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THE QUESTION.
Wh«»n on his l>e<l ho qulot lies,
Wtlh pulaeh’ss heart nn<! sightless eyea^
His kinlre l ask, with anxious rnin<],
**\Vhnt treasures has ho loft behind?”
But angles open wide tho book,
And for tho dea l man’s reward look ;
And ask, as now they scan It o’er,
"What treasures has ho sont before?”
George Birdseye.
PRAYING FOR WEALTH.
BY EDMUND H. ROCHE.
T was after sunset
before Calkins
i succeeded in re
capturing the two
* experienced old
burros, who, de
siring a break in
their laborious
& Vvv journey the withdrawn d< s< rt, toward dur- had
. ing the night,
H\ and the ful denso seclusion found pin-oak rest¬ in
r HI brush on a neigh¬
boring hill-side.
Thus it came
about that the
“ A ruddy light of
Calkins’s camp
fire again attract¬
ed us. Tbe con¬
versation took a
wide range at first, but approached a fo¬
cus when one of our party, the old
lady with black mitts, referred to the
generally prevailing drought, She
mentioned, iu this connection, a recent
newspaper report of a church meeting
in some arid section of tho Northwest,
where gonerul prayers for rain were
offered with such irnmediato effect
that the congregation, who were un¬
provided with umbrellas, were
drenched on their way home.
“Purely a coincidence,” flippantly
suggested Manton, a recent importa¬
tion from tho effete East.
“I regard it as a most striking illus¬
tration of tho efficacy of all sincere
and earnest prayer,” reprovingly re¬
marked tho old lady with the mitts.
“What do you say, Mr. Galkins?”
inquired Manton, unabashed. “I’m
sure you’ll agree with me I”
Our host stirred up the firo before
expressing himself. “You’re dead
right, ma’am!” he at length replied,
ignoring Manton. “There’s nothin’
prayer won’t do, if you’re in earnest
and pray hard enough, and don’t pray
for too much nor too little, and stop
right there. But you can handicap a
good, strong, willin’ prayer, came as
you can anything else, and then it’s
bound to balk and make trouble.”
“1 four I do not quite grasp your
meaning, Mr. Calkins,” said the old
lady with tho mitts, laying down her
knitting and regarding Calkins with a
look of puzzled inquiry.
‘TVaps I wasn’t very clear, ma’am,
but I had in mind a queer experience
of my own in tho earnest prayer line,
some years ago, ’was up north in
Trinity, which'il my
Catkin, oottlad
provo.f? and
4,1 1. was in tho winter of’75, and 1
was oarryin’ mail from Gorman’s
over to the Brown Bear and Honndont
atGorman-rwIdch < m 1 s no w - si urns *° 7 WdL« Ln]\ T°
the week, I stopped with was a FrciSl p”* >
named l'irot, who "^Wo^unked worked a in^a^iTlf drift 1
on tlie river.
nibin, back of tho hotel corral
month got along middlin’ well for the* first t
we’d generally we was together E v
turn JhoIrnwiJhS un at the 1 , i i
and
private parlor and listen to Kittv (bn
man playin’ on tho parlor or<-m J
»lw»3T,likod mtisio, hat 1 hadn’t no
fan,Ity ,d I , rod„c,.i' it bo I'd just sit
and listen while Kit ty’d play and Pirot
who had a big, throaty voice, would
now aud then sing to Kitty’s nccom
•
. “This was nil well enough at first,
but, after two or throe weeks, I found
it dull and uninterestin’, just sittin
there by myself on the cold, slippery,
black hair-cloth sofa, with never
word chance a
nor a for one with Kittv
who seemed all took up with Pirot and
the music, and only’s speak to mo
when she wanted another stick on the
fire. Then, after a while, I stopped
goin ^ into the parlor, aud
the saloon would sit in
till bed-time, feelin’ mad
all through to hear Pirot singiu’ and
Kitty playin’ away for dear life to
keep up uitk him on the gaspin’ old
organ in the next room. Then I grow
bitter, because I knew that
two, the me best of the
at same time she was worldlv
nunded like her father, old man uor
man and _ felt , Pirot
, was a better match
<>u account of his river claim, while I
wasiu much account, from a ready
^ money point of view. Then
course, 1 had failin’ of
about a out vith Pirot
nothin’ in partic’lar on the sur¬
face, as I can recollect of. I did
pretty much all the quarrelin’, I’m
tree to allow, for Pirot said nothin’,
but just laughed in a way that made
me madder, aud I moved out of the
shake cabin to an old adobe highe r up
the hill. °
day I started off before sun
ni^onlVnAghtTj^
long Norw'e suow^hoes. ' Mt h them
nin r j lt Ver
stopped on the trip for nothin’ f
always more anxious to e- th
summit I Kh son of deld beat ont
pulled “There lowthd^ll*. Wore l^unfl
wasn’t •»».»>, WIUl - i t
snu was out warm an 1 f f b 1
Hndtheidei tor ofstretcld, ’n«? *K e * ^
the
suitetl I ' K ,‘
me sit ,j f5
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from m y shoulder, and took out the
little snack of bread and meat I’d
brought along and which I generally
eat on the way without making aDy
special stop for it.
