THE REALM OF FASHION. A Drefli Sleeve. The prevailing sty!«, writes Ma*" 4 Manton, calls for sleeves fairly snug fitting to a point well above the elbow, but for slight fulness at the shoulders. A NEAT DBESS SLEEVE. The designs shown are one single and the other two-seamed, and so provide for all needs. No. 1 is made of woolen ,'oodß, woven in a small check. The at the shoulders may be ar- LADIES' HOME GOWN. ranged either in flat bos pleats or shirred, and the wrists are faced with plain goods in contrasting color and j rolled over to form small cuffs. No. 2 : is two-seamed. The fulness at the arm's-eye is also laid in flat box pleats, | but the wrists are left plain, either pointed or round, and are finished with bands of passementerie. To make these sleeves for a woman of medium size will require one and , one-half yards for No. 1 and one yard j for No. 2 of forty-four-inch material. Tasteful Ilomo Gown. No woman of refinement, according to May Manton, can afford to be with out a comfortable and tasteful home gown. The model given combines all essentials and is equally suited to wool stuffs for the present season and to washable fabrics for summer wear. As illustrated, the material takes a medium place and is China silk in a soft shade of blue with trimmings of cream-colored lace. The full fronts are arranged over a fitted lining with single in place of double bust-darts, and which reaches a point slightly be low the waist. The yoke of lace is faced onto the back, but made separate at the front as the left side is hooked j over invisibly into place. The gown ' proper consists of a full back and i front joined by side-back gores; the fitting being accomplished by shoulder seams and under-arm gores. The back, which is arranged in a Watteau like plait at centre of yoke, falls in graceful folds to the floor. The ful ness of the fronts is collected in gathers and stitched to the lower edge of the yoke, the closing being effected at the left side beneath a jabot-like fall of lace which completes the frill that finishes the lower edge of the square yoke. The sleeves are snug fitting to the elbow but mousquetaire above and are finished by small puffs I at the shoulders which support the : epaulettes formed by second frills of lace placed beneath those that edge the yoke. A collar of ribbon finishes the neck and a sash, somewhat wider 1 but of the same sort, passes from the j yoke at the centre-back under the arms and is bowed at the left side. To make this gown for a lady in the | medium size will require six and three- t fourths yards of forty-four inch ma-! terial, or twelve and one-fourth yardf of twenty-two-inch goods. Spring and Summer Millinery. In Paris flower-trimmed liats and bonnets are already seen, and it is predicted that flowers will have a great season in the spring and sum mer. Large, fully open roses, made of both velvet and satin, are already much in demand, and are shown in such artificial colors as lavender, several shades of green, dark blue, all shades of yellow, beige and castor. Felt hats and toques are trimmed with them, and they are arranged in half coronets or wreaths without foli age. A large violet, fanciful in size and shape, is at present popular in Paris. The flower is as large as an overgrown pansy, and two of the petals are long and pointed and hang down over the stem. Velvet of all shades is used in the making, and a gleam of white is seen at the end of each petal. It is developed in various shades of yellow, violet and mauve, T.OIIC Coat. For a Little (Hrl, No other coat affords quite the pro tection against severe weather that does the long one which completely covers the gown. The model shown is of dark green diagonal cloth trimmed with bauds of narrow black braid and large smoked pearl buttons. The back is seamless and is joined to side-backs, the two being laid in un derlying plaits below the waist line. The fronts arehalf -fitting and the right laps well over the left, where the closing is effected. Smooth-fitting under-arm gores connect the back with the fronts anil render the fitting easy of accomplishment. The sleeves are two-seamed, the fulness at the shoulders being laid in plaits and sup port oblong epaulettes, which add greatly to the effect of the coat. At the neck is a high roll-over collar. The garment, as illustrated, is silk lined, but may be made with facings and sleeve linings only, if preferred. To make this coat for a girl of ten C.TRIJ'S IJONG COAT. years will require two and one-fourth yards of fifty-four-iuch material, g Adranoe Noveltle*. Silk nets for sashes and fichus and cross-striped ribbons for pleatings are advance novelties in spring garnitures. a scholarship of jfcoOOO has been given to Mount Holyoke College by Miau Helen Gould. SERMONS OF THE DAY.' RELIGIOUS TOPICS DISCUSSED BY PROMINENT AMERICAN MINISTERS. "The Law of Kindness" Is the Title of the New York Herald'* Tenth Competi tive Sermon—Dr. Talmnee Preaches a Sermon to the Feminine Tollers. Proverbs xxxl., 26. There are two superficial and somewhat firevalent notions of kindness which over ook the truth of a law of kindness and hinder the fulfilment of that law. The first 1s that kindness is a happy accident of temperament. When Charles Lamb died Henry Crabh Kobinson went to visit Mary Lamb, and she said to him: "Now, I