f9 . ''At. fci i iehiw ILL B. F. SOHWEIEK, THE COISTITUTIOI THE TJUIOI AID TES EITOSOIHEIT OF TEE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28, 1SSG. NO. is: To KVP -Tie Heart from Blight. wvAho! wl encore doth stay, Taen should the loudest sing ,W-ia11 ,irit Ky'. SvLt hub on swiftest wing! ? nmtiE? sweet tboochts to fllgh, fPJmit Time's chreLhed spite to0J, while it U day. !rthron;h tbe livelong nifiht! for Slf! l'v Cire lies slain; go Jo the stars shed solace bright Orerawordof pai": , . ..j wisest h that tro.U hisaone. &mu.oforP-on- Bn-t and wrong, gthe heart from blight! I CLEVER MATCHMAKER. There never was anything more odd! When I remember how often I used to dec'sre tlis. nothing should ever drag ISbut England, it seems too utterly rijfu'.ous to admit tbat, had it not been for a most lucky ucci lent, I should tolay have been on board the .Kanga roo oa my way out to Australia. The whole storv is so absurd that I do not know whether I like to write it down. People will never believe that I m telling the truth. Connie Furdie maintains that I was a mean, scheming in; but there she is Jealous, so 1 do not mind what she says! Ilattie too my dear old churn Ilattie will persist m laughing slyly at me, and assuring me she has underrated my talents. She does it only to tease, though, so I do not mind her either. But there 1 gain never tell my tale if I do not be ginl It was ten weeks ago; mamma, Win nie, and I went to Lady Weir's party and a very stupid party it was too or, at least, it would have been if we had not met Mr. Glynne. There were scarcely any men in the room heaps and heais or girls.and no introductions. Every one knows what that means. How miserable some of the girls looked poor tilings, perched round the room on uncomfortable rout-seats, and talk tog to no one I 1 always make a point of talking to mamma and Winnie on occasions like these, pretending to myself that they are strangers, it is astonishing how easily one mauasts to amuse oneself when one does this. We had been in the room about half an hour, when Winnie drew my attention to a tall, soldierly-looking man who was leaning against the door, watching, as we fanci ed, with rather envious eyes. "That man would like to come over here and find out what we are laughing at.' said Winnie. "Why don't you cross the room and introduce yourself to him?" I asked hSndiy. '-Meritorious desires should not be left ungratiiied." Winnie shrugged her shoulders dis dainfully. "Why doesn't he make the dowager introduce him?" she retortsd. "I would if I were in his placel" As though in answer to this speech or my sister's, the stranger almost im mediately moved forward and said something to Lady Weir. The next minute be was standing in front of us being formally introduced not to Win nie, but to me. Miss Boulton Mr. Glynne." I bowed, and, as in duty bound, bo pan talking to him, resolving to trans fer him to my t-ister on the very first opportunity. But this I was prevented from doing, for Lady Weir having given one introduction, felt stimulated to further achievements, and now brought up a Captain Boss, bidding Lim take my sister down for an ice. Thus Mr. Glynne was left wholly on my hands. I do not think I at lirst ap preciated the tituat'.on, for I must con fess that my interest in him was some what dashed by the fact that on close inspection he proved to be very much freckled furthermore, lie spoke with a distinct drawl. Indeed I never knew a man to take so long to say so little it quite irritated me. "I suppose you would bs considered a vastly prudent man, Mr. Glynne?" I asked abruptly, as lie came laboriously to the end of a sentence. lie turned a sleepy pair of gray eyes on me, and, after a perceptible pauae, drawled out "Why so?" "Oh, well, the most cautious are not expected to do more than think twice before thty speak! Now you must think six or seven times before you put your thoughts into words. One could fancy you had come from the backwoods of America, and had lost the use of your vocal organs in continued solitude." An amused gleam found its way slowly iuto his eyes. "I have just come from Australia," he said simply, "and I am afraid you are right. I have got out of the habit of talking, I have been so long by my self." I clapped my hands delightedly, "You have come from Australia!" I riied. "Oa, do tell me all about it! You drink tea out of pannikins and cat dampers there, don't you? By-the-way, wnat are dampers?" 1 waited for an answer; but, as lie was still slow in finding his tongue, I went on talking myself. "Don't trouble to speak," I said en couragingly. "I dare say It is painfully fatiguing when you haven't been used to It. I will talk and you can listen; that will b9 much more amu3ing, won't it?" "To you or to me?" asked Mr. Glynne and I almost fancied ho was laughing at me, "To both of us.of course," I respond ed warmly. "First tell me, though when did you arrive in England?" "The day before yesterday." "Are you married?" "Certainly not," he answered, with a look of surprise. "Eujaged?" "Xo." 'I knew it!" I said decidedly. 4 You are looking for a wife. Oh, you Col onics are all alike! You go off to make jour fortunes; and then, directly yon nave run up a log-cabin and have put two chaii s and a table into it, you come back to England, pick out the nicest girl you cau liud, and persuade her to go lack with you. I think you are just horribly mean. Why don't you stop in Austr.Uia and marry the aborigines?" Mr. Glynne began to laugh. "We don't like them perhaps." "Well, the English girls don't like you." Uh, but they do! When we want wives, ve always got them in Eugland. Kow the aborigines axe more difljcult to please." "Ugh!" I cried. "I wish that we Were loo." "There are too many of you," said Mr. Glynne; "you can't afford to be so particular." I thought him a perfect boor when he said this, and 1 determined to be even with him. "I dare say the English girls wish themselves home again very soon." I remarked lof tlly. "They do." "Really?" I was so interested that I