mm THti " HTTSBtJRQ- DISPATOTtV v; few''- .r laefc Vt V I 4MSw-'"mm IN THE LONDON SHOPS. Gavnia of ifae Roynl Ladle of Enrepa as Been In Wnxnt Slndnme Tnaod'a The Proper Onifil for Shooting Troubles of tbe Iindlra Wbo Have Dluatncbrs. LONDON, August 22. It costs about COO ,'a year to dress the group of royal ladies at Madame Tussaud's. They all had new 'court dresses the other day. Some of the 3 gowns are qnite magnificent Tbe tunic of jithe Princess Beatrice's gown alone was 12 guineas. Her pale blue dress is, I think, "ithe prettiest of the lot. The front is em i broidered in cold, and the train is brocaded l(vt falthltaMAr TliAPrSiiliAiil Al Vv al a &'li s nf nnnr0 tltn nctflcr itavii Th . -) w. w.'H.M .... - v.... bun. ...... The O- vest in JLonnon. t out of her dress is of white satin, delicately e nbroidered in gold and other soft co ors. Her tan ard bodice are n butf-rcup yel ' lo a 4d whitr brocade. The Princess has a Tery pretty bouquet ot wild flowers. Bunches o these trim one side of her train. The Duchess o Fife, looking rather miserable, stsnri near her mother. She has quite a simple drrR, in mauve and white. , borne of the ladies haveauantitiesof rain. able 1 ce about their dresses. The Duchess Sof Edinburgh, for example, whose massive S'figure is clad in ruby velvet and pink bro- s,caae, nas a river oi lace flown one side of , her train. The dresses have been chosen to ibeln each other. Ttinni.n thitr- m nnt tier, ?fp' dresses of the same color, the contrasts never clash. None of the royal women have small hwaists; tbe Princess of Wales' is the Slimmest. The Empress of Austria is tbe (tallest woman in the croup. She is attired a in cardinal and white. The only ugly dress fin the show is that worn by the Empress of Russia. It is of chartreuse-green brocade, and tbe front is embroidered in metal y shades. .Trie Duchess of Cnnnaugbt's dress is too 4 old'for her. It would have suited a dowager Vjjk'beUerr The d res" is in slate color and old JT ir5se?trimnied with luce and flowers. These or"J! . .. . i :.-.-. .; .. 'iauict Maui h krriuemiuuif iui Ol aucuuoa, so ..one of the women attendants told me. They are not washed oilenrr man once a month hit's true, but their trains are taten oil and (adjusted afresh every morning. Two articles are being largely sold now that represent tbe mild and failing type of -woman and the new an boisterous' set. That it, there is a great demand for needlework sud shooting dresses. The old stvle o'' woman burdens herselt with a big bundle of iancv needlework. Tt will nrobablv nerer ""Sbeiflnished, or it c-n-r l'v i n.Vre prr--tence to fill those idle bands that Satan is aid to be seeking, out lueie 18i,o i reienie about the occupation of the modern woman. She orders a very practical costume, and travels with a run or a fishing-rod just like any man. "When she arrives at the moors or settles down at the salmon river she sets to work in earnest. I saw two or three very nice shoot ing costumes at Thomas' in Brook street. Fabrics that harmonize with the shade of the heather and don't scare the birds are, ot course., ranch sought alter. The prettiest model at Thomas was made ot check home spun, -the plain skirt was just long enou h to cover the tops o the boots, and was worn oyer spats ot the same material. The cost bodice was tabbed out round the edge and .was left ppen in innt to show a waistcoat. e newest i d m t "XP-nsive wnitcnat is oTde of velvet calf. It is rather showy and i 3 guineas. A few coats have been ITnnVofithii material, too. Leather is .be- ingused a little ns a trimming in the 'lorra Wfiplping. Thebemf.f a skirt will sotae- tihieslbe of leather, insiile and out. in such caeesfth'e edge of the dress need never be B?Th fii ( A Fancy Shooting Outfit. cost! dirty or draggled, for the leather hem can be washed. At Helbrooner's, in Oxford street, I was shown everything that was exquisite in the tray of needlework. There were rich table centers of cloth of gold, ready stamped for the emhroidery. A pretty example was in pale pink with a bunch of marguerites and ferns embroidered in each corner. The 6 o'clock tea cloths and Swiss lace borders and a design in each corner. Tbe em broidery is pretty, in two shades of blue, though the less color put into these things the better. White cloths embroidered in white are the correct thing. Christmas presents, In tbe shape of slippers, letter wallets aod tobacco pouches are in urep t ra tion already, they told me here. Berlin wool slippers are not quite a thing of the past. They are more comfortable than the new-fancied kinds. The most elaborate slippers for gentlemen are of kid. These are embroidered in metal tints. Lady Monckton and Miss Frith are about to start as house decorators and furnishers. They have taken a shop in the Fulham road, which will be opened with a big house warming next month. Lady Monckton is a connoisseur of old furniture, and a smart business woman. Miss Frith will keep on the small army oi workers whom she now employs to make decorative bits of furniture. Fine table linen and antique furniture are to be made leading lines. Miss Frith showed me some charming specimens of the former. There were 5 o'clock tea cloths and sideboard cloths, trimmed with insertions oi Greek lace. There is a lady in London who has actu ally lound out how to destroy wrinkles by "electrolysis." A good many lady elec tricians have sprung up lately, but only one ot them has had the courage to attack wrinkles. This is Mme. Dudley, a good looking young woman of 30, who lives at Portland place. Patients are invited to consult her there, "the strictest privacy be ing observed." The lady doesn't confine her attention wholly to the destruction oi wrinkles; indeed, irom her own account ol ber work it's difficult to say what she can't do. The removal of superfluous bair is a specialty, and the electric needle is also em- 'ymatizr nn.j.r .