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t •ibro fhegioom and chill of winter
I Breaks the sun,
Freeing every brook and river
TUI they mu
’Merry, sparkling. ou th*dr wny;
Frost and ice have had tb*»ir day;
Birds on budding branches plav;
Cold Is done.
hears the sweet luffis ringing,
I Far and near,
Children’ voices blend in singing
^ Carols clear.
Cl ran ions calm pervades the air,
All the earth seems glad and fair,
Flowery fragrance everywhere
, Brings us cheer.
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Borrowing pyog be^in to brighten—
Faith in bora.
Heart* weighed down with sorrow lighten
f One* forlorn.
’‘Risen,” again the children sing;
•’Bison,” tho glad bolls se*en to ring;
'•Risen.” o’«n d*»ath has lost its sting—
Luster Tnorn!
Emily Louise McIntosh.
"ilN EASTER SURPRISE.
-r " OT long after
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[ I had ended Dr.
A Bavinggra ce
c a m e out of
SI. H i m on’s
^ Church with a
ft’ /
Vk : 030X look face,and on speak- his
inga few words
a bevy of j
bright fftood girls assembled in the
■vestibule relative to Easter, passed oa
nnd across the church grounds to the j
reciory beyond. j
(, * “Thoy hftvo been in consultation i
ugain,” said Betty Fort. “I never .
knew Dorothy Dauforth to tako such
*u interest in tho Easter decorations
before."
/ “We don’t have a now and uumnr
nod minister evovy year,” laughed
Lottie Sloaue. “If Dorothy wants to
make a dead set she would be wiser if
1 j Til?
poor a seems dreadfully worried
•bout it. ;
“I hopo she didn’t propose to him,”
exclaimed Betty. “Ibis is not leap
ycar."
f The other girls laughed.
“I think your comments are mean,’
said Kittie Faithful, a demure little
iness who had not joined iu the laugh.
“I know Dorothy is taking more in¬
terest this year than usual, but so arc
you all, for that matter, aud it is not
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wise to throw stones, eveu if one does
not live in a glass house.”
“I’m sure 1 don’t live in a glass
house, anyway,” spoke up another of
the party. “Dr. Baviuggrace is a very
,t nice mau, but entirely too sobersuled
I to suit me. Come, girls; let us go
beforo he comes back, or we will be
charged with waitiug to waylay him
next, and that would be awful,” and
the girls tripped off down Cue street,
chatting and laughing as they went
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Uon.ble •*> SI-Simon-8 large rad
congregation turned out
i full force, bringing with it the
tjual qu° tft °* strangers aud friends
aat such an occasion calls forth, lhe
M ration were extremely handsome
ptiiS |ii; he attractive. new costumes In were Mr. and unmeious Mrs.
u 4 orth s pew, besides themselves,
Dorothy and a younger sister, were
two gentlemen m the uniform of the
i tlaited States Army, one of whom was
aow recognized as Captain Dauforth,
LKrotby’B brother, who was stationed
in New Mexico, and the othei one was
afterwards discovered to be Colonel
Pa rot, of the Captain’s regiment.
’ie services passed off harmonious¬
ly, he music was beautiful, the ser
mo pleasing to the assemblage and
th cm. oment bad arrived for the final
bum of rapturous melody after the
ben®dictiou, when Dr. Savinggrace,
looking toward the body of the ebareb,
»»>d
“The parties to be united iu wed¬
lock will please come forward." „
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 16. 1895.
And to the astonishment of the con¬
gregation, and especially of the bevy
of girls and their friends who had
made comments regarding Dorothy’s
interest in the Easter decorations, that
young lady, taking the arm of her
father, followed by Colonel Parrot and
mother and her brother and her sis¬
ter, marched up to the altar rail.
Here the party readjusted itself and
Dorothy and Colonel Parrot were
speedily made one by the services of
the church and the blessing called
down upon them by the “young and
unmarried minister” with whom she
had recently been in such frequent
consultation.
Then came the burst of music, and,
as the newly-wedded pair halted at
the foot of the altar steps, tho con¬
gregation recovered itself and the
friends pressed forward to otter con¬
gratulations.
