(Imn chewing is not n modem habit. Y'ny buck in tlio time of tho Veda -'li Hindoo maidens chewed gum. I.itv then they were uncivilized and ku-r an better. In I'liin (N. V.) case Judge Mc Lennan lias decided Hint property purchased with pension money is not xempt from loi'ii) assessments for im provements, although exempt from jrehera! taxation. Tim Hi lton ill Hlininr'nii, China, dc firing t. lo something to commemo rate the sixtieth anniversary of (Jneen Victoria's reign, ntul to show their gratitude for lier long life nnd linjipi ness, propose to ereet n new jiiil. Pennsylvania is likely to establish Komi three forestry reserves of 40.00(1 neres each nt the headwaters of the Delaware, Hiisquehannn ntnl Ohio. Whole counties hnve lieen stripped by liimliei'inen, nml the state is in urgent Heed of this legislation. What is n "pusha ? " in frequently tisked. "Pushu," nlso written "bn shuw," is merely nn honorary title given by the Turkish government to jiiei; of high political position, ns governors of provinces, or to great military eommiimlei'H. There re three decrees. According to Maine law the liounty for benrs is paid on the exhibition of bruin's nose, while under the. New Hampshire law payment in ramie w hen the eurs nre brought in, anil hunters living near theeommon lmnndnry of the fdntes, it is sniil, collect tw ice for each lienr they bring down. It is helieveil that the tom"b 'df Oenenil Orntit in New Ytrk is prac tienlly indestructible, liy the elements, unless it is the iron roof, which will linve to lie replaced from time to time. The rest is built from the hardest rocks, the walls being fivui ten to twenty-live feet thick.. The square iortion is ninety feet nch way by seventy feet high. The tvst of the ntructure whs in excess of JtiOO.OOO. Homebody is just oot with the sta tistics of costs incurred Iry the vnrious wars during Queen Victoria' reigu. Lord Lytton's Afghan war cost $!(, 000,000. The Crimean war sent the English taxpayer a bill .tf 3580,000, 000. The expedition to squelch King Theodore of Abyssinia, most &4."i,000, 000, and the scare which was indulged in by England during the lute Kusso Turkish war, und resultediin Disraeli's "peace with honor," imt just 8'il, 250, (tOO. Says the Mobile Daily Register: A New York man writes to the papers advocating that the Mississippi river be straightened. He has the idea that the river wunta to run liu a straight line, bat iiuA as lit has got itself into kinks it cannot do -so, and in sheer desperation jumps over the opposing banks and deluges the coun try. The straight line plan could be improved upon, bow-ever, by running the river through a pipe. We recom mend this to the New York man. It is a curious commentary nn the male students of Oxford ((England) university, think the New York Kun, that more than two-thirds of the whole Dumber in residence have signed a petition protesting against the open .ing of the degrees to women. It must ibe remembered that as matters now tare the girls can go up for the exam ination, but no matter how high they fBcorethey cannot attain to the coveted B. A. In many cases women have walked all round their masculine competitors in the finals. It all looks like a bear ish determination to hold on to a lnt 'masculine privilege. No suck grudg ing injustice would 1x9 likely in the case f an American university where it wu proposed to do justice to the ether Bex. Now and then the Prince of Wales TOukeH the reputation and fortune of an artist at the academy dinner which ia serve in the main exhibition room As he sits in the chief place At table Lis eyes way survey the majority of he paintings on the walls. If his fancy be arrested by one in particular, ud he expresses his approbation Audibly, the lucky artist, if unknown, may lie sure of fame the next morning, aud that picture will be the object of particular atteu tion during the ex hibition. Every artist, therefore, probably scans eagerly the report in the uext day's Times to discover if the prince was incautious euough to de clure what painting pleased him most. It is a fact which American journalists may curiously note, that the only pa per allowed to have a representative at these coble dinnors is the London Times. , SACRIFICE.. He wlin for nn Immortal life adopts ft mortnl IT 1 Frovlnim nlono the littleness of egotistic, greed. f'.nongh It Is. ns sum It Is, that ere I rtm"!i my goal, Home deed ot mine shall glorify tliu univer sal soul. Mglil! give n llirht that we may know the Krnniti'iir nf the plan Wherein all seen ami unseen growths bid common heir with man. This blade nf grass whereon of Into some cnrclens pimner trod. Is flesh nf mine nml soul of mine nml part with me nf I loil. The witless seolT, the willful fling nialedlc- tions wide. Hut Truth trliim j'lmnt keeps the way with unimpeded