rfflM rr mil nmliiiiiMailMfMiiWMllllllliilMlll - - - mi iiiiiMiiMiiwiiiiif" 'juwwnmmii , - ! "V ' ' THE- PITTSBUBGISPAT 14 V. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A Lady's Visit to Little Heligoland, a Bright Gem of the Sorth Sea. SO PLACE EXACTLY LIKE IT. A Pretty Island TYitk 2,000 Inhabitants, Under England's Hale. HEALTH JIKD HAPPINESS FOE ALL ICORKrsrONTJEXCE OF THE DISPJLTCH.I ELIGOLAXD, Au gust 21. Here we are at last, at Heligoland, and a very quaint, curious old place it is, different from any thing 1 have ever seen before. "We left Bre men, Saturday, in a small boat, only about halt as large as 2few York ferryboats, and for about two hours had a Tery smooth passage, until we got into the open Xcistack. sea, when it began to be very rough, as there was a head wind and very heavy swells. There were only two women beside myself, and some ten men. The boat was very fast, and we were flying along, and I was thinking wnat a glorious trip we were going to have, when she "took a header," as it were, and went down, down, until I thought we were going to the bottom, sure. But she no sooner got up when she was struck by a swell and thrown to one side, and then struck by another and thrown to the other side, and I was sure my hour had come. KEABLT CEAZED WITH FRIGHT. One of the women went downstairs, and the other, who was alone with a little boy, threw herself on her knees and hung on to l- jCl. Helgoland. my husband. I was sitting on a trunk as far back as we could get, and my husband held my one hand and the woman's with his other, when the steward came and took her downstairs. Ve only had a canvass over us and around the sides, and the waves would wash ovei and the water run down the deck several inches deep. Finally my husband sent for the captain for me, as I was nearly crazy with fright. He came and was very pleasant, and told me there was no danger, bnt the boat being so small it could not go through the waves as a large one would. He wanted me to go down stairs. I told him if I was going to be drowned I wanted to see it. He laughed and then went back to the bridge. "Well, for three hours that boat went as if possessed of seven evil spirits. The trunks would slide over across the deck, and with the next swell come back again. My hus band heid me with one arm around me and my hand, and sometimes we would be thrown clear off the trunks. Indeed, I am lame vet from the strain, and I never ex pected to see Heligoland. However, at 5 o'clock we got here, and I MANAGED TO GET IKTO BED, where I stayed for that night. I never want such an experience again. Fortu nately I had my ulster along, and a car riage blanket. My feet were soaking, but my dress escaped very well. I have learned since there is no better boat on the North Sea, and she can come here when others can't. Bnt lor persons not used to it, it is not pleasant Last week the had 200 passen gers, and had a worse passage than we had. "Well, enough of this. Heligoland is the quaintest, most curious place 1 ever was in. "We are staying on the "oberland," and have a wry large room and breakfast of coffee, eggs, etc., for 54 50 a week for both I Think ot ltl It is not on the front, however, but all we could get. The ascent from be low is made by anelevator or 200 steps, and there is only one hotel here where all meals are served, as every house lets rooms with breakfast, and we dine at some of the many restaurants, either here or below. The houses, I s Natives of the Itland. with the exception of those in front, are all only one or one and a half stories high, and thestreets, no wider than our sidewalks, all paved with brick. It is just 1IKE A TOT TILLAGE, and one almost feels that he could pick np the houses and set them down again. The town is along the cliff, and the rest of the top is a common which the people have almost entirely planted with potatoes. Their sheep some 200 on the island also pasture here. There is a fence all around the cliff, and every evening at sunset all the people walk around the island. It takes about an hour, and the view is beyond description, as you can see twenty miles on all sides out to sea. "We strolled on the cliff the other evening. As the sun disappered in the water on the one side the moon arose ont of the sea on the other. The sight was grand beyond everything. Heligoland belongs to England, and there is a Governor and bis family here, but few English besides, as the natives are Germans. and the visitors, some 1,200 in a season, the same. Sunday we went to church at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the first English services this year. There were only about 25 there. The Governor sat in a 'box en cased with glass, at one side of the pulpit,and spent his time staring around. He is a very fine looking man. such a nnrar thing happened when the minister announced the collection. The Governor leaned out of the little window and called his private secre tary over. "When he came he spoke to him and he dived into bis pocket and handed out some money, which "his lordship" took. The becretary ben got the plate, and ot course had to pass it to him first. As he did so the absurdity was too much for En glish gravity, and both smiled. By this time the others had "caught on," and the whole congregation was in a titter. The church is very old. The women sit on the one side and the men on the other. and each have their name printed on the pew in front of them, in every color im aginable. Some have door plates, some little frames hung np, and as every oue has their own cushion, covered in different color, the effect is somewhat like Joseph's coat There are only about 30 people die iere annually, out of 2,000 natives, and not ip w-Smv cS Jr 1 1 2 I " more than two children out of that The people are very nice looking, and exceed ingly polite. There is XOT A HORSE on the island, and many of the people have never seen one; and there are only five cows, the Governor owning two of those. The people use goat's and sheep's milk. My husband has met here an old gentleman he met on tbe Elbe two years ago, a Captain Balf, from Detroit He owns one of the lines