1 NEW YORK FASHIONS.
f Designs For Costumes That Have Be
ll come Popular in the Metropolis.
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New Yoiik City (Special). The
long box coats are being more and
wore worn every lny, and quite as
fashionable for the juveniles as for the
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A YOUTHFITI BOS COAT.
grownups. This stylish one present
ed by Le Costnrae Royal, for girls in
their teens, is of gray broadcloth, with
the indispensable stitching and large
white pearl buttons. The broad,
double, shawl-like Dollar is a new and
attractive feature, distinguishing this
coat from the usual run.
The New 8irlnff lUoua.
The new spring blouses are looser
in front than last year's, but as it is
crown to cross upon the hair und then
knot in front with long floating ends.
A lre to Km Iteineinhcred.
.V dress that may be remembered
beyond tho close of the season was
lately worn by Mr. Ooorge Gould, at
Georgian court. The underskirt of
exquisite silver gauze wan plaited over
pale blue moussoline de soic, which,
in turn, had an underlining of pal 3
blue taffeta. Tho overskirt, which
opened in front, was of palest
blue satin, incrusted with silver em
broidery, and the low round bodice
had wreaths of tiny roses for shoulder
straps. The bolt, of pale-blue miroir
velvet, fastened nt one side of the
front with a big velvot rosette. Mrs.
Oould wore pale-blue slippers nnd
gloves, and her hnir was dressed with
roses.
JTlin Flare will Not DlmlnlMi.
The Hare around the lower portion
of the dross skirt, which continues to
cling about the hips, will increase
rather than diminish as the spring
and summer styles nppoar. Around
the bottom of some of the Freuoh accordion-plaited
models rows of nar
row plaited frills are arianged, and
these give a decidedly wavy spread
ing effect to the skirt below tho knees.
Machine stitchod or piped mill eg
will also aid in producing this flare,
and not only will these trimmings,
plain or lane edged, be set upon the
skirt, but they will likewise appear
upon the silk or muslin petticoat worn
with the frilled gown.
The Military Trend.
Epauletted dresses show tho mili
tary tastes of the hour, the epaulettes
serving the double purpose of giving
to the shoulders the breadth denied
by the close sleeve and of displaying
gold filigree and jewels. Another de
vice far broadening the shoulders is a
deep cape collar of lace, which,
though not new, will be seen on a
greater number than ever of the
smartest spring gowns.
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The Itne For Fringe.
On elaborate costumes an eightecn
inoh fringe is not uncommon, and
fringes are made iu two or three layers
of different colors, or different shades
of the same color, that in themselves
almost, constitute costumes.
The Ilolero In Illicit Furor.
The oldest of old friends that
has
SOME fPIUNO BLOUSES.
their sweet will always to be of in
finite variety and uapricioitsuess, it is
not possible to flay that otherwise
they have greatly changed. They are
node with cape collars and boleros
md epaulets, like other bodices, and
they are tucked, plaited and covored
with lace and embroidery.
At a matinee this week, writes Ellen
Osborn, I noticed a crossed blouse of
delicate rose-tinted silk with a yoke
t white silk and lace that was marked
iu diamonds with the narrowest of
black velvet ribbon. From the yoke
iud crossing fronts hung a deep black
ilk friuge.
A coral-red blouse shonlder to
shoulder with the pink one cost both
their best effect, just as the dark,
brilliant-cheeked girl who wore it
made her blond neighbor look faded.
Vet the coral blouse could not be
blamed for its pretty tucked and
plaited front, its sleeves tucked for a
few inohes below the shoulder aud its
white silk corded revers.
A simple and very attractive even
ing blouse is of cream-colored mousse
line, with deep lace oollar decorated
with gold embroidered rosettes. Jtx
flowing cravat is of white silk with
Isoe ends.
A more elaborate evening blouse of
golden yellow silk has a small bolero
of cream-colored lace and a front of
plaited mousseline. The crossed
ends of the yellow silk cravat are car
ried out to the sides aud held tight
by mousseline rosettes and strasshut
tous. Utluipt of Spring Style.
