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12 TOBACCO A UVELER. Class Distinctions Vanish Be fore the Use of the Weed. Monuments Raised to the Memory of "Poor Lo" Which Are a Slander, And Calculated to Fill the Hind of the Dime Novel Fiend With Erroneous Impressions —The Young Sport and the Old Tough. When the poet said that It was "one touch of nature which makes all the World akin" he could hardly have been acquainted with tobacco, or he would have said that the fragrant weed was the great leveler ot mankind, for no body who uses it hesitates to beg, bor row or steal it, according as the neces sity of the occasion requires. Some 1 j I noxk too Torse to smoke. f hew tobacco and others eschew it, but the latter are in a small minority. Sir Walter Kaleigh is credited with having first introduced tobacco to the iu-f|iiaintance of the En^iish-speakintr portion of the world's population. ii is knowleflut* on the subject was derived from the aboriginal Lo, to whom he gave a solemn prom ise that the event should not be forgotten. This accounts for the many monuments which have been raised in commemoration of the occur- rence. Those monuments are usually of wood, in the shape of a so-called In dian, and are placed in front of places where the weed can be obtained. These lares and penates are not always hand some, nor are they generally cood por traits of the nation's wards — in fact, they are usually positively ugly. The embryo cowboy whose visions of war like Comanches arc gathered from the artistic tieures which silently offer the passer-by a bunch of wooden cigars will find himself sadly deluded wiien he meets the simon-pure specimen. Any one who has met both in his travels will not hesitate to say that he never came BE SMOKES "THUEK-FORS." •cross an Indian standing patiently, -war in and year out, on a wooden jmju estal with one arm broken off, or with a piece of his nose soughed away. The person who enters a citrar store for the first time is bewildered by the many brands of cigars which he finds exposed for sale. They are contained in boxes, upon the covers of which are the pictures ot persons who presumably first smoked that particular brand, such as Queen Victoria ot England and Mar. rherita of Italy, as well as inanyothers •Sonie boxes have the names of the brands upon them, in which case they indicate the quality. For example, the "Lottery' cigar received that appella tion from the fact that only one in a thousand draws. The ''Flor de Cab- bagio" is the purest Castilliau for cab bage leaves, etc. The use of tobacco, particularly when made into cigarettes, is not limited to any age, race, color 01 previous condi tion ot servitude. Boys of ten years of age have even been known to carry up bucketsful of coal to their mothers, who V>uallv reward such acts of disinter ested irood-nature with a few pennies. which are prudently saved up by the proprietor ol a neighboring cisiar store. There is a law which forbids the sale of cisrarettes to persons under fourteen years of age. rat it is silent as to the wanner in which the fact shall be , L 7 proven. Most cigar storekeepers re quire an affidavit to be made by the youthful purchaser, while some few, more reckless probably, content them selves with merely asking the boy how old he is. and explain to him the reason for their inquisitiveness. It is almost unnecessary to mention that the small boy who indulges in the fragrant Havana is invariably truthful when in- OXK TOUCH OF NATURE. fei rotated upon the subject. Occa sionally one rinds a boy under fourteen smokirig cigarettes, but the reader can rest perfectly assured that in that case he lias been presented with them by his parents. The price of cigars depends upon the taste or the means of the purchaser. and ranges from 25 cents apiece to four i t live cents. The country visitor gen erally bnys th« latter, which are intend* ed for stress use only. The "blood' indulges in the high-priced one. The rough strikes a happy medium in the "straight five," which he puffs with an air quite lordly. The smoker is not the only one who receives the