FOR THE LADIES.
A
FOR OLD LADIES.
that age wear black only. When that
is tho case, the double shawl is the most
elegant and comfortable wrap.
for choice in fashion, but there are end.
less combinations in black with white
tulle and laces.—(New York World,
A CHILD'S QUAINT DRESS,
new gown ideas is the child's dress with
expanded skirt. This gown is an exact
copy of the inflated skirts that
mother is adopting.
hoop-skirt than any of the mother's do.
Of course, it is flounced all over,
with a bonnet such
a costume as could be gotten up for the
little ones. Such bonnets are on sale,
coming they are. Fresh, rosy.checked
little faces contrast piquantly with the
demure, old-lady headgear,
uot the top, of the head,
and round, flaring brims
narrow
trimmed in white satin ribbon and deli
cate white flowers.—! New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
THE DAGMAR CcRrosa,
The Princess of Wales, says a foreign
letter in a report of her visit to
wore the sacred Dagmar cross,
ago it adorned Princess
daughter of King Ottacar, of Bohemia,
who was married to the Danish King
Waldemar II, 1202 to 1241, and whose
memory is cherished by the Danes under
the name of Queen Dagmar. This cross
was found in her tomb, when years ago
it was opened by order of the King of
Denmark. It was suspended around the
skeleton neck of the beautiful
queen, It is one of the earliest known
specimens of the art, und it was so highl
prized by the King of Denmark that
considered he could offer nothing mo
appropriate to the Princess of Wales
her marriage than this sacred
is worn suspended from a magnifies
necklace of pearls and diamonds,
were given to her royal highness
father. —{ New Orleans Picayune.
once
Cross,
which
by her
PICTURESQUE FASHIONS
Picturesquenes
feature of
costume plates how reprodn
the dates of } Directoi
Restoration and
fashions of
mo liieati
matter of the
skirt the followin ru
in all books of mode A
across the front
back, and great expansi way ab
To achieve this effoct skirts are
every way that ingenuity
all are lived with ecrinoline
knee. Many of are
shaped, others hav
bias seam in front and a straicht breadth
behind, a bias seam in th
back and a straight breadth in
but the ecaprice of cag
two circles 1¢ foi
the other to
the seam
trimmis g
distinguis
this seasou’s fashions,
tions ol
#% seem to
and hips, more
the
them
others
simal
being C
INFREQUENCY OF BALDNESS IN WOMEN,
The small amount
women as compared with men has gi
rise to many interesting speculations
and if Mss E. F. Andrews, who has re
cently written on the subject, has added
but little that is new to what has already
beca advanced in the way of arguments
and opinions. she has al all events taken
a practical method of ascertaining the
relative amount of baldness in the two
sexes, in sending out a large number of
circulating blanks to be filled in by the
recipients. From the returns received
it ia found that of 1,196 males between
the ages of ten and twenty, cight-tenths
per cent. showed signs of baldoess,
whereas, of 1,374 females of like age,
only seven-hundredils per cent. gave
symptoms of it In other words,
proportion of baldness was eighty in the
case of males to seven in the case of
females. The conclusion reached by
Miss Andrews is that while “man” is
evidently evolving into a bald-headed
animal, “woman.” on the contrary, and
perhaps, by a law of compensation, is
destined to develop in the other direction,
and produce her crowning glory in still
greater abundance and beauty.
of baldness
the
fair sex do not undergo a radical change,
and lead him to prefer bald-headed
women in the same way thst many
women express a preference for a bald
headed man, hecanse “it looks intellec
tual.” Miss Andrews surmises that the
day may not be very far distant when,
in the course of human evolution, a man
anomaly as a bearded woman, but as
long as men love beauty and are won by
continue to rejoice in those abundant
tresses of brown and gold th # are one of
vier Journal,
————
BUNNING CLOTHES,
Bunning clothes and carpets ought to
be as important a part of the twice
yearly cleaning as scrubbing and wash.
ing.
The sun is the great refiner and purifier
of all things on the globe, the great
health commissioner of the world; and if
he were allowed to do his proper work,
he would banish at least two-thirds of
the disease and misery on this planet,
The free circulation of air dilutes sod
carries off what is obnoxious and furan.
shes fresh supplies for breathing, but
air alone has not the power of sunshine
as a disinfecting, cleansing agent.
