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WOMEN AT THE Fl
How Tliose of Limited Means
Can Best Attend the Co
lumbian Exposition.
GOOD LODGINGS CHEAP.
An Arrangement of Stock Sales With
Desirable Privileges.
EMPLOYMENTS THAT MAT BE HAD
TroTision for Care of Fahiw While the
Mothers fee the Show.
A GREAT SCHOOL FOR THE CHILDREN
IBl'lliri TOR THE DISPATCH. 1
How to see the "World's Fair on a limited
purse is already the question of the day,
and one that cannot be too early considered,
for that it is going to take money and plen
ty of it no one having lived through con
vention week at Chicago can gainsay. TJn
donbtedlv there is the disposition,, even in
friendly Chicago, to make those who dance
pay the fiddler, the argument being that
we, the dancers, will own the floor, or, to
drop the figure, the entire town. Chicago
will be homeless for the time, or to para
phase, the old town will not be what it used
to be, for they will be full of strangers, or,
worse yet, distant and long forgotten rela
tives. Stores will be crowded until all na
tives not having purchased beforehand the
requisite number of fig leaves to see them
through the summer will find wearing those
out of date, preferable to trying to buy "the
latest"
Worth Tour Life to Go Driving.
There can be no driving; indeed, it is
already agreed by residents of the World's
Fair city that such a thing as driving for
pleasure is not to be attempted. The streets
are to be left tree as possible for traffic and
travel and the fashionable drives given over
to recreating sightseers. That some such
restful recreation will be a necessity those
having visited the Centennial Exposition
will remember, and if necessary at that
time, it will be ten times so at the coming
Exposition, for as the infant to the man
tully grown so is the Centennial to the
World's Fair, judging by promises.
But to get back to our mutton, for all
these rights and privileges we are, in flash
language, to "shell out," and that liberally.
We are to own the .town utter we have paid
lor it. That we are getting our toes
tramped while tramping those on the
proverbially large Jcet of Chicago is not to
reduce the price of such sport, therefore,
we may as well brace ourselves for the in
evitable, make our property safe and begin
a system of penny saving.
A Home for Women Tlslsors.
Realizing that the extortions of con
scienceless landlords and greedy landladies
will tall heaviest upon women dependent
upon the purse of a possibly grudging other
"half," and so also upon the great army of
self-supporting women, the Board of Lady
Managers, who really have thought of
everything for the betterment of their sex
in connection with the movement, have
considered what could be done toward pro
viding a home for women during the Fair,
and the result of their deliberations has
been the maturing of plans for a safe, clean,
thoroughly comfortable home at rates which
all industrial women, wage earners or work
ing girls can afford to pay.
The Woman's Dormitory Association of
the Columbian Exposition will erect .four
odfldings that-will comfortably house 1,250
each. These are to be supplied with good
beds and "all toilet conveniences, and the
rate for such accommodations, it is prom
ised, shall not exceed 40 cents per day,
and may fall a trifle under that nominal
sum. The association has issued stock at
510 per share, no person bping allowed more
than 5100 worth. Tnis stock has been sent to
lady managers in each State to be disposed
oi, and there certainly should be no trouble
in selling it when the plan is understood.
Stock is non-assessable, and the presenta
tion of a certificate of stock at any dormi
tory of the association will entitle the own
er, or anyone to whom Bhe may have trans
ferred her stock, to lodging at the apart
ments, and the certificate will be applied
toward the payment of such lodging at its
lace value. And the holder ot a certificate
will be entitled to share in any profits that
may accrue from the enterprise.
Earning a Vrrp at the Fair.
Refined, matronly women are wanted to
preside over these homes to insure the
safety and tender care to the temporary
residents. This, you observe, opens up
oue wa" for a lew womeu to see the Fair
and earn the wav to see it. Other ways
there are which I want to tell
you of as we go along. For the
position ot matron or for waitress, in
cae the light restaurant now ibeing
talked oi in connection with the dormitories
is constructed, address Mrs. Matilda B.
Carse, Chicago, 111. Those owning stock
must state in advance the number of weeks
they wish to exercise their privileges;
then their names will be booked and the
barber shop method of first come first served
will be strictly adhered to. If your certifi
cate entitles you to a stay of two weeks and
vouonly wish to remain one, and then to turn
it over to a triend, engage your room lor
two weeks.
These dormitories, while open to all
women ol good repute, were originally in
tended for that class commonly known as
"working girls." For professional apd
business women there is still another pro
vision, thanks to the "Physicians' Publish
ing Company," which is an association of
women physicians who have an incorporated
company with capital stock of 530.000 for
the purpose of erecting a hotel. This
building will be commenced August 1, until
which time the company offers room certifi
cates at 510 each exchangeable for the
ue of one room lor one week during the
six months or the Fair, the time to be.
specified in the certificate. These certifi
cates also are transierablc.
VI' asant and Convenient Quartern.
The situation of the hotel is both pleasant
and convenient. It is within one block of
the Exposition grounds and a five minutes'
walk from the main entrance at Midway
Plaisance. The building will be on a cor
ner lot allowing sunlight and outside air
to all rooms. These rooms will be furnished
with conveniences for only oue person, but
the holder of a certificate upon payment ot
54 00 additional at the time ot oc
cupying her loom will be entitled
to admit another woman to share
it during her week of possession and suita
ble accommodations lor two will be pro
vided. This, you see, will enable women
to secure comfortable rooms near the Expo
sition grounds at the low rate of 51 per day.
In connection with this hotel there is to be
a. restaurant, a bureau, of information, tele
graph, telephone and messenger service, all
at the usual rates.
