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GOTHAM'S DRESSY GIRLS.
TEB FINE CLOTHES THEY ABE
buying for summer.
An Unprecedented Demand for Cot
ton Goods The New Style In
Sleeves Some Stunning Gowns
Worn by Well-Known Women.
(Copyrights
■Sew York, May 24.—The day has come
■when my lady must have a morning dress
a3 radiant as the dawn. What with the
gowns in blue and rel, dotted with tiny
white flowers and t: immed with ribb ms,
the God of Day himself cannot outshine
her! Notin years has there been such a
demand for cotton goods. Long before the
day set for her wedding, Margaret Blaine
ordered half a dozen of these resplendent
morning gowns at a Madison avenue dress
maker’s. All the girls are getting them.
The linen cambrics in the natural gray
color are much used for morning wear.
These are striped in black, scarlet or blue.
The stripes are bread and are worn by atom
people, thereby diminishing too effect of
cver-stoutness.
AN AFTERNOON DRESS.
For dressy gowns, striped lawns, cam
brics ad organdies are used, tho thinner
material being made up over silk, and many
young women are using them for dinner
gowns.
Foulard and India silk gowns should have
full sleeves and chemisettes of white gui
pure lace.
It is the sleeve ' hat gives sty le to the cos
tume. And so we have the accordion and
gigot sleeve, and another very new one just
brought out in Paris. It buttons down tbe
arm with buttons imitating precious stones.
The leg of mutton sleeve is still a favorite
for jackets and dresses. Tuey are made in
two ftyles, one being cut on the cross and
very full on the top. It then graduates les3
and less, till it is quite tight below the
elbow. Another shape is straight, and is
gathered into the wrists in “Bishop” style.
Skirts aro now made with seven widths
at the very least—four at the back, two at
the sides and one ia tbe front. Fifteen
yards of singlo width good3 are sufficient
fo" a mod rn dress.
I saw a very pretry gown the other day
at one of the big shops. It was made of
silver gray India silk of very fino quality.
The skirt was trimmed with three narrow
ruffles; the drapery was very long and full,
the softness of the material allowing 6ucli
fullness; the waist was made with pleated
front and the center of the back had five or
six rows of shirring. Prom one side came
a band of point-de-cbene, and from the
other shoulder came two rows of oli/e
green velvet ribbon pinned at the shoulder
and waist with rosettes of the same. The
full shirred waists are very popular for
thin goods and very "becoming to
slender figures. Another pretty
one is of blue net over surah. The waist
was made of tbe surah, and its trimming
was broad red plaid ribbon. The ribbon
started a little below the collar in the back,
where it was laid in soft pleats. The front
crossed in surplice style and then was
twisted about the waist and tied at the back
in full bow and ends. It gave the effect of
an entire plaid bodice and a dash of color
to an otherwise very quiet gown. That
sort of waist trimming would be very
effective in a gown whose waist bail
already done service aud was the worse for
wear.
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READY FOR CONQUESTS.
Clinging skirls aro very much worn and
if the material ishoavy are neither trimmed
nor draped. Flowered silks, with the flow
ers in their natural color and size, are used
in the plain and close-fitting skirts. They
are trimmed with rose pleatiug3 or tiny
ruffles. Everything depends uoon the fit of
these skirts, and there should not be a
wrinkle in the front or side breadths.
One of our swell man dressmakers has
been making a neat tailor gown for a
young woman who will travel this sum
mer. The material was grayish bine cloth,
striped with threads of dark blue. Over the
hem of the plain skirts there we e three
rows of t arrow blue cloth, stitched on like
braid. The jacket bodice opened upon a
■vest of plain blue cloth. An exact coun
terpart of this gown was made in England
for one of the English princesses. Of course
everything depends upon the cut of the
gown.
Helen Dauvray Ward was out the other
day in a wrap as remarkable as her own
personality. It was made of bl clt Chan
tilly lace aud velvet. In fact, it was all lace
except the oversleeves. The lace was full,
front and back, and from the under arm
seams came velvet ribbon, which confined
the fullness at the waist, where it tied in
long loops and ends. The wrap bad long
face tabs, which were finished by a cut
steel fringe. The Medici collar was of vel
vet and tne front was fastened by two hand
some steel ornaments. The bottom of the
wrap was trimmed with steal trimming and
fringe.
H ith this wrap she wore a gown of cash
mere in one of the new shades of green,
f he princess fronts were slightly gat bered
at the neck anl waist, fastening invisibly
U P the right side and trimmed with ap
plique. The back was tight-fitting, the
tuilness of the skirt being pleated up with
.•out boao-plaiu, Xne full, gigot sleeves
were ornamented with the applique. A
?if ate< Ls Pa " e i * et in dovrn tbe right side,
trimmed with h&ndgcme buttons.
A NEW STREET COSTUME.
I saw Mrs. George Gould yesterday in a
very stunning coat made of light tan colored
clotb. The sleeves and revers were of a
darker shade of silk. It had 1 >ose fronts,
with a vest of striped goods. The bottom
of the veri was finished with a silk sash the
color of the clotb. Betsey O’Dowd.
HOW THE GILA MONSTER KILLS.
Some Experiments with the Poison
of This Venomous L’zard.
From the Los Angeles Tribune.