forgot my intention to say something sarcastic. "Yes. really." "They get home-sick, I suppose?" "That's it. They cry all dav, make themselves ill, and their husbands have to bring them back to England. "Serves them rightl" I murmured vindictively. "Quite so," he answered. "1 mean the husbands," I explained. "So do I. You see," he went on, the colonists make a great mistake; they marry fashionable London girls with no stamina, and they expect them to settle down to a dull, country life." "That is absurd," I rejoined hotly. "In the first place. London girls are often far more healthy than couutry ones, in the next place it is a known fact that London girls settle down to a quiet life far more readily than country girls. They have had their gaiety and social triumphs, and are tired of it all, while the country girls think marriage is to be an 'Open sesame' to fun and amnsement." "There is something in that," Mr. Glynne said reflectively. "Of course there is!" I cried, much pleased. Then I added confidentially and genially, "I tell you what I will do, Mr. Glynne. If you have really made up your mind to take back a wife I will help you to Cud one. But you must promise me faithfully not to make love to any of my special friends cer tainly not to Ilattie, nor to my sister. "I think I can proiniss," he said laughing. "Yes; but can you keep your promise," I asked, "when you have seen her?" "Oh I am to see her?" "Why, of course! How cau I help you to Cud a wife otherwise? I must give a tennis-party, to which I shall ask all the girls I think will do for you, as well as some of those who are too" "Too good for me," be put in bland ly, for I had paused awkwardly, con scious that my tongue was running away with me. "Well, let us say too good for the Colonies it sounds more polife." "And means the same thing. Quite so. Well, then, you will invite ma to this tennis-party? 'And you will be able to pick out the girl you like best not Ilattie mind I" "Oh, no; Ilattie shall bs sacred!" I clapped my hands gleefully, as I have a trick of doing when "leased. "There are several girls I know," I said, -"who wouldn't mind going to Australia. They would be sure to like you too." I added, looking at him scru tinisingly, "Thank you," was the quiet reply. "By-the-wav, it's a little important, isn't it? Should I like them? " "I hope so. Tell me, though what sort of girls do you like?" - "Well, bright, cheerful girl. You see out In the colonies you mayn't have anybody but your wife to talk to for weeks and wcaks; so you want her to supply a little of the cheerfulness." "Of course," I assented. "Most of the girls I know are Jolly, though, so you could take almost any of them aud be quite safe. I meant what sort of looking girls doyou like dark or fair?" Mr. Glynne smiled as he glanced at mv coils of brown hair. "I suppose I ought to Jay dark," he said. "Don't be filly!" I cried, tossing back my head with a gesture of impa tience. "You can pay me compliments another time, .Now you must be seri ous." "All right; then I will say fair, with blue eyes, alabaster skin, and a sylph like figure. Oh, and she must play tha piano! That's a sine qua non." I felt sorry when 1 heard this. "Dolly Clarke will be the girL" I said regretfully. "I don't like her much besides, it would have been a perfect charity if you could have taken a fancy to one of the Harrises." "Why, are they so unattractive that, failing me, they will go spinsters to the tomb?" "Well, no, not exactly," I laughed, "But there are four of them, and they are not over-rich, and don't go much into society, so that they don't get a fair chauce." Then, seeing Lady Weir advancing, followed closely by a limp young man with plastered hair aud an eye glas3 things I hate I cried eage.ly "Ask me to ko down to supper Mr. Glynne, please quick, as you value my kindly olheesintue tuturei "Miss Boulton, may I have the pleasure of taking you down to sup per?" said my colonist very promptly; and he almost forgot to drawL It was plain that he did not wish my matrimonial projects to end In mere talk, as thev might have done had I hail to go down with the cavalier Lady Weir destined for me. I took his arm, with a bow that was meant for Lady Weir's eyes and a smile that was m-ant for him; and we pro ceeded down stairs to the supper-room. I am ashamed to say how long we sat there; but it was really so nice that we fe't disinclined to move. Mr. Glynne secursd a small table, and, later on. Winnie and Captain Ross installed themselves opposite to us. We had great fun over my undertaking to find Mr. Glynne a wife, and Captain Boss put in a plea to be invited to the tennis party, so that ho too might make a se lection. By the time mamma came in to look for us, we were all great friends and she, like the wise, sensible woman of the world that she is, noted this at once, and, unprompted, said she hoped the gentleman would call upon us. Then there was an interchange of cards; and when we parted. Captain Boss and Mr. Ghrone were both pledged to put m an appearance on the following Tuesday. WelL our tennis-party was a great succe. and some six or seven of our ?S sUyedon to a lata eo lation. Mr Glynne. of course was one of these; mWit m he seemed to be struck about SJiS wlthS the girls, I made mam equai.y w" T fnnind would Oew'as Connie rurdie the otber Emily Harris. Hattie always ronaln because she is my chief friend. totb Winnie and Battle thought him nTowcrids the end of the evening I found an opportunity of speaking to Klne Without any of the others hWeU" I said interrogatively, com ing over x the window recjss in which toS? to &wed. with an amused Sm"Willaryofthemdo?"I w-ei in a matter-ot-fAct tone. "My deaiMUa Boulton, now can I possibly tell you?" he said, laughing outright. "You must give me tims." ' Of course," I assented. "Stil you cv tell me if there are any of them you would like to meet again." "Yes, lean do that. I should like to meet most of them again;" then, as 1 looked a little disappointed, for this was really too vague, he added, "Es