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FANCIES FORJHE FAIR.
Gossip of Society and Fashion That Is Going;
the Rounds of the Exchanges Just Sow
Designs in Millinery and Evening Wear
Odds and Ends.
IS this a bat? Im
possible, but still it
bears the name; the
small, flat, round
plate is made of royal
blue velvet edged
with astrakhan.
Black velvet bows
are placed both on
the crown and at the
back. Of late mil
liners have discov
ered how to handle birds properly. The
poor little thincs are given as much freedom
as possible now and naturally they take up
all sorts of pretty attitudes. I saw a pretty
flight of birds on a broad brimmed hat the
other day, says a London fashion writer.
They looked as if they had just alighted.
One bird had his beak in the cup of a
flower; another bad cot under the brim, and
two or three were hovering about the crown.
They were gay little birds with pretty
plumage. Birds are imitated in jet this
season. Tbey look rather well on cloth
bonnets. Of course, they were designed for
those who object to wear real birds. Bnt X
fancy a true Selbornite would decline to
wear even a jet bird in her bonnet
Jeweled passementerie is much worn on
bonnets this season, especially as a border.
The salient point about evening dresses is
the pretty Watteau pleit at the back, says a
fashion writer in the Pall Mall Budget. Most
women will be glad to hear that the "Wat
teau costnme is being revived. There isn't
a style irore graceful, more picturesque, or
wore universally becoming than the Wat
teau. Tea gowns and evening cloaks are
following in the wake of dresses in this re
spect. A c harming tea gown, made of a so't,
woolen, peach-colored fabric, is ornamented
with the Watteau pleat and a high collar.
It is lurther adorned with floating ends of
creaii ribbon falling from either shoulder to
the hem of the skirt at the back. The gown
has a rich lining of cream-colored silk and
duplicate sleeves. A dinner dress in old rose
bengaline, made for a brunette beauty in
London recently, was festooned in a dainty
fashion about the hem with black chiffon
and jet bows. This material softened the top
of the bodice. The short sleeves were
shaped like a butterfly. Shaded velvet is a
iresh material. I can't say that I think it
pretty. I saw a reception dress made of this
material recently. It was green, relieved
with pink silk. The front breadth of the
skirt, the front of the bodice, and the
sleeves were of the last material, draped
with creamy lace. The wrists and the col
lar were edged with cream feather.
Long watch chains are being worn again,
hut not in the old-fashioned way. They
take the shape of a loose necklace now.
Princess Victoria of Prussia had a large
and extravagant trousseau. Even in the
matter of shoes she was extravagant. She
had 20 pairs from a well-known firm in Lon
don. I was just in time to get a glimpse of
them Inst week, says Miss Mantilini in Pall
Mall Budget. There was one pair of gold
kid shoes and two of silver. Her Koyal
Highness was married in a pairof these last.
Silver kid is fast superseding plain white
kid. No woman will-put her feet into white
kid shoes if she can help it; they accentuate
the size of them so dreadiully. The silver
kid shoes, on the other hand, make the feet
look smaller. There were four pairs of bou
doir shoes to matcn the Princess' tea gowns.
They were made of plush pink, light blue,
dark blue, and cardinal plUBh. The pink
pair were trimmed with light fur, the light
blue pair with snowfl&kc fur, and the other
two with real beaver. Then there were two
pairs of tartan shoes, several ot bronze, and
half a dozen pairs ot black varied. The
Princess takes sevens. She has not quite the
foot of a sylph, has she? .
A pretty article of dress is the Bernhardt
anantelttte. It is eomething between a cape
and a collar, and is, most becoming to any
one who, like the celebrated actress, has a
long slender throat.
Jtaicnticood.
It has been the dream of Sara Bernhardt'!
life to play Cleopatra, and for years she has
been collecting jewels, girdles, armlets,
' bracelets and necklaces. Every dress con
sists of a diaphanous piece of material seven
yards long, embellished with metallic or
silk embroidery. This lone strip of gauze is
wound and draped about her lithesome form
and held in place at the hips, belt and
Shoulders with magnificent fasteners,
brooches and girdles, incrnsted with
stonps of every couceivable shade.
Through the garment other jewels, buc,kles
and embroideries, used to ornament
and secure an undergarment, shimmer
and shine. In her hair, about her fingers,
.arms and ankles bandeaux, bangles and
(bracelets blaze and the eandali in which her
r t P
Bildred,
feet are slipped are also finished with rain
bow effect. Bow after row and chain upon
chain of jewels encircle her cbestand
breast, and the unparalleled display of
opals, turquoises, topaz, scarabees, corals
sapphires, amethyst, rubies, sardonyx,
malachites and pearls produce the almost
overpowering sense of luxury. One dress,
an Egyptian robe, is certainly a most won
derful creation. The material in itself is of
gold-colored gauze, appHqued with a de
sign of laurel leaves. The Belt of pearls and
turquoises that holds the delicate fabric in
at the waist also secures a barbaric drapery
at the hips made of a tiger's skin. Fancy
the contrast of embroidered gauze and
tiger's fur! For a head-dress she wears a
skull-cap of pearls, fringed with coral and
turquoises.
Antique buckles are the fashion now on
"dressy" shoes.
