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The London Times publishes nn es
iiniale' thni Europe will need twelve
per cent more whent thin year tliau
usual.
An English missionary hns solved
the problem of African exploration,
lie mnde his wny on a bicycle from tlie
F.nst const to the capital of Uganda in
three weeks, a journey thnt would
have required thrco uiouths by the
old cniavnn methods.
At lt accounts it rout twenty-eight
cents a ound to puck goods Across
the Chilcoot pass. That was before
any suow felt. Later it tuny le more;
but .")00 per ton will he quite enough
to curdle the enthusiasm of lml f
lieeled gold-hunters who are now in
gathering at Dyea.
The trade in condensed milk is
rapidly growing, and yet the factories
are so few that the business is practi
cally a monopoly. Farm News thinks
it is prolmble thnt co-operations for
this purposo would prove more re
munerative than creameries. A gal
lon of milk makes about three poumls
of condensed milk.
About $70,000 a year have been
waved by the state of Virginia through
reform in regulating criminal ex
penses. One change which results in
a large saving is that which provides
that convicts sentenced to the peni
tentiary shall be seut for by the
authorities of thnt institution, rather
than escorted to it by sheriffs or
police in the various counties and
cities.
Of the 8100,000 trust fund be
queathed Inst March by Miss Belinda
L. Randall of Itoxbnry, Mass., to
seven trustees with discretionary
powers for it distribution, f"00 hns
been given to Phillips Kxeter academy,
70,000 to the Foxeroft dab of Har
vard aniversity to furnish board at
low prices to poor and meritorious
students, $of,(WK) each to the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology and
the Children's Aid society of Boston,
120,000 en eh to Radcliffe college and
the Tuskegeo (Ala.) institute, and
$25,000 to Hampton institute, Va,
A medical journal makes the fre
quency of siticido by carbolic aciil a
text for the insistence that doctors
and medical officers of health should
nrge the introduction of a non-poison-out
disinfectant for household use.
' An investigation of the tables of sui
cide cases in the United Kingdom
ehows that at the present time suicide
with carbolic acid promises to outstrip
the united poisonings by oxalic acid,
opium, laudanum, prussio acid, cyan
ide of potassium and strychnine. At
one time laudanum, morphine and
opium were the favorite poisons, but
now carbolic acid has taken their place,
- and according to the returns for 1801,
the latter caused more than twice as
many auicidal deaths as the three
former combined. In the period 18G1
5 the suicides by carbolic, acid were
0.99 per cent of all the suicides with
poisons; in 1800-70 they were 1
percent; in 1871-5, 5.82 per cent;
in 1870-80, 7.93 per cent; iu 1881-5,
15.37 per cent; in 1880-90, 15.49 per
cent; and in 1891-4, 28.01 per cent
It is doubtful whether this disinfect
ant ever would have got such a hold
on the public bnt for two facta it was
practically the first in the field, and it
was cheap.
Comparative figures, compiled by
the department of labor in the form
of deductions from the last census
statistics relating to workers at gain
ful occupations, point to the fact that
persons at work, especially women,
have increased very much faster than
the population at large. As a result
the statement shows that the propor-
. tion of workers relative to the total
population and to the whole nnniber
of people of the respective ages was
considerably greater iu 1890 than at
the preoeding census periods, and
that this increased proportion is ap
parent for each of the great classes of
occupations except agriculture, fish
eries and mining. All this, the state
ment aeta out, shows very clearly the
constantly inscreasing disinclination
of our population to follow agricul
tural pursuits, a tendency materially
hastened, doubtless, by the wide ap
plication of machinery to the proces
ses of agriculture. Despite this dis
inclination and the recent overcrowd
ing of manufacturing and commercial
centres, the analysis demonstrates
that the.iuoreasediroportion of work
ers is found generally in the higher
walks of business life and in those
occupations which call for skilled
labor principally rather than iu the
lowest or more laborious forms of
employment. The conclusion is ac
cordingly stated to be inevitable that
the great body of workers baa, as
- whole, progressed and has percepti
bly riB in the social scale of life.
