I BHSHEsI THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDATZ SEPTEMBER 4. 1892. ay & J HOIS OFTHE PAST, Some Beautiful Old Time Country Seats That Are Now a Memory. THEIE NAMES STILL LITE. A famous Indian Chief Once Spread His Wigwam at Guyasuta. BTOET OF THE SCHENLEY HAKSIOK. ICatnre'i UTiin Gifts to Statelj Bonthilde Eejidencei. DEIE CEEZI IS 1ST A SUHHEE JOT rwxiTTMf K) IHI DISrATCH.1 Pittsburg has had In its time many fine old country teats, resembling la some par ticulars those of England. A number of these places are still in existence The best known, perhaps, of the old estates is Gnya suta, the home of Jtrs. "William Darling ton, who was Miss O'Hara. The place took its name from Guyasuta, the famous Indian chieftain, prominent in Pontiac's war and whose grave is beneath a 'spreading oak tree in one part of the grounds. Not a hundred yards west of the house beneath a splintered walnut tree tradition says Guya suta had a wigwam. The house is of brick, painted gray, with wide halls and porches, and great stately looking rooms filled with heirlooms. It contains the most complete historical library in the State, and the fiuest private conser vatory about Pittsburg. The anproaoh to the house is by a sylvan avenue several hundred yards in length. The estate contains over 200 acres and has been in the O'Hara family for a century. Guyasuta station takes its name from the estate. The ricnles on the Mtsdowi. Adjoining the Darlingtons Is the old Boss place. What is now Boss' Grove was originally part of the estate of Mr. James Boss, who owned abont 2,000 acres in that section. He built a substantial mansion on the grounds, which was called "The Mead ows." The property has of late been rented to strangers. Just at present it is used as a picnic house. It won its name from the character ol the land. Colonel Croghan. Mrs. Schenley's father, built and named "Picnic" the old Schenley mansion that stands in the midst of 150 acres of woodland out Stanton avenue. It was considered in his time a place of princely magnificence and even now a very impressive building. It is of brick, three stories high, painted dark brown, and is sur rounded by wide colonnaded piazzas. In the rear is the one-story structure occupied by Colonel Croghan "while erecting the niain building. He died before it was en tirely completed. It was occupied by Mrs. Schenley and her husband while the estate was being settled up, and again for a few months on Mrs. Schenley's attaining her majority. Since then for 30 years it has been unoccupied, but a faithful attendant still keeps it just as it was left, and ready at a moment's notice to receive the iamily. The First Fine Country Scat The Ormsbvs, one of the oldest Pittsburg jamuics, nau me ursi une country seat in the region. It was on the Southside, and was known as the Ormsby Place. Mr. John Ormsby, an officer in the Revolutionary "War, with his daughter, resided in it. The Southside was then almost an unbroken wilderness, nnd the house was -surrounded by grounds that owed their beauty t6 no other landscape gardener than nature. Whitehall was built by Mrs. Sara Collins, widow ot Thomas Collins, Esq., who, as her portrait by Sully bears witness, was a beauty as well as a social leader and at tracted to their home all the distinguished visitors to the city. She entertained Daniel "Webster on one of his visits here. The house was white and tood in the midst of a grove of 19 acres and had fine conserva tories. Porches on both floors made pleas ant lounging places tor the afternoon when it was the custom of the ladies of the house to repair to them with their fancy work. A I'lace of Idral Beauty. A number of other fine old fashioned homes were grouped near Mrs. Collins.' Across from it, after his marriage to her daughter, the late Judge "Wilson McCand less. ot the Supreme Court, build Ali- quippa, another celebrated country seat. Aliquippa Mas a place of ideal beauty. It had wide porches, gables aud bay windows, cud in the summer was covered with flow ing vines, from which the odor of roses and honeysuckles were wafted. The spa cious grounds were marked on three sides by poplar trees, while the river ran along the fourth. Private pleasure boats ehoweJ the family taste for the water. Aliquippa, like its neighbor, "Whitehall did a great deal of entertaining. The Supreme Court judges and all the ju dicial or political dicnitaries of the day were entertained by its master and mistress. Judge McCdndless so named the place be cause "Washington crossed the Alleghenv river there on hi3 way to visit Queen Ali quippa, after having been the guest of George Croghan. Still stanaine at Penn avenue and Pifty-S'-eond street is Echo, the one-time home of Mrs. Mowry, daughter of Judge Addison, wnose tombstone is one of the oldest and quaintest of those still standing in Trinity churchxard. It is a two-story, double brick home, and was so named on account of a real or imaeinary echo. On ground that now forms part of the Allegheny Cemetcrv Btood the home of Bichanl Biadell, Esq., the once famous Pittsburg lawyer. The house, which was burned many years ago, was called the Knoll although it was built in a ravine. Bichard Ifiddcll. Jr., and the wife of Eev. John Hall Jlcllxane, of the Church of the Asoan'-ion, New York, are children of the owner of the Knoll. Charming Spot la the Eighteenth TTard. Another o." the many pretty places in the aristocratic colony m the Eighteenth ward was and is Elm Cottage, now the home of Mrs. Mary It. Foster, sister-in-law of the Hon. Morrison B. Poster and of Stephen C. Foster, the song writer. The place was Duut by Jude Trevanion Dallas, whose relative, Judge George M. Dallas, was Vice President with Polt. .Turf George Dallas was the father nf h nnrr. M. Dallas, of Philadelphia, recently ap pointed to the Court of Appeals by Presi dent Harrison. The house is a ttorvand a half high, covered with vines, surrounded by trees and furnished tastefullv. It is one of the most charming places about Pitts burg. rnher out of the citv in the earlr part of the csntury Judge "Wilkins built his country teat, ilomewood, from which llomcwood station has taken its name. Judge Wilkins was a prominent lawyer United States District Judge, Secretary of "War under President Tyler and Minister to Russia. Hig wife was a great bcautv and a sister of Vice President George M. 