This hotel owned by women, instituted
solely for women, is to be run by women
only. Here again employment offers, the
only requirements being a recommendation
vouching lor the good character and fitness
for the work, ol the applicant this to be
signed by three reputable persons giving
their full addresses in order that the officers
can ndilress them. Application for either
certificates or lor employment should be
addressed to Isadore L. Green, M. D., sec
retary, 315 Lincoln avenue, Chicago, I1L
Providing for the 1,1 tile Ones.
A still better and greater oDnortnnitr for
women and girls to pay their way through
tee season win ue tnose opened up by the
I proposed Children's Home. A desirable
location has been granted for this imnie
. diately adjoining the Woman's Building,
) bat upon coudition the necessary funds be
raiacu wiiuin ov uays. aub nine is Biiur
and it is earnestly desired that this be made
a work for little people as well as big. It
is to be their home, their school and their
play house: so let them have a. share in its
erection. Were each schoolroom to have
its money-bank and each child to deposit
one-dime, the building fund would be corn
iortably swelled.
What to do with the children who were
old enough to see, enjoy and be profited by
the great school that this fair is to be for
them as well as for us children grown tall
wa at first quite a problem. But the Board
of Lady Managers were equal to this as they
have been for all else entrusted to them.
The building as planned will cost abont
$20,000, and from $10,000 to 515,000 more
could undoubtedly be used in equipping
and maintaining it. The idea is to embody
everything within this horn e that will con
tribute to the comfort and happiness of
vonug people, and also furnish such aa ex
hibit as will tend to disseminate the newest
and most vital thoughts concerning the well
being of children both in the home and
the school. Their proper diet and
clothing will be considered from a scientific
and hyginic standpoint; their literature,
games and amusements and all that will in
any way conduce to the natural and happy
development of the physical, moral and
mental natures of these embryo men and
women of the future.
A Noted Educator at the Helm.
Working heart and hand with the ladies
in this movement is Colonel Parker, whom
we all know so well and favorably in con
nection with school work. I recently
heard Colonel Parker address a
body of women on this snbject,
and' was impressed with his teachings. He
made it emphatic that amnsement must go
hand in hand with instruction; that a child
would not receive instruction unless inter
ested; the wav to get it interested was to
amuse it; hence the establishment of the
kindergarten and kitchen garden and ob
ject lessons. So manv hours are to be de
voted to instructions in this great kinder
garten school where all the) latest tried and
approved methods w ill be practiced under
eyes of interested people who are to have
the privilege of a gallery that will surround
the schoolroom, where they can look down
and on the school below without disturbing
the little students.
Children of suitable, ages will be enter
tained by stories of the different nations
peopling the earth, their geographical posi
tion, language, uress, peculiar customs and
important facts in their history. Then they
wiil be taken to see the exhibits, native
village's, etc., from these countries of which
they have heard, which we all know will be
the best object lesson that could possibly be
given and which will impress the young
ster in a never-to-be-forgotten way.
For this work only regularly graduated
kindergartners are to be employed. Appli
cations by the score are already going in,
and those thinking of enlisting in this
-work cannot get their names too early on
the list, since the number is limited.
Providing for the Babies.
However, the creche or nursery in this
home for children will furnish employment
for children who have been graduated only
from the great school of human kindness.
What to do with the babies who could not
be left at. home, or who would keep home
tied mothers away, was another problem
not solved in a aav, but whioh has
been finally and satisfactorily settled by
ihe mother-women of the World's Fair. For
the first time on record mothers need not be
kept at home by their babies, but can for a
small sum deposit their precious burdens in
safe hands that will be in charge of the
creche, which is to be provided abundantly
with cradles, hammocks, cots everything,
in fact, for the care of babies. The only re
quirement is that mothers remain away not
longer than three hours. What mother
would?
There will be a plavroom for all children
of an age to enjoy toys and games, aod at
tendants employed to play with them. The
assembly room will ofler entertainments of
a widely varyingcharacter, given at specific
hours aud to suit the tastes and understand
ing of the little visitors. .These will in
clude charadesmusfcales, ;stereopticon Iec
tures;efc. ""It is- .hope'd bjC.tha.lady mana
gersthat young-gifls in everyState will as
sume a share of the responsibility ot raising
.funds to carry out these plans. This they
can easilv do bv festivals, necktie or apron
.parties or any of th several ways tried suc
cessfully betore this.
There" will be no needof previous appli
cation to get children into the 'school or
babies in the nursery, but those wishing
employment in either department should
apply as early as possible, not forgetting
their credentials. Address Mrs. Helen M.
Barker, Columbian headquarters, Chicago,
Acting a Guides and Interpreters.
Another avenue through which women
may see the Exposition offers in the posi
tion of guide and interpreter, those
speaking foreign languages being especially
in demand. Women are to be as freely em
ployed as men, and if they are not to re
ceive the same remuneration for their ser
vices then no one .knows it as yet For
such position I believe Mrs. Amy Stark
weather, at Columbian headquarters, is
the one to whom you might write for fur
ther information. All letters sent in to that
division are promptly and courteously re
plied to. Manv other ways and means there
are for deserving women to pav expenses
through their stay at the Fair, more than I
can write of in one letter. There must be
nurses lor the hospitals, cooks for the model
kitchens, women maids, watches through
the woman's building, and, indeed, all
buildings under the control of women, and,
I should think, in some of the others as
well.
All these things are worth the attention
of women who are in doubt about being
able to afford the great Exposition. I hare
seen enough of it already to know that no
one can afford to miss it and am impressed
that the old aphorism, "Where there's a
will there's a way," applies to the way of
getting to and tfirough the World's Fair.
Mabt Temple Bataed.
THE L0EGKETTE GIEL.
She Contributes Her Share to Fnrnith
Flirtations for Tonne Men.
Once a Week.
What shall be done with this quintes
sence of graceful impertinence? She is usu
ally not one bit near-sighted. Tne dainty
tortoise-shell toy she so deftly and effectively
wields is either an instrument of coquetry,
defense or cruelty.
