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VICTORIA.
Great melting eye*, and laughing lip*
O’er which the aoft Italian trip*,
Loose clouds of dusky curling hair.
Sweet dimples lurking everywhere,
An olive skin as smooth as silk,
And pearly teeth as white as milk.
▼ittoria did you call her came?
Like victory * sounds, and fame.
On many a proud and saintly page.
By sister fair or abbess sage.
The prettv name is shining now,
A star that gleams from history's brow.
Come, Alice, Edith, Mary, Bee,
And dream of Venice by the sea;
For there this dainty maid waa born.
Where white doves circle night and morn.
Where swift gondolas flash and glide
Across the pulsing moonlit tide.
She does not need our daisied parks
Beneath the shade of old St. Mark’s.
Perhaps you think she’d like to hear
What fun you’ve had thia very year—
How vou have searched for flowers in May,
In summer tossed the new-mown hay.
How jon have climbed the mountain crest.
And peered into the eagle’s nest.
The little one will listen while
Too speak with flitting blush and smile;
Then she will go and feed her birds,
And coo to them in silver words.
The happy langour of her race
Is in her promt patrician face.
Venetian skies are calmly blue;
Vittoria would not change with you.
—Margaret £. txmgoter.
SIMMER IN THE METROPOLIS.
Flight of the Wealthy and Habits of the
Stay-at-Homes—Other Notes.
Correrpondenee of tXo Morning -Vete*.
New York, July I.— Summer’s prover
bial dullness has settled down on the
metropolis. Evidences of the tact are to
be seen everywhere, and particularly in
the realm of upper tendom, where long
rows of brown stone fronts are deserted
and silent. Closed blinds and dust-cov
ered doors which have not turned on their
hinges in a moon tell of the emptiness
within. Here and there an occupied
porch breaks the dull monotony of the
scene. No one can go amiss in putting
the domicile down as a boarding house.
The merry chatter which resounds thence
down the block is scarcely less nivacions
than in the city’s season of greatest
gayety. However, every year the time
for leaving town grows earlier. Coach
ing day. which officially terminates the
fashionable season in New York, also
marks the departure of hundreds or fami
lies to the country. On the first of June
the majority of the fashiona
ble world had already departed,
and by the 15th the uptown streets put on
a deserted air. Formerly the fashionable
theatres all kept open until the Fourth of
July, ending their season with an extra
{•erformance in honor of independence
day. but now the theatres close their sea
*oll before the people have moved out of
town. Even now there are only two
theatres of high standing open to the public
—the Madison Square and the Casino.
Both will remain open throughout the
summer. All the others were long since
closed, and will not be opened again until
October by the regular companies, though
what are known as -‘snap’’ companies
may fill in a few of the intervening w eeks.
Many acute observers of New York socie
ty assert that before many years have
passed it will be fashionable to quit New
York on the first of May and return
in October, dividing the seasons
into two terms of six months
each. The anxiety to get out
of town increases towards the end of the
win ter season. People become weary of so
cial dissipation. Daughters become pale,
wau and heavv-eyed. Sons become careless
fast, and run in debt. Mothers are
cross anJ wear >' of incessant entertain
ing, and the master C 5 becomes
so tired of paying neaVy bills that he
welcomes any suggestions of an economi
cal nature with joy. So he bundles his
wife and daughters off to the country
as early as they are willing to
go, puts his sons on a allowance
and begins to tak* uIS me als at the club.
It brings abo" j a grea t saving of money,
particularly to those families who have
■Country seats of their own.
THOSE WHO HAVE NOT USUALLY
go to some place where they can board a
month or two cheaply, and make their ap
pearance at the seaside or the mountains
in August or September. The advent of
summer is nowhere recognized with so
much heartiness as on the avenues
on the east and west sides. All along
the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Third and
Second avenues, the Bowery, East Broad
wav and Grand street can be seen inter
esting pictures of New Y r ork life during
the hot months. These streets are filled
with small shops. Asa rule the shop
keeper and his family occupy the upper
rooms or the rear of the store. As the
sun iroes down the sidewalk and occa
sionally the street in front of each shop
are sprinkled, and hall an hour later
comfortable arm-chairs are lugged out.
Here the shopkeeper in his shirt sleeves,
and with his evening pipe, sits and talks
business with his wife. The children
plav around them. At 9 o’clock the
children are sent off reluctantly to bed, to
be followed an hour later by their big
sisters. The brothers usually hang about
an hour longer on the corners. If a
stranger happens along he nnds the shop
keeper chatty and agreeable. He usually
sits up quite late, and hates to give up
his comfortable seat in front of the shop.
At the clubs the members who
remain in town haue things pretty much
their own way. They have their own
particular chairs and places, and growl
like bears if they are disturbed. The
young men play billiards and cards, while
their fathers doze calmly in the library or
on the balconies. Those men among the
stay-at-homes who are not club members
spend their time wandering about the
streets or sitting idly in fipnt of their
residences. Many of them be
come regularly habituated to the
nearest saloon. There is one old sea Cap
tain who has two agreeable sons. They
are persons of moderate circumstances,
and not club members. The feminine por
tion of the family go out of town early
every year, and for five months the father
and his sons regularly attend a neighbor
ing lager beer saloon. Immediately after
dinner the three men light their cigars
and wander around the corner to
the beer saloon. Here the old
Captain sits down and plays check
ers with the proprietor, while the
boys play billiards or pool or dominoes.
At" about 11 o’clock they all, including
the proprietor, throw dice to see who shall
pav tor the last round of beer, and then
the Captain and his two sons retire peace
fully to their home3. There are many en
thusiasts among the poor who welcome
summer because it afiords them an op
portunity to spend their evenings on the
nearest pS?r. It is in the tenement house
districts that summer is dreaded. The
misery of tenement house existence on
hot summer nights is as great as ever.
Philanthropy has done little or nothing to
lessen it.
A NEW ROMANCE FURNISHES FOOD
for the boudoirs this week. Though the
scene of the courtship is laid in Chicago
and the climax capped at Washington,
the prominence of the interested parties
will attract more than usual interest to
the courtship and the nuptials, which are
expected to follow. The groomsman to
be is none other than Emmons Blaine,
son of the Presidential nominee, and his
fiancee the daughter of Hon. Joseph Me
dill, proprietor of the Chicago Tribune.
Young Blaine has been a frequent visitor
at Chicago, and was accompanied almost
daily on his drives bv the pretty daughter
of the distinguished Journalist. Several
months ago the Hon. Joseph Medill took
a lower berth for Washington. At the
capital the two fond parents met and
the vendetta of a generation wa9
buried, and out upon the salty
stream there floated a glowing expecta
tion trimmed with orange blossoms. It
is an open secret that the ceremony is not
a matter of many months.
