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THE SWEETHEART AT THE CATE.
Love is golmr to tlio wars. Yet ha lingers late;
With ever one more farewell for the sweetheart at the gate.
The captains with their clamor - the Bans as Brim ns fate.
But over one more farewell for the sweetheart at the gale.
I.ove fs going to the wars. “See! the troops in state.”
But he’s blijuloil by the golden hair of the sweetheart at the gate.
The drums are beating: “Forward! how may tho bnttle wait?”
But ever one more farewell for the sweetheart at the gate.
Love is gclng to the wars: There are foes that hate;
Sweater are the kisses of the sweetheart at the gate,
O captains! cease yonr shouting—Love of seeks uot glory groat;
His glory’s In tho bright eyes the sweetheart at tho gate.
—F. L. Stanton.
ON THE SPANISH MAIN.
A Tale of the Peruvian Navy.
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elsewhere. I could not let well enough
alone, though I belonged to a good
ship, and was well treated. And I
listened to the seductive stories of
Tom Babson, an adventurer, who had
led a harum-scarum life, knocking
about iu tlie Pacific, and in the various
ports on the Spanish Main, till I con¬
vinced myself that we were a much
abused ship’s company, and that any
change would be for the better.
“While lying iutheport of Payta, in
Peru, we got acquainted on shore with
some seamen belonging to a ten-gun
brig, called the Tres Amigos, Sho
was fitting out to go and tight some¬
body—I never knew exactly who, for
these South American republics were
always in a row—I think they hardly
knew themselves what it was all
about. But there was change aud ad¬
venture in it, at any rate; and Tom
and I laid a plan to desert from the
Marion, and get a couple of doubloons
advance by enlisting iu the cruiser.
“At various times during our stay
we contrived to smuggled nearly all
our clothes on sliore, and left them
with a shark called Scotch Jock, who
kept a little pulgueria, and the last
liberty-day we were to have we left
the ship in the morning, not intend¬
ing to return to her.
“We went to the rendezvous where
they shipped men for the brig, and
found, much to our disappointment,
that the wages were not so large as
had been represented, and that only
one doubloon would be advanced us
instead of two.
“I began to perceive that all that
glittered in a beach comber’s story
was not gold; but we had gone so far
that we disliked to turn back; and
we should hardly be able to get our
clothes back from Jock, for his object
was to have us desert aud spend our
advance money in his tavern.
“So Tom Babson proposed that we
should not ship immediately to the
Peruvian man-of-war, but hide away
until the Marion had gone to sea, and
then take our chance of something
better. We could, at all event, take
up with the offer of the rendezvous as
a 1 ast resort.
“There was no occasion for us to
bide away before nightfall, for our
leave lasted uutil sundown; so we
wore cruising about, hail-fellow-well
met with other seamen through the
day. I took good care to keep sober,
but my comrade drank so freely that
lie was stretched out in Scotch Jock’s
back room before the day’s leave was
up, quite oblivious of everything. Of
course, he was no company for me,
and, indeed, I was fast getting dis¬
gusted with him and his plan.
“When the boat came iu for the
liberty-men at sunset, 1 got out of
sight, where I could reconnoitre, and
saw one after another of my ship¬
mates go down and take their places
in her. I felt lonely enough to set
my sober second-thought to work;
and the result was I determined to
stick by the Marion, aud let Tom Bab¬
son go his own reckless road. Had
lie kept himself sober, aud been with
me at that moment to use hi.s influ¬
ence, I might have seen things m a
very different light.
“The boat was in the very act of
pushing off when, obeying the voice
of this better angel, I ran shouting
down the pier. The officer waited for
me, aud, as I jumped in, said; ‘All on
hand but Tom Babson, Where is he?
Does anybody know?’
“I aloue knew; but, though I had
repented my own foolishness, I had
no idea of turning informer. So Tom
was left behind, and the next morn¬
ing a new hand was shipped in his
stead. Of course, when we got to sea
J was obiliged to go to the captain to
draw more clothing from the slop
chest; but I never told the whole I
story, and he only reprimanded me hav- as I
a foolish, improvident fellow for
ing sold all my traps in port and
spent the money.