“Is he poisonous?” said a young man be
hind the newspaper stand at the Nadeau.
“Well, 1 should say he was. It isn't his
breath, though. A man from Arizona
said that the forked tongue was the sting.”
“You’re wrong,” said a listener; “its
breath is what kills people. I heard a
woman say that a single blast of its breath
was sure death.”
“That may be,” said another; “but I saw
a man die from the bite of one, and that is
the secret of it. I’d rather have a rattler
bite me any day. ”
“Where was it?” quiered a startled lis
tener.
“Over in Arizona,” was tbe reply. “A
friend of mine had one in a box just out
side of a saloon, and one day a chap came
along who was so drunk that he was ready
to eat up the earth. He was afraid of
nothing, and when he saw the box and the
sign, ‘Hands Off—Poisonous,’ he swore he
could handle it, and before they could pre
vent him be ripped off the slats and made a
grab at it. The thing twisted around and
bit hi non the finger, and, to make a long
story short, I saw hint die in the middle of
the street a short time after.”
The subject of all this conversation was a
pale yellow and black, blunt-headed lizard,
about a foot in length, that rested upon a
bed of sand in a small wooden box. It was
the famous Gila monster of Ar.zona, the
only poisonous lizard in the world, and as
ugly and disagreeable a looking creature as
one could imagine.
The head was long and blunt, the eyes
black aud bead-like, tho tail half the length
of the body, thickset and club-like. The
entire body seemed encased in a thinly
coated armor, marked curiously with yellow
and black.
The Gila monster is sluggish and slow of
movement, in this respect being entirely
different from the tribe in general. In its
own country the animal shows more
activity, especially in the dry, hot regions
contiguous to the Gila river. Ia confine
ment it has tbe habits of a young alligator
more than anything else. The interest
which centers in tbe heloderma lies in the
poison that is supposed to lurk in its bite,
and perhaps no animal has given rise to so
many weird and wholly imaginary stories.
The natives aud some ignorant whites
suppose that its breath is poisonous. Others
think that to have one touch the nody is a
bad sign. The helodtrma is simply a lizard
and the only one known that can poison
other animals by its bite; a discovery made
a few years ago by some naturalists who
were traveling through the country. The
story was not at first believed, but several
were sent east, where the poisonous prop
erties were soon demonstrated. A natural
ist at the Smithsonian was bitten, the
poison taking effect so quickly that he had
barely time to call for help. Small animals
soon died after being bitten, and it was
shown that human beings, under certain
conditions, might easily die from the effects
of the bite.
The poison of tbe heloderma ha3 been
carefully examined by Messrs. Mitchell aud
Reichert, the experts, who announce that
the physiological action of the poison is
entirely different from that of snakes. The
latter destroys life by paralyzing the respi
ratory center, while ihe poison of tne helo
derma at once attacks and affects the
heart, paralzing it.
Among tbe interesting experiments that
of injecting the poison sul cutaneously lias
been tried. There was no local effect, the
heart being at once affected, slowly con
tracring, the spinal card finally becoming
paralyzed.
It is probable that the condition of the
victim or his general health would have
much to do with the question of death. If
a man was in a poor condition and run
down he would possibly die, while a healthy
man would not he seriously troubled.
Specimens sent to Europe were experi
mented upon by Sir John Lubbock. A frog
bitten by the lizard died in a few seconds in
convulsions. A guinea pig bitten in the
hind leg passed away in three minutes, and
other animals died equally as quick, creat
ing in the minds .of the observers a decided
respect. If the teeth of the specimen at the
Nadeau house are examined they will be
found to have curious fissures, and a further
and closer look into the mouth of the mon
ster will show at the base of tho grooves
small dents from which the poisonous saliva
floes. The heloderma is an interesting
creiture, and while always not sure death,
it is well to keep it at a distance and handle
it with the care and respect due its unsayory
reputation.
CATCHING A SLAYER.
Africans Crowded Together Like Sar
dines in One Small Dhow.
From the London Daily News.
Letters from tho East India station give
particulars of an important capture of a
slave dhow made a few weeks ago by her
majesty’s steamer Reindeer. One of her
boa te, in charge of a pettv officer, was pro
ceeding iuto Cbakichaki Bay, in the Island
of Pemba, when a dhow was observed mak
ing for the inner harbor.
The officer immediately boarded her and
was surprised to find that although the
dhow was a small one a large number of
slaves " ere packed into her, like herrings in
a barrel—so crowded, in fact, was the craft
that the officer was unable to count the
slaves accurately, and ho at once towed the
dhow toward the Reindeer. The slaves and
crew were transferred to her majesty’s
steamer Pigeon and tbe dhow was sent to
Bombay, where she was handed over to the
court.
It was then discovered l hat the vessel had
on board no fewer than 124 slh ves. The in
quiry before the prize court elicited the in
formation that the dhow left Lmdi with the
slaves on board, the master having been
promised tea rupees a head for every slave
landed alive at Pemba. During his voyage
he pa-sed three of her majesty’s ships—tbe
Algerine, the Pigeou and the Boadicea—and
escaped search in each instance, and was
just making prenarations to land his capt
ives when tbe Reindeer’s boat overhauled
him. The dhow has been destroyed by
order of the court, her captain and crew
are in prison, and an amount calculated at
£5 a head for the slaves and £5 a ton for
the dhow will be divided among the com
mander, the officer and men of the Rein
deer.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1890--TWELVE PAGES.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD
VASSAR WILL CELEBRATE ITS
QUARTER CENTENNIAL.
