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SOME FAMOUS JEWELS.
Treasures Worth Fortunes Worn by
America’s Rich Women.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor’s Remarkable
• Stomacher”— Mrs. Palmer’s Pearls.
Mrs. Martin’s Crown.
From the New York Press.
The children of wealth are not more
tenderly cared for than are the jewels of
society people. There is nothing hap
hv'ard about them from the time they
enter into the possession of their wealthy
owners until they are finally left as heir
looms to the next generation and pass into
the possession of others.
Tha best known of all the private
jeweled pieces in the world are owned by
American ladies, although there are
several very handsome ones “on the
other side." but as foreign ladies do not
often purchase jewels, contenting them
selves with, resetting heirlooms, oit re
ma ns for our women to take the lead in
the ownership of fine jewelry.
The most famous “Jewel,” as it may be
called in New York society, is the “stom
acher - belonging to Mrs. John Jacob As
tor This is a superb combination of
penis arranged in the form of a girdle, or
pointed front piece, to be worn over a lace
hress front, or for an ornament to the
front of a decollete corsage. It is very
larm and is composed of the finest gems
oh tin i Ole in the world. It was the wed
dim' gift of Mr. Astor to his bride and
was selected with more than ordinary
taste or it could never have been worn in
j nut so well are the gems blended
aid so perfectly do they harmonize with
a l til of white lace that young Airs. Astor
looks -perfectly sweet” when she has it
on although her friends say that she
wore it for the first time with many mis
pivines for fear it would look like a grand
display of wealth. Its cost was not far
from a million dollars.
MRS. I’AI.MEH’S PEARLS.
After this may come Mrs. Potter
Pa ,1,1 1 s famous string of pearls. No
woman in the world has been pictured
often, r than has Mrs. Palmer in that
neckla. e. It was purchased by Mr.
P.iimor after a long period of diligent
searcli and is now perfectly matched, so
that it rivals the Rothschild pearls,
which are among the famous jewels of
Fur ope The Palmer necklace is a dog
collar of live strings of pearls, each pearl
b ing as large as a marrowfat pea and all
a< alike "as peas in a pod.” Below the
do-.ollur hang six strings of the pearls
beautifully graduated in size. Its value
is not accurately placed, but if Mr.
palmer were to lose his hotel and his
million dollar residence each strand
would be a sufficient income for a year’s
living. „
Mrs. whitelaw Reid comes in as a close
third to the Palmer and Rothschild col
1, ction of pearls, for she boasts enough
pearls to “stud - ’ a gown, and she always
has a magnificent one for the opera season
trimmed in this way.
MKS. VASmiRBII.T’S DIAMONDS.
Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt's famous
string ot pierced diamonds always ex
cites nut only admiration, but wonder.
They are all magnificent solitaires and
through the center of their superbeutting
runs a gold wire which fastens them to
gether. Thus a string or band of bril
liant light goes around the lair neck, of
the beautiful wearer. It issaid that Mrs.
Vanderbilt's idea in doing this was to se
cure a glimpse of diamonds only—as if
they were unset as she has a great fond
ness for the stones and likes to luild them
in her hands and admire their colors in
their unset stato. To have three or four
do .ins of these wonderful stones, as if
unset, and yet so they ean be worn, was a
dreu in of hers w hen she was a penniless
southern girl with only beauty and fine
family to recommend her t the young
millionaire's fancy.
The ‘ Will o’ the Wisp” coronet of Mrs.
Ogden Mills is justly the most famous
coronet in New York, and is always
greatly admired whenever its owner will
consent to wear it. In shape the “Will
o' the Wisp” is like the royal coronet. It
is composed of different gems shading to
diamonds on the upper edge, and is a
sparkle with diamonds throughout. Mrs.
Mills wears it set well front on her head,
and the effect from the floor of the opera
house, or at a distance in the ballroom, is
as if a halo were resting upon her hair.
Mrs. Mills dresses her hair rather full iu
front, so that her bright eyes are not out
shone by the near proximity of the jewels.
MRS. MORGAN’S PEARLS.
Mrs. j. Piorpont Morgan has been for
years and years collecting pearls. It is a
transatlantic custom taken up by many
wealthy American ladies who do not care
to shine in diamonds, and are averse to
the spending of much money all at one
time for gems. A pearl collector will add
a string of pearls every year to her col
-I,rl;oii. and a few pearls besides fora
sun, not over .f‘JO.OOO a year. This amount
is nothing when one thinks of buying
strings of diamonds worth *500,000. Mrs.
Morgan has something like twenty strings
ot pearls as nearly perfect as can be found
now.
Mrs. William D. Sloane would probhbly
heid the list of jewel owners in the
i nited States, or come near it. if all her
jewels were known, but she has her
s n,-s reset so often that one cannot keep
account of them. Avery beautiful and
8 - v thing which she wears is a bird
composed of diamonds and emeralds. It
''as the gift of Mr. Vanderbilt, her
atner, and is among the world’s famous
gems. The diamonds in the bird are
' nil exceedingly white, and the
crams are immense. Its value is said
to be in the hundred thousands.
MR a - MARTIN’S CROWN.
t,'.f,! rs ' Hru ' u °y Martin has a diamond
• a or crown, which always attracts
"Mention when worn. It is mado of dia
ojo-uis that arc on account of their awful
1 '-tiousl.v termed “crown jewels.”
r-aou diamond in the “crown” is as big
1,1 tf the pea were cut diamond
' nmi they are all of exactly the
t l. s, '0 and brilliancy. The crown ex
' mnpietely around the coiffure and
i. v /, ~ ; lnt beyond description. Little
hi..l av ™ bus one of turquoises and
lir'ipu.v s -•' *?!' 1 ls vor y pretty, but Mrs.
