BEAUTY AT HER BEST. Costnmn That Are Becoming for the Utile and the Tilg Folks Princes Louise's ITrddlnz Gown Facta About Silk Stjle of Hair Dressing. Pretty little daughter Is perhaps most charniiug in tlie head-covering nature pro vided, but she can not go out of doors that way. So the milliners have de signed the poem in lace shown herewith. "While It Is simplicity itself, it is ex ceedingly pretty, and when little daughter is bounc ing around on lha lawn in sunshine, happy mother is thankful to art. (79m f Xone Up in Ijac. .And the art of dressmaking and millinery Is as much an art as that of the brash and palette. This recalls! a story told in the New York Rscorde-i Every man has his price, though it is in the case of renowned persons occasionally high, So one understands this better than Worth, the man milliner, as any woman who wear his confeeiiont can vouch for. There is a good story told of how one mis guided woman ventured to remonstrate with the faiKttr de chiffons because he charged her 600 for a dress, whioh at first sigh; seems to ordinary people rather an ex penfive gown. "The icfiierial," said the lady, "could be bought for S100, and surely the work of raak'inc up would be well "paid with ?23 more. ."Madam," replied the outraged tattleti? In his loftiest mnnner, "go to M, Constant, the painter, and siy to him) 'Here is a can vas and colors, value SL Paint me a pic ture on that canvas with these paints and I Mill pay you 33Js cents.'' "What will he answer? 'Madam, that is no payment for an artist.' Is o, but I say more! If yor. think my terms are too high, keep the dress and pay me nothing. Art does not descend to the pettiness of Eaggling." History does, not record the lady's reply. To the Time of the Fronde. The cocked hats already beginninj to be Fecn in winter, have been equally successful ! in bringimr their piquant cflect into spring and euui mernovelties.savs The Season. They are mostly made of fine white straw and trimmed with "black. A narrow edging of feat her i tr o a s rnUTiil tlir brim, a band otfi' velvet round the crown, une oi me v fides seems to be jauntily turnedup b y means of a buckle. When the coiffure and the rest of the toilette en harmonizewuh The (Xcked Sol. the character of this hat, the spectator might almost think he sees a lady of the time of the Fronde. Besides this going backwards, whioh has been more noticeable in house furnishings, perhaps, than in the drapery of beauty, royalty has its influence. Accordingly we shall oouhtless oon 6ee on the pretty Wrists of the maids ai.il matrons who have just re turned from across the water slender brace lets, to which is attached a gold key with a crown in red or blue enamel. And all this will be because the English Queen has put such a one around the wrist of her chief lady in waiting, and attached to it the key of her dispatch box, according to the Sew York Tim'i. I'nonicial women in England, who do not posbess dispatch boxes, wear in stead the key of davenport or jewel box, Bud American women may be relied upon to promptly follow suit. It is a mistake to say that a sealskin jacket costs twice as much now as it did a year ago. Such may be the case in a few Instances, but as a general thing it is not. It is the raw material that has doubled in price, and even done more, but the expense of con verting a rough saited skin into a beautiful garment is very little more than formerly, and as labor cuts a big figure in the expen se, the actual cost of a sealskin jacket or sacque is only from 20 to 50 per cent more than it was when the slaughter of the iuollcnsive inhabitants of the Bering Sea was a much kiinpler and cheaper matter than it is now. For the Autumn and TTInter. The stylish skirt show n here is made with a narrow .rent, two gores at each side and a lull back. It can be used for all seasonable goods but the thinnest, and will be very popular for the autumn and win ter, savs Demorat't JTagazine. The edges of the gores are shaped at top to make them fit smoothly, the i seams may be cov- ! ered with trim ming if a more dressy effect be de- j sired, and plaiting of any style, a gathered llonncn i.i i -Oore-i iiirf. or tbe like is eas ily added. Tnis might properly be called tlie acre of iik, says the New York Tribune. Xfabrics of silk rival those of cotton in cheapness and quantity. The poorest house- I maid may wear a dress finer than that Jus- ' tinian leiused to his queen. Adulterations lire rife in all silken goods and yet, as a ' matter ot feet, pure silk m3y be bought us cheap as the adulterations. J Paradoxical as this statement seems, , it is demonstrated every day. The public lias become so used to the extra gloss put on silk by various artificial modes ol treating it and to tLe aaded weight given by metallic dyes that they usually prefer it to the nure silk. Iu sbite of honorable merchant" who assure their customers that ! they casnot lecommcnd the higli luster good, in nine cases out of ten the pure silk I is left on the counter and the adulterated I silk ot the same price is purchased. There me silks iu market at 53 a yard which will tear like paper across the grain. It goes without -aving that such silk is treated bv some artificial method which has destroyed-! lti sirenrrtii, or is not maae wnolly oi the web of the w orm. Dimples 3Iade to Order. If ever-you want to see a girl look the picture of misery catch her in the "dimp ling process." I is now a regular craze for a girl to have dimples, says the St. Louis Tut-DUitatdi. Some of them not gifted by nature with them are now getting the be- M? MABftSl esiMMrf - r ii fjjh i witching little hollows by the process of art. A girl must now be dimpled on face, neck, shoulders, arms, hands and feet. To obtain the proper amount of dimples forthis all-over process a lot of hard work is re quired, and a three days' absence in her room necessitated. It isjiow an undisputed fact that to place four tiny strips of court plaster crosswise, and to form a little frame to catch in the bits of flesh just where the desired hollow is to be will produce an at tractive dimple. A plaster frame is placed just under the right eye, on each side of the mouth, on each knuckle of the hand, and on elbows and just below the shoulders on the arms and on the shoulders tbemselvev The feet, too, are dimpled-plastered below each toe and near the ankle. The flesh in each place is caught liko a pinch and the four tiny strips of plaster form a firm hold. Por three days the plaster must remain on the appointed spots, and when it is removed the dimples are made securely and will latt a fortnight or so. Sometimes a day will suffice for the accom plishment of the bpauty spot, though it will not be so lasting as that of the three days' pressure. Some ladies even go through the ordeal of a