I some women were seen with gloves A I 5 IA which they were evidently unable to | fasten at the wrists. With some clasp attachments a wrist must conforis to the glove, but this is pot the case wity NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NU- MEROUS FEMININE TOPICS. in Australia-A Typical Mrs, Mee Women Dentists Polonvise Gown.--To Paint Kinley's Portrait, Etc, Etc Women Dentists in Australia Young ladies ns dentists is the latest development of Australian Teminine ! enterprise. Miss Berry, a daughter ol Sir Graham Berry, formerly liberal | | premier of Victoria, and Miss Godfrey, a danghter of a member of the Vie torian upper house, have both passed with credit the examination prescrib- ed by the dental board of that colony, have been duly registered, and have entered into partnership in the medi cal quarter of Melbourne, i f A Typical Polonaise Gown, t A fair specimen of the typical polo- | ¢ The Lio i this lace, chenille, « itation old needle-rnn lace dice and upper skirt are of embroidered with piuk The polongize describes a point frond and back bul at the right termi- | rose side where a many-looped bow of black velvet Is placed. Three frothy, full « flounces of white lace form the under skirt, and the decolletage, which Is V shaped, Is outlined by a narrow line uf black velvet with a looped bow ol black velvet at the point. Epaulets and long sleeves are of the white lace without the chenille embroidery, . | To Paint Mrs, McKinley's Portuait. ‘ given a Whipple, a COGS New | The president has sion to Charles LL York artist, to paint a portrait Mrs, MeKinley, and the sittings COMMmMence Soon Ars, MeKinley in her favorite chair, just her every time he goes Into hes amd she to wear a that made for her in Chicago last fall fe of will to is : be seated as the president sees Jtting-room { is white brocade was considers it one of the most becoming had tapestry he background by sowns she ever will Foulke of Chicago, Barabini colle Home years ago. Mrs, MceKin ley has never had her portrait painted, The president has ror three four artists, and Mr finished portra’ts of him and Secretary | lL.ong loaned who purchased the be a £3 ¢ { On of tapestries in Sofie ! 801 or 1 Colors remain much White New York Herald, PET. re How to “Mave a Perfect Fit.” The buds and matrons have discov. oats and gowns-ah! how they do fit! aking up the raw cloth this man of wriginal ideas holds it against the fig- st the manner usual with artist-de- Then the gown is The customer is wrapped inlong. wet technically they are known and the new tailor made Then over and over he hips and shoulders, and around and round the walst, and up and down in arefully accentuated lines the iron, Instead of being pressed on 1 board, the suit Is pressed on the lady werself, Oh, yes, to be sure, the hot the poor lady often ‘ries out in alarm lest she be parbolled owels 18 “sheets” goes things if one's gown is to fit he costume Is literally molded to the inside The woman in- that must continue to (een the dress ou until the seams are jiite dry, it. is she The man who is responsible for this and startling departure in the of fitting is a Swudish He claims that the Prin- wes of Wales was his inspiration for initial attempt this line, fitting a he idea oconrred to ew FOWnH along gown for her one day him ro try press ng it upon the figure “Why not try exclaimed the is never tired of The experiment After Was 1 great sne that the gowns amd outer ES ish ladies were many. About a year to hore len came Chi to put it into In Chicago It was Mrs Davis, thea Miss the first wolnan ARO wrnctice who ‘veil Clark, ws Graceful Sik Wraps Wraps of de eld fine soft fabrics made in fichin style are graceful. They the amd fall almost the hem of the dress in front, They are a charming addition to the toilette of r the slende be tall silk Cree He and woolen Yers COVer shoulders fo woman, and iF she be ax well, noth One of the Iwo ing becoming. belge-tinted affetas is fin r rills of the mibroddery elem t ished by wilk light « of black « The fichu proper is and there The with a nille, the from narticular frill only, well IT canght in at fall thls 1 bust tine, the searf-ends sear! ends . £ INsIANGs are eilgind 14 but thi il edges we sides | f= as the The Trunk Umbrella. The trunk in birella as would imply, is lea broug an i by some simple minded philanthropist, i It is nothing more or less than on ing umbrella, one veniently the that doubles con- middle of Cand aud can Inid in the tray of an ordinary trunk. At the ends of the wires that support the silk cover there