-v. - - :-. Very JalonahU Juit Kow. ployed in getting rid ot moles, warts, birth marks and all excrescences. The operator told me that more people with superfluous hair than wrinkles visited her, the first evil being considered worse than any other sort of disfigurement. I asked her what she thought of the lady who complained the other day that she had been made to pay 42 guineas to have ber mustache taken out. Shi- said that as the remedy had proved unsuccessful it wan pre pnsterous to make such a charge. Under any circumstances 42 guiuess would be a fabulous price for the removal of a mus tache. A lourth of that sum would have beeu.nearer the mark The electrician said that very heavy prices were sometimes paid to doctors for the same operation. She told me that she always compelled a patient to be frank with her before she commenced an operation. They frequently had to admit that they were obliged to share in order to make themselves at all preventable. Miss Mantalini. In Pall Mall Budget. HER TEMPKR THEN AND HOW. A Hnsband Who rind. HI. Wife la Like Gunpowder Gria an Cxplanntlon. A story that is really too good to keep is being told about the wi e of a young and popular Eastern district professional man. says tbe Brooklyn Citizen. The lady in question is quite pretty and is a perfect jewel in her way with one exception, and that is she has a temper Of her own, which, try as she might, she is unablo to control. To arouse ber is like applying a match to gunpowder. Tne young husband is the very soul of devotion, and it must be said that the' lady i making strenuous efforts to cure berstlf oi this one serious obstacle to entire domestic happiness. As the story goes, it teems a few days ago the bu'sband, during one of his wife's lucid iutervals, spoke of her unhappy weakness and asked her how it was that during their courtship days she bad been able to restrain herself. He explained that he was anxious "to know by wbnt manner she kept this one great fault bidden. Fora time the dear little woman was taken completely by surprise, but finally, burst ing into tears, sobbed convulsively: "I I used to excuse m m myself from you for a ew minutes and g c go up stairs and b b bite holes in the b b bed quilts." A Iiady Hrchanlcal EnfUeer. JIr. Annie A. De Barr has received a license as mechanical engineer from the Chicago Board ot Engineers. For 18 months she has bad full charge of the engine and machinery of a large steam laundry. Her en gine room is a model of neatness, her natty uniform is spotless, and she does not put on a" look 6 Bunsby-llke wisdom,and shake her bead ayslerionsly when a question it asked her about the mysteries of rods and cylinder-; as some of toe United Brotherhood do. SHELLS AND.HOEHS. They Pones Too Much Individuality to be Useful 1b the House. "It Is pity," Evelina Hid, according to a writer in tbe Boston Courier, as she fin gered a pretty yellow shell which she bad taken up from the beach, "that shells are so willful about being used in any way. They will not fit into anything. If yon set one, the result isn't a brooch as it would be If yon- used a gem, but tt is only a shell with a rim round it." "That is true," the editor answered, skip ping a stone over tbe blue water; "and such a disregard of the fundamental principle that all things are designed to lend them selves to the adornment of yonr sex is an un dubltable proof oi the most consummate hard ness of heart." "Undoubtedly," she assented, being too clever to gratify him by seeming to uotice his implied fling at ber sex. "I wish you would explain to me, however, In virtue ot just what property It is that shells become and remain so utterly unmanageable. Even those strings oi Venetian shells are not pretty, and when beads are put in they are hideous." "The case is the same as it is with horns," the editor replied sententiously. "With horns?" she repeated, doubtfully. "Yes. Were you never lortuuate enough to tee one ol those thrice-hideous monstros ities, chairs made out or horns?" "Ob, those diabolical things! They are like furniture out of a nightmare." "Exactly; and for just the same reason that a shell brooch is uncomely. The shell or the horn has so distinctly a personality and a function of its own that it is useless to try to do anything else with it until all trace of this is lost. You may cut tbe horn or the shell up and make very pretty things of it, but as long as it is whole it remains a whole, and to combine it with anything else is not in the least to make it a part of any thing. No whole is the result, but only a forced collection of incongruities." "The phrase sounds as If it meant nothing whatever," Evilina responed smiling, "but op the wholeit seems probable that you are right. I will not send you a chair of horns for a birthday present as I had Intended." "Do, by all mean.," be replied. "I will only have your name engraved on it and then send it to the auction room." "Horrid wretch I" was Evilina's retort WHAT ETIQUETTE DEMAHDS. Knives and Fork Doomed add as Incipient War on Toothpick. It has been announced'that to use a bit of bread in connection with the fork in eating fish is no longer "good form," says the Boston Herald. This is melancholy. Must we return to our ancestor's fashion of eating with our fingers? If tbe baby's "pusher" is denied grown-ups, .perhaps one of these days the fork will follow the knife, and both utensils be placed under the ban known as bad form. If, instead of crushing a bit of bread, these sticklers tor good form would confine their attention to killing the very disagree able custom of using wooden toothpicks in public, they would receive the gratitude of many fastidious and decent persons. It is quite as proper to use a toothbrush in public as to pick the teeth, and yet people who calmly and conspicuously leave a hotel dinng room doing so would scarcely dare pull a brush out of their pockets on the ap pearance of the finger bowls. When a restaurant waiter places a stand of toothpicks on the table along with tbe coffee and. the bill he perlorms his duty and encourages one of the most unpleasant abnses ever practiced in a civilized country, and one which is absolutely inexcusable in women pretending to the least refinement. Of course, the dear creatures who like to chew this abominable cure-dent will go on in their sinfulness aod laugh these observa tions to scorn. But let them remember that the fair sex is only as good as it looks,and shall it be said picking teeth in publio noes not iook pretty. USE OF PERFUMES. Old Etandarda Bring- Abandoned and Paris Belles Making TUelr Otto. Kever make an exclusive use of a perfume which for a very long time has been aban doned, which has