ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS FEMI. NINE TOPICS. Tralling Skirts Not Popular - The Variety in Handkerchiefs —Empress Eugenie’'s Talis: man— Etc, Etc, —— © ———— TRAILING SKIRTS NOT POPULAR Trailing skirts for the sireet are go fug out of favor, thing, considering the coming of the wet and disagreeable weather thatthis season brings. No sensible to her household the seeds of disease and death with the mud of the streets, THE VARIETY IN HANDKER- CHIEFS The immense variety of handker chi=fs shown ean hardly accommodate the needs of all. In the hand-embroid- ered and real lace trimmed ones are some beautiful designs. The centres ans of sheer lawn, with a rich lace bor- der and Insertion. The embroidery producing exquisite effects, In lawn handkerchiefs some are sesn with u quarter-inch hem, Those that are fancy are a combination of lave embroidery, the embroidery being finely work:d in the corner, Linen bandkerchiefs are shown with em broldery, scalloped edges, lace trimmed and hemstitched. EMPRESS EUGENIE'S The story of ihe talisman which the Empress Eugenis prized so highly is well known, The brooch, ing a four-leaved clover, was studded with diamonds and emeralds, by Napoleon at an evening party dur ing the time between their betrothal and marriage. The empress wore the brooch every day, no matter what oth er jewelry she was wearing, regarding it as the symbol of her happiness, un til the death of her husband. years of mourning she discarded trinket, only to wear It again when her son left for the Zulu war. Oa hearing the intelligence of her terrible death she flung it from her in the first paroxysm of her grief. hurling it across the where it lay fort several hours, “Pick it up,” she said. her bosom friend. the Mouchy, who had come with the broken-hearted mother, amd then she added: “I have long re garded it as a talisman of happiness It is my dearest relic and I do not wish it to be lost. Wear it, sweet friend, in remembrance of us, and may it be to thee a talisman of happiness and a pledge of my lasting friendship Chicago Record. roo, addressing Duchess of to condole WOMEN MAIL CARRIERS, There are two women mail carriers in Southern Berkshire who are doing satisfactory work and appear to enjoy the business. Miss Louise drives the stage ween and Stockbridge, day, a distanc: four miles, As there is no railroad station at Cu tisville she does quite an express busi ness, and bas a number of passengers, Miss Marcome is about twenty-five years old and has been driving som four years. She Is noted for prompiness in making the trips her close attention to business. other woman stag the road for about six months, is Miss Olive Oakes of Egremont, carries the mail fro North Egremont to Great Barrington. She is twenty one and was learning the dressmaking business when her father, who has the contract for the stage line, taken sick place temporarily. He grew and di:d about two months ago. has continued to drive the stage. is a hard trip for a woman, tance being some six makes two trips a day. lives midway ho Curtisville two trips a bet making of some her Thu She who This and, as she tra travel. These women do not the regulation stage that pletures, but light use is seen in wagons, express packages, "not number over one or two on a trig except on special eccasions, Corre. can, THE ADVANCED WOMAN, cipation” of women is by no means so far advanced as in England or United States, there are few countries influence, though great. is not. how. exercissd indirectly and privately by the women of the upper classes. In. stead of forming themselves into asso clations and leagues and: international unions, and organizing public meet. ings, and competing with public ors tors, the Italian women interested In politics work quietly, and certainly not less efficaciously than there more “emancipated” sisters, means of the old French expedisnt, the salon. In Rome alone there are no fewer than a dozen salons devoted sl. most entirely to the discussion of polit. fecal toples. Each salon has its own special political “color,” which Is gen. erally that of the husband or father or friends of the mistress of the house; but while the thread and web of the politics carried on in a salon is spun and woven by the men Vio frequent it, the personal influence of the mis tress of the house acts on each of her guests, modifying views, and soften. ing, or it may be accentuating the As long as they remain In their salon Itallan po- litieal women are in every way admin able. —8an Francisco Chronicle, TOILET