Miss Kitty Tracy’s approaching mar
riage to Mr. William Henry Hurl
burt has been officially announced
by cable, although an " open secret
among the lady’s friends on this
side for some time past. Mr. Hurl
burt, throughout his brilliant and suc
cessful career, has always been dis
tinguished as a “fascinator,” and has
probably had as many heart affairs as a
courtier of Charles the Second’s time. ;
That he should ever commit matrimony |
seemed to those who knew him well an
improbability. But the choice that he has
made, if late, is wise and promising. The i
happy couple will probably make the ]
Eternal City their home. In graces of
mind and person, in cleverness, wit and
originality, Miss Tracy is quite the equal ■
oi her future lord, so that the ex-journal
ist may with reason be congratulated
upon the prospeot opening lor him in his
married life.
A BALE-DOZEN WELL FED MILLIONAIRES
were lounging at the Windsor Hotel after
a late supper the other night cracking
jokes and telling stories to amuse them
selves. I sat dozing in a neighboring
chair, when I accidentally overheard one
of the party relate how Commodore Gar
rison was won by his present wife. The
story is not unromantic in its details, and
is a pointed refutation concerning the end
which the old saw credits fate with hav
ing in store for “whistling girls,” etc.
According to the narrator, whose name in
Wall street is synonymous with lucky
ventures, the date of the romance lies half
a dozen years back of the present date.
The scene was Long Branch, where the
Commodore had gone to rest after the
winter’s excitement on the street.
He took a suite of the best
rooms in the row of cottages
which are an annex of the main hotel
establishment, calculating that he would
be a little removed from the noise and
confusion of the public house. It was
for a few days as ne had fondly antici
pated. Then the family of John M. Ran
dall, of St. Louis, took 'possession of ad
joining apartments. They numbered half
a dozen persons, including a whistler.
Through the thin partition the Commodore
heard and was annoyed by the
whistling. He was driven by it to
exasperation. There was a boy in the
Randall party, and, of course, the veteran
blamed him for the noise. Randall,s enior,
was an acquaintance of his, and one day
the Commodore determined to speak to
him as they sat chatting on the veranda.
“That boy of yours will be the death of
me, John. Won’t you plug his mouth,
just to please me?”
“Oh, it isn’t the boy/’ replied Randall,
“but my daughter. Here, Letitia! A
lovely girl ol twenty responded to the
call, and was presented to the Commodore.
She whistled for him that evening to a
piano accompaniment, and it was no
longer irritating to him. They were mar
ried In the ensuing October. His wedding
gift was $1,000,000 in sound securities. In
no season since has any belle at Long
Branch been dressed or "diverted in a more
costly manner than the fair whistler.
Anew musical society has just
been organized and incorporated here.
It is called the “New York Music Fes
tival Association of the Oratorio and
Symphony Societies” and its object is
to “give at regular intervals music
festivals on a large scale in the city
of New York.” The first festival will be
given in the spring of 1885. M.
STORIES OF THREE ANIMALS.
The St ranee Doing* of a Hen, a Roos
ter and an Ancient Turtle.
When the cyclone struck Waterbury
the’other day, says the Waterbury (Conn.)
American, A. H. Beach was the owner of
a hen, with a brood ot five chickens six
days old. He also possessed a rooster.
The wind knocked the coop over, killing
the hen and two of the chicks. When the
clouds rolled by the rooster surveyed the
deadly field with a fatherly eye, and ex
hibited unmistakable signs of grief as the
motherless trio of chicks were screaming
with fright and loneliness. Finally he
began to chuck alter the manner of the
departed hen, called the little chicks
al>out him, fed them, and eventually took
them nnder his wings, and has ever since
brooded and cared for.them affectionately.
He swells up and scolds exactly like a
hen on the approach of an enemy, and in
every way conducts himself in hen
mother style. Hundreds ot curious peo
ple have visited Mr. Beach’s premises to
witness this phenomenal mother, who
still shows no signs of backing out of the
character he has voluntarily assumed.
Mrs. Hattie Clark, of Bridgewater, has
a 6trange pet. It is a large and hand
some rooster, a line specimen of the Ply
mouth Rock breed. He walks majestically
into the kitchen, and when told to go to
his place he perches upon the back of a
certain chair. If asked whether he is
hungry he will crow iq reply. f eigns
same a® educated canary birds,
MiajUieD ‘stroked with the hand and
can u “pretty fellow” be evinces great
pleasure and struts almost as proudly as
a peacock, ne also stands sentinel at
the chicken coops, and will drive away
all hens that seek to steal a bit of the
chickens’ feed. In a word he is an edu
cated rooster.
Not far from Bonair, where Arabi re
sides, says a correspondent ot the London
Timet, there is a huge and ancient turtle,
owned by a Singalese gentleman, who re
ceived it as an heirloom. The turtle is
about four feet long and nearly three
wide, and its owner told me that the most
aged persons around never remember it
to l>e smaller. It is vaguely said to be 100
or 200 years old. It bellows like a bull
when thirsty. Its happiness i9 to have
its flabby neck scratched by its keeper.
It is too old to snap at anything, and Is
totally blind. Children used to ride on it,
and a hole is bored through the shell,
through which they were wont to spur
their steed when he became torpid.
An Intoxicated Monkey.
The feats of the traditional bull in the
china shop, says the London Standard,
were thrown into the shade on Saturday
in Paris, one of the hotels on the boule
vards being the scene of the highly amus
ing spectacle. A creole family, who
arrived a few days ago and alighted at
the hotel in question, brought with them
a monkey from the colonies for the amuse
ment of the children. In an unguarded
moment in the afternoon the mischievous
animal was left alone in tne dining-room,
where the remains of a good repast were
still on the table. He immediately fell to,
and, in imitation of his betters, took
suudry pulls at the wine bottles, his pre
ference finally resting on that which
contained champagne. The effects of the
stimulating beverage soon told upon
Jocko, and under its influence he began
to jump about as no monkey had ever
jumped before. The mischievous element
in his nature also became unduly
developed, and he seized and flung about
everything on the table. The noise of the
crashing chinaware and bottles brought
the owners to the spot in great alarm, and
a gentleman who happened to come into
the room first was just in time to receive a
sauce-boat at his head. With the help of
the servants the excited monkey, which
belonged to the smaller varieties, was
soon mastered. The last seen of the
quadrumamus was at the dining-room
window of the hotel, which opened on to
the boulevard, where a crowd, attracted
by the noise, had already congregated,
and a muscular chambermaid bad hold ot
the creature under her left arm, while
with her right she administered condign
punishment upon its unlucky frame.
•■Old Hickory’s” Manners,
Barj>er' for July.
