TEMS OF INTEREST ON FEMININE | TOPICS, Costume for a Reception---Woman's Love »f Change«-Favorite Dress Fabrics. 3rocades and Age, Ete, Ete. the modern maid to imbibe treacle and brimstone for her complexion. Asone damsel sald: “All the healthy things are odious.’ Sulphur and charcoal to take internally and raw veal and lard to apply are a few of the unpleasant doses prescribed for the woman in of a fair skin Mutton tallow is the basis of many of the best pastes and creams sold for the search COSTUME ECEPTION An el is made of rich moire body § The fi are FOR A R gant costume for a reception in gold and gray plain from ont of covered in Lae princess shoulders to hem the voke and the shoulders with the most elaborate embroidery silk and There a deep yoke below the cutaway front, which makes a half-low bodice. - At the back the embroidery is continued up to form a collar that extends the back of the head and flares outward There elaborate shoulder caps and sleeves of embroidery and graduated sections of the richest garniture extend from the yoke to the hem of the dress on either beads, is to are side of the front. WOMAN'S LOVE OF CHANGE all this medley of forth for The te ndency varying fancies in set our in spection and cholce is yet to be discov ered, and whether we are to wear plain skirts, draped skirts or trimmed skiris be and is a matter about to Le fought out tween the the leaders of clever dress designers fashion, who, after have tl own fate ping patt both to ort designs green fashiona of the ne back PREPARA The Feathers may are unhygieni A hair mattress no pillows at small greatest amount of give an ere« which sleepers like to possess in their The Hds should be as light as is with pro- per warmth When her room and bed are properly arranged the wise on herself. She goes to sleep as clean as warm water and soap will make her, knowing that a warm bath is the most restful, sleep-provoking thing in the world “kinks” and snarls of braided loosely. She loose nightdress. She cultivates an easy conscience, as a foe to huomnia, and she banishes thought as undesira ble. 1f her brain persists in working after she has gone to bed she does not attempt to stop its labors by mighty act «rf her will, but she tries io think in desultory, disconnected fash- fon until she ceases to think at all. So does sleep cease to be a merely stinctive process and becomes one of the fine arts.—New York Star. ION FOR SLEEP. not be JIUXuUrious bed should downy be but they with one, * arriaos ¢ th % CArriage an LOIings waking hours cover consistent woman considers the day and Wears a yery 0On2 MOLASSES FOR THE ION. COMPLEX - and lips likz pomegranates fol.uw M~ Squeer’s advice,” ed old lady to a group of girls were calling upon her granddaughter, he was cruel and a villain, out I caa testify to the beautifying offects of brimstone and treacle, and I am sure the boys of Dotheboys Hall had Leauti- ful complexions.” In spite of this belated commenda- tion of Dickens immortal pedagogue, éL would not be an casy task 0 induce has been discovered the scientific beautifiers that can compare with it in The tallow” was 2 pure and out" by healing and softening properti: old-fashioned “mutton for lard, by mutton ite name rimple Poi made “trying hard, fat It was of get Hquid grease resulting from hair wii strained through a +, and into the jar which it xd was poured an equal quantity of glycerine the mixture vi and left ready for use it was thick { of we hear of which E88 WAS in plac pure stirred Forously to When but very ream beautiful complexion our about , and to the Stockinet and good rubber wl i washed in warm ROoap shape and dried by a window alebones, the genuin~ arti- in boiling water for a few n and then ironing them straight and for front of a dress and the extra large for is fastened without tches Use small hooks eyes the skirt, which aeeing and needs larger ca A creamy ecru shade, now so ionable, can be given to white lace af ter washing it by putting strained coffee in the rinsing water right color is obtained. To be at all proper, your hat, glo gown and all accessories must match the coming season Such vivid shades will worn that the cont bright stock and girdle will n.,. he essary to relieve sombre eff” sls be nec. Satin cloth is one of the new»st and fabrics, It developes It comes in any number of soft shades of all ‘he varied Do not set your belt up so high on a Do not fail to run of see the uniess you prefer to Many of the new evening gowns aro made of diaphanous material, and are cut with low necks and transparent, long sleeves. Others have a low silk walst lining, and high ‘waist of thin textile shirred into a ribbon neck band, and again at the waist, though the traditional evening waist is al- ways decollete, even when the sleeves are long. GREAT GAME PRESERVES. The Latest Fad Among Very Wealthy Americans, Setting Aside Vast Estates for the Pres- ervation of Blg and Little Came---Wm. C, Whitney's Herds of Buffaloes and Elks «Deer Park in the Adirondacks. The the Wash America, but it hunting game BAVHE preserve, new to curring { il ii ia pountry 1 similar to that atten the fact tha 18 hunting $0 much lon Ould iLnEilish cousin nod iu #0 much material to the British it may be in game preset beginnings on pretentious e in time to rival servations game re a pastime » preserving to ipplant hor the within whole head kee pera es 1 ground would beco as the game conl¢ most modern of methods There are in animals serves the 1 at eel iocated game most import he 1H ran the Adiron undoubtedly in It comprises some 20.000 ac of woodland in the heart of the mon. Weld The establish preserve was a simple the land had been It consisted simply in running Walter Webb of this once ment matter tained O00 and adorning it with occasional signa anonuncing the fact that the inclosuse was private property. The ardor of an Adirondack sportsman in parsuit of a deer will hardly balk at a barbed wire fence, and it is likely that mec buck has been slain in these private grounds, The owners have not attempted to stock thir tate, as it was already well suppiioa with deer, rabbis, partridges and an occasional bear. The land has beea simply