“Did you ever hear of such a trick !”
exclaimed Betty Pert to her com
panious after they had got through
with their congratulations. “It
wasn t the Doctor after all.
Of course il wasn i, said Kitty
Faithful, “and you had no right to
intimate that she was after him. It
is annouucod that the Colonel has to
et back to tho Wes * to fight Indians
01, 80me thiQg. so they intend to leave
011 tlie evening train and that there is
bo a reception trom 2 to 5, I
8ll PP ose » of course, yen all intend to
o
„ ‘ Wh N« certainly,” said Betty. “We
«-°«hln’t miss the reception for the
world; would we, girls? And
a Ptain Danfouh piat too handsome
f° r auytLuug ! — New Yoik I res3.
An Old English Easter Custom.
there has been a lively discussion of
Hie ancient custom of “lifting” and
heaving among British antiquarians,
fl nd it lias come to light that women
were lifted by the men and men lifted
b.Y the women on Monday and Tues
day after Easier Buuday. The pr.ac
tice is supposed to have been a rude
memorial of the resurrection. Women
met iu the street or elsewhere on
Easter Monday were seized and tossed
iu the air. Kissing sometimesaccom
lifting, au4-JK<is
penalty of exemption. Next day
the womcn treated the mea iu lik *
faahion, and exacted a fine of sixpence
for each man spared. E.lward I. was
caught in his bed, about 890 years
ago, by seven ladies of the court, and
made P R y Ruo of At i bdore the
ladies promised to desist from heav¬
iu ff the royal person. There seems to
be a trace of this ohl custom iu the
schoolboy game of “earryiug out the
teacher” upon one day of the year.
This custom prevails in certain parts
of the United States, aud the master
who resists is likely to have a rude
encounter with his pupils.
Eggs anti Easier.
“Eggs have become the type of the
Easter festival,” says a dealer, “but
they were first used by the pagans a ■>
the symbol of spring, whose name,
Eostre, the Christians took for their
festival. Naturally, the egg symbol¬
ized the resurrection of Jesus, who,
according to one old writer, ‘broke
forth from the grave as a chicken
from the shell.’ Iu e.rlv times the
eggs were all colored red to typify the
blood of redemption. As the early
chureh prohibited the eatiug of eggs
in Lent, and as the heretical hens con¬
tinued laying the usual fruit, it was a
happy thought thus to utilize the sur¬
plus product. But before the Chris
tians, the Saxoi s, the Celtic Druids
and the Romans all had their egg
worships and egg games. The use of
eggs for food, anyway, has been aptly
oharacterized as ‘a direct interference
with the intentions of Nature.’”
Easter Snuday.
The word “Easter" is from the Ger
man “ostern," old Saxony “oster”
cSL p^ver or («»*£”( the
rc8Urrectl on of Chriat. The English
nftme f or the day is probably derived
f rom that of the Teutonic goddess Os
tern, or Eostre, whose festival oc
currec j about the same time as the cele
k ra ti OIl 0 f Easter. The time of cele
brating the festival was a subject
g ftve rise to heated discussions
p r i m jti ve Christian churches,
The tion was fullv considered and
finally settled at the Council of Nice
in 3*25 A. D. for the whole church by
adopting the rule which makes Easter
day the first Sunday after the first full
moon after March 21. Commonly
speaking, it is the “first Sunday after
the first full moon after the sun crosses
the line. ”
Disputed.
Ciara—“Mr. Fiddlebaek has just
been trying to persuade me that I am
a perfect Easter belle.”
Maude—“Don’t yon believe it?”
Clara —“No. I told him I had no
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Easter Lilies.
Perhaps we cannot spend Easter
Sunday better than in longing for its
p0W er, the power of His resurrection,
for which Paul prayed and which he
received. What a power Christ’s res
urrection was in the soul of Bt. Paul!
Tu gave him triumph iu tribulation.
weakuess it made him strong. It
maile him the note a missionary of the
Christian world, eager, enthusiastic,
confident, triumphant. Through
Christ he could do all things. Where
is the power of Christ’s resurrection
iu us? Where is our victory? Where
is our mi8sion? What depths of sin
are we reft ching and cleansing?
