mn. WHY HE DIDN'T BID UP. Wasa RA DYING WIFE'S REQUEST. Cn Father of Pour Chilives Drpud to Find Asether Eelo-mest- Ee Does Sa. ra Be John Ubrwelder, Floan tolitery at Seranton, a fen weeks ago mourned the death of the mather of his four-children. On her Aving bed the wife urged the husband within a subtable time to get himself another wite, for hia children's sake, Duggan. the Associated CUharitive agent, was atl once interested, and said | she would find the proper woman for | Uhrwdlder Last week Mrs Sarah Roberts, widow, presented herself asthe candidate, amd eft satisfactory creden. | tints vith Mrs. Duggan and with her brother she reappetred and met Uhre | wedder, The couple were then marrisd The following pensions were iwaned ast week: Gottitel Frey, Whistler, Mercer, B; William Cowan, Kitarning 3: Charles FF. Ravmon, Brothirtawn, Somerset, $%; Towe, Montrose, $8; Eugene CCureydon, Warren, 134 to $10 Mitek Went Springfield, Erie, 8 to filam Wattenbaugh, Tarentnm, 32 to $M: Hugh H. Hopkins, Ame brose, Indiana, $8 to $8. John Deets, Chicors, 31% 19 $18; Charies ¢. Cuth- Lertsony, Etinbore, Erie, $10 Jane CO Travis, Porter, West Alsxander, Washington, | i Figs $5. Mary A Ketler, Bennett, $8 fe x Curtis, reother, Kpringbons, , $1 Lodwig Kieler, iy ‘William Crone, Altoona, I8 to $11; John Jackwon, Williamsport, 3X to $1; Lawrence Whitman, Slate Run, Ly- 3 oo mingg, $6 to $5; Gibboney FF. Hoop, PAE. $25: Albert Willard, Her. _ minie, $8 to $10: Elizabeth H. Caroth- ers, Pittsburg, $5; Catherine A. Bare $8: William M. Duke, Wiillam Ld Bennett, Rural Valiey, Armstrong. $6; T. Prisst, Shicldn, Allegheny, James Mclaister, Utah, Indiana, 35; Jewett OC. Fairman, Shefliehd, Warren, $5; Grorge W. Kinsel, Mont Alto, Frankitn, 3. James Sellers, $$ to 112 town, fo to $10; Jatkson MH. Taman, Comms Baim, $17; John C. tey A. Hare, Tarentum, $38. George F. - Easton, Pittsburg, $8; Alexander P. Welch, mrtersl, $$: A BE Wiliams, | ; Bouse. Potter, $12 to $14, John Miller, Plumvilie, Thdiana, $10 to $12; on Fe Ward, Alba, Bradfard, §i4 to The largest flag in the world will be from a cable stretihed bet- wean the summits of the two mountain | ranges at the eastern entranie to Ty- | on Saturday, August 0. This ie American flag will be Sxl fest | size and will contain 1.00 squares | of bunting. The cables support ill he one-half inch in thickness ® It will be a meme Preparations have arn TMNT tor several waesks that -_n Ineure a grand colabration befit- bg the grandeur of the erablem in roy honor it, will be held a holiday, a day of patriotic expression, bration snd thanksgiving Promi- speakers of Nation and State will iy wl every night robberies are committed in some of the neighboring towns of Grove + Sunday night the Arig store of W. RR. Montgomery of | Mercer was dict Monday night J. 1. Carmichael. of Honderson. was Soblied of clothing, Jewelry and $178 in money. Tas night Abraham Hunts | we Barkleyville, lost goods | at $100. The thieves were distovared as they were departing and | fired rr shots at Hupisherger, | 3 dole store of OC. W. Porrest but the burglars were at work _— with their ey. He oat i voice rr taty while shouting for his favorite candi. i uring the last Jresidential CRIN. fried it. He TR, Barrie Bryan Wis a misfortune and wrote a Seevat and sympathy. Ber” war i “died several hours kater un. | which point to sui- ginss containing the dregx of » decoetion and wu hypodermic rere found on & chalr beside Ban been melancholy mince h of a hot wie lady to wham he any, upon & charge of En and Judge Lynch at I, & Botel proprietor at ition, passed through Groens. tly, taking home a live rat seven ‘feet long and sporting The reptile was captured Florence ind securely ed. 1 M. E. Hess, of Volant coi. ‘they have accepted it. | vice president, will have | 1% years, while on was caught in the shafting rle With terrific force. 