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FASHION’S FOLLIES.
SOUK THINGS WHICH AKE OP IN
TEREST lO WOMEN.
pew New Thlngra In Summer Cas
ernes- Suggestions with Regard to
Hoieery—How to Press the Hair—A
Number of Little Stories Showing
t he Vent of the Female Mind—A Re
ceipt or Two of Exceptional Value.
FV hat do the Newport girls find to do, asks
Clara Belle in her New York letter to the
Republic, in those sleepy, hot hours of the
afternoon when there are no lawn parties or
polo matches to demand their attention?
“Well.” said a maiden to whom this
question was put; “I wouldn’t dare say
ff hat some of them do, but most all of us
play poker.”
The confession sounded bad, but the
Toung lady making it said, “there are
wick der oooupations, you know than pcker
playing.”
Among the exciting pastimes of a fashion-
B ble summer life playing cards for small
stakes is really comparatively innocent.
Provided champagne cocktails and cigar
tt fs are uot made adjunots of the game the
but.it is not m ire pernicious than gossiping
or certain novel reading. Butin p ker, as
in mote pleasurable employments, the
fashi nable girl is pretty 6ure to go to ex
tremes. It can be believed, therefore, that
during one of the afternoon games played
at a mansion out on the Cliffs the other aay
a yiung lady gambled away a pair of
ponies and a phaeton after her whole allow
ance f. -r a month was gone, and t-en, in a
state of extraordinary excitement, offered
to put up her lover agaiust SSOO.
Her opponent in the game was aho her
rival in the affections of the young man,
and this proposal was so like a taunt
tiiat the two quarreled, and impolite names
wore hurled back and forth. Not only this,
but that same evening the lover referred to
was carefully informed that his value had
been set by his sweetheart that afternoon at
the humiliating sum of SSOO, and this so
hurt his pride that he at. once turned his
attentions from the hitherto favoi ed beauty
to the one that had won the ponies and
phaeton. Thus this game of poker was de
c.ded disastrous to one of the players.
"But,” said the merry jade that prattled
the tale, “of course there are not many
games of that kind at Newport. Asa rule
a girl doesn't lose or win over $lO of an aft
ernoon, and m.v Jack says there’s no harm
in that at ali, and wishes he c mid get off as
easy, tie often drops a cool thousand at
faro, you know.”
A seat traveling hat. say the Now York
Evening Post, worn by a bride of the week,
wt of straw berry and cream straw, with
velvet bows ami ostrich plumes as garni
ture, in which soft gray and strawborry
were equally mi.gled. In the gown of gray
the strawberry color was very artistically
introduced, the pink cotorshowing the skirt
beneath a very deep openwork hem of pale
gray silk guipure embroidery. This gar
niture also formed ba-ques and a c at front
over a waistcoat of strawberry silk laced
with gray cords. The rather full sleeves
were all gray from the shoulders to the
elbows, but from here the Inner side only
was gray, lacing over a close undersleeve
of the strawberry. The gray Henri-Deux
cape en suite was in gray cloth, caught up
on the shoulders with gray and strawberry
passementerie. Ihe higb-arciied collar and
the wrap entire bad a lining of br.ght
strawberry shot with silver.
To my surprise, says Clara Belle in the
Inquirer, oue day last week I met a married
male friend on the avenue, and upon my
expressing wonder at finding him in town,
he coolly informed me that he was only fol
lowing the fashion.
‘The fashion!" I exclaimed.
“Why, yes,” said he. “You see, we mar
ried men have been all through this seaside
and summer resort business ad nauseam.
vVe began it in our teens, and now we aie
devilish glad to be left in town while our
families are working this same old racket
excuse the slang. In turn, we either have
the wnole house to ourselves or at our clubs
we find roof gardens where we may dine,
smoke and talk to our heart’s content. It’s
jolly, I can assure you, to get rid of the
tyranny of married life, even for a brief
two months, and get back to the joys of our
bachelor days.”
