SOMEWHAT STRANGE. — ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Facts and Thrilliug Adven- tures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, SiMoN Oppasion, a millionaire who has been sentenced in Vienna to seven years’ hard labor for repeatedly perjur- ing himself, is a remarkable illustration of the possibilities of begging in a Euro- pean capital. He was borp without feet or arms. His father and mother were professional beggars, and in his twelfth year he was put on the street by them to solicit alms. Fri physical defects brought him an exceptional amount of sympathy and guldens. He saved his money, and in 1880, at the age of 47, he had accum- ulated $30,000. With this sum he be- gon business as usurer and real estate fortune to $125,000 in cash and some $200,000 1n Triests and Parenzo real es- tate. Since then he has quadrupled his wealth by trading on the Bourse. miserliness led to his present trouble. He had promised to marry a woman, but eventually threw her over to avoid in- curring the expense of a wedding. When she threatened him with legal proceed- ings he bought her forbearance for four cents aday. This expenditure was im- poverishing him, he told her after a few months, and so he discontinued it. In against him he swore that he never had contemplated marrying her, had never yromised todo so, and had never paid Pr four cents a day. After all this had been proved false, he was tried and con- demned for perjury. years, weight eight-five pounds, three feet and seven inches high and twonty- eight inches around the chest, is one of the notable citizens of Louisville, Though fat, he is amply able to take care of himself. He is quick in his anents, has the strength of a six-year-old boy, and never knows what it is to be sick. His appetite is wonderful, He is always eating, and a piece of fat meat is just as acceptable to Eddie as cake. The child has made a wonderful record in the matter of gaining flesh. He was not born great, for at his nativity he weighed only nine pounds. Until three weeksold he was like all other babies. Then he began to take on flesh. He grew like a weed. At the age of eight months he weighed thirty-six pounds, and when Since he meas- then He scale at sixty-one, gained twenty-four pounds thirty-four at the pit f the abdomen, wears 8 nine-and-a-half shoe, and a six and-a-half hat, His feet are so broad and flat that his shoes have to be made to order, but they are stout enough to sustain his sturdy body. His legs are tremendous in size, but are muscled like a football player's. He wobbles a little in walking and running, but gets over the floor with considerable swiftness. His flesh is all hard and firm. A MEDICAL correspondent sends to a contemporary an account of a remarka- ble operation recently performed in one of the largest London hospitals, and which had a very successful result. It of age, some five years ago fell and severely injured his right arm. It was operated upon at the time, and the re. sult proved that either the surgeon by had been torn in the fall. At all events, the injured arm never recovered its former appearance, but wasted and be- came quite useless, It misfortune to a working man, and it was decided to open up the arm and explore, with the result, as first surmised, that the nerve was found to be partially di- vided. Two fresh ends were made, and a live rabbit having been obtained, it was rendered unconscious, skinned, and the two sciatic nerves were and stitched to the two ends of the di- vided merve inthe man's arm. The wound was then stitched up, and the patient placed in bed. It is now some weeks since the operation, and the re. sult is mest favorable. The man has rapidly regaining the original bulk, and he is now able to follow his em- ployment. Tue Times of India says that a very strange incident 1s reported from the Godra districts in the Panch Makes. large panther had been for some time causing much injury to the cattle of the district, and the Superintendent of Police, J. V. Cooke, went out in pursuit. He succeeded animal and bowled him over, the bullet without touching a bone. The panther fell close to a hole or den within which, unsuspected by the party, a female panther lay ensconced. The bullet, after other, struck the second animal in the orehead and entered her brain, killing her at once. The whole episode of the second wpanther was unknown to the shooting party, and it was not till the mext morning that the body of the female panthes was found iu the den with a uilet in the brain. It was a most provi. dential accident, as the