■ 1 . martin's takes all the applause
wtien ver it appears.
is r‘!!, s ! a ? ous American crown, however,
,;° outshone by the one just pur
ou, \ lrs - W- K. Vanderbilt. Thjs
F, 1 belonged to the French Empress
v ; 'he design is in violets and
diai, , a ? dit is composed of 2,000
{. , ■' It has cost Mrs. Vanderbilt
rar'-v American women to
'hisses.., ", ldea .’ origins 1 with them
"f watching the “tone” of
dr, v ,, ? n w st 0 their gowns. With the
&t i r,,. 1. ii , Benjamin Porter wore
, ball her diamonds wero said
Mr j, insitx'h the gown. All were a
shade of blue. Mrs. Henry
,lr , lj “complete set of slightly
the ,1, I, " . | ,uls t 0 be worn with one of
i* ; 'to lemon gowns that are so be
• to her.
PLENTY OF SUNBURSTS.
A:. ,’ ‘ mb , Pl ’ of sunbursts owned by
Astor t * ,‘ s beyond counting. Mrs.
Mei on, ~, ~e r: bus a gorgeous one. Mrs.
tin -gjf• ,"’bßiue, of Chicago, has one,
.'oi.-i words M fat H er ; that Is love *y be
-0,1 i-v, n t->eland Stanford wears
b!--ii,,.|, tb her mourning, that is so
bfi le ~r i,-, I .' -s anti Miss 1 xmi.se Morris, the
trait ivunt^l! 0 t’.ebhani. had her |ior
ii,-i, , 1 ", oarin K that sparkled
•^suubu , r3 U U , r |i,o^ e '* Ter,lee C ° Bt ° f
It must not be supposed that the pos
session of so many jewels is all a pleasure
Their owners worry about them con
stantly. and even if able to replace them,
would as soon part with their wedding
rings, for jewels become very dear to
pets lleart of th eir owners, like family
Ihe ways for keeping and taking care
or jewels are many and almost as varied
as their owners. Mrs. John Jacob Astor
confided all of hors to her maid, who is
responsible for the placing of them in a
safe in a brilliantly lighted room in the
Astor mansion.
The elder ladies of society count their
jewels carefully after each wearing
-Many require a maid to string all rings
worn daily upon a silver cord, which is
laid in a velvet casket, slipped in a safe in
the wall. These can thus be reached
without unlocking the jewel case, with
its coronets and necklaces.
A few of the fussier ladies, and some
that travel much, go to the trouble of
keeping their SIOO,OOO necklaces in a safe
deposit vault, and when they are to wear
them must get them out.
Mrs. Potter-Palmer’s pearls are kept in
a big case, locked in a strong box, and a
watchman constantly patrols the gardens.
All the Vanderbilt ladies have large jewel
rooms or treasure rooms, where are kept
the jewel caskets and all boxes contain
ing expensive ornaments.
ALMOST DROWNED.
Sensations That a Man Who Tells
About It Went Through.
To stand helplessly on the river shore
and witness the struggles of a drowning
fellow-being is a harrowing experience,
and little less heartrending to contem
plate, but in matters of this kind, like
many othcas, -‘things are not what they
seem.” At any rate, death by drowning
is not as horrible as it may seem to the
onlooker. The the thought of being
dragged along the muddy bottom of the
river and found later in some out-of-the
way, willow-tangled spot is what adds to
the horrors of such a death. The dread
of such a fate is really worse than the
fate itself. I once left this world by
that route as nearly as one ean and get
back. It was an accident, and was some
twenty years ago.
A companion and myself were bathing
in the Ohiariver. At the point where we
were a large raft of logs was lashed to
the bank, and for quite a long while we
amused ourselves by jumping from the
raft into fifteen feet of water to see who
could bring up the largest number of
white gravels each time. We went down
several times with varying success. The
last time I made the effort I filled my
lungs with air and leaped far out into the
river and went to the bottom head first.
I groped about for a handful of gravels
and spent more time in the search than I
should have done. The water was warm,
however, and 1 had no fear of drowning.
When I could stay down no longer, I
started swiftly for the surface, and when
within a foot or so of the top of the water
my companion, not knowing exactly
where I was, jumped headlong into the
river. His head struck me squarely be
tween the shoulders and knocked the last
ounce of air out of my lungs, and a deluge
of water at once took its place. The
weight of his body falling on me produced
a terrible shock, and 1 sunk to the bot
tom of the river iiko a stone. That is
whore I got m.v experience in drowning.
When the water rushed into my lungs
and stomach, it felt for all the world like
a pleurisy pain, which has also given me
a tussle in later years, but was over In a
second. Then my body settled quietly to
to the bottom and my arms feU limp at
niy side.
In my half-conscious condition I could
see all m.v relatives and acquaintances
crowding about and looking down on me
with tearful faces. All the events, it
seemed, of my prosy career passed slowly
in review, and the good, bad and indiffer
ent acts stood out before me in bold re
lief. Even little school-boy tricks
claimed attention. I know I was drown
ing and remember thinking, “Why, this
is not so hard after all!” I wyndered
where my body would be found, and
shuddered at the thought that it might
never be found. I also wondered whether
or not my companion had become alarmed
and ran ‘ away and left me to my fate, or
whether he was diving here and there to
find me. Then I pictured my burial and
how the clods would resound on my coffin
when it was lowered into the chilly
grave, and my fate would be pointed out
to others by anxious mothers as a warn
ing.
