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THE Cold Snap discovered the road
to the BIG STORE for lots of folks
last week, and in a way surprised many
by our illimitable resources. It is difficult
at all times to ask for what you want and
fail to get it here. This season breaks the
record in our preparedness for all comers.
Suits, Wraps, Skirts, Underwear and the
many other comfort-makers are most in
request, and we are put to our trumps in
keeping supplies up to our standard, but
the Telegraph and Transportation Compa
nies are prompt servants.
Opens this week—a toothsome morsel, too—
l&P Silk-Waist Special.
'X 'VI Two st y res > °P en f ront b ac k, in Black, Navy,
Vi 111 Red, L'gbt Blue and Pink, all sizes, Grand and Un
it comrnon values. Lace effect Stripes with Novelty
Cording alternating, REAL VALUE, $7.50,
iSf SPECIAL PRICE ’ mo •
Besides this tempting “extra” our regular lines are
very full. MERCERIZED, several kinds of FLANNEL
and other WOOLENS. Many qualities and prices in
SILK.
And Styles As Varied As One Can Conceive.
We are really, truly and absolutely
THE WAIST SHOP OF SAVANNAH.
THE HOME OF HOMESPUNS.
Itevivul of Oldeat of Iriah Indus
trie by Order of Queen Victoria.
In the little thatched cottages of
Donegal and Connemara looms and
spinning wheels are busy manufactur
ing homespuns for royal wearers. The
kings and queens of Europe have de
cided that these manufactures are fit
for court attire, and the peasants of
the north and west of Ireland are reap
ing a golden harvest.
Two years ago Queen Victoria order
ed a large quantity of Irish home-made
woollens. This immediately created an
outside Interest in the goods and a few
weeks sufficed to set ail the idle looms
in motion. Orders are now being re
ceived from every city in Europe, and
several lots have been exported to the
FAMILIAR SCENE IN IRELAND.
United States. A large order recently
came from Persia, and even In Aus
tralia the homespun Is not unkonwn.
The peasants are rapidly becoming
prosperous compared with their cir
cumstances a few years ago. The new
market for their goods has claimed
every yard they manufacture, so that
while royalty flaunts the homespun the
cbttiers are content with the cheaper
mill article.
For hundreds of years the peasantry
of Ireland clothed themselves In gar
ments of their own manufacture. Less
than fl.ty years ago no wedding was
complete without a spinning wheel
heading the list of presents from the
Parent* of the bride. Even In "poor
ould Ireland." however, machinery has
tuad* such strides that had Queen Vic
toria delayed much longer In placing
th* first royal order for the hoi nee pun
'he sound of |h* loom would not now
he heard In the land. As It it old
wheels are being dusted and renovated;
hngera that hud almost forgotten the
duties required of them are being
‘lull kened again to work, and young
hands are rapidly becoming r*pert with
Practise.
1 lie accompanying pictures era ll*
latrgtlve of the homespun Muitf/,
An attempt baa be# n ins h to ion**/
**' *mpisaaiou of tat people engage i in
“* suid gleg the houses In which
they live. The workers are quite as
interesting as the study of the cloth
they manufacture, and their abodes are
always a great attraction to the tour
ist.
Donegal is the center of the present
activity in homespun circles, and the
cottages along the mountain sides are
filled with the hum of busy workers.
The entire family spend the winter
months at reel, wheel and loom. When
the days lengthen and the sun grows
more genial work on the little patch
of ground necessitates a decrease in
their production. Potatoes must be
planted, a few r cabbage plants “dib
bled” in the ridges, and a rood or two
of oats "trenched.” Then follows the
hay making season, with its delightful
weather and cloudless sky. No matter
how many orders royalty may send for
homespun these hardy hill folks will
"take things aisy in summer days.”
These simple peasantry live to please
themselves and their pleasure Is usu-
ally the fulfillment of a general desire
to take their own time for doing
things. They like the sunshine and the
growing meadows, the green pastures
and the moss covered banks; there is
something in the whitethorn that calls
them to the hedge-row when it la white
with blossoms and not for gold would
they miss the small birds' chorus.
Therefore, It follows that the home
spun harvest will be reaped only when
the rain beats pitilessly on the roof
and the wind moans and groana in the
wicker chimney.
A cottage owning a loom may al
ways be known by Its unusual length.
The loom fills one end of the cottage,
which la only one atory In hlght. Addi
tional floor space for spinning wheels
nrnkek i* greatly Increased frontage
necessary. Thia is done at the espenae
of proportion and gives the abode a
equally appearance that Is deceiving.
The walls of the cottsges are white
washed a couple of times each year and
are rem*rk.#bl* for their cleanltneae.