left to lie in its original state So long as there fs plenty ol good sport to be had in other parts of the Adirondacks, it is not likely that tL» hunters will deliberately intrmde on the Webb estate, been exterminated In the open grounds, the owners of this princely shooting preserve may find it neces yet the men employed on the esinte have little to do except to warn »ff camping parties and keep the 3) or €0 miles of wire fencing in repair At present the Webb lands are very Hitle hunted Dir Seward Webhn has a fine camp there, and usually sponds a short time each autumn thee with a party of friends, bul for the most part | 1 | thrives and in- It is doubtful if Or ever wii set the game feeds and creases undisturbed, the Webbs on more than a small fraction of their Adirondack holdings. They enthusiastic hunters, and in preserving the natural rather than in shooting it If the state of York plan proposed by Governor Blac) have 1001 are at nr at wild the and created a great state park in the AG) along the line the Empire State northern New adopt rondacks same wil of lowstone, border on the along its finest partly game in €y preserves ate property, and pai loping to wealthy the Webb Of few places where established by simply fencing of the for some of the n privat like COUrse Vry ' Or pres tion aboriginal 10re sett country scarcely les ervations agnificent « Vanderbi is laying North C#Polina Ther: tran Eats The consular reporis give an account from it is made of the very best woolen materials, impregnated with the inventor's patented preparation which gives it 2.220 pounds’ power of resistance gquare centimeter (0.39357 inch) The ariicle is most use- ful of ail kinds. Placed Set ween sleepers, it deadens sounds and prevents shocks. The first experiments with the new material were made by the Berlin City Street Railway, over which 340 trains pass daily. The results surpassed the com- pany's most sanguine expectation. Not only was the noise brought down to a minimum, but the wear and tear was materially diminished. It is to be tried on the new roads in Leipsic. Old buildings, and particularly buildings of stone and iron, suffer most from the shocks and noise of passing trains. Such an insulating material seems to be specially adapted for elevated roads, ~-New York Architecture and Build- ing. of the following invention Chimnitz new 10 every for railroads rails and An ant which Sir John Lubbock, the Foglish naturalist, had kept for ob servation many years recently died, whereupon the Indian Mirror pub- lished an obituary notice of the death of his aunt, FOR THE YOUNC FOLKS, A LORG-FELT WANT, One day wee Willie and his dog Bprawled on the nursery floor, He had a florist's catalogue, And turned the pages o'er, Till all at once he “Hurrah! “Mama, here I'o give your li { 'y he « ‘For when we We lose « And in that little They do get mix vou often say of ‘em dont you bn And an nu I ortahble npara eir nse was fre date, th the Mi Castern al a very La Brocquiere, ho mad a to Jerus sainmedans ol early period journey f the if teenth « tensively firing f ativals Damascus The first use of muskets in Europe was at the riege of Rhege in 1501, by Spanish soldiers. These arms 80 extremely heavy not without a They were provided with matchlocks at a considerable the march that they be used rest While on the ammunition and the rests, and boys, followed after, like caddies on a goif-course. Loading these cumbersome was a operation. They clumsy and awkward to handle, the ball and powder were carried separate- ly, and the preparation and adjust ment of the mateh took a long time Before long, however, improvements began to be made. The guns became lighter in construction, and the sold- iers carried their ammunition in broad shoulder-belta called bandeliers, to which were suspended a number of little leather-covered wooden cases, | each of which held a charge of powder, | A pouch, in which the bullets were carried loose, and a priming-horn hung at the sideg of the soldier. i As Inte as the time of Charles I. | muskets with rests were still in use, | and it was not until the beginning of | the eighteenth century that firelocks | were successfully employed. ATIOS slow were HOW WASPS BUILD THEIR NESTS, In a tree in the garcen round the | house where I was stopping was a wasp’'s nest in process of construction. The busy insects’ were going back- awards and forwards carrying their ma- | | though I watched several dayy, Teonld not discover where it was collected, It happened that the pillars of the veranda of the mud-built hours in was stopping were roughly nks of the Lombardy poplar that region to a good height without sirnight loitering { which I Lew that in iderable ize and nakes a clean noon, while noticed that num- nthe short apparently them. ne of the { anifestation in a Clacier. wr of months Volcano for a numl 8} severe earth- subter- +4 ¢ 13 Laese up- except took 12ers place which southeast range phenomenon postman who was with ponies and mails a few les from the glacier The subterranean fire welled up from interior of the glacier and forced ite way through the enormous mass of ite The postm of Iceland was witnessed croseing the the suddenly heard a long- drawn, groa sound and looking up saw immense blocks of being hurled high into the air, followed im- mediately by torrents of water bearing a number of huge jce blocks to the plain below. The whole tract between the 1 dotted with enormous ice floes, rendering the plain quite impassable. The postman was delayed at a neighboring station for ten days, during which time the eruption lasted. fce glacier and the ses wa y Swift-Flvine Clouds. Mr. Clayton, of the Blue Hill Ob gervatory, near Boston, reports that observations made there show that the tween R000 and D000 feet high move is sixty miles an hour In midsummer and 110 miles an hour in midwinter, The swiftest flight of a cloud yet measured was 230 miles an hour. A Wichita, Kan., man has invented an appliance which he says is to be attached to brooms used in hospitals is arranged so that the stroke of the broom feeds the liquid to the straws, distributing it regularly as the broom is drawn over the floor. 5 » »