At the next stage I could hear bells
softly ringing in the distance, together
with little tinklings and chirrups sound
ing in my ears. Then 1 began to see
pr.ett.y pictures. The colors of the rain
bow danced before my eyes and inter
mingled and formed into all sorts of odd
shapes. I had no pain and no fear of what
was expected to follow. I seemed to be
enchanted at the scene before me. Every
thing was light and calm, and moved
about without any visible impelling force.
It was like looking into a large mirror
with every beautiful thing that the most
vivid imagination could conjure up re
vealed thereby.
The last stage which I entered in
creased the beauty of the surroundings.
All discordant noises ceased and wero
superseded by the softest, sweetest music
that could be thought of. Apparently 1
had been transported to a place flooded
with bright, calm sunshine. It was
neither too hot nor too cold, but seemed
to rise from the ground and float off into
space like thistle down. Higher and
higher I went until I seemed to look down
on the world from a great liight, and then
came a blank. The next thing I knew I
was lying on the raft, with my companion
looking down on me with a pale face.
After several unsuccessful attempts ho
had succeeded in finding me and getting
me out of the water. By vigorously roll-
me ovor & lop tie had succeeded in re
kindling the spark of life that remained.
For the next half hour I think I suffered
a great deal more than for the same
length of time before or since. 1 shall
never forget how it fools to drown, but
would not advise any one to try to find
out for himself. Resuscitation is too
painful.
DID SHE REFUSE $25,000 P
Mrs. Brown Says That Such an Offer
Was Made to Miss Pollard.
From the New York World.
Cincinnati, April 20. — Mrs NcClellan
Browne, whose husband was president of
Wesleyan College when Madge Pollard
was a student there, has just returned
from Washington, whcro she went to
testify for the plaintiff.
Mrs. Browne says that Miss I ollard
will not go on the stage, but will live
quietly in Washington and pursue liter
ary work. ~, ~ ,
She says further that Miss Pollard
was offered $35,000 to compromise the
SU .\lrs. Browne declares that Washington
sorietv needs a thorough cleansing, high
officials need exposure; and the women of
Washington are preparing to do it.
Miss Pollard's lawyers have given their
services free of charge, and declined to
accept money raised by Mrs. Blackburn
among Washington women.
She—Do vou think it was an apple that
tempted Eve? He— lt could hardly be.
She—Why not? He— Because it was tho
pair that Satan was after.— Chicago
Tribune.
“Say, are you the boy I sent with a
letter about three weeks agoßoy
yes, sir. “Well, why in the mischief
didn’t you bring the answer back.
Boy—You told me to wait for 8 re ! ,l - v '> ana
tbe man won'the home before next spring.
—lnter Ocean,
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 20. 1804.
HOW FAMOUS MEN IAUCH.
A Famed Comedian Writes About
Grover Cleveland.
Richard Oroker’s Ha! Ha!—The Way
McKinley Was Nearly Ejected From
a Theater for Loud Laughing.
(Copyright.)
Nfew York, April 28.—Laughter, while
not a very elevated subject for study in
tlie abstract, is very interesting in con
nection with character studies of famous
individuals. I hope it is not egotistica l
to say that I believe I have had more op
portunities of studying the different
ways in which famous men from Grover
Cleveland to Richard Croker laugh than
most people. The results of my observa
tions, which I give here, form, of course,
impressions produced upon a perlormer
on the stage.
President Cleveland isn't a pretty
smiler, but his laugh is all right. He
smiles like a Chinaman enjoying a big
streak of luck at fan-tan; the outer cor
ners of his eyes go up and the inner cor
ners go down; both lids are suffused with
a sort of fluttersome glee, while a prize
pumpkin-like glow fills his cheeks and
his lips bow up and are braced tight, as
if ho was afraid he was going
to spill something. His smile
isn’t far-reaching; it is suspiciousr
but his laugh is hearty and honest, and if
it was not that he has to treat it with a
certain measure of dignity it might be
come a mild sort of welkin-ringer. He
was in a box at the Standard theater,
New York, one night, enjoying a perfor
mance, and when in the play a bogus old
lady from Brazil began to disrobe in a
garden, the President throw his head
back and emitted a several horse power
guffaw, such as he must have indulged in
unreservedly when he was the sheriff of
Buffalo. Unlike most fat men Cleveland
doesn’t yell when he laughs. His caerhi
nation is all of the thoracic quality and
there is no twinkling of his waist-band
while the spasm of uncontrolled merri
ment has hold of him.
Senator D. B. Hiil,whose laugh was also
measured at a recent performance, is
another loud laugher when he wants to
be. The cartoons which have been
printed depleting him in a high white
hat with a wainscoting of cra[ie around
it give the impression that he is funereal
and as umlissoluable as a tombstone, but
mirth always has a warm welcome, and
his ha! ha! is as healthy and get-there
ative as any in the land. Still there are
some anti-snappers who say that Hill
can "smile and smile and be a villian
still.”
Ex-President Harrison isn’t much of a
laugher. He doesn't thaw to any wild
extent under the rays of fun. He acts
as if the laugh was going to cost some
thing and he approaches it very cau
tiously, throwing out a smile for a feeler
and then venturing into a B fiat intona
tion of his joy that is a good distance this
side of being boisterous. Harrison’s
laugh, whenever it does soar into sound,
seems to ooze out of a kazoo. There is too
much frappeeness in it to be infectious.
