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According to the St. Paul Globe a
man tvlio spent a couple of hours the
other day waiting for his wife at a
bargain sale was asked by his better
half after they had escaped what he
thought was the cheapest thing he
saw, and he was not far from right
in saying that he was.
Then 1 is unusual activity among in
ventors at present in the effort to
produce machines for mathematical
purposes, and perhaps the largest
number of applications received at I
the patent office for any one line of j
inventions these days are patents for I
improvements on adding machines.
One of the amusing features of a
popular farce comedy is the stealing
of a hot kitchen stove, but it remained
for some enterprising Montana thieves
to get away with S3OOO worth of gold
amalgam red hot from the retort. It
would be Interesting to know how
they suddenly reduced the tempera
ture of this loot.
Prom the list of peddlers have come
some of the greatest captains of
finance. Jay Gould began business as
a peddler of rat traps, while Collis P.
Huntington's first business venture
was as a peddler of clocks. They sold
excellent rat traps and clocks, and
thus laid the foundation of their mam
moth fortunes.
The San Francisco Gall takes occa
sion to throw this light on the charac
ter of a newspaper: "It is a member
of the social state with no lower func
tion in morals than the pulpit itself,
and, through its superior command
of publicity, with a greater power for
usefulness, provided it be controlled
by purity and courage."
There are many people who pass
' through exposures to contagion of ty
phoid fever and kindred diseases with
out suffering the least harm. This often
leads them to deny the existence of
the dangers on which physicians insist
so strenuously. Professor Vlreliow.of
the University of Berlin, has pub
lished au article in which he accounts
for the immunity of the many who
withstand exposure by saying that
a person in perfect health has no cause
to fear microbes.
It is a fact that many young men
to-day desire to reach the goal of suc
cess at once, and success, as they un
derstand it, means the acquisition of
great wealth. That such young men
should rail at the modern methods of
business is entirely natural, for, ex
cept in rare instances, great fortunes
are made only by exceptionally able
men, who are ready if need be to work
like a galley slave twelve or fourteen
hours a day for the best part of their
lives, observes the New York Tribune.
President Charles P. Thwing, of
Western Reserve University, Cleve
land, recently oelivered an address be
fore the University of West Virginia
on "The American University and Pa
triotism." He said, in brief: "The
higher, the larger, the finer the motive,
the greater is the appeal which it
makes to the heart of the college man.
The universities have ever been the
nurse of the widest spirit of humanity.
In feudal times they were a protest
against feudalism, and in modern
times and over the modern world they
have embodied the aggressive spirit.
Liberty and humanity have been and
are the rallying cries of the college
man. The universities were on the
side of the people in the struggle of
democracy in Prance. The universi
ties fought for national unity in Italy.
In Russia the universities represent
the wisest and most serious endeavor
for national enlightenment. In Ger
many the universities are the least tol
erant of all repressive measures which
Impair the freedom of either teaching
or learning."
ASPIRATION.
I envy not the sun
His lavish lights
But O to be the oue
Pale orb of night,
In silence and alone
Communing with mine own!
I envy not the rain
That all
The parching hill and plain;
But O the ramll
Night-dewdrop now to be,
My noonday flower, for thee!
—John B. Tabb, in Harper's Magazine.
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§ HOW BETTY WAS LOST. §
<SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
fIMID little Dora
( dld not like usu
ally to gQ down
town shopping
with her mother,
but Betty adored
it, as she used to
say in curious im
itation of the talk
of older girls.
Dora was twelve
years old, and had
been down town
so many times
that there was
no longer nn y
novelty in It;
while Betty was
only five, and had
hardly ever been
at all. Neverthe
less, when mother proposed the trip
one fine October morning, both little
girls were pleased, Betty on general
principles, and Dora because she liked
to select her own hair ribbons, and
also because she wanted to see the
display window at Lawson's store.
"The girls Were talking about it at
school," she said. "Harriet Graham
said I just must go down. Each day
they lit up the window differently.
Yesterday it was a kitchen, and Har
riet said there was a little girl in it
who played cook. She swept up the
room, and she cooked things on the
stove, and she scrubbed the kitchen
table, and she washed the dishes in
the dearest dishpan and dried them on
pink and white glass towels. Day
before yesterday, when Lillian saw
it, it was a parlor, and the little girl
played she was a lady and wore a long
dress and all sorts of things."
