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SOME ADVICE
TO BACHELORS
MACON. GA., MONDAY. AUGUST 2«, 1893
p ra nk Leslie Gives Some Whole-
some Advice to the Unmar
ried Men.
■ 3 UNCOMMON OPPORTUNITIES
,fit. For Ihe Early Bird—Some Jlald-
,g> Are Sow Two-Faced — Tho
JH.ektd Hall and (lie Dance
of Death a« Thoy are Seen.
ACHELORS are nan ally
1 young men, or at least men
1 with an ambition to be thought
young and marriageable. Now
lyonng man should be Well up in his
lajsics and know the story of Horcules
timing among the maidens of Omphale,
lit I wonder if any bachelor ever tnedl-
Vd upon the wonderful opportunity
pretties enjoyed for studying the female
iracter, and had he been a marrying
for discreetly choosing himself a
I Its noblest study of mankind is man,
Tit all say, but certainly the most fas
ting study of mankind is woman,
1 woman can never bo perfectly
ka&d except by watching her among
‘k women. Ths man who is faetidi-
»t really earnest in tho search for n
k,le who feels that a life's happiness
|-nwry is bound up in tho choice he
tmakes—such a man, I say, should
tile Hercules and go spin among tho
sin company with tho objactof
it fraction.
I Witiont intending tosay anything de-
psfc'j of my own sex, which I sincero-
I era and honestly respect, I must set
tkfpnai a truth that most women are
perrit in their demeanor toward men
> what they are toward other wom-
|Jut recall for yourself, if you nre a
Um “ 6ha dia are summons. there are dilemmas
lore ne selected her ns the woman he 1 r.iat hnvo on mm*. w-o
. . ,, — .. oman he
fain would make his wife?
Well, don’t all cry out and clamor
that my quasi-accusation is false and
calumnious and that you at least do
take as much pains to make yourself at
tractive to your husband as you did to
your lover or your admirer. Perhaps
you do, and you, too, my dear, and yout
But where there are three who do I am
are J8 who do not. and it i»
on account ot these 18 that X am advis
ing the bachelors to go spin with Om-
pliale’s maidens.
There are plenty of wives—and good,
true, conscientious wives, into tho bar
gain—who nre just like the Jenny Wrens.
When once Robin Redbreast istheirhns-
band, they lay aside all thelittleairsand
graces that made him believe them dif
ferent from every other wre-a and not
only “wear their brown gown," but
don’t tako the trouble to put a clean frill
in its nock and sleeves and a bit of rib
bon to brighten it np a little. They
/imply relapse into tho indifference and
apathy thoy used to show among their
girl friends when there was no man
around.
But as there are wives and wives, so
there are girls and girls, and so it would
ho a splendid thing for an expectant hns-
hand if he could study the girl he fancies
to be the beet girl of all when she is
alone with her girl friends. I have seen
in companies of women those who mado
themselves jnst as agreeable as they
would to tho other sex, who were ready
to sing or play if they were asked, who
talked blithely and intelligently about
books or public amnsements, or even
politics and t.hn Rnaaisn news, with other
women, and both gave and roceivedpleas-
ure from conversation which was noither
personal gossip nor millinery.
I have seen girls who, when the card
table was to be made up, cheerfully took
a hand with three other women and did
not hold back ot slip behind the curtain
to rescue themselves until some male
partners appeared. I have seen girls
who did not break off their chat with
some middle aged lady when the men
came on the scene, nor assumed a vivac
ity and sprightlinesa of demeanor quite
foreign to the subject, nor cast glances
toward the newcomer to asoertain if he
noticed how good they were to his moth
er or aunt or spinster friend, but who
really, unconsciously and unaffectedly
went on jnst as if only another woman
has entered the room.
I have aeen girls who, when some one
had to stay at homo with mother or
grandmother, who isn’t very well and
mustn’t bo left alone to fret, while tho
rest went to the theater or to a recep
tion where all the Robins were likely to
bo present, would volunteer to be the
one, not without a littlo natural smoth
ered sign, for they aro not monsters of
perfection, these good girls, but never
theless with true and sweet readiness
not too conscious of itself. Thoso aro
■•tat have no words. We feel, we see
and know tho truth, but wo must not
utter it. Each accepts tho pretense, and
we part with an understanding far more
entire than any words could have
brought about.
