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W. B. MnrCEY, Editor.
VOL. II.
Business men are generally satisfied,
thinks the Philadelphia Record, that
1889 will be a booming year, but the
volume of business will be large and tho
profits low.
While Thomas A. Edison was experi¬
menting recently a mass of chemicals
exploded in his face, singeing his eye¬
brows and nearly putting out his eyes.
If Mr. Edison had lost his sight, in the
opinion of the Atlanta Constitution, it
would have set the clock of science back
half a century.
The Atlanta Constitution announces
that it is proposed in Washington to
abolish handshaking at receptions.
“Social customs cannot be disposed oi
in that way. They evolute. It takes a
strong magnetic man to ignore hand¬
shaking successfully. Aaron Burr did
it, and offended nobody. Something in
his manner led persons when they met
him to bow and remain where he wished
them, at a little distance. But a man
without Burr’s fascination might try to
follow his example and be voted a pre¬
tentious, awkward boor. Some men can
do things that others cannot do.”
It is apparent that the antipathy to
“trade,” or at all events to the money
derived therefrom, is not as bitter among
the aristocracy of England as it once
was, or as they would willingly have the
outside world believe. The Duchess of
Hamilton has recently established a
dairy for supplying the market with a
good quality of butter. Lady Shafter
Grey has aa establishment at Bourne¬
mouth for the sale of butter, eggs, etc.,
and a number of other titled personages
are said to be on the point of engaging
in trade of one kind or another. Evi¬
dently the chicken-ranch stage of
growth has hut recently been reached
in England.
That all the world loves a lover has
Recently been proved in a growing town
of Texas. Two colored men fought.
> rivals in love. One killed
The murde- - was janitor bf
iviliub K* ..ilibdl Li
, ighteen of them with hearts
-.-^.-volunteered their services. They
presented themselves in a body at tbe
prison, but the jailer, thinking he was
assaulted by a mob, fled and hid himself
and his key. He was with difficulty
calmed and made to understand the situa¬
tion. But here, alas I the story ends.
We are not yet informed whether all the
eighteen lawyers succeeded in clearing
the prisoner or whether he still languishes
ana mourns.
Dr. Hill, of Augusta, Maine, was the
first man to suggest the use of wood in
the manufacture of paper. Like many
people without any experience in a
special line of manufacture, he suggested
an original idea afterward to be adopted
by the practical workers. He was
laughed at by the manufacturer whose
factory he was visiting, whereupon the
worthy doctor referred him not to the
busy bee, but to the hornet. “Look at
their nests,” said he; “they are made
of wood paper.” The advice was fol¬
lowed, and, as a result, the company’s
stock went up. Manilla is now con¬
stantly used in the manufacture of
strong paper, even ragged and greasy
old ropes being bought up for that pur¬
pose.
A gentleman just returned from Indian
Territory make3 a curious contribution
to the Harrison family history. He saw
at Fort Reno, in the relic collection of
scribed Indian Agent Dver a silver nine cLeral in-
’ ‘“Presented bv y Ala ‘ 1 or
•
Harrison, . U. S. A., on behalf of the
United States, to the Shawanoese tribe
of Indians, 1814.” The Shawanoese have
long been extinct, and the pipe was
given to Major Dyer several years ago by
Tom Blackhoof, their last descendant.
This particular pipe is, bowl and stem,
of solid silver. The bowl is elaborately
chased, and on one side contains a pic¬
ture of an Indian and a soldier shaking
hands, the military man m the full re¬
gimentals of three-quarters of a century
ago.
The New York fashionable world is
gossiping over a remarkable surgical
operation which has changed the de-
cidedlv J tip-tilted y nose of an aristocratic
young woman into an organ ot pure
Grecian design. The surgeon’s bill
imounted to .fd300. The operation was
ions and tedious, involving much suf-
. _ But , patient .l- a. • satisfied r* and ^
lenng. tae is
happy—for the present. Thosewho knew
her before the change maintain that the
new nose does not suit the general con-
.oimation r orma tion of or her ner fare race, miners Others meeting meeting
her now for the first time notice a lack
jf harmony somewhere, but cannot tell
iviiat causes it. Another sensitive crea-
ure who had her teeth straightened at
jreat expense is tortured by tne horrible
' ar that people will say they are false.