Tbe Growth and Development of the
First Woman’s College-Mile. Dztek
oneka—The Woman and the Mes
senger Boy—Egg Hunting as a Fash
ionable Diversion.
( Copyright.)
New York, May 24. —Vassar in spring is
Vassar in its glory, and Vassar this spring
is vocal with robins, golden with sunshine,
green with the luxuriance of May verdure,
and thrilling with the electricity of 300 and
more girls at their blossoming time, all ex
ulting in the knowleige that in three weeks
more they are to celebrate with whole
hearted and gladsome enthusiasm the com
pletion of the first quarter of a century of
the first college for women. There were
schools before Vassar, all honor to them,
but when in the autumn of 1865, tbe 350
women, ranging from the shy girl in bar
teens,, whose heart fluttered ia its first
throes of homesickness, to the woman to
whom life had already brought much of sad
knowledge, passed under the massive stone
arch with its great c o k aud up the slope
of the gently rising ground to the stately
brick p ies modeled, they say, after the
design of the Tuilleries and always imposing
to look on, eveu if not then masking as now
the American rewne-s of their wails, that
aro still the veriest infants as universities
count age, under a mantle of ivy and wood
bines, when the first classes were ealle 1 in
tbe first thoroughly equipped and worthily
endowed class rooms, then really began
what in popular phrase we are now pleased
to call the higher education of women.
It will be news to many that Vassar Col
lege, founded by a man, was the thought of
a woman. Mr. Matthew Vassar had a
niece. Mi s Lydia Booth, who taught the
Cottage Hill Seminary of Poughkeepsie,
and w ho, when her uncle’s thoughts turned
to the disposition of his property and he in
clined to the foundation of a hospital after
the plan of Guy’s in Loadon, suggested to
him the opportunity open to a wise and
progressive man who should erect a college
to be to women what Yale and Har
vard were to men. The Ameri
can Woman’s Educatioaal Associa
tion had been formed in New York, tbe
B iptjsts had opened the “Ladies’ Collegiate
Institute” at Worcester, in Massachusetts,
the time was ripe, and after a good deal of
correspondence with . ducat irs in this coun
try and in Europe a charter for the incor
poration of “Vassar Female College”—the
“female” was dropped in 1867—was granted
by the New York legislature in January,
1861, the bill being the first or second of
that session to receivo the governor’s signa
ture.
There were no precedents to govern the
organization < f sucti a school, and there is a
good deal of benignity, and yet of hesita
tntion aud experiment in a paragraph of Mr.
Vassar’s statement to the first board of
trustees, outlining a course of study, which
“should embrace at least the following par
ticulars: The English language ami its liter
ature; othermoderalanguages; theaucient
classics, so far as may be demanded by tile
spirit of tho times; the mathematics, to
such an extent as may be deemed advisable;
all the branches of natural science; anatomy,
physiology and hygiene, with practical ref
erence to the laws of the health of the sex;
intellectual philosophy; the elements of
political economy; some knowledge of the
federal and state constitutions aud laws;
moral science, particularly as bearing on
the filial, conjugal and parental relations;
aesthetics; domestic economy practically
taught, iu order to prepare the graduates
readily to become skillful housekeepers,” etc.
The civil war was already kindling aud it
was not until the close that the college build
ings were completed. The early years at
Vassar were yeasty. Maria Mitchell repre
sented the radical element, and sometimes
her strong men's meat proved too much for
tho stomachs of babes. Hannah Lyman,
the first lady principal, stood raiher for the
conservatives, and there was iu addition a
younger and progressive element repre
sented by Prof. Truman J. Backus, now
president of the Packer Institute of Brook
lyn. Tbe students were both younger and
older than one commonly fi: ds at
the present day iu girl’s colleges.
About some of them there was some
thing mere than eager; something
strenuous, strained, in a few cases almost
morbid: a consciousness of doing the un
usual. And yet it was this very eagerness
this exultant sense of the new possibilities
of womanhood that did much to shape the
college during its formative period. The
students in some particulars fad broader
ideas of what th y wanted than had those
in authority, and it was ther who kept tho
college up to its standard. Dr. M. P. Jewett,
the first president, resigned before the col
lege was opened, and Dr. John H. Ray
mond, under whom work was actually
begun, was. a man of much executive
ability.
There is nothing to indicate that the early
students averaged any better as to mental
caliber than the girls who have found it so
much easier and perhaps so much pleasanter
to come after, though Mrs. Lizzie W.
Champney, whose Vassar girl books all
other girls have read, and Prof. AVhitney,
who now fills Maria Mitchell’s chair, and
Mrs. Christine Ladd Frankiin, who showed
herself a mathematical genius at Johns
Hopkins University, and Miss Ely, formerly
of the New York Normal college hut now
of the Vassar faculty, and Miss Goodsell,
for so many years lady principal of Vassar,
with others who have made reputations for
themselves, had part not in the first years
but iu those that were close to the begin
ning.