Gov. Flower of New York has a
well-fed laugh. It is robust and resonant,
and yet there is something decidedly
cherubic about it. When you see the
governor's face all lit up with glowing
good nature between his Jolly side whisk
ers, you cannot help think of those curly
heads with wings that Coreggio and those
other chaps used to paint.
Senator Peffer laughs tight down into
his whiskers. So much has been written
about the corruscating Kansan’s wind
gatherers that this statement may be
looked upon as a further attempt at
comicality in this direction, but it is a
positive and Pefferian fact. When the
senator finds anything to laugh at he
bows his head low, inclines it to the right,
and lets a gentle, gurgling
laugh percolate through and per
meate his beautiful and abundant whis
kers. It is not a cyclonic laugh and the
luxuriant “blocks” are startled by it.
Silver Dollar Bland has a b’gosh t’l
migtaty laugh, but its backwooditiess has
had the corners taken off in Washington,
and when the first surprise that it ex
presses at the joke that has provoked it
passes away, it simmers down to an ana
pestic, diplomatic acquiescence in the fun,
and lets the rest of the crowd keep up the
dithyrambic end of the merriment.
Henry Irving holds his sides when he
laughs and tries to make It appear that
he is enjoying himself, but he laughs
through his nose and there is too much
catarrh and brogue in his cacchination.
Ellen Terry has a deep and dismal Lady
Macbeth laugh. One would think a
woman like her had a tinkiesome, silvery
laugh, but she hasn’t. Neither has Ada
Uehan, who couldn't sing the tenor end
of a laughing song if she got S4O a note
for doing it.
W’hile stage women are on the point of
the pen, it may as well be said that Viola
Allen, of the Empire Theater Stock Com
pany. has as cute and catching a laugh as
anybody ever heard, and she can give it
with many variations, while Maud Ad
ams, of John Drew’s “The Butterflies”
Company, is unapproachable in staccato
ing a laugh and letting it out of her sys
tem in the sweetest and most irresistible
of timid and tiny shrieks.
Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, the vice ex
plorer and all-round reformer, is a good
fellow and fairly brims over with jovial
ity. There is nothing shad-bellied or
Stigginsy about him. He is as far re
moved from the sanctified asceticism of
Cardinal Gibbons as the moon is from the
pole star. Dr. Parkhurst will slap you
on the back when he asks after your
health, and if you tell him a funny story
lie will laugh at it with all the enthusi
asm of a school boy. His eyes glisten
when he tells of the queer things he saw
when he went dive discovering.
Rev. T. DoWitt Taimago has a theat
rical laugh, it is iu three acts and at
points it is spectacular, it begins with
he! he! he! devclopes into a climatic ha!
ha! ha! and denouements with ho! ho!
lio I in the last gust of which there is a
facial transformation seeno with some re
sponsive red fire from his tonsilatic re
gions.
Commodore Gerry looks his laughing
best when he has his fur cap on and the
earlaps are tied under his chin. He is
not the ogro he is painted. He has quite
a sunshiny naturo and really loves chil
dren. although he seems to be cruel to
them sometimes. Little Zelda Saunders,
the wee actress, trot up an anti-Gerry so
ciety and actually browbeat him bofore
the New York legislature, but when he
was in Paris last summer ho paid 9SO for
a talking doll and sent it to her. Ila
chuckled considerably over the way in
which he got even with the child. His
chuckle is tho best he can dq in the
laughing line. -•
Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, Is a freetrader
when it comes to fun and laughter. He
leans back in his chair and roars when
anything tickles his fancy. Tho manager
of a New York theater one nigfit heard
peal after peal of merriment roll over the
audience. Calling up an usher he said.
“Hunt up that fellow that’s laughing so
much—he’s a professional laugher, I'll
bet—and put him out!” “Why no, that's
Gov. McKinley,” said the usher. And so
it was. He was with Mrs. McKinley and
some members of his staff in a stage box.
He gave the audience its cue for every
laugh in the play.
Tammany Chief Dick Croker takes bis
two boys to the theater and keeps his
eye on them. When they laugh he laughs
and his laugh is not of the smothered va
riety. but clarion voiced and occasionally
dissilient.
Police Superintendent Byrnes’ laughs
are always on stilts. Byrnes is a big
man in a big town and his dignity will
not permit him to double himself up with
hilarity and holler out his happiness as
he used to do in the good old days when
he was Patrolman Byrnes His tsacoti
descending laugh with no more comfort
in it than there would be in a compli
mentary ticket to ones own grand
mothers funeral.
The Pinkertons are great laughers,
though Bob Pinkerton always has his
“laff" with him and let's-it-go-Gallagher
on the least provocation. Ho can be
hoard in the next county when ho laughs
Billy Pinkerton, who makes his head
quarters in Chicago, now uses his world's
fair iaugh entirely. He picked it up on
the Midway Plaisanee. where it was
known as tho high-tiddv-igh-dlgh. It's
the laugh that the jays got who “blew in"
their money on this highway of Joy.
Billy, it is said, uses only one eye even
when he is laughing uproariously, the
other is roaming around in the crowd
looking for crooks.
Joe Jefferson, the commedtan, has a
nanny goat laugh. He does it best when
he is talking to the children in the second
act of Kip Van Winkle, hut Buzzard's
Bay is well acquainted with it and all
Joe’s friends could pick it out if it was
mixed up with a bagful of the quaintest
laughs In existence.
Etienne Girardot.
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
Attention is Paid to the Matter ot
Clothing the Little Ones.
Simplicity, Gathers and Ruffles,
Makes Dp the Recipe-Styles for
the Very Litttle Ones-Sailor and
Outing Suita.
(Copyright.)