“O, fie!” said I. “I am losing confidence
in you men as the upholders and conserva
tors of the social fabric. You are too in
consistent.”
“Not inconsistent,” he added, but fond of
our liberty. You women, the moment you
marry and surrender your right to flirt anil
coquette, you put on sack-cloth and exper t
the husbands to do the same. Teat’s all
very well for you. The world always needs
more nuus than it does monks. Ta, ta.”
"You can judge of the cause of a head
ache in many instances by its location,”
said the doctor to the Tribune, alter tie had
asked Ins little patient where the pain was
that she complained of. A dull headache
in the front of the head, particularly above
the eyes, proceeds almost invariably from
indigestion, and can bo treated accordingly.
At the back of the bead, however, just
above the neck, a steady pain betokens
congestion or too much blood in the brain.
An excelLnt remedy for this is to apply a
mustard plaster on the spine j st below the
neck. Thi3 almost invariably draws the
blood away from the bead and gives roliof.
Neuralgic headache is unmistakable
through tho sudden darting character of its
pain. Cloths wrung out of the hottest
water one can stand hoip this suffering
sometimes to a great extent.
It is quite out of fashion to struggle and
say “O, now, you stop!” when you are going
to be kissed, says Clara Belle in the Repub
lic. Presumably, if you don’t intend to
allow yourself to be kissed your manner
will not suggest the notion of kissing you to
the man. Few men will try to kiss a girl
unless they think there is a chance for him.
Besides, struggling musses your hair and
crumples your la es and breaks the flowers
y >u wear, and leaves any number of traoes
by whioh the girls can tell just what
hns happened. It’s rauca prettier to just
pretend to tba last minute that you don’t
know what is going to happen. In this case
you never 1 mae the kiss, as you may if you
do the "struggle” act, and it is much more
satisfactory than a kiss after a struggle or
during a Struggle. You can be awfully
"surprised” and gasp, “oh ! how, how dare
you" and clasp your bands over your face
and say, "go away” wuen he tries to soothe
you, and "I will never speak to you again,”
and "I bateyou”and all that It’s just as
pretty and all ttat, and it does not muss
your fair so much.
t-ome girlg do the trance very nicely, but
it is apt to scare a man. A fellow does not
bse to think a girl is taking a kiss too
seriously. In the “trance” you are "dreamy”
anu your eyes are trustful and bright, and
then the lids droop and “as if in somo sweet
dream” you lift your “flower face” aud be
kisses you. It is permissible in the trauce
method to kiss back again, but in either
case, unless you want to make the man pro
pose, you must “come to” with a strong re
action and have hysterics, aud say “O! O!
i must go home,” and “O, what have I
doiie, oh, go away, oh! oh!” Don’t cry too
n *T^ h ' ttu, ugh; it makes your nose rod.
the proud and haughty method is very
satisfactory 'I y°u choose the light mao.
, °u should let the “cold moon” shine full
upon jour face, and with your lips “curling
scornfully,” you say: "You would not
pare, ana look him steadily and scornfully
tlle e P B - You must be sure to choose a
an who will not be scared to death at this
Wl *|' himself home. The rignt sort of
U a WI , *l ra,! you instantly. Then you
do the “oontrast” act, which is very
♦iJmi'n 6 ’ urn meek aud quiet and “half
n/oi or tba tragedy ' queen business
and leave the gentle act for liter.