pleasure which results from the use of tobacco. Ladies walking along the streets fre quently derive a great deal of quiet en joyment from the inhalation of the fumes, without the disagreeable neces sity of doing any of the puffing. This is not exactly the case with chewing to bacco, however, and accounts for the in tense hatred which most women have for it in that form. But, then, the fair sex have so many whims that it is im possible to please them in everything. Another good use for tobacco stores lies in the tact that most of them dis play the official base ball scores for the i>enefit of the passing public, who "just drop in to see who won to-day," aud, having satisfied their curiosity, pass on to the next store to purchase their even ing's supply of cigars or smoking to bacco. It Is a mistake to suppose that all who smoke tobacco actually purchase it. The reader may have noticed a seedy individual diligently searching the gutter for some article. He is not seeking his lost prosperity, nor is he hunting for clean water in which to bathe. His ideas are not centered upon a missing coin or bank bill. Oh! no. He is simply picking up some unstnoked remnant, or butt, the existence of which testifies to the extravagance or possible dfsgust of a more fortunate fellow man. His industry is often rewarded with more butts than he needs for home con sumption, if he has a home, aud the rest— well, it is best to draw an im mense veil of charity over the future career of the overproduction, and dis miss the thought with the statement that scientists declare that nothing is totally destroyed. Tobacco is one of the freest articles— to some wople. Most consumers are compelled to purchase it, but there are a great many people who do not recog nize the fine distinctions of ueum and tuum where tobacco is concerned. A man who would scorn to borrow inone}' Hoes not hesiiute to beg for a chew from another's plug, even if that other man be an individual of whose existence he was previously wholly unaware. A pipe and a paper of smoking tobacco lying around in a state of innocuous desuetude are too great a temptation for ihe ordinary member of the genus homo. But if you want to enjoy a real good smoke you must go into the smok ing-car on a railroad train and purchase the weed from the energetic young man who offers you "all the latest books and C \ 1 Jk^fx^S ANYTHING GOOD ENOUGH. papers." The weed may not be a fra grant one. but that does not detract from the pleasure, particularly if it is tin a way-train at the time when the horny-handed sons of toil are on their homeward way. Such a little thing as a neighbor with a clay pipe and an in ferior brand of tobacco must not dis turb your pure, poetic thoughts. Some v n reason able people have a prejudice against the use of tobacco, and claim that it is a nasty habit. If everybody thought alike on this subject the tobacconists would soon be forced into bankruptcy. It is true that we do not take stale tobacco smoke as a staple article of perfume, but just consider what a large amount of philosophy may be studied when one thinks of the fragrance of a good cigar and compares it with that of the same cigar shut up in a closely-closed room over night. Think of the numbers of men who would never have made each other's ac quaintance had it not been for a request for a light. At such a period all dis tinctions of caste are leveled, and the corner loafer becomes the equal of his more aristocratic neighbor. It is a popular fallacy that smoking drives away mosquitoes, but this is a base invention of the enemy. There might have been a time, when such was the case, but it must have been when Adam was a chiid. Anybody wlio sees \ VAHAI.YZF.n BY HIS GAT/1.. one of Uiosp pesky little concert soloists? quietly light upon the tobacco box and inspect the quality of its contents will li" aware of the falsity of the. state ment. One instance of mosquitoes he ing killed by tobacco smoke is recorded, but then the tobacco used on the occa sion grew in Pennsylvania, and also killed the man who smoked it. Its fra grance was nearly allied to