But when two people are once mar
ried and well domesticated tncerher the
mask and domino are inevitably thrown
aside, all pretenses cease, andeither with
an increased satisfaction or with an om
inous dismay each looks upon the true
face and genuine figure of that fantastic
masquerade called oourtship.
How many of those who read these
words have in their own lives proved the
truth of them! To how many docs the
knowledge of that truth come too late!
How many a sore heart sighs bitterly as
it is reminded of that masquerade which
now names itself bitterly “the mask of
death” and only hopes for death as its so
lution!
But there aro tho bachelors, to whom
in tho first place I dedicated these few
remarks and warnings, and yet having
warned them that all is not as it seems
in some cases, how can I advise them to
guard agninst mistakes?
Well, I do not know exactly how it is
to bo done, but the object to be effected
Is to try and soe the girl whom they ad
mire, as ahe is among other women, with
no man in tho question. In fact, I must
revert to my classical formula and bid
him go spin among the maidens of Om
phale.
How it is to bo done let him find ont
for himself, but do not let him fancy it
is to be effected by questioning other
women. We are as a rule very loyal to
cac*. ctuSr whoa no peroOuui jealousy in
tervenes, and it is a very dishonorable
woman who will betray tho weaknesses
or the fanlts of a sister woman to the in
quiring masculine. Even a man’s sisters
are not to be trusted in such a matter,
and, furthermore, there is every proba
bility that the man in undertaking a
deep strategic movement will find him
self led Into an ambush and suddenly ex
posed to a pitiless fusillade of ridicule
and scorn from the enemy who had for
the nonce masqueraded as an ally.
After all, having shown the danger, I
do not exactly aee hew to formulate the
remedy. Perhaps to do tho first is as
much as could be expected from one who
to herself most sincerely a woman.
a, tome occasion when you were the girls who aro the joy and strength of
3 l&iembly (>f y«>ur own mi* :md borne t)»*’i'. inuuicrd' heart.*, whoso inamn^o
ay specimen of tho other presented makes a gap in the home circle which
*lf What a pretty little stir anil never quite rills up, whose little sisters
Itterpsised through the flockof doves! are heartily sorry to lose them rather
1 III' in.-lv.t and g.n- Hum ; l:i.| t«» Irtve th. m removed to leave
[ adjusted attitude and draperies into a place for them. Those are tho girls
fre becoming fashion! How faces that who become to their husbands of value
1 been liitless and weary took on an "far Bbovo rubies’’or any otlu-r earthly
ripient smile, or at least a sweet alert- possession; who, if a man be fortnnate
rs of expression significant of a readi- enough to win, he may spend tho rest of
t to respond to any appeal for sym- his life in trying to deserve.
I In fact, to put tho matter in a nut
shell, the wifo is spt to revert to tho type
of girl her girl friends knew and her
own family could have described. This
statement does not contradict that with
which we began—that there is a differ
ence in tho demeanor of most women to
their own sex or to the other sex. That
khy or conversational advance! How
lue little Jest upon tho part of the new-
■tier elicited trills of laughter or smart
■oin’-er, or approving glance from
few who had liatened with listless in-
prenco to utterances quite as witty
|m their sisters!
row, I do not mean to say that there
wything wrong in this, for it is sim-
[ the sweet stirrings of nnture visible
roshont creation. Look abroad in
h pleasant springtimo of the year. See
V the littlo feathered maidens twitter
r tweet and dart in and ont among
lhalf clad branches ot tho tns;dh-
iTkg all thdr littlo nira and graces for
: benefit of tho male bird, who in his
WOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Question of tho Hour, Who Will Do Our
Housework?
The dear old ladies still kocp it up—
advising other peoplo's girls to do house
work for a living. They depict thepara-
dlso of a nice snug kitchen, the delights
of working in a homo instead of in a
shop or factory, in terms that would
III .1, tho hear: of anybody lens cold
blooded than a fntr. Bat they never do
housework for n living themselves or let
any of their own feminine relatives do
it. That is the crucial test. They may
write their fingers off in the effort to
persuade girls to wrestlo with cooking
stoves and kotties, and write in vain.