“I was better contented on board
now that I had not Tom’s influence at
work to make me otherwise. We were
very lucky in taking whales; and in a
year afterward we anchored in Turn
bex, with a full ship, and, after taking
iu our water, went up to Payta, to en-
AM BARCLAY, our
mate in the Cas¬
pian, used to tell
of the following ad¬
venture. I have
sometimes thought
that he possessed
a talent for embel¬
lishing, and I do
not, therefore,
vouch for its truth.
But I have been
careful to “noth¬
ing extenuate, nor
aught set down to
malice.”
“When I was on
my first voyage in
the whaler Marion,
I got infected, like
many other young
fellows, with the
desire to run away
and luck
joy our liberty and refit for the pas¬
sage home. I had almost ceased to
think about Tom, aud bad no thought
of finding him there, more than in
any other part of the world, knowing
his life to be that of a mere adven¬
turer.
"But one day, while strolling about,
I passed what I took to be a prison or
guard-house, where a sentry was pac¬
ing back and forth, when I heard my
name called from a loophole.
“I stopped iu astonishment aud
stared at a face pressing up against
the opening, which I did not at once
recognize. *
“ ‘Who is it that knows me?’ I
asked.
“Don’t you remember your com¬
rade, Tom Babson?”
“I walked up to the loop to push
my hand in, but the sentinel inter¬
posed—a little, insignificant-looking
Cholo, as thebalf-fcSpauish, half-Indian
are called on the coast. I took his
measure at a glance; a few Spanish
words whispered, aud, more yet, a few
silver reales displayed to his avari¬
cious gaze, aud the coast was clear.
“He even hinted to me that if I
would pass round to another pigeon¬
hole on the other -side I could talk
with the prisoner without being ob¬
served; and he biuiself would not be
compromised with his superior officer.
I was not slow to take the hint, and
after a shake of the hand, in which I
could feel half that I had to say, Tom
told me his sad story, peeping through
the little loop like a postoffice clerk.
“He had, it seems, waited and
searched in vain for me after he got
over his revel, uutil he was satisfied
that I must have gone to sea in the
ship, when he took charge of the two
stocks of clothing, which were trans¬
ferred to Scotdh Jock’s hands for
liqflor and board.
“A few days were sufficient to wear
out bis welcome there.
“He was forced, after all, to ship in
the Tres Amigos, man-of-war, and the
landlord got the lion’s share of the ad¬
vanced doubloon,
“Tom was soon convinced that the
Peruvian naval service was not what
it had been described; and he,, as well
as several other English adventurers,
were heartily sick of their bargain,
and determined to back out of it at
the first opportunity.
“So, having been sent inshore on
some sort of spy service, under the
command of a young middy, they took
charge of the boat themselves, put the
officer on the beach, and started down
the coast to leeward. But, not dar¬
ing to show themselves at any town
on the main, they managed to get a
small stock of provisions at an out-of
the-way place, and headed her off for
the Galapagos Islands.
“After many strange adventures
and dreadful sufferings they landed
there; and, as might be expected,
they soon became scattered, joining
different ships. Tom bad been in
half a dozen vessels during a year’s
time; and, feeling quite safe, had
come ashore in Payta, a few days be¬
fore, from a coasting craft in which
he was employed. He had hardly
landed when he was recognized by
one of the former officers of the man
of-war. He was arrested and tried
by a hasty court martial, where the
little middy himself' was brought for¬
ward, and, glad enough for this
chance for revenge, swore to Tom’s
identity.
“He was at onoe found guilty of
having mutinied, deposed his superior
officer, laid violent hands upon him,
and turned him ashore in a hostile
territory. All this was true, of course;
but until then Tom had hardly under¬
stood the enormity of his offense,
which had seemed to him a mere
sailor’s freak. He was sentenced to
death.