There is an old book—how quickly a thing
comes to s.-ein old —which gives cuts of the
quaint costumes with flowing skirts and
drooping feathers in which the first Vassar
students rode horsel ack, and of the huge
chignons, short skirts and pantalets—how
did they keep in their hairpins?—in which
they exercised in the gymnasium ; but since
the first fouider’s day celebration, April 29,
1866, when the girisgot themselves up, one
as Deborah, another as Xantippe, a third as
Joan of Arc, etc., picturing tbe women of
ail ages, nothing has excited more general
iuteiest arnoug students and the outside
public than the projected celebration of the
college’s quarter-centennial—which is to
take place June 12, as a conclusion to this
spring’s commencement exercises, and at
which the attendance of as large a propor
tion of Vassar’s BUO living graduates and
more than 2,00 J former students as can be
rallied by loyalty to Alma Mater fr.m all
parts of the country is expected.
There will be forty seven giaduates this
year, aud after the baccalaureate sermon
by President Taylor in the flower-decked
chapel on Sunday; after the annual concert
on Monday; after the trustees’ meeting and
the alternately merry and tearful riaesdav
exercises around the tiee sacred to ’9O, and
the reunion of the various classes on Tues
day ; after the valedictorian has made her
lari bow, and the alum me dinner has been
eaten in the new gymnasium, and the re
ception to trustees and faculty ad guests
has taken place on Wednesday; then on
Thursday President and Mrs. Harrison aud
Vice President and Mrs. Morton, the
cabinet, the speaker of the House and
other official folks from Washington,
Gov. Hill and the state dignitaries, the
regents of the stats university, college pres
idents, and the educational world generally,
with editors aud auth.rs and the officers of
the collegiate alumnus association, are to be
invited to look on tne bright faces of the
big gin family and listen to Dr. Benson J.
Lousing, the venerable historian, who was
Mr. Vassar’s friend, and who will give a
historical address on the development of tbe
school, and to George William Curtis, who
was Vassar’s guest on Founder’s day, 1870,
and will visit it again to deliver the quarter
centennial oration. At the end of all these
festivities tbe trustees give a reception to
the alumnae. Poughkeepsie is soring clean
ing all her houses, and. in anticipation of a
crowd, is prepar ng to be hospitable.
The gala days of the festival are certain
to be brilliant, for Vassa- prospers. The
publication some few years ago of the health
ita Us tics of college grain ties, u; sitting tbe
I chargee that study broke women down
phys.cally, added warmth to the devotion
of ltsa’umnte, and they have been founding
scholarships and building ti.e largest gym
nasium yet erected forewoman's college
and raising money for the Maria Mitchell
fund to endow the chair of astronomy. The
Students’ Aid Society, which has 2,U00 mem
bers. offers a competitive scholarship and is
going to create a fellowship— something the
girls’ college has not had heretofore.
Vassar is talking of introduce g the cot
| tsge system, by which the students may I e
distributed in smaller and more homelike
| households, but this is a thing of the future.
It has self-government already, which
means that there Is no surveillance. A giri
knows that she ought to put her light out at
10 o’clock every night, and. allowing her
self three cuts a month, she does so.
The Vassar girl is not quite the sort of
young woman she is cur ready pictured in
newspaper literature. She is not raiupaut.
Her zeal for tbe good name of her c dirge
and her dread of saving anything or look
ing anything to justify a jest makes licr in
many ways a far more conse--. acivo and
self restrained individual than she will be in
a half-dozen years, when the sharp edges of
her education have worn off u little. She
is earnest and energetic, she is apt to have
a more than commonly bright and attract
ive face, and, if you attend commence
ment, try to get a glimpse of her room.
Those cosy interiors where the Greek gram
mar is overhung by the spray of nodding
June roses, where the big lexicon lies at
ease on a warm-hued rug, where running
vines clamber atiout in the window seats
and where gay cushions and soft hangings
and girls’ knick-knacks are everywhere, aro
enough to make one wish to be born again
to grow up a Vassar girl.
Two things a visitor to Vassar never for
gets, the babe! of tongues in the big sunny
dining-room, and the democracy of the
place wbere dollars don’t c unt and
gowns don’t count, but only good fellowship
and brains. Next to President Taylor, who
is very popular, tne college owes much to
the quiet wisdom of its three alumnae trus
tees, Miss Florence M. Cushing, Miss Eliza
beth E. Poppleton, aud Mrs. Helen Hiscock
Backus.
MLLE. KAZIMER DZIEKONSKA.
Few probably of tho e who read the
sketch of Marie Bashkirtseff lately pub
lished in the Cosmopolitan recognized in
the author a literary acquaintance. Mile.
Kazimir Dziekonska is a young Polish
artist, who, from the ateliers of Paris,
where she worked with the much discussed
and considerably overrated Russian, moved
her canvases aud brushes to Boston, where
in a very different sort of art atmosphere
she has been domiciled for two years or
more and is winning some little reputation
as a portrait painter. Her studio is a
very picturesque one, and my memories
of my last visit to it are splashed
with the bright colors of Polish pea-ant
maids iu holiday attire, Russian muzhiks
and Ciicassian women, whom she delights
to pai t tricked out iu all their bravery. To
her Polish girls sne gives beautiful faces,
aud next her countrywomen she s-enis to
rejoice in tho warm brown skins and liquid
eyes of Italian giris. She has a good manv
French tastes, and the mixture of Poland,
Russia, Italy, Paris and the Hub of tho
universe manes an odd and interesting com
bination.