“While I was eatin’, lookin’ ofl
down the slope, I’d just climbed up
and thinkin* what bad luck I’d struck
all along the last few months, my eye
caught on to some lines iu the news¬
paper I’d wrapped round the lunch,
and which was lyin’ spread out on my
leg under the second piece of bread
just within good readin’ distance. I
don’t recollect just now how the words
read, but the drift of it was that lots
of men failed in gc-ttiu’ what they
wanted in this world just because they
didn’t want it bard enough and didn’t
keep up askin’ and prayin’ for it un
til they got it. ' x Those lines somehow
hit my case, it seemed to me. I
hadn’t had much early religions train
in’, and the idea of just prayin’ hard
for what you wanted end gettin’ it,
struck me as somethin’ new and sim
pie and very satisfactory. There was
no end of things I wanted, and want¬
ed bad, and if they was to be had by
jnst wantin’ them bad enough and
askin’ for ’em violent enough I was
goin’ to get ’em sure!
“Then I says to myself, why not
start iu right now with a silent
prayer? So I set at it. I closed my
eyes and squeezed ray lids together
hard—I was so dead in earnest? It
was a terrible sweepin’, vigorous
prayer I handed in. First, I wanted
good luck in a general way, and asked
for it hard. Then I got more down
to partic’lars, and asked to bo rich
and prosperous, and wound up with a
sort of side-handed suggestion that it
would suit mo down to the ground to
have Pirot fall off his luck and get
poor, whilo I grew rich. All this
wasn’t right, of course, as I see now,
ma’am. But 1 wasn’t so much prayin’
for bad luck to Pirot for its own sake,
as for tho effect of it all on my gettin’
on with Kitty Gorman. '*
“When I prayed for the blight on
Pirot, I was so sorter wrought up by
tho whole business that—just, I sup¬
pose, to givo things a partic’lar point
—I fired out my light leg so vigorous
like, and struck tho snow-shoe to
which I’d buckled tho mail-pouch so
hard that—zip! -whizz!—like a shot
it was on its way down tho hill. It
made a clear shoot lor about five hun
dred feet, every now and then spinin’
about, when an end would strike a
snag, until it brought up short against
a ledge that cropped out across its
track, sending splinters of stones all
about when it struck, for with the
mail-pouch buckled on to it, it picked
up considerable speed and hit hard,
It bounded up and turned clean over,
and then stopped altogether, held
from slidin’ any further by the crop
pin’s.
“Well, ma’am, whilo that snow-shoe
was pirouettin’ down the slope, I was
that surprised and mad all through
that, although I’d just been writhin’
in prayer, as you might say, I let Iposo
a line of language liih
strong and pointed that if. there'd been
anvstop itjfouhl of feelin’ td-tMfc snow-shoe
have brought up within re^ref fifty
1 mention this with
to make them ro
top °/ tbe .w"'
hcftdtJHIiSP^ loSMB Mf # A/f| 3 n f a Ur6e hot ‘
I didn’t ‘tLVo SMBP^ q f^ CeS
‘ -
^ ^ was
» ho °"P ^ the mail
HOtxcb, and get on my way again. The
1>re LH *2? ^ Wfts Avdl ^°Hen brok with « up the already, weather and
*>•’ and
Aj T 101 i 101 U, 8ma11 there’d P ie been <* a just
. one
Ltd just.away T which had
from the ledge, and
Z Tun me with up its to
No, joung man —this to a knowing
, “ fr ° m ;’ Ianton ~“ it wasn’t
That ’pioco”ol’Took” ‘" U °*’ “* alL
crossed all and was just criss
coarse wire-gold. over I stood through with
full minute starin’ at it
a before I could get it
through my head that I was lookin’ at
rock that would go over five thousand
dollars to tho ton; that I was the dis
coverer and owner of that led^e; and
that findin’ it just meant to me every
thing worth havin’. includin’, of
course, first and foremost, riches and
Kitty Gorman.