the triple extract of hvociamus and sulphuretted Hydrogen combined. As a destroyer of pests tebaceo nioke is a failure. AXTK-CRKMATOKY ADIEU. "O William :". she cried, "strew not blossoms of Mtriug. For the new apparatus may rust: But say dint a handful of shavings you'll bring. And linger to see me combust. "Oh, promise me, love, by the fire-hole you'll watch: And when mourners and stokers convene. You ■will see that they light me some solemn slow match. And warn them aeain«t kerosene. "It would cheer me to know, ere these rude breezes waft My essences rar to the pole. That one whom I love will look to the draught And have a fond eye on the coal. '•Then promise me, love."— her voice fainter grew— '•While this body of mine calcifies. You will stand just as near as you tan to the flue And gaze while my gases arise. '•For Thomson — Sir Henry— has found 'out a my (Of his process you've surely heard tell\ How you bum lite a parlor match gently away. Nor uever offend by a smell. "So none of the dainty need sniff in disdain. When my carbon floats up to the riqr; And I'm sure, love, that you will never com plain. Though an ash should blow into your eye. "You promise me, love,"— she murmured low— "When the calcification is o'er. You will sit by my grave in the twilight glow— I mean by the furnace door. '•That often, my Jove, when the seasons re volve. • • On their noiseless axles, thts years. You will visit the kiln where you saw me re solve. srs**- •"-;;;'■ And leach my pule ashes with tears." ••; —Funeral Director. THE SAINT PAUL DAILT GLOBE: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1839.— SIXTEEN PAGES. THE HOBO'S HARBOR. The Minneapolis Workhouse a Haven for Tramps and Vags. It Grows in Popularity as Winter Advances and Is An Abundance of Good Food and Easy Work for a Few Months. A Place Where the Outcast Finds a Home Not Alto gether Bad. As winter approaches the "hobo" and "wago," who is content during the warm weather to sleep in a box car or under a tree, commences to make hia way towards one of the large cities, where in a warm room of the station house he can spend his long evenings, and where he is generally sure of a pretty fair meal in one of the numerous saloons where a very bad glass of beer and a free lunch can be had for the moderate price of five cents. The great wheat-growing country, of which Minneapolis is the central point, attract large numbers of these birds of passage every fall. Harvest hands are always in demand during the season for cutting the grain, and the steam threshers give employment to many of this class. While at "work they earn good wages, receiviug from $1.25 to $2 per day and their board. As they are away from the towns and villages which dot the state while at work, and have no chance to spend their earnings, they are generally "pretty well heeled" when the work is finished. Many of them are honest, hard-working fellows who di vide their time between working in the harvest fields and in the lumber camps. But the good wages offered has of late attracted a class of men who roam from place to place, only working now and then to get money enough to keep them in liquor and tobacco, and who are satisfied with a "hand-out" from a good housewife, who is terror ized by their foreboding appearance and their gruff demand for "sumthin* to eat." Men of this class always spend the cold months of the year in one of the large cities, and they cousider them selves in big luck if by committing some petty offense they can be commit ted to one of the numerous reformatory institutions, where they are sure of three square meals a day, a warm room and a good bed to sleep in. in the workhcuse, situated at Shingle creek, Minneapolis has an institution which has grown in pop ularity among the gentlemen of tne road wiio are designated as "sons or. rest." At present the insti tution is crowded, and Supt. West and Depot} Whalen have their hands full to find accommodations for the people who aie committed to their care. But all the inmates of the workhouse are not tramps. Many of them are men and women who have committed the