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Canada has preserved the famous
Plains of Abraham by paying the nom
inal rent of SIOO a year, but this ar
rangement is now brokeu, and the
field has been surveyed for building
lots. Hosts of Americans will join
the Canadians in protesting against
the transformation of the historic bat
tlefield into a thickly settled suburb
of Quebec.
The organization of a naval reservo I
in Houoliiln, whioh to about to be tin* j
dertaken with the full approval of
Secretary Long, is a thoroughly com- I
mendablo movement. The organiza- :
tion of such a body at that port along j
the lines which have been followed by !
the reserves in this country will pro- i
vide an emergency force at one of the
most important of all our naval out
posts, aud there may betimes when it
almost incalculable use
fulness to National interests in the
Pacific ocean. The project is an un
mistakable sign that the process of
Americanizing Hawaii is making rapid
headway.
Bronze monuments in London have 1
a hard time of it, and so have those j
whose duty it is to keep such brouzes 1
iu good order. Boehm's statue of |
Carlyle stauds ou the Chelsea Lin- I
bankment, where with smoke soot, j
acid exhalations aud dampness Car
lyle was soon coated with oxides. ;
Chelsea officials did not understand
the lino effects of a pat in e. They
scrubbed Carlylo and got him clean,
and next p.iiuted him black, following
Fronde's ways. There came much
fault-finding. Then the Chelesa au
thorities removed the paint, re
ecrubbed Carlyle over again, and he
now appears as a mottled philosopher.
The Prince of Wales has organized
a "League of Mercy," with the imme
diate object of promoting the Loudon
hospital fuud which bears his name,
and to organize all workers in this
and similar ca.ises. In this connec
tion an "Order of Mercy" has been
established, which will be conferred
as a reward for gratuitons personal
services rendered in the relief of sick
ness aud suffering. None can be ad
mitted to the order without the sanc
tion of the queen, and the decoration
of the order may be worn on all occa
sions, but gives uo rank. It is dis
tinctly stated that personal service
ou!y and not gifts of money will re
ceive merit from this order.
The Conue ticut savings banks in
creased their deposits last year by
)7,512,700, a id of this sum 37, lb 1,082
came in deposits of 31000 aud more.
Only 3018,0: ■*, in other words, came
from deposits of less than 81000.
How much of this came from deposits
of over $500? The statistics do not
follow the matter down to that point.
Enough is shown, however, to indi
cate that the savings banks of Con
necticut are existing today largely for
the accommodation of the wealthy
classes. Of the total deposits of
$103,182,408, only $03,511,003 stands
to the account of persons whose de
posits are les i than 810 <O. More than
$54,000,000 is to the account of indi
vidual d posits above 82000. The
Norwich Lime Savings society has one
individual depo- it. of 871," >7, andthe
Norwit li . i ~e - .wi ,L:S bank lias one
deposit of 12,001. Several other
banks carry single deposits in excess
of 820, ''.I . There are not less than
271 individual do; o-it in the savings
batik A of Connecticut above SIO,OOO,
aud 1". ,112 between S2OOO and $lO,-
()()'. There am as many as 33,028 in
dividual ucc u itr. of from SIOOO ta
S2OOO. _______
vitlaten Tan to.
"I suppose," she said, "yuu are a
close student of literature?" "No," an
swered the young man with blaek
rimmed glasses, "I'm a student of 11-
literature. I like dialect stories."—
Washington Star.
TVhr She Is; Popular.
"You say the popular Miss Smftfc
can play the piano. I never heard
her." "That's just the point. She can
but she doesn't."
THE NANIGOS OF CUBA.
True Story of the Infamous Secret Criminal Society That
Has Terrorized the Island.
THE RITUAL CAREFULLY GUARDED.
j Considerable mention has been made
I of the oircuuistauce that all the naui
gos, the notorious criminal class of
Cuba, were members of certain secret
societies, about whose character and
aims little is known here, and not a
great deal more in the island in which
they flourish.