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Among the latest accessories to evening
dress are floral rufiY and , muffs, says Pall
Mall Budget. Tbey are made ot any flower
that looks seasonable chrysanthemums,
asters, marguerites, carnations, violets and
the like. A muff made of the palest pink
carnations adorned with a bow ot ribbon,
and a ruff and a tiny coronet for the hair
made ot the same blossoms, to wear en
suite, were shown to me at a milliner's this
week. A muff formed of white chrysanthe
mums with white ribbon strings was charm
ing. These delicate- trifles are expensive,
and it goes without sayiog that they are
only intended for vouthml wearers.
Doctors declare facial neuralgia to be
greatly on the increase, and sternly and
stubbornly refuse to lay the cause at any
other door than that of the milliner.
At a H o'clock tea "recently, says the New
Tork Post, attention was called to an artis
tic but apparently careless arrangement of
flowers upon the richly-papered walls of the
reception room. They appeared to be trail
ing down the wall, bnt presently the hostess
explained to an admirer of the effort pro
duced that the, flowers and vines were ar
ranged in a bamboo cane about three feet in
length. The hollow cane was notched here
and there, and an arrangement made for
holding a quantity of water. Then flowers
were lightly placed in the notches. From
a little distance, or if the flowers and vines
are deftly arranged, the bamboo is invisi
ble, and the leaves and blossoms appear to
be actually growing upon the wall.
'A genuine woman in this country is safe
anywhere," says the Rev. -T. De "Witt Tal
mage in the If ew Tork TTorW, in reply to
the question: "Should ladies patronize pub
lic places unattended?" He continues: "It
is better that they have escorts, but if they
are not to be had I do not see why good
women should be denied the pleasure of at
tending places of healthful entertainment,
even if they have to go alone or accompanied
by one of their own sex. Woman and I
mean the woman of character may fre
quent public places without fear of insult.
Much of this talk concerning women being
insulted on the street is often the woman's
fault."
"To what do ypu attribute this feminine
weakness?"
"No true woman," replied Dr. Talmage,
"would encourage the attentions of a
stranger. Flirtation is damnation. A to
morrow follows to-day. Will it find the
participant better or worse?"
London housewives are trying to outvie
each other in the quality and decoration of
their table linen. Table linen is becoming
moree la borate and more costly every day.
Latest and Handsomest.
When you make chocolate now of an
evening, sprinkle a little cinnamon on top
after the chocolate has been poured in the
cup. It adds the same piquancy and charm
that nutmeg adds to lemonade, 'lemon juice
does to Vichy, sliced lemon does to tea, or,
to come nearer home, that salt does to an
egg.
Some time aj6 the Ladies' Aid Society of
this city agreed to invest a nickel in some
kind of article, and sell it at a profit, and
reinvest in something else, and so on, to
speculate on this capital for two weeks, and
see bow much each one could make, says'
tbe Anniston, Ala., Argus. One lady on'
tne same evening bought a cabbage with
ber nickel. She carried it home and sold
half of it to her neighbor for a nickel. She
invested that in vinegar, and pickled the
remaining half, and sold the pickle for 25
cents. She then bought 25 cents' worth of
cloth, and a spool of thread and made it up
into three aprons, which she sold for 25
cents each, and took the 76 cents and bought
molasses and gave a candy pulling to the
children, making them pay 10 cents a plate
for the candy. The molasses made 21 plates
of candy, so she made $2 10 on one nickel
in two weeks' time. How money will grow
if properly handled,
Large eardrops are coming into fashion
again, says Miss Mantilinie in Pall Mail
Budget. This does not sound as If we were
growing more civilized. Eardrops are a
patent, form of f iTBgisou Sat, blinking
the fact that they are absurd, eardrops spoil
the shape of the ears. ,Kn owing this, aane
women will surely refuse to wear them.
Dowagers of course have a penchant for ear
drops. Having worn them all their lives,
thev consider they do not looked "dressed"
without them.
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A very desirable and sensible fashion was
started some time ago in regard to the
christening gifts of godparents. When a
child is christened it is the proper thing for
one of the godparents to give a teaspoon,
and to announce the intention of repeating
the gift on each anniversary until the dozen
is complete, then to begin to give some other
kind of a spoon. By carrying ont this idea,
by the time a girl is launched in society,
'engaged and married, she will have quite a
store of silver, endeared by astociation. If
the child is a boy, after the first gift of a
piece of silver the anniversary is to be re
membered with the presentation of a gold
coin,
Saturday is growing in favor as the day
for weddings, receptions and teas.
Sfi
A maid of honor at Versailles was once
asked by Louis XIV. what o'clock it was.
Her reply to the question was often after
wards quoted as the very perfection of com
pliment "Whatever hour Your Majesty
pleases." It has beeh reserved for a Lon
don correspondent, and, of all London cor
respondents, for that of the Leeds Mercury,
to rival this delicate flattery. He an
nounces that the future dinner hour will be
whatever tbe Prince of Wales , pleases, and
tbat the Prince's pleasure is for 8 The
news is reassuring. Oar fin de siecle ban
quetinjhours have lately been too much
retarded. The Prince will serve soeiety if
the dinner hour is pushed forward. Of
course this is very important in American
bociety.
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The commonest kind of ink bottles are
transformable intoharlcqnin perfume casks.
