tf" r "ijji MIDSUMMER FASHIONS. Odd Xanclrs In Hals Costumes for the Kaces A ult for tho Tennis Court Two 5ealiore Toilets Fabrics for tho Beach. The hat isn't much of a consideration for the summer girl shown in the first illustra tion of this article. The spectator can not get rid of the idea that it is placed on top of her head merely to give her the excuse for say ing that she doesn't go bareheaded. The first consideration is v sesr m $ fe' make-up of her hair and this hat, which The Season ri ' -fii'V !WJ, WltZirWZJ calls a tailor hat, makes no conces sions, as regards the hair beincr dressed ill it-v' - fciguonthe head. But s'ill, what is more becoming to a fresh young face. A white straw trimmed with black velvet is the Eisest, though any colored velvet may be chosen. It is good taste only to wear the tssilor hat at the seaside, or in the country. Itociec-Jit toilets the lace or large, soft tin hat should be worn. A round Jipauce hat i much affected at he resortfc of late for little girls. The hafe ii of course natural-colored straw With transparent stripes at the edge, and a band of f .raw inside to give the especial Japanese iyle. A bouquet of pink daisies End nbl on 11 inches wide the same color trim -be outside aud is twisted lightly over the uibido band. feomotliinc Sensational in Costumes. A unique gown, intended to be worn at Shi Marlborough House garden party, says &iss Mantihni in 1'a'l Hall Budget, is of mauve erepon, with wings of the same color en the shoulders. The skirt has two shot silk part-Is pHeed on either side of the fan like pleats at the back, and the bodice has a Bretuly-drapcd front, and a bow of gauze like uff at the neck. There are two pairs cf leees. The outer ones are of erepon made handkerchief-fashion. It was a bril liant idea of the dressmaker's to suggest tt-mgs lor tue shouldero. lhe owner 01 we (gown U a woman who loves to create a sen sation by appearing in something startling la die wav'of millinery. "At any rate,'' the remarked, "my gown shall be original, If nothing cKe." Lady Margaret Seymour is going to wear 3l charming gown of cream-colored cashmere, emockrd with seed pearls. The bodice is fesin.., ;ed on Greek lines. Another pretty srown fur the tame affair is of black grena dine, patterned with tulips. The flowers E?e as large as life and quite as natural 2fcere is no trimming whatever on the skirt. Stie bodiee and ?1 -eves are of pale green 3noire. and the former ha folds of grena dine rrited about the lower part, and fin ished oil with a rosette at the back. The Jan.ils will be quite as lovely as those worn at Acot. A pretty parasol, intended tu be worn with a nink trown. took the form of a rose, and was made of shaded petals. 1 It naa a encrry wooa nanaie wim iubcs twined round it. Another parasol was made of cornflower blossoms. A Toilet for the Races. The toilet here shown should have been worn at the Homenood races, for it is illus trated from the Cor ours Uippiqu" in Jaris. This meeting Ss now the proper Jjlace tor the display ef all that it bngh't end beaulifnl and '2?rench beuu ies are jiways there m force. SOiis" particular toilet, says 77. &.a tott, vras worn there Jy a famous Pans belle. The rich black silk of which it is aide, has a bn.der of the nncst JN Over thcticht fitting dre-- falls a tunic of J,vona relief lace, ttiih the. nattern worked out in golu. ff, the back is drawn in f a gold embroid ered belt springing from the IThe tunic and eiec es are also side seams. edged with cold fringe and the fronts of the bodice ar- Janged with bands of the same. The collar Is an important feature of the costume; in deed, an artistie collar will brighten up anv plain toilet with very little trouble. Such Collars are made of silk or cloth; the shape 1 simple end the trimming easy to arrange. in feet, thev arc jast those veritable Pari sian tnuc'ios wLic'li can be only lightlv put together by skilful fiDgcrs. About half a yard detp, aud edeed with a broad fringe, ibe mrtchciery toilet. Banquets are being revived at English 'bolls this mili-iimmcr, for the English have A fanpy for b.tlls iu midsummer. Oue re cently carried nas of rare orchids, and cost, 2l it said, .1u. wh.ch is quite up to the fcildost tales of cisatlantic extravagance. A Tennis bait or Serge. Sow that lawn tennis has become so popu lar in Pitts-burg, the matter of costumes suitable for the game is no little cansideration. The one illus trated beneath is JSFjCV Bizar. It is of (j? -V A dark blue serge, with white serge sleeves. The kilt pleated skirt is four jards and a quarter wide, and i s ornamented with a row of gilt iU fat w ti.iji ';i II "tons along the ft side of the ' ont, apparently i eontinuation of t.UM t ic buttons on the b jdice. The bod 1 1 a -im ice is made with a fitting lining; t.ie loner edge is s'ipped under the Bivirt, and is com pleted by a leath er belt. I ! . inyvnt,ti !&&& nii it "ATki,J I V.V V WW ,1.9 r Speaking of out- loor amusements l3S- 4' , , , - Rn5 wltjnll liorl com.. JijB " ,""" '" iTiw . ovei leaiures. held rccentlv in a Ntw York sub urb. Itwaspure Jv an outdoor anair, says the Times, the ttalls being tents and marquees arranged in EjseHii-circJe on a level lawn. Every stall was beautifully trimmed with flowers and potted plants, hanging baskets, ferneries, LXUvXi T W "Sv I mm I a S 1 ml i Vb U'l ' f 3'"! m f'JH (,i i ,1 ;j m em i a; 'iu 'm II S.lwJfc.v" and the like, and a really fine rockery, or grotto, arranged in the foreground made an effective and efficient entrance barrier. A dairy stall was something of an innovation, and the dainty little hampers holding but ter, eggs, and cream cheese, sold ofi very rapidly. Fruit packed in decorative bas kets also turned an easy pennv, and several of them, for its presiding genius. A honey stall had its headquarters in a tent simulat ing a beehive, upon which was painted in very free-hand design large bees. In lieu of the perennial scrap basket, a wishing well furnished a pretty substitute. This was made by sinking a large washtub into the earth about three feet, piling a rim of stones which came up above the turf perhaps IS inches, and which were moss covered at the top. A well sweep was im-. provised with a pole and bucket, and a li brary stepladder, also moss covered, made a suitable post for the little girl who drew up the bucket for you from the well for "5 cents a time." This was arranged under a small circular tent open all around. The ticket takers stood on either side of a huge floral screen, cleverly fashioned from two or three fine-meshed discarded