Msjssesse 20 A LETTER FR03I FELIX. Worth's Itival Declares Against Crinoline The Ugly Dress Improver Mine. Car nofs Xew Gown Tclict tlio Kago Just Sow-Late Millinery. COKKESPOXDEXCE OF THE DISPATCH. J Paeis, May 15. I am forever being asked if there is any likelihood of a return of the Eeign of Terror, I mean the reign of the crinoline. And iny oft repeated an swer is no, a hun dred times nol It is strange how people refer constantly to the abomination, as if in the natural or der of things it must some day. return to fashion! The dress-improv er, which, indeed, is only a mitigated form of crinoline; is in ni- opinion nearly as ugly and quite as incongruous. Taste resides almost entirely in the har mony and simplicity of line; beauty, in the hunian fo.ni rUelf, not in a base caricature of nature's handiwork How is k possible for taste to manifest itself and beauty to ex ist, with such a hideous escresence beneath? Look at the women of to-day in dresses that would, but do not, disguis? the grace ful outline of their figures. Thi present style of garb (I am sure you will agree with me) is infinitely becoming, and ." a.j proud to think that I hava done a greaf deal to ward bringing it into vogui. livery inch of superabundant drapery is a mistake in my eyes, and all trimmings which have not, as It were, their raion d'etre ought to be tabooed. You 1111 think it strange for me to say so: but I would rather see a oman clothed in the plainest goun run up by her maid, than clad in the complicated arrange ments in fashion some years since. Throughout the winter we have been making a great many velvet dresses with absolutely plain skirt A sheath-shaped in front, and with some flow ins; pleats at the back, and cut so as to train a few inches, thoush in tended for wearing out of doors. Such slarts may be conven ient, bui they are not elegant, and they may just as well sweep tho ground as touch it; in both cases a lady-like distate to defile the hem of the feminine JIany of our evening robes were made with panicrs. 3S ow the panier; when kept w ithin bounds, is not merely enective in itself," but follows out and accentuates the natural form of the hip, and in doing so makes the waist ap pear slighter. I do not advocate .XV?S. ffaPl AV23S8 Ta r- Sas (7 " S?W 1 ST I - -Si m Mm f4gr Fig. 1. garment will prompt Sf,SfeJyMY the wearer to lift it 0rQiSv4'A out of harm's war. VVj WVAU' ) ?l V7 AJVA'X ' !,.. " , 4' I change for the f-ake of F,g 2. change, but it i generally understood that each season must bring with it seme modifi cation of fashion. The sheath skirt or fourreau said the panier hae provided us with a text for a series of very becoming gowns, both simple and dressy." The sever ity of the fourreau is broken" by the addi tion of a sort of overdress that tails in folds over the front of the skirt and in a narrow train behind, wiiile it leaves the sides un covered. This overdress has a low bodice supplemented by a high one with long slee cs of the tame material as the sheath, and the sides of this bodic confined at the waist by "a belt a frill that falls over the hips, playing the same pait as the jianier. "Vc ring the chauges ad infinitum. This, in one instance, the fourreau, high bodice, and sleeves, will be of yellow, striped hori- zontally with a deep blue i ib. and the over dress of dark blue Bengaline. Or, the en tire toilette may be composed of pearl pray crcpon, the sheath skirt and s-leevts ruled w ith lines cf narrow silve- braid. Acaiu, the foundation may be silk or brocade and jje upper strata black lai-v. Jji bthcr models, the arrangement of the Ekirt is maintained, whereas the bodice sug gests a Fieaio Aest, the outlines of which are penciled in metallic braid. "While for dinner and evening dresses designed for home wear, which, although low in the neck, lme bometbing of the tea-gown about them, the same effect is pioduced with deli-cate-hued China crape, which forms a sort of tunic, draped becomingly from the shoul ders and confined at the waist like a Greek robe, so as to fall in elegant folds back and front, leaving the sides plain and statuesque. Crepons of all kinds are very popular this season, and the Trench lawns provide me with au inexhaustible variety of simple pat terns and exquisite colors; oil the one hand pale gray, heliotrope, lilacs and dull pinks; on the other dark blues, bright j cllows and reds of brilliant dye. The supply of thin bilks is equally varied. " These I find par ticularly suitable for an empire style of gown. Here is a delicate Indian silk "of an uzalia tone, spotted with black, made up into a round full skirt, bordered with bands of black lace insertion, a niching of silk, and full baby bodice. A dress somewhat similar is reproduced in a new style of silk that has the shine of satin, the "sofaness of faille and the lightness of foulard. It emu lates the hue of the poppy and is studded with small white stars. Mme. Recamier may have sported such a frock. Xor is taff etas omitted from our fashionable list. Crisp white taffetas, checked with black satin, makes up charmingly in the form of a round skirt and bodice, almost without seams, exhibiting the figure to its full per fection, thanks to a gathered frill falling below the waistband. The fair reader will not be content if I do not add a few words about their outer gar ments. Asa smart mantle; let me recom mend a cuirass of shot pigeon breast silk richly worked with jet, furnished with full hanging sleeves of chantilly and deep basques of the same black lace. Capes or mantes, as we call them, borrowing a name from the vocabulary of the last century in the same glace silk and entirely devoid , of trimminc, provide natty coverings (fresh and springlike) for youthful .shoulders. For the opera there are few more handsome wraps than a lialf-long mantle in nasturtium colored plush weighted by rosaces set with topazes, and falling in heavy folds from the Medici collar w ithin which-softly nestling against the threat lies an ambcr-hued boa ol ostrich feathers. Jjcss ornate, but perhaps more elejant, is another model. Just a long II III .aajaraf. t h L .. . .,, , . Jj ample cloak of palest gray cashmere one corner cf which the w earcr tosses carelessly over the left shoulder, secured around the throat by a long pale pink feather boa. AVe make wraps, too, of transparent materiab, for instance, black net embroidered with gold supplementing the gossamer by a sec ond under-cloak of light silk. As for millinery, I am more than half inclined to leave it out altogether, for it is next to impossible to give in written words an adequate ides of a hat or bonnet The pret tiest