of steamboats there. His son-in-law, Mr. Burt, is with him. and they have been very kind to us. Tbe Captain was born here, and came here a few years ago nearly dead with catarrh, and is now entirely cured. He owns a "villa" here, and is spoken of as the "rich American." He is a very fine old man. Last evening Mr. Burt took us to the theater, and it was very good, as the actors were from Hamburg. To-night there is a ball, where the natives all dance once a week in costume. Sunday evening we went to the.Curhouse, to the ball, and the music was so grand I could hardly sit still. The Germans dance just the same. There are a great variety of people here, some very nice, a great many very fast looking. I have seen some very pretty girls, and a few pretty dresses. Their clothes are quite as modern as ours. The people go across every morning to an island a mile away, in boats, to bathe. I have not gone over "yet The stores here are filled with the usual gim-cracks nothing to tempt one. However, we will remain nere about ten days, then go to Hamburg and Berlin. " M. A BUST-DAY FOR THE WASP. A Surprising Amount of Work Performed Bt an Industrious Insect. w York Stir. J There is a circular flowerbed in City Hall Park situated directly beneath a big button wood tree on the Broadway side. Yesterday the attention of passersby was attracted by the actions of a big black "sand" or "dirt" wasp. The wasp was digging a hole in the ground beneath a broad leaf. The hole was evidently intended for a nest After having selected the site for his future abode and egg repository the wasp commenced operations by removing small quantities of earth with his jaws. This earth the wasp carried away and hid in the grass about four feet away. The wasp worked very rapidly, and in a surprisingly short time had burrowed out quite a hole. During these boring opera tions the insect, in order to give the hole perfect shape, kept his body continually moving round and round, and continuously ducking his head in and out. In the meantime, he kept his wings moving with a jerky, angry motion. The hole thus made was about three-eighths of an inch in diameter. After working in this industri ous manner for nearly half an hour, the wasp had burrowed out quite a deep hole. His work seemed lighter when he got some distance below the surface, for he fairly forced the loose dirt up out of the hole in a tiny stream. In a short time the wasp left the hole and took away the little pile of loose sand from the mouth of tbe hole. In one of his jour neys he ran across a small shaving. He turned it over and over repeatedly, and after satisfying himself, apparently, that it would suit his purpose, he seized it in his jaws and carried it to the mouth of the bole. He carefully placed tbe little shaving over the hole. Then he piled a little mound of sand upon tbe chip. Later in the day the same wasp seized a worm and dragged it to the den he had built in the morning. "When the hole was reached the wasp relinquished his prey for a moment, removed the shaving lrom the mouth of his den and then sprang into the hole. In a few moments he came back and again seized the squirming worm.which was slowly crawling away. Walking back ward, the'wasp dragged the worm into the hole. He soon reappeared andimmediately began shoveling sand and little pebbles down upon his capture. He then replaced the door again, covered it with sand, took to his wings and flew away. AN EXTRAORDINARY CATCH. A Chicago Fisherman of Trnthtul Antece. dents Lands a Wliolo Menncerle. Chicago Herald. 1 Thomas D. Snydar, in the Illinois Bank Building, is a fisher of men, enticing them to bite at his real estate office. He hasn't had a rod in his hands since he played truant at school. Still he has a friend who, he says, was fishing in an Illinois river a short time ago when he caught a 16-pound pickerel. "That is not so extraordinary," continued the good natured real estate man. "Just as large fish have been caught before, and will be again. But I am assured by him that when he opened that fish he fonnd it had swallowed a mnskallonge weighing nine rounds. Opening the mnskallonge he found in its stomach a four-pound black bass inside of whose stomach was a 1 pound yellow bass, which in tnrn had swallowed a half-pound sun fish, and inside the latter was a beautiful rnby-throat hum ming bird, not yet dead. Indeed he has it at home in a beautiful little cage, where it hums happily all the day long. All the fish were as sound as though life had not been extinct, and from the fact that that hummingbird was yetaliveand itbemg the first of the crowd that was swallowed, it would seem that all this extraordinary swallowing, winding up with the capture of the pickerel, must have been within the space of seven minutes." While Mr. S. declined to verify the statement in all its particulars, he said his informant is the son of a preacber and born in Breathitt county, Kentucky, either of which distinctions ought to be sufficient proof of his veracity and his character for truth. A METROPOLITAN HOUSE. He Lives on Brondtrny and Conducts a Tery Thriving; Busineis. Ifew York Herald.l He resides on Broadway, between Nine teenth and Twentieth streets, and does a thriving business in the show window of a large upholstery house. Every day when the lavender tinted blind is dropped this little mouse comes ont and runs along the lower edge between the glass and the cur tain, digging np flies with its tiny claws and then sitting on his hind feet munches them as a squirrel would munch a hickory nnt Meanwhile he blinks ont at the pas sers by in utmost indifference. People often step np to the window and take a near view of the busy chap, but he doesn't mind it in the least, seeming to know that no one would break the largest pane of plate glass on Broadway for a mere mouse. Almost any day alter six and every Sunday this little fellow may be seen having a jolly good feast of dainty flies that have dined on the tapestry painted fruit of tlie richly upbolstered Jurmture. For months he has enjoyed himself right in sight of all Broadway, yet his ace can only be guessed at, for such a lite of secu rity and plenty would keep wrinkles off for years. The Fate of n Carper. jm. l pS Jungle Fowl I wish that an inrcrutable Providence had made worms larger. They're narajy worm picting up, jtuck. fWy-ggi ac s&$g&Mfy Jkiffimsts J!rm jKTaitM BOON FOE WOMEN Would a Dishwashing Machine he, if it Could be Made to Work. SOLUTION OP THE HELP PB0BLEM. How Housekeepers Might Succeed in Secur ing Good Servants, and KEEPING THEM WHEN THEI'RE FOUND JWRimS FOB THE DISPATCH.! Nothing will add more comfort to the housekeeper's hard lot than the newly in vented dishwashing machine, if it should prove to be a success. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, the noted temperance speaker, states that she saw it in operation at a large hotel in Decatur, and testifies that il washed and dried the dishes used for 100 guests, and that all this was done in 20 minutes, without wetting the hands. The dishes come out perfectly cleaned and polished better than can be done by the deftest workers and nicest tea towels. These machines are to be adapted to the uses of either large families or small ones, as the sisters will be rejoiced to hear. It is hard to see how such a machine can be made to work, but in these days it would seem as if miracles were becoming the com mon order of things. The sewing machine was a marvel in its day, and would have proved the greatest blessing to overworked women it they could have been satisfied with the plain sewing as of yore; but no, they went to ruffling, and tucking, and braiding, and embroidering, and shirring in a way that leaves but little more leisure than when only hand sewing was in vogue. If it were not for all this supreme passion for trimming, every woman might findmuch more enjoyment in life and have time to read the newspapers, and thus make herself a more intelligent being. NOT A DIFFICULT WAT. It is told of Lucretia Mott the famous Quaker and leader among women that when wonder was expressed as to how she found time for reading and writing and preaching with her large family and great extension of hospitality, she replied that it was easy enough she simply made her children's clothes without trimmings. This is a practical hint to some of the poor mothers who wear themselves out over the sewing machine in order to have frills. But this dishwashing machine, if it prove practically a success, will be a blessed boon in honsekeeping, where dishes to wash three times a day is one of the most tiresome and detestable of duties. The grandmothers, with their few cooking utensils and scarcity of Wedgewood, orltoyal Worcester, or even plain white ware, had an easier time than their descendants of to-day, who use more dishes to serve a meal for two people than can be washed and dried properly in an nour. Every year more dishes are added to what was lormerly deemed necessary. In old times people went to the table and ate their dinners with only a plate, a cup and sancer and a knife and fork and perhaps a dessert plate. Now there are enough glasses, in dividual butters, oatmeal bowls, bone dishes, dessert saucers, relays of course dishes and different sets of knives and forks and spoons and dessert plates and after dinner coffees to keep up the dishwashing racket tor two or three mortal hours. Men often say in the disparagement of the women of to-day that they have nothing like the grit and "get-up" in them that their grand mothers had, but if the good old girls of that elder day could have seen the piles of dishes displayed now to be washed after each meal, they would have shrunk back appalled. ONE OF TIME'S CHANGES. If we remember correctly, the first china ware was brought to England in Queen Elizabeth's day, and her few pieces brought from China were treasured like Mrs. Mor gan's peach-blow vase, or Millet's "Angelas," or Mrs. JIackay's "Sapphire." A hundred years ago the first families of Pittsburg had only a few pewter plates and dishes, with perhaps a ttw wooden bowls and battered pewter spoons helped out by those made of horn. In those primitire days of Arcadiau simplicity, it is plain that the grandmothers knew nothing of the drudgery of washing dishes, as carried on to-day. Moreover, they were absolutely ignorant of the modern style of having seven sets of glasses for the serving of wine as even ordinary families have to-day. They took their liquid refreshment of whisky out of a bottle called "Black Betty," and had no bother with either glasses or 'decanters or punch bowls. "What would do most to simplify house keeping would be for some inventive genius like Edison to get np a concentrated food thatconld be taken without any dishes at all. To do away with the cooking of three meals a day over a hot stove, and like wise the marketing and preparation for them, would be much more of a labor saving invention than even a dish-washing machine that will do up the dishes of a family in two minutes. Men in the armies of the world can be kept in splendid condi tion with the sausages invented by a Ger man chemist; with hardtack and water or coffee in a canteen. So why should not some genius succeed in concentrating food that will answer every purpose of nourishment with the least possible labor and trouble? A horse gets all he needs for health and strength out of a peck of oats and a bundle of hay; so why should we not hope that some enthusiastic chemist may some day discover what will BEST SUSTAIN MANKIND without the martyrdom of the kitch?n range, or the disagreeableness of dishwash ing, which ot late years has grown to such enormous and extravagant proportions, that the average housekeeper is bothered and bur dened beyond words to tell. However, let us be thankful that a woman has used her brains for the purpose of get ting rid of this onerous business. Life will be sweeter for every housekeeper for such weakening of the tyranny of the "domestics," who now think nothing of chipping and nicking the finest china, who seem to find delight in breaking the handles from the cups, and fracturing the most treasured and precions of glasses and dishes. The trouble about this luxuriousness of living, as to all this nicety and elegance of table