hein ous offense of getting drunk, and who, when arraigned in the municipal court, have not enough money to pay their fines and are sent up for from ten to ninety days. according to the number of times they have, been guilty of the offense changed. Under the system inaugurated by Judge Kmery of doubling the fine for the second offense and again doub ling that for the third, the population of the workhouse has increased wonder fully. Yesterday Warden Whalen said that when the prisoners were called for breakfast he had 131 male and twenty two female peopie in the institution. Daring the day lifteen were discharged and live were sent up from the munici pal court. When the workhouse was built accommodations wen: provided for 150 prisoners, each of whom was .sup posed to occupy separate cells. Of late the "doubling up" system has had to be adopted and even the room set apart as a hospital has been utilized as a sleep ing apartment for the prisoners, whiie the sick had to be kept in their cells. Until recently the workhouse was looked upon as a haven of rest. Little or no work being actually performed by the inmates. This did not suit either Supt. West or the committee of the council which has charge of the institu tion, and plans are now being formu lated to make the place a workhouse in fact as well as in name, and. instead of enjoying themselves in idleness during the "cold weather, the people who are sent there will have to work if they want to eat. During the warm weather the men are put to work on the farm, in the stone quarry and on the roads. A few others find employment in the bake shops, as tailors in the sewing room, and the few shoemakers who find their way into the place are given work in the shoe shop. On account of the enforced idleness during the winter many of the homeless vags are glad to get arrested, kuowing that all they have to do is to plead guilty of vagrancy or drunken ness to insure a good home for them selves for the winter. Every morning the prisoners sen tenced to the workhouse are turned over to Supt. West, and the black maria takes them up to Shingle creek. There they are turned over to Warden Whalen. who takes an accurate descrip tion of the prisoners. The women are turned over to Matron Taylor, who takes them to the apartment set aside for their use. After the description lias been taken tlie men are marched to the hath room, divested of their clothing and given a thoroagh scrubbing. Their clothes are thrown into a large steam vat and left long enough to preclude the possibility of the existence of any ver min. The prisoner is then given a mouse-colored uniform, a suit of good, warm underclothing, stockings, tdioes and hat. Then he is sent to the barber, who cuts his hair, if too long, and shaves him. He is then given a cell, which he tnu^t keep clean, and the rules of the institution are explained to him. His daily life then begins. At 0:30 the prisoners march in single file to the din ing room, where a substantial breakfast consisting of a hash made of meat and potatoes, bread and coffee is served to them. At l-:30 dinner is ready. Three times a week baked beans with potatoes and bread are served; this bill of fare, however, is alternated with a rich soup consisting of vegetables, rice and barley. At dark supper of bread and butter or syrup and tea is given them. The tood is of the best quality. While the discipline is strict, it is not harsh, and there is seldom oceasiou to inflict punishment for any violation of the rules. At the present time about seventy nien are employed at work on the roads, in the quart y and engaged in cutting the wood which will be burned during the winter. When the men arc engaged at work outside of the building guards, armed with Winchester rifles, stand watch over them to prevent escapes. It is very seldom, however, that any of the inmates make the attempt, and rarely do they succeed. Their comfort able quarters and easy time, good food and just discipline makes the Minne apolis workhouse a pleasant place for the "hobo" to spend the winter. Her Xew Bonnet. Louisa Alcoa's Life and Letters. My bonnet has nearly been the death of me; for, thinking some angel might make it possible fot me to ro to the mountains. 