After the ink has been withdrawn from
their depths the bottles are cleaned and
painted in stripes running from the neck of
the bottle to tbp lower edge. The stripes
are silver, gilt, bronze, scarlet and blue.
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For the style of hairdressing shown in the
accompanying illustrations', which does not
require very long hair, the whole mass is
parted across the head and both halves
pinned at the top of the same to a small
Dressed Sigh With Natural Flowers.
braid foundation." If the hair is not very
thick it may merely be tied together here.
Single, pretty thick, strands are then curled
ronnd the first fingers' of both hands begin
ning at the ends, as seen in the illustration.
The curl thus made is then divided in the
middle with both thumbs, and the open ends
Showing the Curls.
of the same turned upward with both bands,
each half being held tight between the first
and third fingers, so that the root of tbe hair
strands lies between tbe two halves of tbe
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Curling Strands of Hair.
curl, in which a bow is made. Several such
bows are to be pinned beside each other, yet
so that the hairpins are seen as little as
Dividing the Strands.
possible. A small wreath of fresh flowers
fastened on at the side with a thick orna
mental pin, completes the coiffure.
MES. WHITHETS DIAMONDS,
Many of Them Were the Gift of Ber Ador
' ins Brother In Cleveland,
HwTorkWorla.3
One of the most valuable collection of dia
monds in .New York City is owned by Mrs.
Whitney, wife of the ex-Secretary of the
Navy. She has an exquisite diamond neck
lace, worth $35,000,and solitaires as large as
hazel nuts. One single diamond.setinapin,
is reputed to be worth $16,000. The entire
collection is appraised at $100,000.
Many of these gems were the gift of Mrs.
Whitney's brother, a Western oil king, who
adores his sister. One of this generons
brother's gifts was the mansion on the cor
ner of Fifty-seventh streej and Fifth ave
nue, which is the Whitney winter residence.
At another time it was a check for
$100,000, "to be used in entertaining
friends."
Especially serviceable at all times is
Dr. Bull' Cough Byrup. Keep it always
nanoy
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THE DAY. FOR GIVING.
Appropriate Gifts to Piie Up on Santa
Clans' Big Sleigh.
SUGGESTIONS PROM WASHINGTON.
Mrs. Harrison and the Majority Believe in
Home-Mado Presents.
LITTLE THING8 THAT SERYE WELL
tCOEEESFOXDENCI OP TUX PISrJLTCB.'l
Washington, Dec. 13. Great prepara
tions are being made in the homes of our
statesmen for Christmas. A score and more
of the Senators have their families here, and
there are perhaps 2,000 little ones whose
fathers are connected with the Government,
who dream every night of Santa Clans. A
great many presents are given in Washing
ton among friends during the holidays, and
one of the leading snbjects of discussion to
day is Christmas presents and how to mace
them.
Mrs. President Harrison believes in the
celebration of Christmas. She gives a great
many presents and she tells me that the
most of her gifts were in the past, home
made. She gave away a great many of
her paintings as Christmas gifts, and she
tells me that she would like to paint to-day
for Christmas, but that her public, duties
compel her to purchase such presents as she
gives away. She has a large circle of pen
sioners to whom she always presents articles
of food and wearing apparel on Christmas,
and she says that she taces great pleasure
in doing so. She does not believe in ex
pensive gifts among friends, and she thinks
tbat presents made with one's own hands
convey a greater compliment and form a
better token of friendship than any other
kind.
OBJECTS TO PEOSIISCUOUS GIVING.
I find that many of the noted ladies of
Washington deprecate the growing custom
of promiscuous giving on Christmas. I
asked Mrs. Senator Sherman her opinion of
the subject. She said: "I think that Christ
mas presents should be confined to relatives
and personal friends, with, of course, the
privilege of extending the remembrance to
others whom we may choose to compliment.
Bnt as to making indiscriminate gifts, it
ought to be discouraged. To friends at a
distance a little memento of the day, in the
shape of a small card, is always acceptable,
and any little home-made article, either for
practical use or ornament, is much more
valned from the fact that the recipient
knows we have taken pains and thought for
him in making it.
"Certainly there is no pleasure in
the receipt of a gift which con
veys an obligation, and thus makes
one feel that she has incurred a debt in get
ting it. I don't like indiscriminate giving.
Almost anyone can make something of one
kind'or another that in the motive induced
by the effort, will awaken a responsive
chord in the breast of the recipient, and I
seldom, if ever, make Christmas presents
unless prompted by affection or the desire to
give a proof of esteem."
MES. SENATOR DAVIS' SACHET BAGS.
I called upon Mrs. Senator Davis to learn
her views in regard to the making and giv
ing of Christmas gifts, and was rewarded
by a sight of a variety of dainty articles
prepared by her, own hands. Mrs. Davis
said: "I always make the larger unmber
of my Christmas presents as I know from
personal experience how much more pleas
ure a gift conveys that has been made by a
friend, and," as she picked up a sachet bag,
"in my opinion there can be nothing more
appropriate to send a friend than one of
tbese simple little bows of satin ribbon
which conceals beneath its tie, a fragrant
sachet of violet powder or other sweet scent.