JASPER, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1889.
COME OUT OF THE PAST.
Como out of the past, it is gloomy with
shadows;
Come into the sunlight and cheer of to-dayl
See, here are flesh flowers a-bloom in life’s
meadows!
Why cling to dead hope-buds laid thick
deeay!
Your cannot restore by your grief and re
gretting
What slips from your grasp down tho
pathway of years;
Though you weep and lament till your life’s
sun is setting,
The past will be deaf to your passionate
tears.
Come out of tho past! Tho present is teem¬
ing
With work to be done; the world’s needs
are vast,
They wait at your door—be doing, not
dreaming!
Shirk not to-day's duty, come out of the
past!
—Emma C. Dowd, in Youth's Companion.
A WEDDING GIFT,
r.Y LUCY If. HOOPER.
A private parlor on the first floor of
the Hoffman House, well warmed aud
brilliantly lighted, is the scene on which
our story opens. It has two occupants
on the particular evening of which we
write. One is Frank Seabright, the
rising young lawyer, a tall, strikingly
handsome man, blue-eyed, fair-haired
and blonde-mustached, with the figure
of a Hercules and the head of an Apollo,
He is doing well in the world, is “hand-
some Frank,” as his friends call him,
and though only a year or so over thirty,
he is already counted amongst the shin-
ing lights dabbling of the New York literature, Bar. A little
given to believed, in and too, if
rumor is to be it is whis-
pered native that origin, a remarkably brilliant produced comedy
of but recently
at the Madison Square Theatre, owes its
wit and sparkle to his pea. Altogether
a personage of note is Mr. Seabright,
and a far different individual from the
poor, unknown student who, some six
years ago, was very with sincerely and pas-
sionately in love the lady, his
hostess as well as companion, who sits
opposite to him, serene and superb in a
Parisian toiletteof silver-gray silk, em-
broidered with steel, and set off by a
parure of black pearls and diamonds.
She was Miss Celeste Rivarde at that
time, a i\ew orleaos oeile, iamous for
the camellia leaf smoothness and white-
ness of her complexion, and for the size
and slumberous languor of her great
Oriental eyes, darker than all else on
earth except the lashes that shaded
them. Now she is Mrs. Wynnington
Weir, a widow after three years of matri-
mony, and sole heiress to her millionaire
husband’s fortune
She was engaged to Frank Seabright
when she went to Europe to spend a
winter on the Riviera. There she met
Mr. Weir, who had gone abroad for his
health. Ihe elderly invalid speedily
became her wooer, and she had not
scrupled to break olf her engagement to
her youug and ardent, but alas I also
penniless, offer lover, and to accept the dazzling
of her old wealthy adorer. Her
married life had been spent in Europe,
moving about from one health-resort to
another as the sufferings or caprices of
Mr. Weir had dictated. His death, some
eighteen months before, bad left her
free, and rich and independent as well,
She had lingered had arrived in Paris and Rome till
the period when her mourn-
iDg had become merely nominal, so far
as her dress was concerned, for evil-
minded talkers had declared that such
had always been the case in regard to
her feelings.
She had arrived in New York but two
days before. And then, under pretext
specting of wishing to consult law Mr. Seabright had re-
some business, she sent
for him to come and dine with her at
her sumptuous apartments at the Hoff-
man House. The invitation had been
accepted, the repast had been discussed
and the legal questions satisfactorily
settled. And now Mrs. Weir leaned
back ta her cb,,r on lh e opposite .id, of
the fire-place from that wher? her lawyer
and guest was seated. Asshe toyed with
her fan dark tortoise-shell and gray
marabout feathers, casting glances her at her
quondam lover from she felt under the long, busi-
dus ky eyelashes, that
ness of the evening was only just begin-
ning, for she realized, in the uttermost
depths of her passionate, loved, undisciplined with
nature, that she still all the
fervor of which her soul was capable,
this superb-looking young man whose
attractions and whose attachment she
had wantonly thrown aside in exchange
for riches and a loveless marriage.
“Can I bring him to my feet again? ’
she thought to herself. The mirror above
the mantel-piece gave answer: “You
can if you will.”