surgical operation to obtain n pretty dimple, but the well-known face ar tist who described the art of making these attractive additions says cancer may result from a surgical-made dimple, whilst the plaster method is a safe one. A Gown Made of Spiders' Webs. There are a number of animal fibres other than that of the silk worm, which have been tested at varioas times in weaving. Practical attempts have been made by different persons to weave the web of the spider, but the spider's web is so much finer than the web of the silkwo-m that such efforts have attained no mer cantile impor tance. The web of the snider bears A Jlair Dressing, the Barue propor tion to the web ot a silkworm in strength that the latter does to a broomstick. The spider makes thousands of strands. In spite of all the impediments in the way of weav ing it. many yards of spid'.rs' silk have been woven, and an entire dress of this silk was presented to Queen Victoria a number of : years ago, when experiments were con- : duoted on a somewhat extensive scale in ; weaving the web of one of the tropical . spiders, which promise more than do our ordinary spiders of the temperate zone. But I tne experiment was nnally abandoned. An other creature which has furnished exhibits of silk to curiosity hunters ii "pinna," that weird silk weaver of the ocean, which weaves a byssus of silken threads by which it attaches its shell to the rocks. This is a huge mollus'k which is found in the Mediterranean. The silk of the pinna can not become of practical importance because of the difficulty of propagating the creature or of obtaining sufficient material from it. Another difficulty in the way of the practi cal use of this silk of the sea lies in color ing it. Like most things of the ocean it re sists all efforts to dye it. "' Short, pretty, thick hair is required for the hair dressing shown in the illustration above. In accomplishing the effect, eays The Season, the hair is parted down the mid dle in front, combed up at the back and the whole mass twisted together on the top of the head, where two loops are made of the hair strand and double knots of the ends. The turnover collar trimmed with reticella embroidery is of fine white linen and i inches' deep. Most effective and inexpen sive trimmings are also made by the sewing machine, and especially guipure embroi dery. Summer Gown of Indian Silk. A charming gown for summer wear is made of Indian silk, cream colored ground with sprays of blue "ragged sail ors," trim me d with blue velvet ribbon, says Xte morift't Jtfaqazine. The basque has a point in the back the same as in front,and the back piece is laid in line plaits at and be low the waist-line. The double breasted front is finished with a double bias frill of the 6ilk headed by rows of velvet rib bon, and the basque is edged by a row of wider v'elvet finished with a rosette at the back. The skirt has the full ness massed in the . middle ol the 'hnnlr- And i n . - j ..- islied at tlie foot with three doubl ed bias frills of silk. A Summer Occn. To decide who has the finest wardrcbi I among the fashionable women of the metrop olis is a bewildering and practically hope-' less task, says the New York Sun. Like the gems which "the women wear, their gowns .' -. ---.1 .... ..!,.... ' sometimes cos. lonuiius, uuu iuc ui uuuut endless variety. Some Jof the women in high life own as many as 100 dresses toilets or costumes adapted for special occasions, such as balls, the opera, dinners, afternoon receptions, the theater and the promenade. Besides these necessary state gowns, the fashionable woman must include in her personal wardrobe probably 10 or 15 tea gowns of different designs, and she must also ave numerous carriage aud shopping cos tumes and probably half a dozen house dresses. Very often the latter may be or dinary and inexpensive "rigs." Probably the most expensively dressed woman in society is Mrs. George B. De Porcst, who prefers American dressmakers, and who has most oi her gowns made right here in New York. They are always of the costliest material and richly trimmed. She has a great variety of dresses, each of which cost dizzying sums. Best Crossed Woman or New York. "While her personal wardrobe may not be the most extensive or costliest, Mrs. Pres cptt Lawrence is considered by competent critics to be the most stylish woman in society in the matter of dress. She always dresses with admirable taste, and has the reputation of being able to wear the plain est gown with a grace that nails the eye. Mrs. William B. Astor's wardrobe is, as might be imagined, an extensive one, con taining innumerable valuable bits of finery All her ball, opera, reception and other elaborate gowns are made in Paris. The women of the Vanderbilt family Mrs. Cornelius, Mrs. William K., and Mrs. Fred W. also order their gowns in Paris when they take their customary trip across the ocean. Of the trio, Mrs. Fred W. is the least exacting as to dress. She has fine clothes, and no doubt plenty of them, but she does not make a special study of her toilets. (?w9S8&$ e?wsgipi: THE Mrs. Burke-Eoche, Frank Work's daugh ter, also has a high reputation for stylish gowns. Mrs. William D. Sloane is fond of good clothes, and has many of them; so is Mrs. H. McIC Twombly and her sister, Mrs. W. Seward Webb; bo also is Mrs. Samuel J. Colgate, as well as Mrs. Edward Cooper, Mrs. Richard Mortimer and Mrs. C. F. Havemeyer. There are many tasteful dressers among the unmarried society belles, and some have so many gowns that they could not re member the full extent of their wardrobe if they tried. Miss Davis has hundreds of them, all made by Worth, who has dressed her since childhood, she being one of the few children for whom this high-priced de signer has made clothes. Wedding Gown of a Frlncess. The wedding of Princess Louise, of Schleswig-Holstein, the daughter ofthe Prince and Princess Christian, to Prince Aribert of Anhalt Monday, July 6, the day after the silver wedding anniversaryof her Sarents has been fully described in The iispatch. Herewith" is given an illustra tion of the wedding gown, from drawings made specially for Harper's Bazar in Lon don. The weddinggown was of white satin, with a plain long oval train, bordered with a slender vine of orange blossoms and myr tle. An elongated spray was on the bodice and a vine edged the pointed bodice and fell in two ends on the train behind. The Honiton lace , Priicas Zouise's Wedding Gown. with which it was trimmed was designed by the late Prince Consort for the Queen. The Queen gave it to her daughter, Princess Christian, for her wedding dress, and she, in her turn, is now transmitting it to her daughter. The sleeves were of the lace, simply turned under at the edge. The net veil drooping over the face was fastened with a tiny coronet