WORK OF FAIR HANDS An American Girl's Statuary for the "Woman's Bnild- Ing at the Big Show. THEPBOGRESS OF THE SEX Beantlfally Illustrated in the De signs She Has Created. PEESOK1LITIOP THE SCULPTRESS. Err Wreck Uade fcy BtrPet Dog Brought Her Talent to Light I1EBT CKEDIT JOB HISTOKIC GENIUS rooBXEsroirozirca or thi DarxicB. Ohioaoo, July L Of all tho -women connected with the 'World's fair movement in a consequential way, the subject of the photograph X send is the youngest, fairest and perhaps the most talented. A dainty little creature barely 20 years old and scarcely looking her years! Her peachy skin, big, round, blue eyes looking out from under a fringe of jolly little curls that constitute the prevailing bang, give her an air of Immaturity which would sug gest the doll baby type were not the inner force of the little woman so plainly and radiantly expressed in 'er countenance. Her manner is sweidk and unaffectedly simple. The alteration from an obscure school cirl to a noted sculptress of Amer ica has had no noticeable effect upon 3Iiss Bideout. At present she is -working away 'like any other man" at Jackson Park completing her groups designed for the woman's build ing. Although her work does not in the least suggest masculinity, yet even while watching her about it one finds it hard to realize that it is the work of such little hands. She Comes From the Golden Gate. But to begin at the beginning: Hiss Alice Hideout is born of American parents, a native of California. Although she first saw the light in Slarysville she belongs to 8an Prancisco, for she lived in the Golden Gate City since she was 4 years old, and all her artistic traiuing has been acquired there. Her talent ior sculpture was developed un der the well-known Kupert Schmidt, and thereby hangs a tale that is too intensely romantic to expect a woman to refrain Irom repeating. It seems Miss Eideout had a large dog that commonly accompanied her when out walking, and one morning when upon one ot their strolls they passed Mr. Schmidt's Jf? Mice ExdtovL studio. The door stood open, the dog bounded in and knocked down a recently finished model, breaking off one of the arms. Xo one being about the studio, Ttfiss Hideout set about repairing the damages, and while so engaged the sculptor returned and quietly and with much amusement watched the amateur, in whom he recog nized unusual talent. It was not until she stepped back to survey her hurried work that Miss Eideout knew of the artist's re turn. The wonder is that she did not con flagrate with her own blushes, for I noticed the almost lost art of blushing is one not unknown to her. Tlio Arctdent Gave Her Fortune. Mr. Schmidt praised her skill as exhibited upon the remodeled arm and induced her to study under him, and he now claims she has fulfilled his most sanguine expectations. so quietly nas she been about her art that tomanv her results have been great sur prise1, but those nearest her have confi dent! v predicted her success. Public attention was first attracted to her work by her fine head of Sitting Bull, brought out during the Sioux war. Xext she produced a bust of President Harrison after his visit to the Pacific coast. This at tracted the attention of that friend to all de serving women, Mrs. Iceland Stanford, who gave the little sculptress an order for a bust of hersell and one of Mr. Stanford, with much high praise and encouragement thrown in with the order. Then followed the announcement that was sent throughout the length and breadth of our land that the opportunity was now given for women to compete for "statuary to dec orate the woman's building. Miss Hideout at once entered the competition, and the prize models submitted to Mrs. Palmerwere according to stipulations expressly typical of women. Miss Hideout's Artistic Conceptions. The first group represents the attributes of women. A central figure is Purity, with Sacrifice and Charity at her feet Sacrifice is in the garb of a nun and is melting her jewels in a crucible. Charity is, as she is usually represented, with her children. In the central group Higher Civilization is tho central winged ngure. She is in the act of giving the torch of learning to the modern woman, who is represented in student's cap and gown; while on the other hand the woman of the dark ages is groping for the light. The pediment design shows woman in the various walks of life as artist, author, school teacher, nurse, housekeeper, etc. "With singular grace and beauty the figures stand to represent the women of the world and their work, and particularly, it seems to me, they will speak to the assembled na tions of one American girl and her work. The designing and completing of these prize models ot groups, pediments and pan els for this national competition between women sculptors was only the work of a lew months for Miss Hideout, of whom it is said, "she has the art in her head and works speedily and upon inspiration," but there were "troubles, trials and tribulations be tween her and success, for a 18-foot panel, the model of the 40-foot wide piece that was to surround the entablature of the build ing and two groups of statuary were hopelessly crushed en route from California or else the damage was done in careless dumping after they had reached the Fair grounds. But however, or whenever done, done it was, and you will readily under stand the vexation and additional work the 'wreckage cost our artist How She Treats the Reporters. However, it would be hard to even im agine Hiss Hideout in a temper or so nraeh a a pout She is truly amiable. Of course, Af if she has been besieged br repor'ers, yet the eternal patience, which is said to be one with cenius, she graoiously extends to all, with the preface that "after all you news paper people have done for me it would be more ungrateful than I think I am to refuse the small favors yon ask. But please don't overrate me. It really is painful to me to sea myself credited with knowing every thing known in the art from the days of Phidias down to the present time. I know bo little yet! Why, I have only studied two years I ' This she said as though anyone could do the same by studying two years. In reply to an almost beseeching request for her photograph she replied in that naive little wav so peculiarly her own and which is perfectly bewitching: "Yes, I will give you my photograph, too, but not as a proof" of my" amiability, but as a means of self-gratification. I have hopes of yet seeing one likeness of myself in a