I THE REALM 1
| OF FASHION. I
A Popular Type of Millinery.
This is a hat for a young girl, and
it is the latest confeotiou from the es
tablishment of a famous New York
HAT FOR A YOUNG <3lKb.
milliner. It is made of ecru Yeddo
straw, and turned up sailor fashion.
It is trimmed with a drapery of black
TWO FAIR GRADUATES IN THEIR GOWNS OF SOFTEST WHITE.
velvet and a broad couteau feather set
in the velvet diagonally. It is a beau
tiful type of the hat that is so ex
tremely popular this season.
Graduation Gownn.
The regulation graduation gown
bonsts just a little refreshing air of
originality this season. Perhaps it is
the variety in materials used that gives
this impression, for the couturieres all
seem impressed with the importance
of keeping graduation gowns exceed
ingly simple.
The chief charm of these gowns is
the exquisite needlework, that is sim
ply marvelous on close examination.
At one of the shops was shown a large
square yoke of tiny tucks and hand
embroidery done with sheer mull.
There were yards of hand-embroidered
frills to match—all of it the work of a
devoted old aunt who had been work
ing on her niece's graduation gown for
years.
Most of the models shown are too
fluffy in effect. Organdie was the ma
terial most favored, but mousseline de
soie, chiffon, veiling, tulle and a num
ber of gauzy materials were in evi
dence.
Two or three of the gowns were
made of silk poplin, and they were
fashioned more on the clinging lines
than were the others. Simplicity was
their most striking characteristics,
too; but it was a sort of classic sim
plicity.
A "Marguerite gown" was exquisite
ly dainty. Jtwasmadeof white chif
fon over a transparency of white
taffeta. The skirt was composed of
seveu frills of chiffon, briar stitched
around the hems with white silk.
Marguerites were embroidered in
an irregular, artistic pattern over the
ribbon. The sleeves were slightly
draped and were mounted by short,
full puffs of the chiffon. The lower
edge of the puff was held with a band
of the embroidered ribbon. Gradu
ating gowns made entirely of Utoord
ion plaited sheer materials are con
sidered by a great many young women
the simplest and most tasteful gowns
to be had.
With their soft long sashes and rib
bon bows they certainly boast a juve
nile air that is bewitching, and they
adapt themselves to all sorts of figures,
they soften the lines of angular
figures and, strange to say, the round
•Bß/.°Lth® rol y-P ol y B" 1 is lost in
this nuffiness of her gown.
Many girl graduates incline toward
ruffles, and foj- these there is the
skirt all ruffled from hip to floor. |
These ruffles are the only trimming
the skirt boasts. They can be of lace
or organdie or any other thin material.
The graduation dress is generally
to be worn for the girl's "very best"
all summer. After graduation it is
made gay with ribbons and is ofteD
worn over a colored slip of tafleta.
Philippines Cloth.
The world of fashion is under obli
gations to these Philippine Islanders
for that most beautiful of all textiles,
the silky cloth known as pineapple,
pinas, or Philippinas cloth. It is
made from the soft but strong fine
hairs of the pineapple plant, whose
collection, treatment and spinning de
mand a world of labor. It is woven
upon hand looms, excepting in one or
two of the smaller cities, where Eu
ropean looms are employed. The
cloth has all the brilliancy and luster
of silk, but is a little stronger and
more rigid. It is yoven with rather |
an open thread, so that it affords ven
tilation to the body of the wearer, and
in this manner makes oue of the cool
est garments for summer wear which
is known.
Ciiril Case to Alateh Gown.
To keep pace with fashion one must
own a card case to match each gown.
These cases come of leather in all of
the fashionable dyes. If a woman
cannot afford the luxury of such va-
riety a green case of rather bright
hue is the one which will best suit
the greatest number of gowns.
Klatiorate Summer Gown.
This lovely dress is to be worn at a
garden party—one of the first outdoor
afi'airs of the season. It is in the
form of a polonaise and is of pale
heliotrope crepon, trimmed with nar
row bands of cream satin. The yoke
and collar are tucked satin.
The skirt is a beautiful one of plain
cream satin. Ovsr the satin is laid a
heavy embroidery in a deeper shade of
cream. The flowers in the design
stand out as though thrown there and
the flowers on the skirt look as life
like as the lovely silk rosebuds of
COSTUME FOR A GARDEN PARTY.
which the flower hat is complete)}
made.
DR. TALMAGES SEKMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
The Choice of a Wife—From a Hustle
lllble Scene is Drawn a Practical and
Inspiring Lesson For All Classes of
People—The Calling For Special Work,
Text: "Now Mosob kept the floek ol
Jethro, his father-in-law, tho priest of
Midian."—Exodus ill., 1.
