NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX
———
NOTES OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS
FEMININE TOPICS,
My Lady's Footwear—Wheelwomen in
Europe — Oriental Embroideries for
Waists- Girl Life in Pao-Ting-Fu-The
Mother of Henry Clay, Etc, Ete.
—————
My Lady's Footwear.
There is a great interest now in fash-
fon for the feet, because there is a
radical change taking place in the
footwear of My Lady of Modes, It
seems as if she had scarcely succeed
ed In freeing herself from the folly
of tall heels and pointed toes and
showed her determination to cast van
ity to
gense and solid weight before she sud
denly returns to the other extreme and
is once more mincing about ofi spind
ling heels and narrow toes,
Wheelwomaen in Europe. :
Wheelwomen in Europe meet with
many difficulties In Russia every
thing is managed “by order of
Czar,” and cycling is no exception to
the rule. before a woman can
sess a wheel must
consent, and as this
sparingly are
women in
France
husband
madame ¢
she must first
tion from her
privilege,
In Florence w
Carry two belis t
pos
she obtain royal
is granted quite
but
there wheel
few
Russin
of the
hefore
Club
obtain a signed declara
recognizes the right
to he Boss, and
an join the Touring
the
spouse granting her tl
must
y warn pedestrians of
Men
hell
omen cyclists
the machine's approach
ly required to have
are on-
Oi
Oriental Embroidaries for Waists.
If striking in effect
walsts made of gzayvly
and fringed silk k
the
lently out of the
not as as the
colored striped
rehiefs, those with
suthic
ordinary attract
Oriental embroideries
persons who want something unique
The embroideries that
usually
are ol
sort
is used for sofa pillows, table
covers and other houshold decorations
They are done on silk, linen, canvas
and vi:
rich
wit]
>i il
agther materials in the
colors of the Orient, frequently
f gold or sil
an intermingling of
ver threads
These embroideries come In strips or
for Har, cuffs
They
squares and are
end
vest ridie
combined wit
and g are
h plain be
ing especially effective ream
white, blue gray or deep ecru
Oue of advant
trimmings the
the ages these
far E:
As
differentiate
os
from Ist
no two
the
fine needlework endlessly,
all the work done
sons who wish to carry
ity still further,
trigpinings at an
decorator =,
greater
sets alike
are
Orientalists
Of course,
hand Per
the Individual
prefer to get
is by
these
upholsterer 8 Or
the
art
where variety is
than at the dry goods store
The Mother of Henry Clay.
One is not accustomed to thinking
of Henry Clay as the son of a tavern
keeper, yet this is the fact, and Ver
sailles, Ky., is the unpretentious place
the mother and stepfather of the great
commoner selected in which cons
duct that tas and add that tre
mendous fact to the history of Ken-
tucky. Had Mr. Clay's parents
decided on this course what
have subsequent
to
ern.
not
might
¢
been of
the history
the State cannot be divined
the long journey
and hence
that Henry Watkins
and his wife, Elizabeth Clay Watkins,
took
ginia
acrrss the
1(%)
wilderness from Vir
that
shaped, no doubt, the political destiny,
to a ldrge ext
Elizabeth Hudson.
“Mill oy of
Rev, Iw
she w
years ago Was one
ut, of the entire South
the mother of the
the Slashes,” married
John Clay, after whos
i death
o Henry Watki
anid her famil which was a wealth
old Virgin
ginia
as mar ; t ns
t one, lived in royal old A -
pomp howeves
said to have
Lil
to the Revol
did not a
stepfather
in
and
account of the
vichmond, a. ax a deputy
prose stndies
I he
npaniedd by a
and after reaching
took charge of the
Versailles, and it
called “Watkins tavern.”
