the ruler of State exercising a widespread influence over the commer- cial interests of France. Then she is in- terested in a number of charities, and rope ia from time to Hine to a er proteges are progressing, — 4 ol Journal, A CAREER FOR LADIES, women whose birth and breed. many designs to be noted now, The richest the new coats are of brocade or lustrous corded silk, not in frequently made up in colors. One of the choice models is the Olga, significant of its Russian origin, and is of heavily repped silk in dark hunter's green. of The going-away gown of a bride was of gray-blue “‘allig tor crepon” trimmed with black silk moss garnitures. The bodice was made with an Eaton jacket front and a vest of soft pink silk. The cape and toque were made of a very fine gray-blue ladies’ cloth. “Draperies are returning: not a word is breathed about the trapsformation, but it is surely being effected.” Thus predicts a French authority on dress matters, who points to certain new theatrical toilets from leading Parisian artists as notable sigus of tha transforma. tion. The new stylish redingote dresses of faille, with petit_puin satin dots and a satin-stri e, are among the positively attractive dresses of the season, As a rule, these dresses are simply made, For dinner and other dress uses they oven in front over lace-trimmed under. skirts, Soft tweeds, English meltons, cheviots and chuddahs in silver blue, Jule un, stem green, beige, marine 5lue, brown and prelate purple, or paler mauve \ lines or stripes of harmo- mzing color, are used by and modistes alike for spring walking and traveling costumes, SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS ANID INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIVE, Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. CuAnceLLOR prorogative court of New Jersey, has filled an opinion revoking a probate he had previously granted on a pretended will of George P. Gordon, the late mil lionaire printing press manufacturer of Rahway. The judge's decision in effect declares the will a forgery, and the son sational feature of the evidence upon which the decision is based was the dis- will made in 1868, a chemical not in vented until 1874, and vot this country until after that. The chem ical is eosine. It is commonly used now in the manufacture of red ink, and is the substance which gives red ink its bronze been used in noticeable on the edge of inkstands and on pens and rulers, probate soon after the death of Gordon that the witcesses had not signed it in each others’ presence. The principal beneficiaries, however, under that will, widow and daughter’ of Gordon, was satisfactory to the other heirs at law, Adams, came forward with a will which he said had drawn for Gordon i 1868. It was a long document with in he in It contained a purchased the for $32,000. Experts ex- will and found the red nl On this testimony probate was refused. Exreprrios Island is no more Your of Australia, about from the mainland. twenty-two When it of land, thirteen miles long and one and a balf or two miles broad, The trader Laemstrom visited it - of the many other objects of natural history, during the months of May and June last A vessel was sailing in those parts the absence of the island. The captain soundings be made. All around thousands of feel of water was were no signs of breakers on the former site of the island, he ordered that ail directly across where the island had formerly been, sgain taken, which resulted in finding that the island had only sunk is below the surface. IL was one of islands Australian subsidence is they Soundings were to a depth of feet the on the largest and its sudden ; MIEN t the hard i Hara ine ondence indi ie Siberian exiles are by . Bo means when their “ihre A appeared before Governor of Yaroslav, M. Friede th a pet st in her hand asking aid for her starving self alone. Her father, ficial, over i ently the { wi it was learneci, had been an and for some offense or suspicion of offense When his term ex pired he was told to gel home as best hie might, His wife was ill and he He d her in a barrow all the wav from Siberia to Yaroslav, the journey occupying many months, and the little girl trudged on foot beside the barrow begging alms on the road Ar rived in Yaroslav, the wif sick they could go no farther was sent to Siberia As was Ww heal Lo The father was sell his little girl into servitude, Inst resort the unfortunate man sent to the Governor. The Governor do nothing, but the townspeople heard of the case, and a subscription