been used in a former gen eration, for the perlume must be of modern make as well as the dress, says Emma Bul let in a Paris letter to tbe Brooklyn Eagle. A woman who wears a newly imported dress, with all the improvements and styles of tbe day, and scents of la march ale, which was par excellence the perfume of the last century, is taxed with an unpardonable an achronism, which proves a delect of taste that mars the effect of tt in all other things. This year society women made the mistake to take to a per.nme which had a Bussian name. They would ignore the manu acturer and buy Kussian imperial, bouquet of the tsar, Bussian cologne water, and perfumers to follow nnd obey the fashion merely changed tbe names of their old brands. But there are a few Parisian women who are the exceptions to the rule, and whose taste is subtle and refined. A few of them make their own perfumes; they possess a secret of combinations which they for tbe world would never reveal and they retire to some lonely room, where they are sure not to be disturbed while in the religious act of chousing the oils and essences. Some go so iar as to sprinkle their beds with certain odois, which, they hold, mate them sleep and have pleasant dreams. 1 is a noted act that the essence of the very -flowers which would be pernicious in a bedroom when tresh conduce to general well-being and sleep when distilled. SOW TO EAT PEACHES. The- Art la Attracting; a Urent Deal of Atten tion In England. "The art of eating a peach" is, it appears, one of tbe questions of tbe day, says the Pall Mall Budget. According to one authority on the etiquette of the dinner table, a peach should be pricked with the fork, quartered, "pealed, and eaten piecemeal. But, as so much manipulation would evidently leave all the juice of the fruit on tbe plate, this method, to he palatable requires the courage ol the young lady in the ktory who, at her first appearance at a dinner party, raised ber dessert plate with her twp hands, and calmly drank the sweet juice ot the nectar ines. 'The French rule or eating peaches will, thtre ore, be accepted with more favor, and that rule is "d'y mordre a plelnes dents." Amwerrd. Oaaghters of America. Now how would yon live through the summer, Were another nerer to be?" This was tbe puzzling question That one whom I loved asked me. "Would you spend it In useless sighing ' For snmmers over and dead: In vain regrets and replnlngs For opportunities fled! " Wonld yon lie in a swinging hammock O'erlooktng the summer sea. And Idle the precious moments In dreaming and rertnef "Wonld ynu pick up the long-dropped stitches Of duties irksome aod dull And leave all the flowering pleasures For other hands to cull? "Wonld you think the time all too fleeting Ayou watched tbe roses fall; Or would too hasten Its going. Glad to be through witb It allf "Would the things of time seem nothing Wlth'eternlty so nearT Would you wonder tbat you bad ever Been vexed by the trifles hereT" "I think I should do Jnst the same, love, Aa I've done tor many a year Catch all the sweetness and sunshine. And go through tbe (lays without fear." . .LOUISE irwiiiirs. GEMS BY THE QUART. Beauty at Saratoga Goes About Loaded With Sparklers- FAT GEANDHAMAS WHO GLITTER. Dixie Belle on Whose Dark Bair a Golden Butterfly flits. LATEST CUT IS FASHIONABLE HOESES rCOKBXSrOKDXKCI OT TOT DISPATCH. 1 Sabatoqa, August 30. Saratoga was nerer gayer than it has been during the past week. All the millionaires of tbe land are here, and more than 30,000 strange pal ates are .tickled with the salty taste of the Saratoga waters 'daily. There are 17,000 strangers in tbe boarding' houses alone, aad each of tbe big hotels has a thousand 'and more guests. There were by actual count more than 3,000 dancing atone time last Sat urday at a hop at one of the hotels. The millionaires' piazza at another hotel has a dozen men who hare to use seven ciphers in the figures which represent the amount they are worth, and still another has a thousand and more guests, largely made up ot sporting men, who are here to bet on the races. The dressing of Saratoga this year sur passes the wildest dreams ol Monte Christo There are pearls by the quart and diamonds by the peck. I have never seen anything like the ostentitious display of diamonds. Everyone has tbem, and t iking a seat at the end ot the hotel parlor to-diy I made a note of 600 women who came out lroiu dinner wearing diamonds. I counted 60 pairs of solitaire earrings, the stones ot each of which were as big as the end oi my thumb; 19 bracelets set with large diamonds, and 30 diamond sfars and pendants, any one ot which would buy a farm in tbe rich re gions about York or Lancaster in Pennsyl vania. ACBOSS THE 8EA. In Europe it is not considered good taste to wear jewels except in full dress, but here diamonds are worn morning, noon and nieht, and I saw a woman in a chintz gown to day with a fortune in the diamond brooch at her neck. One New York woman here has ten diamond rings on her two hands, and the third joints of several of her fingers are so covered witb Jewels mat sne maces a streak of fire when she moves her band. She has also two diamond bracelet, a diamond crescent at her throat, and she wears a dia mond scarl pin at ber shoulder. A Mrs. Blood, who, I think, comes from Boston, had a lortune in diamonds upon her at tbe last hop, and among her jewels was a necklace of great solitaires which clasped the white marble of her neck like balls ot fire. She had a great diamond star on her head, and I saw a brunette brauty last night dressed in a flowing red gown which came low down over her olive-brnwn shoul ders, who had by actual count 85 ttones of different sizes on her person. She shook at least (3,000 this way, and that eyery time he moved her head. AOE DOESN'T COUNT. These jewels are worn in the greatest pro fusion by the middle-aged and the gray haired, and you will not see a woman here in a lace cap. The older a womno is now the more giddy she seems to be. She cuts her dreses au inch lower at the bust for every 10 years she adds to her age, and I blush for the sex when I see the decollete corsages and plump bare backs of some ot these powdered old dames whofhave their grandchildren bothering the guests at this hotel. "I met a lady in the elevator an hour