'Dallas. The house was in the colonial style, wilh lolly porches and imposing pillars. It stood in the middle ot a park of COO acres and was always filled with gue.ts. The suburb of tLe city now known as Home wood stands on vim were Judge Wilkins' grounds. He had five children to inherit his wealth, and although the house still standi as it was tue estate has been sold. The house was bought by the Colemans. Mrs. James Hutchison, Judze Wilkins' daughter, occupied an estate adjoining. It was called Gunn's place and the deserted mansion may still be seen in Homewood, a little beyond Forbes street The Hutohi Bons now live in Chicago. Highwood, the home of Hr. "William Dll worth, a half century ago itood on the grounds that now contain the HilldUe Cemetery, Allegheny. The house waa burned down years ago. Honored br the Name of Tammany. Moreanza was the estate of Colonel Mor gan of revolutionary fame. He was greatly beloved by the Indians, by whom he waa called Tammanah, (Tammany) Tamenund, from whom the great New York political club takes its name, was one of their most honored chiefs and the Indians felt they were bestowing a great compliment on Colonel Morgan by thns referring to him. The reform school is now located on the site and retains the name. Major Morgan, of the Arsenal, and Mrs. L M. Harding are his descendants. The house now occupied by the Superin tendent of the Allegheny Cemetery bore the name of Linden. It was the home of the Schoenbergers, who years ago soldit to the cemetery. The honse was built by Alexander Semple, an uncle of Mrs. Charles. J. Clark. The old "W. "V7. Knox place, at Knox Tille, where a few weeks ago the managers of the Southside Hospital gave a lawn fete, was in its day a very noted place. It was called Lesmore, meaning the orchards, on account of the large orchards connected with it. Mr. Knox was the father of Miss Virginia Knox, who became the Countess di Mcntercoli. The Denny family has had a number of country seats. One of them once stood where the round house now is. Its name, Springfield, was given on account of the springs that bubbled up here and there all over the grounds. The largest of the coun try seats and the only remaining one is Deer Creek at Denny station. 14 miles up the "West Penn road." Mrs. Sprint, one of the Denny heirs, with her daughter, spends the cummers there. It is an old-fashioned honse, and as seen from the railroad through its avenues of trees is a most desirable pos session. Tbix THE EOLDIEE OF AHEBICA. In the XJurnlns He&t and the Freesln Cold n Sticks to His Post. Harper's Tfeckly.j To know the American soldier well you must toil with him 'over the desert trail when the suns beats hotly down on the dry and verdurless earth, and the dust rises in white clouds that hide the column from view, and fills the eyes, the mustaches, the ears, the mouth, with profanity and vexa tion. Here is where his songs and jokes proclaim the stuff that he is made of. Then, when vou are sent out with him In the dead of winter over 20 inches of snow, your equipments and supplies on bodsleds, he it is that dismounts time and again with out a murmur, pushing, to help the mules up hill, and repacking the overturned sled a dozen times in a day; then, after it all, digging his hole in the snow, and putting up his tent at night, all the time joking with his "Bunkie," and ready as ever to steal a wisp of hay or a handful of oats for his shivering horse. He it is that jumped into a boiling hot spring to save the life of the daughter of a private citizen a deed for which the citi zen, who was a rich man, proffered the as tounding sum of $3, ana the Government the gold medal of honor; he that took a fiat-bottomed boat out in a heavy sea in New York Harbor to rescue a drowning boy; that lost his life for his fidelity while attempting to swim an icy stream with dispatches; who, single-handed, served a field gnn through an action, with a bullet in his leg to hold a position; he that you believe incapable of anything but "buck ing faro" and drinking strong liquors. LOUDON'S NEW BTEEL BEIDQK It Is to Takft ibt Finos of tho Famous fbtruc.ure at VauxhalL Iron. London, in addition to that well-nigh consummated monument of engineering science opposite the Tower, is to have a new steel bridge, at an estimated cost of 330,000 The existing structure which spans the Thames at Vauxhall, once so famous tor its royal gardens, is soon to be a thing of the past. It owes its premature death it will be but some 77 years old when demolished to the unauspicioui circumstances under which it was- created. "When the foundations were completed for what was at first intended to be a stone bridge, the builders decided to construct the remaining portion oi cast iron, thus con stituting Vauxhall the first metropolitan bridge built of that metal. The masonry piers were, however, left, the original de sign of nine narrow arches being therefore maintained. It is to the attrition en gendered by the swirl of confined and con densed waters under these nine circum scribed vaults that the old bridge owes it doom. Its foundations are reported, on the authority of divers, to be, if not exactly tottering, at least in so bad a condition that the structure would, in a comparatively short period, become absolutely unsafe. ifrThe projected new bridge is, of course, to be much wider than its predecessor, which measures only SO feet between parapets, compared with the 85 feet ot the broaden bridge in Europe, that elegant metallic framework which unites the Middlesex and Surrey shores at Westminster. PETEIFIED FOREST IN AEZ0HA. The Roclcy Snb itances Are Terj Hard and lirautiral When Polished. Pearson's YfeeVly.J One of the greatest of natural ouriosities is the petrified forest of Arizona, which covers hundreds of square miles. Unless you are more hardened to wonderful sights than the writer you will almost fancy your self in some enchanted spot. You seem to stand on the glass of a gigantic kaleido scope, over whose sparkling surface the sun breaks in infinite rainbows. You are ankle-deep in such chips as never come from any other woodpits, chips from trees that are red moss-aate, and amethyst, and smoky topas, and agate of every hue. Such arc the marvelous splinters that cover the ground for miles here, around the'huce prostrate trunks some of them five feet through from which time's patent ax has hewn them. I broke a specimen from the heart of a tree there three years ago, which had around the stone pith a remarkable