of orange and myrtle. The Bathroom of a Belle. A certain pretty belle on Dclmar avenue, St. Louis, is said to have the prettiest bath room in the city, one which adjoins her bed room and boudoir, and has just been added to the house by her devoted father, who lavishes everything on his attractive daughter. She had heard of the two ideal bathrooms recently put in the Mackay Lon don house the one Pompeian and the other Japanese with the cloisonne enamel which decorated the interiors, and their designs of fruits and flow era on the wall. So she took for her birthday gift an ideal bathroom, of course not cloisonne like the American Croesus' wife has in her London home, but a real bijou all the same. The apartment has a pink-tinted maiblo bath, with five different sprays, the shower bath, foot bath, the hot and cold water, and the tiny spray filled with water perfumed with attar of roses, which is designed es pecially for hair and hands. The faucets are of heavily plated silver and the floor, of polished wood, has especial designs on its surface. On one side is a table of finest carved wood and marble, and on it are joss sticks, a face vaporizer and hair perfume burner, in fact, all the oddities that follow an ideal beauty's bath. The ceiling is of a delicate seashell pink with white clouds painted as though they were passing over the sun-set sky. The ceiling is fresooed with Cupids and mythological designs. On a large panel set in the hall is painted the finding of Moses by Pharoah's daughter. This unique little bathing apartment is visited by all the beauty's girl friends, and is the sensation of the hour with them. Unlike Marie BashkirtsefPs bathroom, there wasn't a mirror in the room. TEE BEST DRESSED HAX Actor Herbert Kelcey Carries Off the Boson for the Metropolis. New York Sun. Mr. Herbert Kelcey, the actor, has for years been regarded as the best dressed man in the metropolis. There are hundreds of gentlemen who rank as good dressers, but of Mr. Kelcey the tailors say that it is im possible for a man to excel his excellent taste and judgment in the choice of gar ments and in the care exercised in keeping them in perfect condition. Mr. Kelcey's clothes are a subject of comment wherever he goes. The particular thing about Mr. Kelcey's clothes that the fashionable tailors praise is their refined elegance. Mr. Kelcey selects the pattern aud material of all his garments himself, and the pleasing effect they pro duce is the result of his own correct taste. Mr. Kelcey has been a soldier, and has an athletic physique which enables him to "fill out his clothes, as the tailors say, to advantage. PETBISTED BODY OF A MAI. . Bemarkable Find or a Coal Miner Fifty Feet Beneath the Surface. Indlampolls Sentinel. A miner of Knightsville, Ind., last week, in making a blast in the Jumbo Mine, came upon a horseback. TLe blast exposed the petrified body of a man in a reclining posi tion, having a cap on his head. In trying to disengage the body, the head, which is completely preserved in form and features, was broken off The legs have also been severed. The object was found in a top vein 50 feet underground. TE STICKEK AND YE STUCK. Philadelphia Press. God made two classes of mankind, Yo sticker andye stuck: Te flrst is made of finest clay, Ye last is made of muck. Ye sticker hath ye royal time, And hath ye untold hoard; But ye poor little one he stuck Hath no more ,-tick" for board. Eight Jolly is ye sticker man, He beeth broad and stout; Ho liveth on ye fattest things. And driveth round about. But yo poor stuck doth never laugh. He groweth lean and lank; And beetli all his pennies fade, In yonder failing banK. God made ye classes as they are; I doubt not ho knows best; But still yo sticker man gets aU And pulleth down ye vest. mmm PITTSBUEG . DISPATCH, SEA-SHOEE BOiEMG. Fortunes Are Made" at the Expense of the Health of Guests. A BAD PLACE FOE AN INVALID. The Toothpick Eahit Is One of the Worst Eeflncd People Knoir. AN IKCOME OP TWO EUNDEED A TBAE WTUTTEIT FOB THE DISrATCH. With the fresh, keen wind wooing, boughs inviting and white caps racing under blue skies, to workall day answering letters from strangers does not fill the popular idea of a summer vacation. The prevailing idea ap pears to be that writers only have to scrib ble ofl an article in an hour or two, with their eyes shut, and then to be absolutely destitute of employment the remaining 1GG hours of the week, unless other people kindly make demands upon them to keep them from monotony. Those demands at present do not lack variety. One man out in Kansas wants his place sold for him, as home for a sort of brotherhood and sisterhood community, like the Mennonites. A Southern lady wants also knit lace sold for her and orders ob tained. Another wants to know of a good, low priced boarding house for an invalid at the seaside. I wish I knew one myself, and so do a great many other people. The most that can be said with truth of average sum mer resports is that some are not as bad as others, but when it comes to sending an in valid to the seaside for quiet, thoroughly wholesome fare, and enough of it to gain strength upon, with decent cleanliness and comfort, at reasonable rates, I dare not risk my reputation for trustworthiness by pre tending to know anything of the kind. A Health Kesort by the Sea. The next man or woman who wants to de vote a fortune to the good of Buffering hu manity needs to buy a strip of sea beach and found a health resort for people of limited means. A summer at the coast means life and strength to many overworked persons from the interior teachers or small busi ness people, who cannot afford to pay even the 8 a week of the Jersey coast. The only indispensables for such a resort would be good beds, scrupulously clean rooms, plenty of good food and a chance at all out-doors fine days yes, and a fire for chilly days. It would only be necessary to advertise that board could bo had at such a Elace, with "nothing going on," to have it lied to overflowing. If some person really wanted to do good in the most thoroughgoing manner, such a place could be kept lor $8 to $5 a week hnard. And ho emild renn 3 to fi ner cent profit No business under heaven pays sucW terrinc interest, wnen succeasiui at an, as your summer boarding house. In what other business can one expect in three months to make a year's income and lay up a fortune? Your snarp businesswoman will rent a furnished house at a popular resort, pay the outrageous rent asked for suoh things, buy every morsel that goes on the table at correspondingly high rates, pay servants extra wages and clear enough from her boarders to live on and lay by capital for enlarging her house next year. At the Expense of People's Stomachs. In all that time probably no one at her table ever had enough to