% i Se A O00 000L000000NO0ODOCK WOMEN STREE-- ~~ CAR CONDUCTORS. Their Employment in Railway Ser- vice Extending in This Country. SACI RICIINII DOV VOLVO YOLOLODOVVVVOL ‘Women are a success as street-car sonductors in Chillicothe, Ohio. Since they were engaged one month ago by the Electric Street Railway Company the receipts of the corpora- tion have increased thirty per cent. Che women were employed originally as a measure of economy. It was found that the system of having every person put his own fare in the box re- sulted in the missing of a great many fares. On the other hand, it would cost too much to hire fwo men for each car. It was then that the superin- tendent hit upon the idea of employ- ing women as conductors, to whom only half as much was paid as would have been paid to men. The girls are good looking and members of emi- nently respectable families. They are paid $4 per week, and enjoy their CANADA'S NEW RULERS. The Appointment of the Earl and Coun. tess of Minto Halled With Satisfaction. * The appointment of the Earl of Minto as Governor-General to succeed the Earl of Aberdeen is hailed with satisfaction throughout Canada. Tt is generally believed that no more fitting appointment could have Leen made by the home Government. Lord Minto will not assume his official du- ties under the disadvantage of being a stranger, for he is widely known throughout the provinces. It might be truthfully said that he is already a popular man, and is sure to fall heir to the general good with which all Canadians feel for the Earl of Aber- deen. The arrival of the Earl and his, charming wife, the Countess of Minto, is sure to strengthen the regard now entertained for them. They will be the handsomest couple ever occupying Rideau Hall, the Dominion palace at Ottawa, and fully capable of maintain- ing the social prestige of their high position. The new Governor-General’s full name is Gilbert John Elliot-Murray Kynynmound-Elliot, and he is the ER work, while the superintendent says that they do it well. Lately a sort of epidemic for em- ploying women in the transportation service of the country has broken out. It’s not a local epidemic, so it’s going to be difficult to quarantine it, though many of the trades unionists have been trying their best to stamp it out. There’s not likely to be more success- ful than usual, however. The epidemic seems to have started last winter at Middletown, Conn., where a woman got employment as a motorman on a street car. The no- toriety the line got as a result was discouraging, so the pioneer was dis- charged, but the notion that women would make first-class conductors if not grip manipulators in small towns struck more than ene street railroad manager. Out in Vincennes, Ind., a month or 80 ago the local street railway com- pany, in a fit of economy, decided to discharge its men conductors and em- ploy women. Fifty women applied for the job and five were put to work at $5 a week. The superintendent of the Electric Railway, Light and Power Compsify, of Chillicothe, W. J. Myers, has written an optimistic letter to the Electrical Engineer on the subject: : “We could not afford to employ men, and we could not see why wom- en would not make as good conduc- tors as men. We keep them on duty ten huurs a day and pay them $4 per week, and they are proving them- selves in every way competent and efficient. "We are very particular in selecting them, and had no trouble in getting good applications and a great many more than we are able to em- ploy. It gives us a very clean ser- vice, and we think that this will be a new field for the employment of ladies.” Madison, Ind., has caught the epi- demic, too, but somehow its citizens seem to have been inoculated against it. The families of the men who have been thrown out of work by the. new women conductors have been making a big fuss abont it, and the citizens declare they will walk before they will patronize cars conducted by women. The steam railroads are falling into line. "It is four or five years now since a vigorous howl wentup because the Brooklyn Elevated decided to em- ploy women ticket agents. A few months ago the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad put women in charge of eighteen of its offices. Time and again 1t has been rumored that the New York Elevated and the New York Cen- tral Railroad would substitute women in its stations all along the line. Al- ready there are more women employed in the Central’s offices than on any other road. But after all these are =ot the pioneers in a new field. As a matter of fact we are away behind the rest of the world in the employment