is a metal eaten that, when adroitiy managed, changing ordinary umbrella to an oblegt hall and Hiling thousands of have struggled w « the in be gontls é shits in, thus the ite ihe bednigs who size, with rapture breasts of ith this problem fot It does away Win tae fnges, clasps Hin Away chet § once usd fo unite three or bredlas ated ore and It does CRles with the tendency to leave the gen getting od York Herald fe ished weapon behind w of a ear harri New We BOMEERY Two Occupations for Women. The difficulty of sight ping especially if MiG af i seeing to advantage in au strange city Mnested, well ktiown to most women from actual ex The girl in Washington promises to obviate the discomfort In a most agreesble manner for her patrons amd with profit to herself. Needing empioyment, and thoroughly familiar with the city, environments, muny points of interest aid shopping facilities, she advertises fo act ax gulde to nuattended woihen visiting the eapital, either singly or in parties of two, three, or half-a-dozen The fee required for her services, while reasonable, Is sufficient to render it a paving as well as pleasant business, Other cities offer like opportunity to well-bred, intelligent young women, and with equal prospect of suceess, Another agreeable and graceful oc rupation tor women, especially in arge cities, the arrangement of flowers for ceremonions occasions dinners, banguets, weddings, ote, Soe. cess In this depends largely upon taste and originality Florists now em ploy ladies In this capacity as under. standing better than men the Httle | touches here nid there necessary for | grace and artistic effect. Table Talk, {ime ls ix perience clever lea of a voung ite is Imported Gloves for Women. | Importers of women's gloves say | that It seems to be a fad to wear no | gloves during the hot weather, brown hands evidently being considered i quite the thing. The prevalence of the shirt waist also has had a ten dency to curtail the use of gloves, A noticeable feature of the present styles of gloves used with long sleeves is the wretched and impracticable mode of som fasteners now being used to quite an extent by women who do not pay “meh attention to small matters, The other day on a Broadway cablecar | women in this man- Adjusting a garment to her tall, et wrivilege of trying his cherished Inspi- Once more It was a delightful and has the fad bw already In Chienge that there ¢ sometimes as many as twenty for their turn to ago Times Herald, anon wr wt _ “a great Tr wo nen waiting be pressed £ hile Play Clothes for Children Play clothes are it thing recognized needs of consid. small garments no longer hildren Ted quite flow % the to send the y out to play in ans ®0 ong as they are soiled iy not reaction the fancy for real hh as have been worn for girls. To th the old may good, old brought for There may be a hig year or m Bgainst Iwo summers meet i fresh demand, linen smocks name—~have been They fire one plece iIreases little the skirt reed into a band and some simple fac Then, too though ontinne, wit types, with in white, without any trim fit throwing fone but for into the Quite a novelty ix the overall, dress linen crash, button Brown linen trousers worn with the should be the from heavy atid no petticoats are Which ress, he city backyard and the count. A f« made with low all, Any pretty does for the slip, fj the most simple put on without fore, a French dea, calico pel the ng white hamburg «dging trimm ———— Gleanings From the Shops. polka-dotted pop Silk embroidered, Many dressy gowns finished with Satin stripe and fghred wash silks in all shades Dotted] Swiss muslins with printed floral designs v Pin check cheviot sultings in multh Foulards in oriental and Persian col Printed lncesstripe dimities on white Silk chiecked mixed suitings in shades of gray. tan amd eadet blue, Imported amd domestic penangs in Hashes of net, Ince or chiffon to bw worn with simple muslin gowns, Woven patterns in stripe and plaid with white Inwns on Ince striped floral dexigus Honiton printed grounds, Foulard finished prints of shirt waist patterns in stripes and checks, Rick embroidered volle robes in beautiful colorings with deep borders, Crash skirts in a great variety of new shapes, as well as many new forms of tralding and stitching. Dry Goods Economist, A——— What You Learn by Sickdess. “You learn a good many things through a long and dangerous [Hness,” mused Browne, who bad not been sick. “Yes,” responded Smithe, who had, “And the most notable is the fact nourishing food is Invariably some. thing you don’t want to eat.” Wasp, BRAVEST OF SCOUTS. THE SIBLEY EXPEDITION'S TERRIFIC BATTLE WITH SIOUX. One of the Western Warfare.