's legs were broken and terribly injured. by of New gastie : a burglar prowling and fired at him with ‘Beck. aged 19, of '¥hitney, nd county, to sence. last week. Willi , of Corry, died from te of a dose of paris green, th suicidal intent. Bhe was : Labeirers are reported to be scarcer fn Pittsburg than at any time in recent Years. outside boxs at the | Anna | Benjamin | Jonathan | yo Craws Pittsburg, | 9% Altoona, | ; Thomas Leadbeater, Johns. | Ephraim Me | Ham- | bers, Valtere, Jefferaom, $10: Clemmen- | It will be RS I ra The Plight of a Man Whe Hed a Weak ness For Anction Sales, There was a red flag ont in front of i & farm house np in the Swift River | region in Oxford the other day when Burns was driving past the place He can never get by an auction sale, | There is something about a bargain at vendue that strikes him inst where he lives. So Burns hitched his horse and stopped on the ontskirts of the crowd. He remembered that a: last auction he attended, two pod sugers and an ox yoke, and might commit similar egregiousness | In fact he coneluded that he wonld ' pot bid at all. Bat when the crowd got well waked np over a Jersey heifer, Burusohipped {in a bid or two, and finally got to go. who carried a whip in his left hand | and expectorated violently after every bad. ! Asthe contest wared somewhat en. | ergetic, Burns reached for his pocket. book. His fingers ran down and down into his tonsers pocket antil they slid i into a good big bole. ' was gone. You, who have found holes {in your pockets where wallets ought {toy be, CAN, 10 some measure, appre: ciate Burns's feelings. itl red-whiskered man, st | ing, wax paying down an ex paetorat- installment ion, . Be » WHOA EW Pad Roads aml Fends, Hayden Brock a young mountaineer, R I bier olists that the heavily Tonded farm | wagons ent the road to pieces. he. | % | gides lessening the annual appropris- | tion for the roads about fifty per cent.” | ; we Xi, who lives in Laurel Conuty, Kentneky, | I and has heen a student at the State : College in Lexington for three fears, was asked recently what, in hix opin. cansed mountain fends, He bes. i tated before answering, but he finally the | he bonght | eat “Had roads You ses, onr roads | are so bad that a four horse team can this time he steeled himself lest he | ' Lotidon to Manchester baal ofy 2500 pounds of goods from This can be | done only during the summer and : fall montis it 1% impossible to bani empty wagons Inthe winter and spring over this road, and the mal bas to he | earrind on pack gules Allegheny, | ing bard against a red-whiskered man | $8; Michael! Toohill, Pitcairn, $6; ©. W. | | G "when we do have commanieation, by . people have never seen a railroad feain, and know nothing about cities, ! bad roads prevent onr ehildron from | Dogon to The pooketbook | a great deal of illiteracy ogra are entiy ely ont world and all thet He stopped bidding, and while the | { on the heifer, Barus pushed forward { through the crowd and got the auction. | | ser's sar. mtently., Then he arose erect The fanctionary himtened | Oats 3 { more, and in his professionai drone { pommeneed: he has lost a pocketbook containing . the sum of 8200, of 810 for its return. Now. Lin the corner. “Thirty,” eried another, “Thirty five,” came in determined tones from the red -whiskared man. “That was beyon: 4 what I could af. ford,” says Burns, “‘and so I £ away and left them bidding on 10.” { { Lewiston {Me.} Journal, | inka | i i { Mrs. Oladetone Without Wer Parse, Mrs. Gladstone was one dey travels | 0 fig . | bane of she monntaine and they csnae fng ou the underground railway Cand the enforced “This gentleman informs me that We are there. fore shut off from the world darine at joast five months in the year, and 1% as slow and costly that many of our the winter resalt 3s that we have The mals are few and necessarily slow, that of toneh with the i ine on in it Freights are also very high. It costa thirty five cents a landrad ponds to haul freight from London to Manches ter, and to Hyden, the conunty seat of Letcher County, it costs seventy-five conte a hnndred. “Owing to the poor rosds, very Jit tla work can be done in the winter, idleness hreads 1g Many of onr peo sohoo!l during months and the 8iy noratios and srime, | plo spend their dreary winter days and He offers a reward § nights in making and drinking moon: shine whiskey, and this often resnits “I'll give twenty,” broke 1a a voles . starts feads, wa wonld bave in shootings and killings, and often | If we had better roads mora and hetter pehools, there wonid be fewar Hiliter. stes, and our people wonld have gome- thing alse to think about Pesides Cama bat they havd no opportmnities and the shooting sod killing. We have many bright young people in the moantains, | bad roads keep then at home, wo they { nanally drift into foude and often be | Her eompanion for the trip was a woman who said, in the course of the | gonversation, that she and her haw | band were in a tight fix. Hebad held & high position in the Civil Service, ibnt had been compelled to resign. , itself, and he resolved to go . Australis, bat his wife and children | would lave to be left behind, | woman told the story without gness- 3 ing who her listener was. When found that she had not a penay to take har home. ' help youn,” she said, “hat I must first | ponsult my husband. If you will sall ‘on meat eleven to-morrow at 16 St, James’ square, I will ses what can be ‘done for you. In the meantime I have some ont withont my purse. | have not » penny to pay my return fare, so please lend me sixpence.” h this sounded somewhat like the hold-ap of a confidence woman, | the almost destitute wife gave of the little money she had with her. Next day shea called at the Gladstone house, i | Mrs. Gladstone came to get off sha | i on her own behalf. When Loadon Mast Chaage. say, How appalling! To me the prospect seems full of hope. city, if a fair proportion of its popula- . | might be daily given. of m for them to settle down. To to be For every line of rails com- i be three lines. TH number of steam ers coming to our ports wonld need would suffice have to be organized afresh. not enlarge upon such considerations; they are obvious — Nineteenth C tury. 5s a Whale » Fish? . The British encyclopedia discussing the subject whether the whale ina Sat or pot says: “There was once, and may bestill in many places, 8 com {Bou n ides that a whale isa fish. To lize the fallacy of this notion, we have only to consider what a fish really is, what under all the diversities of form, size and color known among fishes there i is common to them all, and we see that in everything which characterizes a true fish and separates it from the other classes, as reptiles, birds and mammals, the whale re- from the fish, | mammal as 8 cow or a horse.” The whalsa brings forth its young alive, just as the other mammals do, and noarishes them in the same mac better to arise to the surisce. i limbs, which ara paddles, nod arteries of the human aru, radiments of the hind legs aw foun in the body. —New York Herald. ont to | eduoation and better roads been saggentad to nse the convicts io | | building bighways through the moun. ; 7% the facta from ¢ tains, instead of allowing them to re. | maig in the penitentiwries engaged in | pursuits which keep thonsanis of ; Cincinnati E Bapairer. Patting the hoa i LER on the roads of the mountains would present a onrious | centile, The | sembles the last named and differs It is as essentially a | some outlaws. Pad roade are the all the fends The Bev. J. 1. Ireke a Methodist minister, who has been working smiong the mountain people, of Kentucky, for | | fifteen or fwanty years, and who has : mudied thelr character closely, thinks “1 should like Ww i PCN or A HARE NS i The best statisticians estimate that | | in the year 1041 London will contain | over 11,000,000 of inhabitants. People | | serve as & stimuins, What an | agreeable life one might hive in such | | Nothing which he conld do presented | the only i ing onl P nu | mountain part of the State lies ji more | Tt has lope of the people in the workmen who are pot erimtnads from having employment, viets to work spectacle. As thera seem to be so many Differ. ent opanions as to the causes of the | feuds in Kentueky, it is to he inferred that they dre the resnlt of varions i this description {roms Atkinson causes, which the persons interviewed | had Dot gone far when several large | deer rushed past » patting point of the bave clearly pointed out. A concerted effort will be made at the next session of the Kentucky Lemslatare to have . roads built through the mountains by Mrs. (Hadstone gave her $250 from | the conviots. Mr. Gladstons and added 850 more | «Now York Suan, sms i sia The Movement in Canada. Good-road making and the wide agitation therefor in the United States | A, W. Bailetin. A SAI Notes, : Tt is snggested that the Government | put wisda tires on the army wagons Street pavements nead to be some. thing more than bard and darable. They should be smooth, noiseless anid | easily clvaned and repaired. i Water shontd pot be aliowed to stand | along the roadside. Ditches shonld | be kept clear amd open nn order to | carry it off quickly, a8 it 1s hable othe | wise to find ite way nnder the ay bed. ! Steel tracks are elmimed to make | the most perfect surface known, after it comes