ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER. The Season Begins with tho Marl borough Wedding Festivities. MUHnimlrc'M Montor Dosoanta—How Men's Costume Is Affected by Women's Exam ple—Green in Gowns and Neckties— Tea Gowu Varieties. COPYRIGHT 1835. The season begins! Not so many years ago the middle of September marked, in New York, the opening of the town gayetics. What a difference in 18951 It is now November. Cornelius Yanderbilt and liis family have but just returned from 1 heili colos sal new castle in Newport, "The Break ers," to their Brobdingnagian new castle in New York. The Vanderbilt- Marlborougli wedding next Wednesday is the great social event of the month, and may really be said to open the sea son, in the strictest sense. A dozen weddings aro to follow it in quick suc cession, in St. Thomas' church. The pressure of u real duke's knee at the al tar rail is a hint to fashionable bride grooms expectant to kneel there also, und the clergy, sextons and other ap- //: n " VO'ApA ffi? h O "Vl \_iv THE GOWNS WE SIIOI' IN. pendnges of the church are counting their chickens before hatching, with more certainty than usually attends that delightful operation. A fashionable woman is nowadays so overwhelmed with invitations, re sponses, begging letters and other cler ical business that she is quite satisfied not to get into harness much be fore snow flies. Society observances amount to a profession. Have we not all heard of late that a daughter of .lulia Ward llowc is to train the daugh ter of a western millionaire in these observances, and that three years arc j reckoned none too long for the tuition? j "One first principle of society, my i dear young lady"—so we may imagine the first lesson of this mentor to be gin—"is the principle of extremes. In high society we breakfast like pigs and dine like Lucullus. Even this state ment which 1 have just made is ex treme, hence modish. "Thus in fashions, again, we have the plainest of gowns for outdoor use, and, for no discoverable reason, glitter like bulteWlies after the clock has struck— '' J |j| AN 1895 EVENING GOWN. well, ten, let us say. But whereas a woman may wear the plainest of gowns coaching or walking or golfing, let her shop—this year at least; the next it may be different—in a gown of gayer style, befitting the joyfuiness of the oc casion. For the theater, anywhere.in the house, if abroad, or in a box if at home, evening dress by all means. If in the orchestra chairs in New York one mny—in Boston should—wear a material as old as black satin, but en liven it with white satin and creamy lace, and a ruche of pink roses—like .this —" And at this point I can imagine tin; Mentor diclosing such a gown as [ saw shown Ihe other night, after the wrap had been thrown aside. And the wrap was a dainty trifle of velvet with dace, niul bends and jet and paste buck les so com pounded thatitscemed to need straightway another cloak for its own protection. The Mentor will descant upon the reign of velvets this year of grace, 1895. She will speak of blouses, and reeoni- IV9P# b> U C'T the use of I Dresden and Louis silks with their delicate China-like patterns. Bbe will descant on the glories of stamped and embossed velvet. She will speak of lea gowns, not so long ago things ail of soft and clinging silks and satins, but now built of stuff as heavy and sub stantial as velveteen or even velvet, so much do the times change and we in them. An olive green tea gown of vel veteen with old twine colored lace at ncek and cuffs, and bishop sleeves to the wrist, she will commend if her heiress is dark and well colored. Let us drop the Mentor, who in real life might refuse to he disposed of so easily, and speak of a tea gown suitable for a particular type of warm blonde —a pale silver gray velvet or velveteen, made with a gathered a nd pointed yoke of amber eliiffon in front, and decked with bands of silver embroidery. The black is in Wattoau folds with a stole of yellow chiffon and the sleeves are all of the chiffon, in big puffs to the wrists, interrupted at the elbow with sil vered bands of embroidery. Cer tain types of quiet, little mouse colored women wear such a gown with disquiet ing effect on the opposite sex. There is a tea gown, too, and this shows the wide divergence now possible in a "ar- ment whose type used to be fairly fixed —in white crepe de chene, with a short zouave jacket of old rose velvet bor dered with pearls. The sleeves are vel vet to the elbow and crepe thence to the wrists, and all the way roped with pearls. The colar is a combination of the velvet stock with stoles or Geneva bands in front and back. Green is so much the season's color that even dull man covets a touch of it in his neckwear, in the enamel of his cuff