At the Watkinses, rit
tendens, Clays and Marshalls planned
many a political campaign, and it was
fo this tavern that Lafayette came In
1826, and was royally entertained by
the most distinguished Kentuckians
of that day. Henry Clay in later years
visited his mother here, and
Wiatkinses were acco
of
Versailles thes
number slaves,
on
ly hostelry in Wis
the
this tavern
wis a
sailles, She was said to have been one
of the most beautiful and dashing wo-
men of her day, and was one of the
shrewdest as well Later on in life Mr,
and Mrs. Watkins retired from the
tavern business and lived on a farm
till the close of their lives, Mrs. Wat.
kins died in 1828 at the age of eighty.
~-Lexington (Ky. Herald,
Directions for Washing the Face.
The matter of washing the face ap
pears very simple, but it Is the excep
tion rather than the rule when it is
properly done.
piture and note the amount of dust
fuce has to receive, It not only gath
ers up the minute particles of all Kinds
that float about the house, but that,
too, which is outside, There is an old
tradition that if one would preserve n
delicate complexion, water should not
touch the face, the skin fo be clean
the
The
applied Hberally to it
suthce if
glass onse,
might
in a
| needs hot water
with the hands,
| of pure, non-irritating
| come Wash
abomination, ns
free from
{ace
nel, which
were kept face
will not
ure
ney are
impurities,
same statement Is true of
They left imperfectly cleansed
{ from the soap that has been used and
| are dried at the washstand, when af
| ter every use they should be washed,
| boiled and hung in the ale. 1 have of
ten seen faces with muddy skins, dot
soap
nmiss, cloths
too sel
and
an
dom
ure
cause impurities from wash cloths and
had rubbed into
skin, to its infection
if face
fine blackheads,
Sponges been
and filled
latter can
by rubbing with
cloth dipped in alcohol in
parts of cologne and water; the latter
will cleanse the face better than any
thing else, acting upon the skin
| gentle stimulant. The contact
fingers with the face seems to have a
It is easy while thus
the is olly
be re
soft
the
moved them n
or
i
vivifyving effect,
| dashing the water in the face to mas
face.
If, the face has not
carefully looked after in the manner
described, if the oily matter has been
allowed collect in the glands and
enlarge their and the face is
dotted with those unsightly accumaula-
however, been
to
orifices
tions. the work of getting rid of them
matter. Some of the largest
may be rubbed out with the soft cloth
In NO eOsy
especial-
if
dipped in cologne and water,
Iv if the face is first steamed; but
this method is not sufficient, those re
one by
hole of
point, a
ing must be pressed out,
using a I
one watch key. The
the
! qui
. 3
over tae
placed
the con
To
1
wr
made and
is
3 of the pushed out
allay the irrit: the face should
washed witl hot water after this,
and care should be taken that too
of the blackheads are not remov-
many
ed at one Harper's Baz
Ciel Life in Pao-Ting-Fu.
Among the
an Board i:
whose safety
the New York Tr
S. Morrill, a tea
there n a recent letter
missionaries of the Amer
Pao
ry
-
, BiiYn
Miss Mary
hh
her 11 ae 2g ris’ ms hool
el vos
3
she giv
the account of a
life
3 1
0 CloeK,
foll interestin
hinese school
bell
the worl f th
hd
day
The
and
6.15
at once morn
ng toilet begins dress
alike, h
ir of
oo costume
loose baggy
at
and a
fastened
ire
ibhon sac
re
Knees
to the
ttous,
right shoulder
arm
ne
at
one
i
and three
of ilways sees that
the water the bathroom is Ww armed
for the morning fa«
in
¢ washing. be ause
er with astonish
ted
to make her toil
a Chinese would shiv
ment were she expe
mer,
ter
sven n
cold
Breakfast frequently consists of
and
night's
being a spe
week
sum
et witl wa-
cornmeal, cakes cabbage stew
the remainder of the previous
White flour
is used only
porridge
cial treat,
This is usually accompanied by a little
fwice A
meat, which is chopped fine with cab
bhage
turnips, fresh and salted, make a va
the of fare,
consist of porridges made of corn
ri
and onions, Sweet potatoes and
riety in week's bill Sup
pers
Beans are often
millet or ©
with ti
meal,
mixed
The girls do their own laundering
Instead of ironed
are folded smoothly
laid
vig
#
we millet and rice,
clothes
and
a stone slab and pounded
the
being
while damp
upon
wously with wooden
“Study alond
a bedlam of Oriental
pest los
Ih often makes
is a
but
ng whi
classrooms,
thing of To n our school:
the exoression 1 the pupils’ f
pursuing
Hees
while they are silently their
lessons often reminds + of the looks
after they
‘ub! cab!