Viewed as the former weapen, it is with
out equal in the entire arsenal of flirtation's
weapons. A skilled coquette can do more
damage with it than with the fan. As a
means of delense against the impertinence
of other women it is invaluable. A cold
stare, a contemptuous scrutiny through it,
will put to rout an army of impudent wo
men. But as an instrument of cruelty, an in
quisitorial weapon, it does greatest execu
tion. The lorgnette girl can display the
most finished insolence with her fragile
plaything. She is quite capable of calling
the attention of tne public to the worn
gown or mended gloves ot her victim.
A favorite and systematic course of
cruelty is to take her station at the door of
a summer resort hotel at the hour when the
omnibus is arriving from the btation with
its load of weary, travel-stained passengers
and closely scrutinize the dress of each
woman as sue alights. The lorgnette girl
can be fascinating, she can be clever, but
she has possibilities of brutality which
would make a strong man quail.
Fishing In Slam.
In Siam the natives utilize a curious
wicker contrivance for fishing in narrow
stream. The device in question is in the
shape of an inverted vase, without a bottom.
While one man devotes bis attention to
driving the fish down the water-way, an
other stands ready to clap the basket over
their heads when they come thickest.
Having thus penned in a number ot them,
hethiusts his arm into the trap and pulls
them out. '
iMOUNCING GUESTS.
The Extreme Formality Adopted by
an Eastern Nourelle fiiche.
FAD FOR COSTLY LITTLE THIHGS.
Effect of the Women's Club Movement Upon
Domestic Relations.
MARGARET E WELCH'S TIMELY GOSSIP
rwramir ro thb sispatch.1
Some New York women will not adopt
the custom, now almost universal, of having
guests announced. All first-class caterers
send ont "callers" along with the door
openers and maids for the cloak room, but
not all hostesses accept their services. It is
English to have them, and often women
with large visiting lists are very grateful
for the proper name to fit the proper per
son. At very large receptions a hostess
send a number of courtesy cards often to
people she scarcely knows and it is ot bene
fit to both when the flunkey reminds madam
that it is Mrs. Robinson who is entering her
drawing room. Other hostesses pride them
selves on their ability to pay their guests
the compliment of remembering them with
out any assistance and such decline the
"callers."
It has remained for a young matron
whose parentage was very humble, but
whose marriage with a wealthy manufac
turer has given her money to be consider
ably in the swim, to carry things to ex
tremes. At her superb home, not a thousand
miles from the Berkshire hills, servants are
in evidence from the time one drives
through the lodge gates. When she gives
one of her grand receptions three footmen
in gorgeous liveries waft the guest from the
dressing room to her presence. The firsts
at the landing half way down the stairs,
calls out "Mrs. Smith comes;" the second,
at the foot of the stairs takes up the refrain
with, "Mrs. Smith approaches," and the
third, at the door of the drawing room, pro
claims with a low bow that "Mrs. Smith is
here."
A noticeable feature of the time is the
tendency to reproduce the common small
articles of the wardrobe in expensive form.
Gold glove bnttoners, handkerchief and
flower holders, and later the gold spike pin
to attach the corsage bouquet, were consid
ered a few years ago rather unnecessary
luxuries to be occasionally indulged in.
Silver and gold button hooks and shoe
horns crept in, supplemented by common
hair pins of the same materials. Sow,
stocking supporter clasps, suspender
buckles, buttons, any of the small belong
ings that come in steel and nickle come as
well in silver and gold. Gold safety pins,
large and small, and dainty little frosted
safety pins of gold to catch up the always
too long dress sleeves of young infants, are
considered "must naves tot all well-regulated
modern babies.
A young woman ordered half a paper of
gold pins made exactly like the common
pin of everybody's cushion and she used a
number of them to pin a black tulle sur
plice waist and wide sash in place in lieu of
buttons or hooks. The little polished steel
manienre scissors with enrved points are
made with sterling silver and gold handles
from 6 to 10 inches long. In silver 510 buys
a pair; the gold ones much more expensive.
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"Nowhere," savs a New York woman, "do
I eat such chicken salad as at Mrs. 'a.
In the snmmer at her lovely suburban home
it is a permanent feature of her Sunday
evening suppers and the fame of it has gone
abroad among all her friends. It is com
pounded after a recipe given to her bf a
notable German housewife a dozen years
ago'in Berlin. As the dressing is most Im
portant and is a delicious mayonnaise for
anything where such is used, I give that
first: One cup ot wine vinegar, one full
teaspoon mixed Colman's mustard, two
tablespoonfuls sugar, one salt spoonful cay
enne pepper, three teaspoonfnls salt, yolks
A JVetrf Dressing Boom Table.
of six raw eggs; whip, and heat thoroughly
but do not boiL The knack in malting the
dressing is to heat sufficiently yet stop shortt
of the boiling point. When cold set in a
Ean of ice water and add, a little at a time,
alt a pint of salad oil, whipping constantly
with egg-beater. Lastly add juice of half a
lemon.
This is sufficient for three chickens. To
prepare the chicken after it is boiled and
cut into dice pour over it half a cup of
wine vinegar with one teaspoonful of Old
Maderia and one teaspoonful salt. Add be
fore serving six small heads of celery that
is cold and crisp to each chicken. Pour
over the dressing,-toss the salad lightly to-
getner and send to tne tame.
The illustration is modelled after the
fashionable little Marie Antoinette tables
for the dressing room. It is very pretty
made of plain pine wood and covered with
cretonne or some of the inexpensive chintz
pattern satins. The material is glued to
the wood; a double box-plaited ruffle may
be Used instead of the fringe. The com
partments may be interlined with per
fumed wadding' and used for gloves, ties and
handkerchiefs.