panther, whose presence was unknown and unsuspected, would in all probability have charged the Pe while taking away the male panther which had been shot. Tne other day a wedding took place in Bt. Petersburgh which excited a very geastal interest. It was that of the ghter of the Semenovsky Regiment of the Jmperini Guard with Lieut. Alex- ander nsky of the Eighty-sixth In. fantry Regiment. The young lady, who is now eighteen years of age and has al. ways gone by the name of Eugenio Sem- enovskain, taking her patronymic from the regiment, was found as a by 1yiog half-naked in a ditch by the men of the Bemenovak ment as they were morching om levna upon Constanti- nople in December, 1878, The little Tarkish foundling was tenderly cared for, and after a time baptized into the Rus. # J education to qualified persons, and the bride now brings to her husband a hand some dowrg provided by her military guardians, Ir is said that Andrew Irving, of Pem- broke, Canada, has in his possession one of the most curious freaks of nature in the woria. forms, but this is the strangest ever heard of. It bears an extraordinary resem- blance to a squaw’s head, and is a por- tion of a limb of a birch tree which grew out of an Indian grave many years ago on Allumette Island. raised above the features as if by a cov- A portion of the original bark is still on the cranium. About three branch has been sawn off, making with the “head” a ponderous stafl. the appearance of the grave Indian remarkable a that no person, either could have produced | work. Oxe mode of transportation among the poor whites of southern West Virginia is { known as ** riding and hitching.” | resorted to when two travellers { themselves with only one horse and they 50 {In ** riding and hitching" one traveller takes the horse and goes a mile or more, i while the other foots it behind, The { equestrian naturally makes faster s ! than the walker, | his share, he dismounts and hitches his steed to a tree by the roadside, and pushes on afoot. In time the other walker comes to the hitched animal, i mounts him, and rides on until he has { overtaken the first rider and got some | distance in front, when the operation is | repeated. Thus each rides alternately, { and the horse gets a breathing spell. | Tue Indianapolis News thus describes i the way mn which certain little Western { banks were started: **A corn broker or i a pork broker feeling out for an exten | sion of business puts a few dollars into a ‘bank,’ and is given credi® in another bank whose owner nominally puts upa like amount. This process is repeated, and a thousand dollars are made to do duty as bank capital in a dozen com- munities. The whole business is a farce ‘and an outrage upon the publio. This State was disgraced for a generation by i.s wildcat banking methods, and wes | only beginning to get over it when the corn-pork brokerage system was intro | ra, The frst financial flurry has brought these ‘banks’ down, and has probably given an effective warning in time to avert serious disaster.” Tur experiments of Colonel Smoilon, of the Russian Army, with falcons carriers of despatches have proved suc | cessful and the Russian army hereafter { will employ them in preference to the { ordinary ** homing” birds, The Colonel has found that the falcon can carry 1640 grams without diminishing its rate of speed, which is considerably greater than that of the pigeon, The falcons, he says, i are less likely to fall prey to other birds, as they are better fighters than the | pigeons, It is on record, according to the officer, that a falcon once flew from the Canary Islands to the estate of the Duke ot Laima in Spain. It seems highly probable that the falcon will be come the servant of other European Armies, as Suvaeonixe of Chinese and opium | flourishes in the Puget Sound region, and just as soon as one trick is discovered another is invented. What is termed an opium combine 1s reported to be in full working order in Canada, Silks from China are baled with a quantity of the drug stowed inside. The bales are ap parently too precious for this traffic, but in that notion lies possibly the secret of success. On go the bales to the Atlantic towns and then the opium is reshipped to Puget sound for distribution. There other methods of supplying this artic of contraband to its en- slaved consumers. ie A siren ninety-four years old is liv- mill that he has been running continu ously for upward of eighty years. [Ie i started it before the war of 1512, and re- | mained by it all through the civil war, scarce knowing a war was in progress