Reports of the exports of domestic
products show that this country will
lie depended on more than ever this
winter to feed the world.
'I'ha demnnd for Southern pine in
creases and it is already shipped to nil
parts of the world. The extent of the
lumber export tra lo of the South Is
Mot gonorolly appreciated, declares tha
Atlanta Journal.
More than one Invader of the Klon
dike region will he ready, before
spring, to paraphrase tho cry of the
ocean castaway. With them it will be,
"Gold, gold everywhere but riot a
loaf of bread I"
A Maine man says he will try to
cross the Atlantic in a barrel. Many
a man has succeeded in getting "half
fleas over" by sticking to a barrel, but
this is the first time that the second
half has been attempted, observes the
Chicago Times-Herald.
To facilitate the transportation and
preservation of hoy, an apparatus has
been devised at Buenos Ayre9 for
compressing it to one-tength its nor
mal bulk. In this form, as "hiy bis
cuits," it can be preserved dry and
sound an indefinite period, without
losing its flavor or value as food.
Adirondack "camps" are not as
primitive as the name would imply,
some of them, on the contrary, being
as costly and as elegant as Newport
cottages. H. McK. Twombly owns
one in the St. Regis region, which is
. said to have cost not less than $00,000.
Collis P. Huntington fitted tip a camp
in the same region a few years ago
which cost about $3o,000, and White
law Rcid has a camp constructed on
the same expensive scale.
As a result of some experiments on
eows supposed to be infected with
tuberculosis, Director Thelps, of the
Storrs (Conn.) Agricultural Experi
ment Station, says: ''Abovoall things,
the experiments mado by this station
show that we are deplorably in the
dark regarding this disease and its
danger to our herds, and through
thorn, to the humnn family, and that
there is need of further study and re
search before we can deal with tuber
culosis wisely, either as individual
farmers or as a State."
According to tho New York Lodger
reconstructed adage reads, Eternal
vigilance is the price of safety of val
uable property, and in pursuance of
this idea an ingenious inventor has
devised an electrio safe, which is made
with an eleotrio lining, consisting of
thin metal sheets and strips of such
delicacy that the slightest rnptnre will
close the circuit and give the alarm.
The thrust of a pin point will pene
trate this metal. The casing is of steel
and is built inside of a cover, which is
also lined with thin metal. There are
several sets of bolts, which are so ar
ranged that a considerable length of
time is required to move them. The
slightest displacement starts off the
alarm and long before the burglar can
get to the treasure in the heart of the
safe the neighborhood gets altogether
too warm for him.
"The growth of the iron industry in
the South during the past few years
has been truly phenomenal. For the
year 1896 the total output of iron in
this section amounted to 1,833,233
tons; for the current year it will ex
teed 2,000,000 tons. When the South
ern iron manufacturers first sent their
produot to Pennsylvania," says the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, "it was
thought most extraordinary that they
should be able to invade that territory.
At the present time, however, they
hip to England at least ten per cent,
f their produot. Southern iron, like
Southern cotton, now finds its way to
11 parts of the globe, and some of it
has recently been used in the manu
facture of basio steel by the Martin
prooess. It has been possible to lay it
down in England at $7.50 per ton, and
it can be manufactured for even less,
as the cost of production in the Birm
ingham district is reduced from year
to year. The chances are that nearly
one-third of the total iron product of
the country will come this year from
the South, the largest share of this in
dustry it bus ever had. Nor will its
teld be limited to iron, for the metal
Is now being extensively oonverted
into steel, and it is predicted that the
South will ultimately furnish the steel
plates for our men of war, whiob it
has been found impossible to get in
the East on reasonable terms. Much
of the Southern iron is being con
verted elsewhere into steel, and the
new steel mill at Birmingham, Ala.,
is now operating ten revolving steel
furnaoes, turning out 1000 tons of steel
ingots per day, tho latter being oon
verted at once into billets, steel rails
ox bar steel."
BRETHREN.