In the southeastern part of Arabia a man
Is sitting by a well. It is the arid country
and water is scarce, so that a well is of
great value, and flocks nnd herds are
driven vast distances to have their thirst
slacked; Jethro, a Mldianite sheik and
priest, was so fortunate as to lmvo seven
daughters, and they are practical girls,
and yonder they come, driving tho sheep
and cattle and camels of their lather to
the watering. They lower the buckets
and then pull them up, the water plashing
on the stones and chilling their feet, and
the troughs are filled. Who is that man
out there, sitting unconcerned and looking
on? Why does he not come nnd help the
women in this hard work of drawing water?
But no sooner have tho dry lips and pant
ing nostrils of tho flocks' begun to cool a
little in the brimming trough of the well
than some rough Bedouin shepherds break
in upon the scene, and with elubs and
shouts drive back the animals that were
drinking and alTright theso girls until they
fly in retreat, and the flocks or these ill
mannered shepherds are driven to the
troughs, taking the places of the other
flocks.
j Now that man sitting by the well begins
to color up. and his eye flashes with indig
nation, nnd all the gallantry of his nature
is aroused. It is Moses who naturally had
a quick temper, anyhow, as he demon
strated on one occasion when he saw an
Egyptian oppressing an Israelite and gave
the Egyptian n sudden clip and burled him
iu the sand, and as he showed afterward
when ho broko all the Ten Commandmeutf
at once by shattering the two granite slnbt
on which the law was writton. But tho in
justice of this treatment of the seven girls
sets him on tire with wrath, and he takes
tills shepherd by the throat, and pushes
back another shepherd till he falls over the
trough, and aims a stunning blow between
the eyes of another, as ho cries, "Begone,
you villains!" and he hoots nnd roars nt
the sheep and cattle and camels of these
invaders and drives them back; and hav
ing cleared the plaoe of the desperadoes,
he told the seven girls of this Midiaulte
sheik to gather their flocks together and
bring them again to the watering.
The fact that it took the seven daughters
to drive tbe flocks to the well implies that
they were immense flocks, and that her
father was a man of wealth. What was
the use of Zipporalfs bemeaning herself
with work when she might have reclined
on the hillside near her father's tent, nnd
plucked buttercups, and dreamed out ro
mances, and sighed idly to the winds, and
wept over imaginary songs to the brooks.
No, she knew that work was honorable,
and thnt every girl ought te have some
thing to do, nnd so she starts with the
bleating anil lowing and bellowing aud
neighing droves to the well for the watering.
Around every homo there are flocks and
droves of cares and anxieties, and every
daughter of the family, though there be
seven, ought to be doing her part to take
care of the flocks. In many households,
not only is Zippornh, but all her sisters,
without practical aud useful employments.
Many of them are waiting for fortunate
and prosperous matrimonial alliance, but
some lounger like themselves will come
along, aud ufter countiug the large num
ber of father Jethro's sheep and camels
will make proposal that will be accepted;
aud neither of them baring done anything
more practical than to chew chocolate
caramels, the two nothings will start on
tho road of life together, every step morn
nnd more a failure. That daughter of the
Midiaultish sheik will never llnd her Moses.
There is a qutjstion that every father nDd
mother ought to ask thedaughter at break
fast or tea table, and that all the daugh
ters of the wealthy sheik ought to ask each
other: "What would you do if the family
fortune should fall, if sickness should
prostrate the breadwinner, if the flocks of
Jethro should be destroyed by a sudden ex
cursion of wolves nnd bears and hyenas
from the mountain? What would you do
for a living? Could vou support yourself?
Can you take care of an invalid mother or
brother or sister as well as yourself?" Yea,
bring it down to what any day might coine
to a prosperous ramily. '"Can you cook a
dinner if the servants should make a strike
for higher wages and leave that morning?"
There needs to be peaceful, yet radical
revolution among most of the "prosperous
homes of America, by which the elegant
do-nothings may be transformed into prac
tical do-somethings. Let useless women
goto work nnd gather the flocks. Come,
Zipporah, let me introduce you to Moses.
See in this call of Moses that God has a
great memory. Four hundred years before
He had promised the deliverance of the op
pressed Israelites of Egypt. The clock ol
time has struck the hour, and now Moses
is called to the work of rescue. Four hun
dred years is a very long time, but you see
(rod can remember a promise four hundred
years as well as you can remember four
hundred minutes.
No one realizes how great he is for good
or for evil. There are branchings out and
rebounds, aud reverberations, and elab
orations of influence that can not be esti
mated. Tho fifty or oue hundred years of
our earthly stay is only a small part of our
sphere. The Hap of the wing of the de
stroving angel that smote the Egyptian
oppressors, tho wash of tho Red Sea over
the heads of the drowned Egyptians, were
all fulfillments of promises four centuries
old. And things occur in your life and in
mine that we can not account for. They
may be the echoes of what was promised
in the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
Oh, the prolongation of the divine memory!