That was very exciting for Betty,
and it was a contented party that took
the electric car, rode through the Sub
way, which still seemed to Betty like
some mysterious, enchanted cave, and
started on the brief tour of inspec
tion and shopping which Mrs. Warren
had planned. They bought Betty's
shoes and hat and Dora's ribbons and
gloves before It became convenient to
pass by the wonderful window, which
in the minds of the children was their
chief goal. It equalled and even sur
passed their hopes.
"There, now, Betty Warren!" said
Dora. "Did you ever in your life see
anything sweeter than that little girl
in the nursery? See, she is dressed
like a nursemaid to-day, taking care
of the children! Look at the twin
brass beds, and that precious cradle
with the fluffy pillows and the silk
coverlet! Don't you wish you could
be an advertisement little girl, and do
nothing but play with such lovely
things?"
Betty said nothing. She was taking
in all the delights of the nursery, and
bad no words of comment ready yet.
The wide window was furnished like
a small room, and the little girl, who
was just then making up a bed, was
Jtist about Betty's size. Very cunning
she looked In her nursemaid's cap and
apron, with a soft frill of muslin about
her neck and the quaint arrangement
of her hair. All the furniture of the
room was fascinating, but the crown
ing charm here, as in every real nur
sery, was the children It contained—
the doll figures which seemed to give
the tiny nursemaid so much care.
She rocked the baby in its cradle—in
different to the wise instructions given
by those who know better—dressed
and undressed dolls that took the
place of older children, showed a
black Dinah how to put a log prop
erly on the grate fire, and once she
even found It necessary to make the
little boy doll stand in the corner for
being naughty to his sister.
Mrs. Warren and Dora both gazed
with great interest, and Betty was
wholly absorbed.
"Oh, what a happy little girl she
must be!" she murmured softly.
"I don't know about that," said her
mother. "It must be hard to turn
play into work. She looks as earnest
over it as, Dora, does over her arith
metic problems. I should think this
crowd of persons looking at her would
make her nervous. I feel sorry for the
little thing."
"Well, any way, mamma, they draw
the curtains every little while to give
her rest," said Dora, comfortingly, as
they turned reluctantly away.
They stopped for an ice-cream soda
before taking the cars for home, and
it was here that Mrs. Warren met an
old friend of hers with her daughter
Lillian.
"It greatest piece of good for
tune tliat I have met you," said Mrs.
Hathaway. "I have Just been trying
to reach you with the telephone. Our
old friend and schoolmate, Susan
Haskell, Is coming to luncheon with
me, and I want you to come right
home with me now, for she Is to be In
the city only about four hours, on her
way southward."
Mrs. Warren was pleased with the
thought of seeing her old friend, but
hesitated a little about the children.
"Of course, Dora, cau go home alone
all right," she said, "but I wish Betty
wore not here. She is such a little
fly-away you must keep tight hold of
her."
"Oh, Mrs. Ilathaway, mayn't Lil
lian come to luncheon with inc. If
mamma Is going with you?" asked
Dora, eagerly. Mrs. Warren seconded
the invitation, and the three children
were finally left to go home by them
selves. After that, Lillian had one or
two errands to do in the uighborhnod,
and then the girls went to the ilorist's
to leave an order from Mrs. Hatha
way. But at last they were fairly
started toward the subway entrance,
where they meant to take the cars.
Suddenly, at the same minute, both
girls missed Betty. Neither could tell
how it happened. She had been skip
ping from one to the other, holding
now Lillian's hand and now Dora's,
saying little, but making her presence
constantly evident. And now she was
gone.
"Why, she had hold of my hand
when 1 was at the florist's!"
"Yes, and she went out to the front
of the store to see those Japanese
flowers."
"Was It before then that we met the
man with the balloons, and she
wanted one?"
"Oh, dear, I don't know," said Dora,
almost crying. "We must go back
and look for her."
Then a happy thought occurred to
Lillian.
"Perhaps she went back to Lawson's
to look In the window again. Don't
you remember how she wanted us to
go back for one more look?"
So the girls hastened to Lawson's,
finding the usual crowd before the
window, but no sign of Betty. Then
they went straight to a policeman
and told the whole story, and then
there was telegraphing to the central
station, and the policemen were noti
fied to be on the lookout for a little
girl, five years old, yellow hair, blue
dress and a little black silk bag in her
hand. It was Dora's first Impulse to
start for her mother. But Lillian and
the policeman advised her to wait a
little longer, and the policeman, sure
that the little one could not have
strayed far, began a systematic walk
up one street and down the next, the
girls following and looking into all tlie
stores.