For the social life of Washington the
President had one advantage which was
altogether unexpected, and seemed diffi
cult of explanation by anything in his
earlier career. He had at his command
the most courteous and agreeable man
ners. Even before the election of Adams,
Daniel Webster had written to his broth
er; “Gen. Jackson’s manners are better
than those of any of the candidates. He
is grave, mild and reserved. My wife is
for him decidedly.” And long after, when
the President was to pass in review before
those who were perhaps his most Implaca
ble opponents, the ladies of Boston, we
have the testimony of the late Josiah
Quincy, in his “Figures from the Past,”
that the personal of this obnox
ious official was most unwillingly ap
proved. Mr. Quincy was detailed by
Gov. Lincoln, on whose military staff he
was. to attend President Jackson every
where when visiting Boston in 1833; arid
this narrator testifies that with every pre
judice against Jackson he found him es
sentially "a knightly personage—preju
diced, narrow, mistaken on many points,
it might be. but vigorously a gentleman
in his high sense of honor and in natural,
straightforward courtesies, which are
easily distinguished from the veneer of
policy.” Sitting erect on his horse, a
thin stiff type of military strength, he
carried with him in the streets a bearing
of such dignity that staid old Bostonians
who had refused even to look ur>on him
from their windows would finally be
coaxed into taking one peep, and would
then hurriedly bring forward their little
daughters to wave their handkerchiefs.
He wrought, Mr. Quincy declares, “a
mysterious charm upon old and young;”
showed, although in feeble health, a
great consideration for others, and was
in private a rqjjly agreeable companion.
It appears from these reminiscences that
the President was not merely the cause of
wit in others, but now and then appre
ciated it himself, and that he used to listen
with delight to the reading of the “Jack
Downing” letters, laughing heartily
sometimes, and declaring; “The Vice
President must have written that. De
g?nd upon it, Jack Downing is only Van
uren in masquerade.” It is a curious
fact that the satirist is already the bet
ter remembered of the two, although Van
Buren was in his day so powerful as to
preside over the official patronage of the
nation and to be called the “Little Magi
cian.”
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS; SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1884.
SUMMER FASHIONS,
TOILETS TO BE WORN AT NEW
PORT AND SARATOGA.
Coaching, Racing, and Boating—Toilets
for the Gay and the Quiet Both at
Home and Abroad—The Lace Distem
per The Prettiest Lawn Tennis
Dresses.
Correspondence of the Morning Mew*.
New York, July 4.—June has been one
of the busiest oi busy months with the
modistes, and many ladies who would
leave weeks earlier if they could are com
pelled to wait their turn and dance at
tendance in the crowded rooms of a
favorite dressmaker instead of whiling
away the sweet hours of the last torrid
spell under the trees and among the
roses. It is not the summer outfit alone
that operates to detain many well known
figures in the fashionable world in their
city homes. Society ft pretty well broken
up, and there is no season such as allures
those who can participate in its gayeties
to Paris and London; but there are coach
ing trips and the Jerome Park races, and
these latter invariablv call out a fashion
able attendance and display of toilets, as
many coaching parties are involved in
them. The dress worn on these occasions
has touched the most opposite extremes
of simplicity and display. A dress of
pale brown wool trimmed with graduated
bands of velvet in a darker shade, high
hat with ostrich feather mounting in the
same shade of brown and rouleaux of
velvet pleated diagonally. Dress of light
ecru mohair, straight skirt, basque and
drapery trimmed with wide, flat mohair
braid, hat of ecru straw, with ecru and
old gold butterflies upon twisted handker
chief of shot silk. A pink and white
gingham dress prettily trimmed with
graduated rows of flat white braid was
accompanied by a rough and readv straw
with narrow brim and branch of haw
thorn mounted upon the front; the ad
ditional trimming folds of mull.
Such sample toilets as these were con
trasted at the races and upon the coaches
with—for example: A dress of pale pink
satin combined with pink and gray
brocade and garlanded with roses carried
from the shoulder till they were lost in
the draperies of the skirt, a mahogany
satin trimmed with coffee-colored lace
and a shell-like passementerie matching
in color, a lavender satin mervellleux
combined with pink and lavendfer brocade
with Spanish lace over-dress and sleeves.
A gorgeous orange satin was combined
with figured black velvet, and a brown
with cowslip yellow and brown. Cow
slips adorned the Drown bonnet, and yel
low ribbon was tied on the handle of the
brown parasol, which was embroidered
with cowslips.
Among the quaint combinations seen
was a costume ol shepherd’s check surah
trimmed with cream lace and accompa
nied by a chip hat lined with green silk of
an art shade and trimmed with green silk
spotted with cream, also with lace and
pink roses. The basque of the dress, it
should be noted, was finished with a full
short vest of green silk covered with Span
ish lace, and to complete the detail the
large parasol of pale pink silk was cov
ered with Spanish lace.
There is no end to the varieties and
eccentricities in costume, the latter being
exhibited chiefly in color, in the shape of
the hats, and in the curious accentuation
of the elongated features of recent designs.
Some women look like an upright spar;
some like an exclamation point. The
longer and thinner the arms the higher
the shoulders and the taller the hats.
There is no standard of fashion, and man
ufacturers are at their wits’ end and try
everything. There is therefore a fine
opportunity for differentiation, and it
must be admitted that it is taken full
advantage of.
DISTINCTIVE TOILETS.
The Newport colors are pink and white,
and the Newport dress is a lovely combi
nation of pink and white silk with pinked
out ruffles, the pink ones covered w ith
white lace and the drapery forms of gauze
embroidered with pale wild roses, which
look as if they had been dropped upon it.
The pink bodice is open, has a full front
of gauze, outlined with pinked out ruffles,
and lace sleeves to the elbow with narrow
pink and white ruffles matching the skirt
and bodice. The ruffles are so soft and
the pink tint so delicate as to be quite un
obtrusive, and the effect is charming.
The “Saratoga” toilet par excellence has
been made as part of her summer ward
robe for a young married lady who is
handsome and distinguished. It is short
and consists of a skirt of light blue satin
merveilleux combined with blue and
salmon pink brocade. The over-dress is
of cream Spanish lace, as are the sleeves
also, the bodice, and draperies of the
brocade.
A handsome imported dress is of black
satin merveilleux, combined with gray
black and white brocade, and trimmed
with a very handsome passementerie com
posed of satin leaves and groups of small
macaroons, made of dull silk cord. Es
curial lace is used for the finish.
But, perhaps, the most elegant dress
seen of late, was at a summer wed
ding, and was worn by a married sister
of the bride. It was of shot silk, violet
and pink, trimmed with a deep flounce of
lace, beaded with a very full pinked out
ruching. The upper part was covered
with lace, forming an apron, and drapery
at the back, the latter arranged in loose
falling puffs, divided with ruches. The
bodice was open in front, and bad a full
lace vest, very gracefully arranged over
the silk. The bouquet was a large cluster
of crushed roses, a garland of the same
being held on one side of the skirt. The
dress was short, and a large lace hat was
worn with it, trimmed with a lovely clus
ter of violets and pink roses. The
bride’s dress was only remarkable for its
simplicity. It was of India mull, trimmed
with Valenciennes in profusion and soft
white satin ribbon. She wore no jewels.