OF BLACK TAFFETA. A tollet of black taffeta Is a ser viceable and seasonable one, Tom Thumb fringe, anoth:r revived fash fon, trims the three cirenlar flounces widening up at Like nearly all of ’ 15 the sides and back. an emplecment, and low decollette silk bertha From a very falls a flat sdgad. with Tom Thumb fringe. The bertha collar and the emplecement that lies under the decollette are of white taffeta, boldly embroidered In black Louis XVI. rib. bon design, The corsage front Is draped across, the fuln+ss being pinch- intervals under oval white but As to adjustment, it Is some The emplecement fast. ens on the shoulder. The close fitting is hooksd down the middle of front. The bodice is cut off at waist but is worn without a girdle the skirt. Two little em broidered points flaring directly under wide Just one mors gown, too pretty to be is in blue violet mous entirely made in little mounted on a fiat founda- tion of rainbow taffeta, A heart-shaped of made lace is posed at the top the skirt, spreading smaller piece of same flattened at the of which is bloused simply, trimmed down one with jeweled cabbage bows blue The fastens It ends at the walst un belt of wrinkled liberty sleeves are of blas-tucked 3 seline de sole, pies the shape Is top and three bodice, side of satin, blouse arm. sloping un der the der a satin. Th. mousseline de SOle taffeta. WILHEEMINA'S “Duteh snake” BELT. may possibly be. and su- enamel beans and other The come t fashion of the hour golden lueky at pr neck recent the hearts, shamrocks, went dangle from the watch chat Paris, ared to a long golden chain of which would perhaps attention but for th which it of a in length, i} vices whiel bangle, the During her and the 1 stay in the worn free thickness, £5 aped arnpament wi adorned. dium hav» the ex. quisite Wis This consisted stake some eight inches ich was coiled round the formed diamond of whik ing 3 in. head was of one magnificen, extraordinary brillianey, rubles and other so thickly of gold various colors of the mass of brilliant, prec: that was ous stones, not a trace the the jewels forming In realist setting visible Visine, imitation of scales it is said helmina ften as her ollet day she is that, « varies of the this Xi Quen Wil during the t ; CONrse i never innumerable and been which R665 without chain, nad Hanations, which have for a fact scrilual to the beauty and value of the ornament itself, Costly beginning to appear in Shops of the Rue de Ia Paix, i popular, P fs io Ingul er. are tne even ro mances, aecount may easily Iw a some of the and iiladeiphia ber very FAD AND FASHION. The street are of dogskin with one but ton. Double fae «dl cloths are for capes, bicycle skirts other garments for general use, There is still a tendency to combine prevailed so long. The pompadour hair will be almost a necessity for the wintsr hate to be worn quite off the face and fully dis playing the features, Fancy velvet, erepe and satin are waists, some of the beautiful models being made of clan plaid velvet, New Journeys are military cloaks, quite as to be worn with or wit.out a cape. Th» fronts are semi- loose, and the backs fitted and some. times belted, It is a matter of some little wonder to pote the unusual array already in shaped collars, boas. and Vandyksd collarettes of all sorts, sizes and quali- fio%, Rough Rider hats of soft felt, in a scarf of fancy #ilk laid in close, flat folds around the crown. with two quill feathers on the left sil, Trimming for hats nas a central point either at the side or in front. A street bat has a rosette directly in front, with feathers passing from it on either sid: to the back of the hat, or the mass of trimming Is at the side with the feathers, Destinles of the Kaiser's Sons, Emperor William has decided that the Crown Prince Is to enter the in. fantry. Prince Eitel Fritz, being hand. some and dashing, is to join the cav. alry., The Emporer's third sou Is to enter the navy. The other sons, too, have their destinies sertied for them, By the death of the widow of th» last Prince, the name of the Venetian family Glovanelll that had existed since 1230, has become extinct, DREAD TO SAVE FROM DROWNING, I———— A Widespread Foperstition That Prevents Rescues That Could Be Made. A strong antipathy once prevailed to rescue a drowning man, the idea In ing that the person saved would, good er or later, «do some sort of Injury to the man who preserved his life. Sir Walter Scott, In "The Pirate,” tells how Bryce, the peddler, refused to help Mordaunt to save the shipwreck- ed sailor