headgear is the least easy to de scribe, because its prettiness resides in the very fact that its component iarts are deftly )lended together into a becoming whole. "What is to be said of the hat that is but a rim of diaphanous lace in closing a coronet of iliac, ot tne one composed entirely of leaves and flow ers and of the bon net which reminds you of the crecle kcrchier Ect on a diadem of scarlet blossoms, of the chapcau with a frilled, boa in lie-i of strings, or of the capote which is at tached by gilded ribbons around the Fig. i. chignon, save that each in its way is charm ing. We are making fanciful collarettes and fichus en suilie with our chapeaux, cunning amalgamations of lace and flowers, that re call the head covering, whether it be toque or hat, and serve at the tame time to com plete a dress for out of doors. Here is drapery of chantilly fastened by bouquets of lilac, theie a high frill of lace by a cor don of buttercups or cowslips. One fichu of black tulle is studded with violets, an other with "crimson-tipped" daisies; and each lias not only a toque to match but also a sunshade a dome of tulle strewn and garlanded with the sama delicate blossoms. "We are eclectic or we are nothing. The Louis XV. coat still finds favor with us; but we prefer not to carry the basque all the way round which has the effect of cutting the wom an in two and de tracts from her height. So the back pieces of the coat are made in one with the skirt.thebasques performing the same office as the paniers. An ele gant costume in old blue faille embroidered copied from an ancient de sign, is being re peated in tan colored with cm broideries i n different shades of the same tone for 3Inie. Car not. Mack silk em broidered with pompadour bou quets is another favorite. One of our more serious models cus- riff. s. flWIOTB tro nnt .ill T-nt.rtrp oti elimol rwnlli is made partly of such silk and partly of black satin brocade; the latter composing the pointed deini train. This mantle, witii its loose faille sleeves, mounted in a double- box pleat, standing up like a cock s comb on either shoulder, and its plastron of vel vet sparkling with jet suits it to perfection. Jet decorations I hold in high favor, and am extremely partial to them in the shape of light tracery upon such delicate- tints as loe-petal-piuk, palest torquoiss blue or golden maize for evening dress. A pink silk jobc, the upper skirt cut into long, tongue-shaped pieces worked with jet is charming, while the introduction of black ehet draperies about the deealletage is eminently fitted to set offapair of white shoulders. The designer is bound to think of these things, and it is this constant desire to place the lady whom he dresses in the best possible light that lifts him abov e the common herd of dressmakers. G. Felix. jJ WOMAN'S V0B1D ILLUSTRATIONS. Pretty Tigures Tliat 3Iay Servo as an Aid to the Teniinino Taney. The illustrations for this department of The Dispatch are furnished by some clever exchanges. Pig. 1 shows a toque w ith strings, taken from The Season. It is a tulle hat, edged with straw, and is decorated with a bunch of forget-me-nots and a Cleo patra band of steel with gold beads. Fig. 2 shows a new foulard dress, with gathered bodice, fastened invisibly behind, cuffs and corsage trimmed with ribbon; rib bon skirt band comes over bodice; tulle hat, -with roses; himalaya shawl. It is a beau tiful creation for summer wear, adds Tire Season. Fig. 3 shows a dainty cotton gown from Harper's JJazar. Pink dimity made over pink sateen is the material. The skirt, which is three yards and three-quarters w ide, is drawn up slightly on the hips, and closely gathered at the back. The bodice has draped and crossed fronts, and a French back which is slashed at the waist, and has a ribbon belt drawn through the slits, comple ted by a long sash bow at the middle. Jacket fronts of white lace partly cover the bodice fronts, and the high collar and small plastron are of lace. The full sleeves are striped with lace insertions, and have deep close cufis of lace. Fig. 4 shows the distinguishing effect of the rococo bow, which btands foremost among the newest of fashionable dress trimmings. The costume shown is made of light gray cloth. Three rows of rather large, white applique satin bows are set on the front breadth, which is edged with feathers; the slightly training back breadth remains untrimmed. The tops of the puffed sleeves have also white satin bows, ana the white satin yoke is relieved by gray cloth applique bows. The bodice is pointed back and front, and edged with a thick gray sitk cord, witli ends tied in a bow and finished off with handsome grelots. The gold passe menterie toque is trimmed with pink flow ers. ' Corsage Uoquets No More. Corsage boquets are entirely "out" this year. All Cowers, unless it be one very 1 iMim uimn i.i ammm ' Si! Ill IBpt Ililil M ief perfect rose or orchid, are carried in the hand. "Women have come to the very sen sible conclusion that handsome gowns are ruined by having flowers pinned upon them, while of course to fine lace or cobwebby chiffon they mean total annihilation. TO HANG AT HER BELT. A Novel little Ornament That "Promises to riease Beauty. Among the many new ornaments of the .season we noticed one intended for young ladies, which will certainly 'suit their taste, says Tim Season. It is a pretty gold or silver chain end ing in a ring, from which hang all sorts of trifles, a flacon, a tiny mirror, watch, penknife, powder box, etc All these are perfect minia tures; the chain it self is suspended by a hook from the wearer's belt, the hook being covered Tvith a bow. :., misliinn is an easilv-made ornament "for the boudoir. Tjio pieces of cardboard are cut, the shape of the flower and then covered with yellow satin or silk. One is placed over the other and the space between filled with sachet powder to give it the necessary perfume. Draw the outlines of the petals on your satin flower, and paint any color you prefer. "When dry, stick pins in all around the pansy. Pretty Menu Cards. The sweetest little menu cards of ivory white, "glossy paper, are printed in silver and elaborately festooned with delicately tiny rose wreaths. The card is-held on either side by little girls and boys of paper, and so perfect is the coloring and so true the proportions that they look exactly like Dresden china. HELPS FOR THE HOME. Recipes for Substantial and luxuries Sauces, Salads, ruddlngs, Pies and Cakes Useful Information for tho House keeper "Trom Ellice Serena. WBIITEjr TOR THE DISrATCHO Below will be found some general recipes of thoroughly tested reliability. I begin with pineappls