crnshed stone, an whieh five | times the power is required to han! a | fond; then gravel, requiring ten times | the power and, finally, common sarth, Thess ia black. eyed | Tampa sud the seat of war, | at breakfast one morning iu one of the | appetite, when hp felt someth: ging at his trousers, reqairing twenty tines, The Sagmeity of a Dog. A wonderdnl story is told of the sagacity of a dog in convection with | the warlike mncendents of (Chiekamangs | Camp. This dog bad been adopted in a wealthy Colnmbns {Ohio family. He became a great fwvorite with all the members of that faniy, especially with the youngest son, Mdanwiile the war with Spain broke ont and the eldest son, a member of one of the regiments, OO. N, , went to the {rant and reached Chickamauga Camp. He | had bean away from home bat » shorn time when the owner of the dog cailed | and claimed his property. It was reluctantly given up, and the | ir voungest boy especially was loth to part with his pet. For pet Le was, although by nature flerce, for he was fall-blooded balldog. | The other day this youngest scion left | for Chiokamanga Camp to visit his | brother, previous to his departare to | He was taverns abont the camp, with an eager | tog ug He thanght it | might be a cat or some other treach- | erous quadraped. He paid uo atten. { tion to it for a while, bat the tngring became murs violent, sand looking au. { dor the Fwhealed round, ‘grdered some extra mest for him be- i table, what did be see thers bat bis old csunine vet, the black- evad bulldog, spparently tickled to death that his master had Haally con. sented to recognize him There was not much breakfnst for : the boy after that, He gave the dog sll he had loft of his breakfast aod | sides. Meanwhile the owner of the dog ennie npon the scene, and learn the son of hx old friend, consented to have the animal returned where, for so [Ong a time, he had enjoved a comfortable home — i — Ireer Hanting With Fagles, The berkut ia trained amd gsed natives of Tartary aud the steppes for husung foxes, boars and dear. Mr. Harting a or hearcosta, the golden | by the Kirghis wolves, quotes “We rocks and bounded over the plain aboat 300 yards from ns. In an stant the bearesote was nnhooded and | his shackios rentovad, when he sprang It is believed that good roads snd from bis perch and soared into the | | good schools will relogate the “forty. : five” to the rear. I watched him awend as he and was nnder the | air. : lmpresaton that he had not seen the © Canimaais: bat io this [ was mistaken, | bave attained sufficient importance to good example, seross the northern boundary. The road inspsetor of the or at least an | province of Ontario dwells in his re- | tion were even moderstely civilized’ | There would be a public for every! kind of art. Every sort of theatrs might flourish, every kind of concert | There would | be practically no limit to the variety | nities that each individual | enjoy in the midst of such a vast assemblage. But it would take long | port on the progress of the reform n AR endeavor 1o MrOUSe interest That interest is lacking isevi- | here | there. dent from the detailed reports from etisting conditions, these, tha inspector says: *'A cemtnry ago the roads of Ontarfo such ss ex- and they wers very few, wero. sted, mere trails. To-day, notwithatand- i ing the amount of money and labor begs with, London wonld Lave | rebuilt. Its streets are not wide main for the traffic of any such | nde; they would have to be ing into Nideusd, Jos there would have to fall or spring, the rainy seasons, its | , morning and then a light breakfast, isved op them, the majority are a ttle better than trails cisua may seem overdrawn to those Ha had now risen to a considerable | beight and seemed to potse himasif for | a manuals, ; “After thin he gave two or three { flaps with his wings aod swooped off | in » straight line toward his prey. I eonld not perceive that his wings | moved, but he went at a fearful rate of speed. 