--Sad Results That Fo!- lowed the Braying of a Mule.~~~Saved by a Stratagem. of the bravest episodes warfare, Capt, ¥. W, the Second United famous smoug the for his daring ax a scout in campaign, in the summer of 1876, after Sitting Bull and his thousands of Sioux warriors had swooped down up- on Gen, Custer's foree in the valley of the Little Big Horn, and had anni hilated every white man in the valley, the savages stole awny and went into in Western army in the West gion of barren hills and sagebrush, Gen, Terry and his army were on the north. Gen, Crook and his force were more than 100 miles to the south. The Sioux, some GO000 strong, wore in secret camp in a valley among the tracklessihiils and valleys between the two generals and thelr The slaughter of the troops under General Custer and the unusual miliary «kill of Sitting Bull and the savagery of the Sioux men timid and headstrong scouts thoughtral No one knew how far the Sioux were enmpexd from the how many wal lors the chief had, or what their plan of forces made brave two forves, aperations As days passed, relates the San, the grave. Crook had to know the location of the Indians, aud the to and from Lieutenant Sibley, who haa Wis, sitnation became more Gen route there, some creditable and knew the Indians’ ways fairly well, volunteered to lead a detachment of soldiers into the enemy's country and fo irs the Information, It w a hazardous undertaking and it was prepared after tin work to be performed and the chances the detachment coming back to camp alive, A detachment of 25 picked men to Lieuten ant Nibley was Frank tirnard, a of courage done scouting, to get as consideration of ngninst ever was assigned Among them frontier scout and large experience, General Crook bade ench man in the detachment good amd commended his bravery, The made from the camp on River on July 6, 1876. When fell Lieutenant Sibley and were twenty miles from Gen Crook's camp. In the overhanging oliff the Then, led hy Scout Gra Nibley br sinrt was {Fs night lis nen eral shadow of an nie all meal aml Lieutenant remounted and the Sioux they tr moonlight gripping their carbines searching the horizon for earliest signs of the presence of Ritting ull = about party 84 ard diers the sol resttmsnd the country All it was a nnd fhe and the march into long a viel bedd night gd night, soldiers, clear eagerly Along Soeont army. rode silence o clock the in in the morning fit head of the file of Gruard eB signalled a halt to a half away of a stream of water army of Sioux the smothered camp fives, Lieutenant Rib y fhe alry ley moved swiftly soott’'s side i down an of mille and and Iw Bull were camped valley roel grass Hitting fils I hers and the outlines of hundreds of tepees contkd in the moon. light. The braving of a mule, that one of the men in the detachment had chosen to ride, began with emphasis when Lieutenant Sibley and Scout Gruard had pearly finished a survey of tke Bloux camp. Iu a moment the In dians were roused by the mule’'s bray- ing. The savages seemed to rise by the score from behind every bush, to leap by the hundreds from the ground. A dozen sentinels, Jess than half » wile away, whooped and yelled as a signal to the camp below, Leaping into their saddles, Licuten ant Sibley and Scout Graard shouted to the detachment: “Follow sve vour ammunition: the redsking are after and escape’'s our only was ont They all knew (hat there eral hundreds of Indians agamst each of the twenty-six men in the detach ment In a few minutes the Sioux would be armed and on the trail of the fleeing whites It seemed Impossible that the detachment, unfamiliar with this strange region, Hs MONBIAIN Dass. es amd hiding Wire be distinguished sg Hs wore sey pots, could ever get away from these #0 thor oughly at home there, But a faint hope existed that the soldiers might reach the rocky and timbered foothills aver to the west, Once there, a few of the men might by some mirmmenlons chance get back to Crook's army alive, Away the cavalry galloped. straight across the mesa, with Seout Graard ahead, Once he turned and shouted to Lientennnt Ribley and the others: “Boys, if we can't retreat, we'll die fighting: we'll get no mercy from the Sioux.” It was at the first break of dawn when the horsemen were pushing thelr jaded horses as best they could ap the mountain sides of the Rnaxe Moun tains, The Sioux had spent & precions hour in finding the trail, and were now coming fast several mfles ih the rear