hammocks. These were stretched between poles, and, having first been plentifully stuck full of greens, were picked out with beautiful roses, the fete having been arranged just when these lovely flowers are in great pro fusion. Tiro Sea-Side Costumes. The costumes shown below are especially designed by Harper's Bazar for sea-side wear and anything prettier and more appro priate would be hard to conceive. The one at the left is of pink striped white wool. It is made with a plain skirt and a jacket bodice, the jacket opening on a pleated shirt front of white China silk, buttoned with small gilt buttons. The revcra and cuffs are faced with white silk. The one at the right is a white serge gown trimmed with graduated disks formed of blue and white braid. The disks extend across the bottom of the front of the skirt and up the wide pleat on cither side. The skirt is quite wide, four yards and a half, and folded in two deep pleatB at either side of the front The jacket opens on a shirt front of the same material, which is ornamented with two gold studs, but is fastened on the left side under the revers. A pleated basque is added at the back of the jacket. The collar and belt are braided. Fabrics for tho Beach. Soft cotton cheviots entirely without dressing are the wash fabrics most wom at the seashore, as they have no starch to be destroved by the dampness. These woven I cottons, so pleasant to wear, are made up by tailors in very pretty itocks ior morning wear, in stripes or crossbars of blue, pink or black on white. They have usually a shirt waist, plaited down with a slight fullness ino a bodice or wide girdle that is a part of the skirt, being sometimes cut in one with the skirt, in other cases sewed on as a Swiss belt. The upper edge of the girdle or bodice is scalloped or pointed, and bound with braid; whalebones inside keep it in shape. The skirt may be quite plain, or else a colored border to match the stripe is added, or a piping cord is set in the hem. A sailor collar and deep culls are made oi the plain material. Cotton bcngaline repped crosswise is an other limp starchless fabric much worn at the seashore by Parisiennes. Closely twilled stripes are woven in it, giving the effect of satin stripes, and the designs are Japanes- in white on pomegranate pink, porcelain blue, or celadon grounds. Among serviceable woolen dresses worn on the beach are those of rough wiry serge, woven in wide diagonals, in corn-nower blue a lighter, brighter shade than the regulation navy blue of English serges. A new fancy is to make this serge with a vest, or shirt front, of much lighter blue cotton cheviot gathered very full into a wide girdle. A broad sailor collar and deep cuffs turned up outside the serge sleeves are of the pale blue cotton. A wide border of the cotton is on the skirt, or else it has a false hem piped with the light blue. Yellow is a favorite color, apparently at all the resorts. IDEAS IN DECORATIONS. Pretty Arrangements for windows A Shelf for Brlc-a-Brac Over a Door Im itations in Papier Mache Cost of Amer ican Castles Hints for the Home, FROM THE UPnOLSTEREH.3 Now is the time when -we discover that the white and gold room is not all that fancy paints it. The restless fly has had much to do with our discovery, for he has spurned the sugar bowl and revels in the lurid ecstacies of the IiOuis XVX room. There is nothing which more directly af fects the character of one's furnishings than localitj. Light varies, and to obtain proper results one should consider the source from which his room is lighted. If a room has a northern aspect the light which comes in is of a cold and glaring char acter, and hard colors should never be used. Given two bare rooms, one facing the north and one the south, and furnish them identi cally alike and you will find utterly differ ent effects. A room getting its light from the north should be furnished in warm tints yellow or golden brows. With JInslin and China Silk. Here is a way of arranging a window by combining dotted Swiss-muslin with China silk or brocade. The muslin is sold in styles showing small colored details, and if the silk drapery which combines with it is of the same general shade, the effect iscomplete. Instead of the ordinary certain pole, Use brass rod with metallic ornaments which if IB iff llSIIrl , ft !B . f can be easily had for the asking. For tha tnuslin no fringe is used, but for the silk,, a small ball fringe is desirable. Delicate tables of gold and rich brass work are now imitated in plaster and gilt. Even the. Sheraton furniture of inlaid colored wood is done in stenciled designs merely paint-deep. It's only tha things that are good that are imitated. Take bronze and metal work. Some of the reproductions are as good as the originals, in all but sub stance. There is only one tan in this country making papier mache armor. They show a breastplate in reproduction of that of Henrjr VIII. and the details of. tha origi nal new in the British Museum are faith fully followed, even to the mutilated and ) I if If ft if- & rotten strap work, the verdigris and tarnish on the metal, and rusted rivets. Here is a pile of war clubs, battle axes, swords, cimeters, gauntlets and key of the bastile, in price from S2 to $10 and dead sure copies of the originals. All of these things are used in house decorations. They are clustered in wall ornamentation: they form part of the over door drapingsj battle axes and cimeters protude from mediaeval portieres and all paper. With India Silk Alon. Many people use lace curtains at their windows with nothing in conjunction therewith, although a very little In the way of over drapery will be an improvement. "We illustrate here an idea very effective, which consists simply of India silk with a small ball fringe. The fringe should be of balls of alternating colors white with a shade of trifle darker than the India silk, caught up as we here illustrate. The treatment is very gracelul. "We now and then hear of ''castles in Spain," and we, who live in "blocks," are disposed to feel that we are behind the age in tne castle business; and yet there are plenty of houses in this country whose cost runs into the millions. The widow of Uncle Mark Hopkins has three houses which took to build and furnish close on to $2,000,000 a piece. Whitelaw Eeid's new house at White Plains will eost $2,000,000. Huntington's Filth avenue residence, Xew York, will cost over 5800,000; and everyone else with means is spending a lot of it in matters decorative. We read what Mrs. Lorillard Spenser is doing