Ob, for more Easter lilies, Rowers
of white peace and fragrant purity, to
be massed, not in snowy banks within
Gothic avails before consecrated al
tars, but to be scattered from full
hands on bare streets, before dens of
vice, in halls where men devise trea
son against society, in council cham
ber-s where premiers plot war! Come
out of the church, je lilies, and ye
priests and ye people ! Go to the
drunkard, the Nihilist, the pauper,
the millionaire, and tellt hem of Him
who died,who rose again, whoso right
it is to reign, and whose reign shall
bring peace and bliss!
-Denial.
“Papa,” she whispered softly,
‘‘Easter will be here in a few weeks."
“Hump !” snorted papa, “and that
1 suppose means a bonnet?”
“Yes, dear,” was the answer.
“Well, don’t you know,” returned
papa, savagely, “that limes were never
harder than they aro now? Money
was never scarcer, and I have to econo
tnizc iu my luuches every day.”
“Poor papa!” was the whisper that
fell upon his ear.
“Aud yet you expect me to buy you
1 bonnet!’’continued papa, not quite
50 savagely, “What will you do to
ward helping me? ’
“Anything,” she murmured, sure of
gaining the end.
“Will you deny yourself something
in order that I may save the money to
purchase tlie bonnet?” inquired papa,
searching!'.
“Yes,” she answered, slowly, “I
will. I—I"—she hesitated, as if she
thought of some gieat bR sacrifice to 10
niake T W0 ’ J 1 ■' ,ei 1 cr
Hie theatre with Bob any more this
winter, ” and with a kiss of gratitude
she ran a\'a\, lea\ing papa involved
1U a mental calculation as to how in
thunder any such denial was going to
benefit him. Haiper » Gaza*.
Ah Easier Suggestion.
The wife had been informing her
husband of her needs in the matter
of apparel, and he was not disposed
to give tliat heed to it which she fan
eded its importance aud urgency de¬
mantled. Iu fact, he was inclined to
poke fun at her.
‘ Come off, my dear, he said,
slangily; “you are talking through
^ hat”
^"fou- ilow’ J,- "iYiTYay shabby
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On Easier.Day.
Shall it be a song or sonnet?
Sooth’, it must be something gay;
Bess has got a stunning bonnet
She will don on Easter-day.
I eaa see her in my fam-y
As .he marches up the aisle.
Wiih a nameles* ueeromanev
In the sunshine of her smiie.
She’s the liveliest of iasse.
Ever winged a Cupid-dart:
Every gallant, when she possess,
Will have failure of the hear;;
Every belle—my word upon it—
Will with jealousy grow gray,
When sweet Bessie iu her bonnet
Treads the aisle on Easter-day.
I would give a feudal oa-iie—
Ail my castles are ir; $paiu!)
And the wealth i lord aud vassal—
i All my wealth is in my braid)
If I might thiuk upon it
Fairly take* tr.y ’’>r-ath away!—
March with »u t her bonnet
Up lh aisle "it Easter-day.
—Irving Gilmore, in Life
ISLANDS OF SAFETY.
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FRANCE'S PENAL (COLONY
WHERE LIFE IS TORT^ 1 **
A Scorching Climate £ xe ^*prefed- «itivajy
Hard Labor and a Disease
ing Atmosphere Render E,*«»Un k ce
H ideous.
Graphically portrayed as th¬ EpMer
ings of Siberian exiles Iumc P«en
they cannot surpass the he:t* wr f 0l
banishment to tlie Isles do
anarcl,tats where France and has hardened begun to rel|r- £« . t
1! Frenchman h " 6 that connoted '"P 1 ” 1 " of ^'4 tto JM
having revealed to Herman ort.hcat,™'.
Hie plans of French
w,U be taken to spend the reman'<er
of ,pV s
1 he tierce tropical , . . sun and . ,® , VPr
In ,n„l atmosphere would of V « ™
selves k,l any but the l.ord:**
but when to these « added orjtel
unremitting the miserable toil exiles it is no seek wonder^®' sa
death at he hands of their merc.'«»
guards whose orders are to shoot tad
,
kill at the first Sl gn of insptx-bl
This mese islands islands of of safety safety aie are f K ree
m number, and he a few ‘kte d*g£«?
