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Won)ai)s World.
Taerc 13 a certain type of British female.
s the New York Tribune, who, not
standing her frequent contact with
t a c world at large and many Journeys by
E '.i and land, remains as insular, as pre
judiced and as narrow as If she had never
j c f- her native parish. Her firm belief
t'-at everything that is English is ad
ja-.raMe. whatever is foreign is bad, and
anything American is altogether objec
tionable. is as deeply rooted as her faith
in church and state. An Bngllsh railroad
magnate and K. C. B. who recently visited
this country brought with him his wife,
a shining example of one of those esti
mable and positive matrons. Invited to
dins at the C.’s one evening. Lady B. ap
peared in her eminently British dinner
pown, a bright green satin, festooned with
black lace, cut low, with tlghtish short
sleeves, and her somewhat beefy, but
well developed arms bare to the wrist,
which her white kid gloves barely cover
ed. Her hair was rather severely arranged
and covered with the “married woman's
cap.” worn so universally in England
twenty-five years ago, and she carried a
huge lorgnette. She was in curious con
trast to her hostess, Mrs. C., with her
somewhat faded prettiness, her clever,
restless talk and perfect Parisian toilet—
a creature who is, moreover, grand down
to her finger tips, and very pop
ular with the smart set in
London, who are not even aware
cf Lady B.’s existence. This, however, the
latter does not know, and what is more
ixasperating, never will know, in her sub
lime self-absorptioni
On this occasion one irritating thing af
ter another had been said with complacent
innocence by Lady B. to the indignation
of some of those present. Mrs. C. how
tver, s<enied to enjoy the humor of the
situation, and kept on drawing her guest
out; and after the ladies were alone to
gether in the drawing room Lady B. was
induced to give her •'impressions” of
American girls, which she confessed she
had the intention of presenting to the pub
lic in her book on her return to her dear
ly beloved England.
"I do not deny that the American young
women are pretty,” she said condescend
ingly.
"So kind of you,” murmured Miss X., a
popular belle of two seasons.
"Or clever”—this rather doubtfully—
“but they certainly do very queer things.
I dined opposite a young person not long
ago at a table d'hote in the continent.
(I found out afterward she lived in Fifth
avenue, so I have no doubt that you know
her).”
"Oh, undoubtedly,” said Mrs. C., “if
she lives in Fifth avenue, of course we
know her."
Well," continued Lady 8., regardless of
the sarcasm, “this young woman told me
that in America girls had what they called
their martins. With my English notions, I
must confess that I was shocked.”
"And what may ‘muffins' be?” question
ed her auditors.
“Oh it is very clever of you to pretend
not to understand,” returned the lady,
“but of course X know that you compre
hend your own terms; you know very
well that it is on what you call a sleigh
ride, n man may hold a girl's hand Inside
her muff! Now I should call that very
queer, indeed!” she continued, quite ignor
ing the indignant exclamations around
her.
After Years.—
“Give back my child!” I plead that day,
My face against the cortln-lid.
“Here is the place, upon my breast;
Not there in cold and darkness hid.
Why, he had Just begun to live—
To know my face, to laugh, to reach
His hands to meet my lips, and make
6weet essays at some unknown speech!
“I'ntrodden round his baby feet
The whole fair realm of childhood lay;
N'or stones nor thorns to make them
bleed—
My hand had smoothed them all away.
N’o wind of heaven had buffeted *
His sunny head with cruel breath— j
My arms had safely sheltered him. '
Give him to me, O Death!”
N'ow, standing by that little grave
Where In and out the passing years
Weave tapestries of green and gold, '
1 smile, remembering my tears.
1 lay my gray head on the mound
That drank my tears, and ’neath tny
breath
I Whisper: "It is better so!
Keep him, O gentle Death!”
—Julia Shayer in the Century.
T’ntil the physiological principles which
account for the phenomenon are under
stood, it must remain a very puzzling
fact, says Blackwood’s Magazine, that an
actress' life should be more favorable
to the preservation of good looks, and
even girlish freshness, than the life led
liy women who occupy their natural sphere
and who cultivate (as they think) all the
physical and moral virtues.
A successful actress must work extreme
ly hard, generally by artificial light, and
In a gas-befouled atmosphere. Her hours
for work, meals and sleep are all utterly
bad from the hygenic point of view,and not
unfrequently she makes bad worse by fall
ing into those bohemian habits which are
an immemorial tradition of her class. Her
secret, ai>art from the laws regulating the
expression and nutrition of the face, con
sists chiefly of avoidance of monotony and
petty worries—those arch-enemies of fem
inine good looks and good temper. Her
''ork, if arduous, is generally performed
both with earnestness and lightness of
,art; and, above all, she gets a suffi
ciency of bodily exercise of the kind (al
though not under the conditions) most
conducive to health, viz., exercise involv
ing quick and general movements of the
muscles, combined with a certain amount
of mental excitement.