stride. Time proves all things, defines nil things, nssorts.neeeptH, reject? j The years n single sermon prom.'h, with sac- rillen the text. ) mnn.O woman, heed ye not the anguish of the rod. Hut learn the bliss of sacrifice, that proves tlie mnn a god. Prank Viitnam.ln Chicago Tlines-lleraH HIS MOTHER'S MAID, i X nv .ik.xsy wary. T "No, I shall never marry. And don't laugh so incredulously, Lottie, dear. One needn't be a confirmed old innid in years, nor ugly, nor de crepit, to have buried romance whose ghost would rise to forbid vows if loyalty nt any other shrine." And, heaving n deep sigh, Nettie Clare sadly shook her pnetty head, while the dark blue eyes grew darker with the intensity of the feeling which had prompted her words. It was small wonder that her friend should have greeted them with a merry laugh of incredulity, for Nettie was pnsmng fair to look upon, with a complexion pure and colorless ns mar ble, eyes of Irish blue and hnir black ns the raven's u ing. No w rinkles marred the low brow to mark the HO short years which had pnssed over her young head. No lines had impressed themselves about the sweet, syiiiathetie Miouth to betray this secret sorrow. As yet the ghastly skeleton had left no outward truce upon either faee ir form. Nevertheless, Lottie Armstrong knew and loved her too w ell nut to know these words just uttered were no jest, but very orry earnest. "What nre yim talking about, Net tie?" she exclaimed. "Do you nionn to tell me tket you are a victim to un requited love yen, w hose life has been one long exponent of (!usnr"s motto? Nonsense! If, through those mischief-making eyes of yours, you can by a glance of indifference ork such havoc, what would it be if they soft ened w ith real reeling? Unless, per chance, the man is blind, and com passion for his in firm ity has won your heart, but how, then, about the low., musical voioe whose praises I have heard sung by a dozen iurpassioticd swains?" "Don't jest, Lottie. The man is neither blind nor deuf to others; both to me, for he lias never seen nor spoken to tueeiucel wasiive years old!" "Never seen nmr spokei to you!" echoed her friend, in incredulous amazement. '"Aiid you have loved him since your 'babyhood! Nettie, have you gone madT' "No, dear, 1 mil very sane. Listen and I will tell you all' about it. Our friendship is too close mid warm to withhold from it my confidence, ,and inasmuch as H is all I shall have through the lung, empty years of the future, it is due us both that you should understand all this secret ro mance of my life. "For it is a romance, Lnttin, al though very sad.aail very real to like. You have heard ne speak o'f my Aunt Margaret, w ho married my mother's brother. When ue married him she was a widow, with one son. 'Cousin Harry I was taught to call him, though, as you Bee, he ws in reality n rela tion. "The summer that I was live years old I was spending a mouth with my aunt, and Cousin Harry was home on his vacation from college. He was then IN and made of me at once a pet and a plaything. "Soon after that it seems some slight -family difficulty arose, and 1 never went there again. Bnt always Cousin Harry wrote to me. When he left college he joined the army and went out to India. There lie distinguished himself and was promoted. Two or three times he has sent me photographs, taken at ilitVerent places. "Well, in one letter he discussed this nousensical quarrel and determined be at least would not be a party to it. But, two years a no, my Uncle' Regi nald died. Uncle had always led Harry to suppose that he w as to be heir. Insteud all the wretched money was len 10 me. "This was bad, but uncle made it worse by insinuating that the money might yet be Harry's if he could only win in for his wife. All was arranged just then that I was to pay his mother visit, and he was coming home from India on leave to see the little cousin who had been hut boyhood's pet. "Instead, he wrote his mother a let ter she sent to me, without one soft ening word, but with the bitter re proach that I bad schemed to gaiu my uncle's wealth and rob her boy of his own', but Harry's letter was uo less bitter, though more just. " 'I am glad Nettie has the money,' he said, 'for I am a man mid cau make my own way in the world; but cer tainly I will build it upon no woman's wealth. My little cousin was very dear to me us a sister, not as a wife; but I swear that I will never see or speak to her agaiu until she or I aro married. I never will put myself in the pjsitiua of cvaa tho pjsiUility of seeking ft woman's love for tho sake of her money. It would have been better if my undo had never led me to believe myself his heir; but except for this, and the nliuost insulting nl ternative he leaves open for me, 1 do not blame him.' "This was nil, Lottie this nnd his mother's