New York, April 28. —“Common sense,”
laconically observed a philosopher the
other day. “will have been decently laid
to rest before tho century is past.”
“If that be true,” was tho indignant
answer, “then 1 never want to see tlie
dawn of the twentieth.”
“That is only because you havo such a
mistaken idea of common sense. It is all
wrong. It takes for its premises condi
tions as they exist, not as they ought to
bo. The world would never get on if
everybody did that. Take a common ex
ample, and one dearest to tho
feminine heart—tho matter of dross.
What tame and uninteresting crea
tures you would be If you wore dresses
made according to the rules of common
sense. If every woman discarded pretty
deceptions, and dressed simply for practi
cal purposes, as she was, not as she longed
to be, there would be no such fasetnating
groups of women filling our parlors, no
such gay throng on our streets as we see
to-day. The women would be so conscious
of their altered appearance that they
wouldn't have tho heart to be ga.v; ergo,
even their bearing would not be confident
and lightsome as of yore. You prate of
common sense, but you have long since
discarced it.”
Having overheard this conversa
tion it occurred to mo that the sen
tence with which I had purposed to
start my letter this week would
need to be abandoned. I had intend
ed saying that what remnants of com
mon sense remained were put into the
making of children’s clothes, but suddenly
awoke to the fact that pretty ruffles and
gathers weren't sensible at all.
At any rate, the simple styles that
school girls will wear are to be com
mended from some standpoint or or other.
For the wee little ones, and for the young
demoiselle the styies are not always so
unsatisfactory. But the school girl rang
ing from Bto 12 years old wears simple
gathered dresses, trimmed with pretty
embroideries and ruffles, just as fresh and
dainty as one could desire. They can
easily be made at home—an advantage,
surely, especially if the-girl is a romp—
and they are inexpensive.
For dressy occasions the aecordeon
plait is used a great deal. The jeunesse
silk, already laid in folds, will be found
very convenient for these slips. One that
I saw in pale yellow, had a narrow inser
tion set in the skirts; had a loose square
falling from the neck in front to form a
yoke; and pretty fan-like pieces that
stretched out over the shoulders—ail
with the insertion set in. as in the skirt.
A simple cotton dress —a pink rib dotted
with black—had a white yoke that
was laid in fine plaits, big puffy white
sleeves, and a ruffle of embroidery that
ran over the shoulders, and down into a
V at the waist line, both back and front.
Above the ruffle was a broad beading,
through which was run black velvet rib
bon, tied at waist and on the shoulders in
bows of small loops.
Very simple and very pretty gowns are
gathered on a yoke, and have two deep,
full ruffles over the shoulders. These will
be found very satisfactory, as they are
easily laundried. In the striped and flow
ered summer silks tlie effects are beauti
ful; and the simpler the dress is made up
the more youthful and dainty the effect.
In the ginghams, linens and batistes a
little more trimming is added, but only in
the shape of embroidery. The skirts are
turned up in deep hems. Two or three
ruffles around tho waist, on the shoulders,
and two more beneath, on each sleeve,
give a full effect to a child inclined to be
awkward. Then a fine embroidered
guimpe is inserted, trimmed with a couple
of ruffles of the edging.
A neat sailor suit for a young girl is
made of dark blue, with a broad band of
bright red cloth at the bottom of the
skirt, closely laid with rows of fine white
braid. A short jacket falls over a line
white linen waist, and its revers are
faced with the red, trimmed with pospts
of the white braid. There is a deep
sailor collar of the fine linen, with a fluted
frill at the edge; and the belt is the rod
and white of the trimming.
For a somewhat older girl, 14 to 16,
there Is a neat duck suit in white. Sev
eral inches above the hem of the skirt a
broad band of clear old blue linen is laid.
On both edges of the blue band three
rows of fine braid in white aro added.
This white braid is very effective for
trimming, especially when many rows of
it are used. Tho bodice is white, with a
white pointed yoke inside. Tho turn
down collar is of blue, edged like tlie band
of the skirt, and it continues In revers
that are quite broad and aro similarly
trimmed. The belt is of tho blue.
Tho two dresses pictured, for small
girls are pretty and very easily made.
The one for the younger child can lie
made of silk, dainty nainsook, batiste, or
any material that will stand out prettily.
It is laid in full box plaits in front, has
larger side plaits and is' gathered at the
back. The square yoke is plaited. Ruf
fles are added, of fine embroidery— two on
the skirt, far apart, two around the yoke,
and one over each shoulder. The sleeves
aro very pretty, with the short puff
caught down by an embroidered band,
andw’ithtbe embroidered ruffles falling
over the plain lower sleeve.
The second dress is for a- somewhat
older girl, and can be made of chailte or
cashmere, it is all in one piece in front,
laid in box plaits at each side, and caught
down with velvet rosettes. At the back
the dresses aro cut in two pieces, and
joined at tho waist.
1 saw a dainty miss this morning clad
in a spotless pink batiste. The skirt was
quite plain, laid in rather wide plaits,
with a deep hem. Around the hips wero
three full ruties of the batiste, each edged
with fine and very open embroidery.
Over each sloovo were three more ruffles
with the fine edging. The collar was a
gathered edge of the embroidery. Tbe
ruffles did not meet in front either nt the
neck or at the waist, but were connected
by a small band of tho embroidery,
slightly gathered.
Another fresh gown was a dotted Swiss,
with two rows of Valenciennes insertion
set in, above the hem. This was carried
out in the yoke as well, and a deep bertha
of lace was added The waist was simply
tied with satin ribbon and a long bow fell
in the back. The eollur was a stock in
white satin, with a small bow to finish it-
Tiny ones are dressed moro pic
turesquely Their dresses have the old
fashioned droop and length about them :
and all sorts of extravagant fancies make
their way into the little thing's robes.
