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FARM AND HOUSE.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE
FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE.
Burning Wood for Ashes.
Ip burning wood for ashes it is neces
sary to avoid exposing the fire to strong
currents of air, both to prevent the car
rying away of the light ashes and the
loss of valuable elements by the strong
combustion. The logs are put in heaps
and covered with earth or are heaped in
hollow pits protected at the sides by
the mounds of earth thrown out. As
the heap turns down more logs are rolled
on to it, so as to keep a steady fire. The
ashes are stirred to secure complete com
bustion of the brands and coals, and the
more slowly the timcer is consumed, the
more valuable the ashes are. Ordinary
mixed timber yields two to three per
cent, of ashes. Pine yields about one
per cent,, elm three to four per cent.,
and the small brushwood is the richest
part of the tree.
Tables Relative to Cows.
During a recent meeting of the Con
necticut Board of Agriculture, Professor
Brown, of the experiment farm, Guelph,
Canada, in a lecture, gave a table of the
amount of buttter for every one hundred
pounds of milk from cows of different
breeds of stock, as follows:
Jersey ...5.1
AyrMdire. .4.5
Ontario grade 4.4
Bb< irthorn 4.3
Devon. 3.7
Shorthorn grade 3.7
Alierdeeu polled 3.5
Qneto; grade ' 3.4
Guernsey 2.5
Holstein 2.4
Galloway .'. 2.3
This table was formed from an average
of ten years and of many different ani
mals- This table affords a very satisfac
tory guide to tho-e desiring to purchase
cows for making butter. In, the same
lecture was given in round numbers the
quantity of milk that may be obtained in
<>ne season from the different breeds.
Pounds.
Holstein 7,000
Ayi-shire 0,000
< hitario grade 5,000
Shorthorn grade 4,500
Guernsey...... 4,000
Guebee grade 8,000
Jersey .... 3,800
Shorthorn ............. 3,000
Devon ............... 2,800
Galloway 2.500
Almnloen jiolled 2,500
Hereford ..3,00)
This table will serve as a guide if milk
alone is desired.
Some Hints on Horse-Barns.
There is a point to be obseved in fit
ting a Lam lor the reception of horses,
and that is the size of the stalls. The
narrow dimensions of the stall are a posi
tive cruelty to the horse. Many stalls
are built too narrow to enable the horse
to extend hi* limbs when lying down.
Ho is compelled, when iq a recumbent
position, to double his limbs up under
him; his legs ore thus kept in a cramped
position when he ought to be completely
at rest. A. narrow stall tends to make a
horse restive and uneasy, and frequently
induces him to kick violently against the
contracted sides of this narrow prison,
and develops in him the objectionable
practice of crib-biting. Imagine, for a
moment, our own misery, were we con-j
fined in u narrow cell in which, when i
stiUialng, we could assume none but a
cramped position, debarred from the j
privilege of extending our limbs, and i
obliged to keep them doubled up. In I
considering these questions of the com- I
fort, of our live stork, while mere human- 1
ity should certainly furnish a motive suf
ficient, it is well to remember that the
comfort and well-being of stock means
to them health and prolonged life, and,
con«v<picntly. pecuniary benefit to our
selves. Still another cause of great
needless suffering is occasioned to the
horse by keeping him tied up by the head.
In order to enable a horse to sleep com
fortably, he should be able to tiedown at
full length, limbs extended, and his head
resting on the floor. This he is often un
able to do, owing to the short halter-
Mrap, which will not allow him to rest
the lower portion of the head on the
floor, and ihe extraordinary discomfort
<>f the position in which the poor beast is
thereby compelled to seek his natural
test, can b< better imagined than de
scribed. National Lire Stock Jourmd.
< iliz.H i.m of Dtrawbct-riei*.
Among other matters of interest re
ported upon by the American Homolog
ical Hoeiety tire the papers and discussions
on “The Influence of Pollen on the
.Form, Biz . Color and Flavor of Sltraw
bvrries,’* elicited at the last session of the
society.
The subject was introduced by Prof.
1.0/einby. of Ohio, who ref»orted the re
sults of t,wo reasons' experiments in
crossing. The first year there was a
marked effect produced by the foreign
pollen it. every iii'lam-e. The ( has.