DREAMS.
Praams, like children hand In hand,
' Wnndnr through the shadow-laud
All the night they softly creep
Down the corridors, of deep. '
Dreams, like children, laugh and woep
In the mystic house of sleep t
Then hand In hand they run away,
Frightened hy the noisy tiny.
"-Hohurt liovenmn, In Current Literature.
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fit Mvion Ai.rnri) a. cai.h n.
"No sir, no fashionable watering
plnce for me ; f want rest and com
fort tlnring my holidays," said Alick
Freeman to bis friend, Cnsper Hums,
with whom he was discussing the
place where they should spend the two
weeks' vacation allowed them by the
bank in which they were both clerks,
and of which their respective fnthers
were directors.
"We hail a good time at Saratoga
Inst year," said Casper Hums, ntldiug,
with a sly Inugh, "but you nre afraid
of meeting Miss Julia Fletcher there
again ; well, I don't blnmn you ; she
is as rich and pretty and heurrlcss as
you find them "
"No, confound it, Casper, Miss
Fletcher is nil right ; it is I who wns
the fool, anil a presumptuous one at
that, for thinking she looked more
favorably on me than she did on the
score of fellows who danced about her
like midges in the sun. I hatefnshion.
Why, only the strongest constitution
can stnnd the dressing, the driting,
the dining and dancing of those fash
ionable watering places. e wnut
rest, or, rather, change. Now what
do you snv to White's Inlet?'
"White's Inlet? Never heard of
such a place," replied Casper.
"Then I'll enlighten yoti," said
Alick Freffmnn, stopping iu the midst
tif packing his trunk and turning to
his friend. "White's Inlet is near
llamcgat "
"Down on the Jorsey coast?"
"Certainly: tho tithing is good, the
shooting tip-top, and there rs no such
place for boating and bathing. And
then it is pretty well out of the world,
and the chances are we'll be the only
visitors within miles "
"And we can wear out onr old
clothes," interrupted Casper Burns.
"Of course no one would think of
wearing any tiling but old clothes down
nt White's Inlet. Oh, we'll have a
splendid time, free as tho winds, anil
almost like being iu a state of
nature "
"I know, Alick, but people in a
state of nature eat and sleep; how nre
we to obtain thse necessary com
forts?" "The point is well taken," snid
Alick, slamming down the lid of his
trunk and facing his friend, "ltight
near the mouth of the inlet there lives
a fisherman named White "
"The inlet takes its name from
him?"
"Just so; and he has nil accommoda
tions necessary. I sent him word
we'd be down next week, and he's ex
pecting us."
"Oct auy pretty daughters?"
"No; that's the beauty of it; hns
no one but his wife, and the only
neighbor is a mile and a half away
across the inlet Oh, we'll have pence
and no end of a good time,"said Alick
Freeman, rubbing hia hands in antici
pation of the pleasure iu store for
them. . '
The result of this interview was
that the young men found themselves
at White's Inlet within a week. After
leaving the cars they had to go in a
wagon some twenty miles over a snudy
road that ran through a forest of fune
real pines and distorted scrub oaks,on
which the suu beat with tropical inten
sity and along which the mosquitoes
prowled in fierce, bloodthirsty bands.
The fisherman's house was perched
on verdureless bluff of white sand,
with swamp in the background ami
glorious expanse of blue ocean in
front It the structure did not
promise comfort it was certainly pic
turesque, and told of wrecks aud
dangers along that treacherous coast
One end of the cabin was the stern
section of a wrecked schooner, with
the name "Eliza Jane" still visible ;
the chimney of rusty iron had onoe
done duty on a tugboat, and the
Oothio doorway was the under jaw of
whale which Bam White had killed
on the bar, about a mile from his
cabin.