Mile. Dziekonska keeps a very pretty
picture of Marie Bashkirts ff—tbe one to
wtiich she alludes in her article—in a con
spicuous position, but she evidently does
not regard that frank young person as
having been more than frank, young, and,
like other young persons wno are not so
frank, somewhat gifted. She toid me that
Mario painted, when the fit was on her, as
a Cossack fights, desperately; but that she
spent too much time on her gowns, mid her
social conquests, and her music, a.id her
diary, and especially o:i her moods, to
accomplish as much as las. talented women.
Mario was a spoiled child, and much less
attractive than her mother. Mile. Dzie
konska, however, is a Pole, and, had Marie
not been a Russian, might view her erratic
career With more enthusiasm.
MISS BISLAND AND MISS BLY.
Now that pretty Elizabeth Bisiand has
gone off again to Europe for a holiday,
people aro admiring her head for business
and contrasting it with tho rocket-like
career of tho young woman who came in
first on that round-the-world scr imblo.
Miss Bisiand started for Han Francisco on
tho afternoon of the day on which the
proposition was made to her, but out of the
few hours at her disposal for prepa: ation
she found time to send for her
lawyer and take that gentleman to Mr.
Walker, at the office of the Cosmopolitan,
and have a contract drawn in regular
form and signed, giving her a position
at $3,000 a year for two years, whether she
lost the race or won. With this in her
pocket she packed her trunks with an easy
mind, and now. her task accomplished, goes
off for a tour on the continent, planning to
“return to London, for n fortnight occasion
ally to keep her work in hand.” And her
rival? Hhe brought home a monkey and
charged it in her expense account. The
World refused to pay for it, she refused to
interrupt her lecture tour to testify in a suit
against the World for libel, and now whoio
is Nellie Bly?
THE LADY AND THE MESSENGER BOY.
About the funniest thing of which I know
is the penchant of the woman for the mes
senger boy as an escort on qll occasions. If
one has an invitation and hasn’t a man, one
rings for a boy, and get i one, of courso, not
much above 5 years old, especially if oue is
tall and imposing. “How long have you
been in pants?” asked a girl bachelor of an
extremely diminutive specimen.
The messenger boy is not useful, but in a
way he seems to be considered ornamental,
and even the professional woman who goes
all around the city alone at all hours of the
night on business errands appears to value
him as a concession to the pomps and cere
monios of life when she presents bers.df at
a friend’s door on reception evening, party
bag on arm. Sometimes it seems to me that
his single mission in life is to in press the
servant who answers the bell. “I haven’t a
husbaud, at least be isn’t available,” is the
implied announcement, “and no member of
my iamilv was at band to accompany me,
but here I am, delivered by an authorized
agent, so please be assured that lam re
spectable, and let me in.”
So far as usefulness on the street is con
cerned the messenger boy’s name is mud;
he’s of no account ut nil. When one passes
tho FifLh Avenue hotel or the Coleman
house, or any other place where men who
stare do congregate, he’s away off ahead or
he’s lagging behind exchanging confidences
with other messenger boys. So cieariy is
his character as figurehead recognized that
I know of one giri who braves nil the
dangers of car conductors and the traveling
public by herself, and then stops at tne
me-sengor station nearest her destination to
pick up a boy tor five minutes to shed
prooer luster oh her arrival.
The messenger boy isn’t very effective as
a social feature, but considered from the
human standpoint, he is occasionally amus
ing. “I suppose you are often sent for,”
said a benevolent, middle-aged ladv, who
was trying to be pleas mt to the little chap
who was trudging along beside her, “to
escort young ladies, say about 16?”
“Must be a good while, mustn’t it?”
quizzed the ingrate, “since you was that
age?”
One small fellow is often sent for to con
vey a note of thanks from an attractive
young woman to a gentleman wno sends
her flowers. “I sav,” he exclaimed the
other morning, “that man’s awfully mashed
on you!” “That man” was forthwith cau
tioned to be, iu presence of the messenger
boy, less demonstrative.
The messenger boys got a good deal of
custom from the "newspaper women, for
whom they carry copy to the offices. One
brigbtehap who identifies himself verv com
pletely with his employer was aske.i when
be called one Saturday night in newspaper
row:
"Say, Bub, are you on the morning ——
or the evening F’
“We ain’t on either,” he retorted stiffly,
“we’re on the Sunday , we are.”
Since tbe messenger boy, as an escort, is
of no earthly use, ii’s only fair to sav that
of all cities in the country- New York and
Brooklyn are about the safest at night for
an unprotected woman.
WILL THE COLLEGE GIRL MARRY?
