It is said that the people of Now Or leans, La., maintain the most independ ent attitude toward the dictates of fashion of any city in the land. In 1860 the average co3t of teaching per annum for each pupil in the public schools of Chicago was $3.40. In 1893 the average cost of teaching was $16.20. The prices of valuable Russian furs bavo been almost quadrupled in Ger many in recent ycar3. Not all of them are genuine, as may be inferred from the fact that dead cats, which were worth two ccnt3 apiece a few yearn ago, uo.v cost twenty-five to thirty cents each. Labouchere, of London Truth, acidly observes that "tho British House of Lords, it must be remembered, has only survived thus far because tho majority of its members have sufficient sense never to show their faces, much less to let their voices be heard, at Westminister." Another bridge to connect New York and Brooklyn has been begun. The structure will be oa the cantilever sys tem aud its spaas will be 150 feet high. Its cost will be over $10,030,000. The two great cities will soon be linked so firmly together that, in the opinion of the San Francisco Chronicle, a common muuicapal government will be absolutely necessary. Sines tho great caves of this country were turned into show placc3 a close watch has boen kept on visitors to pre vent their annexation of stalactite 3, "cavo acorns," gypsum crystals, and other curious and beautiful formations. Not even tho broken stalactites lying about the floor can bo appropriated, for these are gathered and sold by the own ers or lessees of these holes in the ground. Tho backward condition ot public in struction in. provincial Russia may bo gathered from a brief and well-authenti cated a prominent newsoa per, from which it appears that in the Government of Pskoff, adjoining that of Bt. Petersburg, there is to b9 found only one elementary school In the whole area of 500 square veists, and among more than 200 villages, many of which con tain several thousands of inhabitants. The winter and wot weather of tho East this year proved a great bonanza to the rubber shoe manufacturers and deal ers, who have sold out nearly all their •book. So great has been tho consump tion it is estimated that the output of 1893 will have to bo increasod by nearly 20,000,000 pairs. This, caloulate3 the Chicago Herald, will tax the cipacity of tho mills to the utmost aud insures to tho operatives abundant work at good wages during tho year. Another steamship line is arranging to put two 10,000-ton steamers under tho American flag. Tno vessels will bo built at Newport News, Va., and will ply be tween Liverpool and New Oriean3. The new liners, it is expected, will bo tho nucleus of a full fleet of American 6teainers rivaling in speod and beauty the fastest afloat. "Evidently the pros pects of the American fl ig reappearing on the ocean are brightening," exclaims the San Franciscc Chronicle. The other day two Chinese damsels invaded the San Fraucisco Chronicle building. They rode up and down tho elevator, visitiny the different floors, opening the doors of several offices, ap parently for no other purpose than to see what was inside, meanwhile all the time jabbering aud lau;hiug as if they were very much amused. When asked who they were looking for ono of ihcm answered: "We no look for auyboly— we all.the same slumming." Says the Detroit Free Press: "Silver may be cheap—say eighty-three cents an ounce—but its production is much cheaper. Ia the three most prominent mines at Creede, Col., silver has been produced at twenty-five ceats an ouuee, and the profits from these three mines la3t year were $1,000,000 on a $200,000 investment. Two Creede mines can pro duce 8,000,000 ouuees per annum. A raiue at Aspen has been turning out 2,- 600,000 ounces per annum, at a co3t, it is said, of less than fourteen cents per ounce." Tuo stories of the misused oyster dredgers of the Chesapeake have excited wide sympathy, and a nunbjr of influ ential societies in Baltimore have lu mind a headquarters where complaints can bo lodged by the unfortunate and investi gation made and prosecution conducted by this headquarters against the wretches who deceive and abuse tho men they ship. In most cases, declares the Chicago Ilcrald, the victims of these outrages are too poor to prosecute the offenders, but tho proposed plan will obviate this dif ficulty aud iosurc u deserved punish* meat- TO HIM WHO WAITS. *To him who waits—" the wise old saying runs; Crooning it o'er while winged snow-shafts dart Athwart the gloomy light of shrouded suns, With what a thrill it vivifies my heart. Clear as a zither