CHILDREN'S DRESS. BE ASONAniiK CLOTH AS FUR THE LITTLE ONES. A Girl' bailor Suit of Mlun and White Seersucker Mlnei1 eiitrt Wnlst. With Sailor Collar IN the t writes white united ' ' N the first two-eolnmn picture, May Mantou, bine and seersnoker is stylishly I with plain dark blue linen, the free edges of collar and cuffs boing finished with several rows of white machine stiching. Tlio full gathered ekirt in joined to a plain body lining shaped with shoulder and tinder-arm scams, that clones at centre back with buttons and bntton-holos. The front is faced In shield shape with the stripes of material rnnning crosswise, the GIRLS' SAILOR SUIT. standing collar being of the dark blue linen. The blouse is simply Adjusted with shoulder and under-arm seams and closes in front, the neok being out away to expose the shield, and the handsome broad sailor collar displays stylish pointed revers in front, from under which a sailor tie knot and ends of the linen fall. Elastic is drawn through the hem that finishes the lower edge of blouse to adjust the full ness at the waist line. The full bishop sleeves are gathered top and bottom, round cuffs finishing the wrists. The skirt is finished with a deep horn, above whioh baud of the linen is stitched on with white on both edges. Stylioh and useful costumes for seaside, coun try or general wear are made of flannel, serge, duck, pique, grass lineu, crash, gingham or other cotton or wool fabrics, corresponding material or braid furnishing suitable decoration. The quantity of material thirty-six inches wide required to make this costume for girl ton years old is five and one-half yards. KISSES 8RTBT WAIST WITH SAILOR COLLAR. Describing the seoond large illus tration, May Mantou says: Dotted MISSES' SHIRT WAIBT lawn made this attractive shirt waist whioh ia daintily trimmed with em broidery and insertion. The fronts are gathered at the neok on eaoh side of the centre box plait that edges the right front The olosing is made in centre with studs through the box plait, the fronts being joined to the baok by shoulder and under-arm aeams. The seamless baok has a square yoke undertaking stitched on at the top, the fullness at the want line boing drawn to the centre by tapes inserted in casing and tied around the waist The lower edge is worn under the drew skirt and white silk belt en sir- oles the waist. The broad sailor col lar has wide pointed ends that flare apart in front, the edges being trimmed with insertion and embroid ered edging. The stylish bishop slocvcs are gathered top and bottom, the back being slashed at the wrists and the openings finished with over laps In regular shirt style. Wrist band with square turn over cuffs tbat flare apart over the bands finish the fashionable sleeves. Waists in this stylo are made of grass linen, batiste, lawn, porcole, chambray, dotted Swiss, flannel, merino or other cotton, wool or silk fabrics. The quantity of material thirty-six inches wido rcqnired to make this waist for a miss in the medium size is three and one-half yards. child's oriMrn rmfls. Dotted Swiss made this pretty dress, tho edges of frills and low nock being trimmed with Valenciennes lace and insertion. The very short body is shaped by shonldor and under-arm seams and is gathered at the top and, bottom in front, the baek being low and round while the front of neok is shaped in square outline. Tho short child's guimpb dress. sleeve is formed of frills of the mater ial edged with lace and insertion. graduated frills trimmed to matoh forming a bertha that extends down eaoh side of the fullness ia front. Tho WITH SAILOR COLLAR. full round skirt is deeply hemmed at the lower edge, gathers adjusting the fullness at the top that are joined to. the lower edge of waist, a single row of insertion oonoealing the seam. Charming little frooks are madein this style from lawn, dimity, nainsook, grass Jinen, batiste, oambrio or ging ham in plain, figured, striped or checked varieties. Hamburg or batiste embroidery, luce, fauoy or hem stitch ing can be used as decoration. The quantity of material thirty-six inobos . wide required to make this dress for child In the medium size ia four and a quarter yards. HOME-MADE BICYCLE Ingenious Young Western Farmer Who Astonished the Natives. L. W. Wuhweler, an ingenious young farmer living near Bonton, Ark., rodo into Little Bock the other day on a bicycle that astonished the natives. Wuhweler is only eighteen years old, but he has an inventive streak that, promises to place him on some lofty pinnacle of fame. It has already placed him on the saddle of the funniest looking bicycle ever seen in the neighborhood. In fact, it is so funny that both he and it were cap tured And placed on exhibition almost the instant they struck Little Rock. The machine is called the "Arkan sas Traveler." It weighs forty-seven pounds, is almost perfect in every re spect, and every part of it was made by Wuhweler, who completed it in fonr days after getting out the hickory timber of which it is constructed. It is provided with a bell (in compliance with the city ordinance), operated by a harness snap. The chain is taken from a corn planter. Tho sprockets THE ARRANSAW TRAVELER. are wooden pin? driven in the axle and crank hanger. I he wheel has dodge spokes And wood rims, braided with hickory bark. The front 1 fork is at tached to the head nt the upper end by a heel bolt with a tail nut taken from an old plow stock. The lower connection or hinge is a piece of iron in the shape of a staple, and is driven in the head. Another piece is driven through the front fork, forming the other part of the hinge. It passes through the front fork and is shaped to hold a wrench. The saddle is a solid piece of wood and is attached to the frame with a piece of hasp, wire and two staples. The handle bar is adjustable. The