I stood there, I recollected,
with a start, that riches, and pros¬
perity, and Kitty Gorman was what
L d been prayin’ for hard five minutes
before, and here it all u-iis xv.-fi -
reach in answer to that praver just as
if the it had been on tap so to sn’eak
time, and I’d just turned the evcifed spi^
got. butl Naturally I was some ^ puf ’,
kept cool enough u
monuments and a location notie > nil
ci “: m «*«
how appromixtVtntterit^Uou^” 6 '
again lor the other shoe, pounded off
ylf go od s r e ' ; mens to show what
1 d found, , and was back again at Gor
man’s a little after
“Wheul went down to the hotel
after 1\1 cooked siqiper and cleaned
XeiJ ^an l 1 W Pir0t
? ui f \ hi8 ^iTbII teknSked'inAe
saloon first, where I could gen
eraI1 v °‘ )uut °n findin’ the old man of
.
ftn ? but they said he was in the
Piro, “ aj
1 ««* •««
hte v ad surprised, and didn't
-
p’n' 1 ' “is-aed up (be dour-sack
1 d s-on^ht my specimens down in
: \ nd J:U 1 ' e:u aii on the table under
theiIghto£ , tbe bangin’lamp, Ipifi where
m«-L.s Vt e\t * hOW r I f see. Ihevall rieiicr’n ’roan
got 1
erally pretty cold-blooded about most
things.
*‘Tkere wasn’t any more eingin* or
playin’ that evenin’, and pretty quick
Pirot said good-night and left us, not
lookin’ cheerful. Old man Gorman
asked me all kinds of questions about
the size and dip of the ledge and the
nature of tho croppm’s, and Kitty sat
by the table, and was brighter and
chattier than I’d seen her in a month.
When I told the old man I’d located
him in with me on the claim, he was
pleased all through, and we arranged
to meet next mornin’ and talk up the
beet way of handlin’ the property.
Then at last wo eaid good-night all
’round, and I went up to the adobe
feelin’ all toned up with satisfaction
at the style in which my prayer was
workin’.
“Next day old man Gorman and me
had our talk out, and it was settled
between us that we was to locate ex¬
tensions of the ‘Snow-Shoe,’ start in
developin’, and incorporate the whole
business right away, settin’ aside part
of the stock for what old man Gorman
called a ‘working’ capital,’ and mean¬
time the old man was to put up for
expenses. Things went on almost too
smooth for the next month. The
ledge opened up very promisin’, Kitty
was more friendly every day, and as
for Pirot, ho never turned up nowa¬
days—anyhow when I was ’round.
“Now my folks back in Missouri’d
been writ-in' on an average once every
six months for the last five years,
urgin’ me to come home and see ’em
befoi’ethev all died off; but I’d never
had no means to go or any way to get
any up to now. But when another
letter came about this time, still
naggin’ me to come on, I showed it to
old man Gorman, for he and I’d got
to be very thick, and he said I’d
oughter go, and he’d lend me the
money to go with and look after
things while I was gone. The old
man kept his word ; ho did look after
things, as you’il see, ma’am.
“Well, this was in April. I got
back and saw the folks, took a little
general passear all round, and it was
way into August before I fetched up
one evening on the stage at Gorman’s
again. At the first glance, before I
got down, I see there’d been some
considerable changes in the hotel
sinco I’d been gone. The main build
in’d been repainted, and there was a
complete new outfit of red settees on
the front porch. A strange man, with
the air of ownin’ the whole plant,
came out from the office, and tker8
was no sign of old man Gorman or
Kitty standin’ in the front door, as
was usual with ’em when the stage
came in.
“I felt a sort of sinkin’ at the heart
at all this, i s though somethin’ bad
was goiu’ to happen to me. I wasn’t
kept long in doubt, though, about tho
state of things. I hadn’t been off the
stage five mirutes when I learned it
all. Quick,-fo; I’d left, old mauG^
jpaft'fcTTjkTpirot the ‘woi^Kf' **g|
tal’ as a
"^y^Sdup'a out delinquent
on a T
sold thev sti-nnir „„ t?, r
outth thin? e V “si ' 8
Nest ml pro.,
old man Gorin el Tit forno°one
and the three of 'em out
knew
ma am, I won’t dwell on my
feel in s or how I expressed ’em when
I neard all this and found it true, for
1 1 l”l here n T‘, here ’ 1 conlcl
see kee, ofte after r Id cooled | down and re
fleeted, just how it all came about. I’d
hoodood everything up there on the
summit by asking for bad l uck to
strike Pirot by usin’ the pointed lan
guage I ve referred to so close on top
my prayer when the snow shoe went
waltzin down the hill.