1 felt a wish for a tidy hat, ai'ter Wearing an old one till it fell to tatters from my brow. Mrs. P. prom ised a bit of gray silk, and I built on that: but when I went for it she let me down with a crash, saying she wantert the silk herself, and kindly offered mea flannel petticoat instead. I was in woe for a spell — having $1 in the world, and scorning debt, even for that prop of life —a bonnet. Then I roused myself, flew to Dodge, demanded her cheapest bon net, found one • tor $1. took it and went home, wondering If the sky would open and drop me a trimming;. I am simple in my tastes, but a naked straw bonnet is a little too severely chaste even for me. Sky did not v open: so 1 went' to "Widow Cruses oil bottle"— my ribbon box. which, by the way, is the eighth wonder of the world nothing .is ever put in, yet I always find some old dud; when all other hopes fail. From . this salvation bin I extracted the remains of the old white ribbon and the bits of black lace that have adorned a • Ida's; 1 line of departed hats. Of the lace I made a dish on which I thriftily served up bows of ribbon, like meat on toast; inside put the lace bow which adorns my form anywhere when needed. Strings are yet to be evolved from chaos. I feel that they await me some- ! where in the dim future. Green ones,-' pro tern., hold this wonder of the age upon my gifted brow, and 1 survey my hat with respectful awe. * * ' *; I feel very moral to-day, having done a big wash alone, baked, swept the house, picked the hops, got dinner and written; a chapter in "Moods." _.:' ~ "*.-" 5 '■:■ WHEAT STEADY AND FIRM. Chicago. Oct. 26.— Wheat— Moderate trad ing early and quiet later. Speculative operators aid not take either stde very heav ily. Feeling, however, steady and rather firm. The opening was steady, and prices held most of the session within *s@%e range, ruling slightly over and slightly under yes terday's closing figures, and closed Vgc high er for December, and tec higher lor May. Cable advices were a little more encouraging, quoting Vid advance for spot, but no change otherwise. Russian shipments were light. The wheat crop of the United Kingdom was estimated by some English authority to not exceed 70,000,000 bushels, and that the im port requirements would equal 100.000,000 bushels. Tim estimate is somewhat at variance with former official . state ments, which placed the crop close to 80,000.000 bn. . Advices from the North west state that receipts will probably not let up until after the close of this month. ■It was stated that the visible supply would show an increase of 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 bu. Rains have been Quite general through out the winter wheat country, and also in the Northwest. Trading to-day chiefly local. Some few foreign buying orders received both for December and May. | Corn— fair trade was transacted within narrow limits, and a strong feeling prevailed, though no material advance was established. Small receipts and unsettled weather were the chief influences which affected values, and near futures in particular ruled firm most of the session. It was feared that wet weather would affect the grading of new corn, and a very good demand existed for December. The market opened a shade higher than the closing price of yesterday, was firm, and advanced >&@Mic, reacted tie, ruled Heady, aud closed nearly same as yes terday. Oats were traded In to a moderate extent, and a firmer feeling prevailed. A large oper ator sold heavily at the top, and the slight gain was lost. October met with a better in quiry ana sold at »4c advance. Mess Pork — Only a fair trade was reported, and the feeling was somewhat unsettled. Offerings for October and November were somewhat larger, and sold at irregular prices, declining 15@20c. January ruled steady,' with little change to note. — Trading was limited. October ruled stronger and 7i&@loc higher; but other de liveries were unchanged. Short Rib Sides— A fair business was trans acted, and there were few changes fo note. : October delivery ruled s@loc lower early, but gradually rallied lu@lse, and closed steady. Other deliveries without material change. The leading futures ranged as follows: ; Articles Open- i High- I Low- Clos- ABTICLES. ing j est | est lug , . No. Wheat: ■ I ' ' ■ '■ December... 