She was looking wonderfully beauti- I
ful under the shaded gas-light, with the
sparkle of diamonds and amongst her the pearls
at her throat in ears rivaled by
the brilliancy of her great, dazzling eyes,
The velvety whiteness and warm rose-
t int of ^ er complexion, -black the vivid scarlet
of her lips, the blue masses of her
glossy hair, made up a glow of color
that might have tempted the pencil of
Benjamin Constant. Still, Frank Sea-
bright, as he observed her critically, saw
but few traces, in this gorgeous wornau,
0 f t ^ e youn g gj r i that he had once
adored. The keen glance of the man of
the world detected the wan, callous ex-
pression that mrked under the rich pink
of th e cheek and the bright-red of the
d and dainty mouth.and was hidden 1
curve
j n the lustrous depths of the dark eyes j
that he remembered as so soft and so ap-
pealing. Celeste Bivarde had been a
most winning girl. Celeste Weir was a
splendid-looking gnd like her woman former of the self than world,
n0 m ore a
crimson peemy resembles a Jacqueminot
“WE SEEK THE REWARD OF HONEST LABOR."
rose. Her nature had hardened and
coarsened under the iutluence exercised
upon it by tho events of the past few
years. And Frank Seabright, as he
gazed upon her, wondered at his own
former infatuation, and secretly re oiced
that it had so entirely passed away. His
acceptance o{ the iuvitation to dine with
his former love had been, in truth, an
experiment as to the state of his own
feelings, and one which he had tried not
without some unconfesscd misgivings;
80 it was with intense satisfaction that
he felt himself to be entirely heart-
wkoQ a8 far a3 tllis dazzling creature
was concerned. ,
k ed ‘ h, Wlth .
S h f lo ° tt “
which u . had 1 , been found irresistible m the
drawing-rooms of Nice and of Florence,
“You are very silent this evening, Mr.
Seabright,” she said, playfully. fiud “A
penny for the thoughts that you so
absorbing." roused himself with start from
He a
his meditations.
“They are worth much more .than
that, Mrs. Weir’ heanswered,gallantly,
“for I was thinking said—quite of you. equal _
ery prettily the compliment", that in
its way to some of
were paid me in Paris. Aud pray, in
what guise did I figure in your mus-
ings?” “That which I
you were years ago.
had called up the spectre of Celeste
llivarde.”
The rich color deepened on her
cheeks.
“Is it only as a phantom that Celeste
Rivarde lives in your memory? Can you
not resuscitate her in the form of Celeste
Weir!”
She bent forward, with a world of
witchery in the dangerous softness of
her eyes, in the low tones of her melodi-
ous voice.
“And if the first is dead and gone, as
your words seem to insinuate, may not
the second take her place? We are both
young yet. My heart has never been
touched in all my life, except—” would in-
“I know what you say,”
terrupted her hearer; “except by your
worthy husband. Thanks for your con-
fidence. I, too, have one to make to
you as an old friend, or, at least, as one
of such long standing. I am engaged to
be married to Miss Constance Gwynne,
whom perhaps you do not know, as she
is one of this season’s debutantes. The
wedding is to take place next month,
May I hope, dear Mrs. Weir, that the
friendship you have been so kind as to
accord to me will be extended to my
wife?"
the She laughed lightly, and fa^ toyed T with
fleecy plumes of her question
“Way ao you asc me JUarnW ^ a ; tnow ?
Of course I shall be to
Mrs. Seabright. Will you not bring her
to call on mo have before your wedding? And
bride. —stay-1 a little present for your
Pray let me send it to her, with
my best compliments. I will show it to
you at once. No—no objections, please
—and no thanks. Felicie—where is Fe-
licie—and my keys? Wait a few mci-
ments, Mr. Seabright. I know exactly
where to lay my hand upon it."
She hastened from the room. Arrived
in window the ad oining wide bedroom, she flung the
open and gasped for
breath. “He understood me. I offered
my hand and my fortune to him, and he
refused me!’ were the disjointed
phrases that window she muttered, leaning
against the cold the air. “And frame and drinking Gwynne
in Constance
—a chit of a girl, not yet nineteen. But
they are not married yet—oh, not yet?”
And then, with the help of her maid,
she bestirred herself in her search for
the promised indeed gift.