“ ‘Next Monday,’ said he, ‘lam to
be led out at sunrise, stood up in the
corner there at the angle of the wall,
and shot by a platoon of these Cholo
scarecrows. Heaven have mercy
upon me, for I have had none upon
myself, and have found none at the
hands of my judges!’
“You may imagine how I congratu¬
lated myself that I had been so sud¬
denly led to think better of our mad
scheme, and to return to my duty on
board tlie Marion. But what could I
say to comfort my misguided ship¬
mate? In three days, for it was then
Friday morning, he would be put to
death; there was no hope of pardon or
reprieve.
“But the second mate, after hearing
story, entered into . the thing heart
my bad to
-and soul. It was too see an
old shipmate made a target of, in that
manner, he said, by a crowd of human
monkeys, like these Gholos; and by a
little management and a few dollars
used in bribes, he thought he might
save Tom from his fate and run him
off the beach. He went ashore with
me the same evening, and we managed
another interview with the prisoner at
his pigeon-hole, and cheered him up
with a hope of deliverance, giving him
some idea, too, of our plan of effect-
ing it, that he might be preparer 0%
act in oo-operation.
“We smuggled a coil of rope ashore
on Sunday, audcoueealed it in a pile
of rubbish, convenient to the place
where it was to be used. We wero
stirring early on tlie morning ap¬
pointed for the execution, aud landed
with a picked crew before daylight.
No particular notice was taken of our
movements, as we were supposed to
have been impelled by a natural curi¬
osity to see the man shot; and we
mingled with the other spectators
without suspicion, keeping always near
each other, however, and ready to
communicate by signals previously
agreed upon.
“We saw Tom led forth from the
guard-house by a filo of the soldiers,
and marched across the yard to the
place of execution. Here he stood up
like a man who had nerved himself to
meet his death without flinching; and,
as he braced himself against tho mud
wall in^the corner, his calmness ex¬
torted admiration from his jailers.
“We eould hear what was said, for
we had now rallied our whole force at
the same angle of the wall, on the out¬
side, where we were making our pre
paralions entirely unobserved, the
whole of the attention of the specta¬
tors being engrossed by what was
going forward inside.
“Sunrise was the time fixed for the
execution to take place; but, with a
refinement of cruelty worthy of Peru¬
vians, he had been brought out and
led to his post an hour before- that
time.
“This circumstance, however, was
favorable for our project, as it was
now just on the gray of the morning,
between daybreak and full daylight.
“The Cholo officer and his file of
men withdrew to the other side of the
yard, after having set poor Tom up
for a target, as one might say. The
firing party had not yet come on the
ground and now was our time.
“The wall at the angle where the
condemned man stood was about nine
feet high, so that his guards had no
fear of his being able to climb it, when
they fell back and left him there; but
they little dreamed what was going
on the other side of it. We were able
to communicate in low tones through
a chink or crack, and Tom, watching
a favorable opportunity, gave the
word in a whisper, ‘Now.’
“At the signal, the .rope, with a
bow-line knot of suitable size ready
tied at the end, was tossed silently
over the wall. In the dusty morning
twilight} this by operation the soldiers, could not by have the
been seen or
spectators who had gathered on the
opposite side of the inclosure. Tom,
whoso hands had been left free, in
deference to his own request, aud
sheer admiration of his supposed
courage to meet his fate like a hero,
slipped the bow line down over bis
body, and placing himself as in a
‘boatswain’s chair,’ he gave the sigual
by a slight jerk.
“Our whole souls, as it may be
supposed, were in the muscles of our
arms, and his slight jerk was re¬
sponded to by one who lifted him into
the air as if he had been a child. His
hands grasped the top of the wall,
and quicker than a flash, it seemed,
he was over, and dropped among his
shipmates.
“ ‘Carombol’ was the exclamation
from the guards, as they caught a
glimpse of his form against tho sky,
over the wall.
“Stupid half-breeds as they were,
they rushed to the spot to assure
themselves that he was really gone—
and then rushed back a^ain. But
meanwhile, the word had sprung
among the lookers-on, and many were
ahead of the soldiers in the pursuit.
