THE REALM OF FASHION. SOME SEASONABLE NOVELTIES IN FEMININE CARMENTS. Jlinpln n1 rntnfortnhl-) Nightgown for Wear In Summer Time New Ideas In lrrH How tha Krnnnmlent Woman May Itfnnvn1 Last Reason's Straw. Nothing is more truly luxurious tlinu an ample sleeping robe. The de sign shown in the illustration ha the A C0MF0HTATJT.E NtOHTCOWX. merit of adding simplicity to thnt first essential, nnd it is especially to be commended or summer wear. The material may be cambric, muslin, nainsook or long cloth. For the model the last-named material was chosen, trimmed with frills of linen lawn, lace edged. The pattern la cnt In three pieces only-i-front, back and sleeve. Huoh fitting as is necessary is accomplished LADIES' FANCY WAIST by the shoulder and nnder-arm seams. At the neck the fulness is carefully gauged and sewed to a band. The opening at the left side is finished with a nam in which buttonholes are worked that effect the closing by but toning on to buttons sewed to the right side. The frill is rolled on the edge and whipped to the baud strong ly and neatly by hand. The full bishop sleeves are simply gathered at the shoulder, but are gauged and at tached to a straight strip at the wuist. The sleeve is then faced and the frill whipped on. 1 To make this nightgown for a wom an of medium size will require seven yards of thirty-six inch material. New Ideas In Ires. Among the latest ideas in dress is the gray skirt of barege, cashmere, cloth or taffeta silk, worn with varions waists as a substitute for the black nilk one which has done duty so long. Lace and chiffon bodices, in white, cream or very delicate tint, and made with transparent sleeves, are exceed ingly pretty with the pale gray skirt. Gray is surely the color at the mo ment for wool gowns and many other features of dress, and the contrast be tween this Quaker shade and the brilliant reds which dominated dress earlier in the season is certuinly very striking. A pale pink silk bodice trimmed with black velvet ribbon and steel beads makes a lovely combina tion with the gray skirt. A gray gown nd a gray feather boa are1 two things to be desired if you would be in the latest fashion; yet there are compen sations among other colorings which can be made to answer very nicely if the gray gown is an impossibility. Gray is a color whioh must be chosen very carefully or it will provo most un becoming: but the fashion for color in the bodice does away with many of the objections to this tryiug shade. Bhot gray and uauvt silk makes a stun ning gown trimmed with Mack lace insertion set in to show the white silk underneath. One little accessory of dress which Is very fetching is the necktie, of net silk, or mull, with lace ends, which folds narrowly around the lower edge of the collar band, and ties in front in a four-in-hand knot; again it appears as a short bow made of two accordion plaited ends. Two shades of green taffeta silk cnt bias and narrowly trimmed nit aronud form the four-in-hand knot on a green and blue and white foulard silk gown, which has n lace yoke and a chiffon front. The fulness in the bodice is shirred over five fine cords an inch apart at the waist to form the belt, and the skirt has two tiny rnflles at the bottom, edged with half-inch black satin rib bon gathered in the middle. A special feature of this costume is the parasol of silk to match, trimmed w ith three white chiffon r littles set on with a space of their own w idth between. New York Hun. Hint for n I'relly Tea flown, A pretty tea gown has the skirt set in tucks from wnist to hem, bodice crossing at one side with a huge lawu collar frilled w ith lace. A FURNITURE FREAK, Living, Itnridlng Table In the I'arlor or nn Oakland v'hI.) Ilrslili'n. e. There have been many curious call ers at the MeBrian home in Oakland, and all wanted to see that queer table in the parlor of the MeHrian's from the legs of which are sprouting buds and leaves of living green. For a year or more this freak of a table has stood in the MeBrian parlor giving forth no signs of life. It hos been varnished and revarnishod, until it is almost dead black. At the euds the legs are cut AND CinCTLAIt SKIRT. off clean and even. There has been no water near this remarkable piece of living furniture, aud no more sunshine than is usually allowed to filter iu through parlor windows. Some of the wiso men of Berkeley say that woods are apt to show signs of life when buds are concealed just be' neath the bark, but where the wood has been coated and recoated with shel lac and varnish, why that is one of the mysteries of nature they will not at' t Jinpt to solve. But the buds and leaves of green are t'.iere, growing greener aud larger day TUB El'DDINO rAItbOB TABLE OF