service, is that the housekeeper ot average means who can only keep one girl, perhaps, struggles to have her table and napery, and china and silver, as elegant, and the food served with as mnch style as one who has a cook in the kitchen, a butler in the nanlrv. and a waiter in the dining- room, and thus makes her own life a regu lar grind, especially when the help goes on a rampage and puts on her duds and "lights out." No one but she who has been there knows how the waves of trouble roll in that kitchen where piles of dishes are to be washed in the loveliest part of the evening, when all of the neighbors are out taking in its delights and where in the midst of the harrowing job, a caller drops in to snend the evening, thus leaving the dishes to do at bedtime, or worse, in the hnrry of the morning. To all such housekeepers Mrs. Cochran's invention will be a refuge in dis tressa cause of rejoicing, and a taste of freedom from downright drudgery. A solution rsr SIGHT. It may be that by this and other means the domestic problem which has grown more trying and less easy of solution of late than ever may be reached. The American girl has made np her mind solemnly and determinedly that she will notwork in any body's kitchen nntil she is compelled to do it for board and clothes, with a husband thrown in. Job, with all his sore afflictions, escaped the worries and exasperations of the fiends of the kitchen, whom so many mistresses spend their lives in trying to mold into use fulness and into doing good service for ample wages. It is a missionary work, that .iiEe tne missions among tbe neatnen in for- eign lands, costs far more than it comes to in almost every case. "Why don't you treat your girls in the kitchen as I do my men in the ditches?" asked a contractor of his wife. "You don't suppose I would spend my time getting down there with a shovel to teach an in competent man how to work? Not muchl I simply fire him out, and get another that knows how and can do better." The answer is easy. The supply of do mestic workers 1b not equal to the demand. Moreover, a man can be very independent who has not-the care and claims of small children to consider. In many cases the dilemma is presented to the housewife that either the house or the children must be neglected, and sad to say it is oftentimes the latter who have to suffer. This domestic problem is bad enough, and pressing enough here at home, where natural gas has relieved "the girl" of tho hardest labor, but the women of the West' say it is simply awful out there, and something has to be done about it Farmers' wives suffer especially for lack of help. In the cities bread and cooked supplies may be procured when emergencies occur; laundries furnish a way to dispose of the washing and ironing when a strike takes place in the household; but on the farms and in the villages NO SUCH EASEMENTS are tobeprocured.even if the money were in hand. The way out of it, say some, is to simplify housekeeping; cut off all ot the superfluous, and do only what is necessary. It is tolly tor women to overwork them selves and leave their children to the care of step-mothers and hirelings. But the trouble about many women is that they have been trained to the idea that self-sacrifice is a sort of duty that patient endurance of wrong is a virtue that merits heaven that work to and worry, and wear out before their prime is something that will add an extra brilliance to their crowns hereafter. But as some distinguished man used to say, tbey should "disbandon the idea." They should make up their minds to their constitutional right o'f life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and act ac cordingly. Another idea advanced by a brilliant woman is that men should be trained to do mestic work since the supply of men is greater than the demand lor their labor. This seems leasible. Black men in the South do housework, and do it well. Por ters on cars do chamber work, and do it well. Men make the best cooks, as has been made very plain. In all history no woman has achieved fame as a cook, though the names of many men have become immortal in the art of gastronomy. The Chinese are famous as making good servants, so why shonld not other men? The subject is open to other suggestions on this point A COUNCIL OP WAS. Another idea is to hold a national con clave of housekeepers, to consider the sub ject of domestic help, and have the best thought upon the subject presented. On the ground that in a mnltitudeof counsel ors there is safety, men meet and sit upon their subjects and debate theirdifficulties and sometimes come to' a conclusion, so why should not women? Women meet in na tional congress to devise ways and means for the promotion of temperance; to wake up sympathy and enthusiasm for the far away heathen; to co-operate and advance the interests of the G. A. B. and other so cieties, so why shonld they not consult on this intimate domestic problem which most nearly concerns their own comfort and the well-being of their families? Mrs. Harrison's experience with servants, especially her French cook, shows that the trouble extends from the highest in position to the lowest, and that something urgently needs to be done. He who would be free himself must strike. The blow applies with as great force to women as to men. If anything is to be achieved in this matter women themselves must act. By their own brains, judgment, common sense, combina tion and co-operation can this great problem be fairly faced and solved. Mrs. Cochran if her dishwashing ma chine creates the revolution in domestic affairs presaged for it will have written her name high in the list of benefactors who have blessed the world by their inventions. Bessie Bbamble. SIGNS OP A HARD WINTER. A Iturnl Weather Prophet's Predictions and What Tbey Are Based On. New York Star.i "We are going to have an early fall and a long, cold, hard winter," remarked Sam uel Lovelace, an old Jersey farmer, to several friends at the New Washington Market yesterday. "How do yoa figure that ont?" asked one of the marketmen. "In the first place," the Jerseyman re plied, "just try the skin of any