pecially Miss Purdie." "Ah, that's better!" I said cheerfully "You shall certainly have an opportu nity of seeing her again soon." So I took the trouble a few days later to make up a party to go to the theatre, and I persuaded mamma to invite Mr. Glynne to join us. Connie was only too pleaded to bs askeJ, and still mure pleaseJ to have Mr. Glynne paying her attention all the evening. I must own I felt a little surprised that he should prefer her to Enilv, wh3 is a thousand times nicer, and I was not exactly sorry when he told me on the following Sunday that he thought, after all, he should like to see Emily ouce again. rfI am not quite sure that Miss Par die wculd make a good colonist's wife," he said, twirling his long moustache, and look contemplatively into my face. In my heart of hearts I was certain she would not; but I did not say this to him. I only promised that i would arrange for him soon to meet Emily. However, he arranged this himself, and that very quickly, for the next morning there came a nice little note for mam ni t, in which Mr. Glynne said he had takttn a double box at the Lyceum for that eveninz, and ho hoped mamma, her daughters and any friends she chose to bring would honor him with their agreeable society. We did honor him with our society; but he made me quite cross, for he talked as much to me and Uattie as he did to Emily, and, when he called on the following Friday (we are at home both Fridays and Sundays,), he bejan to regret that Ilattie was not Emily. "Miss Hattie is awfully nice," he said. "You won't let me off my prom ise, I suppose?" "Certainly not!" I cried indignantly. "And, If you feel that you are going to like her, you must say good-bye to us all at once. If you fell in love with her and she with you. I should be bound to give way; and, ob, I don't want her to be a colonist's wife! D you think you are going to fall in love?" I asked very anxiously. "I am afraid I have done so already," he said; aud he got up abruptly and walked over to mamma. I was dreadfully distressed at this, although I liked him all the better for appreciating my dear old Uattie. If he had been anybody else but a colonist I thought, bow nice it would have been! As it was, It could not ba suffer ed for au instant. I must have looked very perturbed, for, when he camn to say trood-bye, he murmured earnestly It's all right. Miss Boulton. I promise you I will not think any mora of Hattie not as a wife, at least.1" B jS I was only half reassured. Some bow we saw a great deal of Mr. Glynne during the next fortnight. First Con nie sent him an invitation to her hirth-di-b ill, and after that asked him and us to dinner. Then we found out that he had a beautiful voice, and he went with us to one of Ilattie 's working men's concert!. He expressed too such a wish to hear our rector preach that mamma, who thinks Mr. Tostlethwaite the most eloquent preacher in the world insisted on his occupying a seat in our pew; but, returning to luncheon after wards, I knew Mr. Glynne did not really care about the rector's sermons. Still I forgave him this deceit because, after all. a man wants to learn what he can about the girl he intends to make his wife, and there was no one who could tell him more about Emily than I could. Now that I look back, I am afraid I did not tell him half enough of her good qualities; but, honestly, that was not my fault. He would not keep to the point, do what I might to make him. Somehow he seemed to be find ing out more about me than any one else. For instance, when I would tell him how fond Emily was of reading, and how well she could declaim scenes from Shakspere. he would turn on me with all sorts or questions. Was I fond or Snaksnere? Had I read all his plays? Did I think him a grander poet than Dante. Goethe, or Milton? And then, without thinking, I would find myseir enthusiastically discussing the Eliza bethan dramatists, Greek tragedy, et cetera, with him, and Emily's name would not cross our lips till his visit was over. Again I would tell him how sweetly Emily played the piano, and how well she would be able to accom panv him. In a few minutes he would be talking of his favorite song, and be fore I knew how it happened, I would be singing duets with him. But time went on, and, despite his tendency to vacillate between Emily and Connie, and any other girl he met and liked, it was soon evident that his final decision was about to be made. He called one arternoon when' both mamma and Winnie were out, and, hearing that I was sitting alone in the garden, he insisted on the butler bring, mg me his card. I could not do less than allow him to join me there, be cause it would have looked so rude. Besides, I was really curious to know what had brought him, when he knew perfectly well that mamma and Winnie nrm at the Countess of Hilton's gar den party, anl that we never received except ou our recepiion-uays, xriuay and Sunday. "Perhaps," I thought, "he has proposed to Connie and he has come to tell me." As he came across th lawn. I saw that he looked very quiet and pale, and I was certain he wonld have snown some ounvaia oiw tion had he just been accepted by a girl he liked. I ordered afternoon tea to be prepar ed m the garden, and for long time we sat talking about imiinerens suojecus xut I could see that he wanted to speak of the matter that was In both our minds, hwransa he behaved so strangely and allowed such long pauses in the conver sation. At last, after one of the longest of these pauses, he saiu aurupuy "You know I leave England at the end of this month?" 'So oont" I exclaimed, rather dis maved, for that left him little more than three weeks in which to propose and get married. "I am very sorry you have to go," I said regretfully, for it suddenly dawnei upon me that I should miss him very much. He really was so much nicer than most of the men we kI"Xre you really sorry?" he asked, lookin" radiant, for it evidently flatter ed him that any one should bewail his absence after so short an acquaintance, "Awfully sorry!" I responded. "How I wish von could have stopped in Eng landl You could have married Hattie then, and have lived ooita close to us." The pleased look vanished from hi! face, and he said impatiently "Would you like ma to marry Hat tie, MissXellie? I will to please you." 