Downing pollen communicated its shape,
texture and other <jti»iliti<-s and the same
with Sharpless and Vick. The next
season th- re occurred no very marked
yesrmblnnec between the berry and the
variety which furnished the pollen.
Mr. Crawford, Ohio, who has had ex
celh id fac'Htiex for making observations,
said that he had yet to find any good
evidence that the influence of pollen ex
tends beyond the seed. T. J. Barrill,
Illinois, I that he had been unable
to detect any difference in the fruit of
pistillate strawberries, on account of the
kind of t H>lleu used for fertilization.
A. H Fuller. New Jersey, claimed that
repeated ’nvestlgativus only confirmed
his eonvutionft in regard to the influence
of the pollen reaching m» far beyond the
seed as U' effect the fruit sufficiently in
many to change size, form,
color and even the flavor. T. Wilde,
Muhigat.. told how he had tested the
cwMMdng of strawberries for three years
with variable results. The influence of
pollen ia his tests had not always proved
. .•rum, but he was sure it had occurred.
.1 L, Budd, lowa, told of experi
ment tn* 5 by him some rears ago with
several nmnt the ('olfaxlan acid berry.
Ry on« part of (he raws the wild straw-
Iwrry was planted; by another piece
sotte ten "rows away the Wilson, by
another Use Downer'* Prolific. Where
iheCs>tf*x plant* were fertilised with
the wild berry the fruit wss small
«nd atwst where fertilised bv the Witeon,
lanerr and *w»r. where fertilised by the
Dewao s PrOific, lighter in crier.
rounder and sweeter. These charges,'
Prcfjssor Budd claimed, were perfectly
evident. He is now growing Chas.
Downing and fertilizes with Downer’s
Prolific. The Downing does not do well
self-fertilized, but needs more pollen be
side. Professor Budd thinks the cross
makes it larger and better in shape.-
Arie York World.
Washing Sheep.
Washing sheeps in the old-fashioned
way is a barbarism xvhich deserves to be
come obsolete. For a farmer to stay
some hours up to the waist in the cold
stream vainly endeavoring to wash the
wool clean in muddy water, wrestling
with the struggling sheep, and turning
them out on to dusty roads or an unclean
yard to drain, is a waste of effort and a
risk to health, as well as absurd and
worse than useless. The wool is made
harsh and rough and if it is left on the
sheep to recover its yolk and softness it
loses in the meanwhile its partial cleanli
ness. It is then rated as unwashed and
its loss of weight brings no advantage
in gain in price. The usual reduction of
one-third from the price of washed wool
for unwashed is less than the loss of
weight by washing, so that the farmer
who invites colds, chills and rheumatism
by the barbarous fashion of washing his
flock in the brook or the mill pond actu
ally pays a considerable sum for his privi
lege, while his neighbor who
saves himself from the disagreeable
and dangerous exposure gets a substan
tial premium for his wisdom. The nu
merous owners of sheep who are finishing
their first year’s experience in the busi
ness will do well to avoid this supposed
necessity and save both trouble and
monev.
The yolk of wools is a natural pro
vision for keeping the fleece in good
condition and preventing its felting into
a compact mass upon the sheep's back.
It is a secretion from the follicles of the
skin in which the fibres are rooted, and
which are supplied with glands that
secrete the oily, soluble soap of which
the yolk consists. The yolk is a com
pound of oil and potash, which is in
fact a soap, soluble in cold water, and
contains a large proportion of free and
uncombined potaffi. The potash con
tained in the yolk is sufficient to give
valuable fertilizing properties to the
water in which the wool is washed, and
is economically separated from the
water by the French wool manufacturers
and sold to the farmers. For this reason
the oi l fashion of washing sheep is a
great waste, and it is better to tub-wash
the wool and use the waste water as a
liquid manure for grass or as an addition
to the manure heap.—Aew York Times.
About Seed.