laughs the brook set free; Soft as a lute I hear the robin sing; Upon my ear bursts all the melody That leaps from out the lyric lips of Spring. —Clinton ScollarJ, in Youth's Companion. A TALE OF A BROOM. fu N T KITTY stood, with the broom in her hand, at the parlor door. A fit of gener ous activity seized ine. "O, Aunt Kitty, rlo let me sweep. You don't know how beautifully I can 'fix up'a room. Besides, I am dying for want of exercise." Aunt Kitty looked as if struck by a small torpedo. "Dear aunt, have you not heard of Hcrcules's sweeping the Augean stable 3 in one day? They contained three thou sand head of cattle, which hadn't had uny clean straw for thirty years. Well, I daro say he began with his mother's ! parlor, and trained his muscles th is." I caught the broom and performed a series of g? mnastics, throwing it back of my head, and twisting my neck in and out of the loop, till the shade of the student lamp began to tremble. My aunt yielded with many cautions. 44 Don't break anything, but inovo out the furniture, aud sweep tho corners, and shake the table cover and the rug; and don't lift tho broom high so as to make a big dust." 44 Enough, madam, my aunt. You will soon see how accomplished in such matters I am. Wait a minute. Even at such a trying lime, {esthetics must not be forgotton." I ran up stairs and reappeared with I ray hair done up in a white mull fichu, | fastened at the side with a bunch of mignonette; my dress skirt pinned back, and covered with a large apron, trimmed with red bows. "Beauty and tho Breom," said I, as I saw my black eyes and dark cheeks un der the soft white turban, in the small mirror. "Grace Brown, I have seen you with less bccomiug surroundings. Now, aunt, exit please. The curtain rises upon the first act." My aunt well know that rambling in tho woods after flowers and insects was my delight, and that I regarded house work as a necessary evil, which, like duties in a custom house, let those shirk who might. I spent weeks in this charming country home every summer, in preference to visiting any of the fash ionable resorts, simply because I had enough of fashion tho rest of tho year —and because I was, with all my short ing?, Aunt Kitty's favorite niece. Father and I lived all alone; or, rather, he lived with his grain elevators. lie was very good to me. I might go anywhere I liked, or stay at home and invite com pany. So I joined a Shakspeare Ciu'o to improve my mind, and took lessons in free hand drawing. Ot course, I had to go o great deal to the dressmaker's, for a city girl's wardrobe takes time aud at tention. I had a dog cart and pony, and I took one of tho girls every pleas ant day to drive in Central Park. As for housekeeping, we had the best of servants, and I only had to decide whether it should be beef or mutton for dinner. No wonder Aunt Kitty regarded I this freak as a new and startling de velopment of my character. But she left mo with: "Don't sweep the dust into the hall, but to the hearth, aud— '* I actually kissed her aud pushed the dear soul out of the room, aud shut the door iu her face. Now I threw open all tho windows and blinds. A flood of beautiful sun shine came in. Dark rooms are an in vention of the Prince of Darkness—but then folks iu the country are awfully at tached to them. Never mind, I have all out doors to live. llow lovely those roses are this morning! I climb over the sill to the veranda, and pick a large bunch of Baltimore Belles, which I pin to my throat. A sparrow has her nc3t in that honeysuckle vine. Oa, she is sitting, and I will uot disturb her. I almost wish I had gone for a walk. "But, Grace Brown, you shall not be fickle. You are going to sweep this room; so climb in again. This small round table shall be the starting point. 4 A good beginning is work half done."' The carpet is a modest tapestry. I will take it, one breadth at a time, □arrowing ever the horizon of dust and dirt, the hearth rny radiating point, en larging tho area of brightness, till all is clean—when, Enter Dust Pan, and per form thy menial but usetul office! The table is pretty and quaint, cov ered with an embroidered cloth that I worked and sent last Christmas. Oa it lie a handsome pieco of coral under plass, some rare aud beautiful shells, and an illustrated book, 4 'Poems of the Bea." Well do I know the sad story en shrined here. Fifteen years ago, Arnold Wood sailed on his last voyage. 