reproaches, but I was a child no longer. I was n womnn, and 1 knew that always in my childish and my woman's heart there had been one shrine, one hero. Ho loved me, he said, ns n little sister. I (bid help me! loved hint with tho one passion of my life. This was two years ago. 1 knew him too well to try to change bis purpose; but 1 have sometimes thought that, perhaps perhaps, if he had seen me, if wo hud been throw n together, all might have been differ ent. Hut you know now, Lottie, why 1 shall never marry." "A chance for you, Nettie!" cried Miss Armstrong a week after the conversation just recorded had taken place. And ns she spoke she waived n Lon don paper over her head. "What do you mean?" snid Nettie. "A ehnnce for you to meet this in vincible cousin nnd he be none the wiser," explained her friend. "Listen to this:" " "Wantk.ii A companion and maid to an invalid lady in Kent. Home one w illing and refined. Address M. E., Thorbnrn House, Kent,' " M. E. !' Those nre your mint's initials, nnd surelv I have heard yen mention Thorbnrn House! Now, I think you w ill fill all these itulittca tions, nnd really, my dear, to a young lady of your income the salary would lie a decided object." IJnt Nettie did not echo tho luilgh which finished this speech. ""It is Aunt Margaret!" he snid. slowly, "and, though you nre jesting, Lottie, I think 1 will make the jest very earnest. Cousin Hurry is in India still; but 1 should like to go Again to the dear old place, even in the position of a menial. Aunt Mar guret would never recogni.e me; but I would try so hard to iniike her love me, and, if 1 succeeded, I might one diiv confess to her how 1 became her innid." "Hut Indies do not love their paid dependents, dear." "Ah, blood will tell, and Aunt Mar garet shall love me." And so it happened that a fortnight Inter, in pursuance of this resolve.Net tie Clare's eyes were once more glad dened by sight of the dear old place she hnd never expected to see ngnin. The welcome she received was kind, but it was the welcome of the grand lady to the youna; womun paid to do service, though Nettie saw the almost imperceptible start given by the mis tress of the house, when looking on the slight, graceful ligur, whose nir of elegance and breeding could not be disguised by the simple black dress as sumed to mnsqueraile the role. "How came yon to take such a po sition, child?" asked Mrs. Ellison, one morning, when Nettie had fulfilled her duties for more than a mouth. The lady hnd asked Nettie that day to read to her; but, as she listened to the sweet voice, she had heard none of the meaning of the words, but had been instead intently -studying the exquisite face which bent over the book. "How little I thonght, when I in serted my advertisement, I should be so favored!" continued Mrs. Ellison. "You nre very kind, madam, to be pleased with me," Nettie answered; '"but yon must not ask me of my past life. I shall be glad if by faithful dutv I eon brighten vonrs ever bo lit tle." There was real feeling in the voice, which touched the listener's heart. I'roud lady as Mrs. Ellison was, in presence of this girl she almost forgot the social gulf between thna. Hhe was ill and suffering, too, and she learned to long for the cool, white hand which bathed her brow so untiringly and for the sound of the quiet step which told her her maid was near her. One morning a letter was handed her., and Nettie saw her eyes glisten and tears of joy drop on the page. "My boy is coming home," she mur mured. "He was to follow his letter almost immediately, he writes. Next week he w ill be here. Why, child, what is the matter?" for her maid stag gered and grew very pale. "Nothing, madam. I will go to my own room. I shall be better soon," N'ttie replied. Hut when she returned, though calm, she still w ns white and grave. "I must leave yon, Mrs. Ellison," she snid, sadly. "I am not well, I find, and must send some one to you to fill my place." "Leave me!"cried tho invalid. "Net tie, you must not think of such a thing. If you are ill you shall be nursed as though you were my own dunghter, but I must know you are near me. Child, what makes you so near and dear to me?" ' ' But Nettie's only answer was a burst of tears. And so when the young master came to his home she still held there the position of his mother's maid. ".She is a lady, Harry," anid his mother. "I am sure of her birth and breeding ns of my own, but I can get her to disclose nothing." To all of which the young man lis tened inditferently.though he, too, had started at sight of the girl's rare beauty and found himself listening delighted ly to the tones of the low, sweet voice. "I must go," Nettie said to herself, when this had gone on for several days. "I am only making my own misery the greater and signing the death-warrant to my own