array of large and exquisite crystals. On one side of the specimen which is not so large as my hand is a beautiful mass of crystals of pur ple amethyst, and on the other an equally beautiful array of smoky topaz. One can get also magnificent cross-sections of a whole trunk, so thin as to be portable and showing every vein and even the bark. There is not a ohip in all those miles which is not worthy a place, just as it is, in the proudest cabinet; and, when polished, I know no other rock so splendid. This petrified agate is one of the hardest stones in the world, and takes and keeps an incom parable polish. Improvement on Chronometers. A recent English invention of great im portance to navigators is a hermetically sealed chronometer to prevent the detri mental effects of the atmosphere and mois ture on the mechanism. The invention con sists in hermetically closing the casing of the chronometer, doing away with the key hole through which the air and the mois ture gained access to the works and affect ing the winditig up of the chronometer by providing a flexible or elastic diaphragm. A Qa-rrly Built Home. The sole street frontage of house in Wooster street, above Bleecker, is a strip two stories high over a narrow alley. Tnere is no ground floor to this front, and the up per stories have room for only a hall bed room each. The front is wedged between another dwelling on the south and a busi ness building on the north, and the entrance to the house is by way ot an alley. In the rear the bouse spreads ont conslder- aau i Yr.'fclsfrii - s .!. ii , t ibi5iCffi - Vti.i ' i, JT -"' j.j- - ij-i 'Jft i'S i -- i n v. ?j3iViiBSKiktovQtiijsssBssHF JaslMsMsA,&W:Ok,gatfc-iJ.fcik t -, iiaCsftsMMMMBteL-JilmiMitf i'IImi kXtdi,m,ti'vJik-'-Mm'' i'n'iri&sft i , naitirj,Ji"ffi''' j '&mt , && jifcii-' iJ$SKBBItaUrUBSBKE 'HINTS FOR FASHMliitaSqrfl!a5f,,ffli Descriptions of the New Things to Be Seen in Paris and London. SPECIALLT PRIPARED IETTER8 From the Headquarter of Styles for Pitts burg Women, to Study. WHIT THE AUrUHK WILL BRING FORTH tcoRUSFOHnnrcz or Tins DisrATCH.i Pabis, Aug. 2a There are no indica tions of any decided change in the form of onr skirts; if anything the umbrella skirt is more than ever popu lar, but is shorter and gored more closely to the hips. The baok breadth is best put in by taking one corner of a wide material to the waist, sloping off a small angle on either side and cut ting the bottom on a curve to clear the ground. Narrow frills at the extreme edge, or box-pleatings an inch wide are the The Prevailing Form, only ornaments. Corselet bodices laced in front are much worn, and with every variety of blouse, notably bright tartans in twill silk or poult de soie, very full sleeves of the same to the elbow, and to the wrist of the skirt ma terial made quite tight and buttoned. A navy blue serge looks well made thus, with foulard blouse spotted in white. Sailor hats with very small orowns are suit able for this costume. Tight-fitting bodices, differing from tba skirt, are convenient, as they can be varied and arranged ad in finitum. Been on the Beach. A pretty bathing costume Is made of gray cheviot cloth, tight skirt carefully gored, and lined with glace silk; a short sleeve less Eton jacket of the cloth; the sleeves and vest being of China silk, with an Indian red ground and oriental pattern all over it. A smart traveling gown can be made of stone-gray tweed, the skirt and shoulder cape to match; a plaid silk bodice of suita ble tones of color, made as an easy-fitting blouse, and a six-inch or four-inch webbing belt, with large oxidized buckle. Shot serges were originated last winter, and are more popular now. They are not quite to my taste, as I think two colors, whatever they are, require the reflected light, which only silk can give. Still, a navy blue serge shot with red makes up with very good effect for yachting dresses. Very fine brown holland with a dull sur face of the tussore shale can be made very effective with a yoke and sleeves of black silk covered with string-colored guipure lace. Folds of black silk should be ar ranged round the waist Shoulder capes to reach the waist hang ing open in front showing revers and lin ings, are smart and or namental as an extra, if not extremely use ful. Male of black velvet, a narrow edg ing of jet passementer ie, and lining of Den galine of any rich color, should be used. One I have seen is in the favorite "jardine blue" cloth, which is not slate-blue nor elec tric, but the two blend ed, and is almost the color of Austrian uni forms. It is lined with ruby poult-de-soie, and bordered with finn The Shoulder Cape. gteei ana jet gjmp an inch and a half wide. Dinner dresses are made with very full velvet sleeves to the elbow, lace lappels very broad and full over the shoulder, nar rowed to a point at the waist. Marie An tionette fichus in Indian muslin or silk crepe are wore for demi-toilette. Velvet sleeves for visitinjr dresses are also worn. Lady Arkney, better known hitherto as Miss Connie Gilchrist, was married in a gray silk gown with green velvet slee ves and collar. In traveling it is well to be provided with a smart zouave jacket and vest, which can be worn at tables d'hote, where decol lette gowns would look conspicuous. The vest should be of pompa dour crepon, the zouave of rich green silk, the revers and collar lined with velvet of a darker shade. Almost any skirt can be worn with this. Creamy, white, double warp serge in always "du cachet" for summer seaside wear; skirt just to touch the ground, and lined for protection with muslin, and the The Zouave Jacket. jacket open in fronts, tight-fitting behind, are made of the serges. A full blouse front of cream surah, with three bands of gold galon across the chest and round the collar. A coarse, golden straw hat, with large Al satian bow of cream crepe mousseline stand ing well out on either side of the front, is surmounted by an aigrette of golden pheas aut's leathers or from the breast of the peacock. Pine, white mechlin lace veils, spotted and bordered, are much worn with these broad-brimmed hats. An "en-tout-cas" of coquelicot shot silk gives a welcome note of color and saves the costume from insipidity. Por autumn colors, bright navy blue and prune will be much worn. The latter sounds somewhat old, but, made in cloth or corduroy, the vest ornamented with black and cold passementerie, the skirt quite tight and edged with a