Verillct op i n Qunker.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Htanton tells
an amusing incident which occurred to
her at a meeting of a Society of
Friends at Farminpton. Pursuant
to a request she delivered nil address
upon the political eqnatity of the
sexes. She was eloqueut, nud when
she closed she expected a speech in
opposition or else in comment upon
her own. To her surprise, no one
stirred. At the end of nn hour a dig
nified old Qnnker rose to his feet,
looked about the assemblage and then
said, with great deliberation: "What
I think is this, if a hen wants to crow,
why let her crow. "
The fthndes That (In.
In dress goods brown will, it is ex
pected, be much worn. The shades
range from bright tobacco to castor
and the slightly grayish tea colors.
There are also bright golden tints and
those with a strong hint of pink. A
brow'n cloth gown of light weight,
with touches of yellow or pale rose
at the throat and in the hat would be
a safe purchase for those contemplat
ing a southern trip. Cloth is coming
more and more to the front. Black is
also in immense favor, and black
cloth skirts, it is ' predicted by those
who know, take the place of the
black satin and brocade skirts, with
separate waists, of last season. Gray,
blue and lilac, also a pale green, will
reign as favorites.
The Fnihlonnble Petticoat.
The silk petticoat of this season is
multitude of silk frills, tucks, inser
tions, appliques, quilling, ruchings
and cascades. It is as wonderful as a
Florentine mosaic, and as bewilder
ingly pretty as the tints and the petals
of a full blown rose. For street wear
it should in color carry out some shade
of trimming in the dress, and if it be
in light tones, such as apple green,
turquoise blue or rose pink, lattice
work applique of bebe black velvet
ribbon is effective above a narrow
flounce. This applique also prevents
the dress skirt from rnbbiug the silk
into holes. A silk petticoat should
not be too long. A petticoat that'
touches the ground is not considered
mart. It should, for walking, be
quite three or four inches above the
street. Lace trimmed petticoats, ex
cept in summer, are out of place out
of doors.
For house wear many women prefer
delicate lawn petticoats to silk ones.
Chemise and petticoat in one are very
pretty and much in demand by women
of too ample ontlines.
Pleasures of Princes.
Tire tuft hunting heiress may take
a gloomy pleasure in hearing some
thing about the Princess Clementine
of Belgium, who, it is said, is engaged
to her cousin, Prince Albert Leopold
Clement Maria Meinrod, heir to the
Belgium throne, who is touring in this
country. The princess is 28 years
old five years older than the prince
and as she is the daughter of the
king she has less fun and liberty thau
the poorest peasant girl. Her pleas
ares, works and studies are laid out
for her and she is obliged to follow
them like a school girl. She rises at
6.80 winter and summer, whether she
likes it or not, At 7 she attends mass
with the queen in the palace chapel..
After breakfast she goes for a walk or
drive, always accompanied by a lady-in-waiting.
While at home with the
queen she does not even have the privil
ege of selecting her own hats and gowns
or receiving her special friends. At
the court balls she is not allowed to
dance alone with one partner, joining
in the quadrilles ouly. But when the
. poor princess has the good fortune to
travel with the king she has perfect
freedom and makes np for the petty
tyrannies of home life. The king is
exceedingly fond of his youngest
daughter,' and they take little jour
neys to Paris and Holland occasion
ally, like two very jolly oomrades.
New York Coinmeroial Advertiser,
Stories of Savon Queens.
One day the queen of Servia, while
playing at Biarritz missed a valuable
portion of her jewels. A few days
later an advertisement appeared in the
local papers to the effect that ' if the
jewelry were returned to the, qneen
she would present it to the poor of
Biarrits,
Two days after sjje received her lost
or stolen jewels by post, accompanied
by sheet of coarse 'paper, on which
was scrawled in printed characters:
"T Shall b enrions to sea if a onsen
oan keep her word." The queen did
keep her word and presented the re
stored trinkets to the siBters of char
ity, who immediately organized a lot
tery, which was' eagerly subscribed
to by the visitors and residents of
Biarrits, and the treasure was won by
poor little seamstress.