with her seashore furnishings, or how Sally Margous' home is furnished, or the style, of decorating -whioh Mrs. George Gould patronizes, or Austin Corbln's craze for old furniture; but the most curious fad in decoration is that practised by Lord Lisle, an Irish peer, who has covered the walls of his dining room with colored clay pipes, arranged in stars and crosses in a way to make effective designs. Thus he has eniploved 500 pipes, all of which his "lud ship" has smoked. A riace for the Brlc-a-Brao. The illustration we show represents the application of an idea over mantel for a doorway or window, with place for brio-a-brac It will be seen that this is a de parture from the ordinary shelf, which is better than nothing, and is a relief, in any form, to the barren, desolate charac ter of the average over door or window top, which is the last thing one seems to think of treating. . Six or seven years ago the rage began for what is" called piano lamps those tall, lean stemmed, long-shafted contrivances that run five or six feet up and are top-heavy with radiant shades. They have Deen made by the thousands and hundreds of thousands and now they are introduced as part of a chair. A conversational chair( recently seen bv us, has one of those piano 'lamps' rising from the center of the arm. A memorial table is the latest whim. It is provided with a top, overset or covered with glass, finely beveled, heavy and sub stontiaL Beneath this can be placed resolu tions or regrets or other epistolary commu nications, accompanied by photograph or picture. The table is finished in different lornis. There is the giddy style for the sweet girl graduate, which preserves her diploma therein, or the more funereal style, edged in mourning, for the widow of a "late deceased." Friends put in writing how much they thought ol nim and enclose their memorials in this table. Novelties in Decorations. Amoxq the novelties which the importers are bringing out, but not showing to the pub lic, are luce curtains, appliqued with designs m lancy colors. Antique curtains are being sold as low as $3 a pair' and Arabian lace curtains have for the first time in their history been brought out iu low grades, cheap enough for almost any purse. Theee is very little hand-embroidery done now for the upholstery trade, for the reason that importers bring over an endless variety of embroidered fragments in every conceivable style, and these tragments are arranged and appliqued onto the plain goods by the dealers. A sovxiTY Is a cupid made of brass about a foot and a half high carved in wood, fat and angelic as cupids ought to be, and posed with its hands extended to grasp the ends of a diapery. One foot of tho cupid is provided with a screw and thus easily finds a resting place upon a cornice or curtain polo over a doorway. It gives the decorator an oppor tunity of getting far away from the ordinary hanging of a portieie. A sew and rising American industry Is the manufacture of Nottingham lace curtains. Folks who use Brussels, turn up their nose at Nottingham, but there are nearly 2,000,000 pairs of English Nottingham curtains, just the same, used in America each year. A Nottingham machine costs $5,000 and Is a marvel of mechanical construction, and one machine can make from 800 to 700 pairs of lace curtains each week. it x r 1 -i-J iv THE ISLES OF .SHOALS. BesatiMflems of the Sea of Web Edna Dean Proctor Writes. OHCEAHSHBRMBFS STRONGHOLD. Tkdr Btory Goes Back Before the May flower Landed the Pilgrimi. THE DELI6HTS OP TBEIE CHHATE roosrasroNDKTCx or thb mstxtcb.1 The Isles or Shoals, July 25. tone islets of the northern sea. In summer eves ye shine Xdke the happy isles where the blessea-oo, Par ont on the gleaming brine. And fair White Island lifts its light "When the storm-winds rave together A merciful star to the mariner Through all the wintry -weather. The historic Isles of Shoals lie off Ports- Tnouth, N. H., ten miles to sea. Climate depends as much upon environment as upon latitude the conformation of shores, the mountain barriers, the trend of the valleys, the prevailing winds. It is not merely the fancy of enthuslastlo visitors that these islands have a soft clearness of sky and a tempered coolness of air peculiar to the reach of water and coast lying between Cape Ann and the headlands of Maine. Careful observations show that the ther mometer here has unusual steadiness, and often -while Boston and Portland may be lost In foes or drenched with rain the shoals and the opposite shore have serene days unmarred by mist or storm; and one may sit upon the piazza and see the black clouds gather over the lower course of the Merrimack and its mouth at Newburyport, and watch the slanting rain fall and near the thunder roll, while in that charmed cir cle of the seas all is light and peace. On a Steamer in Portsmouth Water. O, the joy of fleeing from the heat and hurry and dust of New York and Boston, and finding one's self in the late afternoon on board the Shoals steamer in Portsmouth waterl Around are the quaint old ware houses and churches of this interesting lit tle city, which was In its prime 100 years ago, and whose spacious antique dwellings could tell many a tale of the stately men and women of bygone days. As the boat glides down the Piscataqua, whose broad, deep channel makes Portsmouth one of the best harbors on the seabord, passes the navy yard on the left and Newcastle on the right, with its picturesque mansion, the resi dence of the last Colonial Governor, the cool, salt breeze comes refreshingly to your brow; you catch, the faint sound of the bell as the buoy floats with the tide; the coast recedes, the weight of care is lifted, is for gotten and rest comes as balm to your soul. Those dim outlines on the horizon, grow ing stronger and more rosy as you advance in the glow of the setting sud, are the Isles of Shoals. They are seven or eight in num ber, as you view them at high or low .tide, some 600 acres in extent, and Appledore, Haley's and Star are the largest three. Be tween Appledore, Star and Portsmouth the boats ply thrice a day. Ho-tr the Islands Got Their Name. The sea in this vicinity teems with fish, especially cod, and it was from these great schools or shoals that the islands were named. They were included in a grant of land each side the Piscataqua river made in 1631 to Sir i ernando Uorges and uaptain John Mason. In 1635 the owners divided them,annexing them to their respective prov inces; the northerly half, including Apple dore, going to Maine, and the southerly naif, including