Tf one may trust the harbingers of
fashion, which have all the air of
wallow from the Riviera that in duo
time will make a summer, the Easter
bat of 1900 will have a high, formid
able looking square crown, or else one
that is practically flat; its brim will bo
swathed in cloudy rolls of tulle and
iU chief ornameuts will be large,
wheel-like rosettes of laae or ribbon
or velvet, aud flowers of a delicacy of
oolorini aud to tin 6 that is ueur to
millinery. Apple, peach and cherry
blossoms are first favorites, and one
ees entire strawberry pluuts leaves,
flowers aud fruit.
The fringed snurves of last autumn
liave given pi are to tulle streamers
that aru brought from the back of the
just taken a new leaso of favor is the
bolero, many, many new editions of
whioh appear every day. Endless
variations are worked upon this theme.
Tito Fualiion In Apron.
The rnlo of simplicity applies to
maids' aprons. There should be no
huge bretolles nor flaring flounces nor
"trimmings of embroidery anil lace,
A nurse's apron luny indulge iu a few
tucks clustered upon, its deep hem, a
parlor maid, housemaid, waitress and
chambermaid, all of whom bav. sub
stantively the same uuifcrm, must wear
perfectly plain, aprons. Shoulder
straps and o bow iu the bock are com
mon to both brands of aprons. Home
mislrcasos permit nu untrimmed bre
tello, but the narrow shouldov-strap
is better lasto. Long streamer i i
the back avo preferred by seme. You
can hardly go astray in the matter of
servants' droas as long as you insis
upon plaiuoess. It is the womuu in
Value of Ilia Separator',
The uso of the separator is doing
much toward making winter dairying
profitable fJt it is properly managed
all the butter can be taken from the
milk, or so near it as to amount to a
loss of about one pound in a thousand,
while the old system of setting the
milk in a room where it might freozo
often caused a loss of two or three
pounds in a hundred, and sometimes
the butter refused to come at all, or
was worth but little whon it did come.
With separator nnd all the other im
proved appliances in the dairy room,
a knowledge of what is good food, and
all the other dairy information which
has been disseminated in the past
twenty years it would seem as if the
dairymen should have an easy nnd a
profitable business, much better than
we had twenty years ago.
Haw Fertlllier Affect Pntalop.
Three years' tost at the Virginia ex
periment station seoms to warrant the
conclusion that potatoos grown with
out fertilizers contain the greatest
amount of dry matter. The addition
of fertilizer tends to diminish the dry
matter in proportion to the amount
appliod. Potatoes grown with sulphate
of potash contain inoro dry matter than
where muriato was used. The ash did
not appear to be affected to any appre
ciable extent and the same is truo of
starch. Neither tho kiud nor the
amount of fertilizer seemed to have
any effect upon the percentage of ni
trogen, phosphoric acid and potash,
but the percentage of chlorine was
considerably higher when muriate of
potash was used and increased with
the amount applied.
Frequent Milking
It has been well established by
numerous experiments by scientists,
that tho longer time that elapses be
tween milkings, the less solids will
the cow secrcto in her milk, says
Hoard's Dairyman. Thoso who have
made tests of cows for purposes of
competition havo nlso noticed that a
cow will give cousiderablo increase iu
solids, as well as in quantity of milk
flow, if she is milked three times a
day instead of twice.
The physiological laws, which in
fluence and govern tho flow of milk,
should moet with much more study
by cow owners than is douo. We are
too apt to go along in a careless and
indifferent manner, forgottiug that
our success with the cow can bo
greatly increased or diminished there
by. Every man who milks n cow is
denling with ono of tho most complex
and delicate machines iu existence.
He ought to be a sincere, earnest stu
dent of tlie wonderfnl Jvaryiug forces
which may affect that machine to his
profit or loss.
l'lanntng Fnrm Work.
