t He is a wise man in this country eow-a-days who knows what ha Is eat ing. It is averred by a fatuous Chinese doctor that nervousness is kept out of the Celestial Empire by the use of soft soled shoos. Tho hard soles worn by the Anglo-Saxon race are said io be the canse of their extreme nervous temperament. The Sooth American republics are striving to bring about nu interna tional alliance to promote peaoe and commerce among them and minimize the chances of war. That is in line with modern ideas and tendencies, which look to building npand prodne ing rather than tearing down and de stroying as the buttressing force of na tions. In the progress of moilorn civiliza tion we are told in one of the recen periodicals that the trolley car will soon be elanging its way past even the old sphinx and the pyramids. It will 11 be very convenient and pleasant for the traveler, but one feels a sort of disappointment over the thought of invading their quiet, and thus mixing the new with the very old. Perhaps the utmost that is known about the boy after several thonsand years of experimenting on bim, ob served tho New York. World in an art icle whioh discussed what kiud of an education is best for the lad in knickers, is that-he will turn ont any thing except what yon expect, and that any method of training suggested by reason will produce a result direct ly opposite to what was intended, Nothwithstaoding the assertions of many superlatively good people to the contrary, the world is a better place to live in to-day than it ever has been. There is less crime in proportion to the population than there was one hundred years ago. The great trouble now is that we gain a knowledge oi each day's orime thronghout the world at the breakfast table, whereas, in the days of long ago, if any particular crime was ever heard of, time audi oient hod elapsed to blunt the an nouncement and oanse the same to be looked npon as merely an incident in the whirlgig of time. To tho average American reader the most remarkable feature, of the Drey fus trial was the Judge acting as prosecuting attorney. It is difficult for ono anenstomed to the Anglo Sixon usage to understand courts con ducted on the old Latin theory that the man whom the State has arraigned must be guilty and that the Judge is not a judge in our sense, but an officer of the State charged with the duty of preventing guilt from escaping puu ishment. There is something to be said for the old Latin system, just as there is something to be said against our system, whioh oarried to ex tremes often makes the escape of ob vious guilt extremely easy. The troubles of the man changed into a boy again in Anstey's "Vice Versa" are laughable, but an educator really desirous of improving the con dition of his soholurs might well take a hint from it and put himself in the small boy's place. On a Monday morning let him take np a foreign language say Russian and dig away at it from nine till twelve; then rush five or six blocks away to bolt a hur ried meal, and rooe book to regain his desk at one o'oloek sharp, and study without relaxation till throe; and when the educator has done this daily for one week he will have a working knowledge of the condition of a student's mind and stomaoh at "one sharp" on a school day and will be competent to pass npon the ques tion whether an extra half hour at noon for digestion and meutal recuper ation is needed in the pnblio Bohools, It is probable that most of the guesses at the population of the United States whioh next year's cen sus will show are too high. , These estimates generally range from 75, 000,000 to 80,000,000 for this country proper, not including the population of onr new possessions. There is one thing which persons are liable to overlook in prognosticating the next ensue, and it has an important bear ing on tho subjeot. It is tho faot that the last census showed a greatly de creased birth rate in this country, It is probable that the oensus next year Will show a still larger decrease of the ratio. Mir. H. T. Newooinb, an eminent statistician, is oonvinood that the rate of growth of the coun try's population has been less in this than in any preoeding decade. He estimates ths population in 1000 at 74,400,000, whioh will be an iuoreaso at 1H.H per oeut. lor ten years, a tnnoh lower rate than any former tea years bare shown. FIREMEN. tJketns wild charge of etvalry-, -Bent furious at dlr need's appeal, 'flalnst whelming ranks of bristling steel, Rushes the firemen's eharlotry, With clanging bell and clattering wheel, With panting fleroe of enginery, With furnaee flame and t railing smoke, With steel-shod hoofs' far-ringing stroke. With warning shout and resmio cry; And as the rent goes clamoring by The throngs are rallied In Its train And haste the stirring scone to gain ' Where lluln stalks 'mid fume and flame And Doath's la wait hla proy to claim. Like warriors when they mako essay To breach or scale a citadel Where storn defenders bnttle well, The brave men foroo their periled way And strive their Aery foe to quell In urgent and Incessant