about him, the place is so secluded. He | is hale and hearty, can shoulder a sack of grain or flour with ease, and his mind iis clear and his life smooth running as { the creek he has lived by and listened to | for four score years, “Doc” Goopix, who recently broke {the world's record for steer-tying in | forty eight seconds, lassoed a mountain | lion on the mountain trail near Wicken- | berg, Arizona. The cougar made a des. | perate fight, but the skillful cowboy | managed to run his horse on one side of a mesquite tree and the ferocious animal {on the other, breaking the latter's neck, { and by a skillful movement hanging him ito a tree. The scalp was sent to Pres. | cott for the $25 bounty. Haxpspono, Miss, has a mule which THE BODY AND 11 Hain A8 A Creansing Acenr, That the hair covering the body of au animal or the head of a human being serves the purposes of warmth and protection is manifest, but one would hardly expect to find thatit also acts as a cleansing agent, This, however, appears to be the fact, according to a scientific authority. The minute scales which cover the outer portion of a hair are fastened at one edge and free at the other, and the free edges lie in the direction away from the skin. The surface of a hair, therefore, is like that of ‘a piece’ of fur or cloth covered with nap; rubbed from root to tip it is found to be smoother when rubbed in the opposite direction. This being the case, it is evident that particles of mat. ter in contact with the hair must find their direction of easiest motion to lie to wurd the tip end of the hair and away from its root. So, by virtue of the peculiar structure of its surface the hair serves gradually to remove from the skin which it covers all foreign particles which may have found lodgment there. The oily secretion emanating from the follicles of the hair probably assists this action by gathering up the fine particles HEALTH. skin, and thus enabling the hair to retain curious system of brushes, Every move ment of the hair, however produced, upon it in motion, aud, as we have already seen, the motion can be in only one direction, Dox't Reap 100 Muen Anovr CroLe. RA. It is agreed by medical authorities that the virulence of be increased by the clement of fear in the sublic mind, Ian this connection Dr. D. b st. John Roosa, President New York Academy of Medicine, writing on the cholera prospect says: “During an of should endeavor, as indeed mental equilibrium, in other keep cool. It is very difficult in our time to accomplish this, for the simple rea- son that some of the daily journals think it their duty to print head. and sometimes sensational para hs, which have very little actual foundation, but which excite and terrify the timid, and sometimes even the brave hearted. The writer was a foreign country where an epidemic was prevalent He never knew how violent it was until he received the newspapers from his own country describing it Such an effect did they have upon his friends that he was written to bs several of them, urging him to fly at once, when, as & matter of fact, he was in no more danger than he would have been in his own dwelling at home. The only prevalent among the vicious, intemperate, and igno rant violated the ordinary rules of personal cle yet the news sent from the several places intimated that every individual even in places free from cholara likely soon to be attacked and swept off theearth, Iam not in favor of govern mental censorship of the press, but | am very earnest in my hope that the press in our country will be moderate and judi cial in statement should cholera become epidemic among us. A panic stricken people become easy victims of disease, even if it be not the then prevalent. Every individual may not find it easy to maintain his peace of mind during a cholera epidemic, the press continues to think it « xpedient ws and the authorities continue to allow them —to publish highly colored para graphs, in regard to the disease. I think that it can be properly urged upon the citizens of New York and ajacent cities, should the cholera appear, that they ie frain from reading about it, unless they are sanitary or medical experts, wishing to learn all they possibly can as to the srogress of the epidemic , and Fe upon it ia a scientific sensational ines, gra ance in cholera was most and classes, who iness, 4 was ever disease if is are able to and cold Heavy Arries, Let us in the first place, says a writer in the Popular Sci ence Monthly, take a survey of the nor mal subject, or, in other words, of a healthy apple. It is made up of five