This, I think, ma’am,” concluded
Calkins, as he rose and stirred up the
camp fire, “will illustrate my remark
that while there’s nothin’prayer won’t
uo, if you’re dead in earnest and pray
hard enough, at the same time it’s
just as true that if you overload vour
prayer, that or pack a lot of truck on it
don’t belong to tho load, or show
temper while it’s traveiin’, it’s just
bouud to go balky, and make trouble
for you.”—Argonaut.
,.r:“'irrL
James became insane, her peculiarity
being an aversion to companv and a
desire to be perfectly alone. SLa
not dangerous, but ‘her wish to be
come seclusive was so great that she
b J vas ° m ;> P ro ^ ^^ bere e ^ «he with has a dark lived room a hermit at her
bfG for i0rt Y- t | lree jears, being cared
i0r b J ber husoand until he died four
^ aad later b y her two
daa bter
relatives «nd[neighbors before
and evinced *deSr« ^?° a mhjects
a m ° re
erne^e into the wu-ld pF b fcome
rttX' one of its actor- Her aversion to
whi-h^he^s^converSnT P^bas.disappearetl.herpeculiarites r 11 ? !?
6 6
TheVe^e fi
freedom and clearness M
coLnl SS,ef-1tt h ™Gl h'
Rn R ' ,,,,anee Enockel Out by Cabbage.
A partv of four one o'which
ho ra lea ? r a “ h ^ it- Ti , ”d be
tot t e countrroa^ e
drove along the old 7
and widow cried buM her ! 5 Jf 'd® ds
“ThprV. i cabba G e
in it ” and WhS* ‘ u® r heart
heTcomp^ons^hv^^sheThonfd would b-ak ’ j ^ ° f
at the chan 11 ’•* ld or T so
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EQUAL SUFFRAGE.'
WOMEN TOOK PART IN THE
ELECTION IN COLORADO.
They Not Only Voted Themselves,
But Insisted Upon the Men
Voting—Scenes at the
rolls.
w OMEN didates tion Denver voted in at the Colorado. for recent all elec¬ can¬ A
letter to the New
York Sun describes the scenes and in¬
cidents on Election Day as follows:
The total vote in Colorado was in
round numbers 156,000 this vear. Two
years ago it was 93,000, although 1392
was a Presidential year and there was
a strong desire to make a stand for
the silver cause. Furthermore, times
were good iu 1892, and the mining
districts were more populous than at
this election. The phenomenal in¬
crease in votes over two years ago
does not indicate an increase in popu¬
lation in Colorado. Facts disprove
that. Tho women voted to fully
ninety per cent, of their registration,
and their enthusiasm was reflected in
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the awakened interest taken by the
male voters.
All over the State on the eve of Elec
Day the women went to bed early
with one prominent thought in their
niinds. They would go to the polls
on the morrow; they would go early
for fear that some unforeseen circum
stance might rob them of the oppor
tunity to vote. This sentiment was
shared by the men, who took rather a
humorous interest in the exoerime nt.
Had it not be en for .tb ^.Ujfe^ost^takpn
b Y ^b*LSiftg*S3HHHJhousekold many
B -*3*1 bothered about
M. v flHHHHHM>thing of getting
j
o’dock in
P reci uct,
Platte River
11 Pleated iw„ an interesting
spectacle. Men ani.IVitil meu of »]!
assembled
Hour, o'clock. The air wa- 4t......
but the workil
to the cliill of early morninn""tW ““>,t
'vives aud daughters, rathe! I in
quated '’‘“T' 3 , style, aud cl were °» ka unmindful of anti
cool air, of the
while the J ate risers of the
fashionable districts mlyZS for once realized
the beauty of an
Colorado. D. E. Moffatt President
the of the First National Bank ’and one of
wealthiest men m^oioracio, in Colorado was
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te e voting booth.
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° 11 L ^ b ^ before the
® pe ^ ed and .^ood s ^ T “ e polls
lab iu line with the day
°rer awaitmg his turn to vote. In
instauces a family of several
7 ote r^ including the servants, went
body to the polls.
women had to go to the polls
" ch «<* «•»?!•. Often one
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Martha a. pease.
