LAIHES* DEPART JIK3T. I>rrn Itrform Some time aft 11 a number of Herman women met in Stuttgurd ami resolved to commence a reform in the pre\ ail ing dresa customs which they deemed unwholesome and extravagant. As a basis of reform, they agreed on these points: 1. That nothing le declared "old fashioned" which has been found use ful, appropriate and becoming. 2. That nothing new be adopted, un less it is found to be both to the pur pose, and answering to the demands of good taste. 3. That all garments and objects of toilet that are hurtful to health be put away. 4. To inquire whether a large sax ing might not be effected in dress, so that the expenses might be more appropri ate to the income. Kla*tlr I ndprvirmtnlfl. Silk underwear, says Clara Belle, is very expensive, but it is supposed to have great recuperative powers and is especially recommended for rheuma tism. Lisle thread is a somewhat new departure for underwear, and for per sons of full habit or those who feej the heat very much there is nothing better. It is elastic, but at the same time offers a healthy friction. "I shall be able to waltz hours this summer," said a frivolous young thing, "where last summer 1 could only keep it up for minutes." "llow is that ?" I asked. "You've heard of Spring-heel .lack? There was something or other about his shoes, if I remember rightly, that helped his gait so much as to make him a wonderful runner. Well, con sider me mechanically improved all over in that kind of way. I've got on an elastic, eel skin sort of a combina tion suit. It keeps me at a tension, and makes every nerve and muscle feel capable of unprecedented activity and endurance. A girl who couldn't waltz continuously under such condi tions would be a rarity." llow lo Nrlect m II lISIMA nrfI . The Cleveland (Ohio) Purmei ntnl 31'innfarturrr says: It has been pro foundly remarked that the true wax of telling a toadstool from a mush room is to cat it. If you die, it was a toadstool, if you lixe.it xvas a mush room. A similar method is employed in the selection of husbands. Marry him; if he kills you, he was a bad bus band; if he makes you happy, he is a good one. There is really no other criterion. Some young men that seem unexceptionable, indeed xery desirable, when they are single, are |>erfeetlx hor rid as soon as they are married. All the latent brute there is in the heart conies out as soon as a sensitive and delicate being seeks her happim-ss in his companionship. The honeymoon lasts a very short time, the receptions and rounds of parties are soon over and then the two sit down to make home happy. If she has married a society man, lie will xi*n Iw-gin to get bored; he will yaw n and go to sleep on the sofa. Then lie will take his hat and go down to the club and see the boys, and perhaps not come home unti' morning. If she has married a man engrossed in business he will be fagged out when he comes home. He may be a sickly man that she must nurse, a morose man that she must sit for. a violent man that she fears, a fool whom she soon learns to despise, a \ ulgar man for whom she must apologize in short, there are thousands of ways of lieing bad husbands, and very few ways of lieing good ones. And the worst of it is that the poor, silly women are apt to admire in single men the very traits that make had hus bands, and look with contempt and ridicule upon those quiet virtues which make home happy. Men with very little personal beauty or style often make the wife bappv, and sometimes quite the reverse. The number of ways of being a bad husband is almost as great as the number of ways of being ugly. No one can tell from the demeanor of a single man what sort of a husband he w ill lie. However, she must marry aomelmdy. Fashion .