ago as I came to my room. She was as big as the giantess in the side show of the circus and as old as was Noah at the time of the flood. Her wrinkled ieaturea were enameled and her withered cheeks stood out as though she wore plumpers. She had a jet-black wig of many curls, from under which I saw a lock of gray hair peeping out, and there was a big daub of rouge on each cbeek bone. Her dress was cut low, and the brown mole upon her spine showed out eight inches below the nape of ber neck, as though it were a button made to hold the V of her dress together. And diamonds I She had tbem and she wore them regardless ol expense, age, or appearance. Her fat, pudgy hands bluzed with tbem. The lobes or her old ears were drawn down by them, and on the top ol her black wig there was an ornament lit to take a place in the crown of a queen. , A BOLT-POLT BEAUTT. Another old woman who is conspicuously ngly in her extravagant jewels is as short as this old giantess is tall. She stops at tbe United States Hotel. I measured her with my eye to-day. She is, I believe, four feet across the shoulders, and she can't be mure than five feet bigh. Her arms are as big around as the thighs ot her dude-like son of 20 who calls her "Mammy," and when she walks she rolls. She wears a black satin dress trimmed witb very costly old luce and cut very low. Tbe dress fits so tigutly that it shines like patent leather and you fear it will crack as you look at it. Her diamonds are supposed to be worth $100,000, and she wears $50,000 worth of a night, obe always ims a crowd about ber, and she seems to be as popular as she is I at. She makes ber pretty daughters stand in tbe background, and I see the tendency to keening our girlsback as the English girls are kept steadily increasing. The girls here are outdressed and ouUbone by their mothers, and the mothers and the graud mothrrs have the most expensive wardrobes. The biggest of the diamonds areou married women, and many of tbese show thjt they started lie poor and are now making up out oi the fortunes that their husbands have made for lack of opportunity to spend when they were voung. MONET HO OBJECT. You can have little idea of the immense sums of money which are spent in watering places without going to see them. There are tboustnds of meu herewith their fam ilies who are spending hundreds ol dollars a day. The Grand TJniou Hotel was you know, given up by Judge Hilton to the Stewart estate" not long ago. He said at the time to a friend of uiiue that he was glad to get rid of it, and Mas then asked if it did not pay. "I can take it aud make $160,000 a year," was the reply, and when you think that this profit must all be made lu about six or eight weeks you st-e what an immense iucomea Samtoga hotel must have. Hundreds of rich men here h.ve their carriages and their blooded horsei, and you will see as fine turnouts here every alter noon as auywh. re in the world. I took a drive 'out to the lake this a ternoon and found myself passed by steeds fine enough to graee the Arabian stables oi the Sultan. The asbionable turnout lias changed. The banging of the tails ol the horsrs has ex tended to the banging of the manes, Hnd the. average swell horse of Saratoga is a spirited three-minute trotter whose mane aud tail are trimmed close, and wbo is driver, with out a check-reiu. I did not see a check-rein on a single fine turnout, and it is now im perative that a good horse should hold up his head lor himself. HEN "WHO WEAR DIAMONDS. I notice that a hundred meu wear dia monds now to the one who wore them a year ago. Every other man you meet here has one or more diamonds on bim. I saw a tall, lean, fiorid-taced man from Texas flirting bis hands about as he drank his Hathorn water at the spring this morning, and there were three diamond rings on the band that held the glass. His necktie or white satin bad a scarf pin of a diamond and a d ax blue sapphire, and this was pulled down so as toshow an Immense solitaire which served as a collar button. I saw o boy a 10 this morning with three diamond studs serviug as buttons tor bis shirt, aud I see girls who are in Short dresses wrarHg diamonds. One verr pretty diamond ornament is worn bv a brunette from the South who has a rich, glossy wealth of jet-black hair. It is a diamond butterfly which rests with out- stretched tbe head of the I 1 brunette. It measures about 2i Inches from 'the tip of one wing to that of the other, and these delicate wings are made of many little diamonds spotted with blue sapphires, red rubies and green emeralds, so that they look like real wings pulled from tbe angelie plumage of some heavenly in sect. The bead is a great ruby, and the long tail and body which extends between the wings and for two inches downward, is of tho finest emeralds. Tbe background of the butterfly is, of course, of gold, but tbese precious stones hideit.and is it so well made that as it sparkles and changes under the rays of the chandeliers it look like a thing of life, COTTAGES LIKE PALACES. It is growing quite tbe fashion for the mil lionaire to come here and rent or buy a cot tage. Everything in the way of a private residence goes ov tbe name of cottage, and Judge Hilton's cottage is aa big as a hotel, and the grounds surrounding it include fif teen hnuilred acres and there are 32 miles of walks and drives in them. Many of tbese rich men seldom appear at the ho els. and the only prominent Wall street broker of prominence in a hotel is Henry Clews who is at United States. I saw hini to-day, and as I looked at his bald head I remembered the remark which the late miliionaiie Travers stuttered out to to bim when Clews was once boasting that he was a self-made man. "I I I I sup pose you t t t tell the truth, CI Clews," said Travers, ''b b ba but or the life of me I I I I ain't see why, when you were making your yourself, you didn't put more ba ha hair on your head I" A STORY BY TOM OCHILTREE. Tom Ochiltree is here with his crutch. He has the skin of a baby, aud his hand some lace is as fresh and clear as that of a Scotch giil from the Highlands. He is very gallant, and I asked Tiini to-day how he liked the things said about him in the papers. He said: "A "New York drum mer once stopped at one of onr crosswoods taverns in Texas for dinner. The coffee was so thin you could read a paper through it, and the landlady as she set down the cup said 'I'm afraid, mister, you will find this rather weak.' 