frny. The long linns of the hose tlmy lift And ollmb the bending ladders swift, With strennons clutch and firm-set feet, 'Mid stifling clouds and scorching heat Tbey wield the ax with woodmen's skill And make thlr way where'er they will; And wheresoo'er the red flnmo gleams Thny stoutly pour the quenching streams, Till all tho hissing structure stenins With deathly warning to retreat. , Vet dnuntloss to tholr task they ellng; ' mill round and nozglo llrm they clasp, Though oft In fetid gusts thny gasp. Though burning embers round them wing, Though while the flames with sudden grasp Of arduous hands their bodies sting. They show no feather whlto of fear. The frantic victims' cries they hear; At htiKnrd of their lives they save . Tho frenzied strong, the weak and old, Prom torturing pangs ami ashy grave; And oft, too manful, ovorbold, The reeling wall tbey press too nigh And 'nenth Its crushing fall thny die, Heroes full fledged and true ns they Who dare the rage of war's wild day. Tudor Williams, In New York Bun. ooooooc JOOOOOOOOOOOOC ! HOW THE FIRE CHIEF WAS SAVED! By Wilder D. Quint ooooooooooooocoooooooooo OMR time in the afternoon of March 10, 1803, a fire broke out in Boston wb,ioh ravaged a large section of business blocks eaBt of Washington Btreet and caused a money loss of nearly four million dollars. Several lives were lost, and a number of per sons were seriously injured. Toward the dusk of this day, when the flames had begun to redden the murky Bky, District Chief John F Egan went up to the roof of one of the largest buildings into whioh the fire had crept, to open the valve of the huge water-tank that stood thire. KJOOOOO V 3 s 6 5 He hoped to flood the lower floors, and thus save the main structure. An employe of the house went with hiin. Scarcely had the two men walked out on the roof when a portion of it behind them fell in with a fearful crash, sending a shower of sparks high into the air. Then arose a vast column of smoke, pierced by eager tongues of flame. Egan saw in an iu Btaut that the stairway np whioh they had come had fallen into the lower lire. "There's no hope in that direc tion, " Egan shouted to his compan ion; "follow mel" He walked to the very eaves of the buruing building, and called to the crowd below for help. The poople were quick to see the predicament of the two men, and tried frantically to attrnot the attention of the firemen to the pair; but the roaring of the en gines, the crackling of the flames and the general tumult made their efforts useless. The flames were now rapidly ap proaching the men, and the heat was becoming unbearable. In his desper ation Egan leaned over the edge of the root and hurled his hat down into a group of his men. Even this signal failed. "Shall we jump?" faltered Egan's young companion. "Not yet," said tho district chiof ; "there's still one more hope. We'll go over to the edgo above tho other street" the building was on a corner "and see if we can't attraot their attention on that side. Some one must see ns." , i "God grant they may I" said the other, as thoy started toward the olher edge. ! ' Having reaohed it Egan saw a large telephone oable running direotly over bis head to a building on the opposite side of the street. They might climb across by the oable! It was a dosper ate chance, and none but a fireman or a sailor wonld have dreamed of taking it, but to Egan it meant a fair hope of esoape for at least one of them. He turned to his companion, say ing: "Climb ont and save yourself!" bnt stopped short, for the young man had disappeared. It seemed certain that he bad fallen or plunged into the fire that was noir so olose at hand. - With a fervent prayer for help Egan sot abont helping himself. He grasped the oable aud swung ont over the roof. Hand over hand he went, dangling nearly a hundred feet above tho pavement below, until he reaohed a point midway between the two build iugs. There he 'stnok he was not strong enongh to pull himself np the slope to the other roof. But it his musoles were weak, his head was strong. He twisted his legs and arms around the cable so as to bold on for some time, for help must surely come, he thought The gaze of the vast orowds In the stroet was now directed wholly to the black figure clingiug to the swaying wire above. Frequently men turned away iu horror, Bliudderiug, fearing the man must drop, but now the firemen saw the peril of the chief. Plans for his resoue were immediately made,, The tallest ladder was raised in the middle of the street; it fuiled by fif teen feet to reaoh Egan, Then an at temptwas made to shoot the lifs-line over ths cable, but there was no cart ridge in the gon, and .no one oonld tell where one was to be found. When Egan had hung to tut cable twenty minutes, he teemed to be weak ening. He was hanging more limply than at first. The time was near, all saw, when he must let go, and drop into the net that would be spread for him below; but even the net conld at best bnt breatt his fall from such a height; he night be killed even if stopped by it, or at least maimod dreadfully. But