There is one Mexican custom which Im
pecunious papas and mammas would wel
conp in this country. In that enlighten
ed land the bridegroom purchases the
orjoes trousseau. Tradition and custom
sanction great extravagance and he is a
ortunato suitor, who can satisfy the de
,anlf c? his affianced without bankrupt
. e Br *‘ at advantage of the habit is
e chance it gives the bride to satisfy
cr husband in the matter of dress.
In K, an r 'sbtfully be regarded as a pioneer
this business,” said a skillful chiropo
m-st in an interview in the 'New York Trl
ih' n, t 0 wtlose doors the carriages of
•" four hundred are wont to roll, "for
, 1 hung out my shingle in ISSO the
p otession was almost unknown. It was
r " 11 in bVilliam street that I began busl
ess. In those days people believed that
. r:s had roots, roots that must be ex
b-r i . Ust as *he roots of teetli are. PSd-
V ln *he character of corn doctors, went
>uut the streets advertising their ability
p. ' cu licate corns, root and branch, and,
y j' r actlslng on the credulity of people,
v, n t ' xtra °rdinary amount of money,
'un $lO upward to S4O was the sum cliarg
,,.or faking out a single corn,
wi, , y , tlle way> ln this connection a some
ot i- amu . sin g incident occurred. A niece
j(. " n ' " Infield Scolt was at that time
], , "" B a select boarding-school for young
rr T ? ll 're in the city. Many people will re
>t-r her. She was a tine woman and
"“jcaatj not only dignity of character
did ° f apptaran ' , a* well, but I
entirelv arlfl V* able to cure her corns
skill e'W"* of th< marvellous
nought ,‘heso quack doctors, she
.. r.* Ul,at ‘ on wlth him.
cos/ oT the tr k V° have 80me of the
“ r ,h “ treatment before I put myself
H&TtEW*" * he sald ‘o thtteS;
were over.** Preliminaries of greeting
“ j 1" ‘hat regard, madam, I could give
ien/r fl i n !L eStaUm ‘‘ nt umll 1 saw I'our feet
replied the practitioner blandly.
cost ta you , could approximate the
rr?.y" a urged Madam M. For
cornV 1 ° y ° U Charge to re “v*
rootTthl a,S ° do , p '' nds °n the number of
** *r e corn might have.*
extrm *? Vour usual charge for
, trailing a single root?’
.. ,T® n . dollars,’ was the prompt reply.
And how many roots does a corn have?
seven hav * ,ometl mes known one to have
tor.en' ny caSt * flve -' replied the doc
'll Vi a corn '' repeated Mme.
corn, en V 'L y . And 1 have al least six
rom of e/ a ° h ,o °'' If 1 pay 110 for each
root of cacti one of those corns-slr,' said
?,!•. “.* J e ,t 'call y ’ rislbg from her chair.
' d '™! kno * before that I had diamonds
/ € . ' my corns arc as valuable as
that I intend to keep them. I bid you good
Usiimerft anJ She passed out ot ‘he estab
“Many people had paid that man those
Prices, continued the speaker, “and I
n< M S UVely that he received the sum
of *-,000 from a Louisiana merchant for
operating on his daughter’s feet,”
Every talent, or even every acquirement,
nowadays, seems to find its possibility for
profit. Some women, says the New York
times, who are good card players are
earning their Slimmer board, according to
an exchange, teaching whist and other
games of cards at the large hotels, at the
seaside and inland resorts. Many women
have never learned whist in particular;
tney are not embroiderers, bicyclists or
readers, and gratefully hail this relief
from the monotony of summer boarding
',. ’l’belr half-grown daughters, too,
want to be amused, and these persons
make up the card class. Apropos of whist,
by the way, that queen of American whist
players. Miss Wheelock, whose high title
was won from the great Cavendish him
self, refutes the assertion that women
cannot become as good whist players as
men. Miss Wheelock has had many classes
In the game in many places, and it is her
experience that women are more con
scientious students of the game, and
eventually become more scientific players,
than their brothers of the other sex.
It Is safe to allege, says Robert Grant
in the July Scribner, that the average
summer girl in this country has been do
ing all that she ought to do in the way of
dancing, prancing, gadding, going, work
ing and generally spending her vital pow
ers in the autumn, winter and spring im
mediately preceding, and consequently
when summer comes she needs physical,
mental and moral ozone. But what does
she prefer to do. Whither is she
bent on leading her father by the nose
with the assistance of her mother? If pos
sible to one of the gayest watering places,
where she hopes to bathe, play tennis,
walk, talk and drive during the day; pad
dle, stroll or sit out during the evening and
dance until 12 o’clock at night at least two
or three times a week. When autumn
comes and the leaf is about to fall, what
has she to show for It? A little tun and a
callous heart, a promised winter corre
spondence with the hotel clerk, new slang,
some knack at banjo playing and consid
erable uncertainty in her mind as to whom
she Is engaged to, or whether she is en
gaged at all.