seed cavities which occupy the central portion of the fruit and constitute the core. Outside of this is the edible por. of small size filled with liquid substances, A tough layer covers the outside, which is the skin, and bears the coloring sub stance that determines whether the apple is green, red, mottled, or striped. one end of the fruit is the stem, or, as ation when the question of decay is con- oerned. This end of the apple is known to the horticulturists as the *“‘cavity,” and varies greatly in different sorts, sometimes being deep and narrow as in Unless that bell is attached to him he utterly refuses to be hitched up or driven, but with the bell on he goes quietly about his work. Orleans as motor for a street car, and bo. can’t get along comfortably without it, A muock of coal believed to be the largest ever mined ia this coun was taken out of a mioe at Roslyn, Wash, , several days ago. It is 24 feet long, 5 feet 8 inches wide, 4 feet 8 inches high, and weighs 41,000 pounds, It is, per- haps, the largest lump ever mined in the world, as it is larger than the block Eng. land is sending to the Chicago Fair as a prize specimen, Some notion of the vastness of the Western forests may be had from the fact that a new logging camp just estab. lished at the headwaters of the Skagit River in Washington, is under contract to turn out an average of about a million feet every month, Five camps on the Skagit will turn out 25,000,000 feet of fir logs alone this year, Ix one township alons in North Caro. lina there are seven men who have passed the ange of 108 years, and local papers say the State has ly more old peo- Biz within its ers than any other in ¢ Union, 2 bears the name of “‘basin,’’ and contains the remnants of the blossom—-sometimes called the eye of the fruit. This part of the the weakest point in the whole apple as concerns the Keeling quality of the fruit the core firmly closed, there is much less likelihood of the fruit decaying than surface. There is no question about the importance of so far as possible prevent ing the bruising of the fruit. From what has been said in strong terms concerning the barrier of a tough skin which nature has placed upon the apples, it goes with- out saying that this defense should not be ruthlessly broken down. It may be safely assumed that germs of decay are lurking almost everywhere, ready to come in contact with any substances. A bruise or cut in the skin is therefore sven worse than a rough place caused by a scab fungus as a lodgment provided b the minute spores various sorts, If the juice exudes, it at once furnishes the © of conditions for molds to grow. An apple bruised is a fruit for the ony of wh are specially invited, an when a specimen is placed fn the midst of other fruit it soon becomes a point of infection for its neighbors on all sides. Seldom is a fully rotten apple found in a bin without several others 4 by it being more or less affected, A ten apple is not its brother's keeper, Tid surrounding conditions favor or retard the growth of the decay fungi, If the temperature is near freezing they are con: paratively inactive, but when the room is warm and moist the fruit cannot be ex pected to keep well, Cold storage natur ully checks the decay. The ideal apple has no fungous defacements and ne bruises, cool room free from fungous germs it ought to keep indefinitely until chemical change ruins it as an article of food. POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES, Platinum at white heat, it is said, will and keep the atmosphere perfectly clear, Nickel is a modern metal. It was not in use or known of till 1715. It has now largely taken the place of silverin pla ted ware and as an alloy with steel it is superior to any other metal, for it is not only non-corrodible itself, but it transfers the same quality to steel; even when combined as low as 5 per cent, it prevents oxidation, Grass AND Soran lear. — Attention has been directed of late to the necess ity view, the part played by glass in dissemin solar heat—its importance, really, factor in ignition and, in some of destructive consequences, la | the transmission of solar light the ab sorption of heat by glass is scientifically i stated as being ninety, to two of reflec. | tion; silver plate, on the other hand, | absorbing but three and reflecting ninety seven, while lampbl ick appropri ites the total of heat without, of course, any re- flection. All radistors are absorbers in a greater or less degree, and under specially favoring condi city of ignition must at least be con. sidered a jeopar lizing