happiness." But resolutions are not Hlways made to be kept, and tho uext morning all else was forgotten nt Thoi burn House but the sudden illness of the young master. Captain Harry had beert ttvleketi down with a low fever, nnd who could nurse him, thought his mother, but bur faithful maid? His life was spnred. The fight was fierce bnt short; and then followed the long, tedious days of convnlesceiice,or days which began ns long ntnl tedious, but soon grew nil too short. Captain Harry wasn proud man, and it w as long ere he would acknowledge to himself that to this poor girl, his mother's paid dependent, he had given his heart; but once acknowledging it, be was too honest nnd too manly to tnke refuge in any but nn open nnd nn honorable course. "As my mother snid," he told him self, "she is a lady. Every act, every gesture, betrays it; nnd better far that I should innrry where my heart bus led than stoop to win a womnn for her gold. When Nettie is mine we will invite the other Nettie to Thor bnrn ngnin. Will she come, I wonder? nnd has she, too, hnd love's young dreams ere this?" That very evening Nettie listened to the few, frank words in which Cnptnin Hurry told his love listened with Hushed cheek and dow n-bent head. But when he would hnve draw n her to his heart, she resisted the loving cfiort nnd held herself erect. "Whut is the love you w ould offer rour mother's maid?" she snid. "The same that I hope to offer my mother s daughter, he replied, "if, my darling.you w ill be that daughter ami niv wife." "And what does your mother say? Ask her!" she persisted. "Hhe echoes her son's prayer," said n voice from the open doorway. One sw ift glance Nettie gnve toward Mrs. Ellison; then, going to meet her, drew her into nn ensv-chnir nnd fell nl her feet. "Listen first to my confession," said Nettie, brokenly, "and then tell me whether I must go or stnv. And then, in a quick, low voice, she told the story through. "Now,"' she snid, w hen she had fin ished, "you know all. Must I go, or may I stay? Low and sweet ns nn angel's whis per fell the answer from her aunt's lips: "Stv,niv darling.ns my daughter!" And then it merged in words lower nnd sweeter still, ns her lover lifted hor to the shelter of his heart and lour inured: "Htay, my darling, ns my wife!" Saturday Night. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Tea is gathered from the plant four tunes a year. A Hill (N. H.) mnn has eaten noth ing but milk, grnham rolls und w heat biscuit for twenty years. The great Mohammedan school at Cairo, hi A liar, meaning "I he Kid en did," has clear records dating as far back as i)7i. Ther were recently killed in Wyo ming one of the largest mountain lions ever seen in that state, it was almost nine feet long. Must young collectors, nml, in fact, older persons of experience, are often surprised to henr thot garnets come iu other colors than red. Thirteen letters written by (leorga Washington over 100 years ago were sold in Loudon recently for 32:t.ri(). This is an average of about 180 apiece. Kesideuts of Jefferson street, Tu poka, Kan., have been victims of a trained or perverted dog which stole their newspapers and took them to its master. ' The ji iBtinaster general of Great Britain lias issued a notice to the effect that henceforth mourning postal cards, bordered with black, front and back, will be admissible. The elephant is commonly supposed to be a slow, clumsy fellow, but when excited or frightened can attain a speed of twenty miles an hour, and can keep it up for half a day. Three hundred unpublished letters by Hofor, Haspinger and others, val uable documents to historians of the Tyrol, were lately discovered in a dilapidated drugstore at Bozen. Home quaint and curious toys, 1500 years old, were recently found in a child's grave in course of some exca vations in nn old Human cemetery. Most of them were made of glass. The longest commercial distunce at w hich long-distance telepoue is now operated is from Boston to SI. Louis, a distance of 1400 miles. This line is more than twice as long us any in Europe. Hunters report that the like of the vast number of rabbits iu southwest ern Minsouri has never before been known. Ou the prairies, iu the corn and wheat fields, and in the bush, the cottontails are as numerous as rats iu an old barn. A young maid servant of Cande, a small town near Augers, iu France, in trying to get rid of a fishbone which hud stuck in her throat, swallowed a teaspoon, and in spite of all efforts of the doctor who was called the spoou , remains iu her body. The "bum.au hair is absolutely the most profitable crop that grows. Five tons of it are annually imported by the merchants of Loudon. The Parisians harvest upwards of two hundred thou sand pounds, equal in' value to eighty thousaud pounds per annum. Judge-Advocate