These you can easily send through the mail
and they make a pretty ornament forthe
back of a chair, when pinned at a becoming
ancle on one side,
"Then as you know I am very fond of oil
painting, and as I possess some degree ot
original talent, I often occupy my leisure
hours in sketching flowers and other designs
upon bolting cloth which I lorm into sachet
bags for the handkerchief drawer. The
suggestion of sweet odors at tbe holy feast
of Christmas transports one in imagination,
back to the first Christmas morn when the
wise men laid their tribute of frankincense
and myrrh at the feet of the Christ-Child.
A PEEP INTO HEE CHAMBEE:
"One of my favorite ways fit remember
ing the occasion is by Christmas letters, and
if you will accompany me upstairs I will
show you what I mean."
Upon this we went to the second floor.
Beaching her chamber we found the maid
was engaged in sheeting herbed in its sable
coverings of Elack China silk, aqd pillow
cases relieved by richly embroidered letters
ot yellow floss in the center of each case.
Over the sheets was thrown a warm comfort
of silk in the same somber hue tufted in
yellow. These, Mrs. Davis says, she pre
fers for use during the winter, varied by
white silk in summer for each season, hav
ing gowns of corresponding shades, orna
mented with dainty bows of bright ribbon.
This fact, I believe, has already been
given to the public and caused quite a flut
ter of interest among the fair sex generally.
My hostess also explained that she wore
black silk underwear from preference, and
found thijt the absence of flannel did not
aflect her health. Returning to the subject
of tbe Christmas letters, they are simply ex
tra large-sized sheets of letter paper in the
varied tints of gray and stone blue. On the
upper left hand corner of each is a raised
clover leaf in white, and the writing is in
white ink, which produces a striking effect.
Mrs. Davis said she generally makes up an
appropriate blank verse or a few lines ex
pressing best wishes for the season.
MRS. MILLER'S CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
One of the daintiest pieces of home manu
facture I have seen lately is a sofa cushion
made by Mrs. Miller, wife of the Attorney
General. It is of blue jeans embroidered
with asteroids in white linen flosST Around
the edtre is sewn a twisted cord of white and
gold formed of the floss. The great beauty 'j
ot this simple but enective combination is
that it may be easily slipped off at pleasure,
and it can be washed without injury. An
other piece of Mrs. Miller's Christmas
handiwork is a coverlet or short comfort of
this same blue jeane, which, though inex
pensive, is very artistic. Jake a square of
the jeans somewhat larger that the desired
size to lay across the center of the coverlet,
select the wrong or lighter side of the mate
rial and tnrn a broad border all around and
fasten down with a cat stitch in white. In
the center embroider a conventional design
in white linen floss and the effect is beau
tiful. Mrs. Morton, Mrs.KIaine and Mrs. Noble
each show marked talent in this line, and
numerous piepes of embroidery and paint
ings upon silk, the work of Mrs. Harrison,
are still to be met with. She made these
while she was in the Garfield Hospital
Sewing Society at the time of her husband's
term in the Senate.
REMEMBERING THE BABIES.
Few Washington hostesses possess a more
marked talent for tasteful fancy work than
Mrs. Albert A."Wllson, wifeof the ex-Marshal
of the District, to which fact her at
tractive home on Q street gives ample testi
mony. When I called one morning, not
long since, Mrs. Wilson had just completed
a handsome array of Christmas presents to
send to friends at a distance. One of the
latest novelties in tbe list was a rattle made
of an embroidered hoop, covered with bine
ribbon about an inch wide, satin edged,
wound round and round the wood until
completely hidden, two bands of the same
beinc stretched face to face across tbe center
each piece hnng with six tiny sleigh bells
that tinkled with every movement. On one
side was fastened a bow and ends.
Another of Mrs.- Wilson's presents is a
baby-carriage band made of white gros grain
ribbon with picot edge. Upon this is em
broidered rosebuds, daisies or violets, as'
jJancT may-dictate, in colored silks; a narrow
piece of white ribbon, about a half a yard
in length, being fastened on either end to
attach it to the carriage, and the connection
bidden by Dig rosettes oi tne same color.
Mrs. "Wilson also (showed me a lovely tea
cloth of white linen, with broad insertion
set just within two inches of the edge, in the
form of" a diamond.
CHRISTMAS CARDS AT -WASHINGTON.
I asked one of the leading-booksellers in
tbe West End whetherthe sale of Christmas
cards was not decreasing 'with each succes
sive season, and was informed that on the
contrary, the demand for small cards
was never so great as now. The large
fringed cards and elaborate designs at high
prices meet with small sae in comparison
with former years, and books and other
illustrated prints seem to have entirely
superseded the more expensive cards as
holiday gifts. "Few of the stationers have
as yet displayed their assortment in this
line, as the rush is usually so great at first
for the selection of the freshest novelties that
often the stock is exhausted before holiday
week, add many whose means will not per
mit of an early choice, are thus deprived of
a chance to indulge the fancy.
A dainty novelty in the way of a Christ
mas gift, which some young girls are mak
ing, is n white silk cravat, crocheted in crazy
stitch, with heavy white silt:. These cravats
are made in the style of the popular "lour-m-band,"
and were in high favor with the
Bar Harbor beaux last summer, where they
were sold for $3 each. They are especially
suited for summer wear with white flannel
boating suits, being light and easily washed
without ironing, and of late the fad has
started for wearing them in full dress upon
the occasion of weddings and evening enter
tainments. USES TTP SOME SILK.