Star and White Islands, to New Hampshire. For over 50 years Appledore, which has more than half the acreage of the entire group, was the principal settlement; but in 1679, when New Hampshire became a royal province, most of the people crossed the harbor to Star Island and henceforth re mained there. Years before the Mayflower dared the sea, navigators and fishermen had cruised along the coast and noted these islands, and in 1614 Captain John Smith, of Pocahontas fame, described them particularly, took possession of them as proprietor and called them Smith's Isles. A cove on Appledore still bears his name, and a poor marble monument on the highest point of Star re cords his exploits and seeks to honor his memory. Were Going to Eclipse Boston. The settlers here and in New Hampshire and Maine were principally adherents of the royal cause and of the State Church and were, therefore, obnoxious to Puritan Massachusetts. It seems strange at this day to know that the Episcopalians of that time had little belief In the growing and lasting importance of Boston. A company of them from Holderness, Yorkshire, set tled in a pleasant spot near Lake Winnipe saukee, called it Holderness (its present name)and intended it to be a center of relig ious and educational influence, and quite to eclipse the Puritan town by the sea. The Shoalers seem to have been, in the main, notwithstanding their succession of excellent clergymen, rather indifferent to both law and religion. Jenness, in his his tory of the islands, speaks of them as a vig orous, lawless population, given to strong drink and independence, regardless of Tules, and as little amenable to fines as the codfish in the sea. He narrates that one of their preachers, desiring to produce an impres sion upon them, told them of a wreck in Ip swich Bay,and asked them what they would do if death stared them thus in the face. "What?" exclaimed one of his hearers; "h'ist the fores'l and 6cud away to SynamI" Fishing was their livelihood and riotous fun their diversion. Everything yielded to the necessities of 'Hhe catch." Went on Strike for Bonnets. The church even was sometimes used as a storehouse, and service was broken up at any moment if a school of mackorel ap peared. Some 50 years ago, when the popula tion of Gosport had greatly diminished, and a "missionary" came to them at stated times, he noticed one Sunday morning that none of the women were in attendance. Inquiring the reason, he was told they had heard that the women on the mainland wore "bunnits" to church instead of hand kerchiefs or uncovered hair, and as they regarded their presence merely as a favor to the preacher, they had resolved not to go unless they could have "bunnits," too. Going back to Portsmouth he made a col lection of castoff headgear and dispatched it to the Shoals. At the next service all the women, young and old, were in their seats, satisfied and smiling, their bronzed faces encased in the styles of the previous quar ter of a century. What a rugged, rollicking, boisterous set of fellows must have congregated at these islands in the early daysjthe reckless, dare devil sailors and fishermen of many a port; pirates roving the seas and glad to put in at a safe and remote harbor; fugitives from jus tice; enterprising traders scouring the coast and computing the chance for gain; keen eyed shipmasters turning everything to tneir own account; and now and then some weary, broken-hearted voyager, glad to bury himself in the obscurity and wilderness of the New World. These, And Women to Mate Them, brown, bold beauties in gay kerchiefs and kilted skirts; hard-working mothers in short gowns and petticoats; shrill-voiced fish wives as sturdy and vociferous and weather-beaten as the men they welcomed home with the boats. Now all are gone, and the windV blows over the cliffs and dies away on the deep as if it had never wafted their songs or their lamentations. Some years since the last native proprietors sold their homes and went to live on the main land, and now Appledore and Star are only places of resort for summer visitors. Many of the wisest and brightest and best ot the land have met and still meet here, with the summer heats, to walk these cool piazzas.or gather in groups for pleasant converse under the tempered morning stfn or the evening shadows, or to shut them selves, for work, in some seaward-looking room -where every glance and breath brings Inspiration, or to roam the breezy heights on either hand, or dream by the cliffs that guard the shore. If all the deep and elo quent thoughts that have been uttered here were recorded they would make the rarest volume. And here are throngs of attractive women from the dainty girl wholly absorbed in the fancy of "drawn work one such has even been to Fayal to learn new stitohes to her commanding sisters who as philan thropists, teachers, authors, social forces, help to mold the world. From Appledore to the Others. The last passenger has landed. The steamer glides on its way. The place re treats from your gaze, and as you pass the broad hill 0f Appledore you note its ver dant knolls and hollows, and its pretty pa vilion overlooking the scene. Below the hill is the only habitation on Appledore apart from the housing of summer visitors the rough but tidy house of a thrifty Nor wegian, who to fishing adds the raising of such flowers as his northern skill can tempt to unfold on the bare slope marigolds, as ters, nasturtiums, sweet peas, and manv an other briehtlv-tinted bloom flowers which, tied into nosegays, are sold daily by his fair-haired little daughters. Turning the point you enter the Shoals harbor, and lol Star Island and White Island with its lofty towes are full in view. Crossing the sheltered water whose craft lie moored for the night, yon land at Star, and walk up the flower-bordered path feel in that yon have, indeed, left the world and its frets behind. Appledore is larger and greener, but for pure delight commend me to Star so high, so airy, so open that to dwell here is like being in a steady ship.at sea! Somewhere a cool breeze is always blowing; the sea and the neighboring islands lie, as if tributary, about it, and every wind seems to blow and cloud to sail for its special delectation. It is really but a mass oj1 rocks scaroely hidden by the soil, and the smooth lawn whioh extends before you to the water was made by oovering this part of the old site of Gosport with earth brought from afar. Sparkling Gems for the Marineiw How peaceful is the view across the har bor! Opposite lies Appledore, and