American girls will not engage in it; the
foreign young women who como hero
stick to it no longer than they con get a
place In a factory or as chambermaid in
a hotel or perhaps as clerk in a ahop. I
for one do not blame them. Housework,
washing, ironing, sweeping or scrub
bing is hard work. That of the street
laborer is not much more severe. We
are referred to the pioneer mothers and
told to look at them and see how they
Is still true, bnt the important question worked. jVhst ot it? The pioneer moth-
for the bachelor to decide is in which is | or* were bent and worn with toil,
the real woman lying folded in embryo ' their joints stiff and distorted, their
within this lovely, ever changing, ever
charming exterior. What sort of bird
will it be in later summer and autamn,
this flitting, chirping, coquettish little
Hiring bird?
She is sure to he different from what
swells his throat and all hut bursts lenowsees. Thatisapointhehadbetter
IfiTing heart in tuneful efforts which j riant at once, and possibly he may be
■wver would dream of undertaking I *ery glad to do so, for most men—per-
' tfe were only other males about. | haps all men—and a good many women
« net “the sunflower turn to her have sense enough to perceive that alife-
when she sets" and also when she j time of courtship, with its uncertainties.
facet furrowed with care and overwork,
a volume of hopeless sadness. Ood de
liver every American woman of today
from the fats of the pioneer mothers!
I do not care how soon women escape
from household drudgery. When we
are civilized, there will be a corps of
scrubbers, sweepers and cleaners going
from houso to honto dally, os the milk
man, ashman and garbagemun now do.
They will do the severest part of the
housework. But until that happy day
P 1 b*'r face of broad admiration, j its struggles, its doubts, fears and jeal- | arrives I am of the o]
pie ins sever so much as glances at oosiea, would be more fatiguing and ieetpart of dotnciti
pinion that the heav-
--- m fatiguing and I lest part of domestic service should be
|nuy>n! unsatisfactory than delightful; in fact, relegated to men. J am quite willing inen
not the gods and goddesses of the very delight of it is exhaustive, for should take this part of our rights away
I nut [lerseeute each other | ordinary human nature eanimt live ia tram us. Fur tin- present wh ran get
1 . fit a very human fashinii, extretni-s f.u lung at a time, and -the <'liinese and .lap,an-s« m. n servants fur
I \ •• they were not all of one harp of a thou-and strings" cannot I** . the same prices now paid the slatternly,
and do we of tho nineteenth ten- timed P) con art pitch and left standing impudent girl who comes to us from Eu-
.who, as Professor Totten tells us, there without dangorof some of its finest i ropo and makes life a burden. Manr
I ; nM ttg end of all things—do strings either snapping or stretching ! Japanese students, if one only knows
*° k* more perfect or lesshu- until tho whole instrument is out of I where to find them, como to this country
ike gods and goddesses of
mptu?
1°. indeed! And thin being granted,
I*, statements need not be apolo-
F/, ur - It may bo stated boldly and
that women—that ia to say, un*
unattached women—are dif*
tune and it* ecstasy of sweet song be- 11° learn th* language and customs,
comes a discordant jangle. | While they are doing so these cleanly,
No. Tho marriageable woman an. i courteous young men are willing to go
Ifiufj *fter the nest is mad*
L-J* *gg*» busy themselves ir
rTv* duties and no longer twittn
' w among the branches or dresi
beside the mirror of tty
fact, after those eggs an
five or six littlo gaptnj
call for the early worm, th*
r fid i rnstbBM ia heard toscolil
*’• Jfivtty sharply if ha lets som
* eta get ahead of him and catx | j
«*'ly worm. And ha—when ar 1 mor
L dulcet aong«, that swellinl! uan
t "“W”* aweetneaa of note om
>.* "lice's of crest and braverr o I root
“■ng plumage! 11 mat
i •• human l irJe—is uot ther will
, j v ’• among tl..-i„? Doe let,
I 'if half a d ,.an y.„ , put . dun
■ “of sweet alert:,. -- that g.-ntl j w i
to adn
I I' mark n
1 enter’ th
"< her frit-,
into household service to pay their way.
They aro Invaluable. This may bo the
solution of tht tormenting question of
household service.
The gifted young woman playwright.