The state concert at Buckingham pal
ace Saturday night, says a cable to the
Sun, was the most gorgeous affair, in
point of the display of dress and Jewels,
that has been seen this season. No less
than 1,500 persons attended. The blaze
of diamonds and other precious stones
was something beyond description. White
satin was the favorite material, and very
much gray and mauve were worn. A cer
tain beautiful countess had the seams of
lier gown held down with diamonds but
tons and a handsome marchioness had a
sash fastened with a magnificent dia
mond sun. A foreign lady wore epauletts
of diamonds and emeralds upon diapha
nous pink sleeves of pale green satin and
a gown which was powdered with rose
petals, and on every leaf glittered a dia
mond dewdrop. A German baroness had
a gown of pale mauve satin, the bodice of
which had a deep frill falling from the
shoulders and beaded with diamonds, a
necklace or two of stones being utilized
in this way. The splendid sapphires worn
by one lady were as much admired as the
fine rubies, now the costliest of Jewels,
that flashed on the shoulders and ln the
hair of another.
Looking from my window an hour ago,
says Clara Belle in a letter from Little
Deer Island, Me. to the Cincinnati Inquirer.
I saw a couple on the sands of the beach,
man and maid, whom I know to be deep
ln summer flirtation. To the experienced
that would have been evident from their
present behavior but I knew that for more
than a fortnight she had been trying to
bring him to the point. She had taken him
for walks in the woods, she had him for
duo picnics in the dell, and she had gone
rowing with him. Sometimes she had let
him row, because often if a man has some
thing to do he can talk much more freely
than at other times. She had let him lie
in the bottom of the boat while she handled
the oars, because many times when a man
thinks a girl is doing something and so
can’t hit him he will speak out, but nothing
had moved him. So she assured me; and
now that I saw them out on the point, she
seated and facing the blue water and he
stretched out on the sand facing her, I
hoped that she would at last be successful.
She has told me all about It, and says
that they had not been out there but a few
minutes before oil of a sudden, he began
to be sentimental. The time had come.
There is something I have been trying to
say to you'for months.” he confessed, and
she blushol ahd looked shyly out. to sea.
The tide slowly crept along the silver sand
and she waited, “You must have seen how
much I enjoyed your company,” he went
on, and she dropped her head and murmur
ed to herself that she had enjoyed his,
too. Then he dug holes in the sand and
thought. The tide kept up its trick along
the silver sands and again she waited.
“This is biscuits-for-tea day isn’t It?’ he
asked, his face lighted with childlike pleas
ure.
She being a wise girl and not to be dis
concerted, asked with her voice full of
tenderness If he liked biscuits, and he,
thus brought back to the important topic,
said he didn’t like them as well as he
liked something else. She looked out at
the sea again, sighed, and asked what
ever could he mean. At the same mo
ment She realized that the tide in its pro
gress over the before mentiond sands was
going to wet the toes of her duck shoe in
a minute. “Never mind," she thought
"being duck, It can probably swim,” but
she must hasten him.
“I suppose,’ he began again, “biscuits
would taste a lot nicer in a man’s own
own house made by a little hand like—”
she slipped her hand toward him. In an
other minute she would have beaten the
tide. She pulled her toe up under her
skirt a little, there would be no time for
him to take her hand, say It and get
through an embrace to clinch the matter
before the water would be up to him, but
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1893.
he was chasing a sand flea with an idle
finger.
“One bit me,” he finally declared, "do
you know what is good for It?"
"People say I have healing powers,” she
answered—oh. I tell you, she was one of
those girls who knew her business—"let
me see where the bite is,' 'and she reached
out her hand to take his. "It—it isn't on
my hand." he mumbled and blushed aw
fully; “It's—it's somewhere else.”
Then there was more silence and on came
the tide; only that he had moved a little
the water would have been under his el
bow. Her foot was In it to the ankle,
dared she hitch up a little? She tried it.
“What's the matter?” cried he. “Gra
cious! the tide's coming up; come along.
Miss Evans, we'd better be going,” and the
engagement hasn't been announced.
Said a woman who has not looked Into a
mirror for many years: “I have been ever
so much more amiable since I quit. I
used to catch sight of myself inadvert
ently in plate glass windows, but I avoid
even that now, and am happier for it.
1 used to think to myself: ‘Can that wan
and dejected sea bird be me? Do I hump
along like that, and is my hat always
over my left ear?’ If I were walking with
anybody when these visions burst upon
me I at once became preoccupied and pos
sessed of an asinine melancholy, which led
my companion to think my mental quali
ties had been greatly overrated. Oh. no,
I never look in looking glasses any more,
and the abstinence has added years to
my life and slumber to my pillow.”
"See a FYench woman, says tho Phila
delphia Times, come into a restaurant.
No matter how tight her corsage is, she
raises first one hand and then the other,
and by a few deft touches her veil is off.
When she wants it on again, she gets it
back in place in the same magical way.
On the countrary, an American or an Eng
lish woman,under the circumstances, has
to drop all interest in the conversation in
order to wrestle with her veil, and per
haps even has to have assistance before
she accomplishes her purpose.”
'To wear a veil right is an art, but no
degree of art call render one of these Ord
ered atrocities becoming, and women will
continue to buy them because they are
something new.”