For mauy years it was believed there
that the nanigos were a kind of Ivu
Klux Society, whose members were
banded together for the purpose of in
juring their white neighbors. What
gave rise to this belief, and for a long
time supported it, was the circum
stance that all the nanigos were col
j ored men, but for more than thirty
j years past white men have been asso
ciated with them. From documents
| discovered by the police, and seen by
j the writer of this article, it appears
that in 18C5, whenJGeneral Dulce gov
erned the island, White Lodge (Juego j
| de Blaucos) number two was founded,
j Whence it is deducted that lodge num
| ber one was already in existence.
| Nor are these societies political as
-1 sociatious devoted to a common end.
In the separatist conspiracies the nani
gos took no part as a body. There
j were separatist nanigos, as there were
! nanigos who were loyal to Spain, and
: there are nanigos of Spanish birth.
That the nanigos have pursued no
j common political or religious aim there
is incontestable proof, which is that
each lodge is absolutely separate from
and independent of every other. There
is no hierarchy, no species of grand
lodge or centre of action and govern
ment, Not only are the lodges not
friendly, but they are frequently hos
tile to one another. In Havana, when
it is known that there has been a mid
night brawl in some out-of-the-way
quarter, some one will be sure to say,
"that is because the Ecori Opo Lodge
has declared war upon the Eviou
i Lodge."
| Nor is it even certain that these so
cieties are recruited exclusively from
, the criminal classes. The nanigos
are not, indeed, models of propriety;
I hut not all,or even the greater number,
; are professional thieves, or gamblers,
or assassius, or men without settled
j occupation. There are nanigos who
; follow a trade, aiul many of them are
1 cooks, barbers, bag-makers and
butchers. There have also been in-
I stances of young men of the upper
classes who, from curiosity or a spirit
of adventure, or from that morbid
tendency which leads certain men of
culture to seek associates among the
scum of society, have joined the
lodges of the nanigos.
! There is one trait common to all
the nanigos—..hey are ostentatiously
j courageous. To be a member of the
society is to be accredited a brave
I man. The reputation, deserved or
not. of courage, gives prestige among
the women of the lowest class, and
| credit among the men of the populace.
I Where no one is anyone, to come to
I be a lianigo is to be someone.
! But what was the origin of this in
stitution? Were its founders the
| guapcs—that is, the men of strength
and brutality, in the lower classes—
or the criminals? Neither the one
; nor the other, for it is thought that
the first nanigos were Africans; slaves
some, others free, who banded togeth
er to practice tho idolatrous rites they
had brought from Africa.
What tends in some degree to
strengthen this opinion is tho African
1 character of some of the ceremonies
and of the vocabulary in use among
the nanigos. It is said that they sac
rifice black liens, stripped of their
feathers, and that in the places where
they hold their meetings there is a
log called the Palos IMecongo, which
is for them what the altar is for
others. This is what is said, but uo
one who is not a nanigo can declare
; positively that he has seen all this,
or that he has any certain knowledge
of their ceremonies. The nanigo?
have never been brought to public
i trial in Cuba, nor has this curious in
: stitution ever been thoroughly stud
ied. Nanigos have been tried by the
summary methods of the police courts,
but the declarations drawn from them
j by torture or threats have thrown but
; little light upon them. Not even the
1 origin of the word nanigo is known,
j Some hold it to be purely African,
| others Cuban; others say that it is
| African-Portuguese.
! The nanigos have net a complete
! vocabulary of slang, like the argot of
toe French, or the ealo of the Spanish
criminal classes. They use, it may
be, a limited number of words having
' a double meaning, but still Spanish
i words. Their vocabulary is restricted,
and also is composed of strange, bar
barous words that have no connection
with toe Spanish language, and that
: have, in all probability, come from the
Congo or from Guinea; such as, eu
| cocoro, ntaquenanoue, manfunniua.
! Some os their songs are no less Af
rican in character; and there are
among them airs so original, oi such
wild force or such plaintive sweetness,
that they would make the reputation
! of a composer of foreign melodies.