11c was Aunt Kitty's lover, and a fiue seaman. But Aunt Kitty would have no sailor for a huaband, and he agreed that after one more voyage—ho hail just been pro moted to bo second mate—be would settle down to farming. She could not bear that he should go, but he was jubilant. Now lands to Fee—rare and pretty thing 3 to bring back to the prettiest bride in town—it was but right that he should have ono more taste of tho wild, free life; aud sadly she let him go. For teveral weeks letters came regularly. The last was from Calcutta. No one ever heard of that ship again. As months passed, Aunt Kitty grew pale and silent, with u wistful look vu he;- fucp, Popple stopped talking \vhett she went by, and said under their breath, "Poor things 1" At last she took to her bed with a slow fewer.- That's what they always tlieso broken heart troubles. But she had a strong physique, and did not die, as seemed likely, but after weeks of illness took up the burden of her life again. Well for her, perhaps, that her father was growing too old to look after the farm, and, as he died soon with a stroke of apoplexy, she assumed entire control' of the business. Then her mother grew feeble, and they cared for her like an infant. She could only help herself a little by rolling her chair about. On warm days she enjoyed sitting on the veranda, but that was the only change she knew till she took the last long dreadful journey. Aunt Kitty's success as a farmer is wonderlul. The men obey her, or else they go. Her cabbages are the finest, and her chickens the tat test in the neighborhood. She wages relentless persecution upon worms and insects, aud it seems as if the things didn't dare to try to eat her cucumber plants. If the eurculio attacks one of her plum trees, she cuts the tree down before the other 3 suifer. "Better one dead tree than a lot of sickly ones," she says. With an eye, perhaps, to Aunt Kitty's swelling bank accouut, a very nice man asked her to marry him. She replied that her life was, indeed, for any who needed her, but for no husband. Her heart, she said, lay at the bottom of the ocean. In the table is a small drawer which I ought to open and dust. Ah! the only thing hero is a painted ambfo type of Arnold in a blue velvet case. I take it reverently from its folds of tissue paper and open it. On the inside cover is pinned a curl of rud dy brown hair. It is a boyish face, laughing, pure and sweet. Till tho last he must have bounded over tho crests of life's ways—happy, fearless. If only they could have been married, and had their pretty children about them I But, Grace Brown, I thought you were sweeping! I push back tho drawer, move tho table, and ply my broom with vigor. Here are some dry leave? and flowers, dropped in the shadow of the door. They are botanical specimens which the doctor and I were studying last night. We found a purple Ghsrardia, yellow Trefoil and Polygala along the roadside on our drive. We examined them through the doctor's big microscope. That Polygala was hard stu lying, and there he sat, enjoying ray poking with his needles, trying to count stamens aud cells too small almost to be seen with the microscope. He would not help one bit, and I felt moro aud more 3tupid. He says I will make a fair botanist if I persevere. The doc tor knows everything about plants, but then he had to learn, so as to dis pense sarsaparilla, and all his other vege table stuffs. Bitanical names do so dignify medicines I No v I should hate to get well of a fever on Monkshood or one of the Deadly Nightshades. Bat call them Aconitum and Belladonna and I shouldn't mind in the least. Out hero, where I have a few companions, the doc tor is very agreeable. Ho began practic ing iu New York, but it was up-hill work. So when the old physician of Ibis place wauted to retire, and invite ! this young doctor to take his practice, he was glad to come. Some of his pa tients live off quite a distance, and he says I may as well enjoy the ride with him on tine days. II: calls, quite ui profcssionally, of course, oa Aunt Kitty very often. Bat come—my little dried up Garardia, you and the rest must share a com non fate aud go to the dust heap. A few white hairi are caught on the broom. I take one gently off and draw it through my lingers. Aunt Kitty's hair turn e i white in tin fever. I love white hairs. Too in'sad stage suggests tno struggle between youth and age; but the hvr softened and whitened at last means the triumph of wisdom, purity and peace over irrita bility, passion, vanity, ambition and those other tempestuous attributes of youth and middle age. I cannot associ ate white hair with any but good people like Aunt Uebekahand Aunt Kitty. The bad ought to use dye 3 and keep their locks, like their hearts, a dirty yellow black. I have come to the what-not, and