condition, and this, in the opinion of the Age of Sted, is a point of weight in insurance risks; that is, a bottle or a carboy placed in posi tion can so intensify solar heat as to start a bontire in a pile of wood or paper, being set on fire by focused ating a “ok (4 CASES, i IS tions, the capa- timber rays at a distance of ninety yards, and broken quartz softened into pulp by the same Broken bottles, in dry grass, have in iustances suspected of kindling praitie and forest means, 0, some been fires. Erecraicity asp Farisve, — Professor Tarchanoff, of Bt. Petersburg, has been experimenting upon the electric currents of the skin, He connected the skin of Various parts of noupoliariz ible ciay Meissner's galvanometer, th the the body, by means of i with noticed Hes skin, such as Heht tickling with a brush, heat, cold, a needle prick, ind and smell. In all these « ¢ deflection of the gulvanometer need’e olwerved., Merely « peoing the eyes alter they had been « r some time pro duced a considerable deflection, and men like bh vi 8 similar effect. Concerning {orecoing a writer in the Ki “These currents, if they exist, as ele trodes, He VALI stimuli of the is x 1 od a ght, ssi a strong was CHAN tal efforts, calculation, also he trical Review says: i by the learned scientist, must pass off with the moistened deposits which are being { onstantly expelled, an i fl Dew supmy of electricity would have to be found some Such ity, having its source perhaps in the decomposition of metals, taken in the food we eat and the air we breathe, must of necessity entail upon the orgunism a strain | in its production. It may be that from such causes the body becomes fatigued after a few hours of exertion, and lute rest becomes necessary for recupera tion. Should these experiments prove true there is no doubt that, by the proper insulation of the human body, much the rapeutical value would be its outcome.’ od agro 1 electric where, continuous BI¥EO RELIABLE RECIPES Coors Baris, —Codfish balls when well made are always an acceptable dish, but it is not every cook who suceeeds in making them light and just right. The fish must be picked fine and freshened sufficiently. Then mashed potatoes aad fish in equal parts are put together and well beaten, after which a few table spoonfuls of cream and a piece of butter are put in with a little pepper This must be well beaten again, when the balls are shaped and fried in very hot fat. In freshening codfish it is well to {put it on the back of the range for a i quarter or half an hour before picking | it apart, and it is necessary to mash and beat the potatoes well separately, and then beat all the ingredients well to gether. The success of fishballs lies in their being light and smooth, as well as seasoned, Srrawserny Swonr Cake Put into | a vessel half a pound of powdered sugar | with half a pound of well washed butter; | grate in the rind of half a lemon, and { with the hand rinse well for ten minutes; { break in five whole eggs, one at a time, {meanwhile mixing with the hand ten | minutes longer; then add gradually one. | half teaspoontul of baking powder, mixed | well together, | with good thick paper; get three cake | rings nine inches in diameter, divide the | preparation equally into the three rings {and place in a moderate oven to bake { from twenty to thirty minutes. Remove | the cakes when done and allow them ! long enough time to get cool, Pick and | clean three quarts of strawberries; have (a desert dish with a fancy paper over; lay one of the cakes on top of this, i spread over two tablespoons of whipped | eream, then cover with your strawber. ries, nicely and evenly divided; sprinkle liberally ‘with powdered sugar, then cover with another eake, spread over the cream as on the first cake and your strawberries also, not forgetting the sugar, then lay your last cake on; get a fluted tube into a pastry bag, put into it six or eight tableapoonfuls of whi cream a la vanille, and with it decorate the top of the cake in an artistic manner and send it to the table, [Chef Hughes, in Hotel Mail, A sEVEX HUNDRED-POUND Doar was killed on a sheep range near Ukiah, Cal, st week. The of the who of cubs which he says ing on his fat for and which he is FOR THE LADIES, THE QUEEN'S THREE RINGS, It is said that the three rings which Queen Victoria prizes the most highly are: First of all, her wedding ring, which she has never taken off; then a small enamel ring, with a tiny dismond in the centre, which the Prince Consort gave her at the age of sixteen, and an enamel serpent which he gave her as an engagement