eat, with the ex ception of the "setting hens' who line the verandas and the voung women who devour a pound of candy unvaryingly between meals. That shrewd business woman wants to supplement her counting up of summer's gain by reflections like these: "I hare made a good thing this season. I shall have a good dress or two and go to town in time for theaters and concerts in the fall to recruit and have a pretty penny laid by. But the young teachers off on their vacations and the invalid women away from their families to regain health go home with half the benefit they might have fr,om the sea air if I had given them just a little more to eat. The effect of the sea air h to make people hungry; it stimulates them so they can digest more and lay up strength from the food. They didn't lay up much from my table, I'll engage. They had to gain on Job's dessert. He filled himself on the east wind. If I had allowed those boarders a third of those miserable small slices of bread or minute biscuit, a second help of vegetables or half a gill more of berries it might have given them strength to last into the winter and helped them to get the better of disease that is sapping their lives. A Mackerel for a Boy. "That young mother will go home and have hemorrhages by October, and some ot the blood will be on the bills I bank away snugly. Those young clerks who take their fresn air in a lump for the year would havo been better prepared for work the next 11 months if they could have had enough fish and potatoes for breakfast at my nouse. Mackerel were three cents apiece, and I might have let them have a whole one it isn't much for a boy to eat. But instead I sniffed at people who always wanted more boarding than they ever have at home, and put up the smart, silly girls to sneer at them for asking for fish and chops for breakfast after they had been out three hours rowing. "If they get to taking a glass of beer or punch every day to keep off the wretched, all-gone feeling, I suppose I have had a hand in it. I have trafficked in nervousness, famishing and faintness. Two or three of my boarders go home to die this year. Be yond a doubt, good nourishment, with our fine air, would have saved them, but that is no matter to me. I have had a good season, and there will be plenty in their places to take the rooms next year." There will, unless people happen to get over being fools, as they may sooner or later. Bat how does it look in black and white, this soliloquy which takes place in the inner consciousness of nearly every boarding house keeper? s Tlie Use and Abuse of Toothpicks. A sprightly letter from Chicago says: "I won't asl you to let me thank you fbr your article, but will tell you that my finger came near being broken also by one of those swing doors. My finger was, as Ko-Ko says, 'as good as dead' lor a long time. "There is another breach of good manners which makes me begin to think our youth ful rules of good behavior were all a mis take. One of them said, 'Never use a tooth pick in presence of vourfood.' 'Inpres enco of anyone' was added by our monitors. If those rules were a mistake, it explains the far-reaching, all-pervading, in doors and out of doors, patrician, plebian, black, white, brazen, modest, universal public uso of the hateful little splinter. "But if the rules were right, why in the name of decency must those who never of fend by any personal act be put to torture and nausea by well-dressed brutes armed with this weapon? If any one could give me a good reason for using a toothpick at the table, before others have begun the meal, sometimes I might be pacified a lit tle. How would it do to ask hotel keepers and restaurant men not to supply the nuis ance? I hesitate to go to a restaurant, so sickening has the practice become." Might as Well Supply Toothbrushes. Many will sympathize heartily with the writer of this spirited note, but we can only remind her that using toothpicks, twiddiing of keys in pockets, scratching of hiskers and wobbling of umbrella sticks supply tho mental vacancy in place of thought. The less mind the more certain are these auto matic movements. I can tell her from long wrestling to break a youth of this bad habit not learned at home that nothing is harder than to repress these vile habits which affront all decency. It is hard to see why public tables are called on to supply toothpicks any more than .toothbrushes, but the only way to reach the sensibilities of the moral pachy derms who use them in public is for decent people to leave the table when the affront is STJTTDAT, JULY committed in their presence. All these bad habits argue an insensibility which ii not to be reached by common means. A riea for Sympathy. A curious little letter is from Virginia. 'TTou said that bran was hard to get in a city, and some persons considered it neces sary to health, and that some one might make a good deal of money by putting it up in little boxes and selling it. Now, why cannot I be that wise and, perhaps, success ful individual, if you would kindly let peo ple know where it could be had? "I am a Southern girl who, untilreccntly, had every ease and comfort, but not long ago my lather failed in business and has never rallied since. AVe keep the dear old home, which is a lovely place, but I cannot sit idle and see it go to wreck. My position in society requires that I should be well dressed, and by my music I buy clothes and make them myself, as I have quite a talent that way. "On the smell sum of $17 a month I dress myself well, and, besides, buv most of the comforts of home. I have youth, health and a strong will, and who knows but what I may yet be the victor, bringing the old home back to its former glory, lifting the burden from older shoulders and gratifying my own ambition as well? A word of ad vice from you," etc XothlnR to Complain About. Sounds lovely, doesn't it and touching? Precisely the ideal amount of trial to fit a magazine story. But the poor little girl has come to the wrong place for sympathy this time. Do you Know I don't feel one particle of interest in this picturesque pov erty and ambition? I know 17 a month is a mere bagatelle that wouldn't buy candy for many girls. Still it is over 5200 a year, all that a peer's daughter often has for her dress allowance, and so much more, con sidering the circumstances, than a maid of honor to the Queen has for her dress. A girl with a poor father who can spend ?200 a year for the materials of her robes, which she makes herself and so saves three-fifths of the expense, has no right to ask for sym pathy or help from any one. A girl with a lovely home dressing at the rate of ?200 a year is hardly an object of compassion. I do not forget the "home comforts" she provides, but, young lady, home comforts arc apt to mean a Vienna photograph