As they bad a considerable circuit to
mak.e before they could even see the
scene of our operations, we had time
for a good start, and make the most
of it. We had made straight for our
boat, which we had taken care to have
all ready for a start on tbe instant the
oars being ‘peaked’ in the rowlocks,
and a boy left in her to keep her off
from the landing-place. He did his
dpty, like all the rest; and each man,
dropping upon his own thwart as he
arrived, a vigorous shove sent her well
under headway before the howling
crowd of pursuers reache d the water
side.
“ ‘Give way, my lads!’ said the sec¬
ond mate, wild with excitement.
“ ‘The captain will have to give me
up again, if yo'u take me aboard,’ said
tbe condemned man.
“ ‘Not he! The foretopsail is loosed
now, and he got his clearance papers
last night. We’ll be under way for
home before these CUolos get their
eyes fairly open!’ •
“The firing platoon at this moment
turned a corner, coming to a double
quick pace. They rushed, all out of
breath, down the pier, and brought
their muskets to a ‘ready’ at the order
of a little bewiskered officer, whose
voice seemed the most formidable part
of him.
“But we had already a safe offing,
and their bullets rattled harmlessly in
the water on either side of us. Sev¬
eral other spattering shots' followed,
but equally impotent as the first ones,
for we bad not lost a stroke in our
pulling, and the oars were doing their
best in the nervous grasp of trained
whalemen.
“The Marion was already casting
her head seaward when we shot along¬
side; and as the head-yards rapid head¬ were
braced full, she gathered
way. Never was canvas handled
quicker in making sail than it was
that morning by us. Two or three
boats were seen to push out in pur¬
suit; but they might as well have
saved their labor and given up the
chase, as soon as the sun showed at
what a rate we were leaving them
astern.
“That was the nearest that I ever
came to running away from a ship;
for, you may be sure, the lesson was
not lost upon me. I think Tom Bab¬
son always gave the whole Spanish
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would uot ^Aen venture round the
Western Horn again, but shipped for
an Indian voyage as soon as we ar¬
rived iu England.”—New York News.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
Careful measurements prove that
the average curvature of the globo is
6.99 inches te> tue statute mile.
The creatures known as ocean by
Wrae have ijo heart, no lungs, no liver,
no brains, no nervous system, nor or¬
gans save mouth and skiu.
Gun cotton is cotton wool, washed,
then soaked iu one part of nitric neid
aud three parts of sulphuric acid,
washed in water, pulped and dried.
Typewriters aro being manufactured
which will write on books, the ma¬
chine being mounted on a frame with
an open space in the centre, through
which the type levers are driven down
on the page by the keys on the top of
the machine.
A suggestion lias been put forward
to raise the ill-fated battleship Vic¬
toria, which sank in the Mediter¬
ranean, by means of, among other
things, heavy electro-maguatos. The
successful raisiug of the vessel would
cost nearly $500,000.
A German, Conrad Gautseli, of
Munich,’lias invented a fireproof mat,
consisting of asbestos fibres, which,
when applied in good time, will ex¬
tinguish a fire or allow persons to ap¬
proach easily for the purpose of turn¬
ing on water or rescuing property
without risk of burning.
The creature most tenscious of life
is the common sea polyp. One may
bo cut in two, and two creatures aro
the result. One may bo slit length¬
wise into half n dozen sections, mak¬
ing as many animals. They may be
turned inside out and enjoy them¬
selves just the same as before.
Tuberculosis has been communi¬
cated to fishes by Freueh bacteriolo¬
gists, aud proves fatal very quickly to
them, whether the bacilli are derived
from human beings, rabbits, or hens,
or from previously infected fish.
Tuberculous bacilli from fish, how¬
ever, have very little effect when in¬
jected into rabbits aud fowls, tho in¬
ference being that their power is at¬
tenuated in the colder blood of the
fish.