news paper which will not cause my friends gen erally to send me messages of condolence and sympathy." TO amen Wear Tbelr Own Inrel Now. But, apropos of women and their work, is it not a coutinual surprise that they have proven themselves so capable in so many unusual occupations? And more so when we consider the years their natural talents were suppressed and training refused? This has rightly been called the woman's age. "Women now not only dare to do, but to own what they have done, instead of per mitting men to wear their laurels, as in times pait Herr Stineback could not to-dav take all ihe credit to himself for the doors of the Strassburg Cathedral, allowing his sister no, share of credit, and if Madame de Scnddery had lived in this age she might fearlessly aud with honor have owned the novels she permitted to be published under her brother's name, which brother, it is said, used to lock her in her room to keep her at it and who upon one occasion drew his sword upon a friend who doubted his having written them. So also might Fanny Mendelssohn now claim the "Songs "Without "Words" so generally credited to her brother. Fanny, we are told, was suppressed by the whole family, who dared not risk what would be thought of her for so nnsexing herself as to be composing music instead of washing dishes. rnbllc Opinion and the Sex. Meander's sister, too, in this just era could claim her fnll share in the ''Church History that made her brother famous, and so on through the long list of brainy women ot past ages who could not lire long enough to enjoy the tardy honors we nineteenth century folk propose to confer upon them. That great barrier to woman's progress, public opinion, which fir so long'a time stood like an insurmouotable wall between her and her capabilities, is now a thing of history only. The contest between women and the pub lic has always reminded me of the fable of the sea wall and the tide. Slid the tide to the sea wall: "1 think I will go up where you are." 'Oh. no, said the sea wall,"vou must not do that For ages on ages you have stayed where you are and it was never Intended that you should come up here." The tide who had been all of these ages finding out its God-given strength had con cluded such power had not been bestowed for nothing and had quietlv replied to the sea wall: "However, I think I will go." "What answer the sea wall made was never known for it was no longer there. Makt Temple Bayard. Cnrlng Rattlesnalto Rite. A reputable inhabitant of the rattlesnake haunted region along the upper valley of the Delaware river, Sullivan county, K. J., now states that there is a known antidote for the poison of a rattlesnake's bite which has been in use in his part of Sullivan county for 80 or 90 years. He says it was obtained by John Geer, the first permanent settler of Long Eddy, from a half-breed In dian, who occupied a little hut on the Penn sylvania bank of the river almost 100 years ago. The remedy was the frequent applica tion to the wounded part of the bruised roots of the plant popularly known as "lion's heart," which resembles the milk weed and the drinking freely of a tea made from the arrow-leaved violet, known in botany as V. sagittate. The correspondent who has communicated this remedy further states that he has known personally of six individuals bitten by rattlesnakes who have been cured by it, and he has never known a failure to cure when it was admin istered. A Rival or Lenox ana Newport Great Barringtou, Mass., the home of the late Mrs. Mark Hopkins-Searles, is rapidly becoming a rival of Lenox and Newport Property in the town is almost as high as in a big city, and the inhabitants say that for its size it is one of the wealthiest towns of the New England States! From the main street of the town may be seen the old house where "William Cnllen Bryant was born, and "Sky Farm," the birthplace of the "Sky Farm" poets, Dora Eeade and Elaine Goodale. SIT rEETUE QAX, DONE GOT A BEAU. rWBITTXN TOB THI DISF-ATCH.1 My leetle gal done got a beaut Dassol Dat young rapscalyun hangta ronn' Heah ovah senco lie strike dls town, But dat not boddah me a' tall, I tough t "She des a chile, dat'a all," But sho, She big eunf ter git a bean! My leetle gal done got a beau! Disol I dldn' eben 'splshnn dem When she let down dat dress' ham. An' fixed her hair de growed up wav, An' wo' raid rlbunds ebry day. But sho, Dat gal she fix ter kotch a beaut My leetle pal done sot a bean! Dasso! I oughter seed right tru bit all "When she lef on a playln' doll, De dolls dey can't lub back, yu know, An' dressln' dem hit pow'ful slow, Fer sho 'Dong side ob dressln fer a beau. My little eal done got a beau Dasso! He mtnhtr slickry! when he see lie comln' roun', dat qniok sea he, "I specs yu ongbter hep yo' maw. She done look mighty ti'ahd, I law!. Dasso Day all talks when (Ley's playln' bean. My Mttlepal done got a beanl Dassol De fus I knowed wna one wa'hm night, De moon wuz shlnln' full an' bright, De soobah hills wuz wet wid dew. Do mllyun patch wuz gllstnln' too Fer sho De bery night ter bring a bean. Hit bring my loetle gal her bean, Dassol I sot des whar de hop-vine trowed Hits shadderroun de do,' an' growod So tick dem chlllen dldn' see Dat 'hind bit sot ole man an' ma. Ter know Gals kino ob blin' 'longslde dey beau. My leetle gal done got a beanl Dasso! Fer with dey's swlngln' on de gate, I hea'hd a soun', an sho as fate I seed dat da'key up an' kiss My leetle pal, my leetle M'llss. "Fer alio," Sez paw, "daf gal hab got a beau." "My leetle pal tlonegot a beaur" I fix dat no-conn' fool dla day .not sol ? jrer Kiss a leetle sral dal "Now des set still, ole mil ' mi ha. "An' let dat man an' ooman be, Ter know Growed gala Is boun' ter hah dey bean." "Dat gal oh yo'n she got a beau, Dasso, But when we done owa'h co'tta' wa Wuz dls ez young ez dom two he, Ole ooinan n o'b a-alttln' on, Dat leetle gal ob owa'hn gone, Dassol Bekase she bin an' got a beau."