"It doesn't look promising, I must
confess," said Alick Freoman, as they
got out of the wagon which they had
hired at a round price to fetch them
over, "but it looks as if we might
have all the quiet here that heart
could wish for." This was Alick's
first visit to the place, which had been
recommended to him by a bachelor
friend, and though he pretended to
like it, he felt in his heart that it was
n all he desired.
"It must be a splendid place for
fish," said Casper, with a grim smile.
"Oh, it is I Why, there's no end of
fish out there," said Alick, waving his
hands at the water.
"If it isn't a good place for fish,"
continued Alick, "then it's about the
most worthless place I ever set eyes
on."
- Ham White, a weather-beaten man
of fifty, came out of the cabin to wel
come his guests aud help them in with
their "traps," as he called the goodly
array of ba3gage they hod brought
with thorn.
Mrs. White looked enough like her
husbuud to be a twin, but she wus a
oleau, wholesome, hearty woman, as
unconventional as the most ardent
admirer of nature could wish.
The young men were given a room
there were only four apartments in
the honse in the annex made of the
section of the wrecked "Eliza Jane."
The windows had onoe admitted light
to the captain's cabin, and it required
o stretch of the imagination to pio-
ture themselves on shipboard. The
very decorations of the chamber had ,
a strongly marine aspect, from the
highly colored print of a naval battle
tt the shell thnt answered for a soap
cup.
The yotmg men were hungry and
dusty and in no good humor; so thnt
while washing and changing their
traveling dress for nnty sailor cos
tumes, they did not exchnnge ninny
words, though Alii ventured to sny:
"I'm sure, old fellow, we'll like it
hujely nftor we get nsed to it."
"People like whisky and opium
nfter they get used to them, but in it
worth while acquiring the habit?"
snid Cnsper Hums, with a nhndo of
sarcasm in his voice.
Alick was about to respond at a
venture, but at that moment Mrs.
White.witbout the formality of knock
ing, put in her head to sny thnt din
ner wns ready, and to add that in her
opinion they "wns purty nigh
stsrved."
There was a ronst duck, two or
three kinds of Huh, potatoes like snow
balls, hot biscuit and yellow butter,
aud n pot of steamed coffee, nil served
on a clean crash table-cloth.
Ham White asked a long, old
fashioned blessing, to the prent amaze
ment of the young men, who expected
to find him n profane old sen dog, and
then he said:
"You must mnke a long arm, boys,
and help yourselves."
"Well," snid Casper.as thoy strolled
down to the bench lifter 1 inner, "1
must confess I haven't enjoyed a meal
so much for years. I w ss hungry and
it went to the right spot"
"Oh, this is just the place for an
appetite. You can find one here sooner
than iu any other part of thecouutry,"
snid Alick, handing Casper a eigar.and
feeling thnt there wns something to
redeem the plnco in the eyes of his
friend.
As they stood on tho shore the sun
wns setting, and tho blue expnnse took
mi n crimson tinge. They sat down
on the w hite sand, and they could see
nwny up the shore nnd across tho inlet
two HgureB foma'cs. One of them
had a white scarf about her bend and
tho other n scarlet one, but beyond
this the young men could not mnko
them out.
"Ah! it is a comfort to know we nre
not (tholly shut out from the world,"
said Cnqer, blowing a whi.l'of smoke
iu the direction of the figures.
"I am w illing to worship at n dis
tance," replied Alick. "I'm glad the
inlet t-opnrntes us, but I've no doubt
they nro the wives or daughters of
some of the fishermen up the beach."
"Them?" said Kwu White, when
one of the young men asked him who
his fnir neighbors were, "them's some
folks from the city as hne tnken the
ole Banner place for the Hummer. It's
more lonelier over there than it is
here, but when ole Cnp'n Henner he
wns n-livin', there wns no end of com
pany over there, but flint's years and
yenrs ngo."
"I suppose there's uodnngrr of any
of the strangers coming over here?"
asked Alick Freeman, with the slight
hope that the old fisherman would sny
there was a great deal of danger.