beyond it and the islands which almost shut out the ocean to the sight you catch a glimpse of Duck Island, on whose ledges, even in calm weather, the waves dash high in spray, while to the left are the miles of weltering water fronting the New Hampshire coast. Before you are the yachts with watch set and white wines folded, the music of their bells com ing faintly, now and then, to the ear, and beside them ride the fishing boats, eager for the morning. The superb revolving light of White Is land, nearly a mile awav, flashes across the waves to greet you White Island, with its steep rock and lofty tower, one of the most picturesque spots on the Atlantio seaboard, a gem set in the deep. And if you will but take a few steps up the ledge you can see the star of Newburyport and the "twin lights of Cape Anne, while to the right Newcastle displays its coronet of electrio splendors, and beyond shine the lights of Portsmouth and far Boone Island. These are some of the charms of evening, but with every hour There Is Changing Panorama. The sea reflects the blue or gray of the sky. Sometimes through mirage or floating vapors the horizon disappears, heaven ana earth are blended and the distant ships seem sailing in the clouds; and sometimes, when storms have passed, and there is not a film in the air between Canada and the coast, the dim pyramid of Mount Washington rises in the north, 100 miles away. Peerless State that has this regal summit for its throne and Star Island for its footstool! Now the lively strains of the orchestra steal from the dancing hall, for this is "Star niffht" with the band which divides its time between the two islands. Perhaps you re spond to the enticing summons, and watch for awhile, or even join the merry company as they whirl through the latest compli cated figure or fill the room with the echoes of their steps in an old-fashioned reel. More likelv you turn from the brilliant hall to the silence and the beauty out of doors and climb the rocks to the quaint old church whose weather vane, a slender fish, glitters in the risen moon; the church which stands on this wave-washed cliff "like a sea fowl on its perch," as Miss Jewett happilv ex presses it; most artistio in its naturalness and fitness and harmony, its gray walls seeming to be but another elevation of the supporting ledge. Kccalls the Olden Times. You see the spectral moonbeams falling through the open belfry and lighting the plain interior worn with the footsteps of a vanquished population. The great gathering of guests, with Its sights and sounds gives place in your fancy to the fishing village of old with its rough men and women, the strong, hearty raoe, wresting their living Irom the uncertain sea. xney throng the clifls; they call to eaoh'otherfrom the boats; their jovial songs ring up Irom the cove; thev bemoan their dead; their happy couples walk apart and pity the poor girl who seeks the loneliest rock to lament her lover lost in the winter storm. What! Do their ghosts yet haunt the hill? Who are these coming down the seaward path with swift swinging gait as if bent on some midnight tryst? Only sailors from a yacht in the harbor, hastening back after a ramble on shore. No, the old islanders have gone forever, and you might watch through the summer darkness till the sun rose over Katahdin, but you would never see man or woman of them more. So you follow the retreating forms to tho corridor, and, ai tended by the great oompany of stars for the heavens seem fuller here than elsewhere and with the encompassing ocean to chant your lullaby, pass to the chamber of your repose. Btory of the Morning; San. How delicious are the mornings here with the cool breeze rippling the water, and the sun facing you gloriously as if these islands were his only care! But long before his coming the yachts have spread their white wings for Bar Harbor or Marblehead or Newport, or wherever the whim of the oc cupants may lead them, and the fishing boats have sped eagerly to the near banks where the great cod wait the fortunate sportsman who shall surpass the record of one caught here whose weight was 76 pounds. Hark! the low thunder of the waves as they dash against the shore with the incom ing tide. The harbor is still and you take your way past the church more beautiful by day with the orange lichens clinging to its walls aud tinting the gray rocks around, and cross the ledges thinly clothed with summer green to the eastern side, where the cliffs mass themselves and' tower to breast the whole force of the Atlantic You gain the cliffs and as ypu seat yourself on some smooth-worn stone with the whole splendor of ocean breakers and breasting rocks at your feet, with the dreamy distant sails, the wheeling gulls, and a fresh breeze all the way from Spain fanning your brow, you will say with me that Star Island of the Shoals is a place for pure delight. Edka Dean Pkoctob. BETTING IK CHINA. The Keepers of Fruit Stands Have a Novel Gambling Scheme. Chicago Inter-Ocean. 1 The Chinese make a bet of everything. It is a very common practice for the owners of fruit stands to run a small gambling busi ness. One favorite scheme is to bet on the number of seeds in an orange. A passer-by stops before a fruit stand and bets against the owner, who is the bank. The player picks out an orange; the amount of the bet is fixed; the orange is cut open and the seeds counted. If the man guesses right, he gets five times his stake and the orange besides; if he loses, the stake goes to the shopkeeper. In winter they gamble on the weight of fish and pieces of meat hanging in the shops. Tho Look to Her Heart. New Tort Recorder. Congratulate me." said a young lover to an old cynic "The girl I love has given me the key of her heart." "Humph!" growled the cynio, "she'll have the lock changed to-morrow." FOR WOEKM WOMAN. Shirley Dare Draws a Pen Pictnre-of a Home for the Worthy. COMFORT, COMEfilMCE, FREEDOM foreland Meritorious Idea ThatSIarBemo Time Be Realized. BilBEJG BEKKIES POfi EBTEME rwsnTEjr xoa ihb dispatch.