now hope came to the groaning people. They saw a man working away at the cable on the top of the building which Egan had attempted to roach. "He's cutting it with an axe," said some one. The crowd quivered with a new fear. Conld the man know what he was doing? Would not Egau bo dashed headlong into the street? In another moment the meaning of the cutting was understood. A rope had been made fast to the end of the cable, which was slowly lowered. Egan slipped backward into the bight that was jiado as man and wire descended. A roar of exultation burst forth, but thon the rope gave out. Egau had been lowered only twenty feet. " But now a lineman tore a section ol loose wire from the roof and attached it to the rope. The lowering process proceeded. Inoh by inch the ex haunted Egan. who now comprehend ed the plan of the rescuers whom he oonld not see, was brought nearer tc the earth. A dozen firemen seized the life-net and stood under the de scending figure. 'Down came the chief until he was within twenty-five feet of the net, when once more the line gave out, this time beyond remedy; but the distance ws not great, and the danger was oVer. ."Drop, drop, old man," shouted a fireman friend of the chief, "we are here to save you;" and drop Egan did, landing safely in the elastic meshes of the net. But the terrible strain npon the nerves and sinews had been so great that he collapsed completely, and did not recover until he had been treated for several days in a hospital. The young nian whom Egan had supposed to have perished, escaped by a feat as desperate but mnoh lens spectacnl ar. He bad seen a skylight on his way to the cable with Egan, and though the flames were roaring beneath the glass, he leaped through to the floor below. There he groped about, blinded by the smoke and scorched by the fire, until he found a stairway down whioh he stumbled to the street, "more dead than alive." Youth's Companion. Tonga's Royal Wedding. On the 1st of June, 1890, a new page was added to the history of the Tongan, or Friendly, Islands, when George Tubou II. not only dared to defy the opposition of his chiefs by marrying the choice of his heart, but elevated her to his own rttnk. After the marriage ceremony, as his bride knelt before him, the King, placing the bright new golden crown upon her head, said, in a clear voice, "Lavinia, I crown thee Queen of Tonga." George Tnbon II. is a handsome man, being six feet three inches iu height, and turning the scales at three hundred pounds. Iu complexion he resembles the Mexicans (Tongans are lighter than Hawaiians), with a moot gentle expression in his beautiful brown eyes. He . was educated iu New Zealand, and speaks English in a soft, woll-modulated voice. In looks and bearing he is every inoh a king, and as he stood by the throne-chair in his own splendid chapel awaiting the arrival of his bride, dressod in full uniform, his breast adorned with glit tering deoorations, his crimson robe, ermine-trimmed, upheld by two little boys of high rank attired in page suits of red and white velvet (the Tongan national oolors), one could not realize that all this was happening on an isl and belonging to a gronp whioh many readers have supposed to be still lin gering in heathenism and beyond the pale of civilization. Quito a flutter of excitomont passed over the assembled guests as Lavinia entered the churoh, leaning upon the arm of her father, Kubu, Minister ol Police. She was exquisitely attired iu white satin trimmed profusely with Honiton laoo, and from her shoulders fell the train, composed' of silver and whito heavy brooade, fully five yards in length, which was held by her six bridesmaids dressed in white silk. The bride's trousseau was made in Sydney, and is very elaborate. King George is just twenty-four, and his Queen isninoteen. Harper's Weekly. Very Likely. Tho lesson was from the "Prodigal Sou," and the Sunday-school teaoher was dwelling on the oharaoter of the elder brother. "But amidst all the rejoicing," he said, "there was one to whom the preparation of the feast brought no joy, to whom the prodigal's return gave no pleasure, bnt only bit terness; one who did not approve of the feast bein hold, and who had no wish to attend it. Now, can any oi you tell me who this was?" - There was a breathless ailenoe, fol lowed by a vigorous oraoklng ol thumbs, and then from a dozen sympa thetic little geniuses came the chorus, "Please, sir, it was the fatted calf." Louisville Poet. An African I'ockot Handkerchief. I must not forget one particular, unique of its kind, of the most simpli fied toilet of the Barotsi; the pocket baudkerohief. This consists of a thiu blade of iron, finely wrought, with the handle of the same material. The whole is perhaps four or five inohes long by one or two inohes wido, and is hung arouud the neck by vegetable fibres or tendons. In blowing their noses they nse it as a spring with an extreme dexterity, whioh I oau say from experience is not a pleasaut thing at a camp fire. From "The Kingdom of ths Barotsi," by A, Bar-trand. m nrnmn s J. v ' Una Woman's