rack, a lace lamp shade or new embroideries for the guestrooms. I know of too many women with children who in very plain cottages live and meot all wants on 200 a year. I knew of one with five children and taxes to pay who only had 50 in cash for a year's income. Their living came from the garden. But out of that 50 she subscribed for a magazine, as her starv ing mind could not do without reading. , This Girl Is Going Wrong. Those who know the world feel that no one with a home, youth and health and 200 a year for personal wants needs assistance. It is no good sign for the young people of to-day that thoy are so ready to ask help of strangers for no real need but to gratify social ambition. It speaks a lack of inde pendence, of that instinct of gentle breed ing which shrinks from apply to others save in extremest need. As for the fiction that her position re quires her to dress, any girl wants that non sense taken out of her at once. No position requires anyone to dress beyond or up to her means. A nun's gown on a nun's in come is dress for a court. I recall a lady in one of the older Statesj herself of old and distinguished family, wife of the influ ential minister of a rich parish, with the sons of wealthy men under his care in his house. One would say dress was obligatory in such a case, but this woman, accomplished and finely bred, chose to gratify her tastes and her charities at the expense of hertoilet. It was the scandal of all the farmers' and mechanics' wives, who never felt respecta ble out of alpaca, that Mrs. K. went all day and walked to the village in a print gown, and when tho gown was new very likely wore it to church of a summer day. It wasn't French satine, my dear lady, nor zephyr gingham, with point trimming, but unmitigated nine-penny print. None the Worso for Cheap Gowns. But it never made the least difference with that bright woman's honor and wel come in tho proudest families of the town and State. Simple as her dress might be, her house had room and shelter for the homeless and unfriended always. I recall both Southern and Northern women of the very best blood and breeding whoso personal dignity and grace compelled the admiration of all who came in contact with them, yet whose stuff gowns never be gan to cost them ?50 a year. It were ambi tion worth while to win presence and dis tinction like theirs. There is distinction in a plain gown worn with self-respect and courteousness which goes far beyond the charms of dressmaking. These comfortably placed women, young and old, who have never known uncertainty of good food, home and clothing, under stand no more what the world really con tains of struggle and privation for other women than they do of the seraphim. Useless to Provide a Women's Hotel Of interest to town women is the letter of a property owner in New York, who pro poses to build a women's hotel, with good architectural finish, perfect sanitary design, large rooms tastefully decorated and lur nished, to meet the need depicted in Greta's letter last spring. He is evidentiy in earnest in the matter, but, compelled by fact, I had to write' him, as he valued his property, credit and peace of mind, never to havo anything to do with a women's hotel of any sort. Not that there isn't need of such quarters or that women would not flock to them eagerly and be glad to live in them, but the conviction grows with" thoughtful observers that it is useless to at tempt schemes for communities of women with the present ideas and feeling which control the mass of them. Those who have watched and aided the plans for homes for women of different classes are unwillingly persuadad of this belief. In the Elizabeth street home, New York, tho girls stole from each other till property was not safe, except on the owner's back, while the seamstresses and nurses who boarded there gossiped and tattled and tore character to fragments till decent girls dreaded to encounter the risks of living under the roof. In the Young Women's Christian Association's and other select homes the scant fare and rigid and suspici ous supervision, which does not at all pre vent amazing scandals, render a stay rather penitential. Women live in these houses solely because they are cheap, endure the rigid rule as long a3 they can, and leave when a hall bedroom oilers in a decent third class boarding house. It runs in women's nerves to make failures of such things. Shirley Dab. THE CZAB WASN'T THE POOL, Bnt the Policeman Thought So, and Two Merchants Bad Trouble Two merchants, named respectively Mak aroffand Sousloff, while in Moscow during the Czar's late visit t6 that city, were rather noisily discussing the merits and demerits of a friend with whom they had spent the evening. The hour was late and both had indulged a little too freely in champagne, consequently their talk was not as guarded as it should have been. Finally one of them said : "There is no use of talking about him; he is a fool." A policeman whom they had not ob served on hearing this placed both men un der arrc3t, refusing to give any explanation. On reaching the police station they were charged with insulting His Imperial Majes ty Alexander III. The merchants replied that they had not been speaking of the Czar at all, but of an acquaintance. "Well," said the officer, assuming an air of great authority, "we all know who is called a fool." Russia is a dangerous coun try to call a person a fool, but it will be still more dangerous to do so when the Czare witch ascends the throne. Mrs. Mackay's latest Notion. Mrs. Mackay has fallen a victim to the craze for hyphenated names. She is no longer plain Mrs. Mackay, known all the world over without initials or prefix; she is now Mrs. "Hungerford-Mackay," at which En glish people smile. SHE'S STAGE-STEUCK. Ingenious Letter From a Denver GM to a Theatrical Agency. WOE OF AN IMAGINARY FEIEND Who Got Airfolly Sick Because an Actor Wouldn't Write to Her. GLOWING DESCRIPTION OP A BEAUTY COBRXSrONDESCI Or THE DISPATCH. Netv Yokk, July 18. There are a good many sweet young women still unfettered by matrimonial bonds who are dreaming of the beau ideal of manly beauty and excel lence with whom the whole world must sympathize especially that large portion of the female world that chafes under the marital collar. There is one particular class of these dreamers that seems always to demand some special consideration. That is the one affected by the stage-struck girl. The great metropolis swarms with the stage-struck girl; but they do not come from New York. They are the pro duct of the farm, the Tillage, the small cities the result of early secluded lives, of romantic novels, occasional glimpses of the drama and of the poisonous innocula tion of tho amateur theatricals. If the glamor and tinsel of the real professional