of wo- men in the railway service. England hires a few, while in France women railroaders are common. Betrayed by a Clock. The forester who permitted two photographers to enter the death chamber shortly after Prince Bis- marck’s death was instantly discharged, without pension. His indiseretion and that of the two photographers was be- trayed by the late Prince’s clock, which figured in the photograph, and pointed at 2.15. The culprits had effected an entrance into the death chamber through the window opening out upon the park, and Prince Herbert Bismarck has instituted proceedings against them for the criminal offense: of “disturbing family peace.” —Liver- pool Post. Amateur photographers in Russia are obliged to secure licenses. iA 2 | | 7 al WOMEN IN A NEW FIELD —-CHILLICOTHE’S STREET-CAR CONDUCTORS. — > -— =~ b By | { J f ~~ / fourth Earl of Minto. He was ;born in 1845, and succeeded his father as fourth Earl in 1891. He was formerly a lieutenant:in the Scots Guards, was attached to the Turkish army in the Russo-Turkish war in 1877, serving in Afghanistan in 1879, was a volun- teer in the Egyptian campaign in 1882, and commanded the South of Scotland Volunteers, with the rank of colonel. He took an active partin the Canadian rebellion in 1885, when he was Military Secretary to the Govern- THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF MINTO. or-Genera! of Canada. This position he held from 1883 to 1886. In 1883 the Earl married Mary Caroline, Grey. In politics he is a Liberal. Queer Ways of the “Covites.’’ In an article on the ‘‘Covites’” of the Cumberland Mountains, published in the Ladies’s Home Journal, Sarah Barnwell Elliott says: ‘‘The people are usually squatters on small lots of uncleared mountain land, which is ex- tremely shallow and poor. They usu- ally live in log or slab houses—some- times ‘chinked’ and sometimes not; sometimes with floors, and sometimes withoutf-eking out an existence by peddling either the nuts and fruits of the wilderness, or their poor ‘gyarden truck.” They are very keen at a bar- gain, even when they have no idea of the proper value of the thing in hand, and though they are very hospitable when you come to their houses, and will give you anything they have in the way of food, they will never give you anything that they have brought to sell. They may give it to your cook, or to your next-door neighbor, or they may throw it away just outside your gate, but you having declined to pay their price they will not give it to you—at least, not that special ar- sicle.” . The Bookkeeper's Vision. “The figures stared him in the face.’ One of the first effects of the busi. ness boom which is bound to follow the restoration of peace will be a pro- digious demand from Spain's lost isl- ands for American bathtubs. : daughter of General the Hon. Charles ° Re $ 3 THE WILY AGUNALDD 2 AND HIS FIERGE FILIP.NOS 8 85000000000000000000002008 The latest from Mantla is that Aguin- aldo, the insurgent leader, has issued a memorial addressed to all the foreign Powers reciting the fact that the Filip. inos have formed a Government under the Constitution adopted on June 23. He adds that ‘‘the Filipino forces g 8 m= \— N= il) pi A TYPICAL PHILIPPINE INSURGENT. have“since carried on a campaign of liberty, taken forty provinces, and have reduced Manila. They have 9000 prisoners.” Peace and tranquillity prevail in the conquered provinces, and there is no resistance to Aguinaldo’s authority. The campaign, the memorial says, was | conducted with due regard to the rules of civilized warfare. . : He asks for the recognition of the | independence of the Philippine Re- | publie, or, failing in that, to grant the | Filipinos belligerent rights. The | United States are not mentioned in | the memorial. Senor Don Emilio Aguinaldo y Faury | —there was a time not long ago when | of that name——is a very clever young | man. He hasread the story of a young man from Corsica, who made consider- able history at the other end of the century. Far be it from any carping critic to suggest that he endeavors to | imitate that master of artillery. But there ave certain marked traits which | the two men have in common, even to | the desire to wear gold collars, They | say hie is twenty-seven years old, and | he looks it. It is a noticeable fact that all the leaders of the Filipinos are young: that is the result of the | conditions which make the background of the revolutions, which make, in fact, the leaders themselves. In the days when young Aguinaldo was neither Senor nor Don, but just! | 1 | i 1 | | { } STREET IN CAVITE. SHOWING: GENERAL AGUINALDO’S HEADQUARTERS, he left off both the front and vear ends | i simple, [with an ! dom, the ability and the truth of their {1s limitless, | the tools with which to work, and { boundless ambition drove it on until { achievement is assuming proportions i beyond the wildest dream of boyhood | servant days. He left the priest and , studied medicine. He went to Hong ! Kong aud saw something of other peo- | ples and of other intellects than de- i generate Spanish or undeveloped | Filipino. 