Possible Wealth of Culm,
Cuba has many latent sources of
wealth which we yet know nothing of,
a touch of Northern enterprise being
needed to put movement into the
island’s many industries. The ca¬
pacity of the laud for sugar and to¬
bacco culture is well understood, and
the splendid fruits which grow in this
soil should be brought to our markets
in greater quantities, as all who have
ever visited Cuba will quite agree. In
case the island shall be annexed to the
United States, or in case we shall es¬
tablish a protectorate over it as wo
have done in effect already, there will
be abundant opportunity to develop
and exploit its wealth. t
Much American capital lias identi¬
fied itself with the island already, es¬
pecially in the sugar plantations and
the iron and manganese mines. Ha¬
vana will probably become tho Ameri¬
can winter resort par excellence in a
few years, and neither Florida nor any
other point of the compass can com¬
pete with it when its claims upon our
rich tourists are once well established.
Fine hotels, of course, will need to be
erected, but these will the built as
naturally as they are built iu other
places once the island becomes a defi¬
nite part of the Union and the invest¬
ment can be looked upon with favor
by American capitalists. When it be¬
comes a possession of the United
States the fate of Cuba is not in much
doubt,I'm’ so far as its industrial de¬
velopment is concerned. How it will
be governed politically is another
question and one which it is not pleas¬
ant to discuss.—Manufacturer.
"For Valor.”
A little story that appeared not
long ago in a Spanish comic paper is
sent to us by a correspondent to show
how Spaniards thought of their navy
before the present events. A Spanish
Admiral touching at some foreign
port, in the natural course of events
calls on the Governor of the local fort,
and on tbe return call the Governor
sees the one little gun of the Spanish
man-of-war run out to fire a retnrn
salute; but at the critical moment the
Spanish Admiral rushes up and
throws the gun, carriage and all, into
the sea. “What!” exclaims the dis¬
tinguished visitor, “why do you throw
yonr Government’s guns overboard?”
“Because,” replies the Admiral, “if
the gun had gone off it would have
blown this whole ship to pieces!
That means another decoration for
me!” “How that?” “For my cour¬
age in saving this ship from destruc¬
tion.”—London News.
8pain's 8oldl«r«’ Food.
The Spanish soldier is a frugal liver,
his commissariat allowance being two
meals a day—one at nine a. m., the
other at five p. m. In some corps
coffee and soup aro served out in the
early morning. A pound and a hall
of bread per man per day constitutes
the Government ration; any food be¬
yond tbis must be bought by the pri¬
vate at tho canteen. He gets little
meat, and keeps in excellent condition
on a chunk of dry, black bread, a little
oil and a clove of garlic a day. If to
this he can add a pint of wine, which
tastes like vinegar and water, lie feels
happy. There is one thing he cannot
go without, and that is his cigarette.
—New York World.
Military Hwlminlmf Hchool.
The German army has a swimming
school for troops, where every one
must learn to swim. The best swim
mers are able to cross a stream of sev¬
eral hundred yards’ width, even when
carrying their clothing, rifle and am
urunition.
Min* C«ok Mlfhfla Ilnobt.
A novel profession has been dis¬
covered by Miss Mabel Cook, of Now
York, who repairs books as a regular
occupation. Tho volumes of the Astor
Library are kept in repair by this
enterprising young woman.
Clevev AMatlo Woman. *
It is said that Mhearai Misi,
wealthy Asiatic woman, discovered the
art of making the perfume known tho as
attar of roses, and also invented
beautiful workmanship exhibited in
the weaving of the' celebrated cash
mere shawls. Nothing is known about
her death.
lieuuty In Comet..
French women, who have rodneed
dress to a science, hold that the.most
important item of the toilet of a well
groomed woman is the corset. Tho
French woman wears a short corset of
cream or bluok satin, embroidered in
her favorite color. There is a wide
heading at. the top through which is
drawn n ribbon the color of the em¬
broidery. Tho bottom of the corset is
bound in wider satin ribbon. This is
to preveut the steols or whalebones
from bending inward and hurting the
flesh, and to prevent the suspender
garters, which are ofton pinned to the
sides of the corset, from tearing it. —
Chicago Times-Herald.