A couple of sisters, whose brother came
home permanently last month after a col
lege'eourse absence, spent the six weeks be
fore his return in transforming the rather J
grim den he had left, a lad of 18, into an
apartment a young belle might envy. "Ned
loves dainty things as much as a girl," they
said coaxingly to their mother, and,
"if it does not cost too much," was her re
ply. 'JLhe paper, a dull yellow, was stripped
lrom the walls, and in its place a delicate
cream paper with gold bow knots all over
it, was put on by t&e girls themselves. A
fresh matting was laid on the floor, and each
contributed a rug from her own room, with
the expense ot a white goat skin to stretch
before the bed. This was an. iron oue
painted white, with brass knobs, and they
were able to sell the old black walnut one
for its price. Dotted muslin curtains with
a fluted ruffle, tfed back with pink ribbons,
shaded the windows, and a wide flounce of
the same was tucked to the white bed spread
in imitation of a valance. A" straight piece
of the muslin ruffle. trimmed went over the
two pillows, giving the bed a wonderfully
dainty effect.
Then the young vandals attacked the ma
hogany and hair-cloth furniture, which
might be "rich and antique," they said, but
was not "pretty." They painted the ma--
nogany in white enamel picked out in gilt,
and replaced the haircloth on sola and
chairs with some charming cretonne that had
bunches of pink roses tied with bow knots
on a creamy background. A tall pine chest
of drawers made by the Tillage carpenter
became under their deft hands a white and
gold chifionier, and a dressing table of
white and gold was draped with the nose
gay cretonne. To finish, some of his boy
belongings were prettily arranged in a white
and gold cabinet with rose silk curtains
that had begun life plain pine shelves.
When the young collegian sauntered up to
bed the night of his arrival, his yell of
amazed delight fully repaid the listening
women at the foot of the stairs for all their
efforts.
The Indian puggarees are duplicated in
New York for fishing hats for both women
and men. They make ideal water headgear,
being light and cool, yet excellent pro
tectors. The imported ones are quite ex
pensive, costing $2 and $2 60, and only ob
tainable at tms high-class shops. The ac
companying cnt is of a home-made one
fashioned irom one of the 10-cent mat
baskets from a Japanese store. The stand
ard for the head was made with iour three
inch lengths ot pasteboard with a thin
sheet of leather glued over as covering.
These are sewed with one or two stitches of
stout white thread to the bowl of the basket
at regular intervals, and a circle of paste
board fitted to the head is covered with
oiled silk and fastened to these.
"I chanced to spend the night recently,"
says a woman, "at a small town in Western
Hew York where was being held ft the
The Top of the Hat.
time a Woman's Temperance Convention.
Two delegates occupied the room adjoining
mine, and in the silent watches of the
night indulged in various confidences. .As
a door and loose transom constituted a part
of the partition it was impossible not to
hear their conversation. One complained
in strong terms of her husband who, she
said, did not help much with the children,
of whom there were six nnder 10 years, of
age, and 'the dear knows,' she said, 'I
have no time to look after them with my
appointments on these conventions.'
"The other's tale of woe was equally dis
tressingj her husband was so neglectful of
his duties; sometimes she came home to
dinner and the cook announced nothing for
the meal, 'that lazy man having forgotten
to do the marketiug, expects me to look
after everything, with all my district visit
ing and temperance work. Why, sn.
finished with serious emphasis, 'I might
just as well not have a husband.' It struck
me she might much bettter not have had,
and also that those two women might find
some temperance work right in their own
homes betore they knew it"
It is this objection that is being brought
against woman's clubs and other organiza
tions of the sex which hare multiplied on
every side. Certainly no woman should let
her devotion to certain "causes" or "cult
ures" deprive her family of the attention
and care it deserves and sacredly claims
from her, but on the other hand it is pos
sible to be a better wife and mother, sister
or friend from a judicious and moderate in
termingling of "cause" and home work.
Like most other things in lite there is a
golden mean in the woman's club movement
which is not slow in outlining itself to the
sensible woman.
Maisgarkt H. Welch.
B00MIHG THE WOBLD'S FAIB.
Dr. de Guerrilla Bad an Andlenoe With the
Baler of the Celestials.
Chicago Times.
Dr.. de Guerville, who is traveling In the
east with an illustrated lecture-on the,
AY orld's Fair, is now in China. His trip in
Japan, during which he gave his lecture at
all principal cities and towns, was very
successful. The Emperor accorded him a
special audience, and his illustrated des
cription of the World's Fair was given on
one occasion as a special entertainment for
the Emperor, Empress and the high digni
taries ot the Japanese court.
Dr. de Guerville has recently commenced
his tour of China, but at last advioes was
suffering from the effects of malarial fever,
from which, however, there was a prospect
of his entire recovery.
Betore he fell ill Dr. de Guerville had an
interview with the viceroy of China, Li
Honshong, admiral of the navy and com
mander of the army, in which "the whole
subject matter of Chinese exhibits at the
fair was pretty fully discussed. Li-Hons-hong
in the course of the audience stated
that he could not feel that the attitude of
the United States toward the Chinese Gov
ernment had been friendly, but he listened
with great attention to the propositions of
Dr. de Guerville, who, as the honorary com
missioner for the exposition, set forth the
advantages that would undoubtedly accrue
to China if imnortant and interesting ex
hibits were made from that country.
The 'interview lasted for two hours, dur
ing which Commissioner de Guerville re
hearsed at considerable length and in detail
the features, extent and administration of
the Columbian Exposition.
CHANGED SH1EI8 WITH EACH 0THEB.
A Cnrions Example of th Enforcement of
Discipline In the British Army.
Youth's Companion.
The true soldier obeys orders faithfully,
no matter at what sacrifice. A company of
a British regiment was once sent on some
duty, in time of peace, to a remote village
in Ireland, and left there for several weeks,
quite separated lrom its usual base of
supplies.