Her flowers were Stephanotes and lilies ot
the valley made up with plenty of green.
Either by accident or design this arrange
ment followed that of the flowers carried
on the occasion of her marriage by Mrs.
Oscar Wilde, whose bridal attire was
highly a-sthetic, and showed her a devout
disciple of the gentle Oscar. Her “rich
creamy satin dress was of a delicate cow
slip tint; the bodice square, low in front,
with hight Medici collar, ample sleeves,
puffed, and long, plain skirt gathered into
a silver girdle of beautiful workmanship,
the gift of the bridegroom. Her veil
was of saffron colored Indian silk gauze,
embroidered. and she wore upon
her fair hair a thick cluster of myrtle
leaves, on which were left some of the
white blossoms. Her bouquet was as
much green as white.” This is what an
English authority says of the dress, and
it disposes of the rumor started here that
Mrs. Oscar Wilde is “utterly convention
al,” and wore at her wedding the ortho
dox white satin brocade and stiff orange
blossoms. Two lovely little girls, accord
ing to the same iiuthoritv, who figured as
two ot the bridesmaids, wore quaint
gowns of gooseberry red surah, pale yel
low sashes very wide, bronze shoes, red
silk Gainsborough hats, long yellow
gloves, and carried bouquets of lilies in
their hands. The elder bridesmaids wore
skirts of the same “dim” red surah silk
and over-dresses of pale blue flowered
muslin-de-laine, high crowned hats
trimmed with cream colored feathers,
and amber necklaces. They carried white
lilies. Lady Wilde is said to have worn a
handsome toilet of silver-gray brocaded
silk and satin, on the bodice a large spray
of roses and carnations, and on her hat
gray and pink feathers. Mrs. Lloyd, the
mother of the bride, wore rich gray satin,
with large black lace mantle, black lace
bonnet with amber aigrette and black
feathers. She carried a bouquet of yellow
roses. The group is said to have been
“exceedingly picturesque,” and it must
gratify even Oscar’s traducers to know
that he was consistent to the last before
retiring into the inevitable commonplace
of matrimony.
NEW YACHTING OR BOATING COSTUME.
Yachting trips have become very gen
eral, and many parties are made up for
short trips in June before the final break
up and distribution ot families and
friends. A handsome yachting costume
worn recently was of light woolen canvas
over brown silk, with silk collar, cuffs,
and band, upon which were embroidered
the yellow-hearted marguerites. The
sailor straw hat was trimmed with brown
silk in folds aDd a bunch of daisies. A
cluster of daisies was always fastened in
the young lady’s bodice. A smoke-gray
wool was draped with cords over a dull
red skirt, which was laid in straight plaits
and worn with a high gray hat with dark
red feathers. There is little attempt now
to get up nautical costumes. The wear
ing of tailor-made dresses is universal,
and they are formed to answer every pur
pose, whereas a dress designed after a
“sailor” model can never be anything
more than an affectation and is unsuited to
any after use.
A picturesque boating dress recently
imported is not open to the objection, be
cause it can be utilized for other pur
poses. Boating is besides an amusement
that lasts all summer, and, uuder favor-
able circumstances, such as will surround
the owner among the hills and lakes of
Maine, will wear out at least one costume.
The dress in question is of blue and red
flannel, and Is accompanied by a nickel
whistle which is slung around the
shoulder by cords and put in the
high side pocket. The blouse basque
is blue with loose red front; the red
underskirt is pleated, and the blue dra
pery forms a tabbed and pointed overskirt
above it, the point falling to one side,
while the other side is open and strapped
with red. The Maine outfit further in
eludes a wrapper of unbleached muslin,
trimmed with scalloped turkey red
twilled cotton, a blue cloth walking' dress
braided with several shades of the same i
color, a black satin and black and white i
brocade dinner dress trimmed with escu
rial lace and satin passementerie, and
faced interiorly with shells of satin. A
pale blue satin combined with blue and
salmon brocade, and very rich Spanish
lace draperies, and the outfit of an ama
teur fisherman—conroy rod, silken lines,
silver fish-hooks, and flies of all colors.
The costume and outfit are the property of
Madame Von Stanwitz, of the Madison
Square Theatre, who is an enthusiastic
disciple of Izaak Walton.
REVIVAL OF OLD STYLES.
An amateur theatrical entertainmeut in
a country house was recently the means
of starting an inquiry into the singular
unanimity of the fashions which prevailed
in and about 1860, and those that obtain
now-a-days, or are reviving. Shot silk
were then in their vogue. It was the mus
lin period and poplins and mohairs, fig
ured delaines and chablis, our novelties
of t<Mlay, were the popular fabrics. The
skirts were cut straight at the back, but
gored at the sides and in front as now;
and vretelles, pelerine -capes, talmas,
small mantles and the like were the same,
only cut a little wider in the back, not so
well shaped to the form. Fashion had
passed out of the wide hoop and slipper
period, and was slowly simmering down
to the “sheath” like garments which later
inclosed the forms of women like gloves
and culminated in the “tie-back.”
Are we now working onr way back
to hoops and sandaled slippers, to
bodices cut off from the shoulders
and short waists, to straightungored skirts
and opened worked hose, to rosebud in
side the brims and “capes” outside the
back of the bonnet ? It looks a little like
it. A novelty in skirts, by a New York
manufacturer, revives the “springs” to a
certain extent, and will no doubt be popu
larized during the coming autumn. It is
known as the “crinolette” skirt, and is
made of anew kind of hair cloth very
light and soft, yet elastic. The back is
laced under a tournure which extends the
entire length, and is kept in position by
the laced under part, the strings of which
admit of being drawn in or expanded at
pleasure. It takes the place of a short
underskirt, is indeed short and
small dress expander in one, and although
rather too Warm for hot days, will be con
venient and useful as the cooler davs of
early fall approach, and something sus
taining is required to support heavier
woolen dress fabrics.
A bonnet high in front with close and a
sort of butterfly crown reappears after the
lapse of years. It is strikingly made in
black lace over red tulle with red aigrette,
gold beads upon the edge, and a black and
red and gold butterfly in the depression
between the high puffed sides.
A CURIOUS CONTRAST.