They are small in area, andjexGpk
for their narrow maritime selv;S e
are covered with dense tropical i0r *
ests. WMtte.
Tlie climate is murderous
stand bareheaded in the blazing al °
for a moment's space is certain dei* b -
The wet season lasts eight rnont 18 ’
from November to June, and the A ,c_
erage rainfall during this time is’] S11
inches. The mercury never dro? 8
below 85 degrees Fahrenheit,
climbs up to 115 degiees during f“ e ‘
four dry months. lb
The convict transports either :s
from the Isle do He, in the Bay
Biscay, or from the Isle d’Aix, in 1 16
Mediterranean, near Toulon. TP
voyage lasts a month, and its hd*
rors are a fit preparation for tlu 8 ®
to come. The prisoners, alfea-Y
dressed in iheir Infamous garb,
fifty confined in great pell iron mell in companies^ the r
deck, the cages on sp;
upper deck of those ex¬
tending from stem to stern. The» ;
cages are lined on their four sidbs V
benches, and at night hammocks ar*
slung. Day and night the, guar 8
stand beside loaded fiyslujES miltrai 1 Tense
veady to fire at the
beniu'ii: '
Day by day the ship the |
as nears
tropics the heat increases, and at
last becomes intolerable. The foul
air is sweetened only at intervals,
when the narrow portholes are
opened. Those prisoners who have
been orderly are permitted to walk
two hours each day upon the deck.
Sometimes there are outbreaks on
these convict ships. Eight weeks
ago the transport Yille ’de
Xazaire took from the Isle d’Alix 1R0
felons and 170 who had been con
demned to banishment for political
crimes. Among the number were
several well known anarchists, named
Lautier, Marpeaux, Catineaux and
Golombat. As they neared Guiana
an exile named Gaouyer broke the
rules, and when the guard, ordered
by the commandant,came to put him
in irons Gaouyer sprang upon him
and attempted to strangle him.
The guard, however, succeeded in
drawing his revolver and firing, and
Gaouyer fell mortally wounded,
Seeing this the other prisoners, in
cited by the anarchists above named,
attempted to break from their cages,
but the officers drenched them with
water and suffocated them with
steam from pipes especially placed
for such an emergency, and they
were soon subdued
On the arrival of the prisoners at
the lies de Salut they are taken to the
“Camp,” a clearing in which are
strongly built iron barred huts. In
these are swung double rows of ham
mocks, and at night the fetid atmos
phere within, combined with the
noisome vapors of the outer air and
the everpresent swarms of stinging
insects, render any but the sleep of
exhaustion impossible.
From tlie moment of his arrival
the convict has no name. He is
known only by the number of his
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hammock. The work is excessively
hard. The new arrivals are put at
the most severe tasks—draining
marshes and clearing ground—“to
break their spirits.” though it would
seem they would have little inclina
tion to rebel after the sufferings of
the
Thev “ re their work
hy armed guards, who are ordered
to fire at the least attempt at flight.
Few try to escape, for they know if
they evade the bullets of the guards
and their pursuit, which seems tin
possible, it will bt necessary to tra
verse the sea and tue virgin forest.
At every step will lie in wait for them
death by hunger, by fatigue by dis
ease. or by the poisoned arrows of the
natives, who receive a reward for
every convict they bring hack, dead
or alive.
Meanwhile, with bodies broken by
their awful toil in a climate where
a walk of a hundred yards is a forinid
able task, they labor in the blazing
sun with spades and picks. About
their heads hang clouds of stinging
insects whose bites swell their faces
and hands. Ereat red ants cover
tiieir bare legs, and sometimes pois
onous serpents twist about their
ankles and inflict mortal wounds.
They stand in trenches up to their
knees in water and mire, and the
putrid exhalations rising from the
earth consume them with fever or
»et their teeth chattering with cold,
while the sweat rolls from their fore
head B .
OPPOSED TO ATHLETICS.
Values Brains in College Above
Brawn.
Prof. Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell
university, Ithaca. N. Y., who re
cently become exhibited a brainless frog, has
known as one of the most
skillful experts in brain anatomy in
the United States.