^ofca, Flower Umnets are again in high favor. Pretty dresses for young girls are of gr.iy-blue lawn, with fichus to match. Fancy woolens are in general more '■ popular than cotton goods this sum mer. Chicken-down yellow is announced as a later tint of that shade than prim rose. Large fans and large sunshades are male of llgured sateen to match cos tumes. Shot glace silks of medium or light shades are worn for summer dinner dress en. F.scurial is the most fashionable la e. and is very appropriate for trimming velvets. All kid gloves are now worn under the sleeve, and contrast with the color of the toilet. Long pelisses and ragluns, proof against rain and dust, are made of line grass mohair. White Danish kid gloves, decorated ; with lilies of the valley, are xvorn by | bridemaids. < henille fringes of two kinds, the rat-tail and the thirty, are both very fashionable. \ ells of gold and colored spotted net are not becoming, but they are worn for all that. Wash goods and line wool stuffs are used for children's dresses. Silk is used only under sheer muslin and lace dresses. Organdie square 'kerchief* for the neck come in blocks of line buff, pink, and pale blue, xvith rosebuds printed on each block. Bulgarian linen - arfx, xvith gay Turkish embroidery on each end. ar ( . used by milliners to trim rough round hats and small capotes. The fringe of which straw liing" bonnets are made has uncut loops, and comes in natural straw color and shades of lavender, olive, blue and rsl. 1 he in >st fashionable stockings are of black, straw berry, or primrose, silk, or lisle, in mono-limine; stripes and eheckx being only second in popularity. lb-mark abb- toilets made by Worth are of liouillonne tulleovi-r satin, xvith violets and pansies fastened separately, leaving the stalks and leaves visible in the folds all oxer the skirt. Tussore silk parasols have long sticks of hamlxMi, to lie usi-d ;LS ail alpenstock in country rambles. Bright ns| silks with white rings, and blue silk with double rings of white, r>-d and gold are the newest < dorings. Voting girls wear large, white rough-and-ready straw hats of fantas tic shape, with puffed mull inside the brim, ami a wide scarf around the crown, some white ostrich tips and a bunch of forget-me-nots, or rosebuds, are added. rruined skirts are now seldom seen except for the clalmrate dresses worn at dinner parties. The straight, full demi-train is worn bv young ladies, and is caught up in thick, irregular puffs on the top, or is draxvn into a single large cluster, of gathers and at tached to the back of the basque. If w->rn xxith a pointed corsage, a full puff of the material is --wisl on the edge n( the x\ aist. Condensed Milk. "I suppose that quarts of milk are condensed and canned in one day at this -a-.ison of the year," said the foreman of a large estuhlisuient in Westchester county when asked almut the extent of the business. "The busi ness had its origin just before the war The army created a great demand for it. and improved methods liaxe given it a permanent place in the family. In early • • • milk was evaporated in open , I hen one of the most sin-* eessful men in the business invented evaluation in vacuum pans. "The process is very simple. The emiled milk is brought here In forty quart cans by the farmers. It is meas ured ami run into open pans, where it is heated until it iioils. Then it is drawn into the xuetiuui pan. Thi pan is in shape like a farmer's milk can. It is almut fixe feet in diameter. It is made of copper. A coil of steam pi|w in the bottom furnishes the heat. An air pump exhausts the air inside until the pressure on the outside is aliout twelve pounds to the square ineli. The temperature is usually kept at 11' l degrees. The rapacity of the pan is almut B*' forty-quart cans. When the milk has lus-n reduced to one-third or one-fourth of its original bulk. It Is sweetened with almut a pound of sugar to a quart of milk. It is then put in the little tin cans in which you see it on the grocery shelf and is hermetically sealed. Some of it is not sealed up, but is sold in bulk on the city streets. That kind is not sweetened." "What do dishonest condensers put In with the sugar?" "I do not lielieve they adulterate. A little glucose may be used. The luni|>s which you find in the Imttoiu of your coffee are not adulterations. The man. ufacturer used stale or impure milk. Some manufacturers make two grades. They are proud of one grade. Much condensed milk is im|>orted into this , country. On the other hand, there is | an enormous export trade." "Itoes the business pay?" "Very fair profits are made where a man has good luck with his milk." Nrtr York -Si/o. Connecticut was the first state in the I'nion to coin money. JAI'ANKSE ARTISTS. Tim Womlnrful Yaillily mtl quli knot f llifilr %%'ork l>r■ Ihrd. The Japanese hu\ •• a groat advan i vage aver the Kuropcans in being 'obliged from infancy to learn the lIHO lof a brush. Their alphabet is in fact ! a series of exercises in