"Not the lenst bit," replied Hnm
White, "but as there's two young
ladies over there and two young men
over here, why, the chances is that
somehow they'll get together afore
long."
"Thnt's human nnture," said Mrs.
While, looking up from the potatoes
a he was peeling; "the boys'll seek out
the gals just as ducks goes barefooted
to the wator."
Alick hinted thnt he wns an excep
tion, nnd thnt while he did not posi
tively hato the other sex, their pres
ence wns essential to his misery, aud
much more to the Bnine effect, alt of
which Mrs. White heard with a twinkle
in her gray eyes thnt plainly told she
hnd her doubts, not of the young
innu's sincerity, but of his reasoning.
The friends slept in the cabin that
night as they had not slept for yenrs.
Through the little windows the coed
sea breeze poured iu.lndcn with health
and the balmy odor that brings sleep.
When they awoke the sun was flash
ing on the sea and transforming into a
snow bank the bar about two miles
out, where a great, black buoy rose
and fell on the waves.
They hnd a dip in the ocean that
sharpened their appetites, and after
breakfast they sturted off with Ham
White to fish outside the bar over a
spot known to the firsbermen of thnt
coast as the "wreck," though there
was nothing on the surface to indicate
that ever a wreck had taken place
there.
The fishing was all that it had bean
represented indeed, the fish bit su
fast as to change the sport into hard
work and rob it of much of its pleas
ure. On their return they caught a
glimpse of the two female figures be
yond the inlet and far up the beach,
and Casper Burns waved his hat to
them and the two white handkerchiefs
were waved back iu reply.
The friends soon grew to like this
strange life, nnd they began to feel
that the earth had lots much less
desirable than thnt of a fisherman
but so far they had only played with
the ocean in its sleep.
Thoy frequently saw the ladies up
the beach, aud they made an effort to
learn who they were, but Ham White
either could cot or would not gratify
them.
Three days before the expiration of
their leave of absence Hum White pro
posed to take them up the shore to a
point from which they could get a
good view of the New York yacht
regatta, which was to have a race.
Alick Freeman, atill declaring he
wanted to see nothing that might re
mind him of the world he had left
until he returned to it, decided to
to remain back.
Alick did not long enjoy the part of
hermit which he volunteered to play.
He strolled along the shore . with his
fishing pole on his shoulder and cast
many an anxious glance in the direc
tion where he had often seen the
young ladies, but they did not gladden
his sight. No doubt they had gone
off to look nt the regatta.
About three o'clock in the afternoon
Alick Freemnn put on his bathing
dress nnd went down to the bench.
He wns a good swimmer, though until
this summer all his prnctice had been
in tideless, fresh water lakes or
streams.
He boldly plunged through the rim
ef surf nmt swam out for a hundred
yards, rising and falling on the swells
that rolled in and broke on the white
shingle.
"I'll lie on my back and let the
waves wash me in." Huitiug the
action to the thought, Alick threw
himself on his back he could float
without moving a muscle and, clon
ing his eyes, he was rocked by the
swells, which he imagined were bear
ing him nenrer and nearer to the
shore.
Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed,
nnd, wondering why he was not
thrown among the breakers, as he ex
pected, Alick Freeman turned over on
his face and rubbed the wnter from
his eyes.
Instead of being near the shore, he
was a half mile out, aud the tide, on
which he hud not counted, was bear
ing him rapidly to sea.
He took in the situation in and in
stant, and, though realizing the danger,
he did not lose his presence of mind.
His safety depended on his coolness.
He struck out for the shore, half
throwing himself from the wnter by
bis powerful strokes, bnt all in vnih.
The tide still dragged him out farther
and farther toward the foaming bar, on
whose white crest tossed the black
buoy.
He took off his wide-brimmed straw
bathing hat nnd wnved it in the hope
thnt some one might see him; then,
anxious to reserve bis strength, he
ngnin threw himself ou his back nnd
drifted with the tide in the line of the
buoy. "If I can reaeh that," he
thought, "I can cling to the chains
till help comes if it ever does."