The farmer should decide upon the
fields ho intends to cultivate next sea
son long before tho time oomes for
putting the seed iu the ground, and
should try to decide what crops he
will put upou them. Iu making his
decision, he should consider not only
the adaptation of tho soil to the crop,
but how tho work upou the various
crops can be so planned that he will
not have too many irons in the fire.
Wo know something about it, for we
have been there and have had to plow
up a fair-looking crop while growing,
because it was so weedy as not to be
worth hoeing, as we had been busy
on another field. But the best plans
may be changed sometimes wheu one
has to do with anything so fickle as
the New England weather. Even in
sects may force a change, as we were
once forced to change nn onion bod
into a squash field, because the ouiou
maggot had appeared in such num
bers that we saw tho crop would be a
failure. Wo admire perseverauce,
but there is such a thiug as boiug too
obstinate, and striving against the in
evitable. Give up when fairly beaten,
and try to retrieve fortune iu some
other, way, American Cultivator.
ftingle fliiBlioa Double Glazed
One of the ways in which poultry
aud other stock suffer is from tho
rapid radiation of heat from the win
dows at night. Double wiudows are
sometimes used, but theso are expen
sive, somewhat of a bother to put on
and hard to keep clean.
The cut shows a single sash, double
glazed, which a poultryman has re
cently described. The sash is made
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search of novHuoo. tint:
makes tho mUUVeJ.
"tix'raV hci
hatching, they are contented with
that.
In this way sonic strains of pure
bred fowl may have been so kept and
managed that they produce a less
number of eggs in a year than they
would under better conditions, aud as
the chickeus inherit the propensities
of the parent and tho grand parents
they deteriorate in productiveness, as
much as a herd of dairy cattle would
if kept in such a way that they were
not up to their standard iu milk pro
duction. ISut because certain strains nudor
this management do not produce many
eggs, it does not disprove tho state
ment with which we began. I'laco
the pure-bred hens nud chickens un
der tho oaro of a good feeder, ond in
three generations they can be mode to
produce more eggs than cau be pro
duced by any cross-brod or scrub-bred
fowl. By selection of eggs from the
best layers among them, this cau be
brought about, aud the poultry keeper
who expects to grow chickens next
spring should begin this winter to
feud his hens for egg production, and
should watch thorn to see which to
save eggs from for hatching. We
have uever attained the twenty dozen
a year mark, and never expect to, for
we cannot devote our time to the
poultry yard, but we believo it to be
possible and desirable nud think it
possible without losing any of tho
fancy points called for by tho poultry
staudnrd, though it might tako a long
er time if we tried to combiue the
faucy points and tho egg production at
the same time than it would be if we
only selected the best layers without
regard to the markings, as it would
limit our number to select from.
A Knelt For Feeding Corn Foililer.
Feeding unshreddod corn fodder is
hard work, on account of the difficulty
of handling. Thcro is also a tn eater
part of the stalks that the cattle will
not eat. This accumulating under the
A EXCELLENT FEED BACK.
cattle's foot or about the feed lot soou
becomes a nuisance. Accompanying
this description I send the sketch of a
rack that will bo easy to fill aud which
will retain the stalks, allowing tho cat
tlo to strip off the leaves, corn and
tender, eatable portions. The uneaten
portion cau bo cleaned out before fill
ing auew, and the useless stalks piled
up for hauling away or mixed with the
accumulating manure heap, where tho
refuse of barn and stable is piled bo
fore being hauled to the fields.
The rack is to be built against the
fence, so that the filling cau be done
from the outside of the manger at "a"
being only high enough to retain the
fodder. The frame of the rack should
be made of 2x4s. The rack "b"
should be made of four-iuoh fencing
lumber, the slats about four inches
apart. The outside rack, "o," should
be set out far enough so the cattle can
easily reach down inside to pick up the
chaff. To guard against any waste
here, it is well to have the bottom,
"c," floorod, and the floor surrounded
by a six-inch board. The rack can be
made nny length, according to the
amount of stock to be fed. J. L. Ir
win, iu American Agriculturist.