free-hand < I raw ing. Not only is il composed of an itn ( men-u nuniher of complicated devices, hut thousand of characters borrowed I from the Chinese are in daily use. A | boy who can write a letter lias already unconsciously acquired the precision of touch of a trained Kuroficiin artist. In writing the paper is laid upon the left ' hand, instead of a desk, as is the cus tom also with the Arabs. Facility of motion is thus acquired alike for dioulder, elbow. ami wrist. Then. too. the paper is of a peculiar quality, vv hich at once absorbs the ink, and it requires a great precision of touch to produce an even outline. This early training accounts for the marvelous 1 dexterity which shows itself in the commonest and roughest pieces of decoration. There is always a certain freedom of touch rarely acquired by our best artists. Dr. Dresser gives an interesting U' count of a treat preparer! for him by >ir Henry I'arkes. Five of the most celenrated native draughts men were invited to the embassy for the purpi.se of practically exhibiting their method ot working. In the mid dle of the room was spreaj a breadth of felt, on which was placed api of paper, held down by weights. Kuril competitor had a long, slender piece of charcoal in a bamboo holder, soma broad, lint brushes of deer's hair, and round ones made of vegetable fibre. •in a slab was a quantity of Indian ink. The first artist came forward* IMlvv* s|, and knelt down before his paper, considering it attentively for a minute or two. lie then made a few almost imperceptible dots with the charcoal [Miint. and with a Mat brush nil of Indian ink formed a large ir regular mass in the centre, and with a small brush a few feathers and the end of a pendent branch. Then, beginning at the top ot the paper, he worked downward, and in a quarter of an hour produced an admirable representation of a c.xk and hen and the branch of a free. The; Usly of the hen Was skill, fully left out in the painting, so that it was formed merely of the uncolored paper; but against the dark back ground, and with a few touches to in. dicate feathers, it was entirely satisfac tory and thoroughly decorative. A Mower-painter next made his bow and knelt down. lie. too, l-cgan with a few dots to guide him in tliedisposa' of his masses. Taking a large brush full of green pigment, he male one leaf with each sweep, varving the shade* in the different leaves, but each leaf Is-ing of an even color. With an other brush be formed a peonv Mower, H hading it by merely putting a little water on quickly la-fop- the red was absorlied. The colors ot bis palette were indigo, gamlx.ge, crimson lake and red earth. The Japanese attach much importance to the art of compo sition, and always carefully arrange in their mind's eye before beginning any design exactly low they will produce balance without uniformity, one of the fair *c\ ne\t tried h,. r skill. She was flower-painter to the empress, and chose as her subject a simple little plant resembling our winter aconite. It was represented as if done up for sale with the root and a piece of paper round it. Tin- fourth competitor i.>k "ne of his broad Mat brushes, dipped it in water, and squeezed it nearly dry He then made it take the form of a crescent, and dip|icd the middle part in a dark solution ot Indian ink, leaving the outside of a lighter shade. A few hairs were separated at one side and dip|Ms| in the darkest shade. Ity a dexterous movement the artist pro ducts! at a stroke the shaded Ixsly of a ! duck and an outline. Afterward he j added the neck, head, feet, and tail' feathers, and a th ing duck was the re sult. Another expert used his brush in a similar manner, producing a train of rats and a background. The hidics of i the rats were left out. as in the case of the ben; but there was no doubt what 1 animals they were intended for, though the delineation was done in this appar ently hap-hnzard manner. It Is won derful how- the Japanese can make their animals live and move. Their birds really |>eck, or fly, or stand, or strike their prey. The tlshes swim and wag their tails. The insects creep, or eat, or sun themselves. There is no mistaking what they are intended tohedofng.