We do not often hear of fashions in
connection with the departure of the
steerage passengers of an ocean steam
ship, yet there are toilets to be seen
worn by jaunty chambermaids, success
ful cooks and portly housekeepers that
are by no means to be despised, and to
the eyes of an inexperienced, unsophisti
cated person would seem more striking,
not to say stylish than those worn by the
friends of the cabin passengers at the
other end of the vessel. Red Jerseys,
braided and trimmed over, voluminous
draperies, muslin dresses of fairest tints
trimmed with lace, large hats faced with
velvet and showing long, drooping feath
ers and small bonnets, all gilt net work,
and roses. These were some of the
features of the attire of the New York
domestics who went down to the
Celtic the other day to see their friends
start for “home.” The number of per
sons who were returning disappointed or
going on a visit, after having made a com
fortable provision for themselves in this
country, was astonishingly large, and
with tbeir friends filled the deck and
swarmed over the wharf, a strange and
motley throng. Evidently the occasion
was a fete to the girls who had dressed
themselves in all their bravery and were
not daunted by such trifles as bedding and
tin pans tied in sheets, but hustled them
on board tearing past the officials in their
silks and ribbons and coming back ma
jestically as persons who had done their
duty, were earning good wages, and not
afraid of men in or out of a blue coat and
brass buttons.
The simplicity of attire worn by the
rich on all public and promiscuous occa
sions is a never-failing source of wonder
to those who have never been rich. “Good
gracious! is that the daughter of Jay
Gould ?” asked one in a tone of intense
disappointment as a quiet, modest young
lady in dark blue cloth with a narrow
rim of linen around her throat was pointed
out on this same occasion as that fortu
nate young woman. “Why, what is the
matter with her?” asked the informant.
Oh! nothing; but what is the useofbe
ing worth $50,000,000 if you dress in blue
flannel?” What indeed!
UNADORNED BEAUTY.
I have remarked in previous letters
upon the absence from street dress of ac
cessories that were formerly considered
indispensable ties, bows, cravats,
brooches, chains and pendants, bracelets,
cuffs, veils and the like. The dress of
women, except for skirts, is now almost
as simple as that of men, and the women
who still adhere to fluttering and gilded
furbelows upon the street are not fash
ionable women, but old-fashioned women,
or those who live at a distance from the
centres of civilization, and who are notin
rapport with the progress of ideas, or,
perhaps, one should say, the recent
changes in the modes. But it was hardly
to be supposed that the severity im
posed upon promenades in public places
would extend to the drawing room,
still less to the ball-room; yet, according
to recent advices, the Newport belles are
rigidly excluding every particle of lace
and jewelry from their satin bodices, and
exhibiting an untrimmed corsage, inno
cent of any adornment save a cluster of
softly tinted blush or crushed roses with
out foliage. The skirts are masses of
some soft transparent fabric—tulle, gauze,
China silk or Indian muslin—often show
ing painted or embroidered draperies; but
the finest ball dresses seen this season are
masses of delicate tulle with a group ol
pale pink feathers for ornament, arid a
pure satin bodice with feathers upon the
shoulders; but otherwise untrimmed save
by the group of roses at the waist.
The question is often asked—:s it a mere
fashion, or is it that among the highly
cultivated the savage in costume is be
ginning to disappear? It is certainly
acknowledged now that ear-rings are not
ornamental but disfiguring to pretty ears,
while they only call attention to uply ones.
Broad-band bracelets are simply barba
rous, as they always were, and jingling
ornaments suggest very primitive tastes.
Everything is to be dropped from the tact
that there are certain fashions—lowering
headdresses, monstrous hoops—that can
never be restored. At the same ti£> it is
not to be disputed that fashions which are
made to disguise ugliness, to create a con
fusion ot ideas where clear perception
would reveal awkwardness or deformity,
ungraceful lines or absence of fine tint or
color, must always exist. Classic dress
is for beauty. Ordinary dress must adapt
itself to ordinary people. The best that
we can expect is that in time they will
get rid of the superfluous and not exag
gerate the defects in the effort to conceal
them.
THE LACE DISTEMPER.
The extent to which the lace trimming
mania is carried would indicate a short
life if lace itself was not so becoming, and
if so many lovely ideas had not been pro
duced in laces of modest cost as to almost
itflure some degree of permanency to
their existence. The lace over-dress, or
rather the lace-covered dress, is now
already three seasons old, yet it is more
popular, even more fashionable, than
ever. Perhaps its continued good fortune
arises from the fact that it must be always
more or less restricted and really requires
daintiness in the wearer and in every de
tail of the toilet. The newest lace dresses
(black ) are made over soft satin surah
and combined with velvet striped grena
dine, which Is used for panels, straight
short apreffl and bodice. The latter has a
full skirt front of lace and 9urab. The
front is formed of lace flounces over silk,
either puffed or flounced; the back is
draped and puffed on each side of the deep
rounded tail of velvet which forms the
centre of the basque. The newest para
sols are very large and are entirely cov
ered with escurial lace which descends
beyond the edge even when this has a
scalloped spring finish. The interior is
lined with snot silk or satin surah in love
ly primrose and gold, violet and pink, or
strawberry and amber tints. The linings
are gathered. The sticks ate of twisted,
natural wood, with circular loops orna
mented with bows of wide ribbon. For
country walking wear there are huge
cretonnes, and for dress purposes parasols
of lovely transparent lace, laid over a gilt
frame, and showing only a centre of tinted
satin and satin bow upon the gilded stick.
NEW TRIMMINGS
are so diversified that they adapt them
selves to all materials. The prettiest pas
sementerie is a combination of dull and
satin finished cords which are made to
form a leaf and variously shaped designs,
and are then connected by a close mesh.
Escurial lace consists of a lace mesh
combined with a gauzy sort of grenadine
to form whole leaf and flower designs, the
outlines worked in an over-and-o'er em
broidery stitch which forms a sort of cord.
This lace is much used in connection with
the satin passementeries, and is effective
upon Ottoman silk and satin merveilleux.
The beaded trimmings are much used,
especially in black and white and copper
colon the latter unseasonable tint having
acquired an unexpected following.
Ribbons are as much used as ever, and
anew idea for a belt is obtained by plait
ing satin ribbons of three different colors
or shades in a square pattern and finish
ing with hanging loops of all the colors.
This is a pretty novelty for gingham or
lawn trimmed with parti-colored embroi
dery.
The combination of material still forms
a very convenient and popular mode of
deciding the trimming question. The
union of plain with figured fabrics, the
broched and tapestried or brocaded ma
terials with plain silk, satin, or wool, and
the embroidery in bands, ornamented de
signs, or upon the fabric, are all in high
vogue.
Velvet, too, holds its own, and is used
both in broad bands and many rows of
narrow, straight, or cross-barred lines.
Anew Princesse ulster has a full front to
a line below the waist; from this a narrow
pleating plaiting to the edge of the skirt.
This is outlined from the shoulder to the
toot With broad bauds of velvet. The
back is shirred ok pleated. In warm
weather a dress beneath this garment is
not necessary.