I am told that each cravat nses up about
three spools of silk, and the rest is all clear
gain to those who crochet rapidly. There
could be no prettier Christmas present for a
young lady to give to her fiance, and the gift
would have the added attraction of being
her own finger work. Many dainty sachet
bags are made of point d'esprit in delicate
tints, filled with the fluffy pods of the milk
weed to pin upon the piano or mantel cover.
The same material is also used for double
photograph cases lined with silk of a corre
sponding color, and wadded with perfumed
batting, decked off with rich bows of satin
ribbon. In fact there is no end to the pretty
things which our gay girls find they can con
coct with a little taste and skill.
Mrs, Stewart, the wife of the rich Nevada
Senator, says: "I usually give a great many
presents, but I am determined not to do so
this year. I do not think that Christmas is
looked upon to-day as it has been in the
past. We give too many costly presents,
apdwe are losing sight of the sacred asso
ciations of the day in the effort to accom
plish too much wsrk."
BELIEVES IN SANTA CLATJS.
Mrs. Cockrell, the wife of tbe Senator
from Missouri, is a great stickler for Christ
mas observance, and she has enough young
children about her to make the day a
lively one. Said she: N"I always warn my
servants not to undecieve my little ones of
their happy belief in Santa Clans. I be
lieve in giving presents to children, and I
believe in all the sweet illusions of this
kind that can be thrown around childhood.
The child-life is tbe happiest life, and we
ought to cultivate its happiness in every
way. I believe in giving but not indis
criminately, and I think everything Bhould
be made subordinate to the children's festi
val." "When I was a nurse at the hospital in
Philadelphia," said Mrs. Senator Hawley
to me last night, "I made with my own
hands one Christmas 72 Christmas presents
for the patients. The day was a great one
to them. The hospital had been badly man
aged before this, and it was the first real
Christmas celebration it had bad for years.
We got up a Christmas feast, decorated the
wards with holly, and had the young society
girls of Philadelphia help us as waiters. I
believe in giving Christmas presents, and I
like home-made ones iu preference to those
which come from stores."
Miss Gejtndt, Jr.
ITS OXYGEN WE HEED.
Oat-Door Exercise is Infinitely Better Than
In the Best Gymnasium.
To any girl between the ages of 15 and 20
the opportunity for out-door walking, say
from two to three hours a day, is worth 10
years of new life, and is of more apparent
value than all the in-door physical culture
exercises to develop every muscle in the
body. Why? 'Because, oxygen is the chief
agent, the great purifier and stimulator of
the bipod and in-door air is poor, very poor
ifl oxygen; and with our present system of
ventilation it is far poorer than it should be.
Iu tbe past 10 years I have seen many a
pale-faced and nervous adherent of physical
culture; but never a walker who was not
rosy and wholesome. Their digestions are
active, their bodies firm and solid, not
bulky, their senses keen, and their brains
healthy and nble. When they sleep, they
sleep soundly, and when they awake they
are wide awake.
No gymnasium, no system of physical
cnlture can give the excitement, the' celf
forgetfulness, the glow and the stimulus of
games in the open air and of long, pleasant
walks. No exercise can be beneficial as long
as there is a conscious observance of systems.
Exercise must be hearty and various and
self-forgetfal; it must be largely in the open
air; there must be breathing to the full ca
pacity of the lungs; there must be free per
spiration at least once a day, and a thorough
rubbing afterward, and so far as any system
is desired, you will soon find that you have
established one of your own, and one which
will enable you to use the time at your dis
posal to the best advantage.
Use some gymnastic exercises, if you like
all are substantially the samejind aim to
develop the capacity of the lungs and there
by the heart; but do not depend on them for
physical health and development,
WAS KILLED BY A KISS.
An Instance Establishing the Fact That One
Can he Shocked to Death.
The snow came down like a fine gauze.
The people flitted by the Coroner's office
windows with collars tnrned up and beads
bowed to the storm.
"This weather reminds me," said Jenkins
to the group about him, "of such a day
about two years ago. I was requested to in
vestigate a case of sudden death. I had
often heard of persons dying ot fright, but
I was not prepared to believe it. Upon being
conducted into tbe parlor I was informed by
the owner, a well-known merchant, that his
daughter had died under peculiar circum
stances. She had arisen apparently in good
health and high spirits. While she was
seated at the table talking with ber mother,
her brother, who was about to leave for bus
iness, came up behind her stealthily and
kissed her full in the month before the was
aware who it was. The 'girl screamed, sank
back in a dead faint and when she was
brought to went In convulsions and died be
fore medical attendance could arrive. The
whole family were of a highly nervous tem
perament, very excitable and subject to
hysteria. The autopsv showed that the girl
had been perfectly healthy. Death was un
doubtedly dne-to a nervous shock,"
IJIPEOvISED WATEB W0SKS.
An Abandoned Gas Well Utilized by a
Hoosler Town.
Gfia'rlestownflnd.j is experiencing a water
famine on a limited scale' During the
summer montb, says tbe Louisville Courier
Journal, some enterprising citizens con
structed a tank, holding 250 barrels of
water, near an abandoned gas well which
was a tailnre as far as securing the illumi
nating vapor was concerned, but which sent
forth an everlasting stream of sparkling
water. A windmill attachment was util
ized to carry the water to the reservoir, and
then pipes were laid all over the town.