Uh to-’not idea^of^ oMhA^^ T fl* xn ° f f lh ^ lia , 1iei S° S^- r
an a8u f C1 * ^ I°‘ e5 ’ bnt
of the
toT’Ll S Lzt\ 1 } f s l r f,r; 1
ended, ‘.S.Y and then 0 oaring '.^ ‘“ the e rush ™
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Ine women were more expeditious j
to $40,072,676, °
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in voting than were the men. ' They '
voted straight ballots, which required
the placing of a single “X” alongside
the party emblem. The men were
slower and more deliberate. Iu one
precinct twenty-six votes were cast ic
twenty minutes, of which seventeen
were by women. The average in many
precincts was one a minute, Never
was so much straight-ticket voting
done. Few ballots were spoiled, and
the reports of the election judges in¬
dicate that more men had to be assist
efi to vote than women. Yet in the
counting only a very small percent
age of errors was discovered. One
vote showed that the voter, evidently
a woman, had voted for every candi*
date on every ticket by placing an X
in every space. A few had placed the
eross opposite the name of ike candi
date for Governor instead of the
designated place, beside the party " eai
blein.
Women in Denver were unusually
well prepared for Election Day, for
they had been playing at election for
weeks. In almost every precinct
mock elections had been conducted.
Sample ballots were used, and all the
accessories of judges, clerks and chal
lengers were employed. Many women
voted again and again until they were
thoroughly familiar with the Austra¬
lian ballot, which in Colorado is
rather a complicated affair, Intelli
gent people learned how to vote a
scratched ballot properly, and many
did so, though the majority of ballots
in every precinct were straight party
votes.
The remarkable feature of early vot
ing was observed all over the State,
In Cripple Creek, especial ly, j j w .
* ;yy c ’"In
mining camps and in quiet country
precincts the women turned out early
and generally with escorts. There, as
in Denver, the desire of the women to
vote induced the men to go to the
polls quite generally, That more
women voted in Colorado than men
would be an absurd statement. Nor
nan it be said that the uereentoge <Ǥ* | ot
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female voters exceeded umlisputejrllfl the
males, but the t re
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oughly aroused the men and caused
them, to cast a heo.vif^ ijftiite^arerv
where heretofore. ’■■"V
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As the Election Day waned the wo¬
men and business men stirred them
draw in the few stragglers.
Women in coupes and in open buggies
rode from house to house insisting
that tli9 laggards must come out. In
one precinco in tho residence district
of Capitol Hill only two registered
voters failed to vote. The
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carried to the •
was hunted out and L™/ per-uadmlt 1 f °
time to vote Tn
hod women forced made repeated iFnfP-* visits f nnKUlt* F
the different to the
polls
o ue ojjj 2 a ,-i - - , .
t******.**™ sf/'‘might d“ before"™^ 9 ?T 4
woman ter3 did suffrage - The sentiment in fa!or°of
general interest grew by reason election" o* the
in the F It
was a growth from aW uj, ®
The best people of * *
the matter first, and then
^ the indifferent and those who
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recentI y been
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the paths of the meteors are
Town m their true relation to the
heayenl y bodi e 3 and their direction at
once oetermined. The instrument i«
f™ 6 *** 1 ?™*™ “ Covering the
radiant points of meteors—the soots
FASHION’S REALM.
DAINTY CONCEPTIONS IN TIIK
DRESS OF FEMININITY.
Women of All Types Are Wearing
the Toque—Beautiful Even¬
ing Capes Trimmed
With Fur.
^ i ■y HE is convenient, toque is everywhere. becoming and It
,
decidedly the rage. There
are large toques and small
toques, broad ones and narrow ones,
and women of all ages are wearing
them, barring the elderly matron,
Those showing a Tam o’ Shanter ef
feet are receiving the most attention,
The Paris novelty for evening wear
looks like a puffed Tam o’ Shanter of
soft rose pink crepe. It rests upon a
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This outdoor coat is made of rough
woolen cloth, with immense sleeves
and flaring gauntlet cuffs. The vest
i is of lamb’s wool.
twisted band of mauve-colored velvet,
which towards the back is joined by a
velvet wing. Two mauve-tinted wings,
one a shade lighter than tho other,
are its only trimmings. They are
caught to the band of velvet with a
jeweled buckle.- Another new toque
more suitable for street wear is a
smaller Tam, of Lincoln green velvet,
which is stiffened aud bent into a be
com ing sha p e., rests pn on^n band
Qi-^htciT’feSners. At the side the
toque is massed with pale violets,
p b e y ^ ftd slightly over the hair and
peep out fioni the -velvet crown in a
manner rQ0S * i fetching. I ins of jci
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and rhinestones are thrust through
the toque, standing up conspicuously
at the back. J
STRAIGHT VS. CURLY HAIR
t sxsast&,~i£
! f atural > acquired, care must be
I ;f ken lest the P ms tongs used in
tbe process injure the hair ut
heac., especially at the top of the
where a bald place is enough to
Wom* 8 “> Woman ’ spirits for life.