- Stiturrlay Hrvinn. Craelly to Animals. "1 feel like kicking myself over a ten-rail fence," said one broker to an other. "for not taking in that stock." "Don't do it; you'll lie arrested." "What for. I'd like to know?" "For cruelty to animals. You know the kick of a mule is considered a deadly weapon." }ftr- hant-Traveltr. Till: NILVKK HLIFPKB. (k I *rmf from tltr Juuriiat of • loiiy. IVIMr. Si'iioni (' I,'AMt Wnlncniay in an old adohe house at the Mission Dolores, says a recent nuiulK-r of the San Francisco Jliilhlhi. She was a Californium and in the early history of San Frasciscosomething of a celebrity. She was tin- heroine of the "silver slip per," an incident which, reinemlrered by the old San Franciscan, is probably unknown to tho majority of our citi zens. Its singularity and the death of tlie heroine serve to bring it again to the front. One morning a monte-deal er crossing the plaza found a leather j slipper lying on the ground. It was ' almost new and adorned with a scar 1 let rosette on the instep. It was also I very small and bad evidently is-lotiged to, a well shaped foot. the dealer, with a feeling of exultation, carried tin- prize to "Long Hob scratton," the subsequent famous bartender of the F.I Dorado gambling saloon, but at this time the chief engineer of a dram shop in a blanket tent near the old postoMi- c. Holi was a note I admirer of the sex, a nd when the finder laid tin- little slip per on the dry gu.Mls box that served as a bar, he rose from a game of "sev etl-llp" and, settling himself dx I eel six inches in a pair of raw-hides, gave a yell that made every man in the tent lay his hand <>n a "slmoting-iron" in the belief that a scrimmage was iintni ! nent. When the pani-- h;el subsided Ib-b called all hands to the bur and dis plays! the trophy. It w.is only a shoe, yet it Min-d those strong uien with emotion. It was long since thev Ltd seen anything like it. Women in tlmse days were s arce, ex ceedingly neaps-, and the -.ght of a fragment of the attire worn by on-- ><' the sex created, as Hull himself re uiarkisl, an "impression bordering upon j madness." Certainly "the IMVS" ai t'-il i strangely; Judge Haghy, the "closest man in Fresno" standing treat, and I bib promising cigars fr-e --lor the hull crowd, and children ineludetl." There jwas a good blow -out that niglit The news spread. IP ill was said to have a woman's slipper in his saloon, and : crowds of curious m.tsi ulirn-s iiasten<-d to gaze ujMin the honored 01-jo-t. In the meantime Hob's active brain Was at work. Me always bad an idea to business, and conceivast the idea thu' he might la- able to utilize the relic Accordingly lo- L-ugtit it, paying therefor an "oiitu. of dust and three gin slings." The slipper was lima] with silver ami turned into a drinking cup from whiih drinks were dispensed ■at the rate of "#1 a tip." The idea tiMik ( rowds of bibulous mortals came to taste the l-ever.vgt- disjH-n- I by the shrewd barkeeper fr--tn tlie tiny cistern once encasing tin- foot >d Is an ty. Hob er. He inquire! diligently, hut his search was long unavailing. At last, a det->. five who "passisl over t<- the majority" a few weeks sin> e. discovered the fair one in the jM-mon of at alifornia gir' residing at the Mission. Her name w.is Addia one-half must suffice, sf,,, was iinmarriisl. pretty, the owner of a pair <>f black eyes that sent a pang through Hob's heart the hrst time he looked ii|x'n them. In fact, lie liecum enamored of the fair Sr-norita, whos solitary prunella lia2 when tlie Kl Dorado was laid in ashes and Hob, endeavoring to save his relic was severely burned. With the loss of tlie relic his fortune and energy van ished, nor was it leng before he also turned to ashes and found a transient resting place under the scrubby oaks of Yerlia Hums. Mm-e then his re mains have Imen scattered to the winds and "no man knoweth where he sleep eth." Many of the hilarious spirits who *ip|ied the stimulating nectar from the silver slipper hare als<> fallen asleep, the vaquero Is dead, and the heroine herself has suecumlieil to the inev itatde law of mortality. Such la a brief history of u circumstance once sounded by ev cry tongue, as showing what absurdities the minds of men could entertain in the halycon days of the Golden State. (O.mibFUATK UK3KKAI.H. Vllirrf tlic I'roiiilnrnt Utirthlng *oufh • rii Offlr• • arc • •€ t <••••f them the following are living I). D. Ilill, who is in North Carolina; Stephen Ln the Yazoo river, iri Mississijqii. 