was opened for the sufferers, her could i Two or three of the oldest houses in about the fishing village of Port Penn on Delaware. The main portion of the Dil worth homestead, occupied by a family Governor Alrich, is nearly 200 vears old, the charming old Stewart home stead, occupied by descendants of that the Revolutionary pe iod. A picturesque story-and-a-half cottage in the rear of Ivy Lodge sractising medicine at Port Penn for 200 i § Tue pluckiest school teacher in Con. She End, two miles from the Hawleyville station on the Housatonic Railroad. She lives in Newtown and goes to Hawley ville on the train every morning. On the day of a recent blizzard, she found that there would be no train, owing to the road being blockaded with snow. Wapping her cloak closely about her, inning her skirt up to the height of her necs, with a pair of rubber boots on her fect, she started out and walked the distance from Newtown to Hawleyviile, a little over ten miles, and then to the schoolh two miles further on. She She suff no inconvenience from the remarkable walk, and won the hearts of the district committee by her plucky ex- hibition of endurance, Joux J. Mavxen, an old resident of Ironton, Ohio, was drowned in the back. water in Storm's creek a few days ago, having accidentally fallen into the water, His fate was not positively known till the finding of his hat on the bonk set searchers to work who found his body. After dragging in vain for many hours, plan was resorted 13 locate A shirt lstely worn by the man, and which had not been washed, was placed in the creck, It floated at the surface for seventy-five feet or more, then suddenly sank. At the spot where the shirt disappeared hooks were lowered nnd there the body was found and brought forth, Cuarrayooss has an ossified girl The girl is a remarkable sight. Her flesh is ossified exactly the same as Jouathan Bass, the famous ossified man who died two years ago. She has a pair of large, expressive dark eyes that suggest But if intelligence is ap- there is no other evidence of it, and her eyes parent, Bhe cannot articulate, of the lower order of animals. She en that she is never so happy us when he carries her about with him, in street on the railroad trains, or in his arms while walking, A Devoxsuing, (England, ) landowner, sheet of water in his twelve cents or twenty-five cents (on different days) for entrance, employed a ing the ice clean, gave universal satis and at the end of a week had a clear balance of over $300 in hand to distribute among the poor of the district. In this way nll the distress specially caused by the cold weather was more Cartaix William T. Berpard of the rived at Philadelphia from Boston, with in tow after, of the roughest passages ever made, had more than the elements to contend with during trip. She was attacked in the Vine yard Sound during a flock of wild ducks that had been carried fron the land the They fon werately agninst sie of the tug's house and the light on the masthead which was the ob that attracted them Mate Williard went on deck and was knocked flat by one of these infariated birds, which flew directly at him, striking him on the breast Fally fifty of the ducks three barges one the hurricane by a large wind, the pow erful electric by ject first were caught PENDLETON, lias a Scotch colly, which lives in the cellar of a drug store and has acquired the kero scene habit She remains in her abiding place for days at a time and derives sus tenance by lapping the kerosene that drips from the sus, Once in awhile comes forth to be patted by the Oregon Z dog, A 81-1 the yor the dog \ 11 bors, but very soon returns to the cellar : ¢ oR EE nt in search of her favorite article of diet f food or water is offered, she will ac but a dish of kerosene she rard as a choice dainty, hai, Ran China paper says that a Tianags that i freak of n bringing with came to «ity, aq him a remarkable in the aged eight vears The boys were like their fellows in face that thes wre connected with each other by a piece of flesh man's arm, and joined the waist stand to face ver fall asleep at the same sture two sons and form, witli the exception x, ka 3 $ as thick as a together just below the t face twins me EH twins The fim ire and festivities ia cor with the recent ro of Mahmn IC DUCE « anal, MArringe Pacha Riaz to the daughter of the Pacha lasted More than four thousand guests were in vited to the wedding. Many dinners in Arabian and Et rved, requiring seventy ox and 100 waiters The ; one of the most brilliant celebrated in