Huinuel T. Bhaylor of Jacksonville, i'la., while sitting ou a wharf during a aourt-martiul recess, found in the hem of his trousers a 975 diamond ring. He had purchased the trousers a year ago of Captain Lefter of Hutiford, Fla., but had uot had ouca' iou before to use them. Won't Hnve ii Man Around. Adelaide Miller, n wealthy Chicago widow, has purchased a beautiful house on n high bluff overlooking Cedar Luke, n summer resort near Crown I'oint, Ind. Mrs. Miller will found n home for Chicago w omen there and no being of the male persuasion w ill lie allowed on the place, not even a servant or u visitor. If caught ou the grounds they will be considered trespassing, nnd summarily evicted. It will be an Ailnuiless J.ileu, f 'nllcae Vntllln Out of 4"0 college women recently interrogated l(!!l urn teachers, forty seven litirai inns, twenty-two nurses, nineteen journalists nnd nineteen clerks, while the remainder nre dis tributed Hi'iiiind in vnrious unclnssi fied positions. The majority of a given number of women, nsked in re gard to the matter, said they received less pay thnn men for the sumo kind of work. A small number were found who get the same pay, and n very tiny fraction of a number received more money thnn men in similar positions. :illi!ttirati llasn tVimmii's Clnli Now. Edinburgh women hnve nt Inst fol lowed the example of their English and American sisters nnd now have a club of their own. A place has been rented iu the West End of the town, and already the list of original mem bers is complete, among them being many women belonging to country families in the neighborhood. Evi dently the Hcottish women, while shopping in Edinburgh, feel the need of some such club ns the Town and Country of New York, where they may drop iu for lunch or for a little rest. New York Press. rarasnlH With Cimtly Handlcx. The height of the season's extrava gance is displayed iu the parasols with their costly handles of crystal, ame- tlivst, enamel, tortoise shell, ami gold set with jewels, and tine quality of niuterinls nnd trimmings. Expensive lace is put on the silk in nppllque.and embroidery of fine beads is used for decoration. Heal lace parasols have been revived again, and the variety iu chiffon and inoiissclinede soie,rutlletto i nched and accordion plaited, is be yond description. But there are no end of inexpensive parasols of silk, dainty muslin nnd embroidered ba tiste lined with a color. Black nnd white striped silk is one of the novel ties in covering, nnd narrow black velvet ribbon is tho trimming. New York Hun. Mr. McKlnlr.v's Itnom Itcnily. Tho new sleeping npnrtmeut of Mrs. Mckinley nt the White House is about completed. The paper upon the walls and the velvet carpet are a forget-me-not blue shade and have a white scroll work. At the windows nre white Ince drap ings and blue brocaded satin hang ings. The furniture is upholstered with the same materia! as that used in the hangings nnd includes large, com fortable chairs and the softest of couches. A white bedstead with brass trimmings completes the furnishing. With the ornaments and personal belongings of the mistress of the White House added to the artistic appoint ments, it is a tit abode for the first ludy of the laud. Her favorite color predominates in everything, the soft est of tones have been used, ami the effect is charming. Washington dis patch to the Chicago Times-Herald. A Fine Ilend nf llulruiMl the Itenson. A woman with a fine bend of hnir says she does nothing to it but wash it when it seems to need it, nnd she can tell that by the soil it leaves on tho white comb she uses. Hhe washes it with soup and water and nothing else, Hho takes an old tin cau and into it puts a cake of soap, and pours over it half n pint of hot water. This she places on the back of the stove for a few hours, stirring it occasionally ns she passes. It is luiin reduced to the consistency of jelly. Then it is ready. Hhe takes up a lot on her lingers and rubs it right on tho sculp, and does this till her head is in a tine lather. Hhe rubs and manipulates her hair and sculp till it begins to smart a lit tie, and then she begins to rinse the soap out in w urui, not hot, water. Hhe keeps getting clean water till it is not a bit discolored liy lier hair. then she takes towels und rubs her head und strips her hair through them, till most of the water seems to be out, then she sits down and shakes her hair out to dry. Hhe never touches a brush or comb to her hnir till it is perfectly dry, just shimes, and catches it up iu her fingers und lets it run through them. Her hair never knots or snarls Washington Star. llelt Lore. Belts are pretty aud very foolish The belt bus sadly departed from its original puruuse. How cau a strip no wider than your finger, or a chaiu of metal links, ditto, hide the bund of kirt or