call this very kind of you, not Rood natured, but very, very kind." Her distinction is just. Kindness is more than constitutional good naturedness. It implies discipline and culture. The second notion associates kindness with Christian etiquette and deportment, with something amiable and desirable, perhaps, but rather ornamental than essen tial. Consequently many religious and devout people are unkind in words and actions without any feeling of sinfulness on that account. Put away the notion of kindness which regards it as merely an external grace of character or a useful lubricant wherewith to reducethe frictions »1 .social Intercourse and conceive it as an essential element of all goodness, divino or human, and as comprehended under God's law of human life. Unkindness, like any tther transgression of moral law, is wick edness. Nor is it enough to try and not be unkind, for unless one tries to be kind >e not only fails of duty, but will be un >ble to guard himself from actual unkind- Aess. Kindness has its root in kinship. It im plies relationship and affinity. Men are ihildren of a common Father, and there lore brethren. Therein lies the signifi cance of all that the Scriptures teach con cerning the essential, exceeding and ever >istlng loving kindness of God. There is kinship between Him and men, created in Hi» image. Therein is grounded our hu man kinship and the law of brotherly kind ness for all men, than which no law of human life has higher authority or sacred er sanctions. As no one can be as good as he should And may bo, so no one can do good as he should and may without striving to fulfill this law of the cultivation and manifesta tion of kindness. There is nothing else so powerful for good unless it he love, and love as St. Paul says, is kind. It disarms prejudice and hatred,'it converts distrust into confidence, it overcomes all manner of evil with good. It brings out as nothing else can the latent and potential good things in people. Men have come to recog nize and act upon this principle in their treatment nnd training of animals. How much more effective will be the training of children nnd the treatment of all humau beings which is based upon kindly sympa thy! The safest assumption that can be made in all such matters is that kindness will meet all such response. Kindness has insight andean detect signs of promise in the unpromising, whllo under its genial influences and delicate ministra tions these signs become manifest and the things they promise begin to bo fulfilled. What else gives so great encouragement to the many who are struggling with advers ity or temptation, correcting nnd changing just those depressed feelings of loneliness and neglect wherein the power of evil finds Its most favorable conditions! 1 Wordsworth speaks of That portion of a good man's lifo— Ills little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. How suggestive that is of what is possi ble In this way of kindness, which works with magic power to transmute apparent trifles into priceless trensures—as St. Zita's cup of cold water given to a dusty aud wearv pilgrim proved to be, as he drank it, a cup of precious wine. Kind words often, as Dun to says of Beatrice's words, "more smiled than spoken!" Kiud notions, cost ing little, but bestowing much! How easily they might be multiplied to the immeasur able cheer aud comfort and enrichment of life! They make the gloomy smile, the angry grow meek, the suffering to cease from groaning; they light up hope, sweeten bitter thoughts, console sorrow, strengthen the faint and turn from sin; and they reach and move those whom no other good influ ences affect and conquer such us have re sisted all other powers of grace. Bitter and ail too frequent are our re grets and repentauees, as we recall, per haps too lato for aught but regret and re pentance, the unkind things said or done by us, or the kind things we might and should have said and done, but left unsaid and undone. In our cups of recollection overflowing with divine tender mercies and loving kindnesses there is no bitterer ingredient than this. But seldom, if ever, do we recall any error of ours on the part of kindness or llnd any occasion for regret ting merciful allowances, favorable inter pretations or whatever a spirit of kindness may have plumpted. We have never stood by a coflln or a grave and repented of any utmost or even unrequited kindness shown to the person at rest there. The Gospel of Christ is precious because it isa gospel of the "exceeding great kind ness of God toward us" In Christ, and be causo it is all the while aiming to touch and waken the chords of human sympathy in our hearts; and,in bringing us under the law and into the spirit of brotherly kind ness, to make us know and rejoice together In the loving kindness of our God, Of this gospel we can all bo ministers, aud the best and most useful portion of our lives will be our "little,nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." Oh, then, siuco the time is short, "Bo gwift to love, make haste to be kindl" EDWIN BOND PARKER, lastor of the Second Church In Hartford, Conn. LEARN PRACTICAL THINGS. Dr. Talmuge Prencliea Directly For tlie lieneflt of the Women. TEXT: "Every wiso woman buildeth her house."