There is no fashion law to prevent. The
mother may dress her darling as she will,
until the child is old enough to object—
and that often happens at an early age,
so sage have the babies grown.
The small boy is a most fascinating bit
of humanity, in his curling locks, his vel
vet and his fine laces When he grows a
wee bit {older'he sheds his effeminacy,
and becomes a roving sailor lad, with an
chors or the name of a ship embroidered
on his jaunty eoilar and his neat sleeves
For tho warm days there is a lovely
white suit for tho bov that has Just left,
todling. and gone to strutting. A kilt of
white linen is quite overshadowed by a
big, full blouse of the daintiest white
lawn, that has sleeves wish great frills
over them. The blouse is somewhat sub
dued by a bit of an FJtou jacket, in tbe
wiiite duck, that falls over. Down tho
front is a fall of the finest, laciest embroi
dery.
Young missoss copy older folks to a
great extent, with modifications to sug
gest their fewer years. Revers and
ruffles are in groat favor, as the awk
ward age avoids simplicity and severe
lines.
Hats for children aro big, have easy,
drooping brims and arc trimmed Just in
front with flowers and ribbons. A white
leghorn droops at each side, poke fashion,
and is trimmed with full bunches of vel
vet and I'orget-nie-nots, tied with loops of
fine velvet ribbon in blue to match.
Around the low crown is gathered a
ruche of delicate lace, caught in the cen
ter with a braid of ribbon
Eva A. Schubert.
A ROMANCE OF COINCIDENCES.
Story of a Duel, a Fickle Maiden and a
Library Book.
From the New York Mail and F.xpress.
There is an odd little story connected
with the New York society library which
is fully as interesting as the personality
of its patrons. The charter of the insti
tution was granted in 17T2 by Goorge 111.,
and in those days it was a place of resort
by the fashionable people of the town.
Some time after tho war had ended a
young Englishman, who had been an
officer in tho British army, and attached
to Gen. Howe's staff, visited tho library
to while away an idle hour. He becanio
absorbed in his book and did not notice
that ho was being closely watched by a
man who sat near him. When he arose
to go lie was followed to the door and
tapped on tho shoulder.
“Pardon mo,” suid tho stranger, “but
were you not a soldier in her majesty's
army some years ago. and wero you not
engaged in a hand-to-hand encounter with
an American whom you left for dead on
the field on honor?”
“1 remember tho circumstances per
fectly,” was the reply. “What do you
know of it?”
“I am the man with whom you fought,
and I have to thank you for this,” point
ing to an empty sleeve.
“One of us had to suffer,” was the
reply.
“I am aware of that,” answered the
other, “and 1 can forgive it, but I cannot
forgive or forget that you took from me
something more precious than my arm.
You robbed me of my affianced wife. ”
The story may bo told briofl.v. The
American was engaged to be married to a
beautiful girl, the daughter of one of New
York’s most prosperous merchants. She
was good and true, and the day for the
marriage had been sot. One day her lover
quarreled with the Englishman In a place
of public resort. The men were strangers
to each other. A challenge followed, and
it was agreed to meet the next morning
at daybreak on tho Jersey shore and light
with rapiers. The American went home
to arrange his affairs, and in the evening
called on his intended bride. His unusual
seriousness aroused her fears, and she
begged to know the cause. The young man,
after much entreaty, told what he was to
do on the morrow. Tho young woman
swooned, and when she recovered found
that her lover, fearing that he might bo
dissuaded, had left her. She at once dis
patched a trusty servant to visit the
various public houses—for there weren’t
many of them—and learn if possible the
place of rendezvous. The quest was suc
cessful, and at seven the next morning,
after a sleepless night, the girl was at the
meeting place, but too late to interfere.
The duel had already taken place, and
her lover la.v wounded nigh unto death.
The Englishman and his friends were
gone, and she could not learn their ident
ity. Ho was taken homo and
nursed back to life and strength.
Some months later the young woman
met the Englishman at a social gathering.
She did nol know him. nor did he know
her. The young man fell desperately in
love. In loss than a month the maiden's
heart had changed, and her affections
were transferred. When she gave up her
engagement ring and told the old lover the
name of the new one he shocked her by
the statement that the Englishman was
the. man who had so nearly killed him.
There was a great revulsion of feeling.
The girl became ill, brain fever ensued,
and she died.
This was what the American referred
to when he met the Englishman in the
old library building. In his excitement
he had carried a book which he had picked
up unwittingly to the door With him. and,
overcome by the remembrance of his
wrongs, dashed it into tho face of his en
emy. The assault was so sudden that the
Englishman lost his balance and fell. His
Head struck the wall and he became un
conscious. The constable* came and took
him away. When the attendants rushed
out to seo what was the matter, they
picked up the book. One of them looked
at the title page, and saw that it was
called “The Fate of the Inconstant,” and
its author, whose name was not unknown,
was the mother of tho girl who had jilted
the American. The English officer was
so seriously injured by tho fall that his
mind becamo impeired, and he died some
years after in a private rotreat for the
insane.
A Good One on Judge Diale.
Judge I.lslo, the brilliant young congress
man from the mountain district of Kentucky,
has a brother as bright as he, who is a pros
perous farmer at home, says the New York
Press. The lurmor brother strolled into the
village store In Winchester one day. and the
local wit began to quiz him by asking what
he was busying himself ai out.
"Oh." he replied good naturally, “Just cut
ting a little corn and raising a few pigs.”