OAS' LAND. by day, attracting crowds of the ouri ous to the home of the McBrians, and so far no one has been found who can expluiu the causa of the wonderful growth. San Fraucisco Examiner, HIDE IN SEDAN CHAIRS. ANTIQUE METHOD OF CONVEYANCE BECOMES SOCIETY'S NEW FAD. I'rhnltlte Vehicle Again to lie t'cl In London nnd ew lorkltfen Kinplnyril to I'arry Them Appraranra of tho Modern Sedan Klrh Interior VlnUh. The ultra fashionable set of Chi cago will soon startle the pedestrians of Luke Shore drive and Michigan boulevard by a new fad, says the Chicago Times-Herald. They are about to adopt the antique and aris tocratic sedan chair as a means for conveyance over short distances. J his new traveling fail has abeodr become quite common in London, where the more fashionable people bare begun to indulge in the practice to nn alarming extent. They use the sedan chair for nil functions in their immediate neighborhood, nnd only hesitate on veritable State occasions to abandon it for the brougham. The fad soon reached New York, where swelldom is now trying to ac custom itself to the primitive novelty of the horseless carriage. A corpora tion has been formed and hundreds of sedan chairs have been made to be let out at a nominal price per hour on much the same system as thnt of the hansom cabs. The promoters of the scheme are already reaping a harvest from the use of the new vehicles for evening parties. Hmall dances. receptions, dinners and all functions of a purely private and exclusive na ture. Between the conspiracies of the fashionable world ami the wheeling world the poor horse seems to be in the decline of his popularity. All the universe seemstobe contriving to push him out of usefulness. For the rodun chairs are to bo carried by grooms, loot men or equerries, whichever term the BDciety woman chooses to apply to her servants of the chair. Each will be propelled by the strength of four men. It seems like the revival of a bnrlmiic, mediaeval habit, w hen human beings assume again the duties of a pack horse. the sedan niAin as r.Evivnn. But the sedan is extremely light in weight, and the burden, divided be tween four, is said to be not so trying as one would presume. ' The men change their positions from one side to the other, so that the muscles of one shoulder and arm are not over taxed to the neglect of the musules of the other. When my lady appears on the boule vard in her sedan she will not attract so much attention as one would fancy. for mere is nothing showy, extrava gant or ill-bred alnrnt the new fad. It ;s not redolent with cheap oilt. piuk satin nnd panels daubed with high im pressionism. The new sedan is, in fact, a characteristic modern vehicle, similar to the body of any olosed car riage, and differing only iu the absence of wheels. In place of the latter two long highly-polished poles are fastened to the underside of the vehicle, ex tending two feet to the front and two to the rear. By meaus of these poles the sedan is lifted from the ground and borne by the equerries. '1 lie more popular stylo of modern sedan looks then like a correct brougham. It is constructed, how ever, on, a much smaller scale, it is vastly lighter in weight and will no- comiuodute only oue person. The frame work is very slender and deli cately fashioned, though durable. It is made of pine, ash or oak. Over this breast plates, so to speak, of mahogany or rosewood. Others are covered with less expensive woods aud painted black, dark green, blue or maroon, with yellow and red for trim ming. Btill others are covered with leather in dark hues or canvas painted in the dark somber colors mentioned. Thus only the colors popular in the decoration of ordinary vehicles are utilized exclusively. A striking and fundamental differ ence exists between the modern sedan and thu European oue of two centur ies ago. The latter opened in front by a double door like the modern han som cab. The modern sedan, how eror, opens ouly at the side by a Bingle door, constructed precisely like that of a brougham. Although the single-seated sedan now holds the popular sway there is another double-seated style, which will probably supersede it. This se dan for two persons is much more bulky and heavy than the single sedan. and requires, or should require, eight equerries. In outline it has the grace ful curves of the English state car' riages, with a suspicion of rooocoo or nameutation about the moldings. The Beats are vis-a-vis like the old English "sociable," and there is a single door on both sides like the modem closed carriage. The severe and correct exterior of the sedan will be left numarred by any attempt at eluborate decoration. How ever, the panels of the door will be fin ished with the