"How do you like that?” asked her
friend, as a young girl entered the car
wearing a black mottled-looking veil with
her sailor hat.
“A great mistake,” decided the Judge of
veils, after one glance. “That kind of
veil makes a woman's face look blistered,
or else it has the appearance of being
worn to hide pimples or blotches. A girl
as young as that ought not to wear a veil
at all, or, if she likes the feeling of priva
cy which a veil gives (and I always feel
a kind of protection when I have my veil
on), let her select some soft, plain mesh,
not a net all flourished over like that.”
Patti’s rentree Into London, after an ab
sence of twelve years, was a great sue.
cess. Stalls sold as high as S2O, which, for
English opera rates, was very high. Crit
ics say that she has reconquered London,
and although there was a certain amount
of effort apparent In her higher notes, all
her middle and lower notes were as mel
low and perfect as they were a dozen or
twenty years ago, while her acting is in
finitely better, its pathos and Intensity be
ing remarkable. But how sad it is to think
that such an incomparable voice should
ever be silenced!
As one of the great heiresses of this
country and as a prospective bride Miss
Edith Rockefeller is deeply interesting to
the public just now.
Miss Rockefeller always has afforded
the keenest delight to one portion of this
great city, the sick and suffering; but her
repeated refusals to appear in the giddy
whirl of society have shielded her from
much of the inquisitive probing of the gos
sip and news seeker. Now that her en
gagement to Harold McCormick is an
nounced, the speculation concerning the
countless millions, which she will enjoy
after she is married attracts new attention
to her.
The story of her love affair as told by
Constance Merrifleld, is as follows;
It is seldom that a man gets such a
home angel that it is worth while knowing
how Harold McCormick, that clean-faced
young man, hampered by good looks and
so much money, happened to make such a
good selection. Asa matter of act, young
McCormick has always admired Miss
Rockefeller from afar, on account of the
camaraderie she enjoys with her father.
One night, at a little gathering at the
Rockefeller house, the host, Mr. Rocke
feller, was asked to play.
“I cannot play to-night," he replied,
laughingly, but a little sadly, "because
Edith Is not at home. She plays the ’cello
to my violin, and when I am making a
mistake she touches me gently with her el
bow, and I look around for what is wrong.
I get the credit and she floes the work
beforehand, so as to be well up on my part
of the music. Don’t ask me to play when
Edith la away.”
This delighted the young man, who Is of
a sentimental turn of mind, and her nat
urally bright features became very lovely
to him. At Christmas her sister, Alta,
showed him a thousand Christmas boxes
which Edith had filled for poor children,
and she unrolled great fleecy clouds of
worsted crocheted by the same nimble
fingers. ”1 want that girl for my wife,"
young McCormick said to his father. "Get
her if you can, my son,” replied McCor
mick, sepior, seeing the all-around worth
In a wey even his son failed to do, “but
manage it in the old-fashioned way. Steal
her away on horseback at dead of night,
for It's the only way you will ever get
her. Her father'll fight you from the start.”
And "fight” the parents did. How could
they let her go easily? Then came a long
Conditional engagement. The young woman
was to travel abroad a year, and the young
man finish at Princeton. On the day of his
graduation the engagement should be an
nounced, if meanwhile each were of the
same mind. And, of course, nothing chang
ed them.
A New York dentist, says the New York
Times, who stands in the front rank of his
profession, said not long ago that he was
almost prepared to say that “absolutely
clean tooth structure need never decay.”
It was a strong argument in favor of the
careful, persistent care of the teeth, cer
tainly, and a small price to pay for the
great privilege of keeping sweet, strong,
and serviceable our molars and bicuspids.
The neglect of the teeth in childhood is,
as any dentist will say, the great cause
of poor teeth in adult life. Parents do
everything for their children except watch
their teeth; they might do much less, and
attend to this important matter Its
results are much more far-reaching than
are generally realized. 'Mouth dyspep
sia,” says a writer in Modern Medicine,
"is coming to be a very common disorder.
It has further been repeatedy demonstrat
ed that a decayed tooth is frequently the
starting point of a pyaemle process and it
has also been shown that tubercular and
other disease germs may find entrance to
the body through cavities in decaying
teeth. It must not be forgotten, also, that
these cavities are the favorite habitat of
many pathogenic microbes, which, feed
ing upon particles of retained food, speed
ily develop, and, through increase in
number, acquire the ability to overcome
the resistance of the body.” .
A race with very small hands and feet
is a race that has for generations done
very little work and taken very little ex
ercise. South American ladies of Spanish
blood can give points, as regards the ex
tremities, to their Andalusian ancestress
es, merely because an altogether tropical
climate compels the lnda'ence that a semi
tropical climate favors. When the aver
age Frenchman—and M. Daudet is, in
1 many respects, a singularly average
Frenchman—eulogises the small foot, he
simply glorifies idleness. Not otherwise
is the Chinaman proud of the cramped
feet of his womankind, as at once a cer
tificate of aristocratic Idleness and a
safeguard against excursions.
