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THE REALM OF FASHION.
A Necessity For Wintor.
A necessity for the winter's ward
robe is the shirt waist of fine French
fannel, the choice of patterns in this
serviceable fabric being large and
varied.
As here illnstrstedl, by May Manton,
LADIES' SHIRT WAIST.
krown and mode shades formed a
fancy bayadere stripe, and the fronts
are closed with smooth shining brass
bttons almost as large as ten cent
pieces. At each side of the narrow
box plait in centre front are five back
ward turning side plaits that overlap
each other at the neck, and cause
pretty fulness across the bust. Over
lapping plaits at the waist line arrange
the fronts in a becoming pouch that is
decidedly up to date. The back is
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LADIESB' HOME GO)WN.
rsnaged at the top in seven small even
pbee box plaits that are gradu
to taper pereeptably at the waist
he, where they are grouped closery
together.
The toip is joined to the lower edge
at pointed yoke which can be made
wth or without a centre seem as pre
lIred. Shoulder seas join the yoke
to the fronts and single under-arm
ssems join the fronts to the back. A
saller bend haishes the neek over
wMich may be worn a stock or white
re' collar with bow tied as here
shows. The shirt sleeves have be
enming fulness gathered at the top
m. d the small openings at the wrists
wre edged with a plaiting of silk or
Thestraight earhkae rounded ends
b est style sad a belt of ribbon
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plete the close adjustment. The fronts
have easy fulness gathered attheneck
and close in centre front with buttons
and buttonholes, the ribbon girdle in
serted at the under-arm seams confin
ing the fulness at waist line. The
standing collar that finishes the neck
is topped with a circular turn over
portion that ripples becomingly. The
two seamed sleeves meet the require
ments of size as decreed by fashion
for this season, the trimrningof velvet
at the top being arranged to meet that
on front of waist. The wrists are
completed with pointed cuffs that flare
over the hands.
The lower edge of gown is shaped
low and round in front while short in
centre back. The graduated lower
portion of flounce being quite narrow
in front and extendling to half the
length of skirt in hack. The flounce
is made with a narrow heading and
the foot is trimmed with three evenly
spaced rows of black satin ribbon.
Graceful and Generally Becoming.
This style of skirt is exceedingly
graceful and very generally becoming
to stout as well as slim figures. As
here illustrated, gray poplin was the
material used, gathered satin ribbon
in the same shade edging the flounce
and foot of front, while jet passe
menterie forms the attractive decor
ation.
The skirt has a narrow front gore
and two wide circular portions that
meet in a seam at the centre back.
The placket may be finished in centre
back or be made at the left front seam
under the flounce. Short darts fit
tlhe top closely over the hips and the
fulness in back is laid in backward
turning plaits at each side of the
centre seam, where pausementerie
loops and olives unite them according
to the prevailing mode. The skirt is
of fashionable length and measures
about four yards at the foot. The
circular founce is applied over the
lower edge and ripples slightly at the
front edges, where it is graduated to
very narrow width at the top. The
front gore presents a panel effect that
is exceedingly stylish. The skirt may
be suitably made of any seasonable
material in silk or wool, and a charm
ing effect is producneed when the front
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Bil1 ARP'S WEEKL1Y LETTER.
BAr.TOW MIAN APPRO'ES JUBILA.
TINGf JUST NOW.
IS G LAl TuHAT PEACE 1 ASSURED.
{Christmas Approaches and William's
r Hlonsehold Are PRslly Pre
paring Therefor.
t It was a fitting timne to jubilate for
peace. The nearer to Christmas the
3better, for next nndany all the Chris
tian world will celebrate the day and
the event when a mnltitnde of the
heavenly host sang "Peace on earth
arnd good will to man." Christmas is
near at hand,and the.nsnal signs are in
almost every household. My folks are
splbpping around and picking up little
things and hiding them from the chil
dren and me. They keep all secrets
from me for fear I'll tell or let the cat
out of the hag some way. My wife
has said for fifty bears that I can't
keep a secret and I reckon it's so. I
never have any seerets myself and I
don't see much good in them. They
are selfish. My female folkRs are mak
ing a lot of rag dolls-great big ones
and they are fine and made from first
class patterns and stuffed with cotton
and their faces painted. Every year
ling grandchild and two years and
three or four years has got to have one
and some of them have got to go to
Texas and Florida by express. But
they are indestructible and have on all
the garments of sure enough babies
except some.
It looks like that girls never get too
old for dolls until they get married.
The little grandchild who lives with
us is now ten years old and hasabean
tiful Paris doll that her Uncle Tom
Brumby gave her, and since he has
made such a good name at Manila un
der Dewey she is prouder than ever of
her doll and had to have finer dresses
made for it and I had to put a canopy
top on her cradle. These children
have been saving every copper they
get to buy little presents for each
other and seem to realize that there is
as much pleasure in giving as receiv
ing.