leather border, it will prove a good walking dress and tones well with the light fawn-colored marabout boas which will continue to be fashionable. A very beautiful dress has just come from one of the best Paris houses. It consists of a sleeveless Louis XV. jacket of rich -blue satinette, open in the front, the large lap els turned back as far as the sleeves. Three enamel buttons, sur rounded by small paste diamonds, are on each side and on the lame pocket lapels. The folded vest and high sleeves, tightening to the wrist.are of a brill iant tartan of came ronian colors, light ground covered with red and blue, bnt no yellow. The skirt is JVotcI and JTeat. of satinette. made auite plain, but cut nn at th fcnttnm in tiny tabs an inch square, the points tamed back, showing two narrow pleated flounces. A tartan flounce on the won .and pinked WhSw . .AJ1CH, Ol DUUU licet, London, recently had this tea gown, which is simple enough for home construction, lent from here: Open robe of tea green cash mere lined with surah ot the same color; the under part of the sleeves of the same, but the full puffs, which extend to the wrist, are of salmon pink shot surah fastened with bands and bows ot tea green velvet ribbon. The front from the neck downward is also ot the pink, drawn 1 1t T a ah 1 elttAAi lull over the bust ana tied with the velvet ribbon, lace cravat and Tea Oreen CtuAmer&ruffles. ASTOBIA. TO WELCOME JACK FROST. Tho Cloaks and Mackintosh! Marie Jonreaa Found la London Vo Shjrt Wraps to Be Seen Besntlral Combi nations of Colors Styles In Hade"ar. London, Aug. 23. Oh, these London shops, they are sufficient to turn one's head in the gorgeousness of their display. All the novelties in fall and winter things are out and' one can pick and choose now for her season's wardrobe. In all the great shining windows of Eegentand New Bond and Oxford streets the cloaks and outer garments of all kinds are en evidence, the gowns being of less importance just now. And ohl the cloaks are so chic. They are big and heavy and rich looking, and fashioned in such an infinite variety of modes that no womau need go un- The Cossack. suitea. There are no short garmen ts shown; they are either quite long or half long. There is a great deal of .fur used about them and many of them are beautifully braided with rich cords and gold braid. They are almost invariably lined through out with beautifully color ed silks and brocades. Of the hundreds of cloaks that I have ex amined in the past week the most stunning without exception is the "Cossack" blouse coat, which no doubt will be the most fashionable mode of the winter. It is half long, reaching to within abont a foot ot the ground, and is very full and volumi nous. The model is of dull light French green broadcloth, lined richly with pale blue changeable silk shot with polka dots of black satin. It is pleated on the shoulders and is belted with an ex quisite girdle of beaten silver. The sleeves are very large, and flare a great deil abont theor TaU, Graceful wrists, and are trimmed Figure. with deep cuffs of soft, black fur, which also forms the great rolling collar and trims the front of the coat. A fetching little capot accompanies this exquisite creation. The crown is of the green broadcloth lice the coat, and is trimmed with a deep border of fur and two cockades of black bristles. Another handsome mode is that shown by Bedfern. It is a half long affair, fitting to the back and banging off the shoulders in a very loose and baggy fashion in the front It is espe cially adapted to tall, grace'ul figures,and has a great deal of chic and elegance about it The moilel illustrated is of pinkish tan melton, lined deliciously with The Mackintosh, old rose silk. It is fin ished by very deep cutis and a rolling collar of light sable, ami fastens in double-breasted fashion with huge white pearl buttons. The jaunty hat shown in the cut is to be one of the favorite winter modes. It U a simple round affair of French felt in the same pinkish tan color as the coat It is trimmed simply with bows of old rose velvet lined with sash colored velvet, and fasten ed with a jeweled buckle in front Mackintoshes and traveling cloaks are all being made after one new mode that con sists of a straight ulster with an enormously long cape, and a very comfortable hood. I saw an unusually pretty one on a bright faced English girl the other day in a London wet-down. It wjs of rich tartan plaid in colors running to dark blue ami green with brilliant lines of crim son. It was lined with crimson and as the long cape flew back it was a charming bit of color and set off beautifully ths girl's piquant face in the picturesque hood. These mackintoshes when made of navy blue and lined with crimson are exceedingly rich, and serve for traveling purposes as well as water-proofs. Makib Joheeau. THE AGE 07 ACTBESSES, Useful ZJit tor Yoane Men Who Have A boat Toalh apd Brkntjr. The "Washington Herald publishes this list of the birth years and birthplaces of well-known actresses: Mary Anderson, Sacramento, Cat, 1SJ9. Belle Archer, Ens ton, Pa., 1860. Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 1811. Asnes Booth, Australia, 1818. Mrs. D. P. Bowors, Stamford, Conn., 18J0. JIario Burroughs, San Francisco, 1868. Georgia Cayvan, Maine, 1833. Kato Clnxton, New Yorte Citv, 1S48. Hose Cozlilan, i'oterboro, England. 1883. Lotta Crabtroe, New YorK City, 1M7. Helen Dauvray, Cincinnati. Ohio, 1838. Fanny Davenport, London, England, 1850. Efile Elisler, Philadelphia, Fa., 1S3& Kose Eytinge, Philadelphia, Pa., 1S37. Mrs. Y. J. Florence, New York City, I8M. Effle Germon, Augusta, Go., 1815. Etolka Gerster, ILitchan, Hungary. 1857. Minnie Hauk, New Orleans, La., 1853. Uliou Heron. New York City, 1863. Francesca Janauschek, Prague 1830. Mrs. W. H. Kendal, Lincolnshire, Eng land, 1S49. Clara Louise Kollotr, Sumter, S. C, 1812. Llllle LangtVy, St. Helena. Jersey, 1850. Catherine Iwl, Wales, 1856. Pauline Lucca, Vienna. ISiO. Minnie Maddeni, Now York, 1803. Sadie Martmot, Yonkors, N. Y., 185T. Marxatet Mather, Detroit, Mich., 1881. Masgie Mitchell, New York City, 1831. Helen Modjeska, Poland, 1841. Clara Morris, Cleveland, ISiG. Christine Nllsson, Sweden, 1813. Adelina Patti, Madrid, 18U Annlo Pixley, New Yoi k City. 1858. Jlmo. l'onlsl, Huddlesfleld, England, 1823. Ada Itehan, Limerick, Ireland, I860. Aiiie. ituea. Brussels, isoa. Adelaide Klstorl, Italy, 1831. Marie Bnze, Pari, 1816. Lillian Bussell. Clinton. la., 1830. Mrs. Scott-Slddons, India, 1841. Ellen Terry, Coventry, England, 1818. Lydla Thompson, London, England. 