Queen Amelia of Portugal, who is
conceded the most beautiful and the
' best dressed royal personage in all
Europe, while driving in the environs
of Lisbon recently, heard tries for
assistance coming from a neighboring
wood.' She went to aee what was the
mr end found that wood cntter
yi been injured by a branch of a
-j tree. o" Am sue. who has
studied medicine, attended to tbs
man's injurv, and then, with her com
panion, assisted him to reach his
cabin.
Lator on the queen railed to see
how her patient was. "Then yon are
a doctor, madam, since yon know how
to take rare of lue?" asked the wood
cutter, who did not know his bene
factress. "Yes, my good man," was
the reply. "I am sorry for that,"
continued the wood cutter, "because
I will never be able to pay all I owe
you. But you must give me your
address, and as soon as I can go oat I
will bring yon a basket of fresh eggs
and butter by way of thanks." The
queen replied evasively, and the sur
prise of the wood cutter may be imag
ined when he learned the rank of his
lady physician.
The queen of the Belgians is cred
ited with many unconventional expe
riences. It is said that while passing
the summer at Hpn she was given to
taking long rides in a pony cart, ac
companied by the Princess Clemen
tine. Un one of these excursions they
stopped at a farmhouse to buy a glass
of milk.
Nobody but an old paralyzed woman
was in the house, ami she replied that
no milk was left in the jugs, and that
she was nnable to go to milk a cow.
"Never mind," said the queen, "if
yon will allow me, I will go to the
pasture. Just tell me where the jugs
are." "But, my dear lady, you are
from the town, and you will never be
able to milk a cow," objected the old
woman. She was, however., mis
taken, for a little later her majesty
returned with a half tilled jug.
Meantime Princess Clementine had
laid on the table three bowls, a loaf
and the needful knives and plates.
The old farmer's wife was served by
the princess, who, it appears, greatly
enjoyed the adventure.
The qneen of Italy is enthusiastic
ally following the fad for the collec
tion of old boots and shoes of cele
brated persons. Bhe possesses the
shoes of Marie Antoinette, of Mary
Stuart, the Empress Josephine, Queen
Anne and the Empress Catherine of
Bussia. Lady Ermvntrude Malet,
wife of the British ambassador at Ber
lin, has a beautiful collection. They
are of all shapes and sizes, from the
dainty satin ball shoes to boots made
for long tramps through the snow.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria
is an accomplished horsewoman, and
the sovereign of a court whose aristo
cratic prejudices are of the strongest
kind. Hhfi delights in her fame as
pastry cook, and her daughter, the
Archduchess Valerie, is proud of her
accomplishments in the methods of
ancient and modern cuisine.
The queen of Greece is at the head
of an association of women whose ob
ject is the moral regeneration of
criminals. They frequently-visit the
inmates of prisous in Athens, giviug
them religious instruction and a sym
pathetic attention to their woes.
Talk.
Fashion Note.
,'Chiffonne straw hats are already
wiorn with new costumes.
Bordered fabrics, by the yard or
imported in robe patterns, are greatly
in evidence-uinoug both spring -and
summer dress materials.
The latest fad in hair dressing is to
lower the pompadour directly in front
and pull the tresses out very, full and
fluffy at the sides,, where tbey cover
the ears.' '
The latest cycling costumes show a
preference for black and the dark
shades of blue and green, rather than
the light fawn and tan shades which
have been so much worn.
Tale blue is one of the popular
colors in wool gowns for children.
They are made with a blouse waist
and guimpe neck, or with a blouse
front and Eton jacket decorated with
braid.
Very stylish and elegant costumes
are made of the new material called
drap de Chine, braiding being a fa;
vorea aeoorauon on me qxop sain,
overdress and tucked ronnd waist or
open jacket. .
"Wilhelmina" yellow is a deep or
ange color' that 'just now seems quite
likel v to become as much the fashion
in portion's of dress and millinery as
the paler "Isabella yellow became
in days of yore.