crest, heraldio arms or simple monogram of the family. The equerries, too, will be costumed slm y. There will be little or no display of brass buttons, gilt braid or knee breeches. The equerries will be cos tnmed as grooms, in bine, green or maroon, with high top boots and the coachmen's cape and high hat. Ho that the equerry will be a cross be tween the footman and the man on the box. It is upon the interior of the sedan that the greatest attempt at luxury is made. The richest tapestries, rare old brocades, velvets aud satins will be utilized to tuft and feather the so ciety queen's nest. Not only dull gold, silver and old blues will be put in, but even brocades of pale, delicate tints like my lady's own dainty satin toilet. For she will not call out her' equerries and her sedan except when she is about to go abroad in evening dress. The hired sedans in New York are not fitted out on such an elaborate scale, of course, but, nevertheless, th use of them is reserved by the month for fashionable women who are sure that no ene else is allowed to travel in them. The interior of the chairs are thus kept perfectly clean and dustless. Consequently the long, marvelous evening wraps of shimmering white are not contaminated and soiled by contact with the vehicle. ' The private sedan chair is going to be an expensive luxury, for the orig inal cost, not to speak of that of the maintenance of the vehicle and the servants, is by no means small. The body or frame of the sedan costs but little. Several hundred cheap sedans were made by a local carriage manu facturer for use on the Midway during the fair at 9:10 apiece. But they were covered only with canvas and lined with chintz. The new sedan, with its elaborate interior trimmings and ex terior appurtenances, will cost from $."oo to 81.100, a tidy sum for a mere whim. i Unfortunately for those women who possess elaborate gilt sedans, they . cannot put tliem to this practicable use. Home beautiful relics of the olden time have been used, however, for decorative purposes, and main tained their usefulness well as bric-B-brao cobiuets for little antiquities in porcelain, brass and silver. Or they have served as chests for old linen, laces and brocades. Nearly all of the sedan chair made in lHUli for the Mid way are scattered throughout the city in the homes of curio collectors. Sev eral society women succeeded in get ting the unlovely things, rather soiled after contact with the rabble of the Midway, and then having them recov ered aud decorated, they exhibit them with pardonable pride and vainly as the real Eastern palanquin. One woman is now using her sedan chair as a decoration for her lawn, after having filled it with a profusion of rare trail ing vines aud beautiful blossoms. How Ainerlr Was Kmneil. Vespucci himself must not be held responsible for the usurpation. The unconscious criminal was a certain Martin Waldseemuller, of Fribourg, an eminent cosmographer patronized by Bene, Duke of Lorraine. The Duke probably showed a letter of Vespucci's to his geographical friend, who incorporated its contents with the treatises which he was issuing under the assumed name of "Hylncomylas," and, as these publications had a wide circulation, the use of the name Ameri ca thus became propagated through out the world. A Famous Tablecloth. A famous restaurant in Vienna pos sesses a remarkable tablecloth, on which are inscribed the signatures of the majority of the reigning sovereigns of Europe, the members of the house of Hapsburg, and of a great number of celebrities in art, musio and letters. The names were written on the cloth in pencil, the proprietress of the es tablishment afterward carefully em broidering them. Tlia Philosophy of Marriage Miss Huuter -"Don't you think, my lord, a man should awaya marry a girl of eutirely opposite characteris tics?" Lord de Busted "Yaas, I certainly do. That's why I'm looking for a girl with money.'' nine Keeps. Keep Arm In view the final end. Keep strong In hope, no scandal send. Keep free from every sin and stiiln. Keep true thy word If friends you'd gain. Keep to the right ns law directs. And hate, of malice he vourtext. Keep II rm thy feet, by Justice stand. Keep nil thy pas-Ions at commnnil. Keep up thy head, love del and truth. Keep bright thy honor In thy youth. Keep right thy aim and good thy will. Keep helping others up the hill. Keep right, defeating sin and wrnnir. Keep firm thy eouraue nnd be stroni. Keep nil thy thought on purest themes. Keep walking-down by sunny streams. Keep bridled tongue nnd head keep cool, When you are talking with a fool. Kllen Itlng In Weekly Ilouquet. A Wonderful tish. The Bohemians have a proverb, "Every fish has another for prey;" the wels (SiluriiH) has