Before entering the linn of breakers
thnt marked the bur, hq ngnin waved
his hat, then threw it away.
He reached the buoy, but the chains
thnt kept it anchored were slimy and
covered with senweed.vet he so plnced
his body across the chains as to keep
from drifting further to sen, and there
he hung for whnt seemed an nge.
The sun wns setting, nnd he was
losing all heart, ns well ns all strength,
w hen he henrd a shrill voice above the
thunder of the brenkers.
He tried to reply.
The next instant a boat with n single
occupant u girl nt the onrs, shot
past him and turned toward the buoy.
"Where nre von?" she shouted.
"Here! Here!"
Alick let go his hold, and, with a
new strength made for the bont.
The young heroine cnught him and
helped him on board, and the moment
ho was safe he fainted.
When he came to ho wns back on
the shore, and Hnm White nnd Cnsper
Burns, who hnd come up, were chaf
ing him with the nid of a gentleinnn
whom Alick recognized as Julia
Fletcher's father.
"Take him up to tho house," snid
Mr. Fletcher, "and then go to your
cabin for his clothes, poor fellow, he
hnd a hard tussel for bis life!"
But the heroine? Well, as the fntes
would have it, Mr. Fletcher, his wife
and his neice, Dora Weldon, had gone
off to see the regnttn.and Julia, acting
under a whim, as the others supposed,
remained nt home. Hhe raw the
swimmer iu distress, aud interpreted
his signals, though she knew not at
the time who he wns. Hhe ran to the
inlet, got a .boat and boldly started
out with the result already shown.
Next day Alick was himself, and he
Bent word to the bunk about his ac
cident, the result being that he and
Casper had au extension of another
week.
. How the time was spent we need
not say. Alick owed it to his fair
preserver to become her servant, and
so he was with her nenrly all the
time, strolling on the sandy roads and
salt-marshy byways.
"Never had such a pleasant summer
in my life as at White's Inlet," said
Alick to a friend some years after.
"It's so nice and quiet there. Casper
and I were unmarried and clerks then,
but we roughed it and enjoyed it, eh,
Casper?"
"We met onr wives, or rather, we
became engaged there," laughed
Casper. "Ho yon see.it'd have to be
a rough placa that wouldn't seem
pleasant under such circumstances,"
Now York Ledger.
Tim Kite an Aid to Si lence.
It is said that experiments are about
to be tried with kites to assist in dis
covering the conditions of high alti
tudes. A camera will be attached to
the kite, and the shutter will be
worked by an electrio automatic de
vice. In this way photographs will
be taken of the tops of the inoBt in
accessible cliffs. It is also proposed
to utilize kites as a means of climbing
to the tops of places which even ' the
most experienced tourists have failed
to reach. Kites may be made strong
enough to lift a light person to a great
height, or they may lie so handled in
the wind as to draw a line over some
point, and by means of this other lines
sufficiently strong to carry weight can
bo pulled over. An expedition of six
persons from Princeton university is
about to undertake a trip to New
Mexico for the purpose of such explor
ations. It is not too much to expect
that before many years the kite will
prove to be the explorer's best friend,
at the recent improvements in what
was a childish toy have demonstrated
that the lifting and sustaining capac
ity of properly-constructed kite is
little loss than marvelous '
down With Trains.
There comes a hint from Paris that
gowns with trnins will be worn next
winter on all "dressy" occasions.
There is an elegance about a train for
full dress that commends itself to
most women. The "dragging" skirt,
however, which bus appeared during
the summer, hns but little to be snid
for it. It is delightful to be able to
chronicle thnt ". j.it free" skirts nre to
continue to be en regie for wnlking
costumes.
Oldest Woman's Clnh.