'It is all right, said the drummer as his eye counted the grounds in the bottom of the' cup, through tbe amber liquid. 'Its all right and dou't bother! If your coffee is weak, your butter Is awfully strong, and tbe general average will do very well.' So concluded Mr. Ochiltree as to my newspaper notoriety. I eet a variety ot evils and the general average does very welL" Miss Gbundy, Jb. SIOBTES 07 EEICSS0K. Ba Liked to Poke tbe Fire o Wall Be Dnagbt Pollers by tbe Dozen. Boston Globe.l Ericsson never changed his style of dress from the clothing which he wore when he landed in this country to the time of his death. He wore woolen knitted under clothing and very long stockings, which were nearly ball an inch thitk, both sum mer and winter, and when his friends went through the house after his death his cloth ing was found rolled up in small bundles, each one labeled with its contents and stowed away in h, nurab-r of small lockers he had in his room. He allowed no one to interfere with his clothing, and was most methodical ia taking care of it. The case of a lellow countryman of his who was in distress came to his ears nearly 20 years since, and he instantly helped the mail out of his trouble. Subsequently he found out that the man's birthday fell on the same date as his own. He made no memorandum either of the man's name or Rddress, but every year he drew a check for $100, which he sent on every anniversary of bis birthday to the poor alrauger, and the stubs ot these checks were found among his papers. He was careless in money matters, al though a good business mnn iu many ways. His secretary used to notify him when bis bank balance was getting low, when he would dictate a letter to the Government or to Mr. Delamater tor a remittance on ac count oi royalties due him, although he never troubfed about their payment except as he needed the money for current ex penses, Ericsson hnd a habit of poking the fire in his big open-fire grate when he was thinking out some nhstrusn problem. He wore out so many fire irons that lor many years before his death he nsed to order pokers of wrought iron about five feet long, with which be would pound the fire and grate till the pokers wore away by being constantly kept in use wliile at white heat He bought them by the dozen at a time, and when he was sick. shortly before his death, his physicians or dered him to take broth, cornstarch and other light lood. He immediately ordered two dozen wooden spoons, and would sit over the stove stirring his food himself until the spoon got what he considered too old lor use, when he would throw it away and take a new one. WATEB AND SALT. A Pbjslclan's Hints an to the Proper Use of Each tor Hrallb. Salt is an absolute essential to the diet of man, says a physician in the Boston Herald. It promotes health in various ways. Maty of the functions of the body go on better uuder its influence, and'without it the blood becomes impoYerished. While a complete deprivation of salt would produce disastrous results, an excessive use of it wonld scarcely be less harmful. In large doses it acts as an emetic; in quantities beyond the require ments of health it irritates the stomach and intestines and sometimes purges. Those who use salt unusually freely almost always suffer more or less from constipation. To driuk large quantities of water daily should be the rule with those who suffer from constipation. Each day the system needs at least two quarts of water, aa about th'.it quauti.y is used up or thrown out o it every24 hours. Fruits and vegetable loods coutaiu much water, and iu tea, coffee, soups, etc, considerable is taken habitually. In all ways, as stated, about two quarts of water shnuld enter the stomach dully. It ia a good plan to drink one or two glasses of water Irom half an hour to an hodr before eating break last And it may be either hot or cold as prelerred. Whichever is used, the water should be slowly sipped. To deluge the stomach with cold water would be to invite dyspetic troubles. ZEE HZM0EY E00P. Wonderful Plan or Hie Young Tjadlei to Krep Truck of Tbelr Friends. Daughters of America. J Tbe "memory hoop" is the newest erase among society youug ladies. Any hoop will do, ior it is covered up by pieces of rib bon, presented by girl friends, upon which must be painted or embroidered the name of the giver, and tbe date when given. The ribbon must have been worn, else it pos sesses no charm. From gentleman friends a copper cent is obtained, highly polished and engraved with the initials of the donor. These are suspended by ribbons from tbe hoop, which, in turn, is suspended in the owner's room. It a piece ol ribbon fades, or one of the coppers turns dark, it is a Sign that the giver is ill, in trouble, or false, and the owner immediately seta to work to find out which. Of course, it is an imalllbld teat. 5t- A YounesK-r'" Grammar. Precocious Infant I think grammar's very easy, mother. I know all about Bingier and pureal." Proud Mother Do you, dear? That's very cleverl Perhaps you can tell me the plural of '"sugar?" Precocious In ant, after reflection Why, lumps, of course!" Npt to be Benten. "No. darlinir." said a mother to a sick 'ch'Id, "the doctor says I mustn't resd to vou. "Then, mamma-" h9nid tba little one. "won't you please read to yourself out TATTERS IN THE SEA. Humble Classes Wbo Enjoy the Public Baths of Hew York, KOT BO BEILLIAHT AS KEWPOBT Bat Old Keptane Gives as Much Pleasure to Poor as to Eich. COSTUMES THAT UAEB A COHTBAST. rwiiTTixroB Tax DiarATca.j NE of tbe sights of New York City at tbe present time is the pub lio bathing at the Bat tery, or at anyone of the dozen or more baths which that city has provided lor its poor; hut the Battery being the oldest and the most favorably located is tbe most popular of all. While hundreds go to bathe, as many more go to look on. These baths are like little houses on the water r" held in by a pier, and wnetner tne uue rises or falls, the water is at Been on Men' t Day. the same level within tbe bath houses. Each bath it provided witb two attendants, a watchman and a policeman. Eemale attendants are in charge on three days of the week Monday, Wednesday