trifle, which is made as fol lows: Select a ripe, swoet pineapple, pare and chop In small pieces. Cover with two small cupfuls of sugar and, set aside. Cover a package of gelatine with cold water, let stand two hours, and then dissolve with a cupful of boiling water. Add to tho pine apple with the juice of ono lemon and stir tho mixturo on ice. "When it begins to stiffen turn In thn fiothcd whites of six ec and beat until creamy. Servo with cieam or custard. Salmon Salad. Take medium-sized cucumbers, cut in half and carefully scrape out the pulp. Fill w 1th salmon picked in small flakes, and cover with mayonnaise. Tomato Salad. "Wipe round, ripe tomatoes with a damp cloth, hollow them out and mix with the pulp some minced celery. Cover with mayonnaise andrenll the tomatoes. Mint Sauce. Put four tablespoonfuls of chopped mint, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a quarter of a pint of vinegar into a sauco boat. Let stand an hounor tw o before serving, and add a little saltand pepper. Sponge Pudding. Three eggs, one-half cupful sugar, 12 table spoonfuls melted butter, two level tea spoonfuls baking powder. Add flour enough to make a stiff batter. Steam 1J hours. Stuffed Egg Plant. Boil a medium seized plant for SO minutes the water should be boiling at the start. Cut in half, scrape out the inside; without break ing tho skin. Mash tho pulp, season with salt, pepper andbutter. Fiji the skins, stew with, oread crumbs and bake ten minutes. Clear Lemon Pie. Dissolve three tablespoonfuls of corn starch in cold water. Add a pint and a half of boiling water, and stir until it thickens, when a dessert spoonful of butter may bo added. "When It begins to cool stir in tho grated rind and juice of two lemons, add 1 cupfuls of sugar. Lino pie tins with paste, bako and fill with the mixture. Return to the oven for a few minutes spread with a meringue of the beaten whites of three egg3. Thin Corn Cake. One cupful of Indian meal, one-fourth tea spoonful of salt, butter tho size of an egg, one cupful and a half of boiling water, one teaspoonful of sugar. Pour the boiling water on the meal, sugar and salt. Beat well, mix again and spread thin on buttered tins. Bake 20 minutes. Excellent Black Trait Cake. One cupful butter and lard, one of granu lated sugar, ono and one-half small cupfuls milk, one and one-half cupfuls molasses, one pound currants, one pound raisins, two cup luls flour, tw o whole eggs diopped In, one half teaspoonful each of mace and cloves, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, two of baking powdor, one level teaspoonful salt, rind aim juico of one-half lemon. Put all ingredi ents in before mixing. Beat well. This mixture may stand two hours before baking. btir w nen about to put in pans. Substitute for Cream. Pour ono pint hot milk on the w ell-beaten yolks of two eggs, and add ono teaspoonful white sugar. Cream Pie. For one pie use yolk of two eggs, two cups sweet cream, two tablespoonfuls Eugar, beaten together. Bake in an under ciust only. Hints for the Housekeeper. The best authorities say that it is wise to regard milk as a raw lood. It should bo boiled as soon as it comes into the house. It is well known that disease germs may be carried in milk, and boiling destroys them. Keep butter covered tight when put in the ico chest. It will not then absorb the odor of any food lying near. Is cooking rhubaib first scald with boiling water, pour off, and add a little fresh water. By this process much of the sour tasto will be taken out, less sugar will be required, and the flavor will be more pleasant. Ip meat is wanted for itsell alone, and not for soup, plunge into boiling watei, and salt It When almost done. Vegetaelfs should be put into fast boiling water, salted and placed on the range when they will contmus to boll rapidy until tender. For labels put a tablospoonful of brown sugar into a quart of paste and it w ill fasten them as securely to tin cans as to wood. To remove paper labels from old bottles, wet the face of the label with w ater and hold it for an instant over any convenient flame. The steam penetrates the label at once and softens the paste. To clean carpets, add a little turpentine to a pail of hot w ater. Wring out a cloth or sponge in it, wipe under the heavy piece of furniture, and sw eep the rest of the caipet with a broom dipped in tho water, Air tho spaie bed regularly, even when not in use, anil remove all covering except a spread. Atmosphouc moisture will pene trate all woolen fabrics. To clean sieves quickly scrub them in hot water and w ashing soda. Immerse several times in clean boiliug water and shako dry. Do not use soap. To freshen leather chair Seats, rub them with tho well-beaten whito of an egg. Ihsect powder sprinkled about oedsteads is likely to indicate to a guet the presence of vermin, although such may not be tho case. An invisible remedy, and one quite as effective as a preventive, is strong brine. "Wash the slats and cleats thoroughly with it. For. cleaning matting, damp corn meal, or wheat bran sprinkled oer it is excellent. "When tho matting l equires washing, use hot milk and salt. This solution may also be used on w illow goods. Wash chamois leather in tepid w ater, using soap freely. If the chamois is veiy much soiled, give a sceondsuds. Kinso in tepid water and squeeze dry do not wring. Hang where it w ill dry readily, and snap and pull until dry. Washing and pulling in this man ner will make the leather soft as newj Silver and plated articles that havo be como dull or tarnished, , may bo easily cleaned by immersing, tliem in hot water (salted), in which potatoes havo been cooked. Kub with a woolen rag and rinse In clear water. Fermented potato water is still bet ter for cleaning silver articles. Caraffes and decanters are also made bright and clean by the use of this water. llice Serena. Household goods packed and stored, su Hatch & Kevajt. 