THE PRETTIEST LAWN TENNIS DRESSES
are made of striped flannel skirts and
over-dress of white flannel. The stripes
are in red, old blue, or old gold, with
black, and lines of white. Only the color
and the lines show when they are kilted;
and the white over-dress has collar and
cuffs of the gold color, upon which may
be embroidered the emblems of the game.
The flannel upper dress is of the simplest
form possible, and has no trimming, ex
cept this contrast in color. The blouse
cut and the bodice gathered into a belt
are the styles preferred. The apron is
very short, and there is a drapery at the
back.
It'cannotlbe said,however,that any filled
form which more or less binds the arm is
so good as the elastic Jersey, which is
undoubtedly the best and most conve
nient bodice for all out-door sports—ten
nis, boating, archery, and the new cricket
which gentlemen usually prefer to tennis,
and which is beginning to be a ladies’
game. A suitable costume stands as the
most formidable obstacle in the way of
this game being adopted, or rather revived
as a lawn or field game, for it was played
in England sixty years ago by women of
all ranks. But the Jersey waist and
“accordion” skirt solve the problem of
dress for all outdoor sports and exercises.
The new tennis bats are “rough and
ready” sailor styles, with band ol velvet
or twist of silk and a spray of white
chestnut blossoms, cowslips, corn flowers
or hops. They are higher than the high
hats which are so common and so ridicu
lously overdone as to have become a
caricature. Jenny June.
MONEY LOST ON SHIPS.
At Present the Best Luck In Store for the
Owner of a Bark Said to be Shipwreck.
A distinguishing characteristic of South
street, says the New York Sun, is the
appearance of the signs over the offices of
the ship brokers and merchants. New
York signs are in themselves a curious
study, ranging as _ they do from an expen
sive panorama in a Broadway window to
a tbree-for-a-quarter bash placard in a
cheap restaurant, each conveying the
impress of artistic finish in its execution
and of comfort in its promise to the
persons for whom it is intended. The
sign of the ship merchant is neither
artistic nor expensive. Tt is simply old,
so very old, in some cases, thakthe paint
has been worn off by the wind and storm,
leaving only a faint outline of the letters
in black or ’ gold on a coffee-brown back
ground, which might once have been
either white or black, for all a passing
inspection will tell. The old signs which
once read “Howland & Aspinwall,” and
“Grinnell, Minturn & C 0.,” have been
wholly obliterated. Like wine, or like a
choice meerschaum pipe, the old signs
gain value with increased age. To
remove one of them would give pain to
scores of gray-haired shipmasters, who,
first saw them as cabin boys, fresh from
some coast or inland village."
In these shipping offices the visitor will
usually find in the room marked “private”
a genial old gentleman who can name the
products of every country on the globe,
can tell the cost, the demand for, and the
value of each, and the number of ships
engaged in the traffic. With this informa
tion, the visitor is pretty sure to be told of
the profits once.made by shipowners, and
that never since ships began to sail the
sea have profits been so small as now.
“Ships must pay som% profit to ship
owners, or else the shipyards would be
idle,” suggested a young man to one of
the pleasant old brokers.
“Some ships pay, of course, but at best
the profit is not large.”
“Wliat freight will a good East India
i ship receive now?”
“The chief East India cargo is kerosene
oil in ten gallon cases, which weigh
eighty-four pounds each. A large ship
will carry say 75,000 cases, The largest
cargo on record was carried by the iron
ship Lord Wolseley. She took 101,000
cases out. The great majority of ships
carry about half as much as that. We
sent out a bark with 40,000 cases not long
ago. She got 26)4 cents, or SIO,OOO gross.
If she is lucky she will get jute or sugar
back at say $7. She will bring 1,500 tons
or $10,600 gross, and she will earn it in a
year.
“A ship like that costs $50,000, and $21,-
000 is a small gross income. Out of this
sum of $21,000 she has sundry expenses
which will astonish you, perhaps. For a
crew she carries a Captain, two mates, a
cook, and fourteen men. The Captain
gets S3O a month, and 5 per cent, of the
gross freight money, 0r51,415 lor the year.
The first mate will get S6OO, the second
mate, $420; the cook, S4BO, and the four
teen men will get $3,360; or a total of
$6,275 for wages. To feed them will cost
$6 a day, or $3,285 for the year. It pays
to feed them well, but it could be done for
less, ol course. Then out of the freight
money comes 1)4 cents a case for stowing
the oil, and 35 cents a ton for discharging
the return cargo—a total of $1,225. The
brokerage on the cargo out is five per
cent, and back seven per cent., or $1,265.
l’ort charges at Shanghai are three cents
a case, or $1,200. Pilot fees will amount
to S2OO. Then we have insurance at five
per cent., $2,500: annual deterioration,
five per cent., $2,500; tonnage tax at
thirty cents a ton, $300; and interest on
investment at four per cent., $2,000.”
“Is that all?”
“There are a few small incidentals.
Oil, I forgot the ship chandler’s bill. It
was $2,600. That’s all that’s worth count
ing.”
The young man had jotted down the
sums. Thev aggregated for the year
$23,550.
“That's just about it,” said the broker,
with a faint smile. “You cannot make a
more favorable showing, because you
have estimated the insurance at a low
rate, and the return cargo is always a
matter of some doubt. Besides, a year is
a good round trip. You see, the owner is
$2,500 or $2,600 out of pocket.”
“Why does he build new ships, then ?”
“Give it up.”
“Do all these ships Sail at a lose ?”
“That one was only of 1,000 tons
register. Take a ship registering 2,200
tons, and she will carry 75,000 cases of oil
out, and will bring back 3,000 tons of
cargo. Her freight will amount to about
s4o,ooo,while her expenses over those of the
bark of 1,000 tons will be about $15,000,
leaving a clear profit of $4,000 on a invest
ment of SIIO,OOO, providing that she has
ordinary good luck. The best luck that
could happen to the bark would be a
wreck when she was fully insured.”
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SENATORS WHO GO A FISHING.
Expert Aaclers in the Upper Hons*-
Statesmen Who Lore to Cast a Fit'
and Others Who Prefer the Bait Rod.
There are not many who would take
Senator Edmunds to be one of the most
skillful anglers in the country, says the
Washington Star. He can, however, cast
a fly with the best of ’em, and fairly revels
in the sport. He is an expert at salmon
fishing, and has killed many a big fellow
with a light rod by dexterity and patience
atone.
Nor is Mr. Edmunds the only accom
plished and enthusiastic disciple of Walton
in his branch of the national legislature.
In fact, some of the best anglers anywhere
to be found are in the Senate.