stage could be swept aside long enough to afford the stage-struck girl the most casual view of the life, such a girl would return to her housework with a conviction that it would be far better to wash dishes and run an elbow laundry than seek her fortune upon the boards. And the amusement going public? Well, it, too, would be better off if half the women who are crowding the va rious avenues to the professional boards, or have gained an insecure footing thereon, were at domestio service where they properly belong. Romance Is All Bight. I would not eliminate romance from girl hood; I would simply steer it clear of the theatrical channel. If one could faithfully exhibit the wrecked women that strew the dramatio shore that result might be easily brought about. If one could adequately convey an idea of the toil, the hardships, the anxiety, the bitterness of soul, the deg radation and the meager and wholly unsat isfactory returns for all these, it would serve. If one could communicate half the knowledge gained by 25 years' intimate as sociation with the stage and its people, perhaps the desired end might be reached. But these are alike impossible. It is one of the burdens laid upon weak human nature, that we are prone to decline to learn from the experience of others and to refuse to listen to the worls of wisdom. The stage-struck girl is in that respect usually incorrigible. What advice shall I give the young and tender maid who writes the letter hero given? It is but one epis tolary effusion of the many received by the dramatic agents and theatrical managers, but it is a cample. A well-known lady who conduots a large theatrical agency was the recipient: A Flea for a Mashed Sister. Dbxvee, Col., June 80, 1891. Diah Madam I wish to ask you if yon will do me n favor. There is a girl with whom I am acquainted who Is very rnuoh stage struck, and she asked me to write toyou and ask you if you would write to her yourself or else ask some young actress or actor to write to her. She is very talented and very pretty; she is not commonly pretty, but she is very handsome. I will describe her as best I can: She is tall (but not very) and has jet black hair, violet eyes, red lips and a cpmplexion liko an apple blossom. She has a beautiful neck and her cheeks are like the hearts of pinK roses. She has also very pretty teeth: thoy nro white and even. Tou cannot imagine now pretty she is, and she used to be very healthy, but she went to see "Tho Stowaway" and got "mashed" on the hero, and while he was there she wrote to him a note and he didn't answer it, and it made her feel so bad that she was very sick. It would bo a dark day when I would write to an aotor and not get an answer. I would get revenge somehow. She told me his name once, but I have forgotten it it is Edmunds or something like that anyhow his last name begins with "C," and when she talks about him sho calls him "Walt," so I guess his name is Walter. If you conclude to write to hor, please address to Miss Nellie Fisher, Curtis 6treet, Denver, Col., and I will give them to her and you will obligomevery much. Yours truly, Alice Edwards, Curtis street, Donver, Ccl. P. 8. She Is not allowed to have any loi ters come to her house, and so she has to have thorn come to my house. A E. Entirely Too Disinterested. Poor, dear, stage-struck girl I Note, please, even tho disinterestedness of her sex. There is a suspicion, it is true, that Alice is in clined to shall I say giddiness? But her evident love for her friend will excuse her, I'm sure. That love is abundantly shown in the liberal description ot Miss iislier s beauty. "She is not merely uncommonly pretty, but she is very handsome." Could anything be more touchingly testimonial of the closest ties of human friendship? There is no qualification anywhere except that "she is tall (but not very)," which gives the reader an unusually accurate idea of the stage-struck girl's height The ordinary feminine description of another would be "she is an awfully pretty girl but a little too tall," or "she would be a beauty if she wasn't quiet so stout," or "her face would be perfect if her dear lit tle nose wasn't so awfully sharp, you know." But there is no such string to this adula tory bouquet. In the polite parlance of St. Louis she goes the whole hog. "Violet eyes" "apple blossom complex ion," "cheeks like thehearts of pink roses," is tnis beautiful, if rather horticultural, de scription of Miss Nellie. Something I.cft to Imagination. There seems to be a mental reservation as to Nellie's hands and feet about the only items of which we are left in doubt. This may have been a pure oversighton the part of Alice, or it may have been intentional. It is possible the hands may remind us of Cincinnati hams, and the feet suggest corns. The suspense is painful and, I think, under the circumstances, unnecessary. There is naturally a burning curiosity to know what kind of hands go with the hearts of pink roses, apple blossoms and violets. Hands and feet cannot be disguised in the glare of the footlights, Alice, dear. It is quite necessary, of course, for a pro fessional to have good sound teeth, and if white, even and sharp all the better. When Nellie is on the road playing one night stands such teeth will come handy in the Etruggle with the railroad sandwich and country hotel steak. The mclodramatio actor finds them additionally useful in chewing up the scenery. If Nellie's hands and feet will bear favorable mention, you should file a supplementary" account of them right away. Somehow the cold chills creep over me" when I think what those nether extremities may be like. Their character might at once determine whether Nellie was cut out for a soubrette, ballet dancer, leading lady or a chorus girl. Much Depends on the .Feet. The latter always have big feet cast in apoplectic blippers that seem fairly bursting with merriment, and any infringement on the rule would be unpleasant to the man agement. The soubrette of to-day must be ab'le to kick a chandelier down, and to do so with feet that have passed their early stages in the plowed ground and betn een the corn rows is inconvenient. About the matter of Nellie's health. Now, Alice dear, do you really think it was from getting mashed on the hero of "The Stow away? Isn't it possible that your diag nosis is wrong? I om confident my health would decline rapidly if I were compelled to witness "The Stowaway" often. I know there is a horrible fascination in Walt's efforts to get killed. The first time you are so dreadfully afraid he will that you go amiin. and then you come away sorry he isn't killed. That was the effect upon me. But then I was not mashed on" Walk" ti Still Tlost flesh steadily. It couldn't have been my love for "Walt," because I know him to "be a confoundedly common fellow, who probably tucks a napkin in his bosom as a bib at table and eats with his knife. Why She Should Be Thankfal. lam satisfied that Nellie was "very sick" because "Walt" did not reply to her letter, because Alice says so; but let me assure you she would probably have been a good deal sicker if he had replied. For "Walt" is a married man and his wife invariably attends to this section of his correspondence. Let me caution yon Alice, as you love your friend Nellie and wish ner to preserve those violets and apple blossoms and sunflowers, etc, intact to implore her to stay her hand I can't help but wonder what that hand is like. It will be money in her pocket to never indulge in letters of that kind to strangers, unless she knows they are not married. 