Miss Alice E. Ives, is to have Iter Husrian
drama, “Lorine," put upon the stage in
fine stylo thisemuing season. Frederick
Paulding and Mafda Craigen are to star
Scots, and may in the ballroom encoun- I together in it. The young author’s
t.-r some well meaning bnt mistaken | fnenda are congratulating bar on hav
the marrying man must ever meet like
the figures at a masked hall. Each is
dressed to represent somo cliaracter
,, which ia perhaps his or her beau ideal,
f °t in the society of men from whet I and one which ho or she fain would Imi-
F *** when alone with other women. I fate, but which ia by no means th© true
I ’ an( * comes the other side oi | character of tho masker. A common-
II ^Position as it affects our friend*,; place and very unattractive young wom-
| *cheior«. This change of demeanor i an chooses to call herself Mary, queen of
jnptomatic and not organic. It onl v
®fu*gth*springtim#of tho yew]
youth who is posing, guitar in band
Rizzio, but if they try to speak with
other it proves that Rizzio cann
her play go on th© road under i
vorable anspices.
Jean Davenj-ort Lander’s new play is
ig and MAry cannot charm by voic© called “A Duel of Hearts.”
and speech and glance as her great ex
emplar did, and if the acquaintance thus
bog an should bo c.irrU 1 out in the calm
light of day each will find tho other a
very different cliaracter from that which
each had a««um**d.
Th**
hich
t deal of masquerading,
not k'iv.’ it—-If ,i
hibit itec-lf, or, h.-a
itri* lf, in a ball-
hfiirult for A good
f tii.- world to do
I One woman has received the degree of
| electrical enrineer, and she is Ohio
| girl, Miss Bertha Laxnme. As soon a*
hho graduated fr*.’in the Ohio stat
vertity she obu
at the West hurl:
.d good
in P<
Ge
'ia ha© .1
voraan hi
c»--<hnifly capable
, Miss Dora O. fi«i-
of do
and »t
en hr r
tb.it
upplaud th
.nsband haj
b'T»: *h*‘ an-
/.-aiping ove
riiif- pat c.i
rid b* rrn--
of hi
d -xpr. v
thHt tn** 1
• r»-«il f*w•<*
h** or ^li
ter It is ho
i«. i.J!y fm ■
r torn with in* nndL.-
to thf world at - ••
rery tru*-r*. sympaiiiy
ni-nd i - to mako t«-
: 1»- or ,ho is weanug
know that it i.i not.
j. * tiinr w know it,
FANCIES OF
THE FASHIONS
The Lightness and Undulating Grace
of That Newest Thing, the
Flounced Skirt.
MATERIALS AND TRIMMINGS-
Daehesso and ZS*ngi»lIne-F«]se
5oIr, Trained Skirts, Tea Cnps
and Evening
■Ip From A'evrport.
g%
, OTHINQ can bo
- prottier than a
flounced skirt,
and the narrower
the ruffles aro tho
prettier it is.
They lift in tlio
breeze and have
a lightness and
undulating grace
about them that
& nothing else can
" bdve, but they nso
*7z£;~ U P nn incredible
amount of stuff
an( l make no end
of work. These
qualifications make a gown with from
20 to 50 ruffles—something to bo desired
by womankind.
Tho sudden fancy for flounces narrow
and narrower is said to have its rise in
envy of tho wqjiderfnl gown just im
ported by Mr3. ‘Willie K. Vanderbilt,
and t’nat has 52. They aro not mnch
over half an inch wido and of soft iri
descent silk mull. Jnst think of the pa
tient labor put on these $2 ruffles. Each
one must measure at least 8 yards
around, and when you get them multi
plied you find that there are 812 yards to
be hemmed with fine stitches, and then
tho sarco number of yards have to be
gathered, which make 624, and these aro
to be then basted on and finally sewn,
winch give© a total of 812 more, and that
makes ltw yard.© sewing upon the flounces
of tho skirt alone, not counting the
ruffles on the sleeves, and the wide Marie
Antoinette fichu.
There is no mistaking the fact that,
tho multiple flounced dress in going to
have a ngo as sudden an it. will >*o gen
eral, am. it will not be confined to light
material, for black silk© .and even velvet
ar*’ beiig covered with them.
Tb* ..uhlea on the heavier material©
will luweio l*** cut biiiaio hang w, 11,
but others look quite as well on tho
straight and are far less trouble.
