NAUGHTINESS AT DINNERS It I* Becoming More Common in New 3 York'i Swell Set. In view of the disclosures which hare been made regarding the Indecent actions at the Seeley dinner In New York recently, it Is not without Inter est to note that the practice of having as entertainers at swell society din ners members of the theatrical profes sion, if possible the naughtiest mem bers thereof, Is decidedly on the In crease In the gay metropolis. Vaude ville performers, "sketch" teams and stars of the concert holla are no longer fada at faahlonable dinners. They are fixtures—Just as much a part of the menu as the oysters or tile coffee. Dur ing the holiday week tifty hostesses obtained the dramatic item of theli dinners from one firm alone, "and it was npt such a remarkably good week, either," said the senior member of the llrm. This custom of entertaining guests at dinner with professional talent has been growing in America for the past fifteen years, and last winter found It la the fullness of Its popularity. And these entertainers come high. An urt -Ist who has made any kind of a hit with a concert hall audience demands anywhere from SSO to SI,OOO for an hour's work. Bays one dramatic agenti "Sooner or later most of the season's domestic and imported naughtiness gels Into the homes of the rich an/1 the fashionable. Generally the real wick ed ones are hooked to do their turns before a small, solocted company ot guests—Just the Intimate friends of the host or hostess, who can be trusted to keep what they have seen to them selves. "Curious tiling about It, too," tho agent went on; "our best business is done during I-ont. You wouldn't think It, would you? But it's so, and has been for the last two or three years. While society Is doing penance and goes about in sackcloth and ashes he fore men, It is being entertained In its drawing rooms and dining rooms by artists whose work In the winter has made them famous or Infamous, which ever way you want to look at It. "I am Inclined to believe that tho ten dency for what the world calls 'ques tionable performances' Is growing. That Is as far as the private entertain ments are concerned. The young folk —the buds—who a few years ago were satisfied with the parlor elocutionist type crave something a bit stronger now. especially in Lent. We gave then) the beat—or the worst—wo had last year, and I don't suppose they will lie content with any Sunday school benefit this year." Uoolili Boon succeed weak nCUlin neea and languor when 45 + Pam rr+lt*^ o°d 0 °d' 8 Barsaparilla is tlCllgJ lf| taken to purify, enrich and vitalizo tho blood. Hood's Barsapa rflla expels tho germs, of sorofula, salt rheum and other poisons which cause so much suffering and sooner or Inter under mine the general health. It strengthens tho system whilu it cradteates disease. Hood's parilla Ih the bent—in fact theOneTrue I)lood Purifier. " ol Full Information (In plaiu wrapper; untiled free. /some years I was | / quite out of health, ami 1 \ / took much medicine 1 V \ f which did me 110 good. 11 MMpH \ \ / was advised by a friend to! \ I try Ayer's Sarsaparilla! \ \ I which I did, taking a dozen! / #V lor more bottles before stop-! I ping. The result was tliat i! /felt so well and strong! I / that I, of course, think there is \ / 1 Ino medicine equal to Ayer's Bar-y / Ar \| If I saparllla, and I take great pains \ [,, f 1 / Ito tell any suffering friend of it and \ M* \ I \ j /what It did for me."—Mrs. L. A. \ V Mj \ */\ j M L'RUAV, Kllbourn.Wls., Feb. 11.1896. \ I i V \ WEIGHTY WORDS jg W Ayer's Sarsaparilla. H Tho Old Greek Costume. Men often wore the liiinatlon alone, without chiton. The cblamye, onothex rectangular garment, shorter than the liimation, weighted at the corners, and fastened by a brooch so that one oornex hung dawn in front, was worn by men, with or without the chiton. It is espe cially weil shown in the horsemen on the frieze of the Parthenon. Occasionally Diana, or an Amazon, wears the chlamys, but it is the dis tinctive garment of the young Greek. Hands, belts and fillets were much worn. Men and women wound fillets around their heads. Women wore, of ten undec their chiton, a breast band adjusted below the bosom, not to com j press the form, but to protect the or gans. Indeed, there was no tempta tion to compress the waist, the flowing drapery veiling the waist. The band which confined the short, or caught up the long chiton, was also of cloth, but the outer belt, holding In the loose folds of the upper part of the long chi ton, was often of gold enriched with jewels, and alwaya beautifully adorn ed. Great care was taken of the hair; In deed, a mysterious virtue' was suppos ed to lie in the locks, which, carefully washed and perfumed, were one of tho bodily graces of the Greek. Women often wore elaborate head-dressee; many were revived In the latter part of the Eighteenth century and the first of the Nineteenth. Out of doors the head was covered either by folds of the peplos brought over the head and around the throat, or by a separate veil, sometimes thick, sometimes tliln, —Arthur's Ilouie Magazine. Unnecessary Noise. This Is a noisy world. All nature'® Operations are accompanied by more or less noise, so that even In "the quiet country" uninterrupted silence seldom reigns. In the city the din is almost insupportable; It has Increased very much during the last helf century be cause of the vast amount of machinery employed, and the use of electric and steam power. Now night brings the city no respite, and how much of the nervousness and insomnia of tho pres ent decade is due to this Increase of noise might be an Interesting subject for the study of sanitarians. Human ity adjusts itself usually to all neces sary noises, and even becomes mo ac customed to certain sounds that many cannot sleep when the noise ceases. The noise which is most disturbing is that heard close at hand and unusual. A few nights of sleeplessness a short time ago led me to think the slamming of doors with creaking hinges, the rut tling of blinds, creaking shoes, with noisy, heavy walking, were the most distracting and annoying noises. Next to this is loud conversation and whis pering. The inventor of a noiseless shoe, and elastic door casings, which will enable people to shut or slam floors hard yet without noise, will con>- fer a great boon upon nervous human ity. In the meantime, all persons, es pecially at night, should wear felt or ?ork-solod or other soft slippers. All floors and locks should be kept well Diled, and every one should try to cul tivate the art of shutting doors as noise lessly as possible. The Capitol's Weather Map. The immensity of the rotunda im presses the vieltor at the Capitol, the frescoes are attractive, the turbulence of the House and tire quiet dign-i/ty of the Senate are interesting in their con trast, hut, after all, the feature of uni versal interest in the white-domed bundling Ls the weather apparatus. 14 is something novel to glance at a map which tells you whether it is raining oi snowing, sunshiny or cloudy in Mon tana, Illinois or lx>uUUuia, or any where else in this broad land. You can tell whether the friends whom you left at home are wearing mackintoshes oi airing their spring clothes under blue skies, while even the temporatftire and the direction of the wind are recorded. But the map is uot the only feature. There ls something mysterious In the cabalistic characters which are traced on revolving cylinders, F~3END FOR OUR LARGE ILLUSTftATED CATALOGUE. 'DON'T BORROW TROUBLE." BUY SAPOLIO 'TIS CHEAPER IN Tf* END. Hones in a Silver Vein. I If the lind of a Colorado silver mil* | or, made half a dozen years ago, be . taken into account, there Is but llttk doubt that the human race existed on tills continent as long ago as the Unw when the sliver veins were In process of formation. In the Rocky Point | mine, at Oilman, 400 feet below the i surface, a number of human bone* were found imbedded In the silver bearing ores. When taken out ovei SIOO worth of ore still clung to the bones. 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