there,” as a
rked as she
the silenced horses
tion there are
swings,
iackstones thie
of
at
ropes aml and
Hoy we
Ihe
I'he
vIn “Tes out
retiring bell rings
crusade against fool
Ww with sud
aged oRY
Bits of Femininity.
For mourning pretty
are made of black net.
The flowing veil ig not used,
the ends are now drawn up at the
back into a snug knot and held closely.
Pretty dancing gowns for young
girls are made of soft white silk net
| with very open mesh.
Another revival of an old favorite
iis the return of pongee silk, which is
Lirimmed with handsome embroidery
| matching it in color,
| Nome of the evening gowns by emi
| nent foreign designers are little more
| or less than facsimiles of the costumes
| worn by belles of the Lonis XV. era,
blouse waists
loose
| wize, Is a trimming that
| a tremendons popularity, and Is even
{ beginning to appear upon cotion
| gowns,
| very fashionable comoinations.
| Black and white gauzes are both
Cand sash ends,
Embroidered silk musling are very
much the fashion for elegant evening
gowns In white made over plain silk
muslin in some dainty color which in
: liberty satin.
A violet boa is a charming conceit,
This Is not composed entirely of arti.
| ficial flowers, but is made of spiral
| pleatings of pale lavender chiffon,
bordered irregularly by artificial violet
| blossoms at the edge,
Suede kid slippers In a
i colors match the gowns
Some of the more fancy
variety of
to are worn
this season,
kinds show a trimming of gold braid.
(lass Industry in the United States.
Pennsylvania and Indiana furnish
| most of the glass which is turned in-
American mirrors but
plate glass factories that can turn out
| & quality of glass suitable for the use
| of mirror manufacturers are spring-
| ing up very rapidly in several of the
Eastern States. The American glass
| makers have finally succeeded in turn
ling out a superior quality of clear
white glass, which makes as fine mip
| rors as can be bought in any part of
| the world, The leading looking glass
makers have found thig out and they
import very little glass Yor their use.
Not more than one-tenth of the mir-
| rors made in the United States last
year made of imported
whereas a few vears ago nearly all the
| American mirror makers were com
| pelled to go abroad for thelr glass,
Just at present the price asked for
{to at present,
were glass,
nsked for imported ones, but when the
price of materials slackens up a little
the United States will probably turn
first of looking
glass much cheaper than any part of
the world will de
cided picking in of
looking
of
supply
out a class quality
There also be a
up the exporting
the number
sufficient
snd have
glass as soon as
plate glass plants 1s
local market
surplus for foreign trade
Fhe sec are impros
g lat
,
i
oods right
coming into existence are striving
make only the best quality, In con
sequence the supply will soon
home and foreign demand
Woman a Beast of Burden.
It Ital
an
is no uncommon sight to see
women walking along the
balancing burdens on their heads that
3
ave
the average man would prefer to
truck A
wi
gh City Hall Park
what appeare
sent home on a few
ARO one of these nen
thron im
he was carrying
woxlwork fr
I't
ie
[ie 0
fully
om the
bundle
f hard
$ ix
IWelse
he entire
{ some house wi
being
Fa i
and
jHece was six
an inch thick he
with hand
one
ihe
ww she carried
what
onsider a good load for
the
?
ex Of
of a
.
y 1 #
person bundle At
} shape
shorter pis
Ax
near Chambers the end
WOO
she turned into Centre street
of the load of
i gme in
lumber on her head « contact
with the head of a man who was going
In order to
hard
to one side,
in the opposite direction
prevent hitting him the
and
she «did so her burden fell to the walk.