The direct rays of the sun have a strong
chemical effect on the particles of decay-
matter, Its powerful chemical nc.
ion is seen in Deativing stains from linen
few hours which p acids would
to remove. It is a similar potency
which, as we say, ‘‘sweetens” clothes
and bedding hung out in the sun,
When house cleaning, all the clothes
hanging in closets and all carpets and
bedding should be carried out as soen
air, about 9 o'clock, and be hung or
as it creeps over them. Hanging in the
A keen sense of smell is the best guide
in this matter, for it will soon tell by the
sweet wholesome smell of a pillow or
carpet when the sur has done its work,
Pillows, blankets and beds should
hang in the sun all day or for two days
if possible, on frames which allow the
air to circulate freely under them, And
they must be turned from time to time
so that every part on the surface may
get the sun. A two days’ airing and
thine to a steam cleaning, and better in
WAYS,
Colored clothes should Le turned in
side out and hung an hour or two to sun
each side, and the rest of the day in the
shade, Boys’ clothes and woolen shirts
lose the odor of perspiration and come
out wholesome and nice alter a session
in sunshine, —!{ New York Press.
some
PASTIION NOTES,
Do not wear a wide or heavy trim.
Rose color, bright magenta, and sul-
Fashion has returned to the dainty
woke
for underwear.
Invitations to luncheons and
sent on medium sized paper, in different
shades of purple
teas are
Do not wear a mournin
that it will tire the neck.
so di
Several
graduated width make a neat decoration
dark blue
Wns
i s
+ YRIZ SO ong
Vails ean be
anped, also, as to lessen the weight
rows of black satin ribbon of
for green or woolen
BAYY
If you have been wearing a yoke and
die i black
and the
{ somes vivid color with a
ike it
f
* Laat of
over with jet,
A BOW OWRD
close fitting
Ponular
three-quarter length model, witha plaited
reaver on front,
very stylish appearance to the garment.
The new shapes in hats are of medium
size, the crowns being shallow, and the
brims and curved in
imaginable wavy, ile the
Jit kets show a
the that gives a
droo eve
! toque is
a favorite sty for ladies who prefer
sivl
xr:
Wide ¢
narti
culls of
arly Irish crochet in
liars and
neavy point de
Spanish guipure, are
and
(rene,
the handsome day ane
if Lhe season,
i
i
§ I
of and oft
rea
OL and ankle
rt waists
1 more pop
ning 8
in them for the
y full frill, wide
ind graduated
This
The French couturieres have adopted
% 3
$ irt
the suirt
fen
Dew season
around the
widith to the waist,
gives the ect of bretelles,
waist idea in many of their rich
costumes of with or velvet,
Blouses of plaid or rainbow velvet con
tinue to be shown with many French
costumes where the skirt and remainder
{ shaggy wool camel's
' it
wos silk
of the dross are of
hair
In « ipes the little Watteau 1s, perhaps,
best worth noticing. This cape is “‘littie”
only in length; in breadth it is of no
small proportions.. It reaches barely to
the waist, is cut perfectly round, and
falls in a large Watteau pleat back and
frout. Heavy satin, with guipure in.
arc em
plosed for it,
The materials for girls’ best dresses
are crepon, taffetas, and the finer wool.
ens, and these last, with the accessories
of velvet still retained, or with galloon
garniture, rows of braid, or applied
passemclterio, are extremely pretty,
while tweeds and cheviots have become
wo attractive ae to be quite good enough
for almost any occasion of day-time wear,”
Will This Calm an Excited Brain?
A new remedy for calming an excited
brain, and one which has at least the
merit of being cheap and harmless, says
a writer in the New York Times, is to
seek a quiet room and, lying down, place
the palm of the right hand on the fore.
head, and the palm of the left hand over
the back of the neck. The éyes should
be fixed upon some object and kept
there; the breathings, slow and easy,
should be counted up to forty-nine, the
patient Hetening intently, as if expecting
to hear good news, When the forty-nina
hand must be placed on the pit of the
stomach, the lett on the opposite part of
the back, and the forty-nine inspirationa
counted again; then the loft hand iw
placed on the small of ihe back and the
# ght hand is moved to a point directly
opposite, It is claimed that the patient
ill be happily sleeping or happy awake
before the final series is concluded,
NOT MUCH OF A SAVING.
Old Bachelor-—Now that you're mar.
ried yon don’t have to send your gar-
ments out any more to be mended, I pre-
sume.
Married Friend—N-o, don't have to
send them out now, My wife always has
the house full of sewing women, —| New
A STRANGE QUESTION.
WHEN WILL THE Arn LE EN.
TIRELY PEOPLED.