Notice, also that Moses was eighty yeurs
of age when he got this call to become the
Israciitish deliverer. Forty years he had
lived iu palaces ns a prince, nuother forty
years ho had lived in tbe wilderness of
Arabia. Nevertheless, he undertook the
work, and if we want to know whether he
succeeded, ask the abandoned brick-kilns
of Egyptian taskmasters, aud the splint
ered chariot wheels strewn on the beach of
the Red Sea. aud the timbrels which Miriam
clapped for tbe Israelites passed over and
the Egyptians gone under.
Still further, watch this spectacle of
genuine courage. No wonder when Moses
scattered the rude shepherds, be won Zip
porah's heart. What mattered it to Moses
whether the cattle of the seven daughters
of Jethro were driven from the troughs by
the rude herdsmen? Sense of justice fired
his courage; nnd the world wants more of
the spirit that will dare almost anything to
see others righted. All the time at wells
of comfort, at wells of joy, at wells of re
ligion, and at wells of literature there are
outrages practiced, the wrong herds get
ting the first water. Those who have the
previous right come in last, if they come
in at all. Thank God, we have here and
there a strong man to set things right! I
am so giad that when God has nil especial
work tc do, He has some one ready to ac
complish it.
Still another, see in this call of Moses
that if God has any especial work for you
to do He will help yoti. There were Egypt
and Arabia and the Pulestine with their
crowded population, but the man tbeLord
wanted wus at the southern point of the
triangle of Arabia, and He picks him right
out, the phepherd who kept the flock of
Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest and
sheik. So God will not find it hard to take
you out from the sixteen hundred millions
of the human raee if He wants you for any
thing especial.
O what a fascinating and inspiring char
acter this Moses! How tame all other
stories compared with the biography ot
Ucsesl
Zulu Prevent* a Disastrous Fire.
The following story can be vouched
for, and, in recognition of the timely
action of the dog, the Alliance Assur
ance Company, with whom the prem
ises were insured, have awarded a sil
ver medal to Zulu, fully realizing his
sagacity in preventing what would
otherwise have been a disastrous fite,
with considerable danger to the oc
cupiers of the house.
Zulu, who tleeps in the basement
of a large house in a fashionable quar
ter of one of our largest cities, was
early one Sunday morning lately
roused by an outbreak of fire, which
bad apparently been smouldering for
some time between the floor of the
dining-room and the ceiling of the
room below. He, after repeatedly
scratching at the bedroom door of
one of the servants, succeeded in
waking her.
Thinking the dog must bo unwell,
she *let him into her room, and got
into bed again, but was not allowed to
sleep, as Zulu, sitting close by her
bedside, kept "talking" to her (as she
describes it) so vigorously that she
suspected something must be wrong.
On getting up the dog appeared so
delighted that she followed him out
of the room, and on looking into one
of the rooms discovered the ceiling
burning.
Upon rousing the owner of the
house, who immediately had the lire
alarm rung (which was fortunately
close at hand), Zulu seeming to know
he had done his duty, rushed upstairs,
to his mistress and left the house with
the children, evidently satisfied that
he had fulfilled his part. On the fire
brigade's arrival it was found that the
tire had taken serious hold, and only
required more air (which would have
been given in another ten minutes by
the collapse of the hearthstone, etc.)
to burst into full flame in several
places. The damage by heat and
smoke was very great, and had air
been admitted nothing could have
saved the entire dwelling, as the
joists between the flooring were burn
ing from end to end of the room.—
London Spectator.
Family Hlntory of llie Weeweru.
Mr. Weewee, who was descended
from an old and honored family, was
compiling a history of the W'eewes,
and, being a man of some leisure, he
spent u considerable portion of his
time in writing to every Weewee, far
.ind near, whose address he could as
certain, his purpose being to gather
all 'the information possible concern
ing the collateral branches of the fatu
ity-
This explains his action in writing
the following letter one day to Mr.
Jasper Weewee, Tucson, Ariz.:
"Dear Sir: Having accidentally seen vou r
name In a paper published in Tucson, I
take the liberty of addressing you. lam
compiling the records ot the family whose
name we bear, Intending to embody them
in a good-sized book, aud shall be greatly
obliged if you will kindly acquaint me with
whatever particulars are iu your posses
sion relative to your ancestors* as far back
as your knowledge extends, with dates of
marriages, deaths, migrations, removals,
prominent events iu their history, etc. By
so doing you will confer a great favor,
which I shall be glad to reciprocate by any
means In my power. Trusting to hear from
you soon, I am. yours truly.
"Hobace llooeks Wekwbe."
In about two weeks he roceivedjthis
brief answer:
"Dear Sir: I regret that it will be impos
sible for your illustrious relative, Mr. Jas
per Weewee, to comply with your request
and give you any of his fauiilyblstory. We
hanged him last week for horse-stealii g.