Houses were furnished and on 'every street
corner fountains bubbled over with tbe pure
spring-like waser.
-Sunday the tank collapsed, and now
shares in tbe Improvised water works pro
ject caa be secured at a figure considerably
below par.
CUPID IN iNEW ROLE.
A Beanly Makes the Little God Be
move fier Surplus Adipose.
ll'ALLISTEE AND THE AST0KS.
A CInb of Young ladies Who Wore Dag'
'gers Up Their Sleetes.
COL. 1NGEES0L18 HiltfLECTED DINNER
IcoBBZSroxDxncx or toe dispatch, i
' New York, Dee. 13.
EAUTY. doesn't al
ways wait for age to
disappear. P.eally
it is a sad and de
pressing thing for a
young and beautiful
girl to grow stout,
unless plumpness is
becoming to her
style of loveliness.
Some of us look bet
ter fat and some
look better thin;
and for one oi tbe
latter sort to watch
her Grecian profile
sink into a pudgy
pinkness of flesh
while her slender
graces bulge into
superfluous billow, is worse than the dis
covery of silver threads among tbe gold.
.So it befell that when a tender beauty ot
22 anmmers, who made a sensation when she
came ont three years ago, found the delicate
lines of her form expanding with balloon
like promise, she wept bitterly and did
everything in her power to arrest the aggre
gation. Nothing availed for a long time.
She tried patent remedies, and athletic ex
ercise, but still she waxed fa,t, and it seemed
as though her reign a3 a belle had ended.
When she had quite despaired of training
herself down to classical limits, she fell in
love with a clubman who had the reputa
tion of being the handsomest man in town.
SHE -WORRIED HERSELF THIN.
This fellow bad treated half a dozen girls
most shamefully. One was said to have
committed suicide for him. Fathers
loathed him. The young lady who suffered
from obesity loved him, and 'he led her a
terrible dance. For months she tossed upon
her sleepless pillow and sat dejectedly be
fore her untouched plate at table. Jealousy
and chagrin always controlled her, and the
object of her great love only laughed at her
anxiety. In a thousand different ways did
his tyrannical cruelty show itself, and he
took a grim pleasure in ' watching the tor
ture of his worshiping sl&xf.
A night came when the pitiless man found
himself alone with the girl in the conserva
tory at some one or other's ball. He looked
upon her, and in her found a perfect loveli
ness that he had not before been aware of.
Such symmetry had not fallen under his
eye In many a day, and as thebeanty turned
her irresistible great eyes upon him in the
tender lantern light he leaned toward her,
and would have taken her hand, but she
stepped back and 'avoided bim. Seeing her
recoil from him he started with amazement
and said: "Why do you shrink form me?
Be Demanded Ber Season.
Can't you see that I am overpowered by the
beauty of your presence? Don't you see
that I love yon?"
The girl laughed. "I am very sorry for
you," she replied. "I have quite got over
my sentiment for you."
Tbe blow to the man's conceit was com
plete and terrible. He clutched his brow,
staggered back and demanded of the girl a
reason for her change of heart.
"Why," she said, as she sirnck a bewitch
ing attitude, "do you not see tbat I am now
as slender as I ought to be?"
WARD M'ALLISTER'S FATE.
Mrs. Astor has' issued invitations for a
ball on January 12, and this social event is
exciting double interest, because it is ex
pected to determine tbe future of Mc
Allister. That his book, while it has made
the judicious laugh, has given grave offense
to society leaders is no secret. One of the
many burlesques upon it, that of Alfred
Thompson, is said to have been inspired by
a social queen and is printed in her colors
white and gold. McAllister fixes his own
social status in bis boot. He confessed
that, instead of dining with the Qneen at
Windsor Castle he dined with two of her
servants at the village inn npon a pheasant
presumably shot by Prince Albert and
stolen by the keepers, and that his visit to
Windsor Castle was confined to the kitch
ens, from which he was ejected as soon as
the footmen passed tbe word to serve the
royal dinner.
Americans, who are born sovereigns, have
not been in the habit of occupying such a
position in English society, and it has be
come a question whether the American
queens can afford to admit to their boudoirs
a person who associated with the menials of
the Queen of England. The fact that at the
opera McAllister now frequents the Vauder
bilt boxes, and not the Astor box, is
pointed out as emphasizing this whispered
gossip. Mrs. Astor has only to orderher
own servants to arrange her ball and omit
McAllister's name from the list of invita
tions to canse tbe ex-director of society to be
dropped by all of the other 399 social mag
nates.
WHY PAGAN BOB DIDN'T HE.
Colonel Ingersoll was invited to dine
with a party of literary and scientific peo
ple, and heartily accepted the invitation.
The dinner hour came, but not the Colonel.
He was telephoned, and arrived nearly an
hour late.
"I left Washington this morning," was
his explanation; "reaching hoaie very tired;
took a rest'; did some work; dressed lor din
ner, ana forgot all about your invitation.'