Cairo in many years, Governor inte Hassam week ane both the iropean sivie the services of Wer ] yoke Oxy of the most zealous letter carriers in Maine is a little black and white dog who lives at the Government buoy station Diamond Island, Portland Harbor The steamer does not make a landing in the morning, but the captain blows two whistles as he approaches, and then throws on to the wharf as the boat passes a newspaper wrapped around a piece of The spaniel never falls to answer the summons, Ax old lady looking out of the window of a cable car in Kansas City, Mo,, the other day, saw in one of the yards a silk on the line, car, went Instantly she stopped the into the house and found, as in years. She recognized plscuig in central Missouri eighteen years wiere, Chinese Edible Dogs. The Chinese edible dog is destined from the begioning for the table. Like the edible “rat” of the same country, he is fed mainly upon vegetable food, which The result is something quite different from the flesh of the ordinary dog of the a very miscellaneous way, and never with human consumption. The known by his bluish-black tongue, which ix a peculiar mark of his variety, In his infancy and early youth the dog's tongue ix red, and upon reaching maturity and the edible age it suddenly becomes black, sometimes within a single fortnight, nck of the barking faculty. It is said that the dog can bark, and on occasions does so; but these occasions are rare Ordinarily he is entirely taciturn. —{ New York Dispatch . CA AA, A Primitive Time Koeper, A very primitive timekeeper is in among some of the islacders of the Soul THE SOKERS' BUDGET. | JEST AND YARN BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, ¢ Wanted More Tragedy —Probably the | a Kind, Ete, Ete. WANTED Becker last night? Bageman-—There wasn’t quite of it, Becker-—~(Good beaveni, man! There were five acts: I'm sure you ought to have been satisfied with that, Sageman—-Oh, I'm not saying there MORE TRAGEDY, How did you like the tragedy enough wasn’t enough tragedy, A mussacre of been about : the right thing. —{ Boston Courier, PROBABLY THE LATTER, Isit love when your heart beats faster Whenever the pair of you meet Is it love that when you passed her, Your check felt a Tdi heat? Is it love if your vision trembles And swims when you see one girl? Is it love that for you she dissembles The defiant all of a churl? Is it Cupid that causes these feelings: Is it love—who'll answer the ques tion? throbbings reelings ; These and whirlings and Is it love—or just indigestion? Chicago News Record HBOBEY 8 AMEITION ‘I'm going to be grow up,” said Bob, hided by his fat for whistling, “Then I can go und ringing front door bells and whistlin | 1 please,’ — {Harper's Bazar who bad been i TWO OF A KISSD inclined to be didactic friend put his head in the door and asked hurriedly : ‘“‘Have you s'matches" I have some matches ™ in very distinct tones, He Wis Lie answered, hey His friend ches, and said “Well, 1 must hurry. Good-bye.’ ‘““Gooby," was the response from the didactic one. I'be other put his head in a again It was his chanee now, “I don’t know what ‘gooby’ hug probably you do English for ‘good-bye, laughed, secured the mat 3 the door bey I” —{ Detroit Free Press, AR ITEM FORE HOUSEREEPERS thas 3 the lew the leg The visited the Slate commitiee of islature that Agricultural College ing on Saturday story on Superintendent Anderson, members the committee building. Fort Col of over the and highly compli liness fa were a and order that prevailed and Hey senator k wood resentative little ahead of the others in leav 2 the building, and, stopping to chat a at the t , overheard of a of bovs un $ them that put diffe rent plexion on affai “Thank oungsters, heaving a big sigh of ne in few minutes entrance onversastion gen OD com (3od.” ejaculated of the relief, don't have to go throurh this thisg hey Ga one ainin for a while, No.” was the companion, under hie at “we don’t the beds for another {Denver Times, response of his year now 2 A NEW RIXD two drummers at the railway restaurant counter feeding. Pretty soon one of them. after yey i uther, ‘Har e ra What in thunder kind of a sandwich is that’? said the other, taking it, “Try it and see.” a Lilinokalina sandwi-h?" be a« he pried it open with his “there's nothing ia it.” “That's why we call it the Lilinoku- lani sandwich,” explained the first one, and went on eating, —{ Detroit Free Press, knife, A DISGRUNTLED GHOST. She Mrs. Jackson used to be a fine medium, but she says she has lost her power. He--Yes; Jackson