- On a highway that ran, sunny and deserted, between green borders which loitered temptingly under the shade of drooping trees, rose a scent of blended rose, cut grass and ripening fruit from the fields within. The expression of the scene was inviting not close clipped, shorn to the roots and pruned to a skeleton like model places or kept in pharasaic primness, with gross plot and rose borders saying, "Come, look at me and see how nicely I am tended;" nor did it wear the look of neglect Bather it was superlatively well kept, without losing grace, and the grass, deep in color, was three inches longer than an American gardener would tolerate. Above the tall arch of the gate woodbine and evergreen ivy swung their garlands, white pillar roses bloomed inside and jessa mine and clematis were further down the walk. I could hardly frame the wish to enter when my friend rang the bell at the little portal, which opened so freely from within, but gave gnarded entrance from the road. The plain, gray-gabled house rose out of turf and flower borders, its threshold only one step above the path, its broad win dows framed In the cool Japan ivy, with upper casements swinging open in the sun shine. To the rear one caught sight of broad, open piazzas, without roof, where women were at work. Deliriously Cool and Fragrant. But the front had Lord Bacon's mignonette border under its windows, with fragrance coming and going like sweet music and fill ing the rooms within, which were dellciously cool in matting, ratsam furniture and white linen cushions that day after the Fourth of July. The wide stairs, with square turn ings, were cool in polished chestnut, and red Leeds pots arid gray-blue Flemish jars full of bay, myrtle and fragrant olive in censed the entries to the roof. The interior was very simple, as I remember it, but cool ness, freshness and excellent finish were everywhere. We did not peep into closet or corner that was not finished in paint, plaster and carpentry as well as any outer view. My friend was a familiar of the house, and we went through to the back pordh, which was the fine weather sitting room of the family. A porch 15 feet wide, open to the blue overhead, with railing hung with flowers, looking on garden and orchard, is the fit place for work, and one had her embroidery frame with basket of rich hued silks, and another her easel, three or four ensconced in low Shaker chairs had their sewing and knit ing, and presently came two more, with ber ries to pick over for tea, who seemed to be quite as welcome as the rest. Worked Wherever Convenient. "Emily is up stairs," said a sweet voiced girl. "We are sure who you are looking after. You will find the back way nearest." Another roomy, sunny hall, with square staircase and the same exquisite neatness, with window seats built out for twilight reveries, and shelves and closets, up stairs, showing that it was used as a sewing room. But the people seemed to work all over the house where it was convenient. Down a narrow, oheerful corridor we turned, where little rooms with screen doors bolted and swing windows open gave luxurious airiness, and were welcomed at one of them. It was a little room, but so nice the adjustments to individual wants that it had more space than larger ones with our cumbrous furni ture. The slender bed of turned railings, like the Vienna bent-wood, took up no use less room. One corner was a draped toilet, another by the window held shelves, and there was place for a writing table, wall bookcases and overdoor brackets for pretty things without crowding, while a trunk closet amply held the wardrobe. How dainty that room was how peaceful and full of flower scents! Before the call was ended the inmate had turned up her bed to show how clean, fine hair mattresses and woven springs, had taken me to the large light bathrooms and linen closets, which proved the comforts of the house fell short of none of those in more pretentious homes. Growing Fruits for Hard Cash. I beg your pardon for thesedetails, which mean much to women who earn their bread. But the sunny orchard was inviting us, and down the espaliered walks we went, where fruit and flowers disputed that this was not Eden. Bods and rods of pinks there were, clove gilliflowers for scent bags, where you could cut and come again and not miss a blossom; hedges of roses, fuller of fragrance in this cool climate than in the hot South, and you can gather many bushel baskets of roses from 500 feet of rose border, besides basil and lavender, lemon verbena and fragrant things unknown, worth their weight in gold. "We cannot afford to grow common quali ties of things," said the quiet woman who went with us down those lovely paths, where sun and shade were so nicely blended that one might work in comfort any sum mer day. "Our berries have done finely this year," she went on, stopping at a bed which breathed delicious odor. "All our best sold for 50 cents a basket faster than we could pick them, and' none were less than 35 cents. "You see it pays to grow such berries as these," and she put the leavesaside to show the great Belmonts in their deep carbuncle red. A fully ripened strawberry of choice variety is a rarity in these days, and it was like eating jewels of priceless flavor as well as beauty. An Easy Way to Earn Money. "Few women can earn 50 cents easier than by growing and picking a basket of large berries like these," said the guide. "Our September berries will bring 1 a basket for invalids," and she turned to an other bed where the tiniest berries were making up for size by the exquisite fra grance and flavor of the everbearing Alpine strawberry, one or two of which perfume a room. "When we can have a strawberry house it will coin money lor us and be so nice for sick people They crave things out of season sometimes." "Come this side the walk and have some thing fresh, won't you?" said a cheery voice, and we were in the raspberry border. There may be easier ways for women to work than in that half light, sitting by the loaded bushes in low chairs, with broad hats, cool linen dresses and fingerless gloves, the very poetry of usefulness. They were nice, ladylike girls as any playing tennis at the beaches. Down the slope another, with a voice like a blackbird, was singing "Burd Helen" while she wrought, preterring her happy loneliness. "She has an object for her thoughts," laughed one of the others, fancy Iree. "Then 'objects' are permitted?" "Of course!" opening her eyes at the idea. "They woo and marry, and leave us. and come back when they are widowed and helpless." "Is not that a burden?" "Why should it be? We all work and expect to be worth our living and some thing over." There's a Difference in Women. "But I have often been told that women would not work," I said, to draw her out; to which she responded significantly that "there was a difference in women." I have observed the same thing myself. "We can't try field culture," said the garden girl. "We know our limitations, but all the work about these berries was done by oar own hands, after the ground was plowed