After nil, wo re brethren no matter where I menn, while we're n-llvln' here' on till
wo lie here mortnl side
We folks tlmt onnt the loll to life, or you And so, when nljtlit Ih fnllln', let's throw tho
tlmt mill the sen t windows wide
Pon't tniittnr where tlmy ilnne u don't And let the Ininpa shine nut! Becntise,
mutter where wn ronm. wherever we mny ronm,
Till:) world-for nil Its trials Is still our Till world, until we much the next, Is still
homo our home I our home our honml
F, Ij. Htnnton, lu Atlanta Constitution.
3
"It's you that's cruel, Tcddie
Blake I "
"Cruel, Nellie, denr Nellie, you
littlo demon 1 Why, I wouldn't touch
a bnir of yotir bond, barring the bit
I want to cut on" to carry with me to
Imliii) ami you're teasing the life nut
of mo with your contrariness an I
making it much harder for me to go
thnn even you dream of!"
"And what do you want to go for?
leaving your home and your regiment
that you were so proud of and the peo
ple that know you and the gill "
here Miss Nellie breaks down with a
little sob, and it is all Teddie enn do
to remember his promise to her father
and keep his two arms from going
round her.
"And the girl what?" he says,
huskily; for the life of him he can't
resist that much.
"That was brought up with you and
has been a sister to you all your life,"
chokes Nellio O'Mallcv.
"I'll tell you what it is, Nellio, "the
poor, young soldier says, pulling him
self together and speaking much more
severely than ho really feels, "you
must try to understand my position,
and then we'll say no more about It,
if you please, onco and for nil. My
uncle's dead (heaven rest his soul),
and he's left the old place to me, but
it's up to the chimney pots in debt,
and unless I let it to this English fel
low I'll never bo able to clear it all
my life. Thou, if I don't exchange
for India, I can't keep my place in the
service at all, and besides, Nellic.with
tho old regiment quartered at Thomas
town, it would be mighty hard for me
to see another man fishing my salmon
and shooting my birds and sitting in
.my chimney cornor every day of the
week, with his great ugly face look
ing over the pew at you on Sundays!
I couldn't do it, Nellie.not even to re
main near near the friends I've
known ever since I wns a baby. So
that's all about it, and you musu't
make it harder for me than I can bear
do you see?"
It was a good thing that Aunt Ellen
called them in to supper at this ino
mont. Nellie had one of her teasing
fits on hor, trying by this means to
hide her heart-break at Teddie's de
parture, and hor perversity tried poor
young Blnke sorely. He had prom
ised her father, the rector, that he
would not, by word or act, reveal his
feelings toward her. They had bcon
children together, almost brother and
sister.for nearly 20 years.since Teddie
first came to Moyliscallan, and this
state of things must be maintained,
Mr. O'Malley decidod, till Toddio's
fortunes should bear closer and more
satisfactory inspection. Perhaps a
few years of Indian soldiering, while
the old castle was let to a rich Eng
lish tenant, might put the said fortunes
on their foet; meanwhile, lingering in
the old rectory garden was a danger
ous occupation, and Aunt Ellen did
wisoly to ring the supper bell out of
the window.
Presently the parting came. It was
Sunday evening, and the rectory kept
early hours. 8 upper was over, and
the O'Malleys were making their fare
wells to Teddie, the almost son of the
house, for ho had to get back to Thom
as town that night and start for Eng
land next morning.
"Thore's something I want to take
with me," he announced, stoutly, be
fore them all, "a lock of your hair,
Aunt Ellen, and another of Nellie's.
You know you two are the only wom
ankind I have or ever have had. Give
me each a bit of a curl, and I'll have
thorn put iu a locket together and
wear it on my chain, and you won't be
sorry to think I've got it when I'm
way from you."
He looked at the rector as he spoke.