‘ D .\ aa Jo “’t go ia for “taming"
th„ X and men don’t go in tor catching
. and ail men don’t fancy
tribal encouraging shy girls. The
übie with moat g'rls is they adopt their
ick to It right through,
with mam ayS Cha ’ lge your metbod
y° un K man who is stopping at a well
7Wrjh, i lCf! pUce - >'•* New York
i/i, a ' h< 4 a “ amusln K experience the
UDeof ibe neighboring hotels
he had met a fair soutuerne., who creativ
captivated his rather susceptible fanev. Hi's
request to be allowed to call met with a gra
cious asse.t, and the next day be presented
himseif at rne door of her mother’s sitting
room. 'Come in,” called out u strident
votes as liu knocked at the door. On open
ing, he was surprised to see no one ia the
room, but from the next a; artmeut came
ar. b juu Jtion in the same harsh accents to
Sit right down in the parlor.” Wondering
not a little at h i reception, he took a chair,
blit bis astonishment may be imagined hen
he heard his fair one. -uunnoned in the fol
io wing : * 1 clary Anne, y u’vo got
a beau “Mary Anne, you’ve got a beau I”
and his equanimity was no; even restored
Wban his enamorata entered and laughingiy
oxplainod that the culprit was a huge green
parrot.
There are now many lovely and delicate
tints of green, says the New York Press,
which, softly veiled by tulle or chiffou,
form a charming contrast to pure white.
Gold color or pale honeysuckle yellow forms
another harmonious mixture, aud corise,
the popular shade of red, is not without it*
charm as offering an agreeable contrast to
some shades of green, and uiso gray, white
and pale, creamy yellow. Violet and
mauve in some of the new artistic dyes,
though toning delightfully with some
shades of green, like a sweet cluster
of heliotrope and mignonette—are
otteu of most unwelcome prosenco iu a
company of full dress. The term disastrous
might well be used, for the complexions as
well as the gowns are affected by the con
tiguity of toilets of these shades. Bure
white unveiled looks Hat and metallic beside
mauve or violet, and the very decorat ious,
drapinga aud furniture of a house itself
must occasionally make mute protest
against its proximity. Women who love
these colors should think twice before
choosing them for indoor wear; out of
doors, iu tho air and sunshine, with the
glow of daylight upon them, they are most
admirable and effective.
Sailor hats of white felt are revived for
seaside wear. They are higher in the crown
than the straw sailor hats now worn and
have a stiff brim widely bound. Their
trimming is merely a band'of white ribbon
for very young ladies, while those who pre
fer fuller trimming add white wing 9 on the
left side, or a large rosette made of thick
groß grain ribbou. Yellow ribbon bands
aud bows are on other white felt hats, and
still others hive a soft full rosette of chiffon
of pale yellow tint, holding two wings that
may be either white or yellow.
Prescribing a “lung bath” for idle women
is one of the fancies of some modern physi
cians. It is too wurrrf now to go for a brisk
walk, but it is delightful to sit out iu the
sun with an umbrella over one’s bead and
an interesting magazine iu one’s lap. To
thoroughly enjoy these lung baths a woman
must be dressed all in flannel—flannel un
dergarments aud a flannel dress. Bue feels
then tuat she can perspire without doing
damage to anything she is wearing, and that
a little rinse in tho tub and a shake out will
make her oostume as good as now for an
other lung bath the next day. After she
has sizzled and fried for an hour in the hot
sun sue gets up, shakes herself out and walks
home, not looking a great deal the worse
for her Turkish bath. After the walk home,
a vigorous rub down and a set of fresh
clothes, the summer girl may go down to
diuner feeling that she has lengthened hor
days, added ten years to her youth and made
herself just as pretty as sweet, smiling na
ture would permit.
It is true, say3 the New York Times, that
embroidery gives an effect of added bight
to the instep, but then even gentlemen’s
hosiery is embroidered nowadays, and cer
tainly they have no vanity to minister unto.
Presumably it is purely a love of the beau
tiful which creates a market for the won
derful assortment of embroidered, plaided,
striped and otherwise decorated hose of
which the shops are full. No other reason
need be demanded for the purch ise of the
white silk stookings, with lovely embroidery
in delicate colors, chosen to match the gown
with whioh they are to be u;ed.