head and frame are made of the crotch of a tree to insure strength. The bolts and pieces of iron used wero picked up about the farm. Tools used saw, ax, auger and pookot-knife. It shows great inventive genius, containing some of the features of a high-grade wheel of 1890 model, as far as possible with the material at hand. It is a combination ladies' and gentlemen's wheel. The machine is geared to 31 5-6, and the wheels are twenty-two inches iu diameter. A Largo Coconniit l'lantntion. A Yucatan correspondent of the Philadelphia Record describes a large coooanut plantation of a New England mac down there. "On a trnct of 101)0 acres (purchased from the Qovernment at the rate of four cents per acre) he has set out 10,000 trues and expects in due time to make a princely fortune therefrom. It requires six years for the trees to begin to yield returns, and it is estimated that in ten years from the time of planting the grove will be worth at least 81,000,000, 02 which it will yield an annual income of ten per cent A full grown cocoa nut treo will mature from sixty to 100 nuts every year. Another American is experimenting in this neighborhood on ramie, or vegetable silk, and de clares that its cultivation is to becomo an important factor iu cloth-making materials. Ramie is a member of the bromelia family, here knowc as silk grass, and grows wild in the hot sands of the coast To-day it is worth 95 cents a pound in Manchester, Eng land, while the demand for it is im mensely ahead of the present supply. " In Memory of the Coronation. The great Danish painter, Tuxen, has been commissioned by the Czur to set down on canvas the prinoipal soene of hi ooronation. This paint ing will be sixteen feet long, thirteen feet high, and will contain a large number of lifolike portraits. ' Three copies will be made of it one for Qneon Victoria, grandmother of the Empress of Russia ; one for the Grand Duke of Hesse, her father, and a third for the King and Queen of Den mark, the maternal grandmother and grandfather of the Czar. I OLDEST ".UEETIXU HOUSE" IX HIE SOUTH. 8 iSri 4 9 J .,.7 -iifJ I I UN I IT;-II I I 1 What to-dajr remains of Ebenoier. 'a Georgia town In Erangbam County, tbat pros pered and toll In th wily years of tbe ihtentb Century, How Sea Lions Trnp Sen Gulls, The sea lion is probably the clum siest animal in the world. lie likes to bask in the sun all day, and when he moves he is exceedingly sluggish re A Mo TnArrTsn A nrr.M and awkward. It has often been won dered how this animal manages to se cure its favorite food, wild sea fowl. Sea gulls are so wild that it is diffi cult even for man to got within gun shot of one. The seal scemi to realize that it would be a waste of time to at tempt to ctawl tip upon the gulls as they rest upon the water and catch them unawares. So he watches until the gulls are soaring slowly through the air close to tho waves. Then the seal dives into the sea and swims un derneath the water for some distance. By tho time he has managed to swim a hundred feet the gull has forgotten the presence of its enomy. This gives the seal his opportunity. Ho cau tiously rises to tho surface of the water at some distance from the point at which ho dived, and allows merely the tip of his great nose to appear above the water. Remaioing in this position, he gives his enormous body a rotary motion so that his nose describes a circle on the surface of the ocean. He does this so skilfully that to the gull his nose looks like a water bug at play. This catches the gull's eye, and it at once darts down with the speed of an arrow, aim ing straight for the little dot. The seal sees it coming and sinks a few inchos, and as the gull strikes the water with tremendous force, the seal's jaws olose upward and the gull disappears. Strango ltabblt Freak. Mis Bertrand, a young lady living in Tooaloma, Cal., is the owuer of a rabbit that diflors from any other rab bit mentioned in zoology. Ibis par ticular bunnie has but one ear, and that one is located directly on top of its head and is about twice as large as it ought to be. Miss Bcrtrand's father is a hotel proptietor, and the odd-lookiug rabbit is a great pet around the hostelry. According to the San Francisco Call, the rabbit must have known that ho A BABBIT WITH ONE EAR. was different from other rabbits and, therefore, entitled to some considera tion, for he approached the hotel as if desirous of boing captured. When ohased he did not run away, but hid in a dump of bushes and re mained there until his captor pioked him up. Since then he has become very tame, but at no time did the little fellow evince any great amount of fear. The body of the rabbit is just like that of any other cotton-tail, and so is his head. The fur is the same, and the animal seems to be about the size of other members of the same species. But be has only one ear, and this gives him an unoanny appearanoe. He has been dubbed the "unioorn rabbit," and the solitary ear gives him a fero oious aspect. STUDENT DUELS. SOME m,OOTY AND SOMK HU MOROUS IMIASK9 OP THEM. Handsome Young Fellows With Fares Terribly Scarred A Visit to the Heidelberg Duelling Quarters. IN a photograwhlo gallery at Hoi dolberg was a show-case full of student pictures. Young men of the student age the world over doubtless have a weakness for bo ing photographed, but the Heidelberg students had discovered new and startling effects in their group pic tures. One photograph represents a flight of angels, but each angel had the battle-scarred face of a German student. In another picture some nymphs were dancing on the ocean 'sands beautiful nymphs with bearded faces and peaked caps. A plump little Cupid had a beer stein in one hand And a long pipe in the other, And in stead of the conventional baby face he carried the smiling likeness of a big Westphalian