33 AVater st. Amy km fWML TKET pittsBUEG-,-, ' DISPATCH, '-SUNIiA GREEN COSfPLEXIONS. Shirley Dare Tells How to Get Kid of a Spring Affliction. TAKE HOT WATER AND TOAST, And if Ton Cannot Get Coarse Bread, Buy a little Common Bran. RHUBARB AH) CHERRIES FOR TOMC WIUTTEN FOB THE DISPATCH, It isexquisite to find one's self out of town again, with the budding of the lilacs and the velvety changes in the tinting of new leaves. The evergreens are the darker shadings, against which the gauzy aerial tones of the webs of young leaves are in comparable in freshness and sunniness. Eye and breath alike take deep draughts of the ever new and pure delight. Nearer by the knots of paper white narcissus in the garden group themselves as if tempting the hand to pluck and wear them; the flow ering almond shines a pink cloud; the in tense clear blue of the' periwinkle startles one coming upon its blossoms in the grass; calycand Missouri currant, favorites of childhood and not less of maturer age, take the winds with sweetness, and sunshine brings out the delicious scent of the wall flower, which blooms "a mas3 of red -and gold fire," as some garden writer de scribes it. There are pink and blue forget-me-nots blooming in a sheltered place, and roots of old violets brought, long, long ago from over sea, haunt the senses with their aroma. There is much to be done of pruning and training, and an epidemic of orchard worms calls one up and out by 5 o'clock mornings, with kerosene torch to burn them out of house and home before they have eaten the green off every bough, and left apple trees as if a fire had run through them. "What Women "Want to Know. At last time comes round for those talks with correspondents, long promised, which must do the work of a thousand private letters. It isn't time for the freckle ques tion to begin, but the present complaint with girls appeare to be what they call "greeny-brown complexions," for which they demand some Wash or application to bleach them white. The greeny-brown is a defect no cosmetic from javelle water to May dew off violet beds can relieve in the slightest degree. All treatment for this unpleasant com plexion must be from within. It is of the bile, bilious, and tends to worse things if not removed before warm weather. I never see a young woman with this livid line or a spotty iaee without instinctive de sire to take herin hand, with baths, hot herb teas and tonics, fruit diet and outdoor exer tion till she blooms like a wild azalea. For these execrable complexions are susceptible of becoming the finest with careful hygiene. Their sensitiveness leads them to throw all vicious matter to the surface and get rid of it, while some smooth, faultless face, envy of all the women about, will belong to a stubborn diathesis which loads internal or gans with chronic disorder. Babies That Are Unlucky. You will see women whose faces were rough with pointed pimples like a pincushion with pins wrong end up, coming out, after their first baby, with complex ions transparent as a flower. But the con sequences are pretty hard on the baby, which takes the vitiated blood from the mother. "What that baby doesn't go through with scald head and crusted tetter the first two or three years of its life isn't worth mentioning. It is just as well for brides-elect to follow the example of a New York beauty mar ried last Easter, who rigorously took a series of Turkish bath.3 during the winter that her complexion should not shame the pearl white luster of her wedding gown. She rose from her communion the morning of her bridal as pure in soul and body as becomes one to whom marriage is a sacra ment. And, talking about the purity of girls, purity of blood has much to do with it in preserving steadiness, clearness from fancies and the foolish malady of love-sickness, which is just as truly a malaise, a disorder of the system, as any other biliouj symptom laid down in the books. The Hygienic Phase of Love-Sickness. What we are pleased to call love-sick less and the green sicknes3 of girls and boys is an,effcct of bad nourishment and not-enough outdoor exercise. The biliousness and the languor it induces cause the lackadaisical manner which offends so in young people. Ask Sir Andrew Clarke, physician to Queen Victoria, and anr other candid doctor who studies diseasa in ita mental as well as its physical aspects. Men of no breeding are in the habit of talking very cruelly" and ignorautly about the ill-health of girls, and some doctors lend themselves to the practice who ought to know better. The ill-health of young per sons arises almost solely from disordered nutrition, caused by 'unsuitable diet and want of open air. That this brings iorwaru precocious uur ui me ai feetional nature may be true, but it is an effect just as bile breeds melancholy and religious sadness in older people. The world is not ruled by love dreams, even in hysteric girls and boySj who are quite as often victims of hysteria as girls when kept from the air too much. Give, your girls pursuits and tastes which will take them out of doors as much as possible if you would keep a host of repelling symptoms at arm's length and secure cheeks of damask instead ol greeny brown, the hue of incip ient cholera, or its slow sister, hysteria. The two diseases have one origin fermentation instead of digestion. How a Household Was Wrecked. The old practice for biliousness in spring used to be a rousing emetic or a big dose of calomel, which left traces for the season in a powerful weakness and taste of lead in everything eaten. Cynthia, neatest and sensiuiest ui uuuuiuciMiiiiuo, jiuis uer iaiin in a mild dose of that herb mixture known as Garfield tea, which is mostly senna, taken with a small teaspoonful of epsora salts, "to take off the gripe." Somebody told her of the good effects of the salts with the tea, on which, with a woman's usual reasoning, she concluded that it would be safe to take a larser dose than common, and kindly pre scribed fQr several of the household besides. The result, graphically narrated to the ladies next morning, was a physical and mental prostration to that degree, says Cynthia. "Hooked at my petticoat and I was too far gone to tell which way to get into it," while John, the tall, stout furnace man, who had been treated to a Medea's cup overnight, was invisible for. two days, and the smart hall boy in buttons asked to go homej by which I suspect Cynthia had been practicing on him in Tier generosity. It is ungrateful to make fun, for wiser grown Cynthia treated her ladies next morning to a wineglass of herb decoction the color of good tea, wnich cleared brains and com plexions delightfully and helped them to bear the April heat with some elasticity. Hot Water for Indigestion. In common with Dr. Benjamin Rush, of a former generation, and many of the first doctors in this, I have a great respect for herb teas. Hot water in large dilution quickens and intensifies the effect of the principles of the herbs, and itself assists in rousing perspiration and cleansing the ducts of the body. If you have a good specimen of a greenery-biliary patient, begin with the hot water treatment for in digestion. A pint of fresh water boiled five minutes, just cooled enough to drink without scalding, not sipped, but swallowed as fast as comfortable half an hour before each meal, is the fashionable prescription for cleansing