from drowning, and even re monstrated with him on the rashuess of such a deed. “Are you mad” sald the peddler, “you that have lived sae lang in ZA to risk the saving of a drowning Wot ye not, if ve bring him to he will sure to do yon some injury?” This prejudice, which rooted among the sea-going commu: nity in many parts of th» country, ex not very long ago in Cornwall among French sailors Danube, and Mr. Bar be boatmen of the ry. in his “Ivan at Ylome," ans to saving life On: day a drunken man walked into the wmer and disappear A number of Spectators stood hy the nt. tried to Russi dl. and gazed on the scene most indifference, but him. A court but on the with no one of inquiry examination, wis held, as, no was quickly agreed upon by the vil lagers, who declared that the man was “drowned because he had po cross up on his neck.” Th: Bohemian fisherman from snatching a drowning the waters mon would fishing shrinks man water de luck at first op fearing that the take away and drown him at This is ancient ion, the his the a lingering survival signiticance of Aplanation bel spirit i» naturally : despoiled of his vieti of the the water ing benceforth bears a against special person win him. Thus is drowned In Germ: remark is nu “The river claims hi ! pix has taken him” Out of Europe, drow ning of a person is unlucky frustrate the Ome on wide iy sacrifice,” fnlso, the i attribute a and the 8 water geizure Pnuk. bathers and dwelling. The ih LIES §¥ the spird that under Sioux Indi have rn similar fancy. and tell how men have ben drowned by Unk-Tabe, For the same rea Kamtchadals, far a man ont of by force ar 80izes drags them his ans fnonsier appears, the rom helping wonld cued by Five food The i1iiv sy son, It wails If res would rr» Or g the drown apy him him chance, nio BG oe iis Bouse ve Bim reine ng fo save n man from drowning nt belief—-it bei the spirit of a man his death in this way along the surface of water it has caused the crowning by creature, A Chinaman who attsmpts to rescue an other from drowning is considered to incur the hatred of the which Is pense of arises from quite Ug supposed hat who has met continues to fit until death thie low tneasy spirit, the ex ape from desirous even at a man's Jif», to es its wanderings. Havana Street Cars. he in Cuba bundred in Havana operated by though the traflic an el make people are in .aany ehind the the street cars an power, al ‘lent to earn a sum which glad heart of the lover of municipal fran Three scrawny little beasts of equine species, perfectly gray in wearily the heavy loaded Years still horse is suffi road eetrie the cars along the lusty driver spares not the whip, and it is a common sight for one or two animals to fall on the track sheer weakness, Travel until the driver gets layed out and can get up, which he does not do until | after the whip bas been used In a Some of the stock | the street rallway lines 1» a sorry condition that a so-! for the prevention of cro eity to animals would Lave it taken off the work nt onee, This applies with even morc force to the horses one sees drawing the cabs, | The street railway people enough, but their horses show only lack of staying use on ly 20 raw sight of him is disgusting and even horrible. any work whatever. A little of the stock in Havana is of the very best claze, but possibly owing to the blockade and the high prices of corn, the fine horses and the well-groomed pony are the exception. After duties are mace more favorable to the Amer fean importer the bringing in of good horses will no doubt prove a paying business. 81. Louls Globe Democrat. Bansoas for Typhoid Patients. After a long experience with typhoid patients, a foreign specialist maintains that thie best food for them is the ba- nana. He explains by stating that in this disease the lining membrane of the small intestines becomes intensely inflamed and engorged, eventually be- ginning to slough away in spots, leas ing well-defined ulcers, at which places the Intesdnal walls become danger ously thin. Now, a solid food, If ta. ken into the stomach, is likely to pro- duce perforation of the Injustises dire | results maturity, following, and being the case, containing a large amount of innutri- tious substances, are to be avolded as dangerous. But the nanana, though it many be classed as a solid food, con- taining, as it does, some ninety-five per cent, nutrition, does not possess sufficient waste to irritate the spots: nearly the whole amount taken into the stomach is absorbed, giving the patient wore strength than cau be