- My leetle gal done got a beau! Dassol Xo use ter wring my nan's an err, De leetle gal am clean gone by. O cbllo, bos' man yer evah saw Will nevah lnb yu lak yo' maw! . But sho! Dat gal doan' oa', she got a beau! Ann Traonm. Cuxxzwraosr. thebeiiesofimdos Costumes They Are Donning With the Opening of the Summer. WHAT THE JUNB BRIDES WORE. Materials, Millinery, Parasol., Fan. and Shoes That Ira Proper. CRUETiTI TO THE OMENTAL BEETLE rcOTHlKSrOITOKNOt OF THH DISrATCIM London, June 2t Since the fateful month of May expired weddings have been once more in the as cendant, and being recognized as an aft ernoon function. They combine all the oharms of a smart reception, height ened by the personal interest of a bride's presence. The fash ion, introduced at this year's first draw ing room, of wearing semi-tra nsparent trains, formed of lace, gauze or crepon, lined with soft' silk, adapts itself well to a bridal attire. They are arranged in two Two Watteau Pleatt. watteau pleats, one from the right shoulder, and, to avoid inartistic uniformity, the other springs form a little lower down. Miss Faterson-Fox, one of the most beautiful brides of the season, had her's made in this wav. Miss Kinnear, who was married to the Bev. A. "Whelpton on Thurs day, was attended by four bridesmaids in exqnisite dresses. The long Frinoesse robe of fine white cloth, bordered by a six-inoh embroidery of yellow daisies, was slightly raised at the sides, showing an underskirt of delicate bntteronp silk velvet. A band of the same floral embroidery edged the bodice three inches below the waist From the elbow downward- the sleeves were of light yellow velvet Above, the white cloth was fnll and high. Tuscan hats trimmed with very broad bows of white satin ribbon, worked in yellow daisies, and large daisy posies, with long garlands of trailing foliage and ribbons, completed these very effective costumes. Fanciee In Color and Materials. A favorite material is Frenoh crape, painted with floral designs in rich colors. A gray or other neutral ground gives the best effect It forms charming draperies for the front of a visiting gown with an Em pire ooat in bengaline of the same color. Greens, in all possible shades, are reigning colors, especially -a peculiar acqna-marine, which has a dash of yellow in it one misses in "eau-de-nil," and, as fashion itself is be coming it appears to suit blonde and brunette alike. Tailors are ceasing to make the lojse backed coats. The newest style is a corduroy jacket, three-quarter length, fitting tightly behind, but with easy double fronts, show ing the vest and tie. These will replace the sacques and hooded capes, which have held way since last autumn. Black crinoline hats are muoh worn. Apart from the economy, whioh appeals to the pockets ot the maloritv, the broad, soft half-transparent brim, ornamented .with white orream guipure lace, flowers "a dis cretion," and ribbon loops caught up with artful carelessness has a distinct charm of its own and is likely to survive the summer. Gown for VUItiujr. An attractive visiting dress is made thns: Summer corduroy of a soft heliotrope shade; the plain but well- shaped skirt is edged with black faille, cut on the cross, and bor dered at tbe top wtth passementerie of jet, steel and gold beads. The bodice is cut open in the shape of a long V back and front, showing black faille richly embroidered ana appliqued with similar Deads and th transparent part dis closes heliotrope silk beneath. Bound the arms the material is also cut away in a large curve, showing the same transparent bead work. The lower Vbtttng Drat. part of the sleeve is ht and ornamented in the same way, but above the elbow it is high and voluminous. The same style, in creamy fawn, with flame-colored faille in troduced into the bodioe, and with a long velvet sash of the same oolor, which also edges the skirt, form an extremely pretty dress. The bodices are buttoned down the back. Shoes are much embroidered. "White satin ones can be easily metamorphosed by sew ing a pattern of gold passementerie on the toes. A bine serge coat and skirt with a silk or zephyr blouse forms a most useful addi tion to a summer wardrobe. Discard the coat and It becomes a good tennis dress, or by replacing the blouse by a tight fitting vest of scarlet oloth and moveable cuffs of the same, or of colored brocade, it becomes a smart walking gown. Eton jackets are worn by young ladies with slight figures, and should be edged with a fine gold cord. Gowns ot a Great Occasion. Entertainments on a large scale have been rare this season, but Lady Salisbury's reception brought all the fortunate "beau-monde to Ar lington street Lady Carew's great beauty and noble stature made her, as usual, a center of attraction. Her cown of eold ij brocade on a delicate gray satin ground was a pearl of great price, and, set off by the famous emeralds, she was unrivalled even nmntirr tt frnlaTv iof lair women. The empire stvla Si- aaopiea Dy tne ? 't w o daughters of .- tTlfi Pnimf.ae rtf TItim- -j. ..., . ilt3 raven. They were drapedwiThSinl broidered in sea pearls, and broad satin sashes hung from very high waists. To many figures this style is unbecoming, but it can be obviated by those who are not big ots as to absolute chronological accuracy by making the satin dress a tight-fitting prin cess one, covered with an embroidered crepon skirt, which should hang from lust below the bust A trimming of gold or pearl insertion should divide this skirt from the puffing of orepon, which trims the neck, and the high full satin sleeves should cover the shoulders and end where the roundness of tbe arm begins. Long suede gloves almost meet the sleeves, showing but a few inches of the arm. . Mr. Comey Grain, in his new monologue, "My "Wife's Party," introduced a skit apropos of the latest fashion in bouquets. He says: "Seeing my diear friend Lady B's exqnisite posy of orchids resting gently against her shoulder, how could I be ex pected to guard against stumbling over its tendrils and offshoots, which were fluttering to the ground and lying literally beneath myfestf' - Aeeeisoilee f tke Outfit Sunshades and parasols are of a simple form,and so far arenaeMslfarrdbT the mils ff.-nl II , fim ll : . 