.During this period some general orders,
applicable more especially to men in bar
racks, were sent to the commander of the
company. Oue clause of those orders were
as follows:
"AU'men in the command shall change
their shirts at least twice a week."
The captain gave orders to the orderly
sergeant to see the command put into exe
cution. "But, captain," said the sergeant, "there's
only a shirt apiece to every" man in the
company. How can they
"bilencel" exclaimedthe captain; "orders
are orders, sergeant. Let the men change
shirts with one another."
So the sergeant saw to it that, as long as
the company remained in the place, .on
every Sunday and Wednesday morning the
soldiers swapped shirts one with another.
Some Ancient Mirrors.
The mirrors of the ancient Greeks and
Romans were, thin discs ot bronze highly
polished, aud usually fasMoned with
handles, though sometimes they were set
upright on stands. Later on, silver was
used, and the first mirror of solid silver is
said to have been made by Praxiteles about
the time of Julius Ctesar.
HEABX-STOBJUS.
Chambers1 Journal.
The shadow of night is falling,
But the shore is sunlit yet:
Oh tranquil tide, what a flood you bear
Or bitter and wild regret!
When the storm your waves uplifted,
When the wind was wet witu spray.
My heart was eased of Its long dull aohe.
And I looked from my grlel away.
'lis when all Is calm and peaceful.
When at rest the whole world lies.
That the heart la stirred with a storm un
seen, And utters its lonely cries.
P. TT. Boot.
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A SHOW IN IITCHENS;
Those of Ireland and New England
Prepared for the World's Fair.
WHERE COOKING WAS SIMPLEST.
Dow the Women of the Emerald Isle Found
lime to Embroider.
THE CABINS IN WniCH GENIUS GREW
iwnrrraiT roa the disfatcr.1
Aa an exhibition ot the work of women,
kitchens are to have full play at the great
Fair in Chicago next year. In addition to
the German kitchen, heretofore spoken of,
the interior or an Irish cottage is to be fnlly
shown in all its simplicity, with possibly
the pig under the bed, of which so much
has been told by tourists.
All the cooking that some Irish women
have to do, it Is said, is to boil a pot of
"pittaties"' and this they do up to the
Queen's taste, as, everybody knows. This
limitation of kitchen work gives the house
wives time to embroider, make laoe and to
engage in other industries for profit. A
full exhibition of these, including the
thatched cottages in which they are manu
factured, has been designed by those inter
ested in the promotion of Irish industries,
and the betterment of the poor people of
Ireland who have a dire struggle for their
living. The Irish cottage is picturesque,
but not any prettier than the log cabins, or
cliff shanties in this country.
Dear to the Irish Heart.
It answers the purpose of shelter, usually
inefficiently, and forms a home that, with all
its drawbacks, is dear to the dwellers therein
more from sentiment and association than
tor comfort or good living. Their homes in
the bogs are as dear to the Irish peasants as
the castles of their richer brethren,and when
driven out of them for non-payment of rent
their lamentations ascend not only to high
heaven, but are published to the ends of the
earth to give testimony to the villainy of
landlords and the mercenary grasp of those
who after all only ask for their own. The
exposition of one of these Irish cottages, as
proposed, and true to life, will be one of
the great features of the Fair. It will show
to the thousands of well-to-do Irish in
Chicago a real picture of the homes of their
ancestors, just .as will a reproduction of
the cabins in which thev were ''raised" dis
play from what humble antecedents so
many of the Presidents ol the Bepublic rose
into power and fame.
An amusing story is told of an Irishman
and Irishwoman who came to this country
in the steerage on their wedding trip vears
and years ago. When they landed in Pitts
burg they had as tells the story not a
"fippeny bit between them." But they
had strong hands, stout hearts and good
looks. They worked, economized and
saved, until money flowed in upon them
without stint, and "a castle in stone" be
came their home. Society of the four hun
dred order made them welcome at every
door. At this stage apedigree became desira-
Die, ana tne madam was wont to discourse
at favorable moments upon the castle of her
ancestors in Ireland. Her husband, having
more pride in the financial success he had
achieved than in the imaginary glories of
dead and gone ancestors, who lived and
died among the bogs, spoiled one of her
finest stories and put a damper upon all her
pretensions bv savincr that the castle of her
ancestors was a cabin where "you could put
your hand down the cbimbly and take the
pittaties out of the pot."
The Food of the Irish Heroes.
Just such a cabin, we are told, is to be a
part of the Irish exhibit at the great Fair.
and the simplicity of living and cookery
will demonstrate upon what food and under
what circumstances are great men grown
and heroes bred. The famous log cabin of
Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham
Lincoln, the martyr President, if shown at
Chicago, will be one of the most notable ex
hibits of the great exposition. It will show
one room and a loft, which was reached, not
bv stairs, bnt by pegs in the wall of logs.
TJp these pegs went "Old Abe" to bed hen
a boy, and beneath the rifted roof of that
"loft" he dreamed bright dreams and
thought great thoughts. Hog and hominy
were doubtless his diet, as it was that of
most of the early settlers of the Western
country. Simplicity of living and economy
of labor as to cooking will thus be shown as
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tribution of honors in this country. Boyal
blood is made an essential to the thrones of
Europe, but in America the log cabin Presi
dents give token that energy, enterprise,
intellect, genius and that mysterious con
dition called "good luck" have power to
set the humblest-born into the highest seats
of power and greatness. Harrison, Arthur,
Lincoln and Garfield were born in bumble
log cabins and grew up on homel v fare.
Their early homes as reproduced at the Fair
in all their barrenness of beauty, their
lack of modern conveniences, their dearth
of books and papers, their pathetic picture
of the stress and straits of poverty would
show the scope ot American ambition and
the possibilities of the future for even the
most lowly country boy.
Bomrs of thn Future's Great Men.