"Someliow, I cannot help thinking
all the time of Lawson's," said Dora,
finally. "Let's go back there once
more, nnd then, if we do not see her,
I will go straight to mother, though I
know I shall die if I have to tell her
Betty is lost—poor, little frightened
thing, as I know she is this minute!"
So to Lawson's they went again,
and mingled with the crowd in front
of the window, but no Betty was
there. They were too disconsolate to
look inside, and the crowd, which
seemed bigger and more amused than
ever, hustled them along. They had
almost passed, when suddenly there
was a little stir, and a sharp rap on
the glass made them turn their bewil
dered eyes, nnd there, with a doll in
each arm, the rocking chair from
wl\ich she had risen still swaying
back and forth, with shining eyes,
brimming over with fun and excite
ment, her yellow hair tossed back and
her cheeks aglow with delight, was
Betty, not frightened, not troubled,
but supremely, radiantly happy.
Dora and Lillian stood motionless
with amazement, and if Lillian at
least felt that she would like to shake
the unrepentant cause of all their suf
fering perhaps she is hardly to be
blamed. But in Dora's mind the joy
of beholding again her little sister,
alive and uninjured, banished every
thing else. An attendant who was
watching from the inside then beck
oned the girls in, and they heard the
wliolo story. Betty had walked in all
alone, and going up to a clerk an
nounced unhesitatingly her desire "to
be an advertisement." He was sur
prised to see so small a child alone,
and asked her if she were lost.
"Yes, I suppose I'm lost, but they'll
find nio pretty quick, and I want to be
an advertisement while they are hunt
ing." The clerk laughed, and called
to a gentleman who was just passing
in the nisle of the store.
"Mr. Harris, here's an applicant for
the position of window girl, and I
think she'll make a good one."
When Betty had repeated her story
and told her name, the gentleman had
lier take off her jacket and hat, and
lifted her carefully to the big win
dow seat.
"They'll find her quicker there than
anywhere else," he said. "Besides, it
will please her, and her mother is one
of our best customers. It isn't a bad
advertisement, indeed, to have the
daughter of Hon. Hamilton Warren
as one of our employes." And he
laughed as if he enjoyed tlie joke.
The girls must have passed the first
time before the preliminaries were
settled.
"I hope you'll like it," said the child
wiio yielded her undesirable place to
Betty. To Betty it was anything but
undesirable, however. She felt that
her time was short, and simply set to
play with all tlie single-nilndedncss
and apparently all the unconsciousness
with which she would have played in
her own room at home.
"Well, I knew she was never shy
in her life!" gasped poor Dora, divided
between joy at the recovery and shame
for Betty's shortcomings. "But I
never dreamed of her doing a tiling
like that! How could you run away
from us, Betty?" she said, reprovingly,
as tlie child's jacket and hat were
being restored. "We were dreadfully
frightened."
"Didn't run away," was the coaxing
answer. "Didn't run away at all. I
took hold of a lady's dress, and I
thought it was you, and I wns turning
my head to look at the balloons. And
when I looked around it wasn't you,
and the lady looked cross at me, and
this was Just next door. And I
couldn't cee you, and I had to come
Just as tliey were leaving tlie store,
accompanied to the door by several
admiring clerks, the gentleman who
had given the desired permission to I
Betty came up.
"But we always pay for our adver
tisements, my dear," he said. And he
handed Betty a generous box of choc
olate peppermints and a bright, new,
shiny ten-cent piece, and Betty went
home as happy as a queen.—Christian
Register.
FILIPINO DWARFS.
Some Curious IMvnrfs in tlie Pliillp
pine Island*.
President McKinleyrecently received
from Professor Dean O. Worcester,
of the Philippine Commission, a very
interesting account of the curious
black dwarfs of the Philippines. There
are about 25,000 of these pigmies, he
says, and they are known as Negritos.
They are to be found of pure race in
the provinces of Bateau, Luzon and
also in Northeast Mindnnao. Some of
these have been gathered into settle
ments by missionaries, who are try
ing to civilize them, while others,
mostly half breeds, live near Chris
tian towns, where they do a little work
from time to time, for which they re
ceive payment in the form of trinkets
or cloth. Sometimes a Christian fam
ily will buy a dwarf child and rear it
for a servant, but usually it escapes
to the forest as soon as it is big
enough.