1838. Emma Thursuy, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1857. Boslna Votes, London, England, 1851. An Ancient Town Discovered. The remains of an ancient town can be seen a .mile west of Atchison, Kan. The city was inhabited by a race much more' in telligent than the 'Indian of the present time, as pieces of broken pottery containing figures can be picked up in many places on the. old. site. The pottery resembles that which was made by the'Maya race of New Mexico. The site of the ancient city is on a level tract ot land which is considerably higher than tho other ground in the vicinity. rl lltliMreK A PM '-ss-' s?y,,r n o o i 1 l J mil'1 YOUNG MEN DON'T WED Host of Them Defer Marriage and Many Never Marry at AIL THE GIRLS ARE NOT TO BLAME. They ire Not Bushing Into Matrimony but They Will Sacrifice. EDUCATION iS IT AFFECTS ECONOMY IWKirux FOB TBI MSrATCH. A mournful article in a late magazine has for its text the question: "Why Young Men Defer Marriase." Fortified by sta tistics, by interviews with prominent cler gyman and by the experience of thoroughly competent witnesses, he makes out the melancholy fact that the number of young men who defer marriage until they are 30 and over is largely on the increase, while bachelors are multiplying with alarming rapidity. This serious state of affairs, as the author views It, is due to the fact principally- that the income of the average young man can not be stretched to cover the expenses of the present scale of living. The standard of comfort has become so exalted that young men hesitate and shrink from asking a girl to accept the hardships aud sacrifices of love in a cottage. The education of the yonng women of to-day unfits them, he declares, for entering upon married life in a humble way as did their mothers and grandmothers before them. With the in crease in wealth high school education has become common to both young men and women, and It is owing to this education, he insists, that so many new obstacles have arisen in the way of early marriages. The Woman In the Cnsr. From this it may be inferred that having eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and thereby knowing good and evil, the young people nowadays are wiser than those ot the olden time. That is, the young men are supposed to be. Girls, it is thought, are ready to rush helter skelter into marriage at any time. The holy estate of matrimony, it is 'held, is to them the aim and object of their lives. Girls are supposed to be just dying to get married, and the popular be lief is that any of them will marry any poor stick of a man to escape the reproach of being an "old maid." No article of belief is more firmly held by men generally than that no woman reuiains single from de- liDerate cnoice. But the truth is that the advance In knowledge, with the certainty that the exer cise of her own talents can give her a liberal living and secure for her the pleasures of life and the freedom to enjoy, young women aregrowing more chary and critical in the matter of marriage. Silly women plenty of them there are still who marry without deliberation, who wreck their lives by ac cepting husbands who are good for nothing, and who have all the softness and sweetness of the typical angel before marriage, but prove to be fiends or frauds afterward; but the number is growing less. Ab.e to Xnke Cure or Herself. The papers are full of the infelicities of mad marriages, and the tragedies that result from such fatal mistakes. But the knowl edge that the essayist seems to deplore is why leading women refuse to enter upon the worldly marriages which no love hallows. The independence of girls and their ability to support themselves, which he mourns over, is what will prevent those possessed of common sense from making improvident or loveless marriages to be repented of as experience opens their eyes and impresses them with the magnitude of their own folly. This ability on the part of women to maintain themselves as it has appeared in late years seems to frighten the writer greatly. WheTe this thing will end is to him a great social problem. If he were a philosopher of the Schopen hauer tvpe he would console himself and rather rejoice over the increase of eelibacy upon which, as the great German philoso pher sets forth in his doctrine, depends the deliverance of the world from all its pain and misery. It was held by the paints and early iaiuers oi me cnurcu that to retrain from marriage was a virtue of the highest order, and by the Roman Church it is even now enforced upon the clergy. Tolstoi holds the same doctrine on gospel grounds, and maintains that it is supported by the teachings ana example oi (jurist himselt But apart from philosophy aud Christian doctrine it is now chronicled as a deplorable fact that so many young men deter mar riage until they are 30 or marry not at all as they see fit Comp:l!In th- Glr"s to Work. Taking the view that there is wisdom in delay, and that they have the inalienable right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness in their own way, they marrv or not, as suits them best By this shirking of mar riage, they have compelled millions of young women to earn an independent liv ing and take care of themselves. This is a violation of what the author of the essay, Mr. Payne, conceived to be the Divine Law. Under this law, men should be the bread winners, and women be keepers-at-home. The transgressors of this law as estimated by Brother Payne amount to 3,000,000 of young men, between the aces of 20 and 30 years. This manifestly counts the same number of young women left out in the cold. The failure of young men to conform to the divine plan is laid to the score of women, as might be expected. Their inca pacity, their lack of knowledge as to domes tic economy, their unwillingness to sacri fice the comforts they enjoy in a home of plenty to the pinches of snail salaries, in their reluctance to accept a groove ot living which would call for much ot self-denial and much restriction in the pleasures to which they have been accustomed. The great trouble, say the young men, is that girls expect to live in good stvle that is. in such style as cannot be justified upon a small, or even moderate' income. They want to dress well, to keep up with society, to