80% 80% 60% 80% Year 79 . 7!) • May 84 841« 83% 8-ttt No. 2 Corn: ...--.< . , ■ J . ... November... 31 i* 31"m 3H4 31% December... 31% 3H*> 3US 31% May 33% 33% 33VU 33% No. 2 Oats: November... 18%....- 18% December.. 1«% .....;-. .: 18% May 21% 21% 21% -21* Mess Pork: 'o*4s November.. 975 980 9 57V* 960 J Year 930 930, 917 Vi 9 17ft January 945 9 47*1 9 42V* 945 Lard: November.. .'6 00 6O2Vi 600 600 Year 590 5 9-">i* 590 590 January 5 921$ 5 92V2 5 871,2 590 Short Ribs: November.. 485 4 921* 485 485 January. ... 4 77V» 4 77V2 475 1 4 77M2 : Cash quotations were as follows: Flour- Quiet and unchanged. Wheat — No. 2 spring. 7S^4@7»c; No. 3 spring, 61&64 c; No. 2 red, 78%©79 c. Corn— No. 2, 31 %r\ Oats- No. 2.18 VS>@lß«ic Rye— No. 2, 41 %c. Bar ley— No. 2. 57c asked. Flax Seed— No. 1, $1.28Vi. Timothy Seea— Prime. SI- 18. Mess Pork— bbl.fl 1.70&1 1.75. Lard— 100 lbs, $fi.37Vj@t>.4'>. Short ribs sides (loose), $5.<>2@5.50. Dry salted shoulders (boxed), unchanged. Short clear sides (boxed), un changed. Whisky, distillers' finished goods, per gal, $1.02. Sugars, cut- loaf, un changed: granulated, unchanged; standard A, unchanged. Recei pis— Flour, 2 >.O iO bbls; wheat, 115,000 bu; corn, l. » 8,000 bu; oats, 184,000 bu; rye. 27,000 bu; barley, 97,000 bu. Shipments— Flour. 11,000 bbls; wheat, 120.000 bu; com, 172,000 bu; oats, 102,000 bu: rye. 7,000 bu; barley, 156.000 bu. On the produce exchange to day the butter market was unchanged, and eggs 18M2@19e. The Bank Statement. - New York, Oct. 26.— Wa1l street, 12 o'clock. The bank statement shows the following changes: Reserve, increase, S2l2,<'>2s:' loans, decrease, $2,428,300: specie, increase, $457,900; legal tenders, decrease. $1.279 - --900; deposits, decrease, $1,130,100; circu lation, increase, $54. 2 O. The banks ' now hold $1,129,275 in excess of the 25 per cent rule. '' . Bonds and Stocks. BONUS CLOSING PRICES. V. S. 4sreg 127 M. K. AT.G.Ss 59 do 4s coup. 127 Mnt. Union .103 do 4i&s rsg....H»s^ N. J. C. int. ctfs.ll4 do 4I.SS c0up. .1051*2 N. Pacific ms..llliA Pacific Os '95.... 117 1 * do 2ds 110 La. stamped 45.. 83% N. W. c0n5015. ..144 Missouri 6s 101% do deb. 5s ..'.. 11414 Tenn.newset.6s. 1071,2 Or. «fc Traus. 6s. 10* % do do '55....10U2 m.L.&I.M.G Ds. 85% do do 3s 73% St.L. AS.F.G.M.IISVs Can. South' n2ds 96 St. Paul consols. 127 Ceu. Pac. lsts...H4 St. P.,U.&P.16t5.118^ D. A R. G. Ists..l2l*i T. P. L. G. T. R. 01VS do do 45... 77 T. P. R.G. T. R. 37% D. AR.G.W.lsts.llo Union Pac. 11314 Erie 2ds 104% West Shoro 105% M.. K. & T.G. 6s 60 v-- STOCKS— CLOSING PHICES. Adams Express. 150 I do pfd 67 Alton & Tcrre 43 Ohio "<fc Miss 22% do pfd 105 j dopfd ..: *9 Am. Express....] 16 Ontario & West. .28% 8., C. R. A N. . . . 20 Oregon 1mp. .... 70 Canad'n Pacific. 6? ** Oregon Nay.....101 Can. Southern.. 54 Oregon Transc'L 34 Cen. Pacific 34 i Pacific Mail 33 Ches.& 0hi0.... 25 *» P., D. & E 20 i do lstSDfd.... 44% Pittsburg. 158",* do2dspfd.... 65 Pullman P. Car..187 Chi. A A1t0n.... 127 ! Reading. 44V; C, B. A 0...... 106% Rock Island ... 93% C. St. L. A P.... 16 St. L. A 8.F.... 23^ dopfd 385* doptd 55i> C. S. &C 63 do Ist pfd.... . 107 Del. A Hudson.. St. Paul 70% Del., L. &W....143l ; > dopfd 113!* Den.&R. G. ... 17 St. P., M. &M...114\!i East Tennessee-.. l OU St. P. A Omaha. 33% dolstspfd*... 70 | dopfd ... 97$ ; do 2ds pfd ... 22 Tcim. C. A 1.... 53M>' Erie Texas Pacific.. 20%* ! do i.fd 6S iToL &O. C. pfd. 55«| Fort Wayne. .. 157 Union Pacific... 66% HocKing Valley. 16V2 U. S. Express.. £4 .-^ Houston & Tex. 2 Wab..st. L. AP. 17 * Illinois Ccntral.,ll6 dopfd 31% i Ind., B. & »'.... 9i£ Wells Fargo Sx. 137 ••» Kansas & Texas. 1 1 ift W. U. Telegraph foite. Lake Erie & W.. ISI*' Am. Cotton Oil.. 42% do pfd (J5Sx! Colorado. Coal.. 32 ■■ . Lake Shore 100% Horaestake 9<4 Louisvilie & 81% ! Iron Silver 215 v Louis. & >'. A. . 