them all. This is the largest fresh-water fish found in the rivers of Europe, except the stur geon ; it often reaches five or six feet in length. It destroys many aqnatin birds, aud we are assured that it does not spare the human species. On the 3d of July, 1700, a peasant took one near Thorn that had an infant entire in its stomach. They, tell in Hungary of children and young girls being de voured on going to draw water; and they even relate that on the frontiers of Turkey a poor fisherman took one that had in its stomach the body of a woman, her purse full of gtdd and a ring. The fish is even reputed to have been taken sixteen feet long. Harp er's Hound Table. How .fiiinlio Saved a Idle. Animals are funny things, especial ly elephants; you never know when you are sure of them. Some are kind all their lives, as old Jumbo was, and some are kind part of the time, but break out at last, and some are just horn ugly. Thnt little fellow that Jumbo died to save from the train was just a nnturnl-born comedian, and when he was about four feet high he attract ed more crowds to see him raise Cain than all the others with their learned tricks. Poor old Jumbo! How the children did love him, and how he loved them. There is no doubt about it; he did just love them. "I remember one dny I forget if it was in Chicago or St. Louis the chil dren were riding him," says an old showman, talking for the Philadelphia Times, "ami he was carrying them up nnd down along a sort of road with the crowd on either side to see him do it. With his load on his back he was coming swinging at a good, round pace up to where he discharged his cargo, when a tiny tot of about four years, a pretty little girl, wriggled away from her mother's hand and started to run across iu front of the advancing Jumbo to join a little friend opposite. Her foot tripped and down she went, right under the elephant's feet. Well, the crowd turned faint in a moment, expecting to see the child mushed; but quick as a winj that noble old beast, going full tilt, whipped his trunk around that child and landed her, safe and sound, up to the mahout on his head. Hay, I can hear the cheering yet. There is many an old showman who takes half a day in New York to go and have a look at Jumbo's skeleton up in the park." Im-ko. I was stationed on one of the school ships iu our navy, which had been on its summer cruise to the tropics. among the many pets which had been collected by the ship's company was a monkey so intelligent and brimful of pranks that he supplied amusement for every day and hour. He was espe' ciully fond of the surgeon, aud fol lowed him on his round at the hospital, and was frequently with him in his of fice. , One day an officer, in a friendly bout with a brother otticer, rolled up a newspaper he was reading and threw it at him. He missed aim, and the ball of paper hit a drum, w hich sent forth a "boom: very loud ami start ling. The monkey was standing near the drum, but not in contact with it The ball of paper had not come near him, but he was very much frightened at the boom aud thought he had been hit. He began, in an agitated, trembling manner, to examine himself felt of his arms and legs, muttered, and bliuked his eyes, took up his tail aud scanned it, passing bis hands about his shoulders, across his neck, over his head; then he punned each toe under inspection, and again begin ning at his arm, finally Bettled on his left elbow as the seat of the injury. As soon as he convinced himself, by sundry jubberings aud arguments with himself, that he had located the mischief done, hnn, he took the elbow in his right hand, and hurrying to the doctor he begau chattering in mourn ful tones, rocking himself to and fro, tending his elbow as if it were a greutly atllicted member, and tolling the doctor a long aud earnest tale about his misfortune. The doctor leaned over aud felt of the elbow, put ting it and expressing great pity. But that would not do Jocko. He went forward to the doctor's office, looking I back aud chattering for bun to follow. Finally the doctor lollowed ami hav iug rubbed the elbow with some pre- paration Jocko became very comfort able and jabbered his thanks as plainly as if it had been in the queen's Eng lish. Detroit Free Press. The Proud Sky Market. The Little Boy and the Little Girl had been down town with the Orown Person, buying Mags and fire crackers, and rockets, and I don't know what all, for the Fourth of July, and they had been so many places and had seen so many things that they were qnite ready for bed as soon as supper was eaten. Only there were so many things to talk about, and so many plans to make that the Little Boy and the Little it-1 both thought it would e very