With these hose are worn whito shoes
similarly embroidered, or made of the
gown material. Aguiu evening hose are iu
colors, so varied and beautiful that no
gown, however peculiar in shade, ned be
without its matching hosiery. Toe ribbed
hose have a velvety look that is pretty',
but a thread once started runs down a
“ladder” so precipitately that only' very’
skillful hands can repair the damage.
Fancy fronts, the bight of the shoe top, set
into plain hose, are intended for wear with
tiie high shoes which havo open fronts.
Other combination stockings have the
bottom of one color, the top of another, the
two oolors dovetailing together above the
shoe top in points or scallops or joining
evenly. Yet others have a high-laced shoe
indicated in col rs. Pink is combined with
green, yellow with heliotrope, all colors
with black. The ladies who wiih to wear
them will And a full line of styles iu the
bizarre hose.
Nothing short of magic could have
wrought thede-igns so marvelously picked
and perforated in the leather. This
“broguing,” as it is technically called, is
the shoe artist’s strongest reliance at pres
ent, though beading with glass, jot, steel,
gold and pearls has not been abandoned in
the decoration of leather shoes, and is do
pended upon in the em oroidery of the silk,
satin and net slippers. Tinsel cord, as
piping and lacings, ribbon braiding, big,
fluffy rosettes, and flat bows and perky
bows, lined with contrasting color, mono
gram buckles, and coantless other ideas,
are adapted fantastically, if not artistically,
to tho proper pinking of the summer girl’s
6hoe.
There scarcely is seen anywhere such a
grand carnival of color as in the shoe stores.
From the uncompromising reds and yellows
of the morocco house and, toilet slippers to
the evasive tints of the fine kids, the soft
tones of the velvet calf, and the delicate
hues of the satin and brocade, the colors
challenge the eye and defy description.
Blessed in this summer of 181*1 is the woman
who has a pretty foot!
The names are as varied as the shoes.
There are Greek sandals, Turkish slippers,
aud French court shoes. That there should
be a Tuxedo tie is as inevitatde as that we
should have a Tuxedo shirt, hat, cap, scarf,
aud every other article of apparel, me 1-
timable and unmentionable, that men or
women ever were known to be afflicted
with since Eve’s unpard mable aopetite for
apples doomed the world to clothes and
misery. Why couldn’t Eve havo contented
herself with Jersey peaches, anyway? But
then, to be sure. Tuxedo might havo been
less distinguished or less advertised.
But no one need iraagiue that the Tuxedo
sh e is made for the multitude. It is largely
of Russian leather, which the connoisseur
pronounces genuine or otherwise, according
to the odor which it furnishes to his culti
vated nose. Tho price is much higher than
tho Bhoe. In plebeian contrast to the patri
cian titles is oue which no good American
can quarrel with—the “mule.” That it
should be Turkish instead of Texas is a mis
take, but probably it can assert its owner’s
w ill quite as obstinately as though it were
mors patriotically named. For purely femi
nine emphasis of expression no substitute
has been found, as yet, for the pettish stamp
of the slippered foot.
As successor to Mme. Biavatsky, says the
World, ia the Theotophical Society, not
Annie Besantbut the Duchess de Pomar has
been choosen. She is tie 1 riy 70 years of
age, is tall, graceful and high bred. Long
ago she became a student of spiritualism,
a .and in theosophy she is said to bo an adept.
She published in 1887 “The Mystery of tho
Agee Contained in the Secret Doctrine of
All Religions.” The Duchesse of Pomar, or
Lady Caithness, es she i3 called in England,
being the widow of the thirteenth
Earl of Caithness, is enormously rich,
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST lf>, 1891—TWELVE PAGES.
having an income of more than SIOO,-
000 a year. Whether one be interested or
not in theosopliieal research there are many
things curiously fascinating about it. Tne
Possibility of developing and exercising
new powers in one’s self, of visibly commu
nicating by thought with people at great
distances, these things that are but the be
longings, the habiliments, as it warn, of
some truth not revealed except to the ini
tiated, captivate the fancy, eve i when they
leave belief untouched. To women every
thing oonneotod with theosophy makes still
another appeal, as the 6ex holds high place
among the members.