on their fresh ponies, yelling, sereaming and shooting as they rode. The soldiers forced their horses through a pass amoung the rocks and on into a growth of timber on the mountain side. and forded a little branch of Tongue river. The lodians were coming on faster, yefling and shooting at times, Some of the war BAVARes, and were trying to flank the detach ment on the right. By a supreme of fort the soldiers reached the heavy timber, They tied thelr norses in an second and lay down among the fallen logs and behind the horses, resolved to well one bi ax possible. of cartridges. In anoiber mom fighting was on in dead earnest, were coming The like painted de mons up the steep and recky grade of the narrow pass. good view of the pass, and they {up a continuous { | Sioux kept dozen Indians fell in the first two min. Ulex, “Muke every ball count; keep your | nerve and expect no quarter,” shouted Lieutenant Sibley to each mun as be dodged from tree tree, He then lay behind a log and mude plans with Scout Gruarvd for a possible excape for the detachment, The carbines grew xo hot from the firing | that the soldiers couid scarcely load them, The Indians had older and i slowerdire gnns, Al length a warrior to the pass. The hail of lead that and horses subsided for a few min utes, During the lull Lieutenant Sib. ley told the detachment that the horses, food, saddles and all but the carbines and ammunition were be abandoned in such a and, beginning on the in desperate left, the time, atl got away as best each knew how, The firing possibile, the Sioux, who, seeing the horses nnd camp ontfits still would not know that behind the clona of powder smoke, ana the trees and logs, the sol was to continue as long ns there diers were slowly disappearing among the mountains Immediately the hostilities we newed, and, amid a sheet of flame and a pattering of bullets the tim ber and on the rocks, detachment slowly melted away the detachment were » early morning. Two the rear and were just about {0 get be hind the rocks when stray bullets fell odd them, The mer waited ten minutes between one another's depart The remained the firtng line kept ceaselessly at work with their hot re re among the Neven men thesad find crawled to hot that about ure to attempt escape hy retreat nen win an carbines, in spite of blistered fingers and palpitating hearts Riles the last of and when leatennnt Wik to leave the line 1 battle hind crawled he and his cot les among the rocks he volleys, Then the soldiers scram rocks amd ran the of Tongue river like the same moment the SUP Os 1 : i tune joined surviving ordered three aver gown mad Rioux fine of innin part At made a rush upon the the detachment and One may Imagine when they Jound six dead or dying horses, a lot of ra- They mien we posi. disap twenty carried t hielr tion pintment tions and a good camp outfit and sclped the dead soldiers gather thelr own dead, went down into the valleys The ef White Antelope morning lie story f the Ribley expedition « ndured ing up hack famous killed witht Was of the hardships the sur Oars o or f fig ral Crook's end heir retreat 1o Gene is a dreadful one, bat in the inanagedd fo read h the goal KiNG DANIEL O'KEEFE Once s Stevedore, Now He Is aa ladepen dent Monarch, “Tumniel (Viel wlio is small island in the Philippine group, 4 of Savannah tliat iy, still iv gular wax formerly a resident a said a visitor from “anil has a wife and daughter ing there aon le 10% who are in 1 corre with him in his younger vears O'Keefe was a stevedore at the Nog restless, and mans arnah wharfs, bul been a Pacific-bound returned After a vicissitudes he got into the copra trade and bweenine rich, Most of copra came from an island between North Borneo snd Mindanao, at the tail end of the i dippines, and about six years be purchased it outright from Spain and set himself up as an inde i» ndent ruler. “Ile wields a tremendous Influence over natives and i= well known all sotith Pacific. He has a house #hipped on boat Hever great his ngo Cer tin each summer and lives in lordly fash Seg rwhile he kept nmunication has steadily supported ber a handsome I: danghter was bora a wonths #fier his departure nm hax fever &con Ber father, but a handsome and recent photograph of him hangs in their pat ar, “For erver a dozen years O'Keefe has wen mterding to come home but would put it off from season to season, fs Lis buzipess interests multiplied amd his presence at the idland became amd mere imperative. About for years ago he made all arrange tents for the trip and a day wag set for hie arsivel, but he