LADIES* DEPARTJLEM.
l>rs Hints*
The geometric style of dress—that
Is, cut up into triangles ami stiff forum
—is trying for any kinil of figure, gooff
or bad. Where the figure is handsome
the nearer to the simplicity of a bit of
fabric draped about it in soft, clinging
linen the dress approaches the more
becoming. Long lines from the
shoulder to the foot give bight; hori
zontal lines crossing the figures shorten
the person. Short, stout women should
avoid basques or any dress that makes
a descriptive lino about the hips;
ruffles at the shoulder or hi|w that in
crease the bulk; waists or skirts of too
great tightness, whore looser draper
ies would give slenderness to the figure
from not. defining too clearly the lines-
Tall women who are too slender, may
use the horizontid lines with advan
tage. and increase the apparent size of
arm or waist by a surrounding band,
The double skirt is to them an advan
tage, where it makes the short woman
too short.
Polnl-TrfiM.
For two hundred years has the mys
tery of its fabulously fine intertracery
been an impenetrable secret—a secret
most prized, perhaps, among "forgotten
arts."
For true point-tresse there must be
snow white hair; alas! doubtless, " sor
row-blanched locks " were often pressed
into tearful, loving service for this
almost priceless " thing of beauty."
Hair of silvery sheen and silken
quality, blended with exquisitely fine
threads of flax, was the material from
which patient fingers wrought out this
gossamer device of shimmering arab
esque.
Its genuineness could be established
by exposure to the strongest sunlight
when a peculiar, tremulous glistening
was instantly developed. Another
test was by fire; if authentically pure
in every thread, a very perceptible
frizzle was apparent, but never ablaze.
Occasionally in antiquarian collec
tions one may chance upon a stray bit
of this delicately fashioned lace. Among
the fondly hoarded relics of a noble
English family there is claimed to be
a scrap of the dainty texture, the work
of Margaret, Countess of Lennox,
made during a weary imprisonment in
the Tower. This memorial of affection,
woven by eyes longisl used to weeping,
and with threads of her own white
bair, was sent to her unhappy daugh
ter-in-law, Mary Stuart, accompanied
by words of pathetic greeting and as
surances of unchanging sympathy.
—Bajar.
A Voting Clrl't Bcd-ltoom.
A' young girl' 9 room may be fur- !
nished daintily and in exquisite taste
at a small expense. The chief outlay
will be for a bedstead. This cannot
be constructed out of a pine board and
bit of inuslin, though many other
things may lie; but a handsome painted |
bedstead of blue and white is the first \
requirement for this room. The floor j
may be covered with plain, white mat- |
ting, or of blue and white plaid, with
a soft rug at the side of the lied; a
dressing-case of white wood, covered
with white silesia and muslin, can le
made next,-and a white wood wash
stand is also needed. This, like the
dressing bible, should have the under
part entirely concealed by breadths of
the silesia and muslin. They should
be gathered slightly at the t ip, s<> that
they will fall in graceful folds. The
curtains should lie of the muslin,
draped, and the lied-spread and pillnw
covers of the muslin over silesia also.
The bed-spread should of course lie
smoothly over the lied, and he tuck
ed in at ihe end and sides, unlike the
lace ones, which hang over. The
muslin of the pillow covers may be
shirred at the top and bottom, if you
like the full look the shirring gives;
they need, in this case, no edges, and
W x Jn fart when put over the silesia plain-
I ly, do not trim them with lace, unless
J you add this adornment to the curtains >
but finish with a plain hem. With
I the various trifling ornaments a young
r girl gathers about her, the room will j
receive anything it may need in color
to brighten It. A room so prettily
furnished may lie a real help to a girl;
It will not be easy for her to cultivate
disorderly habits there, for the effect
she has worked to create would be en
tirely marred. It may help her to calm
n thoughts, but of this we cannot be
certain.
• 11 ruklra XMW.
Cockade bows are all the rags.
Colored straws are much worn.
Flowers are worn to excess on
bonnet*.
New parasols are very showy and
U large.
WT Henri II styles arc gaining ground
In Paris.
, Black silk hosiery Is excessively
fashionable.
Braiding is for morning and walk
ing dresses.
Black straws are more worn than
( colored ones.
I Oriental colors in bro -ados are much
sought for.