'Oh, no!" I cnel quickly. 'You don't consider me good enough ,, y a eh? "It's not that," I said hastily; "but, if you married and took her out to Ausr tralia, I should lose you both," ' I said this very dismally, for I began to wonder if, after all, he had fallen in love with Uattie, and if, in these cir cumstances. I ought to stand in his way. I could not wisa my dear oia Hattie a b etter. more accomplished, I J?6- Are ter "J schools where the nd; but it would be a bitter .'neM 18 ? m, her leave us. Besides, x ' r I new heard of any. When any ...tunnin w mi Hi him ' 0ue desires to leara the business she nicer husband r r'mf t n baa tia. I.ivb n Ttaifln. or she would not have discussed hls . toa dressmaker and enters herself prospective wife with mo as she ha' an apprentice at any other trade " done i Mo3t women who learn dressmak- "Miss Boulton," said Mr. Glynne, in ! "P, t0 work at " tor a livin- 1 a strange, constrained voice, "suppose; . tt?seJ . ., , , the girl I love isn't the one you think- .rTeQmodlst? s.mile a' 8ua a.n,erfdi suppose that ever since your tennis-L"? blher t0 leaa u that ,f party I have felt there was only one f0"1 think any one would go into it woman in the world lor mo, and war " He broke off abruptly, and the' Ore died out of his eyes. "Go on," I said anxiously; "the girl "One you did not include among thoie I was tochosa from," he said very low. Then it was Hattie he cared for all the time! Mr. Glynne." I began and it struck me as quite funny that my voice quite trembled -"it you really care for Hattie and Uattie for you, I release; yon from your promise." "Uattie!" he cried impel loaslv. "It Isn't Uattie I mean. It's Uattie's friend!" "Uattie's friend!" I echoed, In won dering tones. "Why. I was just going to say he knew nona of Uattie's friends except ma; but, looking up I saw something in his anient eyes which sent the blood rushing to my face and left me with wlde-openoi eyes staring in startled bewilderment at him. It seemed awfully long before I could look away, bat I dare say in reality it was only a second. I tried to spak, but could give only a faint little gasp, and, taking advantage of my silence, he went on hurriedly "I think I have cared for you ever since I first met you at L uly WeirV. I thought you unlike all the girls I had ever seen, you were so bright, so merry and so free from all self-consciousness, I only agreed to let you find me a wife because I wanted to see you again; and then, when I did see you again, 1 fell in with your plans for constantly meet ing your girl-friends because that meant meeting you. Well, my dear, if you had not been so adorably simple-minded, so bent on doing kindness to your friends, you would have known that I none of them stood any chance while I had you to compare them with!" Ue paused, then said, in a half defian tmA 4f drtn't L-nrtv whT T am tnllin you this, for I am weil aware of your views with regard to colonists. But. oh, Xeliie" here he broke off int i b-1 solute pleadiug "I could go bi-k t-j , Australiaa!niost!:3yiryouwouldsiy! that you care for ma a little, aud might '. kiva irrAirn ts aim Tir tTlA mnrA if things had been different Do you care for nio do,-?" He bent forward eager y, waiting for my answer. .! nairnp tlw.il T1 h if Mlt T Rtnm. mered; but it flashed upon 'me with a sudden shock that I ought to have thougbt of it, and knowing, had grown one cares only for marry, Oa, now bund i naa oeeni "I suppose not," he said, in such a sad.disiippointed m inner that my heart went out to him. Mr. Glynne," I faltered aud I felt r ... ,im.n fhnn-rh I hv- ,,er thmiTht of this-reillv and trulv never, never thought of it-I am arraid T ,.. v. i;i,;nn u!l Hia timn without thinking? It was quite unin- ,.,ti..i ,, t .i,ia.i .J.i,Arir. iitc. and Hooked, half frightened, into his fate. ..v-ii:' .? mA h. orii v :, i' M;tfin ma t.m t, - null b.JCU, .Hlt-rit -' v ,.a..i .!. mJ in 1.1a arnw n 1 Z; rnrVnrfTver ain. "You will c -.na w.th ma to Aus- tralia'" he asko 1 presently. "if vi tats ms. ' i rao.ieu demurelr. ' I thought mamma would have raised : some objections to in nurryiog a col onist; but she did not. U appeared that he had some rather valuable free bold property in England, all of which he settled on me, so that, as minima I said, we need not be tied down to the j colonies for lire The money proceed- j ing from the property would indeed have enabled us to live at home quite comfortably; but, when mamma sug-j gested this to Arthur, he looked very stern. "Nellie " he said, "am I to under stand that you wish th:s?" "ArrhnrP t cried reDroachfullv: and then, when I saw that he was sorry to have misjudged ma, I addel laughing, "Haven't I learnt cooking.aud is no one to baneflt by my achievements? Uj UIJ mgicoicuujj He did not beneSt however, for three that I tOO WltllOUt! clcuw. ouo a iiuiibtcu ivj itiTcii :i mm one would " "'" - "j, or four days after our marriage an nn-, "swell" entertainments nave oeeu cle and cousin of his were drowned, given by Secretaries Bayard, Manning, and Io, by their death3 Arthur Glynna Endicott or Vilas. Both Secretary became Lord Kyntalle! What is mora. Manning aud Postmaster General Vilas tbat arch-deceiver confided to ma that are rather averse to the whirl of fash he was not a colonist at all, and never ionable society, and only mingle had been had merely spent a few in the throng to the extent that the rs months in Australia for pleasure. As, quirements of their offloial positions however, I had chosen to imagine him demand. Secretary Bayard was more one, he had kept u? the delusion, to inclined toward social pleasures pre assure himself that my love for him vious to the death of his wife and favor was stronger than aught beside. j ite daughter, who was a brilliant society "And it was