1 gave my horse lis bead | sad s touch of the whip: in a few | minutes he carried me to the frong, Nunmmariziog This eriti- | who drive over some of be best sravel | | romsuds daring the summer season, buat! if the journey had to be made in the fairness woald become more apparent. From the middie of October until the : end of December, and from the first of | March to the middie of May, a period | of five wonths, by far the greatest part | ¢ of the mileage of the proviges is mud, to be more than trebled. Practically none of our present arrangements Everything would | I need | | tha New Jersey leg | says Assemblyman Crispin, its origina. | ner. Although it lives in water, it | cannot remain long under the surfaces withont eoming up to brestoe, and its | tail is placed horizontally to enable it | Its fore | have the | bones, joints and most of the nerves | and id age Year. ruts and piteb-holes, gaged in bosimess 19 Manila is some. i ; luncheon is served, and This may vary somewhat at the ore northeriy and more soriherly parts of the pruviace, but it is the general rule of the aver- Of this period of dve i months there sre at least two months! of the year when the roads are prac | tically impassable for leads. From | the middle of November untd the middle of December, from the giddle | of March until the middle of Apml the agricaitnral trade of the coantry is ' and poor alike. ractically cut off For the remain. ag three months of the five the roads are barely passable, loss Wo the province by the absence of | good roads the inspector estimates at | $651,578, 000, capitalized at three per and sell at from ten | apleas, PODER 18 very cent. New York Post. wii Help Lo Reduce Taxes, The wide-tire mecsare passed by Wiature was due, tar, to "Nia inestiuable valne to the taxpayers who were called upon for iceresased appropria- tions for read improvements, by both | eall : broad | “tables, BU the farmers and bicyclists, whieh wosld be unnecessary if the tire was adopted, as it would be two-fold service; Jirst, in makizg the roads hard and smouth; second, In doing away with the cowpiaint rom of a The estimated | constantly being | and [ was riding neck snd neek with | i one of the keepers. Whea we ware about 300 yards off the hearaoots strgek his prey. The bearcoote had struck | one talon into his neck, the other tato | his back, and with his beak was tear iag into the animals hiver.” and Stream, Forest | Buasiviess Life in Man!ls. The average day of a foreigner en- thing sa follows: A bath in the early At seveu o'sloek the men go to their | business offices sud work antl twelve, when oifloes are closed and everybody takes a two hoars’ rest, during which then a short | siesta taken. From two o'clock nati | #1X or seven business 0 carried on as | anti five o'elock When basi | ness is over for the dav, the employes put on fresh white clothes sud help to swell the throng of people who prom eamlie the streets, 50 that they are al most impassable As eight o'olock | everybody 1s at dinser, which is the | social fanetion of the day. The stapie | food is rice, which is eaten Ly rwh | Chicken in always served at dinoer, and native fruits All the potatoes that the Eurepeans | get come from Chins, snd all the | wheat and floar from California. The | apples are brought from Hong Keng, to ffteen cents The cost of hiving for a En high on acconut of the | extremely heavy duties imposed by Spain. — San Franewweo Argouant, Provisioning = Big Steainer, quantity of foo d used in a twenty days nip per an GURRIL dTav. he i Bombay to London, with abopt | SoU passeinge rangats al: Eas, | SL.000 meat, ERIE pi ils Vie | iH pannds, po nine i ami pouitry, A} pounds; tloar, | Ta Lard aloes, tots; due ks, 14800 Bead; 44 bartais, jreihany I FAS. a Meh RO SSE Leroated a wovely in the skirt form which proves extremely pleasing to : Mes. , proprietor, fof the oakland pystl band.” | violet with green. gray are liked ; rks fed. ; iinery, Li bordered at the edge with a wreath | of roses shading from pale mauve © | luge bow of hydrangeas pink satix, in Paris, and a special corner is set Jtnor of being driven only by the Lamamber a time when she was sot | source, mannfasture and almost uni- anyone write the history of the V- | shaped shoe, which so quiekly sap- planted the broad, stubby one, the ; shoe whieh makes the foot appear as Cif it hud been chiseled down to one {single toe, | first brought out the insignificant; lit- {tle derby hat, and persuaded men with massive heads and broad shoul | notions of fitness and eonsistency sud | waar the littl | be useless \P | man who fuftisied' i lous Ulster’ " whioh raged or pion seasons and is | not yet moribund, being still resorted | gray looking tan glove, { the | gome and go with the changing sea | passad in 1891, | there howe been 1200 applications put i in, which it 