In either planting or sowing, the
quality of the seed is of more value than
many persons suppose. If the seed is
mixed with foul seed, and all seed not
specially cleaned is more or less so, the
time spent in fully cleaning is time well
spent. Grain seeds should be first cleaned
over sieves specially prepared for the
various species. If very extra seed is re
quired, this may be gotten by casting
the seed across the barn floor. The
heaviest, will fly furthest. Now, if you
always save your seel from thishexvy,
perfect seed, sowing the next perfectly
cleaned grade for the general crop, it
will lie—if you start with pure seed—but
a few years until you have that in most
respects up to a true pedigree variety.
In relation to crops that require culti
vating, a short series of years will con
vince any experimenter of the absolute i
necessity of using none but the best seed.
Take the potato, as an instance. The
writer years ago increased the earliness
of the Mercer potato a week by planting i
liberal pieces of the seed end, with only
three eyes left, and got also smoothness 1
by Meeting as seed only smooth, medium
shaped specimens. While the average
of the crops—and in scarce seasons, small
potatoes—wore planted for the market
crops, the prime specimens were always
saved for planting for see 1.
The true wav to cause a variety to be
come weak and in time unfit for cultiva
tion is to plant inferior seed. As being
well attested, the following experiment
of Major Alvard, of Houghton farm,
will serve as a case in point: “With
eighty-two varieties of potatoes the av
erage weight per hill from the whole
tuber medium sized—as seed was
thirty six ounces; that from the usual
cutting— about, three eyes—twenty-four
and a half ounces; that from one eye,
twenty ounces!'’
Although particular seasons may mod
ify this, yet it i« n well-known fact that,
except that on rich, specially prepared
soil, where the young plant quickly gets
hold, no good run b * done by planting
small cats of potatoes, and here again,
is another lesson; the richer ths soil
near the sard th ■ better for the crops.—
South uni 11* a’.
llroi|»es.
VttGt-rraut.E Sovi\—Put a pic cos not-k
that is not too fat and any bones left from
roast i eef in a saup kettle with as much
water as will be needed for soup, and set
the kettle on the fire. As soon as the
water boils add potatoes, carrots, relery.
an onion ami a small Satoy cablaige, all
cut in small pi“ccs, and salt to taste.
Simmer fur two hours and a half; re
move the bones and pork an I serve.
Cork Battfk cakes. —Two cupfuls of
white cornmeal, one cup full of flour,
lwo cupfuls of tuilk or water, one egg,
ore basting-s|X»onful of melted lard, a
little salt, one tcasnoonful of biking
powder. Make a hollow in the middle
of the meal aud flour, put in all the other
ingredients and stir up smooth. When
there is no milk to mix with, add a spoon
ful of syrup to make the cakes brown
easily oa the griddle.
Grovno Rick Pcboix®. —Boil a large
lablespoonful of ground rice in a pint of
new milk after first mixing it into a
smooth paste with a little cold water or
milk ; add for flavoring half ate ispoon
ful of cinnamon and a little thinly-pared
lemon rind. When cold add a quarter
of a |M>und of sugar creamed up with the
same quantity of butter, and two well
beaten eggs. Bake with a crust around,
in pie plates.
Sweeko Eeoa.—Work four ounces of
boiled or potted ham to a smooth paste;
add a pinch of cayenne and a teaapoonful
of anchovy pa«tc. Hard-bril six egg*,
when cold remove the shells; cut a thin
slice of the large end of each; take out
the yolk’ and pid them in a morJa*- with
a third of their bulk of table butter; a
HtUnaalt and nutmeg; add the ham and
very little hot soup or water: lieat It j
gently; proas the paste into the empty [
whites; arrange neatly on a dish, small •
end upward; garnish liberally to hide
the lower end, and serve.
Household Hints.
Clean tea or coffee cups with scouring J
brick. It makes them look as good as
new.
Apples keep best in a temperature as j
near as the freezing point as possible
without actually freezing.
If flat-irons are rough and smoky, lay i
a little fine salt on a flat surface and rub -
them well. It will smooth them and !
prevent sticking.
For sleeve protectors, cut off the foot ■
of worn out stockings, turn down a
run in a rubber cord top and bottom, ;
and you have a nice pair of sleeve pi otec- ;
tors.
When you have spilled anything on
the stove, or milk has boiled over and a
suffocating smoke escapes, sprinkle the
spot with a quantity of salt; this will
stop it.
A Gray Squirrel Farm.