I What takes place at their cere
i monies, what prayers they offer up
| before the Palo Mecougo, whether
! this is for them the image of God, or
j of one of their heroes, or whether it is
! a mere fetish, are questions which
cannot be answered any more than
one can explain the fact that mauy
1 nanigos profess religion, or the spe-
I cies of mental hnlueination which
leads Europeaus and descendants of
! Europeans, bfought up in the faith,
I to take up African idolatry. Re
; gardiug these point nothing positive
I is known in Cuba.
In the localities, however, where
people of doubtful character live—
those who in Spain are called the
clausula—the residents generally know
who are and who are not nanigos, and
the police know also, although they
have frequently made persons appeal
as such who were innocent of the
charge. According to the police, the
nanigos are known by an indelible
blue mark whioh they tattoo on the
back of the hand between the thumb
and index-finger, and there have been
periods during which the police have
arrested hundreds of i persons in the
streets to examine their hands. If
these had a blue mark they were put
in prison. Sailors with tattooed marks
have sometimes been victims of this
method of pursuiug nanigos, although
they did not belong to any secret so
ciety whatever. The real nanigos
have declared that the blue marks
proved nothing; that they were not a
necessary requisite for membership in
societies; anil that it would be a mis
take for the nanigos to mark them
selves in away that would serve to
betray them. The police, however,
have continued to regard with great
suspicion the blue marks, and the
plucked hens also. Wheu one of
these is seen in the yard of a house it
is concluded that a nanigo lodge is
celebrating its rites within.
Some years ago, a Governor of
Havana, General Rodriguez Batista,
boasted of having put an end by
peaceable means to these secret so
cieties. The heads of the.lodges de
livered up to him the idols, drums
and other paraphernalia of their
worship; the press eulogized Seuor
Rodriguez Batista highly, without
taking the trouble to find out what
arguments he might have used to
produce such speedy results. But
within a short time after the Gover
nor's departure for Madrid the
nanigos were again in the field. Under
General Weyler's rule, aided by the
circumstance that the existing state of
war permitted the condemnation of
accused persons without trial, that is,
the employment of the authority of
the police instead of the action of the
courts, measures were taken to clear
Havana of nanigos. About a thousand
i persons were deported to Spain; and,
according to the declarations of the
| police, there remained in the city some
I 7000 more.
Of the thousand persons sent to
Spain, it is not certain that all, or even
I the greater part belonged to the
association, and there arc strong
j reasons for believing that many mis
i takes were made. Any one who had
I talked with the nanigos in the prisons
; of Havana, in the vessels in which
• they were transported to Spain, or in
1 the Peninsula, afterwards, will have
: heard many cf them say: "I was a
member; but there are many here who
; were not members." They also gave
the names, the occupation and the age
I of the victims.
I The method employed to determine
| who should be transported could not
!be more defective than it was. There
j was no trial, nor anything resembling
one. No proofs, no defence, no wit
nesses, no publicity. Every Saturday
, tho Chiefs of Police of all the districts
• met together. Each one presented
] the list of persons arrested by him as
; supposed nauigos. If a magistrate
was interested in any one arrested by
| order of audthor magistrate, he spoke
j in favor of his protege, who was set at
liberty. In Havana it was regarded
jas certain that the police accepted
I money from those arrested. It is be
-1 yond a doubt that the mauner of liv
ing of all the police officials—in
spectors, wardens, etc.. this not in
accordance with the modest salaries
j which they received,
j The government of Madrid lias been
. blamed without reason for having sent
back to Cuba the men thus deported
as nauigos. Ilaviug renounced her
• authority over the island, Spain could
j not retain in her prisons persons over
i whom slio no longer exercised any
1 species of jurisdiction, and who, be
sides, had not been condemned by any
j regular court.
j Tho fault was not in sending them
I back to Cuba, but iu having taken
! them thence solely on the warrant of
I a police that had by 110 means therepu
tion of being over-scrupulous.