3 i In this growth to manhood and this | struggle for education young Aguin- aldo found personal experience of the | amaing blindness of the masters of { the islands. The rule of the Spanish ‘in the Philippines is almost beyond belief. Nevertheless, the testimony is convincing. The nation which delib- erately does all in its power to retard , the progress of learning, to prevent i the education of its people, has small i claim to civilization. In theseislands Pit was practically a crime for a Ifili- | pino to achieve any education. If he | came to the notige of the authorities it ‘was more than probable that, if he { were not disposed of more effectively, i he would be exiled. Agninaldo suf- fered this punishment for his ambi- tion, and now he is taking revenge. His friends, his relatives, suffered similarly, and now strive with him for ! vengeance on the Spaniard. The Filipinos are stoical in endur- ance, one benefit of three centuries of . Spanish oppression and misrule. They can endure and be still, endure physical pain and suffering, with the outward indifference of a red Indian. They have the patience of Pambe Se- | rang, limitless courage of the fighting sort, and ambition, in the case of their leaders, that knows neither metes nor bounds. In manners they are polite and agreeable, and intercourse with European civilization has given some of their leaders a distinguishing polish. They affect the hauteur and the reserve of their old Spanish rulers, i and thereby attach to themselves the COMPARATIVE SIZES OF AMERICAN SOfL- DIKR AND PHILIPPINE INSURGENT. dignity of position. The people are open-hearted. hospitable, unshaken faith in the wis- Especially is this true of By whatever means he leaders. Againaldo. I nequired his hold on the Filipinos, hig word now is law with them. Personally, says the Manila cor- respondent of the New York Sun, [ believe him to be only a great adven- . turer, like that man at the other end { of the century whom he imitates in his small way. His ambition is as boundless as Napoleon's, but he has less with which to work. His courage and is of the dashing type which has given him the ascen- dency over his people which he now OUTEL TRENCH OF THE INS URGENTS BEFORE MALATE. plain Emilio, he was servant boy for a Jesuit priest, and there lay the begin- nings of his fortune. for this Jesuit, true to the traditions and teachings of his order, gave the boy the founda- tion of the education which by its de- velopment has given him the mastery over lis people. The native wit got! holds. The humblest peasant speaks of Don Emilio as a ‘terrible fighter.” He has surronnded himself with brave, clever men, most of whom: are apparently thoroughly patriotic. They are devoted entirely to Aguinal- do because they believe that that way lies the best chance of success, o THE REALM See An All-White Eftect. Fine white organdy, point de Paris, lace insertion and narrow white satin ribbon combine to make this waist one of the most charming seen this season. To carry out the all-white idea, now LADIES WAIST. so popular, the full waist is arranged over a pure white taffeta lining, which has a soft and rather subdued finish. The fronts ate gathered at the waist and neck lines, where the fashionable pouched effect is given. The closing is in centre-front, lining and waist closing separately and invisibly, which is easily arranged by placing the hooks and eyes just where the trimming comes together. The seamless back is smooth fitting across the shoulders and drawn by gathers in centre at the waist-line. The trimming is extended across the back to give the yoke effect. The neck is finished with a high stand- ing collar, over which a wrinkled stock of the organdy is arranged, closing under gathered frills in the back, this WOMAN'S ETON style having again taken the place of the now passe bow of ribbon. The two-seamed sleeves, which only have fulness at the top, are disposed over fitted linings, stylish double epaulettes standing out fashionably at the top. Triple rows of the frilled ribbon form’ evenly spaced bands above the elbow to correspond to the waist trim- ming, and the wrists are finished