links, and in the very material of his suit. He w ears it, in all these eases, hi combination with red. a thing less daring than it sounds, if there be a plenty of nonresisting buffer of brown or gray to reconcile the rival colors. The mystic relation between men's wear and women's has often been ob served. rn tints and colors the sterner sex arc shamele-s imitators, as who would not be who had Veen the pretty street dress, which may have cost but a trifle, so simple was it, that I saw yes terday. The skirt material was a mix ture of grayish green or greenish gray, cut perfectly plain. A zouave of the same cloth was edged with gray em broidery with a dash of red. There was a gathered stole collar and u plated vest front in pale-green silk with white dropped through it here and there like a plummet of light in a sunny sen. With such a gown a hat mainly of quite dark?- green velvet can he worn, with huge curling black ostrich feathers, if one wishes; or the lighter greens and grays can be very sparingly used in combina tion with the darker and better shades. One is reminded of Wnttcau shep herdesses and Greu/.e milkmaids this season by a number of things; by tho sweet little jackets any the demure fichus and kerchiefs of spotless lace, and most of all, perhaps, by the very latest Paris fad, a demure little apron, so puffed and furbclowed and disguised as scarcely to be recognizable, ap pended to gowns of the most delicate and costly material. Such an orna ment is seen to advantage on u Louis fioize gown In Pompadour brocade, with blue and pink flowers on a white ground. ELLEN Osnoitx CARE OF THE WOUNDED. New Method of Transporting the Disabled on Hoard Ship*. The naval surgeons at Washington have perfected the rules which will gov ern the treatment und care of the dis abled in tim£j>f action on board ship. The method of transporting those who are disabled is a matter of great im portance and cannot ulvvays be easily and rapidly, done in times of excit ment. To facilitate the prompt atten tion which should be given to those who are injured, a structure bar has been perfected capable of being rigged for lowering from the main deck through a hatchway into the sick quar ters. This bar is seven feet long, and, made of one-inch wrought iron piping, with ELEVATOR FOR THE WOUNDED. each end forged flat and fitted with a sharp hook, having play in a three quarter-inch opening, is given the neces sary obliquity by means of a suitable sliding binding strap held together b} a bolt, which can be tightened by a thumbscrew, and attached to a ring into which the hook of the tackle Is in serted. A guiding line is made fust to one end of the bar when required. Hammocks are to be utilized for trans portation along decks from which the sick or wounded are to be lowered. The hammock, unlashed and spread on the deck, contains a mattress upon which the wounded man is laid. The blanket spread over him is secured by three 01 four lashings. Instructions will be given the stewards and their assistants in lifting and placing the sick and wounded men so as to give them as little suffering in the transportation as pos sible. To place the sick or wounded man in the hammock, two stretcher bearers take positions one and two, respect ive ly;No. 1, standing astride the patient's chest, with toes close to the armpits, stoops and locks his hands under the shoulder blades, and the patient, should his arms he uninjured, clasps No. 1 around the neck. No. 2, with his right foot between the knees and his left alongside the hips of the man, bends his right knee and takes hold of the legs at tho bend of the knees. At the sig nals, "ready," "lift," from No. 1, they raise the body in unison, and, keeping step. No. 1 counting one, two; one two, etc., they move forward and deposit the wounded person on the hammock. After the lashing is complete, the man is temporarily put aside until some per son or persons detailed for tho purpose, such as the two divisional aids to wounded, can transport him by drag ging the hammock along the deck to the hatch, where one cf the stretcher bars is rigged. This is effected most readily by one person at each end, the hammock being moved longitudinally. Arriving at the hatch, the bearers snap the safety hooks at the ends of the bar into the hammock rings and lower. The angle at which this is done, depending on the size of the hatchway, should have been previously fixed by loosen ing the thumbscrew and shifting the point of attachment to the tackle nearer the head end of the bar. When the hammock is released the stretcher bar is hoisted, and is ready for another pat ient-laden hammock. Machinery firings Hotter Pay. Since theextensive introduction of the sewing machines we do not hear of the distressed needle