I It is probable that under the new
I rule uauiguria will disappear, for it is
' plain that its environment, bothpoliti-
I cal and social, has contributed to the
preservation of the association. The
population of Cuba is composed of
1 three elements—the European, the
1 American, aud the African. 111 tho
contact of races it is not one race only
that is influenced and that undergoes
modification. The European, and still
! more the American, of the poor aud
! ignorant classes iu Cuba, has become
j Afrancanized. He has taken from the
African words for his vocabulary and
music for his songs. The rites of the
nauigos show that he has also accepted
something of his idolatry, a symptom
which tells what would have been the
I condition'of the island if there had not
been a constant and abundant infusion
I into its population of other blood.
, Thanks to this infusion, Cuba and
I Porto Rico are the only tropical coun
j tries capable of an organization simi
lar to that of the European States.—
I New York Post.
From an Obituary Notice.
1 "He was a man of great persever
j ance anil enterprise. Nearly three
years ago he buried his wife, with
' whom he had been united in marriage
' almost fifty years."—New York Com
| uierciel Advertiser.
A TERRIBLE SACRAMENT
CLASS EATINC A RELIGIOUS CERE"
MONY AMONG ARABS OF TUNIS.
Altera Wlltl, Barbaric Dance, the De
votees While in a State of Dcstucy Mas
ticate nn<l Swallow Broken Glass-
Boys Partnkoof the Jagged Morsel.
The Cornhilt Magazine gives the
following account of u remarkable ex
hibition of religious glass eating re
sently witnessed among the Arabs of
Tunis, in Northern Afiiea:
As the music rose to a crescendo,
and tko rhythm became mere frantic
and involved, the dancers got visibly
tnoro excited and less conscious of
their surroundings, their eyes taking
on a fixed and vacant expression.
Then the lender of the dance applied
what seomed to be the most offeotive
and culminating intoxicant; at each
ictus in the dance all the heads were
strained forward and everyono gave a
deep staccato groan, like the roor of a
wild beast, while the blood rnshod to
tho head, and the muscles of the neck
were strung like ropes under the
Btrain,
It was not long before this produced
the result for which all were waiting.
A man of about thirty, wiry and thin,
with a small head, tore himself from
the line of dancers and rushed up to
one of the two stewards standing in
tho open space. Tho steward un
wound his turban and held him for a
raiuuto in a fraternal embrace. With
his turban the man seemed to have
doffed most of his humanity; his
small face almost covered with black
hair, his bristling whiskers, his blue
shaven scalp, with tho little pigtail of
black hair flapping behind at every
movement; nbove nil, the lips,
stretched across his large whito teeth,
like those of a snarling dog, all gave
the impression of something ultra
huraau—at once sublime and bestial.
Then bent nearly double, feeling
with outstretched arms, blinded by
his ecstasy, he groped his -way down
tho open line between dancers and
musicians to the other steward. This
man held in ono hand a largo cloth
filled with pieces of broken glass.
One of these he took out and held in
his right hand at arm's length. The
ecstatic as ho approached glared sav
agely at the glass, gnashed his teeth,
and stretched out his head; but he
drew back. The religious intoxica
tion was not quite complete, and Borne
glimmerings of common-sense stand
ards still struggled in his disordered
brain. Ho rushed back to the first
steward, was again embraced by him,
and again crept back along the line.
Still the jagged shining glass wastoo
terrible.
Backwards and forwards ho went,
sometimes groping along slowly,
sometimes with the stealthy rush of a
tiger stalking its prey. At last, when
the eager gesture of his outstretched
neck made it clear that no vestigo of
reluctance remained, the steward
clapped tho glass into his mouth and
held his hand over it for a second.
The devotee rushed back, as it were
for consolation, to the first steward,
and held him in a tight embrace, For
some time he remained so, making
strange, incoherent gestures with his
arms, while tho steward, gradually
lifted up his head, proceeded to mas
sago his faco and throat.
When his head was raised, the man
was still chewing and swallowing the
horrible mouthful. After he had re
covered himself somewhat, his turban
was wound round his head, and he
was lifted and shoved back into tho
line of dancers, where ho went on
jigging up and down, his head falling
now on one shoulder, now on the
other, with a blank, listless look in
his face.
