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.i* I KSi j. m w W t a> St k KM.- li i % to « \ -a. 4 THE LONDON LIMP. In London years ago it was considered quite the proper thing not only to use a cane, but to have a limp as well, All this, too, because the popular Princess of Wales had both. This lasted as long as her lameness, which is now scarcely, if at all, noticeable. To be without a “stick” was to be considered entirely out of tho fashion, and the more pro¬ nounced the limp, the sweller the fair limper.—New York Journal. THE LADY WITH THE SAMPLES. A female drummer came to town the other day. She was selling eoluble food. It may be necessary to state that she did not stand on street corners and talk to the Tool boys. She did not sit in front of the hotel with her feet up against a tree, flirting with every putty brained, hair-banged chump that smokes cigarettes that drove past in a buggy. She called on her customers, talked business in a business way, took her orders and politely bade them “good day.”—Fulton (Mo.) Sun. BRAINY WOMEN LIKE STYLE. Mrs. Frank Leslie Wilde, who is a capable as well as a charming woman, goes in for all feminine fads of a newly fledged belle and wears her Paris gowns with as keen satisfaction as though she had no other thought in her head than how to adorn her beautiful parson, writes a New York correspondent. Amelie Rives Chanler i3 always beauti¬ fully gowned. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, though just a mite eccentric, never gets so far over the line as to leave the really beautiful. Blanche Roosevelt, who is a wonderfully pretty woman, is always correctly attired in gowns just suiting her blonde stylo to perfection. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mis3 Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Burton Harrison and many others are living examples that brains arc not incompatible with style. DRESSMAKING AT THE HOUSE. It sometimes pays to give $5 to a dressmaker to come in the house, if she be swift and skilled. There are a few such. The writer knows one, a French woman with all the art of her race; but as this article is not to advertise her no tips are given as to her whereabouts, and her little circle of customers can chuckle to themselves, and like the little lady at the Spa, they can humbug the public into tho belief that they are gowned by the great dressmakers of the world. I saw in Paris a bill for one Benson’s frocks and garments for an American of great beauty and vast wealth. The bill was $10,000 at one house. This woman’s gems blaze like stars, her gowns are creations of art, her taste is immaculate; when she walks or drives all the world stares. She affects the modes of the Empire and wears the flower of France as a jewel at her breast. Her laces are priceless, but modern. There is not an heirloom amid her sur¬ roundings. She is of tho nouveau riche and comes from the West. With the jewels of an empress, the gowning of royalty, the beauty of a Hebe and the life of a great speculator’s wife, the fair faced clouds and the heart aches with rage that all this splendor will not make the world of lashion forget the da:k tints of the old record and open to her the barred doors of New York’s princely homes. Let your gow.iing be simple as it may, let it come from the big house or the modest homo dressmaker, but wear it with a smile of content and a heart of I good will for the world.—New York XCS3. A FWL FOR BEAUTY. _ One of the most embarrassing jposi- tions in which a woman can be placed at the table is when she is pouring the tea and coffee. These adjuncts to the meal are usually given to the guests at a time when there is a lull either in the eating or conversation, and naturally the atten¬ tion of the company is attracted to the hostess, more especially so if she be a pretty and graceful woman. The Eng¬ lish long ago recognized this fact, and made a very pretty provision for it. It consists of a neat woven wire or metal framework about eighteen or twenty inches high which is placed on the out¬ side of the tea tray,indoisng it on either side, thus partially hiding from view the fair one who is doing the honors. General speaking, the frame is orna¬ mented with pretty little draperies of light, flowered silk, or some other flimsy material, and thus she is shut off from the curious gaze of the guests and cau pursue the even tenor of her pouring without experiencing the slightest de gree of nervousness. These screens are not, to our knowledge, very well known in this country, but once their utility was recognized would doubtless become very popular. They could be trimmed with bows of ribbon or draped with lace or delicately painted designs on silk or satin. Suggestive and appropriate mot¬ toes could also be woven in the centre other manner that , might ,, sug or m any gost itself to the maker. This would greatly enhance their beauty and make a very ornamental addition to the furnish¬ ings of the table.