• Just think of It,” remarked the store
keeper, tcaslngly; "what a difference there
is between members of the same family;
here you arc, just a plain, ordinary farmer,
living a ong here, raising a few pigs and cut
ting a little corn, and thores your brother
Marcus up in Washington -one of tho three
hundred statesmen who are framing the
laws for sixty million people Now. what do
you suppose Marcus Is doing up there while
you are loafing around here in winchester:”
"Oh.” replied the farmer, with a drawl, ‘‘l
reckon ho s roaming around like ho always
did. just acking everybody what’s It all
about.”
Miss Painter—Colonel, 1 suppose the
smell of powder makes you uneasy. Col
onel—Not at all. Pray don’t move on my
account; 1 don’t mind it a bit.—Dotroit
Tribune.
Bugging—Did Wigwag swear when his
wife played the two-spot instead of tak
ing the trick? Muggins -No; he simply
told bet she wasplaying the deuce.—Phil
adelphia Record.
RAILROADS.
iiiifM
idOTH MERIDIAN TIMED
Time Table in Effect April 29. 1894.
Train ; Train j i rain I TO AND FROM tug Train I Train Train’
I *24. ) SB. | NORTH. 35. I *33. 37.
12U1 nn 345 pm 7 spm Lt Savannah Ar 430 am iobo am 400 pm
144 pm 601 pill; UOl pm Ar Fairfax. S. O I.v 243 am 744 am' 212 pm
•••••■ 8 10 pm Ar Augusta Lv 6 35 am
225 pin 655 pm 941 pm Ar Denmark. 8.4? Lv 203 am 650 am 133 pm
350 pm, 845 pm 1105 pm Ar Columbians. C Lv 1240 am 500 ami 120 ft pm
,Yo!! pm ! Ar Spartanburg. S. C Lv lo 00 am
*>*o pm Ar Asheville. N. C I.v 650 am
MSO am Ar Hot Springs. N O Lvj 510 am
:s 00 am Ar ...T . 'charlotte N c Lv HTSTpm .... 930 an
p*** 440 am Ar Salisbury, N (’ I.v. 915 pm 813 am
US pn \ 620 am Ar . ...Greensboro. N. C. ....Lvl 782 pm 654 am
in? 800 Km Ar Danvillf. Va ~l4 v fi.V) pm .... 640 am
/ ani • * pm Ar Richmond. Va Lv 12 40 pm 12 50 am
* am • 10 00 am Ar Lynchburg. Va Lv 850 pm 3 4.1 am
iV2 am 11 40 am Ar ChaHottrtville. Va. ... Lv 212 pm 165 am
4111 *5 Pm Ar Washington Lv 1101 am 10 43 pm
* T m Haltimore Lv 942 ami 920 pm
.is am I Philadelphia Lv 720 am! 856 pm
*5” P m £‘*s P m Ar New York Lv 12 15 am 430 pra
1,I!I ' a:il Ar ostop Li 780 pm 9uo am
Train j Train j FraS j TO AND FROM Train j Train Train"
I I. H - J FL( >RI DA. | :w. J 36. |
;vna l I j M pmlliV Savannah Ari li 50 ami 710 pmi 7.
637 am C2opm Ar Kverrtt Lv 948 ami 515 pm 1
••••• •• | 715 pm Ar Brunswick Lvl 84uam
f am # ll P ,n Ar Yu lee Lv; 768 am 333 pmi
9 Ift am Ar Pernandina r Lv! 715 am 12 25 pmi
X#am j Ar Callahan Lv l5 pro!
9*o ani 900 pm Ar Jacksonville Lv 710 am 250 pm
|Ar St. AutfUßtlne Lv! 115 pmi
— Ar l>alatku Lv 420 am |
1133 am, 'Ar I uk?- City Lvl ~1 f5& am T........
*22 pm i i Ar Live Oak Lvj 11 06 ami
5*5/ P m -‘ Ar Montieello Lv 8 80 am
8 JO pm Ar Tallahassee Lv 7 55 am
J l ,n * Ar Chattahoochee Lv 1238 ami
.. P ni |Ar ltlver Junction Lv 1283 ami
1 100 pm Ar Pensacola Lvj. 7 25 pm*
2!£ Ar Mobile Lv 3 Bft pm
mo Ar NawOrleaas Li 1100 am|
11 4i am 12 0• am \ r Waldo Lv 333 am 12 H pm
12.3 pm Ar Gainesville Lv ; iu 4 am,
Pm Ar Cedar Key Lv | 615 aro!
1 30 pni ... Ar Silver Springs Lv ! 10 23 ami
208 pm 214 am!Ar Ocala Lv 110 am 10 oh ami
*SO pm 832 amjAr .Wild . ..Li it 66 pm 910 am)
:i :so ! rti 446 am Ar ... ,u u Uv 1020 pm OFamITT
525 pm 7 6ft am Ar Orlando Lvi 715 pmi 640 am
JW Pm 11 30 am Ar Winter I'ark Lvl 247 piu
856 pm 601 ami A r . EicoochM Ci 048 pmj moh am ”777777
*9 00 pm *6 15 pm Ar Tarpon Sprlnps . LvpiOO* am
*lO 80 pin; iAr St. I’eterftburg Lv ‘■COM ami
j w PM* 636. am Ar .. FhuU City, .Lv 8-Oft-pm} 70£-*tn •... -
oift pihT 70? mniAr Tampa. I.v 700 pmf ft ift ami
♦Note -Dally except Sunday.