I'ruiiiiipr Apple Tree In Winter.
There has been a great deal of argu
ment as to which is the best season
for pruning apple trees. Borne as
sert that the work should be done at
a certain period, wnuo others are
equally emphatio that some other sea
son is much to be preferred, says a
writer iu the Mississippi Valley
Democrat. And there are a great many,
in all, who think that the man who
advised that the pruning be done
"wheu the tools are sharp" was
about right. It is true that tho ex
perts assure us that pruning should
be commenced when the tree is small,
and be so closely followed, year after
year, that there will be no necessity
for removing brauchos of much size,
even after tho treo has reached its
full growth. Doubtless this is all
right from tho expert's point of view.
For the man who is ubla to give his
wholo time aud attention to the care
of his orchard there may not be a
better plan. Such a man can watoh
his growing trees, and with a pruning
knife, or shears, or at most a fine
toothed saw, he can keep tho top of
the tree iu good shapo aud cau provent
the growth of branches which would
prove useless or worse thau nseless,
if they were allowed to remain upou
the tree, instead of being destroyed
wheu they were buds or only pmall
shoots. But tho man whoso principal
business is farming aud whoso time is
Inrgoly occupied with tho cultivation
of the soil and tho cure of live stock,
finds such a course is altogether im
practical. He wants and ought to
have, something of au orphard, but
he must care for it more in a general
way and at "odd jebs," rather than
follow the elaborate methods which
the professional frnit grower finds it
desirable, or perhaps, even necessary,
to adopt.
For tho reason above noted, the
groat majority of farm orchards need
pruning, nnd, whilo it is easy to over
do the work, n great inauy of them
need a good deal of labor to bring the
trees iuto tho best possible condition
for future usefulness. When this
work shall bo done is a question for
each owner to answer for himself,
and the answer, if it be a wise and
judicious ono, will depeud very large
ly upon his location and circum
stances. If located in the far north
lr.cllm.1 Poultry Point. tt.a tarmnr ,vji ttmnt tr. An
The puro-bred ben will 'iMinily mllh with his bi.dI,. Itpa i.nfil ti.
next sprmg is fairly opened. This,
fiASTI WITH DOCnLR flLASg.
so that the glass can be set on both
sides of tho wooden bars, leaving a
half iuoh or moro of space between,
This gives a double window and the
oust is said to be not more than twenty-five
cents extra per sash for the
glass and tho labor of sotting. Those
who are providing windows for new or
remodeled poultry houses will do well
to experiment with thU plan. The
glazing must bo tight and carefully
douo to koep out all dirt an I dust from
the inner surfaoes of the yUan. New
Euglaud Ilotuostuud,
lay more eggs than any cross of the
name bieeil, nnd many more than lun
scrub hen with a mixture of half a
dozen different breeds iu her make
up. It she does not it is the fault of
tho ono who cares for her, Some
breeders really know more about tho
markings of the feathers aud shape
of the comb thnu they do about feed
ing their poultry, aud they care more
about having thesa points just right
thau thoy do about the number of egs
they receive, soys a writer in the C'ul
tnator. If they can get eggs in the
spring, wheu they aro ivuutcd far
for tho double reason, that during the
winter tho cold is much too severe to
work in the tree tops with any degree
of comfort, and because when low
temperatures prevail the removal of
branches at this season would be al
most Hure to permanently injure the
trees.
When a dog barks nt night in Japan
the owner is arrested and sentenced
to work for a year for the neighbors
whose slumbers may have been disturbed.
I GOOD ROADS NOTES.
Connecticut Highway.