necessary." lie often young lady, but hl3 mean3 were never says, "to find this out You yourself sufficient to keep pace with the Whit didn't know that yoa cared Tor ms, so neys even had he been so disposed, an 1 you couldn't expect ma to boquita sure, lately the shadow of this double bo about it" reavement has rested upon his modest He has no doubt on the subj jet now, ; residence, closing it to all forms or and cartainlr I haven't gayety. The Bayard house is a little old fashioned, especially in its exterior "Bt the way, John," said a Phil- arrangements and approaches. It is a adelphia wife to her husband as he was plain red brick with a porch In front, leaving for the office In the morning, two stories and a mirisard high above a 'I wish yon would tell Mr. Stuckup to vory good basoraent The rooms In inform his wife that I won't be bomf . the house are not very large. Space is this afternoon." gained In the depth, as the housa runs "Where are you going?" : back nearly eighty feet. It is situated "Oh", I'm not going out, but Iheai upon a high terrace, just around from that she ha3 a sealskin sacque, and I the circle, where Ward's statue of Gen don't want her parading it here before eral Thomas stands This terrace is me. We have a prayer meeting at the known as Highland Terrace. The church to-night, and I don't want to houses built along lta line are at least go there with my heart filled with fifty feet above the level of the street hate." i The carriage drive to it is a very steep ITece U a hint by Dr. G. Boeck which incline, and when you are at the very may be of industrial value. If potatoes gate you have to climb np steos corres are peeled and treated with 8 puts sul- ponding to those going to the second phuric acid anl 100 parts of water, and floor of a house before you reach the th?a dried and Dressed, a miss is oh- noroh. It is next to the old house in tained very like callulold, au! waic'i can bs nsad instead of meerschaum or ivory. It is not stated whether tha in vention is protected by a patant or not WHAT DRESSMAKERS E.VUX. A. Contrast of the Earning of Male and Female lressniWcr. A number of quiet, neat-looking ! "f were OU3 ; Spring goods at girls were busy sewing upon some new a fashionable up-town modiste's when a reoorter called. The .head of the establishment was dressed .in black with the utmost simplicity, wuich contrasted strikingly with the brilliant dresses scattered around her. ' "I have com?," said the reporter, "to know something of the manner in which women learn the dressmaking - ""-"j learn in order to understand better the fitting of their own dresses, but as a rule dressmakers' apprentices expect to gain a livelihood by their trade." "How long does it take them to learn?" "Well, that depends upon the stu dent. Generally a girl should master the trade in one season. A good dress maker should have a quick eye for form oIor: She should be something of fn artut m addition to having median- leal skill. Most women know some thing about sawing and have little dif ficulty in hemming and stitching, but when it comes to fitting, trimming and Bu shing dresses, where real taste and julgmeut are required, the novice often tiirls a rocky road. Each dressmaker has a peculiar way or finishing a dress, as each tailor has of mating a coat." "What can a dressmaker earn after she has learned her trade?" 'It depends upon her skill and ability. It she is smart she can get S2.50 day, otherwise she may not get more 1 f hB l-50-that is. after she has taken lessons for one season. Foreladies who superintend the work receive an average of f25 a week. They are women of long experience in the trade. So far as dressmaking at home is concerned, the paoer patterns manufactured by a number-' of bouses in this city have greatly sltipiifled matters. You see that chart on the wall?" "Yes," he replied, "but I don't un derstand it." 'I don't expect you to," said the lady; "but any woman with the aid of tbat diagram and paper patterns can be her own dressmaker, although she may never have taken a lesson in her life. Of course anybody who Intends to make dressmaking a busuiess must have the aid of an experienced teacher. As w:tu many other trades, apprentice! get no pay while they are learning. There seems to be q'lite a variety n j the Spring styles this year I the reporter, glancing at th observed the gorgeous display around the room. -to-tji'.' said the modiste, "there is Taiiety enougn in an conscience, out it ply discouraging to see how few people dress well. It is so hard for women to see that the charm of dn i lies in not being ultra-fashionable ess or showy or odd. Custom has put suil limitations to a man's attire that lie cannot dress in outrageous bad taste MMut making himself a subject of ! ridicule. ith woman the case is dif- York, and behold the consequence. lou will see women with loud, in harmonious colors, and gems blazing ou every finger. AU they care for is show, and that they call beinz stynsh. l oa win see women wno uengiis in ueryin; 1 fash"-, and othes who are her abject , slaves regardless of taste or common ! Sense." "Well, madame is it not in the power of the dressmaker to alter this State ol ; anai"- . , , . . "I don't see how. We have to make 1 what there w a demand for. Basins j . . , H bllSlUeSS, JOU kllOW." I business no that man ever take upr' ' . yes, there are male dressmakers "j- 'Do they mak9 mora money than women?" "From $3 to $J a weak m re. Men are better than women at mikiug waists, which are in somo particulars like the coat you wear; but I never saw one who could draoa a skirt properly." WHERE THEY LIVE. Residences of Cabinet O.'noor. Jfext to the Whita Home the houses of cabinet officars are most visited by the stream of people in Washington who like "to keap m the swim," as it were, of the Capital. Except Secre- tary Whitney none of the members of the present cabinet are entertainers in the society sense. They naarly all live in good houses, the ladiesof which have frrtm 9 tA S .1;! o'clock, but bevond Mrs. manning