of your fruit. You will find your apples and peaches and grapes, and all your fruit, for that matter, which is home-grown, with a thicker and tongher skin than you have seen for several years. That is one of the indications. That is the way nature takes care of her products. Last winter apples and other fruits were so thin-skinned and tender that it was hard to gather them without bruising them, if you will, remem ber, and we had an extraordinary mild winter. Corn is another of nature's signboards. The ears this year are protected by thicker and stronger husks than I have seen before for years, and talking with farmers up in Pennsylvania I find it is the same way. Wheat and rye straw are tougher, hay is wirier and seed pods are better protected than usual. These are old farmers' signs, and they are good ones, becanse they don't come from any moon-planting superstition, but from actual observation year after year by a class of men whose interests lie in keeping close watch of all of nature's moods." A EELIABLE BAROMETER. Insects' Webs on tho Grass a Certnln Sign of Fair Weather. St. Louis Republic Speaking of the dry weather, a close ob server of nature remarked to the man abont town: "I have a dry weather sign which for years I have never known to fail and it at the same time illustrates tbe great wis dom of small creatures, and that is this: Whenever you see the grass of the lawn or field covered with numerous small webs, as you have doubtless often seen, you may de pend upon it that the weather will be dry for some time. "The tiny creatures seem to know with unerring wisdom when to spread their tents and they require no time to make calcula tions, for I have frequently noticed them immediately on the cessation of a rain." Bard Lock. Mr. Crossrhoades Mirandyl some thief got in back o' the counter t'dar V stole them 10-cent cigars I Jest got in; took the hull hundred. Mrs. Crossrhoades Good landl why that's flU. v Mr. -Crossrhoades It ain't 'a bad 'a that. ' " " r. nun vyJ'iW5K A THE' ART OF MESS. jsozs-JslsB MmTiam WMfWnffmm wear that it is of all others the dress for -&$.?? -S?SP WuiuittWCTWWMR' Tlrar lh3HS Shirley Dare Says It Consists in Con forming to the Seasons. PAIR WOMAN IN BECOMING E0BES As Pretty a Sight as the Eye of Man E'er Wishes to Behold. A CLETER GIRL CRITICAL OP WEIGHT rwwTTEs ron the distatch.! 8 far as snpreme satisfaction goes in this world, experi ence proves it may be found on a sea girt island, half an hour from the rest of the world, where a picturesque well kept hotel has miles of ramble to itself. I shall not tell the name of the island, faced in the cliff, walled from the East with evergreen, and fragrant with breath of surf and balsam pine. Such wine needs no bush. The house is kept to English taste, and be ing on its own domain makes its own rules. You can wear a yachting suit or a Tuxedo dress for a fortnight if you like, without of fending. The Commodore's daughter has worn her plain navy bine boating suit, it Cowes gown to begin for the last ten days, and so has the young Southern heiress, of the Amelie Eives type, but quieter, and the leading actress, horn granddaughter of an Episcopal dignitary, and akin to half a dozen of the best name: ia the really best American society, spending the summer with her exclusive and patrician family who never allow the theater mentioned in their presence. THEY SO THE DRESSING. The second rate people, and the middle aged ladies do the dressing for the commu nity. The beauties and the bel esprits leave their trunks full of gowns unpacked, and one begins to believe a yachting dress of dead bine, or white relief of dark red or white lines at wrist and collar the most be coming dress in the world, which it is to a good figure and complexion. After seeing a fair woman in the dress which most suits her, you no more wish to see her in any other than to see an oriole in pink or a robin in parrot green. When women learn the art of dress, they will need muct less in the way of outfitting than they Ho now a change with the season, that is all It is your cheap, prononcee illchosen gown, less fit than fashionable, which one tires uf soon, and if women did bnt know it, there is but one style becoming to each one If them, which brings out her good point! and suppresses poor ones, which we shou i be glad to see her in continually. Mar Stuart had FIFTY GEAND DRESSES, stiff fith gold and minever, and shot with rubies and pearls as a modern gown is with jet, bat who ever wishes to think of her in any costume but that of her picture, the blacl velvet gown, fitting easily the supple figurt, the transparent cuffs and ruff of point lace, the net of pearls and the white veil She, being a beautiful, graceful wo manicould do with a wardrobe of few dresses, compared with the roval frump, Elizibeth Begina, who had 3,000 toilets, some of which, we are told, exht to this day. I But she needed something gorgeous to takebeople's eyes from her black teeth. As she tfld one ot her counselors, "Good looks, as mlch as are conveyed by good condition, are In economy, as one can dress on so much less into them." Hat oh, my countrywomen, what horrors Lai i you not inflicted on tbe traveling pub lic n the premeditated affronts in dress you weir in vacation. She can see the benevo lent use of earthquakes, tornadoes and epi demics, in decimating the shoals of ngly women one meets traveling. It is not WANT OF GOOD LOOKS merely, which disconcerts one, it is the ill health and ill disposition met in the harsh or peevish faces. And why does the stout, barrel-shaped, middle-aged girl always en dure herself in a shrunken flannel sailor waist, aud skirt at her shoe tops, and the thin, worn-out woman, who looks more ver tabrec, try to fit a glove waist to her depres sions,and the fat girl gets herself up conspic uous in particolored blue and white, till she is like a vessel on review day, and the blonde, whose hair is not qnite white, load her dress with gold oriental trimming, or pale colors which give her the effect of a white moth by daylight. Why do women fuss over their complexions and paste, putty and powder their faces, all indifferent