Adieu to the l’syrlie Knot.
The Psyche knot is no more, or,
rather, it has begun to go with tho ap¬
proach of the summer. With its de¬
parture there is a new fashion in hair¬
dressing among women of prominence,
and it now looks as if practically every
woman in sets would adopt this new
mode.
The latest is to brush the hair away
from tho forehond and the nape of the
neck as much as possible and to gather
it all high up on the head. There are
two popular ways of doing this. Ono
is to put the liair up on “puffs” and
“rolls,” stretching it smoothly in a
Pompadour effect. The other method
is to wave and curl in on top of the
head in a fluffy mass, which when a
girl’s hair curls naturally and sho lias
little trouble in keeping it in order Is
exceedingly becoming.
Whichever method is adopted makes
little difference, but the new law of
tho mode is that there must be no
bunch of hair, no knot, at tho back of
tho head and none also on tho fore
head. A curl or two on tho forehead
is allowable—one at each temple, say
and that is all.
Tbe disappearing of the Psyche
after its long reign will occasion u few
heartburnings, piossihly, among the
girls who looked particularly ^woll
with it, but the new fashion is far
more becoming to most women and is
being hailed with delight.
ItaKltiritiitt Matron'll Outfit.
Mrs. Busan A. Glenn, widow of a
soldier and mother of a volunteer in
the First Regiment, District of Co¬
lumbia volunteers, has resigned her
position in tho Postofllce Department
to go to tho front with her son. Blio
is a member of the Women’s Patriotic
Industrial Relief League, and the first
woman to be appointed matron of a
regiment. Mrs. Glenn is a well-pre¬
served woman of fifty, a person of fine
physique and the mother of four chil¬
dren. Two daughters remain at home
to devote their services to the Wo¬
men’s Patriotic Industrial Relief
League.
The league is now organizing a
corps of women to send to each of the
various regiments to darn, mend and
wash for the soldiers. They are ex¬
pected, by looking after the sanitary
conditions, to keep the men out of the
hospital. No woman under thirty-five
or over fifty-five will be permitted to
accompany a regiment, and they must
bo women of irreproachable character.
Widows and mothers of volunteers are
preferred.
The outfit of Mrs. Glenn as matron
of a regiment will consist of black
alpaca and black silk skirts,, blue and
blacky shirt waists, rubber cloak, two
sets of black underwear, broad-sole
walking oboes, one rubber pillow, one
rubber and flannel blanket, hammer,
shawl, belt, bag, and a soft fedora hat.
Mrs. Glenn will also fake with her
a quantity of articles, such as disin¬
fectants, oastile and laundry soap,
combs, pins, needles, letter paper, en¬
velopes, postage stamps, pencils, darn¬
ing cotton, patches, thread, buttons,
scissors, mustard and vaseline. The
league is now manufacturing and fill¬
ing small bags with the articles enum¬
erated above for distribution among
tho soldiers.—Chicago Times-Herald.
Oomlfi.
Miss Annie L. Diggs has been made
Btate Librarian of Kansas.
“Norsk Kvindestemrnertsforening”
is the name of the woman’s suffrage
society of Norway.
Miss Amanda Johnson, of Hull
House, was made Chief (farbage In¬
spector for the city of Chicago. i
A class for the training of nursery
maids has been started in New York
City at Bt. Bartholomew’s Parish
house.
Miss Maude E. Knowles, of Topeka,
Kan., lias been appointed microscop
ist in the Agricultural Department at
Washington.
The young women of the University
of Chicago are to have a club house of
their own. The scheme originated
with tho students.
The only woman in the freshman
class of the law school of Michigan
University, Mrs. Emma 8. Tyndale,
acted as toastmistress at a recent class
banquet.
In Ohio, the Barlow Bill, making
women eligible as notaries publio, has
become a law. The first commission
was issued to Miss Grace A. Adams,
of rainesville.
Tho Countess of Wisborg, wife' of
Prince Oscar of Sweden, is studying
at a Loudon training school for nurses
in order to assist her husband in his
missionary efforts in Africa.