He spends all his spare time on
the comparative anatomy of brains,
has made many important discover¬
ies, and his collection of brains is
one of the sights of the institution.
Those who know him well find
him a genial, warm hearted, almost
overconscientioua man, eager to help
painstaking .Hide,its. To (hose
students who are not in his classes
| le i s known as the one man in the
faculty who I,as made unceasing war
for twenty years on college sports.
KverJ . yc!u . thel . e ]a „ S( ,”. 0
the athletes at Cornell lest Di\
Wilder shall succeed in his purpose
of ki »i„g athletics, and every ear
there is a rally in the faculty to head
him ofl . XJie doclor recently said in
n printed article :
**I can probably claim a bad pre
eminence among American grounds' professors
on thc following I never
witnMMd an int e,.collegiate contest,
contributed a cent for their mainte
or voted to permit ' absences
, a „ team or CM W Since 1870 I
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PROF- B. G. WILDER.
“Abt very long ago society flocked
^9 a<bn sunflower * re a drooping with lily or a nod
a slim some
'hing in petticoats oi* browsers be
—ana --*** ^Hbb|ing thereto. forth uninteMJgible
ties. To-day the obvious college
representative is the captain of a
successful football team. The game
is witnessed by thousands at a high
price. Great newspapers devote
columns to contests, which, in the
total of fury, bodily hurt and blood
shed, surpass some pugilistic en
counters and approximate war be
fore tlie introduction of gunpowder,
‘A whole head is worth less than a
halfback.’ The esthetic craze has
been succeeded by an athletic craze.”
I)r. Wilder has another fad beside
brain study and hostility to football
and other athletic sports. It is cats.
He was one of the first teachers of
physiology to use cats in experiments
before the students To illustrate
the action of the heart and lungs he
1 as put hundreds of cats under the
influence of chloroform and cut them
up in his lecture room, the young
women students have invariably
stood it better than tlie young men
the first time. Some male freshman
is almost sure to faint when he sees
the doctor’s experiments in vivisec
tion, but the girls, although they oe
cupy the front seats, look on without
a quaver. To get cats Dr. Wilder
offered 10 cents each for all the
small boys could bring him. There
was a procession of small boys im
mediately across the Cornell campus,
each with a bag. The doctor had to
have constructed at once a cat house
and Ithaca became known as the one
town in all New York State where
midnight feline serenades were un~
Dr. Wilder’s cat house used to be
a great source of much fun for the
students, and more than once has it
been raided and the cats allowed to
escape, It used to be out in a little
orchard, now occupied by a handsome
building, and there is a record of a
case of arson when it was burned
one night and the cats were sent
scurrying over the campus to disap
pear in the neighboring gorges . Dr.
Wilder and his cats have been
tured repeatedly in college annuals,
and their memory lias been made se
cure iu a college song.
Buried ir» His Paper.
Some New York undertakers, whose
customers are poor people, are using
cof fi ns ma de of paper. The coffins
are mat ie in ail styles of
p a p er pulp, just the same as
com mon paper buckets. When
arft varnished and stained they re¬
sein ble polished wood, and in
of avirabiIitx- they are much better
t)ian woo den ones, it is claimed.
These coffins will do for the burial of
the man who is always reading in a
street c-ar whenever a lady
needs a seat enters. He claims that
he is buried in his paper and
not see the lady The paper
’ms been made <o that at the end
the road for him he can be buried in
paper,
Perfect, Except He Is Tongueless
-
John Fellows is the 19 year
tongueless son of a farmer
Louisa. Ky. He lias not even a
mentary organ. In ail other
tlie bov is perfect. He is bright,
splendid athlete and a favorite with
all
HE IS WELL GUARDFD*
Corea's Kinj; Who Sleep* by Day and
Works by Night.
I ke King of t'oreu does things in ftU
inverted fashion He sleeps in the
daytime and receives nil of Ills callers
at night, writes Frank G. Carpenter.
There is a wall about 20 feet high which
runs clear around his palace city, and
there are watch-houses on top of It in
which sentinels stand day and night.