Every sear when ihe commencement sea
son comes around somebody starts the ques
tion. It was fired po.nt blank at a ciub
meeting the other day at Mrs. Alice Free
man Palmer, who might be supposed to
have answered it once and forever since she
gave up the p esidency of Wellesley to
enter into matrimony. Mrs. Palmer said
that at Harvard < ach class sends back an
account of itself when it has been out of
the university three years. The last time
these statistics wore collated it appeared
that, counting the young men who grad
uated and those who left before graduation
to settle in life early, 11 per cent, of the
class referred to had married within the
three years. When this result was arrived
at Mrs. Palmer was asked to go over to
Wellesley and get corresponding figures for
the girls. Bbe did so, and found that,
counting only those who had reinaine i
to take degree--, 12 per cent, of
the Wellesley class graduating tbe same
June with the Harvard boys had become
wives. From which she concluded that
college women were at least as favorably
inclined toward marriage as college men.
Mrs. Palmer said further that in her opin
ion college girls would marry later than
other girls, many of them carrying finan
cial burdens as heavy as those assumed by
men of their own age. Busy, happy women
absorbed in work, thev would not marry
“if they could help it,” which meant that
whan they did marry, it would be because
they loved well enough to wish to marry
above all other thing-', and were ready, liko
one bright woman on a ranch in North
Dakota, to write to their ambitious sisters;
“Some of you may be college president?,
ami some may be doctors and editors, but
as for me, I taste the full sweetness of suc
cess when I look at my rows of cheeses.”
WOMEN WHO SMOKE.
Everybody knows that the stories of the
smoking habits of women are stretched
out of all likeness to the truth, and yet now
and then there really happens something
that is interesting. A few da vs ago a woman
whoso books have attracted considerable
attention called on a woman artist, taking
with her a newspaper woman. The artist
smokes cheroots, the newspaper woman en
joys a cigarette, aud the author, who is her
self a smoker, was ap logizing for disturbing
what-he suspected to have beea a particu
larly comfortable half hour, and beginni ig
to explain that the tobacco would shock
neither her nor her companion, when she
was clutched convulsively by a hand on
either side, and agitated voices w bigpered
into her ears: “Don’t say I smoke!” “l)nn’t
let-on that lam a smoker!” Neither artist
nor newspaper woman would own to the
bad huliit. aud probably more women yield
to the fascination of slowly pulling out blue
wreaths than would care to have the world
know of it, for public opinion is hardly pre
pared us yet to admit the woman smoker
entirely within the pales of respectability.
EGG HUNTING AS A FASHIONABLE DIVER
SION.
A woman of considerable wealth, infected
with the desire for novelty, gave a largo
May t arty at her country houso on Long
Island a few days ago. Tho menu was ex
qui ite; the house was fragrant with apple
blooms a .and white with dogwood flowers.
After the repast hud been discussed, a some
what stout anil pompous-looking man serv
ant appeared with a large silver waiter
loaded withs raw hats tied up with ribbons,
for use as baskets, and the h stess taking
oue, handed a lothor to the guest of honor,
ami explained that an adjournment to the
barn was next in order, where they would
hunt eggs if, perchance, tho hens iiad laid
any.
The august dames looked very much as
tonished and cast furtive glances at their
delicate draperies; but they peered into the
stalls aud climbed the hay mows obedient
ly if near-sightedly, and it is only fair to
the hens to say that a great quanity of eggs
materialized. The mines, that is to sav tho
nests, had been salted in all probability.
This was playing at Marie Antoinette and
rustic simplicity, but some of the guests
looked puzzled mid some wore a cynical
smile. One lost a bangle bracelet, ana it is
doubtful if egg hunting as a fashionable di
version becomes popular.
Eliza Putnam Heaton.
Army Re-enlistments.
Chatting with the sergeant in charge of
recruiting for the United States army at
the station in Psrk Row yesterday, say3 the
New York Star, he told me some curious
things ab >ut tho now aud old soldiers.
“During tho summer months,” said he,
“recruiting is practically at a standstill In
New York, hut during the fall and
especially in the winter months ihe now
soldiers flock in upon us. Of course a larger
percentage of mn ore recruited in mid
winter, aud this fact is easily accounted for
as many a homeless w anderer prefers the
severe discipline of Uncle Ham to tho more
vigorous discipline of old Boreas with his
biting winds and inclement blizzards.
Really our soldiers are better off iu every
wav than thousands of their civilian
brethren, but the idea of doing “as we
please,’ and quitting a t oss when we feel
•good and ready,’ is so firmly rooted in the
anatomy of the average American citizen
that desertions are mi s-e common than in
any other army iu the world. There are
four non-commissioned officers always on
duty here, and whon a hatch of five re
cruits has been gotten together one of tho
soldiers takes them to headquarters on
Governor’s Island to go into training. Men
cannot enlist who are over 35 years of age,
and the majority of recruits have not seen
over 21 summers. Every nationality is
represented, but mostly Americans. Fully
5,0h0 meu In tho United States army have
re-enlisted when their time expired, and
most of them continue to do so until age
prevents further service.”
“Do any of them save money?”
“Why, certainly,” answered ihe sergeant;
“and on this point let tno tell you a story.
I,ast mouth a friend of mine, coming from
San Francisco, met on the train a private
soldier who showed him government war
rants amounting to $1.500. Tbe soldier was
on his way to re-enlist, and informed my
friend that service in tho army was as good
a thing as any man ought to desire.
“I was rather surprised at the $1,500 part
of tho story, and asked my friend if the
soldier had given ins name, lie had, and
the moment I heard it pronounced I knew
him, and remembered that he used to deal
faro for the boys at Fort Pierre, Dak., and
that they played a pretty stiff game.”