Vourstruly, "Leaiieb or lleoulatokk."
—Chicago Record.
A School Girl's Battle.
From The Hail, Milford, Ind
Miss Emma Rybolt, a prepossessing sehoo
girl of Milford, Ind., is of more than usua'
intelligence, and is ambitious to rise In the
literary world.
"In the fall of 1896," slid Mrs. Kybolt,
"Emma was taken ill. She was a close
student and her work began to tell on her.
She grew weak, palo and nervous, and com
plained of pains in her back, chest and
limbs. A few weeks passed and she grew
worse. The doctor said she was a victim of
nervous prostration, and should have been
taken from school weeks earlier. She gradu
ally grew worse, her nerves were so tense
that the least noise irritated her and she
had a fever and a continual twitching in
her muscles. The symptoms wero much
like St. Vitus' dance.
change ot
(SfStLfjlMk. physicians.
Emma be-
I came some
/, \ whaj better
\TT» tfll 1 but soon was
,1111 *■ ba d as
I. i i Rj ever. One
a case similar
t0 bers which
was cured by
Her Rattle. Dr. Williams
rink Pills for Pale People and I deoided to
try them.
"Emma had no faith in proprietary medi
cines but tried the pills, and after taking a
dozen doses, she began to improve. It was
about the tlrst of April when she began and
by the middle of May, after taking about
eight boxes, she was entirely cured.
"While ill, she lost twenty-eight pounds,
but now weighs more than ever before.
Her nerves are strong and she is In perfect
health. We are all confident that Dr. Will
iams' Pink Pills for Pale People cured
her, and I cheerfully recommend them In
all similar cases. Mns. E. A. RYBOLT."
Subscribed and rworn to before me, this
third day of September, 1897.
CAI.ED BAKER, Notary Public.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills lor Pale People
will cure all diseases arising from a poor
and watery condition of the blood, will
build up a ruu down system and are a spe
clllc for paralysis, locomotor ataxia and
other diseases long regarded as incurable.
Berlin has a service of dinner carts
which cull at the homes of the working
men. and collect lunches to convey to the
men at the factories.
ST.VITUS' DANCE. SPASMS and all nerv
ous diseases permanently cured by the use of
Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for
FREE 81JU0 trial bottle and treatUo to Dr.
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Postage stamps came into existenoe
abont sixty years ago. In 18G0 there were
about 500 varieties Tn existence.
Bdaeate Yoar Howela With Cuc&reta.
Candy Cathartic, care constipation forever.
100, 28c. If C. C. C. fall, dragging refund money.
White glass, and tbat of extreme purity,
was known to the Chinese 2300 years ago.
Beauty li Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood a»d keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c. 25c, 50c.
In the announcement of marriages in
Spain the ages of the contracting parties
are always given.
An Anti-Subktitution Victor)''
Allen S. Olmsted, of Le Roy, N. Y., whose
phrase, "A sample sent free on applica
tion," is so übiquitous in the newspapers,
won a signal victory when Justice Laugh
lin, in Supreme Court, Buffalo, issued a
permanent injunction on the ground that
t'«e Foot Towder in question was an in
fringement on Foot Ease, the original one,
Tor shaking into shoes, etc. Suits will be
brought against all others who imitate his
trade mark, powder or sample packages,
which packages are sent free. A postal
card addressed Allen S. Olmsted, Le Itoy,
N. Y., gives your feet relief.
The largest room in the world under one
roof and unbroken by pillars is at St.
Petersburg. It is 020 feet long by 120 feet
in breadth.
To Cure A Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Brorao Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money If it fails to cure. 25c.
There is a club in I'enang, on the west
coast of the Malay Peniusula, composed
of Chinese, who hold dobates in English.
Don't Tobscco Spit and Siuoke Vour life Amy.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
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Bac, the wonder-worlter, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 60c or fl. Cure guaran
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A special school for backward children
lias been established in Philadelphia, and
two more are contemplated.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildren
teething, softens the gums, reduces inilamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. JJac.a i»ottle.
In Japan every workman wears on his
cap an inscription stating his business and
his employer's name.
We will give SIOO reward for any rase of ca
tarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Props., Toledo, O.
A caterpillar in the course of a month
Will devour 000 times Its own weight in
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No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
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The India make of paper has increased
iu ten years from 17,000,000 to 41,000,000
pounds.
I cannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure for
Consumption. Mrs. Fkank Mouhs,2ls W.
St., New York, Oct. 23.1MW.
Five hundred trading vessels leave the
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HEADACHE
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medicine we have ever had In the house. Last
week my wife was frantio with headache for
two days, she tried some of your CASCARETS,
and they relieved the pain in her head almost
immediately. We both recommend Cascarets."
Cmas. Stedeford,
Pittsburg Safe & Deposit Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
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