Hon. Wade Hampton is almost without
a peer as a fly-fisherman. It is not alone
the ease and grace with which he handles
the rod that gives him pre-eminence in the
piscatorial art, but he is thoroughly versed
in every branch of the sport. His fond
ness for it has led him to study the phi
losophy of angling, the habits of game
fishes, and the utility of tackle. He is a
recognized authority on all matters per
taining to the sport. It has not been many
days since Senator Hampton, with a naked
line on a light rod, made a cast that sent
the end of the line 24 yards.
Senator Frye is another skillful manipu
lator of the fly. He delights in coaxing
the wary trout to take the lure, and his
sunburnt face is proof of the diligence
with which he plies the rod through the
fishing season.
Senator Vest is also a skillful angler,
and a remarkably successful one. In the
rivalry that always goes with the fishing
party he invariably enters with genuine
spirit, and he usually wins the champion
ship by killing the biggest fish and the
greatest number.
Senator McPherson is another superb
angler. He is the owner of one of the
most complete and costly outfits that was
perhaps ever collected together. With the
adjournment of Congress he betakes him
self and tackle to the haunts of bass and
trout, and for a change be sometimes goes
in quest of salmon.
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, is like
wise an ardent lover of the sport, and he
is entitled to rank with the experts. He
makes an annual tour through the Adi
rondacks, where he has a fine permanent
camp.
Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, is
as fond of the rod and reel as of following
the hounds His home is a pleasant and
popular resort of sportsmen. He keeps
fishing tackle enough to supply friends
and neighbors on any occasion, and he
is always ready, if fishing fails, to start
his hounds on the trail.
Senator Miller, of New York, knows
how to cast a fly to perfection, and Sena
tor Sewell is familiar with the exciting
thrill that runs all through a man when
he has a “strike.”
Senator Garland is fond of fi-hing, but
he is rather old-fashioned in his ideas of
the sport. He does not hanker after a
split bamboo rod, but prefers the natural
cane pole. Nor does be care about artis
tically handling a fly. Ho would just as
soon catch a big bass with a minnow for
bait as to delude him to the surface with
a fly.
Senator Williams also prefers old time
methods, though he is fond of the sport.
Senator Vance can handle the light fly
rod and the heavier bait rod with equal
facility. His angling education was ac
quired in North Carolina, where the va
rieties of the finny tribe are so numsrous
that the sportsmen must learn all ways of
taking them.
Senator Ransom, from the same State,
likes to go fishing with a jovial party, but
he is not particularly fond of the sport,
though he can handle a rod successfully
when so disposed.
Senator Riddleberger is impatient for
adjournment that he may set out upon a
sporting jaunt. He has a comfortable
spring wagon and a pair of excellent
horses, with which he will traverse the
valley region of Virginia, fishing the
streams and hunting the hills. His
family generally accompany him on these
trips.
Senator Maxey is an enthusiast in bass
fishing, but he is not particular
he takes them with bait or fly.
Senator Beck is willing to make one of a
fishing party most any time, but it’s more
the good company than the sport that at
tracts him. He doesn’t mind holding a
rod when the fish bite freely, but if the
bass has to be coaxed, the Senator gets
out of patience.
Senator Don Cameron is another who
goes fisbing only when the company is to
his taste, and lor the fun that an “outing”
with a jolly crowd affords.
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN.
Celebrating the Six Hundredth Anni
versary in the Old German Town.
The citizens of Ha-Meln, or Ha-Melin,
in Brunswick, Germany, says a London
cable special of the 28th lilt., to-day cele
brated with much pomp and parade the
six hundredth anniversary of the charm
ing of the children of Ha-Melin by the
Pied Piper. For two months past a com
mittee of twenty-nine citizens had been
busily engaged in arranging the details of
the celebration. This was to have begun
on Thursday, the 26th ult., the real anni
versary day, but had to be postponed until
to-day, because of the forbidding state ol
the weather. The advertisements of the
festival brought to the little town several
thousand visitors, in addition to the usual
number of summer tourists who were so
journing at the historic place.
At twilight this morning the people of
Ha-Melin and the surrounding country
were awakened by the booming of cannon
and the clanging of bells. The salute
gave assurance that the day was to be one
of perfect weather, as it really has been.
The people turned out in their best attire.
All the schools, workshops and stores
were closed, and the entire population of
the district made such a holiday as has
seldom been seen even in Germany. All
the buildings had been freshly decorated
during the night, and the street archings
had been reflowered and regreened.
Bands paraded all the morning, and there
was general jollity preceding the princi
pal event of the day, which was the pro
cession after the general assemblage at 2
o’clock, in front of the “Old House.”
This bears on its outer wall an inscription
stating that the Kattenfaenger von Hame
lin, who lived in that same house on
Thursday, six hundred years ago, by the
charms of his pipe lured the children of
the village from their homes into a cave
in the Koppelberg Hill, and disappeared
with them there, in revenge upon the
Burgomaster for refusing to pay the thou
sand crowns promised the Piper for rid
ding the town ok its rats.
To the assembled thousands the legend
was recited in front of the “Old House.”
Then the grand procession was formed—
made up in part as nearly as possible like
that celebrated. Hundreds ot children,
dressed in the costume of six centuries
ago, led the procession, following the
strains of the ancient pipe to the spot on
the Koppelberg, whither the legend de
clares the Pied charmer disappeared with
those that followed him.
The spectacle was exceedingly pretty.
The costumes were historically correct,
artists from Dusseldorf and Munich hav
ing come to Ha-Melin to supervise their
manufacture. Behind the children fol
lowed chariots drawn by mettled horses,
after the style of the rude vehicles of the
Pled Piper’s time. Knights in armor,
men in long hose and buff jerkins, women
in graceful robes, and finally all the handi
craftsmen of that ancient time, wielding
their primitive tools, made up the balance
of a pageant seldom equaled in this gen
eration tor historic interest and pictur
esqueness.
The leading authorities of the town all
had conspicuous positions in the proces
sion, and the brilliantly uniformed mili
tary of the province added their presence
to the spectacular display.
It had been intended to embody in to
day’s pageant representations of all the
fanailiar German legends concerning the
Piper, but at the last moment this idea
was abandoned because of the time it
would have required to carry it out, and it
was decided to continue the representa
tion to that of the Browning story
The procession was a complete success,
and the children were escorted back to the
town with a band of music. The after
noon was given up to concerts and all
sorts of outdoor amusements. In the
evening, at the theatre, Nessler’s opera,
the libretto of which embodies the old
legend of the Pied Piper, was rendered,
many noted singers taking part in the
performance. Late at night the town was
brilliantly illuminated, and the day’s fes
tivities were closed with a great torch
light procession and a magnificent display
oi fireworks.
HORSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE
In Liver and Kidney Troubles.
Dr. O. G. Cilley, Boston, says: “I hav*
used it with the most remarkable success
in dyspepsia, and derangement of the
liver "and kidneys,”
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A very superior Misses’ Hose, some caU
them Lisle Thread, at 19c.; worth fully 50c.