It was exquisite, and called
forth even from Seabright's masculine
lips an exclamation of admiring surprise
when she displayed it to him. It was a
dress-pattern of some transparent silken
tissue of a beautiful and novel shade of
green, at once brilliant and delicate, and
altogether than, different from, the as it was fashiona- more
exquisite any of many
ble varieties of that color.
“Itis lovely, is it not?” said Mr 3 .
Weir, holding up a fold of the fabric so
as to let the gas-light shine full upon it.
“I was foolish to buy it with any view
of addition having it the made fact up for myself, being for in
to of my in
mourning, lam too decided a brunette
,v,t to But now I vet,
glad that I suffered myself to be tempted
into taking perfectly it, as unique it has wedding-gift provided me
with a
for the bride of so valued a friend as
yourself. Miss Gwynne is a blonde, is
she not? Then this material will suit
her to perfection. It was woven in
Lyons, long years ago, for the Empress
Eugenie, and there is not another yard
of it in existence.”
She checked, with a graotful yet
peremptory gesture, the thanks which
Mr. Seabright began to express on behalf
of his betrothed, and busied herself tissue in
refolding the delicate, gleaming
and in replacing its wrappers.'
“Now give me Miss Gwynne’s address,
and I will send my little offering to her
to-morrow. And then I want you to
promise me something. It is my wish to
give a dinner-party in honor of Miss
Gwynne and yourself, and I should like
to have her wear that dress at it. Fori
intend to sail for Europe in a very few ;
weeks, and I want to judge of the effect
of my gift before I go.”
“I have no doubt that Constance, as
well as myself, will be charmed to accept
your invitation, Mrs. Weir.”
And with a final good-night, the
young man departed, saying to himself
as be did so: “I misjudged Celeste,
after all. Few women would be capable
of so much generosity and kind feeling
toward a rival.”
-lhe beautiful dress-pattern was duly
forwarded to Miss Gwynne,accompanied
by a charming little note from Mrs.
Weir. The two ladies exchanged visits,
and were apparently quite delighted
with each other. The dinner-party was
arranged for the first week in January,
and Miss Gwynue readily promised to
accede to the desire of her hostess that
she should have the green dress made up
to wear on that occasion. Every one to
whom the delicate, gleaming tissue was
shown quite marveled at its loveliness,
and Constance, with her rose-leaf com-
just plexion the and golden hair, was pronounced
type of beauty to do it justice.
The dress was sent home a few days
I before that fixed for the dinner. The
, dressmaker had indeed promised it for
Now Year’s Day, but an unusual amount
of illness had developed itself among her
work-girls, laid aud several of them were
up with acute heada hes and sore
throats, so the charming toilette could
not be completed on the day first ap-
i ,0 1 t ?/ e< r . ... „ ,, , fore- .
woman who superintended the last fit-
tiug of the dress “I should really be in-
dined to think that there was something
uncanny about the stuff. Everybody
that has touched it or has had You anything
to do with it has fallen ill. know
wo say in Ireland that the fairiese are
the enemies of everybody that wears a
green garment of any kina.”
But Constance laughed the enmity of
people ^t° scorn, and was quite
delighted with the effect ol Mrs. Vv ler s
wedding-gift. tho much-talked-of
Two days before
dinner-party, Mr. Seabright, whilst
seated in his office, had a card brought
to him. It bore the name of Felicie
i.euoir, and also in pencil the words;
“On a matter of life and death.”
“Show the lady in,” he said, to the
office-boy. stylish-looking
She entered—-a pale,
French woman, very simply dressed, but
with the proverbial neatness and taste-
fulness of her country-women. She
closed the office-door behind her, and
taking the seat indicated to her by the
lawyer, she said, in faultless English,
though with a strong French accent:
“there is a plot on foot against tho
life of Miss Constance Gwynne. What
will you give me if I reveal the particu-
lars to you and baffic the plotter? Such
information would be well worth five
hundred dollars, would it not?”
Frank Seabright laughed contemptu-
ously.
“We are not getting up a melodrama,
nor yet concocting a sensational novel,
I believe, and plots to murder people in
fashionable society seldom find existence
outside of such inventions.”
“Very well then, I will go; but when
your fair fiancee is dead, do not say that
; you were not forewarned.”