ring. For many years after the Prince Consort's death her Majesty only taking them off to wash her hands, enamel, —{8t. Louis Globe Democrat, THE HOSTESS’ HEADGEAR. The hostess at a luncheon party is apt the of her less a custom for her to don a hat herself, At a reecnt lancheon, however, the giver of the feast hit upon a better plan ~-which was to wear a little oh en composed of a lace butterfly bow stuck on with a jeweled pin and a twist of matching her dress around her a la Grecque, This little ar rangement gave the needed emphasis to toilet, and vet preserved her indi- viduality as the lady of the house, —[St, Louis Republic. beside smart boonets or AN ADVOCATE OF CYCLING. A more enthusiastic advocate of eye ling cannot be found than Mrs Mary Sargent Hopkins, of Wilmington, Mass, She is now doing what may termed missionary work among women in the be them on the advantages of cycling, she is attracting large audiences a great deal of Woman think,” she says, good enough for riding, and some of them dress in last summer's hat, a loose waist and an old skirt,” Mrs. Hopkins has | hie stage during her her manner of and dismounting Eight cycling has woman. Just now, of the BERKSON, Mrs. naking converts all along the route, for her lectures demonstrative and in structive. —{ Boston Post cyclist, “Many seem to r on wheel and il ie “8 ustrates years of made her healthy al the be. Hopkins i ginning $2 % are TROUBLES GIRLS HAVE th nx who cab Ix Maybe some ped tr but the new purple veil, to the rain and then German and sides, had the of. She had to kee window all the time, driver where to go, and her veil The spots wouldu't come off of so she had to That night was the last one young man went West, She hado’t the courage to tell him it was from her veil She thought the powder would hide it, but cried 80 hard the powder all came off, and he thought she was chang ing color. He her a letter from Pittsburg breaking off the engagement, and she never knew why. Some people never have any luck, There wasanother girl 1 knew whose doctor gave her some. thing to take for her complexion. She yut on her face, instead of taking it internally, and it turned her all green. It was the very day before her coming out aod had to make party Then her sweetheart proposed to her sister by mistake the world is just full of troubles!-—{8t. Louis Star Sayings. pie rir: x a bles, put on her cause of intoxicated be rst luck I ever h p her head out directing somewhat w of the the melted, hier face, after all before her walk h ne she sent is : is she SHE IS A PRACTICAL CARPENTEM Miss Sophie Christensen, of Copen hagen, has decided to take up her resi dence in Chicago, and she is a lady of whom the Windy city may well be proud. She is the daughter of captain in the Danish army, years ago, at the age of twenty, she de. termined that black erinoline, for that gives the plaits body and adds only imperceptible weight, My shirt-waists are either of the very heavy gheviot or a light-weight flannel, belted by a broad band of dark blue canvas. A neat little four-in-hand tie gives the shirt-collar its finish, and my shoes are yellow pigskin with rubber soles. I always braid and coil my hair simply at the back of my head, and went a dark blue sailor-hat held on by an elastic, —{ Demorest, BEARDED A learned German, who has devoted himself to the study of physiology, anthropology, and allied sciences, makes the rather startling assertion that mous. tuches are commoner among women in the present day than in the past, He tells us that in Constantinople, among the unveiled women that are to be met with, one out of ten possesses an unmistakable covering of down on the upper lip. In the capital of Bpsin, sgain, the proportion of ladies with this masculine characteristic is said to be quite equal to that observable on the Golden Horn. Aa American medical man states that in Philadelphia fully three per cent, of the adult fair sex are similarly adorned, and probably the pro- portion larger but that many women take the trouble to WOMEN OF THE FUTURE. becoming would be still eradi. cate the unwelcome growth by the ap- plication of depilatory preparations. Is this increase in the number of women with hair on their faces to be regarded as a sign that the human race is improy- ing?! Very few men, at all events, will that a moustache charms of the opposite sex. Eaglishmen, indeed, a generation had tation of mous- and 16 practice of all off the face down te such a d aches beards shaving hair From oue extreme our clean- fathers ged into the other, snd beards and moustaches rapidly