One very pretty fancy was to have
narrow black lace over a maize satin
duchess, and, by tho way, satin dneh-
ees is to be ono of the most popular fab
rics for fall And winter.
If the mothers and big sisters wear the
elaborate flounced dresses along th©
promenade at Newport, the daughters
of the millionaires aro dressed with a
studied' simplicity, and you rarely see
upon them anything more expensive than
challie or occasionally a little india silk
or pongee. But thoso littlo frocks are
so picturesque and dainty that the cost
of them is a secondary consideration in
the eyes of the person who looks at the
dear little toddlers, who are as demo
cratic as children should be, for they sit
on the beach and shovel sand with other
children, casting all thought aside other
than to have a good time.
One young lady of 7, whose portion of
this world's goods will l*o as many mil
lions a© she has years, rolled about and
was buried up in sand in a challie frock,
white with yellow and brown dot*. The
sleeves were balloon and came only to
the elbow and had a row of smocking
down the outside. The front of the short
waist was also smocked, and the rest of
the waist was of mordore brown vela-
tina. On her saucy littlo head she had a
muslin hat with a point in front, from
which fell a deep nifllo of mull embroid-
ed in yellow silk. Directly on tho point
of her hat there wa* a pert little black
velvet bow.
Her chubby sister of 4 had a percalo
frock, bluo and white, mado to reach
her ankles and having two ruffles and
blue rosette* get around tho skirt. Bluo
ribbon was s**t in front, with oue rosette,
one deep loop and two long ends. In
the beck there was one double loop and
long ends. Thoro6otte to this was at
tho neck, and the ribbon reached nearly
to the foet. A straw hat with blue rib-
-
wriy-uiji;
■ *rn *.L:d iXLTt her**-If u, »rJ tu*L lx* nulled awtv. There ere^uoUvn*.
Mr©. Ellen C. .M:n>ton. Miporintondcut
of The ^ht-rboru (Mas*.) Reformatory F"r
Wonmn, ha* hit upon an admirable plan
for improving the morals a. d rnann-n*
of h«*r prow*--. A- soon a.© a prisoner
better in h»*r n.nduct Mr*. Johnston
recognizes rh- improvement by a corre
sponding change in the woman's drees.
There i© a kind of dr* sa for each c1*i<m of
, convict, graded m. th* gr->l behavior
-ynteu. Mrs. J'.:.:.*toa kx:r\vr. :. t '.va,
| iho dovs. Uu\w
PAITTY I'REFfiES FOB OIRU*.
bens made this little darling look like
bluebell an*l just a* sw*-*t. Her old
nL-t* r had a Huit of twillt-d rli'-vil t
two tor.—, brown .ind bl.*k. Tb- -ki
wm full and ampirrj -hapn and trirniu
witii hint band, i f each
d-r-d \.ith a narrow line of blacks!
very rtcii eneci, waren m De tempora
ry, as bengaliae ia not a durable 6ilk.
On the piazzne and at tho teas all agree
that there is to ho much false hair added
to tho natural locks, that trained skirts
will ho just exactly the thing, that
flounces are too ento for anything, and
they show up tho work so well that tea
caps aro “altogether quite too lovely,”
and that the evening dresses will fall
very low on the shoulders.
They also whisper that ladles who real-
Iv re6Dect themselves and tho mm c
their ancestors will wear the neatest lit
tle top lloots in bad weather. These
boots—Bluchers they call them—have a
turned over top, and along the instep
they are laced with red silk cords and
tiny rod tassels.
On the sands I saw some young ladies
lying in various pictUTMqne attitudes in
bathing gowns that etruck ms as novel,
and I ran the risk of a snubbing to ask
about them. The fair wearers were quite
willing to talk, and one said that thoso
were tho newest and that she considered
them “quito out of sight.”
I agreed with her nearly, for all they
had on were tights made of black silk,
with a sleeveless jersey, also of black
Bilk. Over these each had a sort of sack-
liko garment, all In one pifee, reaching
to tho knees, with short sleeves, and the
neck gathered up so as to be neither loose
nor tight, bnt just so as to permit tho
head to pass through. Tho frock was
belted in closely at the waist with a gilt
belt. The dress was made of black silk
warp honrietta, which does not tako tho
water at all or hang in heavy folds,
but remains always crisp and round
while ever so wot. It is very light, imd
most have leaden weights in tho hem,
but not very many. I must say that the
whole dress was tho neatest, moat modest
and useful that I have overseen at New
port.