Fancy checked and striped hosiery
is going out of use.
Summer toilets are made dressy with
lace auff embroidery.
Some of the new lace mitts are
' ruched with silk at the top.
Parasols of pongee have scalloped
borders and tinted silk linings.
The simplest forms of making up
summer dresses please most.
A flower epaulet on the left shoul
der is a pretty fancy of the moment.
The Louis XVI shades are most
preminent, dull-reds, faded blues, dried
rose leaves, and dead wood.
Tucks in bunches across the skirt
in flounces, arid In lengthwise rows on
front brea litis, are still in favor.
Triple liox-plcats, kilts and panels,
with bouffant drapery in the back is
the leading style for making skirts.
Silk gloves in the popular Jersey
shape are worn and embroidered along
tiie back of the hand an I across the
arms.
A favorite dress for little folk is the
white Mother Hubbard dross, worn
with colored gimp and sleeves or vice
versa.
There is no fabric handsomer for an
elegant evening costume than royal
i satin with brocade bouquets of detach
ed flowers.
Buttons most nsed for children's
dresses are gilt or silver halls, gilt
diagonals, black cut jet metalincs or
crochets.
Napkins, table-covers and babies
feeding aprons are covered with out
line embroidery representing a variety
of subjects.
Lunch cloths with white centers
gay-colored borders and doylies to
match have supersededed the solid
colored cloths.
A great amount of liox-pleating and
kilting is displayed upon costumes in
fine reps, French melange, bunting
and cashmere.
Black brocaded grenadine with large
velvet flowers makes a graceful basque,
and draperies for plain grenadine sk.rts
i that have lace flounces.
I Bonnet trimmings are made attrac
tive by cashmere and metallic effects,
: while the most gorgeous shadi s prevail
j where one set color is preferred.
Infants' caps are composed of fine I
! French embroidery, plain with three |
| shirred ruffles of the embroidery around j
the face and tiny bows of narrow rib* j
1 Ixi n.
Cashmere cloths are making very !
highly prized w raps, and for travelers j
1 and pleasure seekers in warm weather,
serve a much tietter purpose than silk
1 or light cloths.
Large bows of gay colored ribbon.*
| arc worn, tied around the arm at th
elbow, with dark iin-se*, by ladies
| ambitious to s'art new fashions. The !
| effect is quite striking.
While short dresses have ty.e prefer- j
ence. for tin- street, the reapix-arance
I 1
of the train for the house is hailed j
with satisfaction by many, for its j
graceful fold* h-nd an essential el*, j
ganee to all rich costumes.
Among the fashionable trimmings
for summer are bands of Persian em
broidery of colored ilk worked m can.
van. The designs are similar to those
seen tin Chinese tea-chests.
Evening bodices have Creek sleeves,
the point on the shoulders where the i
ends are crossed being ornamented
with a brooch or flowers, anil with
these are worn very long, light silk
; gloves.
Pins attached to very small fancy
buckles are the novelty in ornaments
Trimmings are male secure by the
use of the pins in the same manner
the hall-headed pins were utilized last
seast in.
The material as in dress goods pre- i
vail for umbrellas and parasols, both the
Ottoman and Persian. Some are quite
plain with heavy sticks, while others
abound with ruffles of lacc,* and have
handles of Ivory, crystal or porcelain,
with carved serpents or heads of ani
mals.
He Was Deeply Afflicted.
There was a sad. sad lOOK on her
face as she sat down at the piano and,
deftly evoking tTie music of its chords
sang to him:
"Desrwt, I sin growing old,
Silver threeds eosoog the gold."
Deeply affected by the revelation, ho
said to himself:
"Is It indeed so had as that?" and,
without waiting for the conclusion of
the song, went out and bought her a
bottle of hair dye.
TIIK FAMILY DOCTOR
A Cure far Htoa.