Tho annual report of Highway Com
missioner MoDonnld, just issued,
biingsont some new nnd important
featiiros of the work for highway im
provement in Connecticut. There rc
now some 15,000 miles of highways of
nil kinds iu the Stnto, of which the
Commissioner implies that nbont one
half are practically useless, but cannot
be discontinued on accouut of costly
questions of land damages. The
magnitude of tho general work ol
highway improvement is indicated by
tho expenditure, actual or t6 come, of
about $800,000 during the years 1899
nnd 1900. Althongh the smaller and
poorer towns are, more commonly
than heretofore, availing themselves
of State aid undor tho new law, tho
wealthier towns taking it are still in
the majority. Altogether, however,
since the State aid plan was adopted,
138 towns out of 11)8 in the State have
token tho State aid. There is an in
creased tendency to uso the State
funds in grading nnd gravelling. Only
two towns did so iu 1895, and twenty
one towns in 1898.
The Commissioner believes that the
maximum width of a State aid road
should not exceed sixteen feet. He
opposes the long trunk roads to be
built by the Stale, until the local
work of improving roads under the
care of the towns is more advanced.
He points out that, as all the shore
Iowds but two have takeu State aid.
there will ete long be practicully a
trunk lino along tho shore reaching
from the New York to the Rhode Isl
and State lines, a distance of 120
miles. . Ho oommends the work of
the League of Americau Wheelmen in
.ireoting sigu-boards at Connecticut
zross-roads. The importance of good
roads in attracting summer residents
from the cities is strongly emphasized.
He urges that the Federal Government
jrcate a fund of $30,000,000 to be ap
portioned among the States in nid of
highway improvement.
Maryland Improvement.
Figures gathered by the State Geo
logical Survey in Marylaud as pre
liminary to the work of road improve
ment in that State show that of the
14,483 miles of public road iu the
State only 13G0 miles are improved.
The road laws are not of a character
to insure good roads, and, as a result,
the roads are badly located, badly
graded, badly drained and badly sur
faced, causing a very heavy tax on all
hauling. The average distance each
ton of freight is hauled to or from
the Maryland farms is 0,7 miles; the
average cost is twenty-six cents a mile
per ton, or $1.74 a ton for the whole
haul. There are about 5,000,000 ncres
of farm land in Maryland, nnd there
is about one ton of freight hauled an
nually per acre to or from enoh farm.
The total cost, therefore, of this trans
portation is over $8,500,000 n year.
The cost of hauliug in New Jersey
has been reduced oue-half where the
roads are improved. Therefore, by
improving Maryland roads one-half of
this sum could be saved. Making a
liberal allowance for the fact that part
of the hauling is done over toll-ronds,
and that some of it goes over unimpor
tant roads that could not be immedi
ately improved, it is estimated that at
least $3,000,000 a year could be saved
by improving the main roads in the
State. A similar estimate is reached
by considering the reduction iu tho
number of draught animals necessary,
aud the saving in the wear aud tear on
.inimals, wagons aud harness by goo-'
roads. New York Post.
Convict Labor on Itnail.
Effootive use of convict labor iu
roadmaking is reported from Colum
bia, S. C, whore an average of eighty
prisoners has been employed ill this
work for the past two years. Last
year thirty-one miles of road radiating
from the city were remade, graded,
ditched, laid with sand ou clay or
clay on sand, aud converted into
smooth nnd satisfactory highways,
capable with timely and systematic
care of indefinite maintenance iu good
condition.' During tho preceding
year fully teu miles had boen remade.
so that tow there are over forty miles
of these permanent roads leading out
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oi uoiumuia. witn tho levy asked
for the mileage cau be doubled this
year, the work on each road being
taKeu up at its present terminus, from
five to seven miles from the city, aud
carried au equal distance beyond. By
following this plan every main road
iu tho county can be remade iu from
three to four years more. "Columbia
is now far more accessible by highway
than it has ever been," commeuts the
State of that city; "a fact daily evi
denced by the number of wagons and
carts coming to aud going from the
city, the traffic on certain roads at
certain hours assuming processional
proportions. "New York Post.
To Change the Myatein.