Work. There's a quiet, clover, notoriety hating little woman iu Newark, N. J., whose occupation probably takes the prize for - unnsnrtlness. So far as hoard from Mrs, Morrison is the only woman in the country, or in the world for that matter, holding the post of official photographer to police headquarters. Her work consists of taking pictures of criminals for the rogues' gallery which is a feature of police headquarters in Newark aswoll as other cities. Since criminals have begun to appreciate the possibilities of changing this appearance by a dif ferent arrangement of the hair or an other style of hirsute decoration, photographs have fallen somewhat in esteem. Some day, no doubt, they will be superseded by a record of measurements, thnmb marks and such things. It will probably not happen in Mrs. Morrison's day, however, and she has little fear on that score of losing her job. She has a studio especially fitted np for her work at the top of the head quarters building, and the prisoners are brought to her under guard. She has been particularly successful in getting them to sit qnietly and allow her to photograph them with no more trouble than any ordinary sitter wonld give. Men who have hitherto done this work have nearly always had great difficulty in getting good pic tures, because the sitters wonld twist and turn and screw their faces np. Sometimes it was only after the guard had clubbed them into a proper frame of mind that they could be persuaded to allow the photographer to get a proper foous at all. It may be Mrs. Morrison's personality or that what ever good is left in the most hardened criminals responds to the polite femi nine variation of the request to look pleasant. After snoh a pleasant account of her suocess with her pictures it seems a pity not to be able to say that the financial end of the business is equal ly successful. There is no danger that Mrs. Morrison will grow rioh as a result of her official labors. To be sure, (3 or $4 a day in addition to your inoonie from other sources is not to be despised, and Mrs, Morrison feels very happy over her new post. She fitted np her Btndio at her own expense, and she is paid at the rate of a dollar a dozeu for all the photo graphs she takes. She makes a dozen copies from each negative. One of these is regularly posted in the rogues' gallery with the record of the original written on the back, The others are kept for use in identifying suspicions persons. For instance, if the polioe in auother city have ar rested a man suspected of having been previously convicted, these extra oopies come in handy as helps in identifying him. Then the detectives sent to identify prisoners find these extra copies of great scrvico to carry with them for purpose of comparison. Mrs. Morrison is a business-like little woman with a firm belief in the possibility of a working woman keep ing the persoual and domestic sido of hor life quite separate from business. She took up her prosent occupation because she was suddenly thrown npon her own resources. She bad some knowledge of the work aud a studio in the lower end of the city. She des all her own work except the retonching. Mrs. Morrison's opinion is that photography is a good, prac tical trade for a woninn if sho will learn the business right through Few of them know more than one very simple branoh. Endless Procession of NecUtl i Ideas. We are in proooss of varying our shirtwaist career with an eudloss pro cession of neoktie ideas, some of which are pretty enongh to be carried over into next season and used as light tonches on our sombre woolen frocks. For instance, writes Mary Dean, num bers of women wear high straight stocks with their white skirts and round the bare stock wind twice a length of cream malines net. When on the seoond winding the net is brought back to the front, instead of fastening its lace trimmed ends in a big bow close beneath the chin, thoy are brought down to a point midway between throat and waist, there pintied with a bright brooch and tied in a bow. By so simple a soheme, to the plainest silk or inuBlin waist an air of sweet ornamentation is given hard to derive by as inexpensive means. Another noble invention is that of passing a broad satin ribbon of soft texture twice around the high collar. When drawn to the front, its ends are put through a small buokle of paste jewels, aud this is pushed close to the throat, while from it flutter uucon fined two long soarf ends of ribbon. Women who do not take to these devioes love to bury their chins in ths oloudy masses of a wide-winged bow of nothing more costly than a long wisp of white silk muslin, edged with 'imitation Mecklin lace, which is noth ing more after - all than an inolpent Bois de Bologoe scarf that has ends fluttering to the knees. Earrings Popular Ones. Earrings are ooming in again, and whibl fashion's slaves are meekly pro testing that they will not wear the barbarous things, they will undoubt edly submit in the end. The edict has gone forth that ear rings are to bo worn again, aud the jewelers are prepared for an imme