Au Estlmute of the World's Present
Population and its Future
fncrepse,
Iu order to answer this (query at all
satisfactorily, says a writer in Goldth-
waite's Geographical Magazine, it is ne
cesaary to determine; First—The present
population of the world aud its probable
increase. Second—The area capnble of
being cultivated for the yield of food and
other life. Third~—=The
total number of people whom these land i
would be able to maintain, 1 need hard- |
ly point out that a precise answer to
these apparently simple questions is well
necessaries of
nigh impossible,
PRESENT
POPULATION OF THE ©
This is a fundamental question for the
inquiry proposed,
sible it with
contd:
hav
but with
world
dark
but it quite impos
to reply to any amount of
sce. Enumerations of the people |
made in al civilized
respect to large parts of
still completely io
Africa we know
been tates, |
the |
the |
next to}
we
Of
ure
presented to us as the results of
taken in China are
spire contidence,
to form a true est
of Africa, and 1
continent supporting more tha
C00, instead ol the two,
four hundred million all
certain statisticians Even
is a high fizure, for it means eleven
ple to the square mile, while in A
lia there are
Bouth America
THE
fA pensas
not calculated to | |
I have taken some care |
uiation |
in that
n 127.000,
cannot
not
one an
WORLD'S rort
Fotal
$29,200,070
MoM (EN)
1.237.606. 30)
Increase in a decades,
Yor cont.
Europe,
Asin
Altria “i
Ansty slaxia
North Ame ica
South America
Tho whole earth.
CONCLUSION.
Accepting these figures as correct, it
becomes an cLey matter to compute the
increase of the population. By the close
of this century the 1468 millions who
now dwell uprn the earth will have in-
creased to 1587 millions; in the vear
1950 there will be 2383 millions: in the
year 2000, 3425 millions, and in the year
there will be
1979 millions. These estimates are not
presented as a prophecy. I have already
hinted at voluntary checks to the growth
of population which will come into play
as civilization advances and the demands
for the comforts of this life shall be more
At fur as we are
wrsonially concerned, 182 yearsis a long
forward to: but if we
look buck a similar number of years and
Willi I1I. and Marl.
borough were then s AMOong us, weare
wit a short
100.
all events, so
i
i
bound to
i
period in the lif
Hunting Wild Geese.
iz to
just after sun
gat In
o hunt wild geese
stalk them at daybe
eax or
set, when they are resting overn
way stations in
flight to north or
ith, Sometimes the sportsman builds
blind om the shore of the lake, and,
reened by its leafy thatch or wall, gets
different
inkes,
thelr
5
migratory the
n shots a day at; nany
{ten thouot je
itener, nougn, i
a shot. From
the pond he
trusts to
his home above
flock
and unsus-
waters
marks a
leisurely
quiet at sun-
» later, musket in hand,
fields nd pastures,
WwW amps,
through
nnd fre
over the quaking sur
dd foinnorn
yorasses, to the fringe of
brink of the lake,
3 AT
AOL ) sai
Ly Opie
Cap gil ©
HDeCossanes
fairly
diffic iit
etarans
their pres Hitar views were asec pted
men would live where one lives now,
there would be no further need of keep
ing up large hords of cattle and sheep.
I am not sufficiently utopian to believe
that imokind generally will ever accept
these principles
Asxain, ha
present motheal of
ble of
that our
cultivation are capa
vast improvement |
might ben
vests than
been asserted
that the earth |
de to yield much larger hae
it yiclds now, and that popm
thus be permitted to in-
crease without correspondingly increas. |
ing the cultivated arent, This is
doubt tru many countgies,
but it the world at
large. Making all restonable allowance,
however, of these suggestions, | take as
a basis for my estimate the standard of
life, such as wo find it existing in various
climates and among various peoples,
Upon this basis 1 calculate that the “*fer
tile regions” would be able to support |
207 human beings square mile,
the present mican population of those |
regions
The “‘steppes,” with their large tracts
of land capable of cultivation, 1 believe |
to be eapable of sapporting ten inhabi
tants to the square mile, while the
*‘deserts” would be fully peopled if they
had one inhabitant to the square mile.
I do not take into consideration the
colonization of the tropieal regions by
Europeans, because [ am constrained to
maintain that the tropical regions are no
field for European immigrants, and be.
cause It is not neccessary that the con.
sumer of food should live in the coun-
try that produces it.
Tati tier}
ation might
no
8 Yesw *
is hardly true of
to the
From all these vonsiderations | assume
that this world of ours, il brought fully
into cultivation, can suppiy 5,904,000, 000
human beings with food and other neces.
sary products of the vegetable kingdom.