Governor Stone, of Ponusylvauia,
lias auuounced theappoiutmeut of the
Special Commission to prosent a bill
13 the next Legislature of the State,
yhioh, iu the opiuiou of the Commis
lion, shall best meet the demand for
l change iu the preseut svstem of road
buildiug. The Commission consists
if A. J. Cussatt, President of the
Pennsylvania Railroad; ex-Governor
Beaver, Johu P, Elkin, Attoruey-Oen-oral
ol the State; H. B. Worrell,
Chairman of the League of Americau
Wheelmen Highway Improvement
Committee; H. M. Breokeuridge, of
Latona, aud H. C. Suavely, of Leb
anon. This Commission is appoiuted
in keeping with a resolution iutro
dncod at the instigation of the Penn
sylvania Division of the League of
Amerioan Wheelmen, and the bill to
bo presented is the. one the League is
hopeful of having passed next year.
Are Friend of the Fanner.
The wheelmen during their bicycle
trips and the horseless carriages dur
ing their peregrinations in the coun
try may occasionally scare the farmer's
horse; but none the less the farmer
should give them weloome. They are
the advance agents and apostles of
the gospel of good roads, and to the
farmer good roads are of the first ne
cessity. Philadelphia Record.
Wanted I An Object Leaann.
t Puerto Rico offers a virgin field for
the good roads organizations of the
United States. Let them oultivate it
and submit the result to this oountry.
Au obiect lesson in a powerful teacher,
POPULARSCIENCE.
Tho popular, notion that the blind
possess n more acute sensibility for
tactile impressions is not supported
by the numerous and. carefully made
observations of Professor (Ircinbach,
of Basle.
Self-fertile plants- or varieties are
thoso which do not require pollen
from other plants or varieties in ordor
to produce seeds or fruit. Self-sterile
plants or varieties are those which do
require pollen from other plants.
It has been assumed that the depth
of unvarying temperature iu the soil
increases from one foot at tho oqnator
to seventy odd feet at the polos, yet a
shaft in northern Siberia has reached
a depth of 1000 font without getting
through the frost. A Wostorn mining
engineer explains that this may not
disprove ' the theory, as the deep
freezing may be a result of annual
accumulations of ledimout on nn
thawed ground, k
Barometric readings reduced to true
atmospheric pressure are now re
quired by tho Wcathor Burenu, the
approximate corrections for gravity
being applied to all barometric read
ings. This corrootiou npplitiH to nil
mercurial barometers and is nearly
constnut at nny ono station. The cor
rected reading is a staudard measure
of atmospheric pressure nud cau be
compared to similar corrected read
ings mado at nny place in the world.
Uormnguilla, u beautifully resouutr
wood of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia,
is made by tho Quichim nud Amayrn
Indians into a remarkable musical in
strument, nn 'invention that seems to
be au heirloom from prehistoric civil
ization. The ' instrument resemble,
in principle the xylophone, with tho
ndditiou under each piece of a sound
ing box of n siu corresponding to tho
note. Some of the instruments
mountod on stands, hnve ns many as
forty-flvo tones, und are played by
four or five operators. Tho tones aro
not short and sharp like those of the
xylophone, but nre sustained by the
soundiug boxes in au organ-like
melody.
The reputation ol being the driest
spot on earth is claimed for l'uyta, iu
Peru, a place about five degrees south
of the equator on a coast that has
risen forty feet iu historic times.
Professor David G. Fuirchild, a re
cent visitor, reports having reached
there in February just after a rain of
more than twenty-four hours, the firs!
for eight years. The averago interval
betweeujtwo showers is seven years.
Sen-fogs are common. Of about nine
species of plants noticed, seven were
annuals and their Boeds must have re
mained dormant iu the ground for
eight years. In spite of the lack of
rain, tho long-rooted Peruvian cotton
is grown in tho driod-np river-bed,
furnishing crops that yield substance
to tho natives.
Cork Floor.
Cork, as every one knows, id one of
the best nou -conductors of hunt or
sound. That it has not been more
widely used iu building is due chiefly
to the difficulty of obtaining it in au
unadulterated form. A product called
cork tiling has recently been placed
upon 'the market, which is mado of
what is known to the trade as "virgin
cork," ground, compressed aud other
wise treated by a patented process,
aud whioh is free from the cement und
glue usually employed to hold the
particles together.