1 have known an actor who played genteel heavy villain on the stage go to his little hotel room in fear and trembling after the curtain was down. His wife used to pull his ears. She would have pulled his hair, only he didn't have any. If Married or Unmarried. It is cruel to write love letters to stage heroes just to encourage domestic ear-pulling. There are enough long eared actors on the stage now. If the actor isn't married your letters would be useful only for him to entertain his friends with after 12 o'clock at night. This would pain a sensitive girl like Nellie, who does not have her letters delivered at her proper address. Of course, my good advice Is for the lovely and unsophisticated Nellie. It will be a "dark day, Alice, dear, when I at tempt to give any advice to you. Tho very thought of it pains me exceedingly, espec ially when I ieel that you possess that inde finable something that can extract an an swer from an actor in clear and sunshiny weather, whether he will or no. That is a terrible, gift, Alice, and yon might be tempted to use it upon a newspaper man. That is why I am pained to even contem plate the contingency. Chaeles Theodoeh Mttbeat. CARROTS AND CUCUMBERS. Both Are More Important Across the Se Than Here Methods of Preparation Splendid Dishes That Can Be Made With little Trouble A Complexion Wash, rWBITTZX FOB TUB DISrATCH.l Our garden carrot not so highly appre ciated as it should be was introduced into England by the flemish refugees, who set tled at Sandwich, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. This plant was not without recognition, for so esteemed was it by the ladies that they wore the leaves as orna ments in their headdresses. The place filled in the vegetable world by the carrot is an important one, and of much greater magnitude than we in this country are led to suppose. There has never been the necessity for ns in America to raise tho carrot as a great staple, as it has been for generations in various parts of the Old World. Yielding a much higher return than any of the grains, and possessing ele gant nutritive properties, it has long, from these circumstances, been cultivated all over Europe. With us we class it merely as a garden vegetable, and are content to partake of it betimes more for a change than from any well-deflned taste, suoh as is marked for the potato, the cabbage or the turnip. But in its sphere it cannot be replaced. For flavoring soups there is nothing to be compared to it unless it is the onion without which many think there is no cookery worth the name. The farmer has long since discovered its virtues for color ing butter, and if all adulterations were so harmless there would be no ground for complaint. As a fattening food lor cattle it is most excellent. The peasants of Savoy use carrots freely aa a specific for jaundice In consequence of this they are raised in large quantities. The following are choice methods for cooking this wholesome vegetable: Hew Carrots With Cream. Boil small new carrots in salted water un til tender. Make a dressing of butter, flour and cream; season with salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar and a grating of nutmeg. Carrot Salad. Take tender, rich-colored carrot. Trash and aorape them. Throw Into boiling water and cook until tender. Cut into thin slices, sprinkle lightly with sifted sugar and add the juico of one largo lemon, and a wine glassful of olivo oil. Garnish with thin slices of onion and lettuce hearts. Stewed Carrots. If the carrots ars large, scrape them well, and boil them in salt and water until tender. If the carrots are old they require from an hour and a half to two hours. When done, slice them lengthwise, spread over them good fresh butter, add a dash of pepper and serve steaming hot. Carrot Sonp. Boll a few carrots in salted water or brothi when quite tender, drain and pass them through a sieve. Mix the pulp thus ob tained with broth or stook In sufficient quantities to produce a pureo rather thinner than the soup which should be sent to the table. You now melt a piece or butter and mix with it a small quantity of flour, then granually put in your puree and stir it over the nro tin it comes 10 a vuu. oe& uauo., re move superfluous fat, and serve with bread sippets. Carrot Fie. Scrape the carrots, boil until tender, and strain them through a sieve. To a pint of pulp take three pints of milk, six well beaten eggs, two tablespoonfnls of butter (melted), Juice of half a lemon, and the grated rind of a whole one. Sweeten to taste and bake in deep plates, without upper crust. Preparation of the Cnonmber. Cucumbers cooked as a vegetable (bo tanically they ars classed with the fruits of the melon order) are regarded much more wholesome than when made into salads and pickles, as they usually are in this country. In England, France and Ger many they are served in ways not common with ns, but all of them said to be appetiz ing. Stuffed and fried cucumbers are lavor ite dishes with the Germans. Nowhere, perhaps, are cucumbers so ex tensively cultivated as in Bussia, from which fact the Bussians have been called "a nation of cucumber eaters." Cucumber water, served hot, is a popular beverage with them, and it is also served cold, corre sponding to our lemonade. encumbers for the Complexion. In pickling cucumbers for putting down in brine leave a small portion of the vine adhering to prevent withering and to pre serve them. Cucumber lotion, a famous and harmless one, made aftor an old English recipe, Flavorings as Represented. With great care, by a process entirely his own, Dr. Price is enabled to extract from select fruits, all of the characteristic flavors, and place in the market a class of flavorings of rare excellence. Every flavor as represented, of great strength and perfect purity. For flavoring Ice-.Creams, Cakes. Custards, Puddings, etc., as delicately and naturally as the fruit All housekeepers who use Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts, Lemon, Vanilla, Orange, eta, are surprised to see how vastly