the digestive tract. The water must be freshly boiled, and a little lemon or orange juice or spoonful of strong coffee may be added to disguise the taste of plain water; If acidity exists a ' MAY 17, small teaspoonful of IphospbAte of soda, may be added, making al very good mineral water, or some of fheVnative salts may be taken which taste so mildly bitter and leave a signally sweet condition immediately after. There is no use crying ub Sprudel or Carls bad salts when our owncVnntry has so much pleasanter salines and springs. This hot draught of water washes out the foul accre tions and by its heat stimulates the flow of digestive fluid. Bank dyspeptics need it before each meal continually, others want it till good functions are restored, and it is a good dose occasionally when the month tastes bad in the morning. Use of Trait and Lemonade. Food is the best physic generally, as it is taken in larger doses, wjth more regularity, than medicine. Eruit is the great correc tive of bile, but it needs quantity and variety. One poor little orange of a morn ing is justietter than nothing, but oranges are often too sweet or not iuicy enough to be of much use. A large glass of hot lemon ade, with some very hard, crisp graham toast, is all the breakfast a bilious girl often can eat and relishes better than anything else. All the lemonade she can drink through the day is a capital thing; "When appetite languishes live by drink ing. Nature knows what she wants well enough. For pimply girls and boys nothing is better than a bunch of water cresses dipped in lemon juice, eaten daily. Cress ofany kind is good and uncooked cabbage, shaved fine as broom straws, with mayon naise or lemon dressing. If one wants to make a meal of it with bread and butter, all the better. One must give appetite a good deal of leeway in spring, contrary to the received opinion that whatever tastes 'nice must be injurious. Grape juice, if relished, is a good liquid food and one can live and work on a quart of it for two meals and eat a hearty dinner with a relish and digestion for the third. But most of the grape juice sold is injurious, "being so sweet as to cause fermentation inwardly, often with great dis tress. Garden Rhubarb a Panacea. ' The juice of garden rhubarb, stewed in earthenware and strained, dilnted with boil ing water, sweetened and cooled till pleas ant, is better than most of the wretched grape juice abroad. It makes a spring medicine such as the monks of old used to take for the benefit of soul and body. If a woman wants to keep in delightful ease, with neither too much flesh nor too little, she shouldmake the well cooked wheat with beef juice and fruit her staple diet Cooked long and slowly its loses all irri tating quality, if it ever has any, and is grateful as well as wholesome. It feed3 white teeth, strong, steady eyes, clear skin and sound nerves. If you are boarding and can't get it ask for it till you get it, and make it the condition of remaining. Noth ing in the way of society or service can make up for insufficient breadstuff's or cereal food improperly prepared. If you have an exceedingly nice, obstinate hostess who is persuaded in her own mind that a spoonful of sticky oatmeal with thin milk and sugar once a day is all the staff of life her board ers need, and there is no choice of boarding houses, get A Packet of Clean Bran. Another most delightful, tempting thing for weak appetitite is the best canned cher ries, white ones preferably, scalded in porcelain and taken cold or hot. Cooked cherries, with their delicious acids and the touch of prussic acid from the stones, are the gratefulest medicine nature ever left to tempt mankind for their own good. The juicedraihed from a freshly opened can and" drunk by the glassful is both tonic and good for the luncs. Semi-fasting, two meals on fruit juice and graham toast, will usually give good relish for meat once a day. If not take a cup of cracked wheat, cooked an hour, mixed with a dessert spoonful of strong gravy or clear beef extract stirred in. Eew things equal this for strengthening properties, making fresh blood and flesh. It is palatable, moreover, unlike many messes recommended for persons out of health. "With the wheat well cooked other alteratives will soon be given up and the green skin disappear with them. Broiled Steak Twice a Hay. As soon as it can be relished good broiled steak with the wheat should be eaten for two meals daily at least. "Whenever symp toms of biliousness return take to the acid drink and toast again, with the hot water before meals. And take two tablespoonfuls night and morning, any way you can coax it down in soup, milk or coffee. It isn't worse than talcing medicine, and does away with the need of it. Don't ask me where yon can get the bran, for I don't know. I have sought it in city shops in vain. The only way is to buy whole wheat meal and siftithe bran out, until some wise man or woman sees the chance to make a great deal of money by selling neat little boxes of bran at three prices to men and women for whom it is fhe condition of ease, health and beauty. All the animals in menageries suffer from being fed white bread instead of coarse foods and human beings are more dependent. being more sensitive and nervous. It is magical to see the change in vigor, spirit, and complexion wrought by change to proper food in this respect. I tell you plainly, you may as well throw away cosmetics unless you can get the food which should accompany them. Shirley Dake. WANAMAXER CBACKS A JOKE. He Wasn't Aware There Had Been a Drop in Gold. During President Harrison's call at the Denver mint, the bullion room ras the last place visited, says the Jiochj Mountain ATeics. The party had gone hurriedly through the other departments, but when they saw the piles of massive silver bricks ready for free coinage they lingered awhile. The men were at work taking the molten metal from the retort and pouring it into the molds, which when cool represented about 511,000 each. Turning from the molds to the bullion pile a huge gold brick weighing 1,711 ounces and worth about 25,000 was discovered. It caused agreatdealof eomment and John "Wanamaker essayed the task of lifting it. He was told that if he carried ita quarter of a mile he could keep it. He didn't believe lie cared that much for gold, and, after lifting it, he replaced it on the top of the Eile. The President asked him if it was eavv. "Trv it," said John. "With a mighty effort, the President lifted it a few inches, and, in setting it back, down came the brick on the floor, missing AVanamaker's toes by a mere trifle. Every body laughed, and the