1s believed is a vary large | hat are still living. ‘ber B18 Lad secured pensions, eases are still peading. These latter i fuiddd 1 : law, ' nize, and the pension laws ave, thers i fore, powerless to fit their cases. \ effort has been made to get an amend The Rell Skirt, The tendency to narrow effects has | ‘the eye, though difficult to wear for | Any hat slender figuves. This pov. elty | is a bel] skirt, eut after the than- ner of wome bieyele skirts without | folds or fullness st the back of the waist, bat falling into graceful and | folds below, Wamen Jowellers, is endl that there are bat four! lating It women jewellers in the United Btutes, | and | Barnes that one of them iw Mra, (0 P. of Loniewille, WN. Recording | the General Federation of Women's Clubs, It is also said of | Barnes: “*She has bean the sole manager and bayer of one | jewelry Srws in Lonis- | dovcease of per Secretary of ile mince the bus. | : Sone Color Combinations, Harebell blue and turquoise are tom- Lhipad: blue is worn with violet and | Flame ooler and | | together with black A blue grenwdine is sisde! over lemon and white silk and trimmed | Lwith white silk applique; the bodice is | iaosfieme] with white mogssaiine, A pale blue silk is spotted with bias | Leith belt and collar of the second tone; | bodiee with white Inca vest and hat of | white straw trimmed with pink and | [white roses, A pinky bius silk bas, ‘oranges knots at wast and titrost, a ong white isce sash and a Inrge white lat with white feathers and more Knots of orange. Hydrangeas pink is sven a good « Sent, both in dresses and onl A toque in straw of this shade white: idx Qnished in front with a Teabslls, Spain's Exiled Queen, Queen [sabells, of Spain, the little Ring's graodmather, has never visited England, sithoagh many members of the British codony are made weloome in her Leantifal house, which was built by hegself some twenty years | sere, in "Paris, Prance. Although Iw. hella iv an exile, she is royally lodged; even the shmbles sre among the finest sxide for tha mules, which bave the Queen herself. The Queen, who will ba sixty eight on October 10 next, was aly three years old when she was srochimed Queen, so she can never styled “Your Majesty.” The roem- sors of her modest little court are de voted to her, and yet their emoluments are wall, for when Isabells abdicated 1a favor of her son she gave up her immense estates to the nation; and not very long after her retirement to | Paris she found it mecelsary to send | what site then described as a whole rooutful of jewels to the Hotel Drouot, | Ladies’ Field. Paucies and Foibles of Pashton, “The sternal fitness of things,” as | spplied #0 fashion in dress amd adorn. ment, has bat an evanescent fores or meaviog. No one san trace from its versal nse, the oupce ular shoe | shaped a is Aransas Traveler, with its hage a sole, its stardy | hest and crimped upper. Noi oan And no one can tell who ders to ignore their ecommén-sense toy chapeau. *Ttwounld attempt to discover the on us the ridien? | ing to the heels, to by short mean who wish to make | ! + look taller, but who only ar reall in the morning, even the banks keep | make themselves appe ger | inches, shorter by sheer contrast.’ This gar- | ment and the gown which trails rll muddy sidewalks; the hoopakirt, the | distended, disfiguring bustle, the! not long mince deemed suitable for wear with an immaculate white evening toilet— these are but types and instances of fancies and foibles, and ever changing modes of fashion which soos of the year. — New York Post, Army Nurmes on the Penplon Rall, The Army Nurses’ Pension hil was and simes that time part of those who did regular work | Ont of this nam. 230 einizus have been rejected, and 451 | awe requirements of the pension bat served as regimental and! samp narses, and these classey the | War Department has refused to recog A 3 i ment to this bill covering this fentara of the case. Bat without! saccess up to the present time. | the bands of the 31t. them, dresses, [of the lo ; néck rafle to the long uister. stylish cape 18 made of gray silk. The Pension snd Tuterior Departments have tried to | overcome the opposition of the War | Department, snd this fact has had much weight with the pension com-~ ‘mittess of Cougress, which unsnim- ously recommended the amendment at the last session, but it failed to reach a vote. This was largely dus to a fear of increasing