In shooting along the railways in remote
and sequestered regions are seen little log
cabins, or cheap little weather-beaten
houses. Out of these may come presidents
and great statesmen in the future, as in the
past. Grant's early home, as pictured, is a
common little house with two' rooms and a
lean-to kitchen. Lincoln's home was bed
room, dining room, kitchen all in one.
Simplicity in living, absence of society,
lack ot style, give room lor thought, afford
time for s'tudy, and give good.strong founda
tion to inborn genius and native talent. If
the country boys who have acquired name
and tame and wealth had been worried
as to their clothes,had been full ot the desire
to make a display upon small means, had
been fired with a passion for spending hard
earned dollars upon baseball and other
amusements, rather than upon education
and books, it is likely they would have been
left to dim obscurity a prey as millions are
to-day.
Country life, country fare and the prompt
ings of narrow means seem to enter into the J
mating ol many ot the best of men. Town
life with its many distracting temptations,
town schools with their monotonous uni
formity, town amusements in their endless
variety keep the mind full of everything
save earnest thought, cool reason and calm
consideration. Out ot the plainest, the
scantiest, the barest homes have come the
noblest and the greatest ot men. Out of the
kitchens most poorly furnished, and lack
ing all. save the sheerest necessities, have
stepped great women and noble men. In
the early New England days the kitchen
and living room were all in one. Among
the pots and pans were discussed the great
matters ot government and religion.
Discussing Revolution and Cabbage.
In Bevolutionarv days in Mercv Warren's
kitchen were talked over the plans of the
colonists, and their schemes against the
British. Mrs. Warren, while cooking cab-'
bage, was full ot thought for the country,
and counseled independence before even
the Congress met, that made the famous
declaration. In a New England kitchen
was written much of that famous book
Uncle Tom's Cabin while the bread was
baking add the boiled dinners were look
ing. At the Chicago Fair, a New England
kitchen is to be displaved in its original
simplicity. What would make this more
interesting wonld be a historic connection
between it, and some famous representative
of Yankee ways and manners. A fao
simile of the Hawthorne kitchen, for in
stance, would bring to mind the great writer
as a family man. When they had
no "girl" the author ot the "Scarlet
Letter" used to eet breakfast and
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kitohen reproduced as they lived and
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worsea in it, wouia to Americans, approaca
that of Shakespeare in interest. Then the
Emerson kitchen would be very attractive.
Ralph Waldo, the profound philosopher,
can hardly be Imagined in a kitchen, and
yet there is little reason to doubt that he,
many a time', ground the coffee and brought
down his great mind to breakfast and din
ner subjects. The kitchen at "Apple
Slump" would be full of interest to every
reader of Louisa Alcott In that kitchen
while at work she thought ont her stories,
and brought her brains to bear npon the
problems of housework and the characters
in her books. Many who love "Little
Women" would reverence even the tea
kettle, and the skillet, and the saucepan in
which Louisa got up the, family dinner in
a real New England kitchen. Then who
would not be pleased to see the Beecher
kitchen, as it existed on the narrow means
of a minister?
The Typical New England Kltchxn.
A New England kitchen at the Fair will,
however, be most likely "away off" from
historic association. It will present, we are
tola, tne .run tan ljitcnen. it will show
the old dresser, rich in Dutch blue dishes,
the old clock with all its strikes and cones
on. The festoons of dried apples, held to
be a native feature, the rafters strung with
hams and sides of pork, the spinning wheel,
which clad all men of old in homespun, the
crane which has been immortalized In song
and story. The home-made rag carpet, the
home-made bedspreads, the ancestral chairs;
the time-worn relics of that elder day will
all be shown. How the foremothera worked,
and toiled,and slaved, will be made as plain as
how the fathers wore out theirlivesbefore the
day of steam plows, patent reapers and
machine mowers.
The New England kitchen to be exhibited
is, of course, one of the Miles Standish pat
tern, one of the Governor Bradford like
ness one of the "Mayflower" limitations.
There will be the ancient clocks from the
old home beyond the sea, the corner cup
board rich in pewter and blue delft, the
claw-footed furniture in brass and oak, the
English teakettle and the Dutch oven so
common and yet so useful. But it will not
be the kitchen in which Longtellows grew
up and Emersons found footing.
Bessie Bbamblz.
A TRICK OF THE CROOKS.
They Have Devised a Mew Scheme to Im
pose Upon the Unwary Public.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The crooks in New York have a new trick
by which they hope to gain possession ofar
ticles of value belonging to the unsuspect
ing public It requires two men to work
the scheme, but if the victims are selected
with discrimination it should prove success
ful. The trick is a simple one. Crook No. 1
boards an elevated train and sits down on
one of the cross seats on the side nearest to
the station. If the window is shnt he opens
it and then begins to scan a newspaper. His
pal joins him afterward and takes a seat fac
ing him.
No sign of recognition passes between
them, and they continue to ride thus until
the seat beside' one of them is occupied by
a passenger carrying a satchel or a bundle
which has the appearance of carrying arti
cles of value.
Then when the next station is reached one
of the men rises leisurely and walks out of
the car. He waits until the car is in mo
tion and then rushes breathlessly to his pal
and excitedly asks tor the valise which he
left behind.
His pal picks np the valise and passes it
out of the window to his confederate before
the rightful owner has a chance to protest
Explanations follow, bnt, the crook pre
tending to learn his mistake, humbly apol
ogizes and leaves the train at the next sta
tion. 10 SEE TOTJHBELF TALE.
The Details of the Phonoscope, the
Latest
Fhotographlo Novelty.
Philadelphia Kecord.
An announcement was made some weeks
ago that a Frenchman had succeeded in tak
ing instantaneous photographs of the lips of
a speaker and in recombining them in a
kind of zoetrope, so as to produce the orig
inal movement and enable a deaf mate to
understand what was said.