diate demand for that artiole of jewel ry, which was relegated to oblivion ten years ago. One drawbaok to ths revival is that nine out o.f every ten women will need to bare thsir ears pieroed again, and vary woman has an acute remem brance of that painful ordeal in ths past. When our mothers were yonng it was the custom to pierce the ears by pntting cork - behind them, stretching the lobes of the ear tight over theoork, and then piercing with a needle, afterward drawing a silken thread and a gold ring, made espe cially for the purpose, through tho hole. Pearl or diamond screw rings will hold their own for a long time in woman's favor, bnt there are some new and startling fancies shown in the way of earrings iu the jewelry shops. Mourning Periods. The different periods adopted by many for the wearing of mourning are as follows: A widow should wear mourning for two years one year deep crape, six mouths black, with less crape, and six months plain blank. Mourning of children for parents, or parents for children, must be of one year's duration that is, six months crape, six months black, or four months black, and the two months black aud white,' gray or mauve. A sister should wear mourning for a brother one year six months crape, three months black, with or,, without orape, and three months black with a little white introduced. For grandparents the mourning should be as for a sister or brother. For an aunt or nncle the mourning shonld be of six months' duration three months block with crape trim mings, two months black, and one month black and white. For great annts or nncles, cousins, nieoes or nephews, three months blak, with or without crape, as do sired. A variety of stylos in mourning veils are now seen. A veil made entirely of crape has a scalloped sik edge with embroidered corners. Others, lees heavy, are shown in fine Brussels dr Russian net. One of the eimplost has a band of crape an inch and a half wide all around, edged with tiny braid. Another is edged and trimmed with inoh wide bands of the crape across the corner, while a third has a scal loped edge with, an embossed crape and silk corner. The length of these veils varies from forty-one inches to fifty-four inches. The many little accessories of the toilet should help to carry out the ef fect of the mourning gown and veil. Handkerchiefs of Irish linen, plain or hem-stitched, have a band of black just inside the hem. Folds, millings and pleatings are found in great variety. They are made of silk, crape or chiffon. Jet brooches, usually of simple de sign, are woru with mourning cos tumes. Women as Inventors. Some of the largest and most valu able inventions are due to women. Mrs. Harriet Strong, who began by inventing a corset, ended by takiug ont patents for dams and reservoirs. Although now an old woman, sho hai but recently patented a device foi storing water. Mrs. Ada van Pelt in vented a permutation lock with three thousand combinations; atso a lettet box for the outside of houses that throws up a signal to the postmao when there is a letter to collect. A little girl by nu ingenious inven tion revolutionized the making ol screws. A woman invented satchel bottomed paper bags an d was oflorod $20,000 for her patent beforo sho left Washington. A woma'i invented the Burden process of making horseshoes, which turns out such rapid work thai it has saved the country $2,500,000 in fourteen years. A number of women's inventions are known to have been patented under the names of theit husbands, fathers or brothers. The lecturer exemplified ber wom an's wit by an anecdote. She was out driving with an old Vermont farmer, and he said to her somewhat testily; "Yon women may talk of your rights, but why don't you invent something?" to which Mrs. Bowles immediately re plied: "Your horse's feedbag aud the shade over his head were both ol them invented by a woman." "Do tell J" was the astonished re joinder. The bright woman remarkod in het leotnrer, "I do toll, and I think it is good to toll theso things." A New MUltnerv Veil. A new veil has been inventod as s protection for thebatagaiust the dust, which is almost more detrimental than the sun, and cauuot be warded off in the same way. It is made ol double width tulle. That portion whioh serves to cover the face is studded with spots, while the other half, intended to envelope the entire bat, but to hide it as little as possible, is plain. The arrangement of these veils is sot an easy matter, and re quires the addition of several loug pins. New York Millinery Trade Re view. Lao Trimming Hands. Lace trimming bands, outlined and embroidered with chenille, are a nov elty and qnite pretty, and are used on grenadines, organdies and foulards. """'Ilanla For Braiding Continues. The mania for braiding dresses, and, for that matter, for braiding nearly every artiole of wear, is likely to oontinue through autuinu. To tlave Ilandsoine Uat, An artistio bat can bo made by trimming a dull green straw with pals yellow and dark red chrysanthemums and gilded gras&es. A Novelty III Parasols. Parasols, narrow tuoked from ths