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omer f ^h° cau wear their hair parted
fcbe tltt env do 7 of 80 less now favored > b Y way sisters, of exciting
scions of scanty con
muEt be a Ppiemented allowance, which
su by artificial
means '
! it ended cbarmin to ^ dark ? efi ect. bair They and were white in
frock a
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paniments the ivorv comb is the P pret- *
tiest thing one can wear.
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look. f*’ and One are clever traI - v saint-like in whose their
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silver memory green sometimes buy gold or
though nairpius, which look very well
not particularly picturesque 0
The broad effects are sought by all
sorts and conditions of women with
out regard to the shape of their heads
better if she pierced her slender
Empire twist with ft long, slender pin.
—New York World.
Rcrtmx op the rnrxcEss oowjt.
Every now and then somebody turns
up with remarks about the princes®
gown. Of course it’s pretty, like
everything else, just when it is pretty.
It has one especial advantage over
dresses in two or more pieces, in that
it doesn’t block the body out into top
and bottom sections. Other things
bring equal, it is more artistic to treat
the figure as a whole than to dress it
in divisions, but not all dressmakers
rise to the conceptions. Here are two
new princess “creations”:
One is of green and gold mixed
cloth, with peculiarly graceful drap¬
eries. Two gold buttons accent the
lower point on tho left side. The
waist is close-fitting, with a green vel¬
vet waistcoat opening over a gold
colored crepe plastron. There is a
This coat for a little girl, reproduced
from tho New York Mail ami Express,
is of wool material or silk, trimmed
with velvet and passementerie.
square figure in green and gold pas¬
sementerie, a silk muslin bow at tho
throat and a green felt hat with plumes
and Batin hows.
Tho other is of yellow brown cloth,
with tunic caught up on the left side
and laid in folds behind. The corsage
has a Swiss belt and a double-breasted
front, with large revers and big velvet
buttons. There goes with it r hr own
capote, with wlu'ga and velvet roses.
A PRETTY FASHION.
A pretty fashion, the idea for which
seems to be taken from tho calyx of a
flower, is seen in the pointed bodices
of cloth, with long cuffs, cut also iu
points, above which the velvet or silk
material blooms forth, so to speak, in
large puffs for the sleeves and a full
gathered corsage for tho body. Felix
seems especially fond of this effect^
lately, and has used the idea on both]
skirts a liar min
of this method of cutting a gown
is in leaf-green cloth, with tho skirt
and waist cut en priucesse to the bust,
where tho cloth terminates in six
points, three in front and three
hind. Above this is a dark purple
velvet waist slightly gathered on the
shoulders and finished with a velvet
stock and a tiny niche of fine point de
Vem.se-a pretty sheathing for the
“flower-like head” of a young girl,
The sleeves are ireated in the same
way. A very deep cuff of the cloth ia
cut in points, the cloth of the bodice
and that of the sleeves reaching to
about the same height; that is, the
points of both sleeves aud bodice be¬
ing on a lino with each other.
ALL IN THE tVAY black is WORN.
I here are a good many persons who
do not think black becoming, but this
is entirely owing to the way they wear
it. Dead black, enlivened by a color,
is suitable for any person of any a^e
or condition. Collar, cuffs, a vest or
fichu of some becoming color and
material, will improve any black dress
and always looks pretty.
evening capes.
Beautiful evening capes of velvet or
velveteen are trimmed with fox, Thi¬
bet, mink or some other fur’ and
hued with the richest of silks and
orocaaes, the lining always in direct
contrast to the color of the caps, such
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cape wtth a fur coll.wr,
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as the a purple velvet cajie with lining of
palest lemon-colored silks.
The Coyote 11 hen Cornered,
The desperation of the coyote when
cornered was illustrated the other day
in an experience which a Washington
farmer had with one of these little
beasts near Pasco. Being shot and
wounded , . . by , him, . it sprang upon him,
and man and coyote rolled over and
over until he gave it its quietus with a
pocket-knife.—New York Post.
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