"Savannah Girl" giust be cither stupid
or obstinate, since The elaborate explana
tion of "Savannah Boy." In last Sunday's
Morning News, as to why poor men desire
to marry rich girls, falls to convince her
that she has made a mistake, and proves
that he has not studied the subject In all
its bearings.
The term 'tpoor girl” was not the origi
nal idea of the “Savunnah Girl,” but only
borrowed from those men who confound
comfortable circumstances with poverty,
two situations wholly incompatible. It
does not necessarily follow that because a
girl lacks wealth, she must be poor. The
girls themselves do not consider such to
be the case, and feel only contempt for that
class of men. who so designate them.
Oh! Vanity of man! It is fortunate In
deed, that you are so sure of winning
"rich wives" and can look forward to the
agreeable (?) prospect of being supported
by your wife's money! A truly, manly and
admirable quality in the opposite sex.
This "Fair Malden” submits gracefully
to the Imputation of being “soured” not
upon the "whole generation of men." but
upon those men who "experience” has
taught her, are unworthy the esteem and
admiration she was wont to give. The
writer of the “Savannah Hoy" article evi
dently falls to appreciate the outward and
visible sign of delicacy, good breeding and
refinement, and forgets that he only meets
these "fkshlon plates" upon the street or
in their parlors, and knows absolutely
nothing of the household duties or other
cares that may occupy their time. "And
why?” Because when men call upon young
ladies they expect to be amused and en
tertained, and would vote that girl a bore
who attempted to Interest them in her do
mestic affairs. So she refrains from
bringing this little accomplishment to their
notice, and they go away with the impres
sion that she Is only a charming specimen
of the fashionable butterfly. He It said to
the credit of the “poor girl of to-day" that
she can perform these home duties, even
wash the dishes, and still remain the
"dainty," "high heeled" impersonation of
the iady.” Then, too, there ore hundreds
of girls who not only bear the responsibili
ties of the home upon their slender shoul
ders, but earn the money thut pays for
their "dainty” attire, and do not deprive
their parents of the “vary necessities of
life,” either, and the aggregate of ail this
"luxurious," “extravagant” dressing
would not, dear fellows, amount to the
cost of your cigars and billiards. You for
get the exquisite, inexpensive fabrics that
can make any girl appear well dressed and
in the hlght of fashion.
I am Inclined to think that the gentle
man who subscribes himself "Savannah
Boy” was really an Atlanta boy, and
w r rote the article, with ths assistance of a
Scotchman.
LETTERS SE.\T UY WIRE.
The Novel Proposition of a Pittsburg
Telegraph Operator.
From the Pittßburg Telegraph.
Patrick B. Delaney, a veteran telegraph
er thinks that the government could do
the work now covered by the postal serv
ice better by means of the telegraph. Of
course, radical changes will have to take
place. ’
Mr. Delaney shows (hat at present it
costs the telegraph companies 3 cents to
bring a message from a customer to the
office and another 3 cents to deliver It.
As this rate is based on an average of
twenty words per minute with hand trans
mission and slxtyiwords per minute by
the qu%drup4ex,Wofk)nß,,y t ts nary tq un
derstand thqt lbe companies cannot tele
graph for less than existing rates.
But hand working and great numbers of
cheap wires will soon be things of the
past. Automatic systems and a few big
copper wires reaching out to the princlput
cities will have a vaßtly increased <n
pacity, and will before long be employed
to carry quantities of correspondence
which at present we do not dream of.
Mr. Delaney says: “Why should the gov
ernment insist on carrying our letters by
train at thirty miles an hour instead of bv
telegraph? Why waste twenty-four hours
in covering the distance between Now
York and Chicago? There are about 30,000
letters exchanged between New York anil
Chicago dally.
Assuming thut they average fifty words
each, ail could be telegraphed over two
copper wires the pise of a lead pencil,
and with time to spare. It has been dem
onstrated that with the automatic chemi
cal method 1,000 wordfe per minute can be
recorded perfectly between New York and
Chicago over a one-ohm per mile wire.
“Messages can be perforated at the rate
of twenty-five words per minute, and
typewriters can print from the received
tape at the same speed. On this basis
letters of fifty words could be perforated,
transmitted, printed and delivered through
the mails at a cost of about 5 cents.”
This Is what Mr. Delaney says we are
coming to if the government will only
take hold of the work. It will be curious
and Interesting to watch the bearing of
the enormous development of telephony
which is close at hand, and to see what
part it will play ln the cheapening of
telegrams, whether the government ae
o.uires control of the telegraph service of
the country or not.
HYPNOTIZED FOR A WEEK.
Harmon Leonard of Cleveland, 0.,
Said to Have Deen Kept in u Trance
for Seven Days.
Special to The World..
Cleveland, 0., July 7.—A hypnotist call
ing himself Santaneli put Harmon Leon
ard, nineteen-year-old son of a Raven
na blacksmith, ln a hypnotic trance at
Lake Brady, near this city, last Sunday,
In which condition the young man re
mained until awakened by Santaneli to
day. Lake Brady Is a- sort of spiritualis
tic Chautauqua, and the experiment at
tracted thousands throughout the week
and to-day.