obtained from other food. sl RECITED THE LORD'S PRAYER, sore One Who Heard Booth Give it Recalls the Thrilling Experience. “l think the most thrilling experi ence 1 ever passed through was iu New York city one time,” sald James { O'Neill to a Lewiston Journal writer, | “when quite by accident a number of | foreign diplomats from Washington, a few American statesmen, some | prominent New Yorkers and one or {two of us professionals were gathered | together In a smoking room of the | Fifth Avenue hotel, when somebody | asked Booth, who by the merest happened to be there, if not repeat the Lord's prayer for the assemblage. I was sitting not far the tragedian when he fixed his eyes upon the man who made the request, I think that it was Lord Backy ille West, at that British minister to the United and | shall never forget the peculiarly ¢earching that Booth | out of They soul of the | chance hie would from ime States, expression shot dark | to penetrate the very at whom they were directed, as If satisfied, resumed their vacuous density. “We all bre jlety, at least I was seeimned aan and then, wonted his CYes, sathiess with for seldom off the but at walked to a little end of the room and be recital tl even after an these me thrill through and sald: ‘Our Father 1 had th two t with were AlX would lengt cleared He recite stage, fe Arose, space at one run on at mnkes through. He never before In en clothed reverence Ww envel led fs years and words majesty and Lil» look and And then tactinl por Cceiesiing regs Os» he ith which loped th A110 seeming to leave and to fo us fone hie oul in CuArr us Jus, shin our bodies lower Dante's a to us be Live dark for slow his de} ithe too Hest: into genius to conceive or Dore's exerted over atural. Hix musically sounded slowly room, and he swayed body we unconsciously fol jon. It was something terrible, fascinat in lan. There none through Scene wisand worlds, and yet opportunity 1 would any danger bear It once Do you understand? Those words as delivered by Ed were the powerful for Chris ever could every being the heard them atheism, when portray; u power wag simp resonant tones through the as {ithe Hi mot beautifal, find press ii, go the are the cannot words 10 eX} would not for a th if I had the rave 10 more, fow sd Booth argument and of would “Ore most tianity 1 win heard, on fave have longer of and a while iv and on tip that thrilling He was the zgiobe there be uo strode room simultaneous out the finished relief arose, atole Booth he had sigh of word and 1 us think we away sing any of evening a great do believe not of shudder great nan, that without a man, a The Japanese Pagodas pag wlas before the in t seem 10 be able the earthquakes that country Many of these are centuries and are a« firm and substantial as when first built, Though very high, the construc- tion Is such that their eguilibrium is pot disturbed, and they withstand shocks that are sufficient to utterly de molish neighboring structures, The reason for this stability is to be found The Japan buildings 1 the act of ring in SEH Is the only fon oCCur ' dirgetores oll, in the peculiar manper in which they | have been constructed. The pagoda, which consists of a framework of heavy timbers, rising from a wide hase, has suspendsd from its apex a | long, heavy beam, two feet or more In thickness, At the lower end are bolted | on each of ths four sides, four heavy i timbers, and in the case of very high pagodas even more. The affair acts as a huge pendalum, reaching as it | does to within six inches of the ground | and at the ocenrrence of the earth- F quake it swings in unison with the mo- | tion of the earth, always keeping the | center of gravity at the base of the pagoda. In this way the equilibrium { i= never disturbed and this simple mo» chanical arrangement has served to keep intact, through many hundreds of years, many of these high structures, | which at first glance would appear to | be particularly susesptible to destruc tion by earthquake, He Noticed the Likeuess. A Parisian swell reeently had a crayon picture. 