to their conditions as to stoutness or the re veise, which usually include the question of complexion? A clever woman will be as critical of ten pounds too much in her contour as of pimples on her nose. It is a sign SnE EATS TOO MUCH, or takes too little exercise, and when people are refined to a proper standard they will be as ashamed ot being lazy or inactive as they 3re of being low bred in other ways. Women weighing 20 pounds more than they have a right to, implore some charm to do awav with superfluous hair for evermore, unmindful that the extra 20 pounds comes long before the downy face which springs from the fat under the skin just as it does from glycerine or agnine upon it How lew people in this world know how to rest! There is little provision made to rcliere the strain of life in travel or hotels. I see the tired women leave heated towns for an outing by excursion boats or trains, where tbe crowd and vile air reduce what little strength they start with. Arrived, their only resource is a seat on the backless benches ot a summer garden, or the chairs of a hotel piazza, where they sit or parade, LUNCHING INDIGESTIBLE, till it is time to return. If these women and children could follow the example of boys, and fling themselves at length on the sward, the rest would be ten times as re freshing. Better still, if the Shaker chairs on the piazzas were each provided with the new legrests, which allow one decorously to assume a reclining posture. The one idea of popular summer resorts should be to give tired people the best chance for change and rest, to recruit for the rest of their years poisoning in the city. Easy chairs, foot rests, ham mocks, " simple dres, wholesome fare, and general license to be comfortable should be the rule of such resorts. A little rest, a little relief counts for somnch in this modern life which keeps one on the strain. And then it is easy to take some of these good things home with one. The flannel shirt and the tennis sash will appear in the parks and on piazzas in town, and the boat ing dress, or the Tuxedo, is too comfortable not to be affectionately worn whenever ex cuse can be made for it COSIFOETS OF THE SEASON. The steamer chair, the Japanese lounge or tbe splint chair and footrest will be ap plied to when tatigne besets one, and the light, clean, healthy fashions of the seaside be grafted on the prim way of the town. The sailor blouse and Tuxedo dress first taught women that they could really dis pense with a tight corset and yet be pic turesque. If tbe "Venus of the water chose a gown of modern fashion, it wbuld, I think, be a draped Tuxedo, which one can transform into two or thre6 different styles at pleasure. For instance, it is easy to tnsten the skirt over the sailor blouse and have a trim, belted waist Or a surah front maybe gathered oyer it, and the empire sash girdle the fullness. The skirt raised a little on nna side over the strlced shirt is really rjn.pt. although the barred tianel on the O" ' a j -afetT the aress for outings, for prairie walks and mountain scrambles, gardening and hard usage gener ally. It is tbe sanitary dress, above all others, made of elastic, all-wool jersey stuff, delightful for cool autumn wear. AT A DIFFEEENT' EESOBT. Before reaching this favored island it was" my luck to spend a few days at a hosteliy of another sort close to a huge summer gar den, the daily resort of shoals of excursion ists. I stayed becanse not strong enough to get farther, but the study of the average American society fascinated by its hideous ness, as long as one could not get away from it. Such unrelieved vulgarity, en masse, I never saw before. Money seemed plenty, the people were well-to-do small manufact urers and business men with their families or the inevitable "young fellow" and his "girl," who might be- wife or sweetheart The women dressed well enough, with abundance of cheap bracelets and Bhinestone eardrops, a good deal of jet and moire, and common em broidery. There had been money enough spent on them, evidently, and I have seen women far worse inexpensively dressed who looked pretty as pinks, but these women could not hit their own style at all. Their gowns had the look of ready-made things, of being manufactured from unsalable rem nants, and raffled for. The dresses were trying, but endurable, compared to the man ners which went with them. Shiblet Dabe. A GIAHT AMONG FLOWERS. Description of a Floral Wonder That Bloomi In n London Garden Frank Leslie's "Weekly.i A floral wonder recently unfolded itself in the water lily lank at Kew Gardens, London, opposite the famous Victoria Begia. It was a gigantic aroid, which was discov ered in 1878 by Dr. O. Beccari, the Italian botanist, in Sumatra. Th tuber of one of these enormous flowers which Beccari took up was nearly 5 feet in circumference, and while two men were carrying it they fell and the tuber was broken. He tried to pro cure others, and meanwhile, in 1878, for warded some seeds, which were planted. They were shaped like an olive, bright red, and ljf inches long. A seedling a year and a hall old was presented to Kew Gardens. Year by year it demandeda larger and larger pot What was thought to be the trunk finally proved to be a 10-foot leaf-stalk, and the three branches as thick as a man's thigh were veins or ribs ot a leaf 4 yards long. Last March the bulb was repotted, and measured 4 teet 8 inches in circumfer ence, 1 foot 6 inches in diameter, 10 inches in depth and weighed 67 pounds. Early in May the flower bud began to Trash, rmwincr an inch a day the first week, two inches the second week, then three inches, until in the second week of June it swelled almost visi bly. Finally the head of the object began to uncurl, showing a deep maroon lining with a great toothed rim. The stature of this giant flower, from head to foot was 6 feet 9 inches. The spathe was 3 feet deep and 4 feet across, the spadix 5 teet long and 10 inches in diameter at the base, narrowing to a point greenish in the early stage, turning to a drab as it grew older. The bell-like spathe was of a bluish maroon with velvet like sheaf indescribably beautiful, turning