Satin-faced wools ip heather mixed
colors or beantiini quality and gener
ous width are very much used for
skirt and jaoket suits, tailor skirts to
wear with various shirt waists, and
for prinoesa dresses and redingote
costumes for traveling, shopping ana
the promenade.
Circular shaped cape collars and
pelerines, with and without scarf
ends, are worn just now in place of
the fur or beaver cloaks and coats.
These are satin lined and are made
variously of heavy repped sioilieune,
ladies' cloth, satin brocade, drapd'ete,
arinnre royal, or of material match
ing the gown. .'
- Mrs. Jesse Peterson of Lockport,
N. Y.. owns the chair in which Wash
ington aat when be slgnjid the terms
of Gornwallit' surrendei
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
An aseptic barber shop has been
started in Baltimore, where atl objects
t:iat touch the face have been steril
ized. ,
Asiatic cholera was first supposed
to have originated from the consump
tion of unsound rice, and was called
the" "rice disease."
There are several variotles of fish
that cannot swim. In every instance
they are deep sea dwellers, nud crawl
about the rocks, using their tails and
tins as legs.
Experiments with locomotives on
the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad
show that a slight addition of graph
ite to the oil used for lubricating pur
poses promotes economy.
It has recently been claimed that
iron ships fitted with electric plants
suffer rapid deterioration of their
pipes having direct connection with
the sea, due to electrolytic action.
It is said' that every thread of a
spider's web is made np of about five
thousand separate fibres. If a pound
of this thread were required it would
occupy 28,000 spiders a full year to
furnish it.
A case of leprosv in its worst form
has been discovered in London. No
hospital or home for incurables will
take the patient in and no means of
isolating him from contact with other
persons has been found yet.
According to a Gorman publication,
a chemist of that country has prepared
a fluid that has the power when in
jected into the tissue of a plitut, near
its roots, of anaesthetizing the plant
not destroying it, but temporarily
suspending its vitality.
Becent investigations by Dr. Lin
den-Kohl have shown that the princi
pal source of the gulf stream is not
the Florida channel, but the region
between and beside the islands of the
West Indies. At Biuioni the volume
of this warm water is sixty times as
great as the combined volume of all
the rivers in the world at their mouths.
Becent developments in traiu light
ing with the storage battery as an im
portant adjunct warrant the belief that
the electric light will at no distant day
be universally used for illuminating
day and sleeping coaches on all steam
railroads. Not only is this true of the
United States, but one of the largest
railway companies in England is
already equipping fifty of its day
coaches with dynamos and storage bat
teries of a system which has been
successfully tested for some mouths
past.
Food In an Egyptian Village.
"An Artist Among the Fellaheen"!
the title of an article iu the Century,
written and illustrated by 11. lalbo
Kelly, tue English artist. Sir. Kelly
says of his daily food in a typical
Egyptian village:
We rise early, and a cup of coffee
is always offered, sometimes accom
panied by a piece of bread, or a small
cake made of flour mixed with honey
or oil. Somewhere about midday, if
we are within reach, some light food.
such as boiled eggs, bread, and coffee,
is sent to us. In many cases the eggs
are boiled hard, shelled, and served in
a large bowl of oil, and the meal has
the added interest of the endeavor to
catch the slippery morsels as they bob
about in tua liquid. The taste for oil
or aemua (clarified butter) is' one that
must be acquired; both are frequently
more or less raucid, and are liberally
mixed with almost everything you eat.
At night, from 6 to 8 p. in., the ouly
meal of the day is prepared. It is
almost always the same. This con
sists of a little very greasy soup, to
which is added semna, stewed or
boiled mutton, or goat's flesh, on a
pyramid of rice, and the ceremonial
dish of ris b'il laban (boiled rice and
milk). This last is always good, and
in moat cases is the ouly thing eatable.
Pigeons and turkeys from a pleasant
variety when offered; but few hosts
give one the choice, a "lamb or kid of
the flock," being considered a more
"honorable" dish, and demanded by
one's position.
As Many Kinds or Tnrtle a Flah.