women, at one time so prevalent. Typewriters get double the wages they would get as pen writers, and they do six times as much work with comparative pleasure and great leisure. Steamships costing millions equipped with every known invention for safe and eflicient service, in six days at a nominal cost, with every comfort, lake weekly with almost unfailing reg ularity thousands of people across the Atlantic, where in 1790 it took Samuel Slater, the honored founder of the cot ton trade, sixty-six days to cross, and no doubt with great discomfort and danger. Small newspapers cost at one time six, eight and twelve cents, and were loaded with a government revenue stamp. Now a better paper can be got for a cent, but the compositors and printers get much higher pay and have, like the newspapers, increased many thousandfold. So it runs nil through, and the whole world gets benefited. Some Queer Facta About Air. The celebrated chemist of the six teenth century who arguod that it would be impossible for us to live on the earth's surface if the atmosphere should suddenly increase to twice its present thickness could not have been far wrong after all; that is, if the ex periments of I)r. Arnott are to be taken as conclusive. In bis observa tions on atmospheric pressure at the bottoms of the deep mining shafts of Europe, Prof. Arnott, has found that the change between the readings of n barometer at the bottom of a 4,000-foot shaft and one at the surface is great enough to warrant him in making the statement that air at the bottom of u shaft 20 miles deep would be as dense as water. Fguring on the same ratio, he finds that if a hole could be sunk 40 miles into the bowels of the earth the density of the air at the bottom would be us great ua thulof quick-silver. Cvertlolnflf It. "Dear ono," lie whispered, "(If) you think J? I m.irrP'd yo-t • our father , would ever forgive us?" "I'm sure hi; would, dear," slie as serted, softly. "And would lie give us 11 house of our own ?" "I know he would, dearest." "And would he give us enough to live 1 beautifully on?" "I'm sure of it. Harry." '"And would lie take me into the ! firm?" "Certainly he would." "And let me run the business to suit myself?" "Of course he would, darling." She snuggled to his bosom, but he put her aside, coldly. "1 euunot marry you," he said.hoarse ly. "Your father is too willing to get you oil his hands."—X. Y. Journal. Quilt* Secure. "I want to consult you on a certain point," said Miss Cash to her lawyer. " 1 am at your service, Miss Cash," "You know Mr. Squildig?" "Very well, indeed." "lie has done nie the honor of pro posing marriage." "Ah!" "What I wish to ask is if you think 1 my money would be safe in liis hands if 1 were to marry him." "It would be so secure you could not even get it yourself." Pittsburgh Clironiele-Telegraph. Ho Hud 1*111(1 Tor This. The amateur chicken farmer was balancing his accounts for the year ami in the midst of his work he said to his ! wife: "My dear, how much a pound do you pay for beef?" "For the best steak we pay eighteen cents." "Thanks. Now I understand why they say one egg is equal to a pound of meat."-—Judge. Curative Value of Talk. Mrs. Gray—Strange that you should consult Mr. Jalap when your husband is a physician. Mrs. Black—l find it more helpful to consult Mr. Jalap. When I begin to tell him about my bad feelings he al ways asks nie to hold out my tongue. But my husband only tells me to hold it.—Boston Transcript. Fin do Steele. The outraged parent clapped his hand upon liis sword. "Draw and defend yourself!" he hissed. But the profligate sou preferred to wait until the old man had got back to the city. Then lie made it a sight draft, with expenses of collection added.— Dockland Tribune. Modiolii Item. First Doctor—l had a very interesting case the other day. The diagnosis was all right, but the course of the disease was decidedly abnormal. Second Doctor—What course did it j take? First Doctor—The patient recovered. —-Texas Sittings. Much in Little. "What a bright, vivacious girl Miss Lovett is! She seems to have an un limited capacity for enjoyment." "She lias, indeed. 1 myself have been her consume six consecutive plates Df ice cream and then accept an invita tion to go for soda water."—Truth. FiiHlly Remedied. Young Husband—My love, these bis cuits are sour, horribly sour. Y'oung Wife (who took the chemistry prize at boarding school) —I forgot to udd the soda, my dear; but never mind, lifter tea we can walk out and get some aoda water.—-Boston Transcript. A Clone ugh, * 1 I fatal disease. jt ' : f J'" ° n "' I ■ I ' i * * * 'in uelny. I , The disease progresses so rapidly that P ' | the loss of a tew hours in treatment is P ' ! often fatal. 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