The mai (lines used In manufacturing
the home ipuns ere enißsitigly crude In
appearance. They are veiy serviceable
i and enduring, In spite f their lack of
finished *i ikmar.rb.p boon s si* baud
#C down I tom one generation to an*
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDA Y, NOVEMBER 24, 1901.
Suits.
Man-Tailored .
Just in— lmported Genuine
Man-Tailored Gowns, real styl
ish, and fancy trimmed. White
Silk and Satin Fronts, trimmed
with chiffon, lace, buttons and
tailor stitching.
Very Latest Parisian Garments
for visiting and Dress occa
sions.
$60f0565.
mmummmmmmmmm waamamaamamsa
These are gems and merit
your attention.
Also a New Lot
and new styles in Plain Man-
Tailored Suits, very stylish
and attractive, but of course
not so elaborately trimmed as
the more expensive ones.
Perrin's Ladies'
Fine Kid Gloves.
Every pair guaranteed—all
shades and colors.
chines are permeated with the odor of
turf smoke, and the natural color Of
the wood used in their construction
has long since been dyed black by the
burnt peat.
It is astonishing with what accuracy
these century-old machines operate. On
a loom similar to the one pictured
above was woven the Irish linen pre
sented to Queen Victoria on the occa
sion of her Jubilee in 1887. The linen
was said to be the finest ever manu
factured.
Predictions have been made to the
effect that the homespun industry will
again spread over the whole of Ireland.
Little surprise will be caused by this,
at least to those who have followed
the growth of the lace industry dur
ing the past few years. In many dis
tricts it has been almost Impossible
to engage servants on account of their
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being busily employed working on the
most costly Irish lace and other kinds
of fancy needlework. Schools have
been established at different centers
of population for Instruction In lace
work, and as many as fifty pupils at
tend single seminaries daily. Special
sales of Irish home-made products have
been held with great success in London,
Dublin and Belfast.
The lace and homespun Industries
are closely allied. The peasants of the
South have practically s monopoly of
the lace business, while the homespun
weaving centers In the north. Years
ago large quantities of woolen fabrics
were manufactured near Belfast, but
the cottage looms have long since been
ousted by the big factories employing
thousands of men and women.
Most of the homespuns are sold to
the merchants of the many small vil
lages dotting the country. They are
then purchased In bulk by the big re
tailer, who receives orders from ail
parts of the world. At present an at
tempt le being made to deal directly
with the people without the Interfer
ence of the middleman. As there Is
•very chance of Ip* succeeding It is
to be earnestly hoped that the weav
ers themselves will reap the profit*.
William Bulloch.
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The Cloak Store.
Cloaks, Jackets, Coats, Capes and
Wraps of every imaginable proper style,
in varied fabrics and finish.
Infants' Long Cloaks, Misses'and
dren's Reefers and Long and Short Cloaks.
A variety of colors and prices of each.
Ladies ’ Cloaks and Wraps EpM?
from 18 to 60 inches wide variety. In- I
spect our selections of Long Capes, spe
cially—the Evening Wrap—very chic. sjrsj- -J
Silk, Velour and Plush Jackets . ‘T? i
IHome Comforts
Very pretty, many elaborate,
HOUSE GOWNS AND JACKETS,
Eiderdown, nicely finished.
SPLENDID HOSIERY
Selections for Ladies, Misses, Chil
dren and Babies, complete in
styles, qualities and weights.
LADIES ’ NECKWEAR
All the newest things.
Leather and Metal Goods,
Umbrellas, Furnishings.
Skirts.
Fabrics
Silk and Woolen Dress Skirts
Value is guaranteed in every
Our Skirts Are At Par.
B. H. LEVY & BRO.
of the engines. Some interesting stud
ies have recently been made of these
vibrations, among others by Prof. Ce
cil H. Peabody, of the Department of
Naval Architecture of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology. In these
studies, queerly enough, the phenome
na of seasickness are found to be most
easily explained by reference to the
phenomena of music, with the result
that an entirely scientific parallel has
been established between the steel hull
of a thirty-knot torpedo boat vibrating
under the strain of her “vertical, in
verted triple expansion” engines and
a violin or piano string vibrating to
the touch of the bow or key.
The comparison between the violin
string and the steamship will be easier
to understand by introducing still a
third factor, a long bar of steel such
as may be found in any blacksmith’s
THE OLD SPINNER.
shop, which may represent either the
string or the steel hull. If this steel
, bar Is laid on two saw-horses or some
| other convenient support, one near
either end, and struck with a, hammer
it gives out a musical note comparable
to that of the violin string when it is
touched by the rosined bow. If a man
will contrive to stand on a bar of suf
ficient length he can produce such vi
brations by jumping up and down, If
he times his Jumping so as to allow
his full weight to coincide with the
downward rather than with the up
ward bending of the bar.