4 v If m 'A v It I'k ;.I i'h? fl, ,fl.rl. - K 1, I . ., f HI pSM and fantastio vagaries of past seasons. Shot silks, figured or spotted, or moire to match the costume have good sense as well as good taste to recommend them. Cherry wood or olive handles well carved are more in vogue than ebony or china. The latter are too perishable.as falls will occur even in the best regulated hands. Fans are "de rigueur," but for daily use are small, compact, and of firm material even of glided morocco for the ends, mostly copied from olcUSpanish faces; hand-painted or embroidered, and are intended for real use and the side-pocket For evening use they are verv large and elaborate. Fainted gauze or ostrich feathers, with yellow tortoise-shell staves are. considered "da cachet" Those who study appearance as well as economy, near shot silk petticoats, which are very much "en evidence" in these days of trained umbrella skirts. These skirts should be lined with fancy colored silk. One lady whose good taste "is unquestioned wears a gray striped silk gown lined with coral pink glace, while a jupon of pink and gray shot-silk with lace quillings, shows beneath. The London season of this year of grace, being comparatively well nigh a dead letter, fashion sharing its fate becomes, foe the 'time, lax and purposeless, still, "hope reigns perennial," and looks ahead with pleasurable excitement to the change which will succeed the dissolution of Farlia-s ment, when women's thoughts, will once more turn to things of beauty, and the erst while sterner sex will have eyes for the artistic masterpieces of Kate Eilcy and Blise. The Latest Summer Costumes. The materials for summer costumes are of such delicate tints that every day develops fresh combinations, as no color is worn with out a contrast or a harmony. A charm ing morning frock can be made thus: The skirt and upper sleeves of a light salmon-pink zephyr are made entirely in ac cordion pleats, and a foundation of nain sook muslin, with tor chon insertions, can take the place of a Sleeva of Satin. petticoat The bodice is smooked from throat to shoulder with pale apple-green filoselle. Thence to the waist, it is fnll but held in shape by a very broad sash of soft green twilled ribbon, the bow and ends at the side. A wide hat of delicate green willow trimmed with large pink carnations of the delicious malmaison tint, and scented artificially (a Parison novelty), completes a dainty and youthful attire. A tightly fitting bodice of light fawn satin merveilleux fastened invisibly under the arm and . covered with rich black guipure lace has a good effect The sleeves arc of satin onlv, very large to the elbow and ending with a trill; below they are covered with the guipure. The hat to cor respond is of nutmeg Panama straw, a large bunch of green grasses knotted in the front and the feathery fronds standing fully six inches high. The crown is covered with poppies of the true wild color, intermixed with a little piece-velvet of the same vivid tint, and the brim is raised beb with velvet loops. Ihi China SHU Are Populan China silks with pompadour, or Nankin China blue patterns, will be muoh worn. The trimmings should match the prevalent tone of the pattern, not the ground color. An exquisite tea gown for special occasions can be produced by a" careful blending ot pale "Blue Martin" satin and grayish ovster-colored crape. The easy-fitting fronts are in draped satin, ending at the foot with a narrow dull-gold passementerie and a soft satin ruche below. The sides and back form a tightly-fitting princesse robe with high Medici collar. A treble-pleated "Watteau springs from the neck and spreads toward the foot Long, hanging sleeves of the same cover the large blue ones, which should be tight to the arm below the elbow. A. cravat of the crape should be fastened with diamond pins. Shoes of gray Russia leather look well with this gown, which, well carried out, is extremely elegant Partly because flowers and ferns look seasonable as millinery ornaments, and partlv on account of the societv for the pro tection of onr feathered friends, in which the Duchess of Portland takes so active an interest, birds and wings and real butter flies have ceased to adorn our hats, though, with a strange anomaly and contradiction, scarabei are used very much for earrings and buttons and introduced in net work embroidery and no voice is raised in protest against the wholesale destruction of these Oriental beetles which must be subjected to death by impalement in order to preserve their scintillating blue and green hues. "Why not extend to them the poetic justice shown to the feathered tribe? Astobta. I a Voyage to teisco in os Some Marvelous Exporlenees of Charles Frosch, One of a Ihoasanil Passengers. Charles Prosch, of Seattle, has been re calling his marvelous experience of the voyage from New York to San Francisco, begnn in September, 1853, says th New York WorlQ. He sailed on the steamer Illi nois, Captain Hartstein, from the foot of Liberty street, and was one of a thousand passengers, a surprising number for that day. Mr. Prosch paints a shocking picture of the degradation of the women of Jamaica, where the Pacifio Mail steamers made the r first stop; describes Asplnwall, now Colon, as a most unattractive town at the Atlantio terminus of the trans-Isthmian railroad. then in process of construction, and relates amusing incidents of the jonrnev over the Isthmus by boats to Gorgona and by donkey back to Panama. On account of shoal water the steamer John L. Stephens had to lie two miles from the shore in tbe harbor ot anama and the gold seekers were ferried through several hundred yards of shoal water to her boats. The Captain of the John L. Stephens, Robert L. Pearson by name, treated all hands to champagne, according to Mr. Prosch, to celebrate the fair weather, and thereupon it at once began to storm and the virtuous elements sternly rebuked him. Mr. Prosch concludes: "To this day I retain a vivid recollection of the lost hot, sultry, enervating and un comfortable summer spent in New York City." And to think that in those days there were no negligee shirts, no russet shoes and no Ecmsen coolers) Ha Would Not Visit the Battlefield. "Victor Hugo records in his notes that when he was in Brussels he refused to visit the battlefield ofv'"Waterloo, To him it represented not only the triumph of Europe over France, but "the complete, absolute, startling, incontestable and final sovereign triumph of mediocrity over genius." Be Not Too Hard. New Orleans Picayune. Too hard, too hard be not. With faults nay, even sin; Thou canst not tell quite what Temptations may have been; Thou canst not tell, oh friend, How hard the fallen one Has struggled not to bend, The danger tried to shnn. Condemn not, nor despise, . Though great. Indeed, tho wrong; Think, tempted thou likewise, Wouldst thou have been as strong! Thv gold, if tested so, Would It have proved aa purer To passion's onward flow, Thy banks been moie securer Hold not thyself aloof, Though he has fallen low. Withhold the sharp reproof Retard the oruel blow; Tar from the weary Jieart, ' Bid sorrow and dif may; The blinding tears that start, Lo, gently try to stay. "With loving, gentle' main, dust jrulde him up the hnl Upon thee let him lean. He is thy brother still) ThV strength shall greater be. Thy light grow never aim, ' Tor God shall deal with thee, As Skew kaat oealMrstk hltn, SILENCE OF THE SEX. While Women Gossip of Little Things They Keep Great Secrets. UNSPOKEN WOES OP THE HOME. Queen Elisabeth Ejmv When to Nothing and When to Lie. Bay WILLIAM IDE 6ILENFS HAED LUCE rWBITTIN TOE THZ DISPATCH. 