Black hosiery, says the New York Times,
is quite as safe a choice as in any former
season, notwithstanding the repeated warn
ings of its retiionient. It is worn even with
colored shoes, and often is prettier than
matching bus; would lx. Black hose with
a light embroidery, ir. some color brought
out more strongly in other portions of the
costume, are effective. It is a fact, how
ever, that with each recurring summer a
larger number of ladies refuse to wear the
black hosiery because of its certainty to
s air the skin. There is no absolute de
pendence to be placed upon even the
highest-priced black hose. A warm day
will leave tho skin more or less discolored
by them, and the black will be found very
“fast” indeed when an attempt is made to
remove it.
Th' grave, garnets, and browns hold their
color better than the black. Bronze shoes,
with brown hose, make ns neat a foot dress
ingas i lack, and may be worn with almost
a. wide a variety of gowns. Gray velvet
calf, with gray hose, are serviceable and
pretty. Although lisle hose are advised
continually by some, yet the average
woman will find her money much better
invested in silk of good quality. The lisle
is hard, and while it answers reasonably
well for morning wear at home, for walk
ing or daueiug it becomes decidedly uncom
fortable.
Clean piano keys with a saft rag dipped
in alcohol.
To mean a black silk dress, use a sponge
dipped in strong, black tea, cold.
Take egg stains from silver by rubbing
with a wet rag whioh has been dipped in
common table salt.
To clean a teakettle .take it away from the
fire and wash off with a rag dipped in Kero
sene, followed by a rubbing with a dry
flnouel cloth.
To clean ceilings that have been black
ened by smoke from a lamp, wash off
with rugs tbit have been dipped in soda
water.
To mend cracks in stoves and stovepipes,
make a paste of ashes and salt with water
and apply. A harder and more durable
cemeut is made of iron filings,sal ammoniac
and water.
So many people seem to be in trouble
about their hair just now, says the New
York Evening Post, that a few lines on the
subject of such general interest may be
apposite. To “L. G. M.” we reply that
curling the hair over hot irons does tend to
destroy the natural oil in it. anil finally to
make it harsh, brittle and lustreless. In re
gard to frequent cutting and shampooing,
once in six weeks is often enough to visit the
hairdresser, and many women are old
fashioned enough to clip the hair when the
moon is waning. “An absurd superstition,”
say many, but all the same this rule is
observed, and while this may do no good as
far as the moon is concerned it causes regu
larity in the time of the cutting.
Some physicia :s say that too frequent
scourings and washing of the hair is not
beneficial, and that the operation, if thor
oughly performed once in two months, will
keep the head in fine order, unless one’s oc
cupation is such as to bring one in contact
wi h much dust. A solution (weak) of cam
phor, borax and ammonia water is very
often used, thoroughly riming the head and
hair after this application. Quillia bark is
used at times with advantage to wash the
hair above the forehead. But a piece in a
bowl of warm water and move the hand
briskly round and round, till the water is
frothy. This is le;s drying than many hair
washes. The Japanese mode is to rub the
whites of eggs in the scalp—this very thor
ouzhly, then at once rinse in tepid ammonia
water frothed with a bit of castile soap,
then rinse again in dear, warm water. It
is .aid that no one ever saw a bald Chinese
or Japanese woman or one with very gray
hair. Frequent brushing also tends to
brighten and strengthen the hair. Iu con
clusion. we give a French woman’s lotion
for strengthening tho hair: Rose water,
one pint; sulphate of zinc, one drachm;
tincture of galls, six drachms; eau de
cologne, one ounce; castor oil, two ounces.
Mix, and moisten tho roots of the hair with
the lotion twice a day for two months.
This is pronounced excellent, but it miißt
not be Imagined that it will suit all equally
well. Many people cannot tolerate can
t’oarides, which is a constituent of most
hair tonics.