Blossom Time.
/Voire the Pittsburg Dispatch .
What pipes the merry robin
To yonder glistening blue ?
What, s.ngs the brook of silver
The daisied valley through?
What bums the breeze so cheery
But this one sweet refrain?—
“O, days so bright!
O, rare delight!
’Tis blossom-time again!”
In morning's dews and sunshine
Tne orchard's trees a-row,
Seem tangled in a cloudlet
Of fragrant, rosv snow;
And every bre zotiiat passes
Shakes out a jewele t rain;
While birds a-wing
Are caroling,
’Tis blossom-time again !’•
Bright gold of dandelions,
New grass-blades, twinsling gay.
Lithe wayside vines, dew-crystaled,
Wee. snowy lambs at play.
Soft echoes from far uplands
Speak but one language plain;
“O, dais so dear
Of all the year,
11 ’Tis blossom time again!”
My heart sings with the robin.
The silver flashing rill.
And carols with the breezes
In joy’s delicious thrill;
With flowers and grass and lambkins,
it joi ns the glad refrain;
“C, fairest days!
O. rarest days!
’Xis blossom-time again!”
LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drink.
For biliousnea and constipation, take
Lemon Elixir.
For indigestion and foul stomach, take
Lemon Elixir.
For sick and nervous headaches, take
Lemon Elixir.
For sleeplessness and nervousness, take
Lemon Elixir.
For ). of appetite and debility, take
Lem in Elixir.
For fevers, chills, and malari-i, take
Lemon Ehxi-
Dr. Mozley's Lemon Elixir will not fail
you in any of the above named diseases, all
of which arise from a torpid or diseased
liver, stomach, kidneys, or bowels.
Prepare! only by Dr. H. Mozlev,
Atlanta, Ga.
Fifty cents and #1 per bottle at druggists.
A Prominent Minister Writes:
After ten years of great suffering from
indigestion, with great nrvous prostration,
biliousness, disordered kidneys, and consti
pation, I have been cured by Dr. Mozley’s
Lemon E ixir, and am now a well nun.
Ittcv. C. C. Davis,
_E dor M. E. Church (South),
No. SS Tatnall St., Atlanta, Go.
From a Prominent Lady.
I have not been able in two years to walk
or stand without, suffering great pain.
Since taking Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir I
can walk half a mile without suffering the
least Ujconvenience.
Mrs. R. H. Br.oonwoßTH,
Griffin, Ga— Adv.
~ LUNCH GASKETS.
PM SEASON
And we are prepared to sup
ply not only the Baskets, but
the finest goods to fill them.
LUNCH BASKETS.
LUNCH BASKETS.
LUNCH BASKETS.
If you are going to a picnic
and want a BASKET and nice
DELICACIES visit our store.
STRAUSS BROS.,
22 & 22’ BARNARD ST.
FLOUR.
ALWAYS READY.
ALW AY S~RELI ABLE.
PERFECTLY” HEALTHFUL.
HECKER’S
SELF-RAISING
FLOUR
Will be found the
CHEAPEST AND BEST
for making the the most Superior
Bread. Biscuit, Light
Pastry, etc.
Ask your Grocer for it.
GEO.V. HECKEIt & CO.
LIQI ID GOLD.
IgrOLD ,
Heady for Instant Use.
WILLIAMS’ LIQUID GOLD insures the
splendid effect of Solid Gold, no matter where
applied, and it can be used by tho most inoype
rieuced amateur. It was employed to decorate
tiio magnificent homes of W. H.VANDFUIIILr,
JAY GOULD, JUDGE HILTON, and many
other wealthy and distinguished New Yorkers.
It Gilds Fhames, Wood, Silk, Metal. Fapeii,
etc., equal to Gold Leaf, and LADIEHcsn
find no more charming Art Work tliau gilding
with Williams’ Liqmo Gold.
Claniels' Hair Brush in every box. PRICE sl.
Annul trashy imitations. Rent by mail on ke
ceii’t of the pnieic Circular free.
Nxw York Chemical Mpo Cos.. 8 E. 4th st.. N.Y.
Sold by DRUGGISTS and ART DEALERS.
CORN ICas.
CHAS. A. COX
it BAIIXAiID ST.. SAVANNAH, (JA*
—MANUFACTURER OF—
GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES
TIN ROOFING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES
Estimates for city or country work promptly
furnished.
Agent for the celebrated Swedish M r lll d
Faint.
Agent for Walter's Patent Tin Shloglea
COTTON FACTOR*.
Thomas F. Stijbbs. William S. Tisom.
STUBBS & TISON.
Cotton Factors,
86 BAY STREET.
SAVANNAH. - GEORGIA.
Liberal advances made on consignments of
cotton.
IIARIW AKL
HOSE,
REELS, . ;
SPRINKLERS, *
STICKS,
TROWELS,
HOES AND RAKES.
TILE.
£
fi
<1
FOR SALE BY
Edward Lovell’s Sons
inn BUOUGrHiXQisr st.
SaTaaoab, Beaufort an! Way Landiaji
THE STEAMER
“BELLEVUE,”
Capt. T. E. BALDWIN,
WILL LEAVE steamer Katie’s wharf every
WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 10:30 a. m.,
landing at Bluff ton on the Wednesday trip.