40 0ntari0......... 34 Vt Memphis & C... 62 Quicksilver...:.. 6 : Mich. Central... 941 i: dopfd 34 Mil., L. S. &W.. 9i»s Sutro 7 do pfd 114 Bnlwer 20 3lpls.&St. Louis MS. &■ W. P. Ter.. TSVi do pfd 8 Atchison... 31% Mo. Pacific 70i-»!f).. T. & F. W... 32>,8 Mobile & Ohio.. 14 D. &R. G. pfd.. 51 Nash. &Chatt... !)!» S. Pacific 36*4 N. J. Central ..l'-'4% C. AE. Hi. 4014 N. W. pfd 55V* St. P. AD 28i* N. Pacific 3^ Wis. Central.... 28 . dopfd 73% Chicago Gas ... 06 Northwestern.. .ll2% Lead Trust...;.. 22 dopfd 141 i Sugar Trust.... 71Va N. Y. Central- .lOCMtIC. C. C. A St. L. 75 N. V.. C. A St.L. 17U!Or. Short Lim>.. 5:t% ; M/ta you out or employment? Advertise in ni v the Daily and Sunday Ulobb. THE FIGURES OF OUR GIRLS A Wicked Dressmaker Says They Are Not Good at All. FAIR GIRLS WELL FORMED. Figures of the Ancient Greek Women Beautiful in the Extreme—Fash ion's Dictates. • "I particularly want you to cut the dress so that it will make my waist look as long as possible," said the plump young damsel, as she threw over her head and dimpled shoulders the skirt of her walking costume. "It has always been my greatest grief that nearly all ' the girls I know have longer waists than 1." n "By 'always,' " Interposed her toother, "my daughter means the two years since she has been out in society. Of course, long waists have been very much in fashion of late, and she has come to have a notion that her figure, •which both her father and myself con sider exquisite, is defective in that re spect." "Ob,mamma!" exclaimed the maiden, and was going on with a speech of pro test, when the dressmaker interrupted her. "Why, madam," said the latter, as she folded up the airy fabric of silk and lace just tried on, "there is not, neces sarily, any relation between the ideal in female development and the fashion that clothes it. The former can never alter, while the latter is the very type of change. What we call the 'mode' is perpetually trying to modify the figure by flattening it out, swelling it up like a balloon, or throwing in a hump here and there to render it more symmetri cal; but it is not to be supposed, on that account that the ideal is subject to al teration." "And one is to find the ideal, I sup pose, in what the artists, who are such awful bores, as a rule, call the 'an tique.' " THE FUNCTION OF FASHION. "Better there than anywhere else, madam. The Frenchman who in structed me in my art used to say that the function of fashion was rather to improve upon Nature than to follow her — to pursue fancy rather than reality. A woman with nothing on or draped after the manner of classical Venuses was not anything like so attractive as the same creature in a nineteenth cen tury frock. And therefore, he argued, fashion is an improvement upon nat ure. But even he admitted "that the type to build upon was not found attired in a modern ball dress, but in the mar ble of the old Greek sculptors. 'There is the beauty that is absolute,' he would confess; 'the rest is but a passing se duction to the eye, to please which in cessant change is necessary.' " "But if one's figure is not the fash ion," pouted the young girl, "it is none the less distressing." "I don't know about that," rejoined the dressmaker. "I will venture the liberty of saying that I agree with your mother and father in thinking that your fieure is admirable. You have the length of limb which so many women lack, although you are not very tall. Perhaps for the reason that you ar« s*»ort you are well developed, as few tall women in this country are. Your arms are long and straight, and the line from the backof your neck to your heels is a perpendicular, so that you carry yourseif gracefully. Best of all, you do not exhibit the great and almost univer sal defect ot the female figure in Amer ica—your waist is not too long." "So you actually regard a long waist as a defeat!" exclaimed the elder lady in surprise. TOO LONG-WATSTED. "From the point of view of art. yes. madam. The American woman is nearly always too long-waisted, and for that