Old newspapers, says the New York
Tribune, have many uses. That tbev are a
groat protection to ice has already been
mentioned, and an experienced housekeeper
now sends us the following; “Keep all your
papers, not ouly for lighting fires, but for
cleauiug mirrors and windows, the results
being far more satisfactory than by the use
of cloths. Dip the paper in cold water and
wring it out thoroughly. After rubbing
well with this, go over the glass with
a dry paper until no moisture re
mains." From an old colored
women, too, we receive the following
testimony as to their merits: “Got anv
papers, honey, to give me?" she said, as she
was going home after a day’s cleaning. “I
da: o say I can find you some, aunty,” said
the house mistress. “What do you wnnt
them for?” “Dey hav’lots o’ uses, chile,”
answered the old woman. “I ken cut ’em
up in strip! and stuff pillows; I lines my
quilts with’em, for dey is warm es toas;,
ami dey keep out all de cold air from de
flo’ if I spreads ’em under de cyarpet.”
And here is still another suggestion:
“What do you think of my chest protector?”
said tho family doctor as he unbuttoned his
haavy overcoat and took out a thick layer
of newspapers which were tacked together
in the shape of a child’s bib. “When I have
a long, cold drive before me I always use
this patent arrangement of mine, for I find
that nothing gives more adequate protec
tion w ith less bulk and inconvonlence than
newspapers. You know I had ptieumonia
last year, and I aoi obliged to be careful.”
Tbire Is an increasing use of unbleached
hose of fine cotton. Some of this cotton
hosiery is so sheer as to be almost like
gauze. It is delightful for summer wear.
From 37 cents to ?t 50 will buy excellent
grades. The lower-priced ones wear well,
but do not retain their shape as long as
those which sell higher. They grow baggy
about tho ankles, shortening in the leg, and
wrinkling below the knee. Some of the un
bleached cotton hose are embroidered in
white silk, but not heavily.
A woman who buys unbleached cotton
hose di: ec from a factory in Dublin, Ire
land, pays from 84 to $5 a pair, but is able
to wear them for several years without
darning. Ladies who wish to wear the un
bleathed hose with low shoes upon thestroet
find the gaiterette a great convenience. Tne
tie and short gaiter may be of black or of
tae gown color, perhaps the gaiter of the
gown material.
it, no doubt, is idle to protest agaiust the
wearing of ties upon the street without
gaiters since so many women feel at liberty
to do so, provided only that their stockings
be black or dark. If it were possible ro
check the habit by a remonstrance it would
be wortn while to offer an emphatic one.
l'he prevalence of this practice is a sufficient
refutation • f the accusation that “women
care more tor their looks than their com
fort.”
Shade hats were never more charming
nor in greater variety than this season.
Even for the beach are wide shades made of
white, pink, or yellow lace and chiffon. For
garden fetes, the silk mull hats rival those
of lace and tulle for midsummer wear.
Spanish round hats of yellow chiffon have
trimmings of black silk net, with yellow
roses and long scarfs that come from the
back, and are of sufficient width to veil aud
envelop the throat. Blaok chantilly lace hat*
are trimmed with red briar roses or salvia
bl iwouis. W ide- brimmed Vassar hats of
Milan braid in corn yellow, olive gray, end
like fashio able shades, appropriate for
mountain and seaside wear, are simply
trimmed with Alsatian bows of fancy rib
bon, set very erect upon tbs crown of the
hat. Amoug the late novelties are garden
party hats or white birch twigs and foliage,
interwoven in basket fashion, firming very
charming Maud Muller bats, trimmed alone
with damask roses, leaves and buds.
DOGS AND THEIR DOCTORS.
A New York Woman's Terrible Trials
W ith Them.
(.Copyright- '
Asbi’RY Park, Aug. 15.—“1t seems to
me,” said I, on seeing her for the first time
! since she left New York several weeks ago,
I “that you are looking Becomingly pale in
! stead of distractiugly rosy. What’s the
i matter? Have you been ill?” I had run
1 down to the park on a flying trip to investi
gate the bathing gown question aud was
surprised to find her here.