9 himself made, which he afterward pretended to find fanlt with, “It does not bear the slightest re semblance: to me” sald be, “and 1 will not take it.” The artist protested, avail After the dandy had left the pain: ter added to the porirait a magni. cont pair of ass’ ears, and exhibited it in the window, thus altered, to the gaze of the curious public, It hadn't been long exposed when the dandy entered the artist's studic in a towering rage. Finding that threats amounied to nothing, be at be: | last offered to buy it, even at a con siderable advance upon the original price. “It wasn't strangs you didn’t recog nize your resemblance to the tg ae Hn." sald the paloter, 3 i but to ne FARM AND GARDEN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST ¢ ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS, After Frost Wasted Corn lng-~Winter Protection for Strawberries The Modern RowiewEté Etc. PHOSPHATES. WHEN TO USE All used rains ed in applied. mineral manures in damp weather, may reasonably a short time after When a long, when cxpect- or be contact, and if there is only very lit- the soil still dryer. Worse than this, the phosphaye is liable to revert into insoluble cohditions, so that if moist. ure comes liter but very little can made use ol by the plants. TURNIPS GROWING FROST, The turnip crop is so hardy that light frosts not only do not kill the leaves, but by destroying weeds that have heretofore interfered with their growth, they seem often to make tur- nips grow faster. We have seen the roots double in size after an early frost followed by warm, moist weath- er. There is also an improvement in the quality of turnips after freezing weather, and we think it is usually a mistake to harvest the crop until the surface soil in the field has once been frozen, AFTER WASTED CORN IN HARVES It may seem one of the farm operations to cut standing corn in Yet in cvery field where five or six men are wor k ing together in cutting, a close obser. ver will notice that some rows of stocks show the corn cut low with very little breaking off and even the suckers well cleaned up around the hills, while other rows stocks will show the reverse of conditions. It is, therefore, really skilled labor that the expert in corn cutting shows, and that the expert in this every other, is entitied to compensa- tion for the skill with which the work bas been done. TING simplest of and put sto ok. down, of ears of these believe aw arger we Case in TER PROTECTION STRAWBERRIES. The time has for protecting the strawberry plants from winter's cold. and the subjec t offers some timely suggestion, There is mo question but some good protection is alm tial tothe plants, but authorities disa- gree about the best to be adopted While some advocate manure others object to it, and nmend straw, leaves, litter or anything of this na- ture The chief objection to manure seems to be that weeds are apt to be sown with it on the strawberry bed. Bat if one’s manure is as good as it ought to be weeds ought not to spread in that way. Moreover, only well-rotten manure is fit for this work, and the weed seeds will generally have died out before manure reaches this stage. The value of manure in enriching the plants often overlooked by who prefer other things for protec tion. All through the winter the strength of the manure is soaking into the soil, and by spring when the pro- tection is removed the plants are fer- tilized richly and ready to spring into immediate and rapid growth But if one has pnsnitabls manure at hand, the next best thing is probably forest leaves, collected in the woods and mixed with just enough straw to keep them in place. A few twigs of trees gathered with the leaves will be of valne. These spread over them will help to keep them from being blown about by the wind. Straw is good as a protection, but sawdust is not so easily handled. The rain makes the sawdust cling to the plants, so that it sometimes proves quite a nuisance. Potato vines can often be utilized for protection of strawberries. especially in connection with a few leaves. together make a very cheap and ef. fective covering. —A, B. Barrett in American Cultivator, THE MODERN FOWL. WIN FOR come nt fERen- reset in those from the fowl of the past, even those of our grandparents’ time. hardy and more liable te disease than the ancient fowl. of modern fowls and force them to shift for themselves, roost in trees or outbuildings, tougher eating and more hardy and freer from disease. This latter statement may surprise many who have read the constant warning against allowing fowls to be ex to cold winds, draughts and rain, The modern fowl is usually well housed and fed, and this is the a RRR i nection an @ nency of dis- ease fn the flocks. The modern fowl islike a hot-house lant. It is unnatural for the straw. to bloom a bear frait in the winter, but it is possible in a hot- house. Yet let the winter wind low on the vines and they either di beat no frat, and sn it in with she snd a draught of cold sir for any length of time is sure