It was all open and above board, and
the old gentleman uodded and reached
down a pair of scissors from the man
telsholf, which be handed to his sis
ter. Aunt Ellon cut her little lock
carefully, as befits a lady of five-and-forty,
whose hair is still abundant and
ornamental, if not so bright as it has
been. Nellie whisked her bunch of
curls over hor shoulders and snipped
off a thick brown ringlet. Teddie
twisted them together iu bis pocket
book and Baid, with a feeble attempt
at a joke: "They'll go with me every
where and bring me back to Moylis
callan. Don't let me find you've been,
either of you, flirting with Strange
ways while I'm away, or putting him
in my place."
Then he kissed the two ladies,as he
had always done on great occasions, at
New Year or on birthdays, ever since he
was three years old, shook hands
with the rector twice over and hurried
off to Thoumstowu and thence to In
dia. Ami, oh dear! it wasdull at Moy
liscallan without him.
Five years lator Captain Edward
Blake was coming home on sick leave.
It had been a "near squeak," as he
said himself. That wound on the
bead, at the Burroo Pass affair, had
set all Europe talking about him, but
hud nearly done for him all the same.
Then came weeks of fever and tho
weary jouruey to Bombay; the re
lapse on the road, which, but for Mrs.
Diamond's nursing.inust have finished
him; the almost miraculously accom
plished move on to shipboard, which
the doctor allowed was an experience
of kill or cure, '
And now he was steaming home as
fast a the P. & Q.liue could do it, and
every day somo fresh sense of power
in mind or body was reborn in him;
one dny he could nrrange his own pil
low, the next ho could read a few
lines of the paper. A little later he
asked Mrs. Diamond if she could find
him paper and pencil, ns he wanted
to write a note "home." Life was
worth living again with Moyliscallan
drawing nearer day by day. Mrs.
Diamond was a little widow lady.who,
since her husband's death, had been
keeping house for a brother in the
civil service. "Tho Judge," as she
called him, had fallen a victim to the
chnrins of an lH-yenr-old schoolgirl,
fresh from Englnnd, and Mrs. Dia
mond's services were required no
longer. Coming down country she
hud stumbled upon Teddie Blake,
fever-stricken and virtually nlono, and
it wns undoubtedly to her core that
he owed his recovery from the re
lapse, which hod been worse thnn the
originnl attack. Hbo had deferred her
own plans to the convenience of the
patient, had superintended his trans
fer to the steamship from the Bom
bay hotel, which she hod hardly dared
to hope ho would reach alive, and was
a witness of his convalescence on
bonrd ship, as day by dny his s'rength
and spirits returned. Ho it wns not
wonderful that Teddie turned to her
for pnper and pencil on the very first
occasion that he felt he could scrawl
a lino, and imperiously demanded that
he be allowed to writo "to his peo
ple." "Are you snro yon can do it?" Mrs.
Diamond nsked, producing her writing
board, but not giving it over to him
unconditionally.
"Quite sure that is, not a bit of it
but I'll try."
"I thought you said you hnd nobody
belonging to you?"
"No more I have no real relations
but nn adopted family that is the
dearest in the world not a mere ac
cident of birth like other people's
families. I must write thorn just a
few words to sny I'm alive ami coming
homo, and it'll bd ready when an op
portunity comes for posting it, though
it can't reach Moyliscallan more than
an hour or two before I do myself."
"Moyliscallan," repeated Mrs. Din
mond, "whnt do you know of Moylis
cnllau? I only heard of the place for
the first time n mouth ago, and now it
turns up again!"
"It's my homo," Blnke said, pain
fully scrawling the date at the top of
his sheet of pupor. "Tho cnstle be
longs to me, only I've never been
able to livo in it. My people live at
the rectory it is to Mr. O'Malley.the
rector, that I'm writing. And what
did you hear about Moyliscnllan, tho
sweetest place on all the earth?"
"Why," cried Mrs. Diamond, ex
citedly, "this is the oddest thing! My
cousin, George Strangewnys, rented
the castlo from some ono some years
ago from you it appears and now he
is engaged, married probably by this
time, to one of tho rector's girls, Ellen
O'Malley, a daughter, I suppose, of
this very old goutleninn you're writ
ing to. I hnd the letter just before I
met you nt Rnhmednugnr and had
scarcely given it a thought since."