Christmas seems like a rest from a
year's work-a time when everybody
tries to lay aside the cares and anxie
ties of life and give pleasure to those
around him. Peace and good will and
good things to eat prevail and always
have ever since Christmas began to be
observed. Three hundred years ago
an English poet, who was a farmer
named Tom Tnsser, wrote a Christmas
poem beginning
And now let's play and have good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Later on in the centuries the couplet
was changed in old Virginia to
Apple jack and simmon beer,
Christmas comes but once a year.
And away down south in Dixie the
darkies made another change
Christmas comes but once a year,
And every nigger must have his sheer.
And they did have it in old ante
bellum days. The household servants
were always remembered with shawls,
handkerchiefs, store stockings, pipes,
tobacco, pocket knives, scissors, etc.
The old time darkies haven't forgotten
it, and are proud to retaliate when
they can. Old Uncle Sam killed his
three hogs yesterday and sent us up a
big pan full of spareribs and back
bones as a Christmas gift. Of course
we will have to remember him when
the day comes, and he knows it.
But our people have for years made
toQ big a frolic of Christmas. Christ
lans ought to observe the day with
solemn,grateful thoughts and feelings.
There is no excuse for frolic and
levity.
For centuries the shepherds of the
mountains in Germany, Italy and
8witzerland have religiously observed
the day by marching down into the
valleys with music and song, and their
Christmas carols are- heard echoing
from cliff to cliff for miles around
them. I wish that our boys would
quit shooting guns and firecrackers
on that day. It" looks heathenish,
Away down in Mezico they celebrate
Jadas Iscariot's day about like our
boys observe Christmas. They make
pasteboard images of Judas and fasten
them on the trees and lamp poets £nd
telegraph poles and stau them with
Afrecasckers and set the fases all on
fire at once and burst the igures into
a thousand fragments. This day' is
the neut alter Easter and belongs to
the boys and the rabble. But Christ.
mat day should he observed as sern
ously as Easter day, and all this noisy
racket with firecrackers should be
postponed until Christmas is over.
There i. an old English superstition
that even the eattle aedel down in
or on Ghri e dey beenase the
was BorP1 in a seele where i-L
.e were ued to be kee btlbeeat.
gfe UerI't weasest to ehanga from
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S. B. McCUTCHEN,
....BANKER..,.
T. L. STRINCFELLOW, Oashier.
A Genral Ranking BlusRiness Transa ted, Golloetion4 olicilf- and pro
returns made.
Cor1 Spring and Milani Sts., Shreveport, La,
Christmas is the most notable day
in the world's history. Every event,
1 every birth and death an(i the rising of
every sun is dated Anno I)onini--- the
Syear of our Lordl. Every letter heal
: andl the (late of every issue of every
Snewspaper in all Christendom proves
the ti nth of the birth of Christ I898
a years ago. 1898: There is a solemn
Smeaning in those figures---a meaning
9 that all the business world acknowl
t edges, for it governs courts and com
Smerce, and both Jew and Gentile con
Sform to it, whether it he their faith or
( not. It is an argument, an evidence
Sof the truth of Christianity that
Sstrengthens with every year that comes.
SIf I was an infidel or an agnostic IT
-wouldn't (late my letters 1898. I would
(date them from some other great man's
,hirth-- Julius Caesar or Cromwell or
. Napoleon or the declaration of inde- I
1 pendence.
Now is a fitting time for every man
º andl woman to stop and think and take
Saccount of stock like the merchants
do once a year. Let us all foot up
the good we have done and the had, if
any, during the year that has gone
the pleasure and the pain we have
given to others, the blessings we have
had from a kind Providence. The
passing of a whole year is a serious
reflection. Even a day concerns us,
for it will never return. It is gone
forever, and we should be careful how
we spend it. The poet says:
SCrunt that day lost if the descending sun
SSees from thy hand no generous action
done.
Alas! how many days have we lost!
SNow, let us all do all the good we can
Sduring these Christmas holidays. Let
us make every member of the family
happy and as many outside as we can. It
is a miserable prayer to say, "Lord
Sbless me and my wife, my son John
and his wife--us four and no more.
, But rather let us say with the sweet
poetess:
Oh, Lord, be pitiful this day,
SLet none unchristianized go,
º Let not the poor for help in vain imn or,
Let none from any door,
rnwarmed, unfed,
No kind word said,
Helpless be turned away.
-BILLt An, in Atlanta Constitution.
GREATEST BELLE IN MACHIAS.
Pretty Polly Mclntosh and Her Many
Aeeoomplnihments.