Should the man stand astride of one
of the supports and then move the bar
after the manner of a seesaw, by alter
nating his weight from one foot to the
Ttther, he wilt also give It a trembling
motion, which may be compared to the
vibrations of a violin string under the
pressure cf the player's finger. Under
these stresses both the string snd the
bar will have what are called In the
language of physics "loops” and
"nodes," the loops being represented by
a curved departure from the straight
line of the her, first one way end then
another, while the nodes are the points
where there le no movement or vlbrw-
These loops end nodes can be located,
roughly, by putting bits of paper upon
lbs steel bar at short InfWvele The
bit* that ore pla*.*d at loops will be I
those placed at nodes will be undie -
Both j settingnt and trap have 1
learned by experience that there arc
certain places on a ship where the vi
brations are very great, and other
places where they are hardly noticea
ble; and naval architects have had no
hesitation in explaining the difference
by pointing out that a ship, too, has
Its nodes and loops, and to
all Intents and purposes, just like the
string of a violin or the steel bar be
tween the saw-horses. Later It was
found that the shaking at some points
prevented the reading of fine type, so
that the page of a book might be used
to test the comparative vibrations of
a steamer. Very soon, however, test
ing instruments were devised, so that
an accurate record of the number of
vibrations a minute could be taken,
and from the definite data thus afford
ed a mathematical formula has been
worked out by means of which the
principal notes and loops of any ship
oan approximately be obtained from
calculation.
The practical purpose of all this
work, of course, has been to determine
such an arrangement of a ship's en
gines—which are the cause of most of
the difficulty—as should reduce the vt
bratlons to a minimum, partly because
they result In so much discomfort to
passengers, and mean loss of business,
and partly because they constitute a
wear and tear on the ship Itself. It
was apparent that engines with a sin
gle vertical piston rod, or, in other
words, those which had an up and
down motion, exerting "free force," so
called, like that of the man exerting
his weight on the experimental steel
bar, should be kept away from the
ship’s nodes. Other machinery which
exerted a "rocking couple”—an alter
nating movement comparable to that
of the men astride of the support of
the steel bar —should be kept away
from the supports or nodes.
Certain prs'lloai difficulties, of
course, prevent the perfect application
of these rules, as for example the Irn
possibility of placing the •ngiiwe vsry
near tbs bow or the stein. Where more
complicated engines are employed,
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Corset-Ease
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and corset
style are com
pelled by our
very select ar
ray of Models.
The names /
convey an ((IjlfV
idea of the x
perfectioriyou \
may expect. i
Warner’s RP
P. N„ KABO, C. 8.,
NEMO,
ROYAL WORCESTER, etc.
From the Lowest to the High
est Price for Quality.
®Furs.
Lynx, Fox,
Moufflon,
Opossum,
Persian Lamb, Electric Seal,
Etc., Real and Imitation,
For Ladies, Misses
and Children.
Infonfs
Sacques, Leggins. Bootees,
Caps, Gloves, Etc.
Woolen Goods 0k
For Ladies.
Short Knit
derskirts, Fasci- I
nators, Capes, %&£&?&{
House Slippers,
Nice Selections.
vals until it might send a score of pas
sengers below with all the distressing
symptoms of seasickness. Careful ob
servation, however, showed that such
excessive vibrations took place when
the twin engines got to running In
unison, so that when one engine raced
ahead of the other the vibration was
again When fast torpedo
boats were built there was a similar
trouble, and Yarrow, the famous Eng-,
liah shipbuilder, learned by experiment
that Just -as a violin string has a cer
tain number of vibrations a minute
which determines its notes, so also a
ship vibrates In accordance with its
own natural time and Is most serious
ly affected when the revolutions of its
engines coincide with that time or any
of its multiples or sub-multiples.
For example, if the greatest vibration
Is noticed when the engines are mak
ing 600 revolutions a minute, the vi
bration will be less at 500 or 700 than
at 400 or 800 revolutions. In other
words, Just as the open string of a
piano may be made to vibrate by the
sound of the corresponding note or as
a bridge or a building may be Jarred by
certain musical chords or rhythmettc
impulses, so a ship responds to Its en-
AN IRISH LOOM.
gin* when they are in time, as one
might almost say to Its own musical
key. But even so simple an expedient
as the changing of the angle of the
propeller blades is sometimes effective
In reducing a vibration, which at high
speed seems likely to shake the ship to
pieces.