“Stay a moment. If you do reveal to
me the details of such a conspiracy, how
can I prove your words to lie true.'”
“Any good analytical chemist can
demonstrate the truth of my story to
"Well, I will hear what you have to ,
say, and if your proofs that are satisfactory demand. I
will pay you the sum you
But be sure that they are satisfactory, light
for I shall not be content with ac-
cusations or mere suspicions.” Lenoir drew from
Very good.” Miss of the tissue
her pocket a fragment green
given by Mrs. Weir to Miss Gwynne.
“Do you know this material?”
“Perfectly, wedding-gilt A dress-pattern of intended it was
Mrs. Weir s to my
wife.”
“And which Miss G wynne is to wear at
Mrs. Weir’s dinner-party on Tuesday next,
If she does so, she is a dead woman,
Every inch of this stud is loaded with
poison. I know all about it. I know
what I say. I was with Mrs. Weir the
day that she went to visit one of the
great silk factories of Lvons. The head
of the establishment brought out this
material to show her. It had been manu-
factured for the Empress which Eugenie, she who
wanted it for a costume in was
to personate Diana at a fancy-dress ball,
She was anxious to have the dress in a
novel and effective shade of green, and
the peculiar tint that she wanted was
only to be produced charged by means with of arsenic, arsenic
The fabric was so
when completed that a number of tho
workmen employed m its manufacture
were taken dangerously dare ill. The the head Em-
of the house did not to let
press have it. So the dangerous ma-
terial was laid aside and never used. But
Mrs. Weir took a fancy to it, to keep,
as she said, as a curiosity, by the and the manu--
facturerer, tempted high price
that she offered, consented - to let
her have it, eirtui only warning fo her that it
would b, d..th he, did she
ever attempt to wear it. I cut off a
fragment of the stuff before taking it to
Miss Gwynne, and I have had it analyzed.
The chemist to whom I showed it said if
a person who wore that dress for an en-
tire evening, inhaling the imperceptible hours,
particles of the arsensic for some
that the brain of the wearer would be-
come so charged with the poison
the result would almost certainly he
death, or at least severe brain-trouble
and probable imbecility. Here isa state-
ment of his analysis, signed by him in
full. You can repeat the experiment, if
you like, under the auspices of any
chemist of your acquaintance.”
down Without check-book, a word Frank filled Seabright took
his up a check
for five hundred dollars and handed it
to his visitor, who took it with a pro-
found bow, and instantly departed.
Gwynne The dinner-party given in by honor of Weir, Miss
was never Mrs.
mediately that lady having sail found Europe, it necessary without im-
to for
even the formality of recalling her in-
vitations. A very satisfied simple experiment Seabright
had completely Mr.
of the truth of Miss Lenoir’s assertions,
Obtaining from his betrothed a remnant
of the famous dress pattern, he had
thrown it over the cage of a pet canary,
leaving an aperture for the admission of
air, and had so left matters for the night.
In the morning the bird lay stone dead
on the floor of the cage.
But he never told his future wife of
the risk she had run. She was rather
amazed at the great dislike that seemed
suddenly to spring up in his breast
against Mrs. Weir, and that led him to
destroy with his own hands the beauti-
ful dress that had been that lady’s wed-
ding gift. She only ventured on a very
gentle protest.
$1*00 Per Annum, In Advanoe.
“And to think I have never worn It,
| FrankI and oh, it is so lovely!" she
said, folded in tones of mild reproacn. Ho
her in a lingering embrace, elo-
1 quent, had she but known it. of rejoic-
I iug for her safety. But he said only
I “Constance, dearest, I know more about
Mrs. Weir than you do. Certain revela-
lions that have been made to me, of late,
compelled me, wedding not only to beg of you not
; to wear her Frank‘Leslie's. .rift, but also to
destroy it.”_
The Mocking Bird.