1 The virtue of silence is so universally ad mitted that it is strange how few wise men are noted for this reticence. Men will talk. It is their nature. They blab and blab and gab and gab. They were built that way. Talk about women as gossips they have to take a back seat and a low-down mark when compared with the sterner sex. Men at gossiping beat the world. "Whether as to character, social condition, business, poli tics or Individual characteristics they take highest rank, although the idea is that women with their alleged ohronicles of small beer and narrow ideas are supposed to rank first Women talk tq men, but rarely men to women. Men have grown up with the notion that women are so apart from them as regards business aud politics, that'thev rarely show their true inwardness save as man to man. "What Bessie Thinks Men Think. A man imagines that the feminine mind is "away ofi" from his, and cannot compre hend the vastness of the difference between Blaine and Harrison, or Cleveland and Hill. He goes placidly about getting a living with the thought that his wife hardly knows that two and two make four, and he is sort of happy in the idea that, as business goes, she is simply a goose. He does not say so, nor would he admit it for the world, but the fact is, that he likes the idea that he is the great Mogul of the family, and that tbe "old girl" doesn't know a thing, except what he desires her to know. The young man's ideal of a wife is expressed by him in the words: "She must be perfectly ignorant and a bigot She must know nothing aud believe everything." That is, she must ap peal to his Judgment, aoccpt his fiats, and sweetly do whatever he decides to be the right and proper thing under all circum stances. Marriages, where the husband was tbe supreme boss and the wife the silent part ner, used to be considered the most happy. "Where he had everything his own way, and her way was hls'n" was assumed to be the right style of it by the old story tellers. In the "decent order ot things in that elder day, when she was "dead and gone," he put up a right smart tombstone, setting forth her many virtues, and then married another in a year. Women Keally Do Keep Secrets. Silence in women is so common as to ex cite noicomment They, as a rule, keep their grievances to themselves. In mar riage a woman makes or mars her life. It does not take long to take the measure of her husband. She knows whether she has drawn a prize or a blank very soon. But whether or no, she keeps her own counsel. If, in the lottery of life, she draws a blank, she silently, accepts the situation, and makes the best of it Nobody knows from her that her hand is poor, and that no trumps are in it worth counting upon. She almost invariably shows a bold front to the world, even when fortune has used her most unkindly. She goes down to the grave "unhonored and unsung" who most deserves a monument Indeed, if silent martyrdom ever found a stone, it should be raised in honor of her who gives no voice to disappointment, no sharpness to resent ment, no bitterness in the daily goings on of life. Women have the credit of being the talk ing sex. History gives no honor to them as "the silent." But did written records take the measure of mankind aright, it would be found that if there is any merit in silence, women could claim the prize. They talk much, it may be said. They gabble greatly, aud gossip a great deal it will be admitted. But tor silence they have a genius when occasion demands it The Mlchty Griefs Are Damb. Foxe's Book of Martyrs records many who died in defense of their faith, and through merit of their own obstinacy, but no volumes ot history will ever record the "Acts and Monuments" of the domestio martyrs at the fireside. "Light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb." Women through all history have shown the gift ot silence. "Speeoh is great," said Car lyle, "but silence is greater." What ca pacity his wife had ior silence he never knew, or appreciated until she was dead. 'How dumb was her martyrdom In his be half he never knew, and could not measure. George Eliot put her soul into words, but her life was one of silence as to herself. Lady Byron kept silenoe as to her domestic troubles for over 40 years, under the insult and contempt that her famous husband did not scruple to heap upon her, conscious as he was of her honor and goodness.' Many women less known to fame have done like wise. Many have died without a word, that spoke of shattered hopes and lives wrecked and ruined for all time. Elizabeth Was a Good I.Iar. . Elizabeth ot England showed how silent she could be in all great matters when, while playing the coquette ostensibly, she outwitted every statesman in Christen dom for half a century. She played William of Orange and Philip ot Spain, as if they were cards in a game of euchre for the glory of England and the ruin of Spain. She kept her own counsel and was silent, even with her own minis ters, as to her plans, until she was ready for action. She had no scrnples as to lying. The most wary and skillful diplomatists found her matchless in finesse and intrigue. She was a profound politician, and well un derstood the virtue of silence, while fooling ambassadors with the idea that she was giving her policy and plans dead away. "Silence is one of the great arts of con versation" that many women will under stand, though none, perhaps, are known to fame by having "the Silent" tacked to their names like William of Orange. "Holy Mary" is credited with knowing a very great deal, but with also keeping all the sayings of that busy time in her heart as do many women of to-dav. But storins up all things, and dying in sllenee, however common and heroic it may be, avails bnt little in the history of the world. Heroes are needed, and "William the Silent" stands out as did Ajax and Ulysses of old who are quoted as the most eloquent, and yet most silent of all men. William the Sllents' Wife. William, who won the reputation of "the Silent," had it ground into him by early training. With the sovereignty- of EngJ land in view, be could take sides 'with, neither Protestant nor Catholic. He was a devoted compromiser, and a conciliator. He was jealous of the power