reasou chiefly, her figure is the worst in the world to-day, while her face is the prettiest. American girls are the most Ueauttf til on earth, so far as features and complexion go, and yet how few of them are well developed. As an evi dence of their structural deficiency you may observe their surprising want of health. A waist that is over-long, like a neck of the 'swan-like' variety, is a symptom of constitutional weakness." "And the Greek — " "Greek women, madam, used to make the waist appear as high as possible by passing a girdle around iust beneath the bust. This gave the utmost appear ance of length to the limbs, and the lines of the chiton were made as flow ing as practicable. No costume was ever more becoming — its seductiveness used to be referred to in those times by advocates of moral purity as its chief drawback— and it has remained f0r2,500 years the ideal female dress.". "1 must confess I'm sorry that it should be no longer the mode." "Aa a dressmaker, madam, I can hardly regret it. The Greek style of garment was too simple to afford much possibility for big bills for cutting, fit ting and trimming. In those days the making of a dress did not cost $10 for every one dollar's worth of material. And you must remeniber that tlie cos tume of to-day has this great advantage, that every woman can look well in it if her dressmaker is a good one, whereas it was not so with the classical attire. Tour daughter here would appear ad mrably a la Grecque, while very many of her friends would not look so welf. The figures of the ancient Greek women were somewhat better than those ot American girls in the year 1589." "And is the Greek costume never likely to come back?" mi>gH THE DIP.KCTORY. "Scarcely. The question of climate would have some influence. The near est approach to a revival of it in modern times was seen in France under the di retory. The most intensely Greek young woman of tho latter centuries was the ultra-fashioiiahie 'Merveil leuse,' or female dude of the epoch, who wore a modified Athenian costums, very low in the neck and diaphanous as to skirts. Her male contemporary pro totype, termed the 'Incroyable,' corre sponded to the '(Jommeux' of Paris to day, you know." "I presume so. And so fashion is hope less, you think, esthetically speaking?" Altogether so. She cannot be driven, you know, and the fancies she adopts are the purest freaks. It is not more than a couple of hundred years, you re member, since ladies of fashion in I>ance wore metal appnratusto prevent the development of the bust from girl hood. The enormous hoopskirts of fifty years ago, which made the wearers look Tike perambulating balloons, were not more absurd than the bustles so re cently in style, that seemed to aim at the ideal of beauty popular in Abys ■SiAia, where a female who is so over-developed in that direction as not to be able to get up without assist ance after having sat down is regarded as|the highest type of physical perfec tion. Nor are any of these insanities n»«re unreasonable than the notion of unnaturally elongating the waist. And there is one tiling worth saying—namely, that the men are. as a rule, very far from admiring these ingenious deform ities adopted by the otner sex; woman may dress to please the male of her species, perhaps, but the creature in pantaloons is far from. appreciating her sacrifices to the mode. If this fact were realized woman might adopt fewer humps and noopskirts to enhance her beauty than i* now the c nsp." CHILDREN LIKE SCOTT'S EMULSION WE'VE SOLOJUR LEASE! 1 OUR GOODS r MUST BE TURNED INTO J MONEY! ■V CARNIVAL FOR BARGAIN -SEEKERS ! CLOTHING ■•7or Less Than the Cloth Cost.^w $25.00 Fur-Trimmed Over- £fr 1 A RfS coats for vPIT.OU $8.00, $10.00 and $12.00 <J\ tZ f\ f\ Suits down to \sO . \J \J $15.00, $18.00 and $20,00 <bi O t^Sf^ Suits down to M/IZ^VV $22.00, $25.00 and $28.00 (bi ft RfS Suits down to vPIO^OU $30.00 Clay Worsted Prince <biQ PLf\ Albert Suits down t0.... Q19.0U Boys' and Children's Clothing at about what was paid for making. Odd Pants! Odd Pants! 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