The Female Chnritnble Society of
Ilnldwinnville, N. Y., which recently
celebrnted it eightieth anniversnry,
has a remarkable record. It is not
only the oldest woman's clnb in the
United Htntes, but during nil these
yenrs It hns continued to hold regular
monthly nnd annual meetings. Itn
original constitution, with nil the rec
ords since, is still preserved. At the
recent celebration the fifty women
who entertained were all descendants
of the original chartor members.
fnrln-a Itcnnty t;lnb.
No, it does not mean n club com
posed tif beautiful Purisiennes. H
means nn organization devoted to the
pursuit of thnt fleeting good, loveli
ness. The preservation of looks by
menus which might, be too expensive
for the individuals, but which nre pos
sible to a collection of individuals, in
the avowed object of the society. Milk
bnths, melon baths, herb baths, honey
balms and raspberry lotions are among
the luxuries which the club dispenses
to its beauty seekers. New York
Journal.
ftolli! Colored Ires floods.
Solid colored dress goods will be
popular next senson. This is the be
lief of leading dry goods men. Bird's
eye effects iu self colored goods will
be much worn. Armures coino under
this head, nnd are to be shown in nil
the new shades. A new corded goods
resembling the Bedford cord, and
called "cable cord, "is among the com
ing novelties. In mixtures there will
be covert cloths with iridescent figures.
Then there are vicunns,' with soft
"spongy" effects. Brondcloths, camel's
bair goods, and other soft textures are
to be much in evidence. Many tailor
mnde suits nre likely to be seen during
the coming senson, since plain nnd
self coloretl figured goods lend them
selves naturally to this style of dress
ing. Advice for Women Gold Digger.
The Rev. Dr. J. T. M. Johnston
lectured the other day at Chautauqua
on Alaska, which he visited in 1893 for
the purpose of securing investments
in the gold mines. He believes that
the Klondike mining district is one
vast gold field. While there he visited
the famous Treadwell mine the rich
est gold mine in the world and he is
confident thnt the entire surrounding
region is full of gold. "But no one
should think of going," he says, at
this season of the year. If he does,
he will be likely to sink a gold mine
in his living expenses till next June,
for up to thnt period glaciers of ice
and snow cover the mines. He would,
therefore, simply sit in a house,
wrapped in blankets before a big fire,
and pay $15 a day for the privilege.
A pick to dig with would cost him
825. The only time it is possible to
work the mines is during the months
of June, Jniy, August and Septem
ber." He advises the woman's expe
dition to think well before landing on
the Klondike too soon. New York
Tribune.
At the Universities.
Some man has discovered nnd called
general attention to the fact that in
this country, the schools closed to
male students exceed iu number those
dosed to female students. Another
man (Professor von. Hartmau of Ger
many), consoles the women who are
shut out of the universities in this
wise:
"The loctur'o rooms sooin to have a
magical attraction for you; they are
for yon the paradise of intelligence.
Absurd mistake! They are much more
like barracks, where one learns me
chanically the manual of arms. I i n
going to tell you the great secret; the
best means of education is reading.
Let those of yon who care little alumt
diplomas, aud whose sole ambition is
to cultivate your minds, stay at home
and read! Get .t well into your heads
that your brothers and your future
husbands, who, after leaving the uni
versity, do not read, will never be
anything but stupid ignoramuses, and
that all the universities in the world
are useless to a woman who knows
how to read."
I'opular Girl.
"I would like to know why Kathar
ine is so popular," said a bright,
vivacious young womau, as she stood
at the wiudow looking ont at one of
her young frieuds who was passing.
"Just note the difference between her
and Emily, who'ia a regular harmony
destroyer, while the other makes peace
and pleasantness wherever she goes,"
"I think, said oue of her Rrown-up
friends, and grown-up and middle-
aged friends are exceedingly desirable
nssocintes for young women, "I think
the secret of Ksthnrine's popularity
lies in her absolute genuineness. Hhe
never makes pretenses, and being
religious girl, she always has the soft
answer thnt turneth away wrath.