As 1 was seated at the head of my own table,
I received yonr telephone message and was
dismayed at my negligence. The .party at
my table kindly volunteered to furnish me
with acceptable excuses that the train was
late; that I had overslept myself; that I
was unexpectedly detained by business, and
so on. But my daughter looked at me with
her gentle eyes, and said: "Do you think,
papa, that tbey are the sort of people that
one can tell a lie to satisfactorily?' Gentle
men, I do not think aoi and, therefore, I tell
you the exact truth and throw myself upon
your mercy I forgot all about this dinner."
For his daughter's sake, Ae was excused.
"Look ont for the girl with a dagger up
her sleeve."
It was at the corner of two crowded
thoroughfares, and a policeman was stand
ing near at hand. Someone, it is impossible
to say who, bad uttered the above cry, and
jnst as it was done a long, glittering knife
fell at the feet of a beautifully dressed and
refined looking young lady who was pre-
farms to crow mo meet, -xae 'police!
Mr iSJr v ff r" M
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stepped immediately forward and picked
tbe knife from the pavement, catchinir tha
girl by the arm at the same time and look
ing about for the person who had given the
warning.
JfJST A CBAZT PAD.
"Is this your knife, Miss," said be, ad
dressing the young woman, who was tremb
ling with fear and seemed terribly em-
harassed bv tbe , curiosity of the crowd that
was quickly collecting.
"Yes, she replied, "it is, and it belongs
up my sleeve. Give it to me."
The officer smiled and told the young lady
she would have to go with bim to the station
house. To have a knife concealed ud one's
sleeve was not only illegal bnt especially sus
picious. Humiliated oeyonu expression, tbe
girl followed the officer up tbe ' street. Her
efforts to explain that she belonged to a
young James dagger society only increased
tbe susnicions of tbe officer, and he carried
her relentlessly into the presence of the
police sergeant, -lo bim she gaye her name
and address, and requested that her father
be sent for. This was done at once. When
You Must Come With fie.
tbe old gentleman arrived, and showed con
clusively that his child had only been com
plying with the rules of an absurd club that
a lot or" fashionable girls had organized, and
was carrying a dagger in innocence of tbe
law forbidding her to do so, the sergeant
smiled grimly and said he believed an ar
rest was unnecessary.
Tbe fad came about through the action of
a fashionable belle who wasbeingpersecuted
by a man whom she believed crazy, and,
fearing personal violence from Bim, she hid
a tiny silver-handled dagger up ber sleeve.
She never had occasion to use it, bnt all her
friends were so fascinated by the idea that
they all declared tbe world was filled with
crazy men and it was necessary to be pro
tected against them. About a half dozen of
tbem went seriously into the thing, and
tbese were happy in the consciousness of
doing something new and delightful until
their rather dangerous joy was cut short by
the sad experience of one of their number,
as above related. The girl that was arrested
declares she will coutinue to wear her
dagger, but in a safer place than up her
sleeve.
THE VOICE AND THE GAIT.
"Our girls are bright and charming," said
a lady at luncheon the other day, "but how
bad their voices are, and what dreadful gaits
they have. Why will they not study their
English cousins and try to remedy the
defects that make them unattractive?"
This remark opened a subject tbat was
discussed interestingly, and npon which
many usefnl opinions were given. The lady
related how a young beauty lost an En
glish Lord by her voice and walk. Her
voice was the result of being permitted to
talk loud at home, and her bad walk was
the outcome of tight shoes. Nearly every
American miss shouts when she wi'hes to
say anything, and insists upon wearing
small shoes with high heels. The remarks
made by the lady at the luncheon were
eagerly heard, and every pretty girl there
resolved not only to modulate her speaking
voice in the future, bnt to invest at once In
a pair of shoes of great length and breadth,
and also flatness of heel.
"I've just learned of a strange occurrence
in actual life, and I give it to you, of course
substituting fictitious names for the real
ones. Christopher Bleyer is a retired New
York merchant of large means, whose
daughters are married to well-known men
and whose son Fred is a popular club mem
ber. Although Christopher has been a
grandfather ten years and more, and is
pressing 70, yet be still remains an ardent
admirer ot the gentler sex, and may often be
seen taking young girls to the theater or
opera.
Clara Belle.
CHAMPAGNE OK THE DS00P.
The! New Tariff Besnlts In Only Five Bottles
TVhere Before There Were Ten.
New York World.
The sales of champagne at $4 a quart are
nothing like as great as they were at $3 50,
and there are lookers-on in the metropolitan
circus who say not more than half as much
of this wine is sold now as before the in
crease in price. Whether Mr. McKinley's
7 cents a quart increase in the champagne
tariff is helping to raise the quality or quan
tity of the American champagne Crop there
seems as yet to be little evidence.
Mothzes, do not be witnont Sbiloh's Cure in
yonr house, it will enro croup and whooping
congh. Sold by Jos. Fleming & Bon, 112 Mar
ket St.
KNABLE SHUSTER'S
HOLIDAY-GOODS SALE
.IS A GRAND SUCCESS 1
Their store is crowded all the time. IS IT ANT WONDER?
Notice the bargains they-are offering.
All-wool Dress Goods, doable width, 25c; regular 45o
quality.
64-inch Tricot Cloths, not quite all wool, but very strong;
only 25c.