nice to stev np just a little, tiny bit longer. But the Orown Person looked at the clock and didn't snv any thing, and the Little Hoy and the Little Oirl looked at the clock and then very solemnly at each other, and began to gather together the many parcels that they had brought home with them. while they were putting the pack ages away in one corner the Orown Verson began: "Once upon a time there was a great big sky rocket" Two little faces brightened, and the little people ran across the porch and snuggled down in the Orown Person's lap. "A story s part of getting ready for bed, isn't it?" said the Little Bov. "Once upon a time," repeated the Orown Person, smiling, "there was a great big sky rocket in a great big box, in a little bit of a store kept by a Chinaman." "Was it a great big Chinaman or a little bit of a Chinaman?" asked the Little (tirl. "Well," said the Orown Person, when the rocket looked at the China man it thought he was a wonderfully big person, but beside some of the high boxes in his store, he wasn't very big at all. The rocket was a proud sort of a rocket; it hud come all the way across the ocean, and thought that it must be a very superior sort indeed, to be carried so far, at such expense. It disliked very much to hear its neighbors on tho shelf" "Why, I thought you said it was in a box!" interrupted the Little Boy. "X guess the box must have been on a shelf," said the Little Girl. But the Orown Person went on: "It disliked to hear its neighbors talking about what they would do on the Fourth of July. 'I tell you what it is, said a big cannon cracker one day, 'when I go off', I'mgoiugto make a noise that can be heard all around the world. My brothers and sisters in China are listening for it, and when they hear it, they'll know I'm gone. The man that buys me will be glad.' " 'I'm going to be bought by a woman with a little bov,' said a bunch of small fire crackers, 'and if that lit tle boy tries to tie me to a dog s tail, like I saw a little boy do once, do you know what I'm going to do? I'm go ing right off in his bands, and I'm just going to burn him as much as lean.'" "That would be right," snid the Lit tle Girl. "Willie Jones tried to do that last year, and his pupa saw him and took his fire crackers away from him, and didn't let him come out at night to see the fireworks." "When the rocket heard all the fire crackers talking he said, 'That's right, make all the noise you can now, and all the noise you can when you go off! That's all you are good for anyway! But just look at me, when I go off, I'll shoot away up into the air, away up where the clouds are, and I'll make a beautiful light with thousands of little stars and big ones, and all the people will lookup and sny"oh-h"and',uh-h!" nnd littlo girls will clap their hands, and I'll go on and on forever, and then some dny, when I grow bigger and bigger, I'll come sweeping back through the sky and people will think I'm a comet, and will write about me in their books aud I'll be famous for ever. That's what I'm going to do. You talk about doing anything! Why, what's a fire cracker good for anyway, only to frighten horses, and hurt chil dren and burn holes in clothes. I'm going to be great, I am. I would not be at all surprised if all this Fourth of July that they talk about, was just mode so they could show me off.' "The crackers didn't say anything for they knew they didn't make much of a show in the world nnd they knew they do frighten horses sometimes." "And little girls, too," suid the Lit tle Boy. "Oh, I ain't afraid," cried the Lit tle Oirl, "last year I utmost shot off a little one in my fingers." "Just as the rocket Hi) ished its big speech," said the Grown Person, "it big uiuu came iu the door, and said, 'Hani, where's thut box of spoiled fire works? 'Unit's it, is it? No good, are they? Well I might as well take them down and throw them in the river,' and then the man picked up the very box in which was the rocket that had talked so much aud the cannon cracker thut was going to be beard around the world the man picked them up just this way," aud the Grown Person got up out of the chair still holding the Little Boy and the Little Girl. "And he walked down the street," suid the Growu Person, walking into the house aud toward the bedroom, "and then up another street until he came to the river, and then heave, ho! he drew them iu, and that was Aud with that the Grown Person dropped the two little people in their bed, aud mamma came iu with long white gowns in her hand, aud before yon would think the rocket aud cracker hud time to sink to the bottom of the river the Little Girl aud the Littltt Boy were sound asleep
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