These young ladies told me as they sat
there digging in the sand with their lit
tlo toes that they fonnd wearing a snng
fitting jersey better than corsets in ev
ery way and that they never woro any.
“Yes,” said one of them, “but you see
our figures will bear it, and besides when
we dance wo have hones in our waists.
If wo didn't, why onr partners wonld
think we were going to melt.”
I could think of nothing to reply, bnt
“dent me.” It takes a dollar's worth of
whalebones to fit a dress theso days, as
whalebone is very scarce and dear, and
the steel and other contrivances they
have do not answer the purpose well, as
they soon lose shape, so that, considering
the amount of bones used in tho number
of dresses a fashionable young lady re
quires, corsets are very much cheaper
and quite as healthy, if not more so.
That reminds ms that tb« nowest in
corsets is to have a stout framework in
light steel made to conform to what
f.ieliion -ait a woman's figure should be,
and around this rhe satin or coutille is
eewn and quilted with pretty colored
silks in fancy patterns. It is but fair to
aay that the form is not altogether had,
and they are quito as comfortable as any
other kind, home cors-ts now have an
oval plate of finely woven wire set in
over each hip tokeep them from breaking
at tho hips.
Black anil red satin corsets are tho
favorites, and the contilles are mostly
for those who require durability.
HE5RIETTE RotsSEAU.
Newport, R. L
Origin of the High HeeL
Tho Hindoo uses his toee in weaving,
and tho Australian savage iaas “handy”
with his toes as with bis hands, bnt civ
ilization since the days of sandals has
been gradually squeezing theso members
into a state of .absolute uselessness.
It is said that “pride never feels pain.”
It is probable that this proverb was in
tended to apply
to thoso who
wear high heeled
shoes. The pain
on first wearing
this kind of foot
gear, in which the
whole weight of
the body seems to
thrust the toe*
forward into the
shoe, is excruci
ating. Nothing
but fashion could
reconcile one to
such voluntary
suffering. The
pead in the sho< .© zi
of tho pilgrims
could scarcely a woman or myconts.
have been more poinfnl. Bnt it is with
sorao surprise that wo find among M.
Stackelberg’s graceful costumes of mod
ern Greece (of which tho cut, a woman
of Myconns, is a copy of one) & pair of
high heeled shoes. In nglin**©a and in
convenience thoy certainly rival any of
thoso worn in England or the United
States.
Yet they do not compare with the shoes
worn in tho time of Thomas Gainsbor
ough, a famous English artist who died
in 1768. The heel was In some caa**j 4J
inch** high, and therefore tho **line”
must have been a highly inclinod plane,
undulating in its surface, like tho “line
of beauty” of Hogarth. The position of
the foot muit have b—n that of a dancer
resting on th* toes, savo that the I- -1
wa* supported, and tho strain over th«
instep and contractu n of the mu-oldi of
the back of tho 1 - mu-t have been con
siderable. It was so great, we are told,
thctthecostiMttecC **— *—•*»———
habitual. Consequently those persons
who accustomed thenn-elv-s to tb* ur-
of high heels were never afterward abl*j
to do without them. Kate Cha.*e.
| rh-r- was * white china silk waist,
and * i over thi* in a deep V wait i
| jack**: *.f the name material, with all th©
i trimmings of bin*- bengaline. An a
I trimming b^ugaliu** is a success, bnt as
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FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
Children's Floral Tarade.
An interesting event which took place
recently in London was tho children's
parade in Regent’s park. Tho prizes were
distributed by the Princess Mary of Teck.
Theso prizes, you must know, were given
for tho prettiest and most original de
signs. in which flowers are largely used,
and children and animals played the chief
parte.
Many of tho ideas wero carried out all
by tho children, and the result in every
case did credit to their imaginations and
clover fingers. For instance, what could
bo more charming than a sodan chair
covered with pnlo green, decorated with
garlands of ferns and white and yellow
flowers, and bearing inside it tho quaiut-
Corml From ILlj-.