live as comfortably as they did at home, and this cannot be done with salaries as they are, house rem so heavy, and living as expensive as it is at present Yoanc Men More Extravagant, But as everybody knows, who gives thought to the subject, the fault is not all with the girls. Many of them, for the sake of those they love, will give up wealth and accept the privations of small means with out a murmur. Women having so little money to do with, as a general thing watch the pennies with more solicitude than men do the dollars. Their powers of mind in most cases are devoted to small economies, and to the endeavor to make a quarter do the wdrk of a dollar. If the facts could be ascertained, it would likely be discovered that young men in the main "are much more extravagant than the girls upon whom they lay the blame oi their tauure to marry. Clerks at (10 or $12 a week are notoriousfor their expensive clothes and habits. Tbey expend in costly bouquets and amusements more than would keep a family, and then make their moan that they cannot afford to get married. But what seems most perplexing to some people is why the girls- of to-tfay cannot come down to live in the style of half a century ago. Henry Ward Beecher and his wife began housekeeping in two rooms on an income of 300 a year. This was in op position to the wishes of his father, who nrged him to wait a year or two until he had something ahead. But no, Henry was bound to get married and go out into the witds oi Indiana and rough it, and rough it they did. The Beechrs Found It Fan. He had not enough money to get a wed ding suit, and was married in clothes he had borrowed from his brother. When the two rooms were taken Henry had a half dollar, aud Mrs. Beecher hadn't a cent However his month's salary of $23 was nearlr duo. Upon this soro and witbj presents of a stove and dishes and other things from relatives, they began keeping' house. Henry himself, arrayed in a big apron cleaned windows and scrubbed tbe dirty floors of their domicile. They had fun over their experiences and hardships in after days, but as Mrs. Beecher relates, there was very little fun in it at the time. They could not live on the paltry salary, even aided by the presents ot their parish ioners. Mrs. Beecher had to take in sew ing, when she could get it to do, and also help to get along by keeping boarders. For 17 years they struggled with poverty at Lawrencebure and Indianapolis. Mr. Beecher helped with the housework when his wife was ill, but always "kicked" on washing dishes and sweeping. In addition to his preaching, he edited an agricultural journal, and by hard work in his gar den in Indianapolis derived some lit tle profit bv selling vegetables. A poor preacher can oetter auord to marry early and trust to luck than other men be cause the congregation are generally enough interested in their pastor to send him a bushel of turnips, or a bag of potatoes now and then, but it will be admitted that a less impoverished marriage would have saved them much of hardship. Any young man with prudence and common sense can usually save enough to go to housekeeping comiortably In a year or two, without such privations, but still there are some who rush madly into matrimony with hardly a dollar and who fight poverty with courage, industry and economv, and manage to rise to eminence and affluence as did Henry Ward Beecher. ,eurnrd Tflsdom in Adversity. In her story of their straits and struggles Mrs. Bucher docs not say that they repented of not taking tbe advice of their elders as to aeiaying their marriage until they had something ahead, but this can be inferred from the statement that "there was no fun in it" Both of them could well afford to have waited in! deference to their parents wishes. Their hardships were the result of their own rashness, and they learned wis dom in adversity. Mrs. Bucher probably had her own lesson in mind, when she after wards wrote "that an earlv marriage was un wise when the gentleman s business was not sufficient to warrant a comfortable support" It is not nscessary to use many wordi to dispose of the excuse made by the young men that girls all expect to live on the same scale of luxury and comfort as they do at home, and that ns their incomes are too small to justify these notious they must re sign all hope of happiness in marriage. The proofs that this is'not true are all about us in society. Thousands of girls bright with hope and lull of courage go from homes of comfort, and marry poor preachers with the slimmest of salaries that are oftentimes not paid promptly. These endure hardships, work and slave, and "put up" with criti cism and fault finding with a heroism worthy of a nobler cause. They marry mis sionaries, leave kith and kin.'luxurv and comfort, with courage and devotion as heroic as it is mistaken. They leave the pleasures of society, and sutler untold hardship on ranches and in sod huts on Western plains. The Qurslion of Education, There never was more of heroism or martyrdom shown than in the present day. It is not, as the writer seems to think, that high school education is a drawback to the happiness of domestic life. If that were true, then the best wives would be found among the low-down and ignorant Some men seem to think that women are only lovable and tender hearted, and sweet natured in proportion to their ignorance and lack of brains, and that those who are educated and know a thing or two beyond "beans" are proud, heartless, ill-natured and undesirable as wives. They believe, as did Martin Luther, "no gown or garment worse becomes a woman than that she would be wise." The great barriers to marriage for men in these days are, as summed up by the brother, three: The education of young women which unfits them to be worse, the growing independence of girls in the mat ter of maintaining themselves, and their being too proud to begin life on a small scale. These discouragements, as set forth, are very formidable to young men, and have re sulted in the present stagnation of the mar riago market. But what is going to be done about it? It cannot be ordained that vounz women shall go back to the ignorance of the 17th century, when girls were debarred from the schools. No legislature can make a law that they must be willing to go to housekeeping in a log cabin without a floor, as did the first families of Pittsburg. No act ofCongres3 under the constitution can be passed to prevent