failed to ap pear, The old's ors in Savannah re member Dan O cefe very well, asd he is commonly spoken of ns the King of the Gapmini Islands. His wife's cory NHitle home is crowded with curios from the far eeific” £1 funiw inn oon with his wile, her and now annual allpw few SINT TD settle hie ant A Japanese Hospital Ship. The Japanese finve had a hospital ship built in Renfrew, Scotland. It Is about two thousand tons, with a speed of fifteen Knots, and will be used in thes of peace as a merchant vessel, Ax fitted up for the treatment of wounded in time of war, there will be three hundred beds for patients, with first-class accommodations for the Cmedionl staff, nurses and attendants, Burying the Dead in Porto Rice. The Porto Rican way of burying the dead Is curious. A coffin is rented for the corpse to be carried to the céme (tery. Two or four natives carry it tale heads or fastened to two ba ww poles, The corpse le taken out | the coffin and buried about two fee {If the rent for the burial | pala within a certain time the body is (dug up and thrown away. i NOTES AND COMMENTS. Germany thinks that we shall wel- come her as a neighbor in the Pacific, It depends on how she condnots her self, Official experts estimate that the Nicaragua Canal will cost $115,113, 790. And business men generally agree that it will be worth the money, lecent developments in the Dreyfus case show that France is highly re solved to square herself with her eon. science, It is a severe task, but it will be worth all it costs. Canada’s trade with the United States in 1898, according to a recent report of the Capadian commissioner of customs, amounted to $124 000,. 000. Burely a basis for argument pointing to the value of closer recip- rocal relations A firm of English tea merchants offers every married woman who buys a pound of its H0-cent tea for five consecutive weeks a pension of $2.50 a week in case of the husband, provided he in good healch when she began to buy the tes The pension is to continue as she remains a widow to death of her Was long as The New York People says that the Buskin co-operative association, at Ruskin, Teun., commonly known as the “Ruskin Colony,” is about to col lapse. Its lands and houses are to be sold, and the hundred or still on the site of the coiony are ap pealing to the utopians of the country for fifteen thousand tide them over the *‘erisis.’ sO colonists 3. 23 doeligrs to Official reports show that the total number of vessels passing through the Suez Canal last year was 3,503, and that the gross receipts were $17,500, 000, or £145,000 more than 1897, those for added em- Uncle Sam in his namely, that there is big money These figures give to get ¢ ¥ id Y: mb an idea ual firmly phasis should mind, anchored in the canal business, that BOATCEr Government reporis indicate conl Well, the semi -anthrdeite article found in seemingly inexhaust- Kansas, Missouri, Ar kansas the Indian Territory is about to the and from these son anthracite every Year. in becoming ible beds In and genuine article, be supplies to carry us through the next Years, two or 3 great nneasiness need be felt by pres. equal I'Ce8 CRD gdrawn three thousand 80 BO ent generations, st least, londike has a rival The new i is Cerro Pinto, or Spotted Moun the middle of lower Cal and only one day the Pacille. Miners diggings in two days from K! fiel tain, fornia from about overland reach the Fusenada porthern end of the peninsula, r only expensive lnxury is water The eight mil The gold reached San Diego extraordinarily fine, 219 to g20 an Pure gold in worth s20 67 an ounce, 25 a bucket, new fields are $0 be twenty fixteen wide rapnng ounce Another trinmph for skilled labor in the United States is the award by adelphia firm for the plans and con- struction of an armory and barracks near Caracas. The cost will be about but the amount 1s not so uy the fact that the award was won in competition with both Veueznelsn and European en- Rineers, It 1s expected that most of is be exported from this country. Incidents such as this will continne despiie the nec It is significant of the growth of sentiment in favor of cremation that a bill providing for compulsory crema- has met as yet with little opposition, death is due to diseases lige cholera, tubercnlosis, which But it is that eremation would result in cheapening the coxt of disposing of the dead. This seems like carrying practical considerations to an extreme, but it appears to have had great weight, The women of Holland have staried a moversent of their own, and as might be expected from that