and Friday which are set apart for women and children. These little houses are gaily painted and are kept purified by a daily flushing with water; but they are not provided with towels nor bathing suits, neither are attend ants permitted to take charge of wearing apparel leit within the dressing rooms, as it is their duty to watch bathers and be ready in case ot an emergency. It seemed to me the plan tell short withont the pro vision of towels and tbat there should have been attendants to take charge of olothes since there would be no costly jewels or gowns for which to become' responsible, many wearing no more clothing from the bath than they wore in the wuter, A CONTBASX IN SUITS. Any person having visited one or more of our lashionable watering places the present season would be struck with the contrast between tbe bathing suits worn at such resorts and those worn at these public baths. There were no dainty blue aud white serges or fancy ed and black or other bright com binations, cut in shape to expose snowy throats or shapely arms; but instead were faded, cast-off garments of every material and shape, that had seen hard service in keeping out cold in winter and were ex pected to keep out heat in summer, and which had every indication of needing the cleansing effect of the bath quite as much as did the bathers, tbe majority of whom looked as if they and water had been strangers since this time last year. vIt was my privilege to witness this novel o.ttliiug exhibition ou "women's day," be tween tbe hours of 4 aud 6 of an a ternoon, when the rusb was on. I was told there were more than three hundred in tbe water at tbe time, and that was only one place ont of the dozen where bathing was going on. I assure you it was a gladsome sight, and the spectator readil - realizes the great boou this charity is to the poor of that city, both in regard to health and sport. THEY CAN BWIM. A half dozen days in the water makes a swimmer, it is said, and it was surprising to note how many women and children there were who had evidently served the required number of days, for they dived, swam nnd floated like veritable water sprites. But it must be said the resemblance began and ended with the swimming feat, tor in the rags and tatters which served lor bathing suits, and in the tangled, unkempt bair and bare, brown limbs and feet, there was noth ing to compare with either tbe legendary water nymphs, nor yet to the fashionable mermaids of our seaside resorts. Tbere was, however, in lieu of conventional apparel, an enviable freedom that would be prized by sensitive women at the shore far above the most attracting bathing costumes. No dread ot the snap-shot camera at the battery; nor of tbe sensational, unscrupulous Sappy sis Calico Jtagu reporter to represent (or misrepresent) the women as wholly given over to a reckless and indecent exhibition of traces; or to exaggerate their manner ol disporting. DOTVNRIGHT MISREPRESENTATION. By the way, bowunpardonably erroneous, and almost malicious many of these para graphers are, can be seen by a visit to any of our popular resorts. For instance, that report of the union garment of jersey silk that is said to have produced the effect of the well-Known statue of "The Diver 1" Did any of ynu who have visited bathing places this season see such a reprehensible bathing suit or atoo-ue tr approach to it? Were not the women generally dressed in flannel merely cut comfortably away from the throat and with skirt as long aa could be conveniently worn? The funny papers may print their odious jokes and txhibit their offensive pictures, and still sensible women will lean for style's sake to support them selves by measured strokes and cool-headed-ness. anil practice how not to go down to the bottom with splash and gurgle should their lives be ever imperiled wheu rowing or salting. The avalanche of bathing-suit humor is enough to rufila the. tenipefof a saint if siid saint be a woman or a man with a chivalrous regard for woman. I feel like calling upon women to band themselves together nnd swim if they want to, regard lrss, thereby gaining a confidence in their ability to keep beads up. I would only stipulate that all this nonsense about silk bathing suits be leit where it originated, and tbat the Indies confine their costumes to heavy, all-wool materials, with no stingi ness as to the amount of material put into them, flannel guards better against chili, aud hangs more gracefully when saturated than any other fabric, besides concealing any angularity of figure. This latter Is a matter of no mean consideration, for while we bear much of the self-made man every where, it is at the bathing resorts one dis covers tbe seli'-made'woman. A MATTES OF HEALTH. But this borders on a digression. While it is entertiining to look on at Ibe tumbling, tossing, gay humanity at Long Branch or Atlantic City, whose motto seems to bet "Merry live and happy die," there is a different kind of enjoyment in watching another class of God's creatures the majority of whom look as if forsaken by Him as they take the invigoratiug, health providing dip iu the waters which lap the piers east, west and sonth oi New York City. The pleasure afforded the on-lonker is not so much in watching the antics of the unrestrained bathers, nor in hearing the genuine mirth, though these things are cheering in themselves, but in a realisation of the physical benefits for these people, 0 fr 1 I S Mv UJ deprived of jo many health-giving habits and pleasures. .One observes that the faces of the majority are pinched; that the eyes are sunken and dull and their bodies so lank that apptrently a breath of wind wonldiblow them out ol existence. Besides that portion of the bath house de voted to bathers there has been wisely boarded off a place for babies and children too small to be trusted in deep water. Here care-worn, poverty-fretted mothers bring their wan, parched iulants and cool them in the strengthening salt water; and here, too, half-grown girls play mother to younger sisters, aud patiently teach them not to be afraid of tbe water. COMMENDABLE MANAGEMENT. Everything seems well managed for the safety, If not for the com brt, ot bathers. Accidents rarely happen, since the attend ants keep close at han J to render service Giving the Youtyilcrt a Dip. when needed. It has beeV estimated bvMr. Burcin. Director of Public.Baths. that 3.