—New York Com ner cial Advertiser. FASHION NOTES. Trained skirts are undoubtedly doomed. For certain uses handsome silk plaid linings will be used. The new shadow silks will be used for gowns entire, or parts of handsome cos¬ tumes during the present season. Some of the color effects are exceedingly beautiful. A pink crepon tea gown was cut en¬ tirely in one, with a cape-like trimming of lace carried down the front en cas cade. The sleeves were full to the elbow, and were trimmed with lace. A simple gown in. black nun’s veiling had a yoke trimming on the bodice of narrow black ribbons ending in double tab-loops. This also edged the skirt, peeping from beneath a wide flounce. Black silk velvet capes lined either with black or changeable silk, brilliant red or pale yellow surah, will be worn during the early winter by the tall, slen¬ der women whom they “compliment.” The accordion-plaited blouse is a new and popular factor in the field, There is no lining except in the little round yoke, from which the plaited fulness falls longer than the waist line, and is caught up beneath a folded belt finished with a rosette on one side. Some of the very new French dress skirts show a row of tiny frills alternat¬ ing with very narrow bands of velvet or galloon. This trimming, instead of be¬ ing confined to tho extre e edge, is carried from the hem to the depth of from one-half to three-quarters of a yard up the length of tho skirt. An Extraordinary Flower. The Malayan savages know that it is possible for a plant or flower to be a real oddity, for they have an extraordinary flower which is known to-them bv a name which signifies “ wonder-wonder.” It is a flower, and a flower only, having neither leaves, stem, nor root. It is a globular parasite about three feet across, and bursts into a dream of loveliness from the surface of decayed logs and stumps.—New York Post. POPULAR SCIENCE. There are 20,000 kinds of butterflies. In France 8079 patents were granted for electrical improvements during the past year. A Brooklyn (N. Y.) man has invented an electrical apparatus for automatically winding a clock. On August 20th a meteor fell at Bru ncan Falls in Idaho which a local assay er says shows traces of gold. The othefr day a St. Paul, Minn., sur¬ geon made an incision into a woman’s neck and recovered the false teeth »bc had swallowed. About a year ago a Miss Tolleson, of Memphis, Tenn., had an attack of ton silitis that ran her temperature up to the unheard of point of 158 degrees. A fresh egg contains the same amount of nourishment as one and a half ounces of fresh meat and ODe ounce of wheaten bread, but in a more digestible form. A blast set off in the Wenrich mines, between Joplin and Webb City, Mo., blew a bowlder weighing 1003 pounds clear out of the shaft, which is 135 feet dSep. If the atmospheric pressure is fourteen pounds to the square inch as usually rec¬ koned, the man of average size is con stantlv subjected to a pressure of 23,000 pounds. Numerous experiments to determine the best fire-resisting materials for the construction of doors proved that wood covered with tin resisted the fire better than an iron door, The ornithorhychus of Australia lays eggs like a bird, suckles its young like other mammaU, and in general appear anC e and habits resembles the beaver of this country and Europe, A process for making artificial pre¬ cious stones out of crystallized, alumina has been discovered in Glasgow. Some ago a Paris artificer successfully produced artificial rubies. The most powerful and heaviest gun in the world weighs 135 tons, is forty feet in length and has a thirteen and a quarter inch bore. Its range i3 eleven miles with a projectile weighing 1801) pounds. An electric carriage was tried on the Chicago streets a few days ago, an 1 made a trip of over twelve miles without giving out. Five persons rode on the cairiage, and the whole outfit attracted considerable attention. If you could cut sections out of the side of soap bubbles, and then had some delicate contrivance with which you could handle the pieces, you would find that it would take 50,030,000 films laid one upon the other to make a pile one inch in height. A company has been recently formed in Japan to be known as the Hakone Electric Light Company. It is iatended to erect a central station at Yumoto and to supply current in the district. There are now twelve electric lighting com¬ panies in Japan. There are divers remarkable places on the terraqueous globe whose sensible horizon is clear and serene, yet it is im¬ possible to distinguish in it any one of the intermediate points of the compass; nay, or so much as two of the four car¬ dinal points themselves. As far as can be calculated the average length of life, which was computed m the seventeenth century to have been only thirteen years, was in the eighteenth increased to twenty, and in the nine¬ teenth to thirty-six. Men used to be con¬ sidered old when they passed fifty. A Queen’s Duties. Queen Victoria at Balmoral spends all the fresher hours of the morning on State business. A private telegraph wire connects Balmoral with Buckingham Palace, the work of whose operators is no sinecure. Every morning the ten o'clock train conveys northward from Euston Square a Queen’s messenger with the accumulated correspondence of the morning post, who reaches the place of his destination late at night. Early the next morning the Queen gets to work upon the papers, and at 2 o’clock the despatch box is repacked and the return messenger arrives at Euston square in time for the next morniug’/j delivery.— New York Sun. i § 2f/ rm :: UJ & m mm* M J&T H; % w? Children of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Boiler Altoona, Pa. Both Had Eczema In Its Worst Form After Physicians Failed, Hood's Sarsaparilla Perfectly Cured. 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