One of tho rector's girls!
Teddie Bluke had soon death glaring
at him from a wall of black Afghan
faces; ho had looked fever in the eyes
more than once; but ho had never
known whnt despair meant till Mnrcia
Diamond told him her little story of
odd coincidences sitting on the steam
ship deck, halfway through thoir
homeward voyage. For a moment ho
repeated the words, "Ellon O'Malley;
there is only one daughter at the rec
tory;" and Mrs. Diamond, whose eyes
were on the silk sock she was knitting,
went on cheerfully: "Oh, then, that's
the girl. I did not hear from George
Strange ways direct; the' news came
through my brother, but, of course, it
is the same the young ludy at the
rectory. Fancy old George succumb
ing to an Irish girl's fascinations after
going all over the habitable world
unscathed till now!"
"Is be a good fellow ?" Teddie
asked.
Something in his voice made Mrs..
Diamond give a swift glance at her com
panion, and in that glunce she under
stood everything. ,
"He is a very good follow," she
answered, a little more seriously than
she had hitherto spoken; "any girl
will be happy and tenderly treated by
him, though he is an elderly man
5"), I should think and a little eccen
trio and old-fushioned in his ways.
You will find letters telling you all
about it wheu you reach England, you
may be sure. Don't you think you
had better let mo take that writing
board downsta'rs again? It will be
time euough to write when there IB a
chance cf posting your letter."
He let her lift the writing things
away, only putting out a feeble hand
to crumple up the sheet on which he
had begun his ' letter. Then he lay
back with his eyes shut, and her tact
took her a little apart, for the struggle
which he hud to go through now must
be fought out alone. By and by his
servunt came and helped him down
stairs, and Mrs. Diamond saw him
again no more that day.
Moyliscallan woods in September!
How often Teddie Blake had pictured
his home-coming through the green
glades that stretched between the cas
tle and the rectory. Those sylvan
aisles were the rally place of all his
favorite dreams, for did not Nellie
cross them day by day, end would it
not be here that he would bring her
to tell her the secret which he thought
she must have guessed long ago. Rec
tor O'Malley would lot him speak nt
Inst, for the long waiting had borne its
fruit iu recouping tho Blake coders,
while Teddie knew that the Burroo
Pass nll'iiir,of which he himself thought
and spoke so modestly, was not likely
to be forgotton when his name came
up nt the Horse Guards. A thousand
times he hnd gone over all this iu im
agination, fingering, meanwhile, the
little flat locket that hungnt his watch
chain nnd now and now, be was
creeping back to Moyliscnllan like a
thief, having given no word of warn
ing either to the rector or to his agent
nt the castlo creeping home just to
see Nellie's face ngnin once more and
then to go away anyw here and dio. He
was still weak mid won from the fever.
Mrs. Diamond had tried hard to per
suade him to remain a little time in
London for a consultation with a first
rate doctor, but tho determination to
nee Nellie at Moyliscnllan once more
wa the only desire that remained to
him in life, and till it wns accom
plished his shrewd little friend saw
that there was no good talking of any
thing else. . So he hurried over to
Ireluud nnd hod reached Thomastown
the evening before. Today he hnd
tnkon a car over to the village (in the
old days it was the shortest aild pleas
nntest four miles ever known) and,
leaving the driver asleep in the sun
at the cross roads, had turned into the
wood that is a short cut to the two
principal houses in the parish. He
hnd no very definite idea of the plan
to pursue. Now tlmt he had reached
his journey's end, it seemed as if all
power hod left him. Perhnps some
where ninong the trees, crossing from
the castle grounds to the rectory side,
ho should see Nellie pa-sing by, and
be would slip down upon his knees
among the fern and look at her
George Strangewnys' wife nnd oh,
this fnintuess! Merciful God! is that
Nellie?
"feddie.is it really you?"