After this first example of frenzied
devotion, the spell of foar seemed to
be broken, and ono after another tho
dancers left tho lino (the dance never
ceasing for an instant, and tho music
keeping up its maddening din) and
rushed at the steward' wlio held the
glass and dealt out piece after piece.
Soon even tho hoys took part in it,
and ono handsome fellow of sixteen
came up and stretched out toward the
jagged morsel, as though it was lor
him the bread of life. For the most
part, too, they seemed to chow and
swallow it with increasing ease, and
the first steward had . little to do but
wind on their turbans and put them
back into tho lino of dancers. Then
the man who had first eaten, and who
had meanwhile recovered his tone,
came back for a second, and a little
while after for a third mouthful; but
the freuzy was increasing upon him,
and ho had to be hold by three or four
Arabs, who rushed up from tho sides
to help the steward.
It became a football scrimmage, and
tho four men had to put out all their
strength to collar and throw him. Fin
ally he was held down on tho floor in
a sort of epileptic fit, throwing his
limbs about wildly, and literally bark
ing like a huge dog. Tho ecstasy was
too mnoh for him, and he had become
a savage beast.
Ncr was bo tho only one who be
camo unmanageable under tho intoxi
cating influences of dnaco and music.
Sometimes, it is true, when n devotee
was exceeding tho usual bounds, bis
growing excitement conld bo instantly
assuaged by nfew words from tho writ
ings of tho saint whispered into his car
by the steward; but in spite of this
severnl broke loose, and one in es
pecial alarmed us by making his way
round the mosque towards our party.
Fortunately, he was thrown and sat
npon by assistants before he could
reach us, as it is supposed that an
Isawiyah will tear women in pieces
when too powerfully worked upon by
tho "divine" influence.
When the service was over, and the
mosque gradually emptied, we saw
threo or lour of these victims of tho
"divine" frenzy lying about on the
floor, by that time quite calm and ex-
liausted, and only groaning and bark
ing fitfully.
Meauwliil# the glass-eating went on
more and more rapidly, and at its
height a little boy, nbout four years
old, was lifted up to partake of the ter
rible sacrament.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Dr. Negro, of Turin, has succeeded
in curing one linnclred out of one
hnndred and thirteen cases of soiatica
by digital pressure over the painful
part. The pressure is applied with
all possible force for fifteen or twenty
seconds and is repeated for the same
length of time aftor an interval of a
few minutes. In many cases six
treatments are all that is necessary.
Dr. Walter Fisher writes to the
Lnncet from the Lovalo Country,
Africa, that Professor Koch's state
ment that "the treatment of black
water fever with quinine must abso
lutely cease" is calculated to do much
harm. After eight years of experi
ence with African malarious fevers,
he is convinced that if quinine is not
used in severe cases, the death-rate
will increase to an enormous extent.
He never gives more than thirty
grains, however, during the first
twenty-four hours, and only gives it
when the temperature is falling or is
below 102 degrees.
Three-fifths of the world's produc
tion of wood alcohol and acetate of
lime are made in tho United States,
where fully 15,000 acres are cleared
for the purpose anuually. The enor
mous demand for wood alcohol is ac
counted for by tho fact that it affords
a perfect substituto for grain alcohol,
at less than one-third the cost. Be
sides its use as a solvent in the mak
ing of shellac, varnish, celluloid,
photographic paper, etc., it makes
many beautiful dye tints. From its
antiseptic qualitios it is also much in
request in surgery and medicine. It
enters largely into the composition of
some liniments, and it is the favorite
form of alcohol usod for skin rnbbiug
and bathhouses.
Improvement of tho gas engine
seems to offer a promising field for
some inventor. The exhaust gases in
the average engine are heated to
about 950 degrees Fahrenheit, and a
technical authority calculates that a
reduction of this to 300 degrees, with
tho same initial temperature, would
iuorcaso the theoretical efficiency
from fifty-three to seventy-six per
cent. External refrigeration is
though to be a necessary evil. lit
present practice, the lossos by radia
tion and conduction are nbout sixty
five per cent., and only nbout seven
teen per cent, of the total heat of com
bustion is converted into available
power, and an almost equal percentage
passes uselessly away with the ex
haust gases.