These dwarfs are remarkably like
monkeys. According to Dr. Becker,
the average stature of the men is four
feet eight inches, nnd the women are
three or four inches shorter. Their
chests are not well developed, and they
have no calves to their legs. Each
big toe is widely separated from the
others, and the three outer toes of
each foot are turned inward, as In
some monkeys. Their feet are large
and clumsy, and their hair, instead of
growing all over the head, is distrib
uted over the scalp in regularly scat
tered clumps. Their heads are appar
ently too large for their bodies, and
the mop of wool which they wear
accentuates this effect. So monkey
like are they that they counterfeit
apes In a startling manner, their jaws
projecting far beyond their noses and
their faces deeply wrinkled, like mon
keys'.
The men wear no clothing except
a cord drawn around the waist, from
which hangs u small piece of cloth,
whereas the women wear an apron
made from the bark of a tree.
Marriage among the Negritos is in
dissoluble, and only one wife is al
lowed. Matrimonial customs vary
among them, but usually the ceremony
of marriage is unlike anything of the
kind to be seen anywhere in the world.
It takes the form of a test of marks
manship, the young woman herself
being the target.
She stands about fifty yards from
her lover, holding under her arm a
mass of palm leaves. He fires a blunt
arrow, and if it passes through the
leaves without striking the girl the
two are married. If he fails the un
ion is forbidden, but as the Negritos
are very expert with the bow such a
thing rarely happens.
The Negritos are very independent,
and neither the Spaniards nor the
Malays have ever been able to sub
due them. Of a gentle nature, they
never kill n human being wantonly,
but they regard with suspicion tire
Christianized natives, who often mal
treat them. If attackod, they defend
themselves vigorously, and in retalia
tion will rob and destroy the fields of
their enemies or even assail their vil
lages at night To their children tlioy
give the names of birds, plants or
insects. They cannot count above
ten, nnd, while able to distinguish col
ors well, have no words for them. If
a plague breaks out, such as cholera
or small pox, they are apt to desert
the sick.
An ICplgodo In Ills Career.
There is a middle-aged, unmarried
man in this town who lias the making
in him of a confirmed old bachelor
in such proportions to his other com
ponent parts that nothing short of di
vine interposition can save him. He
lias been courting a young woman for
a year or more in his peculiar fashion,
and last Sunday night it occurred to
him that an appropriate moment had
arrived for him to make a formal pre
sentation of his claim and have it act
ed upon. It happened at a picturesque
resort in the mountains of Loudoun
County, and the soft summer air nnd
the quiet valleys stretching miles
away at the feet of the lovers should
have roused all the romance in man's
nature, and made a declaration of this
cort of a poem and a fnutasy. He
skipped all that, however, and came
to the momentous question pretty
much as a hunter conies to a fence,
"Miss Kntherine," he said, after a
very little "mooning," "will you be
kind enough to marry me?"
"No, sir," she replied, with commend
able promptness and indignation.
"Indeed; why not?" he Inquired con
siderably surprised at her answer.
"Simply because I don't want to."
To most men this would have been
in the nature of total extinguishment,
but this man is different.
"Well, well," he said, apparently
studying out the proposition, and not
at all overcome by the young wom
an's answer, "this is what I would
call an episode in my career—an epi
sode, Miss Katherine, being something
that is entirely unexpected."
Then he began talking about some
thing else, nnd she got up and went
into the house.—Washington Star,
Tlie Merlin Muicum.
The Berlin Museum of Natural His
tory contains 1.500.000 animal speci
mens, representing 200,000 species. It
is estimated that a total of more than
400,000 living species lias now been
described, of which the insects number
2SO.OOO; birds, 13,000; fishes, 12,000;
reptiles, S300; amphibians, 1300; spider
family,2o,ooo; shellfisn.SO.OiJO; worms.
SOOO.
j CIRL ART STUDENTS IN PARIS.
Some Facts About Tliclr Experience. and
Expense Accounts.
"The average girl art student in
: Paris lives about as quiet a life as the
American college girl," says Maude
Andrews in the Woman's Home Com
panion, writing from her own experi
ence of "The American Girl Artist in
Paris." "The tuition at the schools
ranges in price from seven to fourteen
dollars a mouth, but the price of an
artist's materials cannot be estimated,
for these are the items that make
the study of art appallingly expensive.