keep waist aud skirt together in good trim. The plain leather belt is all but passe, except for wear with strictly outing continue, Jet and steel, tj simulate the Egyptian, 1ms the ap proval nt present. Theso have rhiue stono plaques like tho jeweled slides through which the belt is passed. Another beautiful metnl belt in formed of n chain of gilt oak Icavea linked together nt stein and point by tiny gold rings. I he old-fashioned narrow belt rib bon bus been revived, nnd one hand some buckle is tnnda to aiuiwer as the fastening for a half dozen or morn belts. The ribbon is changed to suit the gown with which it is to be worn. 1 he fad of wearing the belt outside the jacket is a thing of the past. Mluck satin ribbon belts finished with a bow at the left side will be popular with tho wearers of shirt waists, though the leather and fancy belts will be worn just as often with the separate waist and skirt ns the ribbon belt. No wide belts w ill be seen upon tho well dressed this summer. There is a tendency to ngnin introduce the satin or velvet girdle that points bnck and front, but this is not as deep ns it once wns, and is quite narrow nt tliei sides. Ht.'Lotiis Btnr. Hwpvt Tea Charity. Here is n scheme, out of Chicago, poetic nnd practical ! It is that poor women shall raise on a five-acre tract, in the centre of the city Chicago still holds in its heart vacant five acres sweet pens, to be sold on tho streets by the daughters of the toilers. This is 1'ingree potatoism raised to the heights of estheticisin. Perhaps poets hnve sung the praises of sweet pens. If they haven't, it's n fresh, fair Held. No flower is ns human ns tho sweet pen.nnless it's the pansy. Those millions of blooms from the five acre lot ought to sell out nt n hand some profit in the big, riidi (ity in ten minutes. The iden cnine to Mrs. Mary H. Hull, president of tho Armor Mission Mothers' club, nn organization of neither the very rich nor of the very poor. The mothers nre heads of humble homes, who meet once a month for mutual improvement, und onco a week gather to sew for their more needy neighbors. Their daughters, w ho w ill sell the blossoms, will wear pretty garden hats and pinafores ns distinguishing badges. Those of the women who en re to do so can raise vegetables, sweet corn, tomatoes, etc., to sell to grocers and families iu that pnrt of the town. And they're going to have a bit of play ground and park in the five-acre plot, for there are some large forest trees, nnd under their grateful shade the mothers nml their children will gather iu the hot summer dnys. New York Journal. Fimltlnn Nntes. Tartan plaid silks are nsed for wide) ilmped belts on both day and evening gowns. Bugle bends ami blonde luce have come bnck from the pnst, with a claim for consideration. Dresses of batiste, zephyr and or gandie are trimmed with ruffles edged with very narrow lace. Neapolitan hats trimmed with fans of luce and gauze ribbon with a few fine flowers ore among the prettiest of the millinery creations. A hat of black fancy braid, very thin and lace-like, is trimmed with tulips of black lace. Theso are wired and stand upright in large bunches. A novelty lint is made almost en- tirely of violets. They are sewed thick over the lace-covered frame. The trim ming is of sprays of mignonette, with green aigrettes. Home very beautiful hats of chiffon are made over frames. They are shirred full and are trimmed witli puffs nnd funs of tho material, very tine flowers and aigrettes. Bicyclists may, to advantage, wear a hat of very light material, or one) w ith a narrow or open work brim, which will not catch and hold the air us stiff brinimed huts aro certain to do. A greut deal of fubrie is used in the) trimming of hats. Chiffon, tulle, can vas of various sorts, not and gau.e indeed, almost every imaginable thin material is employed in the making up of headgear. The designers of the lutest French pelerines, fichus and yoked shoulder cupos, show a decided purtiulity for lace instead of chiffon or moiisHcliuo de soie iu the decorations of these dainty garments. Geranium red is one of the leading colors. There is one difficulty about the use of this red that many ladies have met with. It is almost impos sible to mutch it in ribbon or velvet, aud whut one finds iu the shops that is called a match proves to be almost anything else when' one gets home or iuto the glare or out-of-door light. Fancy duck costumes iu white, cream, ecru und blue are ma In with a a short bolero eluborately trimmed with insertion or rows of white braid, or else a blazer that extends about six inches below the waist liue. The jacket has uo lining, neither has the gored skirt, which is about four yards w ide, narrow ou the front a:: J sides, aud full at the back.
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