“O, no, not exactly ill,” said .Mrs. Brown
—which isn’t her name —with a sigh of
weariness, “but you don’t know what
worry, w bat trouble and anxiety I’ve en
dured, all on account of these precious pets
of mine. I think it must be tb- weather,
don’t you know. It’s so changeable, and it's
been so cool this year. I would have been
down sick my eit if I hadn’t been too busy.
Really, I couldn’t. It all began with Fido
taking oold in Newport, because I was too
careless aud left the window open, lie’s
only just beginning to get over it. Here,
Fido; come and see the gentleman, oo ’ittle
pet."
At the familiar call, a melancholy figure
crept slowly aoross the floor. It was pri
marily canine, for a hirsute tail told its own
story, but in its peaked invalid’s cap, its
huge knotted muffler and its four-sleeved
ooat it had a ridiculously human look.
“See,” said my hostess, “he’s convales
cent, uew; or at leas; I hope he is. and he’s
just been out for a walk. It was sunny aud
warm, and I sent him witn his maid, I
suppose I ought to have gone myself, but
really, now, I think Fldele —that isn’t her
name, but I call her that, after Fido—is just
as gold aud kind as she can bo. Si,e ought
to be, for I pay her big wages and she came
very highly recommended. Dear me, what
was I going to say ?”
*•! think you wore going to tell me why
you are so tired,” I replied, somewhat
amused at the dear, fussy littie woman, who
is as good as gold it only sbo wouldn’t
worry about trifles.
“Oh, yes. Well, when Fido began to be
ill 1 sent right away fer the family doctor.
My Newport doctor, of course; hadn’t time
to send to New York. He’s a very, very
skillful man, but just a little bitgruff, don’t
you know, and when he came and I took
him to Fido’s bod, you ought to have seon
him. I could hardly help laughing, though
I was so anxious 1 oould hardly stand. He
was so angry.
‘ * ‘Madam,’ said he, ‘I am not a veterina
rian.’
“ ‘I know that,’ said I, ‘but won’t you
look at Fido just this once? livery micute
is precious, and you have always doctored
our family here.’ I was too much worried
to get angry with him, you know.
“ ‘That is true, madam,’ he said, ‘but I
stop at dogs. However, without tpec.al
reference to this case, I don’t mind giving
you a little general advice. Your pets suf
fer from too much kindness. A dog is es
sentially a wild beast, only a little removed
from the fox, the wolf and the jackal.
Yours are over-civilized, over-fed, over
petted and kept too warm. If you want
them to be healthy, energetic and affection
ate, I’ll tell you what you must do. Strip
off their blankets and let ’em ruu out of
doors. Give ’em bones to gnaw for the
sake of their teeth. Let ’“in go hungry
onoe in a while and kick each oue once a
day till he howls. Good day, madam.”
And away ho w out.
“Now, do you know I can standi a good
deal when oue of my? pets (s in danger, but
I couldn’t stand that. I was so angry
that 1 could hardly keep from orying. The
old brute! He shall never darken my door
again!”
“He may have been more than half right
in spite of the offensive manner of his
speech,” said I soothingly. "There is a
good deal of the brute about even the most
refined dog. He wouldn’t he worth much
if there wasu’t.”