and harrowed. We know how to ripen fruit, and don't wash the flavor out with overwatering or coarse-fertilizers. De cayed sods, leaves and grass witji ground bone dust make our berries. Notice the substance and the weight. No watery ber ries here. Ours will keep firm a day longer than most others in market." It was pretty to hear the girl bragging over her berries, and who had a better right? We went strolling down the orchard to the beehives and the piceon cote and hennery, for the girls had picked a bushel and a half of black raspberries in less than two hours, which would be 17 for the three when sold, and they could afford to enter tain visitors. While we watched the pig eons wheel and flirt on the grass tame, petted things the supper bell rang and wo were carried off to a home tea. No Wonder Complexions Were Good. There was bread and biscuit as you find in the country once or twice in a life, butter to match, saucers of berries half an hour from the bush, relishes and such cake as oue gets hungry for. And strawberry short cake, with those great Sharpless berries. For your sakes I forbear further descrip tion. No wonder the girls had such nice complexions and the older women looked so different from the sallow, drawn faces one sees in working women of the city. The garden girls were so hungry they insisted on a plate of salad, which they owned was only an improved version of the cold boiled vegetables which farmers used to eat. With watercress garnish and mayonnaise it looked all that a salad ought. After supper the fruit was to be sent to the depot and there was a brisk hour for the girls. It is pleasing to see women work who are trained, and in the mind for it the clean celerity of movement, the certainty, the ab sorption, the exhilaration of work in the open air put a new face on theancient curse. The lounge in the starlight with a dozen or twenty women in a breezy humor was pleas ant, and as it was anticipated and arranged I was very glad to stay the night. The pretty guest chamber, the pride of the house, with its cool, pale blue and white, its bed linen smelling of lavender and rose leaves, its wax' candles and bottles of rose water on the toilet of marvellous embroider ies, was enough to tempt sleep away, but the cool freshness settled on my eyes and the evening and the morning were the next day. The Story of the Home. "Now tell me," I said to my friend over the toilet, "whence and why this place is? It is like nothing of our feverish modern plans. Am I awake or dreaming?,' Then she told me the story of a woman, gifted and fair beyond the measure even of beautiful women, blameless and high natured.whose was yet one of loss and grief, too pitiful for telling there. She saw much of the suffering of woman's lives, and in her last years she willed all that was left of a handsome woman, whose aim should be to give each one as much, not as little, as pos sible, for hex work. It was not for those who seek support without effort, or by half work, but for those who work at a disad vantage, or for scant, heartbreaking uncer tainty. It was a beginning only, but the aim was sweet, generous and just one of those seeds which have life in it. There was enough at first to give a home to a few select souls, women glad of a sure place for weary feet, and a welcome for worn hearts which had no suspicion of charity about it. It was only proposed to give them what they could earn, but in the shape of the comfort af living as well as bare existence. There were plenty to detest living in a house of women, fortunately; they left place for others who could live with their own sex. It had no place for those who slighted or despised work, or picked upon their neighbors. Quiet, friendly hearted, honest women found in it much that was best in life. No woman's past was pried into, her future only concerned those about her. The Reserve of a Convent. All admitted were free to enter, free to eo. to receive friends as in their own home. but inside those walls was the security, the peace, tne lnvioiaoie reserve oi tne convent without its bareness and restrictions. Of course not all could enter who desired, for it was no stepping stone for adventuresses. Certain sincerities were indispensable, but those who entered, with few exceptions, stayed because they found no place so good, so safe, so pleasant. There are women who realize that the best and the whole of things are not for every one, and are thankful to get a share and to help others to theirs. For such the house was opened. In the morning they showed me the work done in the house as well as in the garden. "Why you are doing the old French work," cned my friend in raptures over the great piece of embroidery under skillful fingers. 'T thought that was not known ibis side at all." "The poor little French woman who cams here in such trouble last winter had learned it at a convent, and when she grew better taught two or three and we sent over for patterns. Isn't it graceful something be tween embroidery and lace Everybody' brines us somethins fine We are all useful. not to say Invaluable here," and there was a ripple ot soit laughter round the circle. Treasures In Store for Winter. "Even your woman who had never done anything menial in her life. She is a treas ure. She has done our strawberries in a miraculous manner so that they have the flavor of berries and are not spoiled sugar. I must show them to you." "She wants to show off the storeroom," said my friend, mischievously, and we were f:lad of It. Fancy a room 14 feet square ined to the ceiling with shelves and racks inside, with rows upon rows of frrdt pre served and canned to perfection such fruit, such canning as you do not see often outside French provincial factories. There was a coquetry in th'j way they were put up in clear glass, in crystal, in fancy pottery, with filigree papers and croohet covers. One side was a room where the canning was done, with white tables piled with baskets of berries and fresh herbs, and a row of bright kerosene stoves looking as if they were polished for show. Alas that this is a vision as yet, save In the purpose and bequest of that sweet spirit who left her all toward making it a reality, npon whose grave the roses have not yet bloomed. One of the silent singers, her name may yet be Bweet to women for the kindness she planned for them. Its men tion brought a radiant smile to lips unable to speak their gladness in it, and whether these weak hands are able to carry it out or not, the sacred picture will be dear to true hearted women. Shiklev Dabs, Ladies of Experience Endorse Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts, Marian Harland's Daughter Says: "I have given Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts the most careful trial and have found them thoroughly satisfactory both in strength and taste. Every American housewife who wishes to have the certainty of achieving the best results in her cookery should use Dr. Price's Flavoring Extracts." Christine Terhune Herrick. Eliza R. Parker, A great authority on cooking, writes as follows: "I unhesitatingly pronounce Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts superior to all others in pur ity and strength and take pleasure in recommend ing them to the use of housekeepers who desire well-flavored Pastry, Cakes, Custards, Creams, eta CHAOTAUQUA'S COOKS. . Bits of Wisdom That Fall to Those "Who Sit at Mrs.Ewins's Feet. OEUHBSTOE THE STAY-AT-HOMES. 