over at the edges beautifully white and crumpled. The odor, however, was simply vile, filling tbe entire atmosphere with an insufferable stench. QUEER PEOPLE AT HOTELS. . One Slan Fornels HI Name and Another Is Afraid to Register. Hotel Clerk, in Chicago Herald.l "Once in a while we have a queerer char acter even than usual to deal with. Only yesterday a fine looking man, whom I after ward found to be a distinguished scientist, couldn't for the life of him think of his own name when he came to sign it on the register. The general run of queer custo mers comes from the agricultural districts. A big city hotel is a revelation and a terror to him. Everything in and about & firit class caravansary surprises and scares him everything except the dining-room there he is very much, too mnch at home. Even the first act of signing the register is a seri ous and awful thing to him. To him the signing of his name, besides being an act of mental and physical difficulty, is, in his mind eyer connected with judgment notes, mortgages, lawsuits and forclosures. "The meekest and easiest to satisfy of all whom a hotel clerk meets is the 'typical western cowboy. The tougher he is on the plains the meeker he is here. The muzzle of a loaded Colt placed against his temple wouldn't make him turn half so pale as the sight of pen and ink thrust toward him. He is out of his element then and appre ciates it without the slightest effort at dis guise." WONDERFUL TBAINED FISH. Thej Act as Decoys to I, tire Their Brethren From the Lake. Chicago Herald.3 Opie P. Bead is another teller of fish yarns. He was up at Minnetonka last sum mer, and when he came back he did some tales unfold. He said he found a man ud there who had made a business of training fish, and had succeeded so well that he could snpply people who came there with decoy bass. These trained fish would follow a boat out into the lake, and when it anchored would get the other bass to run ning a race for the bait the fisherman dropped into the water, hiding the murder ous hook. The wildest yarn Opie tells, though, is about a man who had been in the habit of feeding a school offish from off a pier every day by throwing crumbs to tbem. Opie says the fish got to know the man well, and one day, when he made a misstep and fell in, being unable to swim, he would have drowned had it not been for his finny friends. They saw his predicament, and formed themselves into a solid raft under him and thus buoyed him np nntil he was rescned. TAKE A HERRING FOR TOUR COLD. One Who Has Tried the Medicine Says It's a Certain Cure. I-was traveling with a cirens once in England and got laid up with a cough, cold and sore throat that I thought was going to lay me on the 'shelf for the rest of the season, but a French sailor came along and cured me. He took a raw herring, split it, wrapped it in a cloth, saturated the whole thing with coal oil, tied it about my throat and neck. I was well in two days. When I came here I told abont the remedy to a German matron in whose family I boarded. "Why," said she, "it's an old German family remedy, and has been used by my people ever since I can remember. It's in fallible." His Unqualified Opinion. Mfln.Wtth.fine.TWinTrrai Chin-box hean better than Injun agentl Talk-talk, all same UVH k BkCUlj n uugni i U"V yt f MOMLS'MMANMS EEZfflK BY A. CLEEGXMAK. iwarmx tor'tui DISrATCM.r ' A certain Prof. Mahaffy, of Dahlia, who is an authority on Greek literature, has beea lecturing at Chautauqua on ancient Greece with modera applications. In a lecture upon "Primitive Man," a week or two ago, he said, among other things, wise and other wise: "In the preamble of your great Declaration of Bights appearsjl believe, the statement that all men are equal in the sight of God. That statement was borrowed, not irom the Scriptures, but from the specu lations of the Erench revolutionists, whose opinion on the subject was, to my mind, of very small valne. Ton are fond of talking of the equality of all men. The longer I read history and tbe more I look aronnd society, the more I see profound inequalities in men. It is not true that every man Is equal, in the sight of cither. God or men. I saptioie that this is an awful heresy, bnt at least, as long as I' am in this country, I am a free man; so you will allow me to make, a clean breast of It." Prof. Mahaffy my;.bf. an expert in tbe clastics:vbe is 'evidently not an authority In things American.1" if be knows which way a Greek accent ought to slant he certainly does not know tbe leaning and meaning of the Declaration of Independence, and of the politi cal history which Illustrates it. Sidney Smith said that It took a surgical operation, to get a joke Into a Scotchman's bead. In tbe same way It should seem 'taat It requires a surgical operation to eer-thadoctnne of equal rights Into an Englishman'S-head. This Is what the Declaration of. Independence says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that ther are endowed by their Creator with 'certain Inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! that, to' Secure these rights, gov-' ernments are instituted among men, 'deriving their just powers from' Jthe consent" of the governed." There 4s nota'ichoolboyin the United States' who does not understand by this that it is of civil rights that Jefferson is speaking of those political rights which the English Government of George III. and Lord North, had assumed and presumed to deprive the American colo nies, bnt which were assured and kecured to them, equally with all other subjects of Great Britain, Dy the immemorial guarantees of the British Constitution. Thomas Jefferson and his cotemporarles knew, just as well as Prof, jiauany Knows, precisely as we au now, inai men differ indefinitely that race and climate are half omnipotent that some bloods are more brainy than others that cer tain races are socially, morally, intellectually superior, while certain others are inferior Neither they nor we need an Englisb pro fessor to enlighten ns on these points. Air. Mahaffy Is not the only stndent of history ex tant, what the fathers said, and what their children bold as their priceless