William Penn Tuttle, a farmer living
on the Dover Point road, has for some i ,
time past been engaged in leisure hours j
cultivating and promoting the gray i i
squirrel industry, until he has to-day in
a belt of woods near his residence several :
hundred of the nimble, bushy-tailed,
cunning creatures, running about wither
soever they will, some of them tame as <
kittens, others wild as hawks, and really
the most interesting and funny lot of
live stock ever seen in these parts. In
fact, his “woods are full of ’em,” ans ;
he takes infinite pleasure in seeing them ■
frisk about over the ground, up and i
down the trees, and in and out of their j
holes.
It has not been an unfrequent occur- >
rence in the past to sets dozens of them :
all at once running around the house or |
chatteling away from the window sills i
at the family inside. Once or twice
every day in the cold wintry sea: on the
owner visited the woods with a supply oT
corn and other things which they will
eat, and as he approached scores of the
nimble things would be seen skipping
toward him from all directions, and as he
threw out the com they were on hand to |
pick it up, and look whichever way he ;
mighty he would see them sitting erect,*
taking their rations in the heartiest fadl
ion.
On being asked h6w he keeps the cats
and dogs from devouring them and the <■
vandal boys from shooting and destroys
ing them utterly, he said no cat dared to *
touch one of them, for a dozen would be I
on the feline's ba -k at once and kill him i
outright; and as for dogs they are not
spry enough to c itch one if they tried ■
ever so hard. As for the gunners who--
might go for them for game, he hid rigid- ,
ly forbidden anybody and everybody to.;
venture with a gun upon the premises at ;
all, under the extreme penalties of the !
law, which he would certainly enforce if
a shot should be fired. The law gives
him just the s ime right to keep and prop
agate his squirrels as it docs his horses,
cattle and swine, and everybody knows
that he intends to exercise the right and
“come down” on anybody who invades ,
it. And that is correct. Nobody tres- I
passes or interferes, and when he wants t. i
a squirrel pie, he has it.—
Denwrat. •
—
OlnsA Byes. *
nearly all the artificial eyes u-cd fw
this country are imported from Europe;
Attempts have been mad? to
turc them here, but the industry
never flourished, The finest eyes are ‘
made in Paris, and goed ones come from
Germany and Switzerland. The eyes arc ‘
made of glass, and are in the shape of a
hollow hemisphere. The pupil is formeci f
of colored glass, and its execution re
quires the greatest skill on the part of '
the workman. The white of the eye is !
imitated with wonderful accuracy. It is I
of cream xvhite, yellowish white, blue
white, or any other shade so as to exactly
match the white of the remaining real.
eye. Before the final glazing is put on i
small rial veins are traced with a pencil i
on the surface. There is a slight ridge
along the edges which enables the muscles
of the socket to take hold and move the ;
ball.
Dealers in artificial eyes, keep them in
separate boxes, which they call the blue
box. the black box, the brown boxt and I
so on. These boxes contain eyes of all 1
sizes, from as large as a marble to one
as large as a pigeon’s egg.
A dealer in artificial eyes slid: “W i
fit the eyes to the sockets by heating and
softening the ball, and then cutting it ’
with hot scissors to the propen size and
shape. The hollow part fits over the
stump of the eye. When this is neatly
; don? the eye mn'es as ren iily as the
othe r eye. and it is difficult to tell which |
! one is glass. The great majority of arti
ficial eyes are used by workmen, espe
, cially those in iron foundries, where
many eyes are put out by sparks. It h
seldom that a woman has a glass eye.
‘•Artificial eyes are used not only to
improve the appearance, but also to pro
tect the stump from injury, which would j
•be apt to affect the other eye. An arti
ficial eye costs five dollars, and lasts from ‘
one to five yt ars. It is acted upon by the
I salt of perspiration and of tears, whi'/h ;
dulls and roughens the surface. For
this reason it is customary to take, the
eye out at night, which also give* a rest
to the socket. If the lachrymal duct lias ’
not been destroyed, a man can cry a«
well with an artificial eye as with a goo»:J
one."— Aew York Bvm.
A Valuable Mocking Bini.