Leonard slept in a tent under the eye
of the public during the daytime, and at
night was watched over by a personal
friend. It Is certified that during the sev
en days he has received nfr nourishment
nor stimulant of or.y kind, and that none
of the physical functions has been per
formed. The pulse was 94 when he went
into the trance, and was gradually reduc
ed until it went down to 54.
This aftemdon when Santaneli com
manded him to rise he opened his eyes and
got up and took a seat in a chair. He
was still somewhat drowsy. Then San
teneli exclaimed, briskly: “Wake up!”
and the boy tumbled off his chair to the
platform like a man in a fit; but he picked
himself up speedily and brightened up per
ceptibly. Apparently he could not be
made to realize that he Had been sleeping
for a week. He expressed himself as
feeling quite well. He said he was not
thirsty or hungry, but finally drank a
glass of milk and then walked off with
Santaneli.
Santaneli proposes to repeat the exper
iment in one of the Cleveland hospitals.
"Can you trust me for a glass of beer
until day qfter to-morrow at half-past
twelve?” he asked, as he came over from
the free-lunch counter. “No, sir!” said the
bartender, with hoiieless emphasis,’ T'm
sorry! It seems kinder small for a man to
to eat a lot of free lunch an’ then not buy
anythin' to drink.” And he went slowly
out.—Puck. j
THE WOMAN
OP FASHION.
Copyright.
Paris. July 2.—A 5 o'clock in the after
noon, at this season of the year. It is large
ly a tea-drinking Paris. Drop into u few
of the bouillon shops about that time, to
be convinced of the fact. You will hear not
a little of your native <tongue, for Paris
is very American and very English Just
now. The tourists have full possession.
But think not that it ts tourists or the
English-*;leaking people alone that take
Their 5 o'clock with the regularity of a sub
stantial meal. To be sure, it was the Eng
lish that brought it to the French capital,
but the inhabitants thereof were quick
to take it up, and it is now an established
function in many a. French household.
"Oh. you will very soon learn to drink tea
here,” they say to tho American who de
nies herself on tho plea of nervousness.
“Everybody does."
Nor is the fashion restricted to femin
inity. As many men ns women call for
their little pot of tea and sip It luxuriously
in the pretty tea room.
There aro two or three of these rooms
where the most fashionable repair with
great regularity every afternoon. Per
haps the prettiest of all is the one patron
ised by Lady Dufferin, the Princess of
Wales, an l, indeed, by all of the English
nobility .that find themselves In Paris.
The cool room is peculiarly English, soft
ly carpeted, with one or two paintings on
the walls. Small, round tables, highly
polished, aro scattered about, a few strewn
with magazines. On the others ai*e set
dainty trays. Inlaid In gold and silver,
bearins the tea service in finest china.
The low windows are a mass of plants
and delicate ferns. The chairs—strange
thing for Paris—aro comfortable, most of
them of wicker.
Everything moves quietly, and you are
In a delicious, dreamy atmosphere. Tea Is
served very hot. In a shining llt'le pot;
your napkin is a. small linen dolly, spotless,
with the hemstitch carefully handworked.
Your muffins and crumpets are genuinely
English, you feel certain the moment you
taste them. All 'the world speaks softly,
although the room Is crowded. The num
ber of men surprises you. Mnny cf them
come in unaccompanied by ladles, wanting
tea for Its own sake.
Miss Davlee, tho hostess, comes and
ept-aks to you. It does not take her long
to get acquainted with her guests. A pro
tege of Lady Dufferin, her story is full of
Interests. It was only a few years ago that
she lost her fortune in London, untl came
her to establish this little tea place. But
her heart is elsewhere. Bho is deeply in
terested In liaintlng, and gives to the art
ail her leisure moments.
Of course you look at the style and it
strikes you at that moment that If there Is
any particular color that the Frenchwo
man affects, for carriage and afternoon
wear. it. Is. perhaps, gray—pale gray, in a
big fluted silk crepon. Not less than four
enter the room wlfhln a few minutes, each
worn by a girl that Is unmistakably a
Parisienne. One Is combined with pale
yellow, two with white, tho other is all
gray.
One of the white* Is very pretty, with
a loose front of white silk, and with the
revere of the smalt godeted Jacket faopd
with white satin, and overland with lace.
She wears whlto gloves and hat.
Her companion wears a fresh summer
silk of blue and white stripe, with the
blouse shirred rrgulariy Into small puckers.
An exquisite white toilet, all In mohair,
enters next. There is no color, save In her
cheeks, and those are deeply enough tim
ed—ls it by the sun. or drinks, one would
say, to note the careless way in which she
orders? Not every one’drinks tea. Oh.
no! Some are sipping Spanish wine, others
strawberry ices, and there are delicious
tarts by tho wina that sha so habitually
fast disappearing.