Did you know .that thore were tur
tles of so many kinds that it required
the mind of a naturalist to remember
their names? And did you know that
out of all these, only two varietiea
were convertible into savory soup?
They are the Chelonia Mydas and a
variety ol terrapin,
1 They are caught mainly in the Gulf
of Mexico, The desirable weight for
a turtle is from 110 to 140 ponuds. It
is a delicate being and requires ten
derest care or it will inconsiderately
die before being cooked. At the same
time by an almost feminine oontradio
toriness, it is very tenacious of life,
and while it may perish of a chilly
breeze it is quite likely to refuse to
die for twelve or fifteen hours after
having its head chopped off.
The turtle which provides soup for
aldermanio banquets and that which
provides combs for aldermanio wives
are not the same brand. The latter
is the hawk'a-bill turtle.
The common turtle is the only am
phibious animal whose contentment is
proverbial, but whose brain is so
small that it can't be taught a single
trick. New York Journal.
Happy Family of bees and Rnttlera.
While out hunting recently Claus
Ahlf found a oolony of beea hidden in
the crevice of a huge rock, aud, on
openiug the cavity, discovered snugly
coiled in the same apartment five
rattlesnakes, two of which measured
four feet ten inches in length and nine
aud'a half inches around the bodies.
The quart of oil rendered from the
.rattlers Mr. Ahlf thinks more, profit
able than both honey and bees taken
(from the rocks.-- Oceauside (Cal.)
Blade.
MAKING THE
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.
M HOW PRETTY MAIDS AND OLD SALT SEA DOGS WORK ;K
s upon the mnmniio. pmrifm j
It is an excellent time to talk about i
flags, particularly the American flag
the finest of them all. It takes an in
credible number of them to supply the
annnat demands of the nation.
Nobody knows how many are made.
There is one firm in Elizabeth street,
lays the New York World, that manu
factures more than 150,000,000 each
year, and there are scores of other
makers in this' country. From which
it may be inferred that there are half
dozen flags made annually for each
rnan, woman and child in the United
States.
Of course tho majority of these flags
are little affairs three inches long and
two inches-wide, which soil for twenty
seven cents a gross. They are printed
on muslin and are turned out by the
million. Cheap muslin flags are made
six feet long and forty inches wide.
The good flags, those made of bunt
ing, sewed together, and with care
fully arranged stars, are manufactured
by flag-making firms and by every sail
and awning maker in the country.
The most interesting place where
flags are made is Building No. 7 in the
Brooklyn Navy-Yard. There every
flag used in the United States navy is
made. There are the various United
States flags, signal flags, pennants, en
signs, flags of high officials, from the
President of the United States down,
and the flags of forty-three foreign
nations. Wherefore it will be seen
that the flag outfit of United States
warship is pretty extensive. '
Just now the workers under James
Crimmins, master flagmaker, are very
busy. Nowhere are flags so carefully
made. Every star, stripe, bar and
device is measured to geometrioal ac
curacy, and each flag must stand a
strength test. They are being turned
out at the rate of 100 a week.
ritETTr GIItL9 WHO MAKE
The bunting is made in Massaohu
letts. It is entirely of wool and of the
best quality. It must have so many
threads and a fixed tensile strength.
The colors must be fast.
The stripes are out out just as cloth
ing is out, in many layers at a time,
by means of oiroulnr knife that is
kept a sharp as a razor. Then they
are sent to the sewing-room, where
skillful young women sew the stripes
together and place the bine field in
ylaoe.
The stars are out out thirty at a
irae by means of a cold ohisel and a
big iron-bound mallet. Folds of
goods, smoothly woven, of a standard
grade, are laid in yard lengths, thi rty
thicknesses together, on a large
square block made of cubes of oak,
put together with the grain running
in different directions. A metal star,
used as a model, is placed on the mus
lin and carefully marked around with
a lead penoil. Then the workman
plaoes his ohisel on the pencil line
AS OLD SAXT 1IAIINO THB HAVAXi MILITU
FIiAQ.
and drives it throngh. A few blows
and a constellation of thirty snowy
stars are released.