ton wo
man tried to turn au
in vain she tried to replace it on her
At took hold of
at They found that
their
head last two men
h end
combined
it, one one
oven strength was
just sufficient to lift up and place it on
again. When
adjusted in
picked
smaller bundle and started up Centre
New York
woman's head
finally
woman
the the
woes] was a
the
position up her
street Times,
A Case of Luck
“1 don't know what has become of
' him?” snapped the pretty girl in blue,
“and what more 1 He
called here regularly for two months,
and you can't blame me for the con
I put on it,
took
ime
in don’t ¢
are.
struction
he
of
you
hh notice
he called, and
Yer disagreeable to call
he kept coming and mak
my anti] 1
wi that 1
It went on like that 1
bint he
when #1
every t know
Fido
ore
Can 1
Well,
ing eves at dog began to
wonder if he IX aware wis
in the room wr
some time, at last found his
tongue and xaid
“1 suppose you have wondered why
ve been calling
jntely 7”
At that a tht
over me as | realized that the supreme
had did
to Keep my
I was awfully surprised
“Of conrse you know, he continued,
“that I am a great dog fancier? Your
Fido is such an example of a well
bred pug that 1 think I conld look at
him forever. Ab. how | envy you! Of
course | know that you would never
| dream of selling him, so the only way
i I could feast my eyes on him was by
! calling
“He didn’t say anything more, for
right there something happened, and
11 flatter myself that when that young
i man left, as he did rather suddenly,
{that he had a flea in his ear. And
he didn’t get it from Fido either!” De.
i troit Free Press,
delicious ill passed
moinent arrived, 1 my best
Oldest Severcigalia Europe
The King of Denmark, who has just
celebrated his vightg-second birthday,
| is the oldest sovereign in Edrope, un-
| lesa the Grand Duke of Luxemburg be
| taken into account. King Christian is
| rather more than a year older than
| Her Majesty Queen Victoria, who was
| 81 on the 24th of May. The Duke of
Luxemburg was born on July 24, 1X17,
The queen, however, has been nearly
wixty-three years on the throne,
| whereas the King of Denmark did not
| ascend the throne till 1863, the year
Cin which his eldest daughter married
the Prince of Wales, The King of the
| Belgians was U5 years old on April
oth. a
THINCS IN WHICH UNCIVILIZED MAN
IS WONDROUS SKILLFUL.
ing as Practiced by the Natives of
Borneo—The Dyaks as Fire-Makers A
Suggestion for Farmers
of Liver
Bud
a
of
brackets in
of his lund
a platform on that sup
port, hauls up the ladder and repeats
A certain “Steeple Jack,”
pool, according to the St James
get, by
new
Lis
the
der,
has won renown devising
for the
He
IIASONry
tet hod performance
work fixes iron
nt the height
builds
the operation until the top is reached
But the of
have practiced this of
ing trees from date immemorial,
naked savages lorneo
climb
They
method
use it especially for taking Lees’ nests,
That the |
ing species, Knows
sagacious lnsect joney-hear
at least better
in spots which
oan
than to fix its home
greedy men
The
vi
his noble tree ir
and beasts nt
easily
tapong is its fas
tain
fuge
fet Hore
bees 1 well
arite ree
hundred
without a The
think themselves safe
in a hat smoot stem, fAfty
yards above the gronnd
a Dyak
them
\
i
1
1 i
pie
slend
stand three
1g aloft
ger standing
humorous obser:
rades down below
Dwoen
They
Diyaks car
a
man
and
PRIMITIVE SUSPENSION
BRIDGES
extra
other
with all
only
is not required
among the Dyaks
memory They oh
a big tree on ea
chasm. and also, if it be wide,
trees stand
stout
crest of these latter and fasten them
A network of rattans
and graceful,
at either
tans attached to check oscillation, just
one
its
the vontra«
wh
WINE AB
h side overhangs
where
in the middie They push
bamboos fr
4
om the bank into the
always regular
suspends this footway
end, with perpendicular rat
contrive it
is fixed
in
as our engineers
A slight handrail
side to help the passenger
It mn
h
Keeping
he grasped,
the
in the op
on oa
balance 1% not
pressure
his
would canse
for any
bridge to slide so violently
posite direction that a monkey could
if this arrangement
per
not keep his feet
a Ti. it is dne to our
fox
imperfect,
tions It lias no fault for those who
sues it or they wonld assuredly make
u it, ! i ’
a change
INGENIOUS FIRE- MAKERS
[ess known are the Dyraks ingenious
naling fire
03 Maxing unre
Ways
but that
Iimnboo hing
js slight. This
more curious because
ine
Inter than the introduction of
prt
from Europe: native earthenware Ww il
work the trick.