One lot extra fine Misses’ Hose at 25c. We
used to sell them at 60c.
A lot Gents’ Cardinal Full Regular Silk
Clocked Half Hose at 17c.; worth 35c.
One lot Ladies’ Solid Color Silk Clocked
Hose, fine gauge, at 25c.; worth 40c.
And any quanity of Hosiery in Silk, Lisle
and Cotton at equally low figures.
Now We Shall Speak of Handker
chiefs.
We have too many kinds in Silk, Linen and
Cotton to be enabled to enumerate and specify
each style, but this we assure you: we have
made immense reductions in these goods; for
example, we offer a nice Fancy Bordered
Handkerchief at 2c.; a Pure Linen at 5c.; a
nice quality, all Linen, Hemstitched at 10c.;
in fact, vou can’t afford to purchase Handker
chiefs elsewhere, for you would be losing
money.
We Will Now Tell You Abont Onr
Laces and Embroideries.
At the prices we have put them we can
verily say we are giving them awav. We offer
Hamburg Edgings at lc., 2c., 3c., 4c., sc. and
so on as has never been equaled; in fact, such
bargains you have never seen before, the same
holds good with our Lacc stock, such as Laces,
All Overs, Curtain Laces, Fichus, etc.
Just Think, We Offer Our Elegant
Parasols at Half Price.
Yes, we have reduced our Parasols and Um
brellas just .one-half, come and judge for
yourself. If they arc still too high, we will
lower them further, tor they must go. Now
do not come too late, when they are all picked
over, tor bear in mind, we anticipate a great
rush and naturally they can’t last all the time.
It is Very Warm, So We Must Talk
to You About Fans.
We have all kinds, from the humble but use
ful Palmetto Fan at lc. to the very finest style
and quality. These goods were purchased
this week from the Assignee of the importing
house of Nathaniel Bloom in New Vork at
one-third its actual cost, hence these unex
ceptional bargains.
Now a Word or Two About Our Gloves.
Via have them in Silk and Thread, in Jersey
style, Foster Hook and Button, in black and
in white, and every imaginable shade; also, a
full line of Silk Mitts, and have made prices
to correspond with the rest of our stock, very,
very low indeed.
Far-Please bear in mind that these Goods at these prices will be sold only whilst tlrey ljisc
Wecannot duplicate them at these prices, and as we expect-t 7 usyou
very long. If you do not wish to be disappointed call early, or elm. do not blame u= .
find the best bargains gone.
BAUD MI & CD,
153 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ca.
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Our Stock Must beßeduced.
Our annual inventory takes place the latter part of this month—until then vtt a - !
offering special bargains in all our Departments.
Ladies’ BRILLIANT LISLE HOSE, 75c; reduced from $1 25.
FRENCH WOVEN CORSETS, 85c; former price $1 00,
FRENCH WOVEN CORSETS, $1 15; former price $1 35.
FRENCH WOVEN CORSETS, $1 35; former price $1 50.
FRENCH WOVEN CORSETS, $1 55; former price $1 75,
Ladies’ SPUN SILK HOSE, black and colors. $1 75; worth - F „
Gentlemen in need of UNDER WE Ali, SHIRTS, SOCKS, TIES and HANDKEK
CHIEFS will save money by calling at
GUTM A- ISJ ’S,
141 BROUGHTON STREET.
Cavriastß, Samrao, etr.
SALOMON COHEN’S
CARRIAGE AND WAGON REPOSITORY,
CORNER BAY AND MONTGOMERY STREETS,
Where ca f j be found a large and well selected stock of CARRIAGES and BUGGIES,
will be sold at reduced price®. Al®o, will call the attention or
NAVAL STORES MANUFACTURERS
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Every Lady Wears Corsets.
THEREFORE, wc have made it a specialty.
We have fifty different styles in all sizes
up to No. 36. Every style is a gem. Our 82c.
Corset is sold elsewhere tor 50c., and 60c. Cor
set is really worth 75c. You can't buy for |1
what we sell tor 75c.; our dollar Corset we
pride ourselves to be unexcelled. We have
them also at $1 25, $l 50, $2, $2 60 and 13 apiece,
and remember if one atyle dou’t please you,
we can show you torty-nine other sty les. Do
you know why we keep so many styles? Just
because we wlsn to please every customer, and
we do it. There is not a day when wc sell less
than one hundred.
We Have Something to Say About Our
Ladies’ and Misses’ Underwear,
Ulsters and Rubber Water Proofs.
If you should want a Hand-Embroidered
Chemise, Nightgown and Drawers, or an ele
gantly or plainly trimmed one, you will find
them’in our Bazar at such low prices that you
eau’t help to buy, tor we sell the garment as
low as the material aline would cost you.
Linen Ulsters we have at 75c., sl, $1 26 and so
forth, all very cheap indeed. When you are
in want of Rubber Cloaks tor Ladies, Misses
or Gents, please bear in mind that we have a
full line of them, good and cheap.
Only a Few Words We will Say About
Onr Housekeeping Hoods.
We have two yards wide, good quality.
Sheeting at 17c.,and of very extra good quality
at 20c. Pure Linen Table Cloth at 17c. per
yard; 40-inch, all Linen, Towels at 10c.;
Toweling or Crash by the yard at sc; heavy
Undressed Bleached 4-4 Shirting at Bc., worth
10c.; yard wide Bleached Shirting at 6)4c.,
worth Bc.; Bed Ticking as low as 6>ic., usual
price 10c.; Gingham Checks at 5c.. worth Sc.;
Merrimac Shirting Cambric at 5c., worth sc.,
etc.
Listen to What We Have to Say About
Dress Goods, Silks and Satins.
Wc wish to close out our entire stock ol
these goods and are willing to make any and
every racriflce to accomplish it. Believe us,
we mean just what we say, and surely it can
not hurt yon to give us a test call; you will
certainly find us very anxious to sell all these
goods, and, having reduced our prices so ini
luensely, wc arc confident wc will more tnau
please you.
What Do You Think Abont Jerseys .*
They are getting to be the rage more ami
more. We have them as low as $1 to the
choicest kinds—plain black, fan-shape backs
with satin bow, braided and in all the new
shades.
Victoria Lawns, Nainsooks, Marseilles
And all other styles of White Goods, such a*
plain and embroidered Swisscs; Persia Lawns
in white,cream,blue and pink; Piques, Linen
de Ireland, French Welts, India Lawns, in
fact everything in that line will be sacrifice
tor what it will bring, tor we have determined
to sell these goods at any price. Just think.
Victoria Lawns at 5c., some merchants cal. it
Linen Lawn and charge 16c. to- it; 10-incn
fine Victoria Lawn at Bc.; Lonsdale Cambric,
the genuine article, at lie., etc.