11. A I'ryur. is a pros|x-rous lawyer in New York. Hiplev. "Old Hip," as he wLS I albs), is in London, Hie agent of an \mern;an rifle company, and lloddy is there vvitli bitn. John G Walker is in ' Mexico, an-1 is getting ricli in silver mining, and Holmes is bis partner William C. Wickhain is a prominent railroad man in Virginia. Of the three Li-cs who were generals. Fust is. who was Mr. Davis's chief-of-stafT. D president of tlie Washington and Lee < ollege. in Virginia; William Henry Fitrhugh las-, generally called "Hun cy." is a planter, and is prosperous on i line estate; and Fitzhugh L's-, - onsin of the others, and a famous calvary officer, owns the "Havens vv-md " estate on the Potomac, alxuit iifty miles la-low Washington, where ! he is liv ing like a fine Virginia planter of the olden time. Hubert las-, the general's youngest son. who served in tlie ranks a greater part of the war, lives i on the James river, and owns a hand* -simp i-state there. Lotigstreot lives at .Gainesville, Ga.. and lie is I'nited •states marshal. General Karly pra<- tic-s law at Lynchburg. Lieutenant I General A!'. Stewart is president of the I niver-ity of Mississippi, at Ox. ford, and Lieutenant-General D. s. Lee is president of another institute n of learning. H. 11. and Patterson An. derson are dead. General 11. Frank ] Cheatham is the superintending com missioner of the Tennessee jwnltenti ary. General Hate is governor of Tennesse-, and W. H. or "lied" Jack son, one of Forrest's division com manders. is living near Nashville, on a magnificent plantation. General Whccb-r who commanded all of Gen eral Johnson's calvary, is a planter in North Alabama. General Lawton. the quartermaster of the Confederacy, i* a leading incmlvcr of the Savannah Ga. bar, and General Gorgas, the Confederate chief of ordnance, died recently in Alabama Cockrell, the 1 ranking Confederate general from Missouri, is a United stale* Senator. A curious advertisement appewr-st in a late issue of the Liverpool ry. It read: I lost my purse contain- ' ing two guineas and a sixpence. Th , tinder can keep the gold if he will re , I turn the sixpence, as it was the ( 1 amount of damages 1 received from i the Midland railway tor breaking mv ' leg. The >it of silver cost me A2IU. ' 1 Uwrge Atucsbury." - CLIPPIMUS FOR TIIE fTRHM'H. There are >nJy eight raiuM of sub ide nentioud in the bible Abimelech, •aiiivin. Null, his armor liearer, Ahit ophe|, Ziinri. Ham and Judas Iscar. ot Russian m*n are, as a rule, handsoiii. ix than Russian w omen. The Russian women have loud ways ami a loud, un pleasant voire -he aim OH t invariably rtllokes. Huron Roth* bibl's carriage at Vmn iia in lighted by electri< light. The *[>- | (laratiiH in beneath the coachman's eat, ami the light, which will burn i 1 fi hours, within onlmary carriage amps. IHiring the cyclone in Mississippi a i urtle weighing sixty po mds was blown ut of the I'earl river ami lamh-d in a mtton liehl Koine *H of sjthler has been diyov n-d on the African coant the long.iirin sell of which very closely rewmhles ' Mow -lilk. It is aiatiring of the ins-v-t, n France. Tattooingan Eje. Several years ago there was a bril iant journalist in >t. Louis, one of shone eyes was affected by a "pearl," slii< h consi-ts of a pure white, often jrilliantly glistening, film, which com* tb-tely covers the puj.il and iris and five-, the owner a very jiecuilar and lot very desirable ajipcarance. It was i very larg.- and hnght one, and. as ie was often called ujx>n to speak in luhlic, it lierame a great annoyance >i him that among his audience he soul.l find ja'ojib* humorously criticis ng his ocular peculiarity instead of levoting their attention to his utter tnc*s. Tired at last of thus holding lis audiences with hi" glittering eye." ifterthe fashion of the ancient mariner. Ie came to no* and I tattooed it f>r lini." v j " Tattooed his eye ?" "f'ertainlv; a very simple >|>era" ion. with an eye of that kind as a iiibject, though, of course, a healthy •ye could not stand such treatment The tattooing di?f< red in no way from he common process as applied to the ikin, except that it was done with a .-cry delicate instrument and with the greatest possihle care. The result of , he ojieration, which I have performed n several other rase*, w as to thorough. y darken the white film, and after .his was done the oratorical journalist ace.J his audiences without annoyance. St. L