CATTY A
hollowed ont
not
of
| wl
at
short, slender
Some
fon one
in which its fits
cup with tinder,
in the left hand,
over it, strike
case runs down
metal, cup
end, and a bamboo
tightly Filling the
they bold it upright
adjust the bamboo
smnartly so that the
and over the rod, withdraw it, and
the fungus ix glowing, [It could not
have been by accident that they dis
covered this principle, with which
doubtless they had long been acquaint.
flint and steel,
ONE WAY TO SCARE BIRDS,
Nor was it by accident that they
scaring birds, which had not yet oc
curred to the civilized farmer.
harvest field is encircled with long,
flexible bamboos, connected by a
string, with bits of rag or leaves at.
tached. From this circumference a
radil of such poles converge upon the
contre, where site an old man past
work, or a ohild, upon a covered plat
form, All the lines of the string meet
here, knotted to a post within
reach,
fingers over them, forthwith a storm
rages in that field, The potes bow and
jerk, the rags flutter, the leaves rustle,
and every bird in the neighborhood
files for his life
BORING UNDER DIFFICULTIES,
Fhe most skillful of our artisans
woulil give it up indignantly If he
were aisked to plerce an eight-foot rod
the hardest timber, harder by far
than oak. with no tools beyond, as one
uy, fi brad-awl” and a of
the bes
Mareoy er,
mathematically true from end to end
of
may plece
hole, to
But this feat is performed by the wild
of the whom Dyaks
will not recognize as human beings
Pakatan [jit Thus
they
blow pipe
ot forest tribes,
thie and SOE
manufacture the “sumpit’
for
which peoples more advanced buy of
them, [It i
would not
how
or poisoned Arrows,
must be heavy, or the
hard
be cut exactly
will
Some
he true; and
bore conld not
irregularit
deflect
slight CRuse
to
an
ow
long, inch and a quarter t and
The
inch in diameter,
welgh four pounds bore is two
fifths of an
AN INGENIOUS WEAPOXN,
Another ingenious weapon i the
casting spear used in the thick jungle
bar of
nt a single poln
the
the butt drops =o hens
in wom
for
thus held
a slender iron cased
wide eno
When
iy
straight A
j Uni Lil
band to grasp
that it ix
(4,1 §
possible to throw It
into the
ad
ain altitude a
rior casts this air. and
the balance usted
wd
upon
a] ert
point downward,
brush
hed In the
RUSSIANS IN THE DAKOTAS
A Whole Township Set led by Former Sad
jects of the Car
tier
Wis
national
exposed to
than part hese proad
with 1t
and submit te becoming
numbers of them
are con
There
Mich
to this country
wa of them in
mmigrants
mmig who
have created the Odessa”
ri
Aner
alled,
an
as Eureka, 8 Dak. is their bh
farms, herds of admir
able farm ulldings are testimony
have
were Germans from
Baden
Russis
sleek cattle and
that
they prospered Their ancestors
£ and
m0
induce
Wurtembur
One hundred
n government
ments to
years the
offered
German farmers who would
go to Southern Russia and settle in
the Odessa district
The
y
plan
immigrants received lands on a
somewhat similar to the mer
ican homestead right: they were per
mitted to have their own churches
schools snd courts in which thelr
own
language was used and the
from
exempt
These
wl
Yoogrin
flees
#41
to settle in
INST a rail
was complet « to Eareka, which
terminus Tin
MoPherson and the part
of Mcintosh, Campbell and
Walworth counties are now settled by
wesiern
larger
Emmons
these people.