- 700,000 persons used these bailis last year. This statistical showing should stimulate the Committee on Publio Baths for the Poor to unrelenting efforts toward preventing the contamination of the bathing water by sewerage. A promi nent physician has recently called attention to this as endangering the publio healtb, and the editor of one of the magazine lias suggested a feasible plan for receiving water as pure as boats on the isles of the sea. No time should be lost. Growing out of the necessity for a better arrangement of free baths, is the sister idea ol co-operative laundries second only iu im portance for the cleanliness and bealtbful ness ol these people. And if these things be a boon to New York, why not to Pittsburgh Meo.' the latest ais-ship. A Boston Mnn Baa Ponnd a Nesr Force and Will Travel 500 Miles an Hour. Boston Herald. There is a man in Boston who says he can carry passeu?ers and freight to San Fran cisco or London in six honrs or less, and tbat be can prove it, too, ii he had a few hundred thousand dollars at his disposal. His vehicles of transportation would be air ships not gas filled balloons that, ascend because ol their buoyancy and then become the playthines of the wind but big stately flying vessels, constructed of steel and large enough to accommodate as many people and as much freight as one of the ocean grey hounds. They would rise or fall, go east or west, remain stationary or travel through the atmosphere at the rate of COO miles or more an hour, at the will oi their com manders. Charles G. Loeber is the man. His air ship resembles more than anything else a monster barrel laid on its side, with all it staves running to a point at oue end, and with immense rounded spread or wings on the sides. The wings, each of which Is to be 75 'eet long nnd 27 broad, are movably at tached to the sides of the vessel and extend inward, where they are adjusted to a steam driven engine of peculiar pattern in such a way as to control suslentatinn, ascent and descent. At the stern are the rudder and the improved propellor. which is revolved bv steam. There are threo decks outlined, all of which are closed in with large win dows. This great load, a total Of 3,600,000 pounds, Mr. Ijoeber has the hardihood to say can be floated upon the air more easily than a like weight ia carried upon the water. How is it to be done? By the aid of an thesis (with the accent on the penult), replies the inventor. And tbat is where the mystery comes in. Authesis is the name that Mr. Loeber has given to the new force he has lound. It i", be say, the develop ment ot the natural resistance in the atmos phere, but just bow he gets the harness on It and subjects it to uis will ne will not tell until he has thrown the protection of patent offices around him. AIT ABSENT-MINDED ACTOR, Bow Roland need Heprd Pat Oat a Fire Only Balf Snaved. Boston Globe.l Eoland Eeed, with all bin seeming self possession ou the Btage, is really exceedingly absent-ntiuded. But for the care oi his dresser be would go on the stage in his stock lug feet or withont his wig, One ol the most striking instances of his absent-mindedness wasshown about a month ago in New York. He was being shared in theTJnion Square "halrsutian palace," and the artist engaged in the heavy job of denud ing his wide expanse of cheek of irrelevant hair bad but half finished his task when tbe rush of fire engines through the square was heard. Hatless, with one side of his face still cov ered witb lather, Eoland ran out among1 the crowd, and, with the barbers napkin still wrapped about his neck, he mingled with the crowd, and acted as if tbe sole duly of putting out the small blaze on Six teenth street had been delegated to him by the citv oi New York. The fire was more quickly put out than Mr. Eeed can be, and it is a positive fact that, with his face still encased in soap be went to the Morton House bar and looked (or a Iriend tntakea drink.with bim, before lie appreciated the grins and laughter of all who gazed into bis placid countenance. NATURE'S STIMULANTS. Emerson Compnres Tobncco to a Crowbar to Pry Into the Bruin. EmersoD, remembering the habits ot con viviality to which some undergraduates succumb, once asked: "Did you ever think about the Ionic of stimulus? Nature supplies ber own. It is astonishing what she will do if you will give her a chance. In how short time will sbe revive the overtired bralnl A breath uuder the apple tree, a siesta on tbe grass, a whiff of wind, an interval ol retirement, and thebalame and serenity are restored. A clesn creature needs so little aud re sponds so readily; there is something as miraculous as the Gospels in it. "Later in life society becomes a stimulus. Occasionally the gentle excitation of a cup of tea is needed; a mind iu vents its own tonics, by which, without permanent in jury, it makes rapid rallies and enjoys good moods. "Conversation is an excitant, and the series of iutoxicants it excites is healthful. But tobacco what rude crowbar is tbat with which to pry into tbe delicate tissues oi the brainl" It must not be inferred from this passage ihat Emerson himself was a total abstainer Irom tobacco, though he smoked but rarely, but never until he was 0. PEEGNANT WITH HEASim A Fesy Words On a laa Near ibe Cleve land Collage That Tell Much. Boston Globe.) Next to Mr. Cleveland's cottage at Marion is a very similar dwelling and a week or two ago passersby found tacked to a tree in front Of it the following sign : "X3T Not this bouse but the next 6ne." That was all; there was no need of being puem -, f THE.PROMISED Mi Disconsolate Picture of Oklahoma Drawn by a Correspondent AFTER A DREARY DRIVE OYER IT. Persistent Work of a Quakeress Among tba lickapoo Indians. GLIMPSE OP TAB SUAWSEB PE0PLB rcoBBXsrcnrDxxcK oy thi dhpatchi Sao aud Pox Agehct, L T., August 19. Carrying with me several letters ot in troduction, a book of traveling vouchers and $100 of Uncle Sam's money, I was sent out irom the Chiiocc school to Sac aad Fox Agency via Oklahoma City, to solicit pupils for tbe Chiloco school. Tbere is no stage line now between Oklahoma City aud tbe Sac and Fox Agency, so the only way to get bere is by a private conveyance. Oklahoma City