superior they are to other kinds they have used. stands in high favor with the English belles. Tfe here append the formula for those who may wish to improve their com plexion: Take a half pint of blue skimmed milk (the kind wo usually get from the milkman), sllco into it as much cucumber as it will cover, and let stand ono hour. Bathe the face and wash off when it sulfa you. Stewed Cucumbers. Take fresh, firm cucumbers, cover with cold water, and let stand for SO minutes. Tare, cut lengthwise and remove the seeds, and put into a stewpan, covered with boil ing, salted water. Simmer five minutes, drain on a napkin, and put into a frying pan, covered with a hair-pint of good gravy. Dredge with flour una season. Stewed cucumbers may also be Berved with cream dressing. Pickled encumbers. The following gives a very good pickle, fit for tho table in a very few days. Cut the cucumbers into slices about half an Inch thick, sprinklo with sale, and let stand for 21 hours. Drain seven hours, and then cover with hot vinegar, in which desired spices have been boiled. Pried Cucumbers Pare fresh, firm encumbers, and let them lie for 30 minutes in cold" water; then cut them lengthwise into thick slices, throw them into ice water, and after they have re mained ton minutes take them out and wipe each slice dry with a cloth. Sprinkle with erlt and pepper, dredge with flour, and fry brown in butter or lard. Sliced Onions and Cncnmhcrs. To one peck of sliced cucumbers acid one half peck or sliced onions. Sprinkle with salt and let stand overnight. Kinse off salt next morning and arrange in stone jar In layers, sprinkling between each white pepper, mustard seed and a little powdered cinnamon. When the jar is almost full pour In one-half gallon good cider vinegar, one pint of port wine, and a half pint of pur olive oil. Stir from tho bottom overy morn ing for about two weeks. Jam Pnddlns. Cream together ono-half cupful of butter and one of sugar. Add two well-beaten eggs, one-half capful of milk, three-fourths cup ful of flour, one and one-half teaspoonfufs baking nowder. When cold spread with, berry Jam, and top with whipped cream. Poached Eggs. Ono of the mo3t delicate ways to cook eggs is to poaoh them; but to bo eaten in perfec tion they must bo newly laid. Tho follow ing method differa from that usually given. Cooked and served as directed they are palatable and attractive. Tho first requisite is a shallow sauto or frying pan this to be filled with water, salted to taste; tnen add a little vinegar, a few pepper corns and a sprig of parsley. Let the water como to tho boiling point It must not boil and slip in carefully two or more broken egg9. accord ing to the size of the pan, and -nut on tho cover. When dono, remove nnd'shape with a round, fluted paste cutter. Serve on toast. Toast for the Eggs. The best way to make toast and wo have tried many ways is as follows: Cut the bread into slices about a quarter of an inch thick, trim off crust, arranga on a pan and put into a rather brisk oven. Guard it care fully and Just as soon as it is lightly browned, remove and butter it. Recipe for Sweet Pickles. Tor the pickle tiko threo pounds of sugar, a pint of vinegar and an ounce each of whoi mace, cinnamon and cloves, with allspice and ginger if desired. He.it the fruit with the spiced vinegar and sugar slowly. When the Soil is reached simmer ten minutoa, pour in glass jars and screw the covers tight. If fermentation takes place pour off syrup, re-hent. and pour back on tue fruit. Tho f rntt may be kept wholo by placing in the jars and covering with the boilm,? syrup. Leave for a day or two, pour on, re-heat and cover the fnr.t a-ain und so continue for nine days. Cherries, plums and poaches make the best sweet pickle the cherries and plums should be pricked with a large needle to prevent them bursting when scalded. Use the best cider vinegar. Velvet Soap. Cook some tapioca In good stock, being careful not to make the liquid too thick. When ready placo tho yolks of eggs in the tureen, allowing ono yolk for two persons. Then pour over them the tapioca, stirring tho whole so that it may become thoroughly mixed and uniformly creaniy. A grain of nutmeg improves tins soup. Ten Biscuit. One qnart flour, two heaping tablespoon fnls lard, two cups milk, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one saltspoon salt. AIlx salt, soda and flour dry. rub in tho lard, pour In the milk, stir briskly, knead a little and bako In a quick oven. Lemon Sauce. One large cupful of sugar and small half cupful butter creamed together, ona well beaten egg stirred in, all tho juice of one lemon, ana the grated peel of half, a small teaspoonful nutmeg. Beat hard ten minutes, and add threo tablespoonfnls boiling water, one at a time. II eat the sauce over stoaxa, but do not allow It to boil. Cream Biscuit. One cupful of tour cream, one-half onpral of sour milk, one-half teaspoonfal of cream of tartar, ono teaspoonful soda, one toft spoonful of salt and flour to make a stiff bat ter. Bake In a brisk oven. Scotch Pnddlnj-. Two cupfuls of snjan one oupful of sour oream, three cupfuls of flour, throo egjt, one oupful of soeded rufsins, ono teaspoonful of soda, dissolved In a very littlo hot water. Bake in a loaf. I append some recipes for Enjliih pud dings: Currant Pudding. Take one cupful of suet chopped floe, on cupful of molasses, one cupful of currants, washed and dried, one cupful of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, a little Bait and flour enough to make a stiff dough. Pour into a mold and steam four hours. Serve with sauce. Marmalade Pudding. Take a quarter of a pound each of bread crumbs and east, mix well together, add a quarter of a pound of sugar, two well beaten eggs and a genorous tablespoouful of mar malade. Shred some lemon peel and squeeaa the Juice over Ave lumps of sugar; a ad glass of white wine; and a quarter of a pint of water. Simmer this mixture for SO min utes. Steam in mold four hours. Hints for ton Kltehem. TJsiTrtno vinegar choice, dear and Hiiu for salads. Thz basis of the famous Southern gwah soup is chicken. In making vegetable soups the rate is, "Put in all you can get." Iir using onions, shallots and garllo, bear In mind that a little goes a great way. French salad dressing, although the simple, li the gourmet's ohoics. Tub condition of the refrigerator kA everything to do with the flavor of tht. butter, whioh should be kept in a oroarA covered tight with a damp cloth well sprinkled with salt on the inner side. Etiicx Sxksu. The Phlloiophy of Riches. Boiton Tr&Teller.J 'Tf I had 81,000,000," said a man who was likely to get it, the other day, "I should spend it. I had rather live rich and die poor than live poor and die rich." V -i 7, -..-.
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