Eureka
habitants
of
controls the
is a about 2.000 in
it marketing
of grain and stock for a radios of six-
ty-five miles,
Coming from extreme
with loads of wheat, farmers are on
the road two days They stay in town
over night and start home the follow.
town
distances
with the men to “see the
make purchases
ten come
sights” and
Eureka is the greatest primary wheat
Every one of the
2.000,000 bushels of wheat which it
from the wagons of the farmers who :
raised it,
A Starting Telegram.
Iu an article entitled “IHumors af |
Irish Banking.” The mmancial Times |
tolls the story of a startling telegram |
received upon one ocension at the head
office of a certain Irish bank from a
remote country branch, The com: {
munication read: “Regret inform yon |
i
1
1 died this morning of pneumonia”
and was “signed for John Brown,
manager, Thomas Smith” Evidently
thy prevailing Wea in Mr. Smith's
mind, when he dispatched the wine
at all hazards to comply with the
thie form
doubt
wns
regulations, and so he used
ot laid down,” and no CO
him
CImergency.
fs
gratulated
the
Mr.
misfortune
Globe,
self upon being equal
it was
had the
pneumonia. ~~
toy (if cotirse
drown, the manager, who
to die of
London
Boers as Cooks,
About twelve years when the
first gold rush took place to the Wits
watersrand gold fields, the
ago,
place was
only approached by road: there
Were
po rallways for some years afterward.
brought the
Natal to
f.umbering mail coaches
miners from Kimberley or
Johannesburg
On the road
where the teains
the
3 s+: 11 .
houses were usunliy Boer
were places
and
These
#lopping
Wore hanged
PASSENZArS refreshed
and
of
farms,
the farmers wade a good ti
to warfarers
ng out
dispensing hospitality
In
the dixhes
the g table stood
middie of a lon
Everyone hb
by digging a tv g
the dish no
tablecloth: « dirty and
unappetiz ny $1 the farmers wis
ped himself
fork
There
into
iron ged
nearest nim was
Vervining Yas
or
nreserves, and
3 A prepara
ved In sugar
and
way
ch
makes a splen-
But
stoned
Hontly
“mans
them
policemen,
spjoy her self
after the In
1 in our pre
i
pushers’ have
don’t
about
wiv
itm
Roberts's Praise of His Wile
Aady Roberts, lik her Hustrious
exceedingly frank
During
india she
husband, ix of an
and disposition
Bohs’ tistration in
and
Simla are said
grief stri when
general and
sirand.™
traveller, and
was
Was exiren the resi
dents of salubrious to
cken the
ame for the his
family to leave “weoral
Lady Roberts is a
t =0 long
it is no hat
he was on her
mnd 81 Bloem
loberts
ROCIO Y
startled
wav io
fonts was
to remark that
commander ia
ARONS
Again,
carefully yon
the an
n Egypt the children
melons
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had a great deal of difficulty in per
snading them to cease vearning after
these Egvptian dainties,
evidently, in
wilderness,
The Ceurtry for Ducks,
There are more ducks in China than
in all the world outside of it. They are
kept on farms mostly; but the rivers,
lakes and brooks swarm with them,
they being a favorite article of food
with Ah Sin, The breoders sometimes
keep them on boats, as many as 2.000
being found on one boat. The hatch.
ing is done in special buildings, some
establishments turning out as many
ax HOOD bird: every year. Either
fresh, salted or smoked they are sold
exported,
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Elective Speaking.
“The general public? said the Corn-
fed Philosopher, “takes less Kindly to
the orator whose speeches are like a
two-edged sword, than it does to him
whose speech is like a two headed
hammer.” Indianapolis Press,
In Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Texas and Colorado there are fully
H500.000,000 geres of land, nearly all of
which could be utilized by Irvigation.