Mtirh of ti.i: cvly ml, wiiito and pink
coral uv-d : I ornamental purj- ,<•* Is ol>-
tAi:.*-*l from U.r co.vtof Italy. Men go out
In boai«» and firm the rocky bottom of
fttre.tin* with wi*xlen frum*-* or net*, in
*1./ h tb* cor-il h lone*entangled, but the
fi»-h< ,*te bmiit he* are crushed In thU w*y.
1 tie tLne-st coral u unearned bj diving.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
A U«tt
A remedy fu
dy For finales* lilts*.
rattlesnake bite employed
,t:ous of tho mountain re-
uufi east tern Promt > lvftr.la ;*
licken in two ami to place
turf ace of ba.f of it upua
n*l, except wh^io om* dotuea .* | u., part bitten by the timke.—btieuce.
est little maid, with satin gown and
patch on cheek and feathered hat? Tho
chair was carried by two tiny footmen
in green and goid, and looked exactly as
if it had all stepped out of somo old pic
ture of stately bygono days. To this do-
sign was awarded tho first prizo as being
tho host in tho wholo exhibition, hut as
tho lovely procession passed slowly by
the dais on which sat the Duke and
Duchess of Teck and Princess May I
thonght each design moro beautiful than
tho last.
I am suro I could not describe half of
them to you if I tried, but I must speak
of tho double mail cart, covored entirely
with white lilies; of tho Roman chariot,
beautifully decked in brown and red,
that held a youthful Roman adorned
with a laurel wreath and was accom
panied by a band of attendants; of tho
sweetest gray pony whoso saddlo and
trappings wero all of roses; of tho model
yacht outlined In flowers, and with tho
pennant and name woven of red, white
and bluo blossoms.—Pall Mall Budget.
Mabel's firandpa.
Mr. Bennet is a bright and well pre
served old gentleman, hut to hia little
granddaughter, Mabel, ho seemed very
old indeed.
Bho had b©en sitting on his knoo and
looking at him seriously for some mo
ments one day when she said, “Grand
pa, were you iu tho ark?”
"Why, no, my dear!” gasped her as
tonished grandparent.
Mabel's eyes grow largo snd round
with JwtoniHhmcnt. “Then why weren’t
you drowned?”—Now York Recorder.
A Small Boy's Bank Account.
John Martin, aged 18 yearn, who lives
in Brooklyn, started in business as a
newsboy about a year ago on & enpitai
of 5 cents borrowed from his mother for
that purpose. Binco then, although h*
at ten* Is t-chool mornings, he has by strict
attention to business and practical com
mercial ability been able, after buying
hi* own clothe s and making hi* mother
a present of an armchair, to deposit over
$00 in the bank.—Exchange.
Littlo Joe Smith, Violinist. '
Master Joe Smith is a small violinist.
He i* a good violinist and a good boy. As
can be seen in his picture, ho is a littlo
fellow, but ho has a big heart, and the
work ho has dono for Tho Evening
World’s sick babies’ fund is out of all
proportion to his hi/.**. Ho got np a grand
eotertainnif-nt for tho fnnojit the Ja<*k-
boIlians' clubhouse, in which his father,
George Smith, who acted as stage man
ager, a.-*© is ted him.
The entertainment was a big snreess,
and Master Smith handed in a check for
$48.80. Prafaaur Springer kindly gave
tho services ef hi© orchestra; Mr. A.
Tes. hner played the piano, which was
donated by tho Steinway company, and
France© Milh**ir*r, 9 years of age, gold *10
tickets for tho affair. Tho tickets w»*re
10 cents each. Master Smith’s violin
playing captured tho house.—New York
Evening World.
A Ilram I.lttl* Boy.
A little colored boy in Liberty county,
Oa., 10 year© old, distinguished himself
recently by jumping into a pond to pull
out ^ white child who had fallen in. As
the negro boy couldn't swim, both had
t** b*- pulled ont by uom© one elae. But
he was ju.**t as brave.
A I.I ttlr IJoy W
Eddie Johnson
is v*?ar
regarded
in th* sta
a 9 % shoe.
* Vary Large Head.
v/n, a Kentucky boy, who
1. weighs *.7 pounds and is
th*; Urgent child of his ag©
H’j wears a man * hat and