A German paper devoted to wood
working interests states that in se
lecting timber it is of the greatest irn
portunce to ascertain whether the tree
from which it is taken was cut in the
winter or in the summer; that which
is cut in the winter being superior
and having a higher value. The rea
son for that is that trees have a rest
ing period between October and May,
during which time the cells contain
starch that is not fouud in the sum
mer. The starch serves to close the
pores, making the wood close and
impenetrable, so that winter-hewn
timber is used exclusively for making
barrel staves. To test the timber it is
covered with an iodide solution,
which, from the well-known fact that
starch coming into contact with iodide
produces a violet color, will give the
timber a yellow color if it were cut in
the summer. On the other hand, a
tree hewn in the winter will have a
series of dark, ink-colored stripes on
a yellow ground.
Couldn't Cntcli Ilcr.
Mr. Tnrveydrop has, up to very re
cently, considered Himself quite
clover, and nothing so pleases him as
to get the best of some unsuspecting
person.
For a long time his wife had been
in need of a new muff; after hinting
to her lord that her happiness would
never bo completed till she had one,
bo at last decided to gratify her de
sire.
So he went into a shop and picked
out a couple, one of which was cheap
and tho other very expensive.
Upon these lie changed the price
tickets, putting the cheap price mark
on the expensive muff, and vice versa,
and then took them home.
For a long time his wife pondered,
and at last said:
"Now, dear, the expensive muff is
a beauty, and it is really very good
of you to allow me my choice. Some
women would take it without a word,
but really I don't think wo can afford
the more costly one; and, besides, I
think the cheap one is more stylish,
too. Why, dear, what is tho matter?
Are you ill?"
But "dear" had fled into the night,
where, unseen, he could abuse him
self to his heart's content. —Pearson's
Weekly.
Knfllr English.
An educated Kaffir visited the otlior
day tho editorial office of tho Times
of Swaziland, and, in reply to a ques
tion as to tho harvest prospects in that
district, said: "The copious downfall
of rain which wo have had during the
past fortnight has relieved to an ap
preciable extent the calamitous conse
quences which were heretofore loom
ing in tho distance." —Westminster
Gazette.
ITealthioftt Spot on Earth.
The healthiest spot in tho world
seems to be a little hamlet in France
named Aumone. There are only forty
inhabitants, twenty-five of whom are
eighty years of age and one is over one
hundred.
NEWS AND NOTES!
j| FOR WOMEN. I
j
j Flowers For Seals.
I If yon are artistically inclined a
very pretty and novel way of sealing
your letters is to form flowers with
various colors of wax, thus doing
away with the old-fashioned mono
gram. Pansies are very easily formed
by first using violet wax, giving slight
curves to the outer edges, and then
white or yellow in the centre, twirling
it around a few times to produce a de
cided pansy effeot. Hoses are easily
made by using the different shades of
pink. If the seal is brought to a
thin, sharp stem when finishing the
effect will be greatly heightened.
Daintily Perfumed Lingerie.
Sachets of lavender and of violet
powder are popular to lay in drawers
among clothing. Perhaps even nicer
are pieces of pumice stouo saturated
with some perfume. A delicious
scent for this purpose is made of half
an ounce of whole orris root and two
ounoes of spirits of wine.
Be sure that the orris root is the
real thing, and that it is frosh. Pound
and break it up into little pieces, and
let it remain in the spirit several days.
Then use it to saturate the pumice
stone, and place it among your cloth
ing. It will fill your room with the
delicious odor of fresh violets.