The sewing of the stars upon the
blue field is very exaoting work.
There are niuety stars on eaok flag,
forty-five on either side, and they, are
put on so evenly and carefully that
when the flag ia held np to the light
there appears to be but one star. The
atitohing ia wonderfully even and
dainty.
The flogmakers are the most pic-
g
turesque workers. They are two old
sailors, and expert sail makers. It is
their business to pnt on the finishing
touches the rings, the tape that adds
strength, and many other things.
They wear a white canvas uniform,
nse the qneer sailmakors' thimble and
talk in a fascinating sea jargon.
Directly the flags are finished they
must be measured. Triangles,
squares and stars of polished brass
mark off the floor. If a flag is an
crrrrso out stars.
inch or two out of the way it is re
jected. The width of an American
ensign must be ten-nineteenths of its
length. The largest flag made at the
Navy Yard is thirty-six feet long and
nineteen feet wide.
The foreign flogs give the greatest
trouble. Some of the designs are ex
tremely intricate and the colors are at
THE STARS AND STRIFES.
Joseph's coat. At one time these de
signs were painted, but they didn't
last. Now the color is cut out by it
self aud sewed in place. It requires
expert needlewomen to do this work.
One of the most difflonlt flags to
make is that of China. It is triangular
in shape, a brilliant yellow, with
black, open-mouthed dragon crawling
about. One of the most beautiful
flags is that of the President of the
United States. It has the coat-of
arms of the nation-on a blue field, sur
rounded with stars. The eagle is
white, and the shield he holds is
properly colored.
There has been deal of dispute
over the evolution of the American
flag. When the Revolutionary War
broke out the nags used by the oolo
nists were English ensigns, bearing
the Union Jack, upon which were
written "Liberty and Union" or other
similar expressions. Then were de
veloped the Pine-Tree flag, the Bat
tlesnake flag and many others.
Tho American ensign was adopted in
1T77 by the Continental Congress.
There is a dispute as to the significance
of the flag. The explanation accepted as
the most probable H that the blue
field is intended to represent the
night of affliction that in 1777 sur
rounded the thirteen States, which
were typified by the white stars ar-
arranged in a oiroie, signifying the
endless duration of the new Nation,
while the stripes were chosen out of
compliment to New York and the
Dutch Republic, and were oompLi
ment to Republican principles.
The number of stripes symbolized
the thirteen States, the first and tbir
teenth, both red, representing New
Hampshire and Georgia respectively.
General Washington was' a member of
the committee appointed to design a
Sag. Mrs. John Boss, of Philadel
phia, made the first flag. She de
signed the five-pointed star.
John Paul Jones put the new flag
to the first public use. He ran it np
to the masthead of the Banger, The
flag, strangely enough, bad but twelve
stars, probably due to a blunder,
Jones bad the same flag on the Bon
Homme Biohard.
Of course everybody knows that
eaoh star in the flag represents a
btate, and that lor two years the en'
sign had fifteen stripes, the addi
tional one representing Vermont and
Keutaoky, The nag baa been nn
changed, save for the adding of stars.
since 1818.
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS,
Baying Cheap Fertilizer.
There is no longer mnoh desire
among well-informed farmers to get
the lowest priced fertilizers with the
idea that these are therefore the cheap
est. It is impossible to cheat nature.'
All the elements of fcr'.il'ty, mineral
or nitrogenous, cost money, and if
little money is given for fertilizers,
we can expect but little good to the
crop from them. When we take into
account that much of the expense of
commercial fertilizers consists in the
cost of distributing them' evenly
throngh the soil, it will be seen that
the highest priced, if aUo the best,
may be really the cheapest.
Weak and Crippled Chicks.
Often, from various causes, the
young chicks are weak or deformed,
and we are puzzled to know just what
to do with them. From past experi
ence, I, for my part, think it far bet
ter to at once kill all such. They, in
most cases, die anyway after a few -days,
and are worthless even should
they live.
