aes me A iii 435 { tionaly, Sots aso, ~ | peering down the ood, white in the | moonlight. | duty to-night.” said the duke. | halted, breathiess. even prom.” aT | inter the duke left the clad with his having neighbor, the Comte de Beulnes. 1% we wil walk home; the air will do me : aside with the toe of hiy boot—a big’ Pah with bis crested handker- ppe- chief, and glare of a street Iam {in » Isintly shaken voice. “Don’t | from the French of Francois Coppes. od | handicapped in several ways. He was the | new to the city and pew to the busi. h | ness. He felt the burden of an im- y | mene r {table impression that the paper would , | and called at the wrong house. | not blessed with su angelic temper. 1 burned the dinner and company was d was iu itself « menace and only a y | youth nerved to do or die would have $ stood on the order of his going. [En Soi on “Did Isay he did?" —Detroit Free He was shot ia the leg = Swntisge and on coming home was deservedly » : usay old been hangry.” "Fhe young duke was good-hearted. {The terrible confession, made by » {fellow -man, by a soldier whose nni- form made him his equal, moved him we both survive this terrible war, ve | shall meet again, and I hope to be of | some use to you. Bat for the present, | as there is no baker on the ontposts ] but the corporal, and as my ration of bread is twice the size of my appetite, | on As comrade must share with me, | it's settled.” Es by long hours and eon: stant skirmishing, they re-entered the lying on straw. throwing themselves down side by side, they sank mto a Beary sleep. Toward midnight the ssrgesnt | opened the door and called the five | | men whose tarn it was to relieve the | sentinels of the outpost. The duke when his name was called. “But what time is it? 1 wason Some owe replied, “Jean Victor they asked him when he _ bullet in od gh bead. He didnt * * ® Toward two o'clock one night last have no objection, Andre, “As you like, old fellow, but the streets are horrible.” ordered their coupes home, up their overcoat collars, and Hartod toward the Madeleine. denly the Duke struck something pisce of bread, with mud. i T» his utter smszement, M. de Baulnes saw the D Due de Hardimont | the piece of bread up, wipe it place it on one of the lying ot posipe UL pdr you va a deeply. ‘Jean Vietor,” be said, “if | This tty —— while Mastrating | fluence women's dress this season, at the same time affords the protection The two men shook bands heartily, ! #8 night was falling, and they | tavern, where a dozen soldiers wers | was among them, but he did not wake A NATTY JACKET. i | {equine for a comfortable topcoat. The style is unobtrasive, but may be still less marked by the omission of | the nautical looking shoulder straps | While navy blue is the favored color | the trend of national naires to in| [ The broad eollar forms a round yoke 1 outline in black avd meots the anigne. iy shaped lapels that roll baek from the fronts. Stylish sieevex sre are ranged with downward torsing plests | at the sides and gathers of the top over | linings that are close] r adinstod to the | arta. The wrists flare in rounded bell shape over the hand, showing a lining of white satin and roching of monese. line de sole nnder the matin milling that finishes the edges. The graceful | skirt is of ewrenlar shaping, the gradu. i ated flounes being joined to its lower iedge under bias folds of covdings of Damfin. While desirable for silk, satin, poplin and other dress fabrics the | | mode will develop equally well in any | of the seasouabie wool or mized fabrics | now fashionable Braid, paswsemen. | | teria, immertion or applique will pro | vide suitable decoration, while 8 coms | : dish, sad learned that ny all osree Pla i woolen material will prodoce happy | resnaits To make this warsi for 5 woman of medinm size will require three smd : | he was guiek to see it binstion of velvet, silk i satin with one-quarter varie of siaterial forty. four inohes wide To ronke the skirt material forty fone faces wide Hints on Remodeling Sleeves. Sotae of the coats worg two cr three | i winters ago can be made in syle this | | purposes. The owner of the land has | Ho Myrs and large sleeves aay easily be ye. | modeled by sither of the styles which | are here given. No 1 represented iy | fine covert cloth, ix wha! is called the | winter if only the sleeveiars ent over, benches of the Sslevad, in the fall “What in the wh are you up to?” | said the count, lan ; “sre you wad?’ “It's in memory of a poor fellow | who died for me,” returned the dake langh, Andre, if you want to oblige me. "Translated for the Argoundat, A Tardy Reply. The whole neighborhood is laughing , sad the neighborhood is ina “‘se- ona of the city. The new re. ad been sent to interview Mr, sd . The well-meaning youth was nsibility and had the ered. not coms out the next day unless he obtained that interview with Jones, Just because of this multiplied pres- sure on his mind he forgot the number Now the lady at the wrong bonse is More than that, the cook had just coming. Her appearance at the door “Does Mr. Jones reside here?” was Press. = Why Me Limped. No wonder the colonel got mad. hero. He was met by one of these © who likes to near him. sell talk who broke out with: solonel, I see that you timp, | the loose edge, and between the front WOMANS AF will require four and ene hall yards of | | able place for his farm, and after aj | week be decided upon » little four. ™ | sere tract of land near Terra Cotta Sta- | © tion on the Baltimore and Ohio Rai- From the flatiron to the plow is » Jong stride, but it bas been faken Y ene Chinaman in the Distriet of ] umbia says the Star, and the ronalts have smply compensated him for the bans gold venture. Lee Voit, a moon syed Celestial, ar | rived in Washington Jest April with (KE kis savings tied up in a buckskin beg. | He came directly from California. Lee : fonsd the lanndry field crowded, an! his capitel was foo small for him 8 consider the establishment of n grocery wore. : One Sanday Lee dined at the CBi-| nese restaurant on Lower Penasyl- vania avense. Lee, who bas an in- quisitive mied, questioned the pro-| prietor sbont the soures of supply for | cigtower the many queer vegetables and berbs which form a of every trent | Evangel from St. Lonis, two days distant by | | rail from Washington. Nose was fraised nearer the capital. Hers was Lee's chance to invest his money, sad | The sext day Lee began to visit the suburban districts in search of a suit: road, ss the spot best suited for his a number of colored farming teasnts, | but ve was mildly surprised when Lee, with an interpreter, for Lee speaks lit t'e English, called apon him “to lent | farm.” Mr. Lysch made the remi rexsonable, and in an hour Lee was in posséssion of the farm. Hix entire ontfit, adide from his doth re sisted of two four gallon watering pots sad a yoke, such an the covhies in ; Chins ase for carrying burdens. fee got down to bumness st once, The day Muar be took possession lw & colored man, who Liver | sises, snd Lee worked all day sud f__ | sometimes on moonlight nights is his tin ‘ little farm. PEods were laid ont in} regular echecker-board fashion. ht | with 8 bos, borrowed from s neighbor, i Lee pulverized the soil, carefully re: | | Moving every stone. “At first there were many things #0 Lee did not umder-| back and forth between the diteh and | the beds until every plant on the place | | was given its share of water. Asan | im the evening were the Beds watered | Ne by the same slow process. Finally Lee's unremitting toil be The crop, foroed by for 1 5 or. It matared rapidly acd "8 | oom snd taken to the city, where Louis | mw DE a advance on St. ‘nnd | prices for it. Since then Lee bas |ihe BXOON TOILET. ing for such jackets, they may be made en costume with any seasonable woolen fabrics in black, brown, green, | gray, red, or mized ‘colors—tweed, | serge, oheviot, covert, or broadcloth | being fashionable, The close-fitting back is arranged | below the waist with coat-laps and | that give the scant but fash. jonable flare. The side-back gores are shaped high in correct military’ outline, i The loose-fitting fronts lap in double-breusted fashion, the neck being closely fitted by short Sate taken up in each fromt. Brass mili- tary buttons are used in closing, and | the shoulder seams covered with pointed shoulder straps are held in position by buttons fo mateh, bat of smaller size. The neck is completed | with a standing collar of trae military | ent, and a smart finish is given by the | stylish application of blsek brad ou | the collar, , fronts, wrists and | pocket laps. he plain two-seamed | coat sleeves are military in eut snd | fluish, the moderate falness being § } | disposed in gathers at the top. To make this jacket for a lady of medium i size will require one aad | | three-quarter of material fifty. | four inches wi Stylish Black and White Costumes. f A stylish black snd white combina- tion is shown in the large engraving in black pean de soie and guipure lace over white satin, the full chemisette of white mousselime aver satin imparting A soft and dainty finish. A narrow | niiling of pean de soie, applied with a heading, trims the broed col- lar, Fevers Jad epanlets on the free edges. ~iylish waist, equally suited for atonal dress or ordinary | wear, is smartly adjusted over correct. ly fitted linings that close in centre | front. The full fronts and seamless back are laid in overlapping pleats at edges is disc a smooth vest por. ‘ion that ends an he bust The pe have box sleeve Jastesd of the usual | pleats or gathers at the top, it in shaped | by short darts that are taken up at r intervals and finished with | straps applied Ly machine stitching. & The straps may be omitted snd the | dart seams simply stitched and pressed Jour crops, and saother is |} wl y for the market. : 's fmm there is pot & sin- [flat. A shapely saderarm portion | bed. su | Sts the sleeve comfortably, and the | wrists are finished with a double row of stitching at round enfl depth. No. 2, in rengh woolen cloaking, is shaped | | with upper and ander portions, the fulness at the top being laid in two fSewyard- furuing ples at each side | ee i a RA AT WOMAN s oar SLEEVE, pleted with a cuff, simalated by tw rows of machive To make these sleeves for & woman of the shoulder. i wrists are com: | | of medinm size will require seven oi a ui iy fo 13
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