Every 3<X) feet along tin* outside of the
wall there is a little guard house about
live feet square, which contains two
armed soldiers. Each of these guard
houses has a well within it lined with
straw, and while one soldier watches,
the other curls himself up like a
caterpillar in this well and goes to
sleep. The soldiers all sleep In tholi¬
day clothes, and they rarely have blan¬
kets. The buildings iu tho King’s pal¬
ace cities are numbered by the lnin
reds. They cover many hundred acres,
and lie lias suites of apartments iu
different parts of the grounds. He
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keeps his movements a secret, a ml only
the fewest people know in which pal¬
ace he sleeps or how long he will stay
there.
You can never tell where to find him,
and it would he almost Impossible to
lay a plan for his abduction. He has
all the walls of his palace city lighted,
and when the electric plant is in full
blast every corner will be as bright at
night as it is in the daytime. He sleeps
in rooms guarded by eunuchs, and in
receiving his officials they are required
to come into the palace during the day¬
time, and they wait around until his
majesty is ready to receive them in the
I • 5* «*■ «« if- heronv^v' 1 -
closed with heavy uoors i-mw
iron. They are locked with vnassh
irou bars, and the keys are taken ilrto
the King. It Is death to any one out¬
side of the gatekeeper to touch the
locks, aud the keys are so heavy that
one of them is a load for a man.
Was a Forehanded Boy.
The wisdom of a philosopher is not to
be placed over the foresight displayed
the other day by one of the rising gen¬
eration of the thinkers and fillers of
the country, says the Cincinnati En¬
quirer. It. was the son of a family well
known in the city, possessed of the de¬
sire for a jack-knife that seizes youths
of nis age. He laid plans to secure
one. It was against the wishes of his
mother, however, who. motherlike,
warned him of the danger of possess¬
ing the dreadful implement, and expa¬
tiated upon the resulting cuts and con¬
sequent sticking plaster. The son was
satisfied for a day, but having given to
him a quarter, there was of course no
better way to dispose of his wealth
than to buy the coveted knife. This lie
did, aud, being in no way a deceiving
youth, he made the fact known at his
home.
“What!” said his mother, “you have
bought a knife? And how much did
j ou pay for it?”
“Twenty cents,” was the answer.
•‘Well, and what did you do with the
rest of your quarter?”
“Oil. I bought sticking plaster with
that.”
Old .Soldiers in China.
Nowhere are old soldiers so distin
guislied as in China, In 1890 the Ern
peror Iviang 8u issued a proclamation
which read in part as follows: “To
thank heaven that it has allowed us to
reach the age of 20 years, we herewith
raise all active soldiers of the eight
banners of Manchuria and Mongolia to
the rank of the nobility. To those who
have passed the fourscore, we give in
addition a piece ofsilk, ten measures of
rice, aud ten pounds of meat. Those
who liavH passed their 90th birthday
are to receive double measure in each
case.” When the crack regiments of
the Chinese army contain men almost
a century old. it is not so difficult to un¬
derstand the successes of tlie brave
Japanese.
The Other Fellow.
When Offenbach was at Ems, at tlie
flood-tide of bis popularity, he was pre¬
sented to old Emperor William. “I
know you are a foreigner by naturali¬
zation.” said ilie Kaiser, “but Germany
is proud of you. nevertheless: for, if I
am not mistaken, you were born in
Bonn.” "No, sire.” was Offenbach’s
answer. “I am from Cologne; the other
man was born in Bonn.” The “other
roan” was Beethoven.
\<> Wonder.
When a man is informed there are
triplets iu his family, lro can hardly be¬
lieve bis own census.—Richmond Dis¬
patch.
If the children would stop growing
so fast, lhe rest of us wouldn't feel so
old.
After a man pass*** 50. he sometimes
fails iu love with his wife a second
lime.
A man ctm save fuel, light, aud bis
health, by going to b«*d early.
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A great deal of fur trimming is
worn.
Brides iu Australia are pelted with
rose leaves.
hat Chicago ladies say the high theatre
is a sign of bad breeding.
Solid colored pique comes for
children’s gowns, and is a thoroughly
serviceable material.
Colored dotted Swiss is popu¬
lar, nud is always extremely dainty
with unlimited possibilities.