“Don’t I know that?” vivaciously re
sponded Mrs. Brown. “The very day that
Fido was taken ill I went out to give Algie
an airing. His name is really Algernon,
but I don’t have time to call him that, I’m
so busy. I was so taken aback by the doc
tor’s rudeness that I thought a little fresh
air would do me good, and besides I wasn’t
going to trust Algie to a hireling, with Fido
already sick on my hands. 1 bad a long
embroidered leash—tan leather, you know,
with black applique work to match Algie—
fastened to his collar, because he’s so ener
getic, so different from Fido, and just as I
turned the street ooruer in a gust of wind I
had to put up one hand to my hat
to keep it from blowing off, and
Algie jerkod the leash right
away from me and on he went, and before I
knew it almost he was fighting with a groat
big ugly cur twice his size, and the our had
him by the ear, and a lot of dirty men and
boys got ’round them aud yelled and shouted
ar.d never once tried to take them apart,
and I didn’t dare to touch the cur, and I was
in a perfect agony. I don’t know what I
should have done if the policeman on our
beat—he knows me—hadn’t oonie up and
driven off the other dog with his olub. I
got Algie home somehow, and, dear me,
what a state he was in! He was covered
with blood and his ear was torn half way up
and a great scratch over his eye.
“1 got him home somehow, and when I
reached the door I was as white as a ghost.
What in the world was Ito do. I had just
quarreled with the doctor, and I don’t know
anybody else nearby and, of course, I
couldn’t trust Algie to auy Tom. Dick or
Harry. While I was trying to think in came
James, the coachman. I think Fldele bod
told him.
“ ‘I can fix ’im up, mum.’ said be.
“‘But do you know how?' said L ‘lt’s a
very critical ease.’
“ ‘fla. yes, ’mum,’ said he. ‘dogs and
bosses is much the same,' and he got some
liniment and a needle and thread and ac
tually sewed up the poor creature’s ear. It
was so pitiful to see him and bear Nero
whine that I had to run up to the top story
aDd lock myself into the cook’s room and
stop my ears with a pillow till it was all
over. I must say that Jntr.es did it very
nicely, though, and bandaged up Algio’s
eye, aud he’s been getting well just as nice
ly as can be. I was so glad I gave James 810.
“ Dear! dear! Such a time as that was!
I’m glad it’s alt over. Algie was in great
pain, of course; but then, a pug is so plucky
that he behaved real well But, of course,
be needed extra attention while his wounds
were healing, and yet there was Fido, who
actually hadn’t had a mite of medical care
yet, and it was a good six hours since that
brute of a doctor had gone away. His case
hadn’t even been diagnosed, and his look of
suffering seemed full of silont reproach
whenever I came near his pillow. Yet I
know he didn’t mein to distress me, poor
thing; for be loves mo uud is brave. It
was iny oonscienoe that reproved rne. And
just then, of all the times in the world for
inconvenience, jnst as I was putting on my
wraps once more to go out and try to look
up a physician, what should my Mexican
hairless do—l haven’t given him a name
yet. Don’t you think Arthur would be a
pretty ono?—that poor thing put his foot
into a boiling hot kettle of soup stock
that cook had set down to cool,
somewhere or other where he could
get at it. She is so carele a, and
I’ve spoken to her again and again
about iq Of course I bad to discharge her
immediately, and therd was a terrible scene
abi ut it, and then I was without a cook,
and Fido threatened with congeetion of the
lungs, Algie with a torn ear and Arthur’s
foot scalded. Ob! lam so glad those dark
days are over.”
“But how did you happen down bare?” I
asked in some perplexity. “I never knew
you came to Asbu. y Park."
“I never did before,” said Mrs. Brown,
vivaciously. “It was an inspiration. I
reasor ed that what Fido needed was a
warmer climate—you know that the nights
are getting cool now—and that Algie wants
onl v rest and change of air, while I oould
attend to them ail the better If I were some
where where I didn’t know a soul and so
wouldn’t be disturbed by any social oalls or
duties whatever. On the way down we
stopped in New York to consult Dr. Briggs,
aud he reassured me so much, and then we
came here four days ago. I think all my
pets are reallv better.”
||“Asbury Bark is quite a pleasant place,
isn’t it?” I asked, rising to go.
“Fteally, I can’t say," replied Mrs. Rrown.
“I’ve scarcely looked around at all; I’ve
been so busy.” Owen Lanqdon.
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