It is now stated th'at the inventor has im
proved on the process and brought out a
new apparatus for combining the images,
the device being termed the phonoscope.
The changes of the lips it speaking are so
rapid that 15 photographs a second are re
quired to give a good result The whole
head and bust of the speaker are repro
duced in the photograph so as to get the
benefit of the expression.
In the phonoscopes the positives are ar
ranged around the periphery of a disk
which is rapidly turned by a handle. A
second disk having a single window in it
opposite the plates is also rotated by the
same handle, but at a much higher rate of
speed than the Other. A beam ot sunlight
illuminates the plates from behind and the
observer looking into the apparatus sees
them pass his eye one after the other in
such rapid succession as to produce the ef
fect ot a single image endowed wltn anima
tion. To produce this result it is necessary
that at least 10 or 12 must pass the retina in
a second.
SAVED BY HI8 C00LHESB.
The Iron Dnke's Strange Interview Tfilh a
Murderous Maniac
San Francisco Chronicle.
Some years ago the Duke of Wellington
was sitting at his library table, when the
r door opened, and without any announce
ment in stalked a figure of singularly ill
omen.
"Who are you?" asked the Duke in his
short and dry manner, looking up without
the slightest change of countenance upon
the intruder.
"I am Apollyon. I am sent here to kill
you."
"Kill me? Very odd."
"I am Apollyon, and I must put yon to
death."
" 'Bliged to do it to-day?"
"1 am not told the day or the hour; bnt 1
must do mv mission."
"Very inconvenient; very busy; great
many letters to write. Call again, or write
me word. I'll be ready for you."
The Duke then went on with his corre
spondence. The maniac, appalled, prob
ably, by the stern, immovable .old gentle
man, backed out ot the room, and in naif an
hour was in an asylum.
SOMETHING ABOUT HATCHES.
Of All the Different European Kinds the
Swedish Are the Best
Philadelphia Times.
The oldest and it is said the largest match
manufactory in the world is in Sweden.
Matches were made there long before the
old, roughly trimmed splinter of wood,
tipped with sulphur, was discarded with
the tinder boxes, for which they were used.
In 25 years the export trade of Sweden in
modern matches increased 1,000,000,000
boxes a year.
Some of the machines for making matches
which we use in these days make 200 revo
lutions a minute each and turn out about
2,5()0,000 of matches daily. Bather more
than five matches per head tor the whole
population are used daily in. the United
States. Strange to say the quality of these
Swedish matches, in many cases, is so bad
that the State intends to resume the manu
facture and computes that the profits will
produce a revenue of 51,000,000. Altogether
there are in Europe about 150,000 factories,
and thev vearly produce matches valued at
$50,000,000.
A Strange Coincidence.
During the Fourth of July celebration at
the Washington monument, in Washington,
just as the speaking began a beautiful rain
bow formed apparently just above the apex
of the monument It soon disappeared and
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FRUIT 11 THE GOWN.
Foulards Strewn With Cherries One
of the Novelties of Snmmer.
BEAUTY AT THE GARDEN PARTIES.
Elbow Sleeves Worn With Long Gloves One
of the Fages Just Now.
THK 'TBEFOIIi THE POPULAR BROOCH
teonaisroirnawcx or thi dispatch.
New Yobk, July 16. Strange as It may
seem, there are some, even in that select
circle known as the Fonr Hundred, who re
main in town off and on through the sum
mer, paying alternate visits to different re
sorts, without remaining long at any one
place. While in town they manage to live
very comfortably by dining at Delmonico's,
driving in the parks or out to Tuxedo, and
meeting at the Casino or Madison Square
Garden for some light entertainment of the
flavor of the Parisian Cafe d'Ambassadeurs
order. Undoubtedly these stay-at-homes
get more variety out of the summer festivi
ties than if they were domiciled perma
nently. Most of them through relations
and friends have standing invitations to
Newport, Narragansett Pier or the Long
Island fashionable resorts, which they
choose in turn according to the induce
ments of each.
A favorite pastime for a day is for a party
to take the steamboat Laura M. Starin at
Thirty-second street for Oyster Bay, where
Mrs. S. V. R. Cruger entertains often at her
country residence, 'Idlesse, one of the most
fascinating spots on the island. Luncheon
is served on the verandas with mnsic, and
here may be seen the very latest inventions
of Paris modistes.
A Gown That Made n Sensation.
Mrs. Cruger herself is noted for her beau
fnl gowns, that of canary colored uncut vel
vet, trimmed with gold and white silk, ac
companied by a sunshade of canary and
WUi Cherrie Bed and Jtpe.
white chiffon, which she wore a-coaching
this season, having been the talk of the
day. She received her guests on a recent
bright day in a striking costnme of Pompa
dour silk with a lavender ground, trimmed
with absinthe green ribbons and white lace.
Her garden hat was a big Watteau, with
brim of green faced with black chip, the
crown filled in with pink roses and their
foliage, apparently tied with a bow of
black satin ribbon. Butterfly bows oi the
same caught up the sides of brim in a very
coquettish fashion.
A very charming piazza gown was worn
by Miss Kitty Cameron, being nothing less
dainty and costly than black silk mull with
a wide daisy flouncing, the daisies looking
as natural as those she wore in her corsage.
It was made exquisitely with a fall of blaok
lace flouncing. A wide girdle of black
silk was relieved by hip sides of frosted
gold. Falling from the back of the yoke was
a Watteau bow of blacK Insertion ribbon.
Her hat was a large Leghorn, with soft
moving brim, trimmed with a great pan
ache of black and green ostrich feathers,
three of the feathers falling forward, two
toward the back and three along the left of
the crown, the right side being left bare.
Some of the Striking Costumes.
There was a gown of blaek foulard, figured
with an iris pattern in pink and deep violet:
there was a straw-colored Bedford combined
with pale blue velvet and rich old lace, and
an ecm silk with a satin stripe worn with
a Louis XIV. coat of hunting green velvet,
trimmed with a deep border of ecru guipure.