be The fashion has of seen modified leards moustache is 48% on pian fashion. th wae less common, but the cultivated in England 1 the Conti But why should the fair : Sone ry hold that the higher of mankind are RiWays the hairier, Mott thinks that in a few cen- I iil all be clothed not believe Mr, Care beauty. as widely n t be visited by this infliction? ters on ethaolo aries men snl won B ‘sd jut t: and we y live to see the day of bearded London Standard nailr we do certainiy should not FASHION XOTES, w skirts have elaborate much liked Some of the ne 3 draperies, but they are not wWaoinen., uli-plaited vests of velvet are worn with dresses of almost every material Plaid tr.m suits o silks an { plain used to in dark shades. 4 velvels are Wool 1A mull, in black, white, and colors, 3 demand for evening dresses serges have been succeeded v «ties which show ain skirts, ’% i . i The law has been laid Jown, aad short and 0 De tae street, Biirts, skirts, are t wi short only rh In Children can stand amount of scotch plaid in a it is not wise to place too much of it as a trim ming upon a woman s gown, A sleeve gathered close at the shoulder, with gathering almost hidden by a band of embroidery or gal- loon, from the gathering the loose puff falls, from which issues forth the plain cuff, also banded by galloon. A any gown, but new is the the pretty evening sleeve has a loose the lines of which undergo a twist Young girls are wearing their hair in braid dows the back. Fortu- hair will reach to her waist In silver bonnet pins, the newest She soon displayed Ia accordance with a sensi- unaided work before being accorded the complete honors of She made an artistic, self. every member of the guild. The young woman, who is now twenty-six years old. thinks Chicago will be the best place for her to make a living in, and week or two, ~! New Orleans Picayune, —— TYPES OF 1EXNIS GOWNS, There are three types of tennis dress worn by three types of tennis playing girl, the picturesque, the smart, and the “sporty” gowe, The first is very elaborate; of many colors, high heeled white canvas ties, gloves, and a wide. bility of it, and the wearer only poses about with a fancy racket in her hand, The second is piached at the waist, narrow in the skirt, and stil of collar, — an out-and-out tailor.dress, meant to show off the figure; and the girl who wears it can’t play ‘a little bit.” The third is an abomination of desolation; its woarer has short hair, rolls the sleeves of her shirt above her elbows, clasps her waist with a man’s belt, dons an ill-out alpaca skirt, wears a Tam O'Shanter, ctices five hours a day, and looks like strong lady in a dime museum, muscular, but homely. Now my gown is a deligh ig nlhesig ge eongoraiby own e, comiortal a . The skirt is “lala cut to the ankles all plaits that fall t the waist in It is lined with very shoer tial com. without any mallet set with garnets, Girls of the period in so-called Eton suits are probably indifferent to the fact that puff sleeves are unknown at Eton. Upholstery materials are, il anything, being not only ‘‘striking,” but astonish- ing. It is not likely the new rain-proof dress goods will crowd out the mackia- discarded. The style of wearing the hair, which consists of pulling much of it down over the ears, now obtaining among many girls of the period, can be briefly charac terized as “simply hideous.” Sailor hats, shirt waists, russet shoes, days are close at hand, and that the first three are to continue very much in fem. inine vogue, The alleged female form divine, by reason of present fashions—<bell skirt, small waist and huge sleeves — presents something of the appearance of a human hour glass. No one with an artistic eye can say present fashions in dress are graceful or becoming. Among the fashionable greens a prom. inent tint is watermelon, and grenadine with a siripe of this color on white is among stylish fabrics now worn, Tne prettiest blouses now shown at the importing houses are those made of the new tinted silks woven in pulls, with jusertions of dainty striped satin, ; are finished with 8 wing- like revers or breselios of ing ay har of apes Aud Soinotian mag number of ca ©0 wilt he mock. used in dicts alto, A novelty among materials for shows Shriusbhetnuins af tion ad of light brown amd yellow on double black net. ; One of the very lar skirts for stout women is the de model. It fits closely at the top, and presents the ap distended effect at the bottom, It has a front gore, three gore at each side and two gores at the avy
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