s reception no large which Senator Edmunds so long lived. Justice Miller lives at the right of Mr. Bayard. At the end of the row toward Fourteenth street is tb.9 old housa built by Crawford when be was Secretary of to care for him as! taoncs or. many colors, lace anu jeweiry. . . . (1 1 -! ,1i f int 1 1 'ii-n n u 1? m 1 1 ttrr v AT lur the Treasury. This house Is still in good condit!on. It was occupied by M-M-shall Jewell when he was in Grant's Cabinet Around this circle are a number of well known houses. The great square house of Judire Wvlie fl nno f tl, F (V, in! ,I.K 1 Onlv a fa. Arrff General Garland's house, the plainest of all the houses occupied by the Cab inet officers, it is in a long row of plain brick front houses three stories iu height, with a dark basement The house stands about ten feet above the level of the street, on a low terrace. ' The steps leading to the door are iron open work. The door and the trim - mings of the house at the top are in I. TH.A a. : t..i1 M nlsbed. It has more the appearance of a lodging or boarding-house than of a private residence. Here the Attorney General resides with his aged mothei. Secretary Manning resides but a short distance from Mr. Bayard, on the same avenue. The house is one of the largest and most expensive of the pri vate residences constructed in accord ance with modern architectural ideas iu the city. It was built by 0:to Blgelow, a Washington banker. IU turrets and toweis give it the appear- ance of a castle at a distance. The front has deep-set balconies shaded by heavy arches supported by substantial !ii..i w ...i f .. ...:.i . ., pillars. Over all of the windows and doors are a great variety of designs of stained glass, The front of the house does not give a fair idea of the magni tude of the building. It stretches back through the entire block in an irregu lar, thoroughly artistic way. The large stables attached to the house face on the street in the rear. This house is just one block from the British Lega ti.m an,i u ,!i:.r.r,i!w ..-.: ihiMr from tha verv lartra and imr,ir,r very house occupied by Senator Van Wyck, or .Nebraska, a few blocks away is the house which the genial S. S. Cox occupied before he went to Turkey, and the new house of Senator Edmunds, So much has been written about Secre tary Whitney's house, and tho enter tainments given there this winter, that it is a familiar subject. The house is a large, square, old-fashioned one in exterior appearance, but since the expensive repairs and remoJeling by 31 r, hituey its interior Is very corn pleto and elegant with wonderful ""es to give aid, this last-named con roominess and adaptability to the pur- i;tIon suggests tliat the safer mode of poses of large eutertaiuments. It is tendering it is to approach the sufferer owned by the Frelinzhuysen estate. having been the residence of the family wh?n the late ex-Secretary of State resided in Washington, and is leased by 111 these leartui accidents, the hor Mr. Whitney for a term of four years. 'wnUl position be assumed or enforced, Halfwav between Mr. Bayard's and Mr. Manuinz's is the house occuuied bv Secretary Eadtoott, on Sixteenth street near Scoit Circlo. It is in the Imme diate vicinity of the famous Don Cam eron mansion, and is owned by Minister Pendleton, who leased it to Mr. Endi cott furnished. It Is an odd house in its architecture aud is a rich red iu all of its outside colors and trimmings. Even the window blinds are red. It is one of the bast known anu one of the most TCirwm housM in Wa.ih.actM.jui- account cf the lavish entertainments bnms, and octe 1 tad aa toio W given therj by the Pendletons. Just illustrate them practically, though In a across the street Is the Windsor house, comparatively trivial accident Some already well known. Postmaster Gen- dressings of a very inflammable charac eral Vilas lives in a very plain house ter caught fire at the bedside ot a pi- near Thomas Circle. It is a lare dou- ble ftont housa anl belongs to tha earlier styb of architecture prevailing about tha time the lirst improvements were begun in Washington under Boss Shepherd. The brick work is inferior, and the front is a very light ret, trimmed with white stone around the top of the windows and doors. The general appearance of the house is sug.- gestive of gingerbread, though inside it is well arranged, with Ianre. we!l-v,n- ttlafred, comfortable rooms. It is large flames became harmles?, and were ex enouh to accommodate a goodly tmguished by a nurse throwing a jug crowd, and is well furnished. Seere- of water on them, tary Lamar is the only member of t!i9 ' L Cabinet who is not keeping house. Us has a suite of six rooms upon the sixth floor of the Portland fl its. The Port laud fiats building stands upon a trlan-gular-shapel lot It terminates in a point, with a great tower at the end ot it, heading toward the Thomas Circle. It has the general appearance of a great: ship. Mr. Liinsx lives in the bow of this ship. He has beautiful views out of his win lows, as he has a command or both side3 of the bow from windows of his apartmeit he is certain to have splendid ventilation; and upon the hot test day or night his room is sure to be cool. Yet in tha case ot a fire or acci dent I- is possible that the sixth flooi might have soma disadvantages. Mr. Lamar, though vjry fond of the ladies, and remarkably courteous toward them. Is in no sense a society man, nor would bis means enable him to entertain, a; entertainments go, even did his Inclina tions tend that way. .