Teddie was on the moss, stretched
flat, save that Nellie's arm was under
his head;Xc llio's little, barc.siinburncd
hand unfastened his collar ho could
only look und smile. The green Moy
liscallan loaves were overhead, dancing
against the blue, Nellio's face was
very close, and ho thought he must
bo in heaven.
"How could yon conic like this nnd
take us by surprise, nnd you so ill,
Teddie," tho girl went on, reproach
fully; "if I hadn't been going across
to tho castlo this morning early nnd
come on you lying here in a heap "
"Going across to tho castle?" Ted
dio found timo to utter, his eyes on
Nellie's left bond. "Dou't you live nt
the cnstle now altogether?"
"And what should I go and live at
the castle for, when I've a good home
of iny own, intruding on newly mar
ried people, as if I didn't know better?
Besides, Aunt Ellen isn't home from
her honeymoon yot.nnd Uncle George
what, are you uble to sit up? Take
care or you'll "
She could not finish the sentence,
for Captain Blake was sitting up with
a vengeance, and to steady himself he
had got his arm around her waist.
"Ho you never thought of Aunt El
len?" said Nellie, by ami by; "well,
you wouldn't have been an Irishman
if you hadn't made a mistake some
where! Ouly if you'd ever seen
Undo Goorge I don't think you'd
have doubted me, Teddie denr. Oh!
they have been so funny courting one
another these five years and if I hadn't
been no well amused I think I must
have died, for you kept me a long time
waiting without a word !" Boston
(England) Guurdian.
Gold Is Not Kverywhere.
His poor.work-callonsed hands were
despairingly entwined; his emaciated
form was bowed down with woe, and
the hollows in his care-worn, cheeks
were slowly filling up with tears that
ran down from dull, tired eyes. He
was a young man whose early life
bad been spent amid careful home
surroundings under the influence of
Christian teachings, and now in this
hour of dark despair and deep dejec
tion, when reason tottered on her
throne and fierce pain pangs assailed
his flesh, the habits of his youth were
strong upon him. With weary foot
steps he crossod the floor, and from
an oilskin pouch drew a Bible.
"The last gift of my mother," he
muttered ; "before I came to this ac
cursed place."
As ho looked at it in his hand he
noticed a certain bulkiuess about it
and felt a heaviness he had never felt
before. A thousand wild conjectures
flashed through his mind and many
instances of where fond niothors hnd
secreted treasures in the Bible pre
sented to their departing sou came to
him at memory's beck.
"Dear mother t" he murmured ; "a
big fat bunch of cnrrency.I suppose I"
and with a half-smile he opened the
bulging Bible.
An hour ufterward he recovered con
sciousness. "Thank heaven," he cried. "Joy
does not kill I Mother, dear old
mother by what divine inspiration
did she gaze into the future and see
my hour of bitterest need, I'll just
send her a million dollars by the next
mail."
And with a ravenous, running gulp
the young Klondike miner devoured
one of the throe apple fritters he had
fouud in the Bible. San Francisco
Examiner.
l'ollle flforvls.
"Georgie, I'm glad to see that you
are polite and offer sister the orauges
first."
"Yes'm, 'cause then she has to be
polite au' take tV little one,"
Advertised for Homely lllrls.
A telephone exchange mannger in
Htnunton, Vn., recently advertised for
"ngly girls, who would nttend to busi
ness." There were actually 25 who
applied for tho positions nnd confessed
themselves qualified to fill the bill.
A Titled Woman Itngplper.
Invernry Pipe Band, the distin
guished combination of bagpipes
which created a sensation by'prom
cnading Glencoe in charge of Lord
Archibald Campbell, wnlked abroad
in Inverary the other day, headed by
a young lady, who blow the piob mohr
with all the dextority and success of a
pri.e bagpiper at Oban Highland
gnuios. This wns lady Elspeth Camp
bell, Lord Archibald's handsome
daughter. She is nn expert player
nnd has done a good deal to make the
dreaded instrument popular in fash
ionable circles. Westminster Ga
zette. Vor Wheeling skirts.