I regard it with dismay. What not, in deed 1 Heaps of knick-kuack, shells, vases, daguerrotype3. picture cirds, boxes, s null china figures, all waiting to be dusted. On the top shelf peacock feathers and dried grass wave from an antique vase. Hero is my mother's pic ture in a small frame made of pine cones. There arc hair FLOWERS under a glass. DJ let us look at these ancient dagucrro types. This is Uncle Amos, more sol emn even than his portrait. That is father's cousin who lives in Austrailia, and send 3me something rare and pretty every Christmas. I- have never setu him, hut ho thought a great deal cf mother, who died when I was four years old. It is for her sake, I suppose, that he sends me things. Here is a group of my own cousins, five light-haired, prett}', delicate children. Only one live 3 now. Their mother died of consumption, leaving a baby three months old. Uncle John, a brother of ray father's and Aunt Kitty's, knew a Massachusetts girl, strong and sweet tempered, who was teaching school, lie went to her and said: "You were my wife's best frieud. Iler children have her constitution. You know their doom. Come and make their short lives happy. She would be pleased. I will give you money and aho ne. All your wants shall be gratified. And for the care 30U give my children our grati tude will be your recompense." She went, and took up her task, de termined to conquer those fatal seeds of death which were the mother's heritage. She struggled, and did indeed give them happiness, but she could not give them health. Waat a fearful fact hereditary isl They lived from sixteen to twenty years, then one by one they drooped and died, . /Ml tfiW out div 4iu ber aruw, He, singularly, ©scaped. As a forlorn ! hope, he was sent a9 common seauiau on a sailing vessel. Being weak and un used to climbing, ho fell to the deck and broke hia hip. He was taken to the hospital, where he lay for a year, hia wound suppurating and refusing to heal. When he aid recover ho walked with a crutch, but the blood taint was gone, and his lungs were sound. lie married and lives in St. Louis. Hero is a photo graph of Charley, junior, a mischievous, sturdy-looking three-year-old, booked for a long life. On one shelf is a curiously carved cup which Cousin Charles did in the hospital. It was one of his ways of passing the time. When all ray poor cousins were laid in Greenwood, my uncle looked at the lady who had spent the best part of her life in his children's sick room, and saw that she was old before her time. Too late he began to value her life,aad hoped by making her his wife to restore some of her lost youth and energy. He took her traveling; physicians sa*v her; but in spite of all, sho gradually settled into a quaint melancholy. She preferred to stay in a darkened room, and move 9 noiselessly about, as if she were tending the 9ick. Is there a nervous, vital force , which those who are ill draw from those 1 who care for them? It seems so in Aunt ' Mary's case. She may yet recover My J friend the doctor has seen her and gives j hope; but it will take time. The door suddenly opens. 4 'My stars I what a picture I" says a j voice in dismay. This was tho picture: j Chairs and tables were moved into the j middle of tho room. Flies nud dust di vided the airy spaces between them. The > former, joyously swarming and buzzing, showed absolute delight over such au unprecedented invitation as this—to Aunt Kitty's be3t room. Tho what-not was partly dismantled. Peacock feathers and dried grasses lay on t'he floor among a dozen or two daguerreotypes. I, Miss Brown, sat in the midst, while my broom lay on the centre table, dangerously neat thestudent lamp. The dust-pan reposed upon tho mantelpiece between Aunt Kitty's Royal Worcester vases. No won der my aunt was in a state of mind. Her words came in little gasps: "Child alive I Did I ever see—since I was born? I was an idiot—ye 3, I was —to think you could sweep a room. You are all right to tell th& name of a flower or a butterfly, but if you are fit for a single thing about a house, Grace Brown, I haven't found it out I" I heard a smothered laugh in tho hall, and looking up from my confusion, saw —oh, heavens and earth I the doctor's oyes twinkling with amusement, while his face was red with suppressed mirth. "My horse and buggy are here, at your service. Miss Brown." (Why didn't I hear him drive up?) "I am going after some pitcher-plant and sun dew, and you may like to gather somo specimens. Sinco the pitcher-plant grows in a swamp, you might put on your rubbers. Otherwise your pro3ont costume is appropriate, as well as