1 Among the most troublesome and
often noticed eye affections are what
' are known as hordeolum, or common
stye. I>r. Louis Fitzpatrick, in the
- I.ancvt, differs from some of his pro
fessional brethren, who persist in or
dering the application of poultices,
bathing with tepid water, etc. These
no doubt do good in the end, but such
applications have the great disadvan
tage of prolonging the career of these
unsightly sores, and encourage the
production of fresh ones. Dr. Fitz
patriek has found, after many trials,
the local application of tincture of
iodine exerts a well-marked influence
hi checking the growth. This is ly
far preferable to the nitrate of silver,
which makes an unsightly mark, and
often fails in its object. The early
use of the iodine acts as a prompt
abortive. To apply it the lids should
fie held apart by the thumb and index
finger of the left hand, while the iodine
is painted over the intlamed papilla
with a line camel-hair pencil. The
hids should not fie allowed to come in
contact until the part touched is dry.
A few such applications in the twenty
four hours is sutli ieut.
| It would he better and safer, how
ever, to call in a doctor to apply this
remedy, as the eye is too susceptible to
injury to be trilled with.— EDITOR. J
Care for the Kar
We do not think that most people suf
ficient ly realize the imjwirtaneeof earing
for the ear. In the case of the cele
brated Dean Swift whose life-long suf
ferings were due to a simple cold taken
before his twentieth year, there were
ringing in his ears,deafness, headache
nausea, vertigo or giddiness, with a
staggering gait. Hut there are multi
tudes of eases in which the trouble is
confined to simple deafness, slight at
fir.-t and hardly noticed, yet steadily
increasing with years. Every winter
thousands lay a foundation f• r it. The
part affected is what is called the
"middle ear."
It is sometimes inflamed hv cold air
striking continuously on the out-udc*
just behind and In-low the ear, or pene
trating the open cavity. Fashion,
which sends young children from over
heated rooms into the winds .if winter
with the ears wholly unprotected, is
j responsible for many sa l cases.
When there is a "cold in the
head" (nasal catarrh j the inflammation
..ften extends to the Eustachian tubes
i the tuties that convey ,ur to the mid
dle ear ), and them e into the e.ir itself,
"•otnetlines the throat and back <>f the
j mouth (pharynx) are inflamed, and
) the inflammation spreads upwards in
! the same way. An inflammation is
! often thus extended frolll the nostrils
I to the ear by an improper blowing of
i the nose. One n.istril should be
cleared at a tune, the other remaining
j fully open.
As the result* —not noticed for
' year*—may he Increasing discomfort
for life, the e-irs of the young should
occasionally lie examined by a com*
I petent physician. The tendency to
deafness may be checked if taken in
time.
In the alxive cases there is a thicken
ing of the membrana tympana (ear
drum i, which thickening tends to in"
crease with every new < old. or some
of the inner inflamed surfaces grow
together, and the action of the ear ia
interfered with. or the Eustachian tube
i becomes closed. Sometimes the ear
drum is perforated, the inflammation
giving rise to suppuration.
PEARLS OF THCII'OHT.
That you may lie beloved, be amia
-1 ble.
Candid thoughts are always xalua
! ble.
A future full of oats doe* not help
the jaded horse.
Luck is a swift horse, but ill-suited
to a long journey.
Death is the highwayman who de
mands both money and life,
Hotter a soft heart and an iron hand ;
than an iron heart and a soft hand.
Perfection is attained by slow de
grees; she requires the hand of time.
However things may seem, no evil
thing is success, and no good thing is
a failure.
All other knowledge is hurtful to '
him. who has not honesty and good i
nature.
Nothing is more dangerous than •
friend without discretion; a prudent '<
enemy is preferable.
lie that wrestles with us strengthens (
our nerves and shar|iens our skill
Our antagonist is our helper
A more glorious victory cannot b j
gained over another man than this
that when the injury began on his
(tart, the kindness should begin on
ours.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
A mammoth's tusk was recently founi
1 fifteen feet below the surface in i
• gravel claim near Canby, Oregon.
1 It Is calculated that fifty Atlantb
s liners will be aide to lie broadside or
the quay now being made at Antwerp
The yellow cedar tree of Alaska hai
a fragrance like that of sandal woodi
The wood is grainless, and the Itus
sians build many ships of it.
( There was formerly a wooden hrldgf
at Portage, N. Y., B'K) feet long ami
234 feet high. It was said to bo tin
largest structure of the kind In tin
! world.
i A Danish sailor, in a ship sailing off
Capo Lew in, West Australia, went
aloft with a can of oil and was pitched
overboard. The oil left such a trail on
the sea that the man was traced and
| picked tip more than an hour after the
! accident.