Dull gold is the fashionable hue for
hair atnoug Parisian belles, so dark
beauties are busy dyeing their tresses.
Miss Hannah F. Mace, Vassal- ’90,
>s now an assistant of Professor Simon
Newcomb iu the United States Naval
Observatory at Washiugt on.
Copenhagen, Denmark, is to have «
woman’s exhibition, at which works
of art, music, literature, etc., by
women are to be represented.
Embroidered Swiss will be much,
worn for children’s shirt waists, which
are trimmed with lace, and are made
elaborately more than formerly.
Bilk petticoats display a growing
extravagance in material and trim¬
ming, which is very discouraging to
the woman with a limited allowance.
Wash chiflfon, which comes in blue,
pink, white and yellow, is one of tlie
novelties for children, and is prettiest
when embroidered all over with eye¬
lets.
Goat’s hair crepons are iu high
favor still, Combined with waists of
chiffon over silk or satin for very
dressy gowns they are most effec¬
tive.
Fetticoats of haircloth made with
the fashionable godets are much in
vogue with those not wishing an inter¬
lining for the skirts of gowns. They
produce the same effect.
Artificial flowers form stock collars
for wear with best dresses and show
rosebuds, daisies, violets, roees, lily
of the valleys and buttercups. Arti¬
ficial orchids are also used.
On one cloth dress in a recent im ¬
portation the galloon was set around
the loot of the skirt and also down the
sides in a Greek pattern so spread as
to cover almost the entire side gores.
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A servants’ ball was given recently
by Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Mrs.
Gladstone. The festivities commenced
by Mrs. Gladstone dancing with the
butler. Mrs. Gladstone is eighty-two
years of age.
Paris designers are working hard
for an entire revolution in costume,
working in vain, let us hope, although
we accept some of their modifications,
and adopt many of their ideas with
great pleasure.
Captain Charles Louis Reamont, of
the Royal Navy, England, who has just
been appointed equerry to the Queen,
has an American wife. He was married
in 1888 to Miss Perkins, daughter of
Charles E. Perkins, of Boston.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is a wonder¬
ful linguist, and is versed iu Spanish,
German, French and Italian litera¬
ture to a marvelous degree. Her de¬
lightful books are mostly written at a
farm near Haslemere, Surrey.
The Princess of Wales has means of
shopping that few know anything
about. Representatives of well-known
establishments in Loudon wait on Her
Royal Highness with samples of their
novelties, which are laid out in the
Princess’s boudoir.
Covert cloths of French and Eng¬
lish make are in high favor just now,
so fashion has decreed. They develop
best in taiior-made gowns; neutral
tints have given place to dark tones
in green or blue and several shades of
brown and gray. Mixtures are, how¬
ever, the rule.
A very pretty mutton-leg sleeve has
appeared among the dressy toilets of
the season, which shows a delicate flat
embroidery in beads and silk in
pointed designs on the entire top of
the sleeve, and also from wrist to el¬
bow. A vest decorated to match is an
effective addition.
Most women become weary of the
conventional trimmings as purchased
in the shops, and are ever on the
lookout for something that they work
up in out-of-the-way stjhs, not al¬
ways objecting to something a trifle
eccentric, so that it is different from
the ordinary run.
Embroidered galloon is a popular
trimming. One costume has strips oi
galloon from the shoulders just above
the sleeves extending down over th«
bust, then slightly turning so that th<;
points meet at the waist line. Th*
belt is of galloon, and the wide cuffs
have three rows as a Irimmiug.
Many well dressed women now ob¬
ject to wearing violets because the cot¬
ton imitations have become so cheap.
These women have taken up the dah¬
lia, which cannot easily be repro¬
duced in a cheap article. Violets are
so pretty and graceful for millinery
trimming that they still appeal to
many.
The newest laces for berthas are
perfumed and studded over witL
squares of facetted jet in different
sizes The glossiness of jet close to
the skin enhances its natural white¬
ness, while the perfume, if no1
“heady,” but balmy and permanent,
disperses a sweetness about the per¬
son which whenever that person is re¬
membered ever connects itself witi
i her individuality.