them from becoming independent enough to support themselves. Tne long and th short of it is that people have got to adapt themselves to the new'so cial conditions and change in manners, and make the best of them. Bessie Bramble. VEEY EXPEHBIYE WALL PAPEB, Plastering a Newspaper OfBoo With Un lntkr lattery Tickets. fiehoboth Herald. J "You talk about your high priced wall paper," said a man at the hotel the other day, "but a room that I saw in San Fran cisco took the cake for luxury in that di rection. It was the local room of the ord Alia Californtan on California street which has now gone to the doss. "That room was probably 40 feet by 25, and its walls boasted probably tbe most costly wall paper of any in the country, not excepting Yandcrbilt's Fifth avenue man sion. "It cost over $5,000 to paper three sides of that room; the iourth was unfinished at the time the paper suspended. What was it, you ask velvet or gilt paper? Not a bit of it, but plain white with green mark ings, principally, though here and there a brown tinted patch showed. "Tbe room at first blush looked for all the world as though plastered with dollar bills, and so it was In fact They were lottery tickets, both of the Mexican and the Louisiana issues, and each of those 6,000 or more bits ot green and brown paper represented a hard earned dollar. "Warren, the assistant city editor, now court man on the Post, started the thing. He drew about 20 blank prizes one month and slapped them all on the wall in front of his desk. The other bovs were quick to catch on, and in a little less than three years three sides of the room were papered with the tickets." Automatic Melnor.indnm Clock. A novelty in clocks is that which is con structed to deliver messages or appoint ments at' any desired time. The device differs in appearance from the ordinary olock only in that under its cover is found a drum divided into sections, and below its dial is a small receptacle. The messages are written on tablets and then placed in tbe drum on the top of the clock. When the appointed time arrives the tablet falls through to the receptacle, and a bell is started which rings until the tablet is re moved. TO A. L.1TTE TROUT. St Nicholas. Tell me, tell me, little trout, Does your mother know you're out That you're truant trom your school. Playing hookey in this poolt As you see, my little trout, I desire to draw you out In the brook noise so abounds That 1 cannot catch your sounds. (If that Joke he do bnt see Any trout should tickled be.) Would you take tho point so fine. If I dropped you jusca line! Don't they teach It in these creeks Tlvac when one iifoove yon speaxs, First, before u soul replies, It is meet that yon should rise! Blithely, as becomes a trout (I'm not angling for a pom). Quickly tukc things on the fly, lor I've other flsU to fry. Thank yon, thank you, little trout, Schools are in but you are outi feoliool and pool alike forgot - This la hookey Is It noti CharUt Btnty WetA, A HALF HOUR OF REST. It Takes Moral Courage to Drop'Work and Lie Still a While. CLAW-HAHMEES FOE THE WOMEN Fleshy Woman Should Seek Beftigs in an Abundance of Drapery. MRS. TTELCO'S GOSSIP POR THE SEX rwwTrrw tob the dispatch.i "I find that it takes more moral courage than many of my sex possess," remarked a woman recently, to snatch the half hours complete rest every day which is so essen tial for us. My own experience in culti vating the habit was so difficult that I ques tioned my friends and found that like the guests bidden to the wedding feast of old, all made excuses. 'I mean to,' said one, 'bnt I am so busy I can't seem to find the lime.' Another took the paper with her afld always got interested in the read ing of it A third was sure to be inter rupted, and so it went on through the list I think it is because women approach the matter too elaborately, and think they must give np a great deal of time and plan for the little respite that they fail to get it If every woman would go to her room right after her mid-day meal, whether that be luncheon or dinner, and loosen her cloth ing and stretch herself prone upon bed or lounge for one-half hour, whether the dishes stood, or the baby cried, or the door bell rang, or anything happened except the falling of tbe house, and do this as relig iously as she crimps her hair, she would almost not need to crimp her hair so much better she would look. But although I have kept up this practice for three years, there is not a day that I do not wonder re gretfully if I am not wasting my time. We have so poor a sense of proportion of what is best for us in the long run." The vagaries of head ornamentation are seen to especial advantage in a Saratoga hop. The other night in the brilliant ball room of one of the large hotels it was ob served that most of the women present, and at this hop there were fully 400 women and at least 300 men, wore some variation of the Cleopatra fillet or band. It was put on at all angles, used with and without the stiff fly bow, was made of ribbon velvet shell, fjold or a rope oi pearls, but it was there in some shape. One woman in a beautiful French gown, wore her hair in a long loose Catagan braid and on the crown other head was perchd a bit of gilt open work that was like an uncovered bonnet frame, as much as it was like anything. "What in the world can it be," whispered a voting girl to her escort ""That," was the replv, "Oh, that's a base ball maik." Which shows that all ornamentation does not ornament "Five O'clock Tea," was the name of a pretty cantata recently performed by chil dren at a suburban resort When the cur tain rose a pretty sylvan scene was shown with a daintily laid 5 o'clock tea table as a side center piece. Grouped about this were the different characters, who were intro duced by the "Queen of this goodly com pany," a pretty maiden in flowing white, with a silver wand of office. First came Tea Leaf in deep blue Chinese dress and a large hat, who bore a floral teapot while she sang of "Bolong and Touchong." Follow ing her came H'A-a Ear, ihcett Cnam and Silver Mine, all of whom sang of their con tributions to tbe tea table, while in the choruses the other fairies clinked their spoons against their cups and saucers in musical accompaniment Dresden China was afair-haireii little maid, dressed in pale pink quilted silk skirt, flowered polonaise, fichu and cap, and there was a Dresden shepherdess as well. A 'jaunty boy in a red