centor to the edge, is ths greatest novelty offered iu ons Una of sun shades in years. The oroduetion of sooner in 1803 was over 636.000.000 pounds, j A BURGLAR'S MISHAP. Ventriloquist Terrified Ills Visitor anal Saved nis Valuables, The burglar who had served a short terra for being caught while trying to leave a house he had entered without the authority of the owners was en gaged in the practice of his profes sion again. "They don't catch me in no self actiu' cage this time," he said to him self, as he raised a rear window of the house be had selected for the scene of his operations -and cautiously in sinuated his head through the open ing. "I don't see no cards tellin' me it's all right, and not to make a noise, and will I please shnt the pantry win dow so's the things won't freeze. I guess it's all straight." With a whispered caution to his confederate, who was to remain on guard outside, he crawled noiselessly in, stood a few moments to listen, and then proceeded to penetrate further into the interior. Finding only a few things worth stealing on the lower floor, he started up the stairway. One of the steps creaked and he stopped instantly. Not the slightest sound came from the rooms above, however, and, after waiting a reasonable time, he moved f., 1 ,1 1 l .. D " -- .entering wuai seemea to ue t him. Ll 1. - S ! 1 1 1 5 4 breathing furnished sufficient evi dence that he was sound asleep. . The man's clothing was hanging at the foot of the bed. The burglar moved in that dire. Hon. ':.! Instantly he heard a loud whisper: "Don't do that! You'll wake himl" Annoyed and alarmed at what he conceived to be a wholly unauthorized and bungling attempt on the part of his confederate to take a hand in the fine work of the job instead of remain ing at his post of duty outside, he ' turned his head and moved back a step or two. "St!" came the whisper again, loud er than before. The burglar glanced at the sleeper, who had not stirred, and then moved toward the door with the intention of administering a voiceless rebuke to his reckless confederate. . "You blamed fool," whispered the voice again. "You haven't got sense enough to lob a sandbank. Let mo do this I" The bnrglar peered into the gloom of the npper hallway. Not seeing his pal, he stepped out through the door. "Htopl" exclaimed a loud, deter mined voioe. "II you move another inch in this direction I'll put a bullet through you. " He jumped back and darted in the direction of the front window. "Hi, therel" spoke another voice. "Don't go that way, either! Can't you see you'ro running right into a gun?" Trembling in evory limb he stood near the ceutre of the room, uncertain what to do. He put his hand into his hip pocket. "If you make auother motion with that hand," exclaimed a voioe from somewhere in the darkness, "I'll shoott I've got the drop on you." He stole another glauce at tho sleeper. The man had not stirred. The burglar felt a cold sweat breaking out all over him. Then, as the savage yell of a fieroe dog, apparently under the bed, came etartlingly to his ear, he jumped with a yell of terror to the side window, five or six feet away, plungod through; it, oarrying the sash with him, and -rolled down the kitohen roof into a deep snowbank, from whioh he emergen a second later ana nea iiks a deer, followod by his bewildered con federate. He bad made the horrible blunder of trying to rob a professional ven triloquist who happened to be awake. Perhaps the Oldest Brick. At one of the recent meetings of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, in Paris, the keeper of the Louvre, Mr, Henzoy, showed a brick which is undoubtedly the oldest in existeuoe, dating, it is estimated, from the fortieth century, B. C. The brick in question was discovered by the Frenoh savant and antiquarian, De Sarzee, during recent excavations at Tello, the anciont Sirpulo in Chaldeo. The brick was somewhat curved and had been baked, but was of such orude form that it evidently bad neither been pnt in a press nor moulded. The mark of the maker was simply the im print of the thumb. It was clearly made very soon after the discovery of the art of brick-making-, wljicU art, as is universally admitted, marks tho dawn of civilization. Other bricks of a muoh more reoeut date were shown. Some of them bore the mark of the coat of arms of Sirpulo, an eagle witb the head of a liou. Others again wero inscribed with the name of the reign ing mrroh. Stockings Cost SJ300 Pair. A noted ooatumer of Londonsays he has designed 8200,000 worth of oos tumes for one woman, while 4 pair of stookings he provided for a noted belle cost $500 and a tea gown $8500.. The designing and carrying fcut of these costumes ia done by men. In the large tailors' establishments ouly the skirt hands are women, anil the principal dressmaking houses iu! Paris nro presided over by men. Ik ad dition, the finest artificial rloweVs are the work of mala bands, and thf de signs and drawings for einbroiileries nre prepared by them also.-lNsw York Ersnlna World.
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