Henry Durand 1 a a mocking bird that
is known from Jacksonville to Boston, j
The bird is probably the finest singer in
the South. He is not only a fine singer
but a valuable adjunct t<» a restaurant.
The bird seems to know when the dining
room is tilled with human tenants, and
upon such occasions he will open his
mouth and imitate a spring chicken, 1
; The imitation is perfect, and unless some
J one happens to spy the bird aud point
him out, everybody will begin to look
about for the coop of spring chickens.
The bird generally keeps up the imitation !
until the cry of the spring chicken so
sharpens the appetite of the tourist that
hr orders one. Out of season, a spring i
; chicken comes high, and when the tour- j
ist lias paid his bill and gone the bird is ,
given a fresh potato. —A.' j
tita.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
PLEASANT READING FOR FEM
ININE READERS.
Motherhood.
Cnly a look from the eyes of a babe,
As it lay upon my knee.
Yet I shall know that wondrous gaze
When we meet in eternity.
Angel of Death! ye cannot then
Tty heartstrings rend apart;
1 shall hold my boy forever and aye
Clone to my yearning heart.
Motherhood! how dearly bought!
We little know the cost.
Until we suffer birth and death,
Until we've loved and lost.
—Martha E. Fratt, in Good Housekeeping.
Mme. Barrios.
Th? name of Mme. Barrio*, the wife
of the dead dictator of Central America,
is frequently mentioned in the public
prints of late, writes a New York corre
spondent. If is said that she gave $50,-
0)0 to promote the recent expedition on
the city of Mexico. She is a remarkable
woman. Ruflno Barrios, strong as he
was in iron will and despotic tendencies,
had a helpmeet in his wife. He had nine
children, four of them by a former
wife. All of them have been left to the
care of Mme. Barrios, and arc living
xvith her here. The eldest son comes
from Wast Point every Friday night,
being a student at the military academy
there. A gentleman who was xvell ac-
with the affairs hf General Bar
rios told me to-night that, the general
left property to the amount of $10,000,-
030. About a third of this went to Mme.
Barrios, and she has control over the rest
until the children become of age. She
is a small woman, with black eyes and
raven hair and dark complexion. She
has a” commanding manner aud speaks
several languages.
Cost Her Weight in Gold.
Mrs. Jesus Castro, an aged Mexican
lady, now residing at American Flag, in
the Santa Catilma mountains, is perhaps
the only woman xvho, literally speaking,
ever cost her husband her weight in
gold. It is said that in the early gold
■ digging days of California she was a
i resident of Sonora, in which State she
■ was born and grew to womanhood. When
about the age of seventeen a paternal
uncle, but a few years her seni'r, re
turned with his companions, gold laden,
from the El Dorado of the West and b?-
* came desperately enamored of her. He
sought her hand in marriage and xvas ac-
i cepted, but the church refused, because
j of the near relationship existing between
i them, to solemnize the marriage. Per
-1 suasion being in vain, he tried the power
, of gold to win his way, and succeeded
; only by the payment of her weight in
‘ gold. She at the time weighed 117
• pounds, and against her in the scales the
: glittering dust was shoveled. Her as-
I iianced husband still had sufficient of
this world’s goods to provide a comfort
able home, aud they were married. They
lived happily together, and she bore to
her husband eleven children. In the
course of years he died and she married
again, Mr. Castro being her second hus
band. The abave is a fact and not sic
! tion, as living witnesses can prove.
j A Sensible Yoanjr Wife.
L Young Wife—“ How do you like my
I cookittjpf --. Cwpe. now, give me your
lio-v docs it compare
Young Huslwid—“lf you want my
honest opinion. || Will say your cooking
I h fair, but it is Ji-/, quite equal to rnoth
! Y. W. —‘Tdffl not expect it would be
i equal to your mother’s, but 1 wish you to
; remember that your mother had m:uiy
■ years experience before you were capable
j of forming a judgment of her
Y. II.—“By Jove, you are right. [
; never would have thought of that,though
1 I assure you I would have made nocom
meat on your cooking if you had not
asked for my honest opinion. The point
I you have made is a good one, but it is en
; tircly overlooked by young married men.'’