Advice to Stout Women,
It has ofteu been urged, but it
seems well to emphasize by much
repetition that women of generous
proportions should invaribly renouueo I
all of these rouud-waisted styles, no i
matter how beautiful they appear 011
some other slenderer figure, or how
universally tho rage for them in
creases. Adopting these waists is not
a matter of age, for the young, the
mature, aud the elderly find them
comfortable aud useful. It is simply
a matter of figure, and, for women in
clined to stoutness, there are many
close, trim, ar.il attractive models
which make them look better and
slenderer than any of tho "rcuud"
styles, festooned with net, draped
with lace, aud finished with circling
ribbon, bells and bows, which cut off
the apparent length of the waist by
two or three inches.
The Summer Shirt-Waists.
Some pretty shirt-waist models
have been designed for the summer,
some of them showing a deep sailor
collar, joined to pointed revers that
reach tho belt in front; the entire
piece of woven guipure lace, with
cuffs and girder to match. These
trimmings adorn pique, linen and
duck waists, as well as those of
tafi'eta, foulard, or wash silk; other
styles are trimmed with very hand
some Swiss or Irish point cm
broideries. Again waists are seen
with removable vests, stock collars
and girdles of Liberty satin. Besides
tbese are countless morning vests
formed of India linen, percale, dimity,
bishops' lawn, fine qualities of dotted
and cross-barred muslin, plain and
fancy swivel silk and zephyr gingham.
The majority of these resemble as
nearly as possible a boy's shirt-waist,
with a single plait down the front, a
few gathers on each side of this plait
and on the shoulders, and a double
pointed yoke on the back. The regular
shirt sleeve is shaped with but little
fulness on the shoulder, and the
entire model is small aud extremely
plain.
Sniuiner Gauzes.
The cloudlike silk muslin that prom
ises to be the most fashionable sum
mer ball gowns have full-blown roses
iu two shades of pink or in yellow aud
red on their faint blue, deep cream or
lemon-tinted backgrounds. Zephyr
ginghams and piques, with damask
stripes or flower patterns, are going
to have the first choice in wash goods,
while all tho colored cotton goods
from Scotland show smnll plaids iu
two colors with shirred stripes.
Soft sashes of gauzes, with ruffled
ends, appear on some of tho now
gowns, falling in front or at one side,
which is prophetic of Empire styles
again, and gauze scarfs. It is prom
ised, too, that the skirts of the thin
summer gowns shall be elaborately
ruffled or ruched in the form of an
overdress or tunio variously shaped
at the bottom and rounded up over
dress fashion at the sides. Other
hints reveal the double and triple as
one of the featnres in thin gowns.
Lace insertions, arranged iu various
squirming designs, and the lovers'
knot in particular, with the material
cut out underneath, will be lavishly
used to decorate organdies, batistes
and other thin fabrics. Narrow rib
bon, both gathered and plain, bids
fair to extend its popularity as a
trimming through another season.
The Southern Girl.
In concluding an editorial inspired
by a Southern girl's regret that she
cannot go to college, Edward Bok, iu
tho Ladies' Home Journal, has this to
say of the girls of the Southland:
"The Southern girl is surrounded by
a life far truer and more conducive
to self-development than girls living
iu other sections, because social con
ditions are more normal. Her life is
healthier because it is saner, and her
mind, by reason of it, is clearer and
more constantly at rest. The rush of
life of the North and West is not so
stimnlating as many Southern girls
suppose. On the contrary, it wears
women out as often as it develops
them. In no part of our country do
women look younger at maturity than
in the South. To the Southern girl,
too, nature bloomß in a profusion as
Bhe does nowhere else. The natural
history which the Northern girl must
get out of books the Southern girl
gets direct from nature's owu hand.
She is boru of a scil as rich aud
coloviul in romautio history as is the
literature of Spain. This she receives
as a natural heritage. Her parents
are, and her ancestors were, among
the best types of American chivalry
and American womanhood. She hears
but one language spoken, and that is
her own. If there is the introduction
of another tongue it is French, and
with these two sb can travel the
world over and litfter be at a dis
advantage. The religion which she
learns from her mother is the highest
and best because it is untainted with
modern 'revelations.' The truest
friend and safest teacher in 'highest
living' a girl can have is her mother,
and in the South mothers have away
of finding time for their daughters
and being companions to them. The
Southern father is fond of his children,
and proves it by his presence at the
domestic hearth after his day's busi
ness is over."