hates table-rap- ping, so he put her up to asking her first husband's spirit where he used to spend his evenings. [Judge. AN ARTIST IN HIS LINK. Jasper—The idea of that barber call ing himsclf an artist! He is simply a scraper, Jumpuppe-That’s just the reason why he calls himself an artist. Look what a picture he made of my face this morn ing. HORRORS! She's my Sandwich I'm her ham, She's my Lillie, I'm her Sam. Soon 1'il annex her, You may bet; Little Hawaii Will be my pet. ~{ Defiance News. A DOG'S LIMITATIONS, First Boy—*'1 got the smartest dog you ever saw. Ile ean do anything.” Second Boy ~ “Bet he can’t.” “Bet he can.” “Can you make kim fight?” “Course.” “Can you make him wag his tail 1” “Course " “Well, ll bet can't make him t and his tail too.” figh bi {Good News, WANTED TO KNOW, POETRY AND PROSE, (putheticallyy — Give me, which 1 can drink Tragedian Jothe, the wine in forgetiulness, Tankeeper- No, no. Then you wionald MISKED, Mamma (pathetically) —What my little girl « o if I should die? Little Flossie--I don’t know; 1 sup- pose I should have to spank myseii — Life, #HE WOULD BE would THE PROBLEM BOLYVED, Littie Josie-- What do vou suppose all these holes are in the cheese for? Little Leah --Oh, I'd think you would known. It's to let the smell out, luter Ovean, VERY LIKELY. “There's a great deal of among the flowers, said Hawkins, jealousy “It becaus~ it isn’t a rose.” ~{Judge. VERY He--Is there and Hilda? She CLOSE. much between George the sofa have put Judge. I saw them sitiing on A CARE OF DESIRE Jones-- You can get the position if you that can on your rey Smith -Which do you prefer, Willie “Are you acquainted with them?” ““Not at all; but they can goon bond, can't they, if they want to (Texas SB my D WORSE. THE UXVARYING IMPULSE, Mrs. 13 w MOTArY Van Wilde-~Helen, go down to at opce. Charles wants to Is hat on - Chicago News, Helen Gracious! my PARADOXICAL, “ Charley's trying hard to win your affections.” “ Yes, Lie's a man after my {Chicago News. very own heart Ree ye «1. RELIABLE RECIPES. ne flour, one three teaspoonfuls bak ing powder, one tablespoonful lard, one milk, cold (never rold water when milk cannot Sift flour, rub in lard cold; add milk, smooth © dough roll hree-quarter inch, utter; lay them baking tin: hot Old biscuits can be made fresh by moistening, placing hrated hrough. Hot Biscrirs nl salt, quart use sour milk; be obtained. and powder; use together, salt meistent board, turn out dough, hickness © with small together : oven royod gond ven unti tieassEg ov Oyerens, — Mrs of oysters is oo most Rover's ARO dels jons way of preparing them. She says to boil own liquor frying-pan ful of butter, and when tablesppoonful a pint of milk when oysters liguor with salt and twenty-five oveters and drain it is melted sti of flour, then add and stir until it boils, and half a cuy of the r are added, and ail stirred it boils it then taken and the velks of two eggs lightly beaten and a tablespoonfal of chopped parsiey are added. All dishes i edd directly the YOHne Dew . : ft 1 + is » fire ores PTO the fire Poacnep Ecas.--Poached eggsare the of the simpler methods of A deep Saucapun should the water should reach the Some cooks squeeze not more than two or three drops of lemon a teaspoonful ol salt. A full minute should poach the egg sufficiently, when it is lifted out with the skimmer and Some of the to do half a dozen eggs at once, does not insure the same perfection to each as when they are done separately. Eggs may be poached in an almost perfect sphere by giving to the water a rapid rotary motion with a spoon or fork and dropping the egg in the heart of the whirlpool! thus formed. AROUND THE HOUSE, Don't think you must purchase some expensive material for cleaning the obsti- nate tins which will persist in looking dull when you want thum to shine: scour them with whitening moistened with kerosene and you will be pleased with the results, When the fire in the mange fails to burn brightly and the draft is jmperfect we decide that the chimney requires atten. tion, and the must be cleaned, and hasten to send for a man who ubder- stands it to come and do the work, when by placing a few pieces of zinc on the hot coals we will find (unless something serious is the matter with the flue) that it has been cleaned by this simple means, the draft is good, and the fire bums as brightly as ever. Clean your brushes once in a while, and En a? Sh Gi renew the Xing the b which she did not do either until the said
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