Hose-ball, as now played, is an out
growth of cricket, and is a creation of
i 'he last twenty years. Previous to
i j 1860 the round bat and present bard
' ball were unknown, at li-oat in New
England, where a flat bat was usi-d,
and the ball a soft one, thrown at the
player to put him out.
The tradition that aromatic vinegar
was invented by four thieves who dur
ing the plague at Marseilles plundered
j deal bodies with impunity, and re
j vealed tin secret of their prophylactic
i on condition that their lives should be
spared, is made doubtful by the fact
'hat Cardinal Wolscy used aromatic
vinegar, and that lie died more than a
century before the first plague raged
A French sc lentist explaining why
, fish eaten in Holland nre superior to
those eaten elsewhere, savs that the
, dutch fishermen kill their fish as soon
as taken from the water, by making a
slight longitudinal incision under the
tall with a very sharp instrument.
Other fishermen, on the contrary, allow
their fish to die slowly, and this slow
peath softens the tissues and renders
them more liable to under go change.
SAYINGS AMI WIIO Still TIIEM.
familiar *lailin* Ihkl *rt 1 *rd Without
H uow Itdgt of their Aullirtrthlp
Many of our common sayings, so
irite and pithy, are usid without th
least Idea from whose mouth or pen
they first originated. Probably tie
works of >hakesp< are furnish us with
! nore of these familiar maxims than
iny other writer, for to him we owe
'All is not gold that glitters." "Make
t virtue f necessity," "Screw vour
T'urage t ■ the sticking place" (not
sunt/, "They laugh that win," "This
•s the short and long of it," "Com pari
! vtns are odious," "As merry as the da\
Is long," "A Daniel come to judgment."
| "Frailty, thy name is woman," "M ike
insurance doubly sure," and a h<st of
jtbers. Washington Irving gives us
•The Almighty dollar." Thomas
Morton queried long ago. "What will
Mrs. Grundy say?" while Goldsmith
, iriswers, "Ask me no questions and I'll
iell you no ft!*." Charles Pinckney
gives—"Millions for defense, but not
one cent for tribute." "First in war.
first in |M-ace, and first in the hearts of
his fellow-citizens" < not countrymen I
appeared in the resolutions presented
to the House of Representatives in
Idecenilier, I~'JO, prepared by General
Henry Lee. Frotn the same we cull
: "Christmas comes but cnee a year,"
"Count their chickens ere they are
hatched." and "Look liefore you leap."
Thomas Tasscr, a writer of the six-
I teenth century, gives us "It's an ill
| wind turns no good," "lietter late than
aever," "Look ere thou leap," anil
;ho stone that is rolling can gather no
; BOM." "All cry and no wool," is
j found In Hutler's "Hudibras." Dryden
I iays "None but the brave deserve the
fair," "Men are but children of a larger
' growth," and "Through thick and
' thin.' "When Greeks Join Greeks
then was the tug of war," Nathaniel
Lee, 1692. "Of two evils 1 have
chosen the least," and "The end must
Justify the means," are from Matthew
Prior. We are indebted to (dlley
Clbber for the agreeable intelligence
that "Richard is himself again."
Johnson tells us of "A good hater,"'
snd Macintosh In 1791, the phrase
often attributed to John Randolph,
"Wise and masterly inactivity." "Va
riety's the spice of life." and "Not
i much the worse for wear," Cowper.
I "Man proposes, but God disposes,
Thomas a Kern pis. Christopher Mar
lowe gave forth the invitation so often
I rejieated by his brothers in a less pub
j lie way, "Love me little, love me
, long." Edward Coke was of the opln-
I lon that "A man's hnu# is his castle."