Those just returned from Europe wore
cream foulards figured with fruit, which by
the way will be the material of the hand
somest midsummer toilettes.
The most striking of these, indeed the
dress of the occasion, was a satin finished
foulard, with a cream ground, shot with
pinkish pretty color and strewn with ripe
red cherries and their green leaves. It was
made up with a generous showing of green
velvet and cream lace, the lace being lined
with surab, shading lrom red to pretty
color. A puff of green velvet between the
frills of lace formed the loot trimming. A
green velvet corselet and elbow sleeves of
lace, knetted with green velvet were features
of the waist A big drooping Leghorn in
cream was one mass of lace and red cherries.
Short Sleeves Art the Kage.
Whether thl scene is a Newport rose
party, or a Hudson river garden dance, or a
Lenox tea, there is a big display ot bare
arms, that is to say arms which are covered
to the elbow with the thinnest pretense of
silk gloves. It helps give the flavor of old
pictures to modern scenes and goes very ac
ceptably, in spite of the prudes, with low
V necks crossed with Marie Antoinette
fichus aud big Watteau hats laden with
roses, violets and orchids. It does very
well for the critics to dilate upon the pit
falls of copying characters out ol books and
paintings, but who shall say that the same
tendency does not add to the brilliant
effects in dress? Short sleeves are to be
worn even in day, gowns at all the watering
places.
This is joy supreme for the girl with an
arm like Hebe or Psyche, but pain un
mentionable for the swarthy, bony class.
A pretty arm and a pretty neck with a low,
sweet voice that sounds in one's ears as it
its owner had drunk in the nectar of the
sunshine, and what man cares if the nose is
slightly pug or the leatures a bit irregular?
Did I say elbow sleeves? Yes, and what's
more these short sleeves are for the most
part simply knotted on the shoulders and
above the elbow like the corners of a hand
kerchief, with a bow of ribbon, so that the
full, rounded line from wrist to shoulder is
only oroten by a loop and end. And if
the material be some silken gauze and the
silken gauze be black, lrom fair in contrast,
how irresistible is that gleam of lair, white
SE1U.
The Gloves Are an Item.
The new sleeves are not lifted, aa of late,
at the shoulders but are made with such
fullnen ai to droop in many folds toward
the elbow, often terminating in a deep frill.
Again the fullness is gathered in to the
deep cuff over which it falls gracetullv or
it is carried away to wrist, where it Is held
with a band. The long-wristed, silken
gloves are an expensive luxury, as are the
evening cloves of white kid, reaching to
the shoulders and paneled with white lace.
White gauntlets with colored stitching in
trreeK paiiernsmaKe dainty outing gloves.
Girls who imitate the picturesque garden
gowns of Maud Howe Hall and Carrica I
Fayre wear some dainty enoughforabride
maid, of white surah or China, cut short
waisted and trimmed with Valenciennes
lace, the sleeve draperies of diapbanoni
fabric caught on the shoulders with jeweled
ornaments. Hats to correspond are mads
of; drawn silk and trimmed with rosettes of
Valenciennes, or when a bonnet is desirable,
as an out-of-door theatrical performance.tha
same is the cutest imaginable, composed of
rose petals and adorned with rose buds and
white lilacs, tied with white satin atringi
fastened with a tiny diamond arrow. Amid
the folds of lace at the neck gleams a dia
mond trefoil, most likely, set in a circle of
brilliants, that being by all odds the most
desirable brooch of the season.
Worn at a Wedding Bilk
If gowns are only artistio they mar b
worn at country house weddings, balls or
garden parties with little discrimination.
The Proper Thing Just JTour.
big hats and chifion parasols accompanying
the one, bouquets, fans and jewels' the
other. A girl who joined in the dance in
the lawn, a unique feature after the pretty
wedding ot Mis Pauline Jerome to Doug
lass Worth Olcott, at Gluckheim, Will
iamstown, Mass., (the residence of the
bride's father) wore a cream delaine, fig
ured with honeysuckle in pink and green,
with big, shoulder rosettes of green velvet
ending in long streamers. Not an expen
sive gown at an, out answering tne lasmon
able requirements of the dav by its quaint
coloring and simple cut This girl is one
of the pretty debutantes of the season, be
longing to the Van Rensselaer set of New
York, but with an income far out of pro
portion to her position. Economy is with
her a necessity, but she chooses so wisely
that to see her one would think she had un
bounded means. When this dress must do
duty at a garden partv she wears it' with
becoming hat ot crinoline straw with bows
of pink and green, and carries a cream par
asol with a bow ot the same on the handle.
Even a simple white muslin is in keeping
with the occasion if worn with a wide baby
sash and a soft brimmed hat
Thanks to Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt
and a few other social leaders, who for
several seasons have essayed to set the ex
ample of less extravagance in dress, fashion
and economy may be, thus made to coincide,
when cheery hearted' women have the good
sense to choose what they can afford rather
than to try to copy the costly gowns of
their acquaintances. Dot DojtmcK.
Stealing; In Persia.
In Persia the first time a man is caught la
the act of stealing he is "bastinadoed"
(beaten on the soles of the feat withan lroa
rod) and made vr s.'gn. a paperssflaring
that that will be his last offense. If he
forgets this when the soles of his feet quit
burning, and tries it again, the seoond
offense calls for the amputation of his right
hand. If he is still obdurate, and goes at it
left handed, the third, and, of course, last
resort, is decapitation.
Manufacture of Sheeting.
Bamboo-sheeting is a new Chinese manu
facture which is extending in the Province
of Wenchow. The cane is split up so as to
form a sheet, which, after being softened in
boiling water, is pressed out flat The
sheets are used for veneering, making trays,
fans, screens and carved fretwork.
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