bird, That charming songster, the mocking
pivot requires boxes a each very large cage with
on end for the food
cups . The perches should be large and
fi rmly fixed aud the cage have a sliding
bottom and contain plenty of <and The
food comes in glass jars and may be pur-
c hased at the druggist’s Mix equal
parts 0 f prepared food with tine
grated carrot, mix with a spoon into a
soft dough. Give fresh every day and
do not leave any of the old food in tho
cup nor mix it wit h the fresh food;
never leave food in the cage for two
days nor when it is hard or sour. Fresh
every day is the rule and onlv as much
as tho bird will eat. Meal worms should
a j so be given, say two or three every
day; also spiders in their season. The
mocking bird is very teuder aud in
northern States should be kept in a
warm, sunshiny room, and never in a
temperature under seventy degrees. At
night if there is no fire in tho room tho
cag0 should be covered up warmly in
the winter season. Give him a piece of
| gof^ luscious, fruit in season, soft cher-
r j es aild pca chos. In winter a spoonful
0 f app i e sauce may be given in a tiny
dish. It should be made from fresh
a dered p p i eS; mul sprinkled with a little bread pow-
sugar. Give a little and
milk, sav once a week. Never leave door a
mocking bird in a di aft, nor near a
w hich opens into the street, nor in too
warm a place. The cage should be
cleaned once everv week. Be careful
! that t h h es are not too small,
0 p crc
q'housands of mocking birds are shipped
j North every summer, and it is safe to
say t h a t sixty or with seventy per that cent, of
them die. I see sorrow mock-
j ag birds and their wings and feathers
are now usec i by milliners to trim ladies’
hats and bonnets. If some law is not
made in the Southern States to stop this
use i es s and senseless slaughter, the
mocking bird, the prince of songsters
w ;n soon become extinct.— Detroit Free
j j p ress% ‘
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1 Brutality to Apprentices.
The stori es of tho treatment of ap-
ureaUces in England that have been
{ oId by novelists, Dickens among the
num ber, have hardly been credited by
their readers _ this side the water at all
eveaU It seemed hardly probable that
human bem-'s could them” bo "uiltv of the
treatment ascribed to But a case
of Shuman treatment of an apprentice
was recently ventilated in a London
p 0 li ce Court which rivals anything ever
written heretofore A little chap oi
fifteen was bound out to a dentist who
was accustomed to beat him in a most
brutal manner and nearly starved him
to death. The boy rarely got two meals
in a day, and these meals consisted in
the majority of cases of a piece of drv
bread for one meal and a little porridge
for another. He never had anythin”
to eat before 12 o’clock in the day, and
in many cases not till 0 o’clock in tho
evening. The boy was so starved that
he would eat the potato peelings and
tea leaves, lick the bones that were
thrown away and the plates which his
master and mistress used. When tho
lad appeared in court he was almost a
skeleton, and showed plainly the signs
of his ill usage. Yet the brutal master
was only given two months’imprison
meat .—San Fran isco Chronicle.
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Paraguay’s Population,
The entirb population of Paraguay
only amounts which to 239,774 persons of both
sexes, of 221,000 are Paraguayans,
the remainder bejDg mostly composed
of Argentines, Italians, Brazilians and
Germans. The census taken in 1857
shows that the population then consisted
of upward of the 230,000 souls, so- that
more than 1,000,000 inhabitants carried perished
through the war that was on by
Topaz and Jourdan. The population proportion
between the male and female
is now as 100 to 140. In the entire
country there are only 32,417 Paraguyans
and 3820 foreigners who can read and
write, say about 20 per cent, of the
natives and 00 per cent, of the foreign
settlers.
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Origin of County Courts.
The extent of settlement had become
so „ rea t in Virginia in 1622 that it was
inconvenient to bring all legal causes inferior to
the capital at Jamestown, and
courts' were appointed in convenient
places to relieve tho Governor and
council (who constituted the business, superior
judiciary) of a heavy burden of
an d to render business more accessible
and j ess expensive. With these began in
the establishment of county courts
America.
NO. 29.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN,
This is to be a flower season.
Mrs. Cleveland wears a No. 5 shoe.
Pongees and washing surahs reappear.
Perfumed muffs are made of silk,cloth
or lace.
Very pale shades of blue and green
are used.
Old rose is tho favorite pink for even¬
ing wear.
lace is a leading featuro of spring
millinery.
The old time double heart ring has
been revived.
Boas seem to bo inevitable witli every
Btvle of costume.
Mrs. Laura G. Holloway, the writer,
is quite a pedestrian.