i To Milton we owe "The paradise of
fncla," "A wilderness of sweet*," and
"Moping melancholy and moonstruck
madness." Edward Young tells us
'•l>*nth loves a shining mark," "A fool
at forty la a fool Indeed." From
Macon comes "Knowledge is power,"
Thomas Southern* remind* u
that "Pity's akin to love." Dear
Swift thought that "Hread is the stall
of life." Campbell found thai
a "Coming events cast their sbadowi
before," and "'Tls distance lends en
'c chuntment to the view." "A thing ol
" beauty is a joy forever," is from Keats
!>• Frankin said, "God helps those whe
is help themselves," and Lawrence Stern*
comforts us with the thought, "G'KJ
I tempers the wind to the shorn lamb "
~, The Northern Boundary,
,1 The northern Ixmndary of the
~ I 'niteil States is marked by stone c airns,
~ iron pillars, wood pillars, earth mounds
ami timber posts. A stone cairn is
seven and a half feet by eight feet; an
( iron pillar seven feet high, eight inchcrs
I square at the bottom and four inches
at the top; timber [costs five feet high
I ami e ight inches square. There are
•'l*.', of these marks between the Lake
of the Woods arid the- base of the
Rocky mountains. That portion of
tto- boundary which lies cast ami west
' of the Reel River valley is marked by
c ast-iron pillars at even-mile intervals.
I he liritixh place one every two miles
1 and the I'nitcd States one between each
Hritish post. Our pillars or mark.'
were made at Detroit, Mich. They
are hollow iron castings, three-eighths
r of an inch in thickness, in the form ol
a trum ated pyramid, eight feet high
' eight inches square at the- Imttom, and
- four inches at the top, as alcove stated
They have at the top a solid pyramidal
cap, and at the bottom an octagon
1 flange one inch in thickness, l.'jton
the opposite faces are cast in letters
1 two im lies high, the inscription, "Con
vention of London," and "Otober 2<th,
1H1>1" The inscriptions begin alcout
four feet six inches alcove tin- base, and
r<ad upwards. The interior of the
hollow posti is tilled with we 11-seasoned
■ edar-posts. sawed to fit. and securely
-piked throng' spikeboles ca-t in tto
pillars for the purpose. The average
weight of each pillar when romplcteo
is eighty-five pounds. The pillars an
all set four feet in the ground with
their inscripton fares to the- n rth am
south; and the earth is well settled ami
stainjHsl alsiiit them. For the wiHsh-n
j>o-ts well-seasoned logs are selected,
ami the [notion above the ground
, painted red, to prevent swelling and
I shrinking. These ]..>sts do very well.
I but tbe Indians rut them down f- r
I fuel, ami nothing but iron will la t
very long. Where the line crosse*
lakes, mountains of stone have 10-n
b ult, the bases being in s sue j la c-s
eighteen feet alcove the lake's surface
at high-water mark. In forests the
line is marked by felling the timber a
rod wide and c h aring away the under
brush. Tly work ccf cutting through
the timbered swamps was xery great,
but it has leeen well done, and the
tcoumlary distinctly marked by the
commissioners, the whole distance
from Michigan to Alaska
The Result of Ohserx stion.
An observing individual says: I
have noticed that when a horse gets
uj) he gets up forward first and jerkt
his hind parts after htm. while a cow
will get her rear half up in place; also,
when drinking, a horse w ill draw in
water rapidly with every breath; tht
cow, on the rontarv, will suck in on
continuous draught as long as she ran
hold her breath.
I have noticed that sheep and goats
are lsith butters, yet a sheep has to
run a few steps backward before he
can butt, while the goat has to raise
himself on his hind legs to execute the
same movement One is called a buck
sheep, the other a battering ram.
They are the only two animals I know
of whose butt ends are in front.
A squirrel ran run down a tree head
lirst The cat and the bear must get
down tail first, < if left to themselves, j
If your clog finds his way into your
cellar and sees a nice steak he will ]
steal it and run out. but if your cat
gets in and finds a steak she will sit
right down l>y St and eat what she
wants, (if not surprised la-fore, j
I have noticed that a leather strap
buckled atout the height of yourself
around a young tree in a few years
w ill Ice aw ay beyond your roach, but if
naihsl at that distance will never get
any higher, (only the outer shell runs
up.)
Although turkeys are much more
swift of foot than geese, yet in a
week's drive a flock of geese will come
in ahead; for geese you ran drive aj
night, especially moonlight, but w hen
evening approaches turkeys w ill roost
A man can stand on one foot In tht
middle of a room and pull on his shoe,
while a woman must lean up against
something to accomplish the same
thing.
A man holds the needle in his left
hand to thread It, but a woman holds
it In her right
In or* thing I think every one will
agree with me: Dress a man aa a wo
man dress*/ and yon will frecae him to
death.