is dead. The whole of the southeastern part, dotted with poor m -cottages, an ice factory, flour mills and u. merous beer saloons is contested. One of the marshals of the city holds it as his claim. The greater number ol the lots have three and fou' owners, and the city is com paratively at a standstill as far as publio improvement is concerned. The only sprucy, clean, sleek and well-fed men are tbe soldiers who ftrut the streets from the camp close by, stationed there to keep peace THE LEASEES GONE. Oklahoma bas bad her history. The two great leaders of the boomers are passed all need of claims and cheap homes. Captain Couch was shot by a neighbor who contested his right to bis land, aud lies buried upon bis claim. The other leader ia supposed to have been poisoned. Tbe hotelkeeper, a large Trias man, at whosp.ihpgse I stopped, shot and Killed the man who built the ho tel. They disputed over a bill o 570. Tha man's widow is struggling to get a living for herself and family by washing. The ho telkeeper's wife and spoiled daughter revel in ease and luxury in comparison. The man ig at liberty under beavv bond. 1 hired a livery team at Oklahoma City to bring me to this agency. The road took us through a great part of the Oklahoma claim- Some of the boomers hare nice neat houses, wells aud good fences; others look a ir,iiief were on the point of desert ing all and returning to the homes they left wbere theyl had managed to scrape up ally ing at least-i A 'BACKWABD EACE. After we left the Oklahoma country we wereyupon the Ejckapoo reservation. "The Kickapoos fight) against civilization. They have never sent sVchild away to school, and it is but recently that they bave permitted anyone to teach their children even at home unon the reservation.! Miss Lizzie Test, a Quakeress, has been Vimong them tor years. To reach them she pitched her tent in their midst. Then, like Damsel Boone, she lived alone, her only companioXn being an old Kickaiioo woman. We met a young Kickapduy girl, dressed iu the conventional red, comings up a deep wooded cut carrying a kettle nil o-j corn on ber head. She smiled and made si'vns as if Wllliug to give us imormation. I wonSiered at her politeness, and quickly asked hevli we were on the road to the Sac and Ft. Agency. She nodded yes, and gave that peculiar gesture of the Indian when telling tbe direction; but just as quickfy'as the in; formation was given her hand was extended, and with much jabbering aud head gestures, she made us know she wanted money for the information sbe gave us. J- EELIO OF AIT EJTOBT. r" , We had traveled on oyer old trail. .',. roads evidently vacated, tor they lea(j qj where the overhanging branches ol trees almost tore off the top of the bnaey, J(' beyond a Kickapoo village, with boaseSL tumbling down, stood, -the schoolh,ouse neat plain frame building, with njrcegreea Teaitian shutters. Inside were ae seats, blackboard and all the equipments read; for the education e ( tbe Kickaporj, bat not one child would tlAey put into school, and ) simply stood as a (monument of the goou In tentions ol the Government. )' We had been traveling, as ye though toward the Eist. and were hoping we won soon be at tbe end ofour jnumey.when a fina looktng Indian came dashing toward u and by raisiug his band made ns under stand ne wanted us to stop, fie was s Kickapoo Indian policeman. We wera white people on his reservation. He wanted to know our business tbere and our destina tion. Before he had, time to speak we asked him if we were on the right rnad to the Sac and Fox Agency. He told us we were awav offthe road. As the day was cloudy we had lost our b-ariugs'tndwere traveling North iasteat oi East. LOST OX THE PEAIBIE. I was beginning to doubt the trn'thfulnesi of Indian information, and oecominsr' dis- gusted witb the prosloessof mi aged driver and his mania for old trailt. -wbea he whipped up the horses, dashed ri?bt across, the prairies, irrespective of roac and we were lost sure enough. On we wen through an open country with not tbe sign Cn s.house or anything human as far as the eye ctufi! reach. V It was a beautiful country ready for fie plow, but reserved for the Indian. Wi traveled through miles of timber. The cattle were finding something to eat in this cool retreat; some trees had been lelled, but there were no signs nf ranch or ranchmen. Tbe sun bad hidden his face all day, but sank in a elow of splendor as we emerged Irom the timber and came upon a Shawnee village. A POLITE LITTLE GIRL, The Shawnee women were flirting about the trees in their bright red dresses. I asked a little Shawnee girl who had been to school if I could stay with them all night. She told me tbat ber parents were away and she was a raid to keep me. Sha, Jiad all the po liteness in her refusal that's well-bred white child would have; so I thanked ber aud told ' her I would remember-her when Christmas came. A little lartberon w met a young man, with bis arms full of corn. We asked him if we could stay at his house all night. He looked up, his honest face lull nf smiles, and said: "I guess so, but we haven't much to eat." 'Then be added: "Brown's store keeps travelers." Brown's store was two miles distant. It was dark when we reached it, and we had traveled probably 60 miles. We had 23 miles yet to go. I hope when the Chilocco School again wants Sac and Fox children there will be more rnilioads. Emma H. De Knight. MADAME A. RUPFERT CompUxlon Sptoisltis. Mm. A. Bnppert's world-renowned face bleach l tbe only face tonic In tbe world which positively removes freckles, moth patches, blackheads, pimples, birthmarks, eczema and all blemishes of the skin, and when applied cannot be observed by anyone. Thousands o ladles and gentlemen are uing it dallr In Pitts burg, and in all pans of tbe world, witb pleas ing results. Call at mv office and see testi monials from ladles of Pltt-hurz and vicinity wbo do not wish their name published. Tha face bleacb can only be bad at my branch office, Ho. 98 Fifth avenue. Hamilton building, rooms a36 and 2M, Pittsburg, or sent to any address oa receipt of price. Hold at S3 per bottle, or tareo bottlrs. unaUy required to Hear the complex ten. Jo. Send 4 cents postase for f nil partlcalars. , gyie-ML-su m.xz A.,urn
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