1 light Soup Goes Best With a HeaT7 Din ner and Tiee Tersa. OT FOISTS ABOUT SAIAD MAXING rCOBRESPOOTlElCB OT TUB DISTJtTOS.l Chauiatjqtta, July 2t What woman would not, if she could, go and dip knowl edge from the teachings of the wisest Lead on Household Science! The practical pos sessor of this wise Lead, Mrs. H P. Ewing, is ever ready with dainty fingers to show youjusthowto cut and trim the materials that go from the kitchen to the table. In fact cooking has become, under her manage ment, an art, such as to tempt housewives and young girls alike to study it with new interest and become her enthusiastio fol lowers. Everything looks so easy, so pretty when Mrs. Ewing does it and as I trust that some crumbs falling from the table of her domestic wisdom would not be nnwelcoms to the fairer portion of The Dispatch readers. I will try to make you familiar with some of the methods of her art. My first lesson was about soup making good, well-flavored soups that men delight in and never forget. Most soups are made of beef bones surrounded by a little coarse meat, It is well to know that the bones of the lower portion of the animal, unfit for roasts and stews, are just the thing for soups, as these coarse parts have the finest fla vor. If you are making stock, the more bones and the tighter they are shut in the pot with just enough cold water to cover them, the stronger and richer the stock will become and the easier to put away and keep. JIany Soaps From One Stock. Now, this stock can be made into many kinds of soups. Our teacher divides them into five classes plain soups, clear soups, vegetable soups, white soups and mixed soups. One must remember that to begin a heavy dinner a clear soup is preferable, while before a light repast a rich soup, such as white soups, made of cream and flour, or eggs, is served. Would you not like to know just how to prepare an ideal beef tea? Take the juicy meat of a round of beef, . minus fat, have it cut or ground fine and put with cold water to cook, adding salt to help draw the juices out. Stir ana press it with a wooden spoon, and as soon as it boils it is done. Despite some doctors, who would allow the broth to boil ad libitum, we follow the teachings of M13 Ewing and will not allow the strength and flavor to evaporate in rising fumes. Beef broth being less nutritious than stimulant, it is as welcome a tonic to the epicure as to the invalid. Should you want to color and flavor dear stock yon can make a meat caramel by cook ing down and reducing the broth and put ting it in the clear liquid. Next day was a lesson on salad making, and the table looked most inviting, garnish d with crisp, green lettuce and here and there celery and ruby radishes. French Teachings on Salads. The suDject of salad making is a tremen dous one. Of course, the A, B, O part of it can be given here, but evervone must perfect it according to her ability. Any edible, alone or combined with another, can be made into a salad. The French nave long ago learned how to add attractiveness to flavor, and it is to them we turn for those dainty, light inventions like hors-d'oeuvres and side dishes that go to make up light repasts. In olden times people had nothing so en joyable as banqueting and devotion, but within 100 years new interests have en tered our lives, and prolonged feasts are things of the past! Women have great In fluence in this dominion, and Bhould use it in abbreviating those long and tiresome din ners, offering a few but well cooked courses never omitting a salad, either green or a la russe. In mixing salads the suitability ii the first thing to be considered. As it is with different characters that cannot agree, so with some ingredients, they will not be brought together in a harmonious combina tion. Oranges, grapes, bananas and lemon Juice make a delicious whole while pine apple with bananas would clash and take one from the other their special aroma. Fruit salads are made less sweet when served with meat. A good and simple salad dressing for those who do not rlli oil is this: A Dressing; Wlthont 00. Take six spoonsful of vinegar, three rc beat the eggs and ponr in tho vinegar whioh has been heating and set it all together on the lira, stirring while it cooks slowly. Then stir in batter one-half ounce to eaoh egg. After it has cooled vox can add mora ingredients to suit the materials yon are making into a salad. If for meat, add salt, pepper, sugar, celery, onion and whipped oreamj for potatoes, salt, pepper, onion, parsley, pickles or capers, thin cream ana eo on to suit your taste. Oil dressings are. of course, tha finest. He who likes not oil knows not the fine de light of the salad. All the materials should be cold. Beat the yolk of one egg, ponr in oil slowly; add a little lemon ana so on till you have a sufficient quantity. Mrs. Ewing advises everyone to cultivate a liking for all eatables; it will be a great help, as on ought to taste the ready dishes before they are served. We are all asked to bring a spoon n4 napkin to the lessons: as one di3h arrives to perfection it is passed around and each lady takes a taste, which is usually followed by an exclamation of delight over lis excel lency. D. S. T. A Placne of Mies. Many of the Bheep runs In Dumfriesshire, a county in Scotland, are overrun with mice. The mice are nearly as large aa rata, and tear up the plants from the roots, thus rendering further growth impossible. The plague Is attributed to the destruction by keepers of birds which prey upon mice, on the plea that they destroy the tggs of grouse and other game birds. J V-sfs-WBtfW:,.,
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