INCREASE oF POPULATION,
On this point not only are our statistics
still very incomplete, but conditions,
therwise, may arise, that would
t movement
ghing all the data
to be y considering all
the cAuses hick are hy Husly 30 give an
us to growt pulation or
ed it in the variona fw of the
world, I assume that tho increase in the
course of a decade will amount to 10 per
cont,
Summarized, the roslts 5{ my careful
ontrol, he prone on his
about in
lacing
ribbed
arrels into fine with eve and game
a vines, brings
*
breathless, his figure tense with the
man's
{here
fron
rag
WAS SiMmoss
mson {lustre
{ wild
spray
ore of
risman doe
fe
un and
aif fi se
rings the Me
conscience of
r, and throws th
wf the for
escape,
returns b
wl and
a [New York =
mesdow
A Canine Cow -Miiker
Lsz Bb
v & to the dain
K. M. Lynchurst’s stock
yn Bashiville, Penn.
solved a night or two ago by a
ilker known as Jim Into Jim's special
ptrustid the well
blooded, pedigreed cow called Kentucky
Hose, which has accustomed to
give three full gallons of rich milk daily
Hut all at once Kentucky Rose dwindled
down to a gallon, scarcely enough for
her calf, Jim was puzzled over the
im,
nine miles {1 was
shrewd
3 It
Colonel
Care was
been
Every might watchers were set to try
One night, after
waiting until nearly morning, the party
for home, when all at once the
Colonel saw a white object shoot across
a patch of moonlight. He and Jim re.
turned to Kerpucky Rose's stall, the
furthest from 12e sleeping rooms of the
squeeze himself through the narrow pass
into the stall, The too men then noise.
jossly climbed to the loft above, and
there they saw the setter on his hind
legs steadily draining the cow as dry as
At last Kentucky Rose, no doubt ag
grieved at the wrong done her offspring,
about and gave him a severe punch in
the side, and it was to this treatment,
present adornment. The next day he
was seen to steal to the pasture, to give
himself another good “tuck-in,” but on
looking up he saw his master and the
man just gazing at him with laughin
eountenances. He dropped his tail an
disappeared for days, avoiding the other
animals and the men on the place, as
well as his master, as if he felt guilty or
having been a sly, greedy and treachers
ous dog. New York Telegram,
UA
How Some Lemon Trees Pay.
“1 see in the newspapers,” said Ed.
ward Cressey, of Highland, to us a day
or two ago, *‘a clipping from the Pro.
gress about there being some lemon trees
in Duarte that have yielded a crop worth
over $20 to the tree. I don't doubt it.
My widowed sister, near Highland, has
twenty large lemon trees on her place
that have, since she and her boys learned
to cure and pack the frui
entire grocery and clothi
family of four people.
estimates are ne follows:
ANOUND THE HOUSE
To Remove Grease Par. —Palnt
should be cleaned by using only a
little water at a time and changing often:
a soft flannel cloth is better than cotton
or a brush, and that a piece of pine stick
with a sharp point should be uscd for the
corners,
How 10 Avoip Fines rao Gas AxS
Lares, — There are few days when our pa
pers do not contain records of serious ex
plosions, which a trifling amount of care
would have averted, Very few housewives
take the trouble to master the simple laws
of physics, which govern the working of
these various ixplosions. They sct by
hearsay, not Ly direct knowledge. The
plumber has to 4d them the “range would
blow up” if a fire is kindled when the
water back is frozen. In too many cases
they try the experiment with the ines
ituble result of an explosion,
Now if the housekeeper had understood
the workings of the water back in the
range, the danger from this souree would
have been self-evident without any hear.
say warning on the subject. The fre.
quent explosions from kerosene oil
are due to reckless carclessne ss it
is common for servants to kindle fire
with oil Unless the maid.-of-all-work is
one of those rare persons
trusted to do her wo
it is best to keep the oil where she
get it. It is really malter to
keep a little locked box, which may be
opened
who can Ix
conscientiously,
cannot
once a day, when needed for
filling lamps. It is
maid take the 1
from , but if you are doubt!
kitchen m LY be furnised with
lamps which are
the
made to pour oil out
closes opening attempt
how
ANY
in strange
often people yield to a impulse
in such this. Save bacon
and ham
ont | ant
kindling 3 :
Keros 3 explosive yl uf ¥
alone en r
million individua jue
alize the fact that
nothing but
kerosent
and that t}
lnm ps, it
tin shel HOUsSes,
el
i%s
* Vast majority
is certainiy
have more
It seems
sake of safety
inmans are worthy
contrary they are
Oo not
. explosions,
are unrestrained, the
COU
the
thin presence
resuit
Kindle into dead!