The most accomplished parrot in
this part of the world is owned by
Henry McIntosh, of Machias, Me., who
wouldn't swap her for a trotting horse.
Poll is a blue-headed Amazon parrot,
and was captured 2,000 miles up the
broad South American river two years
ago last fall by George Woodruff, a
sailor, who brought her home to live
in Maine. Poll is a beauty. She has
a blue hood and other garments of
golden brown, green and scarlet; but
it is not her beauty, which is only
feather deep, that is her chief charm.
She is more knowing than a terrier
dog and is extremely polite, and fur
thermore, she has a great ear for mu
sic. Miss Julia Flannery, who lives
next door to the Mclntoshes, has
taught Poll to sing and often now,
with an admiring audience of friends
and neighbors, the bird will sing a
popular concert, the like of which can
not be heard in any theater. The oth
er day Poll sang "At the Cross, at the
Cross, Where I First Saw the Light,"
"Throw Out the Life Line," and other
gospel hymns, accompanying Miss
Flannery with distinct words, fair
time and nearly correct tone. Then
she sang "After the Ball," keeping 3tep
with a sort of schottleche up and down
the cage. She can rapidly distinguish
airs played by Mr. McIntosh upon his
violin, and when she feeels like it will
sing "Anale Rooney," "After the Ball,"
"Home, Sweet Home," and other
songs, without request or prompting
further than the sound of the violin.
When asked to kiss visitors, Poll will
put hert beak close against their faces
and give a geigulhaE smack. When vis
itors are ready to depart, she will say
without prompting, "Well, good dat'
come again sonle time." Sometimes
she Is a tlttle balky, and, like many
a human singer, has to be coaxed and
flattered 'before she will sing, offering
excuses such as "Bad cold," "Polly is
hoarse today," and "Nobody plays
since father took slck." No person
is more p1romibeat In Machits society
than Polly aMetatoasb.-Baager Irewa
Aa .t, ft.u.n, AEssmes oas.
It it Interestitsg $ recuil the fact
that Anthony irTolidpe, the novelist,
waw one oa the frnet uaglsa ueu to
slaed w% in fairer ofthe Ihaltted Stest
oamadnes.s Cu e. t ha dM tlhfp
SFASHION'S FANCIES, r.
Pheasants' wings are being
just as a momentary fancy upon
vet toques.
From Vienna, whence, by the
some admirable European fash
emanate, comes a gown of crepe
rhine of a vivid green, with lace t
mings; the bodice, rearm leather,
Sbroidered in white and gold, and 0
over cream chiffon; the basque
slashed to the hbalt and a rerise vel
collar gives just a touch of color,..
The fichu of silk muslin, fast
with pale blue muslin and pink
is figuring now at many dinner t
as well as at country garden pa
and this mode will he emphasized
on by headgear that resembles
Charlotte Corday cap. closely allied
the turban toques, that have suited
many pretty people this year.
Embroideries will be introduced.
the fronts of gowns in endless va
The narrow fronts over which'
dress seems to open assert theme
in many new styles, but now the
broiderles are flitting to the side
"els, which are to divide the front
the sides. This style will he r
on the bodice either for revers of
braces. /
However Inconvenient, we much
cept the inevitable. The gowns o
immediate future for day wear
fasten, many of them, at the
Some of the princess gowns owe
of their charms to this arran
but demand a beautiful figure, and
shirts with broad lace insertion
horizontally for the collars and
and perpendicunlarly down the
would lose half their charm if
were united any other way.
Many of the most lovely lace
have gauze let in and are
painted, while the chicken-skin
with tortoise-shell mounts, form
background for the most be
paintings. Others, again, such as
silk with ivory mounts, are not
painted, but inlaid with gold, and
of the gauze fans have quaint
patterns in spangles. Ostrich
fans have not gone out, but thef
for the moment subsidiary to
'ainled1 ones.
John Basch,
Dealer in and
Mannfactnrer of
BOOTS aid
No, 521 Market Street. between
and Texas. All work sold at low
prices. Repairing of every doe
seription neatly done.
Dr. C. RATZBURO, r
Dentist.
Offioe over Poer's Drgato~:e.
DR. W. C. SPEARMAYI
Physician and urg
Tewkana *ark.
DR. JOHN COIGY .
Dentist,
(Office over P. W. Bowers, Cor.
ket and Texas ets.,
Shreveport, - "
DR. T. I. COIXYS,
Dentist,
Omle in Zodiag Bailding, Teza
S Th r:Ac eui
(Ner COorporation Limit..) ,)
BKEEVPPOER - -
BoaringandDasýý chool for
Ladies and Children. Pbtn
roYag. solicited. For psrtioUw
lays address
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