You stroll into another place. It Is in the
Rue Damon, and everybody knows It and
x-islts It before leaving Paris. It la not half
so pretty to look at, or so comfortable to
lounge in, but it gives you delicious bever
ages, and is always filled with fashiona
bles; so you do not complain.
The Americans, some of them, go to a
place on the Avenue de l'Opera. There
you will rarely sea French or English.
Tho Americans are willing to pay the
prices, and the "five o’clock” flourishes.
The Shirt Waist—There are plenty of
them in Paris—at tho shops and on the
tourist. But tho Frenchwoman never
wears them. The great feature of Ameri
can street costumes ln summer and for
ordinary afternoon wear as well, the plain,
dark skirt, with shirt waist surmounting
It, Is scorned by a Parisian. She may wear
a corsage with her dark skin, but It will
be of a different sort—silk or moussellne or
some pretty batiste, puffy and always trim
med. Tho other costume might do for ten
nis, but never for the streets.
The shopping costume of the French
woman Is far more chic. There is one all
In golden brown, a dark tint, that I saw
the other day. Over the plain skirt fell
the short Jacket that has altogether re
placed the discarded flgaro— the Jacket that
turns back in broad though sharp revere,
and continues gracefully after the sharply
rounded front, in small godets at the sides
and back. Avery cool and very loose
front, of alternate white batiste and palo
yellow insertion, hung inside. White sa
tin faced the revers and lined the Jacket.
Another that is perhaps more original
has its Jacket trimmed with a deep collar
that sweeps over the shoulders ln an easy
line. In front the Jacket is turned back
ln a straight line, from top to bottom,
about three Inches, and the band thus
formed embroidered in small black designs.
The back is godeted. The silk front Is
closely shirred throughout the center. The
coloring in this costume Is in good taste.
A bluish gray, in fin? mixed wool, makes
skirt and jacket; the front is of clear blue
silk, and black embroideries and a fine
braid edging the collar and front bands
emphasize the paler tints.
She is a protty sight to look upon, and
when there are two or three of her ln a
family sho becomes part of a pleasing
picture. I am not speaking of the young
lady who has been formally presented to
society, but of tho damsels who have
scarcely turned eighteen summers.
They go out walking with mamma or
chaperon, and there are often two or
three in a famly. You will notice them
at once; for their long locks hang ln sim
ple waves far down their backs—all the
young girls seem to have very long hair—
and they aro all dressed exactly alike.
One cannot discover a shade of difference.
One wondefs at first whether this Is not
another phaso of the economy which la
constantly cropping out among the French,
even among the wealthy French. But a
modiste assured me that it was not so.
"Oh, no; it is distinctly the most proper
thing to dresß young girls of a family
alike. Sometimes it Is not easy to suit
two or three in tints and styles, especially
where there are blondes and brunettes. It
Is puzzling to get tints that dull suit each.
“The girls themselves do hot like It. I
remember a blonde and brunette pair—
both of them have Just been married—and
they used to compromise by wearing on
one day the favorite color of the blonde,
and the next day that of the brunette.
"They are restricted to the simplest
styles before they come out. Plain skirts
and corsages, with puffed sleeves and
ruffles.
"They are allowed dinner gowns, for, of
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A Bonanza for Shoppers.
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ECKSTEIN’S.
course, the young girl begins very early In
life to dine with older folks. We make
these with much of the same spreading
skirt of rhe fashionable woman—more
modest, and always untrlmmed.
"The bodice# are full, wYth straight
gathers or surplice effects, with a great
deal of tine embroidery or soft lace, and
with elbow puffs. Here is a pretty model.”
And Sho showed me a pale blue crepon,
with the round bodice cut slightly low,
and edged with a simple bit of Insertion
guipure. Epaulettes of t’he same guipure,
spread over the sleeves of accordion-plait
ed silk, and continues in the plain bluo of
the silk which lines them In lapels each
side of the gathered bodice. Under each
lapel starts a sash of blue allk, which
crosses In front of tho belt, surplice fash
ion, ties In small loops at the back, and
falls in long ends to the edge.
Another, scarcely less simple and pretty,
has Its plaited bodice adorned by embroid
ered bands that hang loosely over each
shoulder, ending In a point half way down
the back, and In another point in front.
The front point ts longer, passing the belt,
where It Is confined.
A broad band of embroidery across the
bosom helps to fill In a neck that would
otherwise be too low for so young a maid
en. • Eva A. Schubert,
WORTH’S IIEST CUSTOMER.
lie Disapproved of Her and Her Ex
trnvagnnee.
From the Youth’s Companion.
Worth, tho famous dressmaker of Paris,
used to tell his customers to buy a few
gowns and wear them out. He had no pa
tience with women who bought more
clothes than they could use.
One of his best customer was a wealthy
French lady of distinction, who had a pas
sion for carrying a largo stock of new
clothes. He used to tell her that he could
not suit her so well when sho ordered so
many gowns nt once and that some of
them would certainly lack originality and
be unbecoming, but shu would not heed
his warning.