In discussing these various phenome
na It Is noticed that in addition to
the vertical vibrations caused by the
engines, a ship may also have hori
zontal vibrations resulting from the
slatting of connecting rods, or she may
acquire a tort tonal or "wringing” mo
tion from the fluctuations of her pro
peller shaft. If a ship has a flat bot
tom It may be made to vibrate Ilk# a
drumhead by the action of the sea it.
self, and must be stiffened If the vi
bration Is to be prevantsd. Even more
curious la another statement of naval
architects- which, however, Is esstly
understandable —to the effect that
when an afflicted passenger on an
ocean liner seek** tola hunk his die* om
fort msy be allll further increased by
the fp i that Ills w re maitreiMk haa a
tint* of vibration wnirh * oln* nice with
the Vtbiallon of the ship Itself, fiut
other fa* is of equal Jutei eat #hfi pn
porta ac
Mothers
Simply acquire
temper and fa
tigue by trying
to fit out their
Boys anywhere \l Ii
else THAN HERE. \ ! 't/
No use trying. ffl p
You won't find iP ! l**i
the stock, varie- Jfjjilffijr
ty or quality OR jfj n!
Prices Els- L W
WHERE.
SUITS All Styles and Sizes,
OVERCOATS,
UNDERWEAR,
SHIRTS,
SHIRTWAISTS,
NECKWEAR,
REEFERS,
HATS, CAPS, STOCKINGS, ETC.
Our stock is larger
than the combined
Boy£’ stocks else-
I TT\' v - iere in Savannah.
■ J We are now referring
l rp Jr 4/ to New,Seasonable
'oLAJ Value Carrying
jjj Clothing,
(7 w and cost is very little
// H above the “other
kind.”
Underwear
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For Ladies,
Misses, Girls
and Children
Suits or Separate. From Cot
ton to the genuine Pure Wool
STUTTGARTER.
All weights, sizes, prices.
Quality always.
WHISKISH9 OF MICE.
Ejebrovre of Rears and Homan Eye.
laslies Used In One Trade.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The buslnes done in mouge whiskers
is considerable this year, for they are
used in the making of the wonderful
new fly for fishermen—the “new gray
nat.” And they are expensive—nearly
two cents per whisker. Trout rise
very much better at mouse whisker
flies than at the same “gnat” dressed
in Jingiecock hackles, which look much
like them.
The trade of artificial fly making Is
the lightest-fingered business in the
world, and it is not one man or woman
out of 5,000 Who can learn to tie flies.
These tyers are remarkable for the
beauty and delicacy of their hands,
and only the cleverest of fingers can
deal with the “niggling” work of knot
ting hairs that can hardly be seen.
In making a fly the earth has to be
ransacked for precisely the correct
feathers and hairs, and one hair wrong
will make all the difference.
It takes an expert tier only fifteen
minutes to turn out a fly, which con
sists of a tiny hook, with wings of
Egyptian dove feather, legs of fox
hair and a body of mouse fur wound
round with a thead of yellow silk.
A carelesrly made fiy will have neither
legs nor "feelers,” but the true expert
adds the legs and puts on a hair of
long “feelers” of cat hair, white at
the tips. Ail these tiny details will be
exactly in their places and so finely
tied to the hook that the fly will take
half a dozen strong fish and be done
the worst.
Dear’s eyebrows, being stiff, and ex
actly the right shade, are used in a
newly invented fly that is killing quan
tities of salmon this year, and these
eyebrows come from the Himalayan
brown bear and cost about $1.50 per set.
There are always agents all over the
world searching tropical forests for the
right birds to supply fly hackles, and
one of the most sought after skins is
that of the rare "green screamer,” an
African bird, about the size of a fowl,
which has a tiny bunch of feathers on
each shoulder that are worth sls per
bunch to the flynwker. One of these
birds only suplles feathers enough for
half a dozen flies. Number* of men
spend their lives—and lose them, too—
In collecting the right kinds of birds
for fly fpathers.
There Is no limit to the enthusiasm
of an artistic fly tier, who will use hair
from his own eyelashes to finish off
an extra special fly, Baby’s hair u
a much-sought after material, if of the
right shade—golden yellow—for all the
lighter salmon flies, and one curt will
make a dozen first-class files. There
are many salmon and trout fishers who
pay $3,000 a year for their files alone.
—“Yes." said Ktormlngton Barnes. *‘l
have had some remarkable experience#.
One of them was with a haunted
house.” -
“Do you mean to say you lived la
a house with such a reputation?”
“Yea. And we eerned the lasting
gratitude of the owner of the proper
ty.”
"HowT”
“An soon e* my company of trsge
dtan* moved Into the house the ahoet
refused to walk ” Washington filar.
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