Y. W.—“lt is, and unfortunately it is
■ not thought of by young wives. The idea
of any man saying to a girl just a year or
two out of school: ‘You can’t cook a»
> well as mother,’ or ‘you don't manage as
■ well S» mother.' and never taking into
consideration that mother has had an ex
perience of forty or fifty years! Suppose
the young wife should turn round and re
ro:t ‘you’re not half as skillful a work
man a* my fat her f ”
I Y. H.—“ And I wonder she doesn't.
■ It’s a poor rule that won’t work both
! ways.”
And so it is. wh . n you come to think
: of it.-— Eosti»< Courier.
Pretty Miss Chamberlain.
| There apjKars to be m >re magic in a
pretty face and form than In a level head,
says a New York corremondent in the
Philadelphia Thms. 1 don't mean by
this suggestion that Miss Chamberlain,
the Ainer.cui beauty, is not an mtelli
gimt girl. I believe she is. But it is
not h» r brains that ha< «»iv<*n her a world-
xvide reputation. It is her comely face
i and winning manners. I saw this young
' lady, made famous by the gossips, and
had an opportunity of studying her
fetturvs and the play of her mind. I
said to myself as I looked at this young
woman, “Why, she is not so beautiful
as my fancy l»ad pictured her." She is
’ eeated in the midst of luxurious sur
rounding* at the Victoria hot.-L Her
father, mother aud herself have a suite
! of fiw or sis of the finest rooms in the
house. At the first look the girl's easy
manners strike you more forcibly than
her face. But when the deep, mellow
tones of her voic<- call you back from
j the recollection of wjiat you have read of
her lieautv, you will find the charm of
her features growing «i>on you. She was
caressing a shepherd dog given her by the
1 Princess of Wales, herself a lovely
woman. This titled L<ly took a great
interest in Mis* Chamberlain, showed
her marked attention, and introduced
her into the swell society of all England.
Yet these distinguished attentions do not
*eem to have turned the head of this
American girl.
I But let ns look her in the face. It is
I a long, yet oval, and chisscled in a very
j delicate "mold. The profile is regular.
» except the nose, which is a trifle large,
j Thehnouth isfathcr delicately cut, and
I oftentime* decidedly expressive. The
j eyes mildly blue. Their eff’-et on the
i countenance is strengthened by the re-
markably heavy arched eyebrows. Her
hair is light brown, and just heavy
enough to lend a charm to an almost
perfectly molded head. She seems
rather tall, lithe, and willowy. The first
impression she makes upon you is that
here is a beautiful girl just out of her
school-house, instead of' a xvoman of
twenty-three. Her manners arc grace
itself, and add very much to the
impression her face makes on ex'ery one.
I can imagine that under the inspiration of
high social life she would become a bril
liant figure of any company. In her
present surroundings there are many evi
dences of her five years’ residence abroad.
She loves Europe. She is here with her
parents only for a short stay, and the*
will return to the land where she has
made so many conquests.
It is said that this girl comes rightly by
her good looks and polish. Her ances
tors for five generations have been ladies
and gentlemen of means and intelligence.
There is no affectation about her, and
her dress is in such perfect taste —rich
and plain—that it defies description.
While she is interested in England, she
seems still to be in love with her native
land. Taking it all in all, there is noth
ing especially wonderful in this young
lady, except her good sense and self-pos
session. She has been flattered enough to
be spoiled, but seems to have escaped
this misery. Os cours?, her face is her
fortune, in addition to the money she
possesses. In our life she would attract
no more attention than hundreds of
other girls over whom xve do not rave.
But for the wide publicity that has been
given to the shape of her form and face,
she would be lost among the crowd of al
most as pretty women yon can see every
day along our thoroughfare.
Fashion Notes.
Bcurette ginghams are shown.
Flowers are arranged as pompons and
aigrettes.
Blue is reinstated and is seen in all
materials.
Amber is said to be the most popular ol
the yellows.
Pongee silk embroidered with chenille
is a novelty.
Plain and figured velvets have illumi
nated effects.
Gilt beads give place to those of cop
per and bronze.
The Japanese craze has impregnated
the spring goods.
Surahs and rhadaines in velvet tints
continue in favor.
Cream, ecru and gray crochet laces are
used for dress trimmings.