As this lady was In infirm health and
seldom went out In society, she wore only
a few of her gowns. As soon as they were
old or out of style she lost interest In
them and gave them away to poor rela
tions. Sho found tho same pleasure ln
unlocking her wardrobes and looking at
her handsome costumes that a miser de
rives from counting his gold In secret.
When Worth's extravagant customer
died she left behind her so large a stock
of new clothes that tho executors Instead
of distributing It among the relatives, had
an inventory made of the wardrobe, and
then sold It by auction, piece by piece.
• There were seventy magnificent cos
tumes of the richest materials; as many
as fifteen mantles trimmed with rare fur,
innumerable riding habits, dressing-gowns
and Jackets, seventy silk petticoats and un
derclothing in profusion, sixty pairs of
shoes, three hundred handkerchiefs, ten
muffs and forty parasols, one hundred bon
nets and other articles of dress in equally
large assortment.
These were not old clothes. Everything
was new and without signs of w:ear. The
wardrobe had cost somewhere between
$200,000 and $250,000, and it was old at a
great sacrifice, the receipts from the auc
tion barely exceeding $32,000.
The sale excited great interest in Paris
and many lectures on extravagance in
dress were read to women In public and in
private. Worth himself was angry when
his costly costumes were sold for a song.
He considered that the treasures of his art
had been desecrated through the folly of
a selfish leader of fashion, who had be
come a helpless invalid, yet would not ac
knowledge that her day was oyer.
"No woman with good sense,” he would
say, "is justified In having more gowns
than she expects to wear. A few becoming
costumes ought to satisfy the richest and
most ambitious woman." ’
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Merchants and Dealers
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This Is An Exceptional
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That was good advice, whether It won
followed by his wealthy and fashionable
customers or openly disregarded. Collec
tions of paintings, etchings, books, porce
lain or gems may huve a permanent and
even an Increasing value, but an extrava
gant wardrobe, exceeding reasonable re
quirements of use, Involves foolish waste
fulness.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LIKE HAY.
If They Don’t, Why Do They Ent It
Whenever They Get 11 CUuneef
From the Post-Express.
"Hello!” said tho policeman to the re
porter pn East Main street the other day.
The reporter stopped, and the policeman
drew him Into a doorway. "Do you boa
thut load of hay?" said he, as he pointed
to a big wagon standing near the curb
stone. “Well, if you want to see something
funny Just watch It for a few minutes."
Tho two stood there, and soon a well
dressed man came along, evidently ln deep
thought. He got opposite the hay wagon,
looked up, stopped, and then took a pieca
of hay and went on in deep thought. Pretty]
soon a well-known business man happened
along, saw the wagon stepped up to it, and
took three pieces of hay. He began ta
chow ona meditatively and carried tha
others off with him. A middle-aged woman
came next and she, too, pulled out a pieca
and carried it with her. Then a pretty;
girl In a blue striped shirt waist and m
straw sailor hat with a blue band cams
along, and had nearly passed when sha
saw the wagon, and after looking around
to see that there was no one whom sha
know watching, stole over and carefully]
selected a long, slender bit, which she car
ried with much care. After that
from a dirty-faced urchin with a baseball
bat to a nurse girl with a baby carriage,
stopped and selected a piece of hay and
departed happy. The policeman and the re
porter stood in the doorway for twenty;
minutes and watched the procession.
"Strange, isn't it?” said the policeman,
“I've been on this beat for three months,
and I've never seen a man or a woman 0*
a child pass without taking a piece of hay.
It is not so with straw. Why, a load of
straw could stay there for a whole day]
and not one person In five would think
of taking a piece. I think that the rea
son so many people take hay is on ac
count of the sweet taste it has, for a
piece of hay, when it Is in good condition
and not too dry, is really a very nice
thing to chew on. People who would rath
er dlethan chew a toothpick on the street
think nothing of going down the street
with a long piece of hay ln their mouths
as unconcerned as three schoolgirls walk
ing abreast. Funny, isnt’t it?"
The reporter agreed that it was and thenl
left. As he passed the hay he involunta
rily reached out his hand, and before he
was aware of it he had a long piece of hay
in his mouth. He heard a queer noise be
hind, and, looking around, he saw the po
liceman pointing Ills club at the the wagon
and then at him and laughing. But when
the reporter returned ln about half an
hour he saw a blue-clad figure strolling
down the street with something sticking
out in front of Ills shoulder. It was the po
liceman, and the reporter smiled as ha
passed him. He had a big whlsp of hay,
and was chewing it like thfc rest.
"This Is about the time of year,” said
Mrs. Watts to her neighbor, "that tha
fishing fever strikes my husband. If ha
can get out on the banks of some creek
and catch two or three little mudeats in tha
course of an afternoon he is perfectly
happy."
"So he is fond of fishing then?”
“Fond of fishing? Why, that man is a
perfect angle maniac.”—Texas Siftings.
—“She's such an old fashioned girl.”
"Indeed?”
"Yes. She has a Roman nose, and a
most pronounced Greek forehead."—De
troit Tribune.
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