to match the epaulettes and simulated yoke. For separate waists of silk or fine woolen, as well as cotton fabrics, this model will be found excellent, it be- ing ample in construction and suited to the applied decorations that abound in an almost endless variety of designs. Tuckiug can be nsed in place of the ribbon, as here shown, if the tucks are made 1n groups in the material before the pattern is laid on. To make this waist for a woman of medium size one and three-quarters yards of material forty-four inches wide will be required. OF FASHION. © 5 060000000800S The two-seamed sleeves can be pleated or gathered at the top, the wrists being finished with three rows of ribbon to match the edges of the jacket. A tailor finish of machine stitching can be used or braid and velvet may- take the place of the ribbon and satin. For pique and duck, crash and other wash suits, this is a good model, bands of a darker color, with plain or faced collar, being the usual decora- tion. To make thiy jacket for a woman of medium size i and one-half yards of material, forty-four inches wide, will be required, A Favored Combination. For autumn wear, beige and deep Tuscan yellow of rough straw braids, trimmed with green velvet and shaded velvet gerapinm or nasturtinm blos- soms, in all their glowing colorings, { will be a favored combination. Clerk of Common Council. For the first time in the history of Mount Vernon a woman a few days ago acted as clerk of the Common Council. Miss Imogene Hoyt, sister and assistant of the clerk, W. N. Hoyt, read the petitions and various bills in a businesslike manner, which created a favorable impression on the Alder- men. Tight-Fitting Silk Coats. Short tight-fitting silk coats with handsome buttons are just coming into vogue. A thin black skirt worn over a colored skirt is the correct thing with these jackets. Artificial Fruit For Hair Ornamentation. Artificial fruit will be much worn this fall. Cherries will be allowed to droop on the hair as flowers have Mrs. Linton’s I’ersonal Estate. Mrs. Lynn Linton’s personal estate | It was | her desire that her body should be | cremated, and she bequeathed $50 to | She ordered ! her | house, which did not belong to her, | should be sent to her husband or to has been valued at $82,420. the Cremation Society. tha! certain Elgin marbles in his representatives for presentation to the American National Gallery by his desire. If Has Supplayted the Blazer, To a great extent the Eton jackel has usurped this season the place for- merly held by the “blazer,” and in its up-to-date shaping, as presented in the large engraving, is an extremely smart and becoming garment. : A relief from the rather severe tailor finish is shown in this jacket of cadet- i blue serge (matching the skirt), that: is decorated withrows of narrow black | satin ribbon, the revers and collar faced with black satin. The stylish walking hat of cadet-blue has a black satin, straw brim, rows of ribbon en- circling the crown with black and | blue curling coque feathers at the left side. ~ The fronts, which are shaped | without daris, are reversed at the top | in pointed lapels, that meet therolling collar in notches. The back may be made with or without a centre seam, as preferred, and wide under-arm gores, with shoulder seams, complete the stylish adjustment. { hitherto been placed. Grapes are to JACKET be mingled with dark violets, with which they will harmonize in color, and blackberries will be exceedingly popular. A Dressy Apron. Fine white lawn, trimmed with in- sertion and embroidery, made this dressy apron, that can be worn with a guimpe, as well as for a protection to a dainty dress. Three box pleats are formed back and front, their under- fAds being stitched to the waistline, below which they fall in loose, grace- ful folds. A deep hem finishes the lower elge, and the skirt is gathered on the side to a short body, banded at the lower edge by insertion. The closing is invisible nnder centre pleat in back. Pretty bretelles are formed over the .shoulders by a graduated frill of embroidery set on with a head- ing of insertion. A strap of insertion crosses the box pleats at the top,form- ing a low, square neck, which is fin- ished with a narrow standing {rill of embroidery. Organdy, swiss, nain- sook, batiste or gingham will make pretty and serviceable aprons in this CHILD'S BOX-PLEATED APRON, style. Worn with a guimpe it will do duty as a dress in hot weather. To make this apron for a girl six years oi age will require two and one- quarter yards of waterial thirty-six inches wide.
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