There is a new arrangement gain
ing favor among woman cyclists which
helps not ouly iu keeping the short
skirt from blowing back in the wind,
but also keeps it from dragging heav
ily across the knees after a long ride.
This invention is a keep cap of venti
lated cloth three or four inches wide,
worn just below the knee; this bears a
tiny fastener. Iu tha skirt, on the
under side, is a corresponding fastener,
which mny be clasped into the knee
band by n sinqfle pressure on the out
side of tho skirt. When the rider
nlights a mere twitch releases the
fastening.
llrilllittit Colors the Itnffe,
The summer fad for dashing colors
hns overlapped the foil fashions, and
brilliant reds, greens and blues are
shown iu plain goods nnd in checks
nnd stripes. A shephnrd's plaid skirt
in lnrgo red nnd white checks, with a
box-plaited waist of all red wool, is a
new nnd pretty design for a child's
school frock or a young girl's morning
dress. Checks are fur more fashion
able than either stripes or plain mate
rial; bnt they are invariably combined
with plain silk or wool goods. A touch
of black is considered indispensable
with these suits, either in the soft col
lar and crush belt, which fastens nt
the buck with flaring bows, or in the
cuffs, collar and vest. The black goods
may be either satin, moire or faille
Francaise. Demorest's Magazine.
Tyrolean ltrlilsl Handkerchiefs.
A touching and poetical custom pre
vails in the Welsch-Tyrol. When a
young maiden is about to be married,
immediately before she steps across
the threshold of her old home, on her
way to the church, her mother sol
emnly gives her a new pocket hand
kerchief. The bride holds it in her
hand thoughout the marriage cere
mony, using it to wipe away her tears.
So soon as the marriage festivities are
ended the young wife lays the hand
korchief aside in her linen closet, and
there it remains while Bhe lives. Noth
ing could induce a Tyroleso wife touse
this sacred handkerchief. It may be
half a century, or longer, before it is
taken from its place to fulfil the sec
ond and Inst part of its mission. When
tho wife dies, perhnps as a gray old
grandmother, the loving hands of the
next of kin plnce the bridal handker
chief over the face of the dead and it
is buried with her in the grave.
, Ifemftltchlnn'.
In London hemstitching is having
qnite a revival. It is being adapted
not only to muslin, Boft silk and soft
fabrics for trimmings, bnt also to
glace, and even to velvet, the frillings
being hemmed and then headed by
these open stitchings. This work adds
a good deal to the expense of dresses,
because for Bitch materials it must be
baud drawn, and in velvet it has to be
punctured by a stiletto. Some charm
ing sashes are made in pure white
silk with open hemstitching on either
side, the hems two or three inches
broad. These are most effective with
white gowns, and are employed a good
deal for children as well as grown np
people; but perhaps the charm of this
hemstitching is best seen on the new
Paris skirts, which have graduated
flounces from the hem to the waist,
each one treated in this way. An en
terprising dressmaker has the hem
stitching in a different oolor, but it
has not beou altogether a success. It
looks unlike the real thing.
A New Builnes fur Women.
And now a woman is running a
trolley cur. This new fiold for woman
kind may strike the casual observer
ns somewhat peculiar, but the young
lady who has taken it np says that it
is much easier than housework and a
great deal more agreeable than a good
many other things that women are
called upon to do. There is a great
deal of nonsensical talk about tho
necousity for strength in the ordinary
pursuits of lifo. As a matter of fact
brute force or what we cull physical
strength is one of the minor items in
the success which people meet with in
almost all of the ordinary occupations
by which men and women earn their
bread.
It does not require physioal strength
to command a ship or to fill the posi
tion of conductor; indeed, some of the
most successful men in the world have
been physical weaklings; but they had,
brains, tact, nerve and alertness, which
goes a very long ways in making np
the sum total of elements that con
duce to success. New York Lodger,
l'oke lints In Srnson.