We are informed that tiles made of
this pure, compressed cork form nu
admirable flooring, whioh, besides
being noiseless, waterproof, warm
and germ proof, is capable of with
standing hard usage. By varying
tho degree of compression aud modify
ing the manufaoturingproccss slightly,
sheets of cork different in color and
density are obtained, which, when
sawed aud finished in the form 6f
panels, can be used for wainscoting
alone, or iu connection with cork
floors. Scientific American.
Their Name Hldeadlng.
It is quite generally known through
out Orauge County, New York, that
the Goshen Independent Republican
is a Democratic paper, whilo the Go
shen Democrat is of the Republican
faith. That this fact is not known by
everyone is evident by tho following
from the Independent Republican:
There came into the office of the
Independent Republican not long
since a gentleman who desired to have
his name onrollod upon its list of sub
scribers. But as the new subscriber
took his departnro he was moved to
remark: "One of tho things I have
no use for is a Democratic paper."
Evideutly he had been deceived by
tho name of the paper. Tho joke
seemed good enough to tell to Brother
Will Mead of the Democrat, who
chuckled and said: "That's nothing;
we've had orders lutely for $2.50 worth
of work from a man who said he'd
uever give a Republican newspaper n
cent's worth of work if he could help
The lleadly High Heel."
In the feet vanity too often pays a
price which is dangerously expensive.
The high-heeled shoo is made iu de
llauce of tho relation it ought to boar
to the anatomy of tho foot and to the
direction iu which tho pressure of the
body'H weight falls upon it. The
boot or shoe, that it may not slip upon
the foot, whioh by the high heel is
deprived of its usual purchase of di
rect downward pressure, is made to
hold with uuduo firmness just abovo
tho back of the heel. Chafing of u
delicate skin is readily produced.
This, though in itself u trifle, may
lead to graver troubles. Iullamma
tiou of tho log with abscess formation
not iufreqnoutly follows, aud the ox
citing cause has been traoed to the
patient's shoo. Abscesses forming
around some neglected tritlo of this
kiud have sometimes ended fatally.
London Family Doctor,
ltuklu'a Hnnao of Tutte.
VoLu Ruskiu, at neveuty-flvo, had
as keen a sense of taste as most men
have at twenty, und greatly eujoyed
new flavors.
"My palate." he once said, "serve
me uow so well, because when I was
n child I was given only the plaiuest
food. When I was a boy, too, I had
but one or two toys und no arouse
ments. Hence the keen delight
which I take now iu every little pleas
uro." (
Tin
Cflll
a
rom k tn
st he c
or'
id tfci
CUBA'S BOILED"?
It's Not Nice When Mlij, ' '
The Mew Amerlc,, , i-l '
An Amerioan who il..,,
ing what was the bee
iirinn, i ne company
that a tamarindo frii
iced concoction front
fruit was the best
country.
"urn no." sani n,
"milk is milk nuytth,," 1
seltzer and milk. It'X""
totaler's drink in the I""
drunk it from Maine to
"Well, havo yon ttieiL t
inquired the friend, e it'
"No," said the other .' " 1
will just to show yoa iiu'
business," T
Thereupon he liiase pIar
who responded and ry.
bring a "leche con iu;yY
plain English is a tt
Wheu it arrived the J
merits clinked glasson tst
who had tackled a frhai'
took a long pnll. J
"Spt!" he went f,
enspidor. feiitf
"Why this milk is , T"
claimed. "It's pretty
it'd make a fellow sirV n'
"The milk's all right. 1,,,t,t
companion. "Drink i:J",jJ
seltzer and milk is (be j.lui
on nnd drink it." iW
The temperance im:
glass iu front of him k
its contents. Again lit r
it was sonr milk llii"."