“Arrangements” in strides are as x’a
ried as during the past season. »
Jet panels have designs of wheat with
rich cut pendants like wheat ears.
Entire skirt fronts of embroidery and
bead work come among importations.
Ivory-white vests are worn xvith velvet,
silk and fine wool basques of dark col
ors.
Mohair trimmings have dots of tinsel
through the centre, aud are edged with
tinsel.
Blue striped seersuckers again make
their appearance, and form a very neat
costume.
Norfolk bodices are again worn, as
xvell as postilion bodices, which are short
on the hips.
Duchesse lace over white satin duchesse
a popular bridal dress among the
daughters of xvfcalth.
Rough cloths of every kind, but par
tieulhriy boucle and bontonneux stuffs,
arc the favorites for spring jackets.
French percalaa are shown in beauti
ful designs and colorings. They are in
plain and coral stripes and set figures.
Beads of all colors, sizes and shapes
are used for bonnet embellishment,
amber aud dark brown being especially
liked.
Ginghams in blue, tan. brown, ecru
and cream, richly embroidered, form en
tire dresses, with vest, collar and cuffs of
vel vet.
Neck bands, sometimes called dog col
lars, are brought out in new styles, with
finer finish, more ornamented and finer
than ever.
.Collars, cuffs and chemisettes are
made of printed cambric. The collars
worn with closely-buttoned bodices often
open at the side.
Some of the new bonnets are marvel*
of color combinations, in pale, delicate
tones of pink, blue, green, mauve, aud
gold xvith cream.
There is an attempt to make riding
habit* fuller in the skirt and a trifle
longer, to add waistcoats and brande
bourgs to the body.
Brown still continues the color for the
masses, and it is to reign in the new
goods, notwithstanding the brightest
combinations are to be worn.
White heliotrope is in high popularity
now, but is too delicate to xvuir in a cor
sage laniquet, so finds its place on the
shoulder of many a ball dress.
Puffed sleeves will be worn with thir.
dresses. Not the round, full puff, but a
sort of melon-shaped puff, large at the
shoulder and tapering at the wrist.
Ponqtadour ribbons xvith vines, or
“sprigged” in delicate collors and nar
row satin ribbons will be used for dress
trimmings as well as for millinery pur
poses.
Velvet caps for morning wear are in
capote shape, edged in front with a
double frilling of broad lace and trim
med with loops and ends of white ribbon
velvet.
Some of the new corsages resemble and
are called coat-of-maii, since they are en
tirely covered with metallic braid, and
beads and buttons are an additional sug
gestion.
Very fine flannel in pink, blue or
creamy while has the seams feather
stitchtHi in silk of a contrasting color and
the silk waistband is tied with ribbon
with long ends. To such ends have the
underskirts of to-day arrived.
Blondes are running into yellow and
pink without regard to riiade, just be
cause Worth lias said these colors can be
worn by them, but the result in many
cases is a multipEcity of colors and no
study of shading, which is the end de
sired.
The habit of prompt and unquestiona
ble obedience to whatever appeals to us
as duty, puts us in the very best condi
tion of learning more and higher truths.
LOVE’S ARITHMETIC.
She was one and I was one, •
Strolling o'er the heather,
Yet before the year was done
We were one together.
Love’s a queer arithmetician
in the rule of his addition
He lays down the proposition:
One and one make one. »
She and I, alias, are two,
Since, unxvisely mated,
Having nothing elss to do,
We were separated.
Now, 'twould seem that by this action
Each was made a simple fraction,
A et ’tis held in love’s subtraction
One from one leaves two.
—Chicago News.
PITH AND POINT.
Awfully bored—Atesian wells.
The only thing that can make money
without advertising—the mint.
A growing evil—Your next door
neighbor's squalling baby.— SomervUU
Journal.
A prize fighter is always willing to
take his pay by the pound.— Boston
Budget.
The shoemaker is an authority or»
soles: the dressmaker on bodice.— Boston
Courier.
In Paris it costs three dollars to ere
mate a body, and it is xvell urn-ed.—
Boston Post.
The price of a young giraffe is $2,500.
A seventy-five cent ladder will do just as
xvell.— Burlington Free Press.
Some says a beau on a girl’s arm is
worth two on her hat. That depends on
how tight it is tied. —Blizzard,.