The deformity, as a rule, is inherit
ed, the egg germ being weak, and from
such it is impossible to - get strong
fowls.
The thrifty chicks will hatch about
the nineteenth or twentieth day, and
will be ready to leave the nest on the)
evening of the twenty-first. "It will
give them a better chanoe if all crip
ples are disposed of at once. W. H,
Catnbron, in Farm and Home,
Old Farm Wagons.
No really good farming is possible
without good wagons. An old,
broken-down wagon, with tires always
likely to come loose and axles or
wheels sure to break whenever any
unusual strain comes npon either, is
perhaps the most expensive piece of
property a farmer oan have on his
farm. But the old, worn-out wheels
need not be thrown aside if all else is.
If the spokes are cut down and new
tire put aronnd, the wheel will last
long time on a truck wagon to be used
only on the farm. This is much bet
ter than trying to patch up the old
wagon for going on the road to mar
ket, and often paying each year
twenty-five per cent, of what a new
wagon would cost. The oheapness of
Iron enables wagon makers to sell the
best wagons more cheaply than ever
oeiore. xnere is not mucu reduction
In the cost of repairing, as the chief
factor in repairing old wagons is the
labor. Boston Cultivator.
Bpravlng With Kerosene Emnlslon.
Kerosene emulsion is one of tha
most valuable insectioides we have and
as it may be easily made and applied,
its nse should be general on the farm
and well understood. It is made by '
dissolving one-half pound of common
bard soap in one gallon of boiling
water. Remove from the fire while
boiling and add two gallons of kero
sene, converting the mixture ' into an
emulsion by passing it through a
force pump with a spray nozzle back
into the same vessel, continuing the
operation until it appears like thiok
cream, and the oil does not rise to the
surface.
Used to kill the common insects
during the growing season, the emul
sion is diluted one part to ten of
water, the dilution being greater
when the insects are small. Used on
animals the dilution is one part of
emulsion to eight or ten of water. It
must be applied thoroughly, as it is '
effective only when it comes in direct
contact with the insect. A spray
pump is the only propjr method of
applying the emnfsion, and the fines
the spray the more effective it will be.
Many plants and young trees oould be
saved from scale and other inseot en
emies if this simple remedy was ap
plied in time, and in this age of
numerous and annoying as well as
dangerous inseot enemies, the farmer
or fruit-grower who goes without a
spraying outfit is running a risk he
can ill afford.
Tho Ban Joe Seal.
The Agricultural Department bat
just issued a bulletin on the San Joss
scale in 1896-97, prepared by Ento
mologist L. O, Howard. It is of
much interest at this time because of
the recent edict of the German Govern
ment prohibiting the importation of
living plants, fruits, etc, becanse of
the alleged discovery of the scale on
peas shipped from .California. The
present bulletin is supplemental to
one on the same subject published in
January, 1896, which contained a-his-tory
of the eastern occurrences of the
insect down to Deoember, 1895.
Never, it is said, in the history of
economio entomology in the United
States has a single species of insect
excited so mnoh Interest as the San
Jose scale. In ths light of what we
know, the bulletin says, onr actual
knowledge of the distribution of the
scale in the East in the fall of 1896
was comparatively slight. It was .then
reported as occurring in the twenty
States, but in comparatively few lo
calities in eaoh, with the single excep
tion of New Jersey. In 1896-97 actual
field inspection in Virginia, Maryland,
Illinois, Ohio, Georgia and several
others showed that in these States tha
inseot wss nearly as widespread as in
New Jersey, while twelve States and
the District of Columbia have been
added to the number containing in
fested points.
The petit also was fonnd in lower
Ontario in 1897, and the Dominion
Government is considering the ques
tion of legislation on the subject. A
list of fifty-five fruit and shade trees
and ornamental shrubs affected by tho
Sent is given. Considerable space is
evoted to a discussion of the rem
edies suggested to kill the pest.
The Seonl Independent says that
recent census of Korea shows a popula
tion of 0,198,248, of whom 8,869,701
are males and 2.328.481 females.
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