-Vrlifluial Eg4. The artidoial egg iadistrr, which only last year was rated as a joke on a too enterprising Jorjoycain, who got himself into jtil for his pirns, ha blossoms! oat into om of tho fall fladgoi intoresti of Allegheny City. Urauad carrot aud fine oornmeal are moulded together and frozaa to form tha yolk; this is surroaaial by aloa man la imitatioi of natare's nto of that substance for tho simi p.irposi, nl the whole is eaaasei ia a plaster of paris shell, whioh is aftorward pol ished. It is remotely possible that, in thia age of szientiBo wonders, the :th.t will 1 ta 'thana"-' fc" : . ir 7J ... artificial ezz fellows ravy est np as nral articl-o. Eon if it will not, oa provooitloa, booomo a oliiokon, it may at least basoaio a durable aal reliable article of food for boarding-honses, where it is wall known that natural eggs are never uaraoie ana rename till thar have bee a spring chicxaas lor several years. A hint to iw;ntiiM. It Is note worthy, that soma of the most brilliant practical application! of electricity have been simply the development, b7 ex periment and study, of familiar an 1 ap parently Insignificant effects. Erery telegraph operator has been familiar, ever since there has boon a telegraph. with tha phenomenon of tha current will heat a conluctor o high resist ince; yet the electric-arc lamp is simply a de velopment of tha former and tha incan descent lam? ot tha latter pheaomenox In the sama tatteriej was years, and was nl. an i 111 nil u..i iu. til.1. ..j i.. ....... ......! .i .-I are only developmants of tha sm3 prin-' ciples of "polarization." It is estimated that the farmers ol Miine have this year scattered over the mtato neMa nftv thniisimi dollars wortt of parts green in their efforts to destroy the potato bug. way tha "polarization" of; ; IIaZTi'S" "." ana ine secretary or tae L.gatim :it known to telezraphisU fox ! "''.'"i.?"" ,7 vCl "Y. Washington have gone to Ota-.va. regarded by them sim- ' iTvT where they will be guests of the Gov- worth REAnrxo nv ayomexI XIow to Ant if tho Clothe tako ! Fire Direction t j be Re- j nn'i.ilH'1-cd. I I B'" Or WOUHU Wl A girl or woman who meets with this & titR fire to her clothes). should immediately lie down on the door, ana so, any one wno goes to her assist ance should instantly, if she still be erect, make her lie down, or. if needful, throw her down into a horizontal posi tion, and keep her in it. Sparks Cy upward, and flames ascend. Ignition from below mounts with fearful rapid- 1 r.'"" '';,"""",. r""'. , , J V lamentable caies is due to the burns in- V?1? ul ,U?.b.' D?Ck' fMX: a.uJ head, and not to the injuries of the lower limbs. Xow, tli9 very moment that the person whose clothes are on fire i3 in a horizontal position on a flat surface, the flames will still ascend, but ouly the air and not the flames encircle their victim. Time is thus gained for further action, and, in such a crisis in a light against fire, a few seconds are precious, nay, priceless. Once in the prone position, the person atilicted may S , i.ii , , . , - m. i, "t v Th ' , Z., , r.r" . , "".v"i '" , e s ,'rom f ,Ta r nto the room would serve to blow tha flames, if any. away from the body; or, again, still crawling, the sufferer may be aole to secure a rug or table cover, or other article at hand, to smother any remaining flames. I say remaining flames, for as soon as the horizontal IK) -it ion is assumed they have no longer much to feed upon, and may either go out, as the phrase is, or may be accidentally or intentionally extinguished as the person rolls or moves upon the floor. In any case not ouly is time gained, but the injury in Sicted is minimized. In the event of the conditions not being those of se'.f he p, but assistance from another, if it be a man who comes to the rescue, having first and instantly thrown the girl or woman down. It is easy to take off his coat and so stifle the diminished Qame3 with this or some other suitable covering, the flames playing now up ward from the lower limbs or the lower part of the body of the prostrate fellow creature. If it be a woman who Dv t:,e lieaJ auu mn something over t!ie Iower lirt 01 the body, ror tear or setting tire to herself. there cou.d be, in short, comparative immunity and limited injury. It not. whit must happen? The fire will mount; the ll tines (and It is these which will do the injury) will envelop the body, inside and outside the clothes, and will reach the neck and bead, and then, indeed, they may bo smothered bj a coat or wrapper, or ruz, while tho victim is frightfully disfigured or doomed to perish. For many years I have ureed thesa views while lecturing on injuries from JU ml my surg-cai warus; iuey were promptly seized by a student who threw them Into the middle of the ward and endeavored to sump out the fiamiug material. But this containing paraliue and resin adhered to his boots, and his legs, as he danced about were getting uncomfortably hot. To his as tonishment, and to the undoubted sur prise of every one iu sight, 1 caught him by the collar of his coat and tripped up his Iezs. Instantly the Hiring out China. 'It takes lots of China ware for the3e swell receptions," said a china dealer to the man the other day, as the porter passed out with a basket full of plain white china. "Yes, I suppose you sell considerable," said the scribe. 'Sell I Well, yes, we sell some; but," then he stopped and smiled curi ously. "Well, it Isn't nil sold that goes out It comes back in most cases. That is, what isn't broken comes back. That's why it's plain white. Haven't you noticed that all the china at these receptions Is white? Well, that's the reason It comes back." Then lie put bis mouth close to the scribe's ear, aud whispered: 'What I For all these large recep tions? Cabinet ministers, too? You don't say that they" "Yes, all of them, nearly, hire their china for such occasions. You ate at some receptions, such as those given by the cabinet oflijers, roreign ministers, supreme judges and the like, there are four or five hundred guests present All have to be served. Now, you don't expeot them to keep a china store. Xo, no, they hire their service. That's going to , but I guess not; 1 won't tell you where. If you go there j juu may e;u, oi iua iiau;, auu morrow night you may eat from the same somewhere else. See?" "Don't iteet broken?" 