charm ing." After the ride: T.io doctor, that is, Henry, says I must assume tho direction of hia house hold affairs. lie will bo perfectly dis consolate if I don't. He wants mo to be married with lots of white, soft stuff about my head—l will pucker up tho veil a little, just to humor him—with rosebuds everywhere on ray dre3S. Ho said that the picture of that half-swopt room, the flies, the dust, myself a poor little, beautiful culprit seated on the floor with thing 3 all about me, my irate aunt, and the broom, was one in which lights and shadc3 were exquisitely blended, and one that he can never forget. It was a good long ride, and wo did not once think of tho pitcher-plant; but it was very sweet to be thought so much of by .such a splendid fellow as my Ilonry. And as lam to live here all the time, I can get specimens any day. Meanwhile, I will humbly petition Aunt Kitty to give me lessons in housekeep ing.—Romance. Why Icelanders Emigrate. The iuterior of Iceland is a howling wasto of saud aud ice, traversed by darting glacial rivers, and uttorly in capable of supporting more than a few scattered inhabitants. Grass is tho only considerable crop. The hills and the valleys are treeless and afford at best but scanty pasturage for horses, cows and sheep. Itoads and bridges scarcely ex ist. The backs of horses ara the only means ot transportation across country. Small boats carry travelers over daugerous river 3, while the horses swim on ahead. Hardly auything that minis tera to comfort, to say nothing of luxury, is produced in Iceland. Every nail in an Iceland house, every pane of glass, every bit of wooden flooriug, every insignifi cant bit of furniture, has to ba train ported laboriously from one of tho sea ports to its destination. That the 70,00Q inhabitants of Icalan l aro poor goes without sayiug. There is little or no homo market, for every Ice lander has the same products to sell as his neighbor. Money circulation is small and the farmer barters a certain number of horses or shesp or rolls of dried fish or bales ot hay for a supply of groceries aud other necessaries of life.—Ne.v York Advertiser. Terrors of the Awful Fans?. We usually talk about the weather when there isn't anything else to talk about. This fact may tend to rob tho subject of its importance, yet it should not. In fact it ought to be greatly in its favor, as it is ever ready and efficient in breaking the "awful pause." Have you ever been overtaken by the awful pause? Fortunate, indeed, if you havo not, and entitled to heartiest sympathy if you have. It is truly awful, especially if courtesy demands that you should break it. It settles upon tho best rugu lated companies like a nightmare, and seerai to paralyze tho tongue an I put thought to flight. No one can think of auything to say, or ieari to attempt to flay it. Then,if ever, a fool is welcome, because ho doesn't think before ho BQ©akg,-—PHtobqrsr Go-nifiyroial Giotto, HOMES OF THE CABINET.' ABODES OF MR. CLEVELAND'S POLITICAL FAMILY. Something: of tho Domestic I.lfe of the Advisor* Who in tho FrrHldeut Has Chosen to Aid Him in Administering l'ublio Adair*. • How They I.lve. From the public live? of the men whom President Cleveland has ap pointed to his Cabinet it is interest ing to turn and note their domestic habits. The gentleman who holds the port folio of State, Hon. Walter Q. Gresh am, finds the chief delight in life in the bosom of his family. His home is one of a series of brown stone buildings on Prairie avenue, Chicago, and here he dispenses royal hospital ity to his friends. In 1858 he mar ried Miss Matilda McGrain, of Harri son County, Ind. Judge Gresham's figure is tall and slender and his handshake warm. He prides himself on his ability to read character. Ho is very democratic in his tastes and JUDGE GRESHAM'S noUSX, CHICAGO. rides to and from his business in tho street cars. The home of Hoke Smith, Secre tery of tho Interior, is a largo but un ostentatious dwelling on West Peach tree street, Atlanta, Ga. It has broad piazzas and an extensive lawn In front, and here during the long summer afternoons Mr. Smith may be seen playing with his children. There aro three children, Marion, the RESIDENCE Of IIOKE SMITH, ATLANTA. eldest, aged 8; Mary Brent, aged 4; and Lucy, a babe of 8 months. Mr. Smith is but 38 years old and is fond of outdoor exercise. The home of Hilary A. Herbert, tho new Secretary of the Navy, is at Montgomery, Ala. His long life in Washington renders him better known there than in the South, and at the capital he lives with his fam ily at the Richmond. Mr. Herbert is a widower. Ho has