—Prov. xiv., 1. Woman n mere adjunct toman, an ap pendix to the masculine volume, an appen dage, a sort of afterthought, something thrown into make things even—that is the heresy entertuined and implied by some men. This is evident to them, because Adam was flrst creuted, and then Eve. They don't read the whole story, or they would llnd that the porpoise and the bear and the hawk were created before Adam, BO that this argument, drawn from priority of creation, might prove that the sheep and the dog were greater than man. No. Woman was an independent creation, and wusintended, if she choose, to live alone, to work alone, act alone, think alone, but never light her battles alone! The Bible says It is not good for a woman to be alone; and the simple fact is that many women who are harnessed for life in the marriage relation would be a thousand-fold better oil if they were alone. A woman standing outside the marriage relation is several hundred thousand times better off than a woman badly married. Many an attractive woman, of good souud Bense In other things, has married a man to reform him. What was the result? Like when a dove, noticing that a vulture was rapacious and cruel, set about to reform it, and said; "I have a mild disposition, and I like peace, and was brought up In the quiet of a dove-oot, and I will bring the vulture to the same liking by marrying him," so, one day, after the vulture de clared he would give up his carnivorous bablts and cease longing for blood of flock and herd, at an altur of roclc covered with moss and lichen, the twain were married a bald-headed eagle officiating, the vulture I Baying; "With all my dominion of earth L and sky, I the* endow, and promise to ! love and cherish till death do as part." But one day the dove In her fright saw th« vulture busy at a carcass, and orled: "Stop that! Old you not promise me that you would quit your oarnlvorous and filthy habits if I married you?" "Yes," said the vulture, "but If you don't like my way, you can leave," and with one angry stroke of the beak, and another fierce clutch, the vulture left the dove eyeless and wingless and lifeless. Many a woman who has had the hand ot a young Inebriate offered, but declined it, or who was asked to chain her life to a man selfish, or of bad temper, and refused the shackles, will bless God throughout all eternity that she escaped that earthly pan demonium. In addressing those women who have to battle alone, I congratulate you on your happy escape. Bejolce forever that you will not have to nuvlgate the faults of the other sex, when you have faulty enough of your own. Think of the bereavements you avoid, of the risks of unassimllated temper which you will not have to run, of the cares you will never have to carry, and of the opportunity of outside useful ness from which married life would have partially debarred you, and that you are free togo and come as one who has the responsibilities of a household cau seldom be. God has not given you a hard lot, as compared with your sisters. When young women shall make up their minds at the start that masculine companionship is not u necessity in order to happiness, and that there is a strong probability that they will have to fight tlu< battle of life alone, they will be getting tho timber ready for their own fortune, und their saw and ax and plane sharpened for its construction, since "Every wise woman buildeth her house." As no boy ought to be brought up with out learning some business at which he could earn a livelihood, so no girl ought to be brought up without learning tho scionce of self-support. The difficulty is that many a family goes sailing on the high tide of success, and the husband und father de pends on his own health and ucumon for the welfare of his household, but one day he gets his feet wet, and in three days pneumonia has closed his life, and the daughters are turned out on a cold world to earn bread, and there is nothing practi cal that they can do. How is this evil to be cured? Start clear back in the homestead and teach your daughters that life is an earnest thing, and that there is a possibility, if not a strong probability, that they will have to light the battle of life alone. Let every father and mother say to their daughters: "Now, what would you do for a livelihood if what I now own were swept away by financial disaster, or old age, or death should end my career?" My advice to all girls and all unmarried women, whether in affluent homes or in homes where most stringent economies are grinding, is to learn to do somo kind of work that tho world must have while the world stands. O, voung women of America! as many of you will have to fight your own battles alone, do not wait until you meet with disaster and your father is dead, und all the resources of your family havo been scattered; but now, while in a good house and environed bv nil prosperities, learn how to do some kind of work that the world must have as long as the world stands. Turn your attention from the em broidery of fine slippers, of which there is a surplus, and make a useful shoo. Ex pend the time in which you adorn a cigar case in learning how to make a good, honest loaf of bread. Turn ycur atten tion from the making of flimsy nothings to the manufacturing of important some things. "But," you ask, "what would my father aai mother suy if they saw I was doing