Vestibuled sleepers on trains 37 and 38 via Richmond and Danville railroad be
tween Tampa. Jacksonville nnd Mew York, connecting with Colonial express solid tram
V\ ashini'ton and Boston without change.
To Florida—New York Meei>er on No. 37 to Tampa No. 3ft to Jacksonville.
Sleeper to New Orleans on No 35 from Jacksonville.
Buffet parlor cars on trains 37and 38 Jacksonville and Ashovillo via Columbia and
Spartanburg.
Dining cars on trains 37 and 38 between Savannah and New York.
For full information apply to A. O. MAC DONKLL. G. P. A.. Jacksonville. Fla.
N. S. PENNXNOION, Traffic Manager, Jacksonville. Fla.
All trains arrive and depart at Central railroad depot.
fT>J , I. M. FLEMING, Dtv. Pass. Affent.
Tickets on sale corner Bull and Bryan streets and Central railroad depot, Savannah. Gk.
D. C. ALLEN, City Ticket Agent.
THE TROPICAL TRUNK LINe7
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway,
JOSEPH H. DUHK”E, Receiver.
THE FI.OBIDA SOimir.KN RAILROAD CO„ I
INDIAN RIVER STEAM HO AT COM ■ ANY, l It. H. CAIII.E .Cereral Manager.
JCi’ITKR AND LAKE WORTH UAILWAI.f *
7. ~ . -SOUTH- Ti iV o TahTe -NORTH- *
No. 15. I No. 35. No K j_ Ho. 14 | No, 78. No. Ml
Ex. Sun i louly Dally. IH~r.nect Apt tl !', loJl. Uatlv. | Daily. Ex. Sun.
830 pm 2 IXI pm Itoam Ev JftOkxoavUla Ar 6LO aim 3no pm 644 pm
10 00 pm 256 pm !0 10 am Ar Green Cove Springs I.v 515 am 156 pm 510 pm
1115 pm 339 pm II 00 am Ar Palatka I.v 420 am 100 pm 350 pm
12 50 am 445 pm 12 15 pm Ar Seville I.v 303 aui 1148 am 120 pm
138 am 513 pm 12 50 pm Ar Del.eon Springs Lv 223 am u tiara 12 07 pm
232 am 539 pm 127 pm Ar Orange City Junction.... Lv 153 urn 10 46 am
t 0 17 pm Ar Enterprise Lv |tlo 10 am
t 83b pm .. Ar Tltuvllle Lv * 7 45 um
330 am 615 pin 213 pm Ar T.Sanford ' Lv “115am~ 10 10 um"lS 20 am
t 8 25 pm Ar L TavarM I.v t 7 15 ara
* 455 nm tl2 30 pm Lv. | Gafnosvllle j Ar 1140 am 225 pm
457 am 720 pm 232 pra Ar . Orlando.. ....... Lv 1140 pm 905 am .... 777.
535 am 750 pm 410 pm Ar Kissimmee Lv 1050 pm 8 30am
636 am 845 pm 567 pm At Bartow Junction Lv 948 pm 740 am
835 am 10 35 pin 650 pm Ar lampa I.v 805 pm 6 10am
- 700 amjt 6 10 pmil.v Bartow Ar t 515 pmTPT 3 20 pm
t 3 20 pm| tIO 3ft pmi A r Punta Uordn. Lv t 1 10 pm| t 6 00 am
?Daily except Sunday. JSunday only.
Trains 23 and 14 carry through Pullman riufTct Sleepers dally between New York and
Port Tampa, connecting at Port Tampa on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays for Key
West and Havana. Trains &> and 78 also carry through Pullman sleeping cars between New
York and Port Tampa.
INDIAN RIVRK STEAMERS are appointed to perform tho following service:
Leave Titusville dally, except Sunday at 5:30 a.m. for Rockledgc, Melbourne and way
landings. Returning, leave Melbourne at 12:10 p. m.
Leave Titusville for Jupiter Mondays and Thursdays at 9p. m.: due Jupiter 7 p. m. the
following day. connecting with J. and L. W. R’y for Palm Beach and other points on Lake
Worth. Returning, leave Jupiter Wednesdays aad Sundays, sa. m.; due Titusville 8 a. m ,
following morning.
G. D. ACKERLY General Passenger Agent, Jacksonville, Fla.
BARRELS.
SPlßlTbarrels:
We offer to the trade a superior quality of circled
heading, jointed staves or complete
SHOOKS,
Comprising Heads, Staves, Hoops and Rivets, which can
be made into barrels without employing skilled labor.
We solicit the business of responsible parties in this
line.
CHICKASAW COOPERAGE CO.,
MEMPHIS. TEINN.
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
&hteon * WAKEFIELD'S.
Artistic Spring Hats for GENTLEMEN,
Artistic Spring Shoes for GENTLEMEN,
Artistic Neckwear for GENTLEMEN,
Artistic Negligee Shirts for GENTLEMEN,
Artistic Underwear for GENTLEMEN,
Artistic Collars & Cuffs for GENTLEMEN,
Artistic Half Hose for GENTLEMEN,
Artistic Jewelry for GENTLEMEN.
_ No. 27 WAKEFIELDI
Bull Street. W J “mkjcsoutfitter.”
MACHINERY. CASTINGS. ETC.
KEHOE’S IRON WORKS,
IKON ANI) BRASS FOUNDERS, MACHINISTS, BLACKSMITHS AND BOILERMAK
ERS, ENGINES, BOILERS AND MACHINERY, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, ETC!
Special attention to Repair Work. Estimates promptly furnished. Broughton stroe
rom Reynolds to Randolph streets. Telephone 268.
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