Tho poke hat is becoming to so few
faces that it is with much hesitation
that the style is adopted. Milliners,'
however, declare that the poke hat
will be the hat of the season, and it
certainly will if they have their way.
One seen was of light gray chip, can ght
np in front with pale yellow crepe
rosettes. Long black feathers drooped
down over the sides, giving it extra
breadth. The dress worn with thin
was of gray striped cheviot, trimmed
with blue braid nnd made with a natty
cutaway jacket effect that was very be
coming. A stock of the dress goods
was worn, and the same goods was
made into a fichu for the finishing
of the sailor collar. The sleeves
were double balloons, set over a very
tight fitting cont sleeve. ,,
Pearl gray gloves matched the hat,
and a stiff white linen shirt front gave
a decidedly tailor made finish to this
neatest and latest of gowns. In place
of the parasol n smnll nmbrella is
now carried, rolled tight around its
stick nnd finished with a niching of
black satin ribbon, which is tied
around the handle of the umbrella. ,
Fnshlon Notes.
The Russian blouse craze is likely
to continue through the full and win
ter seasons. ,
A smart hat is composed entirely of
red currants, with a blackbird nestling
in the midst of them, ;
The lnrge black velvet hat, with its
drooping plumes, is the most favored
style in feminine head wear.
Black silk stockings have medallions
of fine blnck lace set over the instep.
They are for wear with fancy slippers,
and are very smart and dainty. ,
Princess Beatrice, who still wears
deep mourning for her husband.Henry
of Battenburg, always wears the usual
widow's bonnet, with its Marie Stuart
point in white and a long crepe veil. ,
The military effect on the tight-fitting
coat is good this season, especially
where the garment is all black, though
we Bee tan, green, blue and violet com
bined with the black ornamentation in
this way.
Bauds of embroidered velvet are
worn as trimming for gowns and coats;
some of these in black, with steel
pailletes or with golden thread and
tiny colored beads, are very rich and
handsome.
A cloth dress is made with a skirt
iu about thirty tucks. The waist and
sleeves are similarly tucked. The
effect is dosirable enough, but the
weight of the garment is simply past
enduring. The lody for whom it ftt
made finds it impossible to wear it
without great fatigue.
Corduroy waists are making their
appearance. Homo of them are made
entirely of corduroy, with plaits at the
trout and back, and a high rolled back
collar, inside of which is collar of
silk of the same color. Other models
have belt, collar and cuffs of plain vel
vet of the same shade as the goods of
which the waist is made.
A stylish dress of dark blue broad
cloth is made with a plain skirt
trimmed with rather an elaborate pat
tern of the finest military braid and
fine cord. The waist is in Eton jaoket
fashion and is almost covered with a
handsome design in cord and braid.
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Prettiest among the street oostnmes
are the cloth gowns, made with braided
skirt and blouse jacket, with little
basques. The braided design is in
tricate, bnt light in effect, and covers
the whole of the skirt in the front and
back of the jacket. Sometimes the
jackets have tiny revers of embroidered
velvet or astrukan, or of the cloth
braided. The basques are very short
and are very jaunty aud becoming.
The fronts of most jackets are to be
adorued with military frogs and braid
ing; a style very becoming to those
who dreu 1 the severity of a tight fit
ting jucket. Elizabeth collars and
belts of embroidered velvet are to be
worn. A handsome coat of dark pur
ple cloth has two bauds of jetted black
in front; an Elizabeth collar of black
velvet jetted and a bow of black velvet
under the chin give a very rich effect
to this winter garment.
Poplins are "coming in," and both
pluiu and figured putterns are to be
seen. Bright plaids, checks and
stripes are exceedingly effective, and
look as though they might be very
durable. All the Scotch plaids are
fashioiiable.und many new plaids have
been recently designed, On a dark
brown, blue or black background the
bright colors stand out clear and
sharp. They will be made up in
skirts to wear with plain short coats,
for school frocks, and will be greatly
used for combining with other mate
rials for vests, sleeves and trimmings.