‘LA man never loses anything by
politeness.” How about his seat in a
street car.— Burlington Free Press.
There is an art in putting on the
gloves, says a fashion paper. It is easy
enough after you get your hand in.—
Call.
Transactions in poultry are apt to breed
bad blood. Men are always indignant
when they get a fowl of each other.—
Burlington Free Press.
“Is the tide going out?” said a sailor
to a gentleman xvho was passing a house
xvhere a marriage ceremony had just
taken place.— National Weekly.
It is said that “love i.f blind,” and
perhaps this may account for the fact
that txvo lovers never care for any light
in the front parlor.— New Haven News.
“Yes,” said the pawnbroker, “it is
certainly monotonous sitting at this desk
from morn to night, nevertheless I take
some interest in the work.”— Boston Cour
ier.
She—“ What a man you are, George;*
always making fun of the ladies’ taper
xvaists. He—“ And what should I do
with a taper, but to make light of it?”—
Boston Transcript.
There is very little between a baby’s
smile and heaven, and a xvoman is quite
as near it xvhen there is only a xvindow
glass between herself and a display of
spring bonnets.— Fall Biter Adcanee.
Murray hill nobs hire men by the year
to take care of their cat*. Ordinary peo
ple have no trouble with their eats. They
just turn them‘loose and let the neigh
bors look after them.— Philadelphia Call.
“Why does a mustard plaster beat a kiss!”
Haiti little Johnny Toddle to his sister.
Beeauss you see. a kiss is airnplv bliss,
While mustard plasters, don't you know,
are blister.”
—Dansville Breeze.
“To be visible n comet must be seen,”
observes an astronomer. This sounds
reasonable. We presume to be invisible
a comet must be unseen. It isn’t hard
to be an astronomer if you only know
hoxv. Graphic.
Bcbe was dressing herself. “What
are you doing, Eebe?” cried her bonne.
“Don’t you see you are putting on your
stockings wrong side out?” “That’s be
cause there is a hole, on the other side,”
answered Bcbe, with becoming dignity.
—French Joke.
A naturalist says that when a lion Jte.
comes old and unable to injure a man uis
mane falls out. If you have a spite against
a lion don’t tackle him until hi»
mane falls out. P. S.—And don’t tackle
him then. Hire another man to do it for
vou. It would be safer.— Norristown
Herald. I '
THE SWEETEST GF ALL FLOWERS.
The poet calls his love a blushing rose,
Or modest violet.
Sometimes compare her cheeks to jacqu»-
minots,
Her breath to mignonette.
But my lore is the sweetest flower that blows,*
With lox-e|for her I’m crazy;
Hhf is no violet or blushing rose,
Oh! no, tor “she’s a daisy.”
—Boston Courier.
The Oal-Mcal King.
“Yes, I know Schumacher, the oat
meal king who has lost his big mills by
tire,” said the Ohio passenger, “and. au
odder little man you never saw. He's a
German, of course, about sixty years old,
about as big a* a grasshopper and just
as lively, talks dutchv and writes the
most vigorous English, hates whisky
aud beer as he does a liar and works
sixteen hours a day. He came to this
< ountryas poor us a church mouse, startml
si little grocery and beer saloon, run that
awhile and then began making oat meal
by a hand-mill in his wood-shed. Finally
he >-old his saloon, peddled oat meal and
farina from a hsind-cart, which he whe *!ed
about town himself, and in thirty years
built up the largest factory of that kind
in the world, He xvosft hire a man in
sny capacity who drinks whisky or even
beer, and has about him several hundred
imploye*--, who are mostly Germans,
and. strange to say, zealous prohibition
iris like himself. He once brought over
from Germany a workman who was
master of a m-w process. This man (atna
tinder a two-years’ contract at a large
sfi.ary, his expenses being guaranteed.
Th" second day after he began work
Schumacher learned that he was a beer
drinker. In two hours the workman
left the mills, never to return, and with
a check for nearly $5,000 in his pocket.
This was the price Schumacher had
paid for upholding his principles and
enforcing hrs rules to the very letter.”—
ChPago Herald.
Due is gentlest when one is strongest , 4.
in a resolution.
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