student of philosophy. There were many more of the same sort, and the photographer had shown great skill in getting them np. The illusions were actually startling. Imagine a Venus do Milo with side whiskers and a pair of spectacles I Or an Apollo Belvedere with pipe in his mouth 1 This wonderful collection of pic tures gave a good Insight into the stu dent lira of the old town, for the boys take life merrily enough and are just at the age to see the joke in anything that other people take seriously. The university mou are somewhat older than the students of an American col lege, but so long as they are students they never arrive at the ago of seri ousness, but carry their learning modestly and Appear to find it valu able only in their funmaking. They propose toasts in Greek and have the names of the ancient philosophers em blazoned on their beet mugs, says the Chicago Record. c'-V HEIDELBERG. CASTLE, FROM THE In this same photograph gallery were dozens ot piotures of students in teams, trios and groups, and every student held a "stein" in his right hand. Sometimes, also, he carried a pipe in his loft hand. If the stndents at Northwestern University were to have themselves photographed while sitting at a card-table drinking beer and then allow the piotures to be dis played in tho shop windows of Evans ton the faculty might have reason to bolieve that the young men were try ing to advertise thoir wickedness. One photograph in the gallery gave information as to another phase of student life. It was a pioture of a wounded dqolist in the hands of the surgeon. The victim's fuoa showed three or four deep gashes and was smeared with blood. The oil-oloth apron thrown over his shoulders was dripping with the red fluid and the surgeon was ready to begin sewing up the wounds. POCSB IN WHICH THE DUELS ARB FOUOHT. His assistant was feeling the pulse of the woundod man, and in the back ground stood the comrades of the in jured men, calmly smoking and gazing into the camera. The reproduction of the photograph, given herewith, is not as ghastly as tbe original, and yet it may not be a pleasant thing to look upon. The ex cuse for printing it is that it repre sents what happens twice a week at this dwelling house, whioh stand on tho banks of tbe Neokar River, op posite the town and the castle, Erery u 1 iii i-s- -.111 L-awa n 11 11 li ijvir r n 11 e one who Las visited Heidelberg has taken occasion to write of the famous duels, in which the students are so padded and protected tbat they can A LITTLE INCIDENT OF STUDENT LIFE. only chop each other on the cheeks or across the forehead. The young man in the photograph has received so many slashes that tho surgeon has stopped the fight, and is now stopping the flow of blood. The young man will be confined to his room for several days, and then he will venture out, his head wrapped in heavy bandages, and resume his plaoe at the beer table with his comrades. No one will inquire very anxiously as to the condition of his wonnds, be cause the wounds are supposed to be A mere detail of student life. After the bandages are taken away he will have eome ugly red scars to carry around with him the remainder of his life. Be assured he would not have any one of them heal and disappear for a thousand marks. While he car ries the scars they say for him : "I have been at the university and fought my duels." It is no exaggeration to say that throe-fourths of the students encoun tered in the streets and gardens ot Heidelburg carry the purple cross marks and long, ragged seams across their faces. The student never has a sure standing among the "corps" bod ies until he has been wounded at least MARKET SQUARE OF TflE TOWN. onoe, and, strange as it may seem, tho . awkward duelist who is slashed the of tenost seems to take an especial pride in tho number and the redness of his soars. Occasionally there will be seen a student whose face is bo deeply ban dagod that he has difficulty in getting his cigar into his mouth. One day in tbe garden adioininsr the old castle atudent'eame in led by two friends, who wore the oolored caps of his "oorps." This young man could not see through the several bandages that were laid aoross his faoo, and what he seemed to regret most of nil was he could not drink. Only one side of his month showed. He sat at the table tbat had been re served for his oorps, and occasionally he joined in the conversation, but it sounded like a voioe coming through a pillow. Heidelberg restaurants combine ex cellent service with reasonable prices. In some of the old places patronized by tbe students tho walls are literally covered with photographs, swords, caps and various trophies. The larger places are finished in tbe most ornate German style, tbe interiors being of -dark wood with rioh frescoes over head. Even-in the midday these places have a quiet and restful gloom, and business is never so lively that the people forget to be easy going and good natured. Circuiureuting Slosquttoes. A mixture of glycerine and carbolio acid is said to form a wonderful pro tection from mosquitoes as well as a oure for the bites. Take about twenty drops of the aoid and put it into a bottle containing an ounce ot glyo erine and half an ounoe ot rosemary water. If used freely at night the sting of the bites will be almost mirac ulously oured and the disfiguring blotohes removed by morning. If the odor is unbearably disagreeable add A drop of attar of roses to the liquid. Itemarkablo Coachwhlp Snake. A remarkable ooaohwhip snake was killed in Walker County reoently. It measured eight feet two inches in length, the largest plaoe in its body, being not more thau an inch and bait iu diameter. The plait was dis cernible two feet from the Up of its tail Atlanta Constitution. .-- i 1 .
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