'Yes, receptions break china very fast, but we get paid for all that and charge a percentile of its value for Its use. There is hardly one Riven in YaSlUa2t0n,HWl) ""V? ? . china on th Laiito Ifa Wipr tA hire than to own. Some people put; awav their lizht fancv china on siich' occasions because it is too expensive to have broken and it is hard to replace, i Others don't have it. What we hire is nice china, but a3 I said, is plain white. ' We seldom hire any other kind, and i when we do, it is never the same set j t w ic. j "Vhy is that?" asked tho scribo, "don't they like the colored?" "Well, no, they don't like it I guess not Now, you go to A. 's to night Tou see a set of China with peculiar Japanese figures on it. You go to B.'.s next evening. More Japan - - ese figures. Again, C's chocolate is served In Japanese. All the rage. Ah! Japanese figures are just the thing in China now. You mention it to Mrs. Beenthere. She draws you to one! must be white plain white. Then, too, white is easier to replace when broken. Yes, all the first class stores 1 i have china to hire." loinne veugeauce comes wita ieei or leaa DUt " stru-es with the nana of vwu h i,.i ,1,1 r. : " ' '"-J f rnnr ipn.'rai th .Mirnm nf l-i.i .n .littA ..I.. I.. whit.. TM..,.. NEWg IX yopjEp. John Ruskln wants the sewing ma chine to go. In Scotland they are trying divorc es and like tbem. Arabi Pasha Is teaching school at Colombo in Ceylon. Th9 banking capital of the United States to day is $733,000,000. Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, re ceives 3,000 visitors annually. There were 43,000 visitors from the North to Florida last winter. Farm rents in England have declined six per cent in five years. Xo case of diphtheria has ever oc curred among the Piutes, it is said. One-half or Florida's orange crop is raised within a radius of twenty-foux miles. The Jacksonville (Fla.) Court- house is to be built of granite from Mane. The French have a machine for stamping letters and canceling the stamps. Cigarette smoking is rapidly In creasing among reputable English wo men. Theodora Kolyer of Brooklyn has gone insane from eating canned toma toes. The Sunday collections in Spur- geon's great congregation in Lo.:don average $45. The capital invested in wild animals in this countrv is estimated at ! H.OOO.OOU. Codfish is forty cents per poand In Guatamala and is considered a great delicacy. Sing Sing prison lias l.OoJ inmates, sixty-five being murderers servinr life sentences. The annual value of the milk pro duct of this country is about half the national debt Of Charles Wesley's great grand sons three are members of the Church of England. There are now over 8,000,000 stoves in use, and the average life of a stove u five years. A St Lou's girl lost a $75,000 lover because he saw her m the ballet Shape will telL A ton of gnm arable is used weekly at the government envelope factory at Hartford, Conn. The Mormons have increased in this country between 500 and 0J0 per cent since 1S5U. The importation of tin plate now reaches the sum of seventeen million dollars per annum. There are not more than two ot three women whose wealth Is greater than Queen Victoria's. The laUbt Albany murderer an swers to the ama "Gift of Gorl"' Sheep-ra-ra near Cloverdale, CoL, And it rays U-SffipJoy a man to hunt sheep-destroying animals. In the Congo Free State the na tives use ivory kitchen utensils and chopping blocks of Ivory. Nebraska has two female insurance agents and they are both doing a god business and making money. Colorado's timber area is 12,500 miles, more than the combined area ol Massachusetts and Connecticut Sims Beeves, the English tenor, asserts that "sore throat" cuts his in come down about S3O,0uO a year. It is a curious fact that birds, eveB when inoculated with the poison of ra bies, do not suffer from the disease. Old broken-nosed pitchers which during the recent "ancient" craw brought $400 are now worth 30 cents. The old-fashioned red leatbei prayer-book covers reappear, after be ing out of date for forty years or so. The oil tanks ai the Pennsylvania region are uniformly 28 feet high, !X feet in diameter, and cost 53,000 each. It Is estimated that the averagt consumption of ezgs throughout the United States amounts to 45,OUO,00C daily. Tl'e London hangman receives jClt for each execution, aud only 5 should the criminal be released at the ultimate hour. The moncmeut erected at Gettys burg by the Twelfth New Jersey Vol unteers will be dedicated on the 20 th or May. On an average about five thousand dollars a year ie spent by the British Government in the photographiuz of criminals. Butter, whose quality is relatively stated as "the best" out there can be bought for 8 cents ier pound Iu Da kota, it fs stated. The population of Sidney has mora than doubled in the last fifteen vears. InlS70 it was 1 10. J; now is U esti mated at -20J,U00. Upwards of two hundred Boston barbers have joined in a movement" for io-,"the abolition of nickle shaves and fifteen-cent hair cuts." A pump. Invented by a Pittsburi? boot-black, on a combination of the siphon and vacuum principles, is said to have sold for 523,000. Madame Sembrich's littlle son m to Kb the last name being for Christine Nils! i 0irus UIJ jKVSUIUUbi-Ci . , . , An mateur theatrical company ' T, 1.1 1 -a '1 han. il 1 . . n 1. . . r w Run uiriiriii! mi a uiuue i or con sumptives, and have selected the "Iron Chest" for the performance. Four thousand acres of laud, near Red Bluff, California, have been pur chased by an English syndicate, wnich purposes locating an English colony thereon. Should the eight-hour law claims of the Mare Island employes be allowed by the present Congress, soma of the men will receive as high a3 $100J m back pay. An opium smugzler has been de- frauding Chinese at Seattle, W. T.. by selling them a fine quality ot Victoria mud, covered by a layer of the drag at 10 a pound. Rr.fiar. MmTi- vc t;, w, downe. Justice Chitty of Loo Ion was re cently trying a case when a larje piece of plaster fell from tha celllug upon tha canopy under which he was sitting. t iat jusutia, ruat coo am," rie cx- claimed; and went on with tha trial. 1, miiiiillllnr - ' ",' ' aKtJil'JtlfrntitmpffiK-w-tMM,
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