,0 I hO£ VI It'lC HCBiPtt.
fl
I •solar eruptions or prominences, hlth
ri rrto awn only at the sun's edge, here
been observed by Moos. Taccblnl ot
it very disk.
#. An electric light for deep sea Ashing
o adorns the new steamer Albatross, ot
0 the fifth commission. When sunk be
<J neatli the water It attracts the fishes,
ami these are caught by a net which It
drawn up from beneath It.
Notes by a large number of obser*.
era upon the color of horses In dlffer
'> ent parts of the globe have beea
brought together by lir. Langkavel In
s a very Interesting manner. White
u and gray horses are, perhaps, the most
* general favorites; but a great variety
8 of other colors are held in esteem. It
Ih notice,aba- that black horses are lit
® Me sought for, except by Europeans.
' I'r. A. L. Child Is authority for the
' statement that trees known to be only
' twelve years old were found when cut
1 to have thirty-five to forty of the rings
V which are popularly believed to be an
nual marks. His experiments point to
the conclusion that the formation and
thickness of the rings dejs-nd upon
' changes in the atmosphere, aijd the
more frequent these < h.inges the great
•r the number of rings.
The Face of the Farth.
' It is estimated that the proportion
nf the surf me of the globe covered bv
water Is to the land surface as 278 to
l ( *), arid that the average Light of
and or continents over the world
xliove sea level Is somew hat less than
liKS/ The great mountain chains
by which the continents are more or
ess traversed form narrow ridges,
which rise in m> case more than 29,000
feet, or say alsiut *> J miles above sea
' level, and add but comparatively little
io the mass of ground above the sea
level. On the other hand the contour
'in<-s of the oceanic basins tell a very
liflerent tale of the great submarine
depressions. The soundings made on
Ihe voyage of the Challenger in the
V •rth I'aciiic ocean have shown that
ts mean depth i* not ics- than 15,000
feet, and that of the South Fsciflc
about feet, while the mean
depth of the North Atlantic is found
'.o Is- H.'ski feet, and of the South At.
'antic 1 .'l,OOO. It is only in high north
ern latitudes, in the North Atlantic
ind North l'acjflc, thgt the soundings
1 ?ive evidence of shallower seas—of a
iiean depth of at>out 8000 feet. Thus
t is extraordinary how small the mass
>f land projecting al*>ve the sea levej
is compared to the mass of waters fili
ng the depressions beyond that level.
Taking the average depth of the
♦eas and ocean at 10,000 feet, and the
height of the land at 1000 f ( H-t. the
mass of the land above water as com
pared to the mass of waters filling the
ocean troughs is nearly in the propor
lion of one to thirty. It is curious
: that the deepest sounding recorded by
the Challenger in the North Pacific
registered a depth of altout five miles
and a quarter—a depth which closely
| corresponds with the elevation alwve
sea level of the loftiest point of land,
namely, the summit of Mount Everest,
in the Himalayas, which is 29,002 feet,
or very nearly five mile* and a quarter.
We must remember, however, that the
one measurement is that of a mere
peak, while the other probably gives
the depth of an extended trough. We
may thus realize how irregular are the
contour lines of the globe, and how
deep the depressions and abysses con
cealed from our view by seas and
oceans. Could all these waters l>e
drained off from the surface, our earth
would present the asjxvct of a solid
sphere everywhere wrinkled and deeply r
pitted. Nevertheless, its actual dimen
sions are so great that mountains five
miles high and ocean troughs five miles
deep bear no greater relation tot he bulk
of the glole than the irregularities on
'he skin of an orange.
Opened Both Doom.
The other day, when it was pouring
rain, a citizm turned aside to enter a
store on Michigan avenue, the door of
which was open. He male several at
tempts to push the umbrella in before
him, but the space would not permit
He was standing there, looking puzzled
and annoyed, when the dealer came V
Mn> door and asked:
"Well, what is It V
"The door is not wide enough to ad
mit my umbrella" v
"Ah! I see- just wait"
And he straightway fiung open the
other door to permit the man to enter.
After they had talked of this and that
for half an hour the man with the
umbrella suddenly slapped his leg and
called out:
"By George' what a dolt! If 1 had
closed my umbrella I could have enter
ed the door as It was!"
"That's so! Come to think of it I
see you Could." replied the other.
"Well. well, not a day passes that we
can't learn something new " —Frm