the pension roll, but the list of applicants already in Pension Commis ! stoner 1s balteved to be almosy com- | plate, The work of secaorinog pensions tor army nurses has been largely done by a committes of the National Wom- an’'s Relief Corps, of which the chair- man fis Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, one of the most prominent of the army nurses. Althongh nusuccessfnl in the Fort to secure the desired amend | ment, she was most helpful in secur. ing pensions for forty pine nurses ander the lnw, and 1n getting as | act for Mra. Lydia W. Holliday, who is ninety-four years old, and gave four sons to the army, and served from the beginning #0 the close of the war. Woman's Journal. se Por ona Veils, The problem of whatto do with your old veils has at last been solved. | Scores of women in the past have | barely one shade darker, and is worn | looked disappointedly at the quantity of veiliug in their possession, con scious that it was past wearing in the | ordinary way, aud not seeing what | further use could possibly be made of But now it is the order of the day to waste nothing, and women clever ith their needles and of artistic pro- elivities have found a place for veils ones cast auide. Given the “know how” you can do slmost anything in the way of dress decoration with a bit of a weil Hats can be trimmed with it sod » veil draped cleverly ou a hat ie withont question an extraordinarily pretty effoot. A hat sdorned with a» veil, beside, neads little other orna- ment. Another nss for old veils is ruffling the bottoms of petticoats with This requires some skill, and the rufMlicg must be dope daintily, but it is a famous effect for a petlicost, Some girls make collarettes of their old veils, and vet others entire danves, A nnmber of veils of the same sort make capital sleeves sleeves of a gen- erally fluffy and seductive affeet. Ornaments for the hair are much in vogue jnst now, and bere is where the old veil comes in the aptly. Clioux is the name the Frotich give to the confections of hair-dressing that every woman is enthusiastic over just now, and a veil is as perfect raw ma- terial for one of these choux as could well be imagined, The puffed.up dmntiness of these gives them their charm. ‘They are worn in puffs or in bows with ribbon atgrettes, and s grea$ variety of stvies is possible. If one is fortunate enough to own any of fhe [talisn veils of white it should be remembered that these are the most modish possibly to deal with and are the most fashionable to make over in any of the wavs described. EARS Pashion's Fanci Trailing skirts are once more fash onable. Holland postumes are very much worn for traveling, tennis and mert- ing gowns generally. For ehildren’s wear orgaudy dresses are fashionable this season sud all dresses of sheer fabrics are extremely popular, The asutamn will Sad skirts worn extraordinarily jong and she slight dip or train even will be peremptogy for elegant wear, A coil with several small curisatthe erown of thie head is becoming to some faces and is a fashionable way for dressing the hair, The artificial ower is as nearly per- fect as mun's art can make it, and, | with the milliners’ touch in placing it, | the illusion ws carried oat. A dress of very sheer material is | trimmed with arrow san ribbon put on in groups. Asother way of trim. | ming 1s to make fat bowg of ribbon with long ends, these to bé® appliqued ou as flat as possible. : All shades of gray are to be used this year fur walking and visiting Fawn tints and light brown ars also popular. In brighter colors purple, erimson, nacelle bine and soufre ia deep orange! are favorites. Neutral tints are adopted for dresses, the brighter colors being left for hats and sypshades. These may be as bright as desired, and profusely trimmed with lace or mounsseline de sole frills and iasertions of lace ur em- broidery. Farrings are threatened again, and the special design which may proveir- resistible is called “ear florets.” They are # little ower serall set with dine monds shaped to accentuate the curves be of the ear, and fastened in some mystertons way winch is nog C visiive. There is great variety in wraps this season. They range from the merest A very it ix ent in three tiers, cach tier being piged with platted biseck chiffon. The neck 18 finished with a high plaited® rate of the claffon.
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