thrifty people, it is an eminently practical one. The object is to take the poor from the pities and plant them in conntry col onies, The object is not a new one, but it has not seemed to appeal to women's societies until the genuine Holland dames took hold of it, The women who colleet the funds and manage the busivess buy some waste jand within easy distance of a town, build sanitary cottages and let them on easy terms, The tenants’ wives are started in poultry and dairy {arn ing and many of the men secure work in the neighboring towns, the dis. tance being #0 short that theve is no trouble about going back and forth daily. : The farmers of Oregon have found a new industry, which at the same time solves the problem what the con. victe in the State penitentiary oan be set to work at are to weave ign in which to market their . EE - ble than these of eetton, and as the conrsest filre such as can be got from flax grown for seed can be used, itis believed they will not he expensive, (It is a good beginning for the flax | growing and linen-msking industries. The manufacture of the finest linen fabrics will doubtless follow in due time. It is a great gain any way for Oregon farmers to diversify their Cindustries, They have been growing i wheat too exclusively, says the Amer- ican Cultivator, Thomas Carlyle said: “Every msn i# as lazy as he dares to be.” Like many another assertion of that too cynical philosopher this is not strictly true, But there is a large element of truthe in the thought it conveys. Happily for the world there are large numbers of men and women in it who are not as lazy as they dare to be; who are not lazy at all, in fact, de- clares the New York World Ou the contrary they find delight in working for others, for their wives, their hus- and This doubt of the great ms At the sume time ANY and women to whom Carivie’s too sweeping charae- terizatl iazy us work of the WOrk. nnless bands their ehildren. without in irae jority of mankind. there are en in applies, They are literally they They to live and have no conception BRPpPINEss of liviug to wonld work at all goad of necs ssity It 1s from this lat ter class of people—small as compared with the former, lsmentably nu merous—that the armies of crin as dare to be, higher They the sharp drove them to it. not vel £ are coustantiv drawing recriits, A MARCHAND STORY. One of the Ways the Freach Exploreriook to Make His Noted Jourmey. toward ho has {fat reacliod rkable trip aross from j® Te was Lord K thousands did not SI. fracheend a ember af Neue » mond fed interests of s in a letter father aod & name fe 10 gv on ord 1 fine force I 8 steamer i» in if sible, our Red Neg Atlantic, oN) . Lie possession of Obwek on 1 t of the Con 0 on the of with tha { Mig tirnilours whites foree was formed black offiverad Lay twenty dive got through, “I have taken all the pieces of the to the River where we shall put them togeth I tell you it amn of 10 200 porters that we carry the materiale for the steamer. They were always tring to escape. We In vain shot hanged the rInDawars we The fresh gangs repeated others had done. and there we were, with piles of irom apd steel not knowing how to take them on in time, Nothing would have been done, if we had not had the patoence to hunt up bearers fr the villeges we were able to reach, The S00 blacks, well armed, gathered up man they cond lay hold on. When there were not men esough they look we wen. and made them each carry a load of sixty kilos on their heads, 1 thea forward, When they could ne longer go on, we made other raids on villages, It often happened that we found a village forsaken. In (hat case we burned a few hai” The hopes of Nationalists were for time fixed on General Gallend, but Marchand, with his Africanexperi ences, with pothing of great conse. quence to lose but much gain, would, they think, be a better man to rally round, Just siea mer Xnen, what work Was lead into no the piece pressed our service to 0 canght what the other every wont | SO to Made » Thorough Job of I. In consequence of the frequency P with which fires oceur in Shanghai, the insurance companies of that place addressed a complaint to the magis- trates affirming that incendiaries were Ltoo leniently dealt with, Ax a result, | the sagncious law dealers have decremd proprietors of European honses shall also be punished as incendiaries if they insure their property. By this means the magistrates declare, md complaints will be avelded, for there will be no " Vomen talk so much, Miss Kime ne, i “"
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