"Half a dozen times Inst winter we
hnd more or less disagreement in our
church guild. There were several
persons connected with it who seemed
nlwnys ready to strike fire when they
came together. Hhe wns oil on tho
troubled waters, and smoothed nil ir
regularities in the most delightful
fashion,
"And while such dispositions are
greatly to be commended, they 'are,
for the most past, possessed by per
sons who have sufficient spirit to de
fend themselves and their families
ngninst imposition and abuse. They
arc long-suffering, slow to anger anil
often bear thnt which othorn would
not, and for which they are more or
less severely criticised. Bnt they win
iu the long rnn. 'Blessed are the
peacemakers' nre words the sweet sig
nificance of which did not end with
the speaking. They have come to nn
down through the dim aisles of tho
past, with their divine flnvor still
clinging to them, nnd nrens applicable)
to the Hons nnd tlnughters of men as
when they first fell from tho lips of
the Nazareno." New York Ledger.
What Kelt Mtiger Tan lo.
The custom of taking a course in
dressmaking and millinery is becom
ing a fashion, and the oonlldonce ac
quired by thorongh grounding and in
struction in Hiich matters is so well
worth while thnt it is remarkable that
more persons do not avail themselves
of soma of the most excellent oppor
tunities that are at hand to go through
this training. An example of what
deft fingers can accomplish in this way
was lately shown by a young womnn
who is n teacher, but who manages
every year to give herself a few weeks'
recreation at one of the most fashion
nble wntering places. With three or
four pretty orgondies, simply innde
and with very little trimming, a white
India silk evening dress with colored
ribbons, nn nccordion-plnited tnffetain
soft mixed tints, with a design in flow
ers and lenves, a black sntin skirt with
a couple of pretty waists, she managed
to get on beautifully until near the end
of her visit. Then came an unex
pected invitation for a week longer
with an nitra-fashionable friend to
mingle in the society of women whose
possessions ranged well up into six
figures. Hhe was Almost in despair,
but could not resist the temptation at
least to make an effort to put her
wardrobe in such shape as to make
her presentable. One of the organdies
wns given a couple of lace flounces at
the hem, another was tucke I until the
skirt was only half the original length,
aud this tucking was set on a yoke of
lawn, which was covered by a lace
flounce thnt bad seen its best days,
but which answered this end admir
ably. Shoulder ruffles of lace were
added instead of those of organdie,
which had originally been put on, and
the dress was by far prettier and more
nttrnctive than it had ever been. The
white India silk, which was slightly
soiled around the lower portion of the
skirt, was flounced to the waist with
chiffon. The waist was profusely
draped with the same garniture and
bows and loops of ruby velvet gave a
most exquisite finish to what was
really one of the most artistio dresses
that wns worn at a dunce attended by
people to whom money was not the
slightest object. The black satin skirt
tieeded nothing, and the waists were
merely freshened up with chiffon,
ribbon and lace. The taffeta was
changed entirely in character by the
addition of rows of spangled gimp,
set on from waist line to hem,
and extended above the belt, spread
ing slightly ou a oorselet of the
name material. This covered some
soiled spots near the waist line, be
sides greatly improving the appear
auce of the waist.
In this wny and with a few miuor
touches, suggested by a thorough
course in an institute where the mak
ing of feminine gear has beeu success- '
fully taught an a science, this ener
getic and capable young woman pre
pared herself for au additional outing
that gave her very great pleasure, and
resulted in advantages thut will bene
fit her as long as she lives.
Shown on Dry Good Counter.
Many mohair braid yokos aud shaped
waist pieces.
Pale green, grayish blue and pearl -gray
note paper.
Girls' checked cheviot frocks with
braid trimmings.
Small toques trimmed with knots of
velvet aud wings,
Band trimmings of silk embroidery
iu applique effect
Boston bags of brown cloth mounted
iu crocodile leather.
Close reefers in tan, navy and gray
ish blue cloth for fall.
Cambric and batiste nightdresses,
hoviug a small square neck.
Long black aud white net acarfa
edged with plaited frill of lace.