of his wife. His pride of mind was humiliated by the thought that while he was by virtue of the church her head aud ruler, yet by slate statutes, he was second in command and subordinate in order of precedence. He kept his head shut, but he aid a power of thinking upon this point For a long time, we are told, he Was cross and hateful with his wife, until he was advised that she pro posed to be obedient and let him have everything his own way. With that as surance, he quietly took possession of Eng land and under the name of "William and Mary" became a royal boss. She had been educated to read tbe uible ana to tace in the creed of the prayer book as to the sub ordination of women. Owing to his silence she did not, for some time, know that his discontent and ugliness were owing to the tact that her superior olaim to royalty was at th bottom ot their nnhappiness. But when she did discover, at last, that William's silent grievance and oontrarinss f tamper tovnd frwshrtt la tk raakliag knowledge that she by birth and law stood first she was swift to let him know that, under religious rules and prayer book enforcements, she was his inferior and had no objection to such position. William Bald Nothing for Ten Tears. History tells ns that for over nine years William "the Silent" suffered under this supposed grievance without a word and that Mary never knew what was the matter with him until Bishop Burnet enlightened her as to the cause of his jealousy. A married man silent for nearly ten years as to his position in tbe house and cross all the time because first honors were not awarded to him is something of a wonder. When Mary found out that all that hurt William was the idea that she, and not he, was boss of Britain, she sacrificed, of course, politi cal to domestic bliss. Grant, in our day, has gained the title of "the man of silence." He diver gave him self away bv his tongue. He kept himself quiet, smoked cigars and said nothing. When making him commander of the army of the Potomac, Lincoln was governed bv his silence rather than his speech. "This man has got something in him" was his thought not inspired by speeches made by Grant bnt by his silent action. Grant never gave himself to expression in words until impelled by stress of desire for the welfare of his family. Why Grant Wrote His Book. With those he loved provided for he would have gone down to the grave without a book upon which his individuality was stamped. Even with it there is little known of the man. He was silent unto the grave. He gave the few events of his life, the little environments from whence grew the hero, but the solid background ot silence as to his inner life is there after all never to be disclosed. Henry Ward Bsecher, with all his ser mons, his speeches, his lectures, was a silent man as the articles written by hi3 wife show. Quay has made his name the synonym for sileuoe. "Addition, division and silence," will be marked upon his political tomb stone, however his other virtues may be lauded aud magnified. t But after all, silence is not a rare virtue. All men talk, though they may say nothing. The eloquence of silence is often times be yond speech. The old god whose feet "were shod with silence," is still a good god for very many people. Bessie Bbasible. A CAT OF CHABACXXB.' How She Saved n Helpless Tonng wren From a Hnngry Keptlle. In the mountain districts of Pennsyl vania, says the Brandon Bucksaw, two wrens had built their nest under the eaves of an old farm house, and there they reared a small and interesting family. Anfong tbe attaches of the farmer's household was a white cat, and when the wrens became so tame that they used to hop around the pi azza in search of crumbs, the cat would lie in wait for them, and several times came with in an ace of catching the adult birds. When the farmer noticed this he kicked tbe cat, and,she finally learned that it was dan gerous to fool with the wrens. When the baby wrens grew larger one of them one dav fell out of the nest, and, being too weak to run and unable to fly, lay helpless on the grass. The cat saw the accident and ran rapidly to seize the bird, but, seeming to remember the lesson taught her, when she reached the helpless little thing she only touched it daintly with her paw and then laid down and watched it Presently there came a black and yellow garden snake toward the fluttering birdling. The cat wa3 dozing and was awakened by the fluttering of tlie bird. Instantly, she roe and struck at the reptile with her paw. This was an enemy the snake did not ap preciate, but it was hungry, so it darted forward and attempted to seize the bird un der the very shelter of the cat's head. Like a flash the cat seized the snake just back of the head and killed it with one bite. When the farmer happened along in the afternoon he found the cat crouching in the grass sheltering'the bird, and ten feet away was the dead snake. This made it clear that the cat bad carried the bird away lrom the snake, and the young adventurer was soon restored'to its anxious parents. A BAEHYARD CTJBI03ITT. A Tanner and His One-I.egs;ed Hen Create a Sensation Among Old Women. A prosperous farmer in Lone Tree Valley has a hen that has set the tongues of all the old women gossips wagcing. It is a com mon barnyard hen, bnt it has, nevertheless, created a sensation. Some months ago a mule stepped on the hen's" leg and broke it The farmer was in the barn at the time and heard the hen squawk, and, upon examina tion, found the mule standing upon its leg. He took his knife, cut the broken leg .off and turned her loose, and indue time -she recovered and was the liveliest kind of a one-legged hen. After this accident, however, the hen would not go near the barn and in fact had a babit of wandering off by herself. Some time ago it was discovered that she had a nest full of eggs in a fence corner, and was sitting on them. The eggs were coffee-colored and mottled, looking a good deal like turkey eggs except that they were small. Last week seyen of the eggs hatched and they were the funniest looking chickens that were ever hatched; instead of with feathers they were covered with a woolly covering that resembled fur, a sort of cross between feathers and hair. Four of the lit tle chickens had wattles that stood straight up from the ears above the head, giving them a very mulish look. All the women are sure that it is a case of marked chicken. The San Jose Mercury is credited with this story. JAPANES2 IN AMERICA. They Have a Strong Desire