three children, two daughters and a son. Wilson Shannon Bissell. who has WILSON B. BISSBI.L'B HOUSE. BUFFALO. been a resident of Buffalo for forty years, lives at 295 Delaware avenue. Like his former law partner, the President, he led a bachelor's life un til his friends thought he would die one, but four years ago he married Miss Louise Sturgis, of Geneva, New York, and is now tho father of a little girl about the age of Ruth Cleveland. Mrs. Bissell is an accom plished musician and was music teacher at the Buffalo Seminary when she married. She is a charming lady. John Griffin Carlisle, the famous Kentucky statesman, is as demo cratic to-day as when in his early years he followed the plow in Ken- MR. CARLISLE'S IIOCHE IN WASHINGTON. tucky. He is adored by newspaper men and is uniformly courteous and polite. He has been known to give his scat to a colored girl in the street cars with as much grace as though he were offering his place to a!■ coaler's wife. His wife, who presides over bis liorae lp Wfstiiagton, Is a uiosfc F 'radons and accomplished lady. She s litho as a school girl and very young in appearance, although she If the mother of two grown-up sons. With Daniel Scott Lamont the public is fairly well acquainted, lie Is the intimate of the President. —* r -# I——! rH I P DANIEL I.AMONT'S NEW YOKE HOUSE Mr. Larnont's home in New York is on West 72d street and is gracefully presided over by Mrs. Lamont, who is a bosom friend of Mrs. Cleveland. The family consists of three children, tho oldest of whom is 11 and the youngest 4. llichard Olney, tho new Attorney General, is ono of tho leading law years of Now England, and for along time has drawn a princely fortune from his legal profession. His homo Is on Commonwealth avenue, where he resides In winter. The summer home is at Falmouth. His wife is a daughter of the late Beniamln F. Thomas and their two daughters aro married, one in Boston and the other to a physician in Berlin, Germany. Arbor Lodge is the name of the place where J. Sterling Morton, Sec retary of Agriculture, watched the growth of Nebraska City. Ho Is a pioneer in Nebraska, having gone there two years ahead of the govern ment surveyor. His home is one of the most charming places in tho country. In 1881 his wife died and on the tombstone he carved his own wb 11 J&4" i mmw RESIDENCE OF RICHARD OLNEY, HUSTON. name and those of bis three sons. One day he pointed out tho names to his sons, saying: "If either of you does a dishonorable thing I will havo his namo chiseled oil that stone." ARBOR LODGE, MR MOBTON'S HOME. The disgrace is never likely to occur, for Mr. Morton's sons are exception, ally bright young men. STRURELON OF THO POTATO. The way of tho potato was said to havo been barred by tho Presbyterian prejudice that it was never mentioned in the Bible, says Blackwood's Maga zine. In tho Lothians It cumo about 1740, the year of dearth, from Ireland, but was confined to gardens till about 1751, when it was planted In fields about Aberlady. By tho closo of tho conturv it was a general article of diet. I amsay says that George Henderson went about 1750 for a bag of potatoes to Kilsyth, where the Irish method of field culture had lately been tried,and lntio duced the potato into Mentieth, where a few had been known, but only in kalo yards. The old folks, however, did not lake kindly to tho newfoo 1. Old George Bachop, one of tho Ochtertyre tenants, when told by his wife that she had po tatoos for tupper. said: "Tattles' lai ties! I never supped cn them a' my day s and winna (he nicht. Gie them to the herd and get me 6owens." It Is sig nificant that Burns,who sang tho prais< s of kalo and porridge and haggis, has nothing to say of the potato. A HORRIBLE MESFT TO EAT. Being a princess has its disadvantages at times. The newly married Princess Mario, into of Edinburgh, now of Itou niania, will have to meet a deputation of pousants when E ho goes to lluchnrest noxt work. They will offer her a loaf of welcome, and custom demands thnt she shall cat a big slice of It In their presence. This wonderful loaf Is made up of pig's bloo I, garlic, lionoy and ground tymns, It U baked over wood embers, Greek girl* are generally dressed la •shite. ~ ...... The women Jf Hawaii aro addicted to the violin habit. A well-cared-for hand is a fine point m a beautiful woman. Miss Ellen Terry, tho actress, Is aa imateur photographer. Tho Maine Federation of Women's Club 3 has 1100 members. In these days the art of fine needlo work is in danger of decay. Steaming the face and then rubbing in olive or almond oil is a good thing. The statement is