A traveling library is to be Btarted
by tho women’s clubs of Utica, N. Y.
It will be made up by the contribution
of one book from every woman be¬
longing to tho Btate Federation.
A monument, designed by tho Prin¬
cess Louise, lias just been placed over
tho grave of Mrs. Mary Ann Thurs¬
ton, who nursed all the children of
Queen Victoria from 1845 to 1867.
Mrs. Buson L. Winters, wife of a
prominent hanker of Dayton, Ohio,
is President of tho Christian Woman’s
Exohango of that city, which carries a
widows’ homo and several other char¬
ities.
Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage, who died
in Chicago at tho age of seventy-two
years, was one of the earliest cham¬
pions of women’s rights in Americu,
having identified herself with that,
movement in 1852.
Professor Mary A. Wilcox, of the
lege, Zoology Department of Wesley Col¬
who has been studying abroad
for tho last two years, has obtained
tho degree for Ph.D. from Zurich
University, with highest honors.
Miss Rebecca Lash, of Chelsea,
Mass., is probably tho only person
living who knew Paul Revoro. Miss
Lash is ninety-flvo years old, aud iu
her childhood was a playmate of Har¬
riet Revero, Paul Revere’s grand¬
daughter.
Mrs, Emma Thayer, who has been
appointed by Governor Adams, of
Colorado, Commissioner of Fine Arts
from tho Btato to the Trans-Missis¬
sippi Exposition, is now making a
tour of tho East in the interest of her
commission.
Mrs. Hobart is already one of the
notable hostesses in Washington.
Her favorite method of entertaining
Is that of giving small dinner parties,
and, as she is as noted for hor tact ast
her distinguished husband is for his
wit, thoso informal affairs are a feature
of official social life.
Mrs. General Grant and Mrs. George
W. Childs aro near neighbors in
Washington. The ttvo ladies are fre¬
quently soon driving together, and the
friendship begun during their distin¬
guished husbands’ lives is evidently
warmer than that which is usually
supposed to exist between women.
Fn«)ilou , f) Fancier
Plain covert cloth will be muoh worn
In tailor-made gowns.
Airy feather aigrettes and Paradise
plumage are still used on largo round
hats.
Plaid stockings for children are the
latest fad. Home aro extremely hand¬
some.
Wrinkled gloves are all the rage,
but wrinkles iu the gown aro decided¬
ly unsightly.
Embroidered hosiery is the correct
thing to wear with tBe ever-fashion
able low shoe.
Plaids in red, black, green, yellow
and red are most popular in silk and
lisle stockings.
Black hose embroidered with yellow
or white fleur-de-lis are shown in tho
dry goods houses.
Red stockings will be popular,
either embroidered in white, or with a
whito check or plaid.
Home of the new sailor hats are fin¬
ished with a roll of straw all round
the edge of tho brim.
Bine stockings embroidered in
white stars are decidedly popular, now
that Undo Bain has shouldered his
gun.
Chocolate-colored taffeta silk,
trimmed with burnt orange and seal
brown ribbon velvet, make an effec¬
tive costume for this season.
This promises to be “a whito sum¬
mer” in dressy gowning, just as black,
touched up with a becoming color,
proved a very favorite style of dress
during the winter aud early spring
season.
Whito dresses, hats and parasols
will be in marked favor this summer,
and where color is added on tho hat
trimmed with soft white ostrich plumes,
it will, as a rule,be either yellow rosea
and satin ribbon, or pink or mauve
flowers and ribbon, if more becoming.
White muslins (under which term are
included all the many sheer white
wash materials) make some of the
most fashionable gowns for the sum¬
mer.
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P atternfl of a Hwl38 raushn hnen lawn
’
and organdie, - which come with beau¬
tiful designs wrought upon them.
Most of these are remarkably hand¬
some, very effective when made up,
and moderate in price. The prettiest
and easiest way to make them is to
fashion them without lining,then wear
them over a silk, lawn or batiste slip
of any color which will best display
the embroidery, and prove the most
becoming.