the odor of gas is
should be opened, not vuly
pose of purifying the ats
because they are blown
as soon as the needed quantity of ga
become mixed with the air. One of
most beautiful and complete of American
country houses was totally destroved by
fire because the lights in the house were
not extinguished before the search began
for the escaping gas which the noses of
the household perceived
It sctms as if enough has Leen said
concerning the dangers of axphyxiation
from the gas of a stove to warn
every one. Yet when oc ssionally a
famiiy Is sent to death from this cause it
is usually found that for years they have
been accustomed to arrange their stove
dampers at night so there was little or no
escape for the inevitable gas that would
be generated by the burning coal,
years they have been saved by some acci-
dent, and the only marvel is that they
have escaped so Jong.
nospaert
sabie 10 De
.
Coal
He Cornered the Cucumbers
“he Shoh of Persia is passionately
fond of sucumbers. On one occassion,
early in the tea on, a pile of them was
placed before him. Now, iu Persia,
early cucumbers are almost worth theie
weight in gold,
word, but began to put himself outside
of as many of these cholera provokers as
dozen of them, and the host and his
more prominent guests began to indaige
the hope that their turn womid soon
come, when His majesty quietly and
solemnly stowed the remainder away in
his various pockets, and left the table
literally loaded. —{ Yankee Binde,
False Teeth Not Chattels
Judge Kelly, of 8t. Paul, has decided
entist doos not have a lien on a
sot of false teeth on a plate after they
have been attached to the mouth and the
dentist has with the
i
the courts for some time
hus attracted much atteatie . —[ New
Advertiser A
SEES
7
BREAD UPOX THE WATERS,
showing How Kindness to Others May
rivaz i
David
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rein
my
, 1 took
Jver
wl
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hew Elena
of Paoan
set, On my an
Chores fever i
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One nicht
5 i carpeatisy
ny
slosg in my
Spanish thieves bhioke io, stoie al
mY
wlition
money and
W he j 1 woke up
is desperate, However, |
well of the fever and | set out
thieves, Af length | fou
broken open and with a few o
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even walt
CO
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who
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hing
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mo in,
hua 1c
very
rut
toush
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together
steamer Manama wi
in and gol on her as o1
»
enters, the agreement
n a wooden
while the Panan
and pleased the Cag
pia ed the best st
Lortly after we
He WARo A ID
went 10 im
nt ti 3% + rioF £303
tte w it carpenter r Of
ships in “114
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who hag rot
HosSILion fn or
The ied of the Atian'ie,
whose dept
the centre: | Y
like onc, 80 un is the contour of its
fox
The the Atlantic has
been found some 100 miles to the north
the Island of St. Thomas,
where soundings of 3 875 fathoms were
obtained. The seas round Great iritals
ean hardly be regarded as forming pait of
the Atlantic hollow. They are rather a
part of the placform banks of the En
ropean continent which the oocan has
overflowed. An elevatioa of the sea bed
100 fathoms would suffice to lay bare the
proatost part of the Moreh S21 8 ad in
Eovlanid to Denmark, Holiand, Belgium,
and France. A deop claanel of water
would rm down the wesi coast of Nor.
wav, and with this the wajority of the
fiorde would Iw» comnteied, A great part
of the Bay of Blway wouki disappear but
Spain and Portugal are but little re-
moved from the Atisntic depression.
The 100-fainma line approaches very
near the west coast and soundings of
1.000 fathoms can Le made within
twenty wiles of Cane St. Vincent, and
much greater depths have won sounded
at distances but little greater than this
from the western shores of the [berian
Peninsula, —{ Nautical Magarine.
greatest depth of
wand of
Which Was First Admitted,
It will never be Boonn which was ad
mitted first North or South Dakota
gays the Detroit Free Jooss, which aakes
this explanation: “Whos the two pro-
clamntions were presented for the Presi-
dent's signature, sombody mised the
ucetion of priority, end the President,
finding it hard to decide which to sign
first, ordered the documents, which were
exactly alike, tv be coveral down to the
blank sleft for his namie, The were turned
face downward, ond rapidly changed
about until nobody could tell which
wes which, After this thay wore turned
over, and the President wrote his name
on each.’ The in) was sllowed to dry
without the wwe of blotting paper. and
then the documents were again turned
dowa and n shuflled about.
were thon taken up and the coverings re-
moved. One of them came into
Union before the other the of
time it took the President to write his