made that women who lido bicycles ace not graceful walkers. The Queen of Italy seldom appears iu a hat, and hor bonnets are small and close-fitting. Mrs. Astor, the New York leader of fashion, never pays less than $25 for a pair of shoes. Queen Victoria, of England, is very fond of making omelettes, and it seems has several receipts. There is a tendency in tho new silver ware to a return of the straight fluted patterns of tbo Seventeenth Century. ~ Iu these days of cheap stuffs the poor est housemaid may wear a dress fine! than thnt Justinian refused to his Queen. Henrietta Herschfield, the first woman graduate of tho Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery, is assistant court dentist in Germany. A scientific authority has Just given nut that a woman's beauty arrives at its maximum only after sho has passed her thirtieth year. Florence Nightingale, the famous war nurse, has started a health crusado among the villages of Buckingham shire, England. Miss Marguerite Gumbert has won her degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Letters at Brussels, Belgium. Sho Is tho first woman to do so. On the authority of Miss Humans, a professor of gymnastics, the muscular young women of Boston discard corseta and high heeled boots. A sewing machine was included among tho presents the ex-Empress of Germany gavo her daughter, Princess Margarethe, on her recent marriage. Mrs. Olive Thorno Miller, the welK* known ornithologist, has gone on a trip to Utah, California and the Yellowstone Park in pursuit of her favorite study. Oolf is going to bo a fashionable game at Newport, 11. 1., this year. Among the ladies who are now studying up the subject are Mrs. Burkc-Kocho and Mine. Lanza. Princess Kniulani of Hawaii is sa(d to havo much musical taste and to 'JO fond of playing tho ukilili, an instrument that Is described as "a cross *"*twceu tho guitar and mandolin." 4 The latest club for women fa London is one tor the use of c'.erks, bookkeepers, stenographers, telephone girls and others who earn their daily bread in this city, but live in tho suburbs. Miss Martha Jordan, of Dallas, Texas, Is tho first colored woman to prepare herself for practicing dentistry. Bho Is attending the Dental Department of Denver (Col.) University. Lady Haberton, tho originator of the English Short Skirt League, is making thousands of converts to her opinion that walking dresses should be at least five inches btf the ground all around. The Duchess of Marlborough is espe cially given to gray of the shade of the inside of doves' wings. Gray velvet is quite a favorite of her grace, and with it sho wears her wonderful pearls. The purple or cardinal veil is now supplanted by a new favorite, the veil w which cornea in dark shades of green. This color is said to bo becoming to all, while the purple can only be worn by a tew. The fashionable violet known as "emi nence," or "pontifical" purple, is by no means a universally becoming color, aul women who have not really very good complexions should eschew it in all its ramifications. The prettiest women in tho world are said to be tho women of Northern Italy. Tney are a mixture of the French gentry and the old Italian nobility and inherit the vivacity of one country and Oriental beauty of the other. Secretary of State Gre3ham, like many other men in public life, has a wife who attends to a great deal of his corre spondence for him. Mrs. Gresham is fond of Washington, but likei it best when it is most deserted. Tho old-fashioned gray haircloth is offered at Nctv York for dress linings at twenty-five cants to thirty-five cents in narrow widths. Its stickly, prickly edges suggest any amount of discomfort V for thoso who handle or wear it. Miss Enily Faithfull, the noted E lg lish social reformer, is endeavoring to organize in London a suburban homo in which working women and girls can each havo a small private room at a low rent, with the use of common reception and dicing rooms. The ex-Empress Frederick worked a bit of carpet on which ail her chitdreu knelt when confirmed; the late Emper or's coffin rested upon it; the present German Emperor and the Priucesses Charlotte, Sophia and Victoria were married standing on it. The young Uawaiian Princess, while in Washington, introduced a decidedly pretty fashion in voguo in her native islands. Sho wore about her neck a wreath of roses. In tropic lands these wruaths are used ail the yoar round. Hero they would embellish beauty in summer, being taken from the gardens. . Iu winter tho hot-houses would havo t<) iuiui*U them, -
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