Largo plaids in popular colors are seen
in tho new dress fabrics.
Chantilly lace will again figure in
gowns for summer wear,
In spring bonnets there is hardly an
appreciable change of shape.
The rf A Duchess of llutland hutlan “ is 18 a n contribn contnbu-
1 English magazines,
Earrings that simulate flowers are
worn by misses and young ladies.
Some of the newest toques have full
crowns of black or scarlet velvet.
Dr. Mary Walker has applied for a
patent on an improved suspender.
A stewardess is a new feature of East
and WeBt Pullman “limited” travel.
A feature of many of the new spring
gowns will be their plaited overskirts.
Sewing machines are run by electricity
at the rate of 3600 stitches per minute.
The new loud plaids and stripes are
made up with bodices cut on the cross.
The first medical degree issued given a wo¬
man in America was eighty years
ago.
The exclusively feminine club is a
thing comparatively unknown in Eng¬
land.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, wife of the
United States Senator, dresses elabor¬
ately.
Ornaments of amber and silver are
worn in the hair upon ordinary occa -
Bions.
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A 12,404,000 worth 6 iu of * wire ■ in . co ^- their y , hoop wore
Bklrts *
Miss A. M. Beecher, M. D., a cousin
of Henry Ward Beecher, is a practicing
physiciau.
Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth has
written more novels than any other liv-
ing writer.
A “Medical Aid Society for Self Sap* In
porting Women” has opened 1 rooms
Philadelnhia \
tb^wTof , n! , ... .
th for .®. of orcaments 18 a feature of the
new millinery.
Worsted bonnets, which resemble soft
folt, are made of white strips braided in
basket pattern.
Velvet is frequently used for the
broad revers which distinguish the
Directoire coats.
Silver embroidery and'of executed with
threads of silver ” r>-rav silk- is a
favorite trimmiiiu '
c f ’ , tr, . pes again . appear in . spring -fv,- fabrics,
“ ra y 18 the color fa\ ored by many ladies
att m* present time,
Tl10 New Orleans Woman’s Club is
perhaps the best governed ladies’dub
ia the Lnite(1 States,
Young ladies to be in the fashion,
must now wear light, thin, inexpensive
materials for the evening.
Among the novelties in the millinery
line we note thick renneu or brocaded
ribbons with & "auze edcres °
f i'\ . ,.
spr.ng, ° SC attached *^, r. ve to IS *r, the W °K back n ■ of the hat
an 1 wound about the neck,
Twenty-one trustees have been chosen
f or the Columbia College Annex, of
whom thirteen are women,
Tho wives of a number of New York
club men have decided to have a club
and clubhouse of their own.
A club of twentv Baltimore damsels is
aolmr Su! to “do” Kuronn Xpetone. next Summer 3
,el.ti.es o, 1
Black .... silk for , .
gowns „ spring with wear are
made of a plain silk, a front
brCadth tnramin S s ? f brocade -
In Cornell’s last batch of graduates
ten percent, only were women, yet they
won sixty per cent, of the fellowship,
Fencing has become so popular that among
ladies upon the Continent many
conV ents include it in their curriculum,
Routrh surfaced suitings, well adanted
f or shopping or traveling, show both
wide and narrow stripes of contrasting
colors,
The Langtry coiffure is worn by a few
ladies who have fine natural hair, this
arrangement displaying it very enec-
Gvely.
Miss Fanker, the wonderful invalid of
Brooklyn, is Vice President of a eom-
pany that manufactures sick-room ap-
pliances.
Mothers who are preparing choose plain wash
dresses for their little girls
Chamberys or plaid or ombre striped
ginghams,
mi Emnress Victoria Sto-d'itz of Germany
h a9 bought land at abandoned for an asy-
] um foryoun” <urls by their
natural \ nrotectors.
A: * r> Boston debating , .. society . , . trying , .
is
diess LA anunmarried woman°nhv»irian ' p )s c a m as
* * vr irSrn r ’ Uh” '
. the , prettiest small bonnets
sent out from Paris are those of black
^ a ? e insertion run with gold braid, and
trimmed with big rosettes,
In Paris they instead now make toilet powder
puffs of velvet of swan’s down,
The powder by this means is distributed
much more evenly, and hence a better
effect is produced.