Postmaster General said: "I knew there was a fall in silver, but this is the first time I have seen a fall in gold." AN ODD INSCRIPTION. A Work of Thackeray's Made Doubly Valu able by the Fly Leaf. Fall Mall Budget. An uncut copy of Thackeray's "Virgin ians," in the original boards, wa sold at Sotheby's for. 30, the buyer being Mr. Harvey, of Pall Mall. No doubt (says a correspondent), ifs valne was immensely enhanced by'the circumstance that it con tained the following inscription in the haud writing of the author: In tho V. States and in the Queen's domin ions All people have a" right to their opinions, And many don't much relish "Tho Vir ginians." Peruse my book, dear K.; and if you And it A little to yonr tasto, 1 hopo you'll bind it. Peter Rackham, Esqre., with the best re gards of the Author. "Dear E." however, refrained from bind ing his author's presentation copy, much to the joy of the modern collector. The Handsomest Paper Going. Tionesta Republican. The PmsDUEo Dispatch, which is gobbled up when it arrives hero llko flannel cakes and maple syrup on a frosty morning, came out yesterday In a new dress of type, which now makes it not only tho best newspaper but the handsomest that's agoing. rVT 1891. PIEACY OF A POEM. How It Made a Minister a Wanderer - on the Face of the Earth. HE DIDN'T DO THE STEALING, But Was. Accused of Authorship by His Admiring Congregation. CONFESSION OF THE REAL CULPRIT wnlTTEX FOR THE DISPATCn. I have been guilty of literary piracy, and punishment has followed the crime. It al ways does. The moral law which exacts suffering as the price of sin has not the elastic nature of an excise statute. It is en forced. So there is nothing novel in this case. Indeed it is made entirely common place by the fact that the punishment has fallen not upon me, the sinner, but upon the Bev. Harold Fcnderson, a good man, whom I respect, but shall 'endeavor Mn the future to avoid. "While I was the principal villain in this affair, the primary fault is chargeable either to Mrs. Betsy Bridges or to Dr. Lemuel iBaker. I will not presume to say which should bear the blame. Dr. Baker was Betsyls physician, and Betsy died; and her death was the beginning of our sorrow. The sad event occurred in .the town of Pension ville, O., where I was visiting some rela tives a few months ago. Pensionville was one of the few towns in the United States to which my fame had not penetrated to any great extent. Only One Man Knew the Secret. I think old Israel Bridges was the only man in the place who knew that I made a living by selling masterpieces of literature at popular prices. My relatives had heard reports to that effect, but they had only scoffed and said: "Howdy Fielding write anything? Good gracious, we knew him when he was a little tow-headed, bow-legged gawkl" "When Israel Bridges was suddenly made a widower he had an inspiration that some TPeeplnff on His Shoulder, obituary poetry in the Pensionville Weekly Leadcr would soothe his sorrow, and he came ;to ask me to write it. 1 rather liked the old man, and would have been glad to oblige him, but I can no more write poetry than if I were the shade of Shakespeare in a spiritualistic seance. I tried to convince Mr. Bridges that I was not on speaking termsvitn the muses, but he wouldn't hear of it; and at last I had to consent. But I bound him to absolute secrecy by a series of vows that made him turn pale to the tip of his cnin wmsKers. The next day I struggled with the verses, but they wouldn't come. I wrote only one, and in that I was compelled to make Bridges rhyme with religious in order to get the proper sentiment into the lines. They did not satisfy my fine critical instincts; so, in the afternoon. I hunted up my grandmoth er's scrap book and purloined a poem, which with a few slight alterations would fit the case of Mrs. Bridges or almost anybody else. I sent these verses to th$ Leader, attaching only the initials H. F. The Poem Made a Hit. They were printed on the day of the fun eral, and were generally admitted to be the most gratifying feature of the occasion. They were the talk of the town, and many women who had made things very uncom fortable for Mrs. Bridges, during her life were affected to tears by this poetic cata logue of her virtues. "When they felt these attacks of emotion coming on tney called upon the Bev. Harold Fenderson and wept on his shoulders because they attributed the verses to him. He was a modest and truthful man, and at first he flatly denied the authorship of this little gem; but the women wouldn't believe him. There stood his initials in cold type as a signature to the poem, and the verses breathed forth all the tenderness and good will which.characterized this man. Possibly they may have been written by some remote ancestor who had transmitted Oh, for but a Single Bliyme! his peculiar virtues to Fenderson. The paper from which I copied them was yellow with. age. At any rate, Fe'nderson was so persistently accused of their authorship that at last he only, shook his head and smiled when they were mentioned. Meanwhile I got out of town. Bridges kept my secret well; I was not suspected. No Peace for the Preacher. Doubtless the Bev. Mr. Fenderson sup posed that the obituary poem would soon be forgotten, but it wasnX It made such an impression upon some of the chronic in valids of the town that they were impatient to have an affectionate tribute of that sort written about xtheniselves. Meanwhile the esteem in which his flock (and especially the ewe lambs thereof) held Mr. Fenderson had been doubled by the recognition of his literary genius. It had never been sus pected before, and no wonder, for he was the most unromantic, practical, matter-of-fact man that I ever met. Instead of writ ing obituary poetry for a bereaved family, it was his wav to call and assure himself that the children had enough to eat, and somebody to wash their faces in the morning. But after this dishonest effort of mine to con sole Mr. Bridges with ink, the women discov ered new evidences of a poetic tempera ment in their beloved pastor every day. Some of them wrote verses to him, and asked his opinion of their efforts with such flattering confidence in his literary gootl taste that he could not find it in his heart to withhold a praise, for the falsity of which he asked forgivenness nightly. The col umns of the Leader were crowded with "Lines to H. F.," "Stanzas to H. F., "Thoughts on contemplating the genius of H. F.," and outpourings of tho soul. Mr. Fenderson could not quote poetry in his sermons without being suspected of having written it; and in a general way he paid the penalty of genius