Surah Silks, all colors, 29a ;
Black Cashmeres, Colored Cashmeres, Black and Colored'
Silk Warp Henrietta Cloths, Blaok and Colored Silks, all markeid
very low ior quictsales. , - i
Great bargains in Wraps, Jackets, Coats, Shawls and Furs-i
Special offerings in Hosiery, Underwear and Gloves, alio
Umbrellas.
Smoking Jackets in great variety.
Ladies' Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs.
Men's and Children's Handkerchiefs.
All kinds, all prices.
Ladies' Initial Handkerchiefs, 15c and 25o, all linen. . .
Men's Silk Initial Handkerchiefs-
Blankets, Comforts, Linens, Towel3 and Napkins. t
KH MUSTER
35 Fifth Avenue,
CHEEKS LIKE ROSES.
As Soft as Tel yet and Plump as tbe
Luscious Eipe P each.
MASSAGE FOR GOTHAM'S MAIDS.
A Fad That Enhances Beauty and Brinsi
II. LeHassazenr Gold,
BEEP AKD BEEU AS AIDS P0E BELLES
Facial massage is the latest fad to assume
great proportions, writer T7rwa from New
York in the Boston Globe. Prove it? Of
course I can prove it. Tbe massageur
formerly worked for dear life from morn to
midnight for bread and butter. Now he
rides a fine animal in the park in the fore
noon, lunches at Sherry's, drives in the
afternoon and has the audacity to make
many a fine lady await her turn in his chair.
Tbat is what it means to have control of a
fad in Gofnam.
But the massage.
I followed a charming belle and her maid
to the place. It was a fine-looking private
residence. There were no gilded signs about,
bnt at tbe curb was a marble horse-block
bearing the word "Dermatologist." My lit
tle lady gives her wraps to the maid and is
placed on the chair, as if she were to have a
tooth pulled. Every bit or the'lovely gown
is covered, and towels are tucked in around
her throat. Steaming hot cloths are ap
plied to her face for several minutes, to
soften tbe cuticle, which is then washed with
soap and water, that any alter process might
not rub any dirt into the pores, to make un
sightly blackheads. Then a preparation of
oils is thoroughly kneaded into every muscle
of the face.
MEM, WHITE MASCULINE FINGEES.
M. XeMassageur is fine looking, of course.
For half an hour this delightful process
goes on. The firm, white masculine fingers
stroke the pretty cheeks and tbe white lids
droop in languorous pleasure. To be sure,
there must be a touch of tbe scientific, and
this comes in the little instrument which is
next nsed. Compression of a rnbber bulb
forces a vacuum in a glass bell and the
flesh is drawn up into the interior of the
bell. Atmospheric pressure dilates the
capillary veins beneath and induces perfect
circulation bf tbe blood. This process is
scientific to an extreme, yet withal very
simple, as the doctor admits, and can ba
done as well and as readily by anv one at
home.
it is demonstrated In old physiologies that
after such treatment the skin becomes more
than usually adsorbent, and itisnext treated
to a bath of rose water and new milk, the
favorite cosmetic of the famous Ninon d'En
clos. It is wonderful bow those tiny coiled
snakes that science calls sudorific, or sweat
glands, will drink new milk.
TEED3 THE 1IUSCLZS.
Put a drop of the liquid upon a piece of
gloss, and another npon the face, after a
good rubbing. In two days the milk upon
theglass will have evaporated and left a
white residue, part cream, part sugar, part
curd. In half an bour the little snakes will
have licked up every trace of a similar drop
on tbe face, and, of course, they grow iat,
the muscles beneath fill ont, and the cheeks
become rounded and tinted as only nature
can tint them.
After the belle had laid a 32 bill on a
silver salver and departed, I said to M. Le
Massageur that I noticed that New York
women generally have well-nourished facial
muscles, and I asked bim if massage was
responsible for it.
"No," he replied. "Not altogether. It's
due to beer, too. Not champagne; not
brandy; nothing but plain,. every-day beer.
Of course, you will find that malt liquors do
not give strength. Some authorities will
say they are unhealthy. But what doear"
girl care for strength? "And as for heajtb,
not many of them seem very sickly, I asbara
yon. Then they take lots ot eierclss nd
eat good, plain food. More than one realizes,
does the girl of to-day take heed that her
food is nourishing and plentiful, and more
and more is the roast beef of Old England
becoming the food of Americans.
EIEEK TEESTS BB0KEH TOE.
A Trying Situation in the Childhood of the)
Great Actress.
London Tlt-Blts.
When Ellen Terry was a little girl about
11 years of age she belonged to Mrs. Charles
Keau's company at the Princess. She was
one evening acting Puck in the "Midsummer
Night's Dream," and had to come up
through the stage floor on a trapdoor,
standing on a mushroom. The trap door
was shut too soon, and one of her feet was
caught. She screamed with pain, and her
sister Kate, then acting Titania, ran to her
and threw her arms round her. Still the
child continued to scream, and Mrs. Charles
Kean, seeing what was wrong, came on the
stage and struck with her heel for the trap
door to be opened. The man naturally mis
took the signal, and shut it tighter, and the
child's screams redoubled. Mrs. Kean,
whispered to her:
"Be a brave girl, Nellie, and finish your
part, and you shall play in "King John."
The trap door was by thin time opened,
but the little girl's toe was broken. She
finished her speech, however, thonsrh she
fainted when she got off the stage. Later
on she played tbe part ot Prince Arthur.
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