Melba'a Excuse For Being Late.
When Mme. Melba went to the
Grand Opera House the other night,
not as a performer but as a listuer,
there was a slight delay about her ar
rival. She did not reach her box in
time for the opening bars of "I Pa
gliaoci," and everybody wondered.
But the great songstress was ar
ranging a happy event for a bedrag
gled young girl who had blocked her
entrance to the Opera House. Just
as she alighted at the canvas awning
she caught sight of the upturned face
of a girl standing in the pouring rain
waiting for a glimpse of her. She
was only a poor factory girl, who lived
somewhere in the unfashionable
neighborhood of the Grand Opera
House. Even for her class she was
not very well dressed, nor very well
bred; but she had the divine love of
music in her heart and in lier eyes,
and Melba caught the gratifying light
of true hero worship.
The groat singer did not ask the
management to pass in this stray ad
mirer, as she might have done, and so
have gained for the girl an uncom
fortable hour in the back row of the
well-dressed orchestra chairs. She
had too much consideration, even for
such a lowly guest.
With a softly spoken, "Come with
me," she led the girl up to the box
window of the gallery, and procured
her a seat, for which she herself paid
with two big silver dollars. Then
Melba quickly sought her own jiro
| sceuium box, from a corner of which
she smiled softly to herself several
times during some of Chalia's best
songs, as she recalled the look she
had brought to the eyes of her damp
and bedraggled protege.—San Fran
cisco News Letter.
Gosaip.
Miss Cons is an Alderman of tlie
London County Council.
Miss Leigh Spencer, of British
Columbia, is a mining broker.
There aro twenty-three English
women practicing medicine in India.
In Austro-Hnngary abont 3,000,000
women are engaged in industrial pur
suits.
Sarah Bernhardt was once intended
for a milliner, and came very near to
being sent to a shop to learn the
trade.
When the Empress of China travels
she carries with her 3000 dresses,
filling GOO boxes, in chargo of 1200
coolies.
Women in Great Britain are well
represented in the professions and
trades, and about 4,ooo,oooearn their
own living.
A successful firm of tea merchants
in London is composed entirely of
women. The blenders, ta3ters and
packers are also women.
MissGwendoluN. D. ICelley, of Col
umbus, Ohio, is at work on a minia
ture of Mrs. McKinley, which is in
tended by the sitter as a gift to the
President.
There are twenty women who are
pastors in the lowa yearly Friends'
(Quakers') meeting, and they are re
ported to be doing good work, and
are well suited to their field of labor.
Mrs. Leonard Wood, the wife of
General Wood, interested herself in
her husband's work when he was an
army surgeon, and under his direc
tion read medicine to such good pur
pose that it is now said she could eas
ily secure a diploma from any medi
cal college.
niranlti~s From tho Shops.
Satin-bordered squares of soft, light
wool suitings for summer.
Sashes of variously colored crepe do
chene with long fringed ends.
Every variety of untrimmed hat
shapes in chips and tuseau braids.
Embroidered swiss muslins show
ing faiicy stripes of colored figures.
Summer gowns trimmed with nu
merous flounces cut in deep scallops.
Golf score-looks made of leather iu
various colors and prettily decorated.
New style blazer coats with white
revers and black satin braid trim
ming.
Linen lawns in conventional pat
terns on a white, blue or black found
ation.
Sailor suits for children, appropri
ately trimmed with gilt braid and em
blems.
Pompadour pekin taffetas showing
riohly colored stripes on various dark
colors.
Delicately colored chiffonettes
showing clusters of silken cord in
contrast.
White silk parasols covered with
black velvet appliques cut in the form
of crescents.
Beady-made sleeves of net ap
pliqued with lace or lace alone in
some striking pattern.
Pretty oameo-striped chiffons ia
combinations of blue, nile, mauve and
yellow with white. —Dry Goods Econo-
I mist.