to prove disas- trous, Hence the warnings {to protect the modern fowl. We believe that 9% per cent. of all cases of croup are the result of neglect or poor ;=arters, and the modern fowl cannot ‘thrive under Those who have had no experience with poultry will often buy a pair of bred fowls from some breeder who provides comfortable quarters for Lis birds, and expect them to furnish care that they gave ancient speci and when they do not lay one never to have another fancy chicken on the place. But for all that, the modern fowl, like the thoroughbred horse and cow, has come to stay. and for them we can thank the poultry fanciers, or if try crank.” Home and Farm, SAYE THE SOIL. Farmers often talk and advise mued about the different and best methods of improving the soil, yet alinost en tirely overlook the no less important matter of saving it, unmindful that tc prevent disease better than cure To save the fertility of the fields is of vital importance; as every one of common sense should kuow, and tha! it requires forethought and judicious management to do successfully althongh to improve the soil is an in crease of fertility, but it is seldom ef fleacious in saving or holding it, Farmers are toe prone to run their lands in exhausting crops as long as they will produce anything, and sell off the crops. wanuer of farm ing not only robs the soil of its fer tility, but leaves nothing io the soil to save it from being washed away by rains; and by s lling the crops there is nothing for stock, cousequently but little if any can be kept and but little if any manure to be returned to the fields to ke ep up their for ti lity. The first object with the farmer should be to bold } Lis soil as much as possible against all needless exhaus tion and wastes of all ki for this i* the basis of successful farming. One of the best, if not the best, meth- ods of saving the soil is that of turn- ing under soiling crops. = When crops turned under to save the soil rather than as feed for a growing crop, it should be fully ripe, having more durability. Bye is best Yor poor land. The crop may be pastured with hogs until the grain amed, then the mass of straw turned under, which will keep the soil from washing aud as the mass decays impart fertili- ty to the and at the same time improve it. A crop of clover sumed under not only saves but sup plies th soil with an abundance of sitropen through the tops and roots Muck benefit is also derived from the shade afforded by this crop. When crops are turned under to be followed by another they should be plowed in, if possible while in flower or at their ap peurane e, for it is at this period that they contain the largest quantity of easily soluble substances and that their leaves are most active in forming nutritive matter, which becomes immediately the food of the succeoding crop, and the more woody fibre will hold the soil and form a ba- sis for other methods of sowing and improving the land But many, very many, farmers seem not to prospectively realize the profit to be derived by burying in the earth the produce of their lan i to promote the future productiveness of the soil. Yet, whenever the farmer closes his eves on the feeding value of these crops, and uses them to save and im- prove the soil, the result seldom or never fails to be satisfactory. And, in truth, we may safely add that but few farmers realize how much of their soil they lose by selling off their crops and to see that, reasonably, ne farm can maintain its fertility where this is practiced. —J. I. Baird in Agricul tural Epitomist, is HO 1 his nds, are is most] ¥ consu sO, FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The secret of feeding is to avoid getting your laying hens fat. Always keep your hens at work. An idle hen is never a good layer. ® The greater the yield produced up- Sheep must have a dry place to lie, Cultivation and close attention are the present requirements to success There are a few aged ewes that will not pay to winter. Sell to some one Three thrifty young ewes. well win- commnn ones, receiving only common treatment. Beans and scas, ovoked and thick- ened with bran, and fed twice a week Grain is deficient in lime and min. eral matter, but bran is rich in ni- trogen, carbon and mineral matter. Do not sell your choicest ewe lambs, because you can get twonty-five cents a piece for them. Keep the best aud breed them, In embarking in the poultry busi- ness plan for a income ev week, instead of trying to make it all It is the
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