Returning, leave Beaufort every MONDAY and
THURSDAY at 8 a. m.. landing at Bluffton on
the Monday trip.
FARE 81 00 | ROUND TRIP.. $1.75
For further Information apply to J. S. MED
LOCK. Agent,
LOTTERY.
DAST ALL PRECEDENT!
I OVER TWO MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
L.S.L.
Louisiana State Lottery Company
Incorporated bv the Legislature for educa
tional and charitable purpose, and ita franchise
man** a part ot the present state constitution,
in 1879, by an overwhelming popular vote.
IU GRAND EXTRAORDINARY DRAWINGS
take place Semi-Annually, (Juno and Decem
ber), and it< GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DHAW-
take plaice In oac# <>t the otner ten month*
of the year, and are aTI drawn in public, at
Academy of Music, New Orleans, La.
"We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi-An
n\nl Dron ing* <tf the Isouisiana state lottery
Company , and in person manage and control
the Drawing * themselves. and that the same are
conducted with h<me*bj, fairness, and in good
faith toward all parties, and we authorize the
Company*to use this certificate, with facsimiles
of our signatures attached , in its advertise
ments."
i'ommlMiniivri.
Il> thr undersigned Bank* and Hanker* will
pay rill prizes drawn in the Louisiana State
lotteries which may be presented at our couw
ter s
R. M. YV A LY|SLEY,Preal.LanUiana !¥st Bk.
I’IKHRK I.A VAI x) Pro... ht,e Wl Bk'
A. II II.DII IN, l*rrl. Yen Orleans \al'i. Bk.
('AIII, HOIIA, Prrat. I nhm Y.llnn.l Bank.
MAMMOTH DRAWING
At the Academy Music, New Orleans,
Tuesday. June 17, 1890.
Capital Prize $600,000
100.000 Tickets at $ 111 ; Halves #2O ; <|tiar*
ters #IO; KUluh* #5; Twentieths
#2; Fortieths *I.
LPT or PRiZCF.
1 PRIZE OF $XX\noO is $600,000
1 DRI/E OF 2 0,000 is gqq (jpo
1 PRIZE OF 100,0. X) is 100 000
1 PRIZE OF 5 >,OOO is 50*000
2 PRIZES < >F 20,000 are 40 iX¥>
6 PRIZES OF 10,(KDare ’ 50 000
10 PRIZES OF 5,000 are. an out)
25 PRIZES OF 2,000 are 50 (XX)
100 PRIZES OF 800 are flo’ooo
200 1 *RI ZES O F tJOO are ] 2odX>
500 PRIZES OF 400 are 200,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Prizes of SI,OOO are SIOO,OOO
100 Prizes of 800 are 80,000
100 Prizes of 400 are 40,000
TWO MUMBBB TEKMINAia.
1,998 Prizes of S2OO are $399,600
3,111 Prizes amounting to. #2,100,600
AGENTS WANTED.
* For Cluh Ratkh, or any further infor
mation desired, write legibly to the undersigned,
c learly stating your residence, with State.
County. Street and Number. More rapid return
mail delivery will Ik? AS'Uired by your enclosing
an Envoloj>e bearing your full address.
IMPORTANT.
Address M. A. lUI'PHn,
New Orleans, La..
orM. A. DAUPHIN, ’
W nNhlngtoii, VI. C.
By ordinary letter containing Money Order
issued by all Express Companies, New York Ex
change, Druft or Postal Note.
Address Registered Letters Contain*
ing Currency to
NEYV ORLEANS NATION A I. BA AH.
New Orleans, l.a.
“REYIE YIHEIt that the payment, of Prizes
Is 4JI AII %M Ehll liV I'llt it AITIOYYL
li INKS of Now Orleans, and the tickets are
slg <*d by the President of an Institution, whose
on&rtered right* are recognized In the highest
courts; therefore, beware of all imitations or
anonymous schemes.
OAK IIOLLAH is the price of the smallest
part or fraction of a ticket IsslKll BA' I- m
any drawing. Anything in our name offered
for less than a Dollar is a swindle.
COPI’EK WORKERS.
IcMILIAI BEOS.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C,
Turpentine Stills
AND FIXTURES.
General Copper Workers.
Repairing a Specialty.
JKVVKLKi .
A.LJEIILI
HAS A FIXE SELECTION OF
Diamonds, Earrings, Roger.
Rings and Unmounted
Diamonds,
Which He Sells atVery'Close Figures.
Also, FINE STERLING - SILVER WARE in
elegant cases, and FINE TEA TABLES, genu
ine Vernis Martin, a beautiful thing for a we<i
ding present.
18-KARAT PLAIN RING a specialty.
21 BULL ST.
MACHINERY.
McDonough & Ballantyty
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinist* Boiler Makers and Blacksmith*
MANUFACTURERS OF
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENGINES.
VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS. SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, tba
simplest and most effective on the market*
Qullett light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin. tba
best in the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List.
PLDMMBR,
l. a. McCarthy,
<L4, TIA.BWTA.IiD STREET,
(Under Knights ot Pythias' Hall).
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
STEAM HEATING A SPECIAATT..
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