legacy, the open secret of the magnificent progress of tbe Great Republic, is that, notwithstand ing all differences of brain and frame. of food and training, of inherent strength and weakness, when considered as the subjects of political government, all men stand alike, all are equal before the law; all are enti tled to "Ife. liberty and. the pnrsalt of happi ness;" and each may say to Governor or Presi dent, as Diogenes said to Alexander "Get ont of my sunlight!" This principle contemplates, not social, not moral, not Intellectual equality, bnt equality under government. And this principle we owe not to the doctrinaires of the French Revolution, but to the Bible. It fits Christianity as snncly as the glass slipper fitted Cinderella's foot. Go home. Prof. Mahaffy, lay aside yonr Greek foe six months and study tbe times in which yoa lire. The Declaration of Independence is a better key to this study tnan all yonr classical grammars. By the bye, why not acquaint yourself with the English lan guage? Historical Progress and Christianity. The most thoughtful scholars accept the doctiine of historical progress. Tennyson sets it to music: " through the ages One increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are broadened, With the process ot the suns." Some skeptical critics maintain that It must inevitably result from this truth that Christi anity will be outgrown and discarded. This faith, we are assnred, has played a great part In the drama of humanity; bat already "Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage." It is no longer tbe helper of the onward move ment oi wo race, ic is now a conservative barrier. Like all old things and decrepit. It Is stationary, even reactionary. These charges are made noisily, if nof widely, and are re peated as though they would become true by virtue of the "damnable iteration." In reply, we say that all the progress which history re cords for two millenniums has been confined to Christian nations. China has not advanced. Central Africa has not ad vanced. They have lad every motive, every spring-board which we have, except Christian ity. Yet Enrope and America are the fore most prow of progress, while Asia and Africa are as dead as the mummies of Thebes. Bnt it is said that the progress in the so-called Christian nations is now confined to circles outside the pole of Christianity further proof of Its exhaustion. Well. here. too. "it will be found." remarks Professor Goldwin Smith, "on closer inspection, that these apparent se ceders from Christendom remain 'Christians in their whole view of the world, of God, of the human character and destiny; speakalanguage and appeal to principles and sympathies essen tially Christian; draw their moral life from the Christendom which surrounds them: receive their wives at Christian altars, and bring ud their children is the Christian faith." Th6 view is corroborated by the author of Ecce Homo in a striking sentence: "If a high and complete morality often exists ontside tbe church it does not often exist independent of it. The atmosphere of Enrope has been satu rated for some 15 centuries with Christian prin ciples, and however far the rebellion against the chnrch may have spread, It may still be called the Moral University of the world. While this Is so It Is idle for any virtue that springs np in its neighborhood to claim to be independent of it. Christian influences are in the air: our very conception of virtue is Christian." Bnt the crowning assurance of tbe Christian that his faith can never be out grown and discarded, whatever may be what Renan calls "the surprises of the future," Is gotten from the fact that Christianity rests upon one fundamental, indestructible moral principle, viz: The love of God. our Father, and the love of man, our brotner. And the type of character set forth In the Gospel is the absolute embodiment of this love, both toward God and man. "This being the case," says Prof. Goldwin Smith, whom we have already quoted, ''it Is difficult to see how the Christian type of character can ever be left behind by the course of hnman development, lose the al legiance of the moral world, or give place to a newly emerging and higher type. This type, it wonld appear, being perfect, will be final. It will be final, not as precluding future his tory, bnt as comprehending It, The moral efforts of all aces will be efforts to realize this character, and to make it actually, as it is po tentially, universal." Meanwhile there are no indications visible, even with a microscope, that this Christian type has been attained to. much less surpassed. Selections for the Sabbath. MY lord rides ont at the castle gate, My lady is grand in bower and hall, With men and maidens to cringe and wait, But John o the smithy must pay for all. Old Sons;. Children are travelers newly arrived in a strange country; we should therefore make conscience not to mislead them. Locke. Tbe best advertisement of a workshop is first-class work. The best advertisement of a chnrch is well-made Christian character. r.i. Cuyler. 'Tis the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather. fersian JProverb. The neb man is everywhere expected and at home. Saadi. It would have taken a Jesus to forge a Jesus. Theodore Parker. An injury done to one is a threat held ont to alb Bacon. It is more disgraceful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. Hoe hefaucauld. We are all unformed lumps, and of so various a contexture that every moment every piece plays its own game, and there is as much differ ence betwixt ns and ourselves as betwixt us and others. Montaigne. No one's belief that duty i3 an objective re ality is stronger than blsbelief that Godis so. John Stuart MUl. Happy is he that walks with that strong siding champion conscience. Milton. Facts are not less facts because the7 are not facts of sense: materialism is not necessarily enlightenment; It is possible to be at once chi merical and gross. Prof. Godwin Smith. One may be more cunning than another, but not more so than all others. Old Saying. In a. State of Perplexity. 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