turban was one of the guards, who wielded sugar canes in lieu ot swordi The idea is new and admits of cflectire variations. The accompanying sketch shows a novelty in the fancy work shop in the shape of a square of linen to be used to wrap hot rolls in. The square may be simply hemstitched and have the embroidered lettering, or the corncrs'may be embroidered as well in small floral design. The modern housekeeper has come to a Knowledge of the superiority of napkin covers for many artfcles of food. Corn on the ear, as everybody knows, is really only eatable served in a napkin; not so many know that potatoes baked or boiled shonld be served in the same way. An earthen or metabcover ought never to be placed over such. Many good cooks boil potatoes for convenience sake, an hour even belore the dinner, draining them dry when done, and then folding over them a clean thick kitchen towel. They should then be returned to the back of the stove, and the slow steaming process which follows will be found to add to rather than detract from their flavor. Bays a milliner: Always pnt your hat or bonnet on from the front Adjust ths lace view becomingly and firmly; the back will take care of itself. Toy dogs are still in evidence, though the fashion has been declared obsolete. A Saratoga visitor, a young woman, is seen daily on the piazza ot her hotel with her little black and white Mexican. A full bow of broad satin ribbon of the same hue as the gown his mistress is wearing always stands stiffly up between his ears. , "I've learned the secret of keeping ont of everybody's way," confided a busy woman to a friend not long aga "My work necessitates my being in the heart of New York and I scarcely knew where to hide myself from a large circle of acquaint ances, Bat I'to done it effectually sinea SfSf In the Segxiation Clsxt-Haiitmtr. last autumn when I took the top apartment in a five-storr apartment house that has no elevator. I had one call apiece frommvf casual friends and then they dropped me, or rather they dropped and left me np here among the clouds. My intimates still find me out at times jrhen they know I can see them, but for the most part I live np here unmolested, like Hilda among her doves. The advantages of these top apartments have never half been snng. Better air, better light, less noise, aud no one over von are big weights against simply the effort of climbing two or three extra flights. Every body almost makes the mistake to give the airiest rooms to the servants, often them selves sleeping on the ground floor. Not' long ago I saw a statement that undoubt edly the good health of servants, in thf face of severe work, careless eating an J. Kovdt'jfor the Table. want oi cleanliness often, is due to the fact that at night their sleeping rooms, usually at the top of the house, get pure air. And if one can have one's lungs absorbing good oxygen during the hours spent in sleep ah enormous handicap in the battle for exist ence is removed. The approach of the grape season makes the snggestion again pertinent to avoid swallowing the seeds of this luscious fruit At first, if one is not accustomed to the practice, it will seem a little troublesome, but very soon no difficulty will be expert enced. It is significant that in wine coun tries, France, Spain and Italy, the peasants who live among the wines almost univer sally avoid swallowing the seeds, and teach their children at a tender age the same habit of omission. Following the suspenders of her brother, in which the summer girl has freely in dulged, she is now making further inroads upon his wardrobe. At a recent garden party a young woman wore a white silk tailor-made coat basque, which was a per fect imitation of the conventional "swallow tail" of a man's evening dress. In the for eign fashion magazines "dress snit bodices" are a late novelty, o it may be assumed that the young woman in question, who had just returned from abroad, was forestalling the coming fashion. Tne bodice was worn over a vest buttoned to the throat of rose bud brocade, and finished with a white lace cravat bow. The skirt was of white lace net, with some long scarf effects of the bro cade, and the hat was essentially feminine, a wide-brimmed leghorn loaded with pink and white feathers. Stont women are making the same blunder with the present plain clinging skirts that they did with the tailor made gowns. One of the painful sights during their reign was the large fleshy woman who poured her avoirdupois into a glove-fitting mould which conspicuously brought out every padded contour of her fignrij she resting meanwhile in tbe comfortable idea that no extra fullness of cloth meant a min imum of addition to her size. A stout woman's garments should be fashioned to conceal the excess of flesh, not lessen it One ot OscarWiide's edicts in this important matter is "Drapery is the only refuge of the fat," and the Delsarte priestess, Sirs. Bussell, says in addition, "Loose folds do uot enlarge, but hide too much flesh." At a recent private ball, the handsome pictures on the wall S ha.KSlr -. 7" candles about them; at the same function masses of sweet peas and tall lily sprays were the only flowers mei. New silver butter knives are shown with forked ends to take np butter balk. Another child strangled from slipping and being caught by the tray of its high chair, should warn mothers and nurses against leaving the little ones seated and alonev Makoaket H. Welcil TVU1 ot Court Dos Talis. City Controller Briest, of Trenton, N. J., talks of resigning because be is compelled to count the tails of dead dogs. The com mon council has passed a resolution which provides that the city dog catcher shall de liver to the controller the tails of all dogs killed by him as proof that he ha? killed them. Briest declares that he will not have his office loaded up with dog tails. NATURAL FRUIT FLAY0RS. YaitHlaT Lemon Oranga Almond Rose etc. Of perfect purity. Ofgreat strength. Economy in their us Flavor as delicately Gnd deliciously as the fresh frulfe For sale by Geo. K. Stevenson & Co, and all first-class grocers. 'HERE is nothing so cool looking as a room papered with a Light Blue, and Sil ver Paper and a Silver Picture Rod. TBINELE k sV-"5 SIXTH HE. UD WOOD ST., ; Have a large assortment of Wall Paper and Picture Mouldings. " m ""rt-r-n-V y DELICIOUS Flworiil Extracts W u-1 X' - J 4 i V - .U m&. ft
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