brought to him. Ho oal
aud abused him iu Enrierir
wiser comrade came tfl 1
rescue aud explained
was. All milk in Cnlu iiu
soon as it comes front"1
no other wny can it lielfij,
the lavish use of ice, jSnVu
seems similar iu effect ime
phorio oonditions obu ""''
States during a thuinlj;?i, u
the good country hotite d
orally find their milk lt'41",
hands. Boiled milk iil1'
and bars and restunn.iret
just as fresh milk as id it"1'
is used for the same '
first it is rather disagreed r
but after becoming ace. com
ono does not mind.
drink late at night bej, '
The Cubans general!; ipn
pauale, a llakey cake ol
white of au egg, mixed i'h,
This sweetens tho nii!,ml
the boiled taste and life
time strengthening. B
put seltzer in tho milk, 'pari
lunation makes it tas: fter
though it were raw n .jj
soured. j ,t
Another reason for 1 of ai
here is tho prevalence
all kinds, milk being itj ,
beut that it is dangercr e E
raw. The fact that tni'P"'
ists among the cattle tKj'"!
reason for taking this p I
is both economical afes";
New York Sun.
or
not t
i.4
thai
uat
fpll!
A French l;iit-l:J
The French, tkuuks 4iDei
dices and interests whic iu i
the development of au:l01je
this country, have tate:r ,
the manufacture of it tin ev
their applications. TlitJ0Dl
tiou engine, drawing t,e
the roads, is giving Rati' dot
French Army. TiveutjW"""
engines cau provide an r
ineu, Bixty miles diui wo;
tridges in eighteen boor? la
also transport fifty "er
weighing twenty-four kttt ,
distance of ten miles initot m
II the Prussians bad tla
giues in 1879, they If
required to wait tbif-r p
months before getting t:,lacr
position for tho siege o1!,
cording to Moltko, tue;huut
9C0 wagons and ovei Ik n
from Metz for the purf,1;
traction engine rcplaijyort
horses, nud 200 or 31)0 (fry
have enabled the Gewfcly
mence bombarding Tar; & iX
after the investment iloir
evident that iu future "'j'
engines and motor M'K!,'
'mportant service. Loiaoa ,
r f
Character In Klt I
Red-haired womon f
vivnnimia' aitnunlnl V 11 F ,
-' - ' r "
havo hazel eyes, iu
havo a bright aud qiii
They have a great dealc:
ity for study, and go
Red hair witu 'bluo c;
same warmth of charar1
much intelligence; hiig't.,'
of a rich, deep color ; ji atn
and waviug texture, S' V"
ou tho head aud t'O,u0-J'"ii
brow, shows au anleutj i
somewhat artistic tcs;iv
is the signaturo of Ap JjJ
People with red-brosn a td i
very thick, aud redder to
and at tho temples thai' jf.
are courageous aud ec Bti.
sort of hair gives senni Um
painters, force of '""S'fcj1
queuce in poets, PLTr
composition, Woman'' tL, .
w anion. J"
Table Mountain M(r tu
The ropeway locate-il1';,
ain is au important e-,t i,.,v
5280 feet long. It iHWto'
fixed rope on wh ich 0I,,BSI)'
drawn to and fro with c te jt
ing rope, the driviuR 6'iwi
versiug motion so tlm' '"JI"
of travel of the carric a '
trolled. Commenciufl i
aud following the gtof im
spaced about 800 fe'"?),;
tanes a span ol louu i
projecting rook some i I
starting point, liesmutj
at this point, tho cable 1
span of 1400 feet to i
T'lHl fant ahnvA tlm lo" I I
rnrtAnrnv lma wnrlrml W i
that it is not only uef
I'iacra nf material 61 i
sonstruction of a roser' p
times used for passeng'i
mg Magazine.
Tea l)rlnfcer'i
Biz hundred nud '
pounds of tea are con":!.
every aay, wuicu g'"' ,
minute, night and dijr'
rear. Tlia tea dHID "
year would make a "'"f
firth miles long, ons "
six feet deep.