the genius which I had stolen from my grandmother's scrapboqk. Another Poem in Demand. About three months after the death of Mrs. Bridges the Bev. Mr. Fenderson's b flock seemed in a fair way to suffer another loss, and one that would be deeply felt. Miss Martha Higgins, who had sung alto in the choir for nearly 15 years, was very ill. Mr. Fenderson was truly grieved at this visitation. Miss Martha had always been particularly prominent in the musical affairs of the church, through the earnestness of her endeavors and the fact that she was never in the key. Her illness developed unfavorable symptoms until at length Tier condition became so serious that old Mr. Higgins, her father, called upon Mr. Fen derson, and with tears in his eyes warned the pastor that another obituary poem would be expected in about a week. Mr. Fenderson perceived that he was in a tight place. Laurels won from the muses by fraud turn to chaplets of thorns. Hcwas no more of a -poet than I am and was too honest to take my path out of the difficulty. He could only hope more earnestly that Miss Martha would recover. On the con trary; she grew worse steadily, and the physician gave no encouragement. On the second evening after Mr. Higgins' call, his daughter's associates in the choir went to ipl Be Fled the Town. the pastor's house to suggest that his verses should be made of such a metre that they could be sung to the tune of Miss Martha's favorite hymn. Surprised That His Hair Wasn't Gray. "When they had gone Mr. Fenderson seized a hand mirror, and was surprised to find that his hair was not gray. He had at tempted denial once more, but had been met by a smiling confidence in his genius which had fairly rendered him speechless. All that night he paced the floor of his study, trying to think of two words in the entire language that rhymed with each other. Early in the morning he called at the Hig gins nouse and learned with two-fold sorrow that Miss Martha was still failing. He wandered up into the cemetery in the afternoon and tried to get inspiration from solemn contemplation of the epitaphs, but they did not cheer him up. He passed an other sleepless nigHt in his study, without getting an idea, except that he should like to write an obituary for the unknown H. F. in hard, metallic prose. The next flay he received a call from the editor of the Leader, who simply visited to Bay that he went to Eress at 1 p. M. every Thursday and couldn't old the forms more than an hour even for a poem by H. F. Mr. Fenderson felt that his mind was breaking down under the strain. Precipitately Fled tho Town. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon he learned that Miss Martha was not expected to survive the night; and at 9 in the even ing he had packed up his small possessions and had quietly fled the town. There was a tremendous sensation when the news had percolated through the channels of Pen sionsville gossip. Israel Bridges, the only man who knew the reason, had to fasten his lips "with a clothespin in order to keep his vow to me. In th" midst of all the excitement the editor of the Leader got an idea. He began to search old newspaper fifes in musty garrets, and at last unearthed the lines which had been the cause of all the trouble. "With this proof in his hand, he had no hesitation in publishing to the world through the columns of the Leader, the full story of the "piracy, disgrace and flight of the Bev. Harold Fenderson." Poor fellow, I have learned that he has entered the foreign missionary field, and departed for the scene of his labors. It is so far away that, although Mr. Fenderson is a very large, strong man, I have felt that I could unburden my conscience by confes sion. His sad story affects me even more deeply because I learned from a late issue of the Leader that Miss Martha has fully re covered. . Howaed Fielding. GAMES AT MARBIES. How the Ancient Blng Taw and the Con queror Are Played. New York Herald. The ancient "Ring Taw" and "The Con queror" are among the best games to be played with marbles; and, although simple, are really of some merit. "King Taw" is played with a circle marked out six inches in diameter, inside another which is six feet feet in diameter. The school boys plant each a marble within the small circle, and then stationing themselves on the edge of tho larger cucle, about three feet away, they snap consecutively at tho center marbles. The boy who, with his own. shot, sends a marble outside of the line, wins it and has another chance. If a taw is struck by an other taw, not only 13 the taw killed, bet its owner surrenders to the killer all the mar bles he may have won already. AVhenall the marbles are shot from tho larger circle, the players shoot from the spot where their marbles stopped when struck. If a taw stays in the smaller circle its player is "out," and has to put into the ring all the marbles he has won. When no marbles re main in the ring, and all the taws are dead, the game it over, and some boy's pocket" are a good deal hravler than they were. "The i;onnuoroi i it biikuwj iuujici ku.uc. ua boy in this lays his marble on the ground, anil another tries to break it by throwing his own marble at It. If he does bieakit, hismarble counts one, and his antagonist has to put down another. Something IJke Dr. Bothwell's Case. There was a case at the Massachusetts General Hospital some years ago of a person who swallowed a large pin which lodged in the trachea. This pin was taken out by Dr. Bigelowby opening the trachea, but Dr. Bigelow himself was very much disinclined to take any credit to himself for the work, because, he said, it was the merest accident that saved the patient's life. Lies' Photo Gallery. Good work, low prices, prompt delivery, 10 and 12 Sixth street. TISU STOCK ENTIRELY NEW. FINE WALL PAPER AT ALL WM. TRINKLE&CO., : 541 WOOD STREET, , J (BASE OT COIOIEUCE EU1LDI30.) DEALERS IN "LINCRUSTA WALTON." i N. B. Our large sales are reducing our stock, and those who desire the advantage" of selecting from a large stock of line new goods should come at once. J' WM. TBXXKLE & CO. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS Are Knocking Odt Steam Transit Wherever the Two' Compete. SOME CURIOUS EEIIGIOUS IDEAS. Cure of Nervous Diseases by the Application of Strong Light. THE BEST ILLraiHAXT FOR READOG PBZFABED TOR THE DISPATCn. "While a discussion is still being very ac tively carried on as to whether electricity can compete with steam in long distance traction, electric motors are steadily gain ing ground in a way that is very significant. The controversy will soon have to shift to some other points. One of the most re markable of recent developments is the suc cess of tho electric road between Minneapolis and St. Fanl, and the announcement of the steam railroad lines that they intend to withdraw from competition with it for local passenger traffic. These roads havo been operating 20 years, while the electric road did not begin- until last fall. Between tho two cities tho single fare has been 30 cents, the round trip 50 cents, and then gen erally there would be another 10 cents for street cars, making an average of 60 cents-for the wholo journey of 20 miles. The electric road, however, Is making money at a 10-cent fare, or 20 cents for the round trip, with frea transfer at either end to the connecting street car lines, so that virtually the lnter urban trip of ten miles costs only 7 cents. Moreover, the steam trains run on a stiff schedule which a man has to time himself by, whereas tho electric cars arc just as fio quent as tho demand calls for and run on quite short headway. So enormous is the traffic they have built up, the present motorcars are to be replaced by larger ones, which will pnll tow cars, thus giving trains practically every minute. Tho line is doing wonders in uniting tho two cities, and has added in a most striking man ner to tho value of tho real estate lying aiong its ten-mue route, xne saving on fares is alone an irresistible inducement to travel, and hence what the steam roads na e not succeeded in doing in a. score of years the new electric service ha accomplished in half a dozen months, in effecting a practical union of tho two communities. The facts enumerated nbovo are attract ing great attention out West, and more than one large city Is getting ready to give its suburbs electric rapid transit In the same manner. Wnntever may bo the prejudice that has been skillfully worked up against electric traction in such places as Brooklyn, the Western cities at least are fully alive to the opportunities of a modern system whoso cars are now running 400,000 miles a day in this country, employ 10 000 men and carry three-quarters of a billion of passengers every year, without a single death yet re corded from tho current. If this is the record in street car travel, It is only fair to reason that cross country tavel will also bo safer and cheaper when electricity is adopted Sacrcligious Lightning Bods. The curious accusation of heresy has been brought against a hardshell Baptist down South in Georgia because ho has put a light ning rod on his nice newhouse. It is argued against him by those who are Arm in tho faith that this Is resisting tho divine will, and that if tho Lord wlshe3 to hit that house with a thunderbolt he ought to be allowed to do so, and not bo annoyed or frustrated by such protective devices. One would have sup posed that wo had got beyond thetimo when, as in England, steamboats were denounced as irreligious, because they made their way5, 'gainst wind and stream. Yet it is not sqj long ago that similar objections were raised, to the introduction of a steam railway Iny Palestine, and still later objections havefc been made and enforced against tho electric?, light In churches because it blasphemed in, some very terrible and very inexplicable) manner. Ono curious question that has been, raised, and has not yet.lt Is said, been settled Is as to the propriety and efficacy of a conV fession made by telephone. The penitent, IfJ Is claimed, must be present la person to r& ceive absolution from the priest. On the other hand, the telephone is proving ext tremely useful In enaming sick persons to? participate In divine worship, and Is beingi more and mora resorted to for their teneflB as the apparatus becomes perfect. Electric TJghts In Nervous Complaints, The electric light is being used in Bussll as a cure for nervous complaints. A prom inent 3Isco w physician enumerates 11 cases in which he has found this treatment re markably successful. He employs an incan descent lamp, which Is provided with a fuuf' nel-shaped reflector of .6 cm. length, and. 2.3 cm. width. Tho reflector is turned dlj rectly on the part of the body where pain ist ) felt. The application in cases of nervous) headache lasts, for from 10 to 13 secondsr other neuralgic pains aro treated for from three to five, and sometimes oven for 10 minutes, until the patient feels a pleasant: sensation of warmth. Surprisingresults are said to have been obtained by the treat ment. Telegraph Extension Under Difficulties. The successful extension of the telegraph lino from Yunuan to 31 omein, on the borders of Barman, has led to the suggestion that: the officers engaged in the work shall receive rewards on tho same scale as is accorded in practice for the safe transmission of urgent messages from the field of battle. How well such awards are deserved i3 shown by tho accounts of the conditions under which this arduous enterprise was carried out. The distance from Yunuan to 3Iomein is 530 miles, and the route lies through a moun tainous and densely wooded country, where frequently no trace of habitation occurs for over 30 miles. The work of construc tion was carried on by day under a blazing sun, which caused intense thirst, while by night the men were obliged to camp out in the open and had to be con- stantly on their guard against the attacks of wolves and tigers. Three treacherous and turbulent rivers, each of which was in fever stricken localities, had to be crossed. The waters of one of these rivers, the Salveen, aremnddyand unwholesome, and are said to be so deadly that the feet of men and the hoofs of hordes rot and drop off from contact w ith them. The officers and men of the expedition crossed this river on rafts constructed of coils of Ire, and reached tho opposite bank only after a hard struggle. The malaria was most virulent, andno fewer than ten members of the party sneenmbed to Its effects during the three clays occupied in carrying the telegraph line across the river. The Ideal Artificial tight. An oculist, in speaking of the merits of the va jions kinds of light, says that most persons llko the electric light better when it Is new, as it is then whiter and more brilliant than It is after being used for a few weeks. lie considers this a mistake, as it 13 the dazzling white light that harms the eye, and he enjoins the use of a light that has changed to a pale yellow, which is the Ideal color. Just as in noonday brightness, human sight is not so clear and far-reaching as at the yellow sunset, so a new incandefc cent burner Is not so good for the eye a3 th old one. PRICES. . t,Si'4S-iiJW.''. '".'. .r - j- t- atKiSatiiJ-:. Ai
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