! If an artist needs certain paints, she
| cannot stop to consider if others
j wouldn't do as well, or if she couldn't
: get on with less, as she considers the
I purchase of remnants at a bargain
j counter. The paint must be had at any
| cost, and that is why girl artists often
j look as hungry and seedy as the Mar-
I ehioness when first discovered by Dick
! Swiveller. It is safe to say that no
| girl ought to come to Paris to study
I art unless she has an assured allow
j ance of fifty dollars a mouth, and this
I amount will just about enable her to
l meet the expenses of daily living, tui
i tion and materials. A great deal has
j been said about the folly of American
| girls coming to Paris on limited means,
j but the impracticability of such a ven
ture lies not so much in this drawback
| as in the pose and lack of practical
; sense in many of the art students them
selves. The one great pose in art is
| the scorn of pot-holing. Most young
! artists, for instance, consider It to
i bo a degradation of their art to turn
; their talents toward illustration,
[ whereas it is one of the most remuner
j ntive things an artist can do. It may
i be said very truly that no poor girl
\ should come to Paris to study art un-
I lesstshe is willing to turn her ability
j in the direction of pot-boiling now and
j then, in order to supplement her allow
-1 ance. There are so many needs for
! money in Paris. It is a veritable Circe
of cities that changes its lovers not into
| swine, but into the most enchanting
j butterflies, if there is only a little ex-
I tra money to be had for dress. A girl
I who is very poor and cannot make a
j little pin-money often gets rather hope
| less and depressed, for there is noth
; ing so forlorn in Paris as shabby at
tire."
Medals For Women.
Few women have received high
awards for exhibits in the fine arts
at. the Paris Exposition. Out of more
than one hundred and twenty gold
medals accorded to French and for
eign painters In oil and water color
only four have gone to women, Miss
Cecilia Beaux, of this country, is one
of these. Miss Beaux has shown open
air studies at the Societe Nationale des
Beaux Arts for the last three or four
years. The other women who received
gold medals are Mine. Virginia De
mont-Breton, Mile. Baily and Mile.
I Breslau. Mme. Demont-Breton and
Mile. Baily are both of France, and
| Mile. Breslau of Switzerland.
A silver medal was awarded to Miss
Elizabeth Nourse, of this country.
Lady Alma Tadema, of England, and
one woman representative from each
of the countries of Denmark, Holland,
Spain, Russia and Switzerland, and
four of France, also received silver
medals. Only one other English wom
an obtained an award for painting.
This was Jliss Flora lteid, who re
ceived a bronze modal.
Eight bronze medals were awarded
to women in the department of sculp-
I ture. In tlio department of engraving
two silver and seven bronze medals
were nil received by French women,
with the exception of one, which was
given to an Hungarian woman. In
lithography three French women, one
Japanese woman and one Finnish
woman received silver medals.
Fall Couture.
The arrangement of the hair at the
back for evening wear requires that
! it shall be always pushed as far for
' ward as possible straight up from the
nape of the neck to above the crown
of the head, but it is then pulled
down again so that the soft waves
will show. The ears are almost hid
den by this arrangement of hair.
There is a part sometimes at one side
of the head, or just in the middle, and
then the lialr is pulled down on either
side of the part so that it looks full
and soft, and, of course, thick. This
fashion of soft, full hair is, as a rule,
more becoming than a more severe
style, but the trouble Is that the hair
i requires to be kept in most perfect or
der. It must be well brushed and
washed often, and always well
combed, otherwise it looks untidy, and
un untidy head is more unfashionable
now than ever was known before.
Glossy, well-brushed locks with a
slight wave through them make every
woman look well, but a mass of hair
all ruffled up and looking as though
rats had been in It is a most untidy
way of arranging the hair. It is un
becoming and not in the least smart.
—Harper's Bazar.
For Lone Xvcla.
It is no longer fashionable to have
any trimming at the back of the col
lar, but women who have long necks,
or whose necks are beginning to look
thin, find it is a great advantage to
tie a piece of tulle around the neck
with a bow at the back. This gives
a pretty Quisli to a stiff ribbon stock
collar, and is almost invariably be
coming. Only white or black tulle
should be used. For evening the same
thing is often seen worn even with a
Jeweled collar or a handsome neck
lace, and it seems to coftcn any hard
lines in a most satisfactory fashion,
Boris and inches worn around the neck
are very sofV Cut not very full unless
Intended fof quite cool weather. A
pretty one is made of Liberty satin or
chiffon trimmed with bands of wnite
lace and with a little pleated edge of
chiffon. This fastens at the throat and
has long ends edged with lace that
hang down over the front of the
gown.—Harper's Bazar.
[Fitfiluoiig In Shoe*.