such unfashionable work?" Throw tha whole responsibility upon us, the pastors, who are constantly hearing of young wo men In all these eities, who, uuqualllled by their previous luxurious surroundings for the awful struggle of life into which they have been suddenly hurled, seemed to have nothing left them but a choice between starvation and damnation. They go along the street at 7 o'clock in the wintry mornings, through the slush and storm, to the place where they shall earn only half enough for subsistence, the daugh ters of onee prosperous merchants, law yers, clergymen, artists, bankers and capitalists, who brought up their chil dren under the infernal delusion that it was not high tone for a woman to learn a profitable calling, l'oung woman! take this alTair in your own baud, and let there be an insurrection in all prosperous families 011 the part of the daughters of this day, demanding knowledge in occu pation and styles of business by which they may be their own defence and their own support if all fatherly and husbandly and brotherly hands fail them. I have seen two sad sights, the one a woman in all the glory of her young life, stricken by disease, and in a week lifeless in a home of which siio had been the pride. As her hands were folded over the still heart and her eyes closed for the last slumber, and she was taken out amid the lamentations of kindred and frionds, I thought that was a sadness immeasurable. But I have seen something compared with which that scene was bright and songful. It was a young $ Bunch alt the worst pains in i . a lump like this: $ | RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO. | | ITSK I I ST. JACOBS OIL. 1 It will cure them alt, [p Separately, Surely, Qu'ckly. g MOLER S BARBER SCHOOL, ■"■ Barber trade taught in eight weeks. New system. 1 Positions guaranteed when through. Tools donated. ILM-STItA J 111) I'ATAIAKtI K MAILED FIiKE. 1000 COPIES TRt?l ' ufbl.f «S1 I ON," 426 pages, handsomely hound, brimful of new ideas on social ethics, political economy, now to be happy, I •ent free to luuo young men who send parents' cer tificate of obedience, industry, good habits, cour tesy to others. C. M. STEBBINrt, Harlsdale. N.Y. I When You Want to Look on the Bright Side of Things, Use SAPOLIO on CTS. IN STAMPS # _ I Sent to BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSE, 184 Leonard 81., If. J Cily, will aeoare for yon by mail, UAPCC P A prepaid, • copy of a 100-pa*e nVIVOC DUWIV Ailed with Tilublt information relating to tlie care ot Hur»e>, or I Dnmf Dnmf teaching yon how to ao care <»r and vniV TV cm DV#V/l\j handle rowli aa to make their raieing Ttxofltable. Ohiokene oan be made moneT-earnari. Ift ino kxns-.hav that do*»l4 A Benefactress' Kind Act. From the Evening NUBS. Detroit, Mich. Mrs. John Tansey, of 180 Baker Street, Detroit, Michigan, Is ono of thoso women who always know just what to do In all trouble and sickness. One that is a mother to those in distress. Ton reporter Bhe said: "I am the mother of ten children and have raised eight of them. Several years ago we had a serious time with my daugh ter, which began when she was about six teen years old. She did not have any seri ous illness but seemed to gradually waste away. Having never had any consumption In our family, as wo come of good old Irish and Scotch stock, we did not think it was that. Our doctor called the disease by an odd name, which, as I afterward learned, meant lack of blood. "It is impossible to describe the feeling John and I had as wo noticed our daughter slowly pnsslng away from us. Wo llnally found, however, a medicine that seemed to Mos! of the Time She IVan Confined If lied. help her, and from the first we noticed a decided change for the hotter, and after three months' treatment her health was so greatly Improved you would not have re cognized her. She Rained in flesh rapidly and soon was in perfect health. The medi cine used was Dr. Williams'Tlnk Tills for Pale People. I have always kept those pills in the house since and have recommended them to many people. I have told many mothers about them and they have effected some wonderfulcures. "E very mother in this land should keep these pills in the house, as thev are good for many ailments, particularly thoso arising from impoverished or diseased blood, and weakened nerve force." Calcined, seed pearls are considered a medicine of great potency by the Chinese, and beautiful artwork iu mother-of-pearl has long been exe cuted both in China and Japan. In the Phillipines windows are made of mother-of-pearl, and in Cashmere it is used for inlaying inscriptions on tombstones. OPHEt ENJOYS ' Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it ia pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the | only remedy of its kind ever pro | duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIB SYRUP CO. SAM FRANCISCO, CAL 10UISVILLE. nr. HEW YORK, H.t. ALASKA OUTFITS Don't make the fatal error of buying a lot ol worthless stuff and paying heavy freight charges across the continent and And when you arrive in Alaska that your supplies are of no value. Your lilo depend* upon liuving u proper Alaska outfit. We are the Pioneers of the Alaska outfitting busi ness in Seattle and have sold thousands of outfits. 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