toBaoelve Their Ednoatloa In This Country. There is a strong desire on the part of young Japanese to come to the United States to acquire or perfect themselves in the English language and complete their education, says the Philadelphia Ledger. The welcome given to earlier students has led many who have entirely insufficient means to undertake the journey come, in deed, with scarcely more than enough to pay .their passage to this country. Others, better provided for, have no idea of the increased cost of living here, while many hope to receive aid from persons who may become interested in them here, or to find some employment while they are carry ing on their studies. The practical results are not always fortunate, and many of the students referred to would be better off at home. The repu tation of having been educated in Europe or America has a certain value at present in Japan, however, and the Japanese students are, almost without a single excep tion, a credit to their native country. THE LATE EMPEBOK FREDERICK. While Crown Prince He Delighted in II lustratln: Bismarck's Great Influence. One of the stories which the late Chief Burgomaster of Berlin, Forkenbeck, used to tell was of the late Emperor Frederick, who, while Crown Prince, liked to illustrate Bismarck's great, influence with the old Kaiser. ' "Yes, gentlemen," the Crown Prince would say, "if Bismarck were to propose to my father an alliance with Garibaldi nay," said he, pausing, "that is not an extreme enough case, for Garibaldi is at least a General If Bismarck were to propose to him an alliance with Mazzini, what would happen? At first my father would march up and down the room, exclaiming: 'Bis marck, Bismarck! what do you mean to make me?' Then he would stand still in the middle of the room and say: 'Well, if yon are firmly convinced that this thing is indispensable to the Interests of the State, there is, of course, nothing to be done in tiweadkvttepnt'BpwitXit"' SEEING OFF TO SEA. Formal Breakfasts and Steamer Let ters for the Ocean Voyage. THI FIOWEES AT A LUNCHEON. Peeps st the Interiors of Some of the Paliee Homes of Newport FRESH GOSSIP BT HAEGAEET H. WH.CH IWBTTTIN TOB THE DISrATCH.1 The lore of functions is for the moment considerably varied by steamer breakfasts and luncheons. On Wednesdays and Satur days the sailing days of the great Atlantic fleet, many gay parties assemble to say goodby to friends, prefacing the actual ship board adieu by a jolly breakfast or luncheon at some uptown hotel or restaurant These are occasionally quite formal invitations, called "bon voyage'' cards, being issued days beforehand, and the "breakfast" a banquet of importance with elaborate favors and much decoration. More often they are impromptu affairs or certainly much less conventional ones, with occasion ally the honored traveler absent till the last course, a victim to the emergencies of preparation. Only the other day at the Canard pier a group of people waited a couple of honrs, loaded with flowers and fruit, to speed a very popular young woman on her Euro pean outing. It lacked three minutes of sailing time, and ocean lines have the inexorable punctuality of rail road grains, when a carriage dashed down the wharf and from it alighted an in stant later Mademoiselle, all agitation and anxiety lest she had missed the boat Her chaperon hurried her aboard, the gong sounded "all ashore," and the huge vessel slowly swung out from her moorings, with a distracted young woman leaning over the rail and calling back disjointed explana tions, apologies and regrets, as long as she could be heard. "Steamer letters" are also a distinct phase of ocean practices. These are sealed and labeled for each day of the voyage, and are witty, grave, gay and sentimental, accord ing to the mood, temperament or relation to the recipient of the writer. "Have yon a book of quotations, Kipling's Tales From the Hills,' or a copy of Shakespeare?" was the succinct but rather surprising inquiry made of a New York friend by a young woman the other evening. The questioner, with two girl companions, was spending the night at the friend's house, preparatory to seeing two more young women oft for Eu rope the next day. "We've got to do our steamer letters to-nisht, you know, and we want to 'cull' a little, ot course," she ex claimed. Which would seem to indicate that the "steamer letter" in the hands of some young women may be very eclectic in character. Books are the most satisfactory of all fur nishings. A simple room is enriched by them and a handsome apartment takes on more dignity with their presence. Many persons with but one room to use 03 parlor, library and sitting room, economize space and furnishings, and impart elegance to the triple apartment by running around two of One Wav to Dispute of Boohs. its sides, or three if desired, a row of irreg ular shelves such as is shown in the cut These are filled with books, odd pieces of pottery and any curios or bric-a-brac that one may possess. Tuck-away spaces for pamphlets and magazines can be curtained with brisht stuffs and the result is charm ing and effective. The shelf work mav be ot a soft wood like pine, and may be stained and varnished in cherry or' walnut, or simplv furnished with a hard wood finish which keeps the pine bnt little darker than its usual color. A little study can adapt the suggestion of the cut to individual needs and resources, and the remit will be found to be much more satisfactory than stiff conventional bookcases and cabinets. At a Ijncheon the other day a huge mound of roses in the center of the table disintegrated itself, with the assistance of the bntler at the end of tbe meal, into a generous bunch apiece, separately tied with ribbons for each of the ten guests a pretty aud economical arrangement A new occupation for women has arisen in the office of minister's assistant It might better be written minister's wife's proxy, for the function of this recently created church official looks more to the performance of duties heretofore relegated to the minister's wife, than to those of the clerical man himself. It is an evidence of our growing civilization that ministers' wives are being more and more permitted individual existences. The fitting of a small salary to a large family is the usual occupation of these devoted women, and it is a sufficiently absorbing one. To add par ish calls, Sunday school teaching and leader ship in all church work is unjust The new assistants occupy a middle field, which takes these burdens from the minister's wife as well as from the pulpi itself. As yet they are only employed in city congrega tions, but their usefulness ought to extend. '1am not at home to-night," said an up town young woman recently to the new maid of the household, "if anyone should call," and proceeded to her own room for an uninterrupted aud undress rest About 9 o'clock a card was brought to her; she glanced at it, saw that it was the name of a man she knew well, was almost sorry that the not-at-home dictum had been uttered and went on with her reading. At 10 o'clock the maid, who had opened the door, passed the reception room, glanced in and was seized with alarm. She hurried up stairs to tap at her mistress' door. "I am in bed, Ellen, what do you want?" came from within. "Ob, Miss the gentleman is wait ing for yon yet" Tableau and a penciled card sent hastily below to dismiss Casabianca, followed "by a more extended note ot explanation and apology the next day. The sumptuous homes of America are be ginning to be recognized. A man last sum mer straight from Europe drove along Ocean avenue, Newport, and declared that he saw nothing abroad except the palaces of royalty to equal the magnificent mansions of that city by the sea. The charm of many of these homes is not their princely size and finish but the beauty of individual taste ex emplified within their walls. An American woman with no money makes her horn a, bower; when her resources ore ample enough' to give her original and artlstie fanoiss free play the result la perfeetfon. A noble music room seen lately Is the large hall of a beautiful home on a high elevation. On end curves widely; a low broad window seat follows the semi-circle of plate glass through which the smiling valley and rive edged plain show in a lar-reaching perspeo. five. Jn the embrasure stands the piano, whose performer may draw inspiration fronx the lovely landscape stretched before hiaj or, if his eye wanders to the wall at on side the faces of the old masters ot mafic, Beethoven, Mozart, Mend elasohn and me rest, will set his harmonicSin lofty ideals. The pictures are not hanging separately, but are set in the wall in irregular spaces, a uniform molding outlining each. Oa the opposite wall is a mantel with an odd Japanese musical In strument standing before it, whose hammer struck, give ont a curious twang in har monious discord; other instruments from Egypt, Arabia, and various remote corners of the globe amplify the musical expression of humanity, and musical curios and brio-a brae adorn mantel and hanging cabinet shelves. The frieie of the room is the staff in black lines on a gold ground, and around its sides is written in black notes a sweet tune quickly read by the music learned, while across the deep crimson silk curtains a black velvet staff similarly sets forth ia velvet notes a briefer but not less swsett strain. A Few Cushion. Now that so many cushions are needed oa the piazza, in hammocks and on floors, ior it is a notion to pile them in a window niche from the floor up, or in winter to make a "lounge" of them before tbe fire in your own snuggery everywhere, in fact, Ik is desirable to have variety in form as well as color. A novelty is the one illustrated, which has the merit of being very simpla to make, and the additional one to some women of calling for no embroidery. Put the down into a rather large bag and make the second cover still larger. Sew two bands of ribbon rather snugly crosswise around the pillow, finishing with a large bow oo'one side. Then pull the extra full ness into the comers. The model seen was of pongee in its natural shade, tied with a darker shade of brovn ribbon, and was In tended for hammock use, as pongee ia readily laundered. A "sun rise picnic" is a June relaxation' in tbe suburbs. At one last week the com pany assembled at the house of the hostess ' at 3 A. M. Bouillon and wafers were served and then carriages took the company to the foot of a mountainous hill a mils away. From there the party climbed to the top on foot, armed with alpen stocks and making; the way merry with song and laughter. At a certain vantage point, way up, a halt was made and the eastern sky watched as "jocund day" sent out its heralds of gold and crimson, changing with every passing moment till the lull sunrise panorama was nnfolded. A3 the picnic was to be a genu ine cne, not "Ward McAllisterized aa somebody put it, the mountain climbers carried their hampers as well as their stocks, and by the new-born light made coffee ana ate breakfast 2,300 feet abovo the sea level. 3IARGAKET H. WEiCK. I A m Tired To-Xlsht Boston Globed lam tired to-night and lomethlng Tr-e wind, maybe, or the rain, . Or the cry of the bird in the copse ontiMe , Ha brought back the past and Its pain. And I feel us I sit here thinking. That the h. nut o: a (le-id old Jnne Has reached out hold of my . strings. And is drawing them up in tune. I am tired to-night and I miss you And loux for von, love, through tears Anu u seems dus to-uay mat 1 saw yoa i ion who nave neen gone ior years; And I seem to be newly lonely, I, who am so much alone: And tbe strings of my heart are well In tsxt4 But they have uot the same old tone. I am tired, and that old sorrow Sweeps down the bod of my soul. As a turbulent river mUht suddenlybrsat Away from a dam's control. It beareth n wreck on lti boom. A wreck with a snow-white sail. And the hand on my heartstrings thrums away. Eat they only respond with a wall. Ella Wheeler TrVeom. Europe's Kichrgt Brewer. One of the richest brewers in Europe la Dreher, of Vienna, who is reported to be worth over 140,000,000, to which the profits of his breweries add ?2,000,000 a year. Yet he spends no more than if his income amounted to only so many thousands, and never gives a cent for charity. it NATURAL FRUIT FIAY0RS. nllla - 0 perfect purftytfj Lemon -I Of groat strength. AImoid4EconomyInthe,rt,;, RoseetCyJ Flavor as dellotety and dallclouslvas the fresh fndfr For sale by Geo. K. Stevenson A Co, andaU, flrst-class gTOcers. FOR CHILDREN'S OR MISSES' ROOMS. Wa have some especial patterns of paper that are pronounced by the ladies as very sweet and appropriate. Not too elaborate but ex tremely satisfactory. Soma older folks would appreclata them for their own cham bers. Yellow, Pink and BIus effects. WM. TRINKLE & CO.; Fine Wall Papers and Mouldtogs, 541 Wood St (Cor. 6th At0 V? DELICIOUS Ftaforinj Extra icJitffa&& Sl ta&&Ai2,,
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