There are to be more decided
changes in women's shoes this fall
than for two years past. The bulldog
toe is on the decline and is being re
placed by the pointed toe. Accom
panying this change will be a radical
difference in the entire sole, so that
the inward slant of the sole will ba
replaced by stralghter lines. Only
here and there are shoemakers found
to be frank enough to admit that a
change is coming, since naturally they
are anxious to dispose of the old stock
of goods, but "smart" bootmakers pre
dict that by spring the bulldog toe
and accompanying features will bo
things of the past. A new heel, called
the "Cuban heel," lias appeared. It
Is high, but lacks the graceful curves
of the French J It is likely to be
worn to a considerable extent for some
years to come. Tan shoes have their
best use with short skirts. Worn with
long, dark skirts they soon show the
effects of the coloring matter in the
velveteen with which most skins are
bound.
.Makes a Living: Mark In is Llnnn.
How many odd little trades ingen
ious women find to earn their bread;
In fact, as lias been said before, If
there is a thing a woman can do bet
ter than lier neighbors she needs only
to develop it into a specialty to have
a sure livelihood. A Cliieugo girl, who
Is soon to oe married la the East,
whence her family came, writes that,
like all Boston brides of high degree,
she is having her linen marked liy Mrs.
B. Tills quaint little old lady entirely
supports herself by writing names in
Indelible Ink 011 the underwear, sheets,
tablecloths, etc., of Boston swelldom.
She-lias become a fad. Iter narrow
quarters look like a white goods ware
house, and smell like a chemist's from
a preparation she puts on the lineij
to give it a smooth, paper-like sur
face. She is to be found any day
with lier old fingers cramped about
the special pen she uses in marking
small, neat initials or elaborate mono
grams which no one else can equal.—
Chicago Evening Post.
Fashionable Jewelry.
More jewelry thnn ever Is being
worn. Perhaps the outlines of the
modern French bijouterie are rather
barbaric In tendency, but how deli
cately fine and ralsonne is the work
manship, which softens the freedom
of the original conception and per
fects each detail with minutest skill!
Tp realize this one must have close
ly examined the Jewelry exhibits at
the Paris Exposition. The lead of the
great French jeweler, I.allque—that
most modest artist, who has revolu
tionized all modes in jewelry for the
moment has been freely followed,
perhaps too freely, for there has
sprung up a series of Imitators, who
are far from achieving the result that
their originator has realized. But the
result is that gold and silver In many
shades and enamel of most entrancing
hues have taken the place to a great
extent of the precious stones, especial
ly In ornaments for day wear.
Unchanging Fashions in China.
Chinese fashions seldom change, and
a woman of the Celestial Empire
dresses to-day as her great-grandmotli
er dressed at lier age. If she Is rich
she Is robed entirely In silk. Her first
garment is a sort of npron or plain
piece of silk tied around the waist and
overlapping behind. Then come the
under jacket, over Jacket, trousers and
apron. If she wishes to appear par
ticularly irresistible she covers her
face and neck with a paste made of
wot rice flour, which when dry gives
her a deathlike appearance. While
it is still soft she removes the paste
from her eyes and lips with a wet
sponge, and, moistening lier finger,
draws It three times around her throat,
leaving three rod marks. She always '
carries aliout with lier a stiff, flat fan
and a powder box with a litle mir
ror in the lid, by which she can see
to touch periodically her face with
the powder puff.
Odd. and Ends of Fashion.,
The newest thing In bodices includes
"spencers." They are made of lace,
particularly the old Irish point. Other
laces in demand are black Chantilly f
and old Greek laces. Buttons are to ■
have a revival. Triangle and lozenge
shaped buttons made of malachite,
jade and initiation rubles are popular.
There are also silk ones covered with
applique. But the fancy of the mo
ment Is for gold buttons, particularly
on waistcoats. Old hunt buttons are
much sought after and command high
prices. A novel amulet consists of
two silver trinkets, one a bust of Cry
ano do Bergerac and the other an ea
gle holding Napoleon's hat. They are
united by a thin twisted metal pin.
1800 and 1000 Fashion..
It was noticeable during the sum-
I mer season, says the Loudon Globe,
that there was a distinct resemblance
between the fashions of the past sum
mer and those depleted in the